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Beth Lo, Chinese American Cuisine, 11.25 x 9 x 5.5 in. 2022. Ceramic. Museum purchase with funds provided by MAW,honoring a group of friends; collection of the American Museum of Ceramic Art.
POMONA, CALIF.- Opening October 28, 2023, REVEAL: Recent Acquisitions 2020-2023, showcases a remarkable variety of ceramics that AMOCA has recently acquired for its permanent collection. AMOCAs permanent collection encompasses almost 13,000 ceramic objects that date from Pre-Columbian to contemporary times. The collection has been acquired through the generosity of many individuals who wish to share their gifts with the public. Within the scope of this exhibition, AMOCA will display a range of previously unseen works from artists including Beatrice Wood, Clayton Bailey, Natalia Arbelaez, Beth Lo, Ron Nagle, Jun Kaneko, Tony Marsh and many more. This diverse grouping of forms, styles, and techniques highlights a range of art movements in the ceramic community.
Executive Director Beth Ann Gerstein commented, Were grateful for this opportunity to share selections from AMOCAs collection with the public. REVEAL focuses on recent ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Angelina Gualdoniâs fifth solo exhibition, Verso della Terra. Prompted by the artistâs botanical investigations in her preceding show The Physic Garden, the current paintings plunge beneath the ground into the rhizosphere - the layer of soil where roots grow.
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| El Museo del Barrio rejects artwork featuring Palestinian flag | | Artforum fires top editor after its open letter on Israel-Hamas war | | Apollo Art Auctions celebrates luxe new venue with gallery sale of ancient art and antiquities | 
File photo of El Museo, the oldest museum in the United States devoted to Latino art. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio, a Manhattan museum dedicated to Puerto Rican and Latin American art, decided not to display an artwork that it had commissioned for its annual DÃa de los Muertos celebrations this month after the artists included a Palestinian flag in it. The museum then canceled a fundraiser planned for Tuesday night where the new artwork, Recorder y Unificar (Remember and Unite), was to have been prominently displayed, saying that at this moment when so many are suffering, it was encouraging donors to contribute to relief efforts. The artists who created Recorder y Unificar, Roy Baizan and Odalys Burgoa, said that museum officials raised objections to the inclusion of the Palestinian flag last week but that they had refused to remove it, seeing it as integral to a work that is in part about political resistance and commemorating the dead. The piece paid homage to traditional altars for Day of the Dead celebrations, with milk crates ... More | | 
David Velasco was removed after the magazines publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind the publication of a letter that supported Palestinian liberation.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the art worlds top magazine editors was fired Thursday night after the publishers of Artforum said the staffs decision to post an open letter about the Israel-Hamas war failed to meet the organizations standards. The editor-in-chief, David Velasco, said he had been terminated after six years as Artforums leader. He had worked at the publication, considered among the worlds most prestigious art magazines, since 2005. I have no regrets, Velasco said in an email. Im disappointed that a magazine that has always stood for freedom of speech and the voices of artists has bent to outside pressure. Thousands of artists, academics and cultural workers, including Velasco, signed the Oct. 19 open letter, which supported Palestinian liberation and criticized the silence of cultural institutions about the Israeli bombing of residents in Gaza. The letter initially omitted mention of ... More | | 
Extremely rare Knights Templar iron two-handed sword, Oakeshott type XVa, pommel type H. Tapered blade culminates in heavy circular pommel with raised center and Templars Cross. Tang inlaid with copper coat of arms. Length: 1620mm/63.8in. Weight: 3kg (6lbs 10oz). Provenance: London gallery; private German collection; acquired on German art market in 1990s. Courtesy of Apollo Art Auctions, London.
LONDON.- Apollo Art Auctions, led by Dr Ivan Bonchev (PhD, University of Oxford), has enjoyed tremendous success as the auction branch of Apollo Galleries, Londons renowned source for authentic ancient art and antiquities. Since its inception, Apollo Art Auctions has conducted its flourishing online-auction business from its parent companys premises at 25 Bury Place in fashionable Bloomsbury. Now the auction division has its own upscale address. While Apollo Galleries will continue to trade from its prime location near the British Museum, Apollo Art Auctions will operate from a separate but equally stylish West End property. Located at prestigious 63-64 Margaret Street, close to Oxford Street and Bond Street stations, the new venue includes rooms that have been purpose-designed and outfitted for live auctions and previewing, ... More |
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| Artists of color ask: When is visibility a trap? | | South Korea must return Buddhist statue to Japan, Supreme Court says | | Lauren Halsey, an activist artist, joins Gagosian Gallery | 
A visitor views Glenn Ligons Figure (2001), 50 self-portrait photos silk-screened on brightly colored paper veer in and out of legibility, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Oct. 24, 2023. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- Your first encounter in the Guggenheim Museums ambitious new show, Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, is likely to be with four looming figures draped in voluminous garments. Its hard to see if anyone (or anything) is underneath the slightly futuristic hoodies. Acid-green projected light known as chroma green, used by film studios for green screen effects bathes the big gallery off the rotunda. The result is paradoxical the figures are so huge they should be unmissable, but with this intense illumination you may have trouble making them out. Watch this installation, by the artist Sandra Mujinga, long enough, and when you turn toward the rotunda, something remarkable happens: The stark-white museum turns entirely pink. (The effect subsides as your eyes readjust.) Mujingas work is a fitting introduction to a show that asks what it means to be seen, and to see each other, especially when ... More | | 
A photograph of the Buddhist statue, which represents a bodhisattva known as Kanzeon in Japan and Gwaneum in South Korea, on May 22, 2013. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
by Choe Sang-Hun
SEOUL.- The Supreme Court of South Korea ruled Thursday that a Buddhist statue currently in government custody must be returned to a Japanese temple, ending a decade-old dispute between temples in both countries. South Korean thieves stole the 20-inch gilded bronze statue in 2012 from a Buddhist temple on Tsushima, a Japanese island halfway between the two countries. The incident added yet another dispute to the contentious relations between the two countries, which have long bickered over historical grievances. The thieves were caught in South Korea while trying to sell the statue, which has been designated an important cultural asset in Japan. But Buseoksa, a Buddhist temple in western Korea, claimed the artifact, saying it was made there in the 14th century. The temple won a court injunction in 2013 preventing its return to Japan. A legal battle ensued between Buseoksa and the South Korean government. The Japanese temple, Kannonji, and Tokyo were not par ... More | | 
A personal monument titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) by the artist Lauren Halsey on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, April 12, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lauren Halsey, the Los Angeles artist who recently transformed the Metropolitan Museums rooftop into a contemporary monument and who created a food bank in her South Central neighborhood during COVID, is joining Gagosian, one of the largest art galleries, with 19 spaces worldwide. Her first show will open next year at Gagosians Paris location and her first institutional exhibition in England will open at Serpentine Galleries, London, in October 2024. Halsey will also maintain representation by David Kordansky in Los Angeles. I thought how exciting it could be to partner with another gallery to expand my context to different audiences, platforms and voices, Halsey, 36, said, adding that Gagosian could show her work in Asia, places I havent even traveled to. Larry Gagosian said he first saw Halseys work when Antwaun Sargent, one of his directors, included it in his Social Works show at the gallery in 2021. Then ... More |
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| Jill Medvedow, who remade ICA Boston, to depart | | Solo exhibition by Douglas Melini opens at Miles McEnery Gallery | | Michael Tracy, who made subway trains his canvas, dies at 65 | 
After nearly 25 years as the director for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Jill Medvedow has decided to move on. (Liza Voll via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- After nearly 25 years as the director for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Jill Medvedow has decided to move on. When I started, we were striving to be marginal, she said in a phone interview about the institution she has led since 1998. We graduated to scrappy, we got to nimble and now we are quite solid. Medvedow, who informed ICA Boston staff members Wednesday morning that she was leaving at the end of next year, said that she was proudest of giving artists like Jeffrey Gibson and Amy Sillman their first major museum exhibitions. A search for her replacement is already underway. I think Jill Medvedow is one of the most underrecognized, underestimated and under-celebrated museum leaders, said Helen Molesworth, who served as the museums chief curator from 2010-14. And if she was a man, she ... More | | 
Untitled (Tree Painting-Coencentric, Magenta, Orange, Blue, Indigo), 2023. Oil on linen and acrylic stain on reclaimed wood with artist frame, 52 x 52 inches, 132.1 x 132.1 cm, MMG#36042.
NEW YORK, NY.- Douglas Melini takes a radical alternative to the blank canvas, making works that are part painting, part sculpture, and part something else altogether. The linen, oil, and acrylic-stained reclaimed wood creations shatter the hierarchy of artwork and its frame; the wood elements of Melinis paintings are not merely supplementary, but rather integral to the composition itself. Get up close, and Melinis patient labor and intimate understanding of his materials are revealed. As Raphael Rubenstein observes in the catalogue essay, If you were to disentangle and stretch out the strings of paint on the linen squares, they could conceivably be used to fill in the countless thin channels and furrows that scar the surfaces of the wood panels; the countless paint strings in the center are the positive correlative to the negative fissures in the wood. Reframing natural elements of the landscape and bringing them into ... More | | 
Michael Tracy, a graffiti artist, at the Julia Richmond High School in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2005. (Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Tracy, a Bronx-bred graffiti artist known as Tracy 168 who turned subway cars into rolling canvases for his spray paint murals, becoming a breakout star of the New York streets in the 1970s in an outlaw medium that became central to early hip-hop culture, died Sept. 3 in the Bronx. He was 65. His death, of a heart attack, was confirmed by his niece Liza Tracy. Michael Tracy, who started out tagging buses at the end of the 1960s, became one of the most prominent if anonymous graffiti artists in the 1970s and 80s, an era when subway trains slathered in colorful bubble letters and cartoonish images became an internationally recognized visual trope of New York culture. To some, this explosion of illegal folk art was a bleak symbol of a battered city plagued by lawlessness; to others, it was an emblem of an era of creativity and hedonistic ... More |
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| For debut Sullivan+Strumpf showing, Marrnyula Munuŋgurr exhibits series of bark paintings | | 'Collection Presentation: Pablo Picasso Suite 156 with Kubra Khademi' | | The exhibition making the case for art without men | 
Naminapu Maymuru White, Milŋiyawuy, 2023. Painting on board, 60 x 90 cm. Image courtesy the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf and Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre.
SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney are introducing the work of acclaimed Yolŋu artist Marrnyula Munuŋgurr, renowned for her distinctive Dhuwa paintings capturing the stories of the freshwaters of Wäṉḏawuy, where the Yolŋu Shark ancestor once rushed up and hit its head. For her debut Sullivan+Strumpf showing, Munuŋgurr will exhibit a new series of largescale bark paintings, including several new works inspired by her unique puzzle-work compositions. First developed in 2016, using bark scraps left over by other artists, the puzzle-works comprised several miniature bark paintings, combined into one larger scale piece. The earliest of these works, Ganybu, 2016, is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. A common motif within Munuŋgurrs work is the ganybu, or fish trap, an important symbol within Yolŋu culture. In her Sullivan+Strumpf exhibition, Ganybu | Fishtraps of WaM ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso Suite 156 (Blatt 83), 15.3 1971. Radierung , Museum Ludwig, Köln © Succession Picasso/VG Bild-Kunst, 2023 Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln.
COLOGNE.- April 8, 2023, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picassos death. Numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States are celebrating this jubilee by introducing Picassos work to todays audiences under the banner of The Picasso 19732023 Celebration. The holdings of the Museum Ludwig include the third-largest collection of Picassos in the world, and it is participating in the anniversary year with a presentation from the Graphic Collections: Suite 156, a late work by the artist, consisting of 155 etchings from between 1968 and 1972. The period in which the cycle was created coincided with the sociocultural phenomenon of human rights movements worldwide, which in Picassos adopted country, France, culminated in the events of May 1968 in Paris. In his last cycle of prints, Picasso explores personal memories, love, life, and mortality, ... More | | 
Marie Laurencin. Women with Dove, 1919. Centre Pompidou Musée National dArt Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris. Gift of Lord Joseph Duveen, 1931, on deposit to Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Artwork © 2023 Fondation Foujita / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jacques Faujour / Digital Image © 2023 CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
NEW YORK, NY.- If you want what is commonly accepted as a straight answer to a straight question, dont go to Marie Laurencin to get it, Dorothy Todd, the British magazine editor, wrote in 1928. If answers from Laurencin one of the most notable female painters in interwar France were anything like her work, of course they wouldnt be straight, but coy, queer, covert and very pretty. Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, a new exhibition that puts all of the artists coded qualities on full display, opened this week at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Born in 1883 in Paris, Laurencin became a central member of the artistic avant-garde, ruled by her friend ... More |
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Gallery Tour: Design | London | October 2023
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 The Flatiron Building will be converted into condosNEW YORK, NY.- The Flatiron, the storied office building in the heart of Manhattan that has recently fallen on hard times, will be converted into luxury housing, its owners announced Thursday. The proposed redevelopment by the new owners is aimed at starting a second life for the Flatiron its sole office tenant, Macmillan Publishers, departed before the pandemic and moving past a dramatic period in which its fate seemed uncertain. In March, a little-known buyer won an auction for the building, only to disappear without paying. The buildings future as housing began to take shape this week when the Brodsky Organization, a residential developer, bought a stake in the 22-story, triangular-shaped tower on Fifth Avenue. Brodsky will lead the conversion, carving out units either for sale as condominiums or as rentals from the notoriously awkward space. Dean Amro, a principal at the Brodsky Organization, said that the project reflected our confidence in New York coming ... More  Anthony Holden, royal chronicler who ruffled the palace, dies at 76NEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Holden, a polymathic and prolific British author, journalist and poker player who found accidental fame as a royal biographer and critic of the monarchy, but who was happier writing books about Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozarts librettist, died Oct. 7 at his home in London. He was 76. The cause was a brain tumor, his son Ben said. Holden was writing the gossipy Atticus column a frothy mix of politics and celebrity for The Sunday Times in London when, in 1977, he was sent to cover Prince Charles visit to Canada to open the Calgary Stampede, a rodeo. As Atticus, he had written about Brigitte Bardot and Rudolph Nureyev, accompanied Margaret Thatcher to China and been whacked on the head with a rolled-up copy of Playboy magazine by Frank Sinatra (apparently in a gesture of affection, not press bashing). The prince was sort of a dud assignment, but Holden made the best of it, even though the most interesting ... More  How Philip Roth's raunchiest novel made it to the stageNEW YORK, NY.- For John Turturro, it was time to honor Philip Roth. Turturro, the veteran actor, had been friends with the novelist for nearly a quarter-century when Roth died in 2018 at 85. They first met, Turturro recalled, after Roth saw his performance in the 1994 film Quiz Show and picked him to star in a one-man stage adaptation of Portnoys Complaint, Roths 1969 bestseller about a young man with a penchant for self-pleasure. That play never got beyond readings. Plans for other works had similar fates. Two years after Roths death, Turturro appeared in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, David Simon and Ed Burns adaptation of Roths 2004 alternate-history novel. Still, Turturro said, he felt he wanted to complete the conversation. Now hes starring in the New Groups production of Sabbaths Theater, Roths 1995 novel about a lascivious 64-year-old ... More  'Make Noise Enough': Excavating Shakespeare's songsNEW YORK, NY.- Musicians from the early-music ensemble Collectio Musicorum were practicing a 17th-century round on a recent afternoon in Manhattan. The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting. But sung in canon, some of the notes bumped roughly against one another in daring dissonance. The singers broke off, looking at their conductor for guidance. Jeff Dailey, the groups director, glanced up encouragingly from his music stand. The dissonances they were hearing were not a mistake, he said, then added: If you want to make it any more chromatic, like youve just killed a deer, you could do even more shouting than singing. Remember, youre drunk at this point. The performers were preparing a program of songs, ballads and rounds from Shakespeare plays that brings to life the tunes scholars think might have been part of the earliest productions. Some of the numbers that will be featured in a concert on Friday at the Go ... More  Good times and bum times made these theater veterans even strongerNEW YORK, NY.- Its challenging enough for an actor to portray someone who is alive and well. But can you imagine the extra scrutiny that comes when your model is sitting in the directors chair? In the new musical The Gardens of Anuncia, Priscilla Lopez plays the title role, which is largely based on the childhood of the shows director and co-choreographer, Graciela Daniele. Or at least, Daniele pointed out in a recent conversation, its a version of me. A better version. When the two stage veterans sat together last week, a day after performances began at Lincoln Center Theater, they laughed continuously and threw themselves into the conversation with the full-bodied gusto of born performers. They mimed pranks they once pulled on castmates, hummed tunes from long-forgotten shows, and punctuated their stories with enough sound effects to make a Foley artist jealous. There might also have been a little bit of tearing up as they reminisced about their decad ... More  Bonhams sets multiple auction world records for books by literary giant John SteinbeckNEW YORK, NY.- On October 25 in New York, Bonhams presented John Steinbeck: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection a single-owner auction from the family of the authors youngest sister which featured a treasure trove of letters, manuscripts, diaries, presentation copy novels, and personal ephemera. The sale saw multiple works by Steinbeck soar past previous auction world records including a first edition of In Dubious Battle which achieved more than nine times its estimate. The novel, inscribed to his niece and her husband, sold for $54,000 in stark contrast to the penciled in price of $8.50 which Steinbeck thought was high at the time noting in his inscription: "what a price for a proletarian book." Also achieving records were first edition, presentation copies of Tortilla Flat, sold for four times its estimate at $58,000, and The Pastures of Heaven, sold for three times its estimate ... More  Visual artist Daniel Correa MejÃa has first solo exhibition at P·P·O·WNEW YORK, NY.- In Soy el dueño de mi casa, Daniel Correa MejÃas first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, the artist presents a new series of paintings and ceramic sculptures which explore humanistic themes of loss, relationships, and collective being. MejÃas practice combines painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing to mine imagery from his own subconscious and mythologize the landscape of his interior world. His highly symbolic figures personify various emotional states, becoming one with their scenery as contemporary society fades away and sacred, primordial knowledge is uncovered. Juxtaposing rich ultramarine with vibrant red on rough jute canvas, MejÃa invokes the complimentary nature of masculine and feminine energies to summon the divine power of contrasting forces. In Soy el dueño de mi casa, or I am the owner of my ... More  Four new exhibitions open at Cranbrook Art MuseumBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Art Museum is now opening a series of original exhibitions that examine the importance of legacy within the artistic community of Detroit by showcasing artists of the citys past, present, and future while identifying the threads that connect them across generations. The museum will also highlight the career of a former Artist-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art, whose work and teaching inspired hundreds of students over his decades-long tenure. This series of exhibitions underscores Cranbrook Art Museums commitment to showcasing our deep and intertwined artistic community, whether an emerging talent or a legendary veteran, said Andrew Satake Blauvelt, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum. This series of shows spans more than nine decades and confirms ... More  Work by Vian Sora demonstrate her unique vocabulary of gestural abstraction through form and colorNEW YORK, NY.- Following recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art and others, the Iraqi- American painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad; based in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009) has opened her first New York solo exhibition at David Nolan Gallery (24 East 81 Street, a block from the Met). Vian Sora: End of Hostilities consists of new work that furthers her practices abstract, gestural distillation of her experience coming of age in Baghdad. Central to the work are themes of war, political upheaval, migration, and subsequent geographic and cultural displacement. Said the artist: Since leaving Iraq in 2006, my works expressively address these issues through a synthesis of styles and iconography taken from both my native and adopted cultures. Using a variety of techniques, my mixed media paintings attempt to figure imagery ... More  'Verso della Terra' by Angelina Gualdoni on view at Asya Geisberg Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is conducting Angelina Gualdonis fifth solo exhibition, Verso della Terra. Prompted by the artists botanical investigations in her preceding show The Physic Garden, the current paintings plunge beneath the ground into the rhizosphere - the layer of soil where roots grow. Here, the rhizosphere and the mycelium - a network which extends underground among fungal colonies and trees - become metaphors for interconnectedness, a non-hierarchical structure with incredible potency to communicate, provide nutrients, and spur growth. The title of the exhibition translates to looking towards the ground. Gualdoni forages in the greater NYC area and takes daily walks around her studio neighborhood, using the same sort of scanning vision to look for bottle caps on the sidewalk as chanterelles in the wild. The consistency of this gaze - slowly sweeping, always on the alert for an interruptio ... More  Ten new large-scale paintings, including a new series of body prints now being shown in 'dOUbTsWISHes' NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is conducting its sixth solo exhibition of new work by Keltie Ferris. dOUbTsWISHes which features approximately ten new large-scale paintings, including a new series of body prints on canvas that are being exhibited for the first time. Over the past decade Ferris has become known for his unique, visually cacophonous style, in which dynamic layers are built up and removed with hand-held spray guns, palette knives and occasionally stencils and three-dimensional forms. In dOUbTsWISHes, Ferris mines his own visual vocabulary to further his exploration of mark-making, erasure and abstraction. Viewed together, the works in dOUbTsWISHes evidence a deliberate diversity of approaches: oil stick lines and bursts, spray-painted grids and dots, hand-painted quilts. Ferris deconstructs and reconstructs his ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1897. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasarely and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the "Art in Wine" exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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