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Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera. © Tate Photography, Andrew Dunkley.
PURCHASE, NY.- Provocative. Passionate. Intense. Tania Bruguera is outspoken about state-sponsored socialism, inhumane immigration policies, and censorship. Join the dialogue as this Cuban-born installation and performance artist, whose provocative works draw attention and occasional imprisonment, discusses her work, behavior art, and the relationship among art, politics, and life. Reservations required. $20 for non-members, free for members and campus community. Get tickets here The Neuberger Museum of Art is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577 on the campus of Purchase College. Tania Bruguera was the first recipient of the Neuberger Museums Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize, awarded to an innovative, international artist for an early career survey and catalogue. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day York Minster's Master stonemason John David works in his office above the Minster's Stoneyard in York, northern England on April 18, 2019. The stories of York Minster and Notre-Dame have faithfully traced each other's footsteps over the centuries. The Minster was completed in 1360 -- just 15 years after Notre-Dame -- and shares the same building materials and shape as its Parisian cousin. Thirty-five years ago it was York Minster in northern England that went up in flames after a bolt of lightning pierced its tower and sent flames licking across its thick oak roof. Speaking to AFP stonemason John David, one of the artisans who helped return York Minster to glory after a huge fire ravaged the northern English cathedral in 1984, believes that despite the challenges Notre-Dame in Paris can be fixed but it may take time. OLI SCARFF / AFP
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 | | Argentinian researchers discover an extraordinary 220 million year old animal cemetery in Argentina | | Exhibition at Almine Rech features paintings realized between 1960 and 2006 by Kenneth Noland | | 'Britain's Notre-Dame' tells fiery tale of restored glory | 
The diameter of this bone bed is King size, about two meters.
BUENOS AIRES (AGENCIA CTYS-UNLAM).- It is a surprising accumulation of fossils that would belong to dinosaurs, giant crocodiles and mammalian ancestors. In this "bed of bones", there are skulls and dismembered parts of, at least, seven or eight individuals, although there could be many more. Dr. Ricardo MartÃnez, a researcher at the Institute and Museum of Natural Sciences of the University of San Juan (IMCN), highlighted the CTyS-UNLaM Agency that it is a mass of almost bone against bone, there are no sediments; it is as if they had made a well and filled it with bones. In 2014, IMCN investigators had also released another bonebed, but that accumulation was not at all comparable to the one announced today. This is something impressive; it's as if, here, the carnivores had a well and were pulling the bones after the meal, joked the paleontologist. In times of re-releases of Pet Sematary, this finding is an increased remastering of the bed of bones found years ago in Balde de Leyes, which is anothe ... More | | 
Kenneth Noland, Comet, 1983. Acrylic on canvas, 215,9 x 176,8 cm 85 x 69 5/8 inches © 2019 The Kenneth Noland Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting the first exhibition by Kenneth Noland with the gallery organized in collaboration with the Paige Rense Noland 2008 Marital Trust and The Kenneth Noland Foundation. Rarely shown in Paris, and in France, this selection of works constitutes an important survey exhibition, featuring paintings realized between 1960 and 2006. Kenneth Noland ranks among the most recognized artists of the Color Field and Post Painterly Abstraction. Well-known for his colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes, he is considered as one of the great colorists of the 20th century by Karen Wilkin, the author of a monograph on Noland. His art was from start to finish an art of color, part of a long tradition that dates in the modern era to Impressionism, runs through Cézanne and Matisse, into the twentieth century, to Morris Louis, and Helen Frankenthaler. ... More | | 
A general view shows the exterior of York Minster in York, northern England, on April 18, 2019. The stories of York Minster and Notre-Dame have faithfully traced each other's footsteps over the centuries. OLI SCARFF / AFP.
YORK (AFP).- A bolt of lightning pierced its tower and flames licked across its thick oak roof. Thirty-five years ago it was York Minster in northern England that went up in flames. Chunks of timber soon came crashing down and John David, a stonemason, had to halt his rescue of the sacred treasures trapped inside one of Britain's most famous churches. David went on to help restore its glory through meticulous effort. He thinks Notre-Dame in Paris, which was engulfed by flames on Monday, can do the same over time. "If it takes 20 years to repair, it takes 20 years to repair," David told AFP in the church workshop, as masons carved chunks of limestone from a nearby quarry in this history-rich city. "Nowadays everyone wants things done in a hurry," David said, in reference to French President Emmanuel Macron's vow to rebuild the Parisian icon by the time the ... More |
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| | | SFMOMA explores nearly five decades of Suzanne Lacy's work | | Mark Manders opens his fourth solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | | Hugo Boss Prize exhibition featuring new works by Simone Leigh opens at Guggenheim Museum | 
The Crystal Quilt.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Co-organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here is the first major retrospective of Lacys fifty-year career. Conceived as one exhibition at two venues, the SFMOMA presentation features approximately seventy solo and collaborative works from Lacys earliest feminist performances and photographs to her recent immersive video installations. The YBCA presentation departs from the traditional retrospective format and focuses instead on an experimental approach to authorship and participation by exhibiting two of Lacys groundbreaking works, The Oakland Projects (19912001) and La piel de la memoria / Skin of Memory (1999), as an entry point to examine todays youth culture and media activism. Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here is jointly curated by Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts at SFMOMA; LucÃa Sanromán, director of Laboratorio Arte ... More | | 
Mark Manders, Installation view of Writing Yellow, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, April 13 May 24, 2019. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Mark Manders: Writing Yellow, on view at the gallerys New York location from April 13 May 24, 2019. For the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Manders presents a variety of sculptural works that continue his self portrait as a building an ongoing investigation into self-portraiture, architecture, language, and perception. The gallery exhibition coincides with Manders monumental Public Art Fund commission, currently on view at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park. Throughout his influential practice, Manders has written a continuous sculptural autobiography through objects and architecture. Over the past three decades the artist has developed a cohesive body of work that exists in its own realm, independent of a clear narrative ... More | | 
Simone Leigh, Panoptica, 2019. Terracotta pipe and chimney, steel, and raffia, 317.5 x 304.8 cm. Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Installation view: The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 19October 27,2019. Photo: David Heald © 2019 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of new work by artist Simone Leigh, winner of the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Leighs presentation includes new sculptures and a sound installation, as well as a printed broadsheet by cultural historian Saidiya Hartman and a film program featuring works by the artist and by director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. Selected by a jury of international critics and curators, Leigh is the twelfth artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone ... More |
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| | | Zheng Guogu's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. on view at MoMA PS1 | | Christie's for 1stdibs: Exclusive collaboration sold through 1stdibs | | Tourists follow 'Game of Thrones' trail in Northern Ireland | 
Zheng Guogu. Ultra Violet Visionary Transformation No.2. 2014-2015. Oil on canvas. 82 1/16 Ã 57 7/8″ (208.5 Ã 147 cm). Courtesy the artist.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Since the early 1990s, Zheng Guogu (Chinese, b. 1970) has harnessed a variety of media to consider the impact of globalization and digital technologies on contemporary Chinese life and tradition. Ranging from photography and calligraphy to sculpture, painting and landscape design, his works display an interest in shifting ecologies of energy. Since 2005, Zheng has gradually built and recomposed a large complex of buildings and gardens on the outskirts of his native Yangjiang, a coastal city in southern China. He invites family, fellow artists and friends to inhabit this utopian domain he calls Liao Garden, which includes living quarters, various social spaces, studios, a teahouse and numerous canals and ponds. This evolving landscape provides Zheng with a setting for experimentation that is rooted in tradition but anarchistically constructed outside ... More | | 
The offering features approximately 100 items of furniture and decorative objects with prices starting below $1,000. Photo: Pernille Loof.
NEW YORK, NY.- 1stdibs, the leading digital marketplace for the worlds most beautiful things, and Christies, the worlds leading art business, have jointly announced a collaboration that introduces a special collection presented by Christies available for purchase through 1stdibs. Starting May 1, 2019, Christies will be an exhibitor at the 1stdibs Gallery in New York City, also selling its Christies for 1stdibs collection exclusively through the new Christies digital storefront on 1stdibs.com. This will allow collectors to access Christies listings without having to wait for an auction. A preview of the collection has gone live online today, with a select number of works available for immediate purchase. The offering features approximately 100 items of furniture and decorative objects with prices starting below $1,000. The sale will feature property from various consignors, including ... More | | 
Master of Arms Will van der Kells poses with a replica Longclaw sword, the sword of Game of Thrones character Jon Snow, at the Castle Ward Estate in Strangford, northern Ireland. PAUL FAITH / AFP.
BELFAST (AFP).- Wielding a replica broadsword, Indian tourist Akshay Mannur duels with friends -- re-enacting scenes from "Game of Thrones" on the Northern Ireland pilgrimage trail for devotees of the blockbuster fantasy TV show. Since the blood and guts series began its rise to prominence in 2011, fans have started to flock to the coastal caves and ruined castles of the British province where much of the HBO television production was shot. "Every new step is like something new, it's more than my expectations," 23-year-old student Mannur marvelled. "It's a beautiful country -- Northern Ireland is just amazing." Tourism Northern Ireland estimates the magical show -- in its final season -- drew 120,000 visitors to the province in 2016, generating £30 million (35 million euros, $39 million). One in six visitors now comes to Northern ... More |
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| | | Kamel Mennour exhibits recently discovered Caravaggio painting in dialogue with work by Daniel Buren | | Thousands of old coins going into circulation | | Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Fairfield Porter | 
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PARIS.- Kamel Mennour is presenting for the first time in France, Judith and Holofernes, an exceptional painting by Caravaggiodiscovered in an attic in Toulouse in 2014 and authenticated in 2016 by the expert in Old Masters Ãric Turquintogether with Daniel Burens site-specific work, Pyramidal, haut-relief A5, travail situé. Before being placed on auction on the 27th of June under the direction of Marc Labarbe, this classic masterpiece by the uncontested master of Italian Baroquea tumultuous genius born in Milan in 1571, who died in Porto Ercole in 1610, responsible for only sixty five known works at the moment of the discoveryis in hypnotic and completely unprecedented dialogue with the resolutely contemporary work of the French artist (born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt). This striking face-to-face, majestically lit by light designer Madjid Hakimi, is being presented ... More | | 
This century old silver dime is an example of one of the types of historic, vintage coins going into circulation nationwide to celebrate National Coin Week, April 21-27, 2019.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- Check your change! You may find historic and potentially valuable old money when hundreds of rare coin dealers across the country deliberately put into circulation tens of thousands of collectible coins, some a century old. The Great American Coin Hunt® is one of the activities planned during the 96th annual National Coin Week, April 21-27, 2019. National Coin Week is sponsored by the nonprofit American Numismatic Association to celebrate the historical, cultural, artistic and economic importance of money as well as the enjoyment of coin and paper money collecting, according to the National Coin Week coordinator Andy Dickes. The theme of this years National Coin Week is Discover the Past, Envision ... More | | 
Fairfield Porter, Jerry, 1955, 1975 (detail). Oil on Canvas, 62 x 37 in. (157.48 x 93.98 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery opened an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Fairfield Porter [1907-1975]. The exhibition features eight small oil studies which have never been exhibited. They were completed in 1969-70 while Porter was teaching at Amherst College. Among the oil sketches is a study for the major 1969 painting Amherst Parking Lot No.1, now in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, HI. Another study, a view from the artist's studio of campus buildings in the snow, echoes the large Amherst snow paintings in the collection of the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. Additionally, the exhibition features a major portrait of the artists son, Jerry, and a painting of the Porter family home on South Main Street, in Southampton, NY. Having exhibited in New York since 1952, Porter quickly rose to prominence ... More |
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 Exhibition reflects Sarah Plimpton's unyielding interest in the pictorial mystery between space and formNEW YORK, NY.- The June Kelly Gallery is presenting Sarah Plimpton: New Paintings, an exhibition of work that reflects her unyielding interest in the pictorial mystery between space and form. The exhibition opened on April 18 and will remain on view through June 4. Plimpton no longer allows black to recede into the background or depth, writes Bruce Lawder. Rather she thrusts it right up to the picture plane, equal to whatever else we find there. Space moved up like this necessarily flattens the work, making it more suggestive of a wall. Then, if a wall, similar to wall painting, one can find isolated marks. Plimpton says "These are marks on a black world. Marks on the night. But these new paintings also show a transition to a world divided between night and day. Black and white. Small windows to another world of color appear here and there. Balance and compression, ... More Major survey of work by the acclaimed British artist Johnnie Cooper opens at Saatchi GalleryLONDON.- Entitled throe on throe, the exhibition comes at a time of heightened interest in the artist. In 2018, as part of its initiative to re-evaluate key twentieth and twenty-first-century artists, art publisher Black Dog Press produced a monograph documenting Coopers 50-year career; and this eagerly-awaited presentation his first in London in three decades will be complemented by further shows in the U.K. and America. Displayed across two galleries, the show is comprised of more than 50 paintings and sculptures, including works from the 1970s a time when Cooper appeared alongside Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth with his own solo exhibition to mark the Wakefield Silver Jubilee Festival and culminates with his most recent atmospheric large-scale oil and acrylic paintings.. Cooper describes his approach to painting as three dimensional; ... More Rachel Rossin's first solo exhibition in Germany on view at 14aHAMBURG.- 14a is presenting Rachel Rossins first solo exhibition in Germany. Rachel Rossin, who lives and works in New York, is a multimedia artist and self-taught programmer who works in painting, installation and virtual reality. In her work, Rossin draws together traditional art-making techniques, such as painting, with new technologies such as virtual reality and hologram projections to examine the slippage between the real and the digital, between perceptual and embodied space. Greasy Light presents a new body of work by the artist in which she refers to the smeariness of the quality of paint and color in translating space. Rossin applies thick and fleshy paint to the canvas with both an expressive and figurative gesture to highlight and describe the paints physical property. Rossin annotates the paint with hologram projections, a technology that ... More Tomorrow is the Question: ARoS opens group exhibition of international contemporary art AARHUS.- The questions we ask today are instrumental in shaping tomorrows world. Tomorrow is the Question focuses on our common future. A group exhibition of international contemporary art eliciting reflection and discussion of present and future challenges. Play a game of table tennis, see a red-hot globe, allow yourself to be cleansed by an all-enveloping interactive waterfall. ARoS first temporary exhibition in 2019 shows how it is possible, using art as a facilitator and catalyst, to highlight the biggest and most complex issues facing our time. The exhibition takes as its point of departure the UNs seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and invites the audience to reflect on the world of tomorrow. ARoS considers it of cardinal importance to show this exhibition at a time when new technologies andinventions emerge on a daily basis and the ... More H&H Classics to offer a 1982 AC 3000 mid engine MKII prototypeLONDON.- If something different, unique and unusual appeals to your taste then the next H&H Classics Auction Online on May 1st may have just the thing for you - this bright red 1982 AC 3000 mid engine MKII prototype estimated to sell for £18,000 to £22,000. And you dont have to leave home to bid thanks to H&H Classics Auction Online sales. Although, the AC 3000 ME prototype debuted at the 1973 Earls Court Motor Show, difficulties in obtaining Type Approval meant that it would be another six years before the mid-engined sportscar entered production. Hailed as the British equivalent of the Lancia Stratos - both machines feature wedge-shaped styling, fibreglass bodywork and proprietary V6 engines - its 'bathtub' steel chassis played host to substantial front / rear subframes and features an integral roll-over bar. Damian Jones of the H&H ... More FreedmanArt opens an exhibition of new paintings by Kit WhiteNEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt is presenting Walls and Occupied Spaces, new paintings by Kit White, opening April 16, 2019. The spaces in these paintings exist as metaphorical landscapes occupied by linear structures derived from both the organic and inorganic. Kit White's new work incorporates photographic images into his paintings as poignant backdrops to abstract lines. The photograph provides a material, worldly context for the drawing, which, though abstract, represents the real as an analog mark. This new series of works seek out images of land that have been scarred by conflict. Initially, the images were of contested spaces of what we have traditionally referred to as the Middle East, places where competing claims to land have led to war-like confrontations. Conflicts of all kinds, violent and non-violent, surround us and announce themselves through ... More The nature of sound and form illustrated in two new exhibitions at Bemis Center for Contemporary ArtsOMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts opened two new solo exhibitions, Alison ODaniel: Heavy Air and Lui Shtini: Tempos. The exhibitions will be on view through June 15, 2019. Alison ODaniel is a visual artist working across the mediums of film, performance, sculpture and installation. Structured as a call-and-response between these mediums, she creates cinema, performances, sound-dampening textiles, sculptures and large-scale installations that intend to visualize what it means to not have complete access to sound. Through collaborations with composers and musicians as well as the experiences of deaf and hard of hearing friends regarding sound, ODaniels work aims at building a visual, aural and haptic vocabulary as a means of storytelling. In Heavy Air, ODaniel continues her investigations into what it means to not have full access ... More Ming Fay's first exhibition with Sapar Contemporary on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting Beyond Nature, Ming Fays first exhibition with the gallery. Ming Fay: Beyond Nature features selected works of Shanghai-born, New York-based artist Ming Fay from the 1980s to the present. Like Alice in her uncanny wonderland, Fays oversized artificial fruits, towering plant forms, and intricate faux-skeletons transport us into a realm that simultaneously treats our senses and places us in a diminutive position to his awe-inducing manmade surrealist representations of nature. At a time when humankind is decimating the last of Earths megafauna and creating genetically modified seeds meant for a single harvest (suicide seeds), we have cast ourselves into the Anthropocene, where humans are the primary actors causing the death of our ecosystems in what might be termed as the sixth mass ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Martin Kersels opens at Mitchell-Innes & NashNEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting Cover Story, a solo exhibition of new work by Martin Kersels. On view at the gallerys Chelsea location, this is the artists second solo show with Mitchell-Innes & Nash and features a series of new sculptural wall pieces. Assembled largely with wood and found LP record sleeves, the works on view in Cover Story explore an aesthetic strategy that Kersels calls materially limited bricolage. Sharing in the visual and conceptual legacy of H.C. Westermann, Martin Kersels also draws influences from French new realists like Jacques Villeglé and Jean Tinguely, as well as from Dadaist collagists Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Hoch. Like his predecessors, Kerselss work strives for an aura of immediacy, shunning the eternal timelessness that is often sought in more traditional modes of art like oil painting or bronze ... More The Kingsborough Art Museum opens an exhibition of paintings by Frank LindBROOKLYN, NY.- The Kingsborough Art Museum announced its new exhibition, Time & Tide: Paintings by Frank Lind. Coinciding with the Kingsboroughs annual Eco-Festival, the show brings together Linds wondrous explorations of local seascapes with his Sea Level series, which addresses the devastating effects of climate change. Over twenty paintings are on view, including large-scale paintings and related studies. A native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Frank Lind came to New York in 1971 after graduating from Georgetown University. He received his MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where he later served as Chair of the Fine Arts Department (1991-99), as well as Acting Dean and Dean of the School of Art and Design (1999-2009). His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationwide, including solo shows at Brown University (RI), Tenri ... More Johnny Cash hits US Capitol as state replaces statuesWASHINGTON (AFP).- Music legend Johnny Cash will be immortalized with a statue in the US Capitol as his native state of Arkansas replaced divisive figures associated with white supremacy. Each US state sends two sculptures to the Statuary Hall, a grand gallery leading to the Capitol's Rotunda, and the century-old representatives of Arkansas have become increasingly controversial amid a nationwide push to bring down symbols of the racist Confederacy. Arkansas announced that one of its two statues -- traditionally in white marble -- would depict "Man in Black" Cash, whose songs of outlaws, prisoners and his own spiritual journey, sung in a forbidding baritone to a hard-edged country guitar, made him an icon across genres. Cash, who died in 2003 in Nashville, will be joined in the Statuary Hall by Daisy Bates, a crusading African American civil ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French illustrator Erté died April 21, 1990. Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 - 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials. He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
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