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An ancient stele that was knocked to the floor and other damage from looting at the Kherson Regional History Museum in Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 20, 2022. Invading Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of artworks and antiquities, everything from Scythian gold to avant-garde oil paintings experts say its the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)
by Jeffrey Gettleman and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn
KHERSON, UKRAINE.- One morning in late October, Russian forces blocked off a street in downtown Kherson and surrounded a graceful old building with dozens of soldiers. Five large trucks pulled up. So did a line of military vehicles, ferrying Russian agents who filed in through several doors. It was a carefully planned, highly organized, military-style assault on an art museum. Over the next four days, the Kherson Regional Art Museum was cleaned out, witnesses said, with Russian forces bustling about like insects, porters wheeling out thousands of paintings, soldiers hastily wrapping them in sheets, art experts barking out orders and packing material flying everywhere. They were loading such masterpieces, which there are no more in the world, as if they were garbage, said the museums longtime director, Alina D ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of exhibition Umar Rashid: Ancien Regime 4, 5 ,6 on view at MoMA PS1 from September 22, 2022 to March 13, 2023. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio.
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| Pace Gallery opens an exhibition of recent iPad paintings by David Hockney | | Jill Newhouse Gallery presents 'Drawings 1830-1940: Corot, Delacroix, Ingres, Matisse, Picasso, Cèzanne' | | Exhibition features a spectacular installation and a series of sculptures and drawings by Chiharu Shiota | 
David Hockney, August 2021, Landscape with Shadows, 2021 (detail). Twelve iPad paintings comprising a single work, printed on paper, mounted on Dibond, 42-1/2" à 80-3/4" (108 cm à 205.1 cm) © David Hockney, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures, an exhibition of recent iPad paintings by David Hockney, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. Running from January 13 to February 25, this exhibition expands on a series of iPad paintings the artist made while quarantining at his studio and 17th century house in Normandy during the pandemic. Inspired by his daily observations, Hockney devoted himself to the iPad, a medium of unique immediacy that allowed him to be prolific in his depictions of his home, the changing seasons, and surrounding countryside. This show will mark Hockneys ninth solo exhibition with Pace since his first major presentation with the gallery in 2009. Paces presentation of David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures ... More | | 
Eugène Delacroix, Greek Sculpted Head.
NEW YORK, NY.- The word drawing is used to describe artworks made with various media such as pencil, chalk, or charcoal, done on a support usually understood to be paper. At this very particular moment in time, when computer generated art works are set to challenge the very definition and use of art and of drawing, we thought it would be important to revisit this most basic art form, as used by the most important artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was the leader of the French Romantic school of painting, and a prolific and creative draughtsman. One of the few artists who knew no limits to the subject matter of his work, he was a constant draughtsman in pencil, watercolor, and charcoal, using drawing as a method of observation and as a memory tool in preserving images to create later painted compositions. Delacroix is represented here with several works, first an early study of a Greek Sculpted Head, done in charcoal with white heightening ... More | | 
State of Being (Photo Album), detail, 2022, metal frame, photo album, thread, 120 x 80 x 45 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- After nearly a decade's absence from the New York contemporary art scene, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is returning with Signs of Life, a new exhibition featuring a spectacular site-specific installation and a series of previously unseen sculptures and drawings. After a foundation degree in painting at Seika University in Kyoto, Chiharu Shiota chose to pursue her artistic studies in Berlin, focusing on performance. Her practice soon shifted towards site-specific installations. She skilfully weaves knotted threads to create fantastical scenes combining salvaged window frames, a piano, suitcases, books and used clothes. Bordering on drawing and sculpture, her fabulous ephemeral, immersive installations have become her signature. Since her impressive installation for the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Bienniale in 2015, she has become one of the key figures on the international art scene ... More |
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents 'Otherworldly Realms of Wu Junyong' | | Exhibition at Priska Pasquer Paris brings the artists Jane Benson and Genaro Strobel into dialogue | | Paul J. Schupf Art Center opens in Waterville, Maine, a new destination for the arts | 
Lion and Tiger Contending for Hegemony (2017), Wu Junyong.
BOSTON, MASS.- In Otherworldly Realms of Wu Junyong, heroes face off in mighty clashes with their enemies; charming animals growl at one another, vying for superiority; and troubled souls retreat into murky caves, searching for inner peace. The exhibition, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston marks the artists U.S. museum debut. Wu (born 1978) grew up in a family of artisans who created sculptures and murals for local temples in their southern Chinese village. Immersed in Chinas folklore throughout his childhood, he became fascinated with European painting and the heroes of ancient Greek mythology after arriving in art school. His work reflects all these influences, seamlessly blending diverse historical traditions with his contemporary experience to express human emotions, conflicts and aspirations that transcend time and borders. Otherworldly Realms of Wu Junyong features more than a dozen mixed-media ... More | | 
Exhibition that brings the artists Jane Benson and Genaro Strobel into dialogue.
PARIS.- Priska Pasquer Paris starts the new year with an exhibition that brings the artists Jane Benson and Genaro Strobel into dialogue. Benson is known for her interventions into found objects, literature, and works of art, reconfiguring them into questioning reassemblies. Strobel, too, enables a new reading of the real in his wood engravings on paper using photography, painting, and collage. While his complex narratives refer to individual experiences, Benson evokes a critical engagement with the current zeitgeist. Genaro Strobel's works are monumental and rich in detail. Multiple and varied layers of narratives can be determined often remaining encrypted as the eye wanders along the distinctive lines of the wood texture characteristic of the artist's work. Strobel deliberately uses the wood grain as a form defining element, integrating it as a painterly gesture. From the traditional medium of woodcutting ... More | | 
Downtown Waterville reaches a major milestone with the opening of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center.
WATERVILLE, MAINE.- The dynamic momentum to revitalize downtown Waterville, Maine reached a major milestone with the recent opening of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center. Developed in partnership by Colby College and Waterville Creates, the new home for Watervilles leading arts institutions marks the completion of the initial strategy to support the citys resurgence. The $18-million Paul J. Schupf Art Center is a hub and destination for the arts by bringing under one roof Watervilles leading arts institutions. Connecting directly to the historic Waterville Opera House, the 32,000-square-foot center is home to community arts organization Waterville Creates and its three programming divisionsthe Maine Film Center, Ticonic Gallery + Studios, and the Waterville Opera House. Schupf Arts also includes an extension of the Colby College Museum of Art via the vibrant new Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art ... More |
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| Fans mourn Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King, at Graceland | | Four-part presentation highlights Every Ocean Hughes's interest in death, transitions, legacy, and queer life | | Benoît Platéus's exhibition 'Other Perculators' on view in NY at signs and symbols | 
People leave flowers the day after the death of Lisa Marie Presley, at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (Lucy Garrett/The New York Times)
by Laura Faith Kebede and Dan Bilefsky
MEMPHIS, TENN.- Some wrote messages on the stone wall in front of Graceland, the storied Memphis, Tennessee, mansion that housed Elvis Presleys studded jumpsuits and his private plane, called the Lisa Marie and customized with gold bathroom fixtures. Others left flowers. A day after the death of Lisa Marie Presley, 54, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis, fans mourned her loss and recalled how the Presleys had touched their lives. At Graceland on Friday, Stephanie Perez, whose great-aunt taught Elvis in high school and whose grandfather worked for him as an upholsterer, said she had visited the same spot with her mother years ago, when the King of Rock n Roll had died. She was 2. I just felt it was important to be on this street ... More | | 
Every Ocean Hughes, The Piers Untitled, silver gelatin photograph, 2010-2023. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side, at the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the artists current series of works, connected by her interest in death, transitions, thresholds, kinship, legacy, and queer life, with intimacy, humor, and direct address. This four-part presentation by multidisciplinary artist Every Ocean Hughes, formerly known as Emily Roysdon, consists of an in-gallery installation of the artists photographic series The Piers Untitled (200923); a screening of the film One Big Bag (2021), presented both in-person and online; two live performances of Help the Dead (2019); and the live premiere of the Whitneys newly commissioned performance, River (2023). Hughes, who trained as a death doula pre-pandemic in 2019, centers self-determination, social interrelation, and the promises of community and collaboration through various mediums, including performance ... More | | 
Installation View, Other Percolators by Benoît Platéus. Photo courtesy: signs and symbols and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is now presenting, since January 6th, Other Percolators, Belgian artist Benoît Platéus's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Long fascinated by found objects and the transmutation of images across mediums, Platéus selected the disparate subjects of his new series of paintings abandoned tools and toys, a fallen pizza slice, natural landscapes from photographs taken in the streets or encountered online. For this new body of work, which will end on February 11th, 2023, Platéus works with a collection of found images as his starting point, images of curious and seemingly unusual situations. Exploring the potential for representational forms to materialize new realities, he is attracted to the unexpected moments and circumstances that appear to be accidents or oddities, strange images that make one question ... More |
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| SJ Auctioneers' online-only Winter Watch for Wanted Collectibles Auction to be headed by two rare Popeye items | | 'Elizabeth Malaskas: In the Shadow' opens at Wilding Cran Gallery | | Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts welcomes New Executive Director Liz Seaton | 
Popeye pocket watch made in 1934 by New Haven Watch Co., in fine working condition. Popeyes arms tell the time; a second wheel shows Wimpy chasing a hamburger (est. $1,000-$5,000).
BROOKLYN, NY.- SJ Auctioneers first major event of 2023 will be an online-only Winter Watch for Wanted Collectibles auction, slated for Sunday, January 29th, beginning at 4 pm Eastern time. Of the 244 lots, two stand out as rare and highly collectible: a 1930 Popeye the Pilot tin wind-up toy plane and a 1934 Popeye pocket watch in excellent working condition. Popeye items are highly desired by collectors. The fictional cartoon character, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appeared in a King Features comic strip in 1929 and has been beloved by millions ever since. Collectibles relating to Popeye are a multi-million-dollar industry. The Popeye the Pilot tin wind-up toy plane was made by Marx and has an estimate of $1,000-$1,500. The Popeye pocket watch was made only one year (1934) by New Haven Watch Co. (Conn.) ... More | | 
Elizabeth Malaska: In the Shadow, January 14 - March 4, Wilding Cran Gallery. © 2023, Wilding Cran Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting In the Shadow, an exhibition of new works by Portland-based artist Elizabeth Malaska, where it will continue through March 4th. Through her creative process, Elizabeth Malaska explores the metaphysical universe of the soul in an effort to puncture and uncover Western patriarchal perspectives of identity. The works featured throughout In the Shadow serve to illuminate systems of kinship and empathy between humans, plants, animals, and man-made objects. Whether rendering reflections of moonlight on water, a patchwork blanket, a discarded shoe, a solitary swan, or a mirror with no reflection, the series of four oil paintings flit between portraiture and still-life, figuration and surrealism, to allegorically unravel notions of subjective embodiment, animism, and the shadow self. Across her body of work, Malaska pulls influence from traditional painting ... More | | 
Liz Seaton, new Executive Director for Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.
EDGECOMB, MAINE.- The Board of Trustees of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts has announced it has a new Executive Director, Liz Seaton (pronoun flexible). A long-time civil rights leader and lifelong potter, Seaton moves from Washington, DC to Edgecomb, Maine to join the Watershed team starting on January 17, 2023. Liz takes the helm from Watersheds outgoing Executive Director, Fran Rudoff, who steps down after ten years in the position. We are thrilled to bring Liz to Watershed, says Bernie Toale, the organizations Board President. Their non-profit acumen and proven leadership will serve Watershed and the clay community well. Importantly, the Board and staff voted unanimously to select Liz as Watersheds next Executive Director. Their passion for the arts combined with their executive talents; commitment to diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) ... More |
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 Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art opens Winter 2023 ExhibitionsHERZLIYA.- The main exhibition of the 2023 Winter season at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art is the group exhibition On Point, curated by the artist Ben Hagari. It covers most of the Museums grounds, and is the result of a unique, extensive collaboration with the collection of prints on paper of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York. The exhibition features a fascinating selection of works by contemporary and historical international artists, including renowned ones such as Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker, and more. Over the past decade, the Herzliya Museum has sought to expand the historical memory of local art, through which contemporary Israeli art is perceived. The Museum has consistently presented exhibitions of deceased artists some well-known and some forgotten ... More  Intersect Palm Springs announces exhibitors for 2023 edition, taking place February 9 Through 12, 2023 NEW YORK, NY.- Intersect Palm Springs announces the exhibitor list for its second edition in February 2023, welcoming a dynamic mix of 50 contemporary and modern art and design galleries. In addition, there will be five Cultural Partner Projects featuring regional institutions, and four Curated Spaces devoted to special exhibitions, as well as a robust schedule of talks and events. The exhibitor list includes 18 galleries from California. Among them, 13 galleries are from Los Angeles and four galleries are from the Palm Springs region. There are five exhibitors from New Mexico. East Coast galleries continue to make a strong showing in year two, with 15 from New York and two from Boston. Says Becca Hoffman, Managing Director of Intersect Palm Springs, For our second edition of Intersect Palm Springs ... More  "Raising the Ceiling by Lowering the Floor" by Mark Joshua Epstein on view at the Asya Geisberg GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is currently presenting Raising the Ceiling by Lowering the Floor, an exhibition, that opened on January 12th, of shaped paintings and works on paper by Mark Joshua Epstein. The artist builds and sands fiberglass and resin panels in streamlined shapes resembling Art Deco Miami, or bodily curves and indentations. Epstein's dimensional and dynamic forms have bold colors framed with gossamer borders, introducing a dance of hard and soft, substantive ideas found within surface and edge, and of grand gestures glossed with dainty detail. Playfully abstract, the pieces contain autobiographical themes that anchor the work in thoughtful conversation with histories of design, furniture, architecture, and painting. The shapes of each new panel are drawn from the influential interior design magazine NEST (1997-2004) ... More  "The Art of Conservation" on view in Fort Wayne as part of state tourFORT WAYNE, IN.- The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is presenting Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation, an exhibition of 100 paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel. The exhibition is traveling throughout the state and will be on view in Fort Wayne January 14 March 19, 2023. The 100-painting collection, shown in its entirety in Fort Wayne, will feature more than 25 rivers, streams, and tributaries by five artists using three mediums. Accompanying the exhibition is a 200-page signed and numbered limited-edition book featuring all the artworks with essays on conservation of waterways by three Hoosier writers. Using art, the exhibition evokes the fantastical beauty where the waterways wind through dramatically varied terrainssome plummeting 90 feet over shear rock, others cascading through limestone or prairie grass fields ... More  Exhibition at The Approach converges painting and sculpture by several artistsLONDON.- The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue is a group show featuring Rinella Alfonso, Lynda Benglis, Enzo Cucchi, Rezi van Lankveld, Alina Szapocznikow and Erika Verzutti. Converging painting and sculpture, the show considers the poetics of form and the inextricable entanglement of body and memory. The artists in the show, selected by Rezi van Lankveld and Emma Robertson, explore an intuitive and visceral relationship between painting and sculpture, oscillating between abstraction, figuration and symbolism. Rinella Alfonsos paintings foreground objects from everyday life within completely original and oftentimes stark fantasy worlds. She recurrently takes inspiration from memories of her home in Curaçao. Her latest works feature traces of a bra, piercings, a golden tooth or a hairy couch, elements that are deeply rooted in her culture ... More  At Under the Radar, stories unfold via sexts, tweets and puppeteersNEW YORK, NY.- Your Sexts Are ____: Older Better Letters Through Sunday. Running time: 1 hour. The art of talking dirty has withered of late. Or so Rachel Mars sets out to demonstrate in Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters, her filthy, funny yet eventually cloying performance piece dressed in the incongruous drag of a lecture. As evidence of the downturn, Mars compares some cherry-picked examples of epistolary smut with actual sexts she has solicited online. But do electronic acquaintances really stand a chance against the likes of James Joyce in full flower? Especially when the acquaintances are present only in the form of screenshots and Joyce gets rapturously read aloud? Though occasionally non-gross (If you were here rn in my car what would we be doing?) and on several occasions eliciting ... More  Review: Songs that defy the 'quotidian nature of evil'NEW YORK, NY.- Songs in Flight, a new cycle by composer Shawn Okpebholo, with texts chosen by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, a poet and associate professor at Duke University, had its premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on Thursday. With an opening set by singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, the concert found uncommon power in the humble format of folk and art songs. Okpebholo and Jaji drew their subject matter from Freedom on the Move, a database containing thousands of ads placed by slave owners in newspapers to track down enslaved people who had escaped their captors. Like slave-auction posters and lynching postcards, the runaway ads are gruesome in the way they normalize human subjugation. The achievement of Songs in Flight, a work commissioned by the art-song enthusiasts of Sparks & Wiry Cries and directed by Kimille Howard ... More  CLAMP presents a collection of photographs by artist Mickey SmithNEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP is presenting ARCHITETTURA, a collection of photographs by artist Mickey Smith relating specifically to the practice of architecture. A presentation of selected works from the collection will be displayed on the gallerys mezzanine through March 4, 2023, with an expansive solo exhibition of the larger series titled VOLUME planned for the main gallery in 2024 to coincide with the 20th-year anniversary of the beginning of the project. ARCHITETTURA draws from Smiths ongoing body of work VOLUME, which documents bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. In the images Smith does not alter reality through lighting or manipulation. The artist leaves the books as they are found and photographs them as they were seen in the library. The majority of bound periodicals and journals photographed over that time have since been deaccessioned ... More  Steinitz Gallery announces highlights to be offered at the 69th Winter Antiques ShowNEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of the 69th Winter Antiques Show, which will be held at the historic Park Avenue Armory from 20 to 29 January, Steinitz will present furniture and objects of exceptional aesthetics, provenance, and rarity. The Winter Show, America's premier art, antiques and design fair, was founded in the mid-1950s and features a wide range of fine and decorative arts professionals.  An array of works - paintings, works on paper, fine furniture, design, jewellery, ceramics and contemporary glass - spanning almost 5,000 years will be presented by over sixty-five internationally renowned dealers. Renowned for its rigorous selection by a committee of 120 experts, the event invites exhibitors to propose works that meet the highest standards of authenticity and quality. For its return to the Winter Show, the Steinitz Gallery will present some of its most emblematic pieces ... More  Chemould Prescott Road opens an exhibition of works by Atul DodiyaMUMBAI.- Drawing from popular Indian cinema, Atul Dodiya creates paintings populated by iconic characters in his signature realistic style. This is not the first time Dodiya has painted from cinema, and in this latest series Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022, he returns to the theme in a reel of 24 paintings. 24 is a particular number in cinematography, with 24 frames in each second. In this show, we see 24 paintings mimicking a running storyboard, creating their own fiction. Watching and rewatching movies during the lockdown year of the pandemic triggered the series. Films like Padosan, Kapurush, Kagaz ke Phool, Awaara, Ittefaq, that he watched often with his parents as a young man, and one like Anand (from which the title of the exhibition emerges), where then superstar Rajesh Khanna paved the way for Amitabh Bachchan ... More |
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New Images in the Age of Augustus
Flashback On a day like today, German photographer Andreas Gursky was born January 15, 1955. Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. In this image: Andreas Gursky, Tokyo Stock Exchange 1990. C-Print 205.0 x 260.0 x 6.2 cm © Andreas Gursky /VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia. Courtesy: Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Berlin London.
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