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Mokha Laget, THROUGHLINES, 2024. Vinyl emulsion on shaped canvas. 57 x 95.
HOUSTON, TX.- Gallery Sonja Roesch presents "Inclinations," the fifth solo exhibition of recent works by Mokha Laget. Renowned for her signature shaped canvas paintings, Mokha Laget continues to explore hypothetical space and light through large, colorful geometric abstractions. Her complex arrangements of angled planes create perspectives that extend beyond the canvas into the gallery's architecture. Laget's works balance precision and ambiguity, challenging perception with spatial illusions that blur reality. As a leading geometric abstract painter of her generation, Laget bridges the gap between the legacy of the Color School and contemporary art. Her shaped canvases follow a trajectory of historically ref ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On view now at Americas Society, the exhibition The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & The Caribbean, is the first show in New York City to center on the artistic production of the Asian diaspora in the region from the 1950s to the present.
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| Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais brings together prints spanning 60 years of Alex Katz's career | | The 1980s art carnival Luna Luna will come to New York | | The Mirror and the Screen: Gehao Zhang's approach to dance and media |
Alex Katz, Freesia, 2023. Woodcut in seven colours. Print 120,7 x 90,2 cm (47,5 x 35,5 in) Frame 134 x 105 x 5 cm (52,76 x 41,34 x 1,97 in) Ed. 27 of 75. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul © Alex Katz / ARS, New York, 2024.
PARIS.- This exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais brings together prints spanning 60 years of Alex Katzs career. It is a continuation of the landmark show held at the Pantin gallery earlier this year: the first at the gallery dedicated to the American artists printmaking practice. Spanning Katzs evocative landscapes, his closely cropped, cinematic portraits, as well as a group of early portfolios which testify to the technical experimentation of his printmaking, the exhibition ... More | |
Kenny Scharf, Painted chair swing ride (foreground), and David Hockney, Enchanted Tree (background), 1987, exhibited in Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, Los Angeles, 2024. Kenny Scharf artwork © Kenny Scharf. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Ariel Fisher. Courtesy Luna Luna, LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- An original Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris wheel and a Keith Haring carousel are two of the high-art-meets-fairground attractions coming to New York this fall when Luna Luna, the once-lost art carnival, travels to The Shed in Hudson Yards. After languishing in a rural Texas warehouse, Luna Luna was rescued and restored thanks to intervention from rapper Drake. Its first exhibition no, you cant ... More | |
"By merging interactive projection technology and improvisational dance, Zhang transforms each performance into a living, evolving experimentan unpredictable dance lab where the boundaries between reality and dreams blur."
NEW YORK, NY.- I first encountered dance artist Gehao Zhang at a dance film screening event. As the lights dimmed and the screen flickered to life, I wasnt sure what to expect. But within minutes, I was captivated. The dancers on screen seemed to drift between reality and dream, each frame alive with tension and poetry that felt both familiar and refreshingly new. It wasnt just the choreography that drew me in; it was the way the dance was capturedhow the camera moved ... More |
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| Christie's announces highlights of Asian Art Week | | Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman Collage in Dialogue at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery | | Purported Rembrandt painting found in a Maine attic sells for $1.4 million |
Yoshida Hiroshis Sailing Boat. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies celebrates Asian Art Week at Rockefeller Plaza with six sales, three live and three online, and an important non-selling exhibition. Live sales begin 17 September with Japanese and Korean Art, featuring important works by Hokusai, and an exciting Korean works of art section. Live sales continue 18 September with South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, featuring extensive offerings of works by F.N. Souza and Ram Kumar. The week of live ... More | |
Romare Bearden (19111988), Of the Blues: New Orleans Farewell, 1974, collage of various papers with acrylic on Masonite, 43 3/8 x 49 1/2 inches / 110.2 x 125.7 cm, signed; © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman: Collage in Dialogue, an exhibition focused on the artistic exchange between two leading innovators of the medium. Though Bearden was a generation older than Grossman, the artists initiated ... More | |
Portrait of a Girl, a 17th-century work believed to be by the Dutch master, had been hiding in a home in Maine.
NEW YORK, NY.- The attic, long a repository of discarded toys and the like, can sometimes turn up treasures. Late last month, a painting that an auctioneer in Maine discovered and believed to be a work by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn was sold at auction for $1.4 million. The artwork had apparently been stored in the attic of a farmhouse in Camden, Maine, for decades. Kaja Veilleux, the owner, appraiser and auctioneer of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine, ... More |
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| Picasso prints and Brazilian brilliance at the Independent | | The Georgia Museum of Art will present an exhibition focused on empty spaces | | Art exhibitions that don't look away from the rocky realities |
Clockwise from top center, Brad Kahlhamers House of Snakes, 2000; Bird + Thalia, 2000; Friendly Frontier, 2000; End of the Trail w/Nice Music, 1999; Hawk, 1988; and Adult Eagle Monument, 2000 at the Independent 20th Century art fair in New York. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Despite oversaturation, market wobbles, the relentless pace, the sheer expense and every other complaint you may hear this week from a gallerist on a cigarette break, its art fair time again in New York but thats not without its merits. Fairs like Spring Break, Volta and Clio give younger and less established artists chances to see and be seen while providing city dwellers ... More | |
Edmund de Waal (British, b. 1969), Letters to Amherst, II, 2023. Porcelain, gold, alabaster, aluminum, glass, 19 15/16 Ã 35 7/16 Ã 7 5/16 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Acquisition in progress.
ATHENS, GA.- When you hear someone say, Mind the gap, you probably think of train stations, not museums. But the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present an exhibition focused on empty spaces September 21 to December 1, 2024. Mind the Gap: Selections from the Permanent Collection invites visitors to explore the intentional and thoughtful ways in which art collections are built over ... More | |
Awol Erizkus Nefertiti Miles Davis (Gold), 2022, hard-coated foam, mirror tile, chain and rotating electric motor. (Robert McKeever/Sean Kelly Gallery via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Another epochal election. Another horrific backdrop, from the nightmare in the Gaza Strip however you analyze it to Sudan, Congo and Ukraine. Another season of demagoguery and bad-faith argument gone global. So ... go look at art? Yes, more than ever. As always it falls to artists and curators to document and interpret the world and to propose possibilities for living in it and living together in it in ways that are rigorous and free. And beautiful too, please. ... More |
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| The bands and the fans were fake. The $10 million was real. | | Christie's New York presents the first Handbags Online: The September Edition | | First retrospective for Chicano artist and activist, Rolando Briseño, debuts at Centro de Artes Gallery |
The seal of the Department of Justice in New York, on Nov. 19, 2021. (José A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A North Carolina man used artificial intelligence to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by fake bands, then put them on streaming services where they were enjoyed by an audience of fake listeners, prosecutors said. Penny by penny, he collected a very real $10 million, they said when they charged him with fraud. The man, Michael Smith, 52, was accused in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday of stealing royalty payments from digital streaming ... More | |
A Black and Multicolor Cross Patch Backpack with Sterling Silver Hardware (Estimate $15,000-20,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York unveiled its inaugural September Handbags auction: Handbags Online: The September Edition. This online sale, open for bidding from September 4 - 18, features over 100 curated lots, showcasing rare and exceptional handbags from iconic brands including Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Dior, alongside a debut selection from Chrome Hearts. Highlights will be on display at Christies New York from 13 17 September. The sale ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: City of San Antonio / Department of Arts & Culture.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The City of San Antonios Department of Arts & Culture unveiled the first retrospective dedicated to Chicano artist and activist, Rolando Briseño. The exhibition, Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective, debuted yesterday at Centro de Artes Gallery in Historic Market Square and runs through February 9, 2025. So much of culture revolves around food what we eat, how it is prepared, who is at the table, and what is discussed around the table said Krystal Jones, Executive ... More |
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Ludwig Museum opens "Reversed Objects"BUDAPEST.- The exhibition Reversed Objects raises a number of questions ranging from the status of objects as either mere things or artworks to the functioning of art institutions, while touching on various themes and disciplines. Some of these questions may sound rather banal. American art philosopher Arthur C. Danto analyses the following problem: if one enters a room full of objects, can one tell at a glance which are works of art and which are mere real things? Danto argues that even if we do not necessarily have a precise definition of what art is, we are able to tell artworks from everyday objects. The exhibition Reversed Objects explores the reasons for the presence, and the various meanings, of traditional craft techniques, which have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary art over the last 1015 years. This ... More Capital Jewish Museum appoints Dr. Beatrice Gurwitz as Executive DirectorWASHINGTON, DC.- The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum's Board of Directors announced that Dr. Beatrice Gurwitz, an accomplished nonprofit leader and scholar of Jewish history, has been appointed the Museums next executive director, following an extensive search. As the executive director, Gurwitz will oversee the development of the Museums programmatic offerings, expand its network of partners, diversify funding sources, and initiate a strategic planning process. She will assume her new role at the Museum on September 23, 2024. Beatrice is widely admired and respected for her leadership and valuable scholarship in the field of Jewish studies. Simultaneously, she brings a deep understanding of the opportunities facing a 21st-century cultural property combined with a vast network of academic and humanities- ... More Aaron Pierre: From action prince to Lion KingNEW YORK, NY.- Aaron Pierre was an unsure British teenager when he took his first acting gig: a narrator in a secondary-school production of Moby Dick. The school didnt have a dedicated drama program and produced a play once every three years; Pierre had focused on athletics before giving the stage a try. As he recalled during a recent video call from his apartment in Los Angeles, his adolescent mind was thinking, Whats going to happen to me walking through the halls if I do this play? The show turned out to be painless. He went out, hit his mark at the corner of stage left and looked at the audience as he said his few lines. I remember getting backstage and just being like, That was amazing, Pierre said. The roles have grown a bit larger. Pierre, 30, played the hard-luck soldier Cassio in a 2018 production of Othello at the ... More 36 hours in SeattleNEW YORK, NY.- If your exposure to Seattle is limited to postcards and reputation, then you know it for the Space Needle, Mount Rainier, coffee and rain. But todays Seattle is ever evolving, filled with colorful neighborhoods beyond the museum-studded central districts. The University District, or U District, is home to more pioneering and enduring businesses than just about any other neighborhood. Laid-back West Seattle is the birthplace of the city, and Ballard, a live-music hub, is the historic heart of the regions thriving commercial fishing industry. These three well-established and occasionally underappreciated neighborhoods, each with its own decades-old institutions, are emblematic of the Emerald Citys natural beauty, vibrant street life and commitment to both preservation and progress, and are well worth spending a weekend exploring. Start your weekend exploring ... More For the opening weekend of "Various Others", Museum Brandhorst is presenting two artistsMUNICH.- On the occasion of Various Others, two site-specific projects opened at Museum Brandhorst. The third Flag Commission is being presented: a contribution by Lily van der Stokker, which can be seen in front of the museum, as well as Maria VMiers intervention no: tongue breaks and thin fire is racing under skin on the upper level of the museum. As part of the Brandhorst Flag Commission, four flags designed by Lily van der Stokker are presented in front of the museum. The artist became known for her installations and murals, which are based on decorative imagery from everyday life and domestic spaces and which question these in terms of their gender and identity implications. Supposedly cute decorations are contrasted with subtle texts. For the flags for Museum Brandhorst, Lily van der Stokker did not as one might expect create ... More In 'Nobody Wants This,' Adam Brody keeps the faithLOS ANGELES, CA.- Adam Brodys bar mitzvah was held six months late. It was barely held at all. This was in San Diego, in the early 1990s, and Brody, who spent most of his free time surfing, attended Hebrew school only under duress. He knew few other Jews. I wanted long, straight blond hair, he said. All my idols were named Shane. A decade later, after a cursory stint at community college, an impulsive move to Los Angeles, a handful of television one-offs and a brief arc on Gilmore Girls, Brody became the most famous Jewish (well, half Jewish) high schooler in America. (He was actually 23, which made the fandom a little tricky.) Starring as Seth Cohen on the sun-kissed teen romantic dramedy The O.C., he played a curly-haired heartthrob, responsible for introducing the holiday portmanteau Chrismukkah ... More A barrier-breaking conductor will lead the Seattle SymphonyNEW YORK, NY.- Xian Zhang, a renowned conductor who has helped bring the New Jersey Symphony to new heights over the past eight years, will be the Seattle Symphonys next music director, the orchestra announced Thursday. When she takes the podium in 2025, Zhang, 51, will be the first woman and the first person of color to lead the Seattle Symphony in its 121-year history, and one of only two women leading a top-tier U.S. orchestra. (The other is Nathalie Stutzmann, the Atlanta Symphonys music director since 2022.) Zhang, who was born in Dandong, China, and moved to the United States in 1998, said that she would work to attract new audiences in Seattle, including more young professionals, families and people of color. My goal is to have the symphony become even more of a musical icon and a magnet for the city, she said. We need to be mo ... More 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' review: Putting Putin's rise onstagePARIS.- Perhaps it was just a matter of time before Vladislav Y. Surkov became a stage character. Surkov, an influential ideologist who spent two decades in the orbit of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, once trained as a theater director; in 2011, novelist Eduard Limonov described Surkov as having refashioned Russia into a wonderful postmodernist theater, according to the London Review of Books. The Wizard of the Kremlin, a new French production directed by Roland Auzet, makes a pointed case for Surkovs pivotal role in Russian, and international, politics. Staged through Nov. 3 at La Scala Paris, a fairly new Right Bank playhouse, it is an adaptation of a French novel that sold over half a million copies after Russia invaded Ukraine, in 2022. The book, a fictionalized account of Surkovs life and career, was the work ... More Class of 1965 honors Zimmerli Art Museum with gift of outdoor sculptureNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Outdoor sculptures across all three campuses of Rutgers University have become landmarks for the campus community and visitors: a spot to meet friends or colleagues; inspiration for reflections and conversation; the backdrop for selfies and graduation photos. On College Avenue in New Brunswick, the new sculpture Past is Prologue, by artist Patrick Strzelec, creates an inviting atmosphere on the front terrace of the Zimmerli Art Museum on Hamilton Street, making art accessible to visitors and passersby, even if the museum is closed. Renowned for his abstract sculptures, Strzelec created a circuit of lines that rise from the ground and curve around each other in an infinite flow. The 13-foot-tall work is constructed of a high-grade aluminum that maintains strength and durability. It also will not rust, and a powder coating ... More Sergio Mendes, 83, dies; Brought Brazilian rhythms to the U.S. pop chartsNEW YORK, NY.- Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian-born pianist, composer and arranger who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in the 1960s through his ensemble, Brasil 66, and remained a force in popular music for more than six decades, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 83. His family said in a statement that his death, in a hospital, was caused by long COVID. Mendes released more than 30 albums, won three Grammys and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for best original song (as co-writer of Real in Rio, from the animated film Rio). His career in America took flight in 1966 with Brasil 66 and the single Mas Que Nada, written by Brazilian singer-songwriter Jorge Ben. The Mendes sound was deceptively sophisticated rhythmically but gentle on the ears, suavely amplifying the original guitar-centered murmur of bossa ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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