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James Lally in his art gallery, J.J. Lally & Co., in New York on Feb. 12, 2020. Lallys gallery specializes in Chinese art and has been hurt by the Chinese response to the coronavirus and tariffs put in place by President Donald Trump. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A single Chinese billionaire, an investor and former taxi driver named Liu Yiqian, has spent at least $200 million on art in recent years, including $170 million for a Modigliani nude in 2015. With China as the second-largest market for the global movie industry, approval or rejection by the government in Beijing can make or break a movies bottom line. Orchestras from around the world plan tours of China years in advance, seeing them as a way to sell tickets, raise their profile and cultivate Chinas growing wealthy class as donors. But now, as China struggles to get the coronavirus epidemic under control, the country is essentially closed for business to the global arts economy, exposing the sector to deep financial uncertainty. Movie releases have been canceled in China and symphony tours suspended because of quarantines and fears of contagion. A major art fair in Hong Kong was called off, and important spring art auctions half a world away in New York have been postponed ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Harun Farocki & Hito Steyerl, Life Captured Still, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, 6th February - 4th April 2020 © the artists Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg. Photo: Ben Westoby.
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 | | MoMA acquires 56 photographs from Gordon Parks's groundbreaking 1957 series "The Atmosphere of Crime" | | National Gallery of Art celebrates 500th anniversary of Raphael's death in exhibition | | Anti-white supremacist silent disco hits Hollywood art fair | 
Gordon Parks (American, 19122006). Raiding Detectives, Chicago, Illinois 1957 (detail). Pigmented inkjet print, printed 2019, 11 7/8 x 17 15/16″ (30.1 à 45.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Family of Man Fund. © The Gordon Parks Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has acquired 56 prints from American artist Gordon Parkss series of color photographs made in 1957 for a Life magazine photo essay titled The Atmosphere of Crime. The Museum and The Gordon Parks Foundation collaborated closely on the selection of 55 modern color prints that MoMA purchased from the Foundation, and the Foundation has also given the Museum a rare vintage gelatin silver print (a companion to a print Parks himself gave the Museum in 1993). A generous selection of these prints will go on view in May 2020 as part of the first seasonal rotation of the Museums newly expanded and re-envisioned collection galleries. The collection installation Gordon Parks and The Atmosphere of Crime will be located on the fourth floor, with Parkss work as an anchor for exploring representations of criminality in photography, with a particular ... More | | 
Marco Dente after Raphael, The Virgin with a Fish, c. 1515/1520. Engraving, sheet: 26.4 x 22 cm (10 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Raphael (14831520) is recognized by many as the foremost figure of the classical tradition in Western painting. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of his death, the National Gallery of Art will present 26 prints and drawings from its own collection of works by Raphaels contemporaries that includes four drawings by the Renaissance master himself. Raphael and His Circle will convey the complexity, range, and immediate influence of his style as it became the standard for aesthetic excellence in Western art. The exhibition will be on view from February 16 through June 14, 2020. Several major exhibitions have been organized to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphaels death. The Gallery offers its own homage through this exhibition and the display of its paintings by Raphaelthe largest and most important group outside of Europe. The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche inaugurates the years tribute with an exhibitio ... More | | 
Tania Candiani, Frieze Projects Los Angeles 2020. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy of Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- An anti-white supremacist silent disco broke out on Hollywood's oldest major studio lot Friday as Frieze Los Angeles, a major art fair, opened its doors to A-listers and collectors. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, created the dance work "Fuck White Supremacy, Let's Get Free" in response to the politics of US President Donald Trump. "So much of the last four years under this administration there has been a lot of anger, fear, helplessness," she told AFP. "And whenever I feel that way in my personal life, I usually go and dance." The piece sees visitors don headphones and join a choreographed line dance. Her project is part of Frieze's second show in Los Angeles -- a city which has historically struggled to maintain an international art fair, but is increasingly drawing wealthy collectors including local A-listers. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez and Natalie Portman were among visitors to a Thursday preview, where Kendall Je ... More |
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| | Ex-minister's brother jailed for smuggling Egypt antiquities | | Hauser & Wirth exhibits works from Charles Gaines's historic Numbers and Trees series | | MoMA appoints Clément Chéroux as the next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography | 
Last year, the golden coffin of a Pharaonic priest that had been stolen amid the tumult was unveiled in Cairo after it was repatriated from the United States.
CAIRO (AFP).- A Cairo criminal court sentenced the brother of a former Egyptian finance minister to 30 years in jail on Saturday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said. Raouf Ghali, the sibling of Hosni Mubarak-era finance minister Youssef Ghali, was sentenced to 30 years in jail and fined 6 million pounds ($380,000) for his role in trafficking artefacts out of Egypt to Italy. He had three accomplices, including Italian ex-honorary consul to Egypt Ladislav Skakal, who was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in jail and a million pound fine. Skakal now faces 30 years imprisonment if apprehended by Egyptian authorities, having previously been sentenced to 15 years in absentia in January as part of the same case. Egypt has requested that Interpol issue a red notice against the disgraced former honorary consul. The stolen artefacts included nearly 22,000 ... More | | 
Charles Gaines, Numbers and Trees: Assorted Trees #7, Turquoise Trees, Tree F, 2019. Watercolor and ink on paper, 35.6 x 35.6 cm / 14 x 14 in. © Charles Gaines. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
ST. MORITZ.- A focused exhibition of work by celebrated conceptual artist Charles Gaines opened in St. Moritz, marking the first presentation in Europe dedicated to Gainess drawing practice from the historic Numbers and Trees series. The exhibition displays two distinct bodies of work executed over the last five years. The first floor presents meticulously rendered ink drawings from the celebrated Central Park series, which can be seen as precursors (or templates) for Gainess renowned larger scale, Plexiglas works. Employing a rule-based numeric system to create soft, numbered marks on a hand-drawn grid, each drawing isolates the individual trees that eventually comprise the completed series. The second floor honours 24 vibrant new watercolors of assorted trees. ... More | | 
Clément Chéroux. Photo: Frederic Neema.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Clément Chéroux as the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. MoMA has exhibited and collected photography since its founding in 1929, and formally established a Department of Photography in 1940. Chéroux succeeds Quentin Bajac, who served as Chief from 2013-2018, and now directs the Jeu de Paume, Paris. Chéroux will lead a department with a renowned legacy and unparalleled collection of more than 30,000 works that continues to play an important global role in exploring photographys diverse and powerful impacts on modern life. He will guide all aspects of the department, including its installations, acquisitions, exhibitions, publications, and loan programs. Chéroux will join MoMA in June 2020. "After an extensive and international search, we're thrilled to welcome Clément as the new Chief Curator of Photography, said Glenn D. Lowry, the David Rockefe ... More |
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| | Zoya Cherkassky's "Soviet Childhood" opens at Fort Gansevoort Los Angeles | | Blossom: Prada's new store windows present images by Thomas Demand | | Women Modernists take the spotlight in "Our Own Work, Our Own Way | 
Zoya Cherkassky, Runners, 2019. 51.25 x 39.5 in. Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fort Gansevoort is presenting Soviet Childhood, presenting new works by Zoya Cherkassky (b. Kiev, 1976). A continuation of the 2019 exhibition at Fort Gansevoort New York, this exhibition will include paintings and drawings that evoke the specific social realities of mundane Soviet daily life, while uncovering the complex phenomenon of nostalgia that affects the final generation of Soviet children. Paradoxical in nature, these works explore notions of identity as it is constructed in relation to time, place, and human connection. Cherkassky, just fifteen years old when the USSR collapsed, creates her work with precision. From rigidly structured school buildings to vibrant clothing, a multitude of artifacts fill and give life to her paintings. Representing varying Soviet realities, Cherkasskys work narrates specific stories and scenes in addition to such simple ... More | | 
Prada Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan.
MILAN.- Prada presents images created by Thomas Demand for the new window displays for its stores across the world, a radically beautiful and colourful sequence of blossoming cherry trees that celebrates the arrival of spring. Hanami which means flower viewing is the centuries-old Japanese art of enjoying the beauty of flowers. The cherry blossom season, a highpoint in the year, marks the end of winter and represents the youth, zest for life and emotion embodied by spring, a truly universal image and a powerful symbol of energy. Spread seamlessly across the shops windows, Demands floral images, entitled Blossom, give rise to a vibrant narrative which, inserted into the real world, creates a new dialogue with passers-by in cities around the world. This work fits perfectly into the German artists oeuvre, which has the concept of photography as a global language at its heart. In this series, Demand onc ... More | | 
Elaine de Kooning, Seated Man. (detail). Oil on paper, 36 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches. Circa 1950-1952.
SPARTANBURG, SC.- Our Own Work, Our Own Way champions a roster of female artists, notableand quotablewomen whose aesthetic achievements transcended convention and invigorated the Souths modern milieu. Dating between 1932 and 1998, several of the objects showcased have roots in international innovation, such as those entries created by Anni Albers, Elaine de Kooning, Fannie Hillsmith, Pat Passlof, and Susan Weil, all of whom were influenced by the Bauhaus-based curriculum of Black Mountain College. Other worksincluding Mary Callerys whimsical dog sculpture and Dorothy Kohlhepps Cubist nudeare the clear result of European instruction, or instead pay homage to African ancestry, as seen in works on paper by Margaret Burroughs and Loïs Jones. Prevailing modern American trends are reflected in the energetic abstractions ... More |
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| | The Portland Art Museum opens the first comprehensive retrospective of Robert Colescott | | TASCHEN publishes 'Countryside, A Report' by Rem Koolhaas | | Crocker Art Museum brings Bill Viola's "The Raft" to the West Coast | 
Robert Colescott, I Gets a Thrill, Too, When I Sees De Koo, 1978, Acrylic on Canvas, 84 x 60 inches. © 2019 Estate of Robert Colescott / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Gift of Senator and Mrs. William Bradley, 1981.25.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The first comprehensive retrospective of Robert Colescott, one of Americas most compelling and provocative artists, opened at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon on February 15, 2020. Bringing together 70 works spanning over 50 years of Colescotts prolific career, Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott explores the work of an artist who through vibrant paintings laced with biting satireconfronted issues of race, gender, identity, and the uncomfortable realities of American life in the latter half of the 20th century. Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and co-curated by noted Colescott scholar Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, Art and Race Matters will remain ... More | | 
The exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas.
NEW YORK, NY.- The rural, remote, and wild territories we call countryside, or the 98% of the earths surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where todays most powerful forcesclimate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurchesare playing out. Increasingly under a Cartesian regimegridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal productionthese sites are changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations underway across the Earths vast non-urban areas. Countryside, A Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness: a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain Japans infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the co ... More | | 
Bill Viola, The Raft, May 2004. Video/sound installation. Photo: Kira Perov. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio, James Cohan Gallery, New York and American Federation of Arts.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the February 16 opening of "Bill Viola: The Raft". The large and powerfully affecting audio/video installation was created as a commission for the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, this presentation is part of a new national tour. Organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) and Bill Viola Studio, "The Raft" depicts at life-sized scale a group of ordinary people casually standing together. Suddenly, they are struck by strong blasts of water that rush in, overtake them, and then, just as unexpectedly, recede. In the aftermath of the deluge, the victims huddle together, seek protection, and help those who have fallen. The viewer experiences the events in the work in an immersive setting, standing in a darkened room and surrounded by the roaring sounds of the water. The scene is meticulously ... More |
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Neil Jenney on "Media and Man" | Frieze LA 2020 Online Viewing Room
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 "Tonalism: Pathway From Hudson River School to Modern Art" exhibition opens at New York State MuseumALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum opened Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art, an exhibition exploring a late 19th century movement in painting with deep connections to New York State, on February 15. On display through June 14, 2020, the exhibition features over 60 artworks including paintings, prints, and photographs from institutions across the state as well as private collections. Were proud to present this new art exhibition at the State Museum, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa. Art often conveys emotion and the Tonalism exhibition explores how artists created landscapes that evoke feeling and mood. Students and teachers will enjoy learning about this artistic style and exploring how it set the foundation for future art movements. Art exhibitions are a great opportunity for visitors ... More Exhibit at Bo Bartlett Center features over 40 Columbus artists COLUMBUS, GA.- The first annual exhibition Beyond Go Figure honors and showcases the talents of everyone who has been part of the dream and reality of The Bo Bartlett Center, according to exhibit curator, Gloria Mani. We have a diverse, wonderful collection of artworks on display, including various styles, medium, and subject matter. Columbus has always had a great appreciation for the arts, and this exhibition makes that statement. Some of the artists featured in Beyond Go Figure include Jo Farris, Susan Culpepper, Suzanne Reed Fine, and Shannon Candler. Many members of The Bartlett Centers Board of Advisors are artists. Mani grew up in an art school, and not only is she a second-generation artist, but a second generation art restorer as well. She has owned and operated her own business-studio-gallery, Gloria Mani ... More A choreographer finds her bliss in BachNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Plain boiled rice I find much tastier than rice covered with a multitude of sauces, Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker once said about her ambitious and austere 2017 dance set to Bachs cello suites. I find it hard to endure junk at my age. The age? 59. The work? Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bachs Cello Suites), performed by her company, Rosas, and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, at NYU Skirball on Thursday night and named after the opening words of a Martin Luther chorale: In the midst of life, we are in death. A live dance is like that, too, dying a little more with every passing move. De Keersmaeker appears intent on using choreography to strip away, to get at the essence of her art. It also seems as though shes looking back on her years spent both ... More Anita Rogers Gallery opens an exhibition of work by American artist Mark WebberNEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery presents We Shall be a City Upon a Hill, an exhibition of work by American artist Mark Webber. The show is on view February 12 - March 14, 2020 at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor in SoHo, New York. Picasso created his first version of Guitar sometime between October and November of 1912 and in that moment toppled the most fundamental and timeless rule of sculpture: solidness. Guitar consists of 7 pieces of cardboard stitched together with thread, string, twine, and coated wire. This work was likely slapped together in a flash and under the intoxicating sway of a first encounter. Picasso applied the ideas he and Braque had advanced about cubism and collage to an assemblage beautifully visualized in space. The yolk of the egg was broken, and the omelet was born. Mark Webber assembles many different elements: ... More Wren London opens an exhibition of works by British photographer David StewartLONDON.- Geoffrey Valentine marks a dramatic shift in subject matter for the acclaimed British photographer David Stewart (b.1958) and his second solo exhibition at photography gallery Wren London (14 February 09 April 2020). Documenting a persistently taboo subject matter in Geoffrey Valentine, Stewart presents unflinching portraits of his dead father lying in a coffin in a chapel of rest. While a deeply personal topic, Stewarts rendering of it signifies a continuation of his desire to reflect the events taking place in the world around him. Here Stewart has incorporated no lighting or staging to manipulate the imagery other than that already set up by the funeral parlour and so it appears exactly how it appeared to Stewart at the time. Death within art is one of the most pervasive topics throughout art history. However, the physicality of the moment ... More Herbert Art Gallery & Museum presents Lottie Davies' large scale multi-media project, Quinn COVENTRY.- British photographer, artist, and writer, Lottie Davies has created a large-scale multimedia project, Quinn - a meditation on grief, loss, loneliness, the human search for meaning, and the possibility of redemption through time and landscape. Using a variety of media and installations, it recounts the eponymous fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who is walking from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland in post-Second World War Britain. This new, major iteration of Quinn premiered at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum as an exhibition running from 14 February - 31 May 2020. The exhibition presents a multi-dimensional view of the titular figure and his story by using nine moving image works and eighteen large format photographs, personal ephemera, text, and installations created to be viewed and ... More York Art Gallery stages Harland Miller's largest solo show to dateYORK.- Internationally acclaimed artist Harland Millers largest exhibition to date opened at York Art Gallery this February. Harland Miller: York, So Good They Named It Once features some of Millers best-known works alongside new paintings created especially for the exhibition. These include his renowned Penguin Book Covers, inspired by the dust jackets of volumes from the 1950s and 1960s, and the Pelican Bad Weather Paintings which evoke the culture and geography of Yorkshire as a whole. The displays include more than thirty works shown over three galleries and explore Millers formative years growing up in Yorkshire in the 1970s, which he cites as key to his artistic development. Becky Gee, curator of fine art at York Art Gallery, said: We are thrilled Harland has chosen to host such a personal mid-career retrospective here with us in his home city. Harland states that his Yorkshire ... More Sargent's Daughters exhibits oil paintings on canvas and paper by Sarah SlappeyNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Power Play, Sarah Slappeys first solo exhibition with the gallery. Comprised of oil paintings on canvas and paper, Slappey addresses the female form in a palette of muted pinks, purples and slashes of vibrant red. Slappeys forms are both seductive and grotesque- an embrace of femininity and a rejection of its limits that addresses how it feels to be in a female body. The undulating and twisting forms push our notions of the acceptable female form past the delicate, reigned-in curves of the traditional nude women of Western art history. Slappeys bodies heave, push, squeeze, fold, tickle, and melt together. Any grace in the forms is undercut with subtle violence or aggression. Mixed in with the muscular elements are objects traditionally associated with women: pearls, lipsticks, tampon strings. Slappey ... More Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens the first major exhibition dedicated to Harun Farocki and Hito SteyerlLONDON.- The first major exhibition dedicated to Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, who are often conceptually associated but whose works have never before been shown together in this way. Revered as pioneers in the fields of documentary film and new media art across two generations, the artists expansive video installations interrogate organisational power structures, divisions of labour and the kaleidoscopic images that permeate contemporary society. Life Captured Still is curated by Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra, with exhibition architecture by Luis Feduchi. Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl are bound by a special form of collaboration, beyond any space-time framework. Though they belong to quite different generations, they share a stubborn critical attitude that dismantles the pervasive biopolitical regimes of late capitalism. When ... More Elizabeth Cullinan, writer with an eye for detail, dies at 86NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- At 22, Elizabeth Cullinan began her working life with an entry-level job at The New Yorker. Her task was to type manuscripts submitted by literary lions like John Updike, James Thurber and E.B. White. Perhaps it was muscle memory from all that typing, but soon enough she was writing stories herself of New Yorker quality and being compared to Chekhov and Joyce. The magazine began publishing her in 1960. By the time Cullinan died on Jan. 26 at 86, her oeuvre consisted of two volumes of short stories, most of which had appeared in The New Yorker, as well as two novels, House of Gold (1970) and Change of Scene (1982). She never became well known, but her relatively modest output earned her outsize critical acclaim. Miss Cullinan is always intelligent, precise and skillful, Joyce Carol ... More Exhibition of new works by Lucas Blalock opens at rodolphe janssenBRUSSELS.- It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter writes Flan OBrien in his 1940 experimental novel The Third Policeman, which went unpublished until 1967. The novel describes an interdimensional journey traversing both time and space where the terms of reality are far more plastic than expected, though they remain folded into the quotidian life of a small Irish hamlet. It is a journey that puts considerable pressure on the novels subjects, as they try to understand the nature of their condition and its odd flexibilities. A similar strain is put on the readers imagination. It is a universe where wavering between polarities like thin / fat, slow / fast, namable / unnamable causes shifts in the basic structure of being. This exhibition of new works by Lucas Blalock suggests difficulties along these same ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Kenneth Price was born February 16, 1935. Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 - February 24, 2012) was an American artist who uncovered the surprising possibilities of ceramics as sculpture. He is best known for his abstract shapes constructed from fired clay. Typically, they are not glazed, but intricately painted with multiple layers of bright acrylic paint and then sanded down to reveal the colors beneath. In this image: Ken Price, Bubbles, 1995. Acrylic on fired ceramic, 55.9 x 74.9 x 55.9 cm / 22 x 29 1/2 x 22 in. © Estate of Ken Price, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
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