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Ulrich Birkmaier, a senior paintings conservator at the Getty Museum, fills in the cracks on the painting Woman-Ochre by Willem de Kooning, in Los Angeles, April 22, 2022. The de Kooning painting will be shown on June 7 in an exhibition he curated with Tom Learner, head of science at the Getty Conservation Institute. Philip Cheung/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Ulrich Birkmaiers job as senior paintings conservator at the Getty Museum involves painstakingly repairing aging canvases and removing botched varnishes or restorations so artworks can return in full health to public view. He is by profession pretty much the opposite of an art thief. But in early March he played the role of one. The clean-cut, Munich-born conservator grabbed a box cutter and began to quickly and violently slice a painting from its frame, starting from the top left. When the canvas wouldnt come free from its backing, he tugged forcefully, creating a pattern of thin cracks running across the canvas. Within minutes the picture was his. Birkmaier was reenacting one of the most brazen art heists in recent memory: the 1985 theft in broad daylight of Willem de Koonings 1955 painting Woman-Ochre from the University of Arizona Museum of Art. A white, middle-aged couple the man wore glasses and a mustache, the woman a scarf over her hair ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line at Japan Society is the first institutional exhibition to survey the significant artist Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942). The exhibition brings together key bodies of the artistâs work, beginning with her contributions to (and subversion of) the Minimalism movement through early paintings and drawings from the late 1960s and moving to her increasingly spatial string constructions of the 1970s, culminating with her kimono series from 1987 through the 2000s.
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| Art Basel concludes its 2022 edition in Hong Kong following a dynamic week of strong sales and hybrid programming | | How a 7,000-ton Broadway theater was hoisted 30 feet | | Major retrospective exhibition brings together work spanning Antony Gormley's career | 
Art Basel Hong Kong 2022. Courtesy Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- The 2022 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong closed on Sunday, May 29, 2022, amid reports of consistently strong sales across all sectors and market segments, both to collectors present in the halls and those connecting with galleries digitally. This years show also offered an energetic public program that highlighted local artists and created meaningful connections in the city and across the globe. Hong Kong-based moving image pioneer Ellen Paus new site-specific work The Shape of Light, co-commissioned by Art Basel and M+ and supported by UBS, was presented as first major co-commission project on the LED façade of M+. Commissioned by Art Basel and co-presented with the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the Artist Tram Project invited local artists Cherie Cheuk Ka-wai, Stephen Wong Chun-hei, and Shum Kwan-yi to project their works on the exteriors of the iconic Hong Kong trams. The fairs digital ... More | | 
Construction in the basement of the historic Palace Theater in preparation to lift it three stories to add retail space underneath, in Manhattans Time Square, Oct. 14, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by C.J. Hughes
NEW YORK, NY.- If youve ever lost at Jenga by toppling a tower after removing a block, you might appreciate what developers have accomplished at TSX Broadway, a hotel and entertainment complex in Times Square. The developer of the 46-story building has managed to loosen its bottom floors and lift them 30 feet without sending anything crashing down to earth. And what has been elevated is not just any old section, either. Its the Palace Theater, a home for Broadway shows that was designed by architectural firm Kirchhoff & Rose in the Beaux-Arts style. The theater, which weighs 14 million pounds, is a protected landmark, meaning the structure, from the stage to the balcony, had to be moved without suffering as much ... More | | 
Installation view.
WASSENAAR.- In the summer of 2022, Antony Gormley (1950) takes over the museum and estate of Voorlinden. The British artist is renowned worldwide for his sculptures, installations and public works that explore the relationship between the human body and the space around us. The major retrospective exhibition GROUND brings together work spanning Gormleys career, from his early lead sculptures from the 1980s to recent large-scale installations, and can be seen from 26 May to 25 September 2022. Gormley approaches the age-old subject of the human body in his own unique, yet universal and philosophical way, building on art history and conceptual sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s. GROUND will be one of the most ambitious exhibitions in the museums history, the first to occupy both the museum and the estate of Voorlinden. As a museum, we want to do everything we can to offer Antony Gormley the stage ... More |
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| Exhibition features a selection of twenty paintings and works on paper by Hans Hartung | | American Friends of the Prado Museum acquires an excellent gothic painting by LluÃs Borrassà | | The strange, still world of Cornelia Parker | 
Hans Hartung, T1965-E48, 1965. Vinylic on canvas. 92 Ã 73 cm | 36 1/4 Ã 28 3/4 in. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of Perrotin & Hartung-Bergman Foundation.
TOKYO.- Perrotin and Fondation Hartung-Bergman are presenting a solo exhibition featuring a selection of twenty paintings and works on paper by Hans Hartung. Following an exceptional retrospective in Paris in 2019, as well as recent solo shows in the United States, Europe and Asia, the art of Hartung, who died in 1989, is being given pride of place once again in Japan at a time when he seems more modern than ever. In postwar Japan, Hans Hartung was acknowledged very early on as a pioneer of abstraction. In 1951, his painting T1948-16 caused a sensation at the Salon de Mai in Tokyo. This work then entered the collection of the Ōhara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, joining pieces by the greatest Western masters of modern art. In Japan as around the world, Hartung became a seminal figure and leading voice of informalism. In a 1953 interview with the magazine Mizue he declared that while impressionism, fauvism and cubism are genres, abst ... More | | 
Saint Martha, Saint Dominic and Saint Peter Martir altarpiece. LluÃs Borrassà . Acquisition of American Friends of the Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
MADRID.- American Friends of the Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, has recently acquired a painting on panel by LluÃs Borrassà to donate it to the museum and help expand the Prados collections. With provenance from the Chapel of Saint Martha of the Barcelona Cathedral, for which it was made between 1421 and 1425, the panel corresponds to the central painting of the altarpiece, measures approximately 6 feet by 4 feet, and represents Saint Martha, Saint Dominic and Saint Peter Martyr. At the end of the 18th century the monumental altarpiece was dismantled and its elements were separated as they entered into different private collections. The quality of this painting the relevance of its author, its impressive size, and surviving documentation support its historical-artistic importance. Its incorporation into the Museo Nacional del Prado will be a significant addition in r ... More | | 
The British artist Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain, where a retrospective of her work will be on display through Oct. 16, in London, May 3, 2022. Charlotte Hadden/The New York Times.
by Lauren Elkin
LONDON.- On a recent morning, artist Cornelia Parker was at Tate Britain, instructing her producer Caroline Smith on where to hang a giant flattened sousaphone. The steamrollered horn is the pièce de résistance of her installation Perpetual Canon (2004), in which 60 similarly mistreated brass instruments are hung from the ceiling in a circle around a central exposed light bulb. They were all once played in Salvation Army and British Legion bands, a nod to all these declining British institutions and traditions, Parker told Andrea Schlieker, curator of the Tate Britain show, in an interview for the catalog. Here? Smith asked, standing near the entrance. Or here? The two were trying to find the spot where the sousaphone would throw off the most shadow. Maybe toward the back wall, Parker said. They ... More |
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| Maverick Minimalist, gallerist, global citizen | | Tom Patterson Theatre opens at Stratford Festival | | Shahzia Sikander awarded Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize 2022 | 
Kazuko Miyamoto, Red Kimono, 1998. © Kazuko Miyamoto. Courtesy of the artist and private collection.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- Very good things are worth a very long wait. A prime example: Kazuko Miyamotos trim, airy, beautifully installed To perform a line at the Japan Society, a survey of work by an artist who has been an admired and integral but underknown member of New York Citys downtown art community for more than 50 years. The founder of Gallery Onetwentyeight on Rivington Street is only now having her first institutional show. Born in Tokyo in 1942, Miyamoto who initially used her given name, Kazuko, as a professional moniker immigrated to the United States in 1964, settling first in Harlem. She had studied painting in Tokyo and continued to do so for four years at the Art Students League, where her primary teacher was ... More | | 
Tom Patterson Theatre from across the Avon River. Photo: Ann Baggley.
TORONTO.- The new Tom Patterson Theatre at the Stratford Festival is a highly anticipated addition to the Canadian cultural landscape. Designed by Siamak Hariri, founding partner with Hariri Pontarini Architects, this shimmering, state-of-the-art venue embraces its riverside park setting. Hariri said the festivals ambitions set a high bar for the project, which the Toronto based practice won in an international design competition. They wanted an exceptional building with new programs that would enhance the festival and this community for decades to come, said Hariri. We sought to create an emotional experience through architecture that complements the magic of transcendent works of theatrical performance. The 7,150sm (77,000sf) theatre is situated on the banks of the Avon River in Stratford, Ontario. A vibrant transparency runs its entire length with a lustrous façade that ebbs and flows ... More | | 
Shahzia Sikander in front of her film Parallax. Photography: Erika Ede.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly congratulates Shahzia Sikander on being awarded Japans 2022 Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize. The Fukuoka Prize is awarded annually to honor the outstanding work of individuals, groups, and organizations for their contributions in research, and arts and culture. Established in 1990 by Fukuoka City, the award aims to foster and increase awareness of the value of Asian cultures. Basing herself firmly in South Asian traditions while also reinvigorating them, Ms. Sikander has metaphorically depicted the grave problems facing the world through contemporary forms. Her distinctive world of creative expression is internationally praised, and many young Asian artists have been inspired to emulate her. For such ambitious work as a representative female artist of South Asia, Ms. Shahzia Sikander is truly worthy of the Arts and Culture Prize of the Fukuoka Prize. Ms. Shahzia Sikander ... More |
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| Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents HLAVA by Viktor Freŝo | | Exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Latvian landscapist Vilhelms Purvītis | | Royal College of Art unveils new Herzog & de Meuron designed campus | 
Viktor Freo, Roly Poly, 2022. Polyester.
AMSTERDAM.- Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, presents a solo exhibition of Slovak multimedia artist Viktor Freo from 28 May until 20 August 2022. The exhibition HLAVA marks a 10-year collaboration. The gallery shows a colourful selection of sculptures, paintings and installations with a prominent role for character 'Niemand' and a round, minimalistic head. Viktor Freo is internationally known for his 'Niemand' sculpture. The characteristic small man, with a disproportionate figure and an angry, arrogant expression on his face, reflects the negative emotions and qualities that people try to hide all their life. The artist plays with 'Niemand' in sculpture variations and mixed media installations. A round head features in iconic objects, installations and abstract paintings. The multimedia artist reflects on the situation in the society and culture with atypical works of art. He is often critical in his works and ... More | | 
Vilhelms Purvītis. Autumn Sun (Autumn Gold). No later than 1910. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Photo: Normunds Brasliņ.
RIGA.- PURVĪTIS, an exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Latvian landscapist Vilhelms Purvītis, is on view in the Great Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 28 May to 9 October 2022. The deepest essence of a work of art cannot be grasped and exhausted. (...) The works of the great masters are eternally beautiful and indestructible through the fact that they have been created with immense power of the spirit. (...) Eternally unfathomable beauty issues from a true work of art. (Vilhelms Purvītis) The founder and most ambitious moderniser of national landscape painting, Vilhelms Purvītis (18721945) is recognised as one of the key figures in Latvian visual art of the first half of the 20th century. At the turn of the century, this accomplished painter of snow and early northern spring ... More | | 
The large-scale Hangar in the Royal College of Art's new £135m design and innovation campus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, located in Battersea, London. This double height space has vast doors at each end to enable the installation of heavy, large, or complex works of art, and will be accessible to the wider public. Photo © Iwan Baan.
LONDON.- The Royal College of Art, the worlds leading university of art and design, unveiled its new campus in Battersea, London on 23 May 2022, the most significant campus development in its history. The £135 million campus is designed by internationally acclaimed architects, Herzog & de Meuron. The expansion marks a critical point in the RCAs transformation into a dynamic, STEAM-focused postgraduate university (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) expanding into computer and materials science, robotics, advanced manufacturing, complex visualisation and data science, and intelligent mobility, enabling its students to tackle some of the ... More |
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 The Ford Capri prototype RS 3100 - The holy grail of everyman classics wakes after 40 yearsLONDON.- Once in a while a car manufacturer hits the jackpot with a design that appeals to millions and produces a driving experience not previously available in the mass market. This is what happened when the Ford Capri was unveiled and its racing brother the RS 3100 hit the racetracks of Europe. It just grabbed the imagination. Bought new for £1,500 the asking price now is £50,000 to £60,000 which says all one needs to know about the appeal of this car. Classic Car Auctions will be selling this Sebring red orange red 'Holy Grail' of Capris, the prototype RS 3100, with just one owner from new at their June 18th sale. Simon Langsdale who consigned the car for Classic Car Auctions, says: The Prototype RS3100 built at AVO South Ockendon in 1972 was part of the pre-the production run of the 249 cars built in 1973. Ford ... More  Photographer brings Kielder dark skies down to earthSUNDERLAND.- A photographic exhibition is giving visitors the chance to explore the darkness of a winter Kielder night throughout the summer months. Created by photographic artist Helen McGhie, and located on the Skyspace walking trail, the exhibition explores a night of winter stargazing at Kielder through portraits suspended between the trees. The portraits show stargazers, astronomy equipment and the environment. Helen is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Sunderland. The exhibition Another Dimension is part of her PhD research, exploring how photographic art can create new ways to experience dark skies in northern England. The work is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Councils National Productivity Investment Fund. Kielder Observatory in Northumberland International ... More  Laurel Gitlen extends Gloria Maximo exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- When we move through rigid structures within lived experience, be it religious, academic, work-related, or domestic, a delicate remainder is produced, as who we are separates from the particular channel in which we are moving. My work makes use of these existential remains. By separate I am describing a movement through which an inequality or difference is observed. Conversely, it is also a learning, or an addition of information. My works are meant to invoke this dynamic within our personal and societal movement. It is liminal, atmospheric, the stuff that seems like a projection but is in fact a part of the nuance of regular day to day inequalities and separations, but also joys and pleasures. Primarily working across painting, performance and video, my practice is often centered on liminal status, either ... More  John Moran Auctioneers offers an impressive selection of international Modern and Contemporary works LOS ANGELES, CA.- As spring ends and summer begins, John Moran Auctioneers is preparing a sizzling Post War and Contemporary Art + Design sale taking place Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at noon PST. With over 275 lots, this sale includes a smashing selection of prints and multiples lead by key artists, mid-century furniture and design, and modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics by Southern California artists, and hand-crafted furniture by local and international acclaimed designers. In addition to the post-war art and design, Morans will be offering a capsule collection of designer furniture coming from a private collector in Los Angeles who sought out the expertise of celebrity interior designer, Martyn Lawrence Bullard. Martyn Lawrence Bullard is a world-renowned interior designer ... More  Reflex Amsterdam opens 'I Wish I Were A River', a new solo show by Iris SchomakerAMSTERDAM.- Reflex Amsterdam is presenting Iris Schomakers new body of work 'I Wish I Were a River'. Here, the artist interrogates the space between abstraction and figuration on a wonderous quest to transform complexity into clarity. The paintings on paper are predominately rendered in black and white, with a rare tender streak of colour to intensify the emotive essence of the work and the compositional elements. This is further orchestrated by the artists attentive eye towards geometrical shapes which proffer the works rhythm and texture. At this exhibition, several medium sized works are available; a rare occurrence of Schomakers oeuvre. Solitude runs through the artists works as a red thread by her use of lonesome figures caught in moments of rest or contemplation. They read, take a bath, ... More  The ARX opens a curated exhibition of international artistsLONDON.- The ARX presents Behind the Canvas, a curated exhibition of international artists that explores the varied techniques and application of mediums used to illuminate the artists cerebral processes and visions. There is a strong dialogue of the abstract between the bold canvases created through their shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks. Ella Baudinet is a Melbourne-based artist working across private and commercial sectors worldwide. Primarily known for her abstract expressionist aesthetics, Baudinets work explores the space between conscious and subconscious, provoking emotions, associations, memories, spiritual connections and philosophical reflection within her viewers. Her canvases bridge digital and physical worlds, the artist creates designs digitally before approaching the canvas. Heavily influenced ... More  The colorful Mozart of Gen ZNEW YORK, NY.- Jacob Collier was about to cross Fifth Avenue when a stranger stopped him to take a picture of his outfit. A Grammy-winning musician with millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, Collier is used to requests for pictures, but it was a nice change of pace to be asked because someone liked what he was wearing a color-blocked jacket, acid-green patterned pants and tie-dyed Crocs rather than because the person recognized him from the internet. I was always curious how someone would perceive me from a fashion perspective because Ive never really perceived myself that way, he said later from his perch on a rock in Central Park, where he spent a sunny afternoon between shows on his Djesse world tour. Ive never overly contrived it. Ive gone for things I like that are comfortable ... More  Hana Miletić conceives an ephemeral pavilion for MudamLUXEMBOURG.- For this exhibition, Hana Miletić (b. 1982, Zagreb) has conceived an ephemeral pavilion, employing a structure originally conceived for the festival Precarious Pavilion in 2018. Designed as an intimate space, visitors may enter and attend a programme of events held within it over the course of the display. The dimensions, together with its situation in the space, were imagined as a counterpoint to the Foyers monumental staircase. The same intent is reflected in the facile assembly of a tubular frame covered with light fabric. The grey and white chequerboard pattern references the transparent grid used as a benchmark in the digital editing software Photoshop, and the grid used by weavers to make patterns. Miletić trained as a photographer before shifting to textile works in 2015, her work navigates ... More  Von Bartha opens solo exhibitions with works by Sarah Oppenheimer and Olaf Breuning BASEL.- Von Bartha is presenting two solo exhibitions, by New York based artists Sarah Oppenheimer and Olaf Breuning in the gallerys Basel space, opening 13 May to 30 July 2022 and coinciding with Art Basel in June. Invoking von Barthas longstanding engagement with kinetic art, Sarah Oppenheimers work introduces the human motor as an agent of phased movement. For Breunings second solo exhibition at von Bartha, the artist displays a new series of paintings in dialogue with his sculptures in the gallerys north space. Known for the manipulation of the built environment, Oppenheimers latest work, N-02, consists of three interconnected instruments, each composed of an elongated black aluminium bar and two linear lighting tracks. Arrayed across the ceiling, lamps weave between gallery walls. Black bars interrupt the ... More  Group exhibition explores shifting ideas of western landscape, painting, and fieldworkTUCSON, AZ.- MOCA Tucson presents Plein Air, a group exhibition that explores shifting ideas of western landscape, painting, and fieldwork. Plein Air includes work by Susanna Battin, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, iris yirei hu, KB Jones, Hillary Mushkin, Sterling Wells, and Paula Wilson. The exhibition is organized by guest curator Aurora Tang. Traditional plein air painting, which typically involves painting outdoors in a single sitting to capture a vista in a certain quality of light, is taken as a point of departure to consider the ways in which humans use, observe, record, and commune with the land. In this exhibition, the practice of plein air painting is considered in the context of land surveying and settling, public and private space, multidisciplinary onsite research, art history, and the embodied experience of being ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930. Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930 - February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City. In this image: Robert Ryman, Untitled, signed and dated 61; signed four times and dated 61 three times on the overturned left edge, oil on canvas, 48 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. 123.7 x 123.7 cm. Est. $15/20 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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