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Sandra Benites, an art curator at the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, with ÂFacoes by Sallisa Rosa, from her photo series ÂResistance, Feb. 13, 2020. As BrazilÂs first Indigenous art curator, the 45-year-old educator, who grew up with the Guaranà Ãandeva people in the village of Porto Lindo, wants to use art to bridge the gap between Indigenous Brazilians and those from other backgrounds. Gabriela Portilho/The New York Times.
by Jill Langlois
SAO PAULO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sandra Benites work is all about finding common ground. As Brazils first indigenous art curator, the 45-year-old educator, who grew up with the Guaranà Ãandeva people in the village of Porto Lindo, wants to use art to bridge the gap between indigenous Brazilians and those from other backgrounds. She is searching for a way to show their commonality and is looking to represent many of her countrys 305 ethnic groups in Indigenous Stories, a yearlong exhibition of global indigenous art set to take place at the Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, known as MASP, in 2021. That shared thread, she said, will come in examples of storytelling and the profound connection all indigenous Brazilians have to their land. My favorite thing is to look at the narrative everyone has their own way of telling a story, Benites said. But what unites indigenous people, she added, is our vision of the world and how it relates to our territory. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In response to the latest guidelines announced by the government of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will re-open to the public on 1 June. The much-celebrated temporary exhibition Caravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome, originally scheduled to close on 7 June, will now be extended to 13 September 2020. It had received 85,000 visitors in the four weeks since the exhibition opened on 14 February.
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 | | Belvedere opens first monographic exhibition of the Master of Mondsee | | Gallery sues landlord, claiming COVID-19 shutdown voids lease | | Rijksmuseum re-opens on 1 June and extends Caravaggio-Bernini exhibition | 
Master of Mondsee, The Circumcision of Christ, c. 149599. From the Mondsee altarpiece (Reproduction, original in the next room). Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- As part of its IN-SIGHT series, the Belvedere is dedicating a first monographic exhibition to one of the most significant late-medieval painters in Austria: the Master of Mondsee. It centers on the work that gave this anonymous artist his namethe paintings from a Gothic winged altarpiece that were probably once in the abbey church at Mondsee. Stella Rollig, CEO of the Belvedere: This time our focus is on an outstanding artist in Austria around 1500 and a major work in the Belvederes collection of medieval art. For the first time, this show is bringing together all the surviving works from the Mondsee altarpiece and placing this masterpiece in an art- and cultural historical context. Enchanting depictions of the Virgin Mary, crowded scenes from the childhood of Christ, learned Church Fathers in their studies, and, ... More | | 
Roy De Forest, Texas, 2002, Acrylic, mixed media on board, wood, 48 x 42 x 12 in (121.9 x 106.7 x 30.5 cm). © 2020 Roy De Forest Estate / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In early March, the Venus Over Manhattan gallery mounted an exhibition of paintings, drawings and wall reliefs by Roy De Forest, the biggest presentation of his work in New York City since 1975. But the shows prospects may have been limited when Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned most gatherings and ordered nonessential businesses to close by March 22 to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Now the gallery is suing its landlord, arguing that the governors actions provide a basis to end its lease, which it said started in 2011 at $54,000 a month, and recover its deposit of $365,000. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor ... More | | 
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Medusa, Rome, 16381640, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori.
AMSTERDAM.- In response to the latest guidelines announced by the government of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will re-open to the public on 1 June. The much-celebrated temporary exhibition Caravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome, originally scheduled to close on 7 June, will now be extended to 13 September 2020. It had received 85,000 visitors in the four weeks since the exhibition opened on 14 February. Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum: It is crucially important that we can open the museum to the visiting public again. In these of all times, art is a lifeline. We will do everything possible to make the museum a safe and pleasant environment for everybody. We are particularly indebted to the 44 lenders from Vienna, Italy and elsewhere who are making it possible for the public to continue to visit Caravaggio-Bernini. They are doing so in the conviction that ... More |
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| | Exhibition at UCCA Beijing reflects on the role of art during a time of crisis | | White Cube and Antony Gormley launch charity edition | | Long limbs helped propel T. Rex up the dinosaur food chain | 
Zhang Hui, Just Like in the Mirror 2, 2018. Oil on canvas, 120.5 Ã 80 cm.
BEIJING.- Meditations in an Emergency is the first exhibition to open in 2020 at UCCA Beijing, bringing together 26 Chinese and international artists reflecting on the role of art during a time of crisis. From May 21 to August 30, 2020, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents the group exhibition Meditations in an Emergency. The exhibition emerges in the wake of the pandemic which has created the first truly global moment of the twenty-first century. As it marks UCCAs reopening after the longest closure in its history, since late January, the exhibition looks to art as a source of solace, reflection, and solidarity. Structured in five sectionsfocused on everyday life, the body and biopolitics, the human/animal dichotomy, migration and borders, and the information landscapethe exhibition includes works by 26 artists. These engage with the currents that have led to our present circumstances, and what fut ... More | | 
Antony Gormley. Photo © Oak Taylor Smith. Courtesy Antony Gormley Studio.
LONDON.- The Antony Gormley edition launched last week to support mental health charities and food banks Coinciding with UK Mental Health Awareness Week, White Cube and Antony Gormley released Together (2020), a charity edition of 250, priced at GBP 2,000 each. All of the proceeds will go to three charities supporting people suffering the physical, financial and emotional consequences of the lockdown: One to One Project, The Trussell Trust, and Together for Mental Wellbeing. Antony Gormleys remarkable drawings are more about the feeling of being inside the body than its appearance from outside. They express physical and spiritual experiences of what it is like to be a human being in the world, with fear and loneliness as well as joy and sharing. Together is an image of community at a time when we are all experiencing isolation, and a representation of the reunions ... More | | 
A model of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, part of the T. rex: The Ultimate Predator exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Katherine Kornei
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Surviving in the Cretaceous wasnt a sprint. It was a marathon. And Tyrannosaurus rex was built to amble for hours, new research reveals. That attribute might have helped propel the carnivore to the top of the food chain, researchers suggest. A study published earlier this month in PLOS One showed that some dinosaurs were particularly efficient walkers because of their long hind limbs. Thanks to their lanky legs, T. rex didnt need to eat as much as its brethren and could therefore get away with hunting less frequently, the team concluded. To understand the biomechanics of long-extinct animals, scientists rely on fossilized bones and footprints. These records reveal information about a creatures ... More |
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| | Rafael Leonardo Black, solitary and self-trained artist, dies at 71 | | West Dean College of Arts and Conservation adds to its collection with glimpse into the James Wyatt interior | | ARTE Generali digitizes art insurance and supports the art world in recovering from the Covid-19 crisis | 
Rafael Leonardo Black in his apartment in Brooklyn, June 3, 2013. Victor J. Blue/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rafael Leonardo Black, a self-trained artist who spent more than 40 years creating elaborate pictorial mythologies steeped in art history and popular culture, and who had his first New York gallery show at 64, died May 15 in Brooklyn. He was 71. The cause was complications of COVID-19, said Francis Naumann, the art dealer who represented him. Blacks 2013 debut, at Francis Naumann Fine Art in Manhattan, consisted of collagelike pencil drawings of historically diverse figures and scenes brought together under umbrella themes. The work was so minutely detailed that the gallery provided magnifying glasses to view it. There was also a multipage exhibition guide, with numbered charts of the compositions and annotations by the artist identifying the figures depicted. A 1982 drawing called Oneirology, Black explained, presents the ... More | | 
The small yet significant watercolour shows the interiors of the grand entrance hall in 1812.
CHICHESTER.- Just before Lockdown, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation acquired a new artwork, adding to its diverse and internationally important Collection. The small yet significant watercolour shows the interiors of the grand entrance hall in 1812, revealing how West Dean House, now home to the College, would have looked after James Wyatt extended the property in the early 1800s. The significance of the work lies in the new understanding it brings to Wyatt scholarship, the study of historic interiors, and the fascinating story of the Colleges past. At the time the watercolour was painted, West Dean was the seat of the Peachey Family. James Peachey (c.1732-1808) had been made 1st Lord Selsey by Charles III and shortly after commissioned leading architect of the time James Wyatt to extend the West Dean Manor House. The Wyatt commission led to the famous flint-stoned mansion that West Dean is known for today. James Peachey died ... More | | 
Maurizio Cattelan. Courtesy of Arte Generali. Photo Oliviero Toscani.
MUNICH.- ARTE Generali recently unveiled its new, exclusive app, which offers art collectors unique features such as remote evaluation of artworks. In addition, ARTE Generali has decided to set up a program to support small galleries, museums and art dealers as well as young artists who are particularly affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Collectors are increasingly demanding that the processes in art insurance are made simple, fast and intelligent by digital tools, said Jean Gazançon, CEO of ARTE Generali. The demand for digitization in the art world is being driven further by the Covid-19 crisis. ARTE Generali has therefore developed a digital platform that meets this demand and simplifies the lives of distributors and customers. This way, ARTE Generali proves that art insurance can be innovative. ARTE Generalis digital ecosystem is enhanced by the exclusive ARTE Generali app, which offers collectors a comprehensive range of art- ... More |
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| | valerie_traan gallery exhibits a new series of objects by Muller Van Severen | | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announces "New York We Love You" online benefit auction | | American photographer Jamel Shabazz exhibits in Maastricht | 
Muller VanSeveren, Installation view of Alltubes at valerie_traan. Photo: Ligia Poplawska.
ANTWERP.- Alltubes is a new series of objects consisting of repeated round aluminium tubes. The series comprises several cabinets, a bench and a chair and forms a family that has the same genes but different characters. It is the repetition of the aluminium tubes that recurs in all the objects. The pattern and repetition of the round forms makes them appear less austere. This also produces the undulating effect and makes it possible for light to play on the surface. The combination of several of the same elements creates planes and gives the whole object a literal and figurative strength. With the series of tube-ends at the top, the upper surface of the cabinets assumes a charming aspect. Functions are created by means of the occasional simple bend such as for the legs of the bench. In the case of the chair, a tube forms one leg, a back or a seat in one smooth movement. There are no visible hinges, handles or ... More | | 
Shoplifter / Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Blue Bliss, 2020. Synthetic fiber on wood. 20 à 20 à 4 in. 50.8 à 50.8 à 10.2 cm. Starting bid: $5,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announces New York We Love You, an online benefit auction featuring artworks by a host of artists who are part of the organizations history and community, including Camille Henrot, Takesada Matsutani, Julie Mehretu, Richard Mosse, Vik Muniz, Yoko Ono, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Arlene Shechet, among many others. Powered by Artsy, the auction runs from May 18 through June 1, with proceeds going to LMCCs initiatives to sustain the arts community and directly support the work and livelihood of working artists. LMCC is committed to the notion that dialogue between artists and community can create a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. Founded in 1973, the organization has been a leading champion for independent artists and the cultural life force of Lower Manhattan, a local center of creativity with ... More | | 
Jamel Shabazz, Rush Hour, NYC, 1988 (detail).
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents the exhibition 'Streetlife' from 1 June until 27 September 2020. The museum shows colorful work by the American photographer Jamel Shabazz and black and white portraits by Dutch photographer Hans Rietveld. The street photography mostly shows the 60s, 70s and 80s. A new photo book by Shabazz will be launched during the exhibition. Jamel Shabazz enjoys international fame as a documentary, street, fashion and portrait photographer. He has been photographing the vibrant street life in New York City since 1980. In addition to musicians, he has also portrayed everyday life on the street and in the subway. Around fifty photos can be seen in the monumental museum. The exhibition 'Streetlife' focusses on his photography from the 1980s. Visitors can play music matching with the era on record players themselves. The guest curator of the exhibition is the German g ... More |
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 EXPO CHICAGO announces new dates: April 8-11, 2021CHICAGO, IL.- EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, today announced that it will present its ninth edition from April 811, 2021 at Navy Pier. The decision to move the fair from its traditional September timeslot to this coming spring was the result of a collaborative decision-making process that EXPO CHICAGO conducted with galleries, collectors, institutional partners, and city officials. In response to the rapidly evolving social and business environments, EXPO CHICAGO put in place a plan that allows exhibitors to provide non-binding deposits and, subsequently, a flexible payment schedule for those participating in the exposition. In addition, alongside expanding programming and initiatives, EXPO CHICAGO has pledged to make contributions to both the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and the ... More Cinello: A new life for great masterpieces, a new frontier for collectors and cultural institutionsMILAN.- Cinello is the company founded by John Blem and Franco Losi that combines the most advanced IT systems with the incomparable Italian artistic heritage. It is specialized in the creation of DAW® - Digital Art Work, high quality and high resolution life-size digital versions of the masterpieces preserved in the most important Italian museums. Thanks to the granted patent, based on advanced encryption systems, Cinello can guarantee the uniqueness and exclusive ownership of each new digital original artwork, in full compliance with legal constraints, qualifying each DAW® as a real collectors item, certified and authenticated by the museum that stores the masterpiece. For each piece of art, Cinello creates a numbered and limited series of DAW®, intended for private collectors and for museums and institutions all over the world interested in setting ... More Monash University Museum of Art introduces new websiteMELBOURNE.- Monash University Museum of Art released its new website on International Museum Day 2020. With a concept design by Studio Round, the new website is a highly visual and informative platform for exploring and learning about Monash Universitys renowned art collection and MUMAs eagerly anticipated programming. A space for art-led education and research, it is a log of MUMAs ongoing activities that serves both our University and wider communities. With the website, MUMA launches a suite of over one hundred texts commissioned from art historians, curators, artists and translators between 2016 and 2019 to interpret and enhance understandings of art works held in the Monash University Collection. These two interconnected projects, 100 Works of the Monash University Collection and First Languages of the Monash University ... More Firelei Báez receives 2020 Herb Alpert Award in the ArtsNEW YORK, NY.- The Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) have awarded the 2020 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts to five exceptional midcareer artists. Now in its 26th year, the annual award provides five unrestricted $75,000 grants to independent artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and visual arts. The recipients were honored at a virtual ceremony hosted by Herb Alpert, his wife Lani Hall Alpert and the Herb Alpert Foundation on Friday, May 22, 2020. The awards are adjudicated by three-member panels of noted artists - including many past winners - and arts professionals in each of the five categories. The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts was conceived by music legend Herb Alpert and his wife, Grammy-winning vocalist Lani Hall Alpert to reward creative experimenters who are challenging ... More Fondazione Prada presents "Love Stories: A Sentimental Survey by Francesco Vezzoli"MILAN.- Love Stories A Sentimental Survey by Francesco Vezzoli is a new project curated by Eva Fabbris to be presented on Fondazione Prada Instagram account from 11 May 2020. With this new project, the artist Francesco Vezzoli explores the emotional, psychological and sentimental status of a wide online community through social media language. In 2004 Vezzolis work Comizi di non-amore, commissioned by Fondazione Prada for the exhibition Trilogia della morte, reivented the tradition of documentary and cinéma-vérité, contaminating classics like Comizi damore (1965) by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lamore in Italia (1978) by Luigi Comencini with the television canons of reality shows. With Love Stories he takes over Instagrams communication strategies and, in particular, Instagram stories poll function to create a new space of sharing ideas, visions and impressions of lo ... More National WWI Museum and Memorial sets reopen dateKANSAS CITY, MO.- The National WWI Museum and Memorial will reopen to its members on Monday, June 1 and to the general public on Tuesday, June 2. We have monitored the COVID-19 situation closely during the past few months and, in accordance with guidance from public health officials at the local, state and federal levels, we are ready to reopen Americas official WWI Museum and Memorial, said Dr. Matthew Naylor, National WWI Museum and Memorial President and CEO. Weve spent considerable time developing a comprehensive reopening plan that allows for people to visit one of the worlds great museums and memorials in a safe and welcoming environment. Upon reopening, several elements of the Museum and Memorial will be adjusted to account for guidelines established by public health officials. Among those items: Guests may ... More Pippy Houldsworth Gallery opens an online exhibition of works by Ming SmithLONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Painting with Light: The Photography of Ming Smith, a survey of New York-based artist, Ming Smith. The presentation is available via the newly launched Pippy Houldsworth Gallery online viewing room and the Vortic Collect app from 21 May until 5 July 2020. Containing works from the start of the 1970s to the present day, including a number of never before seen archival prints, the exhibition explores the painterly quality of Ming Smiths photographic work. From photographs taken in the New York neighbourhoods of Coney Island and Harlem, to the cities of Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Gambela, Ethiopia, the exhibition reflects the diversity of Smiths personal experience, the openness of her perspective and her embrace of subjectivity as a fundamental conceptual choice. Smiths work draws attention to the physical ... More Exhibition at D MUSEUM fills entire museum with sound and multi-sensory experiences SEOUL.- D MUSEUM presents SOUNDMUSEUM, a large scale group exhibition filling the entire museum with sound and multi-sensory experiences from May 19 to December 27, 2020. The exhibition features 22 works across multifaceted categories, from sound installation, audience-driven performance, interactive sound installation, light art to visual music by 13 internationally recognized artists and collectives. Sound is a vibration that is momentarily absorbed in our body, remaining as a subtle and subjective experience and memory in the listener. Since the invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century, people began to pay attention not only to music but to sounds, such as that of machines, nature, voices, or heartbeats, and artists started creating works that obtain sound from various environment, including noise, as the material ... More Onassis Foundation presents ENTER: A series of artworks created at home within 120 hoursNEW YORK, NY.- We stay safe. But always connected. The Onassis Foundation announced a few weeks ago the commission of new works by artists across generations and the arts, created in their homes in 120 hours or less and drawing on experiences through the COVID-19 pandemic and its many transformations of life as we know it. For the ENTER project, Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA have commissioned artists across the globe to prepare new works in 120 hours. The thought behind it is that we need to include and understand the present, to learn from it, to narrate and banish it, at the same time creating a digital time capsule, which will preserve the memory of this period for future generations. During the pandemic time-space, houses, apartments, gardens, roof-terraces and balconies become our new site-specific stages. Children, ... More Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a new and charitable project titled 'Everything is Going to be OK'BERLIN.- The American artist Allan McCollum (born in 1944 in Los Angeles) counts among the most important conceptual artists of our time. As one of the original roster of Berlin based Galerie Thomas Schulte, McCollum presents a new and charitable project titled Everything is Going to be OK. The project draws on his comprehensive image archive, An Ongoing Collection of Screengrabs with Reassuring Subtitles, which currently comprises 1,200 screenshots from American TV series and movies. McCollum has selected 400 motifs from the archive which feature subtitles such as It will be ok or Dont worry, Babe to be printed on canvas, each framed in a black wooden frame and measuring 10.4 x 17.2 x 1.6 in. Each of these original prints is available for the net price of EUR 700 and can be purchased directly in the gallery's new online shop or in ... More London Art Studies wins Webby People's Voice Award for best online Arts, Culture and Events initiative 2020LONDON.- London Art Studies, the worlds first online arts education subscription website, has been awarded the Webby Peoples Voice Award for best in online Arts, Culture or Events initiative 2020. With nearly 13,000 entries from all 50 US states and 70+ countriesand 2.5 million votes cast by 600,000 people in the Webby Peoples Voice Awardsthe 24th Annual Webby Awards is one of the biggest in their history. London Art Studies is an industry-leading enterprise built and run by a small, dedicated team; its been called the Netflix of the art world. Offering compelling short videos in 12 different series, its a way to stay culturally curious, even in these strange times living life behind closed doors. Lecturers are selected from leading institutions from the Tate to the National Gallery, and offer jargon-free and accessible information about artworks, themes and artists. Hailed a ... More Photo London launches Connect with a premiere of Steve McCurry's series of videos from self-isolationLONDON.- Photo London presents Connect, a series of ad-hoc collaborations with artists and photography professionals in different forms. Connect launches with an exclusive premiere of Steve McCurry's series of videos from self-isolation. Being accustomed to travelling most of the year for work, McCurry found himself forced to stay at home and decided to take this unusually long period of stasis to reflect on his career. Over five short films which will be published every other week on Photo Londons website McCurry will revisit his career and some of his major projects. Steve McCurry's photographs are instantly recognisable. As one writer said, "He has managed to come back with photos that speak of dignity and humanity even in places seemingly devoid of it. A master infiltrator ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Lyubov Popova died May 25, 1924. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. In this image: Air+Man+Space, 1912, Oil on canvas, 125 x 107 cm, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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