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Sonia Boyce proposes, consequently, another reading of histories through the sonic. In working collaboratively with other black women, she unpacks a plenitude of silenced stories. Boyce proposes a very contemporary language in relation to fragmented forms that the viewer in experiencing the pavilion can piece together. Important questions of rehearsal as opposed to the perfect attuned, as well as relations between voices in a form of choir, in a distance, and at varying points in the show are posed.
by Farah Nayeri
VENICE.- Artist Sonia Boyce won Britain the top prize at the Venice Art Biennale, the worlds longest-running and most high-profile international exhibition of contemporary art. Feeling Her Way a sound installation of five Black British female musicians singing a cappella took the Golden Lion for best national participation. Boyce is the first Black woman to represent Britain at the Venice event. Saturdays other big prize, the Golden Lion for best artist in the Biennales central exhibition, was won by American artist Simone Leigh for her powerfully persuasive monumental sculptural opening to the Arsenale, one of the two main exhibition sites. The artist presented her work Brick House, a 16-foot-tall bronze of a Black woman with cornrows and a dome-shaped torso that combines the forms of a skirt and a clay house. It was first seen on the High Line in New York in 2019. Leigh is also representing the United States at this year ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its April Timed Marketplace Auction on Apr 25, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Shop the Marketplace with Artemis Gallery and you'll never know what you'll find next. Please note, this is a timed auction. Live phone bidding is not available. Happy bidding!
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| Simone Leigh wins Golden Lion | | Historic Yves Klein announced as highlight of Phillips' 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | | Centre Pompidou opens "Shirley Jaffe: An American Woman in Paris" | 
Simone Leigh at the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale, April 6, 2022. The acclaimed sculptor holds court at the pavilion, where she explores the burden of colonial histories and the promise of Black feminism. Sarah van Rij/The New York Times
VENICE.- For the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the United States Pavilion presents Simone Leigh: Sovereignty, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) in partnership with the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Simone Leigh: Sovereignty features a new body of work made for the United States Pavilion. Characterized by an interest in performativity and affect, Leighs expansive practice parses the construction of Black femme subjectivity. Her large-scale sculptural works join forms derived from vernacular architecture and the female body, rendering them via materials and processes associated with the artistic traditions of Africa and the African diaspora. Sovereignty commingles disparate histories and narratives, including those ... More | | 
Yves Klein, Relief Ãponge bleu sans titre (RE 49), 1961. Estimate: $14,000,000 - 18,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Joining Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale lineup is Yves Kleins Relief Ãponge Bleu Sans Titre (RE 49), 1961, a masterwork from his monumental Relief éponges series of 1958-1961. Dedicated to Kleins close friend and legendary photographer Charles Wilp, the work was created in the pivotal year of the important exhibition Yves Klein: Monochrome und Feuer at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, which marked the only institutional retrospective of the artists lifetime. Relief Ãponge Bleu Sans Titre (RE 49) will be offered at Phillips on 18 May with the estimate of $14-18 million, marking the first time that the work will be exhibited and offered in over a decade. Cheyenne Westphal, Global Chairwoman, said, Relief Ãponge Bleu Sans Titre (RE 49) is a masterpiece of the artists most sought-after series with its grand scale and historic provenance. Unifying the two most important material di ... More | | 
Shirley Jaffe, Untitled, 1963-64, 152,2 x 122,4 cm, oil on canvas - Centre Pompidou collection, dation 2020.
PARIS.- Shirley Jaffe (1923 - 2016), an American painter who settled in Paris in the 1950s, is a referential figure in abstract painting at the turn of of the 20th and 21st centuries. She claimed, provocatively, to have discovered Pierre Bonnard in New York, then Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol in Paris. Born in New Jersey in 1923, Shirley Jaffe studied at Cooper Union in New York, which she left for Paris, where she settled in 1949. A close friend of Jules Olitski, Al Held, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Sam Francis, she was quickly recognised as a major painter of the new abstraction. She was part of the community of American artists who settled in post-war France. She sublet Louise Bourgeoiss studio in the same street as Joan Mitchell, with whom she maintained a lively rivalry, particularly in the Galerie Fournier, which represented them for a long time. The American Cultural Centre in Paris exhibited her as part of a trio with Sam Francis and Kimber Smith in 1958. Following ... More |
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| A new body of works by Kehinde Wiley unveiled at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini | | The Coal Miner's Daughter and a canary yellow dress | | Family's private collection from historic Rawdon Hall comes to auction for first time | 
The series was conceptualized nearly three years ago at the advent of the pandemic while I was under lockdown in Dakar. --Kehinde Wiley
VENICE.- Curated by Christophe Leribault, the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence is hosted at Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the occasion of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. For this new body of work, Wiley sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts using the language of the fallen hero. The exhibition will include a collection of new monumental paintings and sculptures, expanding on his body of work DOWN from 2008. Initially inspired by Holbeins painting The Dead Christ in the Tomb as well as historical paintings and sculptures of fallen warriors and figures in the state of repose, Wiley created an unsettling series of prone Black bodies, re-conceptualizing classical pictorial forms to create a contemporary version of monumental portraiture, resounding with violence, pain, and death, as well as ecstasy. For this new body of work, Wiley has expanded these core thematic elements to meditate ... More | | 
Loretta Lynn's homemade performance costume; Smithsonians National Museum of American History.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This 1960s yellow gingham dress was made by Loretta Lynn and worn during her early concert performances on the road and as a featured singer on The Wilburn Brothers Show. Lynn recently donated the dress and several other items to the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. The dress indicates how, despite limited resources, she created her own aesthetic that connected with different audiences, eventually launching her to national stardom. Lynn has been writing and performing country music since the 1950s. Born in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, Kentucky, in 1932 and married at 15, she signed on to her first record label in 1960. A young mother who raised six children, some of her most affecting songs in the 1960s and 1970s portrayed the then often unspoken challenges of womens lives, including domestic abuse and social traumas. In 1972s Rated X, she confronted the enduring stigma cast upon divorced w ... More | | 
Five year old Lady Flora Mure-Campbell (1780-1840), later the Marchioness of Hastings. Estimate £2,500-£3,500 (Lot 291).
LONDON.- Dreweatts announced that it has been appointed to sell the contents of Rawdon Hall, home of the same family for more than 425 years. The historic house in Yorkshire, comprises an extensive collection of fine art, including family portraits, furniture and works of art, many of which have excitingly never come onto the market before. They will be offered in a sale titled Town & Country: The Collections of Charles Plante and Rawdon Hall at Dreweatts on May 10, 2022. The collection unveils the captivating history of the Rawdon Family from the early Baronets, to the Earls of Moira and the Marquesses of Hastings. Their actions would become significant in many ways, resulting in them becoming one of the most influential families in Ireland. Nick Snowden, a current family member and owner of Rawdon Hall is able to tell us that the land that the house sits on, may well have been in the family far longer than the house (more than 950 years), ... More |
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| Stellar acquisition to the Moderna Museet collection | | James Siena now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery | | 10 works from 2022 Dallas Art Fair to join Dallas Museum of Art's permanent collection | 
Louise Bonnet, Pisser Triptych, 2021-2022. Oil on linen, left and right panels: 84 x 70 inches (213.4 x 177.8 cm); center panel: 84 x 144 inches (213.4 x 365.8 cm). Photo: Jeff McLane.
STOCKHOLM.- The American Friends of the Moderna Museet acquires Pisser Triptych by Louise Bonnet on the eve of the opening days of the Venice Biennale 2022. This new large-scale triptych was commissioned for the main exhibition The Milk of Dreams. Louise Bonnet is one of 213 artists selected by curator Cecilia Alemani for the Venice Biennales main show The Milk of Dreams and her absurdist, discomfiting canvases seem like a natural fit for an exhibition named after a book by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Her large-scale triptych, reminiscent of an altarpiece, will have a prominent location in the middle of the Corderie dellArsenale. The figures that populate Louise Bonnets paintings walk a line between beauty and ugliness, between absurdist, knockabout comedy and extreme psychological and physiological ... More | | 
Chloasmia, 2022, Colored pencil on prepared linen, 75 x 59 7/8 inches, 190.5 x 152.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Siena (b. 1957, Oceanside, CA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. For over two decades, the artist has taught at New Yorks School of Visual Arts in the Masters of Fine Arts department. He is a board member of the Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; the National Academy of Design, New York, NY; and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In 2021, Siena was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY. Sienas work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Baronian Xippas, Brussels, Belgium; Dieu Donné, New York, NY; Galerie Xippas, Paris, France; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Pace Gallery, New York, NY; Pace Prints, New York, NY; Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; ... More | | 
Keer Tanchak, NK Catherine, 2022 (detail). Acrylic ink on paper. 14 x 17 in. Courtesy the artist and 12.26.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Art Fair and the Dallas Museum of Art today announced that ten artworks from this years fair will be added to the museums permanent collection. The acquisitions were funded by the sixth Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, an annual gift from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation that places works from the fair into the DMAs collection. Yesterday, the DMAs Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Vivian Li, Interim Chief Curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art Dr. Nicole R. Myers, and a group of fund donors previewed the fair, selecting artworks by the following ten artists for the museums collection: Sarah Awad, Xxavier Edward Carter, Kohshin Finley, Jessie Homer French, Athena LaTocha, Kaloki Nyamai, Krzysztof Strzelecki, Benjamin Styer, Keer Tanchak, and Evita Tezeno. The ... More |
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| 'Great Comet' producer hasn't paid royalties, composer says | | Alexandra Pirici presents Encyclopedia of Relations at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia | | The Pavilion of Singapore officially opens Shubigi Rao's Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book | 
Dave Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet, in a pre-Broadway run of the show in New York, May 4, 2013. Malloy has filed a court petition seeking the help of an arbitrator in his dispute with the producer Howard Kagan over royalties for international productions of the musical. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The creator of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 says the shows producer has refused to fully compensate him for international productions of the musical, and the artist is now going to court in an effort to force payment. Dave Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the show, has filed a petition in New York County Supreme Court asking a judge to appoint an arbitrator to settle his dispute with producer Howard Kagan. In the court documents, filed April 11, Malloy says he is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for productions of the musical that took place in Japan in 2019 and in Korea in 2021. The Great Comet, adapted from a section of the classic Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace, arrived on Broadway in 2016 after a series of off-Broadway and out-of-town ... More | | 
Performance view of Alexandra Pirici Encyclopedia of Relations (2022). Special project supported in part by Audemars Piguet Contemporary. Courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet.
VENICE.- Encyclopedia of Relations (2022) by artist Alexandra Pirici premiered as a Special Project at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Artistic Director of Biennale Arte 2022. Encyclopedia of Relations is supported in part by Audemars Piguet Contemporary and takes place in the Giardinis Central Pavilion from 23 April through 27 November 2022. Notably, Piricis artwork is the only performance in this years International Art Exhibition. Alexandra Pirici is known for staging ongoing performative actions that consider histories and social structures. A trained dancer, Pirici often assembles groups of performers into formations that she describes as live sculptures, which act, move, shift and sing. Her works are conceived as continuous actions that develop over long periods of time. Her practice focuses on making ... More | | 
Stamperia del Tintoretto, print workshop in the former studio of Renaissance painter Tintoretto, Venice, Italy. Image courtesy the artist, December 2021.
VENICE.- This year marks Singapores milestone 10th participation at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Approaching the Pavilion entrance, one steps between what appears to be sheets of paper holding us within its folds, much like the enveloping that occurs in the act of reading. Entering the hanging paper maze, its layers unfold to reveal not only the architecture of a book, but also Shubigi Raos journey of discovery into the world of stories centred around books, for hundreds of chronicles are at the core of this work. The next encounter is a multivocal filmic experience that explores, by way of personal confidences and poetic reflections, documentary and mytho-poetic languages, the tales of those at the frontlines of saving books and libraries. These people speak of smuggling volumes out of danger, preserving endangered languages and vanishing cultures, while sharing the sorrow of losing ... More |
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Rarely Seen: Zhang Daqian's Intoxicating Golden Blue-green Landscape
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 Rony Plesl presents a site-specific installation at La Biennale di VeneziaVENICE.- The House of Art Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic announced the exhibition Rony Plesl: Trees Grow from the Sky / Gli alberi crescono dal cielo as Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, now on view from through November 27, 2022. Created by Czech artist and sculptor Rony Plesl, the site-specific installation will unveil four large-scale glass sculptures in the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione in the Dorsoduro district with views of the Giudecca Canal. They are developed using an unprecedented and unique glass casting technology, allowing the creation of grand glass sculptures without any limitations. Curated by Lucie Drdova, Prague-based art historian, gallerist, and author, the exhibition coincides with the 2022 International Year of Glass as proclaimed by the United Nations ... More  She taught New York to singNEW YORK, NY.- Barbara Maier Gustern, a 4-foot-11 woman from the tiny town of Boonville, Indiana, exerted an improbable and little-known influence over New Yorks overlapping music scenes, guiding cabaret performers, stage actors and rock stars to get the most out of their voices. Gustern, who died last month, had a gift for unusual metaphors that made her teachings stick. In the bedroom of her 17th-floor apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where she gave lessons almost every day deep into her 80s, she would ask her students to build theaters inside their heads. Your tongue, Gustern said, is the stage. Your soft palette is the fly space. You must sing from the very back of stage, projecting your voice into the fly space, through a blowhole at the top of your head. Your blowhole these weird little tips that youre ... More  Hionas Gallery exhibits eight new "residue paintings" by Stephen MaineNEW YORK, NY.- Hionas Gallery is presenting Stephen Maine: Typologies. The gallery is exhibiting eight new residue paintings that, while emblematic of the artists distinctive relief print-like process and chromatically saturated palette, subtly depart from the field-oriented compositions for which he is known. Maines process begins with the creation of composite templates, or relief plates, made using extruded foam, plywood, modeling paste, and other materials. Each plate
acts as a compositional blueprint and determines the general distribution of paint across the canvas surface. Maine has fabricated dozens of plates over the last decade. According to the artist, every plate yields paintings of a certain type, yet the character of individual paintings is also determined by the vagaries of paint viscosity ... More  Saturn V launch vehicle digital computer memory module sold for $71,335 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer Memory Module sold for $71,335 according to Boston-based RR Auction. Produced by IBM for NASA, the module is a self-contained assembly with memory timing, drive, inhibit, and sensing circuits arranged around the core array for use in the launch vehicle. It has a capacity of 4,096-word locations (28 bits each) of primary storage, and up to eight of these modules could be grouped together for an overall capacity of 32KB. These memory modules were used in the Launch Vehicle's Digital Computer, which was installed within the Saturn IB and Saturn V Instrument Unit (IU) to support prelaunch checkout; navigation, guidance and attitude control; flight sequence control; and orbital checkout of vehicle systems. This served as the 'brains' of the Saturn flight control ... More  Renée Stout work acquired by The Zimmerli Art MuseumNEW YORK, NY.- Accola Griefen Fine Art announced the acquisition of Renée Stouts Black Wall by the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The acquisition was made possible through the generous support of Norman and Dianne Finkelstein. The work is currently on view in the museum's Art of the Americas Gallery. In her objects themselves, Stout has embedded the magic of art a bewitching artifice which is to say that her paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs are so carefully constructed and so authentically felt they conjure and sustain their own reality. Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic. Renée Stouts work explores the spiritual roots of her African American heritage, everyday life in her Washington DC neighborhood and current political events. She is known for working across ... More  Fondazione Prada opens "Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea"VENICE.- Human Brains is the result of an intensive investigative process undertaken since 2018 by Fondazione Prada in the field of neuroscience, driven by a deep interest to understand the human brain, the complexity of its functions, and its centrality to human history. The Human Brains initiative surveys different fields: from neurobiology to philosophy, from psychology to neurochemistry, from linguistics to artificial intelligence, and robotics. As stated by Miuccia Prada, President of Fondazione Prada, We are increasingly interested in relevant subjects that impact the lives of everyone, even when those topics are difficult to understand. For a cultural institution whose identity is rooted in the field of visual arts, dealing with science is an intellectual and political challenge: how do we make an exhibition about ideas and knowledge? ... More  Holabird Western Americana Collections is holding a Western Americana AuctionRENO, NV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs four-day Western Americana Auction begins today, April 21st, and runs through April 24th, with start times each day of 8 am Pacific time. The auction will be held online, via several platforms, as well as live in Holabirds gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. Hundreds of collectible lots will come up for bid. Todays offerings 597 lots in all will feature three major collecting categories: art, with just under 100 lots set to cross the auction block; Native Americana (a popular staple at Holabird auctions), featuring 65 lots; and the days star category philatelic, with 52 lots of first day covers, 172 lots of postcards and 71 lots of stamps. Nearly 300 lots of philatelic will be sold. Day 2, Friday, April 22nd, will be super-busy, with categories that include jewelry, attire, bottles, ... More  Pavilion of Denmark unveils Uffe Isolotto's haunting transhuman world, We Walked the EarthVENICE.- The Pavilion of Denmark at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia is presenting the installation We Walked the Earth, created by Uffe Isolotto and curated by Jacob Lillemose. Visitors step into a hyperrealistic world where elements from an idyllic Danish farm life of the past blend with strange sci-fi phenomena to create a haunting image of an uncertain present. Taking over the entire Pavilion, We Walked the Earth displays an unexpected drama of life and death that revolves around a family of three centaurs. Trying to cope with the challenges of a changing world, the family embodies an uneasy state of mind between despair and hope that speaks to the deep ambiguities of our current times. The Pavilion has been transformed into an uncanny farmhouse. Next to the entrance lies a heap of horse ... More  National Air and Space Museum receives leadership gift from Iridium for new "One World Connected" exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum has received a $3 million donation from Iridium to support the renovation of the museums flagship building on the National Mall. The One World Connected exhibition will tell the story of how satellites fostered the ease of making connections across vast distances and provided a new perspective of Earth as humanitys home. It is part of the museums ongoing transformation of all its galleries at the flagship building in Washington, D.C., and is scheduled to open in fall 2022. We are grateful to Iridium for this generous gift in support of One World Connected, said Teasel Muir-Harmony, space history curator at the museum. ... More  Museo di Palazzo Grimani opens Mary Weatherford's "The Flaying of Marsyas"VENICE.- Museo di Palazzo Grimani is presenting The Flaying of Marsyas, an exhibition of new paintings produced by Mary Weatherford between January and March 2021. The exhibition is designed in collaboration with architect and designer Kulapat Yantrasast and opens immediately prior to the commencement of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition takes place on the museums second floor. The works in The Flaying of Marsyas are inspired by Titians late titular masterpiece of 157076 in the collection of the Kroměřà Archdiocesan Museum, Czech Republic and reflect Weatherfords enduring fascination with the painting. Alluding to the Renaissance painters subdued palette, while paying tribute to the distinctive light of Venice, Weatherford uses Flashe paint and neon tubing to distill the older canvass ... More |
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WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904. Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 - March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1926, and became an American citizen in 1962. On December 9, 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried. In this image: Installation view.of exhibition of Willem de Kooningâs late paintings at Skarstedt. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2017.
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