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The Museum of Chinese in America opened in its current location nearby on Centre Street, in a building designed by Maya Lin, in 2009. It had started nearly three decades before as the Chinatown History Project, and grew over time from a local project to a national one.
by Annie Correal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The 85,000 items, some dating to the 19th century, told the rich story of the Chinese migration to the United States: textiles, restaurant menus, handwritten letters, tickets for ships passage. All of them could now be destroyed. Officials at the Museum of Chinese in America said Friday evening that thousands of historic and artistic items it had carefully collected and curated over decades were most likely lost after a fire tore through a Chinatown building where most of its acquisitions were stored. One hundred percent of the museums collection, other than what is on view, said Nancy Yao Maasbach, the president of the museum. She said that the collection was one of a kind and that she was just distraught after receiving the news. The fire broke out Thursday night at 70 Mulberry St., in a former school that educated generations of immigrants before becoming a cherished cultural landmark in the neighborhood. In addition to the museums storage, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of ErróÂs exhibition at Perrotin, New York, USA, 2019. Photo by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
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 | | The making of '2001: A Space Odyssey' was as far out as the movie | | Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs opens 'Drawing: The Muse of Photography' | | Exhibition allows visitors to experience virtual journey to the devastated sites of Mosul, Aleppo and Palmyra | 
In an undated photo from the museum, a model of the Discovery One spacecraft hangs above the gallery for "Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey." Via Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Thanassi Karageorgiou via The New York Times.
by Ben Kenigsberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- As it approaches its 52nd birthday, 2001: A Space Odyssey remains one of the most inventive and enduring of all movies. But from the vantage point of 2020, it can be difficult to appreciate the sheer breadth of imagination involved in its making. Enter Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubricks Space Odyssey, a new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, that runs through July 19. The show brings together original correspondence, sketches, storyboards, props, video clips and much more to illustrate how Kubrick, the films director, and Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction author who collaborated ... More | | 
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787-1851), "Fantaisie" ruined cloister, circa 1827. Dessin-fumée, 7.9 x 6.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- In its early years photography was regarded by many observers as a form of drawing. As an image-making system, the new medium shared something with art; but as a chemical and mechanical process it shared something with science. Drawing: The Muse of Photography, an exhibition at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, on view January 24 - April 10, 2020, considers parallels between photography and drawing in works by L.J.M. Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, Calvert Jones, and Gustave Le Gray, among others, shedding light on the nature and uses of both. In 1827, the Parisian artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre conceived of the dessin-fumée, a process combining the art of drawing using candle smoke with a transfer process that allowed him to obtain a range of close variants from the same ... More | | 
"Age Old Cities".
WASHINGTON, DC.- Using the most recent digital techniques, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, take visitors on a virtual tour of three ancient cities--Palmyra and Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. The exhibition, located in the Sackler Gallery, highlights the devastation of these historically significant sites but also offers hope for their reconstruction and rehabilitation. By including the testimony of Iraqis and Syrians, the installation underscores the importance of place in the preservation of historical and architectural memory. "Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul" is on view at the Sackler Gallery from Jan. 25 through Oct. 26. It was organized by the Arab World Institute in Paris, and created in collaboration with Iconem, which specializes in digitizing cultural heritage sites in 3-D, and in partnership with UNESCO. The exhibition offers ... More |
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| | First major exhibition to explore representations of the pregnant female body opens at The Foundling Museum | | Memorials tell new stories, with his help | | National Museum of Scotland hosts first UK showing of rxhibition on Tyrannosaurs | 
Marcus Gheeraerts II Portrait of a Woman in Red, 1620 © Tate.
LONDON.- The Foundling Museum is presenting the first major exhibition to explore representations of the pregnant female body through portraits from the past 500 years, Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media which opened on 24 January 2020. Until the twentieth century, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant. Despite this, pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits. This exhibition brings together images of women mainly British - who were depicted at a time when they were expecting (whether visibly so or not). Through paintings, prints, photographs, objects and clothing from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy explores the different ways in which pregnancy was, or was not, represented; how shifting social attitudes have impacted on depictions of pregnant women; how the possibility of death in childbirth brought additional tension to such representations; and ... More | | 
The artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, next to a replica of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, where a video projects the face and hands of a Staten Island resident, at Galerie Lelong in New York. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Long before monuments were generating debates, protests and headlines over what and who should be commemorated, Polish-born conceptual artist Krzysztof Wodiczko was broadening the scope of what memorials around the world could be, taking them well beyond their makers intentions. Since the 1980s, he has been projecting videos onto historical statuary and structures, making monuments into megaphones for the powerless in society. War veterans, Hiroshima survivors, the grieving mothers of murdered children, abused female laborers all have proclaimed their personal stories from these pedestals. Monuments can be useful for the living, said Wodiczko, 76, at his studio in ... More | | 
Visitors are able to explore the diversity of tyrannosaur skulls and find out what variations in structure can tell us about different hunting and feeding strategies.
EDINBURGH.- The most comprehensive exhibition ever mounted on tyrannosaurs is on view at the National Museum of Scotland. Tyrannosaurs explores the most feared and revered of all dinosaurs, bringing the latest palaeontological discoveries to life and challenging preconceptions about these ferocious predators. While the most famous of the species is the mighty T. rex, tyrannosaurs came in all shapes and sizes, and their history extends over 100 million years. The exhibition features extremely rare fossil specimens, cast skeletons including one of Scotty, one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons in the world- and incredible models of feathered dinosaurs. Visitors are able to explore the diversity of tyrannosaur skulls and find out what variations in structure can tell us about different hunting and feeding strategies. Tyrannosaurs uses cutting-edge technology, includes hands-on and multimedia ex ... More |
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| | Hauser & Wirth Zurich opens an exhibition of new works by David Zink Yi | | Sally Saul's first solo show with Almine Rech opens in Paris | | First major exhibition of Naum Gabo to be held in the UK for over 30 years opens at Tate St Ives | 
David Zink Yi in his studio, 2019. Photo: Wolfgang Stahr. © David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
ZURICH.- Rare Earths comprises new ceramic works which engage with the artists direct and intuitive approach to his practice. Rooted in process-based abstraction and the alchemic possibilities of the artists materials, the exhibited bodies of works represent a point of departure from previous ceramic sculptural pieces as the artists new aesthetic diverges from figuration. Zink Yi is a multimedia artist par excellence. He works with film, installation, performance, sculpture, ceramics, and by extension (in the form of glazes and prints, for example) also with painting. This leads to completely new forms of expression and subjects, yet there is one invisible thread that unites his work: his interest in processes, origins, and the organic connections of things that are imbued with a sensual and intuitive component. Whether they are landscape photographs, jazz music, or ceramics, Zink Yis works are grounded in working with the handsabout the relationship of ... More | | 
Sally Saul, Searching, 2019. Clay and glaze, 63,5 x 30,5 x 19,1 cm 25 x 12 x 7 1/2 in © Sally Saul. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting Hideout, Sally Sauls first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will include a new selection of whimsical ceramics by Sally Saul that have never been exhibited before. Throughout her long ceramics practice, Sally Saul has combined both playful and subversive visions. Her scenes and characters are truly emotive and serve as witnesses to the subjects she picks: Trouble or Searching. The show is titled after her new iconic character Hideout, mysteriously sheltering within a rainbow-wall. As a statement, the artist uses humor in her representations of humans and her unique sculptures of flora and fauna. This show brings together a new series of colorful and figurative ceramics. Some of her large-scale pieces, such as Framing and Dog Fight, go beyond the status of figures and become a scenography set. Rising from the ground, both sculptures tell a story and look like cartoon ... More | | 
Naum Gabo (1890 1977), Head No. 2, 1916. Enlarged version 1964 Steel, 1760 x 1240 x 1243 mm. The Work of Naum Gabo © Nina & Graham Williams / Tate, 2019.
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives opened a major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo (1890-1977). Offering an extensive presentation of the artists sculptures, paintings, drawings, and architectural and public projects, this is the UKs first large-scale Gabo exhibition in over 30 years and marks the centenary of his Realistic Manifesto 1920, a seminal proclamation of the modernist era. Tate St Ives presents a rare opportunity to see the full scope of Gabos interdisciplinary work and offers a fresh perspective on his ground-breaking experiments that made time, space and synthetic materials the key building blocks of modernist art practice. The development of those ideas is being shown through Gabos innovative use of plastic in sculpture and stage design, his activation of abstract forms in time-based art, and his painting and prints. It shows how this visionary of his era ... More |
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| | Margo Lion, producer of 'Hairspray' and more, dies at 75 | | 'Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting' opens at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | | Exhibition at Perrotin New York offers a full survey of Erró's titanic career | 
Margo Lion, a theater producer who was largely responsible for bringing Jellys Last Jam and Hairspray to Broadway, died on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Bill Cunningham/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Margo Lion, a theater producer who was largely responsible for bringing Jellys Last Jam and Hairspray to Broadway and played a major role in other important shows, including Angels in America, died Friday in Manhattan. She was 75. Her son, Matthew Nemeth, said the cause was a brain aneurysm. She had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, one of several causes she supported, and had a lung transplant in 2018. In an era when big-budget theater was an increasingly corporate affair, bankrolled by companies like Disney Theatrical Productions, Lion was an independent producer, putting up her own money and recruiting other investors to get a show mounted. She was passionate, producer Rocco Landesman, who worked with her on Angels in America and other shows, said in a telephone interview, and she ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Crochet V, 1998. Mixografia print on handmade paper. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, 1999.44 © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Photo: Christopher Burke.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is on view January 24 April 5, 2020 at Vassar Colleges Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the only venue on the East Coast to host these works. Louise Bourgeois (19112010) is one of the most renowned artists of the twentieth century, perhaps best known for powerful sculptures, including monumental spiders, human figures, and anthropomorphic shapes. An enigmatic chronicler of her emotions, she made drawings daily, and returned regularly to printmaking. The exhibition includes eighty-seven works and focuses on prints she made in her eighties and nineties, with a few earlier examples and a massive spiral sculpture to give additional context. Many of the prints incorporate or replicate fabrics, reflecting a lifelong interest in textiles connected to Bourgeoiss childhood years ... More | | 
Meca Face Meca-Make-Up series, 1960. Collage of elements printed on paper. 32 x 21.5 cm | 12 5/8 x 8 7/16 inch. Photo by Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Presenting works by the world famous Icelandic artist Erró from the late 1950s through to the current decade, this exhibition offers a full survey of the artists titanic career, particularly his commitment to collage as a process and essential antecedent to his celebrated signature, and singular, paintings. As evidenced by the artists inclusion in important recent international survey exhibitions, including The World Goes Pop (Tate Modern) and International Pop (Walker Art Center, et. al. 2015), Errós art has often been contextualized as part of an international generation of Pop artists, who incorporated icons of mass culture into their art to move away from midcentury abstraction and toward cultural meditation and critique. Often affecting the bombastic enthusiasm and stimulation overload of advertising as the dominant mode of his own work, Erró boldly inserted his art into the emergent circuits and iconographies of television, film, advertising, comics, ... More |
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 Exhibition explores connections between the Cold War space race and technological accelerationNEW YORK, NY.- The New Schools Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Vera List Center for Art and Politics in conjunction with Urban Glass, presents And, Apollo, a work in progress by artist Dean Erdmann that combines experimental documentary, video, and sculpture to connect autobiography to historical pasts. The exhibition is on view at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of The New School from January 16 - February 11, 2020. Erdmann has been developing And, Apollo, which ties personal narrative to current moments of social and political crisis, as a 2018-2020 Fellow at Vera List Center for Arts and Politics. The narrative of the exhibition is anchored in the Mojave Desert, the place where the artist grew up and the background for their ongoing exploration of Americana, the body, and queerness. "The Vera List Center is proud to have supported ... More Tony Lewis presents a new body of work at Massimo De CarloMILAN.- Massimo De Carlo is presenting The Dangers (As Far As I Can See) - Tony Lewis first exhibition in the gallery in Palazzo Belgioioso in Milan. Tony Lewis practice focuses on the convergence of semiotics, abstraction and drawing: graphite pencil and paper are the mediums the artist uses to trace and create linguistic narratives and reflections on gestural expression. For this exhibition, the artist is presenting a new body of work that is composed of a series of drawings, seemingly simple abstractions, which conceal intricate narratives, based on a nine-year examination of William F. Buckley Jr.s argument from his famous 1965 debate with James Baldwin. The Debate between the author and literary ambassador for American civil rights Baldwin and one of The Godfathers of modern American conservatism Buckley, which took place at the Cambridge ... More Jury announced for John Moores Painting Prize 2020LIVERPOOL.- National Museums Liverpool has announced the jury for the John Moores Painting Prize 2020, ahead of the call for entries opening from 17 February until 24 March 2020. The competition, held at the Walker Art Gallery, has celebrated the very best in modern and contemporary painting for more than 60 years. This year, it is also set to launch a new Emerging Artist Prize. A combined total of almost £40,000 will be distributed across seven prizes, with the first prize winner collecting £25,000 and having a solo display at the Walker Art Gallery. The paintings are judged anonymously, with the biennial competition regularly attracting several thousand entries. In addition to selecting the prizewinning works, the jurors decide which paintings will be exhibited in the John Moores Painting Prize 2020 exhibition, which takes place at the Walker ... More Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens Ann Veronica Janssens's first major exhibition in ScandinaviaHUMLEBÃK.- The year 2020 at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art begins with a presentation of Belgiums greatest living artist, Ann Veronica Janssens. During the darkest months of the year the public will have access to works in which the light is the bearing element. The exhibition HOT PINK TURQUOISE takes over the South Wing of the Museum, giving Janssens her first major exhibition in Scandinavia. Over the last few years, many visitors to Louisiana have paused in front of a mesmerizing gleam of gold in the surface of an aquarium. On scrutiny, they have realized that the artist is playing with our sensory perception, such that we do not quite understand how what we see has been produced. The artist is Belgian Ann Veronica Janssens (b. 1956), and this jewel of contemporary art could be more well known. Janssens art is fundamentally experimental ... More SculptureCenter commissions large-scale modular installation by Rafael Domenech LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- For his new commission at SculptureCenter, Rafael Domenech created a large-scale modular installation in the ground floor gallery. Responding to the conditions of the exhibition space as a former trolley repair shop, Domenech uses the buildings existing structure, in particular the tracks of an industrial gantry system, as a machine to produce and facilitate the work. Working with materials typically destined for construction sites, the work engages with the urban vernacular of the rapidly growing neighborhood of Long Island City. Depending on the time and purpose of encounter with Domenechs exhibition, the installation functions simultaneously at multiple levels: as a sculpture, a decentered architectural model, a pavilion, and a venue for public programs and gatherings. As such, the work acknowledges the varied possibilities ... More Kasmin opens its first solo exhibition of work by sculptor Alma AllenNEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting its first solo exhibition of work by sculptor Alma Allen (b. 1970, USA.) The presentation brings together 12 large-scale works realized in bronze, wood, and stone. Responding to the architecture of the gallery, Allen demonstrates unprecedented ambition in the works scale. Included in the exhibition is his tallest sculpture to datea bronze measuring approximately 16 feet at its highest point. A career-spanning monograph published by Rizzoli Electa and organized by Kasmin and Blum & Poe, who also represent the artist, will include text from Douglas Fogle and Glenn Adamson, and is due for publication in Spring 2020. Psychologically charged and compulsively expressive, Alma Allens works evoke a curiosity regarding the life of objects and the ways in which form and material can circumnavigate the utility ... More Gaultier's 'children' are happy for himPARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In the hours after model Coco Rocha danced an Irish jig on the runway Wednesday night, several people approached her to compliment the performance. Some seemed surprised she could dance like that, which in turn surprised Rocha. I guess they werent there for the first one, the 31-year-old Canadian model said. Thirteen years ago, she introduced her jig at Jean Paul Gaultiers fall 2007 runway show. She was already a rising star, but her long-limbed high kicks became a viral fashion moment pre-Instagram, when viral fashion moments werent just discharged into an infinite stream. A few months ago, Rocha said, Gaultier asked her to perform the jig again at his couture presentation in January, in honor of his 50th year in fashion. She didnt realize then that Gaultier was planning it as his final show. ... More Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup takes over Gammel HoltegaardCOPENHAGEN.- Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup takes over Gammel Holtegaard with the largest exhibition of his photographic works to date. Stub Wittrups works focus on phenomena that cannot actually be photographed, questioning what we think we see and reminding us that there is more to life than we can register, understand and explain. At first glance Ebbe Stub Wittrups photographic works are sharp and highly aesthetic. Echoing documentary photography, they depict something we can see with the naked eye devils bridges in Southern Europe, a grasshopper on a blade of grass, or the branches of a pine swaying in the wind. But there is more to his images than meets the eye. In the series Devils Bridges (2009-2016), for example, the artist photographs 16 of these bridges in mountainous Southern Europe. Medieval arched stone structures, ... More Cassi Namoda's first European solo exhibition opens at Pippy Houldsworth GalleryLONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Little is Enough For Those in Love, Cassi Namodas first European solo exhibition running from 24 January to 7 March 2020. Taking its title from an East African proverb, the exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo, the artists birthplace and home for several years. Veering between the polarities of joy and pain, Namoda foregrounds individual human experience alongside observations about life in a post-colonial, post-communist society. Namoda, who travels constantly and has no fixed studio, grew up between Mozambique, Haiti and the United States. She incorporates the fluidity created by this mixed cultural and racial identity into her artistic practice, reflecting a sense of flux in the very composition of her paintings. Each work is made up of images ... More Multimedia exhibition by UK-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu opens at PEERLONDON.- PEER opened a multimedia exhibition by UK-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu (b.1975) including up to ten new film projections alongside other work. Samson Kambalu: Postcards from the Last Century opened on 24 January and runs until 28 March 2020. Admission is free. Samson Kambalus approach to making art is akin to his approach to life I think about life as a creative project he says. This ethos is derived from his knowledge of 19th and 20th century Western philosophical thought, richly blended with and viewed through a lens of multiple and merging belief systems as experienced during his youth. The films presented at PEER were shot during Kambalus recent research trip to the Black Forest in Bavaria, visiting Heideggers Hut and Bayreuth, the home of Wagnerian opera. His films have the look of found footage from ... More Julia Stoschek Collection opens Meriem Bennani's first solo exhibition in GermanyBERLIN.- Meriem Bennanis first solo exhibition in Germany presents Party on the CAPS (2018), an eight-channel video installation exploring displacement, resilience, and the relationship between identity and place. Conceived as a documentary set in a speculative future about daily life on CAPS, an island turned megacity in the middle of the Atlantic, where migrants are detained, the work amplifies reality through special effects and humor. Bennani, a Moroccan artist based in New York, conceptualized CAPS in 2017 while researching subatomic teleportation and in response to Donald Trumps US travel ban. The work offers an acute political commentary on Western immigration and surveillance policies, summoning a dystopian reality only slightly different from our own. In the work, Bennani also pays tribute to difference and hybridity by resisting essentialist ... More Fraenkel Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Sophie CalleSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting Sophie Calle: Because, an exhibition of new works on view for the first time in the U.S. In each piece, a felt curtain embroidered with Calles writing conceals a hidden photograph behind it. In presenting viewers with the text before the picture, Calle upends the usual order in which images are read, creating a poetic surprise or puzzle. The exhibition is Calles fourth at Fraenkel Gallery and is on view from January 23 to March 21, 2020. For almost forty years, Calle has made work that exposes intimate experience to public view, using still images, video, film, books, performance and text. Her work has often drawn from difficult moments in her personal life. In the process of turning these experiences into art, they somehow become a type of fiction, she has said. Because is part of Calles ongoing exploration ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Théodore Géricault died January 26, 1824. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this imag: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820-21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm
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