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Bottles and tools in the museum at Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, in New York, May 6, 2023. The business is keeping the seltzer making tradition alive with a century-old carbonator and a museum at their factory. (Juan Arredondo/The New York Times)
by Corey Kilgannon
NEW YORK, NY.- A century ago, before it was called sparkling water or club soda, and before it was sold as LaCroix and Spindrift, it was called seltzer. No plastic bottles or aluminum cans magically appeared on grocery shelves. Instead, factories across New York City pumped fizzy water into heavy siphon bottles that were distributed by deliverymen. Nearly all those seltzer men are gone now; one seltzer works remains. In an industrial space in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Seltzer Boys factory is known among industry insiders, certain foodies and seltzer fans, but thats about it. Its owner, Alex Gomberg, wants to change that. Originally called Gomberg Seltzer Works, the business was started in 1953 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, by Gombergs great-grandfather Moe. After nearly closing for good during the pandemic, Brooklyn Seltzer moved and (somewhat) modernized its factory, introducing a visitable space called the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum. We want to introduce the next g ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Richard Mayhew: Natural Order, May 6 - June 17, 2023 at Venus Over Manhattan (39 Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012). Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan.
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| Rebecca Morris joins Regen Projects | | Skarstedt NY now presenting late works by artist Andy Warhol | | Meadows Museum announces new acquisitions by modern Spanish painters | 
Rebecca Morris, Untitled (#11-18), 2018. Oil on canvas, 104 x 85 in (264.2 x 215.9 cm). © Rebecca Morris, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Regen Projects has announced its representation of Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris. The artist will present her first exhibition with the gallery in 2025. Morris has dedicated her thirty-year career to the exploration of abstraction. Her work has taken basic elements like stroke, surface, and frame to question the underlying pretenses of abstract painting, exposing the tensions between the flat surface of the work and the painting as discrete object. Recurring motifs such as fragmented patterns and distorted grids further complicate her work against the larger history of conceptual artists that have used precise geometry to delineate visual space. Variously associated with the schools of Pattern and Decoration and Supports/Surfaces, Morriss work has steadfastly refused placement into one clear ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Eggs, 1982. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 90 x 70 inches. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following its successful run at the London gallery, Skarstedt is now presenting Andy Warhol: The Late Paintings, the exhibition of late works by the artist, in New York since May 10th where it will remain until June 24, 2023, with an expanded checklist. Presenting ten paintings executed between 1976 and 1986, the exhibition highlights iconic series which came to define the final and one of the most prolific decades of the artists oeuvre. The exhibition features large-scale works from The American Indian, Hammer and Sickle, Oxidation, Diamond Dust Shoes, Knives, Eggs, Zeitgeist, Dollar Sign, Myths and Reversal series, revealing Warhols renewed interest in painting in the late 1970s and 80s, as well as his continued preoccupation with the notions of disappearance and ephemerality of human existence. ... More | | 
Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 18151894), Portrait of Vicenta Beltrán de Lis Espinosa de los Monteros, 1845. Oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 34 1/4 in. (115 x 87 cm). Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase in memory of Dr. Mark A. Roglán with funds gifted by Linda Perryman Evans, MM.2023.01. Photo courtesy of GalerÃa Caylus, Madrid.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum, SMU, announces the addition of three paintings to their acclaimed collection of Spanish art, thus supporting the Museums mission to advance the appreciation of the arts and culture of Spain in the United States. The charming Portrait of Vicenta Beltrán de Lis Espinosa de los Monteros (1845), by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz; the social realist work Mozos de Escuadra (Catalan Police Arresting a Romani Couple) (1906), by Carlos Vázquez Úbeda; and the abstract oil on canvas Yellows Contained (1970), by José Guerrero join the Meadows Museums permanent collection. Each of these paintings are the first by their ... More |
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| Hammer Museum announces new curator Pablo José Ramírez | | Galerie Ron Mandos opens Daniel Arsham's fourth solo exhibition at gallery | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Federico Herrero | 
Curator Pablo José RamÃrez.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced the appointment of Pablo José RamÃrez as a new, full-time curator. RamÃrez had previously been announced as a co-curator of Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, alongside independent curator Diana Nawi. The curator, writer and cultural theorist will take up a permanent position with the Hammer in June 2023. The position is funded with a grant from the Ford Foundation. Hammer Director Ann Philbin said, I am so pleased to welcome Pablo José RamÃrez to the Hammer as a full-time curator. Ive spent the last year getting to know Pablo as he has developed the concept and artist list for the upcoming edition of Made in L.A. alongside his co-curator Diana Nawi. Pablo brings an incredible intellect and energy that will add a new dimension to the Hammers curatorial program. Im grateful to the Ford Foundation for making this position ... More | | 
Daniel Arsham, The Remain of an Ancient Figure, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 160 x 131 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- Wondering, Daniel Arshams fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos gives us a glimpse of a post-apocalyptic future where everything we know morphed into an archaeological relic. Arsham, one of the industrys most in-demand contemporary artists, shows three brand new series of paintings, drawings, and sculptures in which the artist bends the dimensions of existing structures and time. Arshams mythical contemporary archaeology erodes familiar forms and changes the nature of architectural structures, classical figures, and even cars into archaeological objects. The artist deliberately selects iconic items that represent the late 20th century or millennial era when technological advancements rapidly accelerated, leading to the obsolescence of many inventions and the digitization of our world. Daniel Arshams artistic style blends elements of romanticism ... More | | 
Federico Herrero, Libelula, 2022. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. 57 x 45 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of new work by Federico Herrero, on view from May 12 through June 17, 2023, at the gallerys 52 Walker Street location. This is Herreros fourth solo exhibition with James Cohan. This exhibition is accompanied by an essay written by independent curator and writer Alejandro Ortiz. Federico Herrero: Mutating the topographic memory By Alejandro Ortiz In his most recent exhibition, Federico Herrero once again suggests open questions about what landscape could mean, but also formulates an evolving proposal of what already exists. His eye and hand combine to dilate an immense reflective field where ecology and nostalgia coexist. Herrero employs the paintbrush to propose a collection of pictorial memories that reflect the tension and link between voracious urban growth and natures ... More |
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| Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a new installation by Jeffrey Vallance on display in the Los Angeles Gallery | | Two sculptures created for Westminster Abbey and lost for hundreds of of years reappear at auction | | Senegal-based artist Seyni Awa Camara now on view at Nino Mier Gallery | 
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Kinkadian La-Z-Boy Room, a new installation by Jeffrey Vallance on display in the Project Room for the Los Angeles Gallery. The installation features sculpture, painting, and works on paper that share a common theme related to the artists friendship with the late painter Thomas Kinkade. For nearly forty years Jeffrey Vallance has turned a critical and humorous eye toward his own wide-ranging experiences, using his adventures as the basis for his drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance based pieces. Collecting objects of personal significance, Vallance fabricates unique displays for these items that transcend mere presentation, to address themes of faith, myth, celebrity, ritual, popular culture and the supernatural. This newest presentation highlights the artists relationship with Thomas Kinkade, one that after the artists death, Vallance characterizes as ... More | | 
The terracotta figure was made circa 1728-1731 and was almost certainly the figure described and catalogued in the sculptors studio contents sale of 1756. We have no record of who the buyer was in that auction, and the piece has been lost ever since.
LONDON.- Two once lost important English sculptures are to be offered at auction this month. The first is the presentation model for the figure of Gratitude, part of the tomb of Dr Chamberlen in Westminster Abbey. The terracotta figure was made circa 1728-1731 and was almost certainly the figure described and catalogued in the sculptors studio contents sale of 1756. We have no record of who the buyer was in that auction, and the piece has been lost ever since. The other figure that was described and sold with Gratitude at that time, was the terracotta model for the central figure of the tomb; an effigy of Dr Chamberlen. This figure reappeared alone at Sothebys, 3 December 1926, as lot 68, bought by a Mr Belham for £8,10s., ... More | | 
Seyni Awa Camara, Untitled, 2000. Terracotta sculpture, 25 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 7 7/8 in, 65 x 24 x 20 cm. Courtesy Nino Mier Gallery and the Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nino Mier Gallery is now presenting sculptures by Senegal-based artist Seyni Awa Camara. On view since May 5, Seyni Awa Camara: 1990 - 2021 marks the artists first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition, which ends June 10, 2023, will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring a new essay by curator, writer, and art historian Eva Barois de Caevel. Seyni Awa Camara creates totemic works evoking subjects ranging from bestiaries to motor vehicles and maternity scenes. Camaras sculptures are influenced by her dreams, where she first divines her forms. After preparing her clay, sometimes adding ore or other natural media to the mixture, the artist begins to sculpt her works. Over the course of many days, sometimes weeks, Camara carves the complex forms appearing in each work. She then fires the clay on a wooden ... More |
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| Jessica Silverman and Casey Kaplan announce joint representation of artist David Huffman | | 100 photographs referencing Colombian Caribbean by Ruby Rumié at Nohra Haime Gallery | | What Gustavo Dudamel's recordings reveal about his conducting | 
David Huffman, Sanctuary, 2023. Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo credit: Francis Baker.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jessica Silverman in San Francisco and Casey Kaplan in New York have announced the joint representation of Oakland-based artist David Huffman. Huffmans work has long been acclaimed for his exploration of identity, memory, and the material implications associated with the Black diasporic experience. Jessica Silverman recently held the solo exhibition David Huffman: Odyssey in January 2023 and Casey Kaplan will hold the artists first solo show with the gallery in May 2024. David Huffman has long been ahead of his time, merging pop art, abstract expressionism, and Afro- futurism in masterful paintings and sculptures. I have enjoyed exhibiting his work since 2018 and am delighted he is joining the gallery roster, said Jessica Silverman. "Davids story, with its deep Bay Area roots, is steeped in a history of activism and the Black Panthe ... More | | 
Ruby Rumié, Ritzy Medina, 2022. Photograph, 58.27 x 58.27 in. (59 x 59 cm.) Edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- As an artist, my work always involves people, with them and for them, I propose new readings on common situations that we are all used to seeing. Ruby Rumiés fourth solo exhibition at the Nohra Haime Gallery, Nosotros 172 años después, consists of a series of 100 photographs referencing the Colombian Caribbean: its people, their diversity and its food. The exhibition began May 11, and will continue to July 16, 2023. Colombia is considered a country of many regions each with its own identity and characteristics. The Colombian Caribbean is no stranger to this. I started this project from the perspective of a Colombian woman, with a desire to question, as we are now living through a very tangible social fragmentation of our identity. During this questioning process of our history. I found and researched the collection of images of The Chorographic Commission and a series of academic texts from t ... More | | 
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 13, 2012. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
by David Allen
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven years ago, not long after Jaap van Zweden had been proclaimed music director of the New York Philharmonic, I listened to every commercial recording of his that I could lay my hands on, to get a better sense of his conducting. I do not remember it exactly as a fun experience, when I have to remember it at all, nor one that flattered him that much. Now that the Philharmonics next music director has been named, its Gustavo Dudamels turn. This time, the exercise is a different proposition, and thankfully nowhere near as enervating. Van Zweden was hardly a household name when the Philharmonic hired him, and even avid collectors could have been excused for not staying abreast of his latest releases. Dudamel is a Hollywood-starred celebrity who enjoys a long-standing ... More |
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 Louisiana Art & Science Museum announces "The Republic Finance Gallery". Courtesy of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.BATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum (LASM) announces the renaming of its Main 1 Gallery to The Republic Finance Gallery in recognition of Republic Finances recent $100,000 commitment toward LASMs primary gallery space for changing art and science exhibitions. Republic Finance executives and management team members attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the companys sponsorship of the gallery on April 5, 2023. Republic Finances contribution will directly fund significant capital improvements to the gallery, increasing its quality, community impact, and ability to provide enriching and accessible cultural experiences for the education and enjoyment of Baton ... More  Phoenix Art Museum acquires new Cannupa Hanska Luger large-scale tipi work PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announces the acquisition of Cannupa Hanska Lugers Incendiary (2023), a vibrantly colored, large-scale tipi work from a recent series that explores the adaptability and versatility of the nomadic structure as a metaphor for the resilience of Indigenous peoples in the face of settler- colonial violence. The painted and shaped canvas is a significant addition to the Museums contemporary art collection and furthers the Museums efforts to collect and display art that reflects a diversity of voices from the Southwest region and Arizona. Incendiary by Luger was acquired by the Museum with funds from the Mens Arts Council, a Museum support group dedicated to supporting acquisitions, exhibitions, and education and engagement programming. It is on view now in the Katz Wing for Modern Art. ... More  Neue Auctions Decorative Objects, Fine Art & Antiques Sale, May 20BEACHWOOD, OHIO.- An 1854 Portrait of a Gentleman by British artist John Thomas Peele (1822-1897), a large Louis XV-style rock crystal chandelier, and a stoneware vessel by Claude Conover (American, 1907-1994) titled Kohnal are a few expected top lots in Neue Auctions online-only Decorative Objects, Fine Art & Antiques auction planned for Saturday, May 20th. This is truly a fresh to market auction, featuring wonderful rare porcelains, sculptures, Grand Tour pieces, paintings, sterling silver, ancient and antique glass and many other beautiful things, said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. The 323-lot auction will begin at 10 am Eastern time, with Internet bidding facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The oil on canvas Portrait of a Gentleman by John Thomas Peele is 30 inches by 25 inches and is housed in a period frame ... More  VMFA announces two upcoming exhibitions highlighting works by abstract artist Benjamin Wigfall and Contemporary Artist WRICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced that two comprehensive exhibitions of works by two critically acclaimed artists will open this summer at the museum. One ticket will enable visitors to see Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village and Whitfield Lovell: Passages at VMFA from June 17 through Sept. 10, 2023. We would like to bring attention to the works of these remarkable artists, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village celebrates Wigfall, who hailed from Richmonds Church Hill neighborhood, and his lifes work as a barrier-breaking abstract artist, educator and mentor to future artists. Visitors ... More  Pema Tseden, pioneering Tibetan flmmaker, is dead at 53NEW YORK, NY.- Pema Tseden, a filmmaker and author who presented an honest look at contemporary Tibetan life despite intense scrutiny from Chinese censors, died Monday in Tibet. He was 53. His death was announced in a statement by the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he was a professor. The statement did not specify a cause or say where he died. Tibet and its people have often been misrepresented with clichés. For the West, it was utopia, a fantasy based on the depiction of Shangri-La in British author James Hiltons 1933 novel, Lost Horizon. For the Communist Party of China, Tibetans were serfs or barbarians in need of rescue and rehabilitation, with propaganda films portraying Han cadres as liberators. Pema Tseden (pronounced WA-ma TSAY-ten in his native dialect), who like most Tibetans had no family name and went ... More  Slava Zaitsev, enduring Soviet-era fashion designer, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Slava Zaitsev, an effervescent and enduring Soviet-era fashion designer, once called the Red Dior by the Western press, whose over-the-top theatrical creations and persona made him a go-to couturier at home, died April 30 in Shchyolkovo, Russia. He was 85. His longtime friend Tatiana Sorokko, a Russian-born model and journalist, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by internal bleeding that resulted from an ulcer. Zaitsev died just two days before Valentin Yudashkin, a pupil of his who was also known for his sumptuous creations, and who found greater success in the West than he did, died of cancer at 59. Zaitsev gave color, sparkle and opulence to a generation raised in drab Soviet gray, the uniform of the proletariat, by combining Western bling with nods to traditional Russian folk costumes and nostalgic ... More  New play looks for dark humor beneath the Sarah Lawrence sex cult ordealNEW YORK, NY.- Carson Marie Earnest, a New York City actress, recently came across a casting call for a darkly funny, cautionary play in two acts, based on the true story of Larry Ray and the sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College. Oh, my gosh, I know this story, thought Earnest, who several years earlier had been shocked when the news broke in 2019 just as she was set to graduate from the school just north of the city. Everyone was talking about it, Earnest said. She soon learned that a writing teacher at Sarah Lawrence, Melvin Jules Bukiet, had written the play with one of his former students, Finnegan Shepard. The circumstances were intrinsically dramatic, Bukiet said. It just felt like it wanted to be on a stage. And so Runts will open Monday at the Teatro Latea on the Lower East Side as part of the New York Theater Festival. ... More  The Independent, more inclusive than everNEW YORK, NY.- If you were holding your breath for another art fair filled to the steel-girder ceilings with contemporary painting, you can let go. The Independent, the local-brand fair that features art ranging from emerging to the radical old-guard, is not it. The current edition at Spring Studios in Tribeca, which opens to the public Friday, includes 69 exhibitors from 11 countries, lots of photography and ephemera, idiosyncratic installations, and career resets and yes, a healthy dose of painting. You do feel a shift here, though. This fair feels more thoughtful, even reflective. Artists of color are celebrated and several presentations focus on older artists, trying to refine old narratives and biases. Here are some of the booths and tendencies that caught my eye. Nonwhite artists are under no responsibility to make work that considers identity, oppression ... More  Onstage in Brooklyn, 'Monsoon Wedding' tries to capture the film's spiritNEW YORK, NY.- The director Mira Nair was standing inside St. Anns Warehouse last week, pointing at a marigold-covered archway that was being assembled near the entrance. Conscious of the wedding photo shoots that often happen just outside the space, she was talking about the musical adaptation of her 2001 film, Monsoon Wedding, at the theater, which, situated along the Dumbo waterfront and a stones throw from where the East and Hudson Rivers merge. Thats what our show is about, she said. Confluence. Like the film, the show centers on an arranged marriage that brings together two vastly different Indian families, wedding planners and domestic workers. In the musical, the joyfully chaotic nuptials form a mosaic of questions of genuine attraction (the bride must deal with a scorned secret lover), diaspora ... More  How the star of 'Kimberly Akimbo' found beauty in her voice againNEW YORK, NY.- Victoria Clarks first response was Absolutely not. Her voice was no longer the instrument shed always known, so she was done with singing, done with acting, determined to funnel her energy into directing. That was the shape of her career now, and she was fine with it. There was no point in even discussing starring in a new musical. But composer Jeanine Tesori has a gently persistent way about her. When she phoned Clark about a project she was working on with playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, she declined to take no for an answer unless Clark a lyric soprano who won a best actress Tony Award in 2005 for The Light in the Piazza at least gave the music a shot. People sometimes see things in us that we cant see, Clark told me one April afternoon in her narrow dressing room upstairs at the Booth Theater on West ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon was born May 15, 1923. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". In this image: Humphrey Bogart, October 2, 1953 by Richard Avedon.
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