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Hammond, Beyond the Obvious, 2017. 24 x 36 inches. Acrylic on canvas. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning August 10th, Rehs Contemporary will present New York Or Bust, an online only exhibition of works by abstract artist Hammond. On digital display will be more than 30, spanning from 2015 through today, demonstrating the array of styles and color palates he utilizes. More notably, the collective of works embody the life experiences and thoughts of the artist, chronicling everything from love to politics to religion
as Hammond sees it, I believe it is one of my responsibilities to use my talents as a tool to communicate my opinions, ideas and concerns. Hailing from the historic Hudson Valley of New York, Hammond was introduced to the arts from a young age. It was not until he was in his mid-30s when he shifted to this current abstract expressionist genre, working more from his subconscious. Ultimately for Hammond, the artwork serves two purposes
it is a conduit for the unexplainable, allowing him to exam ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Design Museum in London launched a new exhibition exploring the hypnotic world of electronic music, from its origins to its futuristic dreams. Discover how design, technology and innovation powered the genre in the work of visionaries including Kraftwerk, The Chemical Brothers, Jeff Mills, Daphne Oram, Jean-Michel Jarre and Aphex Twin.
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 | | McNay Art Museum debuts two new presentations featuring San Antonio-based artists | | Galerie Ron Mandos now representing Erwin Olaf | | Royal Academy of Arts opens "Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection" | 
Kelly O'Connor.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- McNay Art Museum debuts two new presentations this summer by San Antonio-based artists Kelly OConnor and Ruben Luna. Kelly OConnor: Multifaceted Woman is on view through January 17, 2021 and Artists Looking at Art: Ruben Luna is on view through January 3, 2021. Multifaceted Woman welcomes visitors into a fanciful façade of wonder as the ninth monumental installation in the Museums AT&T Lobby. Inspired by the Its a Small World ride at Disneyland, the candy-colored collage features iconic movie characters, including Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Veruca Salt from Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Beyond the fantastical imagery, OConnors work pulls back the curtain on the idyllic, artificial stereotypes that have been presented in popular culture for decades. OConnor studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received ... More | | 
Erwin Olaf, April Fool 2020, 11.30am, 2020. Bariet Fine Arts Print, 34 x 45 cm (61 x 72,5 cm).
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos announced its representation of Dutch artist Erwin Olaf (1959). Over the past decades, Olaf has gained worldwide recognition for his highly stylized and meticulously choreographed photographs. His distinctive aesthetic invites us to enter a world in which subjects are beautifully lit, their clothing impeccably tailored, and the built stages perfectly organized. Yet, beneath this elegant façade lies a hidden reality of silent grief, solitude, and fear of losing ones hard-won rights. Olafs diverse practice revolves around societys marginalized individuals, including people of color and the LGBTQ+ community. The way he creates self-awareness for the LGBTI+ community with pride and strength and his ability to translate this fight into captivating aesthetic works is unique. I am extremely honored to work with this important Dutch artist! Ron ... More | | 
Paul Gauguin, Portrait of a Young Girl (Vaïte Jeanne Goupil), 1896. Oil on canvas. 75 x 65 cm. © Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
LONDON.- Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection showcases 60 works drawn from one of the finest collections of Impressionist paintings in northern Europe, assembled in the first decades of the twentieth century by wealthy Danish couple Wilhelm and Henny Hansen. The exhibition includes masterpieces by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. It also features precursors of Impressionism such as Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Jules Dupré and Charles-François Daubigny, and a number of Post-Impressionist works including an exceptional group of eight paintings by Paul Gauguin. Many of the works in the collection have never been seen in the UK before. Wilhelm Hansen was an insurance magnate who created a collection ... More |
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| | Exhibition of works by Austra Ozoliņa-Krauze opens in Riga | | CEO's historic $10 million silver dollar in Vegas auction | | Queen: The Neal Preston Photographs - the official book - to be published October 2020 by Reel Art Press | 
Aleksandra Beļcova. Portrait of Austra Ozoliņa-Krauze. Late 1920s. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum. Photo: Normunds Brasliņ.
RIGA.- The Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum in Riga is presenting the exhibition Under the Power of Passions. Austra Ozoliņa-Krauze Writer, Patron, Spy. The Latvian Mata Hari, an adventurous woman, one of the most intellectual women in Latvia that is what people said about the writer and journalist Austra Ozoliņa-Krauze (18901941). She is a fascinating person in the history of Latvian culture, but there are still a lot of blank spots in her biography. Austra Ozoliņa-Krauze was born in Riga on 30 November 1890. Her father was a building contractor, and so she could afford to study abroad. From 1912 until 1917, she studied philology and law at the University of Bern in Switzerland. That is when Austra began her active socio-political and publicist work. She became the ... More | | 
Believed by experts to be the first silver dollar ever made by U.S. Mint in 1794.
LAS VEGAS, NV.- A Las Vegas, Nevada resident who owns the most valuable rare coin ever purchased at auction now is selling his prized possession, a superb condition silver dollar made in 1794 and believed by many experts to be the first silver dollar ever struck by the United States Mint. It will be in an auction in Vegas this fall. Business executive Bruce Morelan paid a record $10,061,875 for the acclaimed rare coin in 2013 and exhibited it across the country and in Europe. This historic coin is a national numismatic treasure that symbolized the young USAs financial independence. Because of its significance in 1794 it was likely seen at the time by President George Washington, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson who oversaw the Mint, and by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, said Matthew Bell, chief executive officer of Legend Auctions of Lincroft, ... More | | 
Neal Preston joined Queen in 1977 after having previously been on tour with Led Zeppelin.
LONDON.- Legendary rock photographer Neal Preston joined Queen as official tour photographer at a crucial stage of their evolution into one of the greatest rock bands in history. Preston captured Queen at their most intimate and ecstatic, never missing a beat, committed to revealing the passion and dedication of the band on and off stage. QUEEN: The Neal Preston Photographs is the official photographic volume documenting the bands rise to glory. Preston and members of Queen, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, have collated over 300 hundred images many of which have never been seen before along with Prestons personal account, to offer a glimpse into the exhilarating life of Queen. The book will be published in October 2020 by Reel Art Press. Neal Preston joined Queen in 1977 after having previously been on tour with Led Zeppelin. From ... More |
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| | "Midnight's Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain" launches Ben Uri's new virtual museum | | Giant relatives of wombats discovered in Australian desert | | Art Gallery of South Australia announces 2022 Adelaide Biennial Curator as Adelaide Biennial 2020 closes | 
Francis Newton Souza, Self-Portrait, 1961, oil on board, 76 x 61cm
LONDON.- This timely exhibition which coincides with the date of Indian Independence (declared at midnight on 15 August 1947) addresses the representation of Indian immigrant artists (both first and second generation) working in Britain for more than 70 years. It is part of the ongoing series of exhibitions and the focus of the Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Immigrant and Jewish Contribution to the Visual Arts in Britain Since 1900. It is the Research Units first exhibition to explore a non-European émigré artistic community, following previous investigations since 2016 into Austrian, Czech, German and Polish nationals who migrated to Britain - narratives which were significantly impacted by the Second World War and the Nazi domination of Europe. Ben Uris intention is to provide a snapshot of Indian artists in Britain. The exhibition includes artists from varied backgrounds and across different time periods. Modernists, such as ... More | | 
A photograph of the skull of the giant wombat relative Mukupirna nambensis, measuring 19.7 centimetres.
LONDON.- A new family of ancient marsupials has been discovered, relatives of modern-day wombats and koalas. The partial fossilised skeleton of a 25 million-year-old animal was studied by researchers in the UK and Australia. It was found in the 1970s in the clay floor of Lake Pinpa, a remote, dry salt lake east of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It was taken to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and after puzzling taxonomists for years, it has finally been formally described by researchers. The species has been named Mukupirna, meaning 'big bones' in Dieri, the Aboriginal language spoken in the region where the fossil was found. It lived in Australia 25 million years ago and grew as large as a black bear, about five times heavier than modern wombats. An analysis of evolutionary relationships shows that Mukupirna is most closely related to wombats, but it has several unique features that show it's the only known member of the ... More | | 
Sebastian Goldspink announced as curator of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
ADELAIDE.- The 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres curated by Leigh Robb closed on Sunday 2 August, after presenting the exhibition across all platforms since Friday 28 February. Due to COVID-19, Monster Theatres was staged in three acts. In the pre-COVID environment, the opening weekend of Monster Theatres saw over 10,000 attendances. Following its COVID-led temporary closure, AGSA pivoted to offer experiences, digital events, virtual tours and artist talks via its website and social media channels, reaching an audience of 95,000 online. AGSA was thrilled to reopen on Friday 5 June and to extend the Adelaide Biennial until Sunday 2 August with capacity and social distancing limits in place. Art Gallery of South Australia Director Rhana Devenport ONZM says, The essential role of the artist has come acutely into focus during the presentation of the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres. 2020 ... More |
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| | Downtown Dallas museums announce reopening plans | | A bookstore that shines as 'a lighthouse of a free society' | | Classical music attracts older audiences. Good. | 
Dallas Museum of Art exterior. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- Six institutions in the Dallas Arts District and downtown jointly announce today their plans to reopen and welcome visitors again, after being closed since mid-March. The Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum will open to the public on August 14; the Nasher Sculpture Center opens on August 20. In the following month, the Crow Museum of Asian Art opens on September 18, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza opens in mid-September (exact date to come), and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science will confirm its reopening date soon. The six museums closely collaborated over several months to determine appropriate reopening dates and new measures to ensure the health and safety of their staff and all visitors. Per the Dallas Arts and Culture Reopening Guidelines, which were announced earlier, all staff and visitors are required to wear face masks and each facility has added sanitizing stations, among other safety protocols. In a group ... More | | 
A customer peruses books at Causeway Bay Bookstore, in Taipei, Taiwan, July 16, 2020. An Rong Xu/The New York Times.
by Javier C. Hernández and Amy Chang Chien
TAIPEI (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Inside a hushed bookstore in central Taipei one recent night, Ju Lee-wen stood beneath a large black banner that said Revolution Now! and raised her fist into the air. Ju, a 26-year-old lawyer, is concerned by Chinas increasingly authoritarian policies, including harsh new security laws in Hong Kong. She went to Causeway Bay Books, an irreverent shop stocked with volumes critical of the Chinese Communist Party, to show her support for democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan. We have to fight to protect our freedom and our future, Ju said. Causeway Bay Books, which occupies a cramped room on the 10th floor of a drab office building, has in recent weeks become a gathering place for people worried about the future of Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy that China claims as its own. As Chinas leaders lead a sweeping ... More | | 
The closing night gala at the old Metrolopolitan Opera House in New York, 1966. Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times.
by Anthony Tommasini
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The coronavirus pandemic poses a grave challenge to all of the performing arts. There are few ways to mitigate the risk from packing performers and audiences tightly together without fundamentally altering the experience of these art forms, which thrive on crowds. Yet classical music has been singled out as being especially vulnerable at this challenging moment. Why? Because of the perception that its audiences lean toward the senior set. In many places in America, David Rohde wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal, the classical audience is a snapshot of the most vulnerable population for bad COVID-19 outcomes. Its true that classical music tends to attract older patrons, and that seniors are indeed the most vulnerable to the virus. The average age of the audience at the Metropolitan Opera last season ... More |
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 "It's Time To Stick Together: 60 years of Collage in America" opens at Robert Berry GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Robert Berry Gallery announced their new virtual exhibition, Its Time to Stick Together: 60 years of Collage in America curated by American art expert Peter Hastings Falk, the Editor and Chief Curator of the online art magazine, Discoveries in American Art. The show will open on Monday, August 10, 2020 at www.robertberrygallery.com. There is something for everyone in Its Time to Stick Together: 60 Years of Collage in America, an extraordinary collection of colorful, unique and thought-provoking collage works by diverse American artists, stated Peter Hastings Falk, curator. Collage is a medium that has always tended to defy being pigeon-holed, because the process of making collage encourages a greater amount of experimentation in construction than does the fear of a blank white canvas. Abstract Expressionism is a seminal force that drives ... More Intuit reopens with new health and safety proceduresCHICAGO, IL.- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Intuit) opened to the public on Friday, August 7, after a 20-week period of closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum will continue to follow all local, state and federal guidelines for the health and safety of Intuit's community of guests, volunteers, staff members and collaborators. "Thank you to friends, members and the community for the incredible support Intuit has received since closing on March 15. Our staff team has been working hard to create exciting online programming and to get the museum ready for our guests to return," said Executive Director Debra Kerr. "We are looking forward to welcoming guests on-site and continuing to offer personalized experiences remotely for those who aren't ready to be back in person." Throughout the month of August, Intuit ... More Ethel Smyth, a composer long unheard, is recorded anewNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The exact worth of my music will probably not be known till naught remains of the writer but sexless dots and lines on ruled paper, Ethel Smyth wrote in 1928. Long after her death, in 1944, she is finally being proven right. One of numerous female composers of the past now coming to fresh, deserved prominence, Smyth was born in England in 1858 and moved to Leipzig, Germany, at 19, training in the circle around Johannes Brahms. She became the first woman to have a work performed by New York Citys Metropolitan Opera, in 1903, before she joined the militant wing of British suffragists. When conductor Thomas Beecham visited her at Holloway Prison in London, where she spent three weeks in 1912 for throwing rocks at a politicians house, he found inmates singing her anthem, March of the Women, while ... More What makes Kiarostami a modern master? Start hereNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is widely regarded as one of the great modern filmmakers, but if you discovered him at a particular peak of his international recognition when he shared the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 for Taste of Cherry you might have been baffled. Taste of Cherry follows an enigmatic driver who picks up passengers on the outskirts of Tehran. He plans to commit suicide, he says, and needs someone to bury him. For viewers unfamiliar with Kiarostami, watching more than an hour of such conversations was perplexing, even tedious. Not all of the films of Kiarostami, who died in 2016, were so determinedly minimalist. Still, to follow him over that next decade was to wonder whether he thought all it took to make a movie was a car and a camera. Ten (2002) ... More Lorenzo Wilson Milam, guru of community radio, is dead at 86NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lorenzo Wilson Milam, who devoted much of his life to building noncommercial radio stations with eclectic fusions of music, talk and public affairs, died on July 19 at his home in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. He was 86. Charles Reinsch, a former manager of KRAB-FM in Seattle, Milams first station, announced the death. Milam moved full time to Mexico from San Diego after having several strokes in 2017. He also struggled with the effects of polio, which he had contracted as a teenager, and which led him to use crutches and leg braces for much of his life and a wheelchair later on. Milam loathed commercial radio stations, which he saw as purveyors of mindless junk. With KRAB and about a dozen other stations that he helped start in the 1960s and 70s, he created a freewheeling, esoteric vision of commercial- ... More Cyprus singer shines spotlight on refugeesNICOSIA (AFP).- Cypriot singer Alexia Vassiliou still remembers the sound of the sirens wailing eerily over her house when she was just a child to warn of the Turkish invasion. She and her family fled the northeastern town of Famagusta in 1974, and decades later she has never returned to live in the place she once called home. But Alexia's experiences shaped her future, and today she uses her international acclaim as an artist to help shine a spotlight on the plight of the displaced and refugees around the world. "I am a refugee... This is why I am here today," she says, in an online concert which is being re-streamed on Wednesday to global audiences. "There was a moment when I did not have a home. I was 10." The novel coronavirus pandemic upended ideas for a live concert in Nicosia as part of events to mark World Refugee Day on June 20. But ... More Shirley Ann Grau, writer whose focus was the South, dies at 91NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the heat of the civil rights struggle, the Ku Klux Klan tried to intimidate Shirley Ann Grau, a white Southerner who had written about interracial marriage, by burning a cross on her front lawn. But they forgot to bring a proper shovel. Unable to plant the cross upright in the hard ground, they laid it down instead, and the flames soon sputtered out. As it happened, Grau (rhymes with prow) wasnt even home. And on hearing of the incident, she was more amused than distraught. It scorched a few feet of grass and it scared the neighbors, she shrugged to The Associated Press in 2003. It all had kind of a Groucho Marx ending to it. Her response typified her unflappable nature. She didnt hesitate to tackle controversial subjects, and she certainly wasnt going to be intimidated by the Klan, her daughter Katherine ... More 'Godspell' review: Musical theater rises from the deadPITTSFIELD, MASS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- And it came about that the faith of the devoted was sorely tested during the months of famine, and there was a great hunger to believe again. Thus on a hazy night in August, several score of them gathered, with their lower faces hidden as the times demanded, in a parking lot in a small city in the lap of the Berkshire Mountains. They were looking for signs of a resurrection. It felt right that a tent with socially distanced folding chairs set up inside had been assembled behind the Colonial Theater here, as if for a revival meeting. The 1971 musical Godspell, which was being reincarnated by the Berkshire Theater Group, is based on parables from the New Testament, and its leading man is named Jesus. But the creed being promulgated so poignantly here, in a mood that might be described ... More Getty Publications announces 'Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective'LOS ANGELES, CA.- American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating an extensive and distinct oeuvre that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and ardent commitment to the medium. An early feminist and inspiration to future generations of men and women practitioners, Cunningham intensely engaged with Pictorialism and Modernism; genres of portraiture, landscape, the nude, still life, and street photography; and themes such as flora, dancers, music, hands, and the elderly. Beginning with Cunningham's childhood in Seattle where she started developing and printing her own photographs in 1905 in a darkroom built by her father, and spanning the entirety of her illustrious seventy-five-year career, Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective (Getty Publications, hardcover, $60.00 US) contains ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress August 10, 1846. The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, and licensing activities. In this image: "The Castle," the building on the National Mall that is home to the Smithsonian's administration, is seen. Photo: Smithsonian Institution.
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