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I have known Doug Argues work for years, have followed its metamorphosis and have been impressed by the energy that goes into and comes out of it. Here we have a record of all that energy compressed into one handsome volume. Robert Storr, artist, author, critic, and curator
NEW YORK, NY.- The remarkable creativity of protean American painter Doug Argue is brought vividly to life in Doug Argue: Letters to the Future. Words and images explore, explain and contextualize Argues trajectory from art-school rebel to celebrated, much-exhibited artist on a global stage. With a colossal curiosity and tireless dedication to his solitary studio practice, Argue stands as a thinker-painter admired by a growing circle of curators and collectors. His work has been shown in museums and galleries from New York (where three large paintings are on permanent view at One World Trade Center) to Sydney and from Vienna to Venice. His often giant canvases shed virtuosic light on Argues ongoing fascinations with history, color, perspective, literature, language, music, science and technology. Inspired by such everyday subjects as chickens, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gulag children's personal belongings are on display at the Gulag Museum in Moscow on December 22, 2020. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP
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| David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by four of the most innovative American artists of the 20th century | | The MSU Broad opens 'Seeds of Resistance' | | Gagosian presents new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky | 
John McCracken, Six Columns, 2006 © The Estate of John McCracken. Courtesy The Estate of John McCracken and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner New York is presenting an exhibition of work by Dan Flavin (19331996), Donald Judd (19281994), John McCracken (19342011), and Fred Sandback (19432003), four of the most innovative American artists of the twentieth century. Each artist is represented by a focused presentation of his work in a single room, allowing visitors to experience both the commonalities and distinctions in the individual approaches to reductive form, material, color, and space. Included in the exhibition are twelve works by Dan Flavin from 1995, each consisting of two four-foot lamps positioned horizontally on a wall with a single two-foot lamp centered between them, in various color combinations. Made just a year before Flavins death, these works were first shown as a group in 1996. Installed together for the first time since their initial presentation, they underscore the artists innate facility with seria ... More | | 
Seeds of Resistance, installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Aaron Word/MSU Broad.
EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is presenting Seeds of Resistance, on view Jan. 16July 18, 2021. This exhibition draws attention to the long history of plant and human interdependence by exploring the ways in which seeds encode and preserve not only genetic information, but also cultural heritage and knowledge. The protection of biodiversity on our planet is one of the most pressing concerns facing human society today. Processes like seed banking of antique and heritage seeds can help us conserve genetic plant diversity when faced with climate change, crop collapse, habitat destruction, and other future environmental uncertainties. Seeds are themselves archives, on both genetic and cultural levelsthe seeds we foster illuminate the things that are important to us. Thus, the loss of biodiversity also means the loss of human cultural information. The ... More | | 
Rudolf Polanszky, Reconstructions / Choros / Ecliptics, 2020 (detail). Copper foil, aluminium, copper wire, resin, silicone, acrylic glass, mirror foil, acrylic mounted on wood, in artist frame, 59 1/2 x 59 1/2 in. © Rudolf Polanszky, Photo: Jorit Aust, Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky. This is the first exhibition of the artists work at Gagosian in Paris. A key figure in the Vienna art scene, Polanszky creates cerebral yet tactile works that embrace chance occurrence. From the early 1990s, he began experimenting in mixed-media painting with the series Reconstructions (1991). To make these subtle compositions, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, silicone, and wire, decontextualizing them from their original uses and recombining them into aesthetic forms. Polanszkys process of ad hoc synthesis produces works that oscillate between material constructions and symbols of subjective perception. In this ... More |
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| Trump tried to end federal arts funding. Instead, it grew. | | Hindman Auctions' Palm Beach Collections sale to kick off 10th anniversary year | | Art Miami Show Group cancels Art Wynwood and Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Fairs | 
Masks designed by veterans through a program hosted by the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, Md., March 23, 2017. Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Donald Trump became the first president to make a formal proposal to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the future looked grim to the many artists and cultural organizations that have long worried about conservative efforts to close the federal arts-funding agency. But the nightmare they feared never came to pass. The agency survived, its budget even grew a bit, not because Trump ever wavered in his view of it as a waste of federal dollars, but because Congress, whose role as the presidents nemesis has only grown in recent days, voted to keep it alive. And the legislative support was bipartisan because the agency had spent years cultivating supporters on both sides of the aisle. The years and years of work that we had done to create a pro-arts Congress, whether Republican ... More | | 
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), Venetian Canal. Oil on canvas. Signed LL. 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. Collection of Mrs. A. Edward Allinson. Estimate: $40,000 - $50,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On January 25 and 26, Hindman will host its Palm Beach Collections sale, kicking off the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Palm Beach Office. Beginning with the collection of Mrs. A. Edward Allinson of Palm Beach and Southampton, the auction features a collection of paintings and watercolors by American female artists of the first half of the 20th century, including works by Jane Peterson, Margaret Patterson, Eleanor Custis, Rachel Hartley, Lillian Genth, and Mary Louise Fairchild. The sale also includes a large collection of contemporary furniture and decor by influential designer Christopher Guy of London. Property from the Palm Beach estate of renowned interior designer Richard Dick Fitzgerald will also be featured in Session I. Fitzgerald held several editorial positions, most prominently at House Beautiful and Architectural Digest, before opening his own design firm in Boston. Consignments ... More | | 
Art Miami Show Group is moving forward with planning for its annual December Fairs; Art Miami and CONTEXT Art Miami scheduled to take place November 30 December 5, 2021 along with Aqua Art Miami December 1 5, 2021.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Art Miami Show Group has officially announced the cancellation of the 2021 edition of Art Wynwood, set to take place February 11-15 and the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Fair, scheduled for March 18-21. The decision was made with the Art community in mind, as a result of feedback from galleries and collectors expressing an interest in postponing the shows given continued concerns about COVID-19 in South Florida. The Fairs will return during their regularly scheduled dates in 2022. Over the past few months, the Art Miami Show Group team has worked tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of all those who participate in the shows productions, presenting an "All Secure" plan that was approved by Dade and Palm Beach County, which provided optimism that the shows would take place in person this year. However, client feedback that ... More |
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| Life in exile: children of the Gulag fight to return home | | Paula Cooper Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Dan Walsh | | Sir Nicholas Serota reappointed as Chair of Arts Council England | 
Human rights lawyer Grigory Vaypan, 30, attends an interview with AFP at the Gulag Museum in Moscow on December 22, 2020. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP.
ZOLOTKOVO (AFP).- In a run-down wooden hut deep in the Russian countryside, Yelizaveta Mikhaylova has been waiting for justice for 30 years. The daughter of a Gulag prisoner, the 72-year-old is among the ageing children of those sent to the infamous Soviet camps who were promised compensation they have yet to receive. Under a law passed after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, they are entitled to accommodation in the city from which their parents were sent into exile -- in Mikhaylova's case Moscow some 300 kilometres (185 miles) away. "My parents wanted for us to return... that is why I am still fighting," says the retired dentist. She has waited a long time, living with her two daughters in a 40-square-metre (430-square-foot) room in the hut near Zolotkovo, a village five hours' drive from Moscow. It's a difficult life. They cut wood to fuel a stove that heats the room and their toilet ... More | | 
Installation view, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York, January 9 February 13, 2021. Photo: Steven Probert. © Dan Walsh. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of paintings by Dan Walsh opened at 521 West 21st Street on Saturday, January 9, 2021. Celebrated for his work across a range of media including sculpture, bookmaking, drawing and installation, Walsh has traced a particular trajectory in painting since the 1990s. Working with a focused vocabulary of unit-based formsincluding lines, circles, grids and rectangleshe systematically layers brushstrokes according to defined sets of rules that yield complex compositions. The presentation at Paula Cooper Gallery includes work made between 2014 and 2020, highlighting the artists prolific and expansive output in the medium of painting. In his recent interview with art critic Jennifer Samet, Walsh spoke of his painting practice: Into the 2000s, I started to fill my surfaces with ... More | | 
File photo of Nicholas Serota at Tate Modern. Photo: Olivia Hemingway, ©Tate Photography.
LONDON.- Sir Nicholas Serota has been Chair of Arts Council England since 2017. During this period he has led the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education and has been closely involved with the Cultural Cities Enquiry as well as the development of the Arts Council England Strategy for 2020-30, Lets Create. He was Director of Tate from 1988 to 2017. During this period Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000 and extension 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film and performance, as well as collecting art from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The national role of the Gallery also became more significant with the creation of the Plus Tate network of 35 institutions across the UK and Northern Ireland. Sir Nicholas was a member of the Olympic Delivery ... More |
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| Giant rotating prisms transform Broadway in the Garment District into colorful winter kaleidoscope | | Anthony Meier Fine Arts opens an exhibition of never-before-seen works by Rosie Lee Tompkins | | Celebrating King the activist (not just the dreamer) in art | 
The Garment District Alliance unveils free public art installation created by RAW Design in collaboration with ATOMIC3. Photo: Alexandre Ayer / @diversitypics for the Garment District Alliance.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Plazas have been transformed into a glimmering winter kaleidoscope, as the Garment District Alliance unveiled Prismatica, an immersive art installation comprised of 25 pivoting prisms that reflect the colors of the rainbow. As pedestrians walk through the exhibition, the six-foot-tall, multi-colored prisms fill the plazas with reflections and musical sounds, creating an ever-changing light show. Located on Broadway in the Garment District between 39th and 40th Streets, Prismatica is free and will be available to the public through January 30th. As our city continues to fight against this pandemic and recover, it was important for us to kick off a new, fresh year by introducing a bright and colorful public art installation to the heart of Midtown Manhattan that would inspire New Yorkers to remain hopeful and resilient, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment ... More | | 
Rosie Lee Tompkins, Untitled, 20052006 (detail). Polyester mens ties, cotton fabric, denim, Polyester Christmas print, cotton thread, 17 Ã 36 1/2 inches; 43.2 Ã 92.7 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Anthony Meier Fine Arts is presenting a solo exhibition of never-before-seen works by renowned American artist, Rosie Lee Tompkins (19362006), considered one of the greatest quiltmakers of all times, and one of the centurys greatest artists. The seven artworks included in the exhibition date from 1974 to 2006, the year of the artists death. This significant exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of her work at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and includes a newly commissioned essay by Lawrence Rinder, the longtime champion of Tompkins and former Director of the BAMPFA. Each artwork tells a highly personal story, often including biblical references through embroidered words and numerical citations of Christian scripture. In one work, the name of Tompkins son, Alvin Levern Howard, is embroidered in large letters across bits and pieces of the American ... More | | 
The Brooklyn Academy of Musics digital billboard displays one of the images this one by Derrick Adams: MLKs Tropic Interlude (2020), commissioned by Marcus Samuelsson and Bon Appétit Magazine in an exhibition that will run through Jan. 22. Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
by Seph Rodney
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Let Freedom Ring is the title the Brooklyn Academy of Music has given to its public exhibition of images by seven Brooklyn-based artists as part of its 35th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. The images appear through Jan. 22 on the giant BAM sign (typically used to advertise upcoming shows and events) at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. The phrase Let freedom ring resonates deeply with me. It takes me back to that moment as a child watching television with my own Black family, immigrants from Jamaica, arriving in New York in the 1970s, and quickly, intuitively understanding that we had to ... More |
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Gallery Tour: Editions | London | January 2021
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 Philip J. Smith, a power on Broadway, is dead at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Philip J. Smith, chairman of the powerful Shubert Organization, whose empire of Broadway theaters and showcase productions made him one of New Yorks most influential real estate and cultural entrepreneurs, died Friday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 89. A statement released by Shubert and his daughters, Linda Phillips and Jennifer Stein, said the cause was complications of COVID-19. From a baronial suite in Shubert Alley in the heart of the theater district, Smith, a low-key businessman who started as a movie usher, presided for more than a decade over the nations oldest and largest theatrical company, an archipelago of 17 Broadway theaters, many of them historic landmarks; six off-Broadway stages; and other properties, including a theater in Philadelphia. For much of his six-decade Shubert career, ... More  Exhibition brings together discrete yet interrelated bodies of work created by Tara DonovanNEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting Intermediaries, a solo exhibition bringing together discrete yet interrelated bodies of work created by Tara Donovan throughout 2019 and 2020. Based in Donovans rigorous investigatory methods and aggregative logic, the exhibitions drawings, wall-bound pieces, and free standing sculptures transform commonplace materials into totalities that test our perceptual limits. Intermediaries also articulates the artists ever-deepening exploration of arts capacity to mediate phenomenological encounters that interconnect viewers to one another and their environment. The exhibition will take place on the first floor and library of 540 West 25th Street in Chelsea and run through March 6, 2021. The exhibitions primary concept underscores the structural and material openness of Donovans works, which ... More  A Marvel Universe for musicals? Meet the makers of AvernoNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The start of the musical partnership between Morgan Smith and Sushi Soucy may not have been very Rodgers and Hammerstein, or even Pasek and Paul, but it certainly was very 2020. This past summer, Morgan and I became mutuals on Instagram and TikTok, Soucy, 18, said in a video conversation from Savannah, Georgia. Direct messages followed, then an invitation from Smith, 21, to collaborate on a show. An outline was hashed out via Google Docs. Just a few months later, Broadway Records on Friday released the resulting concept album, Over and Out, about the relationship between Nova and Solar, college students who first connect by walkie-talkie, then must navigate the pressure of meeting face to face. Its no secret that shows like Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown, Be More Chill and, of course, ... More  The filmmaker as historian: Sam Pollard and 'MLK/FBI'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Midway through the new documentary MLK/FBI, we get glimpses of a Martin Luther King Jr. not often seen in the usual montages of the civil rights movement. The 1963 March on Washington has taken place and he has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. This King is under myriad strains from the burdens of leadership, budding concerns about Vietnam, political and mortal threats, and round-the-clock surveillance by his own countrys chief law enforcement agency. Showing the interior life of a historical figure is not easy. But at certain points, MLK/FBI, directed by Sam Pollard, dwells on seemingly throwaway shots of the Rev. King on the road composed as ever, yet worried, the world on his mind. These are subtle images, but they speak to the filmmakers talent for insight and nuance in portraying ... More  Arts+Leisure opens an exhibition of recent work by Julia RooneyNEW YORK, NY.- Arts+Leisure is presenting @SomeHighTiide, an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney. The exhibition will run from January 16th through February 21st, 2021. Comprising a series of two by two-inch paintings, Julia Rooneys exhibition @SomeHighTide queries our intimate relationships with our smartphones and their attendant social networks, with particular regard to the ways such platforms shape our habits of visual consumption and comprehension. By adopting the harsh dimensional constraints of Instagram and similar photo-sharing applications, Rooney acknowledges the ubiquity of the smartphone screen, while her decidedly traditional mediums of oil paint and linen disturbs their veneer of manufactured precision and homogeneity. As hand-wrought effigies of the Instagram photo-square, Rooneys paintings call attention ... More  Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will hold an online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- An online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction packed with over 375 lots of paintings, decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, silver, Asian arts and collectibles pulled from prominent estates and collections across New England is planned for Thursday, January 28th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. The auction has a start time of 6 pm Eastern time. 2021 started off with a bang of a Pop Culture auction, and we are happy to follow that up with a fun, eclectic mix of antiques, said Bruneau & Co. president Kevin Bruneau. There is certainly something for everyone. Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer and the firms Director of Pop Culture, added, This is the auction where if you need a ... More  The Hyde Collection welcomes new Chief Development Officer and Board membersGLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection, the esteemed European and American art museum located in the historic Hyde House in Glens Falls, NY, announced John Lefner as the new Chief Development Officer (left). John has over seventeen (17) years of not-for-profit leadership and fundraising experience. In his most recent position, he was the District Executive Director for the Capital District YMCA where he led the strategic plan and oversaw all operations of YMCA Camp Chingachgook and the Schenectady YMCA. Prior to that, Lefner was the Director of Operations for the Saratoga Independent School and the Assistant Director of Operations for the Double H Ranch. John has served as board member for Wellspring and the NYS YMCA Foundation, provided leadership to the Schenectady Foundations COVID-19 Coalition, and volunteers ... More  New European award for art museums and galleriesTHE HAGUE.- The European Museum Academy announces the Art Museum Award, a new annual award specifically designed for art museums and galleries throughout Europe. The Art Museum Award is dedicated to honour and highlight museum projects that work with art in an innovative, pioneering and creative way in order to address or respond to current social issues that are a major challenge to our contemporary society. With this new award, the European Museum Academy aims to identify new role models of excellence that could function as inspiring paragons of the social role and relevance of art museums and galleries. The first museum or gallery to be awarded will be in 2021. This is the only award of its kind on a European level. The focus of the Art Museum Award is on the role that art museums and galleries can play as socially ... More  Galerie Miranda presents the exhibition La Poussière des anges by artist John ChiaraPARIS.- Galerie Miranda is presenting the exhibition La Poussière des anges by San Francisco-based artist John Chiara (b. 1971), the artists second solo exhibition at the gallery and the first European exhibition of this new body of work. In 2019, John Chiara was artist in residence at the Budapest Art Factory residence in Hungary, where he spent time photographing Angyalföld, the city neighborhood whose name translates into English as Angel Dust, into French as la Poussière des anges. The negative photographic images he created there capture the citys particular urban mix of history and modernity, with residential and industrial architecture of different periods punctuated by advertising billboards, electrical cables but also many trees. In a poetic echo of the district name angel dust, the citys bright blue skies become in their negative incarnation a ... More  'We need you' German tenor Kaufmann tells pandemic publicMADRID (AFP).- German tenor Jonas Kaufmann says not being able to perform in front of a live audience for months has been hugely detrimental for musicians who thrive on connecting with real people. "What we miss is this connection and it doesn't matter if they wear masks or whatever," the 51-year-old told AFP on Thursday after performing at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house. "I would probably feel them, sense them even if they were behind a curtain. But they are there. This is what really matters," added the tenor, whose last performance before an audience was in November in Denmark. While many of the world's major venues are shut, Spain's main opera house has remained open -- although with smaller audiences and safety measures such as the mandatory use of face masks -- since July. "For me, being on tour all year round, it feels like it has ... More  Sincere, outdoorsy, trippy, a music festival breathes Los AngelesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Answering the phone and having the person on the other end sing softly for 10 minutes, just for you. Another vocalist, this one stationed outside your house for a five-minute concert. A piano recital stretching from dawn to dusk. Sweet, deeply sincere, outdoorsy, a little trippy all in all, very Los Angeles. These are some of the performances that will unfold through Feb. 14 as part of Darkness Sounding, a solstice-inspired festival from the ensemble Wild Up. Billed as spaced out music during the shortest days of the year, the event blends sophisticated music-making and Wild Ups back-to-basics ethos. So many of the trappings of new music are about cerebral concepts of form and timbre, Christopher Rountree, the groups founder, said in an interview. We wanted to return to something of ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany died January 17, 1933. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau[1] and Aesthetic movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. In this image: Louis C. Tiffany, Fenêtre du "Bella Apartment", c.1880. Verre, plomb. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Don de Robert Koch, 2002 ©Photo : The Metropolitan Museum.
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