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The artist Mire Lee in her atelier developing work for her exhibition Black Sun coming to the New Museum, in Amsterdam, May 2023. Lees kinetic works can induce horror and awe, though they often also harbor a disquieting vulnerability. (Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)
by Andrew Russeth
SEOUL.- One morning this month, artist Mire Lee was sitting outside at a cafe in Seoul as she discussed an artwork that she came up with just as she started planning Black Sun, her show opening soon at the New Museum in Manhattan. I still need to work on it a little, Lee said, setting down her coffee to pull up a video of the work on her phone. Onscreen, a whirlpool of beige liquid clay swirled around a cement basin and down a drain at its center, as more of it flowed in from a hole higher in the bowl. It was a bizarre sight a kind of mucky bath that was perpetually being drained while vaguely conjuring bodily substances. A peristaltic pump on the floor kept it flowing. Ive been trying to make the viscosity just about right so that you can see the hole continuously, she said, but honestly, maybe its not perfectly there. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The University of Melbourne unveiled nightshifts, a contemplative new group exhibition considering the importance of solitude through contemporary arts practice. Presented at Buxton Contemporary from 26 May to 29 October 2023, the large-scale exhibition features more than 30 works drawn from the University of Melbourneâs art collection, alongside two new commissions.
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| How far would you go for midcentury furniture? | | Exceptional sales results for Lark Mason Associates Auction from the Estate of Mary A. Yturria | | At attractions about the Titanic, pondering the fate of the Titan | 
Lars Balderskilde, right, and his nephew unload a vintage Danish modern piece in Denmark, June 23, 2023. (Sidsel Alling/The New York Times)
by Chantel Tattoli
NEW YORK, NY.- The credenza in the back of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van groaned as Lars Balderskilde drove through the woodlands near Vejle, Denmark, a city on a fjord about 2 1/2 hours from Copenhagen. It was late January, and after passing a lake filled with swans, Balderskilde stopped at a house where he picked up an old bar cabinet that he paid for in cash. Then came stops at other homes to collect nesting tables and a mirror. The sun had set by the time he met Nina Toft and Grethe Kock, two sisters, at the home of their mother, whose funeral they had hosted earlier that day. Its always emotional, but you have to let go, Toft said to Balderskilde, who had come to look at various pieces in the house. Kock showed him a tiny clay bird that she had made as a girl. Ill give you a good deal, she said, jokingly. Balderskilde did not ... More | | 
10.29 Carat Marquise Cut Three Diamond and Platinum Ring.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Lark Mason Associates is delighted to announce the resounding success of the Fine Jewelry and Fashion auction featuring exquisite items from the esteemed Estate of Texas philanthropist Mary A. Yturria. The sale, which closed on June 15th on the igavelauctions.com platform captivated collectors and art enthusiasts alike, resulting in an impressive total sales figure of $795,153, including buyer's premium. This meticulously curated auction presented a thoughtfully selected array of fine jewelry and fashion pieces, garnering significant attention from bidders from the United States and Canada. Out of the 218 lots featured, an outstanding 214 lots were successfully sold, achieving an exceptional sell-through rate of 98%. The auction received an astounding total of 2,156 bids, demonstrating the widespread interest in the remarkable offerings presented. We are thrilled with the impressive results of this auction, which refle ... More | | 
A display case inside the Molly Brown House Museum, the former home of a Titanic survivor turned exhibit, in Denver, Feb. 14, 2012. (Matthew Staver/The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- Jo-B Sebastian had just entered an exhibit about the Titanic and its more than 1,500 lost passengers when a friend received a news alert on his smartwatch Thursday afternoon: the five people whose submersible had gone missing during a deep dive to explore the Titanics wreckage had been declared dead. It just felt so eerie to be like we added five more to the tally, said Sebastian, a 34-year-old musician who lives in New York City, as he took in Titanic: The Exhibition, in New York. Ever since the submersible, the Titan, disappeared in the ocean depths last Sunday, its fate had riveted the world. Many were fascinated by the search and rescue efforts, hoping the missing explorers would be found alive. Others wondered why wealthy people would spend so much money ... More |
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| Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Elizabeth Kornhauser to join Olana Partnership | | Pope hosts artists in Sistine Chapel, even some who attracted controversy | | Tel Aviv Museum of Art features solo exhibition painter Roni Taharlev, recipient of 2022 Shiff Prize | 
Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser.
HUDSON, NY.- The Olana Partnership announces that Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, currently the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be retiring from her position and joining The Olana Partnership as Consulting Senior Curator and Chair of The Church 200 Committee effective August 1. Dr. Kornhauser will lead planning efforts for a national celebration in 2026, the 200th anniversary of the artist Frederic Churchs birth. Exhibitions in 2026 are being planned at the Olana State Historic Site, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several museums across the United States. This is a great moment to celebrate Frederic Church and join The Olana Partnership as we are asking new questions of American Art, said Elizabeth Kornhauser. I am looking forward to re-examining the extraordinary national and international status of Church and to inspire museums across the country to get ... More | | 
An untitled sculpture by Anish Kapoor on display at Frieze New York, a contemporary art fair that originated in London nine years ago, and is now introducing a local franchise, at Randalls Island in New York. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
VATICAN CITY.- As Pope Francis met with dozens of international artists at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, he sought both to reaffirm the Roman Catholic Churchs commitment to artistic endeavors and to enlist the artists to act as catalysts for change in areas such as social justice. Yet, as the group sat amid Renaissance frescoes by the likes of Michelangelo, Botticelli and Perugino undisputedly one of the high points of papal art patronage not all of those present had a traditional religious bent. Among them were American artist Andres Serrano, whose photograph Piss Christ, an image of a plastic crucifix submerged in a tank full of urine, was considered blasphemous when it debuted in 1987. On Friday, Francis ... More | | 
Roni Taharlev, Boy with a Yellow Dress, 2020. Photo: Elad Sarig. Collection of the Tel Aviv of Art Museum, purchase, The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Foundation in support of Israeli Art during COVID-19 pandemic.
TEL AVIV.- A solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art features the painter Roni Taharlev, the recipient of the 2022 Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art. Taharlev studies the human body, and especially the female body. She explores its various dimensions in depth, while engaging with the history of art, classical traditions, and religious, mythological, and literary themes. At the heart of the exhibition is a series of recent works centered on older women, whom Taharlev liberates of the cultural constraints that circumscribed them and fixed their meaning. Displayed alongside them are figures marked by ambiguous gender identities, powerful self-portraits, and charcoal and pastel drawings that are being presented for the first time. Together, these works create a mesmerizing interweave ... More |
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| Sculpture Partnerships forged in Harlem | | Bellmans announces auction of Collection of Seymour Stein, the 'record man' who discovered Madonna | | The exhibition 'Modern Office' by Leo Marz to be held at Gallery Wendi Norris | 
Public Art, Harlem Hybrid.
NEW YORK, NY.- Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition in Spring, 2024. The historic parks Morningside, St. Nicholas, and Jackie Robinson have been selected to be the featured sites for these works. Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be led by the West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association. They will work collaboratively with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, local community boards and neighborhood groups. Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be an incredible celebration of Harlems rich history of sculpture, local artists of colors, and neighborhood parks, all while making art more accessible, said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. Im confident that this expansive, multimedia initiative will ignite Manhattanites passion for art and a commitment to stewarding Harlems parks. I cant wait to visit the Gardens next spring and experience what the artists have created. The team will also partner with the online ... More | | 
Sir Edward Lutyens, Art Deco ebony table lamp with applied enamel plaques, 1920.
LONDON.- Bellmans is going to be offering the Collection of Seymour Stein in auctions held on 26th & 27th June and 7th & 8th August 2023. The music executive and co-founder of Sire Records, who launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and the Ramones, passed away earlier this year at the age of 80 and his London collection is now coming up for auction. Seymour Stein particularly liked buying items relating to advertising history and the Art Deco Period creating a very vivid and eclectic collection over several decades. Part one in June will include advertising and Art Deco works of art, while posters and paintings as well as ceramics and lighting will be offered in the second part in August. Highlights include a fabulous Art Deco ebony table lamp with applied enamel plaques, which has been attributed to Sir Edward Lutyens and was created around 1920. It is expected to fetch £3,000 - £5,000. A rare Wedgwood Celadon- ... More | | 
Leo Marz, It's Always the Same Story- a Scream- a Jump- You Wake Up, 2023. Oil on linen, 45.67 x 135 inches (116 x 343 cm).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Leo Marzs Modern Office. For his debut at Gallery Wendi Norris and first U.S. solo show in over a decade, Mexican artist Leo Marz investigates humans as processors of information. The seven new paintings and two sculptures in this exhibition, which evoke modern offices, address the flux, fragmentation, and discontinuities of space and time inherent in contemporary life. Each painting begins with a series of quick observational sketches. Drawing upon his imagination, intuition, and sense of humor, the artist combines elements from multiple sources as he develops the work. Modern Office addresses both temporal and spatial complexities. Lines may offer perspectival cues or suggest overlapping objects or gestures. Playing with scale, Marz layers compositions within compositions, bending ... More |
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| In Charleston, a museum honors a journey of grief and grace | | 'Ugly Painting' to open today at Nahmad Contemporary | | Carnegie Museum of Art presents 'Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 19122022' | 
The International African American Museum, which opens on June 27 to the public, in Charleston, S.C., June 20, 2023. (Leslie Ryann McKellar/The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
CHARLESTON, SC.- In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil War were fired Fort Sumter is distantly visible Im on the site of a former shipping pier known as Gadsdens Wharf. Here, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ships carrying tens of thousands of enslaved Africans deposited their human cargo, a population that would, through unthinkable adversity and creative perseverance, utterly transform what America meant, and means. On this spot now, looking a bit like a ship itself, stands the eagerly awaited and long-delayed new International African American Museum. After an almost quarter-century journey hampered by political squalls, economic doldrums, sometimes mutinous crews and last-minute fogs, this cultural vessel has securely, and handsomely, ... More | | 
George Condo, The Mad Dentist 2021. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 52 x 47 in, 132.1 x 119.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to present Ugly Painting, an exhibition organized by Eleanor Cayre and Dean Kissick on view June 26 through August 26, 2023. This exhibition is a celebration of the pleasures of ugly painting, by which we mean figurative painting that makes deliberate use of grotesque, garish, or abject styles of brushwork, representation, composition, or coloring to form a singular vision. Painting that is bold, confrontational, and confident, rather than pretty, decorative, polite, conservative, or overly realist. The exhibition presents works by Rita Ackermann (b. 1968), Alex Carver (b. 1984), Guglielmo Castelli (b. 1987), Sedrick Chisom (b. 1989), Theresa Chromati (b. 1992), George Condo (b. 1957), Shuriya Davis (b. 1996), Carroll Dunham (b. 1949), Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965), Jana Euler (b. 1982), Jeremy Glogan (b. 1967), Jamian Juliano- Villani (b. 1987), Karla Kaplun (b. 1993), Izumi Kato (b. 196 ... More | | 
Hashiguchi Goyō Japanese, 18801921, Woman in a Summer Kimono (Natsui no onna), 1920. Woodblock print on paper, H: 28 in. x W: 22 in. (71.12 x 55.88 cm). Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Bequest of Dr. James B. Austin, 89.28.135.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 19122022, a survey of the Japanese graphic tradition throughout the 20th century up to the present day, opened June 24, 2023, and will be on view through May 12, 2024. The exhibition spans more than 100 years and examines how the role of a printmaker has transformed through international encounters, new sources of inspiration, and artistic motivation. The exhibition also speaks to how contemporary printmakers continue to adapt a centuries-old artistic tradition for our modern sensibilities and 21st-century technologies. Imprinting in Their Time offers three fresh experiences for visitors, with completely new rotations of work appearing ... More |
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 Paul Ickovic, Photographer at Home on the Street, Dies at 79NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Ickovic, a peripatetic photographer whose sensuous black-and-white portraits and evocative images of street life captured in India, Nepal and Cuba, as well as European cities like Paris and Prague, harked back to the heyday of street photography at midcentury, died May 23 at his home in Prague. He was 79. His brother, Thomas Ickovic, said the cause was heart failure. Paul Ickovic (pronounced ick-OH-vick) was not a household name, nor was he a particularly prolific photographer. But he loved the variety of the human experience, and he loved women, and he pursued both with energy and considerable charm. The camera was his way to do so. His looks were an asset: Craggy-faced and twinkly-eyed, he was often compared to Keith Richards. His approach was often likened to that of his hero, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others whose notion of the decisive moment s ... More  A basement of horrors in Seoul, where past and present collideSEOUL.- The hostel in central Seoul has a lot to recommend it. The rooms are tidy and affordable enough for K-pop fanatics on a budget and families in need of lots of space on vacation. Its perched at the base of Namsan, the scenic, leafy mountain peak in the heart of town. Theres even a rooftop with panoramic views of the city. Just dont try to go to the basement. Namsan, with its winding trails and springtime cherry blossoms, has long been a top destination for tourists in Seoul. Not long ago, though, going to Namsan meant something different, something sinister. The phrase was typically used during South Koreas postwar authoritarian years as a euphemism for bringing pro-democracy protesters to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency headquarters and interrogating them. Torture was common, and one of the preferred venues was the ... More  It's a war-themed restaurant, but there is no need to pretendLVIV, UKRAINE.- A knock on the large unmarked wooden door opposite Lvivs city hall. A man in a military uniform holding a German-made rifle answers. Password, he demands. Slava Ukrayini. (Glory to Ukraine.) Heroyam slava (Glory for the heroes), he responds, and opens a passageway hidden behind a wall of books. The man in the uniform is not a guard. He is the maitre d at Kryivka, a popular theme restaurant that evokes Ukraines armed fight for independence against Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany during World War II. The cavernous restaurant decorated as a memorabilia-filled underground bunker has been around for more than 15 years. And the atmosphere remains festive and playful despite the brutal and bloody history that serves as a backdrop. Patrons still order multicolored vodka shots by the row, and the brick walls ... More  To the conductor Claudio Abbado, the orchestra was a collectiveNEW YORK, NY.- Claudio Abbado lit a cigar and looked uneasy, as he often did. The Italian conductor, who died in 2014 but would have turned 90 on June 26, was at a meal with actor Maximilian Schell, in a scene captured in a 1996 documentary. Schell, who was typecast playing Nazis for much of his Academy Award-winning career but worked with Abbado on Schoenbergs A Survivor From Warsaw, among other things, was telling everyone at the table that conducting must naturally give a musician a sense of power. Abbado smiled, quizzical. Power has nothing to do with music, insisted the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, an orchestra on which Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan had once imposed their interpretive will. For me, Abbado added, power is always linked with dictatorship. But not all power is political, Schell said; ... More  Landmark exhibition Africa fashion makes its North American debut at the Brooklyn MuseumBROOKLYN, NY.- Celebrating the outstanding creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of African fashions from the start of the independence era to today, Africa Fashion is the largest-ever presentation of this subject in North America. Through works by iconic designers and artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present, the exhibition illuminates how fashion, alongside the visual arts and music, played a pivotal role in Africas cultural renaissance during its liberation years, and how those elements laid the foundation for todays fashion revolution. The exhibition, proudly sponsored by Bank of America, is organized by the V&A and has been adapted for the Brooklyn Museum by Ernestine White-Mifetu, Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, and Annissa Malvoisin, Bard Graduate Center / Brooklyn Museum Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa. The ... More  Angela Melitopoulos' largest retrospective to date 'Cine(so)matrix' now on viewMADRID.- The exhibition Angela Melitopoulos, organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa is being carried out in the Sabatini Building, Floor 3, and is coordinated by Fernando López and Ana Lázaro . Cine(so)matrix, the largest retrospective dedicated to the audiovisual artist to date, is now on view since June 14 to September 18, 2023. It features 10 audiovisual works and a sound project that trace a journey over more than two decades. From the 1999 video essay Passing Drama to the ongoing research project Matri Linear B in 2022, Angela Melitopoulos investigates and reflects on a new way of narrating time, connecting issues related to memory, migrations, resistance and landscapes of life. Angela Melitopoulos (Munich, 1961) was a student of Nam June Paik at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (Germany), where her training was built ... More  MOMENTUM 12 opens with a constellation of commissioned artworks, live programming and moreMOSS AND JELÃY.- 'MOMENTUM 12: Together as to gather' officially opened on Saturday, 10 June, with an incredible foam action by German artist, Stephanie Lüning; karaoke with Indonesian collective Gudskul; and a performance by the BlikkÃ¥pnerne (16-19 year olds collaborating with MOMENTUM). Curated by Tenthaus a diverse group of artists and art workers from a variety of cultural backgrounds the 12th edition includes collaborations with over 90 artists, collectives, and institutions from Norway and around the world and features a constellation of projects ranging from commissioned artworks to a dynamic and community-oriented live programme of discursive and spontaneous events, all of which unfold in the Galleri F 15 exhibition space, on the grounds of the gallery on the island of Jeløy, and across the city of Moss. As this is the first ... More  Martina Morger kinks off a new series of exhibitions at Kunstmuseum LiechtensteinVADUZ.- In her works, performance and multimedia artist Martina Morger (b. 1989 in Vaduz) takes a critical look at the social issues of our times. The winner of the Manor Cultural Prize (St. Gallen, 2021) has curated the exhibition Are We Dead Yet? that kicks off Artists Choice, a new series of exhibitions in which artists are invited to select works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection in order to stage a presentation. The aim here is to re-energise the museums collection by subjecting it to timely critical scrutiny. Martina Morger has already dealt variously with the economic conditions of our capitalist achievement society, in which she also grew up. In her sometimes uncompromising artistic work she identifies gaps, speaks the unspoken, points out relations or discrepancies and encourages people to think further. Acting as curator, in Are ... More  Gelare Khoshgozaran: To Be the Author of One's Own Travels on view at Delfina FoundationLONDON.- Delfina Foundation is now presenting the first European solo exhibition by its former resident, LA-based Iranian artist, writer and filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran. Born in Tehran in 1986 during the Iran-Iraq war, Khoshgozaran produces work that engages with the legacies of imperial violence. Through film and video Khoshgozaran explores narratives of belonging outside of the geographies and temporalities that have both unsettled a sense of home, and make places of affinity uninhabitable. Continuing her work into the effects of displacement, this exhibition will present three film works by the artist two of which are new commissions coming together as an expanded cinema installation that will speak to the personal impact of exile and its generative potential as a space to build transnational solidarity. Shown for the first time in the UK, To ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Sudanese-Nubian artist Hassaan Ali passed away June 26, 2019. Hassaan Ali Ahmed was a Sudanese-Nubian artist , born on 16 December 1954 in the lush town of Wadi Halfa along the banks of the Nile . A self-taught artist , his work was often thought-provoking and charged with a sense of foreboding often tackling the pain of exile , isolation and fracture while reflecting deeply on the unfathomable social and political tragedies that are still unfolding around the world. His own words crystallize the essence of his oeuvre : âMy work has developed and matured over the years in the same organic fashion that the natural world works. However, the only constant and recurrent thread throughout is my preoccupation with my homeland ; Nubia is my obsession !â He passed away on 26 June 2019 after a fierce and courageous battle with cancer.
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