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Installation view: Cybernetics of the Poor, Kunsthalle Wien 2020, photo: © eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler: Ferdinand Kriwet, Campaing-Tableau, 1972/2007, private collection Cologne, courtesy BQ, Berlin.
VIENNA.- Cybernetics of the Poor examines the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present. From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions. Initially relevant mostly in the fields of administration, planning, and criminology, and early ecology, under digital capitalism cybernetics has become an economic factor (see: big data). In such a cybernetic totality art must respond to a new situation: as a cybernetics of the poor. This exhibition presents works that use the powerlessness of artits povertyvis-Ã -vis the cybernetic machine to propose countermodels. In addition, the show gathers recent and historical works by artists who believed in cybernetics as a participatory, playful practice or were pioneers in delineating a counter-cybernetics. How much of the counterforce (Thomas Pynchon) exists within ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The son of Syrian-Armenian potter Misak Antranik Petros carries vases for drying at his father's workshop located inside an ancient mud-brick house near the city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, on December 19, 2020. Petros was only a teenager when he had to take over for his sick father and become the main potter of the family. He has since become a master of the craft, and is keen to pass his skills on. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
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| Christie's announces an online auction of Modern and Contemporary Art | | Galerie Karsten Greve opens its third solo exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois | | Christie's online-only Latest X Greatest series totals $4,679,875 | 
Mario Radice, Composiz R.S.P. Estimate: Euro 6,000-8,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
MILAN.- Christies Milano will be presenting Mapping Modern and Contemporary Art, an online auction running from 20 January to 10 February 2021. Building on the concept of The Grand Tour an educational visit through Europe and beyond, which took place in the 17th- and 18th-century, Christies will create a sale, mapping Italian modern and contemporary art from all 20 regions, including works by international artists who have been inspired by the country or have lived and worked in Italy for a period of time or have been strongly inspired by Italian culture. At the time and once arrived in Italy, the Grand Tour participants would visit Turin and Milan, then might spend a few months in Florence at the Uffizi gallery, showcasing in one space the monuments of High Renaissance paintings and Roman sculpture. After a side trip to Pisa, the tourists would move on to Padua, Bologna and Venezia. From Venice the travellers went ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Calme Toi), 2000. Fabric, 61 1/2 x 12 x 12 in. © The Easton Foundation. Photo: Saŝa Fuis, Köln. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln Paris St. Moritz.
ST. MORITZ.- Galerie Karsten Greve AG is presenting its third solo exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 2010) in its St. Moritz gallery space. Twenty three distinctive pieces created during a period of six decades (1946 2007) are on show. The exhibition pays homage to one of the most significant artists of our time, reflecting thirty years of close collaboration between Galerie Karsten Greve and Louise Bourgeois. Following the artists first retrospective in Europe, shown at Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1989, Karsten Greve organize d his first solo show of works by Louise Bourgeois in his recently opened Paris exhibition space in 1990. On the occasion of the opening of his gallery in St. Moritz in 1999, Karsten Greve dedicated a comprehensive show to the artist, followed by presentations in Paris and Cologne. Born in Paris ... More | | 
Yoshitomo Nara, Girl in a Box (detail). Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Sheet: 12 x 12 in. Executed in 2001. Sold for: $43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies sale series Latest x Greatest, achieved a combined total of $4,679,875 across three online-only sales spanning post-war and contemporary art, prints and luxury categories. In its final 20th Century Auction of the year in New York, Christies First Open | Online auction totaled $3,795,625. Kenny Scharfs Marge Simpson, 1992-97, led the sale having quadrupled its high estimate to realize $375,000, the second highest price ever achieved by the artist at auction. Also eclipsing its presale estimate, Sam Gilliams Dancing Scene from 1991, realized $325,000, and the top auction price for a post 1990s work by the artist. A strong result was also achieved by Untitled PII by Larry Poons, which realized $175,000. Christies first dedicated sale to Supreme, Behind The Box: 1994-2020 (December 1-15) achieved a total of $404,250. The sale attracted 63% new ... More |
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| Contents of the spectacular Aynhoe Park to be offered at auction in January | | The Prado Museum posts its first Official Guide for Android and iOS smartphones | | MoMA opens Garrett Bradley's first solo museum exhibition in New York | 
The celebrated family home of James and Sophie Perkins, which recently achieved the global accolade of Best Venue and has played host to celebrities from the music, film and fashion worlds, is set to draw world-wide interest.
LONDON.- An amazing opportunity has arisen to own a true piece of English history, as the contents of the 17th century Grade I Palladian country house, Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire, are to be offered by Dreweatts in a two-day auction titled, Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of a Modern Grand Tour, on Wednesday January 20th & Thursday 21st, 2021. The celebrated family home of James and Sophie Perkins, which recently achieved the global accolade of Best Venue and has played host to celebrities from the music, film and fashion worlds, is set to draw world-wide interest. The Aynhoe Park Estate has been the project of businessman and entrepreneur James Perkins and his wife Sophie. Their passion for restoration and ... More | | 
Prado Guide App.
MADRID.- The Prado Museum and Samsung are taking a major step in their purpose of bringing art closer to society through the responsible use of technology, with the launch of the Prado Guide app. Aimed at all art history enthusiasts and at those who want to prepare their visit or spend more time studying the details of their favourite works, this app makes 400 Prado works available to the user to enjoy from anywhere and at any time. This application aims to become a tool both for uninitiated visitors and specialists and bring the Museum closer to an increasingly numerous audience interested in obtaining clear and accurate information on the works contained within. We hope that this guide accompanies and enlightens those who have the pleasure of touring the galleries, and that it brings the collection closer to those who are unable to, states Miguel Falomir, Director of the Prado National Museum. This app ... More | | 
America, 2019, dir. Garrett Bradley, courtesy the filmmaker.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Projects: Garrett Bradley, the artists first solo museum exhibition in New York, in the Museums street-level galleries from November 21, 2020, through March 21, 2021. This exhibition, presented as part of a multiyear partnership between The Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, features a multichannel video installation, America (2019), a work organized around 12 short black-and-white films shot by Bradley and set to a score by Trevor Mathison and Udit Duseja. Among her original short vignettes, Bradley intersperses footage from Lime Kiln Club Field Day, an unreleased 1914 film believed to be the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-Black cast. With America, Bradley imagines and pictures Black figures whose lives have been lost to history. Projects: Garrett Bradley is organized by Thelma Golden, ... More |
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| Stanley Cowell, jazz pianist with a wide range, dies at 79 | | $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. supports nexus of Asian arts and religions | | Tate inspires creativity at home this Christmas | 
Stanley Cowell performs at the Lincoln Center in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Ruby Washington/The New York Times.
by Giovanni Russonello
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Stanley Cowell, a pianist, composer, record-label impresario and educator who brought a technicians attention to detail and a theorists sophistication to his more than 50-year career as a jazz bandleader, died Friday in Dover, Delaware. He was 79. Sylvia Potts Cowell, his wife, said that the cause of his death, at a hospital, was hypovolemic shock, the result of blood loss stemming from other health issues. Cowells playing epitomized the pianos ability to consolidate generations of musical history into a unified expression, while extending various routes into the future. And when he needed to say more than the piano allowed, he expanded his palette. He was among the first jazz musicians to make prominent use of the kalimba, a thumb piano from southeastern Africa. In his later decades ... More | | 
Largest foundation grant ever received by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art will deepen public understanding of Asian religions.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, received a grant of $2.5 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support "The Arts of Devotion," a portfolio of projects consisting of an online educational resource, community engagement efforts and four exhibitions that will highlight the intersection of Asian arts and religious diversity and change. The museum will use its renowned collections of Buddhist, Islamic and Hindu art to enhance understanding of these Asian religions and to foster empathy and respect among the public. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is one of 18 organizations from across the U.S. receiving grants through the initiative. The group includes fine arts museums, historical societies and history museums and museums focused ... More | | 
Caring for Art During Covid.
LONDON.- From getting creative with online activities, visiting artists in their studios, going behind the scenes of the galleries, or exploring exhibitions through film and music, Tate is offering a wide range of resources, games and videos to provide entertainment and to help keep people feeling inspired at home over the festive period. From Monday 21 December, the public can go behind the scenes at Tate in a new film exploring how our Collection Care and Curatorial teams have been working together to find new ways of looking after art in these exceptional times. Hear from art handlers, conservators, archivists and registrars as they discuss the challenges of transporting, installing and preparing artworks during the coronavirus pandemic. While Tates London galleries are closed in line with Tier 3 restrictions, there are many opportunities for visitors around the world to still experience exhibitions online. In response to Zanele Muholi at Tate Modern, members of the QTIPOC community re ... More |
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| Casterline│Goodman Gallery opens an exhibition of works by The Connor Brothers | | New publication: More-than-Human | | The small Irish animation studio that keeps getting Oscars' attention | 
The Connor Brothers, Better Lonely Alone, 2020. Oil on canvas, 73 x 45 1/2 inches.
ASPEN, CO.- Casterline|Goodman Gallery is presenting an exhibition by The Connor Brothers. The Connor Brothers is the pseudonym for British artists James Golding and Mike Snelle. The duo came to prominence in 2012 and for several years maintained their anonymity by using a fictional biography. Their identities were revealed in 2014 in a major feature by Mick Brown in The Telegraph magazine, allowing them to undertake more ambitious projects. Extraordinary People is on view from December 15, 2020 to April 25, 2020 in Aspen, CO. Best known for their Pulp Fiction series, the pair are also known for their activist work and their playful hoaxes. In 2014 they created a fictional museum -The Hanbury Collection, which fused truth and fiction in such a way as to render it impossible to work out which exhibits were real and which were not. This obsession with truth and ... More | | 
More-than-Human Graphic Design: Adriaan Mellegers and Vanessa van Dam.
LONDON.- The More-than-Human reader brings together texts by writers across a wide array of disciplines that serve to reflect on the state of post-anthropocentric thinking today. Focusing on the ecologies and technologies of climate injustice and inequalities, as well as the destructive structures lurking within anthropocentrism, More-than-Human proposes complex entanglements, frictions, and reparative attention across species and beings. Thinking past the centrality of the human subject, the texts that compose this reader begin to imagine networks of ethics and responsibility emerging not from the ideologies of old, but from the messy and complex liveliness around us, and underfoot. Rather than attempting to be a comprehensive compendium on the topic (which would be virtually impossible), More-than-Human provides a cross-section of the ... More | | 
Tomm Moore, an Irish filmmaker and animator, next to drawings from the film, Wolfwalkers, a film from Moores studio, Cartoon Saloon, being exhibited at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov. 30, 2020. Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times.
by Carlos Aguilar
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Tomm Moore and 11 friends in the small city of Kilkenny, Ireland, set out to make an animated movie in 1999 based on Celtic mythology, they could hardly imagine their labor of love would become a studio that would revolutionize the animation industry in Ireland, revitalize interest in folklore at home and connect with a global audience. Nor could they envision that their studio, Cartoon Saloon, would go on to earn an Oscar nomination with every feature release, an impressive accomplishment for a relatively young outfit. And yet now, with their fourth feature, Wolfwalkers, directed by Moore ... More |
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 Light Art Space announces 2021 programmeBERLIN.- Light Art Space announced its artistic programme for 2021, featuring major new commissions by Robert Irwin and Jakob Kudsk Steensen. The commissions will transform the renowned Berlin institutions Kraftwerk Berlin and Halle am Berghain and sit alongside LAS Online, a new series of artist interventions featuring Jenna Sutela and Meriem Bennani, which will be available to global audiences through the LAS website. LAS is a non-profit art foundation that works across art, science and new technologies. Championing experimental projects and new exhibition formats, LAS is committed to commis- sioning and exhibiting engaging, immersive experiences that are accessible to wider audien- ces both in Berlin and internationally. Conceived by Amira Gad, recently appointed Head of Programmes, together with LAS Director Dr Bettina Kames, the ... More  Art Dubai announces 2021 dates and new artist-led programmingDUBAI.- Art Dubai announces the full list of participating galleries for its 14th edition, taking place March 17-20, 2021. Returning with 85 galleries from 36 countries and coinciding with the UAEs Golden Jubilee celebrations for the countrys 50th anniversary, Art Dubai 2021 is delighted to present an ambitious line-up of galleries from diverse geographies, inventive programming with safety protocols in place, new partners and a more artist-led approach that aims to bring communities together, further cultivate art engagement practices, and highlight art across the Global South. A new artist-led programme will be designed and guided by the artists participating in the fair, including live art happenings and site-specific experiences around Dubai. The new live experiences initiative aims to break the traditional ways of meeting, viewing and engaging ... More  Exhibition of recent immersive paintings by Rosson Crow on view at Galerie Nathalie ObadiaPARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Next Year at Marienbad, California-based artist Rosson Crows fourth exhibition. Her last show in Paris had taken place in 2013. Born in Dallas, in 1982, the artist graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts (2005) and Yale University (2006), and lives in Los Angeles, where she has been developing a pictorial work that has always been considered to be a powerful and pertinent contribution to the West Coasts artistic scene. The exhibition comprises a group of recent immersive paintings, each steeped in a nostalgic atmosphere, with superimposed impressions and touching reminders of the film Lannée dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961), a masterpiece from the French New Wave, which the artist cites as one of her main artistic references. Rosson Crow recognizes in this literary film, ... More  Art takes over in January for Singapore Art Week 2021SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Week, Singapores annual festival and the pinnacle of Asias visual arts calendar, is set to take over the island when it returns from 22 to 30 January 2021. A joint initiative by the National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), SAW 2021 will celebrate the coming together of our vibrant artist community once again, celebrating their resilience, innovation and solidarity as we have seen in these unprecedented times. Staying true to SAWs theme of Art Takes Over, SAW 2021 the ninth edition of SAW will be presented in a complementary blended format for the very first time, with over 100 programmes threading across both physical and digital platforms, allowing audiences from around the world to discover and experience Southeast ... More  Grace Knowlton, sculptor who worked 'in the Round,' dies at 88NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Grace Knowlton, a sculptor who favored the elegance of the sphere, and who presented it in multiple materials and distended shapes and in sizes that ranged from the ornamental ball to an 8-foot boulder, died Dec. 4 at a memory care facility in Old Tappan, New Jersey. She was 88. Her daughter Samantha Knowlton said the cause was complications of dementia. Knowlton, one of the few female modernists to break into the masculine world of outdoor sculpting, created orbs of all manner, with surfaces that were rough, smooth or sometimes cut into shards, or broken and left with gaping holes. All were part of what she called her work in the round. Her spheres have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; ... More  Domaine de la Romanee Conti leads Heritage Wine Auction beyond $2.6 millionDALLAS, TX.- Eager bidding from nearly 550 collectors drove Heritage Auctions' Fine & Rare Wine Auction to $2,651,842 in total sales Dec. 11. The 1,070-lot single-owner event boasted sell-through rates of 96.3% by value and 97.8% by lots sold. The auction lured 544 bidders from countries around the world, including Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Japan, China and Australia. "The collection that made up the entirety of this sale was exceptional, and the results reflected that, especially the strong prices realized for many older white wines" Heritage Auctions Fine & Rare Wine Senior Director Frank Martell said. "The consignor of this collection is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about elite wine, and it showed in his collection, the last of which found new homes through this auction." The top lot in the sale, Romanee Conti 1971 Domaine ... More  Syrian potter preserves centuries-old craftQAMISHLI (AFP).- Inside a dusty and dark workshop on the banks of the Jaghjagh river in northeast Syria, Misak Antranik Petros uses an ancient pottery wheel to throw different shapes from clay. The 85-year-old Syrian potter of Armenian origin said his family has practised the craft for more than 450 years. "The profession was passed down from one generation to another like an inheritance," he said. "Now, my son is taking it up." His workshop is located inside an ancient mud-brick house near the city of Qamishli, administered by Kurdish authorities who control much of northeastern Syria. It is cluttered with pots, tools and classically shaped vases, mostly covered in dust. Petros and his two sons spend most of their time in the humid space, heated by an old wood-burning stove. "I dont like to clean the clay off my hands because I like the texture," he told AFP from his workshop. ... More  Classic portraits by some of the world's greatest photographers on view at Iconic Images GalleryLONDON.- Iconic Images Gallery opened its new exhibition BLOW-UP. Come stand face to face with some of the most iconic faces in history and take a look at the careers of the most ground-breaking, influential photographers who took them. Subjects include a dazzling array of 20th century icons, from John Lennon to Brigitte Bardot, Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and many more. Photographers featured are the equally legendary Terry ONeil, Norman Parkinson, Douglas Kirkland, Kevin Cummins, Ed Caereff, Michael Brennan, Eva Sereny, Lawrence Fried, Janet Macoska, Baron Wolman, Greg Brennan, Michael Ward, Justin de Villeneuve and David Nutter. The exhibition is inspired by Michelangelo Antonionis 1966 cult film Blow-Up a counter cultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and ... More  Bumps in the road from Broadway to HollywoodNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A moment I barely noticed in the 2019 Broadway production of David Byrnes American Utopia jumped out at me with new resonance in Spike Lees film of the show for HBO. That was when Byrne, in his introduction to the song Everybodys Coming to My House, described hearing it performed by students at the Detroit School of Arts. Without altering a word or note, the high schoolers had turned the number, which in Byrnes original version comes off as an anxious monologue about being inundated by otherness, into a joyful choral invitation. I kind of liked their version better, Byrne said, apparently amazed by the materials mutability: The song was the same, yet had a completely different meaning. I knew what he meant; after all, I was watching an even more elaborate translation, in which ... More  Galerie Cecile Fakhoury opens an exhibition of works by Elladj Lincy DeloumeauxABIDJAN.- Un est multiple (One is many), such is the aphorism chosen by Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux as the title of his first solo exhibition. Two a priori antinomic terms that nevertheless perfectly describe the artists complex vision and his conception of identity in history. Fragments of places, faces, memories, like the trace of a memorable and sensitive landscape. Elladj Lincy Deloumeauxs paintings are like the voices of an ancestral choir telling us about the colours of yesteryear and the dreams of tomorrow. The artist invites us to share moments lived or told, introduces us to members of his family, takes us into his universe made of childhood, adolescence and family stories, on the border between reality and dream. Here his sister, there his mother or his aunt, all the painted characters compose the testimony of the personal history of the artist, ... More  Exhibition at LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery places the end of the year under the mark of color and optimismABIDJAN.- LouiSimone Guirandou ends the year 2020 with a Carte Blanche offered to Albéric Kouassi whose works are joined by those of Nù Barreto, Cédric Tchinan and Obou. This exhibition places the end of the year under the mark of color and optimism with works of very diverse styles and techniques. For his carte blanche, it is Victor Hugo's poem "Those who live, are those who struggle" which came to Alberic Kouassi's mind.In an uncertain health and political context, in the era of individualism, when ideals seem to have become illusions, the Artist summons "Thinking Angels", "Indignant" who call us to question our personal commitment in a society that sees the gap between social classes growing wider. It is the same concern that animates Nù Barreto with his series of flags "Disunited States of Africa". The work exhibited: Ca Va Aller is part of this series. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Masaccio was born December 21, 1401. Masaccio (Italian: December 21, 1401 - summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality. Masaccio died at twenty-six and little is known about the exact circumstances of his death. In this image: San Giovenale Triptych (1422).
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