| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net |    | Established in 1996 | Sunday, January 8, 2023 |
| | Looking for elbow room, Louvre limits daily visitors to 30,000 | |
|
|
Visitors of the Louvre Museum wait to see the "Mona Lisa" on Oct. 24, 2019. In an effort to offer more pleasurable viewing, the Louvre will limit daily visitors by one third.(Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
by Dan Bilefsky
PARIS.- It has become an unpleasant gladiatorial rite of passage for tourists to Paris: Trying to view the Mona Lisa, the pensive diva encased in bulletproof glass, through a heaving throng of arms, heads and raised iPhones at the sprawling Louvre Museum. No longer. Or at least, that is what the Louvres management appears to be hoping after it was revealed this week that it has, effectively, decided to limit daily attendance by about a third, to 30,000 people a policy that has quietly been in place for several months. During its busiest days before the coronavirus pandemic, the Louvre could attract as many as 45,000 people a day, the museum said. Explaining the decision, Laurence des Cars, the museums recently appointed director, appeared to acknowledge that visits to the Louvre, which attracted some 10 million tourists in 2019, making it among the most popular museums in the world, had become, perhaps, not as serene as a walk along the nearby Seine. Even before the pandemic ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The headband worn by Ralph Macchio in âThe Karate Kid Part IIâ at the Martial Arts History Museum in Burbank, Calif., Dec. 23, 2022. Shrines to skateboarding, bunnies, neon, aviation and citrus trees dot the sprawling region, highlighting its diversity. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
|
|
|
| 
|
| CURE3: Tracey Emin leads major international arists supporting Parkinson's | | Air de Paris announces the passing of Dorothy Iannone | | Works by German artists Bernd & Hilla Becher now on view at Fraenkel Gallery | 
Highlights include Lying Down One by Sir Frank Bowling priced at £10,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Cure Parkinsons in association with Bonhams and Artwise invite you to the preview evening of Cure3 at Bonhams, London co-hosted by Tim Marlow. 12th January from 6pm. Cure3 is an important, critically acclaimed initiative featuring specially commissioned, unique art works by major international artists, devised to raise funds and awareness for curative research into Parkinsons. The selling exhibition will take place at Bonhams London, with public viewing from 13-17th January 2023. All works will be available to purchase online from 13th January at www.cure3.co.uk with prices ranging from £500 - £80,000. Cure3 2023 is the fourth edition of this ongoing charitable project - this year featuring work by 96 major international artists. Highlights include And You Kissed Me, by one of the UK s most iconic artists, Tracey Emin (priced at £80,000) and Lying Down One by Sir Frank Bowling (priced at £10,000) ... More | | 
Portrait of Dorothy Iannone, February 2018. © Photo Alec Soth.
PARIS.- Upon learning of Dorothy Iannone's death, Bernard Blistène, honorary director of the Musée national d'art moderne, wrote: Dorothy Iannone was born in Boston in 1933 and died, aged 89, in Berlin on December 26, 2022. An American citizen, throughout her life and work she never ceased her denunciations of her country's hypocrisy, and remains famous for having successfully sued the American government over its banning of Henrry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. A great traveler, she discovered the Far East and Japan, which became fertile sources of inspiration for her. Between 1963 and 1967 she ran the Stryke Gallery, an exhibition space on 10th Street in New York. After receiving a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst program in Berlin in 1976, she lived there for the rest of her life. For over fifty years she worked on the pioneering graphic and painterly approach that would become ... More | | 
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Water Tower, Findlay, Ohio, USA, 1977. © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Fraenkel Galleryhas just begun an exhibition of photographs by celebrated German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, their fifth with the gallery. Spanning the Bechers career, the exhibition features approximately 35 works made between 1967 and 2010, including examples of their pioneering typologies, a selection of early industrial landscapes, and a collection of iconic water towers. The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of the Bechers work organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from December 17, 2022, until April 2, 2023. The Bechers carefully composed black and white photographs depict grain elevators, cooling towers, lime kilns, blast furnaces, and winding towersexamples of large-scale industrial architecture that the artists recognized as being in decline ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Katherine E. Fleming named to the French Legion of Honor | | Paula Cooper Gallery exhibits recent sculpture by Robert Grosvenor | | Jeanne Vicerial's first gallery show in Paris opens at Galerie Templon | 
Katherine E. Fleming at the Legion of Honor ceremony in Paris, France. Photo: Shun Kambe.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Getty President and CEO Katherine E. Fleming was named to Frances National Order of the Legion of Honor in a ceremony in Paris. It is the highest French order of merit, honoring those who have been of service to France. Fluent in French, Fleming sits on the Administrative Board of the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris and on the Board of the Villa Albertine, a premiere French institution for arts and ideas with a presence in 10 cities across the United States, created by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. She was in residence at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris from 20072011, where she held an associate professor position in the Department of History. The Legion dHonneur currently has 79,000 members. Since its inception in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, more than one million people worldwide have been honored with membership, including American-born performer ... More | | 
Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, 1990-2015. Digital C-print, paper: 30 x 42 in. (76.2 x 106.7 cm)Â frame: 30 3/4 x 42 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (78.1 x 108.9 x 3.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- A prolonged fascination with the aerodynamics of machinery and vehicular shapes informs the refined form and vibrant color of Grosvenors recent sculpture. This exhibition follows Grosvenors participation in the 2022 Venice Biennale, where the artist installed three large-scale sculptures. One of these, an untitled work dated 2018, presented an orange scooter inside an industrial shipping container with a gold interior. This mesmerizing and subtly elusive work informed the artists new installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, which engages similar forms, materials, and ideas on an increased scale. A vibrant orange vehicle without wheels sits directly on the floor. Adjacent to the vehicle, ten bowling pins are arranged in the triangular formation typical of the game. Positioned such that half of the triangle is directly in front of the vehicle, the composition is both deliberate and ambiguous ... More | | 
This army of presences stand tall, displaying their scars of sutured threads. Clad in their armors, they march proudly into the future, charting a history of femininity, -- Jeanne Vicerial
PARIS.- Templon started 2023 decked in Jeanne Vicerials ebony black and white. For her very first gallery show in Paris, the artist is unveiling fifteen new textile sculptures in various formats. The first person in France to be awarded a PhD in practice-based fashion design, in 2019, and artist-in-residence at the prestigious Villa Medici in 2020, Jeanne Vicerial, 31, has already garnered widespread recognition for her avant-garde approach. She used her research to overthrow textile industry codes, questioning the made-to-measure/ready-to-wear dichotomy. Her practice then shifted focus onto the place of women and the female body in society, regularly involving artists such as set designers, perfumers, and musicians in her projects. Born in 1991, Jeanne Vicerial lives and works in Paris. Her passion for clothes design began when she was ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Phillips presents a pop-up exhibition of works by Brett Crawford coinciding with ART SG | | Jenkins Johnson Gallery extends 'Bloodchild' through January 28 | | Daniel Barenboim, titan of conducting, to step down in Berlin | 
EMPATH3TIC, 2022. Graphite, acrylic and gold leaf on paper, 56 x 72 cm. © Brett Crawford. ©Phillips.
SINGAPORE.- Phillips will soon present UNTAPP3D FUTURE in Singapore, a pop-up exhibition of works by Southern California based artist Brett Crawford. Taking place on 11 January 2023 at the Mandala Club, the exhibition will coincide with the debut of ART SG, Southeast Asias largest ever art fair. Brett Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist whose works span across painting, sculpture, design, and street murals; each of his work is a cultural exchange between art, fashion, and street culture. Playing with fairy tale imagery and surreal settings, Crawfords canvases are populated with pop references and contemporary icons that prompt the viewer to seek for hidden stories within. Sandy Ma, International Specialist, Phillips, said: We are delighted to present a series of remarkable works made by Brett Crawford specifically for the pop-up show in Singapore ... More | | 
Nyame Brown, Legendary, 2020, oil on blackboard, 24 x 36 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting Bloodchild, featuring work by Nyame Brown, Xandra Ibarra, Shara Mays, Gregory Rick, Stuart Robertson, and Leila Weefur. Taking its title from Octavia E. Butlers story titled Bloodchild, first published in 1984, this exhibition invites the viewer to investigate the power of speculative fiction to imagine alternative world-buildings and narrative-making strategies. Perceived as the mother of Afrofuturism, the genre blending science fiction, fantasy, and history to speculate on liberated future scenarios through a Black lens, Butler wrote cautionary tales. In her stories and novels, she projects into the future to investigate possible solutions. Using Butlers Bloodchild story as a lens to look at the art-making today, the exhibition meditates on symbiosis, love, power, and tough choices. Set on a foreign planet inhabited by insect-like ... More | | 
Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York, Jan. 19, 2017. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández and Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Barenboim, a towering conductor and pianist who as general music director of the Berlin State Opera over the past three decades built an artistic empire without rival and helped define German culture in the aftermath of reunification, will resign his post this month because of health problems, the opera house announced Friday. Barenboim, 80, who was diagnosed last year with a serious neurological condition, said in a statement that his illness made it impossible for him to carry out his duties. Unfortunately, my health has deteriorated significantly over the past year, he said. I can no longer provide the level of performance that is rightly demanded of a general music director. His resignation is effective Jan ... More |
|
|
|
|
| François Ghebaly presents Hoof on Bone, London-based artist Jessie Makinson's newest exhibit | | At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky can let his imagination run wild | | Collage art that constructs the present & repairs the past at Morton Fine Art | 
Jessie Makinson, All the same bubbles, 2022. Oil and pigment on canvas, 80.75 x 65 in. (205 x 165 cm.). Photo Courtesy of François Ghebaly Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- From careful expressions and tight, jewel-like pafterning to daunting tableaux of fantastical social portraiture, Jessie Makinsons approach to scenography, now on view at François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles, can perhaps best be described as a synthesis. Oscillating between historical, folkloric, environmental, and political modes, Makinson imbues her signature androgynes with whole networks of literary and mythological reference. These layered imaginaries, guided by Makinsons chameleon storytelling voice, form scenes of rich sociality. In her newest body of work, Makinsons synthesis broaches both novel and familiar subject mafters, blending caches of disparate references that span centuries of literature, visual art, and tradition: Georgian political cartoons, druid solstice celebration, Adam Wisniewski-Snergs The Robot and Han Kangs The Vegetarian, fairy and UFO ... More | | 
Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky at the American Ballet Theater in New York, May 8, 2019. Ratmansky, the renowned choreographer, surprised the dance world last month in December 2022 when he announced that he would leave his post as artist in residence at American Ballet Theater after 13 years. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When it was announced in December that choreographer Alexei Ratmansky would be parting ways from American Ballet Theatre as its artist-in-residence after 13 years, my first reaction was regret followed swiftly by hope. Would New York City Ballet, where his choreographic imagination has the fortitude and space to run breathtakingly free, lure him across the Lincoln Center plaza? How often does a year start out with good news? On Thursday, it was announced that Ratmansky, one of ballets greatest choreographers, would join City Ballet as its artist-in-residence in August. Ratmansky, as he said to The New York Times, wanted a change. Throughout his tenure at Ballet Theatre, he made dances for other companies, including City Ballet ... More | | 
Amber Robles-Gordon. The Temples of My Familiars: Identity Totem, 2019. 23 x 17 in. Mixed media collage and found objects on canvas.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Morton Fine Art is presenting Creating a New Whole, a group exhibition of collage artwork by Michael Andrew Booker, Lizette Chirrime, GA Gardner, Hiromitsu Kuroo, Lisa Myers Bulmash, Amber Robles-Gordon and Prina Shah. Ranging in techniques, approaches and materialsfrom quilting, tapestry, fabric, paint and appropriated mass mediathe artists in Creating a New Whole exemplify collages invitation to what Myers Bulmash has recognized as a process of purposefully taking things out of context. Constructing new contexts, forms and wholes, these artists practices are frequently as generative as much as they are reparative, seeking to draw connections to what was absent or ignored in their elements original context(s). Creating a New Whole, will be on view until February 4, 2023 at Mortons Washington, D.C. space (52 O St NW #302). Continuing quilting techniques practiced ... More |
|
#MORE MON OPÃRA RESPONSABLE ET ENGAGÃ
|
|
|
| More News |
 'Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things' on view at the James Cohan Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan recently began Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things, an exhibition of works by Venezuelan artist Elsa Gramcko (b.1925 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, d.1994 Caracas, Venezuela), on view at the gallerys 48 Walker Street location from January 6 through February 11, 2023. Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things is a comprehensive survey of Gramckos artistic practice spanning three decades; from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. Curated by the Venezuelan curator, Gabriela Rangel, this revelatory exhibition positions Gramcko prominently within the canon of Latin American art, alongside influential women artists such as Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), Tecla Tofano, and Mercedes Pardo. More broadly, the presentation demonstrates her critical contributions to postwar global modernism ... More  Getty exhibition examines 40-year career of artist Uta BarthLOS ANGELES, CA.- Uta Barth (born in West Germany, 1958) makes photographs that investigate the act of looking. In her multipart works, she explores the ephemeral qualities of light as well as its ability to affect optical perception. Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision traces Barths celebrated career from her early experimentations while a student to later studies that probe the eyes capacity and the cameras role in translating visual information into a photograph. Organized chronologically, with sections dedicated to her most prominent series, the exhibition presents the first overview of the artists career in over 20 years. For nearly 40 years, Uta Barth has worked in Los Angeles, garnering international acclaim for her innovative perspective and signature approach, says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum ... More  Friedman Benda to present Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzi's third solo exhibition 'Contemporary DNA'NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda will be presenting Contemporary DNA, seminal Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzis third solo exhibition with the gallery begining March 2, 2023. An exemplary social thinker and educator, Branzi has been a fundamental voice in post-war and contemporary architecture and design, in Italy and abroad, since the mid 1960s. A culmination of his intuitive processes of turning research into physical form, this comprehensive and far-reaching exhibition unveils three new bodies of work: Roots, Germinal Seats, and Buildings. Presciently taking stock of our time, these works are composed of exceptions and variations throughout Andrea Branzis artistic evolution. The exhibition will continue through April 22, 2023 ... More  'Ohio State Murders,' starring Audra McDonald, to close on BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- Ohio State Murders, a short, powerful and pointed play starring Audra McDonald as a writer recalling racism and violence the character encountered as an undergraduate, will close sooner than expected on Broadway after struggling to sell tickets. The play was the Broadway debut for its 91-year-old writer, Adrienne Kennedy, a much admired playwright whose surrealistic work has generally been presented on smaller stages and taught at universities. Ohio State Murders is one of her most accessible works it is essentially a 75-minute memory play in which the protagonist tells a gripping story about her college years but nonetheless proved a tough sell in the commercial arena, even with strong reviews and McDonald, who is one of Broadways best-loved performers, in the starring role. The production began previews Nov. 11 and opened Dec ... More  Paul Revere silver pitcher, a Carl F. Bucherer watch and 3 Charles Schulz Peanuts Strips to be sold by Weiss AuctionsLYNBROOK, NY.- An original Paul Revere silver pitcher with impeccable provenance, a Carl F. Bucherer Manero chronoperpetual limited edition wristwatch, three Charles Schulz Peanuts comic strips and original artworks by Willem de Koonig, Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski, Alex Katz and Ludwig Bemelmans will come up for bid online, January 18th-19th by Weiss Auctions. The two-day estate auction, starting at 10 am both days, will kick off on Wednesday, January 18th, with 300 market fresh items, featuring jewelry, porcelain, stoneware and Indian pottery. The following day, January 19th, over 400 lots, also fresh to the market, will come up for bid, highlighted by fine art, including paintings, posters, illustration art, cartoon art and comic art ... More  The Bass announces the appointment of James Voorhies as curatorMIAMI BEACH, FLA.- The Bass has announced the appointment of James Voorhies as the new Curator of the Miami Beach based contemporary art museum. As Curator for The Bass, Voorhies will be responsible for strengthening the museums commitment to artistic innovation and its connections to audiences. To do so, he will help envision the new facilities, curate long-term and temporary exhibitions, oversee design and production of publications, organize artist commissions, develop public programs, and manage the permanent collection. Im honored to be invited to join The Basss team and work with Silvia Karman Cubiñá at such an exciting moment in the museums history, contributing to the incredible vitality in arts and culture in Miami, said Voorhies. I look forward to working with everyone to advance the institutions long commitment ... More  Immersive exhibition celebrating California mid-century design and culture NEW YORK, NY.- Morton Street Partners and Meyers Manx present Winter Surf, an immersive exhibition that explores the inventive spirit of mid-twentieth century vehicle design and its associations with freedom and adventure, while also sparking conversations about the impact of technology on our relationship with nature. By presenting vehicles including Steve McQueens iconic Meyers Manx dune buggy from The Thomas Crown Affair, a French off-road prototype known as the Shake designed by Italian coachbuilders Bertone, a Citroën Méhari, and a 1960s Bultaco motorcycle converted into a snowmobile, we invite viewers to consider the innovation, craftsmanship, and risk-taking of the engineers who built them. The exhibition highlights the aesthetic appeal and cultural significance of the dune buggy as a symbol of rebellion and counterculture ... More  Michael Snow, prolific and playful artistic polymath, is dead at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Snow, a Canadian painter, jazz pianist, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker best known for Wavelength a humble, relentless, more or less continuous zoom shot that traverses a lower Manhattan loft in New York City into a photograph pasted on its far wall died Thursday in Toronto. He was 94. His wife, Peggy Gale, said the cause was pneumonia. Wavelength (1967), hailed by critic Manny Farber in Artforum magazine in 1969 as a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become the Birth of a Nation in Underground film, provided 20th-century cinema with a visceral metaphor for itself as temporal projection. If it also saddled Snow with the weight of an unrepeatable masterpiece, it was a burden he bore lightly. Snow was a prolific and playful artist, as well as a polymath of extraordinary versatility. I am not a professional, ... More  Martin Wicksträm's first exhibition in Germany opens at Galerie LeuMUNICH.- Galerie Leu is presenting the first exhibition of acclaimed Swedish artist Martin Wickström in Germany. True art, according to Hermann Hesse in his educational novel Narzià und Goldmund (1930), arises when ideas and practice meet. The artist is thinker and craftsman in one person, Hesse recalled. Something similar is embodied by the Swedish artist Martin Wickström, who has become known, among other things, for his detailed, colorful photorealistic paintings and whimsical installations with ready-mades, in which things are taken out of context and transformed into existential question marks. Wickstrom draws inspiration from most things that catches his eye. World News and History. Old newspaper clippings, scientific findings, great masters and pop kitsch. The world is reflected in his art. The Swedish 'people's home' and playing sun cats ... More  Review: 'Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era' stages a disaster in reverseNEW YORK, NY.- Stop me if youve heard this one before: A woman. A man. A tree. An apple. So begins Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era, a performance piece by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed, presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with the Public Theaters Under the Radar festival. In the shows first minutes, an apple is plucked and eaten, a paradise destroyed. Then the story changes. For nearly three decades, this collective (its name is a Flemish pun that translates loosely to feel estate) has goaded theatergoers, sometimes gently and sometimes (The Smile Off Your Face, A Game of You) less gently. Are We Not Drawn, directed by Alexander Devriendt, falls on the milder end of that spectrum, even as it functions as an allegory about climate destruction. After the apple is devoured ... More |
|
PhotoGalleries 
Lebbeus Woods 
Yayoi Kusama 
New Images in the Age of Augustus 
Alexander McQueen
Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Marc Quinn was born January 08, 1964. Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation and painting. Quinn explores 'what it is to be human in the world today' through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. In this image: Marc Quinn, Buck & Allanah, 2009. Orbital sanded and flap wheeled lacquered bronze, 65 3/4 x 41 5/16 x 17 11/16 in. (167 x 105 x 45 cm) © the artist. Photo: Roger Wooldridge. Courtesy White Cube.
|
|
|
|
© 1996 - 2021