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Jeffrey Gibson, I AM YOUR RELATIVE, MOCA Toronto, 2022. Co-commissioned by MOCA and the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photos Toni Hafkenschied.
TORONTO.- What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, opened on Saturday, March 26, 2022. The Biennialâs free Exhibitions and Programs, presented across several sites throughout the 72-day event, remain on view through June 5, 2022. What Water Knows, The Land Remembers draws from polyphonic histories sedimented in and around Toronto, revealing entangled narratives and ecologies across time and space. This second edition of a two-part biennial extends and deepens concepts of relationality, envisioning an expansive form of kinshipâbetween curators, with artists and collaborators, and with the human and more-than-human. Exhibition and programming sites for the 2022 Biennial move inland from the shoreline of Lake Ontario, following the tributaries, above ground and hidden, which shape this place. More than 70 Canadian and international participants are being featured responding to and expanding on ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A arte Invernizzi gallery opened the exhibition The Critical Eye, which continues the series that began with The Musical Eye (2014) and continued with The Cinematic Eye (2016) and The Philosophical Eye (2018). On this occasion, the eye looks not only at the works themselves but also at the person who wishes to show them. The critical eye, of course, is that of the critic, who intends to show the works to others, pointing to their presence and assisting in their interpretation. But also the eye of the person who observes a work of art needs to be a critical eye, casting aside all the evident and accepted ideas that come with looking.
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| Putin says Tchaikovsky is being canceled. The Met Opera disagrees. | | The A arte Invernizzi gallery exhibits works by international contemporary artists | | IMMA presents What Does He Need? | 
Banners forming the Ukrainian flag are stretched across the travertine exterior of the Metropolitan Opera, bathed in blue and yellow floodlights, during a benefit concert in New York, Monday, March 14, 2022. Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- Opera, once divvied into local companies of singers mostly from the same country, blossomed with the advent of air travel into a fully international art form. French, German and Italian opera houses began to host artists from around the world. That has become easy to take for granted. But in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine a month ago, it seems remarkable almost heroic for the Metropolitan Opera to be putting on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin with a cast that is Russian, Ukrainian, American, French Armenian, Polish and Estonian. (And that is just the featured players.) The craft and care being put into this revival of one of Russias greatest cultural exports dispels the cynical allegation ... More | | 
Gianni Asdrubali, Stenkanibale, 2021. Industrial painting on plexiglass on board, 160x120 cm. Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milan. Ph. Mattia Mognetti, Milan.
MILAN.- A arte Invernizzi gallery opened the exhibition The Critical Eye, which continues the series that began with The Musical Eye (2014) and continued with The Cinematic Eye (2016) and The Philosophical Eye (2018). On this occasion, the eye looks not only at the works themselves but also at the person who wishes to show them. The critical eye, of course, is that of the critic, who intends to show the works to others, pointing to their presence and assisting in their interpretation. But also the eye of the person who observes a work of art needs to be a critical eye, casting aside all the evident and accepted ideas that come with looking. The artists on show are the representatives and protagonists of several generations of Italian and international contemporary art, from the 1950s onwards. In the exhibition we see an underlying thread that runs through the artistic actions of each one, in all their magnificent ... More | | 
What Does He Need? by Fiona Whelan, Brokentalkers & Rialto Youth Project, installed at IMMA, 2022, Photo by Louis Haugh.
DUBLIN.- Irish Museum of Modern Art is presenting What Does He Need? an exhibition and audio work by artists Fiona Whelan and Brokentalkers (Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan), which form part of a long-term critical inquiry into the formation of masculinity, exploring how men and boys are shaped by and influence the world. Presented on the façade of IMMAs main reception, What Does He Need? offers a range of viewpoints on the needs of men and boys in different scenarios and at different stages of life. Short texts are shown as responses to the central question What Does He Need? and were gathered through workshops with diverse groups of adults and young people as part of an ongoing inquiry into the current state of masculinity. Responses made to the central question include To see his father cry, To hit back, A strong male role model, To get off her, Hugs every day. The texts are ... More |
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| National Gallery's 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony opens | | These artists' hunt for studio space ended at the World Trade Center | | He was a playground bully in 1965. His film about it is up for an Oscar. | 
Joel Bray, Wiradjuri people, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2021, image courtesy the artist.
CANBERRA.- The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony opens on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land this Saturday 26 March and runs until Sunday 31 July 2022. Curated by Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman Hetti Perkins, in collaboration with National Gallery curators, Ceremony showcases 18 new bodies of work by 38 First Nations artists from across the country. Perkins says: Ceremony is not a new idea in the context of our unique heritage, but neither is it something that belongs only in the past. In their works, the artists in this exhibition assert the prevalence of ceremony as a forum for artmaking today in First Nations communities. In each ceremonial action, artists make an individual mark in our history. Ceremony is the nexus of Country, culture and community, and the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial is another stitch in a timeless heritage, says Perkins. The expansive exhibition across the National ... More | | 
Oscar Yi Hou, an artist in residence, at his Silver Art Projects studio in New York, on March 22, 2022. The nonprofit gives artists the space for a year, as well as a $1,200 stipend and mentorship. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times.
by Laura Zornosa
NEW YORK, NY.- On the 28th floor of 4 World Trade Center, Tourmaline, a multidisciplinary artist, works from a corner studio that features two walls of windows and a view of the 9/11 memorial. Next door, Tariku Shiferaw has his own space to paint and create installation art. Both artists benefit from a nonprofit program, Silver Art Projects, that provides artists with free, yearlong studio space in the chrome office tower, as well as a $1,200 stipend and mentorship. The nonprofit is part of a vast ecosystem of organizations and programs across New York that provides artists with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real estate market that has long pushed them to live in cavernous, defunct industrial ... More | | 
The filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt at his old elementary school, P.S. 194, today the Raoul Wallenberg School in Brooklyn, on March 17, 2022. His short documentary, When We Were Bullies, was nominated for an Oscar. Jackie Molloy/The New York Times.
by Stuart Miller
NEW YORK, NY.- A long time ago at the southern end of Brooklyn, a lone fifth-grade boy was set upon by his PS 194 classmates, who punched and kicked, yelled and spat at him. Jay Rosenblatt was part of the mob. More than half a century later, Rosenblatt revisited the incident, and the schoolyard itself, for his short documentary, When We Were Bullies, which is nominated for an Academy Award and which makes its TV debut Wednesday on HBO. Rosenblatt tracked down 20 former classmates to ask them how they look back at their behavior on that day more than 50 years ago and how they felt after their teacher, Mrs. Bromberg, caught them and punished them, calling the group animals. Intriguingly, ... More |
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| Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre announces winners of 67th Blake Prize | | Works from the private collection of His Royal Highness Prince Georg of Denmark to be offered at auction | | Freeman's announces new appointment as it expands into New England | 
The Blake Established Residency Prize: Katy B Plummer, WE ARE ALL ASTONISHINGLY WISE.
SYDNEY.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre today announced Sydney artist S J Norman has won the 67th Blake Prize, one of Australias longest-standing and most prestigious art prizes. The Blake Prize is a biennial event that engages local and international contemporary artists in conversations on the broader experience of spirituality, religion, and belief. In Normans winning photographic diptych , Cicatrix (All that was taken, all that remains), documents 147 incisions which were made on the skin of the artists back, over a ritual work lasting 147 minutes to recognise the 147 Aboriginal people who have lost their lives while in police custody over the last decade. In the work, Norman stages a personal reclamation of the ancestral mourning rights he has been divested of as a Wiradjuri person. Cicatrix invites a consideration of the body as a vessel of complex grief, and the wound as a technology of transmutation. Norman ... More | | 
A 19th century walnut and tulipwood breakfront commode in Louis XV/XVI transitional style. (Lot 219) Estimate £800-£1,200.
LONDON.- Dreweatts auctioneers will offer for sale a selection of works from the private collection of His Royal Highness Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (1920-1986), in their upcoming sale of Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Carpets, Ceramics and Works of Art on March 30 & 31st, 2022. Officially titled Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (1920-1986), he was the eldest son of Prince Axel of Denmark and the great-grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Margaretha of Sweden. He was also the second cousin of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021). Amongst the works is a rare 18th century Florentine scagliola panel by the great Lamberto Cristiano Gori (1730-1801). Gori was the apprentice of Don Enrico Hugford of Vallombrosa, one of the most important artists specialising in the art of scagiola in the 18th century. The panel features an Italianate harbour ... More | | 
Adam Bitzer serves as a regional representative and specialist in Freeman's Fine Art department. He specializes in important 19th- and 20th-century art with a specific interest in American Regionalism and Pennsylvania Impressionist work.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In line with its recent national and international growth, Freemans announced the appointment of Adam Bitzer, Fine Art Specialist, as its regional representative in New England. As Americas oldest auction house, Freemans has continually adapted to changing market demands and it is now firmly focused on expanding its share of the strongly performing middle market. To achieve this, the company has increased its team of Fine Art specialists, who operate throughout the country from the companys base of Philadelphia. With this latest appointment, Freemans is set on attracting new clients in New England, adding to the other regional representation on the West Coast, in the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Washington, D.C. Metro area. The goal is to build out our representative ... More |
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| The wallpaper that is also a 'reminder that my ancestors had my back' | | Fine art, Asian art, jewelry & more go up for bid on April 16 at Turner Auctions & Appraisals | | Sotheby's to auction masterful Venice view by Claude Monet in region of $50M in May Modern Auction | 
Veronica Chambers, in front of wallpaper designed by Sheila Bridges, in her home in London, on March 11, 2022. Andy Haslam/The New York Times.
by Veronica Chambers
NEW YORK, NY.- I never had the slightest interest in wallpaper. Then Harlem Toile came along. The wallpaper, which was created by celebrated interior designer Sheila Bridges in 2006, features beautiful drawings of African Americans in the lush historical settings that rarely featured them: a couple in 18th-century dress dance under a structure that recalls the Arc de Triomphe to the tunes of a boombox that rests playfully on the grass; as women in ballgowns sit under a majestic tree, one combs another's hair while yet another woman holds up a fairy-talelike mirror; a courting couple in fashion that now brings to mind the popular series Bridgerton feast on a picnic. For a Black girl who grew up loving Jane Austen and Toni Morrison with equal aplomb, Harlem Toile was more than wallpaper. It was a tableau of possibility and belonging. Traditional toile de Jouy (the ... More | | 
French Micro-Mosaic Snuff Box, c. 18th/Early 19th Century. Estimate $800-$1,200.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Fine Art, Asian Art, Jewelry & More on April 16, 2022, from various collectors and estates. The sale offers a wide range of American and European paintings from the 17th to the 21st centuries; noted artists include Ira Yeager, Salvador DalÃ, Thomas Hill, William Posey Silva, Marjorie Jane Reed, and German Grobe. In addition to a Ferdinand Preiss sculpture, there are several works in marble, bronze, or acrylic. There is diverse array of Asian arts: from China, artwork, a gilt carved panel, cloisonné boxes, a carved armchair, a brass vase, and a pewter and jade teapot; from India, a marquetry box, a 17th-century Somaskanda figure; from Thailand, pairs of bronze and Buddha heads and carved wood statues. There are also a Burmese Buddha, a Tibetan saddle, and Ganesh and Shiva figures. Items from Japan include a chest, swords with daggers, Imari dishes, and a wide selection of Japanese woodblock prints. ... More | | 
Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute stands among the finest works ever created by the modern master. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 100 years following Claude Monets first and only visit to Venice, which produced a remarkable series of 37 paintings capturing the citys inimitable views, Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute will return to the city on 20 April for a special exhibition at The Gritti Palace in celebration of the Venice Biennale, before appearing at auction as a star lot of Sothebys Modern Evening Auction in New York on 17 May. Prior to its special presentation in Venice, Le Grand Canal will embark on a global tour, stopping first in Taipei, where, on 27 March, it will be unveiled to the public for the first time in 25 years, since it was last exhibited at the Kimbell Art Museum in 1997. Executed in 1908, Le Grand Canal is a shimmering, luminescent view of the Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute, and stands as one of the finest works ever created by the artist, and the pinnacle of the series painted during the a ... More |
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 Jack Hanley Gallery opens a solo exhibition with New Zealand artist Jess JohnsonNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is presenting Core Dump, the third solo exhibition with New Zealand artist Jess Johnson. The exhibition features a new series of drawings alongside an animated video made in collaboration with Simon Ward, and a quilt made in collaboration with her mother Cynthia Johnson. Set in monumental architectures of ancient and futuristic times, Jess Johnsons drawings are inhabited by genderless humanoids, worm-like creatures, and bat-faced hybrids. Patterns, symbols, mazes, grids, and distant vanishing points draw the eye into hallucinogenic spheres. Informed by a variety of pop- and subcultural influences like early video games, psychedelic horror, and science fiction. The interrelation and juxtaposition of technology and flesh is visible not only in Johnsons imagery, but in the process ... More  Solo exhibition of new works by Raymond Boisjoly opens at MIT List Visual Arts CenterCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This spring, the MIT List Visual Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of new works by Raymond Boisjoly. A Vancouver-based artist of Haida and Quebecois descent, Boisjoly expands on the Post-Conceptual photography of the Vancouver School while attending to complex negotiations of Indigeneity in the context of colonialism. His works often interrogate their own place in the realm of fine art by engaging vernacular conventions in photography and fabrication, and by using readily available materials (such as nylon tarp, commercial vinyl, office paper, or beer cans) as printing mediums. Boisjoly is also interested in the ways that both images and language can break or fail, and he often fosters misperception and miscomprehension by deliberately impairing legibility. If we disorient our vision, ... More  Anna Sorokin talks about making artNEW YORK, NY.- Down a narrow hallway packed with lockers and plumes of marijuana and cigarette smoke, at A2Z Delancey, a small pop-up art gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, some 150 unmasked artgoers attended an opening last Thursday night for Anna Sorokins first group gallery exhibition. Sipping beers, viewers sat on couches, while some stepped outside to spray graffiti on a courtyard wall behind the space. A rock band was playing for about half an hour, musicians and guests furiously bobbing their heads, hair flying and convulsing in tandem. For diehards of the Netflix series Inventing Anna, which described the fake German heiresss meteoric rise into Manhattan society she bilked banks, stole a private jet and skipped out on hotel bills in a ploy to turn the Anna Delvey Foundation, a members- ... More  SUNNY NY opens a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brian KokoskaBROOKLYN, NY.- SUNNY NY is presenting Who Killed the Pied Piper?, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brian Kokoska. The exhibitions title refers to The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a German folktale from the Middle Ages, wherein a colorfully garbed outsider strikes a deal to eliminate a towns rat infestation for payment. After playing his tune and successfully luring the rats to drown in a nearby river, the piper is betrayed by the townspeople who renege on their agreement, refusing to pay. In turn, he exacts revenge by playing his magical pipe once more, charming the local children to follow him into a cave, never to be seen again. In alluding to this fable, Kokoska draws parallels between its themes of paranoia, grief, and loss of innocence, and the anxieties of war, disease, and alienation plaguing our present. The tale functions ... More  Exhibition at Galerie Miranda brings together works by Merry Alpern and Harry GruyaertPARIS.- The spring 2022 exhibition at Galerie Miranda brings together two cult and pioneering photographic series, Dirty Windows by Merry Alpern and TV Shots by Harry Gruyaert, in a reflection on the convergence since the 1960s of real life with screen life and on the commoditisation of the human experience. In the winter of 1993, photographer Merry Alpern visited a friends New York loft, situated in the Wall Street district. He led her to a back room and from his window, one floor below, she could see a tiny bathroom window from which pounded the heavy bass of nightclub music. She realized that she was looking into the bathroom of an illegal lap-dance club, where "stock-brokers and other well-to-do businessmen handed over hundreds of dollars and drugs to women in G-strings and black lace." Transfixed by the spectacle, ... More  Ronchini opens the very first solo exhibition of Korean American painter Julia JoLONDON.- Ronchini is presenting the very first solo exhibition of Korean American painter Julia Jo. The works of the show, as its name indicates, were created and articulated by the artist as different parts of one single tale. Working mostly with oil on canvas, Julia Jos idiosyncratic style incorporates a vivid palette rich with colours which, allied with both precise and heavy brushstrokes allow her to oscillate back and forth between the figurative and the abstract. The tale that is being told throughout the exhibition is about relationships. Intimate in nature, it is inspired by everyday social interactions, personal experiences, dramatic outcomes, and emotional responses led by miscommunications. Therefore realistic, although represented through a heavily idealised and dramatised visual lens, the tale being told does not have the ambition of being Jos own story. It is rather free, without an owner, waiting to be claim ... More  Clare Woods' solo exhibition opens at the Serlachius Museums in FinlandMÃNTTÃ.- The paintings of the renowned British artist Clare Woods combine the fluid brushstrokes with ambiguous and rugged themes, to which the war in Ukraine has given completely new meanings. The exhibition Between Before and After presents Woods production from the last five years. It opened at Serlachius Museum Gösta 26 March 2022. It is also Woods first solo exhibition in Finland. Over a career of more than twenty years, Clare Woods (b. 1972) has developed a distinctive painterly language in which form plays a major role. Originally trained as a sculptor, Woods way of painting has been described as sculpting with paint. She herself has described her painting process as very physical. She paints on horizontal aluminium bases quickly and instinctively, saying she sees the images as sculptural. The size ... More  Kunsthalle Bremen opens Richard Mosse exhibitionBREMEN.- For the past decade, the Irish photographer Richard Mosse (b. 1980) has been documenting global political and economic crises, including the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, European refugee and migration policy and the destruction of the tropical rainforest. In his large-scale photographs, Mosse uses imaging technology originally designed for military and scientific use to make objects visible that cannot ordinarily be perceived by the human eye. With over seventy photographs and a new video installation, this show at the Kunsthalle Bremen presents a broad overview of Mosses work for the first time in Germany. The heightened aesthetic of Richard Mosses photographs and videos simultaneously grapple with political and ethical issues. He utilizes imaging technology that was originally developed ... More  Museum der Moderne Salzburg dedicates its latest exhibition to an international pioneer of media artSALZBURG.- The exhibition presents Richard Kriesche (1940 Vienna, AT Graz, AT) as an international pioneer of media art. In his critical and socially committed oeuvre he analyzes and reflects the media, information, and digitalization revolutions from the 1960s to this day. His works also address the question as to the essence of art and its role and function in society. Kriesches works are based on an expanded understanding of art. In this context, he repeatedly forges alliances with science, research, economics, and politics. The solo exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg includes a selection of significant groups of works from 1963 to 2022 that stand for the artists remarkably long career. Beginning with his ongoing exploration of information and communication technologies, the exhibition makes it possible ... More  The second edition of the Harewood Biennial, 'Radical Acts' opensLEEDS.- The second edition of the Harewood Biennial welcomes 16 exhibitors to show their work throughout the State Floor and Grounds of Harewood House, an accredited museum and educational charitable Trust located just outside of Leeds city centre. Curated by Hugo Macdonald, this years Biennial, Radical Acts, explores how craft can be a radical act. The meaning of radical is derived from the Latin word root and in Radical Acts craft is presented as a bridge between our roots and future. The exhibitors address important conversations around restoration and repair, regeneration and wellbeing. Many practitioners explore Harewoods own roots and its future, as the Trust continues to re-imagine what makes a historic house and its landscape relevant in the 21st century. Each participant tackles an issue of modern life: ... More  Palazzo Grassi opens the first comprehensive solo show exhibiting the work of Marlene Dumas in ItalyVENICE.- Palazzo Grassi presents open-end, the first comprehensive solo show exhibiting the work of Marlene Dumas in Italy. The exhibition retraces the founding themes of Marlene Dumas artistic research and brings together over 100 works from the Pinault Collection as well as from international museums and private collections. The focus is on the artists recent work including paintings created with the Venetian exhibition in mind and has been broadened by a selection of paintings and drawings achieved between 1984 and today. Marlene Dumas. open-end is curated by Caroline Bourgeois in collaboration with the artist. A most influential artist on the contemporary art scene, Marlene Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa. She grew up and studied fine arts during the Apartheid regime. In 1976, she ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and architect Raphael was born March 28, 1483. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. In this image: Raphael, Self-Portrait, 1506 (detail) © Galleria degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi.
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