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Two visitors skates inside a work called Skate to Milk, by the Baan Norg Collaborative Arts and Culture, at the Documenta art festival in Kassel, Germany, on June 20, 2022. The latest edition of the prestigious international art exhibition Documenta, which takes place every five years, opened last Saturday and runs through mid-September. Felix Schmitt/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
KASSEL.- No one knows just how big Documenta 15 is. The latest edition of the prestigious international art exhibition, which takes place every five years here, opened June 18 and runs through mid-September. It resists all the usual metrics. How many artists? Hard to say. Ruangrupa, the Indonesian collective that is this editions artistic director, invited 67 core participants mostly grouped in collectives themselves from outside the commercial art world, mainly from the Global South. Each invited group was allocated a budget, which they have used to involve other artists and collectives, so now over 1,000 people are showing work or rotating through Kassel to hold talks, stage performances, tend gardens, share food or otherwise commune and create. The roster has evolved, amoebalike. How many artworks? Also elusive. Its not all intangible and temporary: There are paintings, sculptures, drawings and textile works. There is an abundance of excellent video and photo-based ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âPaul McCarthy. Pirates Stew Potâ at Hauser & Wirth Monaco until 27 August 2022. © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: François Fernandez.
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| Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of critical late works by Alberto Giacometti & Pablo Picasso | | The Richard Kan vase enters the Guimet Museum's collection | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens Fruiting Bodies, a group exhibition curated by Sam Rauch | 
Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966), Buste d'homme (Bust of a Man), 1957. Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 33 cm / 16 x 13 in. Courtesy of Sammlung Klewan. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- This June Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1 presents Facing Infinity. Alberto Giacometti & Pablo Picasso, an exhibition of critical late works by two of the most important artists of the 20th Century. Bringing together a selection of masterpieces from international collections, this exhibition displays new insights into Picasso and Giacomettis questioning of existence, as well as their endless search for the relationship between figure and space. This is the second collaboration between Hauser & Wirth and internationally renowned curator and expert of modern and contemporary art Dr. Dieter Buchhart, who curated the exhibition Schwitters Miró Arp at Hauser & Wirth in 2016. He states: Facing Infinity. Alberto Giacometti & Pablo Picasso brings a focused insight into their dazzling last years, revealing fascinating connections and contrasts. When Alberto Giacometti (1901-196 ... More | | 
An exceptional mid-14th-century Chinese vase with blue and white decoration is entering the Guimet Museums collection © RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier.
PARIS.- This piece, long held in the collections of a great French family, has been given, through a single donation, to the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts (MNAAG: Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet) by the Hong Kong philanthropist and major collector of fine objects of art Richard Kan, thanks to the policy support from the Society of Friends of the Guimet Museum (Société des Amis du Musée Guimet). The quality of this large, richly decorated porcelain meiping vase, painted with cobalt pigment on a white background, leaves no doubt that it was produced as a top-quality piece. It can be attributed to the Yuan period (1279 -1368). However, during this period, the reignmarks of the emperors (who were of Mongol and therefore non-Chinese ethnicity) did not appear on porcelains, such as the Shufu ware. This vase, which can be dated to the 1350s, is a fine ... More | | 
Mat Collishaw, Gary Miller, 2011. Framed c-print, 31 x 24 x 2 1/8 inches; 79 x 61 x 5.5 cm (framed), 25 1/2 x 18 inches; 64.8 x 45.7 cm (unframed). Edition of 5; 1 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Fruiting Bodies, a group exhibition curated by Sam Rauch, on view at the gallery in New York from June 23 - July 29, 2022. You are what you eat is an aphorism so often repeated, the power of its proposition hides in plain sight. Nevertheless, food is a powerful vehicle for storytelling, inextricably connected with the construction of personal and collective identity. In this exhibition, food functions as a medium and subject. Artists mine foods cultivation, exchange, consumption, and the social and cultural rituals that accrue to it, as a means to examine complex intersections of history, politics, language, psychology, and natural science. A uniquely embodied form of knowledge, food offers fertile ground for artistic and intellectual inquiry into the human and more-than-human realms. ... More |
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| Steidl publishes 'Mitch Epstein: Recreation' | | Dead roaches that ate Moon dust went up for auction. Then NASA objected. | | The lessons of nothingness from maverick Zen monks | 
Mitch Epstein: Recreation. Edited by Susan Bell and Ryan Spencer. Book Design: Naomi Mizusaki, Supermarket 13.75 x 11 in. / 28 x 35 cm Four-color process Hardback / Clothbound US$ 85.00 / 75.00 ISBN 978-3-96999-082-7 © Mitch Epstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- Between the 1970s and 90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of pleasure and undercurrent of alienation that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. Recreation captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone, less self-conscious time. In these early works, Epsteins wit reigns, along with his singular way of making the mundane startle and the extraordinary appear to perfectly fit in. This new edition expands on the original Recreation published by Steidl in 2005. More than a third of these photographs have never been published, and all of them have been re-worked with fidelity to the pictorial quality of the films of the era. Epstein maps the freakishly mundane landscape of American leisure, from motel swimming ... More | | 
The sale was halted after the space agency claimed it owned everything associated with a 1969 experiment that explored whether lunar soil was dangerous to terrestrial life.
NEW YORK, NY.- Unanswered questions fill the cosmos: Are there infinite universes? Why does anything exist? How much would one pay for moon dust digested by a cockroach? On that last mystery, humanity was close to an answer this month. Then, lawyers for NASA intervened. Three insects were put up for auction online along with the moon dust they were fed as part of an experiment in 1969 to observe the effects of lunar material on terrestrial life. Bidding for the auction, billed as a one-of-a-kind Apollo 11 rarity, began May 25 and had reached $40,000, said Bobby Livingston, an executive vice president at RR Auction, which specializes in selling historical and space memorabilia. The price was expected to go much higher at a live auction Thursday at a hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but company officials canceled it after NASA claimed that the experiment belonged to the agency. In one letter, dated June 15, the agency ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by Colleen Dugan shows the installation Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, featuring more than 50 objects from the gallerys rich collection of Zen art. Colleen Dugan via The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- When the country heaves, when the stress levels spike, a little nothingness goes a long way. Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan, at the Freer Gallery of Art (an arm of the Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art), is a show of ravishing absence: a stark and beautiful exhibition where form is plunged into silence, and the ego dissolves into empty space. Large and majestic screens support landscapes almost impetuously spare. Kanji tumble down calligraphy scrolls. Cracked teacups become portals to a world of impermanence. It offers a fine introduction to Japanese (and some Chinese) painting from the 14th to 17th centuries, but there are other reasons you may find it worth your visit. Really, this is the exhibition for anyone in 2022 wishing that the anxious, ... More |
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| Cummer Museum opens new exhibition: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon | | 'Carmen Argote: Filtration System for a Process-based Practice' on view at MCASD Downtown | | Hubert de Givenchy collectionneur: The Tribute Sale ends in success: $123.7 million | 
Made in Pakistan, Gandhara area. Head of Buddha, Kushan period, late 2nd3rd century. Schistose phyllite. Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.2 Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The newest exhibition at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, opened on June 25, 2022. The exhibition will be on view to the public through September 18, 2022. This exhibition illuminates the cultures and history of Asia while serving as a window into the extraordinary diversity of Asian art. The Rockefellers believed that by building a collection of the highest quality for the public to enjoy, the collectionbegun in the early 1960s--would serve as a means to develop an understanding of Asian cultures. ... More | | 
Carmen Argote: Filtration System for a Process-based Practice installation view. Photo: Riyo Studio for MCASD.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is presenting a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, MX), on the occasion of a major acquisition of her work. Known for her interdisciplinary practicewhich begins with the process of searching, digesting, and conversing with the spaces and places she inhabitsArgote acknowledges herself and her process as part of a larger nexus of collective energies. Titled Carmen Argote: Filtration System for a Process-based Practice, the exhibition features six interwoven series that draw inspiration from Lincoln Park in East Los Angeles through sculpture, drawing, voice recordings, and the artists perennial walking practicethe majority of which ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), La Femme qui marche. Conçue en 1932-36, épreuve fondue en 1955. Sold for: $28,419,297. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
PARIS.- For 16 days, from 8 to 23 June 2022, Hubert de Givenchy's exceptional collection made le goût français and Paris shine throughout the world. This sale is a beautiful tribute to an exceptional collector who faithfully accompanied Christie's France for 25 years. With 1229 lots, 6 days of pre-sale exhibition, 10,000 visitors, 6 auctions, more than 30 hours of live auctioneering, conducted by 6 auctioneers, more than a million people connected on Christie's social networks for the opening sale on 14 June, this sale will be always remembered as a milestone, not only in Christies history. Worldwide participation: bidders from 48 countries and buyers from 34 countries Geographical breakdown by buyers: 68% from EMEA, 27% AMERICAS and 5% APAC. ... More |
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| Alchemy Gallery opens an exhibition of works by three dynamic painters | | The Museum of Craft and Design opens the first mid-career survey of German artist Iris Eichenberg | | Meriem Bennani's first-ever public sculpture opens on the High Line | 
Christina Allan, Blues Cruise, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alchemy Gallery is presenting the vibrant, introspective works of three dynamic painters: Heather Benjamin, Christina Allan and Kelly Shami. Titled Fem, this revelatory group exhibition showcases the three artists distinct, yet complementary artistic styles: each canvas bearing its own unique, striking subject created with layers of paint and symbolism - bright, bold palettes of color that provide a visceral allure, while offering a glimpse into the various life experiences of each of these incredible artists. Each of these artists have developed their own fierce and specific aesthetic that I think really challenges any traditional notion of what "female painters" have ever been, explains Alchemy Gallerys co-founder, Jess de la Hunty. They are each determined, both in their artistic prowess and in the savviness with which they conduct their business; they are utterly dedicated to their practice ... More | | 
Iris Eichenberg, Brooch No. 2 from the New Rooms series, 2008. Wood, copper, enamel, brass, embroidery, 5 x 3 x 1 inches (12.7 x 7.6 x 5 cm) Collection of Catherine Rose, Dallas, Texas. Photo courtesy of the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design is presenting Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Failthe first mid-career survey of German artist Iris Eichenberg whose work addresses relevant issues such as identity, gender, and Heimata German word denoting the personal happiness and inner peace found upon reaching a safe haven. Where Words Fail is on view from June 25 to October 30, 2022. Having lived in Germany, the Netherlands, and now the United States, artist and educator Iris Eichenberg brings a critical international perspective to her jewelry and metalwork. Guest curated by Davira S. Taragin, Where Words Fail is divided into four themed sections: Place, Self, Place & Self, and Community, each pulling ... More | | 
"Windy" by Meriem Bennani, co-commissioned by High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary. Image courtesy of the artist, High Line and Audemars Piguet.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Meriem Bennanis first public sculpture, Windy (2022), opened this week on the High Line, kicking off the summer season of High Line Arts program. Co-commissioned by High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, Windy is installed on the High Line at 24th Street and will remain on view through May 2023. Bennanis project marks the first time High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary are co-curating and commissioning a public sculpture. The curators from High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary worked closely together with Bennani and the High Line Arts expert team of fabricators to bring this ambitious artwork to life. Windy presents a new direction for Bennanis practice. The artwork translates her command of film and animation into a kinetic 3-D ... More |
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 Anna Laudel Bodrum opens Fırat Neziroğlu's solo exhibition: "The Sea Inside Me"BODRUM.- Anna Laudel Bodrum presents Fırat Neziroğlus solo exhibition of his brand new works, titled The Sea Inside of Me between 18 June - 31 July at ZAI Yaşam. Fırat Neziroğlu transforms the traditional weaving form, which is one of the oldest arts known in Anatolia, into a unique contemporary weaving technique. Neziroğlu gives a different perspective to the classical weaving tradition by using the fishline for the first time, and he is widely noticed for this patented special weaving technique in contemporary art. The Sea Inside of Me includes a selection of artworks that will be exclusively showcased at Anna Laudel Bodrum. The artist presents the four large carpet works referring to the first known Turkish carpet which came out of the Pazırık kurgan, the Turkish Knot. In addition to these four carpets with softened corners and flowing fish patterns, the ... More  New publication inspired by "Cocktails with a Curator"NEW YORK, NY.- Based on the critically acclaimed video series of the same name, the new publication Cocktails with a Curator presents engaging histories of works of art at The Frick Collection paired with creatively inspired drinks. The book, to be released in the fall of 2022, offers a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York museum. A Webby Award honoree (the Oscars of the Internet), the Fricks weekly YouTube program began as a means to stay connected with the public during the pandemic shutdown. It quickly became a global phenomenon, much talked about within and beyond the art world, accumulating more than 1.8 million views over some sixty-five thought-provoking and varied episodes. Each video, and correspondingly each chapter of the book, presents ... More  Buck Ellison's Great White SocietyNEW YORK, NY.- Their beery, blue blood inhibition hangs in the periwinkle dusk. The photograph shows the two DeVos brothers, scions of the Amway multilevel marketing empire, finishing a game of golf with their dad. Two men crouch over a short putt. One nurses a can of low-cal Michelob Ultra. The third stands behind them, his stance strong, his back turned to the camera and to us, draining his bladder in a stream as straight as a titanium shaft. They seem firm and composed, in the flower of youth. And the fourth figure, the caddy saddled with the golf bag in the Everglades heat who is he? Hes everyone else. He wants to be them, and maybe, if he tugs hard enough on his bootstraps, he will be. Buck Ellisons preppy tableau, Dick, Dan, Doug, The Everglades Club, Palm Beach, Florida, 1990, from 2019, seems ... More  Ordet opens an exhibition by Lorenza Longhi and Megan MarrinMILAN.- Ordet opened CHARIVARI (uproar in medieval French), an exhibition by Lorenza Longhi and Megan Marrin, named after the experimental, avant-garde New York fashion store that, following decades of commercial and critical success, filed for bankruptcy and was wound down in 1998.
The show reflects shared interests and attitudes that inform the work of the two artists: DIY production and staging methods; a predilection for repurposing and combining different materials and imageries; and a keen interest in the material and social history of taste and in retail culture and architecture vis-à -vis the history of art installations and exhibitions. While in residency in New York, Longhi found a 1917 catalog of templates for store sign design. These designs were stenciled and silkscreened onto mostly out-of-stock ... More  New drone footage and film reveal the immense scale and ambition of the restoration at the Science and Industry MuseumMANCHESTER.- The Science and Industry Museum has revealed new footage to showcase the scale and ambition of its seven-acre restoration programme, being delivered while the museum remains open to visitors. The multi-million-pound restoration programme is underway to carry out critical restoration work and reveal new spaces and perspectives for all visitors to enjoy, play and learn in. The museum explores how ideas can change the worldfrom the industrial revolution to today and beyond. Located at the site of the worlds first intercity railway, the museum is of significant heritage interest, with several grade I and grade II listed buildings occupying its seven-acre, city-centre site. It is located ... More  Exhibition explores connections between artists across time, place and mediaCOPENHAGEN.- Fluid Mexican onyx, manipulated digital prints and text-based works scaled to match the urban space intertwine in this exhibition featuring three renowned and internationally acclaimed artistsKirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weinereach of whom has made their unique contribution to defining what we understand as contemporary art. Gogo is the second exhibition in the series Elective Affinities, exploring connections between artists across time, place and media. Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art has invited sculptor Kirsten Ortwed, who will be exhibiting a wide selection of her works from 1990 to the present day, with a primary focus on sculptures and installations from recent years. Ortwed brings with her German artist Rosemarie Trockel and American artist Lawrence Weiner, both ... More  New outdoor sculpture by Ivan Toth Depeña, embraces the intersection of art and architectureCHARLOTTE, NC.- AURUM, an outdoor sculpture by artist Ivan Toth Depeña, is the centerpiece of Vantage South End, a just-completed mixed-use office, restaurant and retail destination and public park developed by the Spectrum Companies. Evoking themes of nature and shelter, the shade-giving sculpture includes six, 16-foot-wide aluminum composite canopies on 18-foot-high supports that complement the cantilevered and angular lines of Vantage South Ends architecture. AURUM takes its design cues from the site and from the areas history. Inspired by the geometric facets of the gold nuggets discovered in the 1800s in the South Ends gold district, Depeña has created an immersive experience with light and shadows cast from the sculptures faceted polygonal intersections. Depeñas ethereal responses to nature, geometry and light ... More  Mitchell Fine Art opens 'Important Aboriginal Art #1' exhibitionBRISBANE.- A collection of exceptional Aboriginal paintings by some of Australias foremost Indigenous artists feature in the exhibition Important Aboriginal Art #1, showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from June 21st. Australian Aboriginal art is very diverse and stems from a culture that can be traced back thousands of years. What once would have been drawn in the sand, onto the body or on rock walls is now portrayed in paintings. When contemporary Aboriginal art gained momentum during the 1970s and 1980s, this garnered both national and international interest and acclaim. Generally untrained in the visual arts, the artists were painting stories of cultural and history that radiated an energy and power which captivated viewers. The first in a series of exhibitions in this theme, this collection of artworks features predominantly ... More  Kunsthaus Hamburg presents 'Formafantasma: Seeing the Wood for the Trees'HAMBURG.- Wood is not just dead fibre. Inscribed in every tree is a chapter of history of the earths climate. Trees register the slightest change in the environment and also record what humans do on earth. But ever since we have declared the forest as a commodity, we tend to neglect the fact that trees not only provide fuel and building material, but indeed form the fundamental basis of our atmosphere. The exhibition Seeing the Wood for the Trees at Kunsthaus Hamburg features three components of the extensive research project Cambio by the Italian design duo Formafantasma. In the form of film-based visual essays, they trace the development and regulation of the global timber industry that emerged in the nineteenth century, especially in colonized regions. Alongside the prevailing perception of nature as a raw material and commodity, ... More  Three theaters, three plays, one cast, all at onceSHEFFIELD.- Visitors to Tudor Square in the center of this northern English city might spot some unusual figures there now: a woman sprinting through in a neon boilersuit, or a tutu, or a man running with a box of scissors. And if they look like theyre in a hurry to get somewhere, thats because they are. These are actors, and they have an entrance to make on a different stage from the one they just left. Rock/Paper/Scissors, running through Saturday, is a triptych of plays designed to be performed by one cast, at the same time, in three different theaters. Programmed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sheffields Crucible Theater, the trilogy unfolds on that playhouses 980-seater main stage, a smaller studio below and across the square at the Victorian-era Lyceum. The projects logistics are mind-boggling. The 14 ... More  MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome opens Eva Barto's Sharp SmileROME.- Sharp Smile is an exhibition project conceived for MACRO by artist Eva Barto (1987) to unfold with and in contrast to its counterpart in Paris, the show Weak Tongue at Le Plateau Frac île-de-France. Both exhibitions, which take place one after the other, continue and expand Bartos research into the relationships that govern the codes of property and production, and in particular into the legal and economic infrastructures that regulate liaisons of philanthropy and patronage in the contemporary artworld. Weak Tongue focuses on the ambiguities of omissionon the manipulations, interpretations, and deviations of rules and of laws, which exist to protect both those who make and those who circumvent them. Sharp Smile, on the other hand, discloses the very mechanisms concealed by the Parisian exhibition by implementing ... More  Apple-1 computer sold for $468,750 at Remarkable Rarities auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A fully functioning Apple-1 computer sold for $468,750 during the Remarkable Rarities live auction event by Boston-based RR Auction. This Apple-1 was one of the first publicly auctioned, sold in April 2002 at the Vintage Computer Festival in California. It was purchased by Roger Wagner, a personal computing pioneer who authored the first book on assembly-language programming for the Apple II. He is a longtime friend of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who said: 'Roger Wagner didn't just read the first book on programming the Apple computerhe wrote it.' The Apple-1 was originally conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists. Their initial market was Palo Alto's Homebrew Computer Club. Wozniak alone ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Philip Guston was born June 27, 1913. Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In this image: Philip Guston, "Untitled", (book, ball and shoe), 1971. Oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.5 cm., 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. (T004167) ©The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
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