| The Finnish National Ballet at 100 | | David Nolan now representing Chakaia Booker | | Exhibition features the graphic sculptures that Mark Whalen is widely recognized for | 
New leadership at the Finnish National Ballet, from left: Jani Talo, the schools educational coordinator, and Javier Torres, the companys new artistic director in Helsinki, June 13, 2022. Vesa Laitinen/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth Kendall
HELSINKI.- What is Finnish about the Finnish National Ballet? That question hung in the air when the company threw itself a 100th-anniversary gala celebration in May, in the imposing modern theater it shares with the Finnish National Opera. Apart from a rushed slideshow, dancers wielding blue-and-white Finnish flags, and an elegant file of all 166 students of the companys school, also celebrating its 100th anniversary, not much referred to the host country. The dancers onstage were from all over, with some Finns interspersed. The company looked athletic, precise and fairly comfortable in excerpts from old chestnuts (Swan Lake), newer chestnuts (Spartacus) and contemporary ... More | | 
Optical Illusion, 2021, rubber tires and wood, 64 x 34 x 16 in (162.6 x 86.4 x 40.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery announced that Chakaia Booker has joined the gallery program. Born in 1953 in Newark, New Jersey, Booker received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University in 1976 and her Master of Fine Arts from the City College of New York (CUNY) in 1993. Booker studied a variety of disciplines including African dance, ceramics, weaving, basketry and tai chi. These practices have shaped her innovative artistic practices in sculpting, painting, collage, and photography, using materials such as rubber, plastic, ceramic, and bronze. Known for her elaborate and ornamental sculptures created from used and discarded construction materials, such as rubber tires that Booker defines as abstractly African, the artist merges ecological concerns with explorations of racial and economic difference, globalization, and gender. Her powerful work across diverse mediums has brought forth ... More | | 
This is the artist's third showing with the gallery and his first in Southeast Asia.
BANGKOK .- Over the Influence, Bangkok is presenting, Close My Eyes, a solo exhibition of new paintings, sculptures, and wall works by LA-based artist Mark Whalen. This is the artists third showing with the gallery and his first in Southeast Asia. Close My Eyes, features the graphic sculptures that Whalen is widely recognized for human-like heads and hands that are often paired with everyday objects to explore the uncanny relationships between object and person. Whalen has always found the figure interesting and utilizes it to push his practice conceptually and aesthetically. For this exhibition, Whalen expands his practice to include painting, and wall works though diverse in media, the artworks remain cohesive as all incorporate a sculptural element, retain the figure, and are deliberately ambiguous. Whalens maquettes are born in the digital realm without gender, physical body, or any other attributes as ... More |
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| San Luis Opispo Museum of Art presents Alyssa Monks: Be Perfectly Still, a retrospcetive | | Laumeier Sculpture Park celebrates opening of fall exhibition, Forest Through the Trees | | SmartStamp Collaborates with Frieze Seoul, Metagolden, and Digivault Timed to launch of new SmartStamp app | 
Alyssa Monks, Be Perfectly Still, 2021. Courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York, NY.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA.- The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is presenting the first museum retrospective by contemporary artist Alyssa Monks. The exhibition brings together paintings that span the arc of Monks career, from the early 2000s to works created during the pandemic. Through paintings that are expressive, lush, and often intimate, Monks conveys the very essence of being human through works that meditate on love, loss, and the perennial search for self. The paintings included in this exhibition feature large-scale portraits of Monks and those closest to her, portrayed in vulnerable or intimate contexts. Often capturing fragmented elements of a scene, or layering together various spaces and moments, Monks works disorient the viewer and invite reflection on ones own vulnerability. Through the use of thickly applied brushstrokes, and her tendency to flip the background and foreground in her work using semi-transparent filters of gla ... More | | 
Lena Henke, Die Baumwurzel I, 2019. Forton and pigment. 23 1/2 x 16 x 6 inches. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery, New York.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- In the Fall of 2022, Laumeier Sculpture Park will explore the beauty and power of trees as an alluring subject matter for artists through its exhibition Forest Through the Trees, on view August 27 December 11, 2022 in the Aronson Fine Arts Centers Whitaker Foundation Gallery and Laumeiers Outdoor Galleries. This group exhibition presents a selection of artists from St. Louis and around the world whose observations range from representation through landscape to conceptual experimentation where the tree is treated as both subject and object. As a sculpture park focused on the conversation between art and nature, the works on view operate in harmony with and in reference to Laumeiers natural landscape, both organic and manicured. Rather than viewed as a backdrop, the tree as a symbol of nature is respected and revered. Each of the artists in the exhibition ... More | | 
Gordon Cheung, Garden of Perfect Brightness, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and SmartStamp.
KREUZLINGEN.- SmartStamp, the pioneering new standard in identification and authentication for the art world, today announced major collaborations, timed to the launch of the new SmartStamp App in the Google Play Store on 1 September. Across an artworks journeyfrom the studio, to storage, to the collector, gallery, or museum wallSmartStamp is a long-term management and identification solution for anyone involved in the creation, preservation, and protection of cultural objects. The new SmartStamp App leverages patented state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit technology and AI to bring the groundbreaking security and timestamping power of blockchain to the art world. In addition to mounting a VIP program in collaboration with Frieze Seoul next month, the tech company continues its collaboration with Metagolden by providing its patented AI technology to physically-digitally link an emerald and gold ring with its NFT counterpart ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of works by Christina Fernandez opens at The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens an exhibition of new works in porcelain ceramic by Lucas Ferreira | | ART FOR CHANGE announces a series of works by artist Shaun Ellison timed to the 2022 US Open | 
Christina Fernandez, Untitled Farmworkers, 1989/2020. Mixed media installation, including wall-mounted photograph and text. Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist, Gallery Luisotti, and David Knauss.
POMONA, CA.- The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College announced the opening of Christina Fernandez: Under the Sun, an exhibition that features not only the work of the Los Angelesbased artist but also related works, selected by the artist herself, from the museums collection. The exhibition, which runs from August 24 to December 18, 2022, is centered on Fernandezs photography-based installations that treat labor, land, and light. She puts her photographs in conversation with both historical and contemporary works from the Benton that examine such related topics as activism, climate justice, landscape, and migration. Related programs, including a talk by Fernandez, will begin on October 22, 2022, with an artist celebration. We value our projects with contemporary artists ... More | | 
Heather Gaudio Fine Art specializes in emerging and established artists, offering painting, works on paper, photography and sculpture.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Ferreira & Nascimento: Natural Terrains, featuring new works in porcelain ceramic. This is the first exhibition for Lucas Ferreira in the United States. Born and raised in Brazil, Ferreiras success as an artist came about serendipitously when he moved to London in his early twenties to study cinema. He began working in ceramic as a means to support his film projects in what he dubs is a capricious industry. As he explored the properties of porcelain ceramic and developed his own techniques and language, Ferreira found the demand for his work exceeding his wildest expectations. For Ferreira, his work is a celebration of irregularities that begins with small, simple shapes which are then repeated thousands of times. Ferreira works with porcelain ceramic in its purest form, rolling the material out into paper thin ... More | | 
French Open, 2021, 9 x 12 Inches. Acrylic on paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- ART FOR CHANGE, a leading art platform for the socially conscious collector, announced today that it has collaborated with New York-based South African artist, Shaun Ellison to offer a series of works on paper along with a new, hand-embellished, limited-edition print. The series is timed to launch around the upcoming US Open, which takes place from August 29, 2022 September 11, 2022. A tennis player himself, Ellison captures the spontaneity and frailty of groups, success, and failure in the sport through vibrant and dynamic paintings. ART FOR CHANGE will plant 10 trees for every artwork sold as part of its ongoing initiative to fight climate change and support reforestation efforts. This year alone, ART FOR CHANGE has already planted over 2,500 trees. Recently named one of Artsys Artists on the Rise, Ellisons work captures the legacy of notable players like Arthur Ashe, the first and only black ... More |
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| Montclair Art Museum prepares four new exhibitions opening this September | | Heritage Auctions sells 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Rookie Card for $12.6 million | | Final weeks to see "A Movement in Every Direction" at Mississippi Museum of Art | 
Pamela Moore, Tree View Wedding, 2022. Photopainting, 23 x 23 in.
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum announced four exciting new shows opening Saturday, September 10, 2022. Lori Field: Tiger Tarot is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring tarot card collages the artist, Montclair native Lori Field, created during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her mysterious modern-day fairytales in multiple mediums, Field employs a recurring cast of human and animal hybrids to explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and spirituality. Her characters, predominantly female or androgynous, serve as foils or narrators within the mysterious worlds of Fields own creation. These animalistic figures also provide a means for exhibiting emotive personification and utilizing physical, animalistic traits to suggest internal, human struggles and motives. With the tiger as her talisman, Field envisions her tarot as representing a subversive and emerging feminine concept ... More | | 
The hobby's first eight-figure item!
DALLAS, TX.- Long before bidding ended early Sunday morning, this 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card was already the worlds most valuable sports card sold at auction. Weeks ago, in fact, it raced past the previous highwater mark set by the T206 Honus Wagner that sold for $6.6 million last year. But at 12:28 a.m. CST Sunday, it became official when Heritage Auctions sold the 1952 Mantle, graded a Mint+ 9.5 by Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, for $12.6 million. This extraordinary Mantle rookie card is also more than just the most valuable sports card in the world. This Holy Grail of the hobby is also the most valuable sports collectible ever sold at auction. It surpassed the record achieved earlier this year when the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the so-called Hand of God goal in the 1986 World Cup sold for $9.3 million. An eight-figure auction result in the sports market was the stuff of fantasy just a decade ag ... More | | 
Allison Janae Hamilton, still from A House Called Florida, 2022.
JACKSON, MS.- A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, the acclaimed traveling exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art, its inaugural venue, closes Sunday, September 11, 2022. Featuring newly commissioned works across media by 12 influential artists, the exhibition explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural life of the United States from historical and personal perspectives. Artists included are Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. The exhibition will travel to the Baltimore Museum of Art where it will be on view from October 30, 2022, through January 29, 2023. The Museum has planned a stellar roster of programming, described below, for closing weekend (September 8 11). ... More |
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 IFPDA Foundation announces 2022 Curatorial Internship and Foundation Grant RecipientsNEW YORK, NY.- The IFPDA Foundation announced today its 2022 Curatorial Internship Grant and Foundation Grant Recipients, honoring more than a dozen major cultural institutions and organizations with direct funding in support of print-related projects. Proceeds from the IFPDA Print Fair, returning in-person this October, benefit the Foundation, which supports museums and other nonprofits through grants for curatorial internships, exhibitions, research, educational programs, and scholarly publications. Our grant program enhances and extends our work to build a collaborative and inclusive community of printmakers, print collectors, and print curators, said Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the IFPDA. Since 2014, curatorial Internships have been a cornerstone of IFPDAs grants program and have empowered the next generation ... More  Launch Gallery presents 'GIL(path)' Kyong Boon OhLOS ANGELES, CA.- Launch Gallery presents Gil (path), by artist Kyong Boon Oh. Ms. Oh is the inaugural recipient of the SOLO Exhibition Open Call selected from over 70 entries from local artists by the LAUNCH Advisory Board and Founder and Executive Director James Panozzo. GIL translates to path in Ohs native Korean. GIL (global interpreter lock) is a mechanism used by computer-language interpreters to synchronize the execution of threads. This mechanism is similar Ohs art practice. As an interpreter uses GIL, they allow one thread to execute at a time on a multi-core processor. Similarly, Oh executes one section of weaving or carving at a time, even though there has to be multiple threads of wire or multiple cuts in the sculpture in several directions at a time in each piece. Chaos and order coexist in her practice. ... More  BRIC officially reopening to the public, welcomes community back to BRIC HouseBROOKLYN, NY.- BRIC, a leading, multi-disciplinary arts and media institution anchored in downtown Brooklyn, announced the reopening of BRIC House, a 40,000 sq foot space that hosts exhibitions, a performance space, a flexible artist studio, a state-of-the-art public access television center, a café, and classroom space. BRIC will begin welcoming their community back on September 12th, with a reopening celebration on September 21st from 7PM - 9PM at the opening reception for their fall gallery exhibition Rodrigo Valuenzela: New Works for a Post Workers World. RSVPs are encouraged. Since closing to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, BRIC House has only opened its doors for select programming and events, and the media center has been available by appointment only. Following the official reopening, BRIC House ... More  NEH grant for podcasts celebrating women in architecture WASHINGTON, DC.- The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation has received a significant grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their work on a major podcast series, called New Angle: Voice, dedicated to preserving and sharing the incredible lives of the most influential women in the history of architecture and design. This series, which has been awarded a $100,000 NEH grant, offers a valuable example of how digital media plays an essential role in the preservation of womens histories. The NEH announced about $31.5 million in grants last week for 226 humanities projects from across the United States, supporting a wide range of projects from education and scholarly pursuits to the preservation of archives and digital media. The outright award for audio documentary series New Angle: Voice Pioneering Women of ... More  Joe E. Tata, Peach Pit owner in 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Joe E. Tata, a character actor whose roles in a long television career included henchmen on the original Batman series and bit parts on The Rockford Files, but who was best known as the good-natured owner of the Peach Pit diner on the hit 1990s teenage drama Beverly Hills, 90210, died on Thursday in Woodland Hills, California. He was 85. His death, at a care facility, was confirmed by his lawyer, Richard W. Sharpe, who did not specify a cause. Tatas daughter Kelly Tata also shared the news of his death in a statement on a GoFundMe page that she had started to help cover the cost of his care. She said he had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 2018. From 1990 to 2000, Tata played Nat Bussichio, the friendly owner of the fictional Peach Pit, in 238 episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210. As Nat, he was a father ... More  BLEED 2022: An internatinal Contemporary art event IRL & online now.SYDNEY.- Today, BLEED Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital opens for its second instalment, exploring what lies between the live and the digital (IRL and online) for the next 28 days, through art, conversation, and audience participation from 29 August-25 September. Following a stellar debut in 2020, BLEED 2022 reaches a new height presenting their most major program and new creative and collaborative scope as founding partners Campbelltown Art Centre (Sydney) and Arts House (Melbourne) welcoming new Taiwanese partners, Taipei Performing Art Center and Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei). An international contemporary art event presented across four organisations, three cities and the world-wide-web this extremely innovative, collaborative and forward-thinking format interrogates creative ... More  Award Winners Best of Graduates 2022: Kwadwo Amfo, Anton Shebetko and Bobbi EssersAMSTERDAM.- Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation presents the winners of the RM Residency Award, the RM Photo Talent Award, and the RM Public Choice Award of 2022. During the award ceremony today, Gunay Uslu, the Dutch State Secretary for Culture and Media, announced the winners of the three final awards: The RM Photo Talent Award winner of 2022 is Kwadwo Amfo. The RM Residency Award winner of 2022 is Anton Shebetko. The RM Public Choice Award winner of 2022 is Bobbi Essers. Kwadwo Amfo creates photographs, films, and sculptures of great craftmanship. His works have a tremendous appeal, which upon getting closer dont let go. They are layered and refreshing. Each time you learn something new. A bronze sculpture of the artist appears to be a 3D print based on four different faces. His portraits from the series ... More  San Antonio Museum of Art adds four trusteesSAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today that Prentice Huntington Miller, Ambassador Sichan Siv, Jennifer R. Kelley, and Wendy Weil Atwell have joined the Museums Board of Trustees. Each of them bring unique experiences that will benefit SAMA. They will officially begin their three-year terms on October 1, 2022. An attorney with Kreager Mitchell, Miller concentrates her practice on business and real estate transactions. She also helps clients address their state and federal trademark needs. Prior to joining the firm, Miller focused her practice on oil and gas law. A San Antonio native with a lifelong interest in language, the classics, and fine arts, Miller studied Ancient History at Stanford University. Miller is a member of the Conservation Society of San Antonio Capital Club and the Texas Mineral and Landowners ... More  New government scheme to promote next generation of UK artists around the world LONDON.- Contemporary British artists are set to benefit from a new scheme which will see their work displayed in the countrys network of embassies and government buildings around the world. The Government Art Collection (GAC), which is part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), is launching a five-year acquisitions project to acquire works from exciting talent and showcase the best of British creativity promoting further interest in the countrys globally renowned creative sector. GAC will work with the Contemporary Visual Arts Network in England, the Scottish Contemporary Art Network, and networks in Wales and Northern Ireland to identify the next generation of potential artistic stars. The X-UK project initially ran as a successful pilot scheme in 2020-21 when more than 90 pieces by 45 contemporary visual artists ... More  The Chicago Show: Antiques & Art & Modern returns to the Merchandise Mart October 66.9CHICAGO, IL.- Dolphin Promotions annual antiques, art and design show in Chicago, renamed The Chicago Show: Antiques & Art & Modern, will return to The Merchandise Mart October 6-9, 2022. The show brings together 50 premier national and international dealers of fine antique furniture, jewelry, silver and decorative and fine arts, from ancient to 20th Century. Taking place in the Merchandise Marts 7th floor exhibition space, the event is the largest antiques and modernism show in the Chicago area and regularly draws thousands of attendees. This year there will be an emphasis on 20th Century design, focused on mid-century modern, with the return of Studio Sonja Milan and Glen Leroux Antiques along with the addition of Modern State Atelier and The Art of Time. The Womans Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is partnering ... More  The National Gallery of Canada welcomes three new students to its Conservation Internship Program for DiversityOTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada announced today the second cohort of students who will benefit from an internship in its Conservation and Restoration Department as part of the NGC Conservation Internship Program for Diversity. Carl Magarro, Doris Fuller Ruiz, and John Habiball of whom are enrolled in the Master of Art Conservation program at Queens University, Kingstonwill participate in a 12-week internship during which they will be paired with seasoned conservators and accompany them in their daily work. Launched last year in collaboration with the Queens University Art Conservation Program and the Canadian Conservation Institute, this initiative was designed by the NGC to increase the representation ... More  Octavia Art Gallery exhibits the sculptural works by Erica Larkin Gaudet & Mitchell GaudetNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery announces Open Vessels In Situ, a two-person exhibition featuring sculptural works by Erica Larkin Gaudet and Mitchell Gaudet. Erica Larkin Gaudet has been fabricating sculptural work for over 30 years. By forging, welding, applying patinas and leafing, she creates ethereal forms that oscillate between abstract and figurative sculptures. In her new series entitled Open Vessels, the works are created out of copper with surface finishes from metallic luster to matte aged patina. My new series of sculptures, Open Vessels, are hand forged copper abstracted forms inspired by elements of nature, human-nature interaction and in particular stages of growth. The abstracted vessels and underlying structures represent a metaphorical open container, symbolic of ones formed identity, the continual ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born August 29, 1780. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 - 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. In this image: The Envoys of Agamemnon, 1801, oil on canvas, Ãcole des Beaux Arts, Paris.
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