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Igshaan Adams with his work, âEpping II,â part of his first U.S. museum exhibition, âDesire Lines,â at the Art Institute of Chicago, March 29, 2022. Adams and Bronwyn Katz, another South African artist, use abstraction and humble materials to make sense of a fraught terrain at the Venice Biennale. Lawrence Agyei/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
CHICAGO, IL.- On a recent afternoon, artist Igshaan Adams instructed me to pull up Cape Town, South Africa, on Google Earth on my phone. We thumbed away from the waterfront and the verdant enclaves that hug the iconic Table Mountain, and over to the sprawling Cape Flats, all dusty brown. This was where the apartheid regime forcibly relocated nonwhite people into commuter suburbs, designated by race. Adams, who is Coloured by that rubric a holdover term that remains widely employed as a cultural designation for South Africas mixed-race communities grew up in a place called Bonteheuwel. We found his block, low houses cheek by jowl. Across the tracks lay Epping, a big industrial zone of factories and hangars. In between was open land. We zoomed in and saw them: the paths formed by people trekking between the two zones. I almost died there once, Adams said. Urban planners call such tracks desire lines a poetic technical term. But these ones got crossed ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Andreas Gursky White Cube Bermondsey 29 April - 26 June 2022 © Andreas Gursky / DACS. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick).
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| Barbara Kruger's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin in over 10 years opens at The Neue Nationalgalerie | | Pace and Grimm open concurrent exhibitions of work by William Monk | | Christie's presents the Raptor: The Most Complete Skeleton of Jurassic Park's "Velociraptor" | 
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Blind idealism is ...), 2016. Wandgemälde, High Line, New York. Courtesy of the artist, Friends of the High Line, and Sprüth Magers / Timothy Schenck.
BERLIN.- The Neue Nationalgalerie presents Barbara Kruger's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin and throughout Germany in over 10 years. The US-American conceptual artist is developing a typographic installation especially for the exhibition hall of Neue Nationalgalerie that covers the entire floor of the exhibition space and invites visitors to join in on a group discussion about political and social issues. In the expansive installation, Barbara Kruger combines her own writings with citations from three authors: George Orwell, James Baldwin and Walter Benjamin. Their texts each revolve around major political themes: the violence of totalitarian states, the mechanisms of social discrimination and the dangers of one-sided historiography. At the centre is the sentence taken from Orwell's book "1984": If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping ... More | | 
William Monk, Nova (deadeye I), 2021-2022. Oil on canvas, 220 cm (86-5/8) diameter. William Monk © courtesy Pace Gallery and GRIMM.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace and GRIMM are presenting a three-venue exhibition of William Monks new paintings and works on paper across both of their spaces in New York and Paces East Hampton gallery. The exhibition at Paces 510 West 25th Street space and GRIMMs 54 White Street gallery will run from April 29 to June 11, concurrent with Frieze New York. The East Hampton show will be on view from May 27 to June 5. This expansive presentation marks Monks second exhibition in New York. Monk is known for his atmospheric, vibrant paintings that feature mysterious and otherworldly forms. His semiabstract paintings are deeply engaged with the rich tradition and history of the medium. The artist frequently creates works as part of a series, drawing on multifarious sources of inspiration connected to his own experience. Like his other bodies of work, Monks new paintings e ... More | | 
Deinonychus Antirrhopus, Montana, USA. 119⅔ x 62¼ x 26in. (304 x 158 x 66cm.) Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the debut of The Raptor as part of the New York Spring Marquee Week of sales on the evening of 12 May 2022. The iconic raptor (Deinonychus) stands dynamically poised at nearly 10 feet long, containing 126 fossil bones in an incredible state of preservation from approximately 115 108 million years ago. As one of the most famous and rarest dinosaursand the most complete skeleton of his species ever foundThe Raptor is estimated at $4 million - 6 million USD. The Raptor was excavated from Wolf Canyon, in Montana, Wyoming and has since been in private hands. It has been exhibited only once in Copenhagen at the Natural History Museum of Denmark from June 2020 to December 2021. With a handful of recorded specimens found and only two skeletons in museum collections, The Raptor is the single most complete Deinonychus known ... More |
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| Alexander Gray Associates opens 'Lorraine O'Grady: Body Is the Ground of My Experience' | | Skinner's European Décor & Design and The Bostonians auctions exceed $1.1 million in sales | | Now open: Andreas Gursky at White Cube Bermondsey | 
Installation view: Lorraine O'Grady: Body Is the Ground of My Experience, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Lorraine OGrady: Body Is the Ground of My Experience, an exhibition of the artists pivotal 1991 black-and-white photomontages. Drawing on formal strategies of Surrealism and on OGradys own visceral, nuanced engagement with aesthetics, representation, and cultural history, these diptychs are both a turning point, from live performance to wall installation, and a refined iteration of the complex politically and personally radical theses and practices that have occupied the artist throughout her career. OGrady produced Body Is the Ground of My Experience for her first one-person exhibition at New Yorks INTAR Gallery in 1991this presentation marks the first time in more than thirty years the complete body of work has been on view in the city. Previously known primarily for her work as a performance artist ... More | | 
365 Piece Towle Silversmiths Georgian Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Service. (Lot 1074: Est. $2,500-5,000. Sold for $13,750.) Courtesy Skinner Auctioneers.
Skinner Auctioneers' recent Luxe Living: The Bostonians & European Décor & Design Auctions. Drawing competitive bidding from enthusiastic participants worldwide, these two April 2022 European auctions generated high prices across multiple categories, pushing their gross well above their high estimates. All together, the two auctions exceeded $1.1 Million. Buyers excitement over fresh property on the market was especially evident by the very well attended previews, says department director, Stuart Slavid. With both a live and an online auction, Skinner attracted over a thousand bidders for the combined auctions. Spirited bidding occurred over the phone, online and through absentee bidders, pushing the gross well above the high estimate to $534,875 with an impressive 95% sell-through rate. The top lot was a pair of carved giltwood mirrors (Lot 231), which soared past their presale ... More | | 
Andreas Gursky, V&R II 2022 (2009). 120 7/8 x 81 1/2 x 2 7/16 in. © Andreas Gursky / DACS. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Bermondsey is presenting an exhibition by Andreas Gursky featuring new and recent photographs. Produced over the past four years, these works reflect Gurskys focus on the essential commonality of contemporary life, and the forms and structures of global capitalism. Gurskys subjects from multinational headquarters to fashion runways, a domestic interior to a political seminar take on a scale akin to that of history painting. In so doing, Gursky gives spatial precedence to the pressing issues of our age, articulated through expansive scenes that reveal their pictorial complexity. In his new photographs, the artist elaborates upon the role of images in todays society, addressing the paradoxical nature of the medium and its relationship to the real. As Gursky states: Seeing and the imperative to find images leads me to my subjects, not the other way round. Several of th ... More |
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| Saudi Arabian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Muhannad Shono: The Teaching Tree | | Nari Ward unveils new works in New York City | | Leopold Museum opens large-scale exhibition dedicated to Alfred Kubin | 
Muhannad Shono, The Teaching Tree, 2022. Sculptural installation, with palm fronds, pigment, pneumatics and metal structure, overall dimensions variable Photograph Samuele Cherubini. Courtesy of The Artist and The Visual Arts Commission, Saudi Arabia.
VENICE.- Multidisciplinary artist Muhannad Shono has been selected to represent Saudi Arabia at Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice. Curated by Reem Fadda and Assistant Curator Rotana Shaker, The Teaching Tree is a large-scale, ambitious installation exploring themes of creation, regeneration, nature, and mythology. Commissioned by The Visual Arts Commission, one of 11 sector-specific commissions overseen by Saudi Arabias Ministry of Culture, the installation is on display at the Arsenale-Sale dArmi from 23 April to 27 November 2022. As Saudi Arabias burgeoning contemporary art scene continues to define itself on the world stage, Shono has emerged as a compelling voice among a new generation of rising artists from the region. The Teaching Tree is a vast, 40-metre-long, organically formed structure made of palm fronds painted in black and animated by pneumatics. The enigmatic form fills the length of the pavilion, embodying ... More | | 
Nari Ward, Ill Take You There; A Proclamation, New York. April 28 June 4, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announces Ill Take You There; A Proclamation, an exhibition of new work by acclaimed New York City-based artist Nari Ward. Ranging in scale from the monumental to the domestic, Ward creates sculptures and installations composed from discarded material found and collected in his Harlem neighborhood, including repurposed objects such as baby strollers, shopping carts, bottles, keys, cash registers, and shoelaces, among other materials. Ward re-contextualizes these found objects in thought-provoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings and confront social and political issues surrounding race, gentrification, and community, intentionally leaving the meaning of his work open to allow viewers to construct their own interpretations. For this exhibition, the artists sixth solo presentation with Lehmann Maupin, Ward has created four text-based works constructed from shoelaces, two large- ... More | | 
Alfred Kubin (18771959) Jede Nacht besucht uns ein Traum, um 1902/03. Tusche, Feder, grau, schwarz, braun laviert, gespritzt, Einfassungslinie auf Katasterpapier | 39,3 à 31,9 cm. Albertina, Wien | Foto: Albertina, Wien © Eberhard Spangenberg, München/Bildrecht, Wien 2022.
VIENNA.- The large-scale spring exhibition at the Leopold Museum is dedicated to the fantastical creator of uncanny visions, unparalleled draftsman, mysterious illustrator and author of the novel The Other Side: Alfred Kubin. In view of geopolitical disputes and military conflicts, the oeuvre of this organizer of the uncertain, the hermaphroditic, the dusky and the oneiric, as he described himself, appears more current than ever before. His works, which are shaped by violence, wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters, the manipulation of the masses and other abysses of human existence, focus as much on everyday reality as on the enigmas beyond the visible world. Exploring Alfred Kubins works means traveling into the artists innermost emotional worlds, into the labyrinth of his soul, and to follow his exuberant powers of imagination. It also means delving into the art- ... More |
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| How is an 18th-century town restored? New exhibition reveals its process in Colonial Williamsburg | | Heritage Auctions gathers important works by Marina Abramovic, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Motherwell and more | | Christie's announces London Now a festival of art and literature | 
Nelson-Galt House Scuttle Door Foliate Hinge Late 17th-century. AF-9.7.16. Image courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Decades ago a simple wooden board in use as a shelf was discovered in Belle Farm, an 18th-century house in Gloucester County, Virginia. It turned out to be much more than an untrained eye would notice at first glance: etched into the surface was the original design for two arches that are still to be seen in the house today. This extraordinary artifact provided Colonial Williamsburgs architectural historians with valuable information on design development and layout in the last half of the 1700s. The design was later used as the model for the arches in the southwest dining room of the reconstructed Kings Arms Tavern on Colonial Williamsburgs Duke of Gloucester Street. This etched board is one of approximately 80 objects that are on view in Restoring Williamsburg, a new exhibition in the James Boswell and Christopher Caracci Gallery at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), Meat Counter, 1960. Oil on canvas, 22-1/4 x 20-1/4 inches. Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions May 19 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction is masterfully curated with iconic names from the Postmodern and Contemporary Art movements. One of the top highlights in the auction is Marina Abramovics The Chamber of Stillness (estimate: $100,000-150,000), which was created later in the artists career, when she experimented with bringing together previous phases and combined her 40 years of performance art. This reflection of time later became known as the Abramovic Method. In The Chamber of Stillness, Abramovic allows the viewer to become the artist by participating in the sensory-deprived performance piece. The work incorporates quartz, which is known for its powers of protection and purification, to help the viewer meditate and achieve enlightenment. Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance art and ... More | | 
London Now is part of a summer programme of cultural highlights taking place at Christie's locations across Europe this year. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies announces London Now, an innovative summer season of exhibitions, events and auctions taking place during June and July 2022 at its headquarters in the historic heart of Londons St. Jamess. London Now will celebrate the capital as a global cultural hub, recognising the part London has played throughout the centuries bringing together artists, writers, poets and art lovers, a role it continues to play. Honouring Londons unique identity and vibrant diversity, the London Now festival calendar will feature specially programmed exhibitions, talks and events free to attend and open to the public under the banner of The Art of Literature. The Art of Literature: Auction Highlights Exhibition will run from 6 to 15 June, encompassing a selection of outstanding lots from Christies auctions during June and July. In addition there will be The Art of Literature: Loan and Selling Exhibition which will ru ... More |
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Roy Lichtenstein 'Nude' | New York | May 2022
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 MFA Boston appoints Dr. Mariel Novas as Chief of Learning and Community EngagementBOSTON, MASS.- Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that Dr. Mariel Novas has been appointed as the Patti and Jonathan Kraft Chief of Learning and Community Engagement. Novas will work closely with Teitelbaum and her peers on the Leadership Team to strengthen the Museum as a welcoming civic space for all of Boston. She and her team will collaborate with colleagues across the institution to enrich the visitor experience by creating bold programming and educational initiatives that integrate diverse points of view. Novas, who most recently served as Transition Director for Mayor Michelle Wu, will begin her new role at the MFA on May 16. Mariel Novas is an outstanding community leader and educator with deep roots in Boston. Her unwavering commitment ... More  Militaria, fine art, decorative accessories and more will come up for bid at EstateOfMindMIDDLETOWN, NY.- A two-session auction featuring militaria, fine art, antiques, postcards, Mid-Century Modern, coins and jewelry will be held on Saturday, May 21st, by EstateOfMind. The sale will be held live in the EstateOfMind gallery located at 195 Derby Road in Middletown, as well as online. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com. Bidders can also view lot photos and get more info at EstateOfMind.biz and at AuctionZip.com (ID # 11093). Session 1, starting at 11 am Eastern time, will be dedicated to militaria and firearms. Offered will be Winchester Model 52 rifles and target rifles; rare Colt SA revolvers; and an 1863 Civil War letter signed by Gen. A. E. Burnside, with Burnside Rifles content. Sold in Session 2 will be a 1945 oil on board painting of a World War II float plane with clouds signed by artist Eric Sloane. ... More  Major exhibition of leading artists working at the cutting-edge of audio-visual technology opens in LondonLONDON.- Fact and 180 Studios present Future Shock, a major new exhibition of leading international artists and collectives working at the cutting-edge of audio-visual technology, on view through 28 August 2022. Blurring the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, Future Shock presents immersive installations that transform 180 Studios subterranean spaces through mesmerising and pioneering digital technology from generative and interactive algorithms, AI, and 3D digital mapping, to spellbinding laser work, holographic projections, and ground-breaking electronic music. Including numerous UK and world premieres, Future Shock features those pioneers at the apex of sound and vision ... More  Marcus Cope's first institutional solo show opens at PEERLONDON.- British artist Marcus Cope (b.UK, 1980) is a painter who takes messy memories and commits them to canvas. For his first institutional solo show, Cope presents his most recent large-scale paintings which reflect significant, often complicated moments in his life. These include surreal encounters while travelling, domestic frustrations, the demands of parenthood, and recollections of the conflict and emotional violence of his own upbringing. Marcus Cope - Silver Linings runs at PEER from 29 April 11 June 2022 and admission is free. Copes self-reflective paintings reveal specific, sometimes fragmented memories which have had a significant impact on him. His painting Loaf for example relates to the bread he was given by a stranger in Cyprus, which became central to his memory of the situation surrounding a relationship ... More  Stephen Friedman Gallery opens its first solo exhibition with Caroline WalkerLONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition with Caroline Walker. The British artist presents a new body of work that traces the daily life of her sister-in-law Lisa as she becomes a mother. Walkers cinematic paintings and works on paper reveal the diverse experiences of women living in contemporary society. Drawing on photographic source material, her paintings blur the boundary between objective documentary and personal experience. The exhibition explores Lisas new responsibilities as a mother through the routines of her domestic life. Walker captures the changes she experiences four weeks before giving birth up until the baby reaches three months old. The house is mapped through everyday tasks; we see Lisa pack a bag for the hospital, watch television whilst feeding the baby, and fold ... More  José Luis Cortés, trailblazing Cuban bandleader, dies at 70NEW YORK, NY.- José Luis Cortés, a Cuban musician who with his popular band, NG La Banda, helped establish the lively genre of music known as timba and spread the sound with well-regarded albums and rollicking shows that had concertgoers dancing in the arenas and afterward in the streets, died April 18 in Havana. He was 70. The Instituto Cubano de la Música posted news of his death on its Facebook page and said the cause was a hemorrhagic encephalic accident. The post called him one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music. Cortés, a flutist who graduated from the National School of Art, was an admired figure in Cuban music for decades, although he had recently been the subject of abuse allegations by a former vocalist with his band. He brought a combination of serious musicianship and showmanship ... More  Dropping Anna Netrebko, the Met turns to a Ukrainian divaNEW YORK, NY.- The call from the Metropolitan Opera came one afternoon in early March. Liudmyla Monastyrska, a Ukrainian soprano, was in Poland, shopping for concert dresses before a performance. Her phone rang, and it was Peter Gelb, the Mets general manager, on the other end. He was blunt: His company was in a bind. Ukraine had recently been invaded, and the Met had parted ways with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko over her previous support for President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Gelb wanted Monastyrska, a charismatic singer known for her lush sound, to replace Netrebko in a revival of Puccinis Turandot, which opens Saturday. Monastyrska, 46, was reluctant. In 2015, after a punishing run at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, she had vowed never to perform the title role of Turandot again, ... More  Smith College Museum of Art appoints Tiffany Bradley as Associate Director of CommunicationsNORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art announced the appointment of Tiffany Bradleyarts marketer, media consultant and program development leader as Associate Director of Communications at SCMA. Tiffany brings deep experience in strategic communications and audience engagement, most recently through her work as founder of Colored Criticism, a media and consulting firm convening people of color in the arts since 2015. She joins the SCMA staff on April 29, 2022. "Smith College has educated women and women-identified students in the arts for over a century. I'm thrilled to join SCMA in linking artists and advocates for generations to come."Tiffany Bradley As a member of SCMAs Senior Leadership Team, Tiffany will provide strategic leadership, prioritize a broad range of communications ... More  Thomas Adès charts a journey through hell and heavenLOS ANGELES, CA.- Step into Walt Disney Concert Hall here this weekend, and youll find one of the rarest creatures in classical music: a new evening-length work. Premieres are most often relegated to the realm of curtain raisers. At best, composers can hope for the post-intermission pride of place almost always reserved for classic symphonies. A full program, though? Practically unheard of. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the most adventurous of Americas major orchestras, is a reliable exception. And Thursday, it gave the U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès Dante, a more-than-90-minute journey through hell and the spheres of heaven, a musical analogue to The Divine Comedy that, in its expansive yet discrete sound worlds, rises to meet its source material. Dante got its start here three years ago, when ... More  The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts announces two new CuratorsLITTLE ROCK, AR.- The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts announced the addition of Dr. Catherine Walworth as the Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. Curator of Drawings, and the promotion of Theresa Bembnister to curator. "Our curators research and develop exhibitions to ensure the art at the museum inspires public dialogue and engagement. I am pleased to have curators of their depth and expertise to help present AMFAs collection and bring art and art experiences to Little Rock, said Dr. Victoria Ramirez, Executive Director at AMFA. Walworth joins AMFA from the Columbia Museum of Art where she was curator. At the Columbia Museum of Art, Walworth oversaw 18 exhibitions, including bringing Jackson Pollocks famous 20-foot Mural to the museum and organized solo exhibitions with contemporary artists such as Renee ... More  Galley proofs for JK Rowling's Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone sold for £37,500LONDON.- An original, never before seen set of uncorrected galley sheets for JK Rowlings Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone sold at auction today for £37,500 nearly double its pre-sale low estimate of £20,000. The historic galley sheets were a highlight of Chiswick Auctions Fine Books & Works on Paper sale and instigated a frenzied bidding war, which eventually won out to a private collector bidding on the telephone from overseas. A galley proof, or galley sheet, is a publishing term used for a printed (written or digital) version of an advance copy, or segment of a book. It is the version of a book before final proofreading and is often used for promotional purposes. In this case, the galley proof, which consisted of 224 numbered pages on 109 sheets, was sent from Rosamund Walker, the Marketing Manager of Bloomsbury ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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