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An image via Isaac Julien and Victoria Miro, London/Venice of Danny Huston as Albert C. Barnes in the film Once Again
(Statues Never Die), standing by a portrait of Barnes. Isaac Juliens installation at the Barnes Foundation highlights the museums African sculptures even as it questions the ethics of their acquisition. Via Isaac Julien and Victoria Miro, London/Venice via The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Dazzled by the iconic Cézanne, Matisse and Seurat paintings, most visitors to the Barnes Foundation overlook the African sculptures. Yet to Albert C. Barnes, who founded the collection, they were central. He started acquiring African sculpture in 1922, the year he set up the foundation, because it had inspired Picasso, Modigliani and many other artists in France he supported. When the Foundation opens, Negro art will have a place among the great art manifestations of all times, he wrote to his Parisian dealer in 1923. Barnes thought an appreciation of African masterpieces would also advance the cause he fervently promoted alongside modern art: the advancement of African Americans in society. Testifying to his commitment, African sculpture was the subject of the first book published by the foundation, and the entrance of the original museum in Merion, a suburb of Philadelphia, featured tile and terra cotta designs modeled on African pieces in the collection. But the patronag ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jason Phu, everyone is dead, except for me. everything is futile, and i am tired. i wait in my little house, for the winter to take me 2022, installation view, Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Commissioned by ACCA and the Macfarlane Fund. Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne. Photograph: Andrew Curtis
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| Georgia Museum of Art director to retire in 2023 | | Hong Kong Palace Museum presents new exhibits in special exhibition | | Work has changed. So must its designs. | 
William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art.
ATHENS, GA.- Dr. William Underwood Eiland, who has served as director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia since 1992, recently announced that he will retire effective March 31, 2023. Under Eilands leadership, the Georgia Museum of Art has seen its collections, stature and reach grow dramatically. Since he became director, the museum has won more than 250 awards for its publications, programming, staff and exhibitions and become recognized as one of the leading university art museums in the country. Over that same period, its collection has grown exponentially, to total more than 17,000 objects. A native of Sprott, Alabama, Eiland has a doctoral degree from the University of Virginia and has written, edited and contributed to more than 60 publications. He oversaw the museums 1996 move across campus to a much larger contemporary building as well as a $20 million privately supported expansion ... More | | 
Attributed to Yu Shinan (558638), Copy of the Orchid Pavilion Preface in Running Script. © Hong Kong Palace Museum © 香港故宮文 化博物館.
HONG KONG.- As the Hong Kong Palace Museum enters its second month after its grand opening, the Museum is presenting the second rotation of the special exhibition The Making of Masterpieces: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Palace Museum in Gallery 8. Visitors to this exhibition have the rare opportunity to view fifteen precious early art treasures, including the highly anticipated masterpiece Nymph of the Luo River attributed to the Eastern Jin dynasty painter Gu Kaizhi (346407), a towering figure in the history of Chinese painting. Another iconic work on display is the Copy of the Orchid Pavilion Preface in Running Script attributed to the famed Tang dynasty calligrapher Yu Shinan (558638). The fifteen masterpieces featured are all grade-one national treasures, some of which are over 1,000 years of age. In the Palace Museums collection ... More | | 
A selection of lighting fixtures is displayed at the Herman Miller showroom in New York on June 22, 2022. Adam Powell/The New York Times.
by Brett Berk
NEW YORK, NY.- Ben Watson was in his happy place. Sitting in the showroom that doubles as an office above the Herman Miller flagship store on Park Avenue South and 21st Street in New York, Watson was enmeshed in groups of employees taking meetings and salespeople schmoozing clients surrounded by the nearly 100-year-old brands signature modern desks, tables and chairs. I dont know what the situation is in your world perhaps less of it is spent in offices? Watson, the 57-year-old president of Herman Miller, said to me, the formality of his buttoned-up chambray shirtjacket, white shirt and tie offset by his bare feet in black Birkenstock sandals. But its awesome to see folks spending time together here, our customers coming in, looking at things, thinking about what their ... More |
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| The mysterious dance of the cricket embryos | | Ippodo Gallery presents On the Axis: 'Works by Kota Arinaga and Kiyoko Morioka' | | What should an LGBTQ museum be? Approaches vary. | 
Dr. Taro Nakamura, a developmental biologist at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, on July 25, 2022. Nakamura engineered a strain of crickets with nuclei that glowed fluorescent green. Kosuke Okahara/The New York Times.
by Siobhan Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- In June, 100 fruit fly scientists gathered on the Greek island of Crete for their biennial meeting. Among them was Cassandra Extavour, a Canadian geneticist at Harvard University. Her lab works with fruit flies to study evolution and development evo devo. Most often, such scientists choose as their model organism the species Drosophila melanogaster a winged workhorse that has served as an insect collaborator on at least a few Nobel Prizes in physiology and medicine. But Extavour is also known for cultivating alternative species as model organisms. She is especially keen on the cricket, particularly Gryllus bimaculatus, the two-spotted field cricket, even ... More | | 
Kioyoko Morioka, Flower vase, 2022, 瓶子型花器, Ceramic. H10 3/4 x W6 7/8 x D6 7/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery is presenting On the Axis, Ippodos first-ever dual exhibition featuring 15 pieces by glass artist Kota Arinaga and 30 by porcelain ceramist Kiyoko Morioka. At first glance, the duality between Arinaga and Morioka is pronounced. Arinaga is a male artist, Morioka female. Arinaga works with the immediacy of glass, while Morioka the patience of kiln firing. And yet, both artists are fascinated by the arcs and axes of time, exploring its dichotomies and the dualities in their work. In the stillness of the exhibition, their explorations complement and challenge one another, so that the viewer can reflect on times passages and surprises as it warps or rushes, freezes or evolves. Both glass and clay materials are embedded with the passage of time, requiring expert craftsmanship and patience over an extended period to produce a precious work of art. Kota Arinaga began working with glass to create ... More | | 
The inaugural exhibition at Queer Britain, the first LGBTQ museum in London, on July 22, 2022. Alex Ingram/The New York Times.
by Tom Faber
LONDON.- It feels like a religious object, said Joseph Galliano-Doig, director of Queer Britain, a new museum here, gesturing toward a heavy oak door in the main exhibition room. Painted a sickly shade of mustard and studded with steel rivets, the door also had a tiny peephole for prison guards to look through. This is what Oscar Wilde was martyred behind, Galliano-Doig said. Its just horrendous. From 1895-97, Wilde was incarcerated for the crime of sodomy, destroying his reputation. He died in exile and poverty three years later at the age of 46. The object loomed over Queer Britains inaugural exhibition, a stark reminder of the danger and taboo being gay represented a century ago. But Galliano-Doig also saw it as representative of the door that was kicked down ... More |
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| Exhibition offers a fun and subversive look at what our clothes have to say about Western identities | | The National announces curators as the exhibition expands to Campbelltown Arts Centre | | Sydney Contemporary announces its most ambitious and diverse installation program, newly named AMPLIFY | 
Cant Bust Em denim jeans recovered from a mine in Goldfield, NV, circa 1890. Donated by Jeffrey Spielberg, Autry Museum; 2011.77.6.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- What stories do clothes tell? What do a pair of blue jeans or a plaid shirt say about the wearer and their identity? The exhibition Dress Codes, on view through January 8, 2023, at the Autry Museum of the American West, examines what we wear, how we wear it, and why through six enduring icons of Western style: blue jeans, the plaid shirt, the fringed leather jacket, the aloha shirt, the China Poblana dress, and the cowboy boot. Featuring more than 150 objectsincluding apparel drawn primarily from the Autrys extensive clothing and textile collection as well as art, photography, and historical artifactsthis exhibition excavates the histories embedded in these key garments and explores their connections to ideas of Western identity, tradition, individual freedom, hybridity, and reinvention. Dress Codes threads the stories of garments from a variety of cultural origins and trajectories to look at ... More | | 
Curators of The National 4: Australian Art Now (left to right) Jane Devery (MCA Australia), Beatrice Gralton (Art Gallery of NSW), Freja Carmichael (Carriageworks), Emily Rolfe (Campbelltown Arts Centre), and Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley (Carriageworks). Photo: Renee Nowytarger.
SYDNEY.- An all-female curatorial team will curate The National 4: Australian Art Now as the biennial survey of Australian contemporary art expands to Greater Sydney. Four of Sydneys leading cultural institutions the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present the next three editions (2023, 2025, 2027) of The National. The National 4: Australian Art Now curators are: Beatrice Gralton at the Art Gallery of NSW; Emily Rolfe at Campbelltown Arts Centre; Freja Carmichael and Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley at Carriageworks; and Jane Devery at the MCA Australia. Since the inaugural edition in 2017, the partnering institutions have concurrently presented this biennial exhibition showcasing the latest ideas ... More | | 
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Multi Armed Bi Head, 2020 bronze, 180 x 120 x 30 cm. Photographer Mark Pokorny. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney | Singapore.
SYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary, Australasias premier art fair, in partnership with MA Financial Group, today announced AMPLIFY the newly named and highly anticipated Installation Contemporary program. Designed to exhibit large-scale artworks in a diverse range of media, including moving-image, or more ambitious and conceptually driven projects that extend beyond the traditional booth presentation, AMPLIFY presents an opportunity to view innovative, site-specific, and interactive installations in the environment of Carriageworks. This years program is Curated by Annika Kristensen, Visual Arts Curator at Perth Festival, and Associate Curator at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Annika Kristensen, AMPLIFY Curator said, Amidst the atmosphere and hustle of the art fair, the works for AMPLIFY serve as interstices ... More |
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| South Etna Montauk Foundation opens an exhibition of work by Richard Mayhew | | Foreland opens solo exhibition by Henri Broyard the awardee of the 2022 Foreland Fellowship | | William Turner Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Simon Birch and Lawrence Gipe | 
Richard Mayhew, "Untitled," 2000. Watercolor on paper; 9 x 12 in (22.9 x 30.5 cm). Courtesy the artist, ACA Galleries, New York, and the South Etna Montauk Foundation, Montauk.
MONTAUK, NY.- South Etna Montauk Foundation devotes its gallery space to an exhibition of work by ninety-eight-year-old artist Richard Mayhew. Mayhew is best known for paintings that use dazzling, saturated color to render vast landscapes. The exhibition will comprise examples that span the range of his career from the early 1960s to 2019. The presentation, which follows a recent retrospective of Mayhews work at the Heckscher Museum of Art, represents a kind of homecoming for the artist, who was born in Amityville on Long Island, in 1924. Organized in close collaboration with ACA Galleries, the exhibition will be on view through October 15, 2022. Richard Mayhew roots all of his paintings in emotion: I use landscape ... More | | 
Henri P. Broyard, "CJ2," 2022. Acrylic, flashe, and spray paint on panel. 40" x 30".
CATSKILL NY .- Foreland is presenting CHICANE, a solo exhibition of new work by Henri Broyard on view from August 6September 25, 2022. Broyard is the awardee of the 2022 Foreland Fellowship, selected from a highly competitive group of nearly 100 applicants by a panel including Ebony Haynes (Director, 52 Walker) and Lumi Tan (Senior Curator, The Kitchen) to receive a 1,000 square foot studio space at Foreland for six months. In his work, Broyard investigates the history of painting and mark making in relation to the universe of fine art, while also examining how we perceive interior domestic space. An interior scene or a still-life serves as a point of departure to dig into abstraction, geometry, and personal history. Broyards compositions pull from found and family photos, screenshots of films, and his own digital photos ... More | | 
Simon Birch, Deep Burn King, oil on linen, 70.5 x 70.5.
SANTA MONICA.- William Turner Gallery in collaboration with GuY Hector (The Art House Global), is presenting an inaugural exhibit of paintings by British-born, Hong Kong-based artist Simon Birch. In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion. These large-scale renderings of figures in motion - are torn between attraction and repulsion as they twist and tumble through space. Birch delves into allegorical states of the human condition through his painterly poetics of cleaved color blocks disrupted with loose, painterly, gestural strokes. Intent on the inward, only vestiges of the external linger with allusions to what Hamlet described as, the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir ... More |
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 Sohn Fine Art presents an exhibition of photography highlighting the surrealistic marvels of the natural landscapeLENOX, MASS.- Sohn Fine Art presents Wonderland, a small group show featuring ethereal, mystical photography of the natural landscape by five diverse artists. The exhibition is on view July 22 September 5. The images that make up Wonderland are both based in reality and surrealistic. Focused on experience and presented in an Impressionistic form, these works highlight the wonders of the natural world and the human connection to it. Valda Bailey is a freelance photographer living in Sussex, England. Her approach to photography is informed by her background in painting, and her influences come as much from artists working in that medium as photography. Largely motivated by color and form, Baileys impressionistic ... More  Zeitz MOCAA opens international research and multi chapter exhibitionCAPE TOWN.- Following Invocations #1, a three-day gathering held at Zeitz MOCAA in March 2022, the museum announced the opening of the international research and multi chapter exhibition titled Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora. For the first time, Zeitz MOCAA brings together artists from across the African and Asian continents and their respective diasporas in one exhibition. We are extremely grateful to our sponsors and partners for the opportunity to present this project, says Thato Mogotsi, Assistant Curator at Zeitz MOCAA. Presented by Zeitz MOCAA in partnership, Indigo Waves and Other Stories is guest curated by the renowned art historians and curators Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with Michelangelo Corsaro, and in partnership with Gropius Bau ... More  Galeria Jaqueline Martins opens an exhibition of works by Ana Mazzei and Raúl DÃaz ReyesSÃO PAULO.- The Spanish artist Raul DÃaz Reyes invited Brazilian artist Ana Mazzei to collaborate with him on a project at TextielLab, the textile laboratory of Textiel Museum in the Netherlands. The work they are now showing in Brazil was made in TextielLab with the support of a Contemporary Art Promotion award Reyes received from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Housed in one of the worlds most important textile museums, TextielLab is an arts laboratory that gives artists access to both industrial and manual manufacturing techniques. Reyes invitation to Mazzei was born from a desire to bring their artistic practices closer, in what was a new challenge for both artists to work intensively in textiles for the first time, where they both started from the same lack of knowledge of the medium. The process was virtual, with the artists communicating ... More  James Clayden wins the 2022 Paul Guest PrizeBENDIGO.- Renowned Australian painter Gareth Sansom selected James Claydens Man in Hat with Woman flying past below as the winner of the 2022 edition of the Paul Guest Prize for contemporary drawing. Announced on Friday at the Paul Guest Prize exhibition opening celebrations, Sansom said Claydens work crept up on me. It was the first work I was drawn to when seeing the entries; I kept going back to it. For me, although it has this figurative title, its an abstract work, with abstract shapes juxtaposed in a very pleasing way. Its very fresh. I just love it. Id happily have this on my wall. Its not a trying-to-win-a-prize-work in fact, its quite humble, Sansom said. Clayden, a Melbourne based artist, teacher and film-maker whose work is held in several public collections, received $15,000 for the winning work, which will be exhibited ... More  Leila Heller Gallery presents Melis Buyruk's exhibition debut in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller Gallery is presenting Melis Buyruks debut in New York, with the solo show Habitat: Bloom on view from July 21st to September 2nd, 2022. The exhibition showcases seventeen porcelain works by Buyruk, where a ceramic topography of intricate flora and fauna are encased in wooden boxes, and granted their own habitat. In a mastery of porcelain, the traditionally feminized and overlooked art form associated with domestic life is reinterpreted as a medium that points to bio-futurist tensions. Marking Buyruks first exhibition in New York, Habitat: Bloom presents the first viewing of the Turkish artists large-scale works, which comes as a response to Leila Heller Gallerys New York exhibition space. Allowing for the deeper immersion into Buyruks intricate and delicate porcelain world, the larger works create for a more commanding visual confrontation with Buyruk ... More  Ron Mandos announces Marcos Kueh as winner of Young Blood Award 2022AMSTERDAM.- During today's award ceremony, Joop van Caldenborgh, Founder of Museum Voorlinden, announced that Marcos Kueh (KABK) is the recipient of the 2022 Ron Mandos Young Blood Award. Winning the award means that a work by Marcos Kueh will be placed in the permanent collection of Museum Voorlinden - Congratulations Marcos! "Marcos Kuehs work is of a raving beauty, through its visual power and craftsmanship he opens our eyes for the world of today, the world of yesterday and the world of tomorrow. As a young artist Marcos shows guts, ambition and vision and we are curious about his next steps as an artist." - Joop van Caldenborgh | Founder of Museum Voorlinden. Marcos Kueh is a textile artist from the Island of Borneo, with a professional background in Graphic Design and Advertising. His love affair with textiles started two years ... More  Rossi & Rossi presents 'A Collection in Two Acts' curated by Chris Wan, from the collection of Yuri van der LeestHONG KONG.- A Collection in Two Acts on view through September 16 at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong. Curated by Chris Wan, the exhibition utilises the private collection of Yuri van der Leest to present two frameworks of collectorship: one is institutional, such as museums and archives treating artworks as files to be dealt with under a given context of art history; the other is personal, like a private collection built with artworks as repositories of memories and personal encounters. Through the use of critical fabulation, the two modes of art collecting are juxtaposed to raise a question about the structure and agency in the art system. Critical fabulation, coined by Saidiya Hartman in her essay Venus in Two Acts, means a semi-fictional ... More  Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter and defender of Irving Berlin, dies at 95NEW YORK, NY.- Songwriter Irving Berlin defined a very American style of sunniness. Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) delighted in competition. Puttin On the Ritz made social mobility silly. White Christmas exalted innocence. With God Bless America, Berlin, an immigrant from Russia, wrote the unofficial second national anthem of his adopted home. Yet by the time he died at 101 in 1989, after years of avoiding the spotlight and restricting the use of his music, many puzzled over an apparent gap between Berlins art and his character. The man who wrote such wonderfully romantic songs as Cheek to Cheek, Always and Whatll I Do? appears to have been an egotist and a boor, book critic Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times wrote in 1990 in a review of a biography. In a news article the same year, the paper reported ... More  Eleen Lin joins C24 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced that painter Eleen Lin has joined the C24 Gallery artist roster. Born in Taiwan and growing up in Thailand with a Western education before emigrating to the United States, she is known for a colorful body of work that combines traditional styles and techniques with modern imagery, patterns, and textures, reiterating folklore and classical literature into contemporized cross-cultural narratives. In her long-term, ongoing series, Mythopoeia, Lin takes on Herman Melvilles classic man vs. nature chronicle, Moby Dick with a surprising twist. Inspired by a series of mistranslations of the epic novel from English into Mandarin, she combines recognizable elements of Melvilles narrative with mythological references and allusions to historical and current events, cultural artifacts, and global politics. Lins process ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Emil Nolde was born August 07, 1867. Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 â 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals. In this image: Members of the media take a look at some of the paintings by German artist Emil Nolde presented at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. Painting at left is: Leute Im Dortkrug, (At the Village Hotel).
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