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NEW YORK, NY.- This is our 21st video which introduces our new 200-page catalogue titled Catch & Release, the launching of our new multifaceted website and the opening of our 3,000 square foot gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut with our longtime partner Abby Taylor of Taylor Graham. Our annual catalogue is our signature statement that no other gallery comes close to producing. It shows our vast inventories of Post War art along with our vision revealing itself. When you peruse our latest catalogue, please pause a moment, and realize that each work of art has a backstory. Where and when was it created? Where did it go after its creation and to whom? Over the years of its initial acquisition who lived with it and who viewed it? Was it loaned to exhibitions and museums? Has it traded hands only once or numerous times and eventually how did we acquire it? Well, one doesnt generally think of all these curious questions
. but in my everyday life it is all I think about! The backstor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Mali Morris, Three Ghosts, Hales New York, 18 November - 17 December 2022, Photo by JSP Art Photography.
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| Joan Mitchell: A painter at her peak | | Hamiltons Gallery exhibits a new series by Murray Fredericks | | What do the objects you own say about you? | 
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1984. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
NEW YORK, NY.- Painter Joan Mitchell, who died in 1992 at the age of 67, saved the best for last. In this regard, she was a lot like Philip Guston, who abandoned abstract expressionism for a lush yet acerbic figurative style during the last 13 years of his life. In contrast, Mitchell stayed with abstract expressionism but never stood still. She started young, when she was ambitious but barely any good. Her four-decade career is distinguished by fairly steady forward motion, during which she gave abstract expressionism a lyricism, spareness and light that werent quite natural to it. The exuberant selection of late works at David Zwirner in Manhattan traces a short span of this progress. The 18 canvases dating from 1979 to 1985 range in size from substantial (four panels across) to small amenable to most living-room walls. Almost all are united in color, with blues, greens, yellows and oranges dominating most works. ... More | | 
BLAZE #17, Lake Pamamaroo, Menindee.
LONDON.- Hamiltons Gallery presents BLAZE, a new series by the renowned Australian photographer Murray Fredericks. This astonishing body of work is on view from 14th November 2022 to 21st January 2023. Fredericks new series has fire as its central theme whilst transporting you to the vast regions of the Australian salt planes and wetlands. Hamiltons has represented Murray Fredericks for over a decade. His atmospheric photographs border on the sublime giving rise to the emotional and physical sense of an overwhelming awe of nature. These large-scale, colour photographs are set against the vast expanse of the Australian landscape, in particular flooded lakes and river systems. However, unlike Fredericks previous works, BLAZE has fire as its central theme. Using non-destructive methods, Fredericks seemingly sets trees alight to create mesmerizing natural beacons. ... More | | 
Jill Singer, left, and Monica Khemsurov, founders of the Sight Unseen design website and the authors of How to Live With Objects, in Los Angeles, Nov. 9, 2022. Their book proposes a new manual for living, Khemsurov said, meant to loosen up the fusty rules of decor. (Maiwenn Raoult/The New York Times)
by Aileen Kwun
NEW YORK, NY.- You can only afford so much sofa, Monica Khemsurov said, speaking of her new book, How to Live With Objects. The book, by Khemsurov and Jill Singer, was published this month by Clarkson Potter, and it proposes a new manual for living, she said, meant to loosen up the fusty rules of decor. Instead of focusing on the idea of a perfectly appointed interior, it steers the conversation toward the personal objects that truly make a home. But how do you define an object? Khemsurov and Singer, in plainly practical terms, simply refer to objects as physical design works that can easily be collected, ... More |
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| Irene Cara, 'Fame' and 'Flashdance' singer, dies at 63 | | Kunsthalle Basel marks 150th anniversary with the Regionale exhibition | | Gagosian London presents new work by Douglas Gordon including on-site neon workshops | 
Ms. Cara was a child star from the Bronx who gained international fame as the singer of major pop anthems from movies of the 1980s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Irene Cara, an Oscar-winning singer who performed the electric title tracks in two aspirational self-expression movies films of the 1980s, Flashdance and Fame, has died. She was 63. Her death at her Florida home was confirmed by her publicist, Judith Moose, on Twitter on Saturday. Moose, who did not specify when Cara died, said her cause of death was currently unknown and will be released when information is available. Cara, a child actor, dancer and singer, was the voice behind two of the biggest movie theme songs of the 1980s. She performed the title track from the movie Fame (1980), which followed a group of artsy high school students as they move through their first auditions to graduation. In 1984, she won the Oscar for best original song as one of the writers of Flashdance
What a Feeling, the title song from Flashdance and which she also sang. The buoyant song ... More | | 
Regionale 23, We are so many here, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022. Exhibition view. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- This year, the 150th anniversary of Kunsthalle Basel is the focus of the Regionale exhibition We are so many here. Casting a glance back at the history of its founding body, the Basler Kunst- verein (Basel art association), and its pre- decessors sheds light on sparkling commitment, courageous initiatives, and tireless efforts to create community, visibility, and networking among art and art lovers. When the foundation stone of Kunsthalle Basel was laid in 1869, the president of the association, Johann Jakob Im Hof, outlined the aims with the following words: To prepare a place for the fine arts to stimulate, promote, and spread interest in them in our city, as well as to cultivate rela- tionships among artists and friends of the arts. In: Lukas Gloor, Thomas Kellein, Margit Suter eds., Die Geschichte des Basler Kunstvereins und der Kunsthalle Basel. 18391988. (Basel: Basler Kunstverein, 1989), 35. ... More | | 
Fabricating works for "Douglas Gordon: Neon Ark," London, 2022. Photo: Lucy Dawkins, Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is currently presenting Neon Ark, an exhibition of new neon works by Douglas Gordon that incorporates a live workshop in which artisans fabricate works in situ that are then installed in the gallery. During certain hours the space is closed while activity in the workshop is visible through the street-facing window. In his films, projections, installations, photographs, performances, and works in other mediums, Gordon investigates collective memory and our sense of psychological security through extreme distortions of time and space, often using his own work and that of other artists and filmmakers as raw material. He has made text-based works since the 1990s; most of these have taken the form of vinyl transfers applied to walls, but a fewthe first being Empire, installed in 1998 in an alleyway outside a Glasgow pubhave employed ... More |
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| Yto Barrada (Art) and Füsun Köksal (Music) win the 4th edition of The Mario Merz Prize | | David Zwirner presents a new large-scale video installation by Diana Thater | | Ketterer Kunst Auction of museum-quality works from the collection of Serge Sabarsky | 
Yto Barrada, Couronne d'Oxalis (Oxalis Crown), 2006, 125 x 125 cm (49 3/16 x 49 3/16 in). Copyright: Yto Barrada, Courtesy: Pace Gallery; Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg: and Galarie Polaris, Paris. Photo Courtesy: the artist.
TURIN.- The Mario Merz Prize is the only international award for art and music. Yto Barrada was chosen from a shortlist of international contemporary artists including Paolo Cirio, Christina Forrer, Anne Hardy, He Xiangyu, and Koo Jeong A. Füsun Köksal was selected from a shortlist of composers including Katherine Balch, William Dougherty, Farzia Fallah, Claudia Jane Scroccaro. Yto Barrada has been selected as the winner of the Mario Merz Prize fourth edition in the Art category. Barrada was selected via an open public vote, and a jury comprised of Manuel Borja-Villel (Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid); Caroline Bourgeois, (curator Pinault Collection, Paris); Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director of the New Museum, New York - artistic director of the Fondazione Trussardi, Milan); ... More | | 
Installation view, Diana Thater: Practical Effects, David Zwirner, New York, November 10December 10, 2022. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Practical Effects, a new large-scale video installation by trailblazing video artist Diana Thater at the gallerys 519 West 19th Street location. This is Thaters first solo exhibition in New York since 2015 and her tenth solo presentation with the gallery. Since emerging in the early 1990s, Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation art. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while critically examining the structures of mediated reality. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior sciences, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative works directly engage their surroundings, producing an intricate relationship between time and space. Approaching the idea of post-apocalyptic life through a poignant and wistful lens, Practical ... More | | 
Egon Schiele, Schlafende, 1912. Gouache, watercolor and pencil drawing, 31,7 x 48,1 cm. Estimate: 250,000 350,000.
MUNICH.- He was a man with many talents and led an eventful life coined by one passion: Serge Sabarsky loved art. He collected works from the most significant German expressionists and artists of Viennese Modernism. Now five works from his legendary collection will be called up in what is probably going to be the most spectacular auction at Ketterer Kunst, Germanys leading house for art from after Serge Sabarsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of the international art trade despite the fact that he entered the art world not before his mid-fifties. The son of Russian parents was born in Vienna in 1912 and fled the Nazi regime in 1938/39. At first he went to France and eventually arrived the USA, where his artistic gift enabled him to not only work as commercial artist and stage designer, but also as interior designer and architect. In 1968 he eventually opened his gallery on Madison Avenue in New York, and becam ... More |
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| Matthew Lutz-Kinoy opens an exhibition at kamel mennour | | How Ralph Ellison's world became visible | | Mounira Al Solh's first solo exhibition opens at Zeno X Gallery | 
End Monoculture Farming, The One-Straw Revolution, 2022. Watercolour on paper, 33,5 x 25Â cm (13,19 x 9,84 in.).
PARIS.- Early renowned and acclaimed by critics, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy has been reflecting  for more than ten years  upon cultural traditions and the techniques of representation that shaped them. Through ceramics works, painting or drawing, the artist goes back to the origins of thousand-year-old practices in order to explore the concept of cycle and repetitions that pace the living. It is in this sense that he summons ancestral ordinary objects as well as gestures related to craftsmanship to disclose the necessary commitment of bodies, and the performative aspect of what makes culture. The title of the exhibition Plate Is Bed, Plate is Sun, Plate is Circle, Plate is Cycle, revisits like a mantra  the intricate ties between the spiritual and the domestic, the mundane and the eternal, life and death, symbolized by the infinite circular form of the plate. ... More | | 
Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK, NY.- Judging the photographs of an artist who is not primarily a photographer raises a prickly question. Are you assessing the photos on their own merits or examining them to better understand the artists main work? With an artist such as Edgar Degas, his photos can be regarded as preparatory sketches for paintings. But what happens when the artist is not a painter but a writer? Ralph Ellisons 1952 novel, Invisible Man, an eye-opening dissection of the Black experience in America, follows the unnamed narrator on a painful trail of disillusionment, from a small town in the South to a college resembling Tuskegee Institute (which Ellison attended) and then north to Harlem, where he finds employment with a doctrinaire left-wing organization much like the Communist Party. The book is so searing and vivid that its hard to imagine ... More | | 
Mounira Al Solh, Silicone, Poppies and a Couple of Invisible Deffs (2022).
ANTWERP.- Mounira Al Solh's first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lovers, Nahawand and Saba, contains new paintings, works on paper and a film. The exhibition evokes images of Beiruts rich music scene: it flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and then bloomed again after the Lebanese Civil War (197590). The paintings conjure up the elated atmosphere that prevailed in the numerous concert halls and cafés, but also refer to the rich film industry from Egypt, Syria and Morocco, in which singers often featured in leading roles. Al Solhs exuberant use of colour is reminiscent of the flamboyant, occasionally kitschy sets of Middle Eastern TV shows and concerts. Famous musicians from the Arab world such as Umm Kulthum, Fairuz, Sabah and Samira Tawfik as well as Sabah Fakhri are shown without being literally portrayed; rather, the paintings call up the charisma or aura of the performers and refer to the content of their most famous songs. The Arabic words and phrases in Al Solh ... More |
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Queen Marie-Antoinette: the star of Christie's Paris Classic Week
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 Worcester Art Museum debuts works from America's first Japanese print collection of its kindWORCESTER, MASS.- This fall, the Worcester Art Museum present The Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Bancroft Collection, an exhibition of 50 Japanese prints from the Museums collection, 48 of which are being displayed for the first time. On view November 26, 2022-March 5, 2023, the exhibition takes a comprehensive look at the diverse ukiyo-e genre through the lens of John Chandler Bancroft (1835-1901), one of the earliest and most significant collectors of Japanese prints in the United States. Bancrofts collection of over 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints was bequeathed to WAM in 1901 and is considered the Museums first major collection. Illustrating the breadth of this transformative gift, The Floating World features works ranging in size, material, date, and subject matter, including works by renowned artists like Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, ... More  See why Tobias Wong remains one of Canada's most brilliant and provocative designersVANCOUVER, BC.- The Museum of Vancouver is presenting All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project, a new feature exhibition. In the early 2000s, Tobias Wong (19742010) took the design world by storm. Born and raised in Vancouver, he was a brilliant and prolific artist, whose career was all too short. Defying easy categorization, his work was wide ranging, pushing and dissolving disciplinary boundaries between conceptual art, performance, fashion and product design. Wongs international career took off and developed in New York City, where he resided until his untimely death in 2010. All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project is an invitation to revisit Wongs artistic contribution with fresh eyes. Recent social, environmental and technological events have transformed the way we see the world and inevitably the way we see Tobias Wongs work. ... More  A 200-year-old Paul Storr Ascot Cup Trophy leads Moran's Traditional Collector auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- As we near the end of 2022, John Moran Auctioneers announced their last Traditional Collector auction of the year, taking place Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at noon PST. With over 350 lots, this sale will include property from the estates of George David Sturges and artist Joan Strauss Carl, as well as other private estates and collections. Collectors will be pleased to find estimates ranging from under $1,000 to over $50,000. Expected to be one of the most coveted lots, a rare Paul Storr Ascot Cup Silver Racing Trophy from 1822, estimated $30,000-50,000. The racecourse on Ascot Heath, in Berkshire, England, and the Royal Meeting, a weeklong series of horse races held there in the summer, remains one of the major events of the British social calendar. This tradition is over 200 years old and includes the Gold Cup racing event. This trophy, engraved, Ascot Races 1822, ... More  Toledo Museum of Art awarded significant gift from Owens CorningTOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art was recently awarded $500,000 from the Owens Corning Foundation in support of its Art Out of School program, an outreach initiative to bring free artmaking opportunities into the community. The gift is specifically focused on supporting the partnership between TMA and Lucas Metropolitan Housing (LMH). The Owens Corning Foundations generous commitment will spread the funds out over the next three years to align with the agreement between TMA and LMH, which extends through June 2026. TMA and LMH signed a partnership agreement in June that extends art experiences to more than 18,000 residents of the housing authoritys 10 campuses within a two-mile radius of the Museum. Approximately 100 youth have already engaged with TMA through programming at Ravine Park and Birmingham Terrace (East Toledo), ... More  Springfield Art Museum winter 2022 focus exhibitions now on viewSPRINGFIELD, MONT.- The Springfield Art Museum is presenting three focus exhibitions during the winter of 2022, that opened on Saturday, November 26. Focus exhibitions are pulled from the Museums permanent collection of over 10,000 objects and aim to create a deeper understanding and connection with select artists, artistic media, genre, or art period. Both Rodney Frew and Frieda Logan: Swap Meet focus on Missouri artists and their connections to the region. Lyrical Abstraction features work by a group of artists from across the country, dubbed "Lyrical Abstractionists," during the 1960s and 1970s. Rodney Frew - Rodney Frew, a longtime local artist and art educator, developed a reputation for not only his talent as a printmaker, but his penchant for depicting the human condition in a no-holds-barred manner. ... More  Berlin experimental art and architecture practice launches King's Cross' annual winter installationLONDON.- Kings Cross recently announced the latest in its Granary Square winter installation series - "elsewhere: a place to think about the world" by Berlin-based, experimental art and architecture practice, raumlabor. Since this past November 21st until the end of February 2023, raumlabors totemic structure has become a new focal point for this popular London space, manipulating light and air and inviting audiences to reimagine their shared surroundings. Providing an outside environment to sit and spend time in company, "elsewhere" is a space to contemplate both the beauty and complexity of the world and consider new ways of working together to ignite change. The 33-foot high structure uses a set of imaginative tools to help people understand their immediate surroundings and their place in the wider world: at its core a dream machine ... More  Qatar Museums opens exhibition of renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama on the grounds of Museum of Islamic ArtDOHA.- The grounds of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) are being transformed with an expansive outdoor exhibition, My Soul Blooms Forever, showcasing the iconic artworks of celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition, which includes several large-scale artworks that have never been shown in the region, explores the artist's fascination with the natural world through epic sculptural installations of colourful, fantastically scaled plants and iconic polka-dotted pumpkins sculptures. My Soul Blooms Forever, on view at MIA Park until 1 March 2023, marks the 10-year anniversary of Qatars Years of Culture programme and is a legacy of the Qatar-Japan Year of Culture celebrated in 2012. The artworks have been installed as part of Qatar Creates, ... More  "Sky Hopinka: Behind the evening tide" currently on view at Luma Westbau, ZurichZURICH.- Behind the evening tide, currently on view at Luma Westbau until February 26th, 2023, presents a selection of works by artist Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians (Wisconsin, USA). Hopinka is a photographer, poet, and experimental filmmaker who investigates the sites and landscapes of the United States that are steeped in history, the multiplicity of languages, and myths from subjective perspectives rooted in indigenous cultures. For his first exhibition in Switzerland, two sequences of three short films are screened, alongside with a calligram that reveals the specificity of his work from the notion of ethnopoetry. In contrast to an objectifying study on contemporary Amerindian life, Hopinka operates at the crossroads of poetry and ethnography. Excerpted from a poem, the title of the exhibition "Behind the evening tide" ... More  Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Bethany CollinsNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Bethany Collins (b.1984). Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice examines the relationship between race and language. Centering languageits biases, contradictions, and ability to simultaneously forge connections and foster violenceher works illuminate American histories and offer insight into the development of racial and national identities. Drawing on a wide variety of documents, ranging from nineteenth-century musical scores to US Department of Justice reports, she erases, obscures, excerpts, and rewrites portions of text to bring to the fore the legacy and ongoing trauma of racism in the United States. Collinss early series like her 2010 White Noise drawings lay the foundation for her later investigations. Created while pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Georgia State University, these compositions draw on the artists own ... More |
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Terms of Belonging 
You Ni Chae 
The seduction of beauty 
Mehmet Sinan Kuran
Flashback On a day like today, English poet and painter William Blake was born November 28, 1757. William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".
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