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Retired photojournalist Na Kyung Taek at his exhibit of images of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement, in Gwangju, South Korea, June 13, 2024. The unsettling photos taken by Taek, whose identity remained secret for many years, helped bring international attention to former military dictator Chun Doo-hwan and his juntas brutal suppression of a pro-democracy uprising. (Youngrae Kim/The New York Times)
GWANGJU.- It is an iconic image a black-and-white photo of a blood-splattered student being clubbed by a paratrooper medic. It was the first photo to slip through the military cordon around Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980, exposing the brutal suppression of what would be known as the Gwangju Democratization Movement. But for years, the identity of the photographer an unassuming man named Na Kyung-taek remained a secret. Na dared not take credit for the photo and other unsettling images from Gwangju for fear of the military ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition views Rob Pruitt x Lizzi Bougatsos: Help Me Lift You Up Cur. Baptiste Pinteaux 24.05 - 13.07.24 Air de Paris, Romainville | Grand Paris Photo: Grégory Copitet .
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| Pace presents an exhibition of new and historic works by Huong Dodinh | | Artist salvages, transforms and recontextualizes materials extracted from the Mandalay Generating Station | | Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen moves into art |
Huong Dodinh, Sans titre, 1990 © Huong Dodinh.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of new and historic works by Huong Dodinh at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 3 to August 16. Titled TRANSCENDENCE, the show, which marks the artists first-ever solo presentation in the US, brings together paintings and works on paper she has created over the course of her career, from the 1960s to the present day. TRANSCENDENCE is accompanied by a new catalogue from Pace Publishing, which will be released during the exhibition. ... More | |
4107HP Cables, 2024. Rubber, copper, tape, and mixed media (Provenance: Oxnard Generating Station), 3 x 22 x 7 in. 3 x 22 x 7 in (in two parts). Photo: Thomas Barratt.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For his debut solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, New York-based artist Daniel Turner presents works created by salvaging, transforming and recontextualizing materials extracted from the Mandalay Generating Station, a decommissioned power plant located 60 miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Established in the mid-20th century, the Southern California ... More | |
In her studio in Amsterdam, the Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen works on Embers of The Mind, a canvas of tulle, for a coming show in Paris on June 13, 2024. (Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)
AMSTERDAM.- Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, who counts Beyoncé, Björk and Tilda Swinton among her regular clients, is known for dazzling haute couture pieces that resemble sculpture. Now shes aiming to show that the equation also works the other way around: Shes not a fashion designer but an artist who happens to make ... More |
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| Neighbors fight affordable housing, but need libraries. Can't we make a deal? | | "Vanessa Woods: lacuna" opens at Jack Fischer Gallery | | The Folger Library wants to reintroduce you to Shakespeare |
Inside the new library in the Inwood neighborhood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, June 4, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- Why cant we do more of this more easily? A handsome new library branch in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, had its soft opening Thursday. Its the second library in town during the past year or so to try something clever and innovative: partnering with a 100% affordable housing development. New subsidized apartments occupy a 12-floor tower above the library. These days, NIMBYs are ... More | |
Vanessa Woods, Push, 2023. Unique Collage, 10 x 8 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jack Fischer Gallery is presenting lacuna, a solo exhibition of new work by Vanessa Woods. Lacuna is on view from June 22 through July 27. Lacuna is Woods first exhibition in the gallery to feature 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional works including photographs, collages, casts, and plaster sculptures that interrogate the malleability of motherhood. In lacuna, Woods shows a body turned inside out and remade through her childrens bodies ... More | |
A 17th century printing press, with copies of Shakespeares First Folios in the background, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington on June 18, 2024. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Social media is awash with pictures of jaw-dropping libraries, elaborately styled home bookshelves and all manner of drool-worthy Library Porn. But for understated dazzle, its hard to compete with a wall in the new basement galleries of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. For decades, the librarys 82 copies of Shakespeares First Folio ... More |
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| Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Born Digital. Video art in the new millennium' | | DeSantis vetoes all arts grants in Florida | | High Museum of Art opens major solo presentation of Atlanta-born artist Tyler Mitchell |
Cao Fei, Cosplayers, 2004. Single-channel video, colour, sound; acquired as Betacam SP and DVD; PAL, 4:3, duration: 96. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2005, © Cao Fei.
ZURICH.- What happens when digital natives create an exhibition? They go in search of pixels and find them in the media art collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich. From 7 June to 29 September 2024, the Kunsthaus presents eleven works that embody the spirit of the new millennium, in a show that will appeal to art enthusiasts, video fans and tech nerds alike. Theres a hidden gem ... More | |
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in Derry, N.H., on Jan. 17, 2024. DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in art grants that were approved by state lawmakers. (John Tully/The New York Times)
MIAMI.- For the past 10 days, Richard Russell has been rattled, poring over budgets and working the phones in an attempt to limit the consequences of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis veto pen. Russell, general director of the Sarasota Opera on Floridas Gulf Coast, had expected his nonprofit organization to receive a state grant of about $70,000 ... More | |
Tyler Mitchell (American, born 1995), Untitled (Trust), 2018, archival pigment print, courtesy of the artist. © Tyler Mitchell.
ATLANTA, GA.- This summer, the High Museum of Art presents Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space (June 21-Dec. 1, 2024), a major exhibition featuring the trailblazing photographic artist and filmmakers seamless blend of fine art and fashion photography, along with a new photo-sculptural artwork. Mitchell (American, born 1995) centers Black self-determination and ... More |
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| Two American Collections totals $2,157,624 | | Exhibition features an artistic dialogue between traditional craftsmanship and modern artistic expression | | MAKI Gallery opens "Anne Kagioka: Rigoulet Undersurface" |
A continental enameled gold snuff box Austria or Germany, circa 1709 brought $50,400. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- In another strong showing for decorative arts and Old Masters, Christies Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis totaled $2,157,624. This single online sale, comprising more than 200 lots mostly ... More | |
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DUBAI.- Firetti Contemporary is presenting an exclusive event in collaboration with the historic glassmaking firm Moser, founded in 1857. This unique partnership showcases a selection of outstanding glass creations and a stunning fusion of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art, celebrating over 160 years of Moser's unparalleled expertise in glassmaking. Founded ... More | |
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TOKYO.- MAKI Gallery is presenting Undersurface, a solo exhibition by Kamakura-based artist Anne Kagioka Rigoulet. This exhibition, held at the Tennoz gallery space, marks the 10th anniversary of her Reflection series, which has been the main focus of her creative practice since its inception in 2014. The show reflects on the origins of this series and showcase the latest ... More |
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ZKM opens exhibition of works by Edith Dekyndt, William Forsythe, and Santiago SierraKARLSRUHE.- With his installation "Black Flags" (2014), U.S. choreographer William Forsythe, whose archive has been housed at ZKM since 2023, has programmed a complex, contrapuntal choreography for two large black flags mounted on industrial robots. The capacity of the machines to provide limitless executions with no spatial or temporal deviation whatsoever, transfers their analog choreographic task into the exceptional territory of the absolute, situating the choreography in ideal, but machinic isolation. The immersive photographic and sound installation "Black Flag" (2015) by Spanish concept and performance artist Santiago Sierra documents the raising of the black flag the iconic and universal symbol of the anarchist movement at the two most extreme points on Earth, the geographic North and South Poles. With this action, Sierra ... More Students kissed her feet for good luck. Now she's missing her head.NEW YORK, NY.- A marble statue of the Roman goddess of wisdom that presided over Wells College for 156 years, surviving a devastating fire in 1888 and an attempted kidnapping in 1975, was embraced by students as a symbol of resilience for generations. Until Minerva was decapitated by a backhoe. The statue was accidentally damaged during a hasty move this month after the college, nestled against one of the Finger Lakes in central New York, said financial challenges would make the spring semester its last. At a college where students have long kissed Minervas feet for good luck and referred to her as a fellow student, the beheading is an unavoidable metaphor for the angst surrounding the institutions sudden closure. Wells was a womens college for the bulk ... More James Cohan opens "Mother Lode: Material and Memory"NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Mother Lode: Material and Memory, organized by Abigail Ross Goodman, Molly Epstein, and Ellen Langan, on view from June 21 through July 26, 2024, at 48 and 52 Walker Street. Mother lode is a term used to indicate the primary vein of a valuable resource, or, more colloquially, to point to the real or imagined origin of something of great import or abundance. Plumbing the possibilities of this linguistic trope, this exhibition brings together more than forty artistic practices, choreographed in chapters as a collective cohabitation that offers myriad ruminations on beginnings. The artists included deploy both memory and material as generative forces, probing ideas of land as Mother Earth, the bonds of mother and child, the physical accumulation of experience, and the tending nature of ongoing ... More 36 hours in Ljubljana, SloveniaNEW YORK, NY.- A lifetime in travel has passed since Ljubljana was named the European Commissions green capital for 2016, but philosophically little has changed for the capital of Slovenia. Ljubljana is still an international model for sustainability, with more than 1,600 shared-bicycle docking sites, a car-free urban center and about 5,900 square feet of green space on average per citizen. It remains quintessentially Central European: Just look to the hilltop castle that guards the cobbled squares straddling the Ljubljanica River. Thats not to say this city of nearly 300,000, which is framed by the Julian and Kamnik-Savinja Alps and traces its history back more than 5,000 years, hasnt evolved. In recent years, Ljubljana opened Michelin-starred restaurants, UNESCO recognized the city for its urban design and, in classic Slovene recycle- ... More Iván Argote's "Levitate" examines the role of monuments in European citiesBERLIN.- Iván Argote is a visual artist and filmmaker. His sculptures, installations, films and interventions question our relationships with others, with power structures and with belief systems. Applying strategies that can be tender, affective or humorous, he adopts critical approaches to prevailing historical narratives. Argote organises interventions around monuments to propose new symbolic or political uses for public space. The Berlinische Galerie is screening two films where he takes a close look at public squares, their history and their significance to urban society: Levitate (2022, 25 min) and La Plaza del Chafleo (2018, 16 min). Levitate examines the role of monu- ments in European cities. Backed by striking performances, Argote investigates their function as symbols of colonial power. The film records actions he carried ... More Listening through the life of George CrumbNEW YORK, NY.- Its rare for a composer to quickly find a broad audience. It usually takes years, or even decades, and sometimes doesnt happen at all. American composer George Crumb, though, who was born in 1929 and died two years ago, reached wide prominence within a decade. He found his musical voice in the early 1960s, and by 1968 had won the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a bevy of grants and fellowships. Perhaps most important, his premieres were seen as genuine events, such as the pandemonium that was said to have greeted Ancient Voices of Children, his 1970 setting of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca for soprano, boy soprano and chamber ensemble. What explains Crumbs near-immediate assimilation to the musical mainstream? There was, first and foremost, his dizzying sonic imagination. Crumb ... More An unprecedented success: Nearly 120 000 tickets sold for The Horizon of Khufu in Old MontréalMONTREAL.- After only 19 weeks of presentation, this immersive expedition into ancient Egypt has won over Montréal audiences and tourists. Now extended until Labor Day weekend on September 1st, The Horizon of Khufu is no doubt the activity to do this summer! After being presented in major cultural capitals such as Paris, London, and Shanghai, The Horizon of Khufu is hitting Montréal with full force. With record pre-sales, astounding press coverage with over 50 mentions, and delighted audiences, the PHI team is extending this virtual reality experience due to popular demand! This unique 45-minute experience is the result of three years' research and development by the French company Emissive. Equipped with a virtual reality headset, visitors are transported more than 8,000 km from Montréal to the foot of Egypt's highest pyramid, for a journey back to the third millennium BC. ... More Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition featuring 14 photographs by Irving PennPARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac gallery and Pace Gallery present a collaborative exhibition featuring 14 photographs by Irving Penn, showcasing both his iconic and lesser-known beauty images. Curated by Tom Pecheux, the Global Beauty Director for YSL Beauty, this exhibition coincides with Paris Fashion Week Menswear, and celebrates Penns enduring influence on the history of photography. Renowned for the elegance and aesthetic simplicity of his style across fashion imagery, portraiture and experimental personal work, Irving Penn produced beauty photographs that are distinctive for their understated humour and technical concision. These photographs many made for Vogue during his 65-year tenure there illustrate concepts loosely related to the cosmetics featured in the magazine, often employing the same formal qualities ... More New exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center BRATTLEBORO, VT.- Eight new exhibits opened at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, June 22, featuring intriguing and diverse artmaking techniques, media, and themes, from sci-fi Sufism to the power of water, from the mythic qualities of animals to environmental wake-up calls. Five different curators have brought these exhibits to life, including BMAC Director of Exhibitions Sarah Freeman, who describes the new line-up of art and artists as one of abundance and offering. The exhibits include The In Between by Susan Brearey and Duane Slick, SpaceMosque by Saks Afridi, The River Between by Ilana Manolson, Stemming the Tide by Jessica Straus, Personal Nature by Mishel Valenton and Benedict Scheuer, and From Home/To Home by Sandglass Theater. Two new outdoor exhibitsA ... More It's the summer of Powell and Pressburger in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Toward the end of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgers Black Narcissus (1947), set at a convent high in the Himalayas, the crazed Sister Ruth sneaks up behind her perceived nemesis, Sister Clodagh, who is ringing the convents cliffside bell, and gives her a good shove. The scene, a classic in the Powell-Pressburger canon, is remarkable for many reasons. For one, the mountains are an illusion, conjured with paintings on glass and matte work at Pinewood Studios near London. Wind, the altitude, the beauty of the setting it must all be under our control, Powell recalled explaining to his collaborators. For another, the whole sequence was filmed to a precomposed score. Shooting action to music fascinated Powell. He and his filmmaking partner, Pressburger, would refine the technique in The Red Shoes (1948) ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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