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Brent Wadden, Pink and Brown, 2015. Hand woven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas in the artists frame, 105 by 81 in. 266.7 by 205.7 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- The fall art season has arrived, with its manic harvest of exhibitions, and also The Armory Show, the major art fair in New York City that shifted its schedule and venue last year, moving to this early September date and the Javits Center. With some 240+ galleries showing, and solid delegations from every continent, the fair is abundant and properly international again after a slimmed-down 2021 edition constrained by COVID-19 travel restrictions and hesitancy. Those are gone now although the pandemic continues and the scene is buzzing. For collectors and gallerists, fairs like The Armory Show are a chance to transact, of course and to get together. But for the public at large, its a great chance to take in a gargantuan amount of contemporary art in a single place. The fair is sprawling but spacious and navigable; the booths have color-coded signs for various special sections. Among these are Focus, the curated section, organized this year by Carla Aceved ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sperone Westwater is presenting Peter Sacks: Above Our Lands, the artistâs second exhibition at the gallery. New paintings, as well as works on wood and on paper, continue and extend the artistâs distinctive practice of merging paint, collage and diverse fabrics.
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| Gagosian opens an exhibition of works by Urs Fischer coinciding with his presentation at the Marciano Art Foundation | | Gerasimos Floratos' second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in Brussels | | Gabriel Rico shows his works for the first time in a solo exhibition in Germany | 
Objects are an extension of our bodies, our needs, our desires. Urs Fischer
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new work by Urs Fischer in New York, coinciding with his presentation at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Denominator features three new projects: Denominator (202022), a large sculpture composed of LED screens; People (2022), an installation based on a room at the National Gallery, London; and CHAOƧ #501, the culmination of the CHAOƧ series of digital sculptures. Denominator is a 12-foot cube constructed from LED screens that display a sequence of fragments from international television commercials in a shifting composition that spans the history of the medium. Through the use of AI algorithms, the commercials have been deconstructed into individual shots, which are then grouped by theme or color and displayed in layered patterns and choreographed sequences. People is a full-scale recontextualization of room 43 of the National Gallery, overlaid ... More | | 
Gerasimos Floratos, Dura Cipher, 2022. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 167.6 x 213.4 cm, 66 x 84 in / © Gerasimos Floratos. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Photo: Dan Bradica.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels announced Maps, Gerasimos Floratos' second solo exhibition with the gallery. A map is an abstract rendering of space that stands flat. It differs drastically from the reliefs and territories it refers to; its a coded cultural marker that you need to learn to read in order to navigate. Even though Gerasimos Floratos paintings are figurative, they are more like landscapes. Floratos is a New Yorker. His work is entropic, like a psycho-geographical translation of the city. He was born and still inhabits the center of the centerTimes Square (which is actually not square, but more twisted). The vivid colors of his confronting figures remind of the extreme experiences that define NYC. Floratos does not paint crowds per se. One or two characters appear on each paintingbut their presence is reminiscent of passersby encounters. Some look down, others look sideways, ... More | | 
Portrait Gabriel Rico. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Diego Argüelles © 2021.
MUNICH .- In his sculptures and installations, Mexican artist Gabriel Rico combines natural materials and industrial products and places them into an interactive context, questioning the ambivalent relationship between natural environments and man-made principles of order. max goelitz presents his first solo exhibition in Germany in collaboration with OMR as part of Various Others 2022. Ricos works are created from found materials and collected objects of everyday life. The artist expands the concept of objet trouvé, in that his sculptures and installations only find their exciting and playful completion through selected combinations of diverse objects and their contrast in color, form, material, time of origin. The evocative title when there were more donkeys than icosahedrons, with its intertwining of time horizons, contrasts and balances between the organic and the geometric, refers to a fundamental principle underlying ... More |
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| The stars align at Heritage Auctions with sale of Tiffany Studios' 1914 Zodiac Mosaics | | bitforms gallery opens an exhibition of works by Manfred Mohr | | Sperone Westwater opens its second exhibition with Peter Sacks | 
Six Rare Tiffany Studios Mosaic Zodiac Panels from Marshall Field & Company, 1914. 16-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches (41.9 x 31.1 cm).
DALLAS, TX.- Beloved landmarks are often distinguished by recognizable signature flourishes that are embraced by generations, and throughout the 20th century, exclusive dining establishments tucked within famous department stores were no exception. Rarely, however, do such treasures end up in private collections. The Mens Grill, which opened in Chicago in 1914 in the original Marshall Field & Company, was famously appointed with a grand fountain and dome produced by Tiffany Studios, as well as mosaic panels depicting the signs of the zodiac set into mahogany-paneled columns punctuating the stately dining room. Diners and shoppers alike flocked to see the groundbreaking glass designs. Sixty-four of these bespoke mosaic panels graced the Chicago restaurant, and on September 28, six of them will appear in Heritage Auctions Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art ... More | | 
Manfred Mohr, P-3000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Manfred Mohr utilizes algorithms to engage rational aesthetics, a practice that invites logic to produce visual outcomes. While his career spans over sixty years, the intricacy of Mohrs work with algorithms has only increased over the decades. liquid symmetry, the title of this exhibition and the artists latest work phase, contextualizes Mohrs relationship to generative procedures, grounding pieces from 20212022 with both historical hand-drawn (1969) and plotter-drawn computer generated compositions. Exhibited works showcase Mohrs generative procedures through custom software installations, aluminum reliefs, printed triptychs, and drawings on paper. As a true pioneer of digital art, Mohr has written algorithms since 1969. The artists algorithms, which he references as rules with a beginning and end, are built from imposed and random selection principles deemed as aesthetical-filters used to construct and ... More | | 
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Peter Sacks: Above Our Lands, the artists second exhibition at the gallery. New paintings, as well as works on wood and on paper, continue and extend the artists distinctive practice of merging paint, collage and diverse fabrics. Dramatic shifts of scalefrom our miniaturized human dimension to forces gathering above usevoke recent historical forces sweeping above our lives, be they war, disease, climate change, system collapse or incipient totalitarianism. In the main gallery, a series of three 8x6 foot canvases, Without Title 1-3, suggest fragments of ruined walls, broken archways and eroded frescoes. Rough burlap, corrugated cardboard and linen are juxtaposed with delicate lace and diverse brushstrokes, conjuring damaged yet persistent figures stirring within the layered backgrounds. Tiny figures move along the bottom edge of each canvasa predella beneath elemen ... More |
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| Exhibition of new paintings by UK-based Irish artist Sarah Dwyer opens at Jane Lombard Gallery | | Eric Firestone Gallery presents a solo exhibition of groundbreaking Postwar artist Nina Yankowitz | | Griffin Art Projects presents rare survey show of Stan Douglas's work | 
Sarah Dwyer, Verdant Tangle, 2022. oil on linen, 78 3/4 x 59 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Clatter
..THUD, an exhibition of new paintings by UK-based Irish artist Sarah Dwyer. The artists third solo show with the gallery introduces figurative abstractions that grapple with the ever-changing body and the physical manifestation of the psyche. Canvases thrum with a freewheeling, helter-skelter conversation between familiar forms, worked and reworked tirelessly by Dwyer. The artists intuitive use of color takes on a presence and character of its own, a masterful counterpoint to the rhythm of gesture and line. Woven throughout the narrative fabric of each piece, Dwyer tells stories drawn from her own life, poetry, Jungian archetypes, and literary influences. Clatter
..THUD will be on view from September 9th to October 15th, 2022. With a wink and a wry smile, Clatter
..THUD attempts to vocalize the frenetic, dramatic off-kilter intensity found w ... More | | 
Nina Yankowitz, Breaking Bars, 1969, acrylic spray with compressor on canvas, dimensions variable.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Firestone Gallery announced today its representation of Nina Yankowitz (b. 1946), a founding member of the iconic feminist collective Heresies, who since the 1960s has produced a daring body of abstract work imbued with formal and social justice concerns. Eric Firestone Gallery is featuring her dynamic unstretched paintings in its debut solo exhibition on the artist, Can Women Have One-Man Shows?: Nina Yankowitz Paintings, 1960s70s, on view from September 9 through October 16. Can Women Have One-Man Shows? revisits a historic dialogue between critics about Yankowitzs 1971 presentation at Kornblee Gallery. In his New York Times review, critic James R. Mellow called that exhibition her one-man show. He went on to describe her Draped Paintings and Pleated Paintings as seductive" and "fancifully draped, somewhat femininea painting en déshabille. In resp ... More | | 
Stan Douglas, Detail of Klatsassin Portraits (Thief), 2006. Black and white laserlight jet print © Stan Douglas. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Griffin Art Projects presents Allegories of the Present from Sept. 9 to Dec. 11, 2022, a celebration of Stan Douglass work on the occasion of his representation of Canada at the Venice Biennale this year. The exhibition is a concise retrospective, bringing together photographic works from the 1990s to the present. Allegories of the Present highlights how the artist reveals complexities that live just beyond, behind, or beneath the metanarratives of historical accounts. Allegories of the Present provides a primer on how Stan Douglas addresses social and political turbulence in his work, a major theme of his most recent show at the Venice Biennale, says Lisa Baldissera, the exhibitions curator and director of Griffin Art Projects. Each of the artworks in this exhibition focuses on key sites of rupture within ... More |
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| Independent 20th century's artists in a cozy new fair spinoff | | Tom Stoppard finally looks into his shadow | | A full dinosaur skeleton and much more in Weiss Auctions' online sale, Sept. 29 | 
Chico da Silva (Francisco Domingos da Silva), 1910-1985, Sem tÃtulo [Untitled], 1974, Signed bottom right corner, Gouache on eucatex glued on cardboard, 121 x 170 cm, 47 5/8 x 66 7/8 in, courtesy of Galatea and Independent, photograph by Ding Musa.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- The Independent Art Fair, already curated and intimate, has gotten even cozier. In its brand-new spinoff, Independent 20th Century some 32 galleries showing work by 20th-century artists both famous and unfamiliar occupies a single floor of the Battery Maritime Building on South Street. (I found the building a little claustrophobic when it hosted the regular Independent last year, but for this it works perfectly.) Despite the fairs small scale, theres plenty of room for surprises a copy of Yayoi Kusamas porn magazine (Specific Object at Susan Inglett Gallery); photographs of the conceptual artist André Cadere marching around 1970s SoHo with one of his celebrated round ... More | | 
British playwright Tom Stoppard at home in Dorset, England on Aug. 12, 2022. After years of living as if without history, Stoppard belatedly reckons with his Jewish roots, and his guilt, in Leopoldstadt, his most autobiographical play. Charlie Gates/The New York Times.
DORSET.- Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making a few pounds a week covering lawn tennis, flower shows and traffic problems. He loved wearing a mackintosh and flashing his press pass, operating in the spirit of a British contemporary, Nicholas Tomalin, who wrote: The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability. So Stoppard was ready to lend a hand when I arrived at his dreamy 1790s stone house called the Rectory (because it once was one) to talk about the Broadway debut of his heart-rending epic, Leopoldstadt, which begins ... More | | 
Full Psittacosaurus dinosaur skeleton, existing between 126 and 101 million years ago in Asia, 18 inches tall and 24 inches long, professionally repaired and restored (est. $15,000-$25,000).
LYNBROOK, NY.- Charles Mansons original booking form, with fingerprints, for the Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, a full Psittacosaurus dinosaur skeleton plus other prehistoric items, an archive of material relating to Barbra Streisand and items signed by JFK and the Beatles will all come up for bid in Weiss Auctions Iconic and Eclectic auction on Thursday, September 29th. The online auction, packed with approximately 500 rare and unusual items, will start promptly at 10 am Eastern time. And, as tantalizing as the abovementioned items are, none are expected to generate as much interest as three early items pertaining to Elvis Presley including one of three original master recordings from The Kings first-ever recording session in 1954 for Sun Records. More on that later. First, the original "Los Angeles Consolidated ... More |
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 'Citing Black Geographies' opens at GRAY ChicagoCHICAGO, IL.- Citing Black Geographies presents the work of fifteen artists whose practices examine black spacea term describing the topographies, zones, scenes, and structures that portend black cultural experience. Curated by Romi Crawford, a cultural theorist and professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Citing Black Geographies parses dichotomous and elusive notions of black space. The group exhibition includes works by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Dawoud Bey, McArthur Binion, the Black Arts Movement School Modality, Nick Cave, Coco Fusco, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Tony Lewis, the Staples Jr. Singers, Tavares Strachan, Jan Tichy, Jina Valentine, Carrie Mae Weems, and Amanda Williams. Citing Black Geographies will be on view at GRAY Chicago (2044 W. Carroll Ave.) from ... More  The Korean Cultural Centre UK features major works by Yiyun Kang, the artist duo Bang & Lee and Jinjoon LeeLONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK with Art Center Nabi present their new exhibition Our Friendly Neighbours, on view now until 5 November at the KCC Exhibition space at 1-3 Strand, London, featuring major works by Yiyun Kang, the artist duo Bang & Lee and Jinjoon Lee. For the exhibition, The KCCUK and Art Center Nabi have invited three artists working with new media and installation based performances to exhibit works drawing on human-nonhuman ecologies in the virtual realm. Our Friendly Neighbours focuses on the connection between art, technology, and the environment in a post-pandemic world. During the enforced isolations of the Covid-19 era, the understanding of the neighbourhood has ... More  'Claudia MartÃnez Garay: Ghost Kingdom' opens at GRIMMNEW YORK, NY.- In Ghost Kingdom artist Claudia MartÃnez Garay continues her ongoing investigative practice of history and memory in her home country of Peru concerning racism, war, social prosecution, and the legacies of colonialism toward the Andean people. MartÃnez Garay creates a body of work that articulates a powerful auto-narrative of a culture constantly mediating its interrupted pasts. In Preguntitas a la Tierra (Little questions to the Land (Ground, Soil, Dirt), pamphlets distributed as propaganda between the 1970s to the 1990s in Peru and its surrounding region are appropriated and reconfigured. MartÃnez Garay interrogates this circulation of media by collaging these signs in juxtaposition to each other, forming a landscape that re-appropriates their methods of signification to describe many commonalities felt throughout ... More  Nohra Haime Gallery opens an exhibition comprised of a group of rarely seen works by Takashi MurakamiNEW YORK, NY.- Takashi Murakamis work is on view at the gallery from September 2nd through October 8th. The exhibition is comprised of a group of rarely seen photographs, his coveted prints and a major painting showcasing his most iconic characters for which he has become internationally well known. The works belong to his most innovative period as well as works from important periods where he created some of his most far reaching leit motifs. Some of Murakamis iconic characters in the exhibition include his smiling flowers, Jellyfish eyes, Miss KO2 and skulls. Miss KO2, a fundamental work as it was the first large sculpture he created, which is an emblem of peace. It further symbolizes femininity and a timeless sex-symbol. In 2011, Murakami first started incorporating skulls that reference death and decay in relation to post-war Japanese ... More  Thierry Goldberg opens the first New York solo exhibition of London-based artist Sally KindbergNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Gallery is presenting Lay of the Land, The first New York solo exhibition of London-based artist Sally Kindberg. The exhibition runs through October 29th, 2022. There remains a kind of mythic America which belongs to those who dont live in America, received and alive through a myriad glimmering assemblages of popular media, and relatively free from the quotidian of American reality. Sally Kindbergs America, explored through her show Lay of the Land, is a place of this sort. The paintings in Kindbergs show play with a sort of American short story sensibility. Her paintings assemble vivid moments which never existed. They have a cut-out-of-time quality, without narrative, but bring a sense of narrativity with them. In these paintings things seem to be about to happen, but theres an emphatic sense of an interminable ... More  Meet 4 theater artists to watch this fallNEW YORK, NY.- The actor Gregg Mozgala has dark hair swooped back from his forehead and watchful, heavy-lidded eyes. His upper body is muscular, his right arm etched with two elaborate tattoos, one showing a rooster mid crow. He credits his familys focus on athletics for the vigor of his performances. I love physicality, he said. I love pushing myself. I want to run and jump and fight and climb and be just incredibly physical. He said this on a recent weekday morning in a Midtown rehearsal studio, his body bouncing in the chair as he spoke. Yet the role that he is rehearsing, in Martyna Majoks Pulitzer Prize-winning Cost of Living, a play about the complexities of care taking, discourages running and jumping. Mozgala stars as John, a graduate student at Princeton who lives with cerebral palsy. The stage directions describe his first ... More  Queen Elizabeth II and the shape of 20th-century power dressingNEW YORK, NY.- Queen Elizabeth II, Britains longest-serving monarch, who died Thursday, remained resolutely mum about her political leanings throughout her time on the throne, as her role in her countrys constitutional monarchy decreed. Yet an indelible part of her legacy along with her steadfast dedication to her country, its traditions and the symbolism of a tiara was to create the prototype for a new kind of female power dressing in the latter half of the 20th century. I have to be seen to be believed, the queen famously said, and from the moment she became sovereign in 1952, at age 25, she clothed herself with that purpose in mind. In being restricted, largely, to pleasantries and pantomime (while at the same time participating in approximately 300 public events a year), she keenly understood that imagery could nonetheless speak volumes and that she was dressing not only for her people, but also for posterity. More than the sparkling evening dresses sh ... More  The Armory Show announces the 2022 Prize recipientsNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show and its partners Pommery Champagne, TPC Art Finance, and Sauer announced the winners of three prizes to exhibitor presentations in the Platform, Presents, and Focus sections of the fair. Supported by Pommery Champagne, the annual Pommery Prize of $25,000 was awarded to Reynier Leyva Novo for their presentation of What it is, what it has been (2020-2022) by El Apartamento. Now in its fourth year, the Pommery Prize recognizes an outstanding presentation of large-scale artwork from the Platform section at The Armory Show. The prize is awarded to both the artist and gallery. The jury for the prize included Mailys Vranken, President of Vranken Pommery America; Liz Munsell, Barnett & Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum; and Sloane Shaffer, Collector. Previous winners ... More  The Common Guild presents 'May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth' by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-RahmeGLASGOW.- The Common Guild announced the exhibition of May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020 ongoing) by the New York and Ramallah-based artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. An evolving, multi-part project featuring sound, digital film installation and live performance, and existing in both physical and digital form, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is being shown for the first time in the UK in Glasgow. The exhibition launched on Thursday 8 September, followed by a live evening performance on Friday 9 September devised by Abbas and Abou-Rahme. The immersive audiovisual performance will complement the multi-channel sound and video installation. The project foregrounds Abbas and Abou- ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born September 10, 2022. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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