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A visitor looks at Cylinder vessel with Moon Goddess and other celestial beings, 600-900 A.D., and Cylinder vessel, 7th8th century. Photo: Jeenah Moon for The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous sunset skies can be a product of atmospheric pollution. Blizzards of the kind that battered Buffalo, New York, were visual poetry to Claude Monet. And that jewel-like magenta-winged bug I so admired in the garden last fall? Turns out to be a herbicidal terrorist. As Monets snowstorms suggest, the idea, and ideal, of beauty in art comes with its own drawbacks. The majestic Elgin Marbles, emblems of democracy, crowned a Greek temple built by a slave-owning culture. Much of the Tudor luxe that recently delighted crowds at the Metropolitan Museum was created to make a ruthless colonial power-in-the-bud look fabulous. On a stroll through the Mets permanent collection galleries, such complexities are always hard to ignore. Theyre built into the global art encountered on all sides. And they percolate through the fantastically beautiful exhibition called Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art. Just to have this show is a gift. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 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 at Galerie Templon featuring a spectacular site-specific installation and a series of previously unseen sculptures and drawings. Photo: Charles Roussel.
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| Exhibition explores the cross-pollination between artists in the centers of Italian and American art in the '50s & '60s | | Manuel Borja-Villel leaves his charge as the director of Museo Reina SofÃa | | Van Dyck painting, found in a farm shed and now estimated at $2-3m |
Piero Dorazio, Totale: giallo, 1963. © 2023 Piero Dorazio, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Roma/New York, 19531964, an exhibition exploring the significant intellectual and artistic cross-pollination between artists in the centers of Italian and American art in the 1950s and 1960s, on view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location, and curated by gallery partner David Leiber. In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of New Yorks emergence as an international art capital and Italys postwar economic boom and cultural revival after fascism, Informale and abstract painters working and exhibiting in Rome, such as Afro Basaldella, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Capogrossi, and Piero Dorazio, began to be regularly featured in solo exhibitions in New York gallerieslike Eleanor Wards Stable Gallery, and Catherine Vivianos and Leo Castellis eponymous spaces. At the same time, several New Yorkbased artists, such as Cy Twombly ... More | |
Manuel Borja-Villel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa. Photogtraphic Archive of Museo Reina SofÃa.
MADRID.- The director of the Reina Sofia Museum, Manuel Borja-Villel (1957, Burriana, Spain), leaves the institution after 15 years and announces that he will not present his candidacy to continue as the head of the museum, a decision he made some time ago. On February 1, a selection process will begin in order to choose a new director through an international competition. Manuel Borja-Villel now begins his work as co-curator of the São Paulo Biennial, as his most immediate project. From today, Mabel Tapia, deputy artistic director, and Julian Gonzalez Cid, deputy managing director, will provisionally take over the direction of the museum. During these 15 years with Manuel Borja-Villel as director of the Reina Sofia Museum, the institution has become an international benchmark, one of the most important and visited centers of contemporary art and culture ... More | |
Sir Anthony van Dyck, A Study for Saint Jerome, est. $2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys Master Week series in New York 18 - 30 January is set to be among the strongest ever staged, with nine sales together estimated to realize in excess of $100m. Spanning Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings and 19th- century paintings, the sales will bring to market a host of newly-discovered works, alongside renowned private collections, led by ten Baroque masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection, and a group of Dutch 17th century paintings from the Theilinne Scheumann Collection. This season, Sothebys will also introduce a new format sale - The One - showcasing a broad spectrum of exceptional and unique objects throughout history, spanning antiquity through to the fashion and entertainment worlds of today. Works from the inaugural auction will be on view alongside Sothebys Masters Week exhibitions, opening 21 January ... More |
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| Groninger Museum unveils a world first with exhibition The Art of Hipgnosis | | Exhibition brings together five series realised between 2020 and 2021 by Georg Baselitz | | Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz presents an exhibition of works by the celebrated German conceptual artist Isa Genzken |
Hipgnosis created several sleeves for the hugely popular band Pink Floyd. The best-known is the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon, which features a prism. That album turns 50 on 3 March 2023.
GRONINGEN.- Their illustrations have decorated the walls of millions of teenage bedrooms since the 1970s. Yet many people have never heard of the London design studio Hipgnosis. Now the Groninger Museum is honouring the group, which designed legendary album covers for some of the worlds biggest rock acts, with its first ever major exhibition. The Art of Hipgnosis: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel & 10ccruns from 19 January through 14 May 2023. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, 10CC these are just a few names on the impressive list of bands and musicians for whom the London studio Hipgnosis designed album covers during the heyday of vinyl. Many featured surrealist images, produced long before the invention of digital photography and Photoshop ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, La boussole indique le nord, behind the scenes photo, Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, 2023.
PARIS.- La boussole indique le nord is an exhibition of recent works by internationally renowned German artist Georg Baselitz. Filling the Thaddaeus Ropac gallerys Paris Pantin space, the exhibition brings together five series realised between 2020 and 2021, in celebration of the artists 85th birthday. The works on view span Tulips with pared-back compositions and contrasting colours, three series of portraits with vivid palettes, and a series of more melancholy portraits on dark backgrounds. The works on canvas are accompanied by a group of ink drawings. Characterised by an unprecedented integration of fabric and by a transfer method that marks a significant recent development in Baselitzs technique, the works create, both conceptually and materially, a distinctive universe where the logic of collage coalesces with painting. Baselitzs wife Elke has been a constant subject of the artists work throughout his career ... More | |
Isa Genzken, Untitled, 2017. Concrete, furniture dollies. 2 parts, each 193.5 x 60.5 x 35.5 cm / 76 1/8 x 23 7/8 x 14 in. Photo: Jon Etter. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York © 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich.
ST. MORITZ.- On view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz this winter is a curated presentation of works by the celebrated German conceptual artist Isa Genzken, titled Inside and Out. Bringing together the artists early exposed concrete sculptures, social facades and later wall works, the exhibition highlights Genzkens career-long interest in modernist architecture, in particular, its structural characteristics and social relevance. The works on display give visual form to central questions in the artists oeuvre that deal with the relationship between sculpture and space, location and perception and examining the window or wall as a social and architectural connection between interior and exterior. Since the 1970s, Genzkens diverse practice has encompassed sculpture, photography, installation, film, drawing and painting ... More |
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| One of the very earliest images of an interracial family relationship in American art purchased by Philip Mould | | Exhibition features never-before-exhibited drawings by Jennifer Bartlett | | Dick Polich, artists' ally in the creation of sculptures, dies at 90 |
American School, A Portrait of Two Girls, Early 19th century. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.
LONDON.- An extraordinarily rare image of two children - one white, one African American was purchased by London art dealers Philip Mould & Company this evening (Friday 20 January 2023) at Christies in New York for just under one million dollars. Painted by an unknown artist in America in around 1820, and estimated at $50-$100k, it attracted heated competition from collectors and museums on both sides of the Atlantic, eventually making ten times its top estimate with premium included. Mould, who is also known as the art expert on BBC1's Fake or Fortune, believes it to be unprecedented for this date in American portrait painting. "We are very excited to have bought it. I know of no painting of this date or earlier quite like it. The unselfconscious depiction of two racially distinct girls, who were clearly deeply attached, is extraordinarily rare for this period, as well as very affecting. The constraints and social protocol ... More | |
Jennifer Bartlett, Untitled, 1971. Signed recto lower right J. Bartlett 71, Numbered verso lower right JB 2973. Pen and colored pencil on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Photo: Lance Brewer. Copyright: © Jennifer Bartlett. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and The Jennifer Bartlett 2013 Trust.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Jennifer Bartlett: Works on Paper, 19701973. Featuring never-before-exhibited Bartlett drawings, the exhibition offers a window into the artists early practice, as she developed and rehearsed the forms and ideas that she returned to throughout her career. Jennifer Bartlett: Works on Paper is the first exhibition to exclusively feature the late artists drawings from this foundational period. An unwavering force in American art for more than 50 years, Bartlett passed away in 2022, leaving a legacy of visually bold, intellectually rigorous work that was never contained to one movement or idea. Bartlett drew inspiration from Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism ... More | |
A bronze sculpture, entitled Maman, by French-born US artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, is on display at the Buerkli square in Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2011.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- If you have ever spent time around one of artist Louise Bourgeois 30-foot spiders, or glimpsed one of Tom Otterness roundish bronze dwarves that populate the subway station at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, it might have occurred to you to wonder: Where do they come from? Obviously, they sprang from the minds of the artists. But just as obviously, the notably petite Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she along with many of the worlds most renowned sculptors of the last 50 years turned to a specialized foundry in the Hudson Valley and its visionary owner, Dick Polich. After opening his shop in 1970, Polich helped hundreds of artists realize their ideas in bronze, steel or any number of exotic alloys, several of which ... More |
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| Two newcomers joining LARTA The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair | | Maureen Paley opens exhibition by Behrang Karimi across the two London spaces | | Private collection of BBC Antiques Roadshow's expert Henry Sandon heads to auction |
Antique tribal Qashqai Kashkuli. Photo: Courtesy Oriental Rug Shop.
LONDON.- Maximalism is back. Trends for interiors this year also include sustainability and the exhibitors at the London Antiques Rug & Textile Art Fair and LARTA Online, selling antique and vintage carpets, rugs and textiles, certainly fit the bill for sumptuous interiors and those wishing to be eco conscious. One of the two newest exhibitors at LARTA 2023 is Nomadic Rugs Gallery. Ali Helabad of Nomadic Rugs Gallery hails from a family with a strong heritage in the handmade Persian carpet business over many generations. Having established his Nomadic Rugs Gallery in London in 2010, Ali continues to expand upon the first-hand expertise he garnered in Iran, specialising in all Oriental and Persian carpets, both antique and modern. Ali is also capable of providing expert advice on sourcing, valuation and repair as a consultant. In addition to his own extensive stock of handmade works available for sale, bespoke new works are also an exciting ... More | |
Behrang Karimi, denken,reden,handeln, 2022. Oil on canvas, 130 x 115 cm 51 1/8 x 45 1/4 inches © Behrang Karimi, courtesy Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley opened a new exhibition Dinge Weltweit by Köln based artist Behrang Karimi. This is his second exhibition with the gallery and his first solo presentation across the two London spaces. My personal time in the studio starts only by late evening. Then my preparation begins, cleaning, thinking, looking, slowly drawing, reading or not. When I have a good day/night, the focus gets right and it creates energy. I can then forget my body and the time passing and I can draw and paint without thinking in a usual sense. This is mostly what I am looking for. You could compare it with a hunter in the forest, who needs to be very focused and concentrated to not take the wrong step or make too much noise while sneaking through the woods. Music is the most powerful tool to get your mind into energetic moods. But that is a controlled and conscious move. I choose the music for this special moment in the studio ... More | |
A north coast Peruvian stirrup vessel in the form of a seated warrior holding a club, dating from circa 200-600 AD. Estimate £300-£400.
LONDON.- Chorleys auctioneers announced that it will offer the private collection of BBC Antiques Roadshows long-serving expert, Henry Sandon (MBE), known for his passion for porcelain and pottery and in particular, Royal Worcester porcelain. The prized collection of many of his treasured pieces will be offered in a sale titled The Henry Sandon Ceramic Study Collection at Chorleys on Tuesday 18th April, 2023. As well as being a world-recognised antiques expert, Henry Sandon (b. 1928) is an author and former lecturer, as well as the father of the renowned TV ceramics expert John Sandon. He began his career with an interest in archaeology, which offered a deep insight into the world of ceramics from all countries, cultures and decades. In 1967 he was appointed curator of the Dyson Perrins Museum at the Royal Worcester Factory, a position he held until 1982, but he is most well-known for his role as an antiques expert ... More |
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Walkthrough of "From The Back Room" currently showing at The Anita Shapolsky Art Gallery
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NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale presents a retrospective exhibition of work by Malcolm Morley
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- Malcolm Morley: Shipwreck, a retrospective of this collection is now on display at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale through April in collaboration with Hall Art Foundation. The exhibition focuses on the artists earliest superrealist paintings which draw inspiration from his childhood. Ranging from ocean liners in the 1960s to his imaginative portraits of complex compositions of battles and other catastrophes, these works are generally based on still-lifes he arranged of toy model boats and planes. Morley defines his purpose as a preoccupation with the act of painting and the sensation of transforming closely observed images to canvas. His intention was never to paint in a realistic manner that matched the camera's mechanical view, rather the found photographic image solved the problem of what to paint ... More
Alexander Gray Associates, New York opens Luis Camnitzer exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Luis Camnitzer: Arbitrary Order, the artists seventh one-person exhibition with the Gallery, opened at Alexander Gray Associates, New York. It debuts A to Cosmopolite, the first installment of an ongoing series in which Camnitzer annotates the dictionary using Google Maps. His combination of these reference tools questions cartography and lexicography as definitive systems of order, underscoring his career-long interrogation of authoritative systems. Camnitzer began this new body of work in 2020 as a form of virtual travel amid the isolation wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. It constitutes an unconventional portrait of the artist as generated by machine learning algorithms. The eclectic results are global in scope but skew to Camnitzers personal search history and the location of his Long Island home ... More
Betty Lee Sung, pioneering scholar of Chinese in America, dies at 98
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Lee Sung, an American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who was taken back to China by her parents during the Depression, escaped the invading Japanese as a teenager and then made her way back to the United States, where she pioneered research into the Asian diaspora, died Thursday at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was 98. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Cynthia Sung. In 1970, Sung founded an Asian American studies program at City College of New York, billed as the first in the eastern United States. She was the chair of the department of Asian studies there when she retired in 1992. She was also the author of nine books, from Mountain of Gold (1967), a historical account of Chinese immigration and assimilation in the United States, to a memoir, Defiant Second Daughter: My First 90 Years (2015) ... More
Review: 'Not About Me' remembers decades shrouded by AIDS
NEW YORK, NY.- Its one thing for a new show to take place, for the most part, in the downtown Manhattan of the 1980s and 90s. Its another to make audience members feel as if they are watching it contemporaneously: Eduardo Machados Not About Me, which just opened at Theater for the New City, could have been airlifted wholesale from that era. For New York theatergoers who lived through those times, the occasionally ramshackle acting and the endearingly primitive projections make for an experience akin to stepping into a hot tub time machine. Younger people might think they have chanced upon a diorama of vintage East Village theater. Everybody is likely to agree that the eye-searing abundance of ill-fitting pants is pushing verisimilitude a pleat too far. The protagonist and narrator of Not About Me (take that title with a grain of salt) is a Cuban-born ... More
Review: Carnegie Hall makes an intimate space more intimate
NEW YORK, NY.- The citys classical music powerhouses would like to get closer to you. Mere months after the New York Philharmonics stage at David Geffen Hall was shifted 25 feet out into the audience, with seating added behind the orchestra, as part of a gut renovation, Carnegie Hall has followed suit. If more economically: It has reconfigured its second stage, the subterranean Zankel Hall, and rearranged it so that audiences can sit in the round. To make that happen inside such a steeply raked space, Carnegie has raised the Zankel stage. This has reduced distances for everyone: the critics in prime seats, and the bargain-hunting customers in the balconies. Its all part of initiative that Carnegie is calling Center Stage, with programming, from Thursday night through Jan. 27, designed to take advantage of the enhanced proximity ... More
Winning a BAFTA? Just one of Joanna Scanlan's career surprises.
NEW YORK, NY.- Joanna Scanlan had been a full-time acting teacher at a university for six years when she had a mental breakdown. She was 31. Her doctor blamed a lack of professional fulfillment for the collapse and warned her about the long-term consequences of hindered aspirations. Dr. Bloodworth said, Are you living the wrong life? If you dont go back to acting youre going to be ill for the rest of your life, Scanlan recalled in a recent video interview from her home in London. And as he said it, I thought, That may be true. Im not in the right work for me. Scanlan took his advice. She left the university, but to stay financially afloat began working for the British body that distributes government arts funding. Eventually, the success of the 1995 installation piece The Maybe, which she developed with actress Tilda Swinton ... More
Meta's oversight board calls for overhaul of nude photo standards
NEW YORK, NY.- Content creators have long criticized Facebook and Instagram for their content moderation policies relating to photos that show partial nudity, arguing that their practices are inconsistent and often biased against women and LGBTQ people. This week, the oversight board for Meta, the platforms parent company, strongly recommended that it clarify its guidelines on such photos after Instagram took down two posts depicting nonbinary and transgender people with bare chests. The posts were quickly reinstated after the couple appealed, and Metas oversight board overturned the original decision to remove them. It was the boards first case directly involving gender-nonconforming users. The restrictions and exceptions to the rules on female nipples are extensive and confusing, particularly as they apply to transgender and nonbinary people ... More
The unforgettable meets the unimaginable at the Winter Show
NEW YORK, NY.- This years Winter Show, back to its longtime home in the Park Avenue Armory after a brief pandemic dalliance with the former Barneys building on Madison Avenue, is full of treasures, as usual offering casual viewers as well as collectors a scattershot wealth of surprising objects. Sixty-eight dealers have converged for this edition, exhibiting art and antiques from around the world to benefit the East Side House Settlement. Themes and repetitions pop up here and there: Both Hirschl & Adler (B9) and Bernard Goldberg (C1) have brought works by German American modernist Winold Reiss following his show at the New-York Historical Society. Tiffany glass is well represented by Lillian Nassau LLC (B2), which has a lovely lily table lamp, among other things, and Macklowe Gallery Ltd ... More
Cristin Tierney Gallery exhibits a historic installation work by Victor Burgin
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery presents Photopath, a historic installation work by Victor Burgin. Photopath opened the evening of Friday, January 20th, and marks the first time this work has been shown in New York City in 50 years. Photopath, 1967-69, is among Victor Burgin's most renowned works. It was made shortly after his graduation from Yale University School of Art and Architecture, at a time when many artists were rethinking the conventions of artmaking, and especially the status of the material object in art. Photopath is in essence not strictly material; it primarily consists of a simple set of instructions typed on an index card: A path along the floor, of proportions 1Ã21 units, photographed. Photographs printed to actual size of objects and prints attached to floor so that images are perfectly congruent with their objects ... More
OSL Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by A K Dolven
OSLO.- Space, temporality, movement, light and sound are all aspects central to A K Dolvens artistic practice, just as implied or actual human presence is an essential element. In Still Life these key features are distilled in recent artworks using two of the varied range of mediums regularly employed by the artist painting and lens-based images. While the inherent action is supported on static planes of aluminium or photographic paper, it remains evident. This is life merely stilled. In the large-scale photograph and stills entitled stairs 2022, time is arrested at specific points during an enigmatic physical action that unfolds on the architectural stage of a tall, wide staircase. It was performed on one of the staircases between the floors of Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo prior to its public opening. stairs 2022 revisits an earlier film installation by the artist ... More
Jenny Holzer receives Whitechapel Gallery's 2023 Art Icon Award
LONDON.- Jenny Holzer was presented with Whitechapel Gallerys annual Art Icon Award at a gala event on 19 January 2023. Accompanied by more than 200 artists, collectors, and art world luminaries, Holzers contribution to contemporary art was celebrated during an evening hosted by one of Britains best-known Classicists, Mary Beard and Whitechapel Gallery Director, Gilane Tawadros. The occasion was marked by a dedicated performance by founding member of Sonic Youth Thurston Moore alongside Pat Thomas. The gala welcomed artists Gillian Wearing, Michael Landy and Gary Hume alongside Art Icon committee members Dorota Audemars, Erin Bell, Emilie De Pauw, Marc Payot, and Nicole Saikalis Bay. Following a drinks reception with Champagne Castelnau Brut Réserve NV Champagne and Castelnau Brut Rosé NV ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Nicolas Lancret was born January 22, 1690. Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
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