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Matisses The Painters Family (1911), commissioned by his Russian patron Sergei Shchukin. Matisses daughter Marguerite (French for daisy) wears a dress covered in the same flowers that reappear on paintings and drawings her father made of her in the nude. Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/The Museum of Modern Art via The New York Times.
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK, NY.- A flowered dress. A naked teenager. A Russian millionaire. A fancy room that hides secrets. Sounds like promotional copy for a true-crime drama, but I recently spotted its plot in an icon of modern art, The Red Studio, painted in 1911 by Henri Matisse. That huge canvas, portraying the fancy atelier that Matisse had just built for himself and the artworks that hung in it, is the subject of a brilliantly focused exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art. My colleague Roberta Smith described Matisse: The Red Studio as spectacular when it opened in May, and I couldnt agree more. Art lovers will want to catch the exhibition, or catch it again and again, before it closes Sept. 10. I had seen The Red Studio before it has lived at MoMA for decades but it took me three visits to this latest show to winkle out a story that, for something like 100 years now, has lain camouflaged beneath the paintings red surface. Almost si ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From the 6th of August to the 4th of December 2022, the Palazzo di Città in Cagliari hosts the Corto Maltese Towards new routes exhibition. Over 200 original works, including drawings, watercolors, very rare panels and an original documentary, will retrace the journeys of the famous adventurer born from the genius of Hugo Pratt, defined by many as the creator of illustrated literature.
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| Tribal Art London returns to The Mall Galleries in London next month | | Hirshhorn presents exhibition showcasing a century of art by nearly 50 pathbreaking women and nonbinary artists | | Exhibition presents early artworks that were pivotal in the development of Christo's vision | 
A very fine miniature Baule figure C1900. Ex European collection. 12cm tall. Adam Prout.
LONDON.- Tribal Art London returns 15 - 18 September 2022 with its first live event post-Covid and the 15th edition of the fair. The UKs premier event in the field of ethnographic culture and tribal art takes place at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1. TAL brings together more than 20 exhibitors, internationally-reputable specialists in fine and original tribal works of art drawn from all corners of the globe; Oceania, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, creating an epicentre of world culture just a stones throw from St Jamess Park. An important focal point in the year for private collectors, interior designers and institutions looking for extraordinary objects, Tribal Art London attracts an international crowd. An exciting diversity of works are for sale at prices ranging from the low £100s to over £20,000. Tribal Art London has always prided itself on being a close-knit community of dealers ... More | | 
Alma Thomas, Earth Sermon - Beauty, Love And Peace, 1971. Acrylic on canvas. 76 Ã 52 1/8 in. (182.9 Ã 132.4 cm). The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980. Photo by Cathy Carver.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is presenting Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, an exhibition devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorns collection. The exhibition brings together almost a century of work in a range of media drawn exclusively from the museums holdings, beginning with early works by Carlotta Copron, Barbara Hepworth and Julia Thecla. One-quarter of the artworks have been made in the past decade by the likes of Loie Hollowell, Rachel Jones, Deana Lawson, Sondra Perry and Kiyan Williams. Recent acquisitions include art works by Dana Awartani, Zanele Muholi and Billie Zangewa that reflect the museums mission to highlight global voices. Many works from ... More | | 
Paris, 1960: Partial view of Christos storeroom in the basement of Jeanne-Claudes apartment at 4, avenue Raymond Poincaré © Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. Photo: René Bertholo. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian Paris is presenting its first exhibition dedicated to Christo, presented in collaboration with the artists estate. Featuring sculptures made in Paris between 1958 and 1963, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, the exhibition encompasses the earliest examples of Christos wrapped objects and barrel structures, together with key works from his rarely shown Surfaces dEmpaquetage and Cratères series. The exhibition unfolds across two floors of Gagosians rue de Ponthieu gallery, not far from Christos first Paris studio. Christo moved to Paris in 1958, establishing a studio in a small maids room at 14 rue de Saint Sénoch in the 17th arrondissement. Here, he created his first Wrapped Objects and barrel structures, elements that became dominant ... More |
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| Virginia Museum of Art announces upcoming exhibitions | | Exhibition of works by Zhuang Hong Yi on view at SmithDavidson Gallery Amsterdam | | Ukrainian cockerel jug gifted to the Prime Minister goes on display to delegates | 
Jessie with Guitar, 1957, Thomas Hart Benton (American, 18891975), oil on canvas, 42 x 30 ½ in. Jessie Benton Collection © 2022 T.H. and R.P. Benton Trusts / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
RICHMOND, VA.- Truthful Witnessing is the third installation in a series of exhibitions exploring the four volumes of the Black Photographers Annual, published between 1973 and 1980, featuring a range of artists, including Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowans, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Smith and Ming Smith. This series of exhibitions is sponsored by Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher and Dr. Betty Neal Crutcher and is curated by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at VMFA. Photography Gallery; free. To commemorate the state visit of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of Portugal, in June 2018, this exhibition presents the work of six Portuguese artists, whose paintings, photographs and other works on paper were chosen to reflect the range and vitality of contemporary art in Portugal. The 20 featured works of art are coming on ... More | | 
The exhibition Energize is on view from August 26 until October 22, 2022. © Zhuang Hong Yi, courtesy SmithDavidson Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Zhuang Hong Yi, SmithDavidson Gallery opened the Amsterdam cultural season with a solo show of the renowned artist presenting an overview of the iconic Landscape and Flowerbed series and in doing so SDG shows the evolution and variety of this artist, and the distinct signature Zhuang Hong Yi has developed over his career spanning almost 25 years since his first exhibition at the Groninger Museum in Amsterdam back in 1999. During the long standing friendship of well over 15 years with David Smith & Gabrielle Davidson the work by Zhuang has been increasingly recognized by an international private & institutional collector base for its originality and strong energy. Born in 1962 in the Sichuan province, Zhuang Hong-yi is one of China's most influential artists. It is his combination of Chinese background and European influence that marks Zhuang's work. Embracing his present without losing his past, ... More | | 
Ukrainian cockerel jug gifted to the Prime Minister goes on display.
EDINBURGH.- A cockerel-shaped ceramic jug gifted to the Prime Minister in Kyiv has gone on display to delegates at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit. The jug, which has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance, is being displayed at the biennial event to demonstrate the ongoing international solidarity with Ukraine following the illegal invasion of the country by Russia. The Prime Minister and Volodymyr Zelensky received a pair of matching jugs from a woman in Kharkiv while walking through the streets of the Ukrainian capital in April. This type of jug became emblematic of Ukraines strong resistance against the invading Russian forces after photographer Elizaveta Servatynska captured an image of a similar jug sitting undamaged on a kitchen cabinet in a high-rise apartment block in March. The building, in Borodyanka, had been badly hit by Russian bombing. In Ukrainian folklore, cockerels are believed to have powers of protection. When the image of the undamaged jug went viral on socia ... More |
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| Sotheby's Cologne Modern & Contemporary Auction achieves €4,3 million | | William Paterson University Galleries to present two new exhibitions | | New Museum announces exhibition program Fall 2022-Spring 2023 | 
Georg Scholz, Die StraÃe (The Street). Gouache on paper, 33.5 by 22.5 cm., 13⅛ by 8¾ in. Framed: 43 by 32.7 cm., 17 by 12¾ in. Executed in 1919. Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000.
COLOGNE.- This year's spring sale of Modern & Contemporary Auction, organised at the Palais Oppenheim in Cologne, convinced international buyers with a selection of works fresh to the market and of high quality, which was reflected in the excellent overall result of more than 4,3 million; this corresponds to more than double the result achieved in the inaugural auction of the previous year. This is a success story that we would like to build on in September: From 1 7 September 2022, the Modern & Contemporary Auction at Sothebys Cologne will again feature a series of paintings, works on paper and sculptures by well-known national and international artists ranging from modern to contemporary art, including an outstanding group of colourful works from a prominent Dutch private collection, amongst them a large-scale work by Katharina Grosse as well as a dynamic painting by the German artist Walther Stöhrer. The ... More | | 
China, Han Womans Robe, c. 1870-80, red silk damask, silk embroidery, natural dyes, dimensions variable, courtesy of the Allentown Art Museum: Gift of the Neel Family, 2007 (2007.005).
WAYNE, NJ.- A Durable Thread: The Silk Road from China to America reimagines the Silk Road by connecting China to the Silk City of Paterson, New Jersey, bringing together a world of silk objects from Asia, Europe, and North America from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather than positing what silk can tell us about Paterson, this exhibition asks viewers to reconsider Patersons role in the global silk trade in relation to longstanding silk traditions. Curated by Professor He Zhang and Casey Mathern, director of the University Galleries, A Durable Thread positions Paterson within a global web of silk processing and production through textiles, historical dress, and drawings and documents created along the historical trade route as well as outside its typical boundaries. Together, these materials embody how silk opened up international and transnational trade, education, and industrialization, transforming the social ... More | | 
Left: Miles Greenberg, Late October, 2020 (detail). La Totale, Studio Orta-Les Moulins / Galeria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France. Video still courtesy of the artist; Right: Vivian Caccuri, TabomBass, 2016-2019 (detail). Wood, speakers, candles, mic stands, mono audio. Photo: Luiza Sigulem.
NEW YORK, NY.- New Museum today announces its advance exhibition schedule through Spring 2023. The program includes the first New York survey of work by Theaster Gates (b. 1973, Chicago, IL; lives and works in Chicago, IL), encompassing the full range of the artists practice across a variety of media creating communal spaces for preservation, remembrance, and exchange; a 25-year survey of work by Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi, Kenya; lives and works in New York, NY, and Nairobi, Kenya), tracing the development of her hybrid forms fusing mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references; and an exhibition of newly commissioned, experimental works by Vivian Caccuri (b. 1986, São Paulo, Brazil; lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Miles Greenberg (b. 1997, Montreal, ... More |
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| Silverlens announces presentations for upcoming global art fairs | | Bournemouth firmly plants its flag as major international contemporary art destination | | Donna Huanca invites you to enter the PORTAL DE PLATA | 
Pow Martinez, medic, 2022, oil on canvas.
MANILA.- Silverlens, the established Manila-based gallery known for its robust roster of Asian Diaspora artists, announced their presentations for major global art fairs Frieze Seoul, The Armory Show, and Frieze London. Silverlens will feature works by artists Yee I-Lann, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Pow Martinez, Mit Jai Inn, Maria Taniguchi, and Martha Atienza. In addition to Silverlens participation in art fairs around the world, the gallery will open its first New York outpost in Chelsea this September 8th, 2022 an expansion that is necessitated by the growth of the gallerys program and the drive to bring a broader representation of Southeast Asian, Asian Pacific, and Diasporic artists into the wider framework of the contemporary art dialogue. Silverlens New Yorks inaugural shows will feature works by Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann. At Frieze Seoul, Yee I-Lann is presenting individual pieces ... More | | 
Airship Orchestra.
BOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT, the largest artist-led space in the UK, announced Airship Orchestra for GIANT OFFSITE, a series of outdoor installations supported by BCP Council and Bournemouth Town Centre BID, taking place in The Triangle, in the heart of Bournemouth's independent quarter. Early autumn is shaping up to be Art Month in Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole. Opening up with the globally renowned Airship Orchestra, that runs for 4 weeks, and finishing with the Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, is a further push forward for the region to becoming a Festival Coast of culture. Marking its European premiere, Airship Orchestra will be the colossal centrepiece for Art Month and will be in situ 8 September 9 October 2022. Airship Orchestra is an ambitious, joyous intervention that will see several large-scale inflatable, interactive sculptures installed in the town centre. Epitomising the ... More | | 
Detail from Donna Huanca, Amyruca, 2017. Oil, acrylic, pigment on digital print on canvas. 285 x 190 cm Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin.
LONDON.- Donna Huanca (b. 1980, USA), known for her immersive painterly and multi-sensory installations, concludes Whitechapel Gallerys series of artist-curated displays drawn from the collection of the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation with an invitation to enter PORTAL DE PLATA (Silver Gate). In this final display, Huanca brings together paintings and sculptures paired with a specially commissioned scent and sound work by the artist to address the entangled relationship between colonialism, displacement, and the state of self-recognition. On entry into the PORTAL DE PLATA, a large circular curtained structure conceived by Huanca, viewers will encounter a dark blue wall pierced with antique silver spoons, a reference to Huancas Bolivian heritage. In Bolivian folklore spoons represent the womb, however here they are inverted a spear rather than a receptacle. ... More |
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Okwui Okpokwasili and Saidiya Hartman in conversation
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 Bright lights, big city, niche fameNEW YORK, NY.- At Lucien, the always crowded art-world-adjacent French restaurant in the East Village, there is a long table right next to the curb that did not exist until last Thanksgiving, which is when publicist Kaitlin Phillips decided that it must. Its Table 0, she explained one night as she flitted from spot to spot, lap to lap, finishing her friends steaks and pouring from a steroidal, Instagram-friendly jeroboam of Champagne. They can never tell me they dont have a table for me because, technically, this table doesnt even exist. Oh, but it does. On a recent Friday, it was crowded with a smoking, drinking, carefully curated crowd that included musician Dev Hynes; David Velasco, editor-in-chief of Artforum; cult comic Lauren Servideo; artist Sarah Morris; and the door attendant from the club Pauls Casablanca, who looks like a skinnier version ... More  Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy, drawing record audiences, extended to November 27SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Drawing over 130,000 visitors in just 18 weeks, Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy is one of the Fine Arts Museums most sought-after fashion exhibitions of the past decade. Over 80 exquisite ensembles by Chinas leading couturier and accompanying programming have enticed new and returning visitors to the Legion of Honor throughout the run of the exhibition. About ⅓ of the creations are displayed in the museums permanent collection galleries, highlighting the historical and iconographical references displayed in the ensembles, enabling another 45,000 visitors to experience Guo Peis vision. This dual nature extends the exhibitions reach to 175,000. With enthusiasm and excitement around Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy growing exponentially into its final days, the Museums today announce the ... More  Benton Museum of Art presents installation by Kameelah Janan RasheedPOMONA, CA.- Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner who engages with a range of processessprawling Xerox-based installations, large-scale diagrammatic prints, public art, publications, video, and practices based on chanceto explore the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished. Her forthcoming exhibition at the Benton Museum of Art, Worshipping at the Altar of Certainty: 1985 is a site-specific installation that uses this wide-ranging method to challenge a centralized approach to knowledge by considering how we learn. In its first iteration at the Williams College Museum of Art, the installation consisted of large-scale prints, poems collaged directly onto the wall using excerpts of text, and a free-standing sculpture arranged throughout a temple-like rotunda, a space that served as the colleges first library when it was ... More  Palazzo di Città in Cagliari hosts the Corto Maltese Towards new routes exhibitionCAGLIARI.- From the 6th of August to the 4th of December 2022, the Palazzo di Città in Cagliari hosts the Corto Maltese Towards new routes exhibition. Over 200 original works, including drawings, watercolors, very rare panels and an original documentary, will retrace the journeys of the famous adventurer born from the genius of Hugo Pratt, defined by many as the creator of illustrated literature. It was 1967 when Corto Maltese made his appearance on Italian newsstands in the pages of the Sgt. Kirk magazine with the saga Una ballata del mare salato. From then on, the character, born from the internationally recognized brilliance of Hugo Pratt, quickly established himself in the public imagination as the quintessential romantic anti-hero, a gentleman adventurer and a sea dog. The location of Cagliari and the island itself, surrounded by a sea that strongly ... More  Virginia Patton Moss, 'It's a Wonderful Life' actress, dies at 97NEW YORK, NY.- Virginia Patton Moss, the last surviving adult member of the cast of Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life, who, three years after that film was released, left Hollywood to find her own wonderful life raising a family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, died on Aug. 18 in Albany, Georgia. She was 97. The death, at an assisted living facility, was confirmed by her son, Michael Cruse Moss. As Virginia Patton, she began her movie career at 18. She had appeared in 10 films, mostly in uncredited roles, when she was cast in Its a Wonderful Life (1946), which stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a frustrated banker in the town of Bedford Falls who, when he faces financial ruin, contemplates suicide, but who is saved by a guardian angel who shows him what the lives of everybody in town would have been like without him. Patton appears in the film ... More  Decades later, a composer revisits the piano concertoNEW YORK, NY.- It took composer William Bolcom more than 40 years to follow his first piano concerto with a second one. When Bolcom was putting the finishing touches on that first concerto, in 1976, he had already gained fame as part of the eras ragtime revival. A pianist as well, he interpreted pieces by Scott Joplin and other originators, while also contributing to a new wave of writing for the form, on albums like Heliotrope Bouquet. Milestones came after the concertos premiere. Bolcoms prismatic Twelve New Etudes for Piano which contained a crucial dollop of ragging energy won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988. That decade, his expansive and astute setting of William Blakes Songs of Innocence and of Experience was a polyglot achievement, full of music that might take stylistic succor from reggae or Tin Pan Alley, from one ... More  The national museum of Chateaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau presents works by Karine LavalPARIS.- The national museum of Chateaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau is presenting a solo exhibition by artist Karine Laval. On the occasion of her exhibition in the gardens of the Château de Malmaison and the park of Bois-Préau, Karine Laval designed an artistic route with free access, intended for visitors and walkers, combining in-situ creations and a selection of works from her series 'Heterotopia'. This artistic route highlighting the variety of flora and viewpoints in the gardens of Malmaison and the park of Bois-Préau will strengthen the link between the castle of Malmaison and that of Bois-Préau, just before the reopening of the latter to the public. In view of the variety of her exhibition venues, museums or galleries, metro station in New York or airport in San Francisco, department stores in Paris such as Bon Marché and La Samaritaine (Hotel Cheval ... More  New book offers a portrait of humanity in the post-industrial landscape of the New Jersey MeadowlandsNEW YORK, NY.- Secaucus, New Jersey is partially surrounded by the marshes, inlets, and wetlands known as the Meadowlands. The ecosystems have been severely impacted by years of landfills and other environmental abuses, but it is what is found and what remains in this region that photographer Nicholas Pollack works to convey in his photographic project and book Meadow (Hirmer, October 2022). In his essay contributed for the book, author Robert Sullivan reframes the perspective of the devastated, the forgotten, and the seemingly ignorable by asking, "What if we consider the devastation not for whats devastated but for what has survived?" In seeking this, Pollack discovered friendships and community formed and maintained within this landscape between a group of truck drivers who regularly gather to play dominoes, ... More  First exhibition at the 'new' Burrell Collection opensGLASGOW.- A new exhibition charting the collecting and legacy of Sir William Burrell and his wife Constance, Lady Burrell, who donated one of the single greatest gifts to the city of Glasgow, opened on Saturday 27 August. The Burrells Legacy: A Great Gift to Glasgow is the inaugural exhibition being held at The Burrell Collection Glasgow since it reopened in March 2022, following a major refurbishment and redesign. It is free to enter. Visitors will discover more about how The Burrell Collection, which is managed by Glasgow Life, the charity responsible for culture and sport in the city, came to be. Over 100 extraordinary objects help tell the story of its formation, from a couples private art collection to a treasured civic museum of huge international significance, and reveals the dedicated efforts of Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell, the Glasgow ... More  The Armory Show announces public art installations In New York City this fallNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announces the public art installations of Armory Off-Site, the second edition of the art fairs outdoor art program that brings large-scale artworks to New York Citys parks and public spaces. Each work will be on view during the fair, which takes place at the Javits Center this September 911. Several Armory Off-Site installations will remain on view until late 2022. The featured artists and locations are: Juan Capistrán (CURRO) in Bella Abzug Park; Tomokazu Matsuyama (Kavi Gupta) in Flatiron Plaza; Adam Parker Smith (The Hole) in Ruth Wittenberg Triangle; and a special digital presentation by Carolina Caycedo (Instituto de Visión) in Times Square as part of Times Square Arts Midnight Moment program. These four Armory Off-Site works are exhibited in tandem with the fairs five sculptures at the US Open, presented ... More  Pioneering work of legendary artist and filmmaker to be celebrated in two retrospectivesNEW YORK, NY.- Beginning September 8, The Films of Beth B and Scott B and Beth B Retrospective, two series showcasing the work of artist and filmmaker Beth B, will be presented by The Museum of Modern Art. Beth B exploded onto the New York art and film scene in the late 1970s after receiving her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1977. Her prolific career is characterized by work that challenges societys conventions, with a particular focus on social issues and human rights. In the years following her partnership with Scott B, Beth B has produced over 30 documentary, experimental, and narrative films, as well as interdisciplinary work that has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world. The Films of Beth B and Scott B, ... More  Phoebe Collings-James work acquired by York Art GalleryYORK.- York Art Gallery is celebrating the acquisition of a spectacular ceramic work from Phoebe Collings-James's through help from the Contemporary Art Society and support from the Art Fund, the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Fund, and Sarah Nichols. How many times can I surrender to you? (your living has taught me how not to die), made in 2021, is currently featured in our exhibition Body Vessel Clay. Curated and conceived by Dr Jareh Das in partnership with Two Temple Place, Body Vessel Clay brings together artworks by three generations of Black women artists working with clay. Collings-James refers to the work as a clay painting, a medium that emerged from her desire to push clay into new forms and exploring its structural qualities. The artist interacts with clay as a living material, thinking about its texture, physical qualities, and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Mary McCartney was born August 28, 1969. Mary Anna McCartney (previously McCartney-Donald) is a photographer. The first biological child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her paternal grandmother, Mary McCartney. In this image: British photographer Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney poses for a photograph next to her photographs during the opening of the exhibition 'From where I stood' in the gallery Contributed in Berlin, Germany.
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