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| | Blue Skies: Now More Than Ever Launches C. Parker Gallery's 10th Anniversary Season | |
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Tree of Anila, by Rick Garcia (acrylic on canvas).
GREENWICH, CONN.- We are thrilled to kick off C. Parker Gallerys 10th anniversary season with Blue Skies: Now More Than Ever, says Tiffany Benincasa, the owner/curator of the gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut. We live in this beautiful part of the world, and our summer started with some of the worst air-quality days in history due to the wildfires, bringing this issue to the forefront. The gallery show continues through October 8th, featuring six artists: Rick Garia, Kay Griffith, Lisa Cuscuna, Hamilton Aguiar, Felicity Kostakis, and Stephanie Paige. These artworks celebrate the expanse above us, from cerulean mornings to indigo evenings. Each canvas tells a story of hope, resilience, and the potential for change, reminding us of the optimism that comes with every new day, adds Benincasa. The Town of Greenwich is honored to partner with ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Meet Me on the Equinox, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers (b. 1970; Los Angeles, CA). Biggersâs third solo exhibition with the gallery, Meet Me on the Equinox features new works from the artistâs quilt-based Codex series, sculptural Chimera series, and a site-specific anamorphic drawing.
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| The Rollins Museum of Art acquires 38 American art paintings | | The Armory Show, in a back-to-school edition | | A dozen looted artifacts are returned to Lebanon | 
Martin Heade (American, 1819 - 1904), Golden Marguerites, ca. 1883-89. Oil on canvas. Gift of Diane and Michael Maher. 2023.4
WINTER PARK, FL.- In the last couple of years, the Rollins Museum of Arts American collection has experienced transformative growth. More than 30 remarkable paintings from the 18th through the early 20th century have been received as gifts and long-term loans. At once complementary and additive, they have enriched the collection, allowing the us to present a more nuanced history of American art. These include artists RMA did not preciously have (John Singer Sargent, Thomas Cole, Benjamin West, George Inness, and Martin Johnson Heade, among others) and different genres by painters we already owned (Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase). They strengthen the representation of19th century women artists (introducing works by Elizabeth Emmet LeRoy, Lilian Thomas Schmidt, and Jane Stuart) and bolster genres already strong (for instance, 19th century landscape painting, including new works by Thomas Moran, John Henry Twachtman, and Herman Herzog). ... More | | 
Iris by Sagarika Sundaram at Nature Morte, in New York, on Sept. 6, 2023. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK, NY.- Its back to school in the art world. The fall season, historically characterized by a deluge of new exhibitions, now includes art fairs that have tailored their schedules to coincide with the first wave of gallery and museum openings. The Armory Show, a megafair making its third fall appearance at the Javits Center, offers 225 galleries from 35 countries, a far cry from its humble beginnings in 1994 with art works propped on the beds at the Gramercy Hotel. (But even mega-fairs can be absorbed by larger entities: In July, London-based Frieze acquired the Armory Show and Expo Chicago.) The current Armory Show also boasts a curriculum of live talks, offsite installations and even a curatorial leadership summit that gives the impression of an academic conference. The purpose of the fairs remains commerce and bolstering market values, though. So, there is a lot of painting, that perennially sellable commodity. ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by the Manhattan District Attorneys Office shows a mosaic dating from the third to fifth centuries, part of a group of 12 looted antiquities valued at $9 million which were handed back to Lebanon. (Manhattan District Attorneys Office via The New York Times)
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- New York and federal authorities handed back 12 looted antiquities valued at $9 million to Lebanon on Thursday, including three objects removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year during a flurry of multimillion-dollar seizures there. Taken from the museum were twin marble statuettes of Greek mythological figures Castor and Pollux, valued at $800,000, and a bronze sculpture on loan to the Met from Shelby White, an art patron and museum trustee, which depicts a nude male worshipper and is valued by authorities at $1.2 million. The three items were seized as part of an investigation by the Manhattan district attorneys office into several international smuggling rings. The investigation last year led to the seizure of an additional ... More |
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| A sculptor breaks through, taking the walls down with her | | 81st Street Studio, a garden of artful delight | | An expansive art history at the Independent Art Fair | 
One of Nairy Baghramians sculptures installed in the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on Sept. 6, 2023. With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist is embracing the canon, the better to take it apart. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK, NY.- Paris Bar, on Berlins Kantstrasse thoroughfare, is an old-school artist hangout, the kind of place where dealers hold court over chateaubriand and some distinguished elder painter commandeers the table you had reserved which is what happened when Nairy Baghramian and I met there in July. Baghramian, 52, is an acclaimed sculptor whose work has appeared in two Venice Biennales (2011 and 2019) and one Documenta (2017). She is now on the cusp of her greatest visibility in the United States, with major new works at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. She enjoys Paris Bar for its folklore, she said over dinner. But she also wanted to point out the building across the street. It is where she lived from her teens through her emergence as an artist, in a small flat with a shifting cast of relatives and fellow émigrés ... More | | 
A light table for preschool children which invites them to place plastic pieces on its surface and turn dials to change the illuminations hue at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts 81st Street Studio in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK, NY.- Heidi Holder said she had one firm rule for the design of the new childrens learning center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: It was not going to be an egg carton. Holder, the museums chair of education, said egg carton was pedagogical slang for a regimented space in which people of the same age all do the same thing. Instead, the museums 81st Street Studio, which opens Saturday with an all-afternoon festival, evokes a rambling, geometric garden. With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to arts most fundamental ingredients: materials. By offering visitors opportunities to explore these elements and relate them to the Mets collection, the studios creators hope to turn them into lifelong museumgoers. Its almost a portal for kids to introduce them to the Met, said Adam Weintraub, who led a recent ... More | | 
A three-artist presentation of work by Vivian Browne, Camille Billops and May Stevens at the Independent 20th Century art fair at the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan, on Sept. 6, 2023. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- For its second edition, again at the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South St. in Manhattan, New York, the Independent 20th Century art fair a spinoff of the contemporary-art-focused Independent offers as dense a selection of top-shelf art as youll find this week. There are Andy Warhol portraits (Vito Schnabel Gallery) and Pablo Picasso drawings (Perrotin), sure. But there are also tooled and dyed leather paintings by Winfred Rembert (James Barron Art), a solo presentation by painter Peter Nadin overlooking the harbor (Off Paradise) and a number of historical artists rarely shown in New York or in the United States. As youd expect from a high-end fair this rigorously curated and this small just 50 artists showing in 33 booths the exhibits are long on painting, the easiest medium to sell. But there are also sublime Southern Washoe-style baskets by Louisa Keyser (Donald Ellis Gallery) ... More |
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| Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas appointed Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas co-curator of Desert X 2023 in the Coachella Valley | | Marlborough New York presents 'Laura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf' | | Almine Rech announces global representation of French artist Sasha Ferré | 
Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, photo by Luis Corzo, courtesy Desert X.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Desert X announced the appointment of Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas as co-curator of Desert X 2025, which will open March 8May 11, 2025 at sites across the Coachella Valley, California. Garcia-Maestas joins the organizations curatorial team under the leadership of Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and Executive Director Jenny Gil. Concurrent with her position at Desert X, Garcia-Maestas is Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY. Her research and curatorial interests have primarily been devoted to exploring themes of displacement, decolonial resistance, and cultural hybridity in the United States and the Americas. Prior to joining Socrates, she was Acting Curator of Visual Arts at the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she developed an outdoor art program and a robust exhibition program focused on site-specific architectural interventions. ... More | | 
Anderson Barbata, Julia Pastrana, Bienvenida a casa, 2012, ed. of 11. Handmade paper edition, pink pigmented cotton flax for pulp painting through stencils, 24 x 18 in., 61 x 46 cm, Olympia Shannon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough New York is now going to present Singing Leaf, the gallerys first solo exhibition of the Mexican transdisciplinary artist, Laura Anderson Barbata. Occupying two floors of the gallery, Singing Leaf highlights nearly three decades of the artists rich and varied output across time and place. Works on view include photography, drawings, collages, textiles, video, installation, and sculpture, as well as mixed-media documentation from a selection of social projects initiated with numerous collaborators. Since the early-1990s, Laura Anderson Barbara has initiated art-centered projects in the United States, the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Norway which emphasize reciprocity, shared knowledge, and decolonial thinking. Through anchoring objects, Singing Leaf gathers many traditions, ... More | | 
Portrait of Sasha Ferré, 2023. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- The gallery is now presenting her first solo exhibition Toccata at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne, which opened on September 7, 2023. Her work will be featured at Paris+ par Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach in 2023. Toccata refers to a composition style specific to Baroque music and applied to various instruments (essentially keyboards, but not only); the term comes from the Italian for touched in the feminine form. So-called toccata pieces generally emphasize contact with the instrument. Toccata originally encouraged improvisation, and has taken many different forms over the centuries. The title certainly underscores the tactile and rhythmic qualities of Sasha Ferrés work, but it also invites the viewer to listen to the colors of her paintings rather than just look at them. Cédric Fauq, chief curator at CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France ... More |
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| The Beaverbrook Art Gallery receives large donation of artworks | | This autumn, Royals & Rebels puts the spotlight on British fashion | | This artist's next project has her 'Terrified.' That's the point. | 
Claude Tougsinant (Canadian, b. 1932), Transformateur Rythmique, 1965. Oil on canvas. Photo Courtesy of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
FREDERICTON.- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery recently announced a major donation of Canadian and International art from the late Mark Schwartz that will now be part of the gallerys permanent collection. Mr. Schwartz, of Montreal, Quebec, was a patron and generous donor to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery over many years. Several months before he passed, he generously offered the Beaverbrook one of the most significant and broad collections of art that the gallery has received. We are very thankful to the late Mr. Schwartz for his generous gift to the gallery. says Beaverbrook Art Gallery Director, Tom Smart. We are honoured to be the recipient of such a significant selection of art and we know the public will be pleased to see these new additions to our collection. ... More | | 
Hedi Slimane for Dior, Coat and mens skirt, ca. 2003-2004; Het Jagershuis, Three piece suit, ca. 1955-1965, Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Photo: Alice de Groot.
THE HAGUE.- Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Savile Row tailoring, boarding school uniforms, tartan, sportswear, the royal wardrobe, hats for Ascot by Philip Treacy and Stephen Jones: Brits have made an indelible impression on fashion history. And not only in the realm of smart, respectable tailoring. British fashions international influence owes just as much to Swinging Londons rebellious youth and to skinheads and punks. And the British royal family have also made their mark, especially the beloved Lady Diana, who was both a fashion icon and a rebel who used fashion to make a statement. With the exhibition Royals & Rebels British Fashion, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag delves ... More | | 
The performance artist Jade Kuriki-Olivo, also known as "Puppies Puppies, in New York on Aug. 15, 2023. Her upcoming exhibition at the New Museum puts a microscope on her experience as a trans woman. Im terrified, Kuriki-Olivo said, but I really cant watch the trans community suffer and not make work about that. (Camila Falquez/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Jade Kuriki-Olivos guided tour through her apartment on the Lower East Side ended in the bedroom, where the performance artist spends most of her time. Tropical vines crawled along the walls and into a giant lantern hanging opposite a tapestry of green synthetic fur. She burned incense and described her room above a busy Greek restaurant as a sanctuary. For an interview about her upcoming exhibition at the New Museum, Nothing New, which begins Oct. 12 and runs through Jan. 14, the artist donned a camouflage outfit with green ... More |
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 Eight nominees of the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023 form activating exhibition at TENT RotterdamROTTERDAM.- Artists Ada M. Patterson, Babette Kleijn, Samboleap Tol, Yoeri Guépin, Bik Van der Pol, Bert Frings, Dirk van Lieshout and Maike Hemmers are the nominees for the tenth edition of the Dolf Henkes Prize. On Friday 8 September, the connected exhibition opened in TENT Rotterdam, giving all the artists space to present their work in the run-up to the award ceremony on November 10, 2023. For this anniversary edition, all previous winners of the prize nominated an artist of their choice. Because of this selection method, the exhibition introduces an unusual assembly of artists, in which vastly different practices smoothly complement each other. The works in the exhibition consider questions about the relationship between humans and nature, humans and their social environment, and humans and their own person. Completely in ... More  Museums Victoria celebrates ten years of Bunjilaka's award-winning First People's ExhibitionMELBOURNE.- Created in consultation with the Yulendj Group of Elders and community representatives, the award-winning First Peoples exhibition was launched in the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum on 7 September, 2013. Museums Victoria commemorates this ten-year landmark moment with a Community Day on Sunday 10 September, 10am-4pm. Celebrations include a Welcome and Smoking Ceremony, First Peoples market, performances, family programming activities, tours of the exhibition, all broadcast live, onsite, by 3KND (Kool N Deadly). As one of the countrys first exhibitions to be informed through deep community consultation, collaboration and truth-telling, Bunjilakas First Peoples Exhibition tells the histories, challenges preconceptions and fosters connections through the shared lived experiences ... More  Technology and the natural world intertwined in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' opens at David Gill Gallery LONDON.- David Gill Gallery opened yesterday 'A Midsummer Night's Dream, an exhibition of new works by Barnaby Barford, in which technology and the natural world seamlessly intertwine. Over the past three years, Barford, who works fluidly across sculpture, ceramics, moving image, drawing and painting, has immersed himself in the captivating embrace of Epping Forest, where he has sought solace and inspiration, while reflecting on the passage of time. Barnaby Barford often takes on the real world in order to translate it into something quite other in his work. In early projects, he collected found kitsch ceramic figures and used them to tell contemporary stories ... More  Beer trays, beer signs & soda bottles all perform well in Holabird Western Americana Collections SaleRENO, NV.- It was bottoms-up at Holabird Western Americana Collections four-day Raise a Glass to Yesteryear auction held August 24th-27th, as beer trays, beer signs and rare antique soda bottles all brought nice high prices. The event was held online as well as live in the Reno gallery. The auction was packed with over 2,000 lots in a wide range of categories, to include saloon, bottles, brewery, mining, numismatics, philatelic, general Americana, stocks and bonds, fine art, display minerals, vintage toys, US coin sets, ingots and assay, fractional gold, medals and tokens. The trays, signs and bottles were all offered on Day 3, which featured bottles; saloon, brewery and a beer tray collection; gaming; cowboy collectibles; railroadiana; military memorabilia; firearms and weaponry; license plates; signs; toys, musical items, furnishings and other items. ... More  Xie Nanxing 'Hello, Portrait!' opens at Thomas Dane Gallery in LondonLONDON.- Portraiture is where Xie Nanxing (b. 1970, Chongqing) is at his most playful and experimental. It is, he suggests, the soil that helps his ideas to grow. His most recent portraits display many of the paradoxes and contradictions that are typical of his practice: an engagement with art history that is both deeply academic and mischievously irreverent; the use of highly personal subject matter to explore complex philosophical questions about the nature of representation; a commitment to the most traditional of genres as a way of bringing painting into new territory. Though he occasionally made portraits, particularly self-portraits, in the 1990s, it is in the past ten years that portraiture has become a major part of Xies practice. He is not interested in a realistic depiction of a subject, but rather in exploring an aspect of their personality, their psychological state, the ... More  Jeff Soto opens his solo exhibition 'Sadlands' at KP Projects GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- KP Projects Gallery is now opening Jeff Soto :: Sadlands. Past, present, and the distant future converge in Jeff Sotos exploration of Southern California terrain in his new solo exhibition, Sadlands. This is his first exhibition since showing with the gallery in 2015. Inspired by nature and contemporary landscape painting, Soto forgoes the laws of time, space, and material reality to imagine a place where relics from L.A. and surrounding cities still exist.Amidst dusty sunsets and soft purple hills, expanses of desert sky give glimpses of a physically altered terrain where prickly pear patches remain along with adaptable invasive species. Enormous owls float above freeway lines, while butterflies perch on mutated cacti and saturated triangles point to the stormy sky. Playing with themes of Man vs Nature, our changing climate, and science ... More  Paper-folding, collage, mosaic, sumi ink and acrylic paint presented by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann in 'Murmuration'WASHINGTON, D.C..- Morton Fine Art is opening Murmuration today, an exhibition of mixed-media paintings and mosaic by Washington D.C.-based artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann. Working across collage, acrylic paint and sumi ink, Mann draws from traditions of Chinese and Western landscape painting, combining these diverse elements to create abstracted and maximalist fantasy spaces of incongruous harmony and ecological hope. The artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, Murmuration will be on view until October 10, 2023, at Morton Fine Arts Washington, D.C. location (52 O St NW #302). In an ongoing process of investigation and growth, Manns practice conjures dilated environments, which beckon like portals ... More  di Rosa digs into the vault for 2 new exhibitions: "To the Max!" and "Ghost in the Machine"NAPA, CA.- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art announced the opening yesterday of two new exhibitions drawn from their infamous permanent collection of Northern California art - To the Max! Maximalist Art from the di Rosa Collection and Ghost in the Machine highlight surprising, never-before exhibited works. To the Max! is an exuberant celebration of the philosophy that more is more. Maximalist art is having a moment in 2023 as artists, curators and collectors are rejecting minimalist austerity in favor of works jammed with eclectic patterns, colors, textures, and forms. The exhibition shows this maximalist attitude has a long precedent in Northern California art. In the 1970s and 80s, artists like Franklin Williams and Carlos Villa challenged then-dominant modes of minimalism and conceptualism, producing idiosyncratic works ... More  Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College presents first solo survey of photographs by Rhona BitnerCLINTON, NY.- Rhona Bitners sumptuous photographs depict the physical and material domains of music, dance, and the theater, among other subjects. The exhibition Rhona Bitner: Resound marks the artists first museum survey. This retrospective features work from seven series of photographs spanning the last three decades including original Cibachrome prints from the 1990s and newly produced chromogenic and digital prints ranging in scale from the intimate (4 ½ x 6 inches) to the heroic (40 x 55 inches). Much of Bitners photographic practice focuses on the spaces, people, and objects related to performancefrom popular music and the circus to ballet and classical theater, among other subjectsto create images that evoke personal and collective memory. Explains Adler, Bitner has the distinction of being the only artist to be included in three ... More  "Make It Til You Fake It" opens at Galerie Parisa KindFRANKFURT.- The exhibition, titled "Make It Til You Fake It," now on view at Galerie Parisa Kind, showcases a new series of oil paintings and sculptures cast in both bronze and porcelain which validate Bouchets enduring commitment to investigating art production within contemporary consumer culture, and effectively embodying the artist's conceptual and formal methodology. For the new series of paintings, the artist photographed the paint-mixing palettes that were archived from the previous decade of work, and reproduced certain selections and details as highly realistic oil paintings. The oil paintings depict inviting luscious paint forms, reminiscent of floral figures, floating in whirls of color and optical patterns. The trompeloil renderings create an illusory sense of visual depth. The result simultaneously embodies abstraction and utter realism. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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