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Charles Long Installation view, paradigm lost, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, January 5 February 9, 2019. Photo: Pierre Le Hors. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, is presenting paradigm lost, an immersive installation by Charles Long. On view in the downstairs gallery from January 5 - February 9, 2019, the exhibition brings together a body of work that the artist created over the last year. For the artists thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery, paradigm lost continues the artists investigation of the forms scattered on the shore of modernisms receding wave. Longs studio output of the last 3 decades reveals both a charting of this modernist trajectory and need to transcend its shortcomings. With references to Giacometti, Guston, Munch, Brancusi, and other patriarchs who haunt the artists studio, paradigm lost castrates these forbearers in a poetic socio-political examination of our present moment, to nuanced and playful ends. The inspiration for this body of work developed during the artists daily walks thr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the Green Palace, located in the Sa'd Abad Museum Complex in northern Tehran on January 9, 2019, the residence of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for only a year and later used as a private reception hall (upstairs) and residence (downstairs) for special guests. On January 16, 1979, Iran's pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi went into exile, ending 2,500 years of monarchy. It was the end of a nearly four-decade reign and a pivotal moment in the revolution that installed an Islamic republic and rocked the Middle East. After stays in several countries, the shah ended up in Cairo, where he died on July 27, 1980. ATTA KENARE / AFP
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 | | Andrew Jones Auctions kicks off the new year with sale that includes over 500 lots | | LX, a new art space, opens on 60th and Park Avenue | | Sotheby's to offer The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III | 
Thai gilt copper alloy figure of a bodhisattva, late 19th century (est. $600-800).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions first DTLA Collections & Estates Auction of the New Year, on Sunday, January 20th, will feature a vast selection of over 500 lots of market fresh furnishings, decorations and accessories including fine art, antiques, design, Asian works of art, estate jewelry and fine silver from several local collections and estates, all enticingly priced. The auction will start promptly at 10:30 am Pacific standard time. The sale will be held online (via Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com) and in Andrew Jones Auctions roomy gallery at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. Were offering a wide-ranging collection to kick off 2019, said company president Andrew Jones. Were selling everything including the kitchen oven, but what an oven! He was referring to the spectacular La Cornue Grand Palais Château Series custom range that has a ... More | | 
Tal R, Sex Palace, 2016. Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas, 67 3/4 x 50 1/2 in. 172.1 x 128.3 cm. Courtesy of Cheim and Read.
NEW YORK, NY.- LX, a new art space on 60th Street and Park Avenue that integrates both museum quality exhibitions and art advising in an intimate gallery setting opened to the public January 10, 2019. Founded by Louis Buckworth and directed by Cecilia Weaver, LX features a dynamic program of guest curators, talks and events with a focus on Contemporary Art. Its inaugural exhibition I Dont Believe in Art, I Believe in Artists, curated by Jen DeNike features artworks from the 20th and 21st century including paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs on view to the public January 10 March 10, 2019. LX is a new kind of art space, a destination where visitors will linger and converse about the art in a salon like setting that is intimate and inspiring by design, states LX Director Cecilia Weaver. Accompanying the exhibition is a grouping of limited-edition furniture by Canadian ... More | | 
Important Harkness Queen Anne Carved, Turned and Joined Maple Armchair Circa 1735. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled highlights from The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III a dedicated sale on 19 January that will present one of the finest assemblages of early Americana and early English pottery to appear at auction in more than two decades. Amassed over the course of several years, the collection encompasses furniture and decorative arts from early American colonial life and includes exemplary pieces of Pilgrim century and William and Mary furniture, as well as one of the greatest collections ever assembled of early English delftware. The Vogels also acquired exceptional examples of 17th-century English silver, 16th- and 17th-century brass lighting, English and American needlework, French and Indian powder horns, and early colonial American maps. Works from the sale are on view in Sothebys York Avenue galleries ... More |
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| | | Exhibition presents New York's first solo show of self-taught, octogenarian American artist | | Marc Straus presents a new series of work by Chris Jones | | Animated film to spotlight bear that served in WWII | 
Detail, Venus Grieves for Adonis, 2016. Watercolor, gouache, Prismacolor colored pencil, graphite, and tape on prepared Arches paper, 18 x 44 in. New York University Art Collection. Gift of the artist, 2018.2.63.
NEW YORK, NY.- For centuries, Greek and Roman myths have inspired artists. New York Universitys Grey Art Gallery is presenting a solo museum exhibition of the New Yorkbased octogenarian artist Wally Reinhardt, who continues in this time-honored tradition. On view from January 9 through April 6, 2019 in the Greys Lower Level Gallery, Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt features some 50 watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations from a series that numbers nearly 200. Reinhardt, who began working on this project in 1984, has focused solely on interpreting Ovids most acclaimed work of Latin poetry, Metamorphoses. Spanning 15 books, this oft-cited magnum opus from 8 CE has provided rich source material for Reinhardts witty and whimsical series, titled Pages from Ovids Metamorphoses. Installed roughly ... More | | 
Chris Jones, As Year Followed Year, 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Chris Jones works with images found in discarded printed materials or culled from the endless online flow, generally beginning with a single photograph before sourcing further related imagery to extract often absurd or surreal narrative developments. This new series of work looks at a variety of systems systems of display, production, and organization, seemingly random in subject matter. Jones explores their fictional entropic breakdowns via the transformation into image. Following the naturally chaotic order/disorder of the collage process, Jones allows incongruous elements to creep in, cutting through and merging with various depicted chronologies and scales. All space and time cross over and interact, imbuing the fixed photographic image with a fluidity more akin to memory or imagination. Further to these wall based collages, a series of elements have been singled out and explored in a fuller three-dimensional form; though as with all the work, the depicted and the real space ... More | | 
93-year-old former Polish soldier Wojciech Narebski stands in front of a monument of brown bear Wojtek who was his fellow Polish servicemen during World War II in Krakow on November 14, 2018. Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- During World War II, Wojciech Narebski and his fellow Polish servicemen had to lift crate after heavy metal crate of artillery. Fortunately for them, one of the soldiers had superhuman strength: Corporal Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear. "When he saw that we were struggling, he'd want to help... He'd come over, grab a crate and carry it to the truck," Narebski, now 93, told AFP of his days with Wojtek in the 22nd Artillery Supply Company. This can be heavy work, even for a bear. When Wojtek got tired, he would simply stack one crate on top of the other, "which also helped us, because we didn't have to lift the crate off the ground," recounted the veteran who spent two and a half years with the friendly giant he considered a brother. "Of course he got a reward. Honey, marmalade. That was his favourite." Wojtek ... More |
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| | | CUE Art Foundation opens a solo exhibition by Cal Siegel | | Kaiser Wilhelm Museum presents selected works from the collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld | | Exhibition at Skoto Gallery brings together the works of sixteen artists | 
Cal Siegel, untitled, 2018. Dollhouse shingles, plywood, acrylic, 90 x 48 x 72 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting I am the box no roof can cover, a solo exhibition by Cal Siegel, curated by Sable Elyse Smith. Central to the exhibition is a large-scale house-like structure, lacking in windows and doors and sheathed in an exterior of dollhouse shingles, impenetrable by bodies or by light. Shown along with several paintings, photographs, and drawings, this body of work employs visual cues from vernacular colonial architecture to explore the violence and exclusion of American history. House shingles are a recurring theme in Siegels work, used to cover large architectural forms of his own creation (untitled, 2018) as well as pre-existing colonial structures in photographic interventions such as Witch house drive by (2017). As Sable Elyse Smith puts it, the shingle is as much a drawing tool as it is a skin. It is both a playful and ... More | | 
Installation shot "Mom, what is nature really?". Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, November 16, 2018 - May 5, 2019. Photo: Dirk Rose.
KREFELD.- Mom, what is nature really? The Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol pursues this question in the second presentation of the Collection Satellite series. Founded in 2018, this new project series of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld is now making its first appearance in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. Making use of selected works from the collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, the Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol has conceived an exhibition that addresses connections between art, the environment and human history. They have also realised a sound and wall piece (in collaboration with Thomas Artur Spallek) that like the title Mom, what is nature really? is based on exhibition reviews from the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. The reviews refer to the 1971 COVER exhibition by the artist group Haus-Rucker-Co, a spectacular installation in and around Haus Lange that ... More | | 
Romain Ganer-Portrait I, 1996 (detail), mixed media, 32x29.5 inches. Courtesy Skoto Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting Wild Joy, a group show of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography by a selection of artists affiliated with the gallery. This exhibition brings together the works of sixteen artists including Jelili Atiku, Olu Amoda, Osi Audu, Gopal Dagnogo, Sokey Edorh, Mor Faye, Romain Ganer, Khalid Kodi, Wosene Kosrof, Aime Mpane, Afi Nayo, Chriss Aghana Nwobu, Pefura, Zerihun Seyoum, Jimi Solanke and Juliana Zevallos. Despite their varied experiences, personal cultural backgrounds and styles their approach to making art is through a contemporary experience, their metaphysics is distinctly new and refreshing, celebrating the moment of apprehension and the fugitive moment of response in their search for creative excellence. The works included in this show are phenomenal in their own right, embodying individual creative distinctions as well as group configurations. Besidess ... More |
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| | | Solo exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Saira McLaren opens at Sargent's Daughters | | Eduard Planting Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Astrid Verhoef | | Abigail Ross Goodman appointed Consulting Curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum | 
Saira McLaren, Lost and Found, 2019 (detail). Oil and dye on canvas, 48 x 42 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Something Ive been meaning to tell you, a solo exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Saira McLaren. This is the artist's third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition takes its title from Alice Munros 1974 short story of the same name, in which the duality of illusion and reality shape the lives of two sisters. The 'something' of the story is either a revealing secret or a total fiction; the reader does not know. This duality infuses McLarens new work with mysterious imagery where the body is both present and absent, and the natural world is both artificial and realistic. Unlike her previous work, in which human presence was only hinted at, the new work puts the body directly into the landscape. Eyes float through a botanical tangle; fingers pluck plants and leaves are stuffed in mouths. These unattached body parts serve as allegories for aging and change, ... More | | 
Astrid Verhoef, Inscapes - Board (detail). Courtesy Eduard Planting Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents from 12 January until 2 March 2019 an exhibition of Astrid Verhoef. The Dutch fine art photographer exhibits with 'Inscapes' for the first time at the gallery. In the surreal black and white images nature plays a prominent role. The autonomous work has been photographed in Australia, Holland, Spain and the USA. Growing up in the city has led Astrid Verhoef to investigate her connection to nature. In a world where the reliance on social technology is growing, the difference between being connected and feeling connected has become an important distinction. Is there a growing gap between our digital self-image and analogue identity? This poses an interesting challenge, not only in the depth of connection to other people, but possibly even more in our connection to the natural world and to oneself. For the series Inscapes Astrid Verhoef decided to travel to secluded landsca ... More | | 
Abigail Ross Goodman is the co-founder and Principal of Goodman Taft, a curatorial and advisory firm with a focus on post-war and contemporary art.
WINTER PARK, FLA.- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum announced that Abigail Ross Goodman, co-founder and Principal of Goodman Taft, has agreed to serve as Consulting Curator. Ms. Goodman has over 20 years of experience as a contemporary gallerist, independent curator and advisor. Prior to founding Goodman Taft, a curatorial and advisory firm with a focus on post-war and contemporary art, she was the owner/director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery in Boston, where she built a dynamic program of emerging and established artists. Since 2010, she has collaborated on several exhibitions and public art-installations, including the 2012 deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA; a permanent sculptural installation by Alexandre da Cunha and a monumental mural by Raúl de Nieves. Here at CFAM, Ms. Goodman co-curated ... More |
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 Thierry Goldberg opens Snow Day, a group exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg opened Snow Day, a group exhibition with work by Marcela Florido, Isaac Mann, Patrick Quarm, David Shrobe, Jessica Spence, and Jessica Westhafer. The exhibition takes its title from Jessica Westhafers painting Snow Day, 2018, which presents a carefree winter scene. Westhafers paintings offer intimate glimpses into everyday events, with subjects both vulnerable and playful. Her graphic style and use of vivid colors help to make these commonplace scenes, taken from the artists own experiences, notable they are exaggerated, but still capture distinctive, human emotions.The moments illustrated are at once specific and universal, and take a humorous approach to dealing with relatable memories, fears, and desires. Westhafers vibrant palette and sizable canvases give the works a larger-than-life feel. ... 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More Exhibition at the Gallery of Everything presents the work of Olga Frantskevich and Ezekiel MessouLONDON.- The Gallery of Everything presents Of A Life/Time, a discourse on memory and identity featuring two unusual makers whose practices centre around notions of thread. Of A Life/Time is the first international exhibition of contemporary tapestries by Belarusian artist and storyteller, Olga Frantskevich. Exhibiting for the first time outside the eastern bloc, Frantskevich authors hand-woven episodes which recall a childhood of conflict through reminiscence and dream. A sense of urgency pervades the self-propelled practice. Today, as she enters her ninth decade, Frantskevich reclaims an intensely personal history for the collective memory - not with the pen, but with the needle. In dialogue with this tactile materiality are the diagram/drawings from the everyday discipline of Ezekiel Messou. From his atelier in Benin, Messou has evolved an encyclopaedic ... More Two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper opens at Massey KleinNEW YORK, NY.- Massey Klein is presenting The End & The Beginning, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin. Alice Gibneys illustrations in The End & The Beginning are humorous explorations of humanoid and animal figures. Her characters twist, rise, dance, and praise; their movement captured through frames as if they were sequences in a stop-motion film. The charcoal, color pencil, and ink on paper drawings range in scale from 1:1 ratio of human proportions to small, intimate sketches. Gibneys works were created in response to a sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one. Her figurative drawings began to blur and erode as the artists emotional life and identity spread itself across the paper in a performative gesture of mourning and reflection. Celtic myths, ... More 'A Prophet' creator takes on France's war in AlgeriaPARIS (AFP).- One of France's most celebrated screenwriters is taking on its biggest taboo, the bloody conflict in Algeria, in a new war film. Abdel Raouf Dafri told AFP that he had been itching for years to broach the delicate subject. The writer of the Oscar-nominated "A Prophet", and the Emmy-winning television series "Braquo", has Algerian roots but was born in the French port of Marseille, where many former French "pied noir" colonists who were forced to flee Algeria settled. The film's title "May an impure blood..." is plucked from the most controversial line in the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise", which ends "...water our fields". Dafri cleverly turns it around to refer to "the blood of the colonised" who suffered under the French, which "just goes to show how universal our national anthem is", he argued. His story, however, centres on a group of French ... More Gildar Gallery opens its third solo exhibition by the artist William StockmanDENVER, CO.- Gildar Gallery is presenting its third solo exhibition by the artist William Stockman titled Belle Epoque. Based in Denver, for nearly thirty years Stockman has been known for his paired-down drawings and paintings that reduce everyday imagery into evocative otherworldly forms. How do you talk about the artwork of William Stockman without talking about the person Bill Stockman? His paintings and drawing are tied directly to his specific pathos a sensitive hand feeling its way through the mundane and the spectacular in daily life. Stockman sources a wide array of images that come into his view, stripping away particulars to uncover an essential and subtle charge. Current affairs, historical ephemera, goings-on around his home, advertisements, natural observations, economic diagrams all this brick-a-brack filters through the artists hand via ... 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More Hindus gather in India for world's largest festivalALLAHABAD (AFP).- Hindu devotees began gathering Sunday in northern India for the world's largest religious festival, with millions of pilgrims travelling to bathe in holy rivers for the spectacular Kumbh Mela. State authorities in Uttar Pradesh are expecting 12 million visitors to descend on Allahabad for the centuries-old festival, which officially begins Tuesday and continues until early March. The ancient city rises alongside the banks of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, and the meeting point of the three is considered highly sacred in Hinduism. Hindus believe bathing there during the Kumbh helps cleanse sins and frees the soul from the cycle of death and rebirth. Two days before the gigantic bathing ritual begins, naked holy men wandered the banks smeared in ash, offering blessings for devotees. "We help devotees get rid of their pains a ... More Reelpolitik: India election films get Bollywood voteMUMBAI (AFP).- Bollywood filmmakers are seeking to cash in on this year's Indian general election with a host of political movies, some of which smack of propaganda according to critics. The Hindi film industry has a long tradition of producing politically tinged flicks but industry watchers say 2019's offerings are more partisan than ever before. "What we have this year are quite a few films, some of which are biopics, that appear to be uncritical and unabashedly push the agenda of a particular party, its policies and political philosophies," said reviewer Nandini Ramnath. "The Accidental Prime Minister" and "Uri: The Surgical Strike" were released on Friday. Films about the lives of two prominent politicians air later in January while a biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also in the works. The silver screen and politics have often intertwined in India. Many ... More Massive 'Iceberg' hits Garment District this Winter, illuminates Broadway pedestrian plazasNEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance unveiled Iceberg, an immersive art installation on the Broadway pedestrian plazas that invites the public to create their own light show through an illuminating runway. As visitors walk through the metal arches of the installation which represent the lifecycle of an iceberg the installation emits light and sound in rhythm with the pace of the participant. Iceberg is located on the Garment District pedestrian plazas on Broadway between 37th and 38th Streets. The installation is free and will be open to the public through February 24th. This is an astonishing installation that transforms Broadway into a gleaming, interactive experience for pedestrians, while reinforcing an important environmental message, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Iceberg is a thought-provoking ... More Elisabeth Wild's first solo exhibition with Carbon 12 opens in DubaiDUBAI.- Carbon 12 opened Elisabeth Wilds first solo exhibition in the region and as well as at the gallery. Elisabeth Wild was born in Vienna (Austria) on February 6th, 1922. In 1938 she emigrated with her parents Franz and Stefanie Pollak to Buenos Aires, Argentina, fleeing Nazism in Europe. Coming from a family of female artists (her Grandmother was a painter), she learned to paint in Viennas Academy of Art, and then explored figurative nude drawing in the CÃrculo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina, participating in her first group exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Mar de Plata. In order to make a living, Wild ventured in textile design through silk screen printing. And it was precisely by way of her designs that she met her husband August Wild, a textile industrialist of Swiss nationality. Together they had a daughter, Vivian, who was born in 1949. In 1962, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and lithographer Henri Fantin-Latour was born January 14, 1836. Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. His first major UK gallery exhibition in 40 years took place at the Bowes Museum in April 2011. Musée du Luxembourg presented a retrospective exhibition of his work in 2016-7 entitled "à fleur de peau". In this image: Henri Fantin-Latour, La leçon de dessin ou Portraits. Oil on canvas, 145 x 170 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-arts de Belgique, Brussels.
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