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Pepón Osorios No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop (En la barberÃa no se llora), 1994, on display at the New Museum in New York, July 11, 2023. At the New Museum, Pepón Osorios exhilarating assemblages and installations hold a mirror up to Latino communities and reflect his experiences in Puerto Rico and New York. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- My mother used to be a baker. My work consists of pouring out knowledge which I gained in the midst of my family. They are very creative people. They used to bake some incredible productions: fountains sugar dolls oceans. So said Puerto Rican-born artist Pepón Osorio, in an interview in 1991, about the earliest sources of his work. That was the beginning of his understanding of how to surprise people and be generous in making of things, he said recently. And oceans of objects, colors, ideas and emotions are what you get in the drenching, exhilarating tsunami of a 30-year survey that fills the second floor of the New Museum in Manhattan. The show, Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, his largest to date anywhere, isnt a full career retrospective. It begins in 1993, by which time the artist had already been making significant work, and concludes with a project still in process. But it captures Oso ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 13 July, at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome, "Portraits. Women of art and science", a photographic exhibition dedicated to the faces, careers and merits of Italian women who have conquered leading roles in the fields of science and cultural heritage.
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| Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition of Werner Büttner's work | | They know the blessing and curse of Warhol and Basquiat | | Visitors are briefly trapped at former home of Agatha Christie |
Werner Büttner, Das war's dann also, 1998, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm.; 59 x 47 1/4 in. © Werner Büttner, courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris | London, photo: def image.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Malerei 19812022, a solo exhibition of Werner Büttners work at BleibtreustraÃe 45 and 15/16 in Berlin. This is the artist's tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Absurdity, irony and ambivalence play a central role in Werner Büttner's paintings, which gained recognition in the late 1970s under the term Bad Painting. Motifs of classical modernism are reworked, sometimes with the help of linguistic elements, and thus become unflinching commentaries on society and the broader condition humaine. The generation before us the conceptual artists had declared painting as an outdated, bourgeois medium to be abolished. This prohibition had to be broken by us descendants, out of defiance, for distinction, and because the laws of generation demand it. And so, in juvenile presumption, I took hold of almost all known categories of painting still lifes, self- ... More | |
Postcard collage from David Whitney to Brigid Berlin, 1970, 6 x 4 1/3 inches (15.24 x 11.01 cm); Collection of Jordan and Kathleen Pike.
NEW YORK, NY.- For many of the ambitious young people who circled Andy Warhol, the enigmatic pop artist opened otherwise inaccessible doors but also cast an inescapable shadow. Last month, photographer Paige Powell, a longtime close pal of Warhols, put a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from her collection up for sale at Art Basel. Powell, who returned to her native Oregon in 1994, is still defined by her time in New York, where she arrived in late 1980. She started selling ads for Warhols Interview magazine a few months later. There, she met Basquiat and was his girlfriend for a little more than a year. In her photographs, Powell captured a fabled New York of the 80s, at a time when, because of her connections, she had front-row access to the leading artists and scene makers. Her photographs are included in a Basquiat-Warhol exhibition this year at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and in a group show that has just opened ... More | |
Greenway in Devon, Christie's summer home from 1938. The estate was used as a setting for some of her plots, including Dead Man's Folly. The final episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot was also filmed here in 2013. Photo: Wikipedia.org
by Jesus Jiménez
NEW YORK, NY.- In And Then There Were None, the classic novel by Agatha Christie, 10 people are invited to a mansion on a remote island, cut off from the rest of the world. A mystery follows. Life somewhat imitated art Friday when a large tree fell onto a single-track road in the southwestern coastal town of Brixham in Britain, trapping several people for a few hours at Greenway House, the former holiday home of Christie, the author of dozens of bestselling mystery novels who died in 1976. The National Trust, the conservation nonprofit that oversees Greenway House, said in a statement Friday that the fallen tree was blocking any traffic entering or exiting the area. We are working closely with police and highways to get this resolved ... More |
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| New York's Public Theater lays off 19% of its staff | | Saatchi Gallery announces exhibition of works by Ukranian artist Maria Prymachenko | | Rare prayer book owned by priest who helped save the life of King Charles II goes on public display |
The Public Theater in New York, July 28, 2019. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK, NY.- The Public Theater, one of the nations most prestigious and successful nonprofit theaters, laid off 19% of its staff Thursday as a financial crisis sweeps across the field. The move, which cost about 50 people their jobs, followed a 13% layoff at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a 10% layoff at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. The Public, headquartered in lower Manhattan and presenting work primarily off-Broadway, is by almost any measure a titan among nonprofit theaters the birthplace of A Chorus Line and Hamilton, the originator and presenter of Free Shakespeare in the Park, and a creative anchor for some of the nations most influential dramatists. But the theater, like many others, is suffering from the combined effects of falling revenue and rising costs. ... More | |
Flowers with birds, 1987 by Maria Prymachenko. Saatchi Gallery, London presents Maria Prymachenko.
LONDON.- Since 14 July, Saatchi Gallery is showcasing the works of the late Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko (1908 1997). 23 artworks by Maria Prymachenko to be exhibited in the UK for the first time. Created in conjunction with the Prymachenko Family Foundation and the Embassy of Ukraine. Maria Prymachenko (1908 1997) is one of the countrys best-loved artists. These works will be shown in the UK for the first time, having been preserved by the artists family for more than fifty years. The Ukrainian museum where many of Prymachenkos artworks were previously held was destroyed when Russian forces occupied the local village. Though concerned locals rescued some of her paintings from the blazing museum, it is now only possible to encounter Prymachenkos work through exhibitions like this one. At a time when sharing and amplifying Ukrainian artistic voices has ... More | |
Inside Father Huddleston's missal © National Trust Images/ James Dobson.
WOLVERHAMPTON.- A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helped save the life of King Charles II, has gone on public display after being bought for the nation by the National Trust. Father John Huddlestons (1608 1698) personal missal can now be viewed at Moseley Old Hall, near Wolverhampton, the house where he was Chaplain when Charles sought refuge after escaping Cromwells troops following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The book, bearing Fr Huddlestons signature, was purchased by the conservation charity at auction thanks to a generous donation from a volunteer and support from the Friends of the National Libraries. The successful bid means this important piece of history has been saved for the nation and has returned to Moseley permanently, some 363 years since it was first there. Published in Paris in 1623, the r ... More |
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| New Director for the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College | | RR Auction's Olympic Sale featuring items from 1896 to 2022 winter games now underway | | 'Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective' opens at Southern Utah Museum of Art |
Erin M. Curtis, the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery.
CLAREMONT, CA.- Scripps College appointed Erin M. Curtis to serve as the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, which became effective on July 10th. Curtis assumes the role following the retirement of Mary Davis MacNaughton, who served in the position for 36 years. We are thrilled that Erin will be joining the Williamson Gallery and look forward to implementing her new and creative vision, said Kirk Delman, the gallerys interim director. We are confident that her leadership will help the gallery flourish and amplify its impact on our students. A Los Angeles-based curator and historian, Curtis previously served as a curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park. She also served as the senior curator at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and as an assistant curator at the Skirball Cultural Center. She has curated numerous exhibitions throughout her career, including ... More | |
Rare and magnificent 'Chain of Honour' worn by IOC members at the 1936 Games.
BOSTON, MA.- RR Auction, a leading auction house specializing in collectibles and historical artifacts, is announced its highly anticipated Semi-Annual Olympic Sale, featuring nearly 400 exceptional lots. Practically every Olympiad is represented in the auctionfrom the first Modern Games in 1896 to the recent Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. This Olympic sale presents a remarkable opportunity for enthusiasts to acquire a diverse assortment of items, including winner's medals, relay torches, pins, badges, and rare ephemera, showcasing the rich history of the Olympic movement. Among the standout highlights are several exceptional pieces that are certain to attract considerable attention. One such rarity is the super rare Grenoble 1968 Winter Olympics relay torch. This torch holds immense historical significance as one of just 33 ever manufactured by the esteemed Société Technique d'Equipement et de Fournitures ... More | |
Installation View, Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective at Southern Utah Museum of Art.
CEDAR CITY, UTAH.- Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) is currently hosting the third stop in the traveling exhibition, Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective, on view through September 23. Lennart Anderson (U.S., 1928-2015) was an American painter renowned for his mastery of tone, color and composition, place of high regard within the artistic community, and teaching career that deeply influenced future generations of painters, including guest curator Randall Cabe. This is the first major survey of the esteemed artist's work since his death, and the exhibition at SUMA features 56 works of art spanning a period of over seven decades. When I have spoken to former students about Lennarts pedagogic approach, they describe it as both tender and uncompromising, expecting from his students the same high standards that guided his own practice, said Jessica Kinsey, SUMA Executive Director. His legacy ... More |
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| CHANEL becomes M+'s major partner and supports lead curatorial position on M+'s moving image programmes | | UCCA Dune presents "Haunted Water", Monira Al Qadiri's first institutional solo exhibition in China | | 'T' Space opens an exhibition of works by Ann Hamilton |
Yana Peel, Global Head of Arts & Culture, CHANEL. Courtesy of CHANEL.
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce a three-year partnership with CHANEL. CHANEL is M+s Major Partner and will support a lead curatorial positiontitled CHANEL Lead Curator, Moving Imageto enhance M+s moving image programmes. This exciting collaboration marks CHANELs first-ever partnership with a cultural institution in Hong Kong. It demonstrates both parties commitment to empower creative and critical thinking, contributing to the development of moving image in Asia and beyond. Building upon the century of cultural patronage at the House, CHANEL has partnered with leading institutions worldwide to present innovative cultural programmes that inspire creativity, advance the new and the next, and activate history to inspire future ... More | |
Monira Al Qadiri, Gastromancer, 2022. Installation view, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2023. Photograph by Markus Tretter, courtesy the artist. © Monira Al Qadiri, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BEIDAIHE.- Since July 9 to October 8, 2023, UCCA Dune has been presenting Monira Al Qadiri: Haunted Water. Monira Al Qadiris (b. 1983, Dakar) practice is a deep dive into petro-cultures and their possible futures, gender performance, and the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle East. Spanning video, sculpture, and installation, Haunted Water offers a comprehensive overview of the artists work in recent years, along with four new pieces commissioned by UCCA. Throughout, Al Qadiri investigates how the oil industry has transformed her home country of Kuwait and the broader Gulf Region, and as well as the impact these large-scale environmental and economic changes have had on social relations and local lives. The exhibition also touches upon traditions related to pearl ... More | |
Ann Hamilton.
RHINEBACK, NY.- T Space is opening 'as after is before', a multimedia installation by visual artist, Ann Hamilton. This exhibition will run from July 16 - August 20 at T Space Rhinebeck. Ann Hamilton, recognized for the sensory surround of her large-scale installations, performance collaborations, print projects, and public works makes work responsive to the architectures and social histories of the sites where they are made. Working with cloth, texts spoken and written, animals and people, her installations often weave relationships between language and material-based experiences. Hamiltons project at T Space will be the artists first exhibition in the New York area since her acclaimed 2012 Park Avenue Armory project: the event of a thread, and the opening of CHORUS, a permanent public project for the MTA Art in Transit program at WTC/Cortlandt Station in 2018. The alphabetic footprint of T& ... More |
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Hilma af Klint's Tree of Knowledge interpreted by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo | PROGRAM
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Paul Stephen Benjamin currently exhibiting 'Black Summer' at Efraín López
NEW YORK, NY.- EfraÃn López proudly presents its inaugural exhibition, Black Summer, a solo presentation by Atlanta-based artist Paul Stephen Benjamin. This marks Benjamins first solo exhibition with the gallery. Benjamins interdisciplinary practice consists of painting, sculpture, video, and photography. Throughout his practice, the artists work functions to reference integral moments in Black history as well as art history. While spotlighting multiple iconographies, materials, and mediums, he creates multi-layered works that operate through questions surrounding abstraction. Benjamin's work burgeons from a place of lived experience to contend with the contradictory and prepossessing realities of existence. While creating works that speak to moments in history, the artist focuses on material culture and research to develop a balance between concept and aesthetics. ... More
Interdisciplinary artist Robert Zhao and curator Haeju Kim to represent Singapore at La Biennale Di Venezia
SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Museum (SAM) has announced the appointment of Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui and curator Haeju Kim as the artistic team for the Singapore Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Arte 2024), which will run from 20 April to 24 November 2024. Recognising the museums expertise as a leading contemporary art institution in Southeast Asia, SAM has been commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC) to organise the Singapore Pavilion for this edition. The selection process for the artist for the 11th Singapore Pavilion involved a Commissioning Panel composed of representatives from the arts community. The Panel assessed the course of the artists research, practice and experiences through their careers, and also conducted artist studio visits as ... More
The strangest trees grow in East Hampton
NEW YORK, NY.- The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesnt look like much. Its still a callow sapling, a flurry of bright green leaves on a spindly 6-foot trunk. But in 20 years or so, this American sycamore will be a formidable presence at the Folly Tree Arboretum, an unusual collection of some 250 trees planted by Tucker Marder, a 33-year-old artist, on 5 acres of his familys land in East Hampton, New York. Arboretums, loosely defined, are public parks dedicated to a wide range of trees and shrubs. The word roughly translates from the Latin as a place to grow trees, and some arboretums are devoted to a single type, like conifers or fruit trees. This arboretum is devoted to stories Marder describes it as a cultural archive of environmental storytelling and its as much an art project as a horticultural adventure ... More
Evelyn Hofer first UK solo exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery currently on view
LONDON.- What happened to your first online game, website, social platform or virtual world? Our everyday lives have been digitised and scattered through different spaces since the internet was created. Opening on 23 June 2023 the 20th anniversary of virtual world Second Life Between Worlds examines the digital folklore created by online communities and worlds. The social exchanges, digital artefacts and politics that inform our current experiences of online life are all explored in the exhibition. Many virtual worlds like Second Life and PlayStation Home have been created and inhabited online, bringing close-knit user communities together. Second Life is a rarity to still be active many virtual worlds appear and disappear within a few years. The end of many of these worlds, often linked to profits, have been marked by end of the world ... More
Sharon Norwood and Sheldon Scott open exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Projects
BROOKLYN, NY.- And the Living is Easy is a presentation of works by multidisciplinary artists Sharon Norwood and Sheldon Scott. Both artists explore ideas around leisure, creating objects that remind the viewer of the ways in which we delight in creature comforts imbued with history and an intimate relationship to the body and the radicality of rest. The title is an adaptation of a lyric from the song Summertime from the opera Porgy and Bess (1935). The opera is set in Charleston, South Carolina in a community of Gullah Geechee peoples. Those who identify as Gullah Geechee are part of a maroon culture whose ancestry can be traced to West Africa and a history of resistance to institutional slavery in the U.S. sea islands. By contrast, the lyrics and music for Summertime are romantic; evocative of the hazy and languid summer months in the Deep South. Sharon Norwood (lives and works in Savannah, Georgia) works across disciplines including ceramics, drawing, installation, fiber arts, and sculpture. The s ... More
André Watts, pioneering piano virtuoso, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- André Watts, a pianist whose mighty technique and magnetic charm awed audiences and made him one of the first Black superstars in classical music, died Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. He was 77. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Joan Brand Watts. Watts was an old-world virtuoso his idol was composer and showman Franz Liszt with a knack for electricity and emotion. He sometimes hummed, stomped his feet and bobbed his head while he played, and some critics faulted him for excess. But his charisma and his technical powers were unquestioned, which helped fuel his rise to the worlds top concert halls. My greatest satisfaction is performing, Watts told The New York Times in 1971, when he was 25. The ego is a big part of it, but far from all. Performing is my way of being part of humanity of sharing. Theres something beautiful, he ... More
Actors picket from coast to coast as strike gets underway
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It was 10 a.m. Adoring union members had already more or less mobbed their president, Fran Drescher, and the crowd was growing by the minute. Outside Netflix offices in Hollywood, a festive, buoyant mood had taken over the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue. It was a workers strike, to be sure. But as smiling protesters eagerly joined in chants and waved their picket signs, it felt a little like a summer Friday street party one with a few famous guests. Were told that we should just be so grateful to get to do what we love to do but not being compensated, not being protected, while they are profiting off of our work, said Amanda Crew from HBOs Silicon Valley, who walked the picket line with Dustin Milligan from Schitts Creek. Thats the myth of the actor: Youre doing art, so you should just be so grateful because ... More
A French music maker lost his voice. A comedian helped get it back.
GAILLAC.- Guilhem Gallart used to speak with a thick, southern French accent, his voice deep and slightly nasal, topped by a faint lisp. Then, in 2015, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, an incurable neurological disease that slowly paralyzed his muscles from head to toe, leaving him bedridden and forcing him to use a voice-synthesizing computer program to speak. Now his family jokes with him that he sounds like a GPS device. His wife and two daughters, Gallart said, sometimes call his old cellphone number just to hear his voicemail greeting. Losing his distinctive voice, he said, has felt like surrendering an essential part of himself, as sound has been his lifes passion. Better known as Pone, he is a music producer and beatmaker who once belonged to one of Frances most popular old-school rap groups, the Fonky Family. In a bid to recapture his signatur ... More
Louis Langrée wraps up a quietly transformative era of conducting
CINCINNATI, OH.- Rehearsals led by the conductor Louis Langrée tend to follow a trajectory. Early on, he speaks poetically and tells stories; during preparations for a May concert with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he is the music director, he explained Saint-Saëns with references to the Kyrie of a Mass and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. But then his language becomes technical and specific; that day, broad explanations of mood gave way to meticulous balance and bowing as the playing took shape like an increasingly detailed, fine sculpture. Langrée wasnt afraid, at that point, to repeat a phrase until it was right. Musicians are capable of understanding a direction when its given to them, he said in an interview later, but they need to feel it, physically. The result is often an interpretation rich in specificity and color, to a degree ... More
My unexpected love affair with 'Notre Dame de Paris'
NEW YORK, NY.- It seemed as if nothing would ever displace The Phantom of the Opera as my most-viewed musical. And then, Notre Dame de Paris happened. The 1998 French musical, which is based on Victor Hugos epic 19th-century novel (as is the 1996 Disney animated adaptation), made its New York premiere last summer at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. I saw it twice then and, when it returned this summer, two more times; a fifth viewing is planned for Sundays closing performance in New York. And Im not done: While in Paris this fall, Ill see it twice at its original theater, the Palais des Congrès, for its 25th anniversary. As an avid theatergoer, I rarely go to the same production twice. (A recent exception was the Broadway revival of A Dolls House, starring Jessica Chastain in a bewitching, minimalist march to self-discovery.) And after initially seeing Notre Dame ... More
Rick Froberg, singer of artful intensity, is dead at 55
NEW YORK, NY.- Rick Froberg, the vocalist and guitarist best known for his work with the influential 1990s post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, whose urgent howl was one of rocks most distinctive voices, died on June 30 in San Diego. He was 55. His partner, Britton Neubacher, said the cause was an undiagnosed heart condition. Froberg, a beloved linchpin of the San Diego underground music scene that flourished in the 1980s and 90s, sang in a raspy roar that segued smoothly between snarl and scream. He always wanted to effortlessly sound kick-ass, said John Reis, Frobergs longtime bandmate and songwriting partner in the bands Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes. Froberg particularly loved the gnarled growls of Australian vocalists Bon Scott of AC/DC his favorite band and Chris Bailey of the proto-punk Saints, and he strived ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joshua Reynolds was born July 16, 1723. Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. In this image: Portrait of Dr John Ash' by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1788) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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