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Exhibition view "Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs" © Gerhard Richter 2023, Dresden State Art Collections, photo: Klemens Renner.
DRESDEN.- As a Dresden first, the Gerhard Richter Archiv, run by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is exhibiting a selection of Gerhard Richters Overpainted Photographs. Of the 72 works on show in the Albertinum, 36 are from the holdings of the Gerhard Richter Kunststiftung, a foundation established by the artist in 2019, and 36 from private collections. Richters oeuvre of the past six decades is marked by interacting and opposing representational and abstract artistic strategies. In his small-format Overpainted Photographs, these two styles develop a symbiosis that is stronger than in any of the artists other groups of works. In 1991, Gerhard Richter described how the works came about: Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture no matter whether good or bad. That's all t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The untangling of light and contourthe optical ingredients of the perception of volumetric formhas been a constant in Bjarne Bares oeuvre. Bare essentializes the practice of photography. Mostly through photographs of buildings, pavement, and other inert objects or materials, Bare uses the lens of the camera to sketch a topography of vision. This exhibition is on view at OSL Contemporary through September 23 2023.
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| Ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins, researchers say | | Bechtler Museum of Modern Art announces 2023-2024 exhibition season | | One morning in Maine, 225 people went to the library | 
A new face and partial brain case of Anadoluvius turkae, a fossil hominine the group that includes African apes and humans from the Ãorakyerler fossil site located in Central Anatolia region of Türkiye. Image courtesy: Sevim-Erol, A., Begun, D.R., Sözer, Ã.S. et al.
TORONTO.- A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago. Analysis of a newly identified ape named Anadoluvius turkae, recovered from the Ãorakyerler fossil site near Ãankırı with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Türkiye, shows Mediterranean fossil apes are diverse and part of the first known radiation of early hominines the group that includes African apes (chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas), humans and their fossil ancestors. A new study published in the journal Communications Biology describes the findings. It was co-authored by an international team of researchers ... More | | 
Karel Appel, Paysage mystérieux, 1954, Lithograph on paper, 22 x 24 ½ in. © 2023 Karel Appel Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ c/o Pictoright Amersterdam.
CHARLOTTE, NC.- Art Informel is a radical approach to abstraction that emerged in Europe in the years following World War II. In response to the horrors of the war, many artists rejected what they believed was realisms susceptibility to nationalistic narratives, and sought to develop a universal visual language that communicated freedom, individual expression, and inner states of being. Championing this new artistic tendency, in 1952 the French curator and art critic Michel Tapié organized the groundbreaking exhibition Un Art Autreor Art of Another Kindand published an accompanying catalogue, in which he coined the term Art Informel. Based on the French word informe, meaning unformed or formless, Art Informel renounced traditional rules of representation and instead emphasized bold, gestural marks that conveyed vitality, emotion, and spontaneity. Drawn from the Bechtler Museums permanent coll ... More | | 
Sarah McCloskey examines her fathers sketches for Make Way for Ducklings at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine, on July 22, 2023. (Gin Majka/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It was a beach day, by Maine standards slightly overcast and moderately balmy, with a hint of balsam in the air. But on a peak-summer morning in July, 225 people steered clear of state parks and went to Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick instead. They were young and old, in strollers and on walkers and strutting the latest technical sandals. They wore pigtails, baby slings, ironic T-shirts, a headscarf, a lobster hat, a crown, a tiara and halos of white hair. Many carried colorful hardcovers and paperbacks that appeared to have served multiple generations of readers. The crowd wasnt at Curtis to meet a celebrity memoirist or bestselling novelist. They were there for a childrens book event: Sarah McCloskey, the real-life inspiration for Blueberries for Sal (1948), was at the library to read a handful of classics by her father, Robert, who also wrote Make Way for Ducklings (1941) and One Morning ... More |
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| Bob Barker, longtime host of 'The Price Is Right,' dies at 99 | | OSL Contemporary opens 'Bjarne Bare: Moral Hazard' | | Newly discovered, primitive cousins of T. rex shed light on the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa | 
Bob Barker, at home in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Nov. 21, 2004. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
by Richard Severo
NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Barker, whose warmth and wit as the host of The Price Is Right for nearly four decades beckoned legions of giddy Americans to a stage promising luxury vacations and brand-new cars, died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles. He was 99. His death was announced by a spokesperson, Roger Neal. Barker, who was also a long-standing and prominent advocate for animal welfare, was a fixture of daytime television for a half-century first as the host of Truth or Consequences, from 1956 to 1974, and, most famously, starting in 1972, on The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show on American television. He began his 35-year stint as host of The New Price Is Right, as it was then known, when it made its debut on CBS as a revised and jazzed-up version of the original The Price Is Right, which had been on the air ... More | | 
Installation view of 'Bjarne Bare: Moral Hazard'.
OSLO.- The history of fine photography is fraught. Its emergence as a serious art form has been as tumultuous as it has been revelatory. It has called into question the principles underlying originality, spirit, and autonomy in art. Arthur Danto in his book After the End of Art marks the critical distinction between modernism and postmodernism as follows: modernism dispenses with the superfluous, and instead pursues the essential, while postmodernism doubts essence per se, and instead revels in surface. In other words, where modernist works insist on positing formal dynamics according to an inner logic, postmodernist works embrace pastiche and surface as substance in themselves. But perhaps both approaches are endemic to art liberated from religion. Perhaps the pendulum swings to and fro between one paradigm to the other. For the values apparent in a number of young artists today resemble more vividly the days of modernism than those of postmodernism. The untangling of light and contour ... More | | 
Abelisaurs enjoying the beach. Image courtesy: University of Bath.
BATH.- Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere. They lived at the end of the Cretaceous period and show that dinosaurs were diverse in Africa just before their mass extinction by an asteroid 66 million years ago. Two new species of dinosaur have been found from the end of the Cretaceous in Morocco, just outside of Casablanca. One species, found near the town of Sidi Daoui, is represented by a foot bone from a predator about two and a half meters (eight feet) long. The other, from nearby Sidi Chennane, is the shin bone of a carnivore that grew to around five meters (15 feet) in length. Both were part of a family of primitive carnivorous dinosaurs known as abelisaurs, and lived alongside the much larger abelisaur Chenanisaurus barbaricus, ... More |
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| Creating a riot of color, in a studio of her own | | Michaan's September Auction offers treasures from around the world | | Almine Rech Shanghai opens a solo exhibition of work by John Giorno | 
Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera, 1937. Tri-colour separation negative. National Portrait Gallery, London Purchased with support from the Portrait Fund, 2021 (x223230)
by Emily LaBarge
LONDON.- I think we must all agree, British photographer Yevonde declared in 1921 to the Professional Photographers Association in London, photography without women would be a sorry business. With a focus on female representation, Yevonde: Life and Color, a vivid display of her idiosyncratic oeuvre at the citys newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, argues for her role as a pioneer of color photography. Born Yevonde Cumbers in South London in 1893, she was known professionally as Madame Yevonde, rarely by her married name (Mrs. Edgar Middleton). On her own terms, she used the singular Yevonde, with which she signed her prints, exhibition invitations and 1940 autobiography, In Camera. After a succession ... More | | 
Gibson Style L1 Archtop Acoustic Guitar. Estimate $1,000/1,500.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans September Gallery Auction is finely curated with a collection of Georgian Air Twist Glass, a grouping of Native American beaded items as well as baskets. Photography has a stunning section with star artists such as Michael Keena, O. Winston Link and Richard Misdrach. The jewelry highlights Jadeite Jade in beautiful ring, bracelet and brooch settings. The Asian Art section is Wucai jars, Meiping vase and silk embroidered robes. The Furniture and Decoratives section of the sale leads off with a beautiful Ernest Batchelder Chest (estimate $2,000/3,000). Batchelder was a leader in the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Besides the beautiful chests he created he was also a prolific tile maker. Next up are Antique movie posters including Alexander the Great and a Six Sheet Movie Poster Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane (estimate $4,000/7,000). Michaans is also featuring a Gibson ... More | | 
Portrait of John Giorno, 2010 / © Courtesy of The John Giorno Foundation and Almine Rech.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai opened the sixth solo exhibition by John Giorno with the gallery, on view from August 25 to October 14, 2023. "I am a poet and "I am a Buddhist are the two ways John Giorno most often introduces himself. These two identities are central to our understanding of the artist. However, as a Zen monk once said, "How can we appreciate the beauty of the moon when we are in it?" It would be futile to look directly for traces of Buddhism in Giorno's artworks. We shall take a detour to appreciate his art. From the 1950s onwards, North America began to receive influence from Buddhist preachers led by D.T. Suzuki, Chögyam Trungpa, among others. Some of the most prominent artists, poets, and scholars of the era, including Giorno, integrated Buddhism into their vision in one way or another. However, besides Giorno, very few lived their entire lives in a way almost as 'Upāsaka' the follower of the Budd ... More |
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| Priska Pasquer Gallery opens "We don't want to live in a Universe, We want to live in a Pluriverse!" | | Eleven artists and art collectives from San Francisco to Singapore address urban histories and spaces | | Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery announces representation of Guatemalan artist Sergio Valenzuela | 
Warren Neidich, A Proposition for an Alt-Parthenon Marbles Recoded The Phantom as Other #2, 2022. Neon installation, neon glass tubes, neon gas, photograph, aluminum, 426,72 x 243,84 cm, © Warren Neidich, courtesy Priska Pasquer Gallery.
PARIS.- The root prefix pluri- comes from the Latin plur-, meaning plus, many, or more than one: Multi. The pluriverse challenges the modernist ontology of universalism or universal truth in favor of what could become a poetic multiplicity of possible worlds and means of expression. It challenges the idea that European scientific rationalism is epistemically superior to all other traditions. No single epistemology, or any of the social, cultural, or technological relations that it produces, can be allowed to dominate at the expense of the expression of others. Many ways of doing and thinking coexist in and as an intensity that is without boundaries. Subaltern, Indigenous, Dialectical, Scientific-Rational, and Digital epistemologies, to name just a few, are all embraced, cared for, and given voice and song. This ... More | | 
Bijun Liang, Free Pigeon (2023). Photo courtesy of the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Soon, major changes are coming to San Franciscos Chinatown as work gets underway to renovate Portsmouth Square, the always busy park at the heart of the neighborhood that serves as the de facto living room of the densely populated, low income community. One of Chinatowns very few public spaces, the Square will be closed to undergo extensive reconstruction over several years, including the removal of the pedestrian bridge that connects it to the Chinese Culture Center. In consideration of this dramatic transformation of its immediate surroundings and the impact, both intended and unintended, on the community, Chinese Culture Center (CCC) invites eleven artists and art collectives to address urban histories and spaces in a new, multidisciplinary exhibition entitled Present Tense 2023: Perilous Playground. Guest curated by C & G Artpartment, formerly of Hong Kong, the exhibition presents ... More | | 
Sergio Valenzuela, Nosotros Y El Amor. 2023, Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 33 in.
SEATTLE, WA.- Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery announced the exclusive Northwest gallery representation of the highly acclaimed artist, Sergio Valenz Valenzuela. Graduated from Universidad Galileo de Guatemala with a major in Communications with a concentration in Education, Sergio Valenzuela is a graphic designer, creative director, publicist, and professor. He teaches university courses on creativity, advertising, and graphic design at his alma mater. He is a serious artist with particular interests in pictorial, sculptural, and video art. Selected as the winner of the Young Artist award in 2005, and granted a scholarship to study at the Ãcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Valenz has exhibited both nationally and internationally in multiple solo and group showings. Other recognitions and awards include: Best piece during Juannio 2005 and 2006 Latin American Art Expo; Best piece in the XV Bi ... More |
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Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690 - 1720, Part 1
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 An orchestra's 'Ode to Joy' calls for Ukrainian freedomBERLIN.- Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, in 1989, Leonard Bernstein traveled to the once-divided German city and led a performance of Beethovens Ode to Joy, replacing the word Freude, or joy, with Freiheit freedom. In an echo of that historic concert, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, a touring ensemble formed in the early months of Russias invasion of Ukraine, presented Beethovens Ninth Symphony in the suburbs of Berlin on Thursday. And, for the famous Ode to Joy choral finale, the text was translated to Ukrainian, with the key word being slava, or glory, as in Slava Ukrainii: Glory to Ukraine. Im driven by my passion for Ukraine, the orchestras conductor, Keri-Lynn Wilson, said on Thursday afternoon before the concert, at the garden of Schönhausen Palace. And my desire to get rid of Putin and his regime through culture. Around her was a bustle of activity: u ... More  DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum awards 24th Rappaport Prize to Tomashi JacksonLINCOLN, MASS.- deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced Massachusetts and New York based artist Tomashi Jackson as the recipient of the 24th Rappaport Prize. Established in 2000 and endowed in perpetuity in 2010, the Prize was established by The Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation to celebrate the achievements of contemporary artists in New England. An in-person lecture is planned for 2024. Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston) is a multidisciplinary artist, and works across painting, textiles, sculpture, and video to place formal and material investigations in dialogue with recent histories of displacement and disenfranchisement of people of color. Her artwork often features compositions of exuberant color, bold geometries, and intricate layering of material. Jackson currently has a mid-career survey exhibition ... More  Museo Picasso Málaga September strike could affect 'The Echo of Picasso' openingMALAGA.- The year in which tribute is being paid to Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death, is not turning out to be a celebration for staff at Museo Picasso Málaga. For over ten months, their representatives have been fruitlessly trying to negotiate their fifth collective labour agreement. For this reason, since last May, the museums workers have been forced to go on strike and demonstrate several times to demand a fair labour agreement, with wage, work and social conditions in line with those of workers at other Spanish museums in the same category. With a view to unblocking and moving forward with this lengthy and unproductive negotiation, the Works Committee has been forced to call another strike, this time for five consecutive days, from 18th to 22nd September. This further strike action, which will be accompanied by daily ... More  Choreographers make their own kind of administrative danceNEW YORK, NY.- Nobody becomes a choreographer because they love spreadsheets. The business side of dance budgeting, marketing, scheduling and fundraising can seem very far away from the in-the-body creative work of the studio and the stage. During the 20th century dance boom, dance companies often formalized that divide. Relatively plentiful arts funding meant successful choreographers could hand over administrative duties to executive directors and their well-staffed teams. Maintaining a church-and-state separation even became a kind of artistic virtue: A working choreographer shouldnt let the practical distract from the creative. Recently, choreographer Dominic Moore-Dunson asked a mentor, an established dance maker, for marketing advice. The mentor told him not to worry: Your job is just to make the art. But that is now no longer ... More  He shined a light on other artists. Now the light turns to him.SAO PAULO.- The day Emanoel Araújo died last year, his museum was in shambles. It was Sept. 7, the 200th anniversary of Brazils independence, and renovations at the Museu Afro Brasil had just begun the month before. An artist known as much for his geometric sculptures and reliefs as for his tenacity and penchant for getting what he wanted, Araújo (pronounced Ahra-OO-zhoh) was just two months shy of his 82nd birthday at the time of his death 18 years after he founded the museum and later fought for state funding for much-needed updates. Even as floors were being torn up and walls taken down, Araújo was adamant that the Museu Afro Brasil which bears his name on the building and which he considered his most important work not shutter completely, leaving the long-term exhibitions open to the public. Although he is not widely ... More  In Kentucky, a maestro of the peopleBARDSTOWN, KY.- On a muggy July night at an amphitheater in suburban Kentucky, conductor and composer Teddy Abrams sporting black jeans, camouflage sneakers and a bouncy mop of golden curls took the podium and began to evangelize. It was the final stop on the Louisville Orchestras summer tour across the state, and Abrams, the ensembles 36-year-old music director, paused to speak to the crowd of roughly 900 in Bardstown, 40 miles or so south of Louisville, about his mission. He told the audience teenagers in tie-dye, retirees snacking on nachos and workers from nearby distilleries among them that he wanted to use music to bring people together across all backgrounds. Invoking his idol, eminent conductor Leonard Bernstein, he said music was a universal language: We have to do something with it. He ... More  Why are people still pressing flowers? It's a form of storytelling.NEW YORK, NY.- My compulsion to garden vividly and expressively comes from Grandma Marion, who always made room for masses of marigolds and zinnias that echoed the colors of the Fiestaware on her pantry shelves. But she also handed down an appreciation for dried, pressed plants, which have a special kind of enduring beauty, faded though they may be. Two of what she called her pressed-flower pictures pieces of her beloved garden arranged artfully on fabric under glass hang in my upstairs hall. Lately, Ive begun to feel that these mementos of a long-ago spring are trying to tell me something. Setting an example for aging gracefully, perhaps, although I doubt that was Grandmas intention. She wanted to pass along the spirit of the garden, to honor its importance in her life by making some of her little ephemeral darlingss ... More  Limited edition Manabu Ikeda fine art print available now at Audain Art MuseumWHISTLER, BC.- In celebration of Flowers from the Wreckage, Manabu Ikeda's first solo retrospective in North America, the Audain Art Museum is offering fine art prints of Ikeda's compelling work: Three Surfaces. Known for his meticulously detailed pen-and-ink drawings, Manabu Ikeda seeks inspiration from his surroundings to bring attention and awe to viewers, as a way of sending warnings about the painful reality of environmental disasters. Central to his practice are metaphors of grief and the undeniable aspects of life that are often beyond societys control, including the fundamental forces of Mother Nature. Ikedas drawings also reveal human resilience and the ability to rise above devastating situations when it appears impossible. Three Surfaces explores undersea worlds and the French landmark and technological masterpiece: the Eiffel ... More  Frye Art Museum and MariPili Tapas Bar announce new café partnershipSEATTLE, WA.- The café at the Frye Art Museum will reopen in October 2023 as MariPili at Café Frieda. Frye Executive Director Jamilee Lacy and MariPilis Chef Grayson Corrales have collaborated on an exciting new concept that will offer Frye patrons and Seattle diners an elevated and unique yet accessible culinary experience within the museums visually refreshed café space. The museums café has been closed since March 2020, originally a response to the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders. The café has remained closed while the museum focused on reopening and rebuilding core programing in the wake of the pandemic. Upon her arrival at the Frye in March 2023, Executive Director Jamilee Lacy expedited the search for a new café proprietor who would both exemplify the strength of Seattles culinary scene and align with the museums goal ... More  'The Body of Cybele: Liu Youran' solo exhibition to open at Tang Contemporary Art BangkokBANGKOK.- In the representation of goddesses from various ancient civilizations, people naturally and instinctively admired certain qualities associated with femininity. In "The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype," Erich Neumann draws upon the theories of his mentor, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, to explore the depths of the "collective unconscious" of humanity, uncovering the archetypes that help us understand ourselves. The Great Mother of the Gods, a pivotal figure in the early development of self-awareness; transitioning from chaos to stability, initiated humanity's journey from focusing on themselves to comprehending the world. Some portrayals present her in a squatting stance, emphasizing full hips, while others depict her standing gracefully and slender. She can be the deity of the sky, symbolized by doves; or the queen of hell, symbolized ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Mary McCartney was born August 28, 1969. Mary Anna McCartney (previously McCartney-Donald) is a photographer. The first biological child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her paternal grandmother, Mary McCartney. In this image: British photographer Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney poses for a photograph next to her photographs during the opening of the exhibition 'From where I stood' in the gallery Contributed in Berlin, Germany.
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