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A table by Martin Szekely that Karl Lagerfeld used as a desk in his Chanel office, on display in the exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, April 30, 2023. The exhibition focuses on dualities in the dazzling work of the legendary designer, but it is coy about the controversies. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- I admit: I never entirely drank the Karl Lagerfeld Kool-Aid. I was not one of those critics (and there were some) who would clutch their breast, shriek Genius! and swoon after every show. I often felt that for every extraordinary piece the designer created for Chanel or Fendi by the time I started in fashion, his career at Chloé was at an end there would be another clunker of a dress or a suit: unflattering, frumpy, kind of awkward. I found the set-building he did for his Chanel shows in the latter years (the supermarkets, rocket ships and icebergs in the Grand Palais) not just a smart social media move (which it was) but too often an egregious display of a bottomless budget and sleight of hand to distract from what was on the runway. Sure, that tweed sweatsuit made that model look like a Real Housewife but everyone was looking at the double-C branded pasta on the faux megamart shelf instead! Once I got spoken to by the Chanel press office for not fully ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From a Gift to a Collection: Igal & Diane Silber celebrates American Museum of Ceramic Artâs recent acquisition of more than 300 ceramic pieces collected by Igal and Diane Silber. The exhibition presents a selection of 100 works from this unparalleled collection, representing artists from Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, and North America.
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| James Fuentes presents 'Didier William: Things Like This Don't Happen Here' | | Gagosian is now exhibiting new paintings by Harold Ancart in his debut at the gallery | | Rarely seen drawings by Michael Simpson to be uniquely displayed at the Holburne Museum | 
Didier William, Plonje (Dive), 2023, Signed and dated verso. Acrylic, wood carving, and ink on panel, 106 x 70 inches. (Didier William / James Fuentes LLC).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- James Fuentes is now inaugurating the gallerys new Los Angeles location with a solo exhibition of new work by Didier William, Things Like This Dont Happen Here starting on May 6th and continuing until June 17th, 2023. Marrying techniques of painting and printmaking with processes of carving and collage, Williams visual terrains are as layered in meaning as they are material. In these works, scales of personal narrative and biography merge and expand across historical timelines and into the realm of mythology. The result is a radical connection to generational memory that gives form to the varying complexities of diasporic identity and makes material its continual transformation. Presenting fourteen new paintings, Things Like This Dont Happen Here advances Williams ongoing investigation of ... More | | 
Harold Ancart, Untitled, 2023, oil stick and pencil on canvas, in artists frame, 81 à 71 à 2 3/4 inches (205.7 à 180.3 à 7 cm). © Harold Ancart. Photo: JSP Art Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian has opened 'Paintings', an exhibition of new work by Harold Ancart in New York. This exhibition follows the gallerys July 2022 announcement of his representation, and will continue on until June 16th, 2023. In his atmospheric canvases, Ancart uses color and texture to blur the boundaries between observed and imagined realities. Pairing figuration with vibrant abstract passages, the artist explores natural landscapes and built environments, where he discovers moments of unexpected poetry. Though born and educated in Belgium, Ancart maintains a practice rooted in the influence of American abstract painters, including Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, and Clyfford Still. The works in Ancarts Gagosian debut suggest a place rooted in a ... More | | 
Squint image, Untitled (pink drawing): Untitled (Leper Squint Drawing), 2012, in association
with Southern & Partners.
BATH.- Michael Simpson (b. 1940) is one of Britains most well-known and respected contemporary painters, who has, for most of his career, lived and worked in Bradford-on-Avon, ten miles from the Holburne Museum. Known for his large scale, pared-back paintings, Simpsons primary concern is with the mechanics of painting. He says, despite the subjective references in my work, I believe a painting must move beyond its subject and, for me, formal considerations are paramount. This distinct artistic language produces expansive works that ask questions of the very nature of painting itself. This exhibition, however, focuses on the intimate drawings that underpin Simpsons painting practice. Across the last five decades, Simpson has produced thousands of drawings, most of which have never been seen outside his studio. ... More |
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| A house that is as green as it gets | | Touchstone Gallery presents Marcia Coppel's solo exhibition 'Renewal' | | 'shadow/land' review: What the storm washes away | 
A photo provided by Aidlin Darling Design shows a LEED-platinum, net zero energy house in Hillsborough, Calif., that has a three-story tower containing a spiral staircase that rises past the living rooms on the main level, up to a crows nest. (Matthew Millman/Aidlin Darling Design via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Eleven years ago, Sally Liu, a water-resources engineer, and her husband Bay Chang, then a senior research scientist for Google, bought a 0.84-acre lot for $2.675 million in suburban Hillsborough, California. Avid environmentalists in their mid-40s with two young sons, they set out to build something different from the neighborhoods overblown mansions and closer to their hearts: a green energy home. I really did not want a large house next to a lawn, said Liu, who is now ... More | | 
Marcia Coppel, Surveillance.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marcia Coppels new paintings, now on view at Touchstone Gallery through to the end of the month, are based on her love for the people, rich color, and landscape of Mexico. Her recent work was made using line drawings done on the spot before, during, and after the height of Covid-19. The color was added later in her studio. At times, painting was difficult or impossible. However, when I could paint, I was able to resume with my sense of whimsy and use rich colors, says Coppel. Underneath the humor, she is concerned with communication, isolation, laughter, healing. Marcia Coppel was formally educated in art and speech therapy. She attended George Washington University, Cornell University, the University ... More | | 
Lizan Mitchell, left, and Joniece Abbott-Pratt during the play shadow/land at the Public Theater in New York, on April 19, 2023.(Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- There are mothers who will tell you, no matter the circumstance, exactly whats what. Even as the sky crashes down, theyll judge your evacuation outfit and then remind you whos to thank that youre still standing on two feet. In Erika Dickerson-Despenzas shadow/land, which opened Thursday at the Public Theater, that unfiltered candor is both a loving reflex and the lifeline for an endangered legacy. Its 2005 and Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on Central City in New Orleans, but Magalee (Lizan Mitchell) has forgotten her purse inside the bar thats belonged to her family for generations, where she and her daughter Ruth ... More |
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| First retrospective of Giacometti to be held in Israel opens at Tel Aviv Museum of Art | | She wants to rewrite the story of art, without men | | Ed Sheeran wins copyright case over Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' | 
Herbert Matter, Alberto Giacometti Modelling, 1960-1966, gelatin silver print, 28.9x35.4 cm, collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, gift of Virginia and Herbert Lust, Greenwich, Connecticut, through the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004. © Herbert Matter.
TEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is opening a retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (19011966), one of the most renowned and influential artists of the 20th century. It will be the first time that a retrospective of the artists work has been held in Israel. The exhibition, titled "Beginning, Again," will be a landmark cultural event bringing together 130 works from the collections of Fondation Giacometti, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The exhibition will span the four decades of Giacometti's career, from the early 1920s to the artist's death in 1966. It will feature a special selection from Giacometti's Surrealist period, as well as iconic plasters and bronzes, paintings, drawings, and prints, bringing the full scope ... More | | 
Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men, in New York, on April 13, 2023. Hessel launched a podcast, born from her desire to meet her heroes; now in its ninth season with over 100 episodes, has interviewed everyone from Marina Abramović to Loretta Pettway Bennett and Mary Margaret Pettway of the Gees Bend Quiltmakers. (Hiriko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Dayna Evans
NEW YORK, NY.- On a Wednesday in March at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, art historian, curator and podcaster Katy Hessel lingered by Leonora Carringtons 1953 painting And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur. The mysterious dreamscape depicts a white bull in a red robe, seated at a table covered in crystal spheres. Two pale children dressed in black cloaks seem to be seeking guidance from the bull, as well as a phantom spirit. I like the idea that theres something happening in secret here, said Hessel, hovering her finger near the paintings faceless dancing apparition. ... More | | 
Ed Sheeran leaves federal district court after winning his copyright trial in Manhattan, May 4, 2023. A federal jury found on Thursday that the pop singer did not copy Marvin Gayes classic Lets Get It On for his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud, in the music industrys highest-profile copyright case in years. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- A federal jury found on Thursday that pop singer Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gayes classic Lets Get It On for his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud, in the music industrys highest-profile copyright case in years. Over two weeks in a downtown Manhattan courtroom, Sheeran, one of musics biggest global hitmakers, testified often with a guitar in hand that Thinking Out Loud had been created independently one evening with his friend and longtime collaborator Amy Wadge. The song was inspired, he said, by the decadeslong loves that he and Wadge observed among elders in their ... More |
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| 'Full Circle: Chris Cran and Michael Wilding' now on view at Wilding Cran Gallery | | Dorothy Bohm, a roving and enduring photographer, dies at 98 | | Ateneum Art Museum celebrates the trailblazing career of modern master Albert Edelfelt | 
Chris Cran, Untitled, 5 Ovals, 2023, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 54 x 42 inches, 137.16 x 106.68 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery is opening Full Circle, an exhibition uniting the abstract explorations of painter Chris Cran and sculptor Michael Wilding. The shows title references a return to the source a loving nod to Cran and Wildings familial connection as the respective fathers of the gallerys founders. With a career of stylistic forays into pop art, portraiture, social realism, and various graphic arts, Chris Cran returns to abstraction to capture the essence of play inherent to his practice. Across his body of work, Cran emphasizes the importance of engaging the viewer to feel the impact of his paintings, rather than seek to analyze or define their meaning. In addition to a base of flat black gesso, Cran often mixes silver oil paint into each of his pigments, creating new depths and textures by scratching, dabbing, dragging, and pulling the surface of his paint. Utilizing foam core, plastic, x-acto blades, and ... More | | 
The artist and photographer Dorothy Bohm in an undated photo. (via The New York Times)
by Daniel E. Slotnik
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than seven decades, the click of a camera shutter was the soundtrack to Dorothy Bohms life. She was a teenager in Lithuania when her father gave her a Leica as she boarded a train to flee the Nazis. She studied photography in Manchester, England, after the Blitzkrieg drove her from London. Her camera was a steadfast companion when she traveled the world, chronicling her travels and the people she saw with an empathetic eye. And as her renown as a photographer grew, she switched to color film and experimented with bold new styles. Bohm created a vast body of photographs, in the process becoming a grande dame of the art form, before she died at 98 on March 15 at a care facility in northwest London. Her daughter Monica Bohm-Duchen confirmed the death. Bohm began as a portraitist, ... More | | 
Albert Edelfelt, Self-Portrait in Dress of the 17th Century (1889), National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: National Gallery / Jenni Nurminen.
HELSINKI.- Ateneum Art Museum presents Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905), a comprehensive examination of the career of one of Finlands most famous, beloved and internationally recognised artists. A key Finnish artist working during the modern period, the exhibition highlights the artistic influence of Edelfelts time spent travelling through Europe and living in Paris, and how this inspired and paved the way for later generations of artists from his home country. A technically skilled draughtsman and painter, known for his naturalistic style and Realist approach, the exhibition charts Edelfelts artistic development in parallel with his travels and influences. After moving to Paris in 1874 and becoming immersed in the French art scene, Edelfelt began to adopt many of the principles of Impressionism, including en plein air paintings of outdoor Parisian life. He introduced these styles and ... More |
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 Filmmaker Joel Coen puts his spin on the photos of Lee FriedlanderNEW YORK, NY.- It was a happy fallout of COVID. During the pandemic shutdown, filmmaker Joel Coen and his wife, actress Frances McDormand, hunkered down in their home on the Marin County coast of California. Photography dealer Jeffrey Fraenkel and his husband, Alan Mark, a real estate consultant, relocated from San Francisco to their weekend house in a neighboring town. The two couples, who knew each other casually, began spending more time together. One evening, Fraenkel asked if Coen and McDormand were familiar with the work of Lee Friedlander. At 88, Friedlander is one of the greatest living photographers, whose pictures Fraenkel has been exhibiting for more than 40 years. I thought Lee was ripe for an outside approach and inviting a filmmaker seemed like the way to go, Fraenkel said of his matchmaking inspiration. Anyone ... More  Bebe Buell, rock 'n' roll muse, sings her own songNEW YORK, NY.- Bebe Buell was back in town. On a recent evening, about 75 people gathered at the National Arts Club, a private club in a landmark building on East 20th Street in Manhattan, to see her read from her new memoir, Rebel Soul: Musings, Music, & Magic, and sing some of her songs. The neighborhood was familiar to Buell. Soon after she arrived in New York from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in 1972, she became a regular at Maxs Kansas City, the famed nightspot just a few blocks away. At the time, she was an 18-year-old model signed to the Eileen Ford Agency who lived at the St. Marys Residence on the Upper East Side. The place had a curfew enforced by nuns, but one night, Buell slipped out and made her way to Maxs, where she would end up partying with Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and David Johansen ... More  Wolfgang Schivelbusch, polymathic cultural historian, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Ever wonder why railroad tracks in America meander but English tracks ordinarily run straight? What was the traditional breakfast drink in Europe before coffee came along? How did the introduction of gas mains transform family life? Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol? Who was missing when the U.S. military ceremonially declared victory in Iraq? For four decades, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a polymathic cultural historian, feasted on those and other brainteasers as he explored mass transportation, spices and stimulants, commercial lighting and the legacy of defeat on society in about a dozen groundbreaking books. He wrote them in his native German (most were translated into English) from his New York City apartment, where he spent winters, and his home in Berlin, where he died in a hospital ... More  Through catastrophe, and in community, the art of Daniel Lind-RamosNEW YORK, NY.- I often remember big museum roundups of new art for a single standout entry. In the case of the 2019 Whitney Biennial, the memory of a regally enigmatic sculpture titled MarÃa-MarÃa by Puerto Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos wont let go. At a little over 6 feet tall, it was of a half-abstract, assemblage-style female figure, her body draped in a sea-blue cloak, her head a blank-faced oval, her long, thin arms curving downward as if open for embrace. The materials from which she was composed were unusual, certainly in a Whitney context. The head was a lacquered coconut; her oceanic cloak was a plastic Federal Emergency Management Agency tarp. All of this, along with the echoing title, suggested a weave of clashing cultural and political references: to the benign Christian figure of the Virgin Mary; to the moody Afro Caribbean sea goddess ... More  Review: Dancers fighting for their place in a dystopian worldNEW YORK, NY.- At the end of Miguel Gutierrezs I as another, there is a familiar idea in the air: Just as no two people are alike, no people are truly knowable. In this New York premiere, a duet with Laila Franklin, that notion is illustrated more through words than action. It opens with a voice-over as Gutierrez asks: Did you expect something different?Franklin: Did you want it to change? Gutierrez: How could you not?" Eventually, a powerful drumroll leads into Stevie Nicks Sable on Blonde. Where are we? It could be a dance floor in outer space. Performed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, I as another is Gutierrezs second dance (of three) being presented this spring in New York City. Last month came Cela Nous Concerne Tous (This Concerns All of Us), an increasingly raucous work performed by Ballet de Lorraine that re-imagined a riot. The third, ... More  Helen Park hails Tony nomination for 'KPOP' scoreNEW YORK, NY.- Helen Park was tucked in bed in her New Jersey home when her talent agent texted her news of her Tony Award nomination. Park, the first Asian American female composer on Broadway, was nominated in the best score category for the Korean- and English-language musical KPOP, which follows three K-pop acts challenged by strict routines and personal struggles as they prepare for a U.S. concert tour. It was great to wake up to the news, said Park, who wrote the shows score and lyrics with Max Vernon. The production also received nominations for best choreography and costume design of a musical. The Tonys recognition was significant given that KPOP struggled at the box office and closed after only 44 preview performances and 17 regular performances. In an interview on Tuesday, Park reflected on her Broadway ... More  Moderna Museet Malmö opens 'Lotte Laserstein: A Divided Life'MALMÃ.- The groundbreaking German-Swedish artist Lotte Laserstein (1898 1993) is one of the art worlds most exciting recent rediscoveries. A Divided Life, which is on view in the Moderna Museet Malmö's great Turbine Hall, is the largest exhibition of Lasersteins work to date in the Nordic Region. Exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Kiel have attracted broad audiences eager to explore this long-forgotten artist and have established a place for her in the history of twentieth-century art. However, these shows focused primarily on Lasersteins work from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1930s the period before she was forced to leave Germany and emigrated to Sweden. A Divided Life focuses as much on the multifaceted works she created in exile in Sweden as it does on those she made before leaving Germany. Lotte Lasersteins ... More  Sotheby's to unveil the private collection of Hélène LeloupNEW YORK, NY.- Hélène Leloup (b. 1927) is one of the art worlds true pioneers, bringing together a spirit of adventure, a detailed anthropological approach and deep knowledge to become one of the foremost specialists in African and Oceanic art in Paris, New York and beyond. Having been awarded the Legion of Honour, the highest French order of merit, Leloups ground-breaking contributions to the field cannot be overstated. Over the years, she facilitated many significant acquisitions of African art to museums worldwide, with pieces in the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Japans African Art Museum in Hokuto and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. In recent years, Leloup continued her dedication ... More  Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen' now on view at Fraenkel GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is opening on May 6th Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, an exhibition of Friedlanders photographs curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coens selection concentrates on Friedlanders singular approach to composition. Through the approximately 45 images in the exhibition Coen surveys the range of Friedlanders 60+ year career, bringing many lesser-known images into the equation. The selection evidences an unexpected affinity between Friedlander and Coen, both of whose work explores the sly power of images. A new hardcover publication, with an introduction by Coen and an afterword by the actor Frances McDormand, accompanies the exhibition. Friedlander, Coen, and McDormand, long admirers of each others work, met ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-Swiss painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born May 06, 1880. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. In this image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Women on the Street (Frauen auf der StraÃe). 1915. Oil on canvas. 49 5/8 x 35 7/16" (126 x 90 cm). Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Photograph by Peter Frese. © Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
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