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The iconic film-still of Bette Davis from Jezebel is paired by Lautenberg with Matisses Lady in Blue (both from 1938).
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The contemporary artist Bonnie Lautenberg channels the creative zeitgeist between legendary filmmakers and iconic artists: intuitively pairing them in her new exhibition. On view at Boca Raton Museum of Art for the next two months until Aug. 21, Bonnie Lautenberg: Art Meets Hollywood is the museum premiere of Lautenbergs new series of digital collages. In these 28 diptychs, she pairs scenes from famous films alongside iconic works of art (both created the same year). Watch the video here featuring Lautenberg in conversation with Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Museum. Lautenberg pulls together visuals she feels speak to each other, taking us along on her colorful trip to explore how these two art forms have amazing parallels and are beautifully paired, says Irvin Lippman. Through her car ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âHenry Moore. Sharing Formâ, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2022. Photo: Ken Adlard. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation
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| The Schirn Kunsthalle opens the first major survey exhibition in Germany on Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone | | Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly, Rep John Lewis, and poet Carl Sandburg's personal letters to be auctioned | | Eli Wilner & Company recreates the original frame for Thomas Eakins' "Salutat" | 
Ugo Rondinone. LIFE TIME, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2022. Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a first major survey exhibition in Germany to Ugo Rondinone (*1964). LIFE TIME presents key paintings, sculptures, and video works by the Swiss artist, who is one of the internationally best-known of his generation. In his works, he adds a poetic dimension to everyday things and phenomena. A tree, a clock, the sun or a rainbow by means of repetition, isolation or reduction, he positions them in new contexts in his typically rather minimalistically arranged spaces, creating atmospheric ambiences. Specifically for the Schirn, he groups around eighty of his works into new constellations and sequences, creating a unique installation that extends along the entire length of the gallery, into the Rotunda, and onto the roof. In response to the location, the artist developed curved standing landscape with entry door (2022), one of his monumental landscape sculptures made of soil. ... More | | 
Collection of Princess Grace letters, cards, wedding invitations, photos. Est $3,500-5,000.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner unveiled several highlight lots to be featured in an upcoming Books & Manuscripts sale. The online auction, which will take place August 15 23 on Bonhams Skinners website and will be accompanied by a digital catalog, includes personal and handwritten correspondence from major American personages of the 20th Century, including actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly, biographer and poet Carl Sandburg and civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis. A fantastic array of handwritten letters and postcards from Princess Grace appear in the sale, including on Palais de Monaco letterhead. Addressed to a Mrs. Arthur Pinney, these letters represent the lively and lifelong correspondence between Kelly and her close childhood friend, referred to in her letters affectionately as Margie. Raised together in the Philadelphia suburbs before Kellys outstanding career as a Hollywood ... More | | 
Thomas Eakins' "Salutat" in a carved and gilded replica frame created by Eli Wilner & Company. Image credit: Frank Graham/Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company announced the completion of an important reframing project for the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover: recreating the original carved and gilded frame designed by the artist for Thomas Eakins Salutat, 1898, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. The replica frame was created and given as a partial gift by Eli Wilner & Company with the additional support of Maureen Barden and David Othmer (PA 1959). Proclaimed to be one of Eakins finest achievements in figure-painting by Eakins biographer Lloyd Goodrich, Salutat is one of the crown jewels of the Addisons world-renowned collection of American art. One of three major canvases exploring the culture of boxing at the turn of the 20th century, Salutat is a portrait of featherweight "Turkey Point" Billy Smith, one of several fighters who modeled ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth presents comprehensive survey spanning six decades of Henry Moore's career | | Tatjana Pieters presents exhibitions by Brian Harte and Ria Bosman | | Exhibition brings together works by artists who have played a fundamental role in Brazilian contemporary art | 
Installation view, Henry Moore. Sharing Form, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2022. Photo: Ken Adlard. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset presents a major exhibition of works by Henry Moore, curated by Hannah Higham of the Henry Moore Foundation in collaboration with the artists daughter Mary Moore. A comprehensive survey spanning six decades extends across all five gallery spaces, in addition to an open-air presentation of seminal works including: The Arch (1963/69), Large Interior Form (1953 1954) and Locking Piece (1962 1963). Alongside the exhibition, the gallery has launched a far-reaching education and events programme, including a new Education Lab in partnership with the Arts University Bournemouth. The exhibition takes as its starting point the artists early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and continued exploration of the upright abstract form. Moore first encountered the prehistoric ... More | | 
Ria Bosman, Book edition, 2022. acrylic on paper, 27 x 19 cm. Series of 22 unique drawings.
GHENT.- Brian Harte works primarily as a painter, creating stark and cinematic images of domestic scenes. Harte balances energetic painterly abstraction with tightly composed interiors, taking conceptual cues from diverse cultural figures as Franz Kafka, Philip Guston, The Brothers Quay, and Albert Oehlen. One of the key features of Brian Hartes paintings is his bold use of color and the undetermined state of the depicted figures, midway between sketchy and finished. The viewers eye travels through the richly detailed and chaotic spaces on the large canvases, slowly finding familiar elements that may not be noticed at first glance. In his work, Harte explores the relationship between abstraction and figuration, between the sketchy and the finished, a process that resonates with the tradition of British painting. Brian Harte (IR, 1978) lives and works in Thurles, Ireland. Hartes work is currently on view at WHAT Museum, Tokyo (JP) and ... More | | 
Raul Mourão, Brancusi, 1998. Galvanized steel and Hipoglós ointment, 57Ã6Ã63 cm. 22.4Ã2.4Ã24.8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is presenting The fold in the horizon, a group exhibition curated by artist Marcos Chaves. The show brings together works by artists who began their practices at the end of the 1980s, and the beginning of the 1990s in Rio de Janeiro, and who have played a fundamental role in Brazilian contemporary art. The presentation highlights how this generations interests converged, sharing the same aspirations and concerns, and thus creating a space for intellectual and affective exchanges that, despite not resulting in a movement or group, helped consolidate practices that later became representative of Brazilian art of the time. The fold in the horizon opens to the public on June 24, remaining on view through 13 August, 2022. According to artist and curator of the exhibition, Marcos Chaves, the works are woven together through their relationship to the horizon, a constant element of the landscape of Rio de Janeiro ... More |
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| N. Dash opens first European museum solo exhibition at the S.M.A.K | | Heritage Auctions offers in July Capt. Robert Lewis' 'Enola Gay' logbook documenting the bombing of Hiroshima | | New app brings power of blockchain to art world | 
At the center of N. Dashs work (b. 1980, Miami, Florida, US) is a commitment to the energy of transformation, movement, and care.
Zeno X Gallery announced N. Dashs first European museum solo exhibition at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium. In N. Dashs paintings, materials such as earth, paint, plastic bottles, string, agricultural netting, strips of Styrofoam, cast-off cardboard, and jute, are incorporated into complex, often multi-panel compositions that draw from the languages and methods of sculpture, photography, and printmaking. With a notable economy of means, N. Dashs work expresses the tension between industrially produced goods and naturally occurring substances in an ecological vision that honours the land and its unseen energies. The ground for many of N. Dashs compositions is earth from the desert, which is applied in smooth, graded surfaces that crack and fissure during the drying process, creating topological fields. These earthen grounds frequently serve as a base for various layers of ink, graphite, or paint, conjuring ... More | | 
[World War II, Bombing of Hiroshima]. Autograph Logbook of Capt. Robert A. Lewis [USAAF, Co-Pilot of the Enola Gay]
DALLAS, TX.- "My God what have we done." Captain Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay, wrote those immortal words shortly after 8:16 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, moments after he and his crewmates dropped the atomic bomb on the citizens of Hiroshima. The course of history changed at that precise moment: A beautiful day exploded into a blinding bright light, a nuclear fireball leveled a city, at least 100,000 died, and a world war neared its end. And there, high above it all yet so much a part of the devastation below, was Robert Lewis to chronicle every spectacular and awful moment. He was among the dozen Enola Gay crewmen who delivered the 15-kiloton bomb codenamed "Little Boy" to Japan and the only person aboard who kept a detailed account of the top-secret mission that changed the world. Lewis' 11-page chronicle of those few minutes is among the most important documents of the 20th century, a harrowing ... More | | 
SmartStamp technology instrumental in sale of first physical-to-digitally linked, authenticated artworks to be sold by a major retailer, Moda Operandi.
KREUZLINGEN.- SmartStamp, the pioneering new standard in identification and authentication for the art world, today announced the launch of its new App, available in August 2022. Across an artworks journeyfrom the studio, to storage, to the collector, gallery, or museum wallSmartStamp is a long-term management and identification solution for anyone involved in the creation, preservation, and protection of cultural objects. The new SmartStamp App leverages patented state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit technology and AI to bring the groundbreaking security and timestamping power of blockchain to the art world. In advance of the launch, Metagolden, a web3 platform that couples digital art with fine jewelry and 18k gold, is using the SmartStamp App to authenticate two painted bronze sculptures by Jonathan Seliger. The artworks are the first physical-to-digitally linked authenticated artworks ... More |
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| Design Museum residency display offers big ideas to tackle the climate crisis | | Galerie Chantal Crousel opens a solo exhibition of works by Fabrice Gygi | | In memoriam: Philadelphia artist and fine art specialist Helene Ruth Stephenson, 95 | 
The Pinch, speculative fashion-cum-furniture. Delfina Fantini van Ditmar.
LONDON.- The Design Museum today announces details of Restore, a new display and publication which explore innovative and thought-provoking ways to help tackle the climate emergency. They are part of the Museums flagship Design Researchers in Residence programme which has supported a group of design-led thinkers to spend the past year incubating big ideas at the Museum to respond to the climate crisis. This programme forms part of the new Future Observatory initiative launched in partnership with the AHRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The free display which runs from 24 June to 25 September 2022 sees the four Residents each reveal ideas and concepts from one year of funded research in four dedicated exhibition sections. From pollution-absorbing seaweed and the untapped value of the human hair in Londons hairdressers, to a new vocabulary for understanding environmental justice and the sp ... More | | 
Fabrice Gygi, Sans titre, 2022. Courtoisie de l'artiste et de la Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is presenting à bâtons rompus, the new solo exhibition of Fabrice Gygi. The artist presents a set of new watercolors and paintings, thus creating continuity in his exploration of watercolor on paper, and rupture, by the choice of a medium new to him, oil on canvas. Fabrice Gygi continues the series of watercolors initiated in 2018, in which the line is at the center of his work and his reflection. He presents several works on paper taking up the motif of the grid and the star. Painted in dark gray on pastel-colored backgrounds, they assert the presence of the motif in the center of the sheet. Other watercolors, in bright primary colors, still use the grid motif, while provoking its destructuring. The lines intersect in a tangle of shapes and colors whose center, the vanishing point which structures the composition, escapes us. Fabrice Gygi's watercolors recall Rosalind ... More | | 
Helene Ruth Stephenson (1926-2022), Untitled.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Noted Philadelphia artist and fine art specialist Helene Ruth Stephenson has died at the age of 95. She passed away peacefully on June 16 at her home in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., surrounded by family. Formally trained, Stephenson studied design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts). She later studied painting under Elizabeth Davis Wolpert and Hobson Pittman. Her style as an artist evolved from realism in her early years to abstract landscapes based on representation and symbolism. As an abstractionist, she was partial to subject matter that reflected various forms in nature, especially oceans. She exhibited at the James Michener Museum, the Allentown Museum, the Pennsylvania State Museum, and Woodmere Art Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the latter two institutions, as well as those of school districts, hospitals and major corporations. Stephenson also ... More |
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A Tour of the Jubilee Season with Andrew Graham-Dixon
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 Ruby City announces acquisition of new work by Isaac JulienSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announces the acquisition of Once Again
(Statues Never Die), 2022, a new five-screen film installation by the acclaimed filmmaker and artist Sir Isaac Julien, OBE. In celebration of the acquisition and the current exhibition Isaac Julien: True North, Ruby City will offer a virtual Taller Talk with Julien on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 5 pm (CDT). Julien and Ruby City Director Elyse A. Gonzales will discuss the research process and development of True North, Juliens 2004 film inspired by the Arctic journey of African American explorer Matthew Henson. Their conversation, part of the series Taller Talks presented by Ruby City and the Carver Community Cultural Center, will be streamed on Facebook Live. The talk also marks the occasion of Juliens recent knighthood: Julien received the Order ... More  Musea Brugge announces the launch of a major solo exhibition by Otobong NkangaBRUGES.- From 25 June onwards, Musea Brugge will host an important and large-scale exhibition of works by the internationally renowned Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga in the St Johns Hospital. Otobong Nkanga (°Kano, Nigeria 1974, now living and working in Antwerp) is recognised worldwide as one of todays most promising contemporary artists. She is famed for her installations and performances, in which she focuses on concepts such as identity; raw materials as a symbol for territory, power and conflict; exploitation of the landscape, people and labour; globalisation and transformation. The exhibition, entitled Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded, will take place on the ground floor and in the hospitals impressive wooden attic, and will cover an area of more than 2,500m². In this ground-breaking ... More  Aimee Wing Mei Man appointed Associate Director of Denny Dimin Gallery in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Aimee Man has joined Denny Dimin Gallery as Associate Director as we grow our presence in Hong Kong. Aimee is a curator, writer and art advisor who was previously at Whitestone Gallery, specializing in contemporary art and the works of the Gutai group. Aimee, a native Hong Konger, grew up in the Netherlands, where she started her career in the arts interning at the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands. Here, she was exposed to the fine collection of Dutch Masters such as Rembrandt and Goltzius. A graduate of the University of Amsterdam with a degree in Media and Cultural Studies, Aimee has also worked in Paris and brings four years of experience of the primary and secondary art markets to her new role, as well as experience of managing individual art projects and dealing with private clients ... More  Hastings Contemporary celebrates the relationship between art and life on the waves with major new exhibition SeafaringHASTINGS OLD TOWN.- Seafaring at Hastings Contemporary brings together more than 50 works by (predominantly) British artists from 1820 to the present day, exploring in diverse media and a range of artistic styles the drama, beauty and strangeness of life at sea. At the heart of the exhibition is Lost at Sea, a show-within-a-show featuring three oil paintings by eminent contemporary artist Cecily Brown (b.1969). Oinops, 2016-17, Shipwreck (Papillon), 2017, and Untitled (Shipwreck), 2017, are set alongside works by the Romantic artists who inspired the series: a pencil study by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) for Christ on the Sea of Galilee; a plaster maquette of Moribond, c1819, by Theodore Gericault ... More  Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden opens "All Power to the Imagination! Czech Season in Dresden"DRESDEN.- On the occasion of the Czech Republics presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2022, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden together with the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds, in collaboration with various project partners from Germany and the Czech Republic, are holding an arts festival from 24 June to 31 December 2022 under the title All Power to the Imagination! Czech Season in Dresden. Imagination has many facets it can create utopian dreams, change realities and be anti-authoritarian, subversive or poetic. That is something the French Surrealists recognised even before the Second World War. Their last proponent, the Czech filmmaker, poet and artist Jan vankmajer (b. 1934, Prague), also understood that the imagination is what defines people. His motto, All ... More  For a Kyiv techno collective, 'now, everything is about politics'NEW YORK, NY.- When Slava Lepsheiev founded Ukrainian techno collective Cxema in 2014, I thought it should be outside politics and just a place where people can be happy and dance, the 40-year-old DJ said in a recent video interview from Kyiv, the countrys capital. Until the pandemic, the biannual Cxema (pronounced skhema) raves were essential dates in the techno calendar of Ukraine, which has become an increasingly trendy destination for club tourists over the past decade. These parties in factories, skate parks and even an abandoned Soviet restaurant united thousands on the dance floor to a soundtrack of experimental electronic music. But as the Cxema platform grew bigger, and Ukraines political climate grew more tense, I realized I had a responsibility to use that influence, Lepsheiev said, and to look ... More  Onstage, paradise for Black characters often comes with a priceNEW YORK, NY.- In Soft, Donja R. Loves affecting new play at MCC Theater, a teenager wonders where Black boys go when they die. By the end the audience gets the answer: a haven overgrown with flowers where Black boys can truly be themselves. The play takes place mostly within a classroom at a boarding school for troubled children. Mr. Isaiah, a young English teacher who has his own history with the law, tries to reach the six Black and brown students in his classroom so they dont get lost in the system, a likelihood that his boss sees as an inevitability. Loves play is one of several recent off-Broadway productions in which deliverance comes at the end of tales of Black oppression in contemporary society. The works share a familiar setup that serves as a kind of urban parable about the ways in which the education system ... More  UK's best new buildings: RIBA announces 2022 National Award winners LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has today (Thursday 23 June) announced the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture. The awards, which have been presented since 1966, recognise the UKs best new buildings and provide an insight into the UKs latest design and economic trends. From the modernisation of a traditional village pub in North Yorkshire (The Alice Hawthorn) to a remodelled London landmark (BFI Riverfront); from an impressive family house built on the shores of a lake in Northern Ireland (House at Lough Beg) to a net-zero carbon office building sitting above the new Crossrail line in the City of London (100 Liverpool Street); from a viewing tower at an Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in Suffolk (Sutton Hoo) to the UKs first secondary school to achieve Passivhaus eco status (Harris Academy ... More  Exhibition at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art features the work of Pard MorrisonSANTA FE, NM.- Despite hard metal and sharp edges, Pard Morrisons aluminum sculptures create an effect of playfulness, of movement and animation. Standing still, they emit a keen sense of aliveness. With their brilliant colors, lively geometries and stark physicality, the metal sculptures are the result of Morrisons conversation with nature, with his personal contemplations in the forest. A Geometric Abstractionist, Morrison welds sheets of aluminum into box-like forms. Each color is individually hand brushed pigment fired in an oven, not unlike glazing ceramics. Every color is fired separately in order not to contaminate its neighbor so the energy of the lines and the clean color shifts create a feeling of flow and movement. The almost mathematical placement of color and form create a sense that the sculptures might be artificially ... More  Thierry Goldberg opens an online exhibition of works by Nicholas NorrisNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting look at that water, an online exhibition of works by Nicholas Norris. The exhibition runs from June 24 - July 22, 2022. Nicholas Norris utilizes bold hues and innovative patterns to create surreal landscapes that reverberate among moments of vibrancy, stillness, and wonder. Exposing different perspectives on interior worlds, Norriss work often touches upon several spaces simultaneously generating hybrid environments that deluge sentimental weight. Places and spaces are altered and synthesized through Norriss lens, creating a lack of cognizant immediacy that fosters instances of rediscovery. Color relationships and patterns are carefully considered throughout Norris's work. In mid summer waltz (2022),the interior space has been abstracted into variations ... More  IMAGINE THE CITY presents sound and video installation by Annika KahrsHAMBURG.- Through music and sound I am able to describe extremely complex contexts, contents, systems and emotions that reach viewers directly. For me, music plays an important role as a form of communication, as an element of translation. Annika Kahrs The sound and video installation how to live in the echo of other places is a new production by Annika Kahrs, staged in the last unrenovated warehouse building in the former Free Port of Hamburg, the present-day HafenCity. IMAGINE THE CITY's most extensive exhibition project to date is dedicated to the peculiarities of acoustic and visual recollections and explores how they relate to particular places. Throughout the summer, the two-part work alternately makes use of the interior space and the façade of Schuppen 29 (Shed 29) to make other peoples fleetingand personal ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Sam Francis was born June 25, 1923. Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. He later became loosely associated with a second generation of abstract expressionists, including Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, who were increasingly interested in the expressive use of color. In this image: Sam Francis, Untitled [Berkeley], 1948. Watercolor on paper, 19 x 25 3/4 inches. SFF4.61. © 2018 Sam Francis Foundation, California/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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