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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917â2000), Market Scene, 1966. Gouache on paper. Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase 2018.22 © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Claudia Dreifus
NEW YORK, NY.- In the fall of 1962, African American artist Jacob Lawrence made a 10-day visit to the then-newly independent West African nation of Nigeria. The American Society of African Culture in Lagos had mounted a retrospective of Lawrences work and invited him to lecture. After his show closed, Lawrence briefly visited the city of Ibadan, meeting with local artists particularly with members of the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, publishers of the influential literary magazine, Black Orpheus. The Nigeria that Lawrence encountered vibrant, chaotic, creative intrigued him. He wanted to know it better. And so, to finance a more complete experience, Lawrence and his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight, sold their New York City apartment. In 1964 at the very moment wh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the Yiribana Gallery featuring (left to right) Christine Yukenbarri 'Winpurpurla' 2018, Grace Lillian Lee 'Belonging 1â5' 2021â22, Wawiriya Burton 'Ngayuku ngura (my country)' 2018, Helen Ganalmirriwuy Garrawurru 'Mol mät (black mat)' 2022 and Lily Roy 'Gurne-garnjirra (fishtrap fence)' 2022, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Zan Wimberley.
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| The Unflinching Eye of Egon Schiele: Works of a Private Collector to be exhibited at Bonhams | | 'The Boundary Beyond Figures' at the Arushi Gallery in Los Angeles featuring Ghanaian emerging artists | | Guillermo del Toro opens his 'cabinet of curiosities' |
Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Sitzende Frau mit schwarzen Strümpfen (Seated woman with black stockings). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams is to host a major exhibition of works on paper by the pioneering artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) from one of the most extensive private collections of Schieles work in the UK. The exhibition will comprise of 15 artworks and will include works on paper deriving from the artist's critical years of 1910 and 1911, as well as a very rare painting of Schloss Neulengbach. The Unflinching Eye of Egon Schiele: Works of a Private Collector will be on view at Bonhams New Bond Street, London, from Monday 31 October to Wednesday 16 November. Frederick Millar, Bonhams Specialist, Impressionist & Modern Art, commented: This show provides a wonderful and extremely rare opportunity to enjoy one of the most extensive collections of Schieles works on paper in the UK. Schieles work explores ... More | |
Torto Lawrence, Adoja the Gambler. The Boundary Beyond Figures, an exhibition showcasing emerging and mid-career artists from Ghana.
LOS ANGELES.- Arushi Gallery and Berj Art Gallery, are now presenting The Boundary Beyond Figure, a walk through of many faces of figurative art by emerging and mid-career artists from Ghana and its neighbors. This is the first time an exhibit showcasing a collective of emerging Ghanaian artists is taking place in Los Angeles. The goal is to showcase distinct techniques of figurative artworks in the Ghanian art scene, and will be on view through December 10th, 2023. In recent years, Ghana has left its mark on the artworld with successful artists such as El Anatsui, Ibramin Mahama, Amoako Boafo and Serge Clottey. The exhibit, curated by Arushi Kapoor, a champion of international minorities, and William Prempeh, an advocate of Ghanian art, gives a platform for the viewers to identify the distinct techniques within the umbrella of diasporic artists. ... More | |
For the first season of his horror anthology for Netflix, the filmmaker handpicked eight directors to tell a series of strange and macabre tales.
by Chris Vognar
NEW YORK, NY.- When Guillermo del Toro was a child in Guadalajara, Mexico, he used to stay up late watching TV with his older brother. One night they happened upon an episode of the 1960s science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits called The Mutant. In it, Warren Oates plays an astronaut caught in radioactive rain on another planet. Theres a moment where he removes his goggles and his eyes are as big as the goggles, del Toro recalled in a recent video interview. And I started screaming. My brother put me to bed. You could say the rest of my life has been a counterphobic reaction to the fear I felt seeing that episode. Today, del Toro, 58, elicits screams from others, with movies like Pans Labyrinth and TV series like The Strain. And now he has his own anthology ... More |
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| Draftsman and sculptor Joseph Beuys's actions from 1963 to 1986 now in a DVD edition | | 'Robert Carter, Atemporal Artefacts' on view at The SPACE Gallery | | Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters |
For over four years, the ZKM | Karlsruhe worked on a DVD edition of the audiovisual recordings of Joseph Beuyss legendary actions. © Beuys Estate / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2022.
KARLSRUHE.- The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is publishing Joseph Beuys's actions from 1963 to 1986 in a DVD edition. For over four years, the ZKM | Karlsruhe worked on a DVD edition of the audiovisual recordings of Joseph Beuyss legendary actions. The singular achievements of art in the second half of the 20th century are media art and action art. Action painting signaled the beginning of the performative turn in which Joseph Beuys plays a central role. In addition to his extensive and innovative oeuvre as a draftsman and sculptor, he was in fact the first artist to transform sculpture into a form of action, and with his concept of »social sculpture« he extended the concept of design from material into society. Beuyss action art turned away from reductionist modernism and towards the whole of our lifeworld. This meant that his demonstrations often had a disruptive, unsettling, and provocative character. For over four years, t ... More | |
© Robert Carter, Soteria II (Salvation II), archival pigment print, signed on recto. Size 30" x 40". Roberts work is atemporal - it is about time, without time.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Atemporal Artefacts began as an exploration of global mythologies and a meditation on time. Artifacts tell us so much about who we were. They can teach us about the things we desired, feared, revered, and endured. They speak to humankinds ingenuity and aesthetic sensibilities, and in some cases mark major milestones in our development as a species. Robert Carter (he/they) is a visual artist, photographer, and writer whose figurative work often features brown skin in an array of hues, often set against lush fabrics and colors. With influences ranging from the ancient and historical worlds to fantasy, his work is a meditation on the things that connect us all. Robert was raised in Prince Georges County, MD in a colorful home filled with Black art depicting slices of life. At an early age he found a connection to history and culture through museums, magazines, movies, and music. These influences have culminated in his endeavors to use art as ... More | |
Actor Ralph Fiennes at the Tisch Skylight, an event space above the Shed Theater, where hes portraying Robert Moses in the play 'Straight Line Crazy, in New York on Oct. 11, 2022. Erik Tanner/The New York Times.
by Maureen Dowd
TORONTO.- After 10 minutes sitting alone, I panicked. I was meeting Ralph Fiennes for dinner and suddenly realized I was in the wrong restaurant. The 59-year-old actor is a confessed compulsive, always overly prepared, not the sort who would be late or appreciate lateness in others. So I began frantically running around Canada, a stranger in a strange land. I was dreading that famous icy blue stare, the one that seems lit with darkness; the merciless glare that was so blood-chilling when Fiennes played a depraved Nazi commandant in Schindlers List, a reptilian Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, and a psychopathic chef in his stylish new black comedy, The Menu. When I finally careered into the right place, 30 minutes late, he was sitting alone, looking sharp in a Timothy Everest navy wool suit, eating ... More |
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| The Warhol presents "Andy Warhol's Social Network: Interview, Television and Portraits" | | New Southern California exhibitions reveal riches of art and tradition | | The mysterious patient in Room 23: The hermit baroness |
Andy Warhol, Dollar Sign, 1981, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhols Social Network: Interview, Television and Portraits, on view September 24, 2022 February 20, 2023. Andy Warhols Social Network: Interview, Television and Portraits presents the cross-section between Warhols longest running project, Interview magazine, his portrait commissions and his ventures in television with Fashion, Warhol TV and Warhols Fifteen Minutes. Featuring 204 issues of Interview magazine from 1969 to 1987, Andy Warhols Social Network will highlight this rare holding within The Warhols permanent collection that has never before been shown in its entirety. Organized chronologically, visitors will experience the visual transformation of the magazine from underground film journal to an arbiter of mainstream popular culture featuring iconic celebrities, fashion brands and aspirational living of the young, ... More | |
Sergio Hernández, Máscaras (Masks), 2022. Oil on 24-carat leaf on wood panel. Courtesy of the artist.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Most people probably know piñatas as ephemeral paper-and-cardboard sculptures, made to be smashed by children to get the treats hidden inside. But at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, they are complex, beautiful works of art and storytelling. Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration, which runs from Oct. 29 to April 30, is just one of several exhibitions opening this fall in Southern California that celebrate the talents and works of Latino artists. More than 80 piñatas are featured, including a 12-foot-long string of rosary beads, a life-size lowrider and swarms of tiny hummingbirds and Monarch butterflies. Although the history of the piñata is not well documented, it is believed to have originated in ancient China, which had a tradition of shattering a ceramic ox full of seeds during a springtime ceremony, said Emily Zaiden, the guest curator of the Mingei exhibition. Piñatas began appearing ... More | |
Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke. Rutu Modan/The New York Times.
by George Rush and John Leland
NEW YORK, NY.- She arrived at Mount Sinai Wests emergency room with slurred speech and no identification. Paramedics had found the woman on the floor in a luxury apartment building on Central Park South, disoriented, apparently experiencing a stroke. She was one of thousands of people who are brought to New York hospitals each year, identified only as unknown. By all appearances, she was just another Jane Doe the hospital was required to take in needing care that would probably take about a week. But in the next day or two, a family lawyer, following a tip from the manager of the womans building, identified the unknown. She was the Baroness Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza, 80 years old, from one of Europes wealthiest families, with ... More |
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| How the Denver Art Museum kicked Columbus out the door | | First comprehensive retrospective of Etel Adnan's work opens at Lenbachhaus Munich | | Qatar Museums previews new Lusail Museum with special exhibition |
The museum removed all references to the canceled hero from its collections and developed a new frame for exhibiting Latin American art. The Martin Building at DAM designed by Gio Ponti in 1971. The original uploader was Tijuana Brass at English Wikipedia.
DENVER, CO.- The flailing legacy of Christopher Columbus suffered two pernicious blows in Denver in 2020. The first happened in public view when protesters, fired up by the anti-colonial furor of that springs Black Lives Matter movement, tied a rope around a 15-foot statue honoring the explorer and toppled it inside the citys Civic Center Park. The second was more discreet, and right across the street, at the Denver Art Museum, where the encyclopedic institution simultaneously obliterated all references to the canceled hero from its collections. Pre-Columbian Art was quietly renamed Art of the Ancient Americas. At the same time, Spanish Colonial Art morphed into Latin American Art. The changes aligned the museums organizational structure with the sensibilities of its community, ... More | |
The Lenbachhaus's exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Etel Adnan's oeuvre in Germany.
MUNICH.- Etel Adnan (19252021) was an important representative of modernism. Her oeuvre is distinguished by a rich and vital exchange between the Arab and the Western worlds. The work of the poet, painter, journalist, and philosopher, who lived between Lebanon, France, and California, melds widely different art forms, media, languages, and cultures. Born in Beirut to a Greek mother and a Syrian father from Damascus for whom exile is the defining experience, she grows up in polyglot Lebanon, which is under French rule until 1943. She studies philosophy first in Beirut, then in Paris and, after 1955, in California. These places and their cultural climates will have a lingering power. Travels to Mexico and North Africa, too, have a profound impact on her. Wars, life in exile, and constantly shifting geopolitical conditions frame her eventful life and her arts active engagement with the world ... More | |
Titian, Suleyman the Magnificent, ca. 1540, oil on canvas, 72.4 x 61 cm. Lusail Museum Collection. Photo: © Lusail Museum, Qatar Museums, 2022.
DOHA.- Qatar Museums today announced details of the special exhibition Lusail Museum: Tales of a Connected World, opening 24 October at QM Gallery Al Riwaq as a preview of the vision for the new Lusail Museum, its architectural design, and its world-class collection of art. This introduction to the new institution, which is scheduled to break ground in 2023, is presented as part of the year-round national cultural movement Qatar Creates, opening in time for the influx of visitors to Doha for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Accompanying Tales of a Connected World in autumn 2022 will be three more special exhibitionspresented at the Garage Gallery, Fire Station, QM Gallery Katara, and the Museum of Islamic Artthat give additional insights into the scope and viewpoint to be encountered in the new Lusail Museum. Designed by the Pritzker ... More |
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Cumbrian Blue(s) ceramics by Paul Scott opens at Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts house
BOWNESS-ON-WINDERMERE.- Cumbrian Blue(s) showcases the ceramic work of artist Paul Scott, whose familiar looking blue and white plates subvert the traditional tableware motifs with images from modern day life. This exhibition at Blackwell the Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere features pieces created during the last 20 years and includes new designs in response to the contemporary Cumbrian landscape. Paul Scott is a Cumbria-based artist with an international reputation for his subversive ceramics that highlight political and cultural issues. He uses familiar designs associated with mass produced domestic tableware and alters them to comment on society. A second glance reveals non-traditional images superimposed on the expected, such as a mobile home in a picturesque countryside or a nuclear power plant in a bucolic setting ... More
Can $50 million make a dull Brooklyn office park cool?
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Citys most populous borough has many crowd-pleasing attractions: the Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Nets. Now theres Brooklyn Commons. Its better known as the MetroTech Center, a dull and insular back-office hub for financial firms and city agencies in Downtown Brooklyn that many New Yorkers have largely ignored unless theyve worked or studied there since the early 1990s. Now a $50 million renovation aims to transform it into a leisure destination, with trendy cafes, cultural programming and refreshed green spaces. The old MetroTech had something of an image problem. The inward-facing complex was not seen as particularly welcoming, even though it was open to the public. Brookfield Properties, a real estate company that acquired part of the complex in 2018, is ... More
Artist Damien Roach debuts SEED on Daata, an rhizomatic artwork
NEW YORK, NY.- Daata, the groundbreaking digital art incubator that curates, commissions, and sells all forms of digital art, is thrilled to announce SEED by Damien Roach, the latest exhibition in Daatas ongoing partnership with the iconic London music venue, KOKO Camden. SEED launches with an immersive multi-sensory installation at KOKO and encompasses NFTs, installation, perfume, skateboards, radio, sonic performances, and apparel. Taking an innovative approach to the realm of Web3 and the new cryptoart era, one-of-a-kind perfumes, skateboards, and T-shirts are paired with NFTs, reconnecting the physical and the digital realms. The visual world of SEED was created using an artificial intelligence machine learning model developed by Roach to produce unique artworks based on 17th and 18th century Dutch flower paintings. ... More
DADA Gallery celebrates African artists with annual magazine
LONDON.- As an extension of DADA gallery, Oyinkansola Dada reaches beyond the traditional ways of interacting with her audience by introducing an annual art magazine. DADA Magazine bridges the gap between visual art and youth culture, acting as a compass for a new generation of art enthusiasts whilst engaging audiences across the creative spectrum. With visual art as the main focus, the magazine will also engage with other art forms, including fashion, music and literature. The magazine emphasizes pan-africanism with a playful, irreverent energy. By focusing on artists living and working both in Africa and its diaspora, the idea is to foster a deeper sense of community amongst African artists and art lovers across the world.With one issue a year and a new theme each edition, artists and contributors will be invited to interrogate ... More
The Print Center announces 'A Brand New End: Survival and its Pictures', by Carmen Winant
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Print Center (TPC) announced the release of A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, a book by artist Carmen Winant that explores, through visual culture and photographic representation, the crisis of domestic violence and the urgency of nonprofit advocacy to ameliorate it. Published by The Print Center in October 2022 in an edition of 1,000, A Brand New End brings together a diverse selection of writers, scholars, advocates, artists and practitioners, featuring essays and archival materials from Philadelphias Women In Transition and Denvers National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, two organizations that support women who have experienced domestic violence. The book marks the final chapter of a multi-faceted project by Winant that began with a solo exhibition of newly commissioned works in the Spring ... More
This years Fruitmarket exhibitions to include Scotland's artist Hayley Tompkins
EDINBURGH.- This autumn, the Fruitmarket will present an exhibition of new and existing work by Glasgow based artist Hayley Tompkins that examines the metamorphic materiality of paint and colour. Tompkinss career spans over 25 years, and this seems a timely moment to make what will be her most extensive solo presentation in a public UK context to date. The exhibition brings together in an installation across both floors of the Fruitmarket a suite of digital films unseen in a group until now, a new group of paintings commissioned specially for the exhibition, and a selection of the painted commonplace objects for which the artist is best known. On the ground floor, Tompkinss digital films are projected onto suspended screens, rhythmically inviting the audience to move through the space and engage with each individually. The films examine everyday ... More
An Iranian exile channels her trauma into film
NEW YORK, NY.- I know that fear; I know that humiliation, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, winner of the best actress award at this years Cannes Film Festival, said in a recent interview. I know how men in Iran use their power to keep you quiet. Ebrahimi is an Iranian exile who in 2008 decided she had to flee after being subjected to a smear campaign based on her love life. Now that experience and her role in the film Holy Spider, which opens in theaters in the United States on Oct. 28, have intersected with disarming intensity as women in Iran burn their headscarves to protest the oppression of the Islamic Republic. The story of Rahimi, the fictional investigative journalist at the heart of Holy Spider, is one of female defiance in the face of male violence. Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes in the Iranian ... More
Exhibition at Betty Cuningham Gallery celebrates the life and art of William Bailey
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery opened an exhibition celebrating the life and art of William Bailey. The artist passed away on April 13, 2020, three months after the close of his retrospective, Looking Through Time, at the Yale University Art Gallery. The current exhibition marks Baileys eighth show with the Gallery. Baileys work divides into two lines of concentration: his still-lifes and figures; all are from his imagination rather than observation. The exhibition will include selected paintings, works on paper and prints. Among the works are two major figure paintings, Imaginary Studio II (Rome) and Afternoon in Umbria III. Also on view are two rare pencil on paper still-life drawings as well as twelve small, intimate musings. While the large still life drawings are finished works, the pencil on graph paper musings are studies, which provide a unique glimpse ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Andrea della Robbia was born October 24, 1435. Andrea della Robbia (October 24, 1435 - August 4, 1525) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics. Born in Florence, Robbia was the son of Marco della Robbia, whose brother, Luca della Robbia, popularized the use of glazed terra-cotta for sculpture. Andrea became Luca's pupil, and was the most important artist of ceramic glaze of the times. In this image: Andrea della Robbia, 1435â1525, Saint Michael the Archangel Italian (Florence) 15th century (ca. 1475) 1470 - 1480. Glazed terracotta; Frame, wood 31-1/8 x 61-7/8 in. (79.1 x 157.2 cm) Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960 60.127.2.
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