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An interesting conversation is taking place on the walls of Berlins Galerie Kornfeld between the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the contemporary British artist/critic Alexander Adams.
by Antonia Gabassi
BERLIN.- Theres an interesting story behind the curation of the latest exhibition at the Galerie Kornfeld, in the resurgent City West region of the German capital. The show is called The Day I Never Met You, and it is a billed as being a conversation between the contemporary British artist Alexander Adams, and the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili, whose estate is represented by the gallery. On first viewing one might assume that the painters were chosen because of their differences, rather than their similarities. Adams has renounced colour, painting in black, white and many shades of grey. Iankoshvili who died in 2007 loved applying broad brush-stokes of vibrant greens, yellows and blues on black-primed canvases. But when you look closely into the art and the artists, the similarities abound. Both apply themselves to landscapes and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, 'Mika Rottenberg,' Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 11 June until 27 August 2021. © Mika Rottenberg. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter
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| Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of over 60 works by Paul Cadmus | | Sculpture transplanted to the gardens | | Signer's copy of The Declaration of Independence sells for historic $4.42 million | 
Paul Cadmus, Seated Male Nude, ca. 1990-1999. Crayon on paper, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches 32 x 23.5 cm. © The Estate of the artist. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Organized in collaboration with Graham Steele, Michael Werner Gallery is presenting Paul Cadmus: Pleasant and Unpleasant at their East Hampton gallery. With over 60 works on view created over the span of 60 years, the exhibition presents a timely exploration of a career devoted to a balance between traditional techniques of representation and a radical assault on the heteronormativity of the pre-War New York society. Cadmus (b. 1904 in New York, d. 1999 in Weston, CT) was an accomplished painter who became infamous for his controversial, gritty, urban scenes that pushed the boundaries of acceptability in both subject matter and style. While he worked slowly in the meticulous Old Master technique of egg tempera painting, producing only two to three paintings a year, his subjects ranged from drunken soldiers to prostitutes to raucous locker rooms-- the most contentious ... More | | 
Sanford Biggers: Oracle in New York, June 23, 2021. Madeline Cass/The New York Times.
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Outdoor sculptures provide some of our most accessible encounters with art, and thats even truer this summer for art viewers who are still hesitant to reenter galleries and museums, and for those seeking a respite of healing and history. Times critics have already brought to your attention some of the new outdoor additions to the New York cityscape, including David Hammons Days End on the Hudson River, which pays homage to Gordon Matta-Clarks public sculpture from the 70s actually an incision in the wall of a crumbling pier and more than two dozen projects in Riverside Park, from 64th to 151st Street. And theres Yayoi Kusama, whose Cosmic Nature dots the New York Botanical Garden. Here are others definitely worth a visit. Melvin Edwards came to prominence as a sculptor with his tough, abstract Lynch Fragments, begun in 1963. Made with welded-together ... More | | 
This rare signers copy of William J. Stones 1823 printing of the Declaration of Independence was, remarkably, rediscovered in Scotland by Freemans sister auction house, Lyon & Turnbull.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its July 1 single-lot auction, This Important State Paper: Signer Charles Carrolls Copy of the Declaration of Independence, which achieved a historic $4.42M sale price, exceeding by a remarkable five times its pre-sale high estimate of $800,000. This result marks the second-highest price ever paid at auction for any copy of the Declaration of Independence, and is the highest price ever paid at auction for an American document printed in the 19th century. It more than quadrupled the world auction record for a Stone printing of the Declaration of Independence set in New York City in 2019. In an achievement befitting Philadelphias auction house, this historic sale was held in the nations birthplace just days before Independence Day, 245 years after the original Declaration of Independence was signed. I couldnt be happier for the consignors, the ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art presents 'Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900' | | Massimo Vitali joins Edwynn Houk Gallery | | Israel Museum explores symbolism of edible plants in Mesoamerican cultures over 3500 years | 
Boy Eating Cherries, 1895. Pierre Bonnard (French, 18671947). Oil on board; 52 x 41 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Presented, in memory of May Guinness, 1982, NGI.4356. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
CLEVELAND, OH.- In 1889, a small group of avant-garde artists in Paris formed a brotherhood to promote a radical new direction in art. Adopting the name NabisHebrew for prophetsthey shifted away from the Impressionist style, which sought to capture the fleeting effects of nature, and instead aimed to depict subjective experience and emotion in their paintings, prints and drawings. Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 18891900 is the first exhibition to focus on intimate views of home and family by four Nabi artists: Pierre Bonnard (18671947), Maurice Denis (18701943), Félix Vallotton (18651925) and Ãdouard Vuillard (18681940). Loans from museums including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; ... More | | 
Mount Fuji, Sicily, #3845, 2009 (detail). © Massimo Vitali, Courtesy the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery announced representation of Massimo Vitali (Italian, b. 1944). Vitalis most enduring series, beginning in the 1990s, consists of large-scale, color photographs of vacationers and tourists enjoying idyllic days at the beach. Intense sunlight, endless expanses of water, and a cheerful confetti of travelers are visual signatures of his artwork. These scenes reflect a profound curiosity about the human condition, as observed through the shared pursuit of leisure. The beach is a good place to try to understand the way we are, the way we behave, Vitali asserts. Vitali makes his photographs from a distant, slightly raised vantage point. This perspective allows the artist to record the activities of large groups of people across sweeping vistas. The interface he often records between ocean and earth is perhaps one of the most prized and universally comforting landscapes across cultures and time. In a ... More | | 
Small mask of the Maize God with cleft symbol on forehead. Olmec, Veracruz or Tabasco, Mexico, 900600 BCE. Jadeite. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Solomon, Los Angeles.
JERUSALEM.- A new exhibition organized by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem examines how key crops have been depicted in the art of the Mesoamerican regions of North and Central America over the last 3500 years, reflecting their deep ties to local, cultural, and spiritual belief systems. Encompassing works from what are today known as Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and northern Honduras, the exhibition, Divine Food: Maize, Cacao, and Maguey from Precolumbian to Contemporary Art highlights the significance of these edible plants as iconographic symbols during the Precolumbian period to reflect on the broader socio-political developments in the region. In doing so, Divine Food traces the evolution of these foods symbolism and value through the time of the Spanish Conquest (1519-21) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) up through their depiction in the work of some of the regions leading modern and ... More |
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| Long-lost diary of John Claypoole, husband of Betsy Ross, discovered and donated to museum | | New Museum opens exhibition by Lynn Hershman | | Cherry Grove, where gay New Yorkers became 'their real selves' | 
Front of diary. Photo: David Edge.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Discovered in a shoebox in a Northern California garage, the long-lost Revolutionary War diary of John Claypoole is now on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Claypoole was the third husband of Betsy Ross, the seamstress and upholsterer who has long been celebrated by many as the creator of the first American flag. Claypooles handwritten diary, which includes letters and songs he transcribed, was written during the years 1781 and 1782 and later published in the late 1800s, but its location has been unknown to scholars for nearly a century. That is, until Aileen Edge and her husband David discovered it last year as they cleaned the garage of Aileens mother, Claire Canby Keleher, a descendant of Ross and Claypoole, who passed away last summer. The small, unassuming book was wrapped in beige paper and tucked into a box beneath bundles of family letters from the 1950s. Discovering the d ... More | | 
Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Infinity Engine: Lynn Hershman DNA, 2018. Digital print, 10 1/2 x 7 in (26.7 x 17.8 cm). Courtesy the artist; Bridget Donahue, New York; and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museums summer 2021 exhibition line-up features a monographic presentation installed in the Museums main galleries, on view from June 30 to October 3, 2021. On the Second Floor, Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted is the artists first solo exhibition at a New York museum. For over fifty years, Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH) has created an innovative and prescient body of work that mines the intersections between technology and the self. Known for her groundbreaking contributions to media art, Hershman Leeson has consistently worked with the latest technologies, from artificial intelligence to DNA programming, often anticipating their impact on society. As the artist posited in 1998, Imagine a world in ... More | | 
Cherry Grove cottages were an epicenter of gay and lesbian life on the island in the 1950s. They also had a tradition of bearing campy names like this one, called Hot House. Others included No Mans Land and Delta Phelta Guy. Cherry Grove Archives Collection via The New York Times.
by Julianne McShane
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the decades before the Stonewall uprising in 1969, an LGBTQ community took shape among New Yorkers on a remote Fire Island hamlet known as Cherry Grove. There, visitors spent summer weekends sunbathing and partying, forming one of the countrys first gay beach towns when being openly gay could result in ostracism or imprisonment. Only in 1980 did New York state eliminate most of its laws against sodomy. A new outdoor exhibition in the courtyard of the New-York Historical Society, on view through Oct. 11, features dozens of enlarged photographs that document this history, illustrating how the hamlet ... More |
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| Blue Star Contemporary presents the work of Doerte Weber, Joanna Keane Lopez, and Terran Last Gun | | Shrinking elephants once called Sicily home | | Hauser & Wirth Southampton presents a focused selection of recent paintings and sculptures by Henry Taylor | 
Carmen Cartiness Johnson, Men in Big Shorts Sets Big Man.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonios first and longest-running contemporary art nonprofit, announces the opening of three new summer 2021 exhibitions. The solo exhibitions feature the work of Doerte Weber, Joanna Keane Lopez, and Terran Last Gun. Doerte Weber presents Shed, a collection of weavings reflecting on COVID-19, everyday life during the pandemic, and climate issues. Joanna Keane Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs boundaries between contemporary sculpture and architecture through the medium of adobe mud. Her BSC presentation will include a newly commissioned sculptural work. Terran Last Gun presents an exhibition of ledger drawings, a form which rose to prominence among Native American artists in the mid-1800s and continues today. In her work, Doerte Weber, reflects on the emotions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic as she worked on more than 45 handwoven towels. As Weber worked on the loom, ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Gemmellaro Geological Museum shows a reconstruction of the extinct dwarf elephant Elephas mnaidriensis, which was first found in the Puntali Cave in Sicily in the 19th century. Gemmellaro Geological Museum via The New York Times.
by Jeanne Timmons
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Elephants today are confined to the African and Asian continents. But their extinct relatives once roamed far and wide across the planet. When they settled onto islands, some species evolutionary course changed direction in a dramatic fashion. In a paper published last month, scientists found clues to just how much island living can rapidly alter the evolution of these animals. Evolution on islands is a quite intriguing field of science, since it can be seen as an experiment of nature or evolution in action, said Sina Baleka, the papers lead author and a paleogeneticist at McMaster University in Canada. She and her co-authors hope their findings can offer insights into how species living today are affected ... More | | 
Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2020. Bronze Ed. 1/3 + 2 AP, 294.6 x 207 x 101.6 cm / 116 x 81 1/2 x 40 in. © Henry Taylor. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Ken Adlard.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- This summer, Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor presents a focused selection of recent paintings and sculptures at Hauser & Wirth Southampton. The exhibition includes a group of rarely seen works known as the Jockeys and Caddies, which Taylor began in 2018, based on archival photography of country clubs and horse races dating back to the 1920s. Together, these poignant paintings narrate the history of Black jockeys, caddies, and professional golfers, who navigated these predominantly white and racially exclusionary games. In discussing the series, Taylor shares, I remember when there were a lot of Black caddies. My mom cleaned houses for a living and now the maids are Hispanic. Different people disappear. Jockeys disappeared. The caddies disappeared. That was enough reason for me to paint them. In the first painting on view, Henry Taylor shows racing as it once was: based ... More |
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 Patricia Reilly Giff, 'Polk Street' children's book writer, dies at 86NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Patricia Reilly Giff, a prolific childrens book author whose work was driven by the idea that remarkable stories could be spun from the lives of ordinary people, died June 22 at her home in Trumbull, Connecticut. She was 86. The cause was cancer, her daughter, Alice OMeara, said. Giff, who did not start writing until she was in her 40s, gained prominence with the Polk Street School series 14 illustrated books, published from 1984 to 1990, about the antics and learning struggles of second-grade students in Ms. Rooneys classroom. The books drew on Giffs experience as a reading teacher. Two of her later books Lilys Crossing (1997) and Pictures of Hollis Woods (2002) earned Newbery Honors, an important recognition for childrens literature. Giff said she focused on writing stories that say ordinary ... More  Mimi Stern-Wolfe, presenter of socially conscious concerts, dies at 84NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mimi Stern-Wolfe, a pianist and conductor who specialized in music programs with a social-justice or political theme, most notably an annual concert that featured music of composers lost to AIDS, died June 21 at a care center in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 84. Her daughter, Laura Wolfe, said the cause was complications of a series of strokes. In the late 1970s, Stern-Wolfe, a fixture on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for most of her adult life, founded Downtown Music Productions, which in the years since has presented a wide range of programs, including performances by and for children, eclectic shows by the Downtown Chamber and Opera Players, and concerts featuring works by women, music of the Holocaust and more. Stern-Wolfe played and conducted at many of the performances, ... More  Flora Bigai Arte Contemporanea gallery opens an exhibition of works by Armen AgopPIETRASANTA.- Egyptian artist of Armenian descent, Armen Agop, will showcase his latest works in a solo exhibition at Flora Bigai Arte Contemporanea gallery this summer. Vernissage is on July 3, 2021, and the show will run until August 17, 2021. Titled Taking Time, the exhibition will feature his latest spiritually charged sculptures and paintings, curated by Luca Beatrice, a renowned Italian curator. The new body of work readdresses the constant subjects present in Arment Agops art, and puts an emphasis on the phenomenon of time - time required to do the work, passing time, but also - time eternal. For me, [the act of creation is] more like sharing my time, or part of my life, with the stone. I hope and try to reach a kind of mutual agreement, where neither the stone nor I impose on the other, said Armen Agop about his work. ... More  Palestinian artist paints murals on Israeli barrierBETHLEHEM (AFP).- For Palestinian artist Taqi Spateen, a stroll along the Israeli-built barrier that runs through parts of Bethlehem amounts to an open-air exhibition of his murals denouncing Israel's occupation. Spateen's work fills much of the concrete outside secretive artist Banksy's Walled-Off Hotel, a now iconic section of the barrier which Israel constructed to cut off the West Bank from the Jewish state. His murals include an enormous portrait of George Floyd, the African American killed by former US policeman Derek Chauvin. "I feel like he's a Palestinian man. He has the same issues we have," Spateen told AFP, after completing his latest work showing a sniper rifle underneath east Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque compound. Spateen said visually relating Palestinian life under Israeli occupation was an important tool to keep alive global ... More  The conductor transforming period performanceNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Think of the period or historically informed performance movement, and the mind probably turns to Monteverdi, Bach, Handel. The first advocates for performances on original instruments post-World War II insurgents like Nikolaus Harnoncourt concentrated their initial work on the Baroque and then Classical repertories, the music in which their findings were most audibly different compared with then-standard practices. It would take until the 1980s for Roy Goodman, Roger Norrington and others to push period performance into Beethoven, before John Eliot Gardiner led the march through Berlioz, Schumann and Brahms in the 1990s. Despite those advances, though, period has mostly remained a synonym for early. Step forward François-Xavier Roth, 49, a former assistant to Gardiner ... More  Letizia Ragaglia appointed Director of Kunstmuseum LiechtensteinVADUZ.- Ragaglia, born in 1969, brings a wealth of experience in curating and museum management. After studying art history and museology the South Tyrolean began working as a freelance curator, later becoming chief curator at the Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano in 20022008. Going on to take over as Director until May 2020, she was responsible for mounting numerous monographic exhibitions including Isa Genzken, VALIE EXPORT, Carl Andre, Rosemarie Trockel, Danh Vo and various displays of the museum's collection. She was also a member of the jury at the 54th Biennale in Venice in 2010. Commenting on her new post, Ragaglia says: "A few months have already passed since my appointment, during which time I have been able to focus in depth on Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the tasks at hand. By engaging ... More  TW Fine Art opens a solo show of multimedia drawings, textiles, and installations by Brian KennyNEW YORK, NY.- TW Fine Art is presenting Brian Kennys multimedia exhibition, Immaterial, which features a variety of conceptual and abstract drawings, textiles, and installation pieces created over the last decade-and-a-half. Together, the autobiographical and improvisational works mark a progression in the prolific artists spirited exploration of queerness, sexuality, and American identity. This exhibition marks the first in TW Fine Arts summer season of programming and events at the gallerys Brooklyn outpost, located at 514 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217. Immaterial will be on view through August 7, 2021. The exhibition considers the porous border between a person or objects physical presence and its intangible essence. The title announces Im material while also reinforcing the critical immateriality that animates ... More  Passionate Plath love letters to Hughes up for saleLONDON (AFP).- Possessions of Sylvia Plath from the happier early days of her doomed marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, including ardent love letters and their wedding rings, are to go on sale at auction, Sotheby's said Friday. The 55 lots are drawn from the private collection of their daughter, Frieda Hughes, and are estimated to raise up to £202,000 ($280,000) when they are sold July 9-21. The love affair between the American Plath and Englishman Hughes, her trauma when he left after six years of marriage for another woman, and her suicide at the age of 30 in 1963, have been an enduring source of public fascination and spawned an industry of books and films. The 16 letters from Plath to Hughes date from soon after they got married in 1956, when she was still studying in Cambridge and he was working in London, and according to Sotheby's ... More  Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas on view this summer at the Monhegan Museum of Art & HistoryMONHEGAN ISLAND, ME.- Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies explores the relationship between the historic and still-thriving art colonies of Monhegan, Maine, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, featuring the work of artists connected with both places. Organized in collaboration with the Cape Ann Museum, this exhibition is on view at the Monhegan Museum of Art & History July 1 through September 30, 2021. At the turn of the 20th century, American artists flocked to the new summer art colonies that stretched from California to New England. This exhibition pairs paintings and prints by artists who worked at both of two very different art colonies in the northeast: Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and Monhegan Island, Maine. Separated by one hundred miles of ocean, these colonies, like many others, ... More  For this Spanish provocateur, each performance is about survivalGHENT (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is nothing in contemporary theater quite like an Angélica Liddell monologue. The Spanish director and performer, who has crafted her share of monumental productions over the past three decades, pushes herself to grating, visceral extremes onstage. Take her new production, Liebestod (subtitle: The Smell of Blood Doesnt Leave My Eyes, Juan Belmonte), which will have its world premiere next week at Frances prestigious Avignon Festival. In a recent rehearsal in Ghent, she railed against Western societies engorged with rights and eco-anxieties, against France a country obsessed with fame and the elite and, above all, against herself. Not a single word about happiness will pass my lips, Liddell, 54, warned near the beginning. In other hands, nearly everything she does could come across ... More  A reigning opera composer writes of trauma and 'innocence'AIX-EN-PROVENCE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Susanna Malkki wanted more. Can you make the crescendo even bigger here? she asked the London Symphony Orchestra as she conducted it in a recent rehearsal here. Dont be afraid to go beyond the mezzo-piano on the page. They played the passage again, and this time the music swelled to a shock, one of many in the most anticipated new opera of the year: Kaija Saariahos Innocence, which premieres Saturday at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Commissioned by a host of major houses, it will travel in the coming years to the Finnish and Dutch national operas, the Royal Opera in London, San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Nearly a decade in the making, and nearly thwarted by the pandemic, Innocence is taut yet immense: a labyrinth of mystery and memory ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley RA (1738 - September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. In this image: John Singleton Copley, The Fountaine Family, 1776. Tate.
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