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Jim Dine (American, born 1935), Rancho Woodcut Heart, 1982. Woodcut, 47 3/4 x 40 1/2 inches. Gift of Jim Dine, 2019.016.092.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art and the University of Notre Dame opened the exhibition Jim Dine: American Icon. Made possible by the artists exceptional gift of a collection of two hundred and thirty-eight prints, covering nearly every aspect of Dines repertoire from 1969 to the present, the exhibition draws from the collection to highlight every significant facet of the artists renowned body of work. Jim Dine: American Icon is on view from August 21 through December 11, 2021, at the Museum. Among the most distinguished figures in Contemporary art, Dine has been at the forefront of the American avant-garde since the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 60s. Born in Cincinnati, Dine attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati before transferring to Ohio University. Immediately following graduation, he moved to New York, fell in with Claes Oldenburg and Alan Kaprow, and participated in numerous Happenings in the late 19 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Design Museum Holon unveiled its newest and most ambitious fashion exhibition "The Ball" spanning the entire museum. Taking an innovative approach from Design Museum Holon's previous fashion exhibitions, "The Ball" is a multi-sensory theatrical experience that combines fashion, sound, music, scenery, and lighting to showcase how dresses from the past resonate in today's eveningwear design.
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| World premiere exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, announces advance tickets now on sale | | Hung Liu, artist who blended East and West, is dead at 73 | | Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon | 
Sculptural pitcher depicting an anthropomorphic figure with the head and wings of a long-eared owl or barn owl, necklace of circular beads, shirt with designs of interlaced waves or spirals, and short skirt; the figure is standing under an arch formed by a serpent with two feline heads. There are wave designs on the pitchers neck. Mochica, Boom Period (1 AD - 800 AD).
BOCA RATON, FLA.- As Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru takes flight for the first time, massive crowds and tourists from around the world are expected during the inaugural stop of its global tour in South Florida this Fall at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Eager fans can finally secure their coveted places in line for this once -in-a-lifetime experience. This combination of rarely seen, world-class museum artifacts alongside technological breakthroughsin virtual reality is unparalleled (watch the video announcing tickets on sale). The early access online ticket portal is now open to the public at BocaMuseum.org/Golden. Debuting October 16, 2021, audiences will discover an all-new, immersive museum experience that will transport visitors to the jewel of the Southern Hemispheres cradle of civilization, the Incan city of Machu Picchu ‒ voted ... More | | 
Hung Liu at the opening of "Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門)" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. Photo: Drew Altizer. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hung Liu, a Chinese American artist whose work merged past and present, East and West, earning her acclaim in her adopted country and censorship in the land of her birth, died Aug. 7 at her home in Oakland, California. She was 73. The cause was pancreatic cancer, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, which represents Liu in New York, said in a statement. Her death came less than three weeks before the scheduled opening of a career survey, Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. She was the first Asian American woman to have a solo exhibition there. Five-thousand-year-old culture on my back; late-twentieth-century world in my face is how Liu described her life-changing arrival in the United States from China in 1984, when she was 36 and an accomplished painter. Her goal in America, she once said, was to invent a way of allowing myself to practice ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on August 19, 1961 US-born singer-entertainer Joséphine Baker salutes after receiving the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm in her Milandes Castle, from General Martial Valin. AFP.
by Laure Fillon and Jerome Rivet
PARIS (AFP).- Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will later this year become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum. Baker will be just the sixth woman to join the around 80 great national figures of French history in the Pantheon after Simone Veil, a former French minister who survived the Holocaust and fought for abortion rights, entered in 2018. Although American-born Baker's body will remain in Monaco where she is buried, she will be honoured on November 30 with a memorial with a plaque, one of her children, Claude Bouillon-Baker, told AFP. "Pantheonisation is built over a long period of time," an aide to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Sunday, confirming a report in the Le Parisien newspaper. Jennifer Guesdon ... More |
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| Christie's offers the first ever design NFT auction | | Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba opens an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie | | Major galleries from across the globe reunite at Frieze London and Frieze Masters this October | 
Misha Kahn (B. 1989), Nippers Last Grasp (Chandelier). Current Bid (26 Bids) USD 3,200. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK.- Christies announced the offering of the first ever design non-fungible token (NFT) auction at a major auction house, presented in partnership with acclaimed designer Misha Kahn. The online auction takes place from August 18-24. Misha Kahn is a material polymath whose irreverent approach encompasses a wide range of techniques and tools, from lo-fi collage and improvisational molds to virtual reality and robotics. Furniture Unhinged presents 10 NFTs, each comprising a unique 3D model rendered as an FBX file together with a corresponding MP4 single-channel trophy video of the object spinning on a pedestal. Each lot represents an individual frame captured from a 13-second source animation by Kahn, whose biomorphic protagonist morphs through various furniture types and functions within a virtual, off-world architectural space. Kahn is ... More | | 
Rosa Barba. In a Perpetual Now. Exhibition view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021 © Rosa Barba / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021, Photo © Andrea Rossetti.
BERLIN.- For its reopening the Neue Nationalgalerie presents in its Graphic Cabinet various works by the Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba, under the title In a Perpetual Now. Along with notable pieces from her work from the years 2009 to 2021, a new film created for the exhibition is being shown. With its architectural structure the large steel construction refers to Mies van der Rohes early project Brick Country House, while also displaying 15 of her cinematic and sculptural works. Specially produced for the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie, the expansive installation follows the principle of cinematic montage, which plays a key role in the artists work. Among the exhibitions central motifs are questions relating to the dimension of time. With regard to the shows title, In a Perpetual Now, the question arises: would it really be desirable to live perpetually in the pres ... More | | 
Cesare Dandini, Diana, Oil on canvas, 94 x 76.4 cm. Courtesy of Robilant+Voena.
LONDON.- Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to The Regents Park in London, between c 2021. Bringing together major galleries from around the world, the fairs will also feature an anchor programme of talks and special projects addressing some of the most relevant conversations in art today. Frieze Week will take place across London with an extensive schedule of museum, gallery and partner events. A dedicated edition of Frieze Viewing Room will also run in parallel with both fairs, complementing the in-person event with expanded online programming and connecting galleries and audiences across the globe. World-leading galleries will participate in the return of Frieze London, offering the opportunity to discover up-and-coming talent as well as engage with the work of the most renowned artists working today. The 2021 edition includes Sadie Coles HQ, Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens, Taka ... More |
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| Galeria Jaqueline Martins now represents Pedro França | | A steamy French thriller is a 'sleeper smash hit' | | Israel names new Holocaust memorial chairman | 
Pedro França, três pontos, 2021. Oil and sewing on linen. Ed: unique, 221 x 176 cm.
SAO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins announced the representation of Pedro França. In his oeuvre, his daily experience is introduced through images that challenge the viewer to encounter something excessive and unclassifiable. Signs stolen from the world are all levelled out, made equal without hierarchy or valuation: images from art history, political news, mainstream cinema, homemade videos dug up on the internet, screen filters, family PowerPoints, and graphic design templates.
What moves me, most of all, in art and my practice as an artist is virtuality. It has nothing to do with technology. What we call virtual today, in technological terms, is a form of space collapse: myself, here, and you, there, communicating in the present. But the virtual also points to the past and the future. The past is the virtual presence of ancestry, while the future is the virtual presence of possibility. Dream, delirium, imagina ... More | | 
Romy Schneider and Alain Delon star in La Piscine, a half-century-old French film that is a hit with New York audiences this summer. Photo: Rialto Pictures.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the past 14 weeks at Film Forum, a long-standing independent and repertory theater on West Houston Street in Manhattan, the 1969 French film La Piscine has been playing a run that has extended its initial engagement by 12 weeks, and counting. Rear Window, 8 1/2, La Strada and a popular Humphrey Bogart series that included Casablanca have all come and gone, but La Piscine swims on. If there is a film of New Yorks 2021 summer, this may be it. La Piscine (which means The Swimming Pool) revolves around Jean-Paul (played by Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider), who have retreated to a house with a large pool outside St. Tropez. Sadly, he only gets one month of vacation. The lovers are unexpectedly joined by Harry (Maurice Ronet), Mariannes former paramour and Jean-Pauls former best friend, and his 18- ... More | | 
Israel's government approved Dani Dayan as chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, ending a controversy sparked by ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to appoint a far-right nationalist. Brendan Smialowski / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israel's government on Sunday approved Dani Dayan as chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, ending a controversy sparked by ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to appoint a far-right nationalist. Right-wing Netanyahu had proposed in August last year, his intention to appoint Effie Eitam as chairman of the iconic Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, which is visited by foreign leaders and hundreds of thousands of tourists annually. Eitam, respected in Israel for his distinguished military career, led the nationalist religious Mafdal party in the early 2000s, and was known for his rhetoric against Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. He had called for Israel to annex the entire West Bank, a position so extreme not even right-wingers in national politics ... More |
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| Central Park comeback concert is silenced by lightning | | Don Everly, older brother in groundbreaking rock duo, dies at 84 | | First solo UK institutional exhibition by Olga Balema on view at Camden Art Centre | 
Attendees of the We Love NYC concert leave the Great Lawn in Central Park after the event was canceled due to lightning, in Manhattan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was supposed to be a glorious celebration of the reemergence of New York City after more than a year of pandemic hardship a concert bringing thousands of vaccinated fans on Saturday evening to the Great Lawn of Central Park to hear an all-star lineup. And for the first couple of hours it was, with messages of New Yorks resilience sandwiched between performances by the New York Philharmonic, Jennifer Hudson, Carlos Santana, LL Cool J, and Earth, Wind & Fire, among others. But shortly after 7:30 p.m., as Barry Manilow was performing Cant Smile Without You, lightning brought the concert to a halt. Please seek shelter for your safety, an announcer intoned, stopping the music, as people began filing out of the park. The crowds were sent ... More | | 
In this file photo flowers are placed on the Everly Brothers star to honor the memory of Phil Everly at Hollywood Walk Of Fame on January 4, 2014 in Hollywood, California. Valerie MACON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
by Bill Friskics-Warren
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Don Everly, the elder of the two Everly Brothers, the groundbreaking duo whose fusion of Appalachian harmonies and a tighter, cleaner version of big-beat rock n roll made them harbingers of both folk-rock and country-rock, died Saturday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 84. A family spokesperson confirmed the death to The Los Angeles Times. No cause was given. The most successful rock n roll act to emerge from Nashville in the 1950s, Everly and his brother, Phil, who died in 2014, once rivaled Elvis Presley and Pat Boone for airplay, placing an average of one single in the pop Top 10 every four months from 1957 to 1961. On the strength of ardent two-minute teenage dramas like Wake ... More | | 
Olga Balema, Whitney Biennale, Installation view, New York, 2019. Image: Gregory Carideo.
LONDON.- Camden Art Centre is presenting the first solo UK institutional exhibition by New York based artist Olga Balema (b. Lviv, Ukraine 1984), with a major new commission responding to the iconic architecture of Gallery 3. Balemas work has gained increasing visibility in the US and Europe over the past five years, having been included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial alongside a critically acclaimed exhibition at Bridget Donohue Gallery, New York. Speaking of a sense of vertigo and untethered coordinates, this new, primarily floor-based, work creates an encounter with the surrounding space that is unstable, porous even, inviting the play of digital image and flatness into the physicality of her sculpture, and integrating light, movement, structure, rhythm and tone as mark making devices to engage the artwork in a form of indeterminate communication. Balemas installations often engage very directly with the spaces that contain ... More |
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 Exhibition explores the relationship between fashion, dreams and escapismHOLON.- Design Museum Holon unveiled its newest and most ambitious fashion exhibition The Ball spanning the entire museum. Taking an innovative approach from Design Museum Holons previous fashion exhibitions, The Ball is a multi-sensory theatrical experience that combines fashion, sound, music, scenery, and lighting to showcase how dresses from the past resonate in todays eveningwear design. The exhibition offers a dreamy experience full of fantasy, forging connections between the history of balls, Western fashion, and the current creations of Israels leading designers. Maya Dvash, Chief Curator of Design Museum Holon on the process of devising this exhibition theme: When developing this theme, we wanted to go beyond the traditional fashion exhibition presentation and form a new language that allow the visitors to feel as if they ... More  First UK institutional solo exhibition by Tarek Lakhrissi on view at MOSTYNLLANDUDNO.- MOSTYN is presenting the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Tarek Lakhrissi. This new commission consists of existing and new work comprising film, sculpture and text presented as an installation across the gallery spaces. Rooted in poetry, Lakhrissis practice seeks to challenge contemporary constructs of language and narratives around minoritised communities. Taking the 2003 song My Immortal by American pop group Evanescence as its title, the exhibition reflects upon the notion of community, particularly a queer community which it considers as a complex, fragile and ephemeral entity. On the one hand it can offer possibilities of love, empowerment and protection but also nightmares and fears. English poet John Miltons 17th-century poem Paradise Lost serves as an illustration of the tension played out in the exhibition; ... More  ADA Rome presents an exhibition of works by Anna PerachROME.- For her solo exhibition at ADA, Anna Perach presents an installation formed of three sculptural elements. Conceptually this exhibition explores the narrative of the detachment of the head and body in the female form. The sculptures more specifically investigate the brutality of the compartmentalisation of feminine body throughout different resources and stories in Western history. Seven Wives, 2020, consists of seven tufted heads hanging on a hemp rope by S-shaped hooks often used for hanging meat. Each head represents the one of the seven female archetypes proposed by psychoanalyst Carl Jung: maiden, huntress, lover, queen, mystic, sage and mother. The idea of hanging the heads draws its inspiration from an illustration for the folktale of Bluebeard depicting Bluebeards hanging dead wives, symbol of the violent and irrational behaviour ... More  Zanotta unveils remarkable new concept space in New York CityNEW YORK, NY.- Tecno Zanotta Group, a name synonymous with Italian innovation and know-how, introduces Zanotta House New York, a remarkable new concept space located at 23 Cornelia Street in Manhattans Greenwich Village. Zanotta House New York is not a showroom nor a boutique apartment; instead, it is a living experience created to explore the interactions of people and products in todays evolving home. Zanotta House New York seeks to celebrate, communicate, intrigue, and become an eye-catching cultural space for the design community to come together in dialogue about the future of residential design. The house will welcome clients, architects, and designers by appointment, offering an oasis for a private meeting, a business breakfast, a presentation, or an overnight stay. On other occasions, the house will host public events, ... More  Mat Collishaw's new artwork premieres at the 78th Venice International Film FestivalVENICE.- Mat Collishaw will reveal a major new artwork at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in which immersive theatre meets extended reality. BEDLAM is an entirely new type of experience in both its artistic content and the first-of-its-kind platform on which it is launched, which transports users to the wildest frontier of the metaverse. All produced at a level of humanism and realistic rendering that belies the fact that no additional software or hardware is required. BEDLAM is hosted on a new platform GAIA, which allows new, creative possibilities for interacting in the metaverse. Produced to be equally impactful on a variety of devices, from a 5G smartphone to a VR headset, BEDLAM demonstrates GAIA's unique offering: combining expansive scriptwriting and reactive performance techniques with the latest movement capture and streaming technology ... More  Cathedral art exhibit represents The Last Supper in busts of broken crockery and goldEDINBURGH.- Life-sized busts of Jesus and the apostles, created from crockery fragments joined together in gold, are on display on the High Altar of Edinburghs Episcopalian cathedral. The Last Supper, by multi-disciplinary artist Silvy Weatherall from Irongray in Dumfries and Galloway, is a sculptural interpretation of Leonardo Da Vincis iconic painting of the same name. Silvy has a fascination with seeing new possibilities in the obsolete, the unwanted, the lost and the forgotten. The figures are all in simplified form (partly inspired by the phrenology busts that were influential in 19th-century psychiatry) and she has deliberately avoided defining features or characteristics on most of the figures except for Jesus, John (set to his right) and Judas. Silvy said: The idea began some years ago after my studio was flooded by rain and I rediscovered ... More  The curtain draws on a dramatic Darwin FestivalDARWIN.- A lot of planning goes into a festival. Especially now in COVID times, where you have to expect the unexpected and try and plan for it. Most festivals over the past 18 months have been postponed, rescheduled, cut short, scaled back or just cancelled altogether. So to complete 14 fun-filled nights of events is quite the achievement. And thats what Darwin Festival has done, wrapping a successful program of Hot August Nights on Sunday 22 August. But what a wild ride it was! Were so incredibly proud of what weve been able to deliver these last few weeks, against all the odds, said Darwin Festival CEO James Gough. When youre staging a major event during a pandemic you have to have a whole alphabet of back up plans. But I dont think any of us could have predicted just how many of those plans wed go through literally all of them! Gough is not exaggerating. Over t ... More  Design Miami/ Basel 2021 explores 'human nature,' high modernism, French mid-century classics at 15th editionASEL.- With over 40 gallery presentations set to be showcased at Design Miami/ Basel in September (21-26) the upcoming edition of the fair will present a wealth of historical and contemporary works, from rare masterpieces to new works that examine our relationships with the world around us. For the first time, each of the pieces will be available to view and shop online at www.designmiami.com while also displayed on the show floor of the Messeplatz. This years presentations really offer an insightful snapshot of the current design market - from incredible works by icons from Prouvé, Lalanne, and Picasso, through to contemporary masterpieces such as Misha Kahn and Daniel and Boris Berlin. As ... More  Paul Holberton publishes 'Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority' by Paul DobraszczykLONDON.- Architecture and Anarchism documents and illustrates 60 projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organized ways of building. They are what this book calls anarchist architecture forms of design and building motivated by the core values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid, and self-organization through direct democracy. The projects highlight the stark gap between the authoritarian way in which the built environment is generally governed and the aesthetic liberation that is vital to a full human flourishing in cities. They show how authoritarianism can sometimes be held at bay by differing kinds of libertarian politics. Taken as a whole, they are meant as an inspiration to build less uniformly, more inclusively and more freely. Anarchist values are evident in projects that grow out ... More  Asia Culture Center presents 'Refrigerator Illusion'GWANGJU.- The exhibition Refrigerator Illusion started with an attempt to use the refrigeratoran everyday essential and a part of everyones kitchenas a lens for approaching culinary and lifestyle culture practices associated with clothing, food, and shelter, a major research focus for Asia Culture Research Institute (ACRI) at ACC/ACI. Humankinds first use of fire around 200,000 years ago brought about a revolution in food and lifestyle culture. In contrast, the history of our production and commercialization of home refrigerators accounts for only around a century of that long process of human efforts to develop the cooling technology that would allow us to conquer the cold by making our own artificial ice. Over that relatively short history, advancements in cooling technology and refrigerators have ushered in revolutionary changes in food ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born August 23, 1846. Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 - June 4, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, would become significant sculptors in the 20th century. In this image: William Warner Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery (1889).
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