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One of the cultural artifacts being returned from a Swedish museum to the Yaqui Nation. One item, a deers head, is considered sacred by the group and inappropriate to photograph. Photo: Swedish National Museums of World Culture.
by Isabella Grullón Paz
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly 20 years ago, Andrea Carmen, a member of the Yaqui Nation, an Indigenous group in Mexico and the United States, was at an event commemorating International Day of Indigenous Peoples at a museum in Stockholm. Afterward, she was invited to view the museums collection of items from the Americas. What she spotted brought her up short: a Maaso Kova, a ceremonial deers head sacred to the Yaqui Nation. I couldnt believe what I was seeing, Carmen said of her discovery at the Museum of Ethnography. It was, she added, like seeing a child in a cage. For the Yaqui Nation, whose members live across Sonora state in northern Mexico and in parts of southern Arizona, the Maaso Kova is a sacred item used in ceremonial dances to connect the physical world to the spiritual world of their ancestors. After Carmen returned to Arizona, she asked a Yaqui tribal chief to petition the museum to return the deer head and any other Yaqui items it possessed. It took t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Maya Dunietz. Installation view of Root of Two, 2022. On view from May 7 - September 18, 2022 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE. Courtesy of the artist and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Photography by Assaf Evron.
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| Minneapolis Institute of Art to conserve 17th-century Italian painting | | The George Economou Collection opens Katharina Fritsch's first solo show in Greece | | Exhibition showcases a selection of works by the great German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer | 
Domenico Passignano, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1627. Oil on canvas. Gift of John Morton Morris in honor of Patrick Noon, 2020.54.2
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced today it has been selected as one of the 2022 Bank of America Art Conservation Project awardees to conserve Domenico Passignanos Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise this year. The Italian painting is one of 19 Art Conservation Projects selected by the bank for 2022. Support from Bank of America will fund conservation work needed to stabilize, clean, and renew the appearance and legibility of The Expulsion of Adam and Eve. Under the supervision of Mia, the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC), a non-profit regional center for the preservation and conservation of art and artifacts, will conduct the restoration. The MACC conservation facility is housed within the museum. Video documentation and a behind the scenes look at the conservation process are also in the works for Mia's digital and social channels. Passignanos Expulsion of Adam and Eve was acquired by Mia in August 2 ... More | | 
Katharina Fritsch, Ei / Egg, 2017, Polyester, paint, 135 x 80 x 80 cm © Katharina Fritsch / VG Bild -Kunst, Bonn © OSDEETE, Athens 2022. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo by Ivo Faber.
ATHENS.- The German sculptor Katharina Fritsch has made a significant contribution to visual art since the early 1980s. With distinctive cast forms painted in vivid colors, she has developed a specific sculptural lexicon encompassing a typology of everyday objects, animals, and humans, as well as installations based in the mythological and surreal. A master in the deployment of scale, Fritsch is known for installing her work in ways that demand our attention, typically leaving the sense of a resonant interior image or uncanny gestalt that is hard to dismiss or forget. Fritschs exhibition at the George Economou Collection is the artists first solo show in Greece, a country whose own rich history of figurative sculpture, mythology, and storytelling resonates with her work and adds a new layer to its reception. Fritsch has chosen to show recent pieces alongside some of her earliest productions made during and soon af ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer, Burkhard of Speyer, 1506. Oil on panel, 462 x 403 x 68 mm. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020.
BIRMINGHAM.- To mark the last year of a unique five-year collaboration between the Barber Institute and Royal Collection Trust, a new exhibition - co-curated by eight students studying for an MA in Art History and Curating at the University of Birmingham - showcases a selection of works by the great German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). The students have chosen highlights of the Royal Collections outstanding holdings of Dürers work - including 15 prints, 3 drawings and a rare painting - spanning his incredibly productive career as a master innovator. Dürers gifts as a draughtsman, painter and printmaker made him probably the most revered and influential artist of the Northern Renaissance, and this small but intense exhibition comes at a time when there is renewed interest in this remarkable artist, following the critically acclaimed recent show at the National Gallery, London. Dürer was born in the German ci ... More |
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| Family heirlooms, redefined | | Edmund de Waal opens new exhibition at Waddesdon Manor | | Exhibition at Museum Barberini focuses on 'The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945' | 
Olivia Galli's father sits near hair products created by Gallis grandmother Joan Johnson, who co-founded the Johnson Products Company along with her husband, George Johnson in 1954, at their home in Chicago on March 3, 2022. Olivia Galli/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shared histories and stories help keep families together. Families that have the wherewithal may even chart genealogies, craft symbolic imagery (think crests and shields) and convey what the English have called heirlooms. As valuable objects passed down over multiple generations, though, heirlooms are not often associated with Black people in America, a population marked by dislocation as well as legal and financial barriers to accumulating things of value. Many Black families have been hard pressed to learn the names and birthplaces of their ancestors, let alone pass down objects accumulated by previous generations. The Black family was once a contradiction in terms in the American colonies and United States. Before 1865, most people of African descent were enslaved, considered as chattel and prohibited from forming stable families and legally claiming kin. In an environment hostile ... More | | 
psalm, IV, 2019. Porcelain, marble, alabaster, steel, wood, aluminium and glass © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy of the artist and the National Library of Israel. Photo: Mike Bruce.
WADDESDON.- Edmund de Waal is making a welcome return to Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild house and garden in Buckinghamshire, this summer. The exhibition centres around two pieces - psalm, IV and sukkah - which are being presented to the new National Library of Israel when it opens early next year. This major project in Jerusalem is being supported by Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild philanthropic foundation, so it is particularly appropriate that the pieces should also be shown at Waddesdon. They have been joined by a group of new works, created by one of the worlds leading artists, in a display in the Drawings Room at the Manor, next door to the newly opened Rothschild Treasury. de Waal has a longstanding relationship with Waddesdon - during 2012 he created a new series of pieces inspired by the collections and interiors of the house, that were displayed throughout the ground floor rooms. The two central works in this exhibition were ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock, Composition No. 16, 1948. Oil on canvas, 56,5 à 39,5 cm. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
POTSDAM.- The exhibition The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 opens at the Museum Barberini. It focuses on the two most important currents of abstraction following World War II: Abstract Expressionism in the United States and Art Informel in western Europe. The Shape of Freedom is the first exhibition to explore this transatlantic dialogue in art from the mid-1940s to the end of the Cold War. The show comprises around 100 works by over 50 artists including Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, K. O. Götz, Georges Mathieu, Lee Krasner, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Judit Reigl, and Clyfford Still. Works on loan come from over 30 international museums and private collections including the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, the Tate in London, the Museo nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris ... More |
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| Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents Brook Andrew's ngayy ngajuu dhugul birra (to see my skin broken) | | American University Museum summer exhibits open | | Isaac Julien debuts newly commissioned immersive film installation for Barnes centennial | 
Brook Andrew, seeing time IX, 2021 (detail). Mixed media on linen 235 x 235 cm.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting ngayy ngajuu dhugul birra (to see my skin broken), the fourth exhibition by Brook Andrew since the Australian Wiradjuri artist began his collaboration with the gallery in 2014. Born in Sydney in 1970, Brook Andrews matrilineal kinship is from the Wiradjuri Aboriginal nation of western New South Wales, Australia, and he conceptualises his practice through the Wiradjuri language. Brook Andrew is considered a major player in the contemporary art and museum scene, whose work has gained international amplitude over a nearly 30-year career. His practice questions the memory of colonialism and presents alternative histories. His artworks, museum interventions and curatorial projects challenge the limitations imposed by power structures, historical amnesia and stereotyping, to centre Indigenous perspectives. Drawing inspiration from vernacular objects and the archive, he collaborates interna ... More | | 
Mokha Laget, Gamut, 2018. Acrylic on Flashe on shaped canvas, 35 x 20 in. Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Summer exhibitions opened Jun. 11 in the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center and will be on display through Aug. 7. The Quest for Tranquil Space: Paintings and Photograms marks Czech Republic artist Josef Achrers U.S. debut, in an exhibit that contains several works made specifically with the unique gallery space of American University Museum in mind. The exhibit also coincides with the Czech Republics presidency of the Council of the European Union, which begins July 1. Achrers exhibition is comprised of large photograms and vivid colored acrylic paintings. The motifs of the paintings are mostly landscapes, in combination with abstract geometry, describing the stories of people seeking peace, quiet and tranquility amidst information overload. Achrer describes photograms as an old photo technique. They are analog paintings with light. Photograms have always converted a three-dimen ... More | | 
Isaac Julien, André Holland as Alain Locke on the set of the film Once Again (Statues Never Die), 2022 © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This summer, in celebration of its centennial, the Barnes Foundation debuts a newly commissioned immersive film installation by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960). On view in the Roberts Gallery from June 19 through September 4, Once Again
(Statues Never Die), a five-screen installation, explores the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Barnes Foundation founder and early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and the famed philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke, known as the Father of the Harlem Renaissance. Once Again
(Statues Never Die) stars actor André Holland (Moonlight and Passing) as Alain Locke, Danny Huston (Succession and Marlowe) as Dr. Barnes, rising star Devon Terrell (Barack Obama in Barry) as sculptor Richmond Barthé, and Sharlene Whyte (Small Axe and Lessons of the Hour) as the Curator. It also ... More |
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| Comic art's million-dollar club | | Tissot painting worth £2.4 million at risk of leaving UK | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition of works by Ronald Muchatuta | 
The illustration for the cover of the first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns sold at Heritage Auctions on Thursday. Photo: Heritage Auctions.
George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK, NY.- Holy original art, Batman! The cover of the first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns was sold by Heritage Auctions for $2.4 million on Thursday, making it the latest example of a piece of comic book or fantasy art to sell for over $1 million at auction. Heres a look at some of these high-priced, one-of-a-kind collectibles. The career of the illustrator Frank Frazetta, who died in 2010, began in comic books before he found fame in painting covers for fantasy novels, which often featured alluring women and brawny men. Those two archetypes are evident in four of his paintings that sold for over $1 million. At the top of the list is his 1969 Egyptian Queen painting, which was used as the cover of Eerie magazine No. 23. It was sold by Heritage Auctions for $5.4 million in 2019. The previous year, Death Dealer 6 (1990), one in a series of his paintings featuring a mysterious warrior ... More | | 
Algernon Marsden by the French artist Jacques Joseph Tissot who lived and worked in London and became known as James Tissot in the UK is at risk of leaving the country unless a buyer can be found.
LONDON.- Algernon Marsden by the French artist Jacques Joseph Tissot who lived and worked in London and became known as James Tissot in the UK is at risk of leaving the country unless a buyer can be found. Dating from the late 19th century, the painting depicts Algernon Moses Marsden, an infamous figure in the Victorian art world who later became known for his appearances in bankruptcy courts. The painting has become an icon of the Aesthetic movement in recent years, despite having never been displayed during Tissots lifetime, and depicts a young man in a luxurious interior. Algernon Marsden epitomises Tissots desire to elevate a portrait of an individual into a timeless genre painting and the sympathy between the artist, the sitter, and their surroundings is extraordinary. Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: Tissot has had an important influence on British art, the full extent of which is only just beginning to be explored. ... More | | 
Ronald Muchatuta, Black Stream I, 2022. Relief sculpture, mosaic, wax and drawing, 30 x 40 cm. 12 x 16 in.
PARIS.- In the words of Fred Moten, we study our wounds as poetics of our lore, where the relation between joint and flesh is the pleated distance of a musical moment that is emphatically, palpably imperceptible and, therefore, exhausts description. The moment becomes a theory of the moment, of the feeling of a presence that is ungraspable in the way that it touches. You will know the moment by how it requires you to think of the relation between fantasy and nothingness: what is mistaken for silence is, all of a sudden, Tran substantial. (Eliott, 2022) In resistance to such departure, we linger in the advent, in the brutal interplay of advent and enclosure. Land, especially for Africans is the basis of dignity that is rooted in ancestral land and the deep connection one has to their roots and community. Unsettlement is the displacement re-casted in the idea that to have land and to be African are interplay of two different ideas. Whereas negation is supposed to foster true ... More |
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 CRAC Alsace opens Spark, a solo exhibition by Jonathas de AndradeALTKIRCH.- Jonathas de Andrades practice takes advantage of the visual and narrative possibilities of media such as installation, photography, film and sculpture and is grounded in research processes that are profoundly collaborative in nature. His ongoing reflection speculates on the shortcomings of late modernitys utopias, ideals and world visions, especially in Latin America, and more specifically in Northeastern Brazil. The resulting works tend to conjure feelings and ideas that oscillate between nostalgia, eroticism and historical and political critique in order to subjectively address issues such as labor and identity, almost exclusively through the representation of the male body. Even though the presence of the male body has taken center stage in de Andrades practice throughout the years, it has never been ... More  Hudson River Museum opens an exhibition of works by Federico UribeYONKERS, NY.- From a distance, Plastic Reef appears to be a colorful and beautiful underwater world. Up close, one can see the hundreds of pieces of plastic, which are carefully cut and arranged. The result is playful yet communicates a real and present threat. In this installation, artist Frederico Uribe challenges us to reflect on Mother Natures pivotal presence and be inspired to give back what was taken from her: marine species and corals. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Federico Uribe currently lives and works in Miami. In 1996, the artist abandoned his paint brushes and canvases in favor of household objects. His artwork resists classification and emerges from intertwining everyday objects in surprising ways that maintain a formal reference to art history. Over the past decade, his artwork has been collected by and featured in multiple museums ... More  Camille Henrot's first solo exhibition in Belgium opens at Middelheim MuseumANTWERP.- Middelheim Museum is presenting Wet Job, the first solo exhibition by artist Camille Henrot (°1978) in Belgium. The exhibition is the first of its kind to focus on the artists practice in sculpture and brings together close to 40 works produced over the last decade in an expansive outdoor setting. In the context of this exhibition, Wet Job has multiple and evolving meanings: it refers to the labor of breastfeeding and breast pumping (think wet nurse) at the same time as it evokes the end of life (wet work), the fluidity of identity, and the sometimes messy nature of human relations. It is particularly striking to consider the artist's choice to use bronze, one of the most time-honored, durable materials, to capture the fleeting impermanence of human experience. With more than one publicly accessible entrance, the grounds ... More  Marina Otero wins 2022 Wheelwright PrizeCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Harvard University Graduate School of Design named Marina Otero the winner of the 2022 Wheelwright Prize, a grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research. With her winning proposal Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, Otero will examine new architecture paradigms for storing data and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today. The field research, data collection, and prototype development will all result in the first open-source manual for global data center architecture design containing examples of ecological, circular, and egalitarian data storage models. As with past Wheelwright winners, the 100,000 USD prize is intended to fund two years of Oteros research ... More  The Untitled Space presents Faustine Badrichanis "Multifaceted"NEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting Multifaceted the debut New York solo exhibition of artist Faustine Badrichani on view through June 30th, 2022. Curated by Indira Cesarine, Multifaceted debuts a collection of acrylic paintings on paper and wood panel that explores female identity through figurative abstraction. Intimacy and universality are central themes to Badrichanis work which emphasizes the essence of womanhood through female silhouettes. A French artist from Provence, Badrichani has been based in New York City for over ten years. After exploring a range of mediums including oil painting and sculpture, she developed her signature style in acrylics. Through complex compositions ripe with intricate details and a linear usage of negative space, Badrichani concentrates on the abstracted female figure ... More  Ibrahim El-Salahi's first solo exhibition in Norway opens at the Norwegian Drawing AssociationOSLO.- Between June 18 and July 31, The Norwegian Drawing Association presents Ibrahim El-Salahis first solo exhibition in Norway. El-Salahi (b. 1930, Omdurman, Sudan) is a key figure in African modernism. This exhibition is produced in collaboration with The Drawing Center in New York, where it will be shown later this year, and consists of 90 drawings from the series Pain Relief Drawings. For the exhibition The Norwegian Drawing Association has invited the Norwegian-Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar (b. 1988) to contribute with new drawings. El-Salahis and Umars works create a dialogue between two generations from the same country. El-Salahis work is rooted in the modernism of post-war Europe and in traditions from African and Islamic art history. Inspired by Arabic calligraphy, surrealistic figuration and geometric abstraction, ... 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More  The Moniker Foundation supports artists in the New Contemporary and Urban art movementsNEW YORK, NY.- Over the last decade, The Moniker Art Fair has developed a well-regarded reputation within the art world, producing 12 curated festivals in London and New York, immersive installations and exhibitions in Berlin and Leeds, public murals and memorable brand partnerships, alongside countless conferences and educational activations. Now meet The Moniker Foundation. Since its inception in 2020, the Foundation have been; helping to support and develop artists, careers and creative practices; establishing dialogue with their network of leading figures; developing educational resources; documenting and assisting in the growth and development of the New Contemporary and Urban movement and working on creating a deserving platform as well as launching its own Moniker Collection to be loved, admired ... More  Danysz Gallery presents sculptures, burned wood paintings and wall installations by Vincent DubourgPARIS.- Known for his design creations that he has exhibited around the world for more than 15 years, Vincent Dubourg presents for the very first time a new facet of his artistic work through his sculptures, burned wood paintings and wall installations, as part of his solo exhibition "Density", from June 11 to August 27, 2022 at Danysz Paris - Marais. For Dubourg, furniture is only a pretext for exploring the meaning of art. It is not an end in itself but a means of embodying the artistic act in the material. In his hands, the object exceeds its function and becomes aesthetic, poetizing ordinary life. The artist explores the material: he burns, melts, sculpts, digs and hammers. His works are made of bronze, terracotta, aluminum, steel, wood, and much more, playing on contrasts and fundamental oppositions empty and full, ... More  Odesa Opera House reopens, defying Putin's barbarismODESA.- In a nation at war, and a city aching for some semblance of normality, the Odesa Opera reopened for the first time since the Russian invasion began, asserting civilization against the barbarism unleashed from Moscow. The performance Friday in the magnificent Opera Theater, opened in 1810 on the plateau above the now shuttered Black Sea port, began with an impassioned rendering of the Ukrainian national anthem. Images of wheat swaying in the wind formed the backdrop, a reminder of the grain from its fertile hinterland that long made Odesa rich but now sits in silos as war rages and global food shortages grow. In case of sirens, proceed to the shelter within the theater, said Ilona Trach, the theater official who presented the program. You are the soul of this opera house, and we think its very important ... More  Studio KO to renovate and extend the new Contemporary Art Center in TashkentBASEL.- The Art and Culture Development Foundation participated in the 16th edition of Design Miami/Basel (14-19 June 2022) in Basel, Switzerland with the brand-new concept of the development of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Tashkent designed by the French architecture firm Studio KO. The theme of Design Miami/Basel (DM/B), Basel explored the theme of The Golden Age set up by its Curatorial Director, Maria Cristina Didero. Part of the Special Project section of DM/B, ACDF invited visitors to discover the architectural concept made by Studio KO for the renovation of a 1912 building in Tashkent. Made out of bricks and initially a diesel station, it used to produce electricity to the first tramway line of the capital of Uzbekistan. As part of the conceptual design work, Studio KO engaged in a conversation with Miza Mucciarelli, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. In this image: Kurt Schwitters, Mz 302, Linden, 1921. Collage on paper, 7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. Private collection. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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