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Steve Tobins Intertwined: Exploring Natures Networks opens Saturday, Jan. 28 at Houston Botanic Garden.
HOUSTON, TX.- Steve Tobins Intertwined: Exploring Natures Networks is now open at Houston Botanic Garden, featuring 20 monumental sculptures by Steve Tobin, world-renowned for his works in glass, bronze, ceramic and steel. In Houston, his art will elegantly spiral as much as 30 feet above the natural beauty of the Houston Botanic Garden, the Bayou Citys living museum for plants. Intertwined, which runs through Aug. 13, 2023, dramatically captures the unseen power of the natural world while celebrating the important systems that give life to the Gardens tropical, sub-tropical, and arid collections. While inspired by nature, Tobin also incorporates cultural influences both current and historical in his work. For instance, the marquee Steelroots series, made using recycled oil pipes, includes Dancing Steelroots inspired by ancient Japanese calligraphy. Twistys, another collection of steel pieces, pays homage to Houston gymnast ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art Helmet Row, exhibition view, 4 February - 18 March 2023. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. Courtesy: Modern Art, London.
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| Sotheby's to offer one of Gerhard Richter's greatest monumental abstract masterpieces | | Retrospective of the work of Victor Brauner opens at the National Museum of Art Timisoara | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of over thirty prints made by Jonas Wood |
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 1986 (detail). 260.4cm x 400cm. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A monumental masterpiece from Gerhard Richters celebrated cycle of abstract paintings is to headline Sothebys London Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 1 March 2023. Of spectacular proportions, spanning four metres across (260.4cm x 400cm), Abstraktes Bild, 1986, is one of the first large-scale paintings from the series ever created by the artist, boasting a size and chromatic intensity rarely found even within the grand arc of the artists monumental masterworks. Abstraktes Bild will be offered at auction with an estimate in excess of £20 million. The painting comes from an American private collection where it has remained since its last sale at Sothebys New York in 2007 for $9.7 million (est. $6-8 million), at the time a record auction price for an abstract work by Richter and the second highest price for the artist. One of the greatest monumental Abstrakes Bilder by Gerhard Richter ... More | |
Victor Brauner, Self-portrait, 1931. Oil on wood, 22 x 16,2 cm. Legacy of Mrs. Jacqueline Victor Brauner in 1986. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national dart moderne - Centre de création industrielle © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP © Adagp, Paris.
TIMISOARA.- In the eleven halls located on the second floor of the Baroque Palace of the National Museum of Art Timișoara, the exhibition presents nearly seventy works by Victor Brauner, from the 1920s to the 1960s, according to the different media of his production (painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture). The beginnings of the artists creation are notably shown thanks to emblematic pieces from museum and private collections in Romania, supplemented by an exceptional loan from the Centre Pompidou (around forty works, as well as around twenty archival documents), and loans from the museums of Saint-Ãtienne and Marseille, exhibited for the first time in Romania. The life and work of Victor Brauner ... More | |
Jonas Wood, Japanese Garden, 2021, 51-color screen print on Rising museum board, 25 1/8 à 23 7/8 inches (63.8 à 60.6 cm), edition of 40 + 5 AP © Jonas Wood. Published by WKS Editions, Los Angeles. Photo: Marten Elder.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Prints 2, an exhibition of over thirty prints made by Jonas Wood between 2018 and 2022. On view at 541 West 24th Street, it is conceived as a companion show to Prints, the first exhibition dedicated to the artists printmaking, presented by the gallery in 2018. The works on view in Prints 2 feature Woods perennial motifsplants, pottery, portraiture, interiors, landscapes, and basketballreflecting the life of the artist through representations of home, studio, and natural spaces. They are united by Woods transformation of subject matter into images with skewed planar space, dense patterning, and vivid color. Developing his prints in parallel with his paintings, Wood has arrived at linked practices that continually inform one another. Emphasizing ... More |
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| Kunstmuseum Den Haag opens exhibition of works by Escher and artistic duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh | | 'Reverent Ornament: Art from the Islamic World' opens at the Columbia Museum of Art | | François Ghebaly opens an exhibition of works by Kathleen Ryan |
M.C. Escher, Waterfall, 1961, lithograph. Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag. © The M.C. Escher Company Baarn Holland. All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com
THE HAGUE.- Step into the impossible world of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) quite literally, at Kunstmuseum Den Haags Escher Other World. This exhibition will allow visitors to experience the work of Escher as never before, combining his famous prints, which revolve around optical illusions, impossible architecture, reflections and the natural world, with spectacular installations by Belgian artistic duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. This is the first time such an intervention has featured in an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag. This unique combination sheds new light on the popular and versatile artist Maurits Cornelis Escher who, 125 years after his birth, still inspires people of all ages the world over, including mathematicians, architects, artists and art lovers. Eschers prints are the result of his unprecedented talent, and also of his almost obsessive devotion to the art of printmaking. His work ... More | |
Bowl, 19th century. Egypt or Syria. Brass with silver and copper inlay. Gift of Drs. Joseph and Omayma Touma and family. Photo provided.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces featured spring exhibition Reverent Ornament: Art from the Islamic World, on view Saturday, February 18, through Sunday, May 14, 2023. Organized by the Huntington Museum of Art and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., the exhibition offers some 45 works with which to explore the arts and crafts traditions and scientific innovations of Iran, Egypt, India, Syria, and Turkey from the 10th to the 19th centuries. What was in Western culture historically considered the Near Eastern world roughly, a vast stretch of regions including India and the Asian countries to its west is a vivid patchwork of many different peoples, languages, and traditions, with a history stretching back to Neolithic times. Comprising works of fine glassware, ceramics, metalwork, painting, weaponry, weaving, and much more, Reverent Ornament shares timeless Islamic art that celebrates ... More | |
Kathleen Ryan, Soft Palate, 2023. Car hoods, steel, stainless steel, automotive paint, 48.5 x 46 x 49 in. (123.2 x 116.8 x 124.5 cm.) Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photo: Lance Brewer
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is presenting Beachcomber by Kathleen Ryan in the Downtown Los Angeles gallery. Kathleen Ryan re-envisions the detritus of American life. Spoiled fruits become monuments in glistening stone; industrial parts and domestic ephemera are transformed into plants and animals. Reclaimed automobilia, moftled gemstone façades, and armatures of debris interlink and sprawl. Ryan marries disparate objects in novel formations, equally aftuned to the material culture of her sources and to the classical considerations of sculpture. Gravity, formal dynamism, and negative space are as much a part of her vocabulary as marble, crystal, and the hoods of aging muscle cars. In her new exhibition Beachcomber, Ryan turns to the seaside in an arrangement of larger-than-life mollusks and cocktail skewers strewn about the gallery. Works like Deluxe ... More |
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| Simone Holliger to make her largest institutional presentation in Basel to date at Kunsthaus Baselland | | Robert Colescott's 'Miss Liberty' soars over $4 million at Bonhams Post War & Contemporary Art Sale | | moCa Cleveland announces 2023 exhibitions and residencies focused on identity, nature, memory, and collaboration |
Simone Holliger, venir en main, 2022. Papier, Acrylfarbe, Kleber, Holz. Courtesy the artist. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2023. Photo: Gina Folly
BASEL.- For several years now, award-winning, internationally active artist Simone Holliger has worked with carefully chosen materials. Through an experimental, process based approach, she creates sculptures that are typically several meters in height and width. They grow in and together with the space surrounding them. Voluminous and compact and at the same time permeable and light, the objects play with our visual habits and invite us to consider the solid and the empty, the recto and the verso, the visible and the hidden. Born in 1986 and living and working in the Basel area, the artist also thinks about the space, builds and shapes itits texture and tonal value, as well as the smells, temperatures, and people that inhabit it. At Kunsthaus Baselland, Simone Holliger will make her largest institutional presentation in Basel to date. Concurrently with her solo exhibition, she will also design the Annual Exterior ... More | |
Miss Liberty (1980) by Robert Colescott (1925-2009), sold for $4.5 million. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Miss Liberty (1980), a seminal work by Robert Colescott (1925-2009), achieved $4.5 million at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art auction in Los Angeles on February 17. A work of this museum-quality rarely comes to market and Bonhams was honored to present this masterpiece in Los Angeles. The work was acquired by the Art Bridges Foundation. Art Bridges is dedicated to expanding access to American Art and works with museums of all sizes to create and support arts programs that educate, inspire, and deepen engagement with local audiences. Privately held and largely unseen since shortly after it was painted, Miss Liberty attracted bidders with its powerful depiction of American freedom and racial equality. In the work, Colescott tackles the impenetrable tenets of American identity with humor, candor, and a potent visual sense. Not only are we thrilled with the results from todays sale in Los Angeles ... More | |
Sam Falls, Untitled (San Bernardino National Forest, CA.), 2017-2019 (detail). Pigment on canvas, 128 x 272 in. (325.1 x 690.9 cm). Courtesy Sam Falls and 303 Gallery, New York.
CLEVELAND, OHIO.- November 10, 2022 Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) announced its next two seasons of exhibitions, artist projects, and residencies. The year features a robust roster of artists who will debut new works or present career-first moments. Exhibited within and beyond the walls of moCas building, the shows will deepen a connection with artists and northeast Ohio communities and partners. In addition to exhibitions, moCa continues to adapt long-form residencies in 2023. In December, the museum welcomed Brooklyn-based artist Finnegan Shannon as the second Gettśng To Know Artist-in-Residence. At the same time, moCa continues its institutional residency model through a new partnership with Clevelands Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDBCAC), which follows last years pilot with the Museum of Creative Human Art. JDBCAC will program a portion of moCa ... More |
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| Anna Zorina Gallery brings together a decade of Alexander Kaletski's most notable series of works | | RR Auction announces results of The PSA Encapsulated Auction | | Rena Gluck, who helped bring modern dance to Israel, dies at 89 |
Alexander Kaletski, Reaching for the Stars, 2022 (detail). Mixed media on cardboard, 56 x 86 in (142.2 x 218.4 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting Box-Cutter, Alexander Kaletskis solo exhibition and debut presentation at the gallerys Los Angeles location. Box-Cutter brings together a decade of Kaletskis most notable series of works, Cardboard People, with historical pieces from as early as 2011 in dialogue with most recent ones. This exhibition provides an expansive overview of his never-ending quest for discoveries and enduring fascination with cardboard collage. Throughout Kaletskis over 40-year career, he has stayed true to the medium of cardboard boxes, or more specifically, to used, broken down, waiting-to-be-recycled, discarded paper containers. Rather than seeing them as commonplace objects to be overlooked, he explores their potentiality, elevating them as a hallmark material within his oeuvre. In creating this unique visual language, Kaletski builds upon several seminal art historical legacies ... More | |
Transmittal letter signed by Stephen Hawking's wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, that accompanied the signature.
BOSTON, MASS.- A Stephen Hawking autograph sold for $18,813, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The vintage circa 1983 felt tip signature, "Stephen Hawking," by the English theoretical physicist. Accompanied by a transmittal letter signed by his wife, Jane Hawking, dated October 15, 1983, in part: "Thank you for your courteous letter of 29 September requesting my husband's autograph. After many slow and painful attempts my husband has managed to produce a signature for you. I enclose it herewith." Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder. In 1963, at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease that gradually, over decades, paralyzed him. Although some physicians expected his life to be short, he died at 76 after living for more than 50 years with ALS. He published many articles and several books on theoretical physics ... More | |
Rena Gluck in 1970. Gluck, a dancer, choreographer and educator who helped bring modern dance to Israel, and who was instrumental in creating the Batsheva Dance Company, the countrys pre-eminent dance troupe, died on Jan. 13, 2023, at her home in Tel Aviv. She was 89. (Mula&Haramaty via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Rena Gluck, a dancer, choreographer and educator who helped bring modern dance to Israel, and who was instrumental in creating the Batsheva Dance Company, the countrys preeminent dance troupe, died Jan. 13 at her home in Tel Aviv. She was 89. Her daughters, Dalit and Daphna Murvitz, said the cause was complications of pneumonia. They added that Glucks twin brother, Milton Gluck, died on the same day, at a hospital in the New York City borough of Manhattan, of the same cause. The siblings had planned to celebrate their 90th birthday together in Israel the next day. Israel is now considered a global hotbed of contemporary dance, with Batsheva still at its center. But when Gluck arrived in 1954 as a recent Juilliard School graduate and a newlywed ... More |
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Dundee Contemporary Arts announces new Head of Exhibitions
DUNDEE.- Tiffany Boyle has been appointed as the new Head of Exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Tiffany is currently Curator & Exhibitions Manager at Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland, and will take up her new position at Dundee Contemporary Arts in March 2023. Tiffany is a contemporary art curator and educator. Prior to undertaking her current role at Edinburgh Printmakers she worked as an independent curator in Scotland for 10 years. She is one half of the curatorial duo Mother Tongue, whose practice is concerned with archival and collection-based research. The work of Mother Tongue includes producing exhibitions, film programmes, discursive events, and texts for major organisations across Scotland including Glasgow International, the National Galleries of Scotland, the V&A Dundee and CCA Glasgow ... More
Arthur Simms presents a site-specific solo presentation at San Carlo Cremona
CREMONA.- San Carlo Cremona is presenting Arthur Simms, I Am The Bush Doctor, One Halo. , the first show of 2023 to be held in the 17th-century deconsecrated church of San Carlo at Via Bissolati 33, Cremona. San Carlo Cremona renews the collaboration with Servane Mary who invites artists to exhibit in the space. Each exhibition is a site-specific solo presentation of an artists work. For over three decades, Arthur Simms has developed a singular approach to assemblage, producing a prolific body of sculpture, as well as dimensional paintings and works on paper. Born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica (1961), Simms was inspired in early childhood by the improvisationally constructed carts he saw transporting goods to and from the market (he lived in Kingston until age 7, when his family moved to New York). Simms developed a fluency with this sort of construction ... More
Exhibition at Spencer Museum of Art highlights dynamic parallels between social moments nearly a decade apart
LAWRENCE, KS.- A new exhibition, Dissent, Discontent, and Action: Pictures of US by Accra Shepp, opens Feb. 18 at the Spencer Museum of Art. Through two portrait series, Occupying Wall Street and The Covid Journals, New Yorkbased contemporary photographer Accra Shepp reveals a sense of community, hope, and resilience during an era of tremendous social, political and environmental change. Shepp began photographing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New Yorks Zuccotti Park on October 1, 2011. He was drawn to the sea of individuals as a photographic subject, based in part on his observation of the crowds diversity. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 ... More
Lisson Gallery, Beijing, Julian Opie features some of his most iconic motifs
BEIJING.- For Julian Opies first exhibition at Lisson Gallerys new Beijing space, which began in November 2022 and will end on March 26th, 2023, the leading contemporary artist unveils a series of new works, all created in 2022. The exhibition highlights new and innovative techniques developed by Opie, featuring some of his most iconic motifs, from landscape lightboxes to reclining stainless steel figures, alongside new formats including dancers in animated LED, vinyl and mosaic. Together, this body of work evidences Opies ongoing fascination with the contemporary experience, whether urban, rural or virtual. The exhibition marks the artists second solo exhibition with Lisson Gallery in China ... More
Continue This Thread: Karim Adduchi x Tess van Zalinge, new exhibition on the power of crafting
AMSTERDAM.- Dresses completely fabricated from Moroccan embroidery appliqué and patchwork couture from upcycled designer fabrics. Amsterdam-based fashion designers Karim Adduchi and Tess van Zalinge have garnered a reputation in recent years with designs inspired by historical and regional crafting techniques. With sustainable collections such as natuurlijk (Van Zalinge 2022) and community projects like Social [Distancing] Fabric, both fashion designers offer more sustainable and innovative visions in the field of craft, design, and co-creation. Together with Adduchi and Van Zalinge as guest curators, the Amsterdam Museum presents a brand-new exhibition: Continue This Thread. Karim Adduchi x Tess van Zalinge, on display since Friday, February 17 to Sunday, September 3, 2023, at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel ... More
Carlos Museum opens 'A Very Incomplete Self-Portrait: Tom Dorsey's Chicago Portfolio'
ATLANTA, GA.- A Very Incomplete Self-Portrait, on view from February 18 to July 16, 2023, presents never-before-exhibited works by celebrated photographer Thomas Dorsey. Widely known for his intimate portraits of African American families in their homes in Chicago and Atlanta, Dorsey also photographed the streets, houses, and buildings of his childhood neighborhood on Chicagos West Side. This portfolio of black and white photographs, taken while Dorsey was enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, reveals the barren infrastructure of an underserved community and the resilience and stark beauty that can be discovered amidst bleak circumstances. Place deeply informed Dorseys self-identity but did not define him. As a child, he experienced isolation and felt different from his peers, which he attributes in part to a head injury sustained during his youth ... More
"Philippine-Made" explores identity and history, challenges colonialism through community and craft
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft opened Philippine-Made: The Work of Matt Manalo, an exhibition of self-reflective sculptures made from air-dry clay, bamboo, and plant materials with cultural ties to Matt Manalos home country of the Philippines. Born in Manila, Manalo has spent half his life in America, an experience that has served as a pivotal point of inflection for the artist. The exhibition encapsulates his time living in the United States after immigrating with his family to Houston. Manalos practice gives visibility to the Filipinx community and undermines the deep-seated racism and colonialism that has persisted following Americas occupation of the country. He uses his art to strengthen relationships, inviting friends and family to share a part of themselves through their donations of materials and handmade souvenirs from the Philippines ... More
Friedrich Cerha, 96, who finished another composer's masterpiece, dies
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrich Cerha, an Austrian composer and conductor who was best renowned for taking on the arduous task of completing Alban Bergs unfinished Lulu, and whose skill in the effort confirmed that work as one of the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th century, died on Tuesday in Vienna. He was 96. His death was announced by his publisher, Universal Edition. It did not specify a cause. Cerha wrote several stage works, of which three Baal, Der Rattenfänger and Der Riese vom Steinfeld were produced by the Vienna State Opera. He composed orchestral, chamber and other music that found rare stylistic range within the broad confines of postwar modernism. He was a crucial figure in the rebuilding of the Viennese new-music scene, cofounding and then conducting its leading ensemble, Die Reihe ... More
Donald Spoto, biographer of Hitchcock and many more, dies at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Donald Spoto, a prolific biographer whose subjects included Jesus and Joan of Arc, but who was best known for his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other high-profile entertainment figures, some of which made news with startling claims, died Feb. 11 in Koege, Denmark. He was 81. His husband and only immediate survivor, Ole Flemming Larsen, said the cause was a brain hemorrhage. Although Spoto wrote more than two dozen books, being a biographer was a sort of second career for him. Before that, he had held several teaching positions, including in the theology department at Fairfield University in Connecticut and the department of religion at the College of New Rochelle in Westchester County, north of New York City. But he always had a fondness for movies, especially those directed by Hitchcock ... More
A big-wave photographer faces frigid water, sharks and currents to get the shot
NEW YORK, NY.- When a run of massive winter swell is forecast at Mavericks, the iconic big-wave surf break 25 miles south of San Francisco, Sachi Cunningham is typically up in the predawn darkness, pulling on her wet suit and readying her camera gear. Cunningham, an ocean photographer, is at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay by the time the first light hits. The nervous energy is palpable as Jet Skis and small boats rumble to life, and surfers and their teams ride out to the break, a half-mile offshore. Cunningham knows all the faces; shell often hitch a ride out with big-wave surfer Bianca Valenti, whom she has been photographing for a decade. One by one, the surfers drop into the frigid water with their surfboards. Cunningham follows them and swims around in the lineup. So fluid are her movements even while holding a 20-pound waterproof camera ... More
Christie's to offer "Grands Crus Part III: Finest and Rarest Wines from the Cellar of Christen Sveaas"
HONG KONG.- Christies have been entrusted with the sale of Grands Crus Part III: Finest and Rarest Wines from the Cellar of Christen Sveaas, which will be offered at a live auction in Hong Kong on 24 March at Christies Alexandra House saleroom. Comprising over 350 lots with an estimated total value exceeding HK$20 million / US$2.5 million, the sale will provide an exceptional opportunity for connoisseurs to acquire prestigious and historic wines from the famed collection of Norwegian businessman, art collector, investor and donator, Christen Sveaas. Presented will be a stunning selection of Bordeaux from the most prestigious producers, including Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, La Mission Haut Brion, Palmer and Pétrus, with iconic vintages such as 1928, 1945 and 1961 represented. In addition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși was born February 19, 1876. Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, In this image: The 1911 gilded bronze sculpture "Prometheus" by Constantin Brancusi is displayed during a preview of "Brancusi Serra" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao October 7, 2011. Curator Oliver Wick described the third element of the interaction between the two sculptors as Frank Gehry, architect of the museum.
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