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A photo provided by the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan shows a flying machine with wings designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Many of the Leonardos works have traveled from around the world to a major show at the Louvre but many more remain in Italy, in cities and small towns alike. Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia via The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
VINCI (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, written 30 years after the artists death in 1519, Giorgio Vasari said Leonardo had such a power of intellect that whatever he turned his mind to, he made himself master of with ease. In this 500th anniversary year of the artists death, the Musée du Louvre in Paris has undeniably stolen the limelight with its blockbuster exhibition Leonardo da Vinci. Yet that intellectual dexterity manifest in Leonardos paintings and drawings as well as his scientific studies and his engineering and architectural models has spawned celebratory exhibitions in several Italian cities where Leonardos legacy remains a source of pride. That pride was somewhat bruised when the Louvre which has the worlds biggest collection of Leonardo paintings took center stage in the celebrations. But after some jousting between Italy and France, the presidents of the two countries met and made up at a cer ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Two revellers dressed in mock military garb empty out a sack of flour over another participant during the "Els Enfarinats" battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2019. During this 200-year-old traditional festival participants known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the city town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. JAIME REINA / AFP
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| | Museum Berggruen exhibits works by Pablo Picasso and Picasso and Thomas Scheibitz | | Neutral pronoun 'they' chosen as word of the decade | | Wanted: A home for 3 million records |
Pablo Picasso, Piano (I), 1920, Gouache auf Papier, 27,5 x 21,5 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen, Foto: Jens Ziehe / © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019.
BERLIN.- Thomas Scheibitz (b. 1968 in Radeberg near Dresden) is one of few contemporary artists to work so diversely with variable elements and references derived equally from everyday life and the pool of art history. His dense, often brightly coloured paintings and schematic, often puristic sculptures can be understood as montages of a freely interpreted reality. The works manifest themselves as complex caches of images or objects into which everyday visual culture has been inscribed and highly condensed by Scheibitzs formal vocabulary. Pablo Picasso and Cubisms influence on the artist is unmistakable. Of all the great isms of the 20th century, explains Thomas Scheibitz, Cubism is the most radical and has remained the most influential. In this exhibition, the Museum Berggruen, dedicated to the art of Picasso and his time, spans an ... More | |
The Society's selection of "they" was an indication of "how the personal expression of gender identity has become an increasing part of our shared discourse."
NEW YORK (AFP).- The neutral pronoun "they" has been voted word of the decade by US language experts, beating out other contenders that included "climate" and "meme". "They" is used in English by a growing number of non-binary individuals, people who do not identify as either male or female. They prefer the plural neutral pronoun to bypass the traditionally male "he" or female "she". "When a fundamental part of language like pronouns becomes a vital indicator of trends in society, linguists prick up their ears," said Ben Zimmer, head of the American Dialect Society, which studies the evolution of language. He added in a statement Friday that the Society's selection of "they" was an indication of "how the personal expression of gender identity has become an increasing part of our shared discourse." The recognition comes after US dictionary Merriam-Webster in December named "they" its word of the year. Nonbinary people are ... More | |
A small selection of the massive analog holdings of the Archive of Contemporary Music in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York on Dec. 28, 2019. OK McCausland/The New York Times.
by Derek M. Norman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In a part of Manhattan booming with trendy green high rises, renovated lofts and digital media companies, a hidden trove of musical relics has been growing for over 30 years. Housed in a nondescript building in Tribeca is the Archive of Contemporary Music, a nonprofit founded in 1985. It is one of the worlds largest collections of popular music, with more than 3 million recordings, as well as music books, vintage memorabilia and press kits. For point of comparison, the Library of Congress estimates that it also holds nearly 3 million sound recordings. Inside its space on White Street, there are shelves upon shelves upon shelves of vinyl records and CDs. Signed Johnny Cash records hang close to nearly 1,800 other signed albums. There are boxes ... More |
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| | Eva LeWitt's first solo museum exhibition on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | | Asian Art Museum presents historic Vietnamese art recovered from shipwrecks | | Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing displays drawings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov |
Eva LeWitt, Untitled (Mesh AJ) (site-specific installation view, detail), 2019 Courtesy of the artist and VI, VII, Oslo. Photo: Jason Mandella.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting Eva LeWitts first solo museum exhibition, Untitled (Mesh AJ), debuting a new site-specific installation, the artists largest to date. LeWitts practice is informed by both the reductive systems, industrial materials, and geometric preoccupations of Minimalism and the performative activities of process art, as well as her own personal history and inimitable imagination. The exhibition will be on view until April 26, 2020. Generating sculptures and installations that harmonize color, matter, and space, LeWitt favors materials that she can handle and maneuver alone in the studio: plastics, latex, fabrics, and vinylsubstances offered in an array of readymade colors and a variability of light absorbencies. Employing strategies of accretion and ... More | |
Architectural element with a multiheaded mythical serpent, approx. 11501250. Vietnam; Binh Dinh province, former kingdoms of Champa. Stone. Asian Art Museum, Gift of Richard Beleson in honor of Hanni Forester , 2012.103. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A fierce three-headed serpent and a mysterious female deity were among the nearly two dozen 12th-century stone sculptures from Central Vietnam that lay unseen at the bottom of the Arabian Sea for nearly 120 years. Almost 5,000 miles away in the South China Sea, blue-and-white ceramic bowls, plates and jars rested in the hold of a sunken ship off the coast of Vietnam for more than five centuries. Preserved like time capsules under the seas, these shipwrecks contained artworks that were excavated in the 1990s by marine archaeologists, sold at auction, purchased by individual collectors and then donated to the museum. From Nov. 26 2019-Mar. 22, 2020, Lost at Sea: Art Recovered from Shipwrecks offers ... More | |
A light installation was projected on the museum's façade featuring the drawing How to Meet an Angel.
BERLIN.- The Museum for Architectural Drawing is presenting an exhibition featuring the acclaimed conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Since the late eighties the artist duo has created fantastical spaces that they call total installations immersing the viewer in stories not only about their past in the USSR, where they both were born and raised, but also and most importantly about utopian dreams. The Kabakovs always create the concept for an installation together and Ilya transfers their ideas to paper. Ilyas graphic skill can be traced back to his classical education from the Surikov Art Institute, and while working as childrens book illustrator in Moscow long before the West paid any attention to him. In the 1960s, a small group of dissident artists among whom Ilya was a central figure created an unofficial art movement later called Moscow Conceptualism, addressing the dilemmas and fai ... More |
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| | In two exhibitions, PalaisPopulaire is presenting artistic visions of the digital world | | Lenbachhaus acquires and shows three important works by the artist Senga Nengudi | | Exhibition presents paintings from a formative era of Chung Sang-Hwa's five-decades-long career. |
Caline Aoun, 2018. © Luis Do Rosario © courtesy Fondazione MAXXI.
BERLIN.- In seeing is believing (November 15 March 2, 2020), the Lebanese artist Caline Aoun addresses how the global digital data flow shapes our perception and immediate physical environment, as well as complete social systems. The expansive exhibition with a multitude of new objects and works on paper is Caline Aoun's first institutional solo presentation. Born in Beirut in 1983, the artist was honored by Deutsche Bank as Artist of the Year. The installation Das Totale Tanz Theater (November 15 January 31, 2020), which returns to Berlin at the end of the Bauhaus year, offers a virtual art and dance experience. Since January 2019, the virtual reality experience has thrilled people all over the world, in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Montreal, Cannes, and London, among other places. Inspired by the stage experiments of Oskar Schlemmer and Walter Gropius, the total theater deals with the relationship between man and machine against the ... More | |
Performance Piece, 1977, Triptych (detail). Performer: Maren Hassinger, Original photo: Harmon Outlaw. Lenbachhaus Munich, KiCo Collection © Senga Nengudi 2019.
MUNICH.- Lenbachhaus recently announced the acquisition through the KiCo Collection of three important works by the American artist Senga Nengudi: The sculpture R.S.V.P. Reverie D (2014), the photographic triptych Performance Piece (1978), and the photographic series Ceremony for Freeway Fets (1978). These works are making their debut in Munich in an extensive exhibition devoted to Nengudis work. For more than forty years, Senga Nengudi has shaped an oeuvre that inhabits a specific and unique location between sculpture, dance and theatrical performance. Before moving to Colorado Springs in 1988 where she lives until today, Nengudi spent close to four decades in Los Angeles. In the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles was home to an African-American avant-garde with Nengudi as one of its pivotal figures. Her iconic sculptures, exhibited for the ... More | |
Chung Sang-Hwa, Work K-3, 1970. Acrylic, kaolin and oil on canvas, 64.02 x 51.3 inches (162.2 x 130.3 cm). Courtesy Lévy Gorvy, New York, and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting Chung Sang-Hwa: Excavations, 1964-78, an exhibition of paintings from a formative era of Chungs five-decades-long career. Presented on the third floor of the gallerys landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue, Excavations includes works from a crucial period in which the Korean master was immersed in the international avant-garde milieus of both Asia and Europe. The paintings on view illuminate the conceptual and technical trajectories that led Chung to the profoundly original, finely honed approach that defines the art of his mid- and late career. By highlighting the eclectic transnational influences in which Chung was immersed throughout the 1960s and 70s, the exhibition provides rare insight into the progression of his practice, in order to galvanize discourse surrounding Chungs singular approach to the medium. ... More |
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| | Folktales and symbolism in Merike Estna's expanded painting | | Solo exhibition of paintings by Clarity Haynes opens at Denny Dimin Gallery | | The 28th annual New York edition of the Outsider Art Fair takes place January 16-19 |
Merike Estna, The emptiness of the empty eyes, 2019 © image courtesy of Merike Estna studio.
MALMO.- Merike Estnas installations bring together painting, sculpture and performance, with the viewer often becoming a natural part of the work. The oeuvre of this idiosyncratic artist is being presented in Scandinavia for the first time, in a solo exhibition where abstract imagery meets seemingly simple motifs taken from folktales and mythology. Merike Estna has discussed and tested the limits of painting as both idea and action over a long period of time. With her expressive style, the Estonian artist unites an abstract visual language that seems to be taken from our digital age with motifs from myths and folk tales. The paintings expand beyond frames and canvases and take over both the exhibition space and the human body. At times the works function as props or objects and take on the semblance of furniture or wearable items of clothing. Through social and performative elements, the viewers are invited to a mutual, sometimes subtle, ... More | |
Clarity Haynes, Rainbow Altar (Spring into Summer), 2019, Oil on linen, 58 x 42.5 in/ 147 x 108 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Denny Dimin Gallery is co-presenting Altar-ed Bodies, a solo exhibition of paintings by Clarity Haynes with New Discretions (Benjamin Tischer of INVISIBLE-EXPORTS.) An altar is a such a heavy thing, thick with intentions. It exists in every culture, sometimes simply, but more often rich with offerings. An altar holds a lingering connection with the divine feminine, often serving as a strategy for resistance and a space of empowerment outside of major patriarchal religions. It is a valuable tool. According to author and folklorist Kay Turner, In the 1970s, artists involved in the radically revisionist spirit of the growing Feminist Art Movement defiantly elected to ignore the conventional distinction between fine art and womens domestic art. They discovered altar-making as part of a reinvigoration of the domestic sphere, reclaiming it as a determining frame for practices that inscribe wom ... More | |
Carlo Zinelli, Quattro uomini verdi e uccelli su sfondo giallo (Four green men and birds on yellow background), 1963 (detail), Tempera on paper, 20 x 27.5 inches, Collection of Oliana and Alessandro Zinelli.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Outsider Art Fair takes place January 16-19, 2020 at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street.) New features of the 2020 Fair include a redesigned floor plan and revamped café, various curated projects, special programs, and first-time exhibitors from Japan, India, Portugal, Canada, and various U.S. cities. Participating galleries in the 28th edition of the Fair include 65 exhibitors, representing 35 cities, from 10 countries, with 10 first-time galleries. Among the first-timers are: ACM Gallery (Tokyo, Japan); Arushi Arts (New Delhi, India); bG Gallery (Santa Monica, CA); Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York, NY); Les Impatients (Montreal, Canada); Koelsch Gallery (Houston, TX); Kushino Terrace (Hiroshima, Japan); MANICÃMIO (Lisbon, Portugal), ... More |
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Unsettling Femininity: Exhibition presents selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection
SEATTLE, WA.- From a young age, we all learn to interpret images of peoplefrom advertisements and fashion spreads to works of artbased on the cultural context in which we live. Portrayals of women are particularly layered with associations that reveal broader social values and expectations. Beginning in the 1970s, feminist scholars and critics led a methodological shift toward a critical examination of representations of women in contemporary Western media. They contextualized the way these representations were conditioned by depictions of women in the tradition of European art, renderings governed by an unspoken assumption: men actively look, and women are objects to be looked at. Unsettling ... More
BAMPFA and SFMOMA partner for Agnès Varda film retrospective
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will copresent a major retrospective of films by Agnès Varda, the first significant presentation of the acclaimed directors work since she passed away in March 2019. Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force marks the West Coast premiere of this national touring retrospective organized with Janus Films, which encompasses much of Vardas work from the last six decades including new restorations, rarely screened shorts, and a preview of Vardas final film, Varda by Agnès. The series begins at BAMPFA on December 20 with advance screenings of Varda by Agnès, a luminous autobiographical documentary that opens theatrically in the Bay Area on January 10. SFMOMAs portion of the series begins on January 9 with ... More
Elizabeth Spencer, author of 'The Light in the Piazza,' dies at 98
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Elizabeth Spencer, a lyrical Southern writer whose novels and short stories explored the conflicts and inner lives of ordinary people and families and communities drawn from her native Mississippi and from decades abroad in Italy and Canada, died Sunday at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was 98. Her death was confirmed by playwright Craig Lucas, who adapted her 1960 novella The Light in the Piazza for the stage. Often compared to the Southern voices of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, or even to Henry James for her portrayals of expatriate Americans caught in crises far from home, Spencer over nearly seven decades produced nine novels, eight collections of short stories, a memoir and a play. Much of her literary trove was set in small towns in Mississippi, and in Rome, Venice and Montreal. ... More
Morán Morán opens the first exhibition of New York-based artist Tommy Malekoff's work
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Morán Morán is presenting the first exhibition of New York-based artist Tommy Malekoffs work, titled Night Suns/Desire Lines. The show is comprised of a two-channel video installation and a series of twenty, small-scale silkscreen works depicting nocturnal street lamps, which both observe and venerate inherent aspects of late capitalism and the surprising split life it possesses. Over the course of eighteen months, Malekoff travelled extensively throughout the US, filming arranged events as well as natural patterns occurring in one of our most ubiquitous and banal open spaces the parking lot. His video, titled Desire Lines, is a fifteen minute loop with orchestrated sound that cycles through moments of strange spectacle. Car tires spin madly in place, creating plumes of smoke that belie where they came from, appearing celestial, diffusing ... More
Portland Art Museum revisits, somewhat unfaithfully, Portland's most experimental art experiment, PCVA
PORTLAND, ORE.- From 1972 to 1987, the Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA) was a major force in the Pacific Northwest, introducing progressive forms of contemporary art from around the country to Portland audiences. Temporary site-specific installations by major, mostly New York-based sculptors, announced its early ambitions. Later, an impressive schedule of avant-garde performances signaled a turn towards a more socially inclusive modelone that, unfortunately, proved financially unsustainable. More than thirty years after its demise, this artist-founded organization remains an inspiration for both the art it brought to the area and the impact it had on this citys cultural scene. But PCVAs mythology as a leading-edge organization in one of the countrys most liberal cities is paradoxical. The exhibitions that brought it national ... More
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is awarded the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo announced today that Lawrence Abu Hamdan has been awarded the 2022 Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media. This is the third in an ongoing series of commissions offered jointly by the two institutions to support the creation, production, and acquisition of new work by international artists working in the expanding fields of video, film, performance, and sound. Abu Hamdan has received many accolades and a number of commissions throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. This project, in particular, stands as a singular and significant opportunity that will enable the artist to further develop, refine, and expand his growing practice and the subjects with which he works. Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Lebanese/British, born in Amman ... More
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand presents an exhibition of works by Leonor Antunes
SAO PAULO.- Defined by the artist herself as sculptures created in space, the works by Leonor Antunes (Lisbon, 1973) establish complex relationships between sculpture, architecture, design, light and the bodythat of the spectator moving through the gallery or space that the artist occupies. The artist gives special attention to the materials she uses, which are often natural or organic, and to the effects left on them by time and their use, highlighting lines and weaves, techniques and textures. One of the most striking features of Antunes practice is the interest she takes in the productions of a number 20th-century artists, architects and designers, whom she investigates and is inspired by. In this sense, she constructs a true archive of references, composed above all by pioneering women modernists who have often been left outside the grand ... More
A rough year, eased by her own writing
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Two years ago, a cri de coeur of an essay addressing why middle-aged women were overwhelmed and exhausted went viral. Its author, Ada Calhoun, ended up writing an entire book on the subject: Why We Cant Sleep: Womens New Midlife Crisis" (out this month). Born and raised in Manhattans East Village, Calhoun, who grew up in an artistic household (her father, Peter Schjeldahl, is an art critic for The New Yorker; her mother, Brooke Alderson, a former actress) was part of a generation of women who came of age both empowered and duty-bound. Hitting midlife with this psychic duality, when dreams give way to responsibility, can be especially challenging for Gen Xers, who have high expectations, she writes. But Calhoun didnt know how much the book would help her, personally, until 2019, during what ... More
Haines Gallery presents a selection of abstract paintings by the celebrated painter David Simpson
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery opened their tenth solo exhibition with acclaimed Bay Area artist David Simpson (b. 1928; lives and works in Berkeley, CA). Interference presents a selection of abstract paintings by the celebrated painter, whose work has influenced generations of artists since the 1950s. Simpsons latest exhibition with Haines Gallery takes its title from his use of interference pigments, which respond to changes in light and the viewers perspective, shifting subtly (i.e., from silver to blue), or dramatically (from royal purple to peacock green), depending on the artists intent. Simpson has been working with interference pigments since the early 1990s. Demonstrating his mastery of this signature material, each canvas on view is the result of up to thirty coats of paint, meticulously layered to create a rich, lustrous surface. In a review ... More
Yes, we need (yet) another Rachmaninoff recording
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The standard repertory in classical music is often standard for good reason: Great works are gifts that keep on giving with repeated hearings. But what about repeated recordings? Its one thing to hear young pianists take on Rachmaninoffs mighty Third Piano Concerto in concert, with its in-the-moment excitement. But do they really need to record it? After all, the market is saturated with several dozen recordings. I grew up with Van Cliburns classic live one from Carnegie Hall, with Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Symphony of the Air, shortly after Cliburn had become an overnight superstar after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Just three years later, Byron Janis, another young American, recorded the concerto with Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra, a performance some ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 1900. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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