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Installation view Gabriel Kuri: Forecast. Museo Jumex, 2023. Photo: Abigail Enzaldo and Emilio GarcÃa.
MEXICO CITY.- On view until October 15, 2023, at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Gabriel Kuri: Forecast, is the first institutional survey show in Mexico of one of the most renowned Mexican artists of his generation. The show presents more than 50 new and existing works, including three new pieces, as well as works produced primarily over the last 10 years. Each of the artworks have resulted from the artists studio practice, collaborations with artisans, industrial processes, and site-specific projects that respond to the immediacy of the environment. Curated by Museo Jumex Chief Curator Kit Hammonds, the exhibition is centered around the idea of art as a forecast. Works of art may be interpreted as registers for experience and Kuri considers his work to have the capacity to provide information that may predict and imagine what is to come. Kuris works often contain references to predictive models drawn from various fields, includi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day David Richard Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by the late Dorothy Krakovsky (American, 1923 - 2015). The presentation entitled, In the Beginning: The Late Works of Dorothy Krakovsky includes seven of Krakovskyâs large-scale canvases as well as seven smaller canvases. Copyright © The Dorothy Krakovsky Trust. All Courtesy David Richard Gallery. All Photographs by Yao Zu Lu.
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| Historians criticize Moms for Liberty event at museum in Philadelphia | | Wurlitzer model 71 tabletop jukebox achieves top lot honors in 2 days of auctions by Miller & Miller | | Alan Arkin, comic actor with a serious side, dies at 89 |
Protesters against Moms for Liberty gather outside the Museum of the American Revolution during an opening reception for Moms for Liberty 2023 Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A half-dozen scholarly groups, including the nations two largest associations of professional historians, have criticized the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for renting space to Moms for Liberty, calling it a dangerous normalization of an organization that supports book bans and restrictions on teaching about race and gender. In a letter to the museum on Monday, the American Historical Association called on the museum to find a legal way to cancel the rental. Moms for Liberty is an organization that has vigorously advocated censorship and harassment of history teachers, banning history books from libraries and classrooms, and legislation that renders it impossible for historians to teach with professional integrity without risking job loss and other penalties, the letter ... More | |
Wurlitzer Model 71 tabletop jukebox (American circa 1940-1941), mechanically functioning, restored, on an original Wurlitzer model 810 stand (CA$14,750).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- A Wurlitzer Model 71 tabletop jukebox on a stand, made in America circa 1940-1941, sold for $14,750 on Day 2 of two days of online-only auctions held June 9th and June 10th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The June 9th sale was dedicated entirely to toys; June 10th featured petroliana, advertising and coin-ops. All prices quoted include an 18 percent buyers premium and are in Canadian dollars. Headlining the two-day event was a pair of important collections, both offered on Day 2. One was the Linden Johnson collection, featuring a treasure trove of petroliana and general store advertising. The other was the Dr. Don Gutoski collection, which included a fine assortment of Kuntz Brewery advertising, rare Wurlitzer jukeboxes and speakers and assorted coin-ops. This sale was proof that the rule of investment collecting persists condition is the foremost predictor of price, said Ethan Miller of Miller ... More | |
The actor Alan Arkin in New York on Dec. 19, 2006. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
by Robert Berkvist and Peter Keepnews
NEW YORK, NY.- Alan Arkin, who won a Tony Award for his first lead role on Broadway, received an Academy Award nomination for his first feature film, and went on to have a long and diverse career as a character actor who specialized in comedy but was equally adept at drama, died Thursday in San Marcos, California. He was 89. His son Matthew Arkin said that Alan Arkin, who had heart ailments, died at home. Arkin was not quite a show-business neophyte when he was cast in the 1963 Broadway comedy Enter Laughing, Joseph Steins adaptation of Carl Reiners semi-autobiographical novel about a stage-struck boy from the Bronx. He had toured and recorded with the Tarriers, a folk music group, and he had appeared on Broadway with the Second City, the celebrated improvisational comedy troupe. But he was still a relative unknown. He did not stay unknown for long. In ... More |
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| Chioma Ebinama 'The Eyes of the Beloved are Everywhere' now open at Maureen Paley | | Russia's storied Tchaikovsky Competition is diminished by war | | Rick Owens, Ron Arad, Tom Dixon and more in Simon de Pury's new auction series putting artists at the forefront |
Chioma Ebinama, a hụrụ m gị n'anya (i see you in my eye), 2023. Watercolour, sumi ink, gouache and coffee on handmade cotton rag paper, 80 x 200 cm - 31 1/2 x 78 3/4 in. © Chioma Ebinama, courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Stephen James.
HOVE.- Maureen Paley is opening Chioma Ebinamas second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first at Morena di Luna, Hove this July 1st, which will continue through September 10th, 2023. Nigerian-American artist Chioma Ebinama draws from an array of visual and cultural references, employing myth and cosmology as a guide for examining her inner life. Her practice centres around watercolours on paper, a medium that elucidates the process of mark-making as both a meditative act and a tool for self-liberation. I have envisioned a story of a feminine figure recalling her past life as a mermaid (or a sea nymph) and thus longs to return to the sea. Turning to the sea can also be a metaphor of letting go of self-imposed social constructs. Ive been reading a lot about neurodivergence in women ... More | |
The magnet for talent has been greatly diminished, Gillinson said. At some point, when Russia becomes part of the world community again, they will have to build it back up again.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the worlds most prestigious music contests, is typically a bustling, Olympics-style gathering that every four years brings talented young pianists, violinists, cellists, singers and others from around the globe to Russia. But as the storied competition unfolds this month for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and became a pariah in the West, it is struggling to live up to its reputation. The contest, which is organized and financed by the Russian government, was expelled from the international federation of music competitions because of the war. Contestants and jurors from the United States and Europe are scarce. A streaming deal that drew millions of overseas ... More | |
Tom Dixon, Hydro Chair, 2021 Aluminium Chrome Finish 85 x 52 x 61 cm, 33 x 24 x 34 in. Limited edition of 12.
LONDON.- de PURY is now hosting its latest series of themed auctions for this summer with a groundbreaking model which has played a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of the auction landscape. Building upon the resounding success of its inaugural auction in 2022, de PURY continues to centre artists and their representing galleries to ensure they receive the proceeds directly from the sales. Each auction is curated according to a distinctive theme, which for the upcoming series are: CREATE, FIRE, KAWAII and PARADISE LOST. The auctions will also designate a fixed percentage of the hammer price to be donated to a public or not-for-profit cultural institution or charity. The first edition of the series CREATE 21st Century Architecture & Design began on 26th July 2023. The auction combines a diverse selection of exceptional artworks by leading contemporary artists, designers, and architects including Ron Arad, Andrea ... More |
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| Libraries appear to be spared in tense NYC budget talks | | Love and loss through the photographer's lens | | PAI's rare poster auction to feature Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary lithographs |
The Adams Street Library, in Brooklyn on Jan. 16, 2023. (Justin Kaneps/The New York Times)
by Emma G. Fitzsimmons
NEW YORK, NY.- For months, Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council have fought over which services to prioritize in negotiations over the citys $100 billion-plus budget. Now, as the budget deadline approaches on Friday, a deal is near, and city libraries appear to have been spared from cuts. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, has pushed for broad spending cuts across city agencies. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and the councils Progressive Caucus have warned that the cuts would be devastating for New Yorkers. Many other city institutions and programs are at stake: the City University of New York, parks, discount MetroCards for poor New Yorkers, affordable housing, schools and universal prekindergarten, free legal services and home delivery meals ... More | |
Sheree Hovsepian, Euclidean Space, 2022. © Sheree Hovsepian, Courtesy the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a thought-provoking exhibition, Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, at the International Center of Photography, two series of photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki face off on opposite walls. In the first, Sentimental Journey (1971), Araki charts his honeymoon with Yoko Aoki, his young wife. The sequence includes shots of her undressed, and one image shows her in orgasm. But the most intimate portraits, with Aoki fully clothed, expose her interior life. In the most poignant, she is sitting in a train compartment and looking off to the side, with an air of resignation and foreboding. I thought of the last line of Henry James The Bostonians, where the newly betrothed hero weeps tears and the narrator remarks, It was to be feared that these were not the last she was destined to shed. The Araki marriage, however, seems to have been happy. The ... More | |
Alphonse Mucha, Zodiac, 1896 (est. $17,000-$20,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- The 90th Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International on Tuesday, July 18, features rare and iconic images from a century of poster design. The collection includes Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary lithographs, as well as decorative panels, maquettes and original works. All 470 lots will be on view to the public June 29 to July 17. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11 am Eastern time. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, This milestone sale features a true constellation of great poster art, from the most sought-after works to never-before-seen masterpieces by the leaders of lithography. New and seasoned collectors alike will find something special in this auction. The auction will begin with 25 aviation posters, including a 1909 ... More |
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| The Southern Vermont Arts Center to open two summer exhibitions in the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum | | Five Fontanas and Paul Smith's Banksy steal the show at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary sales | | Collection of antique knives amassed over 40 years fetches £387,381 at Olympia Auctions |
Sam Fields, Lady of Leisure.
MANCHESTER, VT.- Southern Vermont Arts Center will host two exhibitions in the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum opening on July1 The US exhibition premiere of The Red Dress and Frippery, Finery, Frills: Works in Conversation by Barbara Ishikura and Sam Fields On view from Saturday, July 1 through Sunday, September 24, 2023. The Red Dress: Conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod, The Red Dress project provides an artistic platform for women around the world, many of whom are vulnerable and live in poverty, to tell their personal stories through embroidery. For fourteen years, pieces of the Red Dress traveled the globe being continuously embroidered onto. Constructed out of 88 pieces of burgundy silk dupion, the garment has been worked on by 366 women/girls, 7 men/boys and 2 non-binary artists from 51 countries. SVACs exhibition includes a special audio experience, narrated by Kirstie Macleod, describing the evolution of the project over more than a de ... More | |
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1960. Sold for £1,742,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams held two Post-War & Contemporary Art sales at New Bond Street London today (Thursday 29 June), 20th Century Masters : A Private Collection Fontana to Baselitz and Post-War & Contemporary Art, which achieved a combined total of £8.7 million. The single-owner collection of 20th Century Masters saw five works by Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), which had been unseen by the public for the past 50 years, offered at auction for the very first time. The top lot of the sale was Fontanas Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1960, which sold for £1,742,000. The 29-lot collection achieved a total of £4,964,000 with 90% sold by lot and 99% sold by value. Congestion Charge (2004), a rare Vandalized Oils painting by Banksy, from the private collection of the British fashion and design titan, Sir Paul Smith, was the top lot of Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art sale, achieving £1,681,000. Sir Paul Smith acquired the work from Banksys Sant ... More | |
The highest price of the sale was for a fine large multi-blade 20th century penknife for exhibition by George Wostenholm of Sheffield which sold for £22,500* against an estimate of £2,500-3,000.
LONDON.- A phenomenal collection of antique knives amassed over 40 years by David Hayden-Wright along with the ledgers, pattern books and catalogues of many of the famous Sheffield makers sold for a total of £387,381 (including buyers premium of 25%) double its pre-sale estimate - on the second day of Thomas Del Mars sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria which was held on Thursday, June 29, 2023, at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14. The collection of 284 lots was 98.9% sold and a portion of the sale proceeds and auction commission will go to support the acquisition fund of the Arms and Armor department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The highest price of the sale was for a fine large multi-blade 20th century penknife for exhibition by George Wostenholm of Sheffield which sold for ... More |
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Tim Marlow's Must-See Museum Shows: July 2023
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'The Democracy Project' puts America onstage, warts and all
NEW YORK, NY.- Tourists who pause outside Federal Hall, a Wall Street memorial maintained by the U.S. National Park Service, will find its neoclassical facade covered in scaffolding. Its front steps, which host a bronze statue of George Washington, are occluded, too. But until July 22, the man himself can be found inside, fussing over his dentures, his sleep and his coming inauguration. Oh, hon, his wife, Martha, says. Dont lead with your anxieties. George (Tom Nelis) and Martha (Erin Anderson) are characters in The Democracy Project, a collaboration among five playwrights and two directors with a song composed by Michael R. Jackson. Commissioned by Federal Hall, the 45-minute site-specific performance, offered free of charge in the halls grand Greek Revival rotunda, is both a pageant-style survey of significant events at the ... More
April Kingsley, curator who championed unsung artists, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- April Kingsley, who as a curator and a critic gave important exposure to Black and women artists in the 1970s and 80s, a period when it was often difficult for them to draw mainstream attention, died June 13 at a nursing home in Harwich, Massachusetts. She was 82. Her daughter, Grace Hopkins, said the cause was Alzheimers disease, which Kingsley had for 12 years. In a career that began in the mid-1960s, Kingsley, working for various museums and as an independent curator, mounted or consulted on numerous shows. Among the most important was Afro-American Abstraction, featuring works by 19 Black artists, which opened at the PS1 art space in Queens in 1980. One of those artists was James Little, who was then struggling for recognition; last year his work was in the Whitney Biennial. There is no person more important ... More
'Tal R: How to Count to Tree' now on view at Victoria Miro
VENICE.- Victoria Miro is presenting today an exhibition in Venice of new paintings by Tal R. Tal R often employs apparently simple compositional devices and motifs from everyday life to create complex, atmospheric worlds that, beginning with the recognisable and known, expand or collapse into spaces of enchantment or ambiguity, heady with atmosphere and colour. The works in this exhibition are the result of an extended consideration of a clearing in a Danish forest. A curious, eye-shaped space created by felled trees, it compelled the artist to make a series of drawings en plein air, which he later worked into larger works on paper and paintings in his studio. The paintings on view here further distil this experience, bringing into play what Tal R describes as artists mathematics while criss-crossing the boundaries between depiction and invention, life and art, ... More
Katinka Bock explores the omnipresence of water at Crac Occitanie
SÃTE.- Katinka Bocks sculptures, made of ceramic, stone, wood or metal, now on view at Crac Occitanie, have deep links with the sites in which she exhibits, the architecture of the place that welcomes her, or even sometimes the cultural, historical or social context of a city. When she first visits the place where she will exhibit, she sounds out the space, observing its shape, the interconnection of its rooms, the circulation of the buildings lighting and fluids, but also the way it integrates into a district or city, what use is made of it by the people who pass through or inhabit it. How it is shaped from the inside and outside. In Sète, Katinka Bock explored the omnipresence of water. The sea on one side, the lake on the other, and the canals that structure the city: all of these deeply infuse its imagination and culture. The new film produced for the exhibition, made on Sètes beaches and canal ... More
What it's like to play Putin in 'Patriots'
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent evening, British actor Will Keen was onstage at the Noël Coward Theater in London playing one of the worlds most divisive men: Russian President Vladimir Putin. For much of the first half of Patriots, which is largely set in the 1990s after the Soviet Unions collapse, Keen portrays the character sympathetically, as a minor politician who could only afford cheap suits and whose success depended on a friends largesse. Later on, when an adviser suggests that Putin, now president, should keep his enemies close, Keens portrayal becomes chilling. Why would I want to do that, he replies, when I can simply destroy them? Written by Peter Morgan, creator of The Crown, Patriots stars Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, a real-life oligarch who made a fortune in post-Soviet Russia, only to fall out with ... More
Yalingwa exhibition 'Between Waves' is now opening at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
MELBOURNE.- Between Waves, that opens today at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, is the third edition of the Yalingwa exhibition series that supports the development of outstanding contemporary First Peoples art and curatorial practice in Southeast Australia. Curated by Jessica Clark, the exhibition features new works by Maree Clarke, Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Matthew Harris, James Howard, Hayley Millar Baker, Jazz Money, Cassie Sullivan, this mob, and Mandy Quadrio. It is a major new exhibition featuring ten ambitious commissions by emerging and established First Nations artists that embrace the intersection of material and immaterial realms of knowledge and knowing. Through a range of multidisciplinary frameworks including video, installation, poetry, projection, sculpture and sound, each of the artists respond to concepts expressed ... More
London Art Week Summer 2023 now open
LONDON.- A remarkable collection of five bronzes by the legendary renaissance sculptor Giambologna, and a group of extraordinary works by the Aymara Bolivian artist and revolutionary Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913-c.1960) which have not been seen for the last 30 years, are just two of the impressive exhibitions being staged by eminent art dealers for London Art Week Summer 2023, which opened this Friday 30 June to Friday 7 July. The UKs leading fine arts selling event, London Art Week, is held both in galleries around central London and as exhibitions online. This summer it features 53 participants, all internationally-acknowledged specialists in their chosen fields. Expert dealers offer museum-quality examples of decorative arts, paintings, sculpture and works on paper of all periods from antiquity to contemporary, as well as - for ... More
A queer revolutionary classic book, now onstage with music
MANCHESTER.- Many operas in the standard repertoire are based on fairy tales and fantasy. But few of those describe a global queer-feminist revolution, and fewer still have main characters whose names begin with Warren and end with an unusual moniker for a genital appendage. Both can be found in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, a new piece of music theater by composer Philip Venables and writer-director Ted Huffman. After premiering at the Manchester International Festival on Thursday, it will travel, with its original roster of 15 performers, to the Aix-en-Provence Festival in early July, then elsewhere, including NYU Skirball in New York this fall. Venables and Huffmans two previous collaborations the operas 4.48 Psychosis, based on Sarah Kanes play about mental illness and suicide, and Denis & Katya, about ... More
'The Great Gatsby' review: Raising a glass to an American tragedy
NEW YORK, NY.- There aint no party like a Jay Gatsby party in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds debonair poster boy of American ambition and the nouveau riche never lets the festivities stop. Neither does Immersive Everywheres The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show, a jovial feast for the senses that never, in its lagging two-and-a-half-hour running time, truly rises above the status of a mere attraction. In Fitzgeralds classic book, Gatsby is a man who successfully, if shadily, works his way to a fortune, which he spends on a Long Island mansion where he hosts extravagant soirees. Gatsbys neighbor, Nick Carraway, narrates Gatsbys tragic and, ultimately, fatal fall from the world of the rich and famous. Gatsby hopes to woo Nicks cousin Daisy, with whom he had a love affair that hes never forgotten. But Daisy has married the brutish Tom ... More
Review: A drowsy night at 'Grief Hotel'
NEW YORK, NY.- Absurdist theater is like the naturalistic plays overachieving older sibling. Traditional theater attempts to describe the chaos of the human condition, but absurdist works dare to enact it. Liza Birkenmeiers Grief Hotel is one of those enactors, a strange, snack-sized play that closes out Clubbed Thumbs 2023 Summerworks series a proud incubator for strange plays. Birkenmeiers deft writing (in previous works such as Dr. Rides American Beach House) and her affinity for morbid humor return here, and despite its title, Grief Hotel doesnt simply dwell on the grim; its actually a dark comedy. And although all of the amusing oddness successfully depicts the madness of grief and the complexities of millennial relationships, it does so to the detriment of the plays message and the productions intrigue. Aunt Bobbi (Susan Blommaert) ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Buckminster Fuller died July 01, 1983. Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. In this image: U.S. Pavilion Montreal Expo 67. Buckminster Fuller, 1967. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.
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