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Michael Wang, Demon Core (Open), 2024. Aluminum and uranium glass, 4.7 x 9.3 x 9.3 in. 11.9 x 23.7 x 23.7 cm. © Michael Wang; Courtesy the artist and Bienvenu Steinberg & C.
NEW YORK, NY.- Environmental artist and activist Jenny Kendler favors a gentle form of persuasion when introducing ideas around climate change. I aim to seduce people through beauty, Kendler said in a recent phone interview. In Fort Jay, the 18th-century bunker on Governors Island, Kendler, 43, has installed nine sculptures about endangered marine life and ecosystems with ingredients from the ocean itself seawater, found whale parts and recordings of humpback song. The centerpiece is Other of Pearl, Kendlers serial work comprising rainbow-lipped oysters in 12 half-shells. Oysters filter our coastal waters and help protect against flooding. Pollution and dredging have destroyed many of their habitats. A Governors Island initiative is hurrying to restore oyster reefs to the New York harbor. Kendler displays each shell shiny side up ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery will foreground Pueblo voices and aesthetics and will offer a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. On view at the MFAH from October 20, 2024 through January 12, 2025, the exhibition is the first Native-curated exhibition at the Museum and features more than 100 historical, modern, and contemporary items in clay.
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| The creative inception of Monet's Water Lilies series to be presented at auction for the first time ever in 125 years | | Sotheby's launches inaugural Popular Culture auction in London | | Why is custom framing so expensive? One man investigates. |
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, circa 1897-1899. oil on canvas, 28 ⅞ x 39 ¾ in. Estimate: US$ 25,000,000 35,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
HONG KONG.- Christies will present Claude Monets seminal Nymphéas. Created 125 years ago, it had remained in the Monet family for many years and is now being offered from a distinguished private collection. This masterpiece is making its first appearance at auction and is one of the highlights of the 20th/ 21st Century Inaugural Evening Sale at The Henderson on 26 September. It is one of the very first of Monets works to take as its subject, his beloved water-lily pond ... More | |
Oasis - Gibson Flying V Electric Guitar. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys, the worlds premier destination for fine art and luxury, today announced its inaugural Popular Culture auction, with bidding opening online from 29 August 2024, accompanied by a dedicated exhibition in the New Bond Street galleries from Monday 9 September. Following the success of the record-breaking Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own auction series at Sothebys last year, curated items from the worlds of music and film will go under the hammer in a dedicated online sale taking ... More | |
Framers say they arent getting rich protecting some of your most precious memories and art, but they know you have sticker shock. (Dan Saelinger/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- If youve ever walked into a professional framers, youll be familiar with a sense of confused outrage. At first glance, it isnt clear why buying a small frame at Target should cost $9 and buying the same frame at a custom framers should cost as much as a Louis Vuitton handbag. The knee-jerk response is to assume that you are being ripped off. You are one of the few people too smart to fall for that kind of scam. Corruption must lie ... More |
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| Exhibition explores extraordinary buildings across Britain and how they overcame unusual and uncompromising sites | | MoMA announces an exhibition highlighting the collection and legacy of one of the museum's founders | | Kunstmuseum Basel shows some twenty juxtapositions of paintings, sculptures, and photographic works |
British Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London, the bicycle park © John Donat, RIBA Collections.
LONDON.- Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds explores some remarkable feats of architectural achievement in the face of tricky and uncompromising sites and locations across Britain. Featuring works by some of historys most renowned architects, including Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Neave Brown, and Lord Norman Foster, alongside leading contemporary practices such as Tonkin Liu, KnoxBhavan, and Carmody Groarke, this free exhibition showcases a spectrum of complex, unusual, and dynamic builds undertaken from 1900 to now. Spanning private ... More | |
Lillie P. Bliss. c. 1924. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern, an exhibition focusing on the collection and legacy of Lillie P. Bliss, one of the Museums founders and an early advocate for modern art in the United States. On view from November 17, 2024, through March 29, 2025, the exhibition, which marks the 90th anniversary of Blisss bequest coming to MoMA, includes iconic works such as Paul Cézannes The Bather (c. 1885) and Amedeo Modiglianis Anna Zborowska (1917). The exhibition, which will feature about 40 works ... More | |
Alexej von Jawlensky, Abstrakter Kopf: Abend, 1927. Ãl und Kohle auf leinenstrukturiertem Malkarton, 43 x 33.5 cm. © Bilddaten gemeinfrei - Kunstmuseum Basel. Photo: Martin P. Bühler.
BASEL.- Certain themes and forms are taken up again and again by artists regardless of time and place. The phenomenon of epoch-spanning artistic parallels and how they stimulate the imagination is the focus of Pairings. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel shows some twenty juxtapositions of paintings, sculptures, and photographic works from the Museum's own collection with selected objects from the private Im Obersteg Collection. The presentation is designed ... More |
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| Art historian and former Clyfford Still Museum senior consulting curator David Anfam dies at age 69 | | Poignant Hannelore Baron on view in ART A to Z at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts | | The hidden splendors of Cleveland's museums |
As senior consulting curator, a position he held until 2020, Anfam curated five exhibitions for the Museum, including several of CSM's first thematic exhibitions.
DENVER, CO.- Art historian and former Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) senior consulting curator David Anfam died on August 21 in London. Anfam saw the artists 1979 retrospective at The Met in New York, New York while researching the artist as a doctoral student. Defended in 1984, his dissertation on Still was one of the first in-depth studies of the artist. For the next two decades, he continued to publish pivotal scholarship ... More | |
Hannelore Baron, Untitled, 1978 mixed media collage - ink, cloth, paper 8 58 x 9 38 inches.
PASADENA, CA.- The New York Times in reporting her death wrote
Her work is marked by the gravity, discretion, and wit of a survivor. She had a special feeling for paper, for the weight of communication it can bear and the weight of history that settles so easily on its edges and surfaces. She described herself as a pacifist and wanted her quietly intense work to convince others of the need to listen. She used letters as symbols of memory and birds as symbols of vulnerability and ... More | |
The Cleveland Museum of Art recently featured an exhibition of five paintings by Monet.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the depths of summer, while other art lovers in New York are catching the B train to Brighton Beach or busy with parties in the Hamptons, I like to enjoy a week or two of lake weather in Cleveland, where my in-laws live, where the ice cream is fabulous and where theres no shortage of art to see. In years past Ive visited Praxis Fiber Workshop and the Sculpture Center both of which make ingenious use of the huge spaces that a postindustrial city can offer ... More |
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| Galerie Karsten Greve to open first solo exhibition in Germany of works by Kathleen Jacobs during DC Open Galleries | | An undersung and unruly Woodstock in pictures, 30 years on | | Iconic Heuer Monaco worn by Steve McQueen in Le Mans races to auction at Sotheby's New York |
Ive been inspired by the Minimalists for over three decades. I feel an association with their aesthetic, and how it related to many of the Asian disciplines I practice on a daily level. Photo: Lisa Vollmer.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve will present American artist Kathleen Jacobs in her first solo exhibition in Germany, introducing her as a new artistic voice in the gallery's program. The opening, in the presence of the artist, will take place on August 30, 2024, as part of the DC Open Galleries 2024. Interview requests are welcome during this time. ... More | |
A new photography show celebrates the 30th anniversary of Woodstock 1994, middle child to the festivals of 1969 and 1999.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nestled between the instantly legendary festival in 1969 and the violence of the 1999 incarnation, Woodstock 1994 a 25th anniversary celebration of the original can be easy to overlook. That installment, in Saugerties, New York, was supposed to be a slightly more grown-up (or, depending on whom you ask, commercial) version. But, as in 1969, attendees ... More | |
Heuer Ref. 1133B. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Few images capture the synergy between the worlds of horology and motor racing as strikingly as strikingly as Steve McQueen in Le Mans, wearing his iconic Gulf-striped racing suit and Heuer Monaco with a blue dial. This December, Sothebys will offer one of the iconic watches worn by McQueen during filming of the 1971 cult classic as a highlight of Heuer Champions, a curated selection of exceptional vintage Heuer chronographs that celebrate ... More |
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At Edinburgh Festival, sometimes simpler is betterEDINBURGH.- If you say Edinburgh Festival to most people, theyll probably think of the Fringe. But the Fringe primarily a showcase of up-and-coming acts from English-speaking countries is actually an offshoot of the more global, highbrow and judiciously curated Edinburgh International Festival, and the two events run side-by-side. The theater offerings in this years International Festival showcase the brightest Scottish talent alongside shows from around the world and fall into two categories: While the international plays are overtly political, encompassing disability rights, anti-racism and ecology, the homegrown works explored the more personal terrain of addiction, recovery and self-care. One of the most eye-catching items on the bill was a metafictional spin on Hamlet by the Peruvian company Teatro La Plaza, which ... More Theater breaks ties with Ivo van Hove after report on bullyingNEW YORK, NY.- The International Theater Amsterdam said Wednesday that it had cut ties with Ivo van Hove, the Tony-winning director who led the company for more than 20 years. The breakup was announced just weeks after a report said that a culture of fear had developed under van Hoves leadership and that he allowed bullying to go unchecked. Although van Hove stepped down as the theaters artistic director last year, he stayed on as a salaried artistic adviser and was scheduled to create new work. A news release this week said that those collaborations had been terminated, and that the theaters entire supervisory board had resigned. By taking these steps and creating space for restoration and transparency, the interests and feelings of all involved are taken seriously, Clayde Menso, the International Theater Amsterdams managing ... More Last chance to see the largest European exhibition to date of Do Ho Suh's work on paperEDINBURGH.- Immerse yourself in the imagination of one of the worlds leading contemporary artists, Do Ho Suh (born 1962, Seoul), at the National Galleries of Scotland. Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time is the largest European exhibition to date of the artists work on paper, with artworks spanning 25 years of Suhs career. This major solo exhibition by the South Korean-born, London-based artist is free to visit, taking over the entire ground floor of Modern One in Edinburgh until 1 September 2024. With over 100 works on display, many never seen before, the artist poses questions such as Where and when does home exist? and What defines our sense of place?. Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time explores the integral role that drawing and paper play in Suhs work, focusing on his collaborative methods, experimental techniques, and innovative use of materials. ... More A arte invernizzi will present works by Michel Verjux at Panorama MonferratoMILAN.- A arte invernizzi announced the participation of Michel Verjux in the new edition of the region-wide exhibition Panorama Monferrato. From 4 to 8 September, Panorama Monferrato, the fourth edition of the region-wide exhibition conceived by ITALICS an institutional network that brings together more than 70 galleries of ancient, modern and contemporary art presents a cross-section of art history from the 2nd century to the present day. Since 2021, this annual event has been strengthening the bonds between architecture, art, landscape and local territories and their communities. The exhibition curated by Carlo Falciani is inspired by the principles of La civil conversazione a work written by Stefano Guazzo (born in Casale Monferrato in 1530) and published in 1574. Winding through vineyards, castles and churches, the exhibition is like ... More For young Cambodians, a mobile history lesson from a dark timePHNOM PENH.- The brand-new bus gleamed as it weaved through rush-hour traffic in Cambodias capital. It was headed to a school, bearing a lesson about the countrys darkest period. About two-thirds of Cambodias population is under 30, born a generation or more after the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. Many of those young people have only a general awareness of its atrocities, which left at least 1.7 million Cambodians dead. That horrific history has been thoroughly documented, in court documents and at places like the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the killing field in Choeung Ek. But both of these are in the capital, Phnom Penh, and most Cambodians live in the countryside. The buss mission is to bring the history to them. An international effort, it is outfitted with touch screens, laptops and projectors ... More In 'Shogun,' Anna Sawai drew on the power of silence. And Mozart.NEW YORK, NY.- When Anna Sawai was preparing to die, she listened to Mozart. In a key scene of the FX series Shogun in which Toda Mariko, the disgraced but defiant noblewoman and samurai she plays, meets her fiery demise Sawai delivers a rebellious speech to the sinister Lord Ishido (Takehiro Hira). Lady Mariko knows it doubles as a death sentence. To prepare for this pivotal moment, Sawai said, I was listening to Requiem K. 626 Lacrimosa. The music, she said, gave her power. It really helps you build, she said in an interview last week. Referring to the director of the episode, Frederick E.O. Toye, she continued: I remember Fred coming to me multiple times and asking, Do you still have a couple more takes in you? I was like: Yeah, this is totally fine. I feel good. Lets do it. Set in feudal Japan and based ... More 'Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan' to open at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announced the debut of Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan on September 17, 2024. The traveling photography exhibit, created by National Geographic Society and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, will display Ronan Donovans stunning images and videos highlighting the contrast between wolves living in perceived competition with humans and those living without human intervention. Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan will introduce visitors to wolves as seen by Donovan in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Ellesmere Island in the high Canadian Arctic. Visitors will see in unparalleled intimacy how the Arctic wolves hunt, play, travel, rest, and raise their young in one of the harshest environments on Earth. By contrast, their brethren ... More Hettie Jones, poet and author who nurtured the Beats, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Hettie Jones, a poet and author who with her husband, LeRoi Jones (who later became the incendiary poet and playwright Amiri Baraka), made her household a hub for Beat writers and other artists but who was often described as a footnote in the rise of her famous spouse as the white wife he disavowed died Aug. 13 in Philadelphia. She was 90. Her daughter Kellie Jones confirmed the death. Raised in a conventional middle-class Jewish household in the New York City borough of Queens, Jones was musical, rebellious and ambitious, uninterested in tweedy academia or suburban domesticity. She dropped out of graduate school at Columbia University, where she was studying drama, to work at The Record Changer, a jazz magazine, for $1 an hour. There she met a charismatic young poet named LeRoi Jones, and they fell in love. They hung out at the Five Spot ... More Overlooked no more: Mabel Addis, who pioneered storytelling in video gamingNEW YORK, NY.- In the 1960s, Mabel Addis was an elementary school teacher in a small town in New York state when she was offered a unique opportunity that would make history: Create an educational game with IBM. What resulted was the Sumerian Game, an early video game that taught the basics of economic theory to sixth graders. In it, a student would act as the ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Lagash, in Sumer, in 3500 B.C. In Level One, the primary focus was on growing crops and developing tools; Level Two oversaw a more diversified economy; and in Level Three, Lagash interacted with other city-states. In each round, students responded to prompts issued by Urbaba, the royal steward. The video game was text-based, but it is believed to be the first to introduce storytelling and characters, and the first in a genre ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Fantin-Latour died August 25, 1904. Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. In this image: People gather in Arthur Rimbaud's museum as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the famed poet's birth, Wednesday Oct.20, 2004 in his native town Charleville-Mezieres, eastern France. Rimbaud is seen at left on a copy of Fantin Latour's painting "Rimbaud en discussion avec Verlaine" (Rimbaud Talks with Verlaine). Other characters on painting are unidentified.
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