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James Turrells Ganzfield Apani is a walk-in light installation, originally commissioned for and displayed at the 54th Venice Biennale. It will be installed in a new trailside pavilion nestled within Powder Mountains 156 ski runs and numerous hiking/biking trails. (Florian Holzherr/Powder Mountain via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Billionaire Reed Hastings remembers visiting Storm King Art Center in New Yorks Hudson Valley a couple of decades ago. Walking around there got my curiosity going, said Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, noting that his wife, Patty Quillin, grew up near the outdoor sculpture mecca. It changed my perspective on what art is. Now, Hastings is announcing an ambitious outdoor art program at the ski resort he recently bought, Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah. It began with the installation of two pieces: duo Gerard & Kellys Relay (Powder Mountain) and Susan Philipszs Well All Go Together. The next works will be installed this winter, with the full slate planned for a 2026 grand opening. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Walid Raad on his walkthrough in front of âEpilogue II: The Constablesâ, 2021. Photo © Moritz Bernoully. Courtesy TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, © Walid Raad.
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| Complexities of contemporary German identity explored in Harvard Art Museums' fall 2024 exhibition | | Just weeks left to see Edward Hopper exhibition at Dayton Art Institute | | How Tau Lewis channels the spirit world |
Ulrich Wüst, Nachlass Wiegmann #41 (Wiegmann Estate #41), 1990. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.192. © Ulrich Wüst. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College, courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This fall, the Harvard Art Museums present an unprecedented look at German art since 1980. Featuring artists from different generations and diverse backgrounds, the exhibition Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation complicates notions of German identity, especially ... More | |
Edward Hopper (American, 18821967), High Noon, 1949, oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Haswell© 2024 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
DAYTON, OH.- There is still time to see the works of Edward Hopper, one of Americas most renowned artists at the Dayton Art Institute (DAI). Hoppers images of urban and rural environments helped define the twentieth-century American experience, not only through the representation of places but also by suggesting a state of mind. This summer, the DAI has showcased the artists work in The Quiet World of Edward Hopper, ... More | |
Tau Lewis stands among the giant figures each about 12 feet tall that will be part of her first museum show, in her Brooklyn studio. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Tau Lewis can trace where she found every remnant of old clothing and leather, rusted piece of metal, beached starfish and myriad other well-worn items that she collects and reassembles into monumental sculptures, often evoking fantastical otherworldly beings. I can kind of draw a map and tell you where everything came from, Lewis said at her studio in Brooklyn this summer. She was finishing ... More |
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| Ancient scribes got ergonomic injuries, too | | Joanna Piotrowska to open exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris | | Kunsthaus Zürich and Zürcher Theater Spektakel present Walid Raad 'Cotton under my feet: The Zurich chapter' |
An illustration provided by Jolana Malatkova shows that the skeletons of scribes exhibited more damage to certain parts of the body than those of non-scribes did. (Jolana Malatkova via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- We tend to think of scribes as being in the mold of Bartleby the Scrivener, the eponymous Wall Street law clerk in Herman Melvilles 1853 short story. Working silently, palely, mechanically, Bartleby is an industrious employee who consumes legal documents as if long famishing for something to copy before he eventually turns into an inscrutable refusenik who is relegated ... More | |
Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2024. Silver gelatin hand print, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. (90 x 70 cm) Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs © Joanna Piotrowska. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris announced a solo exhibition by Joanna Piotrowska in our space at 66 rue du Temple. The artist presents an original installation of black-and-white silver prints, collages and photograms. With a scenography specially designed for the exhibition, she conjures up a strange, dreamlike atmosphere that echoes her childhood memories and ... More | |
Walid Raad, Epilogue IX: The Gremlins, 2021. Installation with wallpaper and pigmented inkjet print on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg, Photo © Walid Raad, © Walid Raad.
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich and the Zürcher Theater Spektakel present Cotton under my feet: The Zurich chapter, a project by the internationally renowned artist Walid Raad. Its central element is the walkthrough: a combined performance and tour in which the artist guides visitors through a number of rooms in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zürich. The project is the first ... More |
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| Gallery Wendi Norris announces Chitra Ganesh: "Tiger in the Looking Glass" | | de Young announces 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm' | | National Museum of American History adds Latino response to health-care needs to "Giving in America" exhibition |
Chitra Ganesh, Pond Walk, 2024, acrylic and ink on paper, 18 x 12 inches (45.72 x 30.48 cm). Credit of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris will present Tiger in the Looking Glass, an exhibition of new paintings by Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975 Brooklyn, New York, USA). One of the most preeminent contemporary artists of her generation, Ganesh opens her fifth solo presentation with the gallery. In this body of work, Ganesh expands upon an iconography that she has been building for more than twenty years, taking it in a lush direction ... More | |
Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr. London, January 1964. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nearly 60 years after The Beatles performed their final concert at Candlestick Park, Beatlemania is back in the Bay. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and presented exclusively in California at the de Young museum, Paul McCartney Photographs 196364: Eyes of the Storm will present more than 250 personal photos by Paul McCartney, video clips, and archival materials, that offer a behind- ... More | |
Venezuelan folk sculpture of José Gregorio Hernández, a late 19th- and early 20th-century physician who became a symbol of health-care charity.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will update its Giving in America exhibition Sept. 6 to include objects related to the history of Marys Center. The center began in 1988 as a Washington, D.C., clinic dedicated to providing medical care to women fleeing violence in Central America, many of them victims of trauma that resulted in pregnancy. Giving in America is a long-term ... More |
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| New exhibition "Rasheed Araeen: A British Story" opening in Cambridge, October 18 | | Greg Kihn, who scored hits with 'Jeopardy' and 'The Breakup Song,' dies at 75 | | London-based artist Johnny Abrahams' inaugural solo exhibition in Japan to open at MAKI Gallery |
Born and educated in Pakistan, Araeen trained as an engineer before moving to Europe in the 1960s.
CAMBRIDGE.- For six decades the Pakistani-born, London-based artist, writer, and educator Rasheed Araeen has been at the vanguard of art and activism in the UK. In 1964, on first moving to London following training as a civil engineer in Karachi, Araeen quickly established himself as one of the pioneers of British minimalist sculpture, creating colourful, tessellating structures like ... More | |
He carved out a place for no-nonsense power pop at the height of the MTV 1980s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Greg Kihn, a low-key singer-songwriter who drew from Buddy Holly and the Beatles while carving out a place for no-nonsense power pop at the height of the synth-pop era of the 1980s with hits like Jeopardy and The Breakup Song (They Dont Write Em), died Tuesday in the San Francisco area. He was 75. His death, at a health care facility, was ... More | |
Sympatheia 3, 2024, Oil and wax on hessian over panel, 213.0 x 120.0 cm.
TOKYO.- MAKI Gallery will present London-based artist Johnny Abrahams inaugural solo exhibition in Japan, titled 24 Colors for Junichi, at our Tennoz gallery space. Abrahams abstract paintings initially appear as compositions of forms and colors, yet upon closer inspection, a depth emerges through their tactile materiality. His use of raw hessian canvas, the texture of his ... More |
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History explainer: who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?
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One of classical music's great builders prepares for the next stepNEW YORK, NY.- Michael Haefliger has made a life out of building music festivals. A Juilliard-trained violinist, he came up with the idea not long after finishing school to create the Davos Festival in Switzerland for young artists. Then, a quarter century ago, he took over the established, expansive Lucerne Festival, which opens on Friday with a performance by the orchestra he founded. Now 63, Haefliger has enjoyed rare success in classical music: His long tenure at Lucerne has been defined not only by sustainability and survival through crises like the coronavirus pandemic, but also by enormous growth. He started the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with the eminent conductor Claudio Abbado; with the iconoclast Pierre Boulez, he created the festivals academy; when Japan was hit by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in 2011, he ... More Opening September 4 at Fridman Gallery: A Treatise On ColorNEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery announced A Treatise on Color: Vols I-IV, a group exhibition organized by curator and conceptual artist J.E. Azmi (FKA James E. Bartlett). The first in a series of multi-century, multimedia collaborations between Azmi and Fridman Gallery, A Treatise On Color investigates the undeniable power that color has over humanity. Color impacts our daily lives, and human history writ large, in profound and mysterious ways. From subtle momentary cognitive shifts caused by the color of our environment, to entrenched societal structures formed around skin tone, color has shown a unique and mysterious ability to shape human interaction with the world. The exhibition features contemporary and 20th century artworks, historical records, as well as innovative assemblages which Azmi coins "curatorial contrafacts". A "contrafact" ... More Now on view at Gerald Peters Contemporary, Santa Fe: Steven J YazzieSANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting an exhibition of a sculptural installation and new paintings by Steven J Yazzie (Diné/Laguna Pueblo), whose multidisciplinary practice spans paintings, sculpture, film, and drawing. Informed by the complexities of his Indigenous experience and the essential connection to the land as the source of life, stories, conflict, and healing, the exhibition, Elders, explores the dynamic relationship between humanity and the environment. The new installation from which the show takes its title, Elders, was first developed for the artists recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The installation includes sound and sculpture from the trunk and roots of a fallen tree and sections of wood found by Yazzie throughout Colorado forests and parks, including the Rio ... More Queer photography on view at Kunstmuseum BrandtsODENSE.- From the humdrum of the everyday to the experimental and, in some cases, potentially dangerous love life of parts of the queer community: In the photography exhibition Love, Lust and Freedom, international heavyweights, young talents and established photographers depict and insist on the human right to exist and express who you are. The exhibition contains touching stories about the discovery of sexual identity, poetic accounts of loneliness and glimpses into uncompromising underground cultures where anything goesbut is not always safe. It contains hard muscles, tattoos and barren basements, but also tender glances and gentle embraces. The exhibition invites us into a universe where we might recognize aspects of ourselves or find our open-mindedness being put to the test. Its about the very basic right to love whoever you love, ... More Venus Over Manhattan announces representation of multidisciplinary artist Brad KahlhamerNEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announced its representation of multidisciplinary artist Brad Kahlhamer. Born of Native American descent in Tucson and adopted by German American parents, Kahlhamers practice engages with the complexity of identity and the confluences of cultural experience. His monumental paintings and drawings, intricate sculptures, and intimate sketchbooks capture personal narratives and memories as well as imaginary and constructed worlds, as he searches for a space of belonging. To mark his debut with the gallery, Venus Over Manhattan will present a solo exhibition of Kahlhamers work at Independent 20th Century, opening on September 5. This will be followed by a solo show of the artists work at the gallery in 2025. We look forward to growing our relationship with Brad Kahlhamer, and to presenting ... More Pictureville Cinema to reopen in August with latest releases and return of popular film festivalBRADFORD.- Pictureville Cinema, Yorkshires biggest independent cinema, will reopen on 31 August, following a 10-month temporary closure. The reopening of the cinema will also see the return of the popular Widescreen Weekend film festival later in September. Pictureville Cinema will welcome audiences back with a new programme of the latest releases and family favourites along with arthouse films and newly restored classics. Opening on 31 August with a £3 ticket offer, featured screenings will include new release Kneecap (2024) about the Irish hip hop trio from Belfast; the new 4k restoration of The Terminator to mark its 40th anniversary; re-release of Japanese anime classic, My Neighbour Totoro (1988) along with a screening of Wonka (2023), as part of a Roald Dahl spotlight ahead of Roald Dahl day. Throughout September, featured ... More 36 hours in Helsinki, FinlandNEW YORK, NY.- For seven consecutive years, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world, and summer is the brightest, cheeriest season to visit its capital. At its peak, Helsinki basks in nearly 19 hours of daylight, which is more than enough time to explore the stunning architecture of the new central library, browse treasure-filled shops in the Design District, sweat in a wood-burning sauna, sip cocktails on a schooner and trek across islands in the surrounding archipelago. Meanwhile, ongoing construction along the waterfront continues to transform industrial zones into livable, residential neighborhoods in this progressive, design-focused city. Many arrive in Helsinki via the central railway station, which is also an ideal spot to begin a tour of the citys contemporary architecture. But first, stop to admire the stations Jugendstil, ... More Jerry Fuller, writer of 'Young Girl' and other hit songs, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Jerry Fuller, a songwriter who helped give the sexual revolution a Top 40 soundtrack, died July 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. The cause was complications of lung cancer, said his wife, Annette Fuller. Fuller had a brief solo career as a crooner, starting in the late 1950s. Though he would become well known as a songwriter a decade later, his compositions retained some of the earnestness of this earlier period. He specialized in love songs, and in songs about lustful desire that sounded like love songs. His first major hit was Travelin Man, about a globe-trotter who sings, In every port I own the heart/Of at least one lovely girl. Ricky Nelson took it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. The song which boasts of a pretty senorita waiting for me down in old Mexico, my sweet fraulein down in Berlin town and my ... More The Henry Art Gallery announces an exhibition of work by interdisciplinary artist A.K. BurnsSEATTLE, WA.- The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington will present the first comprehensive Northwest presentation of work by interdisciplinary artist A.K. Burns. Based in New York, Burns fosters a feminist and queer worldview through a diverse range of mediums including video, sculpture, and installation. Burns uses materials and storytelling in dynamic ways to grapple with the subjugation of marginalized communities and nature and to imagine alternative ways of relating to each other and the environment. The Henry exhibition delves into the intersections of land, human bodies, and water across Burns's art of the last decade, particularly focusing on the Negative Space series (2015-23). Negative Space draws inspiration from science fiction, crafting a narrative that challenges societal norms and power dynamics. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was born August 18, 1863. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 18, 1863 - March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. In this image: The First Thanksgiving 1621.
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