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The Frieze Art Fair on May 18, 2022. Art market columnist Melanie Gerlis noted that fairs like Frieze New York have prevailed by getting smaller, to about one-third of its original size. (Charlie Rubin/The New York Times)
LONDON.- Art fairs are in-person experiences par excellence: a place where visitors gaze at artworks in gallery booths and collectors shop for them in between sips of sponsored Champagne. So for the international fair business, the lockdown phase of the pandemic was, by all accounts, a nightmare scenario. Most of the 408 art fairs held in 2019 were canceled outright in 2020. This month, Art Basel and the Treasure House Fair are opening their doors to visitors in Basel, Switzerland, and in London, and the picture is much more upbeat. A total of 359 fairs were held around the world last year, roughly one for every day of the year, according to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2024. Still, the outlook is not quite as rosy as that tally would have you believe. To start, at least 85 fairs have died since 2019, including ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of Rhizome---Network Without Center Point, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 2024. Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen.
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| A Jurassic fossil and other rarities on show at Treasure House Fair | | The Royal Academy of Arts opens the 256th Summer Exhibition | | Dries Van Noten takes his exit |
A woolly rhinoceros skull to be sold at the Treasure House Fair. Thomas Woodham-Smith, a fair co-founder, said all the items on display were carefully cataloged, all legal. (Stone Gallery via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A pregnant fish lizard began its unlikely journey from southwest Germany to southwest London 180 million years ago. Soon, it will arrive in the English capital in fossil form to join other rare objects for sale at the Treasure House ... More | |
Installation view of the Summer Exhibition 2024 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 18 June - 18 August 2024. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy is presenting the 256th Summer Exhibition, a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. British sculptor Ann Christopher RA has co-ordinated this years Summer Exhibition ... More | |
The designer Dries Van Noten in the sprawling old warehouse that houses his Antwerp headquarters on June 10, 2024. (Ans Brys/The New York Times)
ANTWERP.- On a recent afternoon, designer Dries Van Noten sat in the sprawling old warehouse that houses his Antwerp headquarters, with its bare concrete walls, vintage oak cupboards and views over the citys harbor. He was altering a jacket for his coming menswear show: a nip here, a seam moved there. Then, ... More |
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| A bold Brazilian artist makes her U.S. debut, drawing on MoMA's walls | | Exhibition features eleven pigment prints from Guido Mocafico's Serpens series | | John Wilmerding, who helped give American art an identity, dies at 86 |
Brazilian artist TadáskÃa with her installation in progress in the street-level gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, where her show Projects: TadáskÃa recently opened, in New York, May 15, 2024. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art does not let just anyone draw on its walls. In fact, Brazilian artist TadáskÃa is the first to make her mark on the walls of the street-level gallery at MoMA where the recently opened show, Projects: TadáskÃa, is on view through Oct. 14. It comes at a moment of increased visibility for the artist, who is only ... More | |
Installation view. © Hamiltons Gallery, the artworks depicted in the photographs remain the rights of Guido Mocafico and are used courtesy of the artist and gallery. Photo: Prudence Cuming.
LONDON.- Hamiltons opened the first exhibition with Guido Mocafico in eight years. The show comprises eleven large format, unique, pigment prints from Mocaficos highly acclaimed Serpens series. Guido Mocafico is neither a scientist nor a collector of curiosities, but a photographer and lover of art who partakes in the vocabulary and colours of nature. He regards jellyfish, ... More | |
John Wilmerding, a professor of art at Princeton University, prepares "Green Gum Ball Machine" by Wayne Thiebaud for an exhibition at Acquavella Gallery in New York, Oct. 17, 2012. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- John Wilmerding, a towering figure in American art whose eclectic career as a scholar, museum curator and collector was instrumental in elevating the cultural significance and market value of painters such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Fitz Henry Lane, died June 6 in New York City. He was 86. His ... More |
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| rodolphe janssen presents Cornelia Baltes' second show at the gallery | | Bortolami announces representation of Christine Safa | | The Untitled Space opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Toronto-based artist Katrina Jurjans |
In many of the paintings, minutiae are scrutinized. Everything is fragmented and zoomed in on.
BRUSSELS.- Following her debut solo exhibition at Livourne 32 in 2022, rodolphe janssen is presenting Cornelia Baltes second show at the gallery, in the main space at Livourne 35. For this new exhibition, the Berlin-based artist activates the space with large, vividly pigmented paintings built from sprayed gradients, bold gestures, and fine brushwork. Cornelia Baltes is a sponge, ... More | |
Christine Safa in her studio. Paris 2022. Photo: Fabrice Gibert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christine Safa (b. 1994 in Chesnay, France) paints life in motion, rendering sites traversed as a series metaphysical notations felt and collected by the body. The French-Lebanese artist frequently moves across the Mediterranean, between her home and studio outside of Paris and her familys native city of Beirut. She captures the landscapes she passes ... More | |
"Hence living, hence magical" marks Jurjans' debut solo show in the United States and her first exhibition with The Untitled Space.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting hence living, hence magical, a solo exhibition of paintings by Toronto-based artist Katrina Jurjans. Curated by Indira Cesarine, the exhibit opened on June 13, 2024 and will be on view through June 22, 2024. "Hence living, hence magical" marks Jurjans' debut solo show in the ... More |
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| Kunsthal Aarhus opens 'Rhizome - Network Without Center Point' | | Martin Starger, influential shaper of TV and movies, dies at 92 | | The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College announces new Assistant Director for Engagement |
Luis Kürschner, Mother2Mother, 2023/2024. Durational performance. Courtesy of the artist.
AARHUS.- With more than 40 series of works created by eleven young artists from different countries, Kunsthal Aarhus presents a new exhibition spread across four galleries, the café, on the stairs, and outside. In botany, a rhizome is a root stem that extends horizontally throughout the ground. Unlike plant stems, which are vertical ... More | |
Martin Starger, president of ABC Entertainment, in 1974. (Jack Manning/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Martin Starger, who as a senior executive at ABC in the 1970s helped bring Happy Days, Roots, Rich Man, Poor Man and other shows to the small screen and the network nearly to the brink of No. 1 in prime time before turning to producing movies, most notably Robert Altmans Nashville, died May 31 at ... More | |
Justine Bae Bias. Photo: Travis Khachatoorian.
CLAREMONT, CA.- The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College announced the appointment of Justine Bae Bias as the museums new assistant director for engagement, effective immediately. Formerly the communications and engagement manager, Justine will now oversee all events and programs, including community outreach, student engagement, and ... More |
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Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2024: Pharaoh exhibition overview
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SFMOMA announces significant leadership appointmentsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced that Dee Minnite has been appointed as the museums new Chief Collections, Exhibitions and Design Officer. Minnite has held the position on an interim basis since August 2023 and will transition into the permanent appointment effective immediately. SFMOMA also announced that it has promoted Sheila Shin to Chief Operating Officer. Shin previously served as the museums Chief Experience Officer and will begin in her new role on August 1, 2024. Shin and Minnite are both part of SFMOMAs Executive Team and play critical roles in shaping the museums vision of radical hospitality through the creation of a broad range of exhibitions, public programs and community-focused initiatives. Their positions are essential to enacting SFMOMAs commitment to a collaborative ... More Tony predictions: Expect wins for 'Merrily We Roll Along' and 'Stereophonic'NEW YORK, NY.- Everyone loves a comeback story. And this year, Broadway will be celebrating one for the ages. Merrily We Roll Along, a Stephen Sondheim show that has long been one of musical theaters most storied flops, will cement its long-sought redemption Sunday by winning the Tony Award for best musical revival, according to my annual survey of Tony voters. This week I have connected, by phone or email, with just over a quarter of the 836 Tony voters and asked how they were voting. In a season in which lots of new musicals have admirers but none seem to have fully satisfied industry insiders, that race is tight, as are some of the key acting categories. But Merrily, more than any show since Hamilton, has won over not only the ticket-buying audience, which has made this production a significant hit, but also the group of producers, ... More Remo Saraceni, 89, dies; Inventor of the walking piano seen in 'Big'NEW YORK, NY.- Remo Saraceni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological fantasist best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced on in a beloved scene of the hit 1988 movie Big, died June 3 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He was 89. The cause was heart failure, said Benjamin Medaugh, his assistant and caretaker. Saraceni died at Medaughs home, where he had been living in recent years. Saracenis specialty was interactive electronics, he told New York magazine in 1976. His other inventions included a clock that could reply aloud when you asked it the time, a stethoscope stereo system that could boom out your heartbeat, and plexiglass clouds that lit up at the sound of a whistle with a pastel color appropriate for a rooms lighting. All were powered by what Saraceni (pronounced ... More Sunil Gupta presents a solo project in Yorkshire for the very first timeWAKEFIELD.- The Art House welcomes internationally renowned artist Sunil Gupta to present a solo project in Yorkshire for the very first time. The exhibition revisits Guptas significant project, Lovers: Ten Years On which he first began in 1984 to reframe the lives of gay couples and challenge commercial stereotypes in visual culture. Approaching a milestone 40th anniversary, the artist presents a selection of the original series, alongside brand-new large-scale photographs shown for the very first time, for the premiere of Lovers, Revisited, made with artist collaborator, and husband, Charan Singh. With a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing work that is pioneering in social and political commentary. The importance of giving space to Lovers: Ten ... More 36 hours in Brooklyn, New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn first established itself as a summertime destination for weary city dwellers over 150 years ago with beachside resorts and racetracks. These days the borough overflows with seasonal draws: block parties, street fairs, WNBA Liberty games, barbecues in the park and lazy afternoons on a stoop with beers and some tunes. Still, locals gripe about the humidity, the bugs, the city odors, on top of the ongoing gentrification that has rendered entire neighborhoods unrecognizable and unaffordable to longtime residents. This itinerary skips the most touristy and overdeveloped areas, including Williamsburg and Dumbo, and requires no restaurant reservations or advance planning. Instead, youll find concerts in Prospect Park, a superlative exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and fantastic food far and wide, from ... More Audiences are returning to the Met Opera, but not for everythingNEW YORK, NY.- Four years after the coronavirus pandemic brought the curtain down on the Metropolitan Opera, audiences are nearly back, the company announced Thursday. But the companys big bet on contemporary opera this season had mixed results. The Met, which has been facing serious fiscal challenges, said that the 2023-24 season ended this month with 72% paid attendance overall, approaching the 75% it had in the last full season before the pandemic. About a third of this season was devoted to contemporary operas, and those by living composers, as it works to connect with younger and more diverse audiences. Some were hits: Anthony Davis X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, drew 78% attendance, behind only Mozarts The Magic Flute, Bizets Carmen and Puccinis Turandot. But two recent operas that had drawn ... More A glorious 'Titanic,' returned from the depthsNEW YORK, NY.- Among the 1,500 people who died aboard the British liner RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, eight were musicians, playing through the ships last hours to solace themselves and their doomed companions. It seems only fitting, then, that among the many ways to love the splendid Encores! revival of Titanic, which opened Tuesday at New York City Center, the best is as a tribute to the power of music to address the largest and gravest human emotions. And what music! Though fully a modern theatrical work, the score by Maury Yeston harks back to the grandeur and pathos of period English symphonists. In Godspeed Titanic, his glorious hymn to the ship upon its departure, its Elgar and Vaughan Williams you hear. When Peter Stones book requires a more expository style to depict the class contrasts onboard, it often arrives ... More It's the summer of 'brats'NEW YORK, NY.- Sheer white tank tops. Skinny cigarettes (not vapes). Questionable 3 a.m. decisions. These may be some of the trappings of a brat, otherwise known as a fan of the new Charli XCX album by the same name. Its arrival last week ushered in not only a slate of potential songs of the summer, but also an intense identification with the term and a shift in mindset. I think theres a bravado to Charlis persona, and thats often what people see in her and what theyd like to see in themselves, said Biz Sherbert, a host of Nymphet Alumni, a culture podcast. I think the word brat is in on that wanting things to go your way, being badly behaved or self-centered, acting pouty and having an attitude. Kelly Chapman, a longtime Charli fan based in Washington, D.C., similarly defined a brat as someone who misbehaves in a cheeky ... More Giving 'Doctor Who' a dose of emotionLONDON.- Give-ING! That dress is giving! said Ncuti Gatwa with a burst of unbridled laughter. The newest Doctor Who had been shooting the same scene for several hours in Cardiff, Wales, where hangarlike spaces were teeming with crew and filled with sets and equipment for the show. (Yes, Whovians, the TARDIS was parked nearby.) Now, at the directors request, the new Doctor was improvising. Gatwa (whose first name is pronounced Shoo-ti) laughs a lot, often at himself. Why do I keep moving this footstool? he asked a few minutes later as he tried to get into position for yet another take. Because the art department isnt here to do it for you, teased Varada Sethu, who joins the Doctor and his current companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) for some adventures in Gatwas second season. I have to do everything myself! Gatwa ... More 'The Welkin' review: Is she guilty, pregnant or both?NEW YORK, NY.- The final word of The Welkin a soft oh of realization that left the theater breathless is more of an utterance, the coo of an innocent young babe. But the speaker isnt a child; shes a grown woman. And shes accused of murder. Its England in 1759, just around the time everyone is buzzing about the arrival of Halleys comet. This woman, Sally Poppy (played by Haley Wong), and her lover are accused of the killing and dismemberment of the young daughter of the rich family for which Sally worked. Shes set to hang, but theres a hitch: Sally claims shes pregnant. The Welkin is a kind of courtroom drama or, rather, a clever perversion of such; technically we dont see the courtroom, just a dim, dungeonlike room nearby where a forum of 12 matrons has been convened. Theyre not Sallys final adjudicators (that ... More A Hungarian rapper's bandwagon gets an unlikely new riderBUDAPEST.- The 22-year-old rapper is so popular he recently held three sold-out concerts at Hungarys largest stadium that even Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a stodgy champion of traditional values not known for being in tune with youth or its culture, claims he is a fan. Orban has said he particularly likes the song Rampapapam, a reggae-flavored ode to the joys of cannabis. Its a surprising choice given the prime ministers conservative views and one that raised questions about whether he has actually listened to it or just watched its video showing the musician playing soccer, the leaders favorite sport. But Attila Bauko, a Hungarian superstar better known as Azahriah, has won so many passionate fans in Hungary that Orban, who has had 14 years in power, appears to want some of the rappers energy and stardust. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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