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In an undated image provided by Brian Barlow, Jeffrey Gibson. Gibson, a multimedia artist who challenges the absence of Native American practices in visual culture, will represent the United States at the next edition of the Venice Biennale. (Brian Barlow via The New York Times)
PORTLAND, OR .- Portland Art Museum in Oregon and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announced today that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the 60th International Art Exhibition. Celebrated for an artistic practice that combines American, Indigenous, and Queer histories with influences from music and pop culture, Gibson creates a dynamic visual language that reflects the inherent diversity and hybridity of American culture. Using abundant color, complex pattern, and text, he invites deep reflection on identity, inspires empathy, and advocates for a widening of access to democracy and freedom for all. On view April 20 through November 24, 2024, the Biennale provides international audiences with the first major opportunity to experience Gibsons work outsi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth on view at the Clark Art Institute is the first exhibition in the United States to reveal how Munch (1863 - 1944) animated nature to convey meaning. This ambitious presentation considers his iconic art from a new perspective, revealing a lesser-known aspect of Munchâs career.
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| Contemporary African royals, in regalia and complexity | | 'Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth' opening at Brandywine Museum of Art | | A guide to art exhibitions in New York and Massachusetts | 
Atong Atem, Adut and Bigoa, The Studio Series, 2015. Ilford smooth pearl print; 840 à 590 mm © Atong Atem. Courtesy of MARS Gallery and Atong Atem.
by Precious Adesina
LONDON.- On a wall of Londons Tate Modern, a large photo from 2012 depicts a seated Nigerian king, wearing a green beaded hat and a lavish robe with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II printed on the front. Shot by George Osodi, its a photograph of a very old king who was one of the monarchs who welcomed Elizabeth when she visited Nigeria for the first time in 1956, the Nigerian photographer said recently by phone. On the same wall, another photo has its king dressed in glistening red attire and sitting on a matching velvet throne with gold adornments. Taken in 2022, this photo is of a newer Nigerian king, who came to power in this millennium, Osodi said. These photos titled HRM Agbogidi Obi James Ikechukwu Anyasi II, Obi of Idumuje Unor and Pere of Gbaramatu. His Imperial Majesty, Oboro Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba respectively are among the works from Osodis ongoing Nigerian ... More | | 
Andrew Wyeth, Untitled, 1953. Watercolor on paper. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, B0223. © 2023 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- Opening at the Brandywine Museum of Art on July 29, 2023, Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth presents a remarkable body of 38 never-before-seen abstract watercolors. The artworks in this exhibition are drawn exclusively from the nearly 7,000-object Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, now managed by the Brandywine. Opening in the newly renovated Andrew Wyeth Gallery, the exhibition also includes rare archival documents that show Wyeths encounters with abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction. From this fascinating material, a rich new picture of an iconic artist emerges that will be a revelation to many who think they know the full story of this creative life. Andrew Wyeth once said, My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash, like something you caught out of the corner of your eye. He frequently called himself a ... More | | 
EJ Hill with Skyline Attractions, Brava!, 2022.Weld-free steel roller coaster, enamel spray paint, wood, and velvet.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- New Yorkers desiring cooler summers and fresher air have been racing upstate and to the Berkshires for generations. The buildup of smaller artist communities near the Hudson River and beyond have created a rich tapestry of cultural offerings for visitors to enjoy. From intelligent museum exhibitions to adventurous gallery shows, there is plenty to explore, according to the longtime residents and vacationers from the art world who helped build this list of recommendations. Pippa Garner, 81, who trained as a car designer, has been a transgressive presence on the periphery of the art world since the 70s, creating sculptures that eroticized mass-produced objects. Now the artist, who lives and works in Long Beach, California, is on the verge of a renaissance with exhibitions across the United States and the publication of a monograph this fall to examine her unique synthesis of car culture, ... More |
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| Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces appointment of new Director | | Summer Fine Jewelry & Timepieces auction by Clars this August | | Toledo Museum of Art appoints Mike Deetsch as director of development | 
Cruz comes to SBMA from the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) where she served as the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO since 2019. Photo: Alborz Kamalizad.
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art announced the appointment of Amada Cruz as the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director and CEO effective October 30, 2023. Presented by the Museums selection committee, Cruz was subsequently voted unanimously by the Board of Trustees. We are grateful to the more than 100 stakeholders, including members of the community, employees, Trustees (past and present), and donors who participated in the selection process. Their inputs were used to inform our decision making and following an international search and reviewing many impressive candidates, we are delighted with the outcome, said Lynn Cunningham Brown, selection committee chair. Cruz comes to SBMA from the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) where she served as the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO since 2019. She ... More | | 
Chinese cloisonné enamel meiping vase, 17th century.
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars will host their Spring Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction on Thursday, August 10th, beginning at 1:00 PM PST. The sale includes a fine selection of colored diamond, diamond, colored gemstones, antique and signed jewelry, and timepieces. The sale is highlighted by important colored diamond and diamond, which includes an a 4.00 carats fancy yellow, internal flawless diamond, diamond and 14k white gold ring (33353/2), estimate at $50,000-$70,000; a pair of fancy intense yellow diamond, diamond and 14k white gold earrings (33353/1), estimate at $20,000-$40,000; a diamond and 18k white gold bracelet estimated at, $8000-$12,000, a pair of diamond and 14k gold earrings estimated at $2000-$4000; a 2.47 carats diamond and 14k gold ring, estimated at $4,000-$6000. Complementing the auction will be a selection of exceptional colored gemstones, including a pair of a pair of Burma ruby and diamond earrings estimated at $6000-$8000; ... More | | 
Mike Deetsch, new Director of Development at Toledo Museum of Art.
TOLEDO, OHIO.- When the Toledo Museum of Art launched their search for a new director of development, they found the perfect candidate in their own education department. Mike Deetsch, TMAs former Emma Leah Bippus senior director of learning and engagement, served as interim director of development before his full-time appointment this year. His passion for the arts, community engagement and youth and family programs align with TMAs mission to integrate art into the lives of people. As the director of development, Deetsch pairs his interests with his institutional knowledge to continue to elevate the Toledo Museum of Art as a valuable community partner in Northwest Toledo and a model museum in the United States. When Mike Deetsch stepped in as interim director of development, he quickly demonstrated his ability to be an engine for institutional growth and a thought partner in our philanthropic strategy, said ... More |
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| 'Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston: A Journey Shared' opens today at Royal Scottish Academy | | New Museum elects new members to Board of Trustees | | Has Scott Joplin's 'Thoroughly American Opera' found its moment? | 
John Houston RSA, The Party, New York I, 1985-1987-1994, Oil on canvas.
EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy is presenting 'A Journey Shared' exploring the shared lives and work of Elizabeth Blackadder RSA and John Houston RSA during the Edinburgh Festival month. The exhibition focuses on their travels, research and studio practices, and accompanies the recent RSA Blackadder Houston Bequest, an important, generous gift from the artists to the Academy. The exhibition will be an unparalleled insight into the work and lives of these two hugely influential Scottish artists. Avid travellers, the exhibition will trace the shared research interests and symbiotic practices of Blackadder and Houston. It will include works from across the breadth of both artists' career, with early drawings and paintings on view alongside masterworks from their mature periods. Blackadder and Houston met whilst studying at Edinburgh College of Art and married in 1956. The exhibition will commence with Blackadder's ... More | | 
Rendering of the expanded New Museum. Credit OMA/bloomimages.de
NEW YORK, NY.- James-Keith Brown, President of the New Museums Board of Trustees, and Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, today announced the appointment of three new members to the Board of Trustees: Stephanie Horton, Douglas McNeely, and Nari Ward. They join six additional new members who have become trustees since 2020: Peter Boyce II, Richard Mumby, Elisa Nuyten, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Sue Hostetler Wrigley, and Neda Young. As we chart a path forward to the New Museums OMA-designed expansion, the diverse perspectives and deep commitment to the arts demonstrated by all of our new board members will be essential to shaping the Museums future, said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum. In addition to appointing these new members to the Board, the New Museum has also named the late Toby Devan Lewis as an Honorary ... More | | 
Carmen Balthrop in the Houston Grand Opera's production of "Treemonisha, in October 1975. (George Tames/The New York Times)
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- He has created an entirely new phase of musical art and has produced a thoroughly American opera. The anonymous critic who wrote these bold words didnt have a performance of Scott Joplins Treemonisha to evaluate, or a recording. In June 1911, all the reviewer had to go on was Joplins 230-page piano-vocal score. Its production would prove an interesting and potent achievement, the critic added, and it is to be hoped that sooner or later it will be thus honored. It turned out to be decidedly later. Desperate to prove himself in a genre he perceived as more serious than the ragtime piano pieces for which he was renowned, Joplin died in 1917 having tried again and again to mount Treemonisha, to no avail. His orchestrations and revisions, made with hoped-for stagings in mind ... More |
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| François Ghebaly opens "This Must Be the Place" | | Mirko Baselgia depicts diversity and complexity of our reality in exhibition at Galerie Urs Meile Ardez | | 'Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea' at the Smithsonian American Art Museum features 48 artists | 
Sydney Mieko King, Untitled (hallway II), Friday Harbor, 2022. Archival pigment print, framed, 38 x 48 inches (96.5 x 122 cm.)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is opening This Must Be the Place, an exhibition of works by recent graduate students from the Yale School of Arts MFA photography program. Curated by Farah Al Qasimi, their presentation is a culmination of experiments and prolonged observations, tracing their collective and collaborative inquiry through photography. Featuring work from the MFA photography class of 2023, the exhibition is broken up in two parts. Part I which opened on Friday, June 23, 2023 includes artists Davion Alston, Arielle Gray, Xi Li, Miraj Patel and Shaun Pierson; Part II opening today features artists Hobbes Ginsberg, Natalie Ivis, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Sydney Mieko King and Sophie Schwartz. Hobbes Ginsberg (b. 1994 in the United States) is a lesbian photographer and filmmaker based in New Haven, making vulnerable, hyper-saturated work exploring queer domesticity and the evolution of self. Her formal, yet ... More | | 
Mirko Baselgia, My Grandmother's Father was a Carpenter Too, 2022. Apple tree wood shingles on apple tree trunk, 160 x 200 x 120 cm.
LUCERNE.- The exhibition Mirko Baselgia - structura / sistem - structure / system in Rhaeto-Romanic - brings together recent works by the artist that explore the diversity of meanings and manifestations of these two concepts. Observing, understanding and reshaping structures and systems, whether material or abstract, visible or hidden, that characterize the natural world and society, form a central aspect of Mirko Baselgias artistic practice. The in-depth study of organisms, materials, processes, and physical or conceptual architectures allow him to depict the diversity and complexity of our reality and to explore the mechanisms underlying the interdependencies and tensions between the various entities that inhabit the universe. In his artistic exploration, Baselgia questions his existence and the place he wants to occupy in the world, imagining new ways of living and interacting with all forms of ... More | | 
Angel RodrÃguez-DÃaz, The Protagonist of an Endless Story, 1993, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1996.19, © 1993, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz.
WASHINGTON, DC .- Smithsonian American Art Museum reexamines narratives of the American West in major exhibition bringing together works by 48 contemporary artists; only venue on the national tour located East of the Rocky Mountains. Commonly accepted ideas about the American West, both in popular culture and in dominant historical narratives, are often based on a past that never was. They frequently diminish, if not overlook entirely, important viewpoints and experiences. Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, opening July 28, offers counterviews of the West through the perspectives of 48 modern and contemporary artists especially those who identify as Asian American, Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and Latinx who offer a broader and more inclusive view of this ... More |
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 'Purgatory and Conflicted' opens at C24 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Purgatory, new works by Gabe BC (Gabriel Barcia-Colombo) and Conflicted, an international group exhibition featuring work by Hadas Amster, Orit Ben Shitrit, Jude Griebel, Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, David Krippendorff, Cal Lane, İrfan Ãnürmen, Ruth Patir, Alexander Polzin, Viktor Popović, Abed Elmajid Shalabi, and Patricia Waller, representing Israel, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Croatia, Palestine and Chile has now opened at C24 Gallery. This pair of exhibitions poses numerous questions about life during a time of escalating global tensions, amidst the rapid growth of new and unpredictable technologies. On Saturday, July 29th, at 4:00pm, the first of several exhibition walk-throughs is going to be held, this one with Hadas Amster, Orit Ben Shitrit, Jude Griebel, and Abed Elmajid Shalabi. Both events are free and open to the public. ... More  Photofairs New York announces exhibitor and program highlights for its inaugural edition in SeptemberNEW YORK, NY.- PHOTOFAIRS New York, the new contemporary art fair dedicated to photo-based and digital artworks, has announced details of exhibitor and program highlights for its inaugural edition. Organized by Creo and its majority shareholder Angus Montgomery Arts, and in collaboration with Candlestar, the fair takes place at the Javits Center from September 8-10, 2023 (VIP Preview on September 7) and adds a new and distinct dimension to the global art fair landscape. Alongside its booth presentations, PHOTOFAIRS New York features a range of dynamic special projects, large-scale installations, publishing projects, and an annual acquisition prize for exhibiting artists, established in partnership with 21c Museum Hotels. Visitors have the opportunity to explore an array of highly-curated presentations, from surveys considering the craft ... More  Julian Barry, who made Lenny Bruce into 'Lenny,' dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Julian Barry, whose scripts for a Broadway play and a Hollywood movie about Lenny Bruce, both titled Lenny, became definitive portraits of the comedian as a truth teller who drove himself mad in a righteous struggle against American hypocrisy, was found dead Tuesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 92. His daughter Julia Barry said he had died overnight in his sleep. He had been receiving medical treatment for congestive heart failure and, in recent weeks, for late-stage kidney disease. Like Marilyn Monroe and John Lennon, Bruce died young (he was 40) and became a figure of continually renewed pop culture lore. His comedy career and his criminal prosecutions on drug and obscenity charges inspired museum exhibitions, one-man theatrical performances and biographies. From 2017 until this ... More  Grief in the small Irish village where a singer sought sanctuaryKNOCKANANNA, IRELAND.- Few people come to Knockananna without good reason, the journey requiring a long, serpentine drive up the country roads that wind through Irelands Wicklow Mountains. And the village itself is a simple place, little more than a crossroads with a pub, a smattering of pretty white stone houses some with thatched roofs and a shop with a single gas pump out front. Cellphone service is patchy, adding to the world-apart feeling. But some people do find their way to Knockananna, among them Sinead OConnor, who enjoyed a sanctuary of sorts in the village during some of the final years of her life. Down the mountain, as I call it, nobody can forget about Sinead OConnor, the musician said in a 2021 interview. In the village, she said, nobody much cared which is beautiful for me. OConnor described becoming friends ... More  Bill Geddie, a creator of 'The View,' is dead at 68NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Geddie, whose long working relationship with barrier-breaking television newswoman Barbara Walters began when he produced her prime-time specials on ABC, then expanded when he collaborated with her on The View, one of TVs most successful daytime talk shows, died July 20 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. He was 68. His wife, Barbara (Pratt) Geddie, said the death was heart-related. The View was Walters idea she wanted a program on which women from different generations would discuss the issues of the day but it was Geddie who oversaw it for 17 years, ushering the changing, sometimes unruly cast of panelists through a daily hour of hot topics, disagreements and personal revelations. I think he loved doing a show with all women, Meredith Vieira, who was the moderator of The View for nine ... More  Review: Young bros and maidens harmonize in 'Love's Labor's Lost'GARRISON, NY.- Lets rock! is something Im pretty sure no character in Shakespeare ever said. But on a sandy stage under a jaunty tent, with a green hillside as a welcoming backdrop, it seemed an apt way to begin Loves Labors Lost. It is, after all, a young mans play, both in its authorship (Shakespeare was about 30) and story (four callow bros fall madly in love with four sharp maidens). And this production, directed by Amanda Dehnert for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, intensifies the youth-crush factor with 10 emo songs. Neither fully true to the strange original nor completely remade as a viable musical, it swings between those poles in ways that are both tiresome and charming. Lets start with the charming: The catchy songs, by Dehnert and Chicago-based composer André Pluess, tap the sappy heart of summer and are danceable to boot. ... More  Wrestling with his past. And an animatronic shark.NEW YORK, NY.- In a rehearsal space near Times Square, Ian Shaw was talking about the strange and solemn task of portraying his own father in a Broadway play that he had co-written. You spend most of your life running away from the father, he explained. Now here I was, running into the jaws of the thing. He paused, realizing what hed said. No pun intended, he added. Ian Shaws father is Robert Shaw, the celebrated British actor, author and Oscar-nominated star of A Man For All Seasons, who went on to play steely villains in The Sting and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three before his death in 1978. Perhaps his best-known film role is Quint, the seasoned shark hunter of the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, whose hardened face hints at a lifetime of harrowing experiences and who delivers a memorable monologue about a shark attack he survived during World War II. Ian Shaw, when clean-sh ... More  Jesse Krimes to officially join Jack Shainman Gallery as Founder and Director of the Center for Art & AdvocacyNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery has announced its representation of the multidisciplinary artist Jesse Krimes. Based between New York and Philadelphia, Krimes practice is expansive, empathic, and texturedworks celebrated for their social context and aesthetic beauty. Whether communicating through drawing, sculpture, quilting, installation, or found photography, ubiquitous to his practice are materials that have been cherished, collected, smuggled, transferred, and touched by the human experience. Krimes practice began before, endured through, and continues after a six-year prison sentencean experience which shaped his philosophy of making. His individual and collaborative acts of creation are forms ... More  Hawkeye's combat boots and dog tags sell for $125,000 at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The combat boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore during the 11 seasons he spent as Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on M*A*S*H sold Friday at Heritage Auctions for $125,000. Every cent from the sale of the actor's sole remaining M*A*S*H mementos will help fund what has become the actor, writer and director's greatest passion: the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. "It's amazing to see how M*A*S*H still has the power to make a contribution," Alda said following Friday's auction. "And Heritage Auctions donating their usual fee is very generous. The Alda Center for Communicating Science will be thrilled. I know I am." Several client-collectors, all lifelong M*A*S*H fans, fought doggedly over the boots and dog tags, which had belonged to World War II soldiers before Alda reported to the 4077th ... More  Ernie Banks' first pro contract and Baseball Hall of Fame ring bookend historic auction from the estate of Mr. CubDALLAS, TX.- Ernie Banks' name first appeared in his hometown paper on May 1, 1949 as "Ernest Banks," the name given to him by parents Eddie and Essie Banks upon his birth on Jan. 31, 1931. The Dallas Morning News mentioned him as the second baseman of the hometown Dallas Black Giants, who squared off that afternoon against the Amarillo Colts at the late Burnett Field. Banks, a Dallas native not yet a Chicago legend, was all of 18 at the time and still a student at Booker T. Washington High School, where he lettered in basketball (he averaged 15 points a game), football (he scored 22 touchdowns his junior and senior years) and track only because Booker T. didn't have a baseball team. This is why Banks ... More  Historic New Paltz documents translated with a grant from the Dutch ConsulateNEW PALTZ, NY.- Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) recently commissioned the translation of historic documents from Dutch to English, thanks to a grant of $25,000 as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. The project encompasses early-American documents ranging from the mid-1600s through the 1700s, part of a larger project to digitize and make these documents available online with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2021-24). In order to complete the translation project, HHS enlisted noted New Netherland scholar and author Dr. Jaap Jacobs and his colleague Julie van den Hout. The team translated over 190 pages of these important early documents, drawn from the HHS Archives and the Reformed Church of New Paltz. Documents include the Second Register of the Reformed ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died July 29, 1890. Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. In this image: Jussi Pylkkanen views Van Gogh's "A Pair of Shoes," as it went on display in the Christie's auction rooms in London, Friday, September 10, 1999. The rarely exhibited and little known painting is the missing link in an important series of five closely related pictures by Van Gogh between 1886 and 1887.
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