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Esme Ward, the Manchester Museumâs director, in Manchester, England on Feb. 13, 2023. The Manchester Museum was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire and now it is embracing the cityâs South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Farah Nayeri
MANCHESTER.- The World War I uniform, found in a family trunk in Pakistan, is in a glass case of its own, honoring colonial subjects who fought for Britain. Nearby is a rickshaw festooned with flowers and ribbons, imported from Bangladesh and richly decorated by Bangladeshi and British artists. A large self-portrait on the wall, titled I Beg You to Define Me, shows a young woman wearing elaborately embroidered South Asian garments over sweatpants and running shoes. This is the new South Asia Gallery at the Manchester Museum, which reopens Saturday after an eight-year, $18 million redevelopment. The first permanent museum gallery in Britain to spotlight the South Asian diaspora, it focuses on the communitys lived experience: on what it means to be British and South Asian at the same time. The gallery was curated not by a posse of bookish conservators but by 30 local people of South Asian heritage. They came up with the stories they wanted to tell and looked for the objects that tol ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Between Realities is a dual exhibition presenting new and recent works of Japanese-French design duo, Aki+Arnaud Cooren, in dialogue with the works of German-born contemporary artist Thomas Demand. The exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York develops the themes underpinning both artistâs creative oeuvres that lean into the visual play between âwhat is realâ and âwhat is illusionâ.
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| Exhibition of new and recent works by Aki + Arnaud Cooren opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York | | Historic building in Tribeca to become Marian Goodman Gallery's new home | | Almine Rech Paris opens 'Hiba Schahbaz Love Songs' | 
Tiss-Tiss Bedside Table with Door Green Pair, 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York presents Between Realities, an exhibition of new and recent works by Aki + Arnaud Cooren in conversation with the works of German sculptor and photographer, Thomas Demand. Between Realities develops the themes underpinning the Tiss-Tiss collection, leaning into the visual dissonance between reality and the appearance of each artwork. Aki + Arnaud capture the delicate textual materiality of linen, alchemized in cast aluminum. The result is a trompe loeil effect that deceives the perception of the viewer, upon closer inspection the true nature of the work is discovered. The French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, has an immense impact on the practice of both Aki + Arnaud Cooren and Thomas Demand. Baudrillards thesis Simulacra and Simulation touches on the relationship between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture ... More | | 
Rendering of future Marian Goodman Gallery Building. Photo credit: StudioMDA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Partners of Marian Goodman Gallery announced plans to open in a new home in downtown Manhattan in mid-to-late 2024. The Gallerys new headquartersthe historic Grosvenor Building, a former warehouse building in Tribeca at 385 Broadway, between White and Walker Streetswill feature approximately 30,000 square feet of space, including two floors of open galleries, as well as viewing rooms, a library and archive, art storage, and administrative offices. Originally built in 1875, the five-story building will undergo a restoration and renovation by studioMDA, a New York-based architectural firm known for its work in the cultural sphere. With naturally lit, street-level exhibition spaces, the new location will increase public access to the Gallerys program and its artists, who are considered among the most innovative and influential of our time. The move to a new, expanded location ... More | | 
Hiba Schahbaz, Love Song, 2023 (detail). Oil on linen, 91.4 x 121.9 cm. 36 x 48 in.
PARIS.- Hiba Schahbazs artistic education, which was certainly anchored in a certain technical and ideological tradition in the art and miniature schools of Lahore, cannot and should not be resolved in a single environment but rather through contact with the history of Western painting, which she cultivated at a very early age through reproductions in books. The fact remains that the young Pakistanis of her generation who studied in the 1990s and 2000s in Lahore or Karachi schools were always subject to an academic framework, not to mention a rigorous orthodoxy. This framework assigned the role of voicing political and social problems, often from a nationalist perspective, to painting, rather than that of exploring the stirrings of the female body in all its sensuality. It is understandable that Hiba Schahbaz's unbridled fidelity to the female nude, from her childhood to the present day, has not come without its challenges. Naturally, ... More |
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| Arsnl Art presents Siebren Versteeg, "For a Limited Time" | | "Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure" at Sarasota Art Museum explores social themes through monumental sculptures | | Exhibition at MACBA brings together the projects of Bouchra Khalili | 
Versteegs algorithms generate painterly collages that transform images of current events into works that are erotic, prophetic, sometimes terrifying, often humorous, and always revelatory.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the success of Frank Stellas Geometries, Arsnl Art announced its latest sale, For a Limited Time, with pioneering generative artist Siebren Versteeg. The 12-month artistic experiment, which relies on collector interventions to memorialize moments in the artworks process, will take place exclusively on Arsnl.Art, starting in early March 2023. A physical exhibition of the project was presented by bitforms gallery at the opening of the Santa Monica Art Museum during Frieze LA. Versteegs algorithms generate painterly collages that transform images of current events into works that are erotic, prophetic, sometimes terrifying, often humorous, and always revelatory. For a year, Versteeg will generate a new work every 10 to 15 minutes, using trending stories scraped from the internet as source material. Each work will only exist "for a limited time" ... More | | 
Chakaia Booker (American, born 1953),Untitled (cb.13.13), 2013. Hand painted chine collé on
Hahnemühle copperplate paper, 24 x 21 ½ in, Courtesy of the artist and EFA Robert Blackburn
Printmaking Workshop.
SARASOTA, FLA.- Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design invites visitors to explore themes of environmentalism, socioeconomic justice and more in Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure, on view July 16-Oct. 29. The solo exhibition will feature select prints, paintings and sculpture that span several decades of Bookers career. Surface pressure alludes to the process of making and the physical force the artist exerts to manipulate the materials. Booker is internationally renowned for using reclaimed materials to create monumental sculptural works that challenge viewers to consider the nature of humans relationships to one another and the world. Recycled tires, her most iconic signature materials, communicate themes of diversity, consumerism, industrialization and more. The exhibition at Sarasota ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Miquel Coll.
BARCELONA.- Between Circles and Constellations, an exhibition curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Hiuwai Chu, brings together the projects of Bouchra Khalili (born in Casablanca in 1975, lives and works in Berlin and Vienna) from the last ten years, including film, video, installation, photography and silkscreen printing and editorial platforms. Language and speech are an essential part of Khalili's investigations and are employed as a powerful form of resistance against hegemonic powers. Through a constant dialogue between history and the present, the show reflects on belonging, civic action, political agency and the need for what the artist calls radical citizenship. Her proposals invite us to meditate on the complex relationships between poetry, orality, performance as a form of visibility, and on the place occupied by Position of the storyteller as a witness to history. The exhibition is conceived as a constellation in which works are interconnected through their shared reflections ... More |
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| Maya Brodsky: Moments of Being now on view at the George Adams Gallery | | Julien's Auctions presents "The Apples" | | Contemporary artist painter Jorge Rivas exhibiting "Environmental" at IUP | 
Maya Brodsky, Dusya and Zhenia, 2019. Oil on mylar mounted on panel, 5 1/2 x 4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The George Adams Gallery opened their first solo exhibition of paintings by Maya Brodsky, her first in ten years. Intimate in both their scale and subject, Brodsky draws on her lived experience to create paintings that are deeply personal yet universal in their concerns. The exhibition, Moments of Being, includes work from the past five years, a period that encompasses the birth of her second daughter, Eda. The title of the exhibition, Moments of Being, derives from the autobiographical essay by Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past, which investigates the recording of memory itself. Woolf describes the consequential moments of being as distinct from those everyday moments of non-being, calling them the scaffolding in the background; [the] invisible and silent part of my life. Likewise, Brodsky searches out those moments of being to translate ... More | | 
1991 PowerBook 100.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF (???).- Juliens Auctions, the auction house to the stars, unveiled today The Apples, a historic auction event featuring The Hanspeter Luzi Vintage Apple Archive, one of the worlds most comprehensive collection of Apple computers and products ever offered. More than 500 computers and Apple products spanning over forty-five years will be offered for the first time at auction Thursday, March 30th, 2023 at Juliens Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills and online on JULIEN'S LIVE.COM. From his parents Los Altos, California garage in 1976, Steve Jobs hatched the beginnings of the Apple computer and for the next 35 years, changed the world with his technological achievements and famous innovations. With the development of the Apple 1 and Apple II with co-founder Steve Wozniak, the company created the first mass produced and popular personal computers that began a cultural shift for how society com ... More | | 
Jorge Rivas with Curator of the Indiana University Museum of Pennsylvania and of the exhibition "Environmental".
INDIANA, PA.- Venezuelan-American Artist Jorge Rivas exhibits successfully at the Indiana University Museum of Pennsylvania in the United States, in the show entitled, "Environmental" from January 21 to March 4, 2023, which participates with 7 important works of his authorship. The prominent Venezuelan Artist-Painter Jorge Rivas who has been living in the United States for 20 years, and with studies and residence in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has been exhibiting his work in galleries, art fairs and museums in the United States with a lot of interest and success. Rivas creates wonderfully layered paintings that combine abstract with other geometric elements, but also he builds the architecturally the most wonderful spaces, he builds cities geometrically respecting the lines and the colors, adding new and personal elements to the painting . One ... More |
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| "Si On: I Am An Outcast From The World" on view at James Fuentes | | Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of new work by Tony Oursler | | Largest known private library of 20th & 21st century books on to be offered at auction | 
Si On, Big Happy Hair Day, 2022. Oil and spray on canvas, 42 1/8 x 38 5/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Si On: I Am An Outcast From The World is now on view at James Fuentes through March 19, 2023. The power and presence of Si Ons artwork materializes through a method best described as sgraffito. Unplanned, heavy layers of paint are applied to canvas then scraped or scrubbed away. Through repetition of this destructive and creative action the details of a latent, unconscious expression come into view. Image and form ergo directly emerge as lower levels of color penetrate those superficial layers that cover it. This process is also emblematic of the ways in which Si On takes on painting as a place for surfacing deep-seated, unseen emotion that is as universal as it is intimately personal. In a world constructed of unspoken forces, this is no less than a life-sustaining practice of expulsion and transformation. The influence of Korean shamanism often comes up in discussions of Si Ons work. At this juncture art becomes wh ... More | | 
Tony Oursler, MHz, 2023. Archival inket print on aluminum mirror, wood, acrylic paint, 4 digital screens, 72.5 x 29 x 2 inches. 184.2 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin presents mAcHiNe E.L.F., an exhibition of new work by Tony Oursler. Based in New York City, Oursler has been a pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s. Over the last four decades, Oursler has explored popular culture through a diverse combination of multimedia projects, immersive environments, expansive outdoor installations, and dynamic dolls, ghosts, and bots that liberate video from its traditional two-dimensional format and bring it into the realm of sculpture. Often taking the human form, especially the face, as his subject, Oursler examines psychological states, the interaction between technological progress and society, and the history of science, pseudoscience, spiritualism, and religion. For his latest exhibition the artist has created a series of electrified silhouettes that feature painted and printed collages interspersed with embedded digital displays, as well as an ... More | | 
Deluxe copy of the Christies catalogue of the sale of Princess Dianas dresses in 1997, signed by Princess Diana. Estimate £3,000-£4,000 (lot 7).
LONDON.- Forum Auctions will offer the largest known private library of 20th and 21st century books on Art, Photography, Fashion and Design. The collection of more than 2,500 books has been painstakingly curated over the last 30 years, by the renowned creative genius HÃ¥kan Rosenius, celebrated for revolutionising famous fashion brands, such as Browns, Joseph, Missoni, Paul Smith & Asprey. The collection includes rare and unusual works, many of which are in deluxe limited editions, often containing a signed original photograph, and hard to find catalogues from outstanding exhibitions. The books, which are all in exceptional condition, are to be offered in an online sale at Forum Auctions, titled Flair: Fashion, Photography and Design the library of HÃ¥kan Rosenius from Thursday 9th March, 2023 at 12:00pm. Commenting on this exceptional collection, fashion designer Sir Paul Smith said: This is a diverse ... More |
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 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery opens a solo exhibition with NYC-based artist Erika RaneeNEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is presenting their first solo exhibition with NYC-based artist Erika Ranee. Titled All Natural, the show features new paintings that exemplify the artists process-based studio practice, developing complex and deeply beautiful surfaces from myriad applications of paint, collage, and mark-making. Ranee takes inspiration from the world all around her; a crosstown bus ride might reveal pops of color in a passengers bright blue IKEA bag seen against municipal orange plastic seats. A bucket of Purple Dark acrylic, discontinued by Guerra Paints but gifted to the artist, might bring to mind dahlias and peonies, her favorite flowers. All Natural refers to Ranees time spent between NYC and rural Western Massachusetts, and an ongoing fascination with both the fertile, natural world of the countryside ... More  Exhibition offers an incredible display of 220 sets of ancient gold artefactsHONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kongs new cultural landmark in the West Kowloon Cultural District, unveiled Radiance: Ancient Gold from the Hong Kong Palace Museum Collection and the Mengdiexuan Collection, the first special exhibition curated from the Museums own permanent collection. The exhibition offers an incredible display of 220 sets of ancient gold artefacts, with the oldest dating back to the 18th century BCE. The majority of items on display are specially selected from a donation made to the HKPM by the owners of the world-renowned Mengdiexuan Collection (夢蝶軒), Betty Lo and Kenneth Chu, while the rest of the exhibits are loaned from the Collection. The exhibition will be open to the public from (22 February 2023) until 25 September 2023. The exhibition presents an incredible display of 220 sets ... More  Delbert Anderson's mission: Putting 'Native sound back into jazz'FARMINGTON, NM.- To drive the high desert roads of northern New Mexico is to navigate mountain passes, red rock mesas and dry river washes, and to spot the hogans, hamlets and sheep herds of the vast and remote Navajo Nation. Fiddling with the dial on the car radio during my time there usually generates only static. Except one day came the sound of a silken and soulful trumpet, as a station played a haunting ballad, Narbona, with unmistakable Navajo phrasing. The song was the handiwork of the Delbert Anderson Trio, and it felt as if it had arisen from the folds of this land. Delbert Anderson, 36, is a Navajo jazz musician, and he and his bandmates live in Farmington, a city of 46,000 perched just east of the reservation where he was born, which is the size of the Republic of Ireland. The trios drummer, Nick Lucero, 39, half Peruvian Quechua ... More  Letting go of her ballet dreamNEW YORK, NY.- One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them. Some of the dancers were retired pros practicing at the barre. Others were weekend warriors indulging Swan Lake fantasies while getting in some cardio. Writer Alice Robb, wearing a pink leotard and ballet slippers, stood out. Her tendus seemed a little more elegant than everyone elses, and when she jumped into the air for petit allegro, she soared just a little bit higher. Afterward, Robb emerged from a changing room in jeans and a gray knit sweater, carrying a Vanity Fair tote bag. As she cooled off, she observed an advanced ballet class, watching the movements of a girl who looked about 13. Shes good, Robb said. Very ... More  His shows take on big issues. They're also good yarns.NEW YORK, NY.- Because his shows are based on research and interviews, and are grounded in pressing social issues, British writer and director Alexander Zeldin is often said to practice docu-theater. The first part of his Inequalities trilogy, Beyond Caring (2014), is about zero-hour contracts (a British term for when an employer does not have to offer a minimum number of hours), while Faith, Hope and Charity (2019) is set at a community center for the poor and the homeless. Zeldins Love, which starts previews at the Park Avenue Armory on Saturday, and opened in 2016 at the National Theater in London, takes place in a temporary-housing facility. The whole project is to write the tragic knot of our time, Zeldin said. Yet he grimaced when that docu-theater label came up in a video conversation from London, where he was rehearsing ... More  Obie Awards honor 'English' as best new playNEW YORK, NY.- The Obie Awards, back on track after a lengthy pandemic hiatus, are naming English, an acclaimed comedic drama set in an Iranian test-prep classroom, the best new American play staged off-Broadway over a two-year period. The play, written by Iranian American playwright Sanaz Toossi, depicts four students, each at different stages of life and with different motivations, struggling to master English well enough to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language. The play was staged in New York early last year as a coproduction of the Atlantic and Roundabout theater companies. In The New York Times, critic Jesse Green wrote, Both contemplative and comic, it nails every opportunity for big laughs as its English-learning characters struggle with accents and idioms. But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their ... More  Bonacina announces the opening of the new Museo Galleria GiardinoLURAGO DERBA.- Bonacina inaugurates the Museo Galleria Giardino, a place where visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the universe of the brand throughout an experiential exhibition that develops within the walls of the historic architecture building designed in 1969 by Italian architect Lorenzo Forges Davanzati. The building was commissioned by Vittorio Bonacina, second generation of the family, and was originally intended to house the showroom, a workshop and storage area for rattan and rattan core. This has remained the main exhibition and display space for years but today it has evolved into a multifunctional area with the objective to showcase Bonacinas vision, heritage and philosophy. The rational architecture building featuring large windows that flood the interior space with natural light, now houses ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier was born February 26, 1808. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales.
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