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William Baziotes (American, 1912 1963), untitled (abstraction), 1945. Ink and watercolor, 11 9/16 Ã 14 1/16 inches. Promised gift of Michael T. Ricker.
ATHENS, TENN.- Museums and scholars revisit the story of American modernism regularly, but few exhibitions have examined modernist works on paper. Graphic Eloquence: American Modernism on Paper from the Collection of Michael T. Ricker, on view from March 5 to September 4, 2022, at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, hopes to change that conversation. The exhibition includes approximately 150 works by 70 artists, both well known and overlooked, and is accompanied by a catalogue published by the museum. Modernism reflected global shifts in thought and expression, partially as a result of the industrial revolution. The Armory Show of 1913, which opened in New York, is generally accepted as the starting point of American modernism. Although few American artists exhibited work there, its influence was wide reaching, and artists who saw the show soon began experimenting with abstract form and new subject matter in r ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From March 6 through August 14, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Joan Mitchell, the long-awaited retrospective of the internationally renowned artist who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York, then spent nearly four decades in France creating breathtaking abstract paintings that evoke landscapes, memories, poetry, and music.
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| Fossil reveals secrets of one of nature's most mysterious reptiles | | The Museo Nacional del Prado is presenting 'Annibale Carracci. The frescoes from the Herrera Chapel' | | SFMOMA announces transformative bequest from the Estate of Norah and Norman Stone | 
The fossilized skeleton, found in northern Arizona, of Navajosphenodon sani, some 190 million years old and one of the earliest known relatives of the modern tuatara.Credit...Tiago Simões, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University and Museum of Northern Arizona.
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- New Zealands tuataras look like somber iguanas. But these spiny reptiles are not actually lizards. Instead, they are the last remnant of a mysterious and ancient order of reptiles known as the Rhynchocephalians that mostly vanished after their heyday in the Jurassic period. And they truly are the oddballs of the reptile family. Tuataras can live for more than a century, inhabit chilly climates and are able to slide their jaws back and forth to shear through insects, seabirds and each other. They even possess a rudimentary third eye below the scales on the top of their heads that may help them track the sun. These bizarre traits make tuatara an evolutionary enigma, and a spotty fossil record of its long-lost kin has confounded paleontologists. Likely outcompeted ... More | | 
Saint Lawrence ANNIBALE CARRACCI Mural painting transferred to canvas 152.2 x 104 cm 1604-5 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- In the early years of the 17th century Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 1560 - Rome, 1609) accepted the commission from Juan EnrÃquez de Herrera to paint frescoes in his family chapel in San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. Carracci devised the entire scheme and painted some of the frescoes prior to 1605 when he became seriously ill, which obliged him to cease working on the project and entrust the execution of the paintings to Francesco Albani. Despite the fact that this was the most important commission which Carracci received in the final phase of his career, these frescoes - which depict scenes from the life of Saint Didacus of Alcalá, an Andalusian Franciscan who died in 1463 - are almost unknown to the general public in their entirety, partly due to the fact that they were separated from each other. Following the removal of the frescoes from the chapel walls due to the deterioration of the church, of the 19 surviving fragments only 16 reached Spain (7 are in the Museo Nacional del Prad ... More | | 
Joseph Beuys, 13 November 1971, 1971; The Estate of Norah and Norman Stone; © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Germany; photo: Katherine Du Tiel, courtesy SFMOMA.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today announced the landmark gift of nearly 350 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, design objects and media art works from the Estate of Norah and Norman Stone. A monumentally important collection of cutting-edge modern and contemporary art, the Stones gift includes works by a diverse and exceptional range of artists including Diane Arbus, Hans Bellmer, Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Bruce Nauman, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, Ai Wei Wei and Danh Vo, among many others. Included in the gift is an over $10 million unrestricted bequest, which will establish The Norah and Norman Stone Fund for Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, dedicated to supporting future exhibitions and collection displays at SFMOMA. The significant funding and major group of works will dramatically expand SFMOMAs holdings ... More |
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| 'Mockingbird' made her a child star. Now she's in the Broadway tour. | | Joan Mitchell opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art | | Landmark exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein's early career at Columbus Museum of Art | 
The actress Mary Badham at Gibney Studios in New York, Feb. 22, 2022. Six decades after she played Scout in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, Badham takes on the role of Scouts mean and morphine-addicted neighbor in the plays national tour. Tonje Thilesen/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Badham describes herself as just a retired old lady who likes to be in her garden and play with her grandkids. But in 1962 she was a child star, captivating the nation with her Oscar-nominated portrayal of Scout, daughter of Atticus Finch, in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. Now, six decades and many careers later, she is helping to dramatize the story once again, this time from a different vantage point. Badham, who has not previously worked as a stage actor, is now in rehearsals for a national tour of the Mockingbird Broadway production in which she will play Mrs. Dubose, Scouts mean, and morphine-addicted, neighbor. Im going full circle, Badham said in an ... More | | 
Joan Mitchell. Sans Pierre. 1969. Collection of The Long View Legacy LLC. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
BALTIMORE, MD.- From March 6 through August 14, the Baltimore Museum of Art presents Joan Mitchell, the long-awaited retrospective of the internationally renowned artist who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York, then spent nearly four decades in France creating breathtaking abstract paintings that evoke landscapes, memories, poetry, and music. This comprehensive exhibition features 70 works spanning the artists career, including rarely seen early paintings and drawings, vibrant gestural paintings that established her reputation in New York, and enormous multi-panel masterpieces from her later years that immerse viewers with their symphonic color. Numerous loans from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe include works that have not been shown publicly in decades and never in a single exhibition. The BMAs presentation also includes many archival photographs, letters, poems ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Self-Portrait at an Easel, c. 19511952. Oil on canvas. Private collection. ⓒ Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The first major museum exhibition to explore the early work of Roy Lichtenstein, one the most celebrated American artists of the 20th century, is on view at the Columbus Museum of Art from March 5 through June 5, 2022. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 19481960 offers an in-depth view of the artists years in Columbus, Ohio, and includes approximately 90 works on loan from public and private collections in a range of media. With many works on public view for the first time, this unprecedented exhibition demonstrates the formal invention and provocative nature of Lichtensteins early work. Many people know Roy Lichtensteins work but may not be aware of his formative years in Ohio. Until this exhibition, almost no one had really seen this work all together, said Nannette Maciejunes, CMA executive director and CEO. This region helped shape Lichtensteins towering achievements in ... More |
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| Andrew Kreps Gallery now represents Oliver Lee Jackson | | New species of stegosaur is oldest discovered in Asia, and possibly the world | | Cleon Peterson's first solo show in New York opens at albertz benda | 
Oliver Lee Jackson, No. 1, 2020 (6.14.20), 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced the representation of Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935, St. Louis, Missouri). The gallery will present its first exhibition with the artist at the gallery's 22 Cortlandt Alley location, opening March 25. In a career spanning decades, Oliver Lee Jackson has developed a singular body of work, creating complex and layered images in which suggestions of the figure emerge from abstract fields of vivid color. Synthesizing references that span from Rennaissance painting to Modernism, and also include Jackson's own studies of American Jazz and African cultures, his works eschew a single narrative or reading. Instead, each work becomes an invitation for close looking, encouraging the viewer to form their own emotional response, stating that his work is "for anybodys eyes. any eyes will do. Oliver Lee Jackson lives and works in Oakland. Jackson was associated with the Black Artists Group, which was fo ... More | | 
Bashanosaurus primitivus - the newest and oldest species of stegosaur in Asia. Image courtesy: Banana Art Studio.
LONDON.- A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world, according to research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Remains of the stegosaur, which included bones from the back, shoulder, thigh, feet, and ribs, as well as several armor plates, date to the Bajocian stage of the Middle Jurassic periodmuch earlier than most known stegosaurs. A team from the Chongqing Bureau of Geological and Mineral Resource Exploration and Development in China and London's Natural History Museum named it Bashanosaurus primitivus"Bashan" in reference to the ancient name for the area of Chongqing in China where the dinosaur was found, and the Latin for 'first'primitivus. The new dinosaur, which roamed ... More | | 
Cleon Peterson: Mr. Sinister, March 3 April 2, 2022, albertz benda, New York. Photo: Thomas Mueller.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting Cleon Peterson: Mr. Sinister, the artist's first solo show in New York, on view from March 3 to April 2, 2022. In this exhibition, Peterson premieres a new series of allegorical paintings that investigate mechanisms of power, fantasy, and morality. Peterson's practice is rooted in his personal experiences with addiction, incarceration, social inequity, and stigmatization. He is known for his distinctive illustrative style in which stark, monochromatic figures appear entangled and attenuated, their bodies caught in moments of rage, brutality, and mercy. His depictions of violence are deployed as visual metaphors through which to examine conformity and submission in both the individual and society at large. These new acrylic paintings showcase an evocative symbolism rendered in Peterson's signature palette of red, grey, white, and black. Moving fluidly across Peterson's ... More |
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| 'Helen Mirra: du vent au vent' on view at Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne | | Nara Roesler announces the representation of Jonathas de Andrade | | Hockney, Hirst & Henry Moore among highlights of upcoming art sales at Dreweatts & Forum Auctions | 
Helen Mirra, Straw fold, 2011-2021. Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 2011. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Simon Vogel. © Helen Mirra.
ROCHECHOUART.- Rochechouart Museum is hosting the first major solo exhibition in France of works by the American artist Helen Mirra. Since the mid-1990s, Helen Mirra has built up a body of poetic works that combine elements related to landscape, mathematics and language. Running through them is a strong vein of oriental philosophy as well as the influence of writers, particularly Americans such as Henry David Thoreau or the philosopher John Dewey best known for advocating experience-led education. Helen Mirra has selected 30 works for her exhibition in Rochechouart, spanning a period from beginnings in the mid-1980s to the present day. They are specifically displayed in non-chronological order, emphasising especially her walks which she defines as an activity that is both humble and free. The exhibition title du vent au vent (from wind to wind) ... More | | 
Jonathas de Andrade, 2022. Photo: UHGO. Courtesy of the artist and Nara Roesler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió, 1982). De Andrade has been appointed by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, general curator of the last Sao Paulo Biennial, to represent Brazil in the 59th Venice Biennial, opening to the public in April 2022. The museum Estação Pinacoteca, in Sao Paulo, is also preparing a retrospective exhibition of the artist to take place in Fall, curated by Ana Maria Maia. Currently, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (Foam) is showcasing a solo exhibition by de Andrade curated by Hinde Haest, on view through May. De Andrades work is part of important institutional collections including the Musée national d'art moderne Centre Pompidou; in Paris; Tate Modern, in London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, in Madrid; Museum of Modern of Art (MoMA), in New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York; and Museu ... More | | 
Henry Moore, Mother & Child . © Courtesy of Dreweatts.
LONDON.- Forum Auctions will offer several exemplary works in its upcoming sale of Editions and Works on Paper 1500-2021 on Thursday 17th March 2022. A work by the ever-popular English artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965) titled Virtues comprises the complete set of eight laminated giclée prints, dating from 2021, notably with matching edition numbers. Virtues features eight cherry blossom prints, each named after one of the eight Virtues of Bushidō according to Nitobe Inazō: Honour, Mercy, Politeness, Control, Justice, Courage, Honesty and Loyalty. With a nod to Pointillism, Action Painting and Impressionism, the Cherry Blossoms symbolize the natural joy of spring. In colours and on aluminium composite panels, each is signed in pencil and with matched edition numbers from the respective editions of each work. Published by HENI Editions, the set carries an estimate of £80,000-£120,000. Another top highlight is a work ... More |
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 'Ellen Ornitz: Burnt Fossils' showcases vessels by Montana artist MISSOULA, MONT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents Ellen Ornitz: Burnt Fossils, a new exhibition of ceramic vessels. Ornitz is most well-known as a sculptor but has recently renewed her practice during the pandemic with this series of 25 ceramic vessels. Her palette is limited to the color of the clay and the influence of smoke during the primitive low-firing technique. The vessels are intended, as she says, to look unearthed, time-scoured and fossilized. This fascination carries over from her sculpture series, which were inspired by the exhumed bodies of Pompeii and Iron Age bog people from northern Europe, the details of their faces and clothing preserved by ash and peat tannins respectively. Ornitz is an avid gardener who enjoys working in the earth and her vessels often reveal the imprint of leaves and plants. MAMs mission to present ... More  Laverne coffee table tops Neue Auctions' Winter Fine Antiques & Art saleBEACHWOOD, OH.- A bronze coffee table by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, titled Eternal Forest, sold for $27,060, and a Soriana leather furniture seating group by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Cassina brought $15,990 in an online Winter Fine Antiques & Art auction held February 19th by Neue Auctions. They were the two top earners of the more than 300 lots that came up for bid. The LaVerne coffee table, 47 ½ inches in diameter, was cast with an allover tree pattern patinated in silver, and had a brass and green patina. It was raised on a shaped base and signed by LaVerne, the Mid-Century Modern designers. The Scarpa for Cassina furniture seating group comprised two lounge chairs and two side chairs, made from leather with stainless steel details. We had a fabulous auction of fine antiques and art, curated from local estates and collections, and many new record prices were hit all day long, said Cynthia Maciejewski of ... More  New commission by Jananne Al-Ani reflects on British-Iraqi relations through the prism of testimony and storytelling EASTBOURNE.- Jananne Al-Ani is a London-based, Iraqi-born artist working with photography, film and video. Her early work combines intimate recollections of absence and loss with more official accounts of historic events. In recent years her interest has shifted to the representation of landscapes marked by conflict, with a focus on the Middle Eastern, American, and British landscapes as a means to explore contemporary geopolitical tensions and the legacy of British power and influence globally. The artist presents an ambitious new moving image work at Towner Eastbourne and to coincide, curated an exhibition of works from Towners Collection further reflecting on the themes of the moving image piece. Both ... More  In Burundi, the drum is a revered symbol of unity. But only men can play.GITEGA.- An ensemble of about 30 men, balancing heavy instruments on their heads, walked in a solemn procession to a red-soil field, where the silence would soon be replaced by a sound essential to the cultural identity of Burundi: drumming. Led by an older man carrying a spear and a shield, the group's members formed a crescent, set down their drums and began to play for the gathered tourists, the thunderous music reverberating down a hill, several miles away from Burundis capital, Gitega. Drumming in Burundi is about history, said Oscar Nshimirimana, leader of the performers, the Royal Drummers of Burundi. It is about power. It is about freedom. But in Burundi, where the instrument has long figured prominently in politics, culture and economics, not everyone is free to play the drums. In 2017, Burundis president at the time, Pierre Nkurunziza, ... More  Exhibition of works by Siggi Hofer opens at Vienna's SecessionVIENNA.- In Still Life, Siggi Hofer has conceived an immersive installation in dialogue with the Secessions characteristic architecture: we enter a large tableau composed of numerous and diverse works that in many ways reflects the baffling complexity of our contemporary reality. Having come to look and moving about the room, we find ourselves cast as actors and co-creators of the exhibition; we need to get our bearings, make sense of the arrangement, tease out interconnections and meanings. Still Life builds directly on the earlier exhibition gift basket, in which the titular object served Hofer as a metaphor for his reflections on relationships, family, identity, and recollection. In the still life genre, the artist once again chooses a universally familiar trope. Even more than the gift basket, which complements the handsome gesture with a handsome ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot.
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