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Katie Pell, Candy Dryer, 2006. Electric dryer with automotive paint, upholstery, and found objects. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Guillermo Nicolas and Jim Foster, 2021.17.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- On view at the start of Womens History Month at the McNay Art Museum, Womanish: Audacious, Courageous, Willful Art presents works of art by women that were acquired for the Museums permanent collection over the last dozen years. On view through July 2, 2023, visitors will enjoy artwork by regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized artists. Several works of art are on view for the first time at the McNay, including Kara Walkers Testimony and Agnes Martins On a Clear Day, among others. The exhibition also highlights the talent within San Antonios community through works by Leigh Anne Lester, Kelly OConnor, Margaret Mitchell, Antonia Padilla, Katie Pell, Eva Marengo Sanchez, Ethel Shipton, and Liz Ward. The exhibition is organized by universal themes of empowerment, nature, science, culture, history, and identity. Inspired by Alice Walkers In Search of Our Mothers ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A selection of paintings owned by Philip Sassoon, who became a member of the British Parliament, and his cousin Mozelle Sassoon, at the Jewish Museum in New York, March 1, 2023. The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
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| First exhibition to focus on Berenice Abbott's 1929 photographic album of New York City opens at The Met | | Exhibition reveals the fascinating story of a remarkable Jewish family | | The Museum of Modern Art opens 'Signals: How Video Transformed the World' | 
Berenice Abbott (American, 18981991). Album Page 1: Financial District, Broadway and Wall Street Vicinity, Manhattan, 1929. Gelatin silver prints, 10 à 13 in. (25.4 à 33 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Emanuel Gerard, 1984. © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berenice Abbotts New York Album, 1929 presents selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (18981991), shedding light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on 32 pages, the album is a kind of photographic sketchbook that offers a rare glimpse of an artists mind at work. In addition to some 25 framed album pages, the exhibition features photographs from The Met collection of Paris streets by Eugène Atget, whose archive Abbott purchased and promoted; views of New York by her contemporaries Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White; and selections from Abbotts grand documentary project, Changing New York (193539). "Berenice Abbott's groundbreaking work in photography continues to inspire and captivate ... More | | 
Cartier, founded in Paris, 1867. Desk clock, c. 1932, presented to Queen Mary on her birthday by Sir Philip Sassoon, 26 May 1932. Gold with lapis lazuli, nephrite, mother-of-pearl, enamel, diamonds, and sapphires; 3 3/4in. (9.5 cm). Lent by His Majesty King Charles III. Photo: Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents The Sassoons, an exhibition that reveals the fascinating story of a remarkable Jewish family, highlighting their pioneering role in trade, art collecting, architectural patronage, and civic engagement from the early 19th century through World War II. On view from March 3 through August 13, 2023, the exhibition follows four generations from Iraq to India, China, and England, featuring a rich selection of works collected by family members over time. Over 120 workspaintings, Chinese art, illuminated manuscripts, and Judaicaamassed by Sassoon family members and borrowed from numerous private and public collections are on view. Highlights include Hebrew manuscripts from as early as the 12th century, many lavishly decorated; Chinese art and ivory carvings; rare Jewish ceremonial art; and Western masterpieces ... More | | 
Tiffany Sia. Never Rest / Unrest. 2020. High-definition video (color, sound). 29 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2022 Tiffany Sia.
NEW YORK, NY.- Offering a timely examination of video, art, and the public sphere, The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Signals: How Video Transformed the World, a major exhibition that is on view in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions from March 5 through July 8, 2023. Through a diverse range of more than 70 works, drawn primarily from MoMAs collection, Signals examines the ways in which artists have both championed and questioned video as an agent of social changefrom televised revolution to electronic democracy. The presentation positions video not as a traditional medium but as a transformational media network, one that has fundamentally altered the world. Signals is organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, and Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Signals investigates the ways in which artists such as John Akomfrah and Black Audio Film Co ... More |
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| Your pristine Hermès bag, to some, looks tacky | | Radiant Spectrum by Amy Lincoln now open at Sperone Westwater | | Exhibition at The Met Cloisters explores intersection of art and class in early Tudor England | 
As a growing resale market has made Hermès bags available to more people, the image that the bags convey, to some, depends on their condition: the more pristine the bag, the more gauche its wearer seems. (Ryan Reineck via The New York Times)
by Marisa Meltzer
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenny Walton had coveted an Hermès bag for years before finally buying one last fall. Theyre never going to go out of style, Walton, 33, offered as a reason she wanted to own one of the brands handbags, which can cost four, five, even six figures. Hermès bags include the Kelly and its more famous sister, the Birkin, both of which have long been regarded as symbols of status. Particularly the Birkin, which for decades had a reasonable claim to the title of rarest handbag in the world. That reputation, for the most part, has not changed. But as a growing resale market has made Hermès bags available to more people reality TV stars, say, or those whose wealth does not span generations the image that the bags convey, according to some, depends on their ... More | | 
Clouds, Rays & Waves (Green, Violet, Blue), 2022. Acrylic on panel, 60 x 84 x 2 inches (152,4 x 213,4 x 5,1 cm). SW 23010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater opened Radiant Spectrum, Amy Lincolns new series of 12 paintings, her second solo show at the gallery, which will continue through April 22nd, 2023. These large-scale seascapes and landscapes reference atmospheric elementsair, water, light and cloudsand engage concepts of light reflection and refraction. Working in a more expansive format, Lincoln continues her exploration of the cosmos. Lincoln covers each of her wood panels with acrylic paint in gradations of colors from light to dark to develop a precise perspective and imply the illusion of space. Sun and Moon Spectrum, the centerpiece of the exhibition, measures over 11 feet wide, her largest seascape to date. This painting moves sequentially through the colors of rainbow, starting at yellow, then to orange, red, magenta, purple and blue, says Lincoln. Bands of color progress from and divide the two glowing orbs of s ... More | | 
Architectural Support with a Peasant Holding a Club, 15241549. Made in Exeter (by French woodworkers), England. French. Oak, 83 x 9 1/2 x 12 in., 111 lb. (211 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm, 50.3 kg). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1974 (1974.295.3)
NEW YORK, NY.- For the emerging middle class in early Tudor England, the home served as both an assertion of social position and a form of self-expression. Opening March 6, 2023, at The Met Cloisters, Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town explores this idea by looking at the house and tastes of one merchant in 16th-century Exeter. Featuring more than 50 workstextiles, prints, furnishings, and decorative arts objectsall from The Met collection, this exhibition offers a focused study of the intersection of art and class in an English city at its most prosperous moment. The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund. Henry Hamlyn, a two-time mayor and wealthy cloth merchant, was one of Exeters most prominent citizens. The home he commissioned in the early 16th ... More |
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| Bonhams announces New York Asia Week sale highlights for March 2023 | | Jan Mot announces its new gallery director | | My father's death, an envelope of cash, a legacy in music | 
An important thangka of (Akshobhya) Shakyamuni Buddha from 12th century Tibet, estimate available on request. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- During Asia Week in New York this March, Bonhams will present important single owner collections and works of art that hail from across the continent and span centuries. The sales will include J. J. Lally & Co.: Fine Chinese Works of Art and The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture on March 20, Chinese Works of Art and Paintings on March 20 and 21, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from American Collections, and Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art on March 21, and Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art on March 22. Building upon the tremendous success of dealer collections brought to market by Bonhams Asian Art department, mostly recently showcased with Cohen & Cohen, we are excited to present a strong slate of notable collections during Asia Week, commented Dessa Goddard, VP and US Head of Asian Art and Chair of Asia Week New York. Combined with the buoyancy of the ... More | | 
Until recently director of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Deurle), Antony has occupied curatorial positions in institutions including M HKA (Antwerp), Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp), Raven Row (London), and Tate Liverpool. Photo: Clare Noonan / © Jan Mot.
BRUSSELS.- Jan Mot announced the appointment of Antony Hudek as its new gallery director. Antony joins the founding director, Jan Mot, and the gallerys team at an exciting juncture. Now in its 27th year, Jan Mot continues to clear new paths for the international artists it represents, who, despite their diversity, have in common a questioning of arts role in society. Antony will work closely with the gallerys artists, as well as institutions and collectors, in support of Jan Mots abiding aim of bringing complex art to broader attention. Until recently director of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Deurle), Antony has occupied curatorial positions in institutions including M HKA (Antwerp), Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp), Raven Row (London), and Tate Liverpool. He was formerly director of the postgraduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK School of Arts (Ghent), and ... More | | 
The pianist Adam Tendler at home in Brooklyn, Feb. 22, 2023. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
by Adam Tendler
NEW YORK, NY.- The first time a photo of me appeared in The New York Times, my father sent a thumbs-up emoji. So my sister told me a month later at his burial. Shed sent him an article over Facebook. I didnt know he saw it, or that he knew about the piano recital the article covered. At the time of his death, we saw each other in person maybe once a year, during the holidays, and talked three times over the phone his birthday, my birthday, Fathers Day though there had been times in recent years when I didnt know his phone number or email address. Both changed unpredictably. Still, our interactions were always warm, if brief. We werent estranged but seemed to lack the impulse to stay in touch; I often wondered if that was the one thing we had in common. I found it comforting. So, when I received a call at home in Brooklyn from my stepmother, telling me hed died in their living room in New Hampshire, I felt mostly confused, as if there ... More |
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| Were these photographs voyeurism, or art? | | Aria Dean Abattoir, U.S.A.! now on view at the Renaissance Society | | 'Andrea Branzi: Contemporary DNA' on view at Friedman Benda | 
Arne Svenson with his cat, Monkey, at home in TriBeCa, at the apartment window where he made the original photographs in The Neighbors, Feb. 6, 2023. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Arne Svensons photographic series The Neighbors was first exhibited in New York in 2013, the uproar overwhelmed the pictures. Press commentators got so riled up over how Svenson had used a telephoto lens to peer at the unaware people living across the street from his Tribeca building and published the images without their consent that it was hard to judge how the photographs measured up artistically. Svenson, a successful artist, had stumbled into the project after inheriting a large telephoto lens from a deceased friend who had used it to photograph birds. Planning to sell it, he thought it should be tested first. The lens was so heavy that he had to screw it into his tripod, and when he aimed at a wall in his apartment, the distance was too short for the focal length. A building had recently risen opposite his, in what had been a vacant lot. He ... More | | 
Aria Dean, Abattoir, U.S.A.!. Installation view, 2023. The Renaissance Society. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
CHICAGO, ILL.- Aria Dean is an artist and writer who has created a multi-platform body of work based in trenchant critiques of representational systems. Confounding binaries such as abstraction and figuration, individual and collective, Deans sculptures, installations, videos, and essays trouble received ideas of race, power, and form. Concerned with what art objects can do, and have done, for their producers and receivers, Dean tracks artistic innovations against an array of theoretical positions, from poststructuralism to Afropessimism, not just to parse the social and material bases of art but also to grasp its impact on the ontology of Blackness. Minimalism has proven especially fertile for Dean: insofar as minimalism evades the representational sphere almost entirely, she writes, pure play of forms and volumes and densitiesits like having an amusement park all to myself, with the ... More | | 
Installation view. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Andrea Branzi. Photo: Timothy Doyon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda opened Contemporary DNA, seminal Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzis third solo exhibition with the gallery. An exemplary social thinker and educator, Branzi has been a fundamental voice in post-war and contemporary architecture and design, in Italy and abroad, since the mid 1960s. A culmination of his intuitive processes of turning research into physical form, this comprehensive and far-reaching exhibition unveils three new bodies of work: Roots, Germinal Seats, and Buildings. Presciently taking stock of our time, these works are composed of exceptions and variations throughout Andrea Branzis artistic evolution. Throughout his influential career, Branzi maintained a fascination with human and object interactions, exploring them through radical and poetic interpretations of the domestic space. Understanding objects as living presences in the human habitat allowed Branzi to establish complex ... More |
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 A fresh look at a pioneering Black voice of Revolutionary AmericaNEW YORK, NY.- Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called On Being Brought From Africa to America, which began with praise for the mercy that brought her from my Pagan land into Christian redemption. The poem once called the most reviled poem in African American literature has been hard for many to take, including the generations of Black poets who have claimed Wheatley as a foremother. So when historian David Waldstreicher used to teach it to undergraduates, he would read it in two different voices. One was an exaggerated, beseeching voice Oh, thank God I escaped Africa! he recalled recently. The other was ironic and challenging and, in his view, true to the subversive, anti-slavery thinking behind Wheatleys decorous neoclassical couplets. By ... More  Jerrold Schecter, who procured Khrushchev's memoirs, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Jerrold Schecter, a journalist who in the late 1960s helped smuggle to the West the revelatory memoirs of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the first published account by a Soviet leader of goings-on inside the Kremlin, died Feb. 6 at his home in Washington. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his son Barnet Schecter. Jerrold Schecter, who went on to become an author and a foreign policy adviser in the Carter administration, was Time magazines Moscow bureau chief when he played a pivotal role in the publication of what became three volumes of reminiscences and reflections by Khrushchev. Khrushchev, who was ousted in 1964 and consigned to a compound near Moscow, covertly recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with the assistance of his son Sergei. In Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations ... More  Edward Burtynsky's powerful new photography series on view in two solo gallery showsNEW YORK, NY.- Edward Burtynskys powerful new photography series African Studies, a seven-year project spanning ten countries, is having its New York premiere with two solo gallery exhibitions this March. The exhibitions are on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery from March 2 through April 1 at 542 West 26th Street and at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 4 through April 22 at 41 East 57th Street. African Studies is the subject of a 208-page monograph of the same title newly published by Steidl (2023). Since the early 1980s, Edward Burtynsky has been photographing industrial landscapes across the globe, documenting in remarkable detail the human imprint on the planet through terraforming, extraction, urbanization and deforestation. For this project, he focused on Sub- Saharan Africa, traveling to Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, ... More  Inès di Folco's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Laurel GitlenNEW YORK, NY.- Laurel Gitlen announces the last dream before birth, Inès di Folcos first solo exhibition in New York on view March 2, 2023 through April 8th, 2023. Volcanic reds and acid lacquers bubble up from the surface of Di Folcos paintings with a fiery energy that is otherworldly, divinely maternal, and alternatively winsome and subversive. Dragons, sea goddesses and the volatile landscape of Venus meet in these canvases, where Di Folcos transcontinental background and her interrelation between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic reshape classical mythologies, historical painting and folkloric themes. Di Folco imposes a composite, matrilineal narrative on classical allegories in painting, producing works that are contradictory in both form and content, abetted by Di Folcos unorthodox use of hand-mixed pigments, waxes and reflective ... More  Julia Stoschek Foundation augments exhibition with new worksDUSSELDORF.- WORLDBUILDING is the first exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Foundation to last for eighteen months. Central to the concept of the exhibition, which has been on view since June 2022, is to constantly augment it with new works. The focus of the ongoing investigation is the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. In the words of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, WORLDBUILDING is an evolutive notion of what an exhibition can be. Like many games themselves, the exhibition started as one version of itself, and through feedback, our researchwhich includes studio visits with artists on all continentsit grows and changes into an altered and expanded version. Following Koo Jeong As CHAMNAWANA (2018), the first piece to be integrated into the exhibition, works by Ericka Beckman, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, ... More  AGO announces design of $100 million expansion and $35 million lead giftTORONTO.- Today, the Art Gallery of Ontario and its architectural partners Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects and Two Row Architect, reveal initial designs for the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, the museums expansion project. The addition will increase the museums gallery space by 40,000 square feet, with at least 13 new galleries across five floors - increasing the AGOs total space available to display art by 30%. Launching this project is a monumental lead gift of $35 million from Dani Reiss. This generous donation is among the largest gifts in the AGOs history. Dani is the Chairman and CEO of Canada Goose, member of the Order of Canada and an art collector. The size and timing of this gift will help the AGO move forward this expansion with confidence. From the exterior, the expansion will quietly complement the AGOs existing ... More  Carved and painted carousel giraffe is the expected headliner in Neue Auction's 'Neue to You' auctionBEACHWOOD, OH.- Neue Auctions 342-lot, online-only Neue to You Estate Fine Art and Antiques auction on Saturday, March 11th, starting at 12 oclock noon Eastern time, is filled with fine art, antiques, Mid-Century Modern, Modern Art, sterling, bronzes, decorative arts, printwork, maps, fine furniture, carpets and more, from prominent estates and collections. The sales expected top lot is an unusual but rare and visually striking piece: a carved and painted carousel giraffe, crafted circa 1910 by Gustav and William Dentzel. The giraffe, professionally restored, stands 64 ½ inches tall and features inset glass eyes and is saddle carved with eagles heads and green and red painted saddle details (est. $5,000-$10,000). An oil on canvas painting by Pittsburgh native artist Joseph Ryan Woodwell (1843-1911), titled Magnolia, Massachusetts, Coastline ... More  Sculptures in 'Poor Things' seeks to make room for some new thinking at FruitmarketEDINBURGH.- Poor Things is an exhibition that has come out of conversations about art and social class that artists Emma Hart and Dean Kenning have had together as friends, and with the Fruitmarket, a free public space for art. The exhibition features sculptures from a cross-generational selection of artists from all around the UK. It is hoped it will ignite conversations about class through sculpture. Class is a social relation of power defined by inequality and exploitation. Following French sociologist and public intellectual Pierre Bourdieu, both Hart and Kenning understand class and the reproduction of class hierarchies not only in terms of economic capital, but social and cultural capital: artists from lower class backgrounds may be poor not only in terms of money, but also time, space, know-how, confidence, availability and contacts. At the same ... More  Review: Holding hands with the homeless, in 'Love'NEW YORK, NY.- Whether with a gun, a mastermind or a monster, most thrillers thrill by invoking the specter of death: Whos going to die and how? But Love, which opened Tuesday at the Park Avenue Armory, keeps the audience ears-up anxious for 90 minutes without recourse to any of that. Its most alarming prop is a coffee cup, accidentally purloined, and what passes for a mastermind is a housing bureaucracy thats evil only in its inefficiency. No one dies, yet the emotional threat level is off the charts and peculiarly personal. Call it a moral thriller: The monster is us. And make no mistake, Love, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, implicates its audience. Quite literally in some cases: About 75 of the 650 seats in the Armorys vast Drill Hall are placed onstage with the set, which represents the dingy common room of a temporary ... More  Yo-Yo Ma makes his encore a call for peace, with a nod to CasalsNEW YORK, NY.- After a rousing performance of Edward Elgars Cello Concerto with the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday, celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma returned to the stage for an encore. But rather than rush into a familiar crowd-pleaser, Ma began speaking from the stage of David Geffen Hall to the sold-out crowd. He explained the work he would play: Song of the Birds, a Catalonian folk song that was a favorite of eminent cellist Pablo Casals, who performed it as a call for peace and to evoke his native Catalonia, which he had fled when he went into exile after the Spanish Civil War. Ladies and gentlemen, the Elgar Cello Concerto was written in 1919, right after the Great War the Great War that we said would never happen again, Ma told the audience of about 2,200 people, speaking without a microphone. Then he spoke of Casals ... More  Karin Sander and Philip Ursprung to represent Switzerland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, VeniceREYKJAVÃK.- i8 Gallery announced that Karin Sander, together with Philip Ursprung, will represent Switzerland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. The official opening of the Swiss pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale di Venezia will take place on Thursday, 18 May 2023, at 2:45 pm. The Biennale will open to the public on 20 May and run until 26 November 2023. Two national pavilions and a wall that connects, as well as separates, are the focus of Karin Sander and Philip Ursprungs project Neighbours for the Biennale Architettura 2023. By turning the architecture itself into the exhibit, the artist and the architecture historian introduce the audience ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. In this image: A portrait painting (ca. 1544) of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra hangs on the wall at the Michelangelo exhibit titled 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 in New York City.
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