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Ewa Juszkiewicz in her studio in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 10, 2023. Juszkiewicz is one of about 30 New Surrealists mentioned in Robert Zellers book New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting. (Anna Liminowicz/The New York Times)
BRUSSELS.- This is not an article. Its a fish in the shape of a piano, floating in a clear blue sky, seen through a keyhole. Surrealism, the art movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and animals with mismatched parts, was born in 1924 when French poet André Breton published a treatise decrying the vogue for realism and rationality. Breton argued instead for embracing the omnipotence of dreams and exploring the unconscious and all that was marvelous in life. Art that could reach beyond the rational could liberate humanity, he felt. The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me, Breton wrote in his Surrealist Manifesto. It was a literary idea that became an art movement and revolutionized nearly all forms of cultural production. Its now commonplace to call pretty much any weird experience surreal. A century later, what does surrealism still have to offer us? Do its philosophical an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Self-described 'wild and friendly' Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is presenting a selection of new and recent sculptural works and projections in 'Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon,' a major two-part exhibition on view in Chelsea. The exhibition, which takes place simultaneously at Hauser & Wirth's 22nd Street location and Luhring Augustine's 24th Street location, has been conceived by the artist as a multisensory experience for visitors.
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| Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art travels art exhibition to Chicago National Veterans Art Museum | | Turner Prize winning Scottish artist Martin Boyce opens Fruitmarket's 50th anniversary programme | | The Vero Beach Museum of Art announces appointment of Caitlin Swindell as VBMA Chief Curator |
Morton Levin, Rape of the Luna Moth. 1978 Painted mural on paper mounted on canvas, 9 x 14 feet. Collection of the Morton Levin Estate.
GREAT FALLS, MT.- IL MAESTRO! Works by Morton Levin: A Centennial Celebration has traveled from Great Falls, Montana to the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, Illinois. IL MAESTRO! ... More | |
Martin Boyce, Long Distance Sleep Talking, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo Keith Hunter.
EDINBURGH.- In 2024 Fruitmarket turns 50 and celebrates with a programme that brings the very best of Scottish, British and international visual art and culture to Edinburgh, to inspire and ... More | |
Caitlin Swindell, newly appointed VBMA Chief Curator.
VERO BEACH, FL.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announced the appointment of Caitlin Swindell as VBMA Chief Curator, effective March 25, 2024. Caitlin Swindell joins the VBMA from the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, FL, where she has served as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions. ... More |
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| Printed & Manuscript African Americana at Swann features circa 1900 poster of Mme. Sissiereta Jones | | Missoula Art Museum presents Terry Karson retrospective | | Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers to offer four important single–owner collections |
The Greater Black Patti Troubadours. Black Patti, Greatest Singer of Her Race (Mme. Sissiereta Jones.), lithograph poster, circa 1900.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Thursday, March 21 auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana at Swann Galleries will be the houses largest offering of the material to date. The sale includes important documentation of the abolition movement, ... More | |
Terry Karson, installation view of Commons (reconfigured), 2012, recycled cardboard on archival foam core panels, from the MAM installation, 2012, Yellowstone Art Museum Collection, bequest of Terence B. Karson.
MISSOULA, MT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents a retrospective view of the oeuvre of a prolific artist in Terry Karson: Human/Nature. The exhibition represents ... More | |
Jim Rice mural: Monumental mural depiction of American baseball player Jim Rice, who played for the Boston Red Sox, by Carol Tayo Heuser, 8 feet by 4 feet.
CRANSTON, RI.- Four important single-owner collections of museum bandboxes and hatboxes; figural creamers; massive original baseball-themed murals; and police equipment will all come up for bid ... More |
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| Théodore Rousseau at Jill Newhouse Gallery | | In art, migrants weave memories of their great escape | | Heather Day's first solo exhibition at Almine Rech 'A Moving Window' on view at Almine Rech |
Path at the Edge of the Forest, c. 1850-55, Oil on panel, 10 5/8 x 16 1/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- In honor of the exhibition Théodore Rousseau: The Voice of the Forest at the Petit Palais, Jill Newhouse Gallery has on view several works by the artist in varying media, including oil, ink and even a rare pastel. Seen together, these works ... More | |
Cassandra Mayelas Balanced Contrast 2023, and at back, Healing Color 2023, on display at Apexart in New York, Feb. 10, 2024. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY..- Last year, the Guggenheim Museum displayed a major survey of the works of Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt, a German-born artist who ... More | |
Portrait of Heather Day.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is now opening A Moving Window, Heather Day's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from today to April 20, 2024. Heather Day makes large-scale abstract canvases dappled with the transmuting shades of the natural world. Far from literal evocations of the infinitely ... More |
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'Sagebrush and Solitude' exhibition showcases rare Maynard Dixon paintingsRENO, NV.- Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada, which is now on display at the Nevada Museum of Art March 2 July 28, 2024, is the first comprehensive exhibition to document Dixons early wanderings and extended visits to Nevada and the Eastern Sierra. From 1901 to 1939, Dixon made several trips from his California home to paint and sketch the striking landscapes of the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada region. Among his favorite subjects to paint were old homesteads, wild horses and stands of cottonwood treesimages that conjure memories of a romanticized bygone era before modernization brought change to many of Nevadas open and pristine landscapes. The exhibition features nearly 150 of Dixons paintings of Nevada and the Eastern Sierra, many of them rarely or ever seen before. From his first Nevada sketching ... More Projects by Jumaadi, Sancintya Mohini Simpson & Isha Ram Das, plus an Arthur Boyd collaborationSHOALHAVEN, NSW.- Bundanon has announced further details for its 2024 Exhibition Season 1: Tales of Land and Sea, open to the public from 2 March 16 June 2024. Three major projects are being presented across the galleries of the Art Museum, exploring storytelling, mythological narratives, migration and the diasporic experience, by renowned contemporary artists Jumaadi, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Isha Ram Das, as well as Arthur Boyds collaboration with printmaker Indra Deigan. Indonesian-born, Sydney-based artist Jumaadi is presenting new and past works in a survey exhibition titled ayang ayang. Referring to the idea of the shadow, ayang ayang suggests a physical presence and psychological condition: a silent self, following its owner through lifes journey, and the weight of history and loss which haunts the present. ... More Crocker Art Museum Director and CEO Lial A. Jones to retire at the end of 2024SACRAMENTO, CA.- Jones plans her exit after an illustrious 25 years in the role. Lial A. Jones, the Crocker Art Museums Mort and Marcy Friedman Director & CEO, announced she will retire at the end of 2024 after 25 years at the Museum. Jones joined the Crocker in 1999 and has been the driving force in the Museums' rise as the leading cultural institution in Californias Capital Region. A past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, Jones is widely recognized as a leader in the field with a 50-year career of innovation and excellence at multiple institutions. During her tenure, Jones transformed the Crocker Art Museum from a regional gem into a nationally and internationally recognized institution, revolutionizing all areas of the Museums operations and establishing a driving vision that the exhibitions, artwork, ... More Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Miya AndoLOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery has announced their representation of Miya Ando. In an effort to bring attention to the physical manifestation of time, transition, and the cycles of life, Miya Ando grounds her sculptures, paintings, and installations in the phenomena of the natural world, locating harmony in the gaps between the material and ephemeral, the manmade and organic, the cultures of East and West. Inspired by her deep fascination with arcane Japanese literature, idiom, and philosophy, Miya Ando views her artistic practice as a language that unites spheres of influence, a bridge between her experience growing up in both Northern California and Japan. "There is a poetry to our communion with nature. Whether a leaf, a cloud, a shooting star, we all have a part in this fleeting existence. Through my work, I look for ways to capture ... More 'Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines' by Carol Kino to launch March 5thNEW YORK, NY.- On March 5, 2024, Scribner will publish DOUBLE CLICK: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines, by acclaimed art writer Carol Kino. A captivating blend of biography and cultural reportage, DOUBLE CLICK reveals the lives of pioneering twin fashion photographers Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe, whose rise to prominence during New Yorks glamorous magazine heyday of the late 1930s and 40s reflected a brief window of expanded opportunities for women before and during World War II. Frances, or Franny, became the first female photographer on staff in the Conde Nast photo studio; her action fashion photographs appeared regularly in Vogue, Glamour, and the companys other publications. Kathryn found a niche for her surrealistic portraits in career-girl magazines, freelancing for the likes of ... More Films of Powell and Pressburger, narrated and presented by Martin Scorsese, set for UK and Irish cinemasLONDON.- Narrated and presented by Martin Scorsese and directed by two-time BAFTA- and Emmy-winning David Hinton, Altitude announces that MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on fi0 May 2024. A personal and moving look at two of British cinema's greatest filmmakers, the film will have its world premiere at the Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2024 before featuring at Dublin International and Glasgow Film Festivals. Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger when he was a child, sitting in front of the family TV. When their famous logo came up on screen, Scorsese says, "You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic - real film magic." ... More Logan Maxwell Hagege leads the incredible offerings found in Moran's Art of the American West saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- John Moran Auctioneers will be presenting their first Art of the American West sale of 2024 on Tuesday, March 12th, 2023, at 10:00am PDT. Comprised of over 380 lots, this auction will feature an exciting and robust offering of fine art for a wide range of collecting aesthetics from historic to contemporary. Western bronzes from artists such as James Regimbal, Ken Payne, Fred Fellows, Greg Eiselein, and Vic Payne represent a large portion of the auction. Logan Maxwell Hagege, Joe De Yong, Elbridge Ayer, Ralph Love all work to convey life in the American West through their unique perspectives. Incredible examples of Navajo and Pueblo jewelry including pieces by Frank Patania, Frederico Jimenez, Mike Bird Romero, Clarence Lee, Art Tafoya, and Sara Leekya represent more than 160 lots. Also, a variety of Navajo ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Berthe Morisot died March 02, 1895. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Grain field, c.1875, Musée d'Orsay.
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