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Ellsworth Kelly. Head with Beard, 1949. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Ellsworth Kelly Studio and Jack Shear. ©️ Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting Ellsworth Kelly: Portrait Drawings, on view from July 1 through October 23, 2023 and featuring nearly 100 rarely seen drawings by the celebrated artist, best known as a pioneer of abstraction and recognized as one of the most important postwar American artists. This represents the first museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to this subject and spans the majority of Kellys 70-year career, showcasing his evolving and wide-ranging approach to both portraiture and drawing. Kelly drew likenesses of himself and his friends frequently throughout his long life (1923-2015). Of the 30 self-portraits in the exhibition, the earliest is his haunting Self-Portrait, Normandy, which was made by candlelight in an army tent during World War II while he was serving in the US Armys Camouflage Battalion. Other portraits in the exhibition demonstrate the influence of artists whose work he encountered ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The High Museum's exhibition "Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"; (June 2-Sept. 3, 2023) features more than 200 masterworks drawn from MFA Boston's vast holdings, now the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Nubian art and material culture outside of Africa.In this image: Offering table of King Aspelta, Nubian, Sudan, 593-568 BCE, porphyry, 34 5/8 x 25 13/16 inches, Harvard University---Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 21.1192. Photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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| Almine Rech Shanghai opens American artist Xavier Daniels' second solo exhibition with the gallery | | Setsuko exhibits ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper in Gstaad | | The man who pictured Ghana's rise at home and abroad | 
Xavier Daniels, Magic in the Air, 2023. Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 137.2 x 6.3 cm, 60 x 54 x 2 1/2 in © Xavier Daniels. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
SHANGHAI.- Atlanta, Georgia-based artist Xavier Daniels implores viewers to consider what life might look like without the biases and assumptions that hold them back. In his Shanghai show Absence of Gravity, at Almine Rech Shanghai, the artist examines what it means for Black men to escape the confines of stereotypes and become their freest selves. Self-agency, brotherhood, and vulnerability are central themes of the exhibition. The concept of gravity plays an equally central role. Where gravity weighs a person down, the absence of this fundamental interaction allows Black men to consider a life of boundless possibility. To uncover what it means to live without gravity, Daniels has completed a dozen-some works that create a space of openness and growth, showcasing African folklore-inspired pieces that depict mens mental health. His painted Black male figures, like those featured in his 2022 exhibition Ties that Bind, ... More | | 
Setsuko, Grand Chandelier (grenades), 2023. Painted bronze, 63 x 31 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. © Setsuko. Photo: Thomas Lannes.
GSTAAD.- Gagosian is presenting Into Nature, an exhibition of new and recent ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Setsuko at the gallery in Gstaad. Since 1977, Setsuko has resided in the Grand Chalet of Rossinière, close to Gstaad, making this an opportunity for her to exhibit within reach of her Swiss home. Into Nature furthers the bodies of work presented in Into the Trees, Setsukos debut exhibition at Gagosian Paris in 2019, and Into the Trees II, a solo presentation at Gagosian Rome in 2022. On view in Gstaad are new ceramic sculptures, produced at Astier de Villattes Paris workshop and made of terra-cotta glazed in white enamel. Setsukos renderings of trees, with their delicately modeled representations of acorns, blooms, foliage, and fruit, emphasize the rooted solidity of their trunks to convey lasting strength and emergent growth. Reminiscent of Japanese ceramics dating back to the age of ... More | | 
Nii Quarcoopome, left, and Nancy Barr, curators at the Detroit Institute of Arts who organized the Barnor show, in front of a replica of Barnors portrait studio in Detroit, June 10, 2023. (Cydni Elledge/The New York Times)
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DETROIT, MICH.- James Barnor calls himself Lucky Jim the 94-year-old British-Ghanaian photographer has been at the right place at the right time and met the right people during a career spanning more than six decades and two continents, he said in a recent telephone interview from his London home. Its easy to believe him looking at James Barnor: Accra/London, a major retrospective of his work across genres studio and street photography, photojournalism and fashion, images that range from the quietly intimate to the historical and iconic. Shown at the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2021, the exhibition is on view in an expanded form at the Detroit Institute of Arts, through Oct. 15. Take a modest picture by Barnor from 1952 of Roy Ankrah, a Commonwealth featherweight ... More |
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| Japan's Native Ainu fight to restore a last vestige of their identity | | Sean Kelly presents NXTHVN Cohort 4's RECLAMATION | | Exhibition of Rita McBride's sculptural installations opens at Dia Beacon | 
An archery dancer performing at the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan on June 14, 2023. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
MURAHORO.- Masaki Sashima gazed through the fog one recent afternoon onto the gray waters of the Tokachi River in Hokkaido, Japans northernmost island. From here, his Indigenous people, the Ainu, once used spears and nets to catch the salmon they regarded as gifts from the gods. Under Japanese law, river fishing for this salmon, an essential part of Ainu cuisine, trade and spiritual culture, has been off limits for more than a century. Sashima, 72, said it was time for his people to regain what they see as a natural right, and restore one of the last vestiges of a decimated Ainu identity. In the past in our culture, the salmon were for everybody to enjoy within the community, he said. The salmon is here for us, and we want to ensure our right to be able to take this fish. Sashima is leading a group suing the central and prefectural governments to reclaim salmon fishing rights, four years ... More | | 
Edgar Serrano, Demons Never Die, 2023. Oil on canvas. 72 x 50 inches. © Edgar Serrano Photo: Chris Gardner Courtesy: NXTHVN and Sean Kelly.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly and NXTHVN have opened RECLAMATION, a group exhibition featuring works that embody the multiplicities of human experience through painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, and performance. This culminating exhibition presents artists from NXTHVNs Cohort 04 Fellowship Program; Anindita Dutta, Donald Guevara, Ashanté Kindle, Athena Quispe, Edgar Serrano, and Capt. James Stovall V, it is curated by Curatorial Fellows Cornelia Stokes and Kiara Cristina Ventura. These artists have created forms that contradict the viewers expectation of recognizable materials and icons, as a means to challenge the perceptible limits of our social conditioning and humanity. Throughout RECLAMATION, each artist interrogates and reclaims the power of Western consumption as it relates to notions of beauty, art history, religion, spirituality, ... More | | 
Rita McBride, Leitplanken, installation view Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin, 2017. Photo: Anne Poehlmann.
BEACON, NY.- Dia Art Foundation presents the exhibition Rita McBride: Momentum, a presentation of sculptural installations by Rita McBride in the central galleries of Dia Beacon. Since the mid-1980s, McBride has developed a conceptual, cross-disciplinary, intermedia, and feminist approach to art making that holds collaboration at its center. She frequently works with architects, engineers, physicists, and other artists to produce objects, installations, videos, publications, and public artworks that simultaneously explore the relationships involved in their production and invite forms of participatory exchange. This exhibition focuses on McBrides long-standing interest in architecture, design, and sculpture as they relate to the public sphere in forms such as seating structures, movement-guiding systems, and commercial awnings. McBrides monumental Arena (1997)a lightweight, modular structure in the form ... More |
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| Treasures from the Museo de Arte de Ponce displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | | Andrew Kreps Gallery opened exhibition by Tomie Ohtake: Organized in collaboration with Nara Roesler | | Missoula ceramic sculptures in the Funk style of the 1960s and 1970s now open | 
Paintings by legendary Puerto Rican artists José Campeche and Francisco Oller will be presented in dialogue with art from the same period in the MFAs collection.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museo de Arte de Ponce jointly announce that important works by José Campeche y Jordán (1751-1809) and Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917)the most influential Puerto Rican artists of the 18th- and 19th-centuriesare being displayed at the MFA. This special installation features five paintings by Campeche and Oller from MAPs collection, including one of the most iconic works in the history of Puerto Rican art, Campeches Lady on Horseback (1785). Ollers famed Hacienda Aurora (1898), as well as two rare paintings on ceramic plates, open conversations about histories of the Puerto Rican landscape and artistic exchanges across Europe and the Americas. This partnership with the Museo de Arte de Ponce creates an unprecedented opportunity for us to introduce our audiences to Campeche and Oller, two ... More | | 
Tomie Ohtake Untitled, 1969. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 25 5/8 inches (92 x 65 cm.) canvas 36 3/4 x 26 1/8 x 1 inches (93.3 x 66.4 x 2.5 cm.) framed.
NEW YORK, NY.- 55 Walker (Bortolami Gallery, kaufmann repetto, and Andrew Kreps Gallery) opened a survey exhibition of works by Tomie Othake (b. 1913, Kyoto, d. 2015, São Paulo), including works made between 1969 and 2014. At the age of 37, Ohtake made her first artistic works after joining Brazils Seibi group, which brought together artists of Japanese descent. While in her first years of painting, she focused on representational works, she would soon immerse herself in abstraction, which would thereafter become a lifelong exploration, spanning over 50 years of production. By the late 1950s, Ohtake would emerge as a key figure within Brazil for her groundbreaking series Blind Paintings, performative works in which Ohtake painted while blindfolded. The resulting compositions directly challenged the logic, and objective approach of Brazils Neo- Concrete movement. Focusing on the action ... More | | 
Doug Baldwin, The All Volunteer Red Neck Duck Army Following the Yellow Brick Road, 1973, clay, glaze, MAM Collection, donated by Mary Ann Lambros.
MISSOULA, MONT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents a wild array of ceramic artworks in Make it Funky: Bay Area Influence on Missoula Ceramics. The exhibition looks at the spread of influence from Bay Area Funk (and Nut) ceramics to Montanaand then beyond, as students of Rudy Autio and the University of Montana ceramics department migrated across the country. Make it Funky opened June 27, 2023. Make it Funky features ceramic sculptures from the MAM Collection and loans from individuals and institutions including the Archie Bray Foundation. Artworks reveal influences and legacies of local artists, including Rudy Autio, Tom Rippon, Jay Rummel, and more. The name Funk carried the dual meanings of a strong and musty smelllike the raw, earthiness of cannabis, patchouli, or sweatand danceable soul-inspired music with a strong beat, both associations related to the counterculture. ... More |
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| ArchiVision: 10th anniversary of the Museum for Architectural Drawing Berlin | | Voltaire, Jacques Necker, Joseph Bonaparte and Katharine McCormick now form the Portrait Gallery in Prangins Castle | | Abstract painter Olivier Debré presented by Simon Lee Gallery in inaugural exhibition | 
Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga (17511831), Two detailed studies of a columned hall, probably set designs Early 19th century (detail). Pen, brown ink, sepia ink, brown wash; 452 Ã 552 mm. Sergei Tchoban Collection, Inv. no. T0143.
BERLIN.- The Museum for Architectural Drawings opened in June 2013 on the site of the Pfefferberg in Berlin Mitte. To mark the museums 10th anniversary, an exhibition now focuses on its collecting activities and presents architectural drawings from its own holdings under the title ArchiVision. Around 120 works from the collections of the Tchoban Foundation and its founder Sergei Tchoban will convey to the public the seemingly unlimited artistic possibilities of architectural representation. Architecture on paper holds its own independent position within the graphic arts, regardless whether it is in the service of realised or unrealised buildings. Based on this concept, the exhibition arranges the displayed ... More | | 
Poster of the exhibition Galerie des portraits. ©Swiss National Museum.
PRANGINS.- What do Voltaire, Jacques Necker, Joseph Bonaparte and Katharine McCormick have in common? All these personalities have lived or stayed at the Château de Prangins. The Portrait Gallery, a new permanent exhibition at the Château de Prangins - Swiss National Museum, resurrects these voices from the past in the large corridor on the first floor by giving them substance in an interactive and immersive exhibition that began June 16, 2023. "Good morning. Did you recognize me? When in doubt, let me introduce myself: François-Marie Arouet! Better known as Voltaire, writer and philosopher. Come over to the window, please, or sit on that comfy chair! I'll tell you what I'm doing at the Château de Prangins! Coming out of an armchair, a telephone or a door in the long gallery of the chateau, suddenly a voice ... More | | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is opened its inaugural exhibition of works by French lyrical abstract painter Olivier Debré (19201999) on June 1st, where it will remain until August 4th, 2023. Spanning two gallery floors, the exhibition explores the artists fervent colour-field paintings produced from 1980 to 1999, the pinnacle of Debrés practice, when he deftly captured the emotional experiences of natural phenomena and the outside world. It was after witnessing the horrors of the Second World War that Debré pivoted away from his architectural training at the Ãcole des Beaux Arts in Paris to focus on painting, seeking inspiration and refuge in the natural world. His visual language and painterly approach drew on the immediacy of working en plein air, and he coined the term signes to reference the primordial mark-making that characterises his spontaneous responses to his environment. A painting, however ... More |
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 Hunna Art Gallery now representing Aliyah AlawadhiABU DHABI.- Hunna Art is now representing artist, writer and curator Aliyah Alawadhi (b.1996, UAE). Based in Abu Dhabi, she uses her works to examine the subtleties of growing up in an environment of constant cultural and industrial flux. These influences are communicated through themes of nostalgia, gender, mysticism, globalization and internet culture. Aliyah Alawadhi's artistic universe is an expansive and uncanny world made of glitches and pastel colors, saturated with Khaleeji cultural references along hijacks of art history, inhabited by hyper-feminized women with exaggerated, bizarre features performing alternatively mundane and surreal acts, a world in which nostalgia cohabits with satire to better grasp the intricacies of the artist's childhood and early adulthood in the United Arab Emirates. Born in the mid-nineties, Alawadhi is part of a generation ... More  "Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960" is on view at Munson UTICA, NY.- Munson recently opened its summer exhibition, "Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960," which highlights ensembles that defined womens participation in the sporting world. The exhibition, one of the largest the Museum of Art has offered, is on view through Sept. 17. Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, "Sporting Fashion" is the first exhibition to explore the evolution of womens sporting attire in Western fashion over this 160-year period. "Sporting Fashion" includes 65 fully accessorized ensembles by long-established brands such as Champion, Balenciaga, Chanel, and others. Motorcycle ensembles, ski attire and bowling outfits will be on display, using authentic apparel to illustrate changing interests, freedoms and social norms. ... More  "Caragh Thuring: The Foothills of Pleasure" to end July 15th, Thomas Dane GalleryLONDON.- For her new exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Caragh Thuring (b. Brussels, 1972) takes as the starting point her own painting, The Foothills of Pleasure (2022). Its title, a seemingly familiar literary reference, is in fact imagined by the artist to describe the geology of volcanic landscapes, as well as intensifying human passions. These foothills, fertile but perilous, are a place where life and death coexist and where rock is melted, folded and reformed in an endless cycle. Extruded from this original painting Thuring has created an array of new landscape works that adapt, repeat and recycle fragments from her highly personal visual language. Through this process of self-imitation, the new compositions share moments of connection, but also diverge profoundly, framing the same scene repeatedly but from different vantage points ... More  Ladbroke Hall photography exhibition 'Buffalo: Future Generation' by Jamie Morgan nearing its endLONDON.- Running to 15 July, new arts stage Ladbroke Hall will provide a taste of its forthcoming cultural programme with Buffalo: Future Generation, an exhibition premiering ground-breaking photographer Jamie Morgans latest body of work. Free to the public, the exhibition presents an ongoing and inclusive photographic project that revisits the disruptive and radical Buffalo style movement that was born in 1980s Ladbroke Grove. Future Generation portrays individuals, styled by Kimi ONeill, found through street-casting and also in the children of friends Morgan has developed over his illustrious career, including Kate Moss, Ozwald Boateng and Annie Morris. The series is a celebration of British youth, representing its diverse identity today. The result is an indomitable record of contemporary Britain. Buffalo: Future Generation presents a total of 30 si ... More  New work by Glenn Kaino now on view at the Japanese American National MuseumLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Japanese American National Museum is now presenting Akis Market, a new and uniquely personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino. Glenn Kaino: Akis Market is inspired by the small neighborhood market created and run by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi in Los Angeles from 19571970. Created by the grandson and namesake of Akira Shiraishi, Glenn Akira Kaino, the immersive exhibition includes a virtual reality recreation of the Shiraishis historical store presented alongside an installation of a contemporary store of the same name. In Akis Market, Kaino explores the transgenerational trauma instigated by the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. He created the artwork to be a site of healing, dismantling some of the emotional artifacts of the mass ... More  'Max Cole: Breaking Day' on view at Charlotte Jackson Fine ArtSANTA FE, NM.- The day-to-day fades over time. The intricate and intimate details recede, leaving only a broad sweep of experience. Patterns of a life lived. What remains that is bright? What remains that feels, in the remembering, more real than the next every-day before you? A memory. The kind of memory where all the senses meet and converge: a piercing quality of the light, the smell of the air, the feel of the world intersecting on your skin, sound so pure and present that it is almost visible. That sharp intake of breath as you arrive in the past, firmly, for at least a breath or two, inhabiting a place where you once were. Vivid. Hyper-real. Memories that change, if only for a while, everything about how you see yourself, your life, the world. Most of us dont have very many of these sorts of memories. And retrieving them, finding the still and focused ... More  High Museum of Art presents more than 200 masterworks of ancient Nubian artATLANTA, GA.- For more than 3,000 years, a series of kingdoms flourished along the Nile Valley south of ancient Egypt in the Nubian Desert of modern-day Sudan. The Highs exhibition Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (June 2-Sept. 3, 2023) features more than 200 masterworks drawn from MFA Bostons vast holdings, now the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Nubian art and material culture outside of Africa. The works highlight the skill, artistry and innovation of Nubian makers and reflect the wealth and power of their kings and queens, who once controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Not only are the objects in this exhibition beautiful examples of artistic achievement, but they also underscore the incredible power and influence of kingdoms that were ... More  Botswana and De Beers sign deal to continue rich diamond partnershipJOHANNESBURG.- A Botswana government official and the CEO of De Beers, an international diamond conglomerate, signed interim agreements Saturday to continue a lucrative, decadeslong diamond mining partnership that had appeared to be breaking down in recent months. Only minutes before a midnight deadline Friday, the parties announced that after years of negotiations, they had agreed in principle on a deal to renew a partnership that supplies De Beers with most of its diamonds and Botswanas government with the largest chunk of its revenue. The details of the deal were still being worked out, officials with the government and De Beers said. But it addresses one of the most significant gripes of the Botswana government, regarding the share of diamonds it receives in its joint mining venture with De Beers. Under the old agreement, ... More  Phaidon publishes a 30-year culmination of genre-breaking creativity by Dutch artist Michael RaedeckerNEW YORK, NY.- Born in Amsterdam in 1963, Raedecker, whose career began in fashion over four decades ago, uses his enigmatic and dream-like paintings to record memories held within spaces and objects. Through depictions of shadowy cabins, abandoned pools, tree houses, lonely suburban homes, and vacant parked cars with doors ajar, Raedeckers unpeopled landscapes glow in eerie monochromes, summoning a certain unsettling familiarity within its viewer. A fierce art history student and an avid rejector of tradition, in his own words, Raedecker seeks to fight the commonly held ideas of fine art, I wanted to kick against it and make something unholy. The spaces he conjures are recognizable yet simultaneously unidentifiable. He uses his painting language to build the idea that the interiors of a home can be an analogy for the human ... More  Blum & Poe opens Christopher Hartmann's first solo exhibition with the galleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting Nightswimming, London-based artist Christopher Hartmanns first solo exhibition with the gallery. Hartmanns paintings portray situations that are seemingly detached from specific time and space. These settings often imply physical interaction or dialogue but are imbued with conflicting moods of intimacy and alienation, the indistinct yet persistent feelings of unease latent to our oversaturated media landscape, and technology-mediated social connections. The construction of the painting itself mimics the layering processes of photo-editing software, with the built-up application of artificial color tones recalling the alienating luminosity of digital screens. This exhibition focuses on Hartmanns interest in abstraction, beginning with a series of beds that appear to have just been left. These works ... More  Debi Cornwall project chosen among eight nominated projects to win Prix Elysée 2023LAUSANNE.- American-born and New York-based photographer Debi Cornwall is the winner of the Prix Elysée 2023. Her ongoing series, Model Citizens, is on display at Photo Elysée throughout the summer. Politically and intellectually engaged, Debi Cornwall's photographs explore the line between reality and fiction, truth and fake news, and question the function of photography as evidence. The Prix Elysée's endowment of CHF 80,000 allows the artist to complete her research and publish a book. Selected among the nominees of this edition, Vincen Beeckman (Belgium), Siân Davey (United Kingdom), Nicolai Howalt (Denmark), Khashayar Javanmardi (Iran), Alice Mann (South Africa), Gloria Oyarzabal (Spain) and Virginie Rebetez (Switzerland), "Debi Cornwall's work is in line with current events, underlines the jury, and is an important contribution ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley RA (1738 - September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. In this image: John Singleton Copley, The Fountaine Family, 1776. Tate.
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