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NEW YORK, NY.- It has been two years since the Outsider Art Fair last gathered, over 60 galleries strong, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. But now its back and the atmosphere is, not surprisingly, celebratory. Dealers are happy to see one another again. Many participants are showing new material, works that are not well known or completely unknown. Ask them. And the more familiar works by anointed masters look fantastic in the bigger booths near the entrance: James Castle, Joseph Yoakum, William Hawkins, MartÃn RamÃrez. These booths belong to veteran galleries like Fleisher/Ollman (Booth A5), Carl Hammer (B6), Hirschl & Adler Modern (B8) and Ricco-Maresca (A11) that are responsible for building the field, and part of outsider history too. Yet at the same time, as with so many things post-COVID, the fair feels different, maybe a little tense. Where is all this going? This is the fairs 30th anniversary; it has been a tremendous success and all things concerning outsider art seem t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Friedman Benda is presenting, Relations, an in-depth look into the creative duo OrtaMiklos and the designers Leo Orta and Victor Miklos Andersen. The exhibition offers insight into Orta and Miklos, who decided to separate this past year to develop their individual studio practices. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and OrtaMiklos. Photo: Daniel Kukla.
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| Barbican Art Gallery opens 'Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965' | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm | | Nationalmuseum acquires works by women sculptors | 
Anwar Jalal Shemza, Still Life, 1957. Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza, courtesy of Hales Gallery & Jhaveri Contemporary, © The Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza.
LONDON.- Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 19451965 is an ambitious and timely reassessment of art produced in Britain during the twenty years after the Second World War. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic war that called into question religion, ideology and humanity itself, there followed the consequences of conflict: continued austerity, the Cold War, nuclear threat and the dismantling of empire. These very conditions of past horror, continued anxiety and future promise gave rise to an incredible richness of new imagery, forms and materials as artists in Britain sought to establish meaning and purpose and to reimagine the world around them. This major exhibition brings together around 200 works of painting, sculpture and photography by 48 artists, drawn from public and private collections both international and in the UK. Much of the work is little known, never having been included in an overview such as this, while other works are exhibited for ... More | | 
Erwin Wurm, Stuhl, 2021. Acrylic and oil paint on canvas. 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm (19.69 x 15.75 x 0.59 in). © Erwin Wurm / Bildrecht, Wien 2022. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi.
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, featuring his most recent series of sculptures titled Skin and an exclusive look at the Flat Sculptures: the artists first foray into painting. Throughout his career, Wurm has sought to deconstruct sculpture, expanding its spatial and temporal dimensions as well as exploring questions of weight and volume. In Skins, the artist takes a new approach, focusing on the notion of surface and its function in holding and defining volume. As a sculptor, Im interested in this idea of skin as a boundary, declared Wurm in a 2014 interview with the New York Times. The Flat Sculptures and Skin works constitute the artists most pointed exploration of the subject to date. As the economy of means of the sculptures on show contrasts with the visual saturation of the candy-coloured paintings, together the two series foreground ... More | | 
Gerda Sprinchorn, Israels Aunt, 1905. Patinated plaster. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Viktor Fordell/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Over the past few years, Nationalmuseum has made a concerted effort to acquire more works by women sculptors. This acquisition drive was part of a wider project to gather knowledge and shed light on the Swedish women sculptors who were active at the turn of the 20th century. The results are to be presented in an exhibition at Nationalmuseum this spring and in an anthology to be published in English. The profession of sculptor was long seen as a male preserve. It was heavy, dirty work considered unsuitable for ladies. What was more, sculptures were often placed in public spaces and frequently portrayed nude bodies, which was likewise an impediment. Nevertheless, a number of Swedish women trained as sculptors in the late 19th century. After completing their studies, most of them headed to the Continent, mainly to Paris, where they discovered new artistic ideals and greater market opportunities. The women sculptors became adept at ... More |
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| The fight over 'Maus' is part of a bigger cultural battle in Tennessee | | Exhibition of new work by Thomas Struth opens at Galerie Max Hetzler | | Foam opens an exhibition of works by Karolina Wojtas | 
A copy of the graphic novel "Maus" in Athens, Tenn., Feb. 12, 2022. Nicole Craine/The New York Times.
by Sophie Kasakove
ATHENS, TENN.- After the McMinn County School Board voted in January to remove Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its eighth-grade curriculum, the community quickly found itself at the center of a national frenzy over book censorship. The book soared to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Its author, Art Spiegelman, compared the board to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and suggested that McMinn officials would rather teach a nicer Holocaust. At a recent school board meeting, opponents of the books removal spilled into an overflow room. But the outcry has not persuaded the school board to reconsider. And the boards objections do not stop at Maus or the school districts Holocaust education materials. It looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize ... More | | 
Revolving around universal questions of our time with a focus on Science, Nature and Portraiture, three major themes from Thomas Struths current bodies of work are shown across the two gallery locations in BleibtreustraÃe. © Thomas Struth.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting an exhibition with new work by Thomas Struth at the gallery spaces in BleibtreustraÃe 45 and BleibtreustraÃe 15/16 in Berlin. Revolving around universal questions of our time with a focus on Science, Nature and Portraiture, three major themes from Thomas Struths current bodies of work are shown across the two gallery locations in BleibtreustraÃe. The frst-foor space in BleibtreustraÃe 45 is dedicated to photographs taken at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The worlds largest scientifc facility near Geneva carries out research into the origins of the universe with the help of particle accelerators. Struths interest at CERN lies in the philosophical questions, the political dimensions and the pictorial ... More | | 
We can't live without each other, 2019 © Karolina Wojtas, courtesy of the artist.
AMSTERDAM.- Karolina Wojtas (Poland, 1996) work is colourful, imaginative, humorous and has a vaguely sinister nature to it. The artist is inspired by family, memories of her youth, unusual moments and candy. We cant live without each other gives an insight into the continuous struggle between brother and sister: a love-hate relationship, sometimes taken to extremes. The series is a close collaboration between the two siblings. Together they stage intense moments of violence and Wojtas produces realistically executed phantom wounds. Her work invites the viewer to participate and discover, where the visitor can feel like a child again. Sometimes combined with dark humour, the exhibition of Wojtas creates a (sur)realistic experience. In We cant live without each other Wojtas gives an intimate view of the complex relationship with her younger brother. Until the age of thirteen, the artist ... More |
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| Concord Museum opens the first and most comprehensive exhibition on William Brewster | | Western Australia and International Artists share in major awards at Sculpture by the Sea | | In a run-down Roman villa, a princess from Texas awaits her next act | 
CONCORD, MASS.- The Concord Museum collaborates with Mass Audubon on the special exhibition, Alive with Birds: William Brewster in Concord, opening in the Museums Wallace Kane Gallery on March 4, 2022 through September 5, 2022. Alive with Birds is the first and most comprehensive exhibition on William Brewster (1851 -1919), the first president of Mass Audubon and one of the countrys earliest advocates for the protection of birds and their habitats. The exhibition also showcases 20 paintings and sculptures from Mass Audubons Museum of American Bird Art by acclaimed artists, including John James Audubon, Frank Weston Benson, Anthony Elmer Crowell, Charley Harper, David Sibley, Leonard Baskin, and Barry Van Dusen, each of whom depicted birds formerly or currently native to Concords landscape. In 2019, Mass Audubon received a gift of 143 acres of the October Farm property, which has been renamed ... More | | 
Haruyuki Uchida, Thinking Red, SxS Cottesloe, 2022.
COTTESLOE.- Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, returns today for an 18th year to transform the famous white sands of Cottesloe Beach, with Japanese artists Osamu and Masako Ohnishi awarded the major Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe Artist Award of $30,000 for their work USAGI Shelter, an inviting, interactive work in the shape of a rabbits head. Newcomers to Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Western Australian-born artists Stephanie De Biasi and Carolina Arsenii were awarded the prestigious $15,000 Western Australian Sculptor Scholarship for Fossil, a woven, pod-like structure made from recycled cat food cans that highlight the immense waste produced from everyday packaging. Hailing from Kyoto, Japan, the Ohnishis have exhibited works as a pair since 2007, including Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019, Asago Art Competition, Historic Stree ... More | | 
A ceiling fresco painted by Guercino, with a bust of Julius Caesar on the right, at Villa Aurora in Rome, Feb. 18, 2022. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.
by Jason Horowitz
NEW YORK, NY.- Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi wasted no time in pointing out the selling points of her home, the Villa Aurora, a 16th-century estate, smack in the center of Rome, loaded with masterpiece paintings, historical archives and noble family lore. In the entryway, the princess a 72-year-old Texan with blond hair, unwrinkled porcelain skin and pearls dripping onto her black overcoat noted that the crimson cloth baldachin hanging over pictures of her late husband was found only in homes that descend from popes. In the dining room, she admired the mythical deities painted by Guercino ushering in a new dawn, and a bust of Julius Caesar, on whose ancient gardens she said ... More |
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| South Street Seaport Museum announces expanded digital galleries in collections online portal | | Almine Rech opens Italian artist Gioele Amaro's first solo show at the gallery | | Free/State unlocks new realms and delivers messages of resilience in a Biennial for our times | 
The Hugh C. Leighton Co., publisher. Steamer Hendrick Hudson leaving Wharf, Day Line Landing and Poughkeepsie Bridge n.d. Gift of Wendell Lorang, South Street Seaport Museum 2005.051.0120
NEW YORK, NY.- South Street Seaport Museum announces the release of the next set of collections artifacts for digital visitors to browse, research, and enjoy. In March 2021, the Museum launched a Collections Online Portal, which today features nearly 3,000 pieces on virtual display, allowing audiences to explore New York Citys past through the archives, artifacts, and photographs of the South Street Seaport Museum. This fourth iteration includes over 900 newly digitized works of art and historic objects covering a variety of mediums, historical subjects, and themes relating to the growth and changing physical fabric of New York City. Taken together, they offer a vibrant picture of the history of New York City as a port city, where international trade routes, global cultures, and seafaring, including all aspects of life, art, and work associated with them, ... More | | 
Gioele Amaro, RedonDawn, 2021 - Ink and varnish on canvas - 162 x 130 cm, 63 3/4 x 51 1/4 in / © Gioele Amaro - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Offset Sunset, Italian artist Gioele Amaros first solo show at the gallery. His work was previously shown in the group exhibition Water Always Moves On at the Brussels gallery in 2020. A master of the art of synthesis, Amaro combines, transforms, and blurs the boundaries to construct a dialogue between traditional mediums (painting, photography, drawing) and new technologies. His work is digitally painted, then printed on canvas. He then meticulously reworks each canvas, applying several layers of varnish. By bringing his own touch to this original technique, Amaro shifts figurative representation into the abstract and captures the essence of the subject from real life. For this new show, Amaro has painted horizons, or, rather, the spirit of the horizon as seen from a window, an airplane window, or even through a smartphone screen. Like his previous series DigitalDust, ... More | | 
The 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State will be presented from 4 March to 5 June 2022 as part of the 2022 Adelaide Festival.
ADELAIDE.- The 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State assembles twenty-five leading Australian artists with works that reveal alternative ways of viewing the world, making visible unspoken histories and exploring the challenges of an era of global upheaval. Taking over multiple spaces at the Art Gallery of South Australia as well as a major intervention on the buildings North Terrace façade, Free/State opens with a weekend of artist talks, performances, DJ sets and more, in celebration of the 31st iteration of the nations longest-standing survey of contemporary Australian art. Free/State curator Sebastian Goldspink says, Free/State has been developed through extraordinary times; the past two years have been wild and unpredictable, and artists have shown exceptional resilience in the face of challenges. Throughout, they have continued to make meaning through works ... More |
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Color Theories: Editions & Works on Paper | New York | March 2022
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 Jane Lombard Gallery opens a group exhibition curated by Joseph R. WolinNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting say the dream was real and the wall imaginary, a group exhibition curated by Joseph R. Wolin, that brings together eight artists who investigate walls, borders, and boundariesboth physical and ideologicaland ways to think beyond them. The exhibition, featuring work by Margarita Cabrera, Anita Groener, Tom Molloy, Ambreen Butt, Becci Davis, Spandita Malik, Azita Moradkhani, and Kanishka Raja, opens on March 11th from 57 PM, and will be on view through April 23rd, 2022. Wallswhether delimiting rooms, dwellings, cells, properties, territories, nations or lines of jurisdictionare designed to separate. Walls divide us; they confine us within and fence others out. But, as walls were created by us, we can imagine a world where they dont exist. As Richard Sikens poem suggests, we can dream past walls, because ... More  Charlie Sheen's former baseball card will raise millions for Boys & Girls ClubCASTLE ROCK, CO.- The rare, century-old Honus Wager baseball card that was owned by actor Charlie Sheen when it was stolen from a sports-themed restaurant in New York City in 1998 is now expected to sell for $3 million or more at an online auction in Colorado in March. The cards current owner will donate all the proceeds to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in Oklahoma. This is the famous 1909-1911 era, T206 series Honus Wagner card that Charlie Sheen loaned for display at the Official All Star Café in Times Square. The restaurants investors included sports celebrities Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky, Ken Griffey Jr., Joe Montana, Shaquille ONeal, and Tiger Woods, explained Brian Drent, president of Mile High Card Company in Castle Rock, Colorado. A few years after the card was recovered by the FBI, Sheen sold it in 2001 for $75,000, a record price at the time for a Wagner ... More  Laumeier Sculpture Park honors Missouri lives lost due to COVID-19 with Rose River Memorial installationST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park is hosting an opening reception and dedication on Sunday, March 6 for its installation of Rose River Memorial, a grassroots, community art movement led by artist Marcos Lutyens that uses hand-crafted red roses to honor and grieve the many lives lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Laumeiers installation of the memorial will be located on the outside of the Aronson Fine Arts Center and will reflect on the tens of thousands of lives lost specifically in Missouri. This is the final piece to come on view for Laumeiers spring exhibition, Salutary Sculpture. Rose River Memorial was initiated in August 2020 and has since been displayed in cities across the country from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. For an installation in Kansas City during the fall of 2021, Lutyens worked with the Girl Scouts of NE Kansas NW Missouri to create 10,000 roses in partnership ... More  Fantasy author raises $15.4 million in 24 hours to self-publishNEW YORK, NY.- Brandon Sanderson, a prolific sci-fi and fantasy author, started an online fundraising campaign this week to self-publish four of the novels he wrote during the pandemic. His goal: to raise $1 million in 30 days. He blew past the first million in about 35 minutes. And the ticker kept rising. In 24 hours, he raised $15.4 million, which the fundraising website Kickstarter said was the single most successful day of any of their campaigns. By Thursday, two days into it, he had raised more than $19 million. The eye-popping sum raises questions about what is possible for authors with major platforms who are willing to self-publish and why the vast majority of big names stick with traditional routes to publication. But analysts, and even Sanderson himself, dont see this kind of self-publishing as a problem for the industry or a desirable choice for most writers. Rather, for the right author, ... More  Farrah Forke, who played a helicopter pilot on 'Wings,' dies at 54NEW YORK, NY.- Farrah Forke, the actress who catapulted to fame playing a helicopter pilot on NBC sitcom Wings, died at her home in Texas on Feb. 25. She was 54. Her death was confirmed by her mother, Beverly Talmage, who said in a statement that her daughter had had cancer for several years. Forke played alluring pilot Alex Lambert on three seasons of Wings, which aired from 1990 to 1997 and followed the adventures of the offbeat characters at a small airport on Nantucket in Massachusetts. Her characters affections were battled over by Joe and Brian Hackett (Tim Daly and Steven Weber), brothers who ran a one-plane airline. On Instagram, Weber described Forke as every bit as tough, fun, beautiful and grounded as her character Alex on Wings. Farrah Rachael Forke was born Jan. 12, 1968, in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Chuck Forke and Beverly (Mendleski) Forke. ... More  Alan Ladd Jr., hitmaking film executive, dies at 84NEW YORK, NY.- Alan Ladd Jr., who as a producer and studio executive was a guiding hand behind scores of successful films, none bigger than Star Wars, which he championed when its young director, George Lucas, was having trouble getting it made, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. Kathie Berlin, who worked with him for years at his production company and at MGM, said the cause was kidney failure. Ladd was vice president for creative affairs at 20th Century Fox in 1973 when Lucas agent, Jeff Berg, began talking with him about Lucas still-evolving concept for what became Star Wars. Lucas had just made American Graffiti, but it had yet to be released once it was, it would become one of 1973s biggest movies and so Lucas idea for a space movie wasnt getting much respect; United Artists and Universal werent interested. Ladd, though, ... More  Joni James, heartfelt chanteuse of the 1950s, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Joni James, Heartfelt Chanteuse of the 1950s, Dies at 91 Joni James, a bestselling chanteuse whose records climbed the Billboard charts in the 1950s and who was an early influence on Barbra Streisand, died on Feb. 20 in West Palm Beach, Florida. She was 91. Her family announced the death, in a hospital, in an online obituary. No cause was specified. Known to her fans as the Queen of Hearts, James had an intimate vocal style tinged with longing and melancholy. She recorded nearly 700 songs and sold more than 100 million records 24 going platinum and 12 gold. I always sang from the heart, she told The Daily News of New York in 1996. I always sang about life and how it affected me. Im Italian. Italians are passionate people. Her debut single, Why Dont You Believe Me, reached No. 1 on the three Billboard charts in 1952 (in those days there were ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the "Rococo" style. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz.
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