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The exhibition, which consists of more than 60 works of various formats, techniques and stylistic stages, is presented at the Helen Ann French Gallery and the Bertita and Guillermo L. MartÃnez Gallery. Photo: Alberto Rigau.
SAN JUAN, PR.- The Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) announced the opening of the panoramic exhibition Relator con Amargura, by Puerto Rican artist José Lerma. The exhibition, which consists of more than 60 works of various formats, techniques and stylistic stages, is presented at the Helen Ann French Gallery and the Bertita and Guillermo L. MartÃnez Gallery. âThis exhibition shows for the first time the complexity of an exceptional Puerto Rican artist who, following the legacy of previous generations of artists, opted for painting at a time when the international art circuit âwhere José Lerma moves at its fullestâ turned its gaze to other less complex and immediate means of execution. Thus, he has demonstrated how tradition can be united with contemporary research,â said MarÃa C. Gaztambide, executive director of MAPR. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul, The Drawing Center, New York. June 21-September 15, 2024. Photo: Daniel Terna.
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| Unusual origin found for asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | | Illuminating a trailblazing artist who died too young | | The odd duck of Antiguan art, in his ecstatic, expressionist glory |
The 66-million-year-old Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer at the Stevns Klint geological site in Denmark. (Philippe Claeys via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Scientists have discovered new evidence that the rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, abruptly ending the age of dinosaurs, was a bit of an oddball. The nature of this apocalyptic object, known as the Chicxulub impactor, has inspired intense debates, including a long-running dispute over whether it was a comet or an asteroid. But evidence has been mounting in recent years that the roughly 6-mile-wide ... More | |
An installation view of Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me at the Neue Galerie in New York. (Annie Schlechter via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- An exultant sense of discovery is the propelling through line of Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me, a glorious exhibition at the Neue Galerie in Manhattan that is, surprisingly, the German artists first at an American museum. (It will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago in October.) During a career cut short by her death in 1907, when she was only 31, little escaped Modersohn-Beckers ... More | |
Frank Walter, MWG Milky Way Galaxy, n.d. Oil on Fiberboard, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (31.8 x 21.6 cm). Courtesy of the Walter Family. Photography by Kenneth Milton.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul, a scavenger hunt of an exhibition at the Drawing Center in Manhattan, we find an aspect of so-called outsider art that is not easily conveyed in museums: compulsion. Born in Antigua to mixed European and Black ancestry, Walter (1926-2009) at times managed the family sugar plantation, farmed in the Dominican ... More |
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| Gagosian Burlington Arcade to present work by Howard Hodgkin | | MartÃn Soto Climént presents a new series of works at Andrehn Schiptjenko | | 'Richard Tuttle: A Distance From This' to open at 125 Newbury |
Detail of a Howard Hodgkin Home limited-edition rug based on the artists painting Red Sky in the Morning (2016) Artwork © The Estate of Howard Hodgkin. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Photo: Christopher Horwood. Courtesy The Estate of Howard Hodgkin and Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian will present a takeover of its Burlington Arcade gallery and shop dedicated to Howard Hodgkin (19322017), opening on September 3, 2024. The presentation explores the full breadth of Hodgkins wide-ranging interests in antiquities, design, food, literature, travel, and, of course, painting. One of Britains most celebrated contemporary painters and ... More | |
MartÃn Soto Climent, El Testigo de la Doncella, 2024. Silkscreen printed on silk, mounted on panel, 46 x 54 x 6 cm (18 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
STOCKHOLM.- Andrehn Schiptjenko announces MartÃn Soto Climénts new solo exhibition, The Heart of Heaven / Blushing Paintings, opening on Thursday, August 22nd, between 17:00 - 20:00 in the presence of the artist. The blushing paintings are MartÃn Soto Climénts first, new series of work to be initiated after the release of the extensive monograph on his work published by Mousse Publishing in 2021. As the book was completed, he was compelled to find a new way of approaching recurring thematics and at ... More | |
Richard Tuttle, Prong, 25, 2024. Cardboard, wood, wire, felt, spray paint, nails, 36" à 57" à 6-1/2" (91.4 cm à 144.8 cm à 16.5 cm) © Richard Tuttle, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- 125 Newbury will present Richard Tuttle: A Distance From This, an exhibition of new works by an artist who has continually expanded the contours of contemporary practice since the 1960s. The exhibition debuts a suite of works Tuttle created over the past year, following a trip to Guatemala in February 2024. At once exuberant and evanescent, Tuttles new works are meditations on form, language, and memory as ligaments that bind ... More |
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| Hirschl & Adler will open an exhibition of works by David Ligare this fall | | The MFAH is the exclusive U.S. venue for Gauguin in the World, opening in November 2024 | | Haines announces an exhibition of works by Deborah Butterfield |
David Ligare, NOVUM INCREMENTUM (New Growth), 1995/2024. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Ligares commitment to history painting presents something of a paradox: a contemporary artist devoted to the past, seeking ancient solutions to present-day problems, defying the status quo by embracing tradition. For over forty years, he has embraced classicism as a means of renewing humanitys passion for knowledge, frontrunning a new kind ... More | |
Paul Gauguin, Uu (Club), 19th century, wood and vegetable fiber, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2008.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the only U.S. venue for an ambitious exhibition of the work of French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Organized by independent curator Henri Loyrette, former director of the Louvre and the Musée dOrsay, Paris, and leading scholar of 19th-century French painting, ... More | |
Deborah Butterfield, patina process at Walla Walla Foundry, 2019. Photo: Walla Walla Foundry.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines presents Deborah Butterfield: New Sculpture, the gallery's debut exhibition with the celebrated American artist. The exhibition features a selection of Butterfield's signature equine sculptures, constructed from wood and cast in bronze, and marks her first solo showing in San Francisco in more than a decade. The opening reception for Deborah ... More |
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| Hosfelt Gallery announces "Jim Campbell and Marco Maggi: Almost Indecipherable" | | Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College announces upcoming 2024-25 exhibitions | | Seth Bloom, 49, who brought laughter to the rubble of war, dies |
Marco Maggi, ECONOMY OF ATTENTION (blue), 2024. Cut paper on Dibond, 12 x 12 in. 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In two solo exhibitions and one collaborative piece, two artists with very different practices - Uruguayan post-minimalist, Marco Maggi, and Bay Area tech pioneer, Jim Campbell - explore perception and how a viewer's perspective informs their interpretation of an artwork or experience. One artist's primary tools are paper, an X-ACTO knife and graphite, while the other works with circuit boards and LEDs. For both, however, time is a principal component. Campbell, an MIT-educated engineer, designs ... More | |
Ernst Haeckel, Filicinae, from Kunstformen der Natur, 1904, vol. 2, Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections, Martin Library of the Sciences, Franklin & Marshall College
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New Yorks Capital Region, the Tangs approach has become a model for college and university art museums across the countrywith exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with ... More | |
Seth Bloom, and his wife, Christine Gelsone, together known as the Acrobuffos, at their home in Manhattan. (Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Seth Bloom, a blue-haired clown and physical comedy virtuoso who helped outreach organizations in Afghanistan and other remote places stage circuses that roused smiles from children while also teaching them important life skills, including how to avoid land mines, died Aug. 2 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was 49. Bloom died by suicide, said his wife, Christina Gelsone, with whom he performed in two-person clown shows around the world, including at the ... More |
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Watch one heartbreaking scene to understand Gena Rowlands' geniusNEW YORK, NY.- Midway through A Woman Under the Influence (1974) one of a number of astonishing films starring Gena Rowlands, who died Wednesday, and directed by her husband John Cassavetes the distance between you and whats on screen abruptly vanishes. Its the kind of moment that true movie believers know and yearn for, that transporting instance when your world seems to melt away and youre one with the film. It can be revelatory. At times, as with Rowlandss performance here, it can also be excruciatingly, viscerally painful. Rowlands is playing Mabel, an exuberantly alive woman of great sensitivities whose husband, Nicky (Peter Falk), loves her deeply but doesnt understand her. Theyre home and he has just yelled at her in front of some colleagues, whove fled. Now, as this husband and wife look at each other across their ... More The many histories of aerial photography on display at the Benton this fallCLAREMONT, CA.- The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College announced the opening of The Instrumental Image: Aerial Photography as Problem and Possibility, on view at the museum from August 15, 2024 to January 5, 2025. This exhibition is the first to be organized by the Bentons new curator of photography and new media, Solveig Nelson. Nelsons appointment was announced in January 2024, and she will officially join the museum full-time as the exhibition opens. Photography represents one half of our collection holdings. I am delighted that we are now poised to engage the complexity of these works with the critical eye and creativity that a scholar like Solveig Nelson adds to our community, said Victoria Sancho Lobis, Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel 23 Director of the museum. The Instrumental Image signals the kind of nuanced ... More From here to eternity, a choreographer sinks into the seaNEW YORK, NY.- Faye Driscoll has been spending a lot of time at the ocean, in the ocean, with the ocean watching it as it stretches into the horizon. What if, she wondered, instead of poisoning and polluting the ocean, we were able to crawl inside it? To merge the water in our bodies with the water of the sea? For this summers iteration of Beach Sessions, a performance series at Rockaway Beach now in its 10th year, Driscoll was drawn, at first, to the choreography of beachgoers swimming, lying on the sand, lugging their gear. She was also drawn to the lifeguards, decked out in bright orange. But then her gaze shifted. What I really sunk into was the sea, she said in a video interview from Rockaway, where she has lived this summer. Just daily staring: looking at this vast horizon, this great mystery, and feeling the sand and the wind. ... More Sydney Lemmon puts the twisted humanity behind tech on BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- Jane is a young professional living in the Bay Area whom you might find at SoulCycle. Actor Sydney Lemmon has taken that description of her character in Job with a grain of salt. The young woman she is presenting to Broadway audiences is not a stereotypical millennial. Instead, Lemmons Jane is a formidable vessel of reckless passion, someone who has been shaped by the corporate grind of a Silicon Valley job monitoring the heinous acts that people upload onto social media. She is a self-described Xanax girlie white-knuckling her way through a mandated therapy session meant to determine whether she is ready to return to work after a psychological breakdown that went viral. Oh, and Jane has a gun, too. She loves her job, Lemmon said last week during an interview in her dressing room at the Helen Hayes Theater ... More For the man who plays Lafayette, it's a marquis eventNEW YORK, NY.- On a recent sultry Monday, Mark Schneider pulled up to a stable in Williamsburg, Virginia, ready to get back to the grind, 18th-century style. He was already wearing his leather breeches and ruffly linen shirt. After preparing his horse, he went back to the car for his waistcoat, swords, wig and plumed hat, before hoisting himself into the saddle and heading toward a grassy field near the towns restored colonial-era courthouse. Tucked in his jacket was a cellphone, for emergencies. He also carried a period-correct flask full of water, for discreet hydration. I wouldnt want people to see the Marquis de Lafayette drinking from a flask and get the wrong idea, he said. For the past 25 years, Schneider has worked at Colonial Williamsburg portraying the French aristocrat who arrived ... More At a festival amid industrial ruins, Ivo van Hove takes chargeNEW YORK, NY.- The calling card of the Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts is to present shows in former industrial sites, like power stations or coal plants, among cities in the Ruhr region of northwestern Germany. For theater-maker Ivo van Hove, who is presenting his first season as the festivals artistic director, this is churning up feelings of deja vu. I was 20 years old at a time in Belgium when theater was the most old-fashioned thing you could imagine, van Hove, 65, said. My generation made a real change and we did that by, for instance, not playing in theaters. My first production was in an abandoned laundry. We played for 30 people and we had 30 actors onstage. The scale is much larger at the Ruhrtriennale, but at least van Hove had staged five productions at the festival before taking the helm, so he is familiar with the artistic parameters. One of them is paying attention ... More Studio Museum in Harlem's annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition opens September 26 at MoMA PS1HARLEM, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem will present Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 202324, the latest edition of its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition, from September 26, 2024, through February 10, 2025, at MoMA PS1. Featuring new work by artists sonia louise davis, Malcolm Peacock, and Zoë Pulley, the 202324 cohort of the Studio Museums foundational residency program, this exhibition is the sixth presentation as part of a multiyear collaboration between the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1. Exploring cycles of transition and transfer, the artists in Pass Carry Hold reference how ancestral and intuitive knowledge are activated through that which is passed on, carried forward, and held onto. With practices spanning sound, textile, and installation, davis, Peacock, ... More Altman Siegel to present a new body of work by Trevor Paglen SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel will present CARDINALS, a new body of work marking Trevor Paglens fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is composed of photographs of novel aerial phenomena taken by Paglen over the last two decades. In conjunction with the exhibition, Minnesota Street Project Foundation will screen Paglens single-channel video Doty (2023) from September 19 through October 5, 2024. The calls started around 2006. Id spent years poking around and photographing classified Air Force installations, talking to former workers on top-secret airplanes, visiting CIA black sites, and hunting down anyone I could find with knowledge of the Pentagons black world. I was furiously working on a book about what Id discovered. Thats when the calls started. Every few weeks, Id end up in long conversations ... More Haley Joel Osment sees contentmentLOS ANGELES, CA.- Haley Joel Osments childhood memories are not like other peoples. He remembers the kindness with which Tom Hanks treated him, when he was 5 and playing Hanks son in Forrest Gump. And the time Russell Crowe adjusted his bow tie at an awards show when Osment, not yet 12, was Oscar-nominated for his breakout performance in The Sixth Sense. The in-depth conversations he had with Steven Spielberg about the future as they were filming A.I. that same year. A phalanx of Osment clones, made for that movie, are still floating around he heard they might have ended up stockpiled in Peter Jacksons trove of memorabilia in New Zealand. If the apocalypse happens, Osment jokes, that preteen version of him will survive. It is, in any case, the form in which many fans know him best especially as the notably ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Francesco Albani was born August 17, 1578. Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 - 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter. Albani never acquired the monumentality or tenebrism that was quaking the contemporary world of painters, and in fact, is derided often for his lyric, cherubim-filled sweetness, which often has not yet shaken the mannerist elegance. While Albani's thematic would have appealed to Poussin, he lacked the Frenchman's muscular drama. His style sometimes appears to befit the decorative Rococo more than of his time. In this image: Baptism of Christ ca 1640 (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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