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An exhibit at the Museo dellArte Salvata, or Museum for Rescued Art, in Rome on July 14, 2022. Three statues were returned to Italy after the J. Paul Getty Museum discovered they had been looted and will be displayed temporarily in Rome before heading to Taranto, Italy, their permanent home. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- Italy celebrated the return of three stolen ancient terra-cotta figures, depicting Orpheus and the Sirens, in a ceremony Saturday at Romes newly inaugurated Museum of Rescued Art. Until this year, the figures which date to around 300 B.C. had been on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. But Italian carabinieri officers in the countrys art theft division uncovered incontrovertible proof last year that the sculptures had been illegally excavated from a site in southern Italy, and the museum agreed to return them. The head of the carabinieri art theft division, Gen. Roberto Riccardi, said Saturday at the ceremony that two moments from the investigation stood out. The first was in March 2021, when two lieutenants in his squad had come into his office to report that a suspect in an ongoing investigation had come clean. The statues, the suspect had told the officers, had been excavated by tomb robbers in the early 1970s in a town close to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Oscar Murillo will stage a large-scale installation in the historic setting of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice, which will include new paintings by the artist alongside an extensive, interactive presentation of Frequencies, his long-term collaborative project with schoolchildren across the world. Oscar Murillo: A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise is being presented at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, from 17 September - 27 November 2022.
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| Landmark exhibition surveys Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's realist representations of ordinary life in 17th-century Seville | | The afterlife of Willem de Kooning | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Kamrooz Aram |
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Two Women at a Window, c. 165560. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum presents Murillo: From Heaven to Earth, a comprehensive exhibition of works by Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (16171682). The leading religious painter of Seville during his time, Murillo is primarily known for his depictions of the life of Christ, Christian saints, and other Biblical scenes, including monumental paintings of the Virgin in celestial glory. While Murillo: From Heaven to Earth includes a number of these religious paintings, its focus is instead on his earthly pictures of secular subjects and representations of everyday life in the 17th century, which constitute some of the artists most iconic pictures. Guillaume Kientz, director of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York and former curator of European art at the Kimbell, serves as curator for the exhibition, which will be seen only at the Kimbell. On view from September 18 through ... More | |
Supplies at Willem de Koonings studio in East Hampton, N.Y., Aug. 4, 2022. The artists ghost lingers in his studio, as an auction of three of his paintings tests the vitality of his commercial reputation. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Two rocking chairs still stand duty about 30 feet from the easel, as if waiting for Willem de Kooning, an abstract expressionist luminary, to sit down and scrutinize his wet painting in process. Although the artist died in 1997, his studio and living quarters here on Long Island have been so well preserved by the family that his presence hovers ghostlike in the building he designed. In anticipation of a November auction of three works owned by de Koonings three granddaughters, who are his heirs, a team from Sothebys brought the paintings back to the site of their creation for a day in August, offering a rare outsiders view of the artists home that threw a spotlight on the cash nexus between creation and commerce. Depending on your perspective, the home where ... More | |
Kamrooz Aram, Remainders, 2022. Acrylic on MDF, Rosso Verona marble and ceramic tile fragment. Pedestal: 42 x 8 x 8 inches (106.7 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Elusive Ornament brings together a group of new paintings, collages, and sculptural works that continue Kamrooz Arams exploration of the relationship between painting and ornament, and his renegotiation of art historical hierarchies that place the so-called "decorative arts" beneath the fine arts. Working primarily as a painter, over the past decade Aram has expanded his practice to include sculpture and collage, and he has employed wall-painting as a form of exhibition design to unify these various media in his exhibitions. Included in the exhibition are paintings from the artists Arabesque series. Aram uses this vague term both critically and with purpose, inviting viewers to reconsider the art historical canon that has reduced such a wide variety of forms into a single word that refers to the multitude of cultures identified as Arabthe Iranian-American artist himself is often misidentified as Arab. These considerations are echoed ... More |
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| Enrico Riley opens second solo exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Projects | | Barbara Thumm opens an exhibition of works by Carrie Mae Weems | | Phoenix Art Museum presents two exhibitions of work by Arizona-based contemporary artists |
Enrico Riley, Untitled,: Leaving Space, 2022. Oil on canvas, 42 x 36 in. 106.7 x 91.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects is presenting Enrico Rileys solo exhibition Stand. The exhibition explores the materiality of paint and the expressive potential of painted images in relation to issues around identity and visibility. This is Rileys second solo exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by Connie Choi, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem. Rileys new series of paintings investigate the agency of bodies moving through space with dance. The artist uses formal techniques to expose the issues surrounding mobility through the flattening and abstracting of figures within a liminal space. Rileys new body of work is inspired by and expands on the rich and complex traditions of hip-hop and other forms of street dance and in particular the way these activities allow individuals to expand their ... More | |
Installation view of People in Conditions, 2022. Galerie Barbara Thumm. Photo: Jens Ziehe.
BERLIN.- Carrie Mae Weems is one of the most influential American artists working today. Over a career spanning more than four decades, she has created a complex body of multimedia work that grapples with the social and political issues of our times. Her art reflects critically on discourses of post- and neo-colonialism, identity, gender, class and systemic dependencies of relations of power. The exhibition People in Conditions at Galerie Barbara Thumm brings together narratives local and global, past and future, individual and collective, all unified by Weems performative style. Visitors can explore the full spectrum of her rich and multilayered oeuvre, with works on display spanning from the earliest stages of Weems career right up to the present day. Themes include the colonialist history of Western culture, the role of Black artists in this history and the hegemonic structures of social and institutional practices of ... More | |
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez, Bundles Past My Butt, My Beauty Supply Thinks I'm a Slut, 2021. Kanekalon hair and braid clamps. Image courtesy of Lisa Sette Gallery. Photo: Josh Loeser/
PHOENIX, AZ.- From September 17 through May 14, 2023, Phoenix Art Museum presents Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation and the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards exhibitions. The two exhibitions respectively showcase works by the 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient, Sama Alshaibi, and the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients: Gloria Martinez-Granados, Chris Vena, and Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez. Featured installations, paintings, mixed-media works, and more explore themes of cultural empowerment, multinational identity, and deep introspection. The Scult Artist Award and Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards exemplify one way Phoenix Art Museum is committed to supporting and amplifying contemporary artists inArizona, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil ... More |
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| MoMA photo curator departs for French foundation after 2 years | | 303 Gallery opens an exhibition of Mary Heilmann's new work | | Hales opens an exhibition of early work Carolee Schneemann |
Clément Chéroux, who joined the museum in 2020, will direct the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Clément Chéroux, the chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, will return to his native France to direct the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, a photography institute in Paris. His departure, announced Thursday by the French foundation, comes after just two years at MoMA, during which the museum was closed for the coronavirus pandemic and its programming was disrupted. During Chérouxs short tenure, which began in the summer of 2020, the department acquired works by Deana Lawson, Sara VanDerBeek and other new talents, as well as important archival collections, such as Marilyn Nances photographs of FESTAC 77, the renowned 1977 African arts festival. Two significant photography exhibitions, both curated by Chérouxs colleague Roxana Marcoci, are now on view: a retrospective of ... More | |
Mary Heilmann, Little Red Splash 2022. Acrylic on canvas 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 3/4 inches (25.7 x 20.6 x 1.9 cm) Signed, Dated Verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery is presenting Daydream, Mary Heilmanns fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2005. On view are new paintings, ceramics, and an installation of brightly colored furniture designed by the artist. The exhibition title speaks to Heilmanns intuitive approach while at work in her Bridgehampton studio on Long Islands East End, an area known as a historic haven for artists since the days of Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock. A California native, Mary Heilmann has been gazing out at the ocean since the age of three; she hasnt stopped looking in the time since. Across Heilmanns surfaces, waves swiftly build in one canvas before crashing over into the next. Several panoramas incorporate undulating twigs to delineate the frothing lip of a cresting wave, glassy and luminous in translucent swathes of turquoise ... More | |
Carolee Schneemann, Green Figure, 1959. Oil on masonite, 139.7 x 101.5 x 4.2 cm. 55 x 40 x 1 5/8 in Framed: 142.2 x 104.4 x 6.1 cm 56 x 41 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.
LONDON.- Hales announced Carolee Schneemann: 19551959, the gallerys third solo exhibition with the late artist. This exhibition of early work runs alongside Body Politics the first major survey of Schneemanns work in the UK, organized by and on view at The Barbican Centre from 8 September 2022 to 8 January 2023. Schneemann (b. 1939, Fox Chase, PA d. 2019, New Paltz, NY, USA) was a seminal, trailblazing artist with a far-reaching oeuvre spanning sixty years. Rooted in painting, her experimental practice extended to assemblage, performance and film. Schneemann received a BA from Bard College, NY, and an MFA from the University of Illinois. She held an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and Maine College of Art. In 2017, Schneemann was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 57th ... More |
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| Solo exhibition by the Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock opens at Shulamit Nazarian | | Los Angeles to memorialize 1871 massacre of Chinese residents | | Sean Kelly opens an exhibition of works by Anthony Akinbola |
Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974), Metes and Bounds, 2022. Acrylic, graphite, paper and canvas collage, plastic bottle caps on canvas, 36 x 25 1/4 x 3 in. 91.4 x 64.1 x 7.6 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian is presenting Good Grief, Bad Grief, a solo exhibition by the Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 17 through October 29. Exploring a mythology that spans over twenty-five years, Hancock has created a cast of characters, a lexicon of symbols, and an evolving, non-linear narrative of epic proportion. Storytelling is at the root of the artists practice, drawing equally from the world of comics, film, art history, and religion. Engaging with a seemingly inexhaustible range of cultural influences and references, the artist has built a singular voice of legendary status. Through a practice of painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and performance, he has established himself as an esteemed world-builder. Fantastical in nature, Hancocks expansive narratives provide an entry point to examine many signif ... More | |
A photo provided by The Huntington, a library and museum in San Marino, Calif., shows a view of Calle de los Negros in the old Chinatown section of Los Angeles in the 1880s. I. W. Taber/The Huntington via The New York Times.
by Corina Knoll
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Their lives were taken swiftly and with indifference. At least 18 Chinese people, including a teenage boy, forging their way in a Los Angeles that was as rough as it was full of promise all shot or hanged. The slayings snuffed out a significant swath of a tiny Chinese community. The October 1871 killings were the work of a mob of hundreds in part seeking vengeance for the death of a white man. An article published in The New York Times a few weeks later noted that Chinese were hauled from their hiding places and forced into the street where the unfortunates were instantly seized by others outside, and ropes quickly encircled their necks. Commemorations of the massacre eventually shifted to the shadows. Today, the killings and the victims are not ... More | |
Installation view of Anthony Akinbola: Natural Beauty at Sean Kelly, New York, September 8 - October 22, 2022, Photography: Adam Reich, Courtesy: Sean Kelly.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Natural Beauty, a solo-exhibition of new work by Nigerian- American, Brooklyn-based artist Anthony Akinbola. This presentation, occupying the front and lower galleries, includes the artists signature Camouflage paintings, single and multi-panel works that utilize the ubiquitous du-rag as their primary material. Universally available and possessed of significant cultural context, the du-rag represents for Akinbola a readymade object that engages the conceptual strategies of Marcel Duchamp and other significant artistic predecessors. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Anthony Akinbola, is a first-generation American raised by Nigerian parents in the United States and Nigeria. His layered, richly colored compositions celebrate and signify the distinct cultures that shape his identity. In the front gallery, an array of Camouflage paintings explore the du-rag as both a material for art-making and as commentary on larg ... More |
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Solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings by the artist Kesha Bruce pens at Morton Fine Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Morton Fine Art is presenting Take Me to the Water, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings by the artist Kesha Bruce. An intuitive combination of painting, collage and textile art, Bruces work represents the culmination of a holistic creative practice developed by the artist over several decades. Her eighth exhibition with the gallery, Take Me to the Water will be on view from September 17 to October 11, 2022 at Mortons Washington, D.C. space (52 O St NW #302). The wall works of Kesha Bruce are less discrete executions of a concerted vision than the steady accumulation of a long creative process. Referred to by the artist simply as paintings, these mixed-media compositions are in fact patchworks of painted fabric, individually selected from Bruces vast archive and pasted directly onto the canvas in a textile collage ... More
Rommy Hunt Revson, creator of the Scrunchie, dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Rommy Hunt Revson was renting a house in Southampton, New York, in 1986, stressed from her recent divorce from a Revlon heir, John Revson, when she conceived of a hair band to hold a ponytail without damaging the hair. I dont know why, but I became somewhat determined to figure out an invention that used fabric instead of plastic for the hair, Revson told Talk Business & Politics, a news website in Arkansas, where she lived briefly, in 2016. My friends tried to get me to put that down and go with them to the beach as summer was about to end, she added, but something told me to keep working on this hair accessory. She bought a used sewing machine, taught herself to sew and combined fabric and elastic (like those in her pajamas) into a prototype of what she called a scunci (pronounced SKOON-chee), naming ... More
Galleria Continua opens 'In The Heat' in Dubai's iconic Burj Al Arab Jumeirah
DUBAI.- Galleria Continua announced its new exhibition, continuing the gallerys programme in Dubais iconic Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. In The Heat is the second chapter of a series of group shows, paying tribute to the heritage of the Burj Al Arab, and providing contemporary response to the context of its opulent interior designs. The new exhibition, In The Heat, connects with the theme of fire, one of the four elements forming the visual aesthetics of the Burj Al Arab developed by Khuan Chew of KCA International, and follows the show New Wave (7 July 1 September 2022), which was themed on water. The context of the exhibition, which opened just as summer temperatures in Dubai reach their peak, makes the theme of fire manifest in a variety of ways. Some artworks presented in the show explore fire as the element of creation, ... More
Can 'Hamilton' speak German? Jawohl!
HAMBURG.- Hamilton is a mouthful, even in English. Forty-seven songs; more than 20,000 words; fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history. So imagine the challenge, then, of adapting the story of Americas first treasury secretary for a German-speaking audience preserving the rhythm, the sound and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound nouns and sentences that often end with verbs, and all in a society that has minimal familiarity with the shows subject matter. For the past four years a timeline prolonged, like so many others, by the coronavirus pandemic a team of translators has been working with the Hamilton ... More
Jorja Fleezanis, violinist and pioneering concertmaster, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Jorja Fleezanis, a dynamic violinist and dedicated teacher who was one of the first women to serve as concertmaster of a major symphony orchestra in the United States, died Sept. 9 at her home in Lake Leelanau, Michigan. She was 70. The Minnesota Orchestra, in which Fleezanis played from the first chair for two decades, said the cause was a cardiovascular event. The concertmaster holds a key position with an orchestra, with considerable responsibility for defining its sound. Fleezanis was a cornerstone player in the Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, its music director from 2003-22, said in a phone interview. You need to be hearing the whole score and acting as second in command to the conductor, Fleezanis explained to The Boston Globe this year. You need to understand all the possible interpretive ways ... More
Alan Alda on 'M-A-S-H': 'Everybody had something taken from them'
NEW YORK, NY.- When we think of the default mode of much of contemporary television mingling the tragic and the offhand, broad comedy and pinpoint sentiment we are thinking of a precise mixture of styles, emotions and textures first alchemized by M-A-S-H. Created by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, M-A-S-H aired on CBS from 1972-83. (It is currently available to stream on Hulu.) Over the course of its 11-year run, it featured alcohol-fueled high jinks and other shenanigans alongside graphic surgical sequences and portrayals of grief, blending comedy and drama in a fashion rarely seen before on television. Set among the doctors and nurses of a Korean War mobile surgical unit, M-A-S-H made use of the mockumentary episode decades before The Office ever tried it, featured blood-drenched storylines long before The Sopranos ... More
3 decades after a law to return Native remains, still waiting
GRAND FORKS, ND.- The tribal leaders arrived at the University of North Dakota last month for a somber, secret task. For three days, they scoured storage rooms, recited prayers and hauled boxes. The move required closing hallways, pausing construction projects and turning off smoke detectors so that the burning of sage or sweet grass would not trigger an alarm. It was a first step in the long process of returning artifacts and the remains of Native American people from the university to tribes. More than 30 years ago, Congress passed a law requiring colleges and museums to return Native remains and artifacts in their possession. But a generation later, the returns have been slow and halting, when they have happened at all. Many institutions have dragged out the process, questioning tribes links to artifacts and, in some cases, disputing ... More
Attempts to ban books are accelerating and becoming more divisive
NEW YORK, NY.- Attempts to ban books are accelerating across the country at a rate never seen since tracking began more than 20 years ago, according to a new report from the American Library Association. So far this year, there have been attempts to ban or restrict access to 1,651 different titles, the group found, up from challenges to 1,597 books in 2021, the year with the highest number of complaints since the group began documenting book challenges decades ago. Book-banning efforts have grown rapidly in number and become much more organized, divisive and vitriolic over the past two years, splitting communities, causing bitter rifts on school and library boards, and spreading across the country through social media and political campaigns. Public libraries have been threatened by politicians and community members with a loss of funding for their ... More
'Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, to close
NEW YORK, NY.- The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history and, for many, a symbol of musical theater, will drop its famous chandelier for the last time in February, becoming the latest show to fall victim to the drop-off in audiences since the pandemic hit. The closing is at once long-expected no show runs forever, and this ones grosses have been softening but also startling, because Phantom had come to seem like a permanent part of the Broadway landscape, a period piece and a tourist magnet that stood apart from the vicissitudes of the commercial theater marketplace. But in the year since Broadway returned from its damaging pandemic lockdown, the theatergoing audience has not fully rebounded, and Phantom, which came back strong last fall, has not been selling well enough to defray ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter Michael Peter Ancher died September 19, 1927. Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 - 19 September 1927) was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists. In this image: A Christening, Michael Ancher (1888).
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