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Allyson and Alex Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, their interfaith church and arts organization, in Wappinger, N.Y., May 3, 2023. The couple behind Entheon, an exhibition space on the grounds of a nonprofit organization, hopes to attract lovers of art and consciousness-altering experiences. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
by Noah Eckstein
WAPPINGER, NY.- Every morning, artists Alex and Allyson Grey take cold showers, meditate, read aloud to each other and then strap themselves into an inversion table that tips them upside down, using gravity to stretch their spines. The act of hanging this way was a suggestion from Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist who is considered the father of LSD, synthesizing the psychedelic drug in 1943. Its supposed to bring blood to the brain, Alex Grey, 69, said, his soft voice crackling like a dimly lit fire. He and his wife, Allyson, 71, are founders and longtime directors of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a nonprofit organization that combines elements of a cultural institution and interfaith church in Wappinger, a town in the Hudson Valley. On June 3, they plan to open Entheon, a 12,000-square-foot exhibition space in a converted 19th century carriage house on the chapels grounds that will be devoted to visionary art, which focuses on the artists psychedelic spiritual insights an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Abbot Hall reopens with Julie Brook's "What is it That will Last?" A decade of work by British artist Julie Brook goes on display in a major exhibition for Abbot Hall art gallery. In this image: 'Out of the ground, a thread of air' slate sculpture Lakeland Arts © Robin Zahler.
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| Kenneth Anger, filmmaker who left a pop culture legacy, dies at 96 | | Avedon at 100: Photos of seduction | | After the Warhol decision, another major copyright case looms |
His movie, Scorpio Rising, proved that sound and image could be combined to create something powerful, influencing the rise of music video.
by Dennis Lim
NEW YORK, NY.- Kenneth Anger, a child of Hollywood who became one of the most important experimental filmmakers of his generation and whose influence can still be felt in popular visual culture, from movies to music videos, died on May 11 in Yucca Valley, California, a town bordering Joshua Tree National Park. He was 96. His death, at an assisted living center, was confirmed on Wednesday by Spencer Glesby, a spokesperson for Sprüth Magers, a gallery that has represented Anger since 2009. He said an announcement of the death had been delayed while matters involving Angers estate were being put in order. Anger embodied the love-hate relationship between underground art and mass culture. Few other avant-garde filmmakers borrowed so liberally or so subversively from popular iconography. And with his sensuous, mystical imagery and pioneering use of pop soundtracks, perhaps none saw their work so readily absorbed back into ... More | |
Richard Avedon, Sandra Bennett, twelve year old, Rocky Ford, Colorado, August 23, 1980 © The Richard Avedon Foundation. Courtesy Gagosian.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK, NY.- Seductive and detail-oriented, Richard Avedon could have been a successful director and in fact, he was. From his beginnings in fashion to his development as a portraitist, his photography consisted of staged performances where he enthralled sitters with his charm. Since his death in 2004, Avedon has hardly been forgotten. (Three of his gigantic Murals are currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Now, Avedon 100, an exhibition at Gagosian gallery in Chelsea marking the centenary of his birth, approaches his legacy and his stagecraft with a grab-bag randomness. Testifying to his appeal, an assortment of colleagues, friends, critics and celebrities including Raf Simons, Wynton Marsalis and photographers Rineke Dijkstra and Jeff Wall each chose a favorite photograph for these gallery walls (220 prints in all). In a bravura installation designed by Stefan Beckman, the pictures are organized thematically and theatric ... More | |
The Supreme Court decision over Andy Warhols use of Lynn Goldsmiths Prince photograph was decided on the narrow grounds of a licensing issue. But it could still have a chilling effect.
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, Andy Warhol and Richard Prince have been known as two of the art worlds most famous copiers, boundary-pushing appropriators whose use of other peoples images in their work has been scrutinized in court cases as the blurry line of copyright law is continually redrawn. Last week, the Supreme Court resolved a major copyright dispute involving a Warhol that many experts thought would have a spillover effect on other cases, including a pair involving Prince that are currently playing themselves out in federal court in New York. But in the end, the courts Warhol decision appeared to be fairly narrow, the experts said, as the justices did not so much weigh in on how much of another work an artist can copy, but ruled instead on what sort of use such a work can be put to. Warhol, who died in 1987, had created a series of silk-screen portraits of the rock star Prince that were based on a photograph of the musician ... More |
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| Canada's first public art commission by Mexican Artist, Pedro Reyes, arrives in Vancouver | | Church of San Carlo, Cremona offers site-specific presentation by artist Oliver Mosset | | Baroque: Out of Darkness, The effervescent story of the European Baroque at the National Gallery of Denmark |
Render, PACE IN SPACE!, a new public art installation by Pedro Reyes seeks to engage Vancouver in play, humour and optimism.
VANCOUVER.- PACE IN SPACE!, the newest Offsite exhibition from the Vancouver Art Gallery is now featuring the work of internationally acclaimed Mexican artist, Pedro Reyes. PACE IN SPACE! is a project about walking. Inspired by mythology, taxonomy and evolving technologies that seem to have a mind of their own, the sculptures in PACE IN SPACE! blur the lines between animal and machine. With humour, Reyes imagines a future where hybrid creatures walk among us. The installation brings us face to face with a set of creatures that resemble cars with legs, offering us a moment to pause and reflect on our surroundings. Cars belong on the street, but these creatures inhabit the sidewalk, existing alongside other two and four-legged beings. ... More | |
Niche of San Carlo church, Cremona.
CREMONA.- San Carlo Cremona is now presenting Olivier Mosset, San Carlo PG, second show of the year 2023 to be held in the 17th-century deconsecrated church of San Carlo in Via Bissolati 33, Cremona. Olivier Mossets solo show will be on view from May the 27th until September the 15th 2023. For the 2022-2023 biennium San Carlo Cremona has embarked on a collaboration with Servane Mary, an artist based in New York, who invited artists to exhibit in the church of San Carlo. Each exhibition is a site-specific presentation of an artists work. A monumental yellow painting titled San Carlo PG is presented, filling the floor of the 17th- century deconsecrated church of San Carlo. The site specific work measuring over five by twenty meters stretches to the naves edges as if wishing to expand beyond them. The installation creates ... More | |
Karel du Jardin, Dreng, der blæser sæbebobler. Allegori på forgængeligheden, 1663. Karel Du Jardin, Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663.
COPENHAGEN.- National Gallery of Denmark is now opening a major exhibition on Baroque art, unpacking the history of this time of turmoil in seventeenth-century Western Europe. Several of the exhibits have been brought out of storage especially for this event: now, after several years of conservation work, they are on public display again for the first time in generations. The exhibition BAROQUE Out of Darkness focuses on an exuberant and turbulent time. Through paintings, works on paper and plaster casts, visitors will see the Baroque unfold as an age of free-thinking philosophers, alchemy, faith and superstition, witch hunts, war, capitalism and climate challenges. Drama and ... More |
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| "Fondazione La Raia - art culture territory" presents "Inventory" a new site-specific work | | Heritage presents stunning collection of Art Deco gems | | Mystic Seaport Museum presents Alexis Rockman: Oceanus |
Sculptor and Ceramist Artist Tami Izko.
GAVI.- Opening on May 27th, "Fondazione La Raia - art culture territory" is presenting a new site-specific work, "Inventory," produced in collaboration with sculptor and ceramist artist Tami Izko (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1984) devoted to the study, promotion and understanding of one of the planet's most fundamental principles: biodiversity. Nestled amidst the picturesque hills of Gavi in the Piedmont region of Italy, the 180-hectare estate encompasses a quaint 12-room boutique called "Locanda La Raia," an outdoor art foundation known as "Fondazione La Raia", and a Demeter-certified biodynamic winery where sustainability, biodiversity, and authentic Italian hospitality converge harmoniously.Fondazione La Raia celebrates its tenth-year anniversary by unveiling a brand-new site-specific project by artist Tami Izko (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1984). ... More | |
Harold Van Doren (American, 1895-1957). Model 52 'Skyscraper' Radio with Egyptian Insert, 1933.
DALLAS, TX.- Machine Age radios join modern and contemporary glass, Japanese ceramics and more in the June 6 Design event to be held by Heritage on June 6th. When two unrelated phenomena converge to create an indelible history, collectors pay attention. In the early 20th century, people got their news and entertainment through the radio, and at home this meant that the family gathered around a large mass of dark wood Victorian-style furniture that broadcast the culture of the moment. But as industrial design took flight alongside the advent of lightweight, moldable plastics and resins, the humble radio became a locus of incredible invention and flair. Almost overnight this ubiquitous and ungainly household appliance was supplanted by the new (smaller, lighter) radio design, which in turn ... More | |
Installation View.
MYSTIC, CT..- Mystic Seaport Museum is pleased to present Alexis Rockman: Oceanus, an exhibition of newly-commissioned, marine ecologically-focused watercolors and a central panoramicpainting by Alexis Rockman. The exhibition will be on view from Memorial Day Weekend, May 27, 2023, and will feature Oceanus, an 8-by-24-foot panoramic oil painting, in addition to ten large-scale watercolors. Since his early color field paintings on canvas in 1985, Rockman has used natural history as a basis for exploring climate change and the biodiversity crisis. Drawing from natural histories of the past, Rockman confronts possibilities of a dystopian future. In Alexis Rockman: Oceanus, the artist looks above and beneath the ocean's surface to examine critical environmental and therefore social issues of our past, present, and what the ... More |
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| Hamila Cassell now presenting her works of art at Watts Gallery | | Hurvin Anderson's 'Barbershop' exhibition is now on view at the Hepworth Wakefield | | Emin Mete Erdoğan's solo exhibition 'Over the Under' now open at Anna Laudel Bodrum |
Bo-orb 2023, Halima Cassell. Photo by Laura Goode.
SURRY.- Watts Gallery will be presenting the exhibition by Halima Cassell: From the Earth celebrating the career of one of Britains leading contemporary sculptors until June 18th, 2023. The exhibition brings together objects from the artists own collection a number of which are rarely on public display - with new work inspired by Watts Gallerys founding artists, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) and Mary Watts (1849-1938), to explore Cassells evolving practice over the past 25 years. Significantly, this will be the first solo exhibition by a contemporary artist at Watts Gallery. Halima Cassell MBE (b.1975-) was born in Kashmir, Pakistan, grew up in Lancashire and now lives in Shropshire. A fusion of cultural environments has shaped her identity and underpins her practice. Called a foreigner as a child growing up in Manchester and introduced as a foreigner from England when she retu ... More | |
Hurvin Anderson, Is It Ok To Be Black?, 2015. A 70th Anniversary Commission for the Arts Council Collection with New Art Exchange, Nottingham and Thomas Dane Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London.© Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ivey.
WESTFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield began a major solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Hurvin Anderson, including new works. The exhibition focuses on Andersons Barbershop series as a lens through which to understand Andersons wider practice and unique sense of history, memory and place. Anderson first painted a Birmingham-based barbershop in 2006. For more than 15 years, Anderson has repeatedly reworked the same barbershop in a multitude of ways to experiment with key concerns in modern and contemporary painting, such as the tension between abstraction and figuration, and the painterly possibilities of capturing ... More | |
Emin Mete Erdoğan, Over the Under. Photo by_Fotoğraf Murat Aslan Kara, 2023, Anna Laudel Bodrum.
DÃSSELDORF .- Showcasing contemporary exhibitions with locations in Istanbul and Düsseldorf, Anna Laudel welcomes the summer season at ZAİ Yaşam with Emin Mete Erdoğans comprehensive solo exhibition Over the Under which will be on display until 18 June 2023. Combining technical painting with classical painting techniques on daily concepts, Emin Mete Erdoğan invites art lovers to deepen their vision by providing conceptuality through constant repetition. Inspired by mythological stories and dialectical thinking, Erdoğans works bring together different genres with a unique way of expression and disrupts the historical and cultural flow. The exhibition features paintings, reliefs, sculptures and video works that the artist has produced since 2021 and will be on display for the first time, as well as works from his previous exhibitions, ... More |
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Payne, Laurence, and Gamble lead Moran's California & American Fine Art auction results
LOS ANGELES, CA.- John Moran Auctioneers presented their Spring California & American Fine Art auction on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. The selection featured fresh-to-market artworks from private and public collections throughout California, the Southwest, as well as a group of important early California works deaccessioned by the Jonathan Art Foundation of Los Angeles, CA. Leading the sale were works by Edgar Alwin Payne, Sydney Mortimer Laurence, John Marshall Gamble, Marion Wachtel, Carl Oscar Borg, and Charles Reiffel. A favorite among collectors, Edgar Alwin Payne proved once again that his early American works are timeless. First to come up was lot 42, Fishing Boats West Coast of France. This painting was originally valued at $30,000-40,000 but the winning bidder blew that estimate right out of the water with a $59,375 (including ... More
Harrowdown Hill: A photographic investigation of how places remember events
LONDON.- Harrowdown Hill is a new publication by British photographer John Spinks, featuring landscape photographs made over the period of a year. Spinks re-deploys the conventions of English landscape painting to produce a series of photographs that at first appear to be an atmospheric, often melancholic visual document of the English countryside. Beneath the surface however is a complex story of competing political narratives set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. Harrowdown Hill is the site where at approximately 9.20am on the 18th of July 2003 the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in woodland, not far from the Oxfordshire village of Longworth. A public enquiry found that he had died by suicide. From 1991 up until the time of his death, Dr Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring ... More
Young Hong Kong painter with surreal and vivid landscapes Hilarie HON: Sunlight Murmur at EXIT
HONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT will soon be terminating on June 3rd Sunlight Murmur by Hilarie Hon, which has been on show since 6 May. Developing from the creative direction of her previous exhibition, Hons new exhibition showcases multifarious surreal landscapes. Unpredictable and constantly changing, the landscapes depicted in Hons paintings exude a strong sense of alienation and melancholy, another world severed from that of the exhibition space. The unspecified characters and events in the paintings constitute recurring scenes on the pictorial surface which are at once familiar and strange; some repeated motifs include the various states of sunrise and sunset, a smothering house, a man in a hat, a sailing boat in the sea, misty rain and rose-tinted clouds. With strong colour contrasts, Hons works place more emphasis on the overall ... More
In this Swiss town, Tina Turner was a neighbor, not a star
NEW YORK, NY.- Around the world Tina Turner, who died Wednesday at 83, was known for her music, her powerful stage presence and her barrier-smashing career. But in the Swiss town where she lived for nearly three decades, she was known for living a low-key life doing her own shopping, standing in line at the post office and exercising outdoors. In front of the house where the rock star lived with her husband, Erwin Bach, and where Wednesday night neighbors gathered to light candles and tell stories, a polished bronze sign asks (in English and in German) that visitors not ring the doorbell before noon. After a lifetime in the public eye, Turner moved to the sleepy town of Küsnacht, Switzerland, with Bach, a German music executive whom she started dating in the 1980s. In 1995, Bach got a job running the Swiss offices of EMI Music in Zurich, and ... More
Living the golden life: DanceAfrica welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Abdel R. Salaam traveled to Ghana last fall, he didnt have deep knowledge of its music and dance traditions. But the country held a special association for him dating back to when Chuck Davis celebrated it at DanceAfrica, the festival he founded. It was 1978, the festivals second year, and Davis opening words were a call and response in the Twi language: Ago! Ame! Those words refer to the willingness to listen, to pay attention. Its a memory that stuck with Salaam, now the festivals artistic director who this week brings Ghana back to the DanceAfrica stage. After immersing himself in the countrys culture and holding auditions for 21 companies in different regions he landed on a title: Golden Ghana: Adinkra, Ananse and Abusua. Before its independence, in 1957, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. But ... More
Tyler Joseph Krasowski elevates the sketch in new solo exhibition at Missoula Art Museum
MISSOULA, MONT.- Missoula Art Museum presents Tyler Joseph Krasowskis drawings and prints in Everything Becomes Something, opening Saturday, May 27. This exhibition demonstrates Krasowskis full range, from an installation of desk doodles to a sublime woodcut print of waves on open water. Via obsessive, ecstatically neat mark-making, Krasowski elevates his influences and interestsand at the same time elevates typically lowlier or incomplete artforms, such as the sketch. While Krasowski has earned a reputation as a printmaker, his preferred tool is the pencil. Krasowski says desk doodles manifest his creative impulse. A single slip of paper may host a tattoo-style snake, a cartoon cloud, and a fully rendered figure that recalls German Renaissance master, Albrecht Dürer. To Krasowski, the sketches are artworks unto themselves because they are unfiltered. Some become refined drawin ... More
Predawn picket lines help writers disrupt studio productions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- At 5 a.m. on a recent weekday, a lone figure paced back and forth outside the main entrance to the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. Peter Chiarelli, a screenwriter, was walking the picket line. He held a sign reading Thank You 399, a message to the local branch of the Teamsters union, whose members he hoped would turn their trucks around instead of crossing his personal picket line to enter the lot, where Hulu was filming the series Interior Chinatown. Its passive-aggressive, Chiarelli, who wrote the films Crazy Rich Asians and The Proposal, said of his sentiment sincere if the Teamsters turned back and sarcastic if they entered. Since the Hollywood writers strike began May 2, Chiarelli and others like him have been waking before dawn to try to disrupt productions whose scripts had already been finished. We need to shut down ... More
'Primary Trust' Review: Sipping Mai Tais, until bitter reality knocks
NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe youve seen him tucked into the corner of a dive bar, muttering to himself now and then, empty glasses multiplying on his table. And perhaps youve thought although its just as likely you havent Whats up with that guy? In Primary Trust, playwright Eboni Booth zooms in on one such man: He lives in a fictional suburb of Rochester, New York, where mai tais are his drink of choice at an unlikely tiki bar named Wallys. He is alone and adrift in this tender, delicately detailed portrait, although surely he has not always been. Listen, and hell tell you about the moment he almost drowned and how he learned to keep his head above water. Primary Trust, which opened at the Laura Pels Theater in Manhattan on Thursday, finds Kenneth (William Jackson Harper, of The Good Place) approaching 40 when the bookstore where hes worked ... More
An opera composer of intimate spareness returns to myth
CITTÃ DI CASTELLO.- When baritone Evan Hughes agreed to sing the part of the wild boar in Salvatore Sciarrinos Venere e Adone, premiering at the Hamburg State Opera on Saturday, he didnt expect to become the star of the show. In most opera versions of the Venus and Adonis myth, like John Blows Venus and Adonis (1683) and Hans Werner Henzes Venus und Adonis (1997), the boar is silent or eliminated. But in Venere e Adone, with a libretto by Sciarrino and Fabio Casadei Turroni, the boar, or the Monster, is not just a singing role he is the moral core of the story. In this version of the myth, the Monster, who has five solo scenes, doesnt mean Adonis harm. The creature has been hit by one of Cupids arrows, and instantly falls in love with the boy hunting him. I said yes to the project before I even really understood that the Monster was a sympathetic character, Hughes said in ... More
Tornado. Treasure. There was nobody like Tina Turner.
NEW YORK, NY.- My paperback of I, Tina is falling apart. Anytime I open it, a new page goes fluttering out. Last night, it was page 37. Tina Turners talking about the songs that grabbed her as a little kid. LaVern Bakers Tweedle Dee got her because it was quick. I always liked the fast ones, Turner writes, liked that energy, even then. You can call this thing a memoir she spoke it, in 1986, to Kurt Loder, who interpolated it as literature. But its always read like a recipe book to me. The ingredients include force, power, will, sex, might. Hence the shock at her death. Theyre saying she was 83? Nobodys buying that. The ingredients made her seem immortal. For seven decades of making music, it all sizzled in her. That energy. It shot from her from her feet, thighs, hands, arms, shoulders, out of her hair, out of her mouth. Anytime she and a trio of Ikettes ... More
A pianist's rare visit to New York reveals his personality
NEW YORK, NY.- Few pieces in the piano repertoire are as revealing of a performer as Johann Sebastian Bachs Goldberg Variations. With few indications of tempo or articulation, they force constant interpretation. Its hard to think of a better personality test. Except, perhaps, programming. A pianists choice of what to play can be more illuminating than the performance itself. A recital might focus on a single composer or group together a few sonatas; but theres also another route, more conceptual, of compiling something more akin to a playlist. Over two evenings at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan this week, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov shared his artistry with both routes, with one concert devoted to the Goldbergs and the other a moodily nocturnal collage inspired by Joseph Cornells assemblage Celestial Navigation. Kolesnikov, a Russian-born ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Rouault was born May 27, 1871. Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. In this image: Georges Rouault (French 1871-1958), Tristes Os, 1934. Color etching and aquatint wove paper, 12 1/4" x 7 7/8â. SUAC 1975.22.08.
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