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The new Pace Gallery in New York, July 6, 2019. With a new eight-story headquarters, Pace passes a generational baton while joining a building boom among the citys biggest galleries. Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times.
by Tess Thackara
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As megagalleries adapt in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are shifting tactics and schedules and, in some cases, rearranging the locations of entire shows. As a result, New York will get unexpected visits from the works of two great painters this fall. A showcase of new art by Jenny Saville, originally planned for a spring opening in the Gagosian gallerys Hong Kong space, will instead arrive in Manhattan in November. And a canceled exhibition of paintings by the late Jack Whitten, intended for Hauser & Wirths Zurich branch during Art Basel in June, will now be installed in the gallerys new flagship space in Chelsea in November. The situation in New York is extremely fluid, and that could change our trajectory and our plans, but we are prepared for that, said Andrew Fabricant, the chief operating officer of Gagosian. Hes been working with Ali Soufan, a risk strategist and former FBI agent, to help manage the safe reopening of the galler ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Simon Lee Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw, his first at the London gallery since 2016. As the United States prepares for its upcoming Presidential election, Shaw is more analytical and daring than ever before in his satirical depictions and social commentary. Installation view, Jim Shaw: Hope Against Hope, Simon Lee Gallery, London, 20 October 2020 - 16 January 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Photo: Ben Westoby.
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 | | The white issue: Has Anna Wintour's diversity push come too late? | | Elijah Pierce, outsider artist, finds a spotlight at the right time | | Growing scenes for London artists: Towns and suburbs | 
Anna Wintour at the Coach fashion show in New York on Sept. 10, 2019. Condé Nast says that 42 percent of its editors in chief are now people of color, all of them put in place by Wintour. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Edmund Lee
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Vogues September issue was different this year. Anna Wintour and her staff put it together when more than 15 million people were marching in Black Lives Matter protests nationwide and employees at Vogues parent company, Condé Nast, were publicly calling out what they viewed as racism in their own workplace. At 316 pages, the issue, titled Hope, featured a majority of Black artists, models and photographers, a first for the magazine. For members of Vogues editorial team, the September edition came in the uneasy wake of an internal email Wintour had sent June 4. I want to say plainly that I know Vogue has not found enough ways to elevate and give space to Black editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators, wrote Wintour, the Vogue editor- ... More | | 
Detail of "Watergate" by Elijah Pierce. Many of his woodcarvings are being shown at the Barnes Foundation until early January 2021. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Barnes Foundations new exhibition of wood carvings and other works by Elijah Pierce has been in the planning stages for almost two years, but arriving in late 2020, it has a particular political resonance. In the exhibitions catalog, Thom Collins, executive director of the Barnes, said the Philadelphia museum sought not to repaint Pierce as an activist, a term he would likely reject, but to present his aesthetic themes and philosophical concerns as ones that were, and are, vital and relevant. Like that of any great artist, Pierces body of work invites deep reflection. His wood carvings compel us to consider the complexities of what it means to be alive and to bear witness to our present moment. Zoé Whitley, director of the Chisenhale Gallery in London and the Pierce exhibition's co-curator, said she was constantly impressed with Pierces wit. The Barnes features more than 100 works he made from 1923 to 1979 and for an artist who ... More | | 
Inside Sophie Barber's studio in Hastings, England, Oct. 12, 2020. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LUTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- People shooting up in the alleyway here. Lovely. Welcome to Luton, artist Dominic Allan said on a recent afternoon as he passed two drug users in the towns rundown former hat-making district. Luton, about 30 miles north of London, was once famed for its hat industry, but those factories closed long ago. Its current most prominent businesses, an auto plant and an airport, have both been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. And in 2004, it was voted the worst place to live in Britain, according to an unscientific but much-publicized survey. Yet such towns are exactly the sort of places where hard-up contemporary artists have been gravitating in recent years as unaffordable rents have forced them out of London. Now, the pandemic is prompting a wider exodus from the British capital, pushing up real estate values in outlying regions. Months of remote working have made city dwellers reassess their housing ... More |
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| | Phaidon and Phillips announce joint video series featuring three preeminent artists | | Eddie Van Halen's Charvel Art Series Guitar, played during 2007 reunion tour with David Lee Roth, jumps to auction | | A first-time survey of Asian art gets a second chance to dazzle | 
Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects by Contemporary Artists, by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz & Amanda Benchley, photography by Casey Kelbaugh, Phaidon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phaidon Press and Phillips Auction House announced a joint video series featuring three preeminent artists working today: Marina Abramovic, Will Cotton, and Rachel Feinstein. This series celebrates the publication of Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects by Contemporary Artists (Phaidon, October 28, 2020) by Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Amanda Benchley. Demystifying the studio practice through the fun, accessible format of D.I.Y., Open Studio takes readers behind-the-scenes to join these and other leading contemporary artists at work in their studios, presenting original art projects to recreate at home. Step-by-step instructions show readers how to make artworks with the contemporary masters as their personal guides. These videos set out to augment this experience by bringing the artists directly to you. Each 15-10-minute episode takes viewers into the private creative realms of three select artists ... More | | 
Eddie Van Halen Rare Custom Made and Stage Played Charvel Guitar Serial #229 (2007).
DALLAS, TX.- It was Dec. 3, 2007, at Seattle's Key Arena, along the first leg of the North American tour that found Van Halen reunited with David Lee Roth since the frontman's departure in the spring of 1985. As the keyboards swelled to introduce his band's biggest hit single chart-topper "Jump," as much command as title a shirtless, grinning Eddie Van Halen bounded onto to the stage for one last time wielding The Guitar. You know the one. The red EVH Charvel Art Series Guitar, striped black and white, that looked every inch like the Frankenstrat he made and made essential, revered, iconic during Van Halen's ascension from house-party entertainers to arena-rock heroes. This one was made in 2007, to Eddie's specs, especially for this reunion jaunt, which proved to be the band's highest-grossing tour in its storied history. Shortly after the 25-song show, described in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "a knockout," Eddie signed the instrument, noting in the inscription whe ... More | | 
Michelle Yun, the Asia Society Museums senior curator of modern and contemporary art and co-curator of the first-ever Asia Society Triennial. Edward Mapplethorpe via The New York Times.
by Laura van Straaten
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Michelle Yun and Boon Hui Tan, the curatorial team behind the first Asia Society Triennial, began assembling their exhibition five years ago, they imagined a city-spanning arts event that would give the Whitney Biennial and the New Museums Triennial a run for their money. We wanted it to be part of the city, Tan said. The exhibition as they envisioned it could not be confined to the walls of the Asia Society. It had to be bigger. What they did not envision was a pandemic that would throw their plans into upheaval while also making the shows mission even more imperative. After being postponed from its June opening because of COVID-19, the re-imagined triennial will open this week at venues across New York City. Yun and Tan have adapted the schedule, scale and format of the ... More |
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| | Alexandre Lenoir's first solo exhibition with Almine Rech on view in Brussels | | Galerie Lelong & Co., New York to represent Tariku Shiferaw | | Social Media Art seizes upon the Utopia of Net Art in new book | 
Alexandre Lenoir, Les Cevennes, 2014 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 120 7/8 x 78 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech © Alexandre Lenoir. Photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting Sur le fil / On the Edge, Alexandre Lenoir's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Lenoir's paintings are like sour candy. They shock you right away, assaulting your taste buds, releasing sugar and citric acid. The colors persist on your retinas. The next day you are still thinking about this pleasurable moment, and twenty years later the sensation remains, like the most intense feelings of your childhood. These landscapes, interiors, and buildings are as ephemeral as memories, bearing the nostalgia of the past. Like snapshots from an old photo album or flashes of dreams, they are unified through light around the human figure. An ambiguous hedonism inhabits these visions, drawing on the multiple identities of Alexandre Lenoir and influenced by the Caribbean ... More | | 
Tariku Shiferaw, African Queen (2Baba), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 92 x 40 x 17 inches (233.7 x 101.6 x 43.2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, announced its representation of Ethiopian American artist Tariku Shiferaw (b. 1983). The gallery will hold its first solo exhibition of his works in Spring 2021. Tariku Shiferaw is known for his practice of mark-making that explores the metaphysical ideas of painting and societal structures. This formal language of geometric abstraction is executed through densely layering material to create marks, gestures that interrogate space-making and reference the hierarchy of systems. As the artist explains, A mark, as physical and present as cave-markings
reveals the thinker behind the gesturean evidence of prior markings of ideas and self onto the space. Mary Sabbatino, Vice President/Partner at Galerie Lelong & Co., says, Abstraction as a language to communicate political and ... More | | 
Arvida Byström: Cherry Picking, 2019 © Arvida Byström.
NEW YORK, NY.- The use of social media has become an everyday activity, one that established and young artists cannot, and indeed do not want to, do without. They work with it. They are where their audience is. At first it was websites, today it is social media, particularly Instagram, when it comes to visual art. After the protagonists of Net Art, the technology Utopians of the early 1990s, discovered that the web would not replace the classic art institutions as exhibition venues, the next generation of artists emerged and responded to the internet. The term Post-Internet Art took hold, coined by the artist and theorist Marisa Olson: »Im going to toggle back and forth between video and internet because some of the internet art that I make is on the internet, and some is after the internet.«What at first sounds like an attitude evolved into a collective expression for artists that were looking to make art for exhibitions again, rather than art in the browser. In turn, ... More |
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| | Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition featuring new commissions from eight noted artists | | Sotheby's to auction rare Michael Jordan memorabilia | | MATRIX 185 at the Wadsworth marks artist's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. | 
Installation view, Byron Kim Sky Blue Flag, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa. Photo by Mackenzie Goodman.
MARFA, TX.- This fall Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition from October 2, 2020 through January 21, 2021 that features new commissions from eight noted artists. Each artist has created a flag accompanied by a sound-based work that will be on view individually for two weeks, rotating through each artist in the series from October to January. Artists include: Lisa Alvarado, Pia Camil, Jeffrey Gibson, Byron Kim, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Hank Willis Thomas, Naama Tsabar, and Cecilia Vicuña. The exhibition unFlagging reconsiders flags and their symbolic meaning in our collective consciousness and country, today. Flags communicate beliefs and values in the public landscape. They are inherently performativethey declare, demarcate, and signal. As citizens, we learn to raise them, lower them, fold them, sing to them, and respect them. The customary use of flags as vehicles ... More | | 
14 Karat White Gold and Diamond 'MJ' Cufflinks. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present James R. Jordan Foundation | Capsule Collection, a charitable online auction featuring Michael Jordan memorabilia on offer from the James R. Jordan Foundation. Founded and run by Deloris Jordan in honor of her late husband, the James R. Jordan Foundation is a non-profit organization that empowers children and families in underserved communities through access to educational resources and knowledge. JRJF provides a pathway out of poverty by empowering children to achieve their full potential and by leveling the playing field so they can become successful human beings and productive contributors to society. JRJF accomplishes this by creating networks of support for families and communities, motivating youth, and ensuring high-quality academic opportunities for youth in underserved communities. The works presented in James R. Jordan Foundation | Capsule Collection are sold ... More | | 
Ali Banisadr, Only Breath, 2020. Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery, New York.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Ali Banisadr draws freely from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of painting to create a distinctive visual language, resulting in works that explore a "between space," like those of hallucinations and dreams. Ali Banisadr / MATRIX 185 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Ten paintings and two prints by Banisadr join a selection of works from the Wadsworth collection chosen by the artist, as well as a video collage that Banisadr created to show additional inspiration works from the museum's collection. The exhibition opened October 22, 2020 and will be on view through February 14, 2021. "Banisadr's depictions of abstracted masses feel especially relevant right now," says Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth. "His compositions echo the disquiet we are witnessing across the world today, including political rallies, prot ... More |
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A Dazzling Still Life from the Final Days of Van Gogh
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 Taipei Biennial 2020 introduces political and diplomatic tactics to environmental issuesTAIPEI.- Presented by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the 12th edition of Taipei Biennial will take place from 21 November 2020 to 14 March 2021. Co-curated by French philosopher Bruno Latour and French independent curator Martin GUINARD, along with Taiwanese independent curator Eva LIN, who has been specially invited to curate the public programs, this years biennial will showcase a line-up of works by 58 participants/groups from 25 countries and territories worldwide. Entitled You and I Dont Live on the Same Planet, the biennial starts from the postulate proposed by Latour and Guinard that people around the world no longer agree on what it means to live on Earth. As we come closer to a series of tipping points, we simultaneously witness a division between those who seem to have abandoned planet Earth, those who try to make ... More GNYP Gallery in Berlin presents an exhibition of works by Jenna GribbonBERLIN.- Jenna Gribbons paintings pay homage to the moment when light touches skin. Her brush strokes capture these similar and never the same moments in intimate portraits of those close to her. Next to her friends and son, Gribbons girlfriend is prominently featured in her sensual paintings. Putting these personal scenes into the public gallery space, Gribbon understands her paintings as commentary on the voyeuristic nature of the world. Rarely finishing a work within one sitting, Gribbons paintings are often built on the basis of photographs as a means of how we memorise and thus experience. She states: My work is concerned with the way we construct personal narrative. For a complete read of her work, the paintings titles are key. Drawing on the works of Mary Cassatt, Karen Kilimnik, Joan Semmel and Edouard Manet, ... More Kunstverein presents "Cauleen Smith Bronze Icebergs"AMSTERDAM.- From October 10 until December 23, 2020 Kunstverein welcomes you to Bronze Icebergs, an exhibition by artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith. This show marks the Los Angeles-based artists first solo exhibition in the Netherlands and brings together a new series of drawings, a film and a flag designed especially for the occasion, as well as a multipart online film program organized in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum. On Friday, July 3, at the *very* precarious moment in which the Covid-19 death toll in the US had recently surpassed a million people and when millions, despite the dangers, were taking to the streets enraged by the relentless (police) brutality and injustice against people of colour, a news notification popped up on screens across the globe. It announced that a presidential executive order had just been signed by the US ... More How Matthew Warchus generated 'heat' in an empty theaterNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Early in the pandemic, Matthew Warchus, the artistic director of Londons Old Vic theater, got a lot of attention in the British press for his dire warning about the existential threat to nonprofit theater posed by an indefinite shutdown. But then Warchus a British theatermaker who has regularly worked on Broadway (Matilda, A Christmas Carol) picked himself up and sprang into action. He set in motion an attention-getting series of live-streamed, small-cast dramas, performed by socially distanced big-name actors before the cavernous empty house at the Old Vic. He started with Claire Foy and Matt Smith, co-stars in TVs The Crown, in Lungs, a marriage play that had originated at the Old Vic and, before the pandemic intervened, was slated to run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His production ... More Great War Memorial Plaque of the first Black officer killed in WWI to be offered by Dix Noonan Webb LONDON.- A recently-discovered Great War Memorial Plaque that rewrites Black history in World War One will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, November 12, 2020 on their website. The plaque of Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who is believed to have been the first Black officer commissioned into a British army regiment during the Great War and is also believed to have been the first Black officer casualty of the Great War, when he was killed in action on April 25, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres is estimated at £600-£800. Discovered by former Member of the European Parliament, James Carver, who is a keen collector of medals relating to West African soldiers of the Victorian and Edwardian era. He spotted it for sale ... More One of the world's best collections of T206 baseball cards scores more than $3.5 millionDALLAS, TX.- Thursday night, hundreds of online bidders fought over the assemblage of T206 baseball cards belonging to Rochester, Mich., attorney E. Powell Miller a gathering of tobacco cards so extraordinary Professional Sports Authenticator once deemed it the third-best of its kind. And when Dallas-based Heritage Auctions' Powell Miller 1909-11 T206 PSA Set Registry Catalog event finally came to a close, the successful bidders paid $3,588,409 almost $1 million more than pre-auction estimate for the privilege of owning a piece of a collection so stunning and significant it was recently displayed for two summers in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In fact, more than 70% of the 522 cards offered in the sale hit or exceeded their estimates. "It doesn't surprise us at all that Powell Miller's collection exceeded our estimates and expectations," said Chris ... More Stars crowd the pages as ultimate autograph album from Battersea Heliport comes up for auctionLONDON.- What have Freddie Mercury, Douglas Bader, Prince Albert of Monaco and Lester Piggott got in common? The answer is that their signatures all appear in the Battersea Heliport Visitors album from the 1970s and 80s, coming up for sale at Ewbanks Auctions on October 29. Consigned by David Ward, the manager of the heliport at the time, the book contains over 700 signatures from royals, sports stars, singers, actors, politicians and celebs, ranging from Margaret Thatcher and Frank Sinatra to Elton John and Paul Newman. Its an extraordinary collection way beyond what you would find in even the most sought-after autograph albums, says Ewbanks specialist Alastair McCrea. Thats because autograph hunters have to seek out their heroes and get them to sign, but in this case the rich and famous simply passed by and added their names to its ... More Greek ghost villages wake up for tourists TILOS ISLAND (AFP).- The moonlight is the only light in the alleys of Mikro Chorio, the ancient capital of the Greek island of Tilos. And as in many other abandoned villages in Greece, they only come back to life for the tourists. When night falls, Mikro Chorio (Little Village in Greek) rewakens, as a handful of visitors sip cocktails at the small bar-museum at the foot of the ruins. "We are trying to bring it back to life," said the bar's owner Giorgos Aliferis. For years now, between 11:00 pm and midnight, he has been going in his little van to pick up customers from Livadia, the island's port, where all the villagers were relocated after World War II. "There was no water, no electricity, so people left looking for more comfort," Aliferis's partner Vania Yordanova said as she served drinks on the bar's terrace. She first had to rush to get the power generator ... More Masks, plexiglass and puppets: Atlanta takes opera to the Covid circusATLANTA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The life-art imitation question is age-old, but if 2020 has anything to say the answer is clear: even the fictional characters of our operas have developed Covid-19. The Atlanta Opera premiered an outdoor series this week, set to run through mid-November, that features live performances of "Pagliacci" and "The Kaiser of Atlantis" under a circus tent on a baseball field, with scripts retrofitted for our virus-plagued times. In the southeastern US city's version of "Pagliacci," an 1890s opera from Ruggero Leoncavallo, the jealous clown Canio contracts coronavirus. "A world that is in the middle of a pandemic is a part of the storytelling," said Tomer Zvulun, the Atlanta Opera's director. Performers sing and play instruments in plexiglass enclosures or wear masks, and the audience sits in four-person socially distanced ... More He was a rising jazz pianist. Then his NYC dreams were shattered.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- He came to New York from Tokyo to make it as a jazz musician, and he did, landing gigs in several touring bands and leading a trio of his own. He was elegant but never flashy on the piano, always well prepared and on time. It was not an easy path. On Sept. 27, at around 7:20 in the evening, that path got a lot harder. Coming off the subway at West 135th Street after a video shoot, Tadataka Unno, 40, a new father, encountered a group of about eight young people who blocked his way to the turnstiles. When he tried to pass through, one of them shoved him from behind. Another said he had pushed her, and a young man near her said, My girl is pregnant. Thats when the beating started first in the subway station and then up on the street, where he yelled for people to help him, to no avail. I thought that this was how ... More Edith O'Hara, a fixture of off-off-Broadway, dies at 103NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Edith OHara, who started the 13th Street Repertory Company in Greenwich Village in 1972 and made it a quirky mainstay of New Yorks off-off-Broadway scene, keeping it going through the decades while countless other companies fell by the wayside, died Oct. 16 at her home, an apartment above the theater. She was 103. Her daughter Jill OHara announced her death. OHara didnt move to Manhattan until midway through her long life, but once she did she plunged into the theater scene with gusto. Her children called her the Hurricane. She had come to the city from Warren County in northwestern Pennsylvania, bringing a show she had developed at a small theater she founded there: a musical called Touch, about young people trying the communal life. In the age of Hair, it found ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter William Hogarth died October 26, 1764. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian.". In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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