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Installation view of Alanis Obomsawin: The Children Have to Hear Another Story, on view at MoMA PS1 from March 27 through March 25, 2025. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This spring, MoMA PS1 presents a retrospective of artist, activist, and musician Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki, b. 1932), one of Canadas most renowned filmmakers. The exhibition spans six decades of her multidisciplinary practice, bringing together a selection of films, sculptures, and sound, as well as rarely seen ephemera that sheds light on their production. Tracing her lasting contributions to social change, The Children Have to Hear Another Story brings Obomsawins innovative model of Indigenous cinema into focus. Arranged by decade, the exhibition features over ten of Obomsawins films, including the documentary films created during her tenure at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), for which she is best known. Her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory (1971), depicts the afflictions of residential schools through animated childrens drawings, and it is presented alongside the original works on paper. Incident at Restigouche (1984) documents police raids on ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Staleey Wise's exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel is an overview of his varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE and designers such as Donna Karan in the 1980s, and his abstract Padièscapes works inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France.
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| Monumental sculptures by Chakaia Booker presented at the National Gallery of Art | | ZKM │ Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents The Story That Never Ends: The ZKM Collection | | Robert Colescott's "Anansean World" unveiled in BLUM exhibition curated by Umar Rashid |
Chakaia Booker, Acid Rain, 2001. Rubber tires and wood. Overall: 10 x 20 x 3 (120 x 240 x 36 in.) © Chakaia Booker. Photo: Lee Stalsworth.
WASHINGTON, DC.- For over four decades, Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) has cut, coiled, and contorted used tires, transforming this industrial waste into abstract sculpture. Gravitating toward found, weathered tires, she highlights the histories of their production, use, and disposal by incorporating their stains, cracks, and fading to create a range of tones and textures in her work. As Booker finds beauty in refuse, her reclamation of discarded objects offers a fresh perspective not only on her materials but also on humanitys relationship with and responsibility to the environment. In the Tower: Chakaia Booker: Treading New Ground is the artists first solo showcase in Washington, DC, in a decade. This exhibition will explore her artistic practice as part of the National Gallerys In the Tower series, which presents the work of leading contemporary artists in Tower 3 of the East Building. The exhibition is on view from April 5 to August 3, 2025. In the art world, tires are synonymous ... More | |
Nam June Paik, »Canopus«, from the series »Planetarium«, 1990, single-channel video sculpture; 6 monitors, 1 laserdisc, 1 laserdisc player, ca. 86 cm in diameter, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / © Nam June Paik; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Steffen Harms.
KARLSRUHE.- Modern media technologies have changed the world. The ZKM has followed these changes more closely than any other art institution worldwide. Since its founding, ZKM has provided decisive impulses in the artistic exploration of new technologies. In this way, one of the most important art collections in the world has been built up over the past 30 years. With the exhibition The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection, ZKM is now presenting numerous highlights of this unique collection of media arts in a new exhibition. On display are works from the 1950s to the present, including video, light and sound works, kinetic objects, and computer-based interactive installations. The selection of works is strongly influenced by the perspective of the conservators at ZKM. They have deliberately selected works that have not been exhibited for many years ... More | |
Robert Colescott, Dreaming of a Most Favored Nation, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 85 x 73 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches framed, Photo: Hannah Mjølsnes.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM is presenting an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the late artist Robert Colescott, curated by Los Angelesbased artist Umar Rashid. Rashid frames this presentation of workranging five decadesas an entry point into The Anansean World of Robert Colescott, a parallel universe that violates principles of social and natural order, blithely disrupting what once was and then reestablishing it on a new basis. In the time of the ancient deities, the trickster was the only one who could successfully navigate the complex and morally fraught universe of power-hungry, vengeful, wickedly jealous, and ambivalent gods, as well as their equally maligned human counterparts. One can only imagine the path of Thoth, Hermes, Coyote, Dionysus, Loki, Prometheus, and the original spider-man, Ananse. Although there are far more tricksters woven into our collective human consciousness throughout time, I have kept the list relatively short so that ... More |
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| Kentaro Okumura's London debut at Vardaxoglou explores delicate abstraction of everyday life | | Carolyn Case's "Wild Domestic" opens at Asya Geisberg Gallery's new location | | Speed Art Museum presents Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 - 1939 |
Kentaro Okumura, Jetty, 2024. oil on canvas, 45.5 x 56 cm (17 7/8 x 22 ins).
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou is presenting the first solo exhibition in London by Japanese artist Kentaro Okumura (b. 2002). The exhibition reveals the artists preoccupation with formal qualities composition, colour and texture and the delicate abstraction of everyday objects and experiences. Kentaro Okumura paints what he sees the people and the places he encounters in his daily life but manipulates the uncertainty and underdetermination, trading clarity of form for clarity of impression. Whether he brings the viewer before a patch of Scottish coast, a changaa brewery in Nairobi, or a scene in Marylebones Angel in the Fields pub, Okumuras visual language grounds the perpetual shift of his own subjectivity on canvas. Okumura lays his paint like meshwork. This mesh is thick and dry but it is also light; one can watch his brush running out of pigment across the surface. The final layer of paint is draped, not plastered, over itself. It is ... More | |
Carolyn Case, Morning Coffee, 2025. Chalk pastel on pastel card with artist frame, ceramic stoneware and glaze, 18h x 18w x 3d in 45.72h x 45.72w x 7.62d cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Wild Domestic," an exhibition by Carolyn Case. This is the artist's fourth exhibition with the gallery, and the first in the gallerys new location of 4.5 Cortlandt Alley (between Franklin St. and White St.). The artist's deceptively abstract work hides fragments and hints of the everyday, elevating routine and domestic duties to the realm of the ethereal, and allows the untidy to remain cleverly uncontained. The carefully distilled chaos of the kitchen and its symbolism for daily life propel the exhibition. The artist notes thatsuspicions about my motives to keep order have crept in. One way for me to process these ideas is to bring the landscape back into the domestic world. That is where the title originates, a hopeful space where mess, uncertainty, beauty, and order combine, a wild domestic." With titles like ... More | |
Caresse Crosby by Polia Chentoff Oil on canvas, 1927. Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Photo: Gregory Wendt.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum is presenting Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 - 1939, an exhibition highlighting the myriad ways that American women contributed to the citys vibrant modernist milieu. Organized by the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery this is the first exhibition to focus on the impact of American women on Paris and of Paris on American women from the turn of the 20th century until the outbreak of World War II. Through portraiture and biography, the exhibition illuminates the accomplishments of more than 50 convention-defying women who crossed the Atlantic to pursue professional goals and lead authentic lives. On view at the Speed March 29 through June 22, Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 - 1939 is curated by Robyn Asleson, curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery. This groundbreaking exhibition ... More |
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| Lunds konsthall presents Nothing Is Impossible for Us: 20 picturebook makers at work | | Kennedy Yanko's "Epithets" opens at James Cohan, exploring the mind's hidden landscape | | Peter Blum Gallery presents Rebecca Ward's geometric reconstructions, merging painting, sculpture, and craft |
Sara Lundberg. From the book Nobody But Me, Natur & Kultur, Stockholm, 2024.
LUND.- Nothing Is Impossible for Us brings together the work of twenty renowned contemporary picturebook makers from all over the world to Lunds konsthall to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Litteralundone of Europes biggest children and youth Literature festivals. Picturebooks can house entire worlds, often in a compressed format. Like all artworks, they can serve as both mirrors and windows and leave deep impressions on both children and adults. These books can produce lingering experiences and memories, which extend far beyond the pages. It is commonly assumed that the recipient of a picturebook is a child. Nowadays, however, when were seeing so many experimental and exploratory picturebooks aimed at all ages being published, this assumption is becoming increasingly unsustainable. This is a creative field that inhabits the space between art and literature. These books dont patronise their readers, whether they be children or adults; they leave everyone free to read ... More | |
Kennedy Yanko, Remembering the future, 2025. Paint skin, metal, 40 x 24 x 15 in. 142.2 x 88.9 x 35.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Epithets, an exhibition of new work by Kennedy Yanko, on view from April 5 - May 10, 2025, at 48 Walker Street. This is Yankos first exhibition with the gallery. Epithets is presented in collaboration with Salon 94, where a concurrent major presentation of work by the artist is accompanied by an exhibition curated by Yanko. Steeped in modernist visual languagesfrom Abstract Expressionism to Arte PoveraYankos works occupy the generative space between abstraction and figuration, the surreal and the earthbound. Precisely calibrated interplays between soft and hard elements, between found materials and constructed components, establish a unique visual syntax that speaks to both sculptural traditions and painterly concerns. Yankos sculptures embody expressive gesturestheir folds and curves perform as brushstrokes or voluminous pours made solid, transforming the ephemeral movement of the painters hand into permanent spatial ... More | |
Rebecca Ward, sea creature, 2024, acrylic and dye on stitched canvas and linen, 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 183 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting vector specter, an exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist, Rebecca Ward. This marks the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will run through May 31, 2025, at 176 Grand Street, New York, NY. Rebecca Ward's practice merges painting, sculpture, and craft by physically deconstructing and reassembling canvases to create geometrically grounded works. By exposing the multidimensional nature of painting and its constituent parts, Ward creates a spatial play of harmonious forms and color interactions that explore the relationship between the mathematical and the natural world. In the current exhibition, Ward delves into the complex interplay between transparency and the spectral presence of the abstract. Through a manipulation of reassembled materials and viscous gradients, the artist explores spectrumsboth literal and metaphoricalwhere shadow and form transcend their physical ... More |
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| Enter a sugar-coated dream: Simone Post recreates childhood home entirely of sweets at Voorlinden | | Game-worn jerseys from Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby face off at Heritage | | Centuries-old Virgin of Guadalupe painting, witness to Jesuit missions, returns home restored |
Simone Post grew up surrounded by sewing machines. Photo: Titia Hahne.
WASSENAAR.- Prepare yourself for a magical, seductive world made entirely of sugar! Using meringues, candy strips, and candy chains, Simone Post recreates her childhood home at Voorlinden, complete with plush toys, a bunk bed, and her mothers sewing studio. Everything you see and smell in Sweet Memories from the carpet to the washing machine is made of sweets. The immersive installation transports you back to a childlike dream world where everything still appears malleable. Simone Post grew up surrounded by sewing machines. At home, her mother gave sewing lessons and demonstrated that you can create anything with fabric. Now, as a visual artist, Post experiments with the malleability of various materials including sweets. In a craft-based manner, she recreates her childhood home at Voorlinden; she interweaves metre-long cables of yellow and pink candied bacon strips into furniture, constructs a kitchen out of marshmallows, and threads clusters of candied bacon strands th ... More | |
1998-99 Wayne Gretzky Game Worn New York Rangers Jersey.
DALLAS, TX.- It really is a matter of simple math: the Great Eight is better than the Great One. When Wayne Gretzky retired from the National Hockey League after the 1998-99 season, "The Great One" owned the vast majority of the league's career scoring records, including the most hallowed of all: in 20 NHL seasons, he amassed 894 goals, 93 more than second-place Gordie Howe. Thought for decades to be unreachable, Gretzky's 894 goals are about to become the second-highest total in league history, as Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals â the "Great Eight" (for his jersey number) â is rapidly making up ground. The Capitals are now calling the chase to the record "the Gr8 Chase," and the margin is down to single digits. The chase is suddenly the center of the sports universe, and league is planning to interrupt the game whenever he does break it for an on-ice ceremony. Three game-worn Ovechkin jerseys, along with jerseys worn in games by NHL legends Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Mark Messier, Connor McDav ... More | |
The work was treated by easel painting specialists, coordinated by the INAH Baja California Sur Center. Photo: INAH.
MULEGÃ.- A tangible piece of history has been lovingly brought back to life in the rugged highlands of Baja California Sur. A 17th-century painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a silent observer of the Jesuit mission era in what is now Mulegé, has been carefully restored and returned to its community. The delicate work, overseen by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), marks a significant moment for the local people who have safeguarded the artwork for generations. The painting's journey back to its community on April 2nd was celebrated by state officials and INAH representatives, highlighting the collaborative effort to preserve this vital cultural heritage. For the Aguilar family, who discovered the artwork amidst the ruins of the Misión Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Huasinapà (founded in 1720), the return was deeply personal. Miguel Ãngel Aguilar Villavicencio, the current custodian, expressed the profound connection his family has ... More |
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Exhibition at Kunsthaus Hamburg explores humanity's migrant history and futureHAMBURG.- The group show Over Land and Sea tells of the migrant history of humanity, its present and future. In a tension between the tangible and the mythical, the animate and the industrial world, the works on display point to the vul- nerability of human beings and, simultaneously, their inherent ability to change and transform. They encourage a humanistic reflection on the way we live today. The starting point of the exhibition is Teresa Solar Abbouds installation Osteoclast (I do not know how I came to be on board this ship, this navel of my ark), which has its first appearance in Germany. In large-format sculptures, the artist draws a parallel between bones hollow structures, carriers of tissue, veins and cell communities and ships vehicles of migration, conveyers of people and knowledge. Unlike the enormous ships built and docked in Hamburgs harbour, ... More Colored diamonds and gemstones sparkle in Heritage's Spring Jewelry AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Much like springtime itself, when color finally makes its triumphant return to nature, Heritages May 5 Spring Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction is bursting with vibrant hues. From yellow diamonds and deep blue sapphires to Colombian emeralds and Burma rubies, the 506-lot auction teems with colorful jewels. Leading the auction is a stunning fancy intense yellow diamond set in an 18k gold ring. The 14.14-carat pear-shaped stone is flanked by approximately 2.10 carats of trillion-cut diamonds that further enhance the rings brilliance. Only 1 in 10,000 diamonds has a fancy color, making this stone one of the rarest on Earth. Joining the star lot is another fancy intense yellow diamond ring, this one featuring an 11.67-carat stone as its sparkling centerpiece. The auction also includes a wonderful selection of colorless diamonds, including a Tiffany & Co. platinum ring starring ... More Jack Fischer Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Patricia Lagarde & Byron RyonoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jack Fischer Gallery brings the work of Patricia Lagarde, photographer, book artist, and conceptualist. Her work is being shown together with Byron Ryono, sculptor and avid birder, in an exhibit called forma pura/ pure form. In this show the gallery attempts to present two philosophies that deal with an ancient, anxious melancholy that explores the unattainability of the moon and its relationship to earth. Together we are given glimpses of the skies and the earthly firmament. Lagardes photographs offer us a front row seat to the sky and all its poetry. The moon series becomes an actual tone poem and ode to a wonderful and hopeless attempt to trap the light. Isnt that what photographs actually do? She attempts to capture this evanescence of the moon with the lightest thinnest possible scrim, making that nightly event even more fugitive. Patricia ... More Norton Museum of Art explores link between photography and perception in the exhibition Blur / Obscure / DistortWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- For most photographers, the medium is all about sharpness and clarity of image. But imagine if there were another story to be told through the disruption of that clarity in images. That is the premise of the exhibition Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception, open April 5-August 24, 2025, at the Norton Museum of Art. Blur / Obscure / Distort brings together photographs from the Nortons Collection that disrupt the viewers sense of time, space, place, and scale. The artists in this exhibition urge greater awareness about the constructed nature of perception and, in turn, a photographs vulnerability to manipulation even when it appears to show what is real, notes Lauren Richman, the Nortons William and Sarah ... More Hirshhorn opens landmark exhibition "Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen" in honor of museum's 50th anniversaryWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has opened Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, a landmark exhibition by Adam Pendleton. The artist presents new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work in the museums second-floor inner-ring galleries April 4, 2025, through Jan. 3, 2027. Pendletons first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., highlights his unique contribution to contemporary American painting, while making use of the architecture of the museum and history of the National Mall. Introducing Adam Pendletons recent work in our 50th year is intentional, said Melissa Chiu, Hirshhorn director. His exhibition reflects the Hirshhorns mission as a 21st-century art museum that amplifies ... More Crow Museum of Asian Art opens three exhibitions celebrating creativity and cultureDALLAS, TX.- This spring, the Crow Museum of Asian Art unveils three exhibitions at its downtown Dallas Arts District location, showcasing the dynamic work of international and self-taught artists. The museum is presenting Cecilia Chiang: Dont Tell Me What To Do, Anila Quayyum Agha: Let One Bird Sing, and The Shoguns World: Japanese Maps from the MacLean Collection. Free and open to the public, each exhibition offers a unique perspective on culture, creativity and social justice, inviting visitors to experience a wide range of artistic expressions and narratives. Anila Quayyum Agha: Let One Bird Sing marks the launch of a new exhibition series called Texas Ties that showcases artists with connections to the Lone Star State. Let One Bird Sing invites reflection on environmental degradation and the silencing of marginalized voices. Agha, who earned ... More  Pinault Collection in Venice opens solo exhibitions of works by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas SchütteVENICE.- From Sunday, April 6, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two museums of the Pinault Collection in Venice, present new solo exhibitions dedicated to artists Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte. Tatiana Trouvés largest exhibition to date and her first major exhibition in Italy marks an ambitious and complex response to the carte blanche invitation that the Pinault Collection offers to living artists. The spaces at the Palazzo Grassi are the starting point for the creation of new sculptures, large-scale drawings, and site-specific installations that are presented in dialogue with bodies of work from the past decade, together offering a number of pathways through Tatiana Trouvés worlds. The exhibition also includes important works from the Pinault Collection, international museums, and private collections, as well as the artists own archive. The constellation of Tatiana ... More |
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Mystery & Benevolence
Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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