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Installed on the Mays Family Park near the Russell Hill Rogers Sculpture Gateway, the Museums new acquisition stands just over seven feet tall.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Snails are known for their leisurely pace, but the newest addition to the McNay Art Museums outdoor sculpture collection is rapidly becoming a visitor favorite. History of the Conquest by Hank Willis Thomas features a child holding a bow and reins while riding an ornately decorated snail. Installed on the Mays Family Park near the Russell Hill Rogers Sculpture Gateway, the Museums new acquisition stands just over seven feet tall. History of the Conquest references a German Baroque sculpture currently in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The figure personifies Africathe source of the nautilus shell, which was harvested in copious quantities off the eastern coast of the continent. Thomas' sculpture is a captivating critique of the prejudiced, historical depictions of people of African descent. By enlarging the Wadsworth Atheneums 17th-century sculpture to a grand scale and interpreting it ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Nina Katchadourian: To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World, Jul 8 - Aug 5, Pace Gallery, London © Nina Katchadourian. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Pace Gallery opens Nina Katchadourian's first UK solo show in a decade in London | | Roland NY presents exclusive exhibit of iconic sculptor Tony Rosenthal at Hamptons Fine Arts Fair July 14th - 17th | | Exhibition surveys the prolific career of late artist and designer Virgil Abloh | 
Installation View, Nina Katchadourian: To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World, Jul 8 Aug 5, Pace Gallery, London © Nina Katchadourian. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace is presenting To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World, Nina Katchadourians first exhibition in the London gallery. Marking the American artists first solo show in the UK in nearly a decade, this exhibition is the result of an extensive investigation of and direct engagement with a true story that has fascinated the artist since childhood. Katchadourians multidisciplinary practice takes many forms, from video, drawing, photography, and performance to sculpture and sound-based work. Regardless of the discipline, Katchadourians guiding force is an intense curiosity that in this exhibition focuses on themes of resourcefulness, creative capacity under duress, hope, and care. To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World is a response to the experiences ... More | | 
Big Red. Large welded and painted aluminum, free standing lattice sculpture Tony Rosenthal, signed $75,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Glen Cove, Long Island based Roland NY will present an exhibition of the works of abstract sculptor Tony Rosenthal (American, 1914-2009) at the upcoming Hamptons Fine Arts Fair on the grounds of the Southampton Fairgrounds July 14th through July 17th, 2022. The Arts Fair will feature 85 galleries from around the world. This selection, presented exclusively by Roland NY in collaboration with the Tony Rosenthal estate, will mostly include many impressive never exhibited before Rosenthal pieces, curated and refined from his own personal collection over the course of a half century, both in the Rosenthal home and upon its Southampton, NY property. Roland NY will feature various iconic works from small scale cast bronzes, to mid-size pieces and large outdoor sculptures. Over 35 never seen before smaller maquettes will ... More | | 
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum presents Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, a sweeping exhibition tracing two decades of the late artist and designers visionary work. Figures of Speech is the first museum exhibition devoted to Abloh and was originally developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum presentation features important objects from his multifaceted career, including collaborations with artist Takashi Murakami, musician Kanye West, and architect Rem Koolhaas; material from his fashion label Off-White; and designs from Louis Vuitton, where he served as the first Black menswear artistic director until his death in November 2021. The exhibition highlights how Ablohs emphasis on collaboration reshaped popular notions of, and contemporary taste in, fashion, art, commerce, design, and youth culture. Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech is organized by Michael Darling, f ... More |
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| New Museum presents first New York solo show of Kapwani Kiwanga | | Meet Gorgosaurus: Sotheby's to offer first of its kind dinosaur in natural history auction this month | | Halcyon Gallery opens an exhibition of over 30 works by Spanish artist Pedro Paricio | 
Installation view: "Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid," 2022. New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid, the first New York solo show of work by Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978, Hamilton, Canada). Over the past decade, the Paris-based artist has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures, and films that consider myriad subjects including marginalized histories and systems of power. Drawing on her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwangas rigorously researched projects often take the form of installations that stage new spatial environments while exposing the ways in which bodies physically experience and inhabit structures of authority and control. Stemming from archival investigations that range from the history of decolonization to the migration of plants across continents, Kiwangas artworks bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects. Through this ... More | | 
Estimated to achieve $5/8 million the dinosaur will be a highlight of Sotheby's Geek Week. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time since the watershed sale of Sue the T-Rex in 1997*, Sothebys New York will auction a finished dinosaur later this month, with the first ever Gorgosaurus skeleton to be offered at auction. Measuring nearly 10 feet tall and 22 feet long, it will be a highlight of Sothebys live Natural History sale taking place on 28 July with an estimate of $5/8 million, making it one of the most valuable dinosaurs to ever appear on the market. The Gorgosaurus will go on public display for the first time on 21 July at Sotheby's York Avenue galleries. In my career, I have had the privilege of handling and selling many exceptional and unique objects, but few have the capacity to inspire wonder and capture imaginations quite like this unbelievable Gorgosaurus skeleton. Excavated only a few years ago, a Gorgosaurus has never before been offered at auction, and the opportunity of sharing this dinosaur with the public fo ... More | | 
Pedro Paricio, The Reader, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 92.5 x 70 cm.
LONDON.- A decade on since his first exhibition, Master Painters, at Halcyon Gallery, Spanish artist Pedro Paricio returns with a reviewed and invigorated interest in his beloved old and contemporary masters. In Tradition, Paricio's bold and colourful vocabulary tackles the interests and ideas that served as inspiration for the masters, reconnecting them with a 21st Century context. With more than 30 works, created over the last three years, the exhibition is a vindication of the pictorial tradition, understood not as a law written in stone but as a fertile field on which cultivate the work Throughout the exhibition, Paricio dialogues with authors such as Fragonard, Sargent, Van Gogh, DalÃ, Warhol, Basquiat or Hockney, and against those who see the past as a wall that prevents us from moving forward, Paricio understands history as a springboard to jump into the future. Quoting Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres: "Therefore, ... More |
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| Open Now: Sabine Hornig at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | | Hauser & Wirth presents a selection of recent paintings by Camille Henrot | | a83 presents the work of architect Anthony Ames | 
Sabine Hornig, World of Tomorrow, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting This Is No Time, Sabine Hornigs fifth solo exhibition at the gallery in New York, on view from June 23 - July 29, 2022. Sabine Hornig's sculptures, photographs and installations explore concepts of space, perspective, and memory. Her dynamic and often immersive compositions re-envision familiar architecture as well as ubiquitous urban forms. By blurring the boundaries between pictorial and real space, viewer and object, Hornigs work both challenges and expands upon the ways in which her viewers perceive their surroundings at large. This Is No Time consists of new photographic and glass works that expand upon Hornigs extensive research on the city of New York for her large-scale installation La Guardia Vistas, commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners in cooperation with Public Art Fund and installed in Terminal B at the airport in 2020. The ... More | | 
Camille Henrot, Maman, 2021. Watercolour, acrylic and ink on prepared canvas 61 x 41 cm / 24 x 16 1/8 in. Image: Camille Henrot © ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Complementing an outdoor installation of major bronze sculptures on view throughout the summer, French artist Camille Henrot presents a selection of recent paintings at Hauser & Wirth Southampton. Produced in large part in Europe over the last two years, Henrots work from the series Butter and Bread, Is Today Tomorrow, System of Attachment, and Monday are being shown together for the first time in the United States. These works typify the ambitious and fiercely creative approach that has cemented Henrotwhose practice moves seamlessly between film, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installationas one of the most influential and unique voices in contemporary art. Her art is celebrated for its playful and incisive investigations into the banalities ... More | | 
Anthony Ames, La Plata, 2016. Acrylic on wood, 24 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- a83 is presenting the work of Anthony Ames in the new exhibition Fifty Paintings. Ames is a practicing architect and artist in Atlanta, Georgia and has operated the architectural office Anthony Ames Architect since 1976. The work of Amess artistic practice lies between still life painting, collage, and sculpture, his signature style centers on his ability to represent the mutable nature of spatial perception. Ames employs an incredibly consistent palette of colors and invents clever compositions that undermine the stability of the picture plane. Amess work employs overlap, occlusion, convergence, and diminution as illusory devices invoking phenomenal transparency defined by Gyorgy Kepes in 1944 and elaborated on by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky a decade later. As opposed to literal transparency Rowe and Slutzky write about phenomenal transparency as ... More |
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| A powerful work by Eva Hesse is on public display for the first time in 35 years | | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens 'Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from The Jewish Museum, New York' | | Atlanta-based artist Lonnie Holley opens first solo exhibition with Blum & Poe | 
Eva Hesse in her Bowery studio, New York, ca. 1966. Photo: SRGF © The Estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- A focused exhibition devoted to influential and experimental artist Eva Hesse (b. 1936, Hamburg, Germany; d. 1970, New York) is on view July 8 through October 16 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion is both an examination of the artists studio practice and an invitation to explore the transformation and afterlife of a restored monumental work, displayed publicly for the first time in 35 years. In the late 1960s, Eva Hesse sought to make objects that were neither painting nor sculpture, but a hybrid that was all her own. Simultaneously adopting and pushing against the prevailing Minimalist language of repetitive forms and hard edges, her work is imbued with a haptic experience that reflects her keen interest in materiality and incongruity. To create Expanded Expansion (1969), the shows central piece, the artist painted ... More | | 
Maker: BD, Menorah, 1867-72, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), cast, engraved, and traced silver, Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman in memory of Adele Friedman, The Jewish Museum, New York.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opened the exhibition Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from The Jewish Museum, New York, the first step in an ongoing partnership, which will bring exceptional objects from the Jewish Museum to Houston over a period of years. The exhibition will be on view through September 18, 2022. In early 2023, ongoing presentations centered on objects on loan from the Jewish Museum will begin when The Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica opens at the MFAH. The Herzstein Gallery is a centerpiece of the World Faiths Initiative at the MFAH, a program interfaith projects based on the museums collections and exhibitions and funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Commented Gary Tinterow, Director, Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, of the MFAH: The first significant piece of Judaica ... More | | 
Lonnie Holley, Space Babies Will See the Flag Upside Down, 2008 © Lonnie Holley / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo: Josh Schaedel.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting Atlanta-based artist Lonnie Holleys first solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in Los Angeles. Holleys life and work read as a narrative retelling of Black American historythe residual effects of the Jim Crow era, the triumphs of the Civil Rights movement, and the struggles with false narratives around class mobility and race. Holleys multidisciplinary practice seeks to educate viewers as a means of remedying the historical amnesia surrounding these topics. Rooting himself in the events of the past, the artist moves into the futurepresenting synesthetic, multimedia work that visually engages its viewers with unique found objects and intricate motifs to subsequently inform on topics such as inequity and history as memory. Now a key figure within the Afro-Atlantic artistic movement, Holley began making sculptural work in 1979. The ... More |
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Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art | London | July 2022
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 ZKM │ Center for Art and Media opens 'John Sanborn: Between Order and Entropy'KARLSRUHE.- The exhibition Between Order and Entropy presents the work of the American artist John Sanborn, who became one of the most prominent protagonists of the American video art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. John Sanborn is an eminent pioneer of video art. For many years his work was an exemplary model for artistic success that opened the doors to a horizon of new sounds, images and imagination. His early voco-visual explorations had a lead function at a time when the new medium video pollinated like the wild flowers of anarchy, carrying the smell of audacity and the spirit of freedom, far away from contemporary commercial and politically correct adaptations, to the mainstream and market place. To this day his work is characterized by impulses of anti-establishment and a singular idiom of individuality. Sanborns work ranges ... More  Directors Aniko Erdosi and Florence Lynch join MARC STRAUSNEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS welcomed directors Aniko Erdosi and Florence Lynch, both bringing a breadth of experience to the gallery. Aniko Erdosi brings more than 20 years of expertise in successfully managing galleries, artist careers and artist estates in the international art market. At MARC STRAUS, as Senior Director, she is taking a leadership position to extend the scope of the gallerys programming and its reach, both in the private and the institutional market. Additionally, she will focus on business management, art fairs, sales, and artist liaison. With extensive experience both on the primary and secondary markets, Erdosi previously directed Donald Ellis Gallery, specializing in historical Native American art, and prior to that, Broadway 1602, a contemporary art gallery in New York focusing on emerging artists and post-war ... More  Ibrahim Mahama's first solo exhibition in France on view at Frac des Pays de la LoireNANTES.- Over the past ten years, Ibrahim Mahama (born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana) has been turning out a meticulous body of work socially engaged, interacting with the various museums, art centres, monuments and other public spaces that have hosted him. Through hisfrequently spectacularart works, the artist deconstructs historical situations plagued by the notion of failure or crisis in order to excavate the positive effects that may arise from such contexts. Jute sackcloth, shoe-shine boxes and sewing machines form the raw materials of imposing installations that explore the themes of labour, migration, globalisation and economic exchange. For his first solo exhibition in France, Ibrahim Mahama continues to reflect upon recycled materials, the flow of goods and knowledge, while also branching out in a new direction. The Memory of Love is a blend of architecture, ... More  Some surprising good news: Bookstores are booming and becoming more diverseNEW YORK, NY.- People told Lucy Yu it was a crazy time to open a bookstore in New York Citys Chinatown. It was early 2021, and the pandemic had devastated the neighborhood, forcing dozens of stores and restaurants to close. The rise of anti-Asian hate crimes had shaken residents and local business owners. But Yu believed that a bookstore was just what the neighborhood needed. She raised around $20,000 on GoFundMe, enough to rent a narrow storefront a former funeral supply store on Mulberry Street in downtown Manhattan. A neighborhood grant gave her $2,000 for shelves and books. And in December, she opened Yu and Me Books, which specializes in titles by and about immigrants and people of color. The store was profitable within four months, Yu said. Yu and Me Books is one of more than 300 new independent bookstores that have sprouted ... More  The Getty Research Institute acquires Black Women of Print's inaugural portfolioLOS ANGELES, CA.- In October 2018, artist and scholar Tanekeya Word founded Black Women of Print (BWoP), a space for Black women printmakers to promote their work, support professional development, and advance critical discourse around the representation of Black women printmakers. To mark the organizations first anniversary, seven artist membersLeslie Diuguid, LaToya M. Hobbs, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Delita Martin, Angela Pilgrim, Stephanie Santana, and Wordcollaborated on an inaugural print portfolio, a copy of which is now in the GRIs collection. Curated by Word, this collection of prints responds to the theme Continuum. Through shared graphic vocabularies, compositions, and subject matter, the BWoP artists evoke the foundational legacies of seven Black artistic foremothers: Emma Amos, Margaret T. G. Burroughs, ... More  Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens an exhibition of photographs by Helmut NewtonMONACO.- The title of the exhibition clearly circumscribes a geography, that of the French Riviera to Bordighera, Italy, which Helmut Newton photographed from the 1960s until his death in the early 2000s. Newton, Riviera is a pretext for a new look at the work of one of the 20th centurys foremost photographers through a fascinating collection of images, some that have become famous, others rarely displayed to the public. I love the sunshine. We dont see it in Paris any more. These were, allegedly, the words spoken by Helmut Newton to the Monegasque official in charge of processing his papers. The year was 1981. Newton was 61 years old and, thanks to a succession of daring series that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, had forged a reputation as one of the greatest fashion photographers of his generation. But his move to Monaco ... More  Elke aus dem Moore's 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture to be experienced in Fellbach until October 3FELLBACH.- The 15th edition of the Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach gathers over 50 artistic positions. Curator Elke aus dem Moore raises fundamental questions. Based on a vitality of matter and an effective power of objects, artistic positions are presented that deal with socially highly topical questions of ownership, interconnectedness, restitution and responsibility. The Triennial addresses these questions in a narrative parcours in the Alte Kelter, the traditional exhibition venue of the Triennale, as well as in a forest piece and in a digital exhibition space. What happens when objects leave their contexts, when they are brought into other contexts? What relationships can art make visible and what resonances are made possible by it? The exhibition poses many such questions and provides answers, among other things, in an extensive program ... More  François Ghebaly opens an exhibition of works by Tammy NguyenLOS ANGELES, CA.- Tammy Nguyens storytelling expertise shines across her multidisciplinary practice which encompasses painting, drawing, artist books, prints and zines. Seamlessly fusing together a diverse set of sources ranging from geopolitics, to philosophy, to religion, to her own subjective experience, Nguyens layered compositions defy traditional narrative structures. Four Ways Through a Cave consists of five new miniature paintings on paper stretched over wood panels and four new leather bound artists books which weave together a complex, multi-dimensional tale about a country in the wake of war, the human search for truth, natures hunger, and the colonial legacy of Christianity. This is Nguyens first exhibition with the gallery. Titled Four Ways Through a Cave: 1 - 4, Nguyens artist books were conceptualized following a trip to Phong ... More  Wichita Art Museum opens new exhibition "Beth Lipman: All in Time"WICHITA, KAN.- Following the appearance of her retrospective in New York City, the Wichita Art Museum stages a career survey exhibition for artist Beth Lipman titled All in Time, on view through September 25, 2022. Artwork by Lipman is by turns stunning and mesmerizing while thoughtful and rigorous. The excessive extravagance of clear glass inspires immediate delight. Lipman first exhibited at WAM in Summer 2017 with captivating art in the glass exhibition Ritual and Desire. The abundance of Lipmans Laid (Time-) Table with Cycadsa long table overflowing above and below with clear glass flora and vases, goblets, and other domestic objectswas gripping. Lipmans work continues to gain greater and stronger national attention. She was honored by a 2013 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. PBS featured her in the 2013 Craft in America documentary. ... More  Larry Storch, comic actor best known for 'F Troop,' dies at 99NEW YORK, NY.- Larry Storch, who played a memorable television oddball on the 1960s sitcom F Troop and for years carried a secret in his personal life that was odd in an entirely different way, died Friday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 99. His stepdaughter, June Cross, confirmed the death. Storch had a long career as a nightclub comic and as a character actor on the stage and the big and small screens. But his other work was dwarfed by the impression he made during the two-season run of F Troop on ABC, from 1965 to 1967. The show was a slapstick comedy about an outpost called Fort Courage in Indian country just after the Civil War, and Storch played Cpl. Randolph Agarn, one of the bigger misfits in a unit full of them. Agarn and his business partner, Sgt. Morgan ORourke, played by Forrest Tucker, were constantly ... More  Mudam opens solo exhibition devoted to the work of artist Tacita DeanLUXEMBOURG.- This solo exhibition devoted to the work of acclaimed artist Tacita Dean, which is presented across the two galleries on the upper floor of the museum, is formed around two recent projects: a trilogy of works designed for The Dante Project (2021), a ballet inspired by The Divine Comedy, and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting (2021), a 16mm filmed conversation between the artists Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu. Since the early 1990s, Tacita Dean (b. 1965, Canterbury) has developed a singular body of work using multiple mediums, like film, photography and sound, drawing, printmaking and collage. Encompassing a diverse array of subjects, her work is characterised by a careful observation of time, a keen attention to history and a love of the fine details in life. The first part of Tacita Deans exhibition at Mudam, in the East ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo died July 11, 1593. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. In this image: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumne (portrait de Rodolphe II), vers 1590, Huile sur bois. Skokloster, Château de Skokloster (Suède).
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