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Marian Goodman Gallery. Courtesy of Paris+ par Art Basel.
by Scott Reyburn
PARIS.- Paris+, the eagerly awaited, if awkwardly titled, latest addition to the Art Basel international fair stable opened to VIP visitors in the French capital Wednesday. For almost a half-century, the venerable Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain, or FIAC, had been Frances flagship fair of modern and contemporary art. Now the Swiss have taken over. What difference has the worlds biggest and slickest art fair organizer made? Its Swiss-made, so its fine. The booth was ready on time and it has very solid walls, said David Fleiss, director of the Paris-based Galerie 1900-2000, a past stalwart of FIAC. Its brought in exhibitors and collectors we didnt see at FIAC, he added. Within the first two hours Wednesday, his gallery sold 10 pieces priced from 3,000 euros to 100,000 euros, about $2,900 to $98,000, according to Fleiss. (Paris+ opened to the public Thursday and runs through Saturday.) The announcement that Art Basel would t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Modern Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Terry Winters. This is his first solo exhibition with Modern Art. Terry Wintersâs Signs, Games, Messages will end on Saturday 17 December 2022.
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| More art to see in Paris this fall | | Billy Al Bengston, painter who channeled California Cool, dies at 88 | | A prehistoric sculpture inspires a Tokyo gallery |
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2007. Acrylic and pencil on wood panel, in artist's frame, 104 3/4 x 79 x 2 1/2 in. © Cy Twombly Foundation.
by Farah Nayeri
PARIS.- Paris has no shortage of treats for the culturally curious visitor, including gorgeous architecture and a wealth of museum and gallery exhibitions. Here is a selection of shows that are open this fall. Still lifes were long considered a lesser genre in the art academies of Europe. How could fruits, flowers, candles and motley objects compete with sweeping landscapes and epic mythological scenes? Today, they are among the preferred genres in art history, and Paris is paying homage to them in a major Louvre Museum exhibition on the subject that examines the human attachment to things. There are around 170 objects paintings, sculptures, photographs, films and videos lent by about 70 museums and private collections from around the world. Expect to see a prehistoric ax, a magnificent painting of pipes and a pitcher ... More | |
Billy Al Bengston (B. 1934), The Alamo (the complete suite of five), 1969. Estimate: US$50,000-70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Billy Al Bengston, a Kansas-born California painter who drew inspiration from the car and surf culture of midcentury Los Angeles, and was part of a 1960s movement, known as LA Cool School, that helped transform the city from an art-world afterthought into a hub of contemporary art, died Oct. 8 at his home in Venice, California. He was 88. His wife, Wendy Al, confirmed the death, of unspecified cause. A surfer, a motorcycle racer and briefly a Hollywood stuntman, Bengston found prominence in the late 1950s as part of a new wave of Southern California artists aligned with the pioneering Ferus Gallery in West Hollywood, founded by Walter Hopps and artist Ed Kienholz. Bengston, with his flamboyant attire and deadpan wit, was a central figure along with the likes of Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Price, Robert Irwin and Larry Bell in a swashbuckling art scene that drew international attention and became a cradle of 1960s counterculture in a city then dominated by commerce, Hollywood and c ... More | |
Cure (2022) by Hiroka Yamashita will be shown by Taka Ishii Gallery, of Tokyo, at Paris+ by Art Basel. Photo:.The artist and Taka Ishii Gallery.
by David Belcher
NEW YORK, NY.- For its debut at Paris+ by Art Basel, the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo decided to go back way back in artistic history for some inspiration. As a theme for the fair, the gallery chose the so-called Lion Man sculpture found in a German cave in 1939 and believed to be up to 40,000 years old. What makes that image so compelling for Taka Ishii, the gallerys owner, is that it is a hybrid figure: the body of a man and the head of a lion. Other ancient artwork, such as the famous drawings in the Lascaux caves of France, are often just images of the known world. But Lion Man is clearly a human portrayal of a more evolved figure: that of a godlike or made-up figure beyond the everyday creatures that roamed the Earth thousands of millenniums ago. Ishii used that idea to invite four artists to create new works for Paris+, and he drew on artwork from five other artists for his idea of Hybrid Figures. Ishii wanted ... More |
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| Two stunning special exhibitions kick off 'The Year of Pre-Raphaelites' | | Alex Katz: Six ramps of a painter's progress | | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquire rare work by Canaletto |
Evelyn De Morgan (18551919), The Red Cross, 1914-1916. Oil on canvas. © De Morgan Collection, courtesy of the De Morgan Foundation.
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum celebrates British Pre-Raphaelite art with two new exhibitions this fall. A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan makes its American debut at DelArt on October 22. The exhibition showcases Evelyn De Morgans symbolic Pre-Raphaelite paintings and her husband Williams Arts & Crafts-style ceramics. Recently opened, Forgotten Pre-Raphaelites displays artworks from DelArts collection rarely on view. A new art history course, lectures, tours, and a Members Preview Party are planned during the exhibitions run. A Marriage of Arts and Crafts: Evelyn and William De Morgan is the first retrospective exhibition of Arts and Crafts pottery maker William De Morgan (1839-1917) and Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919). As a power couple in Victorian England, the artists moved in influential cultural circles, shared an interest in spiritualism, and engaged with social issues of their day. Yet both artists have gone relat ... More | |
Alex Katz, 4 PM, 1959. Oil on linen, 57 1/2 à 50 in. (146.1 à 127 cm). Collection of Vincent Katz. © 2022 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- At first the prospect of an Alex Katz retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum did not rest easy on my mind. Katzs paintings include billboard-size heads and towering canvases of trees that are either startlingly patched with bright color or cosseted in layers of shadow. The bays that divide the Guggenheims big spiral ramp are small and low-ceilinged, and they tilt. The structure was designed to showcase the crème of early European modernism: modest, abstract easel paintings. Unsurprisingly, the place is not known for surveys of American figurative painters. But there was no need for worry. Alex Katz: Gathering, which opens Friday, is an example of art and architecture equally rising to the occasion. Katzs achievement more than survives in this setting; it thrives. In so doing it offers further evidence of the ... More | |
Giovanni, Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768), Venice, the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute, oil on canvas 52 1/2 x 65 3/8 in. (133.4 x 165.4 cm.).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the acquisition of Venice, the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute, a preeminent work by Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, considered the greatest Venetian view painter of the eighteenth century. The acquisition was made possible by a generous donation from the San Francisco philanthropist Diane B. Wilsey. Originally commissioned in 1750 by William Holbech for Farnborough Hall, UK, the painting has been continuously held in private collections, including most recently that of Ann and Gordon Getty. The painting will now take its place as one of the public treasures of San Francisco as part of the European Paintings collection at the Legion of Honor, widely known for its exceptional quality. We extend our deepest gratitude to Diane B. Wilsey for her generous gift of this breathtaking work to the city of San Francisco, and unmatched ... More |
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opens first major American survey of Frank Bowling's work in over four decades | | The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg to open its first exhibition focused solely on Black artists and artisans | | Norman Lewis, Winfred Rembert & more shine in Swann Galleries' Fall 2022 African American Art Sale |
Sir Frank Bowling, 2020, Photo Sacha Bowling, © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021.
BOSTON, MASS.- In 1966, driven by the desire to expand the possibilities of painting, Frank Bowling (born 1934) ventured to New York City. It was his second move across the Atlantiche had previously left British Guiana, his birthplace, for London in 1953. Over the next decade, during which New York was his primary residence, Bowling charted a journey of profound artistic discovery and self-determination. Debuting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Frank Bowlings Americas delves for the first time into this pivotal early chapter of the boundary-crossing artists career. The exhibition brings together more than 30 of Bowlings powerful paintings in the country of their makingincluding monumental, color-soaked canvases and rarely seen examples on loan from private collections. Following its presentation at the MFA from October 22, 2022 through April 9, 2023, Frank Bowlings Americas will travel to the San Francisco ... More | |
David Drake, Five Gallon Jug. Stoney Bluff Plantation, Edgefield, South Carolina, April 26, 18422. Ash-glazed stoneware. Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund, 2021.900.24.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- For the first time, the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg will display a wide range of works from their heralded decorative arts and folk arts collections made exclusively by Black artists from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The exhibition will include nearly 30 examples of paintings, furniture, textiles, decorative sculptures, quilts, ceramics, tools, metals and more, including new acquisitions, and will focus on the makers and their stories. I made this : The Work of Black American Artists and Artisans will open on Oct. 22 in the Miodrag and Elizabeth Ridgely Blagojevich Gallery of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and will remain on view through Dec. 31, 2025. Among the objects to be on view are works by noted Black artists and artisans including David Drake, Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial, Sr., Cesar Chelor, Clementine Hunter, ... More | |
Norman Lewis, Untitled (Abstract in Orange), oil on canvas, 1967. Sold for: $437,000
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries October 6, 2022, sale of African American Art delivered $3.7M with auction debuts and records for artists in the top 15 lots of the auction. Of the auction, Nigel Freeman, director of African American art for the house, noted, "I am very pleased to see our fall auction of African American Art have many strong results across such a wide range of modern and contemporary art: from the modernist paintings of Norman Lewis to the painted leather art of Winfred Rembert." A picture containing colorful, orange, bright, decorated Description automatically generated Norman Lewis led the sale with a 1967 abstract oil-on-canvas in orange at $437,000, as well as an early abstraction from 1947 at $317,000. Additional highlights included Hale Woodruffs 1967 painting Landscape at $209,000; Charles Alstons 1961 Black and White #3 (Astral #3) at $173,000; and Cliff Josephs ... More |
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| Getty Research Institute acquires Evangeline J. Montgomery archive | | 5 artists to watch at the California Biennial | | Top 20th century artists featured in the Estate of Melvin S. Rosenthal |
Evangeline J. Montgomery. Photo: Erwin Thamm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of Evangeline J. Montgomery. As a curator, cultural worker, and arts administrator, Montgomery used her positions within and outside the government to advocate for representation of African American artists through national and international exhibitions and institutional programming. Montgomery worked tirelessly behind the scenes for a more equitable, and truer, version of American art and art history says LeRonn P. Brooks, associate curator for modern and contemporary collections. Montgomerys archive moves underrecognized histories of African American art exhibitions, organizations, artists, lectures, and meetings to the foreground during an era of their widespread exclusion from the mainstream artworld. Montgomerys archive is a significant contribution to the GRIs growing collections of African American art text ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Mike Kelley, the newly opened Orange County Museum of Art, designed by Morphosis Architects. Mike Kelley via The New York Times.
by Jonathan Griffin
COSTA MESA, CALIF.- Pacific Gold is the swaggering title of the 2022 edition of the California Biennial, a regional survey that has been in existence, under various missions and monikers, since 1984. The last California Biennial was held at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2017; its resuscitation also marked the reopening of the museum in a new building, on Oct. 8. This otherwise strong biennial has been marred by revelations from 84-year-old Pasadena-based artist Ben Sakoguchi that the museum removed his contribution to the exhibition a month before its opening, ostensibly because of its inclusion of a swastika. His multipanel painting, Comparative Religions ... More | |
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974), Loop, 1970. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams presents for sale the entire collection of Melvin S. Rosenthal, featuring the finest examples of art from the 20th century on November 16 in New York. Mr. Rosenthals collection includes renowned artists who had the greatest impact on modern and contemporary art. The dedicated sale will include nine works by 20th century masters such as Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, and Ed Ruscha. Mr. Rosenthal was Executive Vice President of the largest decorative pillow company in North America whose business travels took him from India, Peru, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Rosenthals keen eye for design and art, amassed a collection of some of the most influential Contemporary artists which set off his spectacular homes in Los Angeles and Malibu. Mr. Rosenthal built and designed ... More |
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Cy Twombly in Los Angeles: Cheeky, challenging, classical
NEW YORK, NY.- Has anyone noticed that Cy Twombly is funny? Like his critics, he acted so self-serious: What I am trying to establish is that Modern Art is not dislocated, but something with roots, tradition and continuity, he wrote in his 1952 fellowship application to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Well, the centerpiece of Cy Twombly: Making Past Present at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, a cheeky and challenging exploration of his lifelong obsession with art and poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, is a hurricane of penises. Stare long enough at Leda and the Swan (1962), and from its vortex of abstract spokes and squelches youll notice a cartoon phallus leaping forth in lipstick-red. There goes another in sour cream. Another in graphite. Leonardo, Michelangelo and Cézanne all tried the subject: Disguised as an elegant bird, ... More
An artist embodies an approach to music without borders
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent afternoon at David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonics violins began to play an ensemble pizzicato pattern underneath a turntable-scratch solo by the artist DJ Logic. I couldnt help but smile. That gratifying moment hit during jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles San Juan Hill, which Lincoln Center commissioned for the Philharmonic. It was a musical fusion, executed surprisingly well in a surprising space. But while it may have been unusual for Lincoln Center, it isnt a shock for New York as a whole. In between Charles new piece and the Philharmonics 1997 performance of Skies of America a collaboration with composer-saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time ensemble a broad artistic network has cleared fresh paths for American composers, ones in which varied stylistic languages ... More
Review: In 'Topdog/Underdog,' staying alive Is the ultimate hustle
NEW YORK, NY.- Among the most thrilling and jarring gambits in modern theater, up there with the nattering woman half-buried in sand at the top of Samuel Becketts Happy Days, is the scene that opens Suzan-Lori Parks Topdog/Underdog with a bang. In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel watch me close, watch me close now Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout. But watch Parks, too. Her skittering silverfish of a play, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002, glints with meaning that refuses to stay put. Although this Lincoln, like the one hes named for, wears the requisite frock coat and stovepipe hat, we see at once that hes a Black man in whiteface, and soon learn that he earns $314 a week for letting customers at an arcade pretend to shoot him. The spieler is his brother, Booth, whose ... More
A shrinking town at the center of France's culture wars
CALLAC.- A shrinking town set among cow pastures in Brittany seems an unlikely setting for Frances soul searching over immigration and identity. The main square is named after the date in 1944 that local resistance fighters were rounded up by Nazi soldiers, many never seen again. It offers a cafe run by a social club, a museum dedicated to the Brittany spaniel and a hefty serving of rural flight forlorn empty buildings, their grills pulled down and windows shuttered, some for decades. So when town council members heard of a program that could renovate the dilapidated buildings and fill much-needed jobs such as nurses aides and builders by bringing in skilled refugees, it seemed like a winning lottery ticket. It hit me like lightning, said Laure-Line Inderbitzin, a deputy mayor. It sees refugees not as charity, but an opportunity. ... More
wani toaishara wins the 2022 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
QUEENSLAND.- Contemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts has announced wani toaishara as the winner of the 2022 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. One of Australias most significant awards for contemporary photographic practice, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award provides a national platform for emerging and established artists working in the broad medium of contemporary photography. wani toaishara has been awarded the $25,000 acquisitive award, the richest prize for photography in Queensland, for his work do black boys go to heaven. toaishara's practice, based in videography and performance, responds to African affairs and visual culture while interrogating dislocation for those on the margins. Recently incorporating photography into his practice, the ... More
"The Chapel" funeral tomb designed by BERGER+PARKKINEN
VIENNA.- Designing a funeral chapel is not the everyday business of an architect. All the more curiosity and creative interest was triggered by the commission from a family in Styria to the Austrian-Finnish architecture practice BERGER+PARKKINEN. An inspiring, atypical and particularly exciting task, also because it was "a building, freed from compromising functions," as architect Alfred Berger puts it. Adolf Loos wrote very appropriately in "Ornament and Crime" in 1908: "Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: The tomb and the monument. Everything else, everything that serves a purpose, is to be excluded from the realm of art." "So we were dealing with a borderline area of architecture, an area where otherwise determining themes such as function have little influence on the design. It was therefore necessary to find a new approach, ... More
From Body to Horizon: An exhibition of paintings by queer artists opens at LGDR
NEW YORK, NY.- LGDR began on October 20th their presentation of From Body to Horizon, an exhibition of paintings by queer artists who have developed specific approaches to color through depictions of the interior and exterior landscapes of their own lives. Occupying the first floor of the gallerys 909 Madison Avenue location, the show will feature works by Etel Adnan, David Hockney, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, and Doron Langberg. Pushing beyond the conventions of naturalism, each of these four artists has developed a signature approach to color as a languagea means for reflecting upon topographies both figural and panoramic, domestic and picturesque, intimate and universal. The exhibition is anchored by David Hockneys large-scale diptych Double East Yorkshire (1998), one of six early canvases the artist painted of Yorkshire between ... More
Gordon Parks' Segregation Story Expanded Edition released earlier this month
PLEASANTVILLE, NY.- This new edition of Gordon Parks' Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs, as well as enhanced reproductions created from Parks original transparencies. A selection of 26 images from Segregation Story first appeared in the September 24, 1956 issue of Life magazine as part of the photo-essay The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Although some of these were exhibited during his lifetime, the bulk of Parks assignment was thought lost. In 2011, five years after Parks death, The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies from the series. Revising the original book published by Steidl in 2014, this expanded edition is the most comprehensive publication of this pivotal body of work to date. In the summer following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, ... More
Simon Foxall: Self Portrait as a Thumb in a Storm now on show at the Alchemy Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Alchemy Gallery began the presentation the first U.S. exhibition of Italy-based artist Simon Foxall, on October 20th. Titled Self Portrait as a Thumb in a Storm, the show includes a collection of paintings by the UK-raised artist featuring a dynamic and compelling cast of characters. Foxalls work explores a unique dichotomy between old world art, and contemporary culture. Heavily influenced by the intricately elaborate imagery of medieval and gothic genres, Foxall seeks to create similar escapist portals with his small-scale paintings. Featuring contemporary iconography inspired by pop culture, the series of 15 works include everything from drag queens, fetish-wear, cowboys and Monty Python. Each piece is small and intimate in size (no larger than 45 x 55cm) which is in direct contrast to their expansive vision, compelling ... More
Solo exhibition A L E P H at the Fred & Ferry Gallery recently opened in Antwerp
ANTWERP.- Fred & Ferry are currently presenting | A L E P H |, a solo exhibition by artist Maxime Brigou, who made a whole new body of work in the last couple of months to present for the gallery which will continue through to November 12th, 2022. The artist is most known for her wall sculptures; frames that seem to pull you into an other universe. Now her sculptures begin to break free again, emerging from her frames. Where do they find these lines in nature? Personally, I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not, planes that advance and planes that recede, relief and depth. My eye never sees lines or details. These overheard words by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya echo his artistic attitude: he wanted to capture life in its ever-moving whole, beyond concrete objects or superficial parts. Reality may have unfolded too quickly, too abruptly ... More
Mettere al Mondo il Mondo, curated by Mark Godfrey, on view at the Thomas Dane Galery
NAPLES.- Mettere al Mondo il Mondo which is curated by Mark Godfrey and has been on view since the begining of the month at the Thomas Dane Gallery, will continue through to December 23, 2022. In 1971, Alighiero Boetti began to use the phrase Mettere al mondo il mondo. One translation is giving birth to the world, but another more prosaic translation is putting the world back into the world which implies a way of making art that Boetti followed. Instead of inventing images, constructing forms, or having things fabricated, Boetti took the stuff of the world, rearranged it, and put it back into the world as art. He used stamps, maps, the names and lengths of rivers, the colours of biro pens. Boettis idea of putting the world back into the world is one approach among the many that artists take when transforming used objects, and this exhibition explores the different reasons they do this. In ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Robert Rauschenberg was born October 22, 1925. Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. In this image: Actress and singer Liza Minnelli poses with artist Robert Rauschenberg at the opening of Rauschenberg's silkscreen paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1990.
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