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Sarah Cain's work is displayed in a space whose floor is flooded with pigment at the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island in New York, May 1, 2019. Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The showrooms are shut, the street all but deserted. This, on Feb. 19, was Cork Street in Mayfair, one of Londons prime locations for contemporary-art galleries. After almost a year of coronavirus-related restrictions that have hampered gallerists ability to display and sell art, the Britain-based fair organizer and publisher Frieze has chosen this address to offer dealers another way of doing business. From October, about the time of the scheduled opening of the Frieze London and Frieze Masters fairs in Regents Park (both of which were canceled last year), a new Frieze initiative, No. 9 Cork Street, will host dealers temporary presentations in three new gallery spaces, rotating throughout the year. The question is whether galleries will continue to have space in London, said Frieze CEO Simon Fox, explaining the thinking behind No. 9 Cork Street. The answer to that, in time, might be No. Frieze is seeking to diversify its busi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on February 6, 2021 shows ruins of the Great Ziggurat temple in the ancient city of Ur, where Abraham the father of three religions is thought to have been born, which falls now in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, around 375 kilometres southeast of Baghdad. The March 5-8 visit -- the first ever by a pope -- will include inter-religious prayers at the ancient city of Ur in Iraq's south. The Pope's prayers will bring Christians and Muslims together, as well as the faithful from the ancient religions of the Yazidis and Sabeans. Asaad NIAZI / AFP.
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| Dallas Museum of Art presents five exquisite works by Frida Kahlo | | Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii | | Spain removes last statue of dictator Franco |
Frida Kahlo, Diego and Frida 1929 1944, 1944, oil on masonite with original painted
shell frame, Private Collection, Courtesy GalerÃa Arvil. © 2021 Banco de México Diego
Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
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DALLAS, TX.- This winter, the Dallas Museum of Art shares with visitors the rare opportunity to see five exquisite works by the acclaimed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. In her lifetime, Kahlos work was well-known in artistic circles, particularly in Mexico and the United States. In the years since her death in 1954, her work has garnered ever-increasing critical attention and international praise. Today, her fame is so widespread that she has gone from being simply a celebrated artist, to a global cultural phenomenon. Opening on February 28, 2021, Frida Kahlo: Five Works includes four paintings and a drawing on loan from a Private Collection, courtesy of the GalerÃa Arvil in Mexico City. In the new installation, each work will act as a vehicle for understanding larger aspects of Kahlos artistic practice. This includes her development of a ... More | |
The excavation site is known as the Civita Giuliana, a suburban villa that lies just a few hundred metres from the ancient city of Pompeii. Photo: Pompeii - Parco Archeologico / Facebook.
ROME (AFP).- An ornate Roman chariot has been discovered "almost intact" near Italys buried city of Pompeii, the archaeological park announced on Saturday, calling it a discovery with "no parallel" in the country. The four-wheeled processional carriage was found in the portico to stables where the remains of three horses were unearthed in 2018, including one still in its harness. Pompeii was buried in boiling lava when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, killing between 2,000 and 15,000 people. "A large ceremonial chariot with four wheels, along with its iron components, beautiful bronze and tin decorations, mineralised wood remains and imprints of organic materials (from the ropes to the remains of floral decoration), has been discovered almost intact," a statement issued by the archaeological park said. "This is an exceptional discovery... which has no parallel in Italy thus far - in an excellent state of preservation." The excavation site is known as the Civita Giuliana, a suburban villa that ... More | |
This file photo taken on February 19, 2015 shows a statue of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in the Spanish city of Melilla. ANGELA RIOS / AFP.
MADRID (AFP).- Spain's north African enclave of Melilla has removed the country's last public statue of former dictator General Francisco Franco 45 years after his death. "A day for History," the regional government of Melilla tweeted along with pictures of workmen backed by a mechanical digger removing the statue on Tuesday evening from the gates of the city. The bronze statue, which shows Franco standing, was erected in 1978 to commemorate his role as commander of the Spanish Legion in the Rif War, a conflict Spain fought in the 1920s against Berber tribes in Morocco. As a result of the statue's removal, no more commemorative tributes remain in public streets to the man who ruled Spain between the end of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and his death in November 1975. The head of the regional government of Melilla said the statue was taken to a municipal warehouse, without clarifying whether it would later be put in a museum. A 2007 law passed by a previous Socialist government obliges towns ... More |
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| 'Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting' debuts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | | La Criée centre for contemporary art exhibits a selection of recent works by Jockum Nordström | | Major exhibition of works by pioneering woman artist opens at the Art Gallery of South Australia |
Vico Magistretti, manufactured by Artemide, Eclisse Table Lamp, designed 1966, made c. 1970, lacquered aluminum and bulb, private collection. © Archivio / Studio MagistrettiFondazione Vico Magistretti.
HOUSTON, TX.- From the invention of the first electric light by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808 to Phillipss development of the ultraefficient lightbulb in 2011, lighting technology has fascinated engineers, scientists, architects, and designers worldwide and has inspired periods of creative expression. Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting is the first large-scale exhibition in the United States to examine international lighting over the past 100 years as a catalyst for technological and artistic innovation within major avant-garde design movements. The exhibition presents 85 rare or limited-production examples by the worlds leading designers, including Achille Castiglioni, Christian Dell, DRIFT, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Poul Henningsen, Ingo Maurer, Verner Panton, Gino Sarfatti, Ettore Sottsass, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Their creations harnessed lights radiance and beauty, resulting in innovative designs ... More | |
Jockum Nordström, Skogen (The Forest), 2019. 86Ã65 cm, watercolour and collage on paper © Jockum Nordström courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery. Photo: Per-Erik Adamsson.
RENNES.- A major figure on the Swedish art scene, Jockum Nordström has devoted over thirty years to his mischievous mix of worlds quotidian and oneiric, human and animal, abstract and naive, natural and architectural. At La Criée centre for contemporary art, hes presenting a selection of recent works: collages, drawings and cardboard sculptures. Jockum Nordström is also an illustrator of childrens books and a musician. His work is fuelled by references to popular and outsider art, jazz, Surrealism and architecture, in addition to Swedish culture and contemporary art. Out of all this emerge dreamlike fables in which different worlds and eras intermingle. The power of his work resides in the tension he sets up between simplicity of line and polyphony of subject matter. Among his passions are architecture and a fascination with interiors and furniture going back to his childhood in the Stockholm suburbs, when the housing estates we ... More | |
Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, October morning, c.1927, Melbourne, oil on canvas on board; Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of Elizabeth through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia is presenting the most comprehensive retrospective ever staged of Clarice Beckett, one of Australias most enigmatic and admired modernist painters. Clarice Beckett: The present moment, sees nearly 130 works by the artist on display as part of the 2021 Adelaide Festival in February 2021. Associated with a legendary story of rediscovery, Clarice Beckett is today celebrated for her ethereal, atmospheric landscape paintings that capture the commonplace. In 1935 Clarice Beckett died at the age of forty-eight, and for the next thirty-five years her work vanished from art history before being rescued by Dr Rosalind Hollinrake. Hollinrake salvaged 369 of the artists neglected canvases from a remote, open-sided shed in rural Victoria. Hollinrakes extensive research and promotion led to Becketts recognition as a major ... More |
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| Vito Schnabel inaugurates second New York City exhibition space with works by Robert Nava | | Raymond Cauchetier, whose camera caught the New Wave, dies at 101 | | New partnership agreed between the National Gallery and Hugh Lane Gallery |
Robert Nava, Gold Sky and Wind Angel, 2020. Acrylic, grease pencil and crayon on canvas 85 x 73 inches (215.9 cm x 185.4 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting Robert Nava: Angels, the first New York solo exhibition for the Brooklynbased artist. Angels debuts a new series of paintings devoted to the archetype of the seraphim, the winged figure that has animated art history since the early Christian era of the 4th century. With these works, the angel takes its place in Navas contemporary visual mythos, joining riotously colored monsters, knights, and chimerical beings that populate his deceptively carefree canvases and works on paper. On view through April 10, Angels inaugurates Vito Schnabels second New York City exhibition space, located at 455 West 19th Street in the Chelsea Arts District. Robert Nava has attracted international attention for a vibrant and mischievous approach to figuration in which hybrid creatures in electric colors pulsate within the frames of largescale paintings. Seemingly spontaneous, these image ... More | |
Still from A Bout de Souffle. © Raymond Cauchetier, courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Raymond Cauchetier, the renowned French photographer who documented the revolutionary early films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other New Wave directors a half-century ago with now-classic portraits, only to go uncredited for decades, died Monday in Paris. He was 101. The cause was COVID-19, said Julia Gragnon, who runs La Galerie de lInstant, the French gallery that represents Cauchetier. A self-taught photographer who did not own a camera until he was in his 30s, Cauchetier for most of his life was known for pictures of Romanesque sculptures and architectural treasures of Europe and Southeast Asia, including thousands of images of the ancient temples at Angkor Wat, a portfolio mindlessly burned by the Khmer Rouge when it toppled the Cambodian government in 1975. But the photographs that made his global reputation a pictorial record of the iconoclastic ... More | |
Edouard Manet, Eva Gonzalès, 1870. Oil on canvas, 191.1 x 133.4 cm. Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A new partnership has been agreed between the National Gallery, London and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin regarding the 39 paintings in the Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, which allows the public in both the UK and Ireland to continue enjoying these works on a regular basis. In moving on from previous agreements made during the past 50 years, the two galleries are now committed to working in partnership regarding the care and display of these paintings in a spirit of collegiality. When Hugh Lane (born County Cork, 1875) perished on the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, it emerged that he had bequeathed his collection of 39 modern paintings including works by Renoir, Manet, Mancini, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Vuillard and Degas - to the National Gallery, London. Soon after his death, a codicil to the will was found in Lanes desk at the National Gallery of Ireland (where he was Director) leaving the pictures ... More |
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| Vincent Namatjira unveils his largest commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | | Phoenix Art Museum to diversify contemporary art collection | | Scents of time: Belgrade's last craft perfumery |
Artist Vincent Namatjira with P.P.F. (Past-Present-Future), 2021, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2021. © the artist. Photo: Daniel Boud.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has revealed the seventh iteration of the Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission by renowned Western Arrernte painter Vincent Namatjira. Namatjira hand-painted directly onto the Museums 15-metre-long wall over a two-week period, creating the artists largest work to date. The work titled P.P.F. (Past-Present-Future) depicts a group of seven Aboriginal male figures, including a self-portrait, painted on the desert landscape of the artists home community of Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) region in South Australia. Each portrait has been painted in Namajtiras signature-style caricature, he has incorporated influential figures, some well-known and others less so, who have been important in the artists life. These portraits include former AFL football player and 2014 Australian on the Year, Adam Goodes; land-rights campaigner, Eddie Koiki Mab ... More | |
Derek Fordjour, The Futility of Achievement, 2020 (detail). Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, foil, and glitter on newspaper mounted on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Dawn and David Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announced the expansion of the Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative to support the diversification of its contemporary art collection through the acquisition of works by artists contributing to discourses on race, gender, and other social concerns that are relevant to the Phoenix community and society at large. These efforts will entail collecting works by a range of artists working today, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and women artists, among others. This reimagining of the Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative supports the Museums previously stated goals of examining and diversifying its permanent collection. The Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative was originally established in 2017 through the support of Valley philanthropists ... More | |
Nenad Jovanov poses for a picture with perfume bottles in his 67 years old perfume shop in Belgrade on February 23, 2021. Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP.
BELGRADE (AFP).- From a cobblestoned street in downtown Belgrade, the Sava perfumery has seen more than half a century sweep past without ceasing in its mission to keep the city's citizens smelling flowery and fresh. The artisanal shop -- which mixes its perfumes in-house -- is the last of its kind in the Serbian capital, thanks to the Jovanov family who are committed to keeping the craft alive. While the city has gone through many changes, the store remains a snapshot in time, with glass bottles, mixing vials and other tools passed down through three generations. The work is a labour of love for the Jovanovs, whose other sources of income enable them to continue with the perfumery. "We have remained because of tradition, love, affection and willingness to do a job which at certain times doesn't earn you enough money to subsist," the shop's jovial owner Nenad Jovanov, 71, told AFP as he mixed a custom eau de toilette in the shop's laboratory-like back room, ... More |
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Charlotte Gainsbourg says Serge would struggle with today's censorship
PARIS (AFP).- Charlotte Gainsbourg didn't like discussing her father, the pioneering troubadour Serge Gainsbourg, as she struggled to share her personal grief with a public that still reveres him as the epitome of French libertine cool. Now, on the 30th anniversary of his death, she is finally letting go, throwing open his home and able to enjoy the flood of tributes coming from artists and fans, young and old. "I held back from giving interviews about him for a long time," she told AFP from her Paris home. "I told myself the anniversaries were too painful. "But people weren't waiting for me, which is good. The statements are so beautiful. I told myself: 'Maybe I can speak about it, too.'" A flood of album reissues, documentaries, books and podcasts have underlined the reverence with which Serge Gainsbourg is still held as France marks the anniversary of his ... More
Yuval Waldman, bridge-building violinist, is dead at 74
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Yuval Waldman, an accomplished violinist and conductor with particular interests in building musical bridges between countries and rediscovering neglected works composed under oppressive circumstances, died Feb. 1 in Brooklyn. He was 74. His son, Ariel Levinson-Waldman, said that the cause was coronary artery disease and that Waldman had also contracted COVID-19 shortly before his death. Waldman, who lived in Brooklyn, was the son of Jewish parents who survived the purges in Ukraine during the Nazi occupation of World War II, and his childhood involved several dislocations before the family eventually settled in Bat Yam, a Tel Aviv suburb. His career in some ways reflected his multinational upbringing and his sense of music as a lifeline in a turbulent world. He conducted the New American ... More
Fridman Gallery presents the U.S. premiere of Jacob Kirkegaard's Testimonium
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery announced the U.S. premiere of Jacob Kirkegaard's Testimonium. The audio-visual installation was created from recordings of recycling and wastewater facilities in Denmark and Latvia, and one of the worlds largest landfills in Dandora, Kenya. For the first time, Testimonium is being presented in its most complete form: the video installation is accompanied by an eight-channel sound sculpture, and a large-scale photograph of the desolate industrial landscape. The video is available for viewing and listening on the gallery's website for the duration of the exhibition. Kirkegaard created the audio work with vibration sensors placed inside piles of organic waste and incinerators; hydrophones lowered in wastewater and heavily contaminated rivers; and high-fidelity microphones pointed at metal, glass and plastic sorted by hand ... More
Kunstraum LLC opens a group exhibition curated by Paul Wesenberg
BROOKLYN, NY.- Proximity and Distance brings together artworks with intrinsic values of wholeness and time, giving hope during the historical turning point of a worldwide crisis. Featuring Berlin and New York-based artists Isabelle Borges, Carson Fox, Axel Geis, Anna Grath, Katherine Jackson, Stella Meris, Habby Osk, and Paul Wesenberg, the exhibition focuses on the shared belief that rapidly changing times require a new search for artistic languageone that offers calm and resilience in the face of the complexities of our lives. The artists in this show are united by the distinctiveness of their independent studio practice. They use different techniques, materials, and visual languages, yet their resulting works communicate with each other. All of the works offer an inherent stillness and comfort that allows us to take a mental breath and slow down ... More
Jack Shainman Gallery presents Tradewinds, a new body of work by Paul Anthony Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Tradewinds, a new body of work by Paul Anthony Smith and the artists second solo show with the gallery. Held at the 513 West 20th Street location, Tradewinds features Smiths singular picotage on pigment prints that explore the artists Caribbean lineage and the legacies inherited throughout generations. Largely departing from his use of fence, breeze block, and brick overlays, Smiths picotage patterning in this new series is rendered far more ambiguous and organic. Considering both his own familial histories, along with the global impact of this past years pandemic and racial justice uprising, Smith questions the stories that are told about peoples lives and deaths. Why were those of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rendered infinitely more significant after they left this earth; and how do ... More
Natural disasters inspire monumental sculptures in exhibition
UTICA, NY.- Monumental sculptures representing natural disasters caused by human activity create a forceful presence in the exhibition, Terrible Beauty: Richard Friedberg Sculpture, on view February 27 through May 30 in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art. Terrible Beauty serves as a showcase for Oneonta-based sculptor Richard Friedbergs impressive body of work created during the past decade. Friedberg has been compelled by such horrific events as the BP Deepwater Horizon wellhead blowout at Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and tsunami. These specific events, in Friedbergs hands and imagination, are transformed into sublime works reminiscent of terrible explosions, tidal waves, and smoke. The sculptures, made with aluminum mesh ... More
Creative Capital announces new President & Executive Director
NEW YORK, NY.- Creative Capital announced the appointment of Christine Kuan as its next President and Executive Director. Currently the CEO and Director of Sothebys Institute of Art - New York, Kuan brings to Creative Capital more than 20 years of experience in arts leadership across the educational, nonprofit, and commercial sectors. The decision follows a national executive search process led by Arts Consulting Group (ACG)."I am honored to join Creative Capital in its mission to support individual artists creating groundbreaking work confronting the most important issues of our time, said incoming Creative Capital President and Executive Director Christine Kuan. One of the things that attracts me to Creative Capital is its fierce commitment to risk-taking artists of diverse backgrounds, who make such powerful contributions to our ... More
The PinchukArtCentre opens "Remember Yesterday", a group exhibition of Ukrainian artists
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents Remember Yesterday, a group exhibition of Ukrainian artists. This exhibition is the first in a new series of shows that draw from the PinchukArtCentres Ukrainian art collection. They combine works from the collection, which has a main focus on the 90ties and early 2000, with new productions and or loans of recent work. Remember Yesterday tells about the events that have impacted the development of Ukraines history and its society: from the Holodomor, through Perestroika, the 1990s, the Orange Revolution, the Revolution of Dignity, up until now. Björn Geldhof, curator of the exhibition and artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre: Remember Yesterday points to the lightning speed with which Ukraine has changed in the last three decades. Its story is complex, non-linear and contradictory. It features Ukrainians ... More
Meet the songwriters behind the 'Wandavision' hit 'Agatha All Along'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you are a fan of the Disney+ Marvel series WandaVision, there are five words that have been stuck in your head for the past week: It was Agatha all along. The 62-second earworm appears in Episode 7, Breaking the Fourth Wall, and its purpose is simple: It explains what Wanda and Visions nosy neighbor, Agnes (Kathryn Hahn), has been up to this entire time. It has also taken on a life of its own, having spawned numerous trap, rock and rap remixes in the days since the episode debuted Feb 19. None of us knew this was going to be the song, said composer Robert Lopez, 46, who created the songs for the series with his wife of 17 years, Oscar and Grammy-winning lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez, 48. We woke up that morning to find that it was all over the internet, and it was like, This is awesome. ... More
Julie Delpy, science-fiction filmmaker? It's true
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sorry, sorry, sorry, said a flustered Julie Delpy, who was a few minutes late for a video interview. My son is doing online school, and there is always something complicated to sort out. She paused and took a breath. But its nice, too, having this time together. Motherhood, its deep pulls of love and its concomitant potential for terror, is the central subject of Delpys new film, My Zoe. Its a tough depiction of an antagonistic, divorcing couple who are struck by tragedy, but then (spoiler alert!) moves into futuristic terrain as Delpys character, Isabelle, a geneticist, searches for a radical solution: cloning the child she has lost with the help of a controversial fertility doctor, played by Daniel Brühl. Brühl, who has worked with Delpy previously and was also one of the films producers, said in a telephone interview that ... More
Broadway is dark. London is quiet. But in Australia, it's showtime.
SYDNEY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The lights were dimmed, the crowd was masked, and plexiglass divided the orchestra. Jemma Rix, draped in royal blue and holding a sanitized scepter as Elsa, emerged to greet the Frozen family her spunky sister, Anna, the dashing Prince Hans and the stoic reindeer Sven all tested for COVID-19, belting out familiar lines with new meaning. For the first time in forever, they sang, nothings in my waaaay! The crowd erupted in applause, not just for the cast, but for the moment: Actors are back onstage, and audiences are back in seats. At a time when New York and London theaters remain dark, Australias stages are (carefully) bright Come From Away and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have reopened in Melbourne, Hamilton is scheduled to join Frozen next month in Sydney, ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator John Tenniel was born February 28, 1820. Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In this image: John Tenniel, A Conspiracy, oil on panel, August 1850. Private collection, UK.
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