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Todd M. Casey, Penicillin.
NEW YORK, NY.- As the holiday season approaches, New York based gallery Rehs Contemporary is set to present their annual Small Works Show. Beginning on November 11th, the online-only exhibit will consist of twenty artists and more than sixty available artworks included in the group are some fan favorites, with several pieces by Stuart Dunkel, Lucia Heffernan, Todd M. Casey, Nigel Cox, and Eleinne Basa. The eclectic mix offers an array of styles and subjects, and ensures there will be a little something for everyone! Stuart Dunkel, who has completed over 3,000 paintings in his career, accounts for more than a dozen pieces in the exhibition. Among the bunch will be some of the classic subjects, like Getting a Kiss where Chuckie is stealing a Hersheys Kiss or Right Choice where he searches for the perfect grape. While the works are rather simple and straightforward, Dunkel has a unique ability to connect with his viewers, oftentimes ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the Rigg Design Prize 2022 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 7 October 2022 - 29 January 2023.
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| At Carnegie, art and messages come in a deluge | | A fair where the art shines (grandstanding not required) | | Huntington acquires major work by female 18th-century master |
Installation view of Tony Cokes, Free Britney? (video still), 2022, in the 58th Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art, courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton.
by Will Heinrich
PITTSBURGH, PA.- I spent two days at the Carnegie International, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and it was hardly enough. The 58th edition of North Americas longest-running international art show is a deluge of art and information that left me with an urgent, unsettled question: Who, or what, are shows like this for? Titled Is It Morning for You Yet? and featuring work by more than 100 artists and collectives, the exhibition is intended, according to its curators, to excavate the meaning of the word international by tracing American impact on the world since 1945. And that much it does. A special section called Refractions, including documentary photography by Susan Meiselas and Vo An Khanh, and other explicitly political work like Felix Gonzalez-Torres Forbidden Colors, a rarely seen 1988 painting of the Palestinian flag in separate panels ... More | |
Elizabeth Peyton, Alice, 2008, Etching on Somerset velvet paper, 14 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches, Image courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- I have crossed over to the dark side: I now like art fairs better than biennials and large contemporary survey exhibitions. Technically, there is a lot of overlap, since biennials often involve covert gallery sponsorship and backroom wheeling and dealing. The noise of grandstanding politics, however, has all but overwhelmed the art in many recent survey exhibitions. A top-notch fair like the Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, allows the art to shine. The 34th edition of the fair, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of ADAA, features 78 galleries and several previously overlooked artists particularly women and Black and Latinx artists. Coinciding with this, comedian and actor Cheech Marin, who just opened the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, kicked off the fairs series of talks Thursday evening. Here are some other significant strains ru ... More | |
Ãlisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (17551842), Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (17401817), ca. 1784. Oil on canvas, 51 x 38 in. Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CALIF.- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired a major painting by Ãlisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (17551842), the most important female artist of 18th-century France. Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (ca. 1784) is the second masterpiece to come to The Huntington through a gift from The Ahmanson Foundation. We are enormously grateful to The Ahmanson Foundation for making this acquisition possible, Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence said. Adding an important work by Vigée Le Brun helps us achieve one of our goalsadding more works by important women. Once again, The Ahmanson Foundation proves to be an invaluable strategic partner, allowing us to make a masterpiece accessible to Southern California audiences. The Vigée ... More |
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| "Geoffrey Holder: The Pleasures of the Flesh" opens at James Fuentes gallery | | Planting seeds to produce real change | | Museum Voorlinden opens a large retrospective of works by Giuseppe Penone |
Geoffrey Holder, Richmond St.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 2nd James Fuentes began the exhibition Geoffrey Holder: The Pleasures of the Flesh, curated by Hilton Als, which will continue through December 3rd, 2022. A true polymath, Holder was a painter, photographer, choreographer, director, costume designer, dancer, actor, and composer born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In 1953, during his early twenties, Holder relocated to New York City, a move financed by the sale of his paintings and by 1957 he would receive a Guggenheim fellowship in painting. Focusing on Holders remarkable work as a painter, this exhibition spans the 1970s through the later part of his career. As a visual artist, Holders works evidence a singular and recognizable spirit of combined calm, elegance, and life force. He brought a controlled intensity to the way he portrayed his subjects; often visually isolated in the frame yet possessing a presence that filled the image. Holder ... More | |
A detail from Align (2022), the centerpiece of Xaviera Simmonss exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York, Sept. 29, 2022. (Jasmine Clarke/The New York Times)
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- Remember all those book clubs that popped up in 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, when a lot of people wanted to deepen their understanding of racial violence? (There was one reading group comprising several hundred white women in the arts that met regularly on Zoom.) And the chorus of urgent we-must-do-more statements put out by museums to show support for the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted around the country? Xaviera Simmons remembers. In her exhibition at the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn-based artist looks back on that moment and asks: What exactly did all those book clubs, podcasts, listening sessions and declarations of solidarity ... More | |
Giuseppe Penone, Ripetere il bosco (To Repeat the Forest), 1968-2022. Photo by Antoine van Kaam © Archivio Penone, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2022.
WASSENAAR.- See, smell, touch with his large retrospective at museum Voorlinden, Giuseppe Penone (1947) sharpens your senses. With his iconic sculptures, immersive installations, and intimate works the Italian arte povera artist shows you the connection between man and nature. Experiencing his timeless and poetic oeuvre makes you think and feel diferently about this changing world. The retrospective at Voorlinden is on display from 8 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, with a special silence in socks hour every weekend. Penone has worked for about 50 years shaping and interacting with natural materials such as trees, branches, marble and even potatoes. Through intensive manual labour, he looks for traces of a life lived, shows often unseen transformative growth cycles, and emphasizes our own intimate connec- tion with nature. And this is reflected ... More |
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| Emily Dickinson, at home in her 'full-color life' | | Announcing ars publicata: A compendium of fine arts editions from worlds leading contemporary artists | | Croatia takes a step toward returning art looted during the Holocaust |
Emily Dickinsons bedroom at the Emily Dickinson Museum, featuring a reproduction of one of her white dresses and her writing desk, in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 10, 2022. The poets house museum gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white. (Jillian Freyer/The New York Times)
AMHERST, MASS.- Here is our Wizard of Oz moment, a guide said on a recent afternoon, before opening a door and stepping into the front foyer of the Emily Dickinson Museum. Its not a comment you expect at the former family home of a poet cemented in the public imagination as the reclusive woman in white. But then Dickinson isnt who she used to be, either. Three years ago, the Apple TV+ show Dickinson gave her a 21st-century update a fanciful postmodern mashup that many scholars embraced as true to the poets radical spirit. And now, the museum has reopened after a two-year, $2.5 million renovation that restores the once-austere, sparsely decorated interiors to their richly furnished, almost Technicolor 1850s glory. The spiffying-up ... More | |
Günther Förg, Leaves, 1999. Four color aquatints on Zerkall rag paper. 73 à 54.5 cm, (28.7 à 21.5 in). Courtesy of ars publicata.
MUNICH.- On October 27th, ars publicata made its debut as the global compendium of contemporary fine art editions with the launch of its new platform featuring works by approximately 400 of the most significant artists of our time. As a free and accessible resource, ars publicata is poised to become an invaluable tool for auction houses, curators, collectors, scholars and journalists across the world. Founded by Jörg, Nanke and Pauline Schellmann, ars publicata emerged from Jörg Schellmanns decades of experience as a publisher and catalogue raisonné editor. Since 1969, Edition Schellmann has published editions, objects, and catalogues raisonnés by artists including Joseph Beuys, Christo, and Donald Judd. As ars publicatas co-founder and CEO, Pauline Schellman is expanding upon her fathers legacy to democratize access to editions and elevate the medium for a new generation. There are still far too many people who d ... More | |
A 1935 portrait of Vanja Deutsch Maceljski by Milivoj Uzelac, now in Zagrebs Modern Gallery. Decades ago, the report said, she tried to reclaim the work and others that were in her fathers collection from Yugoslav authorities. Photo:. Via Modern Gallery Zagreb.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- After decades of deflecting claims for artworks looted in the Holocaust, the Croatian government is taking steps toward returning art to the heirs of Jews whose collections were plundered by the Ustase regime, which ruled a puppet state allied with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II. The changed attitude is evident in a study the government has published in cooperation with the World Jewish Restitution Organization that chronicles the theft and lists some of the stolen collections many of which are still held by Croatian museums. The new report, called Restitution of Movable Property in Croatia, demonstrates that the government shares the wish to provide Holocaust survivors and their heirs ... More |
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| Artists revisit their Bronx walls of fame | | Last week to see paintings by Andrea Belag and Lisa Beck at the Kristen Lorello gallery | | Aisha Tandiwe Bell: TRAP starts today at Arcade Project Curatorial |
Raymond and Toby, 1991, by John Ahearn, from the Swagger and Tenderness show at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, in New York, Oct. 29, 2022. Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres spent decades capturing the verve and scruff of Bronx residents in plaster and paint, but now a new survey at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the artists first in 30 years, brings their vision home. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Rigoberto Torres was born in Puerto Rico in 1960, but he grew up in the Bronx. John Ahearn was born in 1951 in Binghamton, New York, and settled in the Bronx in the early 80s by way of the downtown art scene. For over a decade, the two honed their iconic style, producing colorful, revealing life-cast reliefs of their South Bronx neighbors in open-air studio sessions, drawing crowds, making friends and making art. These days, though, Torres lives near Orlando, Florida, most of the year, and Ahearn lives in Harlem. The two still share a studio, in the Bronx, above a tire shop. Reliefs of two of the mechanics hang on the wall like their shingle ... More | |
Installation photography: Lance Brewer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello will be ending the two-artist exhibition of paintings by Andrea Belag and Lisa Beck on November 12th. The exhibition runs concurrent to Bayne Peterson's solo exhibition of sculptures in our main galleries. Four paintings by Lisa Beck made with acrylic and collaged metal elements on canvas are joined by three paintings by Belag in oil on linen. Works by the two New York based artists (who have also been long-time friends) share the formal motif of the circle, which unfolds through different materials and styles. Belag's paintings each feature a large circular form comprised by different colors brushed onto a white background with wide marks. Belag's circular forms appear fluid and transparent, as though rolling and twirling along the surface. As told to Paul Laster in a 2018 interview, "I love transparency and the touch of materials, so I have created a way of painting where I make this possible. I us ... More | |
"Pepper Meant", 2022, clay, glaze, acrylic paint, copper leaf on wood, 11x14 inches. By Aisha Tandiwe Bell.
NEW YORK, NY.- Arcade Project Curatorial is begining its presentation of TRAP, an exhibition of drawing, painting, installation, and video works by Aisha Tandiwe Bell today for which there will be an opening reception between 6-9 pm. Traps can take many forms and go by many names. The trap of complacency takes the form of apathy and silence. Consumerism, a remnant of colonialism, traps us into participating in, but not having ownership of, a system that continues to exploit the resources of the global South. Traps can take the form of self-hatred and self-erasure: the "sunken place" in Jordan Peele's Get Out and Kanye West's anti-Blackness, misogyny, and antisemitism. Positive and negative stereotypes can unwittingly ensnare people of color in the service of white supremacy. Bell explores the "ratchet" as a space where the "wretched ... More |
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Expert Voices: Charlie Minter on Modern British & Irish Art Week
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Artist Matt Wedel pushes boundaries of ceramics in new Toledo Museum of Art exhibition starting today
TOLEDO, OHIO.- Monumental, colorful and expressive, Matt Wedels ceramics are a full celebration of what is possible with clay. On view at the Toledo Museum of Art from Nov. 5, 2022April 2, 2023, Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris brings together a large selection of his ceramics and drawings, spanning over a decade of the artists career. Wedel is renowned in his field for pushing the boundaries of clay, resulting in objects that recall familiar plant forms while also springing from his own imagination. Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris will be on view in the Museums Levis Gallery and is the first large-scale solo exhibition for the artist in a major art museum. This presentation of Wedels work at TMA is intricately tied to the Museums roots in glass, the cousin of ceramics. Both materially fall within the ... More
Jenkins Johnson Projects: Two amazing group exhibitions launch today at both locations
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York is presenting Figural Realism, an exhibition curated by Meleko Mokgosi, featuring works by M'barek Bouhchichi, Armando Cortés, Sophie Harpo, Sophie Kovel, Orlee Malka, and Emily Velez Nelms to begin today with an opening reception at 5:00 and a Curatorial Tour, Artist Talk, and Performance by Left Handed Sophie (Sophie Harpo) at 6:00pm. History, with all its concrete force, remains forever a figure, cloaked and needful of interpretation. In this light the history of no epoch ever has the practical self-sufficiency which, from the standpoint both of primitive man and of modern science, resides in the accomplished fact; all history, rather remains open and questionable, points to something still concealed, and the tentativeness of events in ... More
Miyako Yoshinaga opens a solo exhibition of works by Hitoshi Fugo
NEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga is presenting a solo exhibition Watchers by Hitoshi Fugo on view from November 2 to December 17, 2022. Hitoshi Fugos photography not only captures his subjects with surrounding realities but also inspires a new set of perspectives through his conceptual approach. This exhibition features the artists lesser- known color series entitled Watchers consisting of a series of head-and-shoulder portraits of an anonymous person watching a scenic view from a distance. Viewed from behind, Fugos camera focuses on the persons back, leaving the scenery blurry and abstract. Between 1994 and 2008, Fugo photographed these portraits in universally attractive sceneries such as a waterfall and a cityscape. The former were shot in Kegon Falls in Japan and Niagara ... More
Rafael Mason elected to Frick Board of Trustees
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Eveillard, Chair of The Frick Collections Board of Trustees, announced the election of Rafael Mason to the Board, following its fall meeting. Comments Eveillard, We heartily welcome Rafael Mason to the Board at a remarkable time in the life of this institution. Settled into our temporary home, Frick Madison, we are enjoying undertaking projects that amplify new perspectives on the Old Masters as well as robust collaborations that enrich our outreach to the public and peer institutions. She continues, Rafaels career has been grounded in connecting audiences with access to cultural experiences, both in the United States and Europe. We look forward to the vital perspective he will bring to ongoing conversations about the reopening of our renovated buildings, with th ... More
Review: Ayodele Casel returns to the Joyce with 'Chasing Magic'
NEW YORK, NY.- Whats up, Joyce? Its been a little while. Thats how tap dancer Ayodele Casel greeted the crowd at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday, the opening night of a postponed two-week run of her show Chasing Magic. Chasing Magic originated as a virtual production a joyous, generous one in 2021, when the Joyce was still closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. A live version was originally scheduled for January, but omicron got in the way. Like many productions this year, the show has a feeling of trying to pick up where we left off. Well, Casel is still a wonder, as humanly appealing as she is superhumanly skilled. To join her as she plays with a band of excellent musicians and tap dancers is still a joy. She and the show are as welcoming as ever. There are singalongs (w ... More
New leadership team is announced at MOCA
TUCSON, ARIZ.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Tucson has announced a new leadership team. Following a rigorous, year-long search process, Julio César Morales will join the museum as Executive Director and Co-Chief Curator, beginning December 1, 2022, with Laura Copelin assuming a new role within the organization as Deputy Director and Co-Chief Curator. Morales and Copelin will collaborate closely with long-time MOCA Finance Director Carrie Hess, staff, and trustees to advance MOCAs mission: to inspire new ways of thinking through the cultivation, interpretation, and exhibition of contemporary art. Morales most recently served as Senior Curator at the Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, and brings more than two decades of experience as ... More
Review: In 'Almost Famous,' the heart of rock 'n' roll flatlines
NEW YORK, NY.- At its best, rock n roll is a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb or so decrees Lester Bangs, a character in the new musical Almost Famous. Alas, the show, which opened on Broadway on Thursday, gets the wrong part of that formula right. Though celebrating the rock world of 1973, when the real Lester Bangs was the fields most influential critic, Almost Famous is neither glorious nor righteous. It barely even has a form. That leaves dumb, and Im sorry to say that despite the intelligence of the 2000 movie on which its based, and the track record of its creators, the stage musical misses every opportunity to be the sharp, smart entertainment it might have been. In retelling the story of a 15-year-old who gets sucked prematurely into the world of bands and groupies a ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian painter and educator Pietro Longhi was born November 05, 1701. Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5, 1701 - May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and his wife, Antonia. He adopted the Longhi last name when he began to paint.
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