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Maurizio Cattelan, Blind, 2021. Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2021. Resin, wood, steel, aluminum, polystyrene, paint, 1,695 x 1,300 x 1,195 cm. Produced by Marian Goodman Gallery and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo: Agostino Osio.
by Matt Stevens
MILAN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has seldom shied from creating works that raise eyebrows. He is, after all, the person responsible for that $120,000 banana, and the popular, highly symbolic gold toilet that went missing in 2019. In his latest solo exhibition, unveiled Wednesday at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Cattelan has set out to deal with less irreverent, more existential themes such as the fragility of life, memory, and collective loss. But his work remains provocative as ever: The third part of his exhibit, Breath Ghosts Blind, is a hulking resin monolith being pierced all the way through by an airplane a visceral and graphic reminder of 9/11 from a man who was in New York that day. Blind is something Ive been thinking about for years, Cattelan said, according to a transcript of an interview that will soon be published in the catalog of the exhibition. I had to walk home from LaGuardia, which took hours, and the things I ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Members of the Municipality of Lima, work in the place where the remains of a 17th century chapel belonging to the Dominican order were found in Lima on July 13, 2021. Ernesto BENAVIDES / AFP
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| As New York reopens, it looks for culture to lead the way | | Gore queen Julia Ducournau wins Cannes top prize | | Internationally renowned expert on Dutch ceramics Ella Schaap dies at age 108 | 
People inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is projecting a $150 million loss in revenue due to the pandemic, in New York on July 10, 2021. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson, Ben Sisario and Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Broadway is planning to start performances of at least three dozen shows before the end of the year, but producers do not know if there will be enough tourists who typically make up two-thirds of the audience to support all of them. The Metropolitan Opera is planning a September return, but only if its musicians agree to pay cuts. And New Yorks vaunted nightlife scene the dance clubs and live venues that give the city its reputation for never sleeping has been stymied by the slow, glitchy rollout of a federal aid program that mistakenly declared some of the citys best-known nightclub impresarios to be dead. The return of arts and entertainment is crucial to New Yorks economy, and not just because it is a major industry that employed some 93,500 people before the pandemic and ... More | | 
French director Julia Ducournau poses on stage with her trophy after she won the Palme d'Or for her film "Titane" during the closing ceremony of the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 17, 2021. Valery HACHE / AFP.
CANNES (AFP).- French film director Julia Ducournau, who on Saturday won the Cannes festival's top prize for "Titane", developed a taste for skin-crawling bodily transformations early on in life thanks to her parents, both doctors. Exploding into the spotlight at just 34 with her debut feature film "Raw", Ducournau quickly established herself as a singular and audacious filmmaker. The coming-of-age tale with a gory twist, featuring a teenage vegetarian who finds she likes human flesh and blood, brought critics close to fainting when it was shown at the 2016 Cannes festival. The impact of "Titane", about a young woman who has sex with cars and kills without a care, was much the same, with critics shielding their eyes during several scenes. Getting a horror film short-listed for the top prize at Cannes was in itself a success, she told AFP ... More | | 
Ella Schaap (middle), Mary Anne Dutt Justice, curator of European ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (right) and Robert D. Aronson (left) in 2016.
AMSTERDAM.- On Saturday July 10th, a mere 3 days after her extraordinary 108th birthday, Mrs. Ella Schaap passed away. Mrs. Schaap was connected to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for no less than 56 years, as a volunteer and from the age of 92 as a Curatorial Associate in the field of European Ceramics. She published several titles amongst which Three Delft Pieces in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1967), Dutch tiles [
] (1984), Dutch floral tiles in the golden age and their Botanical prints (1994) and Delft ceramics [
] (2003). Mrs. Schaap was a turn-to authority when researching Delftware and specifically Dutch tiles. She was awarded a royal decoration by HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 2003 for her dedication to spreading awareness of Dutch ceramics in United States. Ella was not only a friend, she was a scholar, an authority, a great specialist in the field of Dutch ceramics, a stable factor and a staple of our little but global ... More |
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| New Getty exhibitions explore modern and contemporary landscape photography | | Exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art highlights important early works by Roy De Forest | | Exhibition at Blum & Poe presents two new bodies of work by Pia Camil | 
Mario Giacomelli (Italian, 1925 - 2000), Young Priests, No. 71, negative 1961 - 1963; print, 1981. Gelatin silver print, 40.3 à 30.1 cm (15 7/8 à 11 7/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Reproduced courtesy Mario Giacomelli Archive © Rita and Simone Giacomelli, 2016.179.6.5.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Known for his gritty, black-and-white images, Mario Giacomelli is recognized as one of the foremost Italian photographers of the 20th century. Drawn from the Getty Museums deep holdings, the exhibition Mario Giacomelli: Figure|Ground features 91 photographs that showcase the raw expressiveness of the artists style, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Daniel Greenberg (1941-2021) and was made possible through generous gifts from him and his wife, Susan Steinhauser. As photography collectors for more than two decades and founding members of the Getty Museum Photographs Council, Greenberg ... More | | 
Roy De Forest, The Young Napoleon, 1962-63. Wood with acrylic and polyvinyl acetate, 33 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 6 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art is presenting Roy De Forest: Selected Works, a focus exhibition highlighting works by this renowned Bay Area artist. Featuring an early painting, a rare construction from the 1960s, and works on paper, the exhibition highlights important early works by Roy De Forest (1930-2007) as well as the brightly colored, folk-like landscapes with figures and animals for which he is famous. The exhibition will be on view through August 28, 2021. Recognized as one of the most original painters of his generation, Roy De Forest's unique and beloved viewpoint can be seen in the selection of works in the exhibit. The Giant Dogs Dilemma (1970) is a significant painting marking De Forests transition from his abstracted aerial landscape paintings of the 1960s to the celebrated pictorial landscapes of his mature work. In it we see a silhouetted figure inside of a log cabin ... More | | 
Pia Camil, Nudo 3, 2021. Ink, oil stick, and clay on paper, 37 x 25 1/2 inches © Pia Camil, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting Nidos y Nudos / Nests & Knots, Mexico City-based artist Pia Camils third solo presentation with the gallery. Pia Camils work takes a critical approach to modernism's legacy, exploring themes such as US-Mexico relations, the politics of consumerism, and the invisibility of feminized labor, often articulated through imagery from the Mexican urban landscape. Recently with emphasis on the importance of collectivity through public participation, she explores these territories through performance, painting, installation, sculpture, and film. Camils latest exhibition, Nidos y Nudos, was created during a pandemic-prompted uprooting from Mexico City to the rural countryside. Precipitated by the stark contrast between one environment and the next, Camil spent the last year looking to nature for lessons in collective intelligence and the building of symbiotic ... More |
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| Allan Reiver, who built a little urban oasis in New York, dies at 78 | | Exhibition presents Maya artworks recently discovered by archaeologists | | Cannes breakout star Renate Reinsve wins best actress | 
Allan Reiver, owner of the Elizabeth Street Gallery, sits for a portrait in his New York gallery on March 6, 2019. Dave Sanders/The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Allan Reiver, who in 1990 salvaged an abandoned lot in the New York City neighborhood of Little Italy and transformed it into the tiny urban oasis now called Elizabeth Street Garden, which for nearly a decade has been locked in a contentious battle with the city for its survival, died May 17 at a rehabilitation facility in Manhattan. He was 78. His son, Joseph, said the cause was cardiac arrest. His death was not widely reported at the time. Well before Reiver became the long-white-haired steward of Elizabeth Street Garden, he was known for having an eye that saw things others couldnt. In the 1970s, he was an antiques dealer in Denver who specialized in collecting artifacts such as gargoyles and stained-glass windows from historic buildings that were set to be demolished. He then became a real estate developer and made a name for himself for his ability to spot opportunities in run-down neighborhoods. In his 40s, Reiver ... More | | 
Detail of jaguar and coatimundi way on Cylinder Vase with Animal Figures, Belize, AD 650750, earthenware and mineral paint, 7.5 x 6.7 in. (19 x 17 cm), L.27/189-9:267. Image: The Mopan Valley Archaeology Project, Bernadette Cap.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Nature, Power, and Maya Royals, an exhibition of thirty-four artworks and objects discovered by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers in two royal Maya burials at the ancient city of Buenavista del Cayo, Belize, is now on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art. This exhibition is the first time the selection of works will appear for public viewing. This exhibition is an exciting collaboration between UTSA, SAMA, and the Belize Institute of Archaeology. Finely painted ceramic vessels that display kings and symbols of authority as well as shell pendants, earrings, and bracelets worn by a king were found in 2014 and 2019 by a team of UTSA archaeologists led by Jason Yaeger, Presidents Endowed Professor of Anthropology at UTSA and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. The objects in the exhibition are priceless to us and to the government of Belize for what they tell us about the a ... More | | 
Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve poses with her trophy during a photocall after she was awarded with the Best Actress Prize for her part in the film "Verdens Verste Menneske" (The Worst Person In The World)" during the closing ceremony of the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 17, 2021. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
by Fiachra Gibbons
CANNES (AFP).- If you blinked you will have missed Renate Reinsve's movie career until she became the undisputed breakout star of the Cannes film festival, taking home the best actress award on Saturday. At 33 the Norwegian actress was at an age many in her shoes start thinking about another career, and that they really should have listened to their parents. Until the premiere of "The Worst Person in the World" the highlight of Reinsve's time on the big screen amounted to just one minute 10 years ago. That minute however was in Joachim Trier's "Oslo, August 31st", and the rising Nordic director could not get her out of his head. "I always wondered why the hell is Norwegian film so messed up that she hasn't had a star role yet?" Trier told AFP. "It's so stupid I thought let's make ... More |
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| The Box, Plymouth announces new public art commission by Camille Walala | | Baltimore Museum of Art opens 'Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest' | | BASTIAN exhibits Jean Dubuffet's brightly coloured and wonderfully exuberant work, 'Site avec 5 personnages' | 
Camille Walala's 'Putting Things In Perspective' outside The Box in Plymouth. Photo: Dom Moore.
PLYMOUTH.- Plymouths highly acclaimed new museum, art gallery and archive announced a new public art commission by internationally renowned artist Camille Walala. The commission, which is curated by Alter-Projects, is a major highlight of The Boxs summer 2021 programme. It forms part of a series of events and activations designed to bring its newly created public square, Tavistock Place to life for the very first time. On display from 15 July until 5 September, Putting Things In Perspective, Camille Walalas new temporary installation outside The Box plays with plane and perspective, existing somewhere between 2D and 3D in the manner of a trompe-lil. This free-standing sculptural work measures approximately 6m long by 2.5m wide and 2m high. The commission forms part of The Boxs inaugural Making It exhibition which explores the labour-intensive process ... More | | 
Sarah Choate Sears. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. published 1907. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Cary Ross. BMA 2007.170.19
BALTIMORE, MD.- From the heroines of ancient myth to the female trailblazers of the modern era, centuries of independent and rebellious women have been trivialized or condemned through the degrading myths and gendered stereotypes perpetuated in printed imagery. From July 18December 19, 2021, the Baltimore Museum of Art presents an exhibition that captures visual representations of independent, defiant, and sometimes misunderstood women and explores the role of European and American art in both continuing their condemnation and celebrating their achievements. Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest features over 75 prints, photographs, and books from the Renaissance to the early 20th century drawn from the BMAs vast works on paper collection and supplemented with loans ... More | | 
Jean Dubuffet, Site avec 5 personnages [Site with 5 characters] , 8.8.1981 (detail). Acrylic on paper on canvas, 50 x 57 cm.
LONDON.- BASTIAN have announced Sommergäste, a new summer series of single work spotlight exhibitions. This unusual and exciting series will see each work exhibited for three weeks, throwing a spotlight on a stand-out piece from an outstanding artists oeuvre. The first Sommergäste is Jean Dubuffets brightly coloured and wonderfully exuberant work, Site avec 5 personnages [Site with 5 characters] a timely exploration considering the current London survey show at the Barbican which will be on view until 22nd August. French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) is considered one of the most singular and provocative voices in post-war modern art. Many artists long for the painterly freedom and the power that engulfed their earlier work but few are able to carry it into their later years. Matisses riotous ... More |
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 Leiko Ikemura's first exhibition in the UK opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts NORWICH.- Japanese-Swiss artist, Leiko Ikemura, presents a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography in her first exhibition in the UK, Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland. Ikemura has chosen 50 works that span three decades of her career. The exhibitions dominant theme is the connectivity of all aspects of nature, be it human, animal, plant or mineral, in an eternal circle of life. Through her fantastical figures and primeval landscapes, Ikemura explores fragility, transience and slow evolutionary change choosing to address environmental issues from an empathetic, global perspective. Usagi, meaning rabbit in Japanese, is a recurrent mystical motif in Ikemuras work, representing rebirth, fertility and renewal. Her bronze sculpture, Usagi Kannon (Rabbit Bodhisattva of Mercy), produced in response to the Tōhoku earthquake and Fukushima ... More  "The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response" opens at Reynolda House Museum of American Art WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response opened July 16 to members, first responders, and Wake Forest University faculty, staff, and students, with Weekend of Gratitude, and on July 20 to the public at Reynolda House Museum of American Art and runs through Dec. 12. In this exhibition, three centuries of American art illuminate the chapters and most defining moments of every individual life. Works by artists including Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alice Neel, Fairfield Porter, Lee Krasner, Robert Colescott, Keith Haring, Endia Beal, and Grant Wood, are being featured alongside community-sourced stories and reveal critical moments in the voyage of life, with its heydays, ... More  'Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place' opens at Museum of London DocklandsLONDON.- A new display opened today at the Museum of London Docklands, Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place, in its London, Sugar & Slavery gallery. The exhibit draws on collaborative community collecting to explore the central role food plays in Black entrepreneurship and identity in South East London. Food is central to what it means to be part of a diasporic community one that demonstrates the connections Londoner's have with the rest of the world. For many years, entrepreneurial food businesses have thrived across South East London feeding and providing produce from home to African and Caribbean communities. Feeding Black spotlights four of these businesses, and their owners, to explore how they are much more than the services and goods they provide to their communities, but act as vital spaces to untangle ... More  Elvis Presley photograph inscribed to Ed Sullivan sold for $19,445 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- An Elvis Presley photograph inscribed to Ed Sullivan sold for $19,445, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The incredible color semi-glossy photo of Elvis as he was pictured on the September 1956 front cover of TV Guide, signed and inscribed on the original 'TV Guide Cover Portrait' mat in black ballpoint, "To Mr. Ed Sullivan, My sincere thanks to a great guy, Thanks, Elvis Presley. After successful appearances on The Milton Berle Show and the Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show, Elvis was poised to make his premiere on the nations most popular variety program: The Ed Sullivan Show. The popular TV host knew that he had to feature Presley, then filming his first motion picture and riding high on his recently released debut LP. After a series of tough negotiations with Col. Tom Parker, Ed Sullivan had his man, signing him to a series ... More  'The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection' on view at MOSTYN, Wales LLANDUDNO.- MOSTYN is presenting In Words, In Action, In Connection, a display of publications and printed materials that explores historical and contemporary intersectional feminist activism in Wales. Brought together by artists Minna Haukka and Kristin Luke, whose collaborative practice stems from their ongoing project, the Mobile Feminist Library a travelling collection of printed materials that responds to its locality this display takes the form of an experimental reading room. Haukka and Luke have collaborated with artists, activists, collectives and publishers to develop a collection which is relevant to Wales and contains both historical and contemporary publications and printed materials sourced from Wales-based archives as well as the London-based Feminist Library. In Words, In Action, In Connection considers different activist ... More  Bruce Silverstein Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by artist Brea SoudersNEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Brea Souders titled Vistas. Vistas is a series of hand-colored photographs that present disembodied shadows of human beings found in national parks throughout the American West. While researching Google Photo Sphere images of the parks, the artist observed that the algorithm removed people from its shared photos, seemingly for privacy reasons, but left behind their distorted and artifacted shadows. The shadows are shown just as the artist found them, the result of the wests radiant sun and algorithmic interventions. The original photographs were made deep in nature, by individuals who trekked to areas where roads or trails dont exist. Referencing early twentieth-century picture postcards of the American West, the hand-colored prints of Vistas ... More  Korean virus disaster flick has Cannes reaching for its masksCANNES (AFP).- Cannes was shaken Friday by a South Korean virus flick about a bio-terrorist attack on a passenger plane. Eerily evocative of the ongoing Covid pandemic, "Emergency Declaration" by director Han Jae-rim tells the story of a vengeful biochemist spreading a deadly mutant corona-like virus on an aircraft. As passengers start dying messily, police on the ground scramble for solutions. Critics at the thriller's first screening instinctively adjusted their masks -- which are mandatory during Cannes screenings -- as they watched the fictional, airborne virus spread death through the plane. But while the actual coronavirus pandemic loomed large during the filming of "Emergency Declaration", it was never meant to be its theme. "It's not 'Covid, The Movie,'" director Han insisted. "When we prepared for the movie, there was no Covid-19. ... More  Jazz musicians unite with one goal: Celebrating Frank KimbroughNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A couple of months ago, as the long, lean era of pandemic stillness was just beginning to open to new possibilities, some of the finest jazz musicians in New York could be found shuffling in and out of a Lower East Side recording studio as if through a revolving door. At one point, several of them including saxophonist Donny McCaslin, trumpeter Ron Horton and pianist Craig Taborn delved into a wistful composition titled Regeneration, giving it all the supple dynamism of a banner rippling in the breeze. Along one wall of the studio was a framed photograph of the songs composer, pianist Frank Kimbrough, who died suddenly at the end of last year, at 64. His sly smile in the portrait, conveying a benevolent skepticism, felt well suited to the project underway: an elaborate tribute featuring nearly 60 of his pieces ... More  Biz Markie, hip-hop's 'Just a Friend' clown prince, dies at 57NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Biz Markie, the innovative yet proudly goofy rapper, DJ and producer whose self-deprecating lyrics and off-key wail on songs like Just a Friend earned him the nickname Clown Prince of Hip-Hop, died Friday. He was 57. His death was confirmed by his manager, Jenni Izumi, who didnt provide a cause. He had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his late 40s and said that he lost 140 pounds in the years that followed. I wanted to live, he told ABC News in 2014. A native New Yorker and an early collaborator with hip-hop trailblazers like Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie began as a teenage beatboxer and freestyle rapper. He eventually made a name for himself as the resident court jester of the Queensbridge-based collective the Juice Crew and its Cold Chillin label, ... More  Springfield Art Museum opens summer 2021 focus exhibitionsSPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum is presenting three focus exhibitions during the summer of 2021, all opened on Saturday, July 17. These focus exhibitions feature a range of themes and artists with local, regional, and international interest. Rose ONeill and the Kewpie Comics - The Kewpie doll was a much beloved elf-child created by illustrator Rose O'Neill. The Kewpie was introduced to the world in December 1909, in a cartoon published in the Ladies' Home Journal. From December 1917 to July 1918, O'Neill produced a Kewpie comic strip for Sunday newspapers, distributed by the McClure Syndicate. These comics reprised stories already featured in Womans Home Companion. Through the syndicate, the comic was published in newspapers across the country. This exhibition features 15 hand-colored proofs from the Sunday comic series, as well ... More  Caleb Landry Jones, best actor at Cannes for playing mass killerCANNES (AFP).- "You can be too good at your job," joked Caleb Landry Jones, who has fast developed a reputation for playing creepy characters. The Texan farm boy with an avant-garde heart won best actor at Cannes on Saturday, and at just 31 is already seen as one of the most interesting and unusual actors in Hollywood. "I can't do this, I am going to throw up," a clearly shaken Landry Jones said as he accepted the prize. Unafraid to take on roles like that of Australian mass murderer Martin Bryant in "Nitram" -- which had rave reviews at Cannes -- his career has stretched from the "X-Men" to the mould-breaking horror flick "Get Out". In that movie poking fun at liberal white America's racism he played the scary lacrosse-stick wielding brother. He also turned up in indie gems at the Oscars like "The Florida Project" and "Three Billboards Outside ... More  Dinner Gallery opens a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Rachael Tarravechia and Julia JoNEW YORK, NY.- Dinner Gallery is presenting If These Walls Could Talk, a two-person exhibition of new paintings by Rachael Tarravechia and Julia Jo. This exhibition opened on July 15th and will remain on view until August 21st. A home has always been a cocoon of intensely private joy and despair, but the past year has shifted our relationship with it. Tarravechia and Jo make us see it in a new light, using familial spaces to explore identity. Tarravechia carefully recreates photographs taken in her grandmothers house, inserting hints of both horror and love, while Jo forges fictional domestic spaces where visual opulence is matched by unsavory acts within. Their work lures the viewers into intimate spaces, transforming them into voyeurs. Tarravechia is inspired by interior design and retro-chic household items. Her new work draws you in with electric ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Caravaggio died July 18, 1610. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. In this image: A photographer and a cameraman take a picture of Caravaggio's painting "The calling of Saints Peter and Andrew" in Rome, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. The painting, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, languished for years in a dusty storeroom before being identified as the work of Italian master Caravaggio, on show at the Gate Termini Art Gallery in Rome.
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