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by Amanda Holpuch
NEW YORK, NY.- New footage of the Titanic wreckage released last week by a commercial exploration company shows the doomed ship in vivid detail and highlighted that the world for wealthy tourists not only extends to space, but also the deep sea. The one-minute clip was shared by OceanGate Expeditions, a company that takes paying tourists in submersibles to shipwrecks and underwater canyons. For the Titanic expedition this summer, guests paid $250,000 to take a submersible down about 2.4 miles to where the wreckage rests on the seabed. Since the hulking ship was found upright and split in two sections in 1985, less than 400 miles off Newfoundland, it has captivated historians, archaeologists and others. Stockton Rush, the president of OceanGate, said private exploration was needed to continue feeding this fascination. No public entity is going to fund going back to the Titanic, Rush said. There are other sites that are newer and probably of greater scientific value. OceanGate h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Schirn_Presse_Aernout_Mik_Ausstellungsansicht_3.jpg Aernout Mik. Double Bind / Threshold Barriers, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2022, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
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| Xavier Hufkens opens an exhibition dedicated to the work of Frank Walter | | Prune Nourry returns to Galerie Templon's Brussels space this autumn | | The Buchmann Galerie opens an exhibition of works by William Tucker |
Sir George Walter Counting on His Fingers, n.d., oil on cardstock
RIVOLI.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the work of Antiguan painter, sculptor, writer, philosopher, and true Renaissance man, Frank Walter (1926-2009). Curated by Barbara Paca, OBE and Nina Khrushcheva, the presentation charts the physical, emotional and socio-cultural trajectories of Walters life as he travels both literally and figuratively between two distinct worlds: that of the Caribbean and Northern Europe. His fierce intellect, political awareness, connection to nature and capacity for cosmic thought are all brought to the fore, revealing him as a polymath who, in the eyes of many, was born ahead of his time. Frank Walter largely worked in seclusion in middle age, meaning his ideas, writings and art were never fully appreciated during his lifetime. A radical reappraisal of his legacy in the decade since his death, however, has brought his work to a wider international audience. Today ... More | |
Cible #2 bois brûlé, 2021. Wood (oak), burnt wood with shou-sugi-ban finish and 1 arrow (feathers and wood), 70 (diam.) à 15 cm. 27 4/7 (diam.) à 5 7/8 in. Edition of 3 + 2 A.P.
BRUSSELS.- Following the success of Projet Phenix, a highly acclaimed immersive solo exhibition in 2021, Prune Nourry is returning to Galerie Templons Brussels space this autumn with a brand-new artistic proposition. Infinite Arrows offers an in-depth exploration of the symbolism of the arrow, which has been an integral part of Nourry's artistic universe for almost four years. The mythological figure of the Amazons, a tribe of huntresses who, so legend tells us, cut off their breasts to make it easier to shoot with a bow, appeared in the artist's visual work following her breast cancer in 2016. Two years later, in New York, she embarked on the sculpture of an Amazon nearly four metres high, almost entirely covered in thousands of incense sticks. Like acupuncture needles echoing the themes of ritual and healing, the objects ... More | |
William Tucker, Installation view Buchmann Galerie, 2022.
BERLIN.- The Buchmann Galerie is presenting the two-part exhibition Portraits and Masks by William Tucker. Tuckers preoccupation with the subject of the head in sculpture, oscillating between portrait and mask, between bust and form, is the focus of the artists fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. The first part of the exhibition offers insight into Tuckers historical bronze sculptures, while the second part concentrates on the most recent production of the British American sculptor and art theorist, who was born in 1935. The development of William Tuckers bronzes since the 1980s was preceded by a fundamental break with his constructivist and minimalist practice, which had secured him a place among radical and avant-garde artists since the early 1960s. After a period studying intensively modernist sculpture and publishing theoretical texts in various art journals, in the mid-1980s, Tucker began to create modelle ... More |
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| A photographer who tours with Beyoncé and Lewis Hamilton | | Carpintaria presents new works from Barrão and Josh Callaghan | | In his first solo presentation in Paris, Dusk unveils 10 new paintings by Tu Hongtao |
The photographer Timothy McGurr, with his Leica camera, on the rooftop of his studio in New York, Aug. 24, 2022. Marcus Maddox/The New York Times.
by Alex Hawgood
NEW YORK, NY.- Name: Timothy McGurr Age: 38 Hometown: New York City Now Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Shooting under the alias 13th Witness, McGurr is a photo-documentarian who works in two contrasting forms: quiet glimpses of urban life (an empty street, a growling dog) and unguarded portraits of music and sports superstars. He was the behind-the-scenes photographer on Beyoncés 2016 Formation tour and has also been in stadiums with Drake, Kanye West and Neymar, a Brazilian soccer player. Intimacy is certainly not just given away to anybody, McGurr said. The more time spent around someone, the more sense you have for who they are and how to navigate through their spaces. Big Break: Although McGurr is the son of Leonard McGurr (the pioneering graffiti artist known as Futura) he struck out on his ... More | |
Barrão & Josh Callaghan: FALA COISA. Fortes DAloia & Gabriel | Carpintaria. Rio de Janeiro, 2022.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Carpintaria is presenting FALA COISA, a dialog between new works from Barrão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1959) and Josh Callaghan (Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.). Curated by Raul Mourão, the show brings out contact points between the artists, whose assemblages have in common a sort of vegetal growth, as if banal or industrial-use items could grow through accretion of heterogeneous fragments. The exhibition title, FALA COISA [THING SPEECH], implies a step beyond the mute thingness of the art object and situates the works on the plane of a dialogical scene involving the spectator, the artists and the objects themselves. In this interaction, each things pre-established identities and uses give way to a relational communication regime resembling an objectual dramaturgy, highlighting the theatrical and scenographic components of each artists oeuvre. We hammered Sexta-Feira [Friday] (2022) into the gardens ground in front of Carpintar ... More | |
Tu Hongtao. The Valley After Rain, 2020â21. Oil and oilstick on canvas, 70⅞ x 110¼ inches (180 x 280 cm). © Tu Hongtao. Courtesy LGDR.
PARIS.- LGDR is presenting Dusk, an exhibition of new works by China-based artist Tu Hongtao that occupy an expressive realm between figural landscapes and abstraction. Tus lyrical paintings are inspired by his itinerant journeyingin the mountainous regions of his hometown Chengdu and beyondand draw on a deep personal knowledge of classical traditions of Chinese painting and poetry. Unveiling his most recent body of work, Dusk introduces 10 paintings whose sweeping compositions reflect the artists meditations on the rapidly modernizing world. The exhibition at LGDR is Tu Hongtaos first solo presentation in Paris, following his European debut at Lévy Gorvy London in 2020. New paintings by Tu will be concurrently on view in LGDRs Frieze Seoul presentation, and work by the artist will feature in the gallerys booth at Paris+ par Art Basel. The title Dusk carries many meanings for the artist. Referencing an 8t ... More |
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| Danysz Paris - Marais opens solo exhibition of designer and visual artist Wang Ruohan | | Fahey/Klein Gallery announces the passing of Melvin Sokolsky | | Movie theaters had a great summer. But there's a plot twist. |
Wang Ruohan, Still life 2022, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm. 19 1/2 x 16 in.
PARIS.- Danysz Paris - Marais is presenting "Walk on Neon Arc," the solo exhibition of the most active Chinese designer and visual artist in Germany at the moment: Wang Ruohan. After the success of her last solo exhibition presented by Danysz in Shanghai, the rising contemporary talent takes over the Parisian space of the gallery, from September 2 to 24 2022, offering us a chance to get our fill of roaring colors with a series of bold and assertive paintings. Capturing and recording everyday life with a unique style, Wang Ruohan has been noticed worldwide through important collaborations with famous brands including Nike, UGG, Moleskine, Off-White, Farfetch, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the Goethe Institut to name a few. These collaborations brought the illustrator, painter and visual artist international notoriety, putting her now on the forefront of a new generation of talents. Best known for her bold use of color and he ... More | |
Simone + Me, Bazaar, New York, 1960 © Melvin Sokolsky, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It is with great sadness that we report on the passing of Fashion Photographer, Melvin Sokolsky. He left his family, friends, and others in this world on Monday, August 29, 2022. His iconic Bubble series and Fly series will remain in our collective memories. Melvin was a seeker of technical innovation and creative image making. While in his presence, he was always willing to provide a memorable story from his career in photography. His fashion photographs were unquestionably chic, cutting edge, and eye-catching. His work will inextricably be intertwined within the evolution and history of Fashion Photography. Melvin Sokolskys photographs are deeply imaginative and challenge the aesthetic conventions of the advertising and editorial worlds. Reflecting the artists fascination of surreal art, Sokolskys photographs explore and play with special relationships, scale, proportions, visual rationality ... More | |
The exterior of the Regal theatre, the countrys second largest cinema chain, in La Habra, Calif, on Aug. 24, 2022. Philip Cheung/The New York Times.
by Brooks Barnes
NEW YORK, NY.- The hits just keep on coming. But not the ones movie theaters need. Unwelcome forces Netflix, 50-inch TVs, the coronavirus pandemic have buffeted cinemas for years. Now, staggering debt and a severe shortage of big movies to show in the months ahead imperil multiplex chains once again In recent months, the situation didnt look so dire. Theaters were feeling newly optimistic, largely because Top Gun: Maverick and several other blockbusters showed that people still want to go to the movies. The Top Gun sequel has taken in an astounding $1.5 billion worldwide, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness outperformed its 2016 franchise predecessor by 41%. Let the good times roll, Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Entertainment, said during an earnings call last month. And yet ... More |
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| Art Sonje Center opens 'Korakrit Arunanondchai: Songs for living/Songs for dying' | | KP Projects announces a solo exhibition and book release by Kent Williams | | Alexandre Lavet openssecond solo show at Dürst Britt & Mayhew |
Korakrit Arunanondchai: Songs for living/Songs for dying , 2022, installation view, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2022.
SEOUL.- Songs for dying/Songs for living is the first solo exhibition in Korea of the Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai. His video installation Songs for dying was previously presented at the 13th Gwangju Biennale. For this exhibition Songs for dying is presented together with Songs for living (created in collaboration with Alex Gvojic) in a theatrical context, where a traditional proscenium theater has been inverted to switch the role between the audience and the story, between that which possess and the medium of possession. Arunanondchai uses rich visual references alluding to animist rituals and contemporary modes of representation to present a story in which personal narratives are entangled with historical incidents to form a view on how personhood enters collective beliefs. In Songs for dying, the artists ... More | |
Jiu-Roku-Zakura, 2020, mixed media on paper, 24 x 18 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- "Kent Williams illustrating the short stories of KWAIDAN is a match made in a dark and delicious hell. Kents work is kinetic and disorienting, moving and emotional. At the heart of each piece is a story, yearning to be discovered. Theres a soul in every canvas, something restless and hungry. Many years ago, I begged him to come out from his comic book retirement to illustrate a graphic novel for THE FOUNTAIN. It was a thrilling partnership, and the results deeply moved me. Which is why I am so excited about this collaboration between Kent and Hearn. The work of both men has a complementary sense of insatiability. But its not just what they have in common that makes them such a perfect match, but rather what they dont. In Hearns KWAIDAN, we find the earliest examples of what are now the stylistic signatures of the Japanese horror genre. And ... More | |
Installation view. Photography: Natascha Libbert.
THE HAGUE.- Alexandre Lavets work constantly seems to hover on the verge of presence and disappearance. He plays with the apparent homogeneity of exhibition spaces to uncover the details that mark the uniqueness and specificity of each place. It is these particularities that Lavet wants to bring to light, thereby slowing down the viewers gaze and making them more aware of their surroundings. For (､ﾝ､), his second solo exhibition at Dürst Britt & Mayhew Lavet proposed to relocate all the packed artworks from the gallerys storage to the main exhibition space. By this intervention he allows the audience to enter an environment full of sleeping artworks, a moment of stasis, and of anticipation of what is hiding in the crates and bubblewrap. The exhibition space has been darkened and in some places resembles the artists own bedroom: the walls have a similar colour and mouldings and even ... More |
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EP 9. Sprint to the exhibition opening | Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition
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M 2 3 opens an exhibition of recent work by Anne Wu, Elizabeth Orr, Martine Flor
NEW YORK, NY.- M 2 3 will present Anywhere or Not At All - an exhibition of recent work by Anne Wu, Elizabeth Orr, Martine Flor. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, 07 September 2022 from 5 to 8 pm (patio reception). Please note: capacity inside the exhibition space is limited per the discretion of the gallery. The exhibit will be on view 07 September through 16 October 2022. In its most basic form, the concept of the contemporary is simply that of the coming together hence the unity in disjunction, or better, the living disjunctive unity of multiple times. More specifically, it refers to the coming together of the times of human lives within the time of the living. Contemporaries are those who inhabit (or inhabited) the same time. As a historical concept, the contemporary thus involves a projection of unity ... More
Archbishop's gift to Queen Elizabeth I at risk of leaving the UK
LONDON.- A manuscript which formed part of a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker to Elizabeth I is at risk of leaving the country unless a buyer can be found. The historically rich manuscript is made up of nine roundels and forms a fragment of a gift to Queen Elizabeth I in the early 1550s. The roundels were likely folded and integrated into a now-lost gold salt cellar. The use of shell gold around the miniatures suggests that the manuscript was gifted with the intention of impressing the Queen. Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: Archbishop Parker is a figure of great historical and theological consequence, and this beautiful manuscript is a significant example of Elizabethan gift exchange. I hope a buyer comes forward for this piece so it can be used to learn more about both the ... More
£120,000 flag from sledge of British polar explorer at risk of leaving UK
LONDON.- A rare sledge flag owned by British Naval Officer Captain Henry Kellett, who was involved in two major arctic expeditions, is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found. Captain Henry Kellett, a proud Irishman, was a famous arctic explorer involved in expeditions charting the Northwest Passage the sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean which had become a focus for British science, trade and geographical exploration. During the search for Sir John Franklins lost 1845 expedition, Captain Kelletts voyages helped map out the northern extremes of North America for Britain. The sledge flag, one of the earliest known in existence, helps to tell the story of British obsession in the 19th century with arctic exploration and serves as an important reminder of the tragedy ... More
Andréhn-Schiptjenko opens its second exhibition of works by Mark Frygell
PARIS.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko is presenting Iterative Fantasies, Mark Frygells second solo-exhibition with the gallery and the first one in Paris. The exhibition runs through October 15. Mark Frygell has a practice deeply rooted in the history of painting, sub-cultural images and cartoons. He repeatedly manipulates and reworks gestures, references and materials, inspired by different methodologies of painting. His main interest lies in concepts such as caricature, the grotesque and the comic. With powerful brush strokes and thick layers of oil paint spread over mainly fairly large canvases he creates powerful yet ambiguous images. In mathematics and computer science, iteration is a standard element of algorithms. It literally means repetition and is a problem-solving technique applied developing ... More
Julian Charrrière opens his most ambitious solo exhibition to date at Langen Foundation
BERLIN.- Julian Charrières solo exhibition Controlled Burn occupies the whole of the Tadao Ando designed Langen Foundation in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, from 4 September 2022 to 6 August 2023. Featuring 8 new commissions set within a constellation of major works from Charrières oeuvre, Controlled Burn represents the artists most extensive exhibition to date. Controlled Burn meditates upon flame as a figure of excess, containment, and renewal for our warming planet. Curated by Charrières long-time collaborators, philosopher Dehlia Hannah and art historian and curator Nadim Samman, the exhibition mounts an ambitious essay on the politics and poetics of combustion. Charrières work addresses urgent ecological concerns, often stemming from fieldwork at signal locations such as volcanoes, g ... More
Richard Roat, seen on 'Cheers,' 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld,' dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Roat, a versatile character actor whose half-century-long career was punctuated by notable guest appearances on three of the most popular sitcoms of recent decades, Cheers, Friends and Seinfeld, died Aug. 5 in Newport Beach, California. He was 89. Kathy (Arntzen) Roat, his wife and only immediate survivor, said the cause was a heart attack. She said Roat, who lived in Glendale, California, died in a condo while on vacation. On a 1985 episode of Cheers, as the imperious boss of the barstool habitué Norm Peterson (George Wendt), he threatened to fire Norm if he didnt accept a promotion (and raise) to become the companys corporate killer the person who terminates people. Studies have shown that its particularly humiliating when youre fired by some ... More
Sterling Lord, premier literary agent, is dead at 102
NEW YORK, NY.- About 10 years ago Sterling Lord invited four long-term clients of his for lunch at the Regency Hotel in New York. As a matter of longevity, at least, its pretty safe to say that no other literary agent anywhere at any time could have assembled such a group. Lord had represented one of them, the sportswriter Frank Deford, for 53 years, and another, the investigative reporter and sometime novelist David Wise, for more than 60. A third author on hand that day, the writer Nicholas Pileggi, had been a client for at least 50 years. The baby in the group was the political analyst Jeff Greenfield. Lord had represented him for a mere 44 years. All told, when they toasted Lord that afternoon, it was for more than two centuries of representation. It was an amazing mo ... More
Helmut Newton Foundation project room presents "Magnum Photos. The Misfits "
BERLIN.- Magnum Photos. The Misfits opened in the project room of the Helmut Newton Foundation as the second parallel exhibition to the extensive main exhibition HOLLYWOOD on the museums upper level. With The Misfits, we look back to an important era of major film productions. Arthur Millers play was filmed by John Huston in 1960 with a star-studded cast, and nearly all of the Magnum members took photographs on its set in Reno. This was the first and only such occasion with this combination of participants. We see Marilyn concentrating on her lines in a shot by Inge Morath, Montgomery Clift in the rear of a car, photographed by Dennis Stock, and the famous group shot with the actors and actresses flanked by the director and writer, photographed by Elliott Erwitt. In additi ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. In this image: Two visitors watch the painting "Kreidefelsen auf Ruegen" from 1818 from painter Caspar David Friedrich at the museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, May 2, 2006. The exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich - Invention of romance" shows a retrospective of the great German painter from May 5 to August 20, 2006.
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