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and to those North Sea Waves Whispering Sunken Stories (II), 2021. Metal and glass terrarium containing various tropical plants, potting soil, clay pebbles, sound, 230 Ã 273 Ã 307 cm.
by Siddhartha Mitter
BERLIN.- To imagine a new world, Karl Marx wrote in 1843 after studying in the German capital, you must first rigorously unpack the old one with a ruthless criticism of everything existing. That energy pervades this years Berlin Biennale, which unfolds across five museums in the city, curated by French Algerian artist Kader Attia. No matter how you approach the event, you are instantly met with art that grapples with the legacies of war and colonialism; domination by race, gender, class and caste; ecological damage; disinformation; and social control. Begin at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art and you hit a wall-size installation of photographs and video interviews of working-class Portuguese and Turkish immigrants in Paris in the 1980s. Made by feminist artist Nil Yalter, the work is titled Exile Is a Hard Job. At the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, the first room holds a continuous image of clouds in a horizontal band along four walls. It is not a photograph but a d ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery announces its July Timed Marketplace Auction on Jul 25, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. Rare 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Dance Staff w/ Nacre. Estimate $1,800 - $2,700.
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| New York returns 142 looted artifacts to Italy | | Perry Rubenstein, gallerist convicted of embezzlement, dies at 68 | | After making a splash in Manhattan, an artist gets his due back home | 
The Manhattan district attorneys office arranged the transfer of items it had seized, including a fresco from a town that was covered in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
NEW YORK, NY.- Another 142 purloined Italian antiquities seized in the past year by Manhattan investigators are on their way to the new Museum of Rescued Art in Rome after they were handed over to Italian officials Wednesday during a ceremony in New York. Among the repatriated objects, valued at about $14 million, is a fresco stolen from the famed archaeological site at Herculaneum, a town that was buried under volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Known as the Ercolano Fresco, it depicts the infant Hercules strangling a snake and was seized from the collection of hedge fund pioneer Michael Steinhardt last year. The fresco, valued at $1 million, was among 180 items given up by Steinhardt after Italian and Manhattan investigators determined the pieces had been stolen and illegally placed on the art market. Steinhardt, 81, had bought it from a dealer, Robert Hecht, who has been accused of illicit trafficking. Steinhardt agreed to a lifetime ban from acquiring antiquities as part ... More | | 
Perry Rubenstein at his art gallery in Manhattan, on May 12, 2007. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Perry Rubenstein, a gallerist who rose rapidly in the New York art world of the 1980s, then fell into disgrace in the 2010s after a failed transition to Los Angeles ended with his conviction on two counts of embezzlement, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 68. Sara Fitzmaurice, his former wife, confirmed the death but said the cause had not been determined. Rubenstein was one of several prominent young gallery owners to emerge in Manhattan in the mid-1980s, as a wave of Wall Street cash poured through SoHo and Chelsea, swooping up the work of artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner and Julian Schnabel. A former Versace model with an impeccable knack for the next big thing in art, Rubenstein fit in with the in crowd; for much of his career he worked as a private dealer for the very, very rich. He specialized in both rising stars and blue chips, brokering works by Victor Matthews alongside Warhols and Lichtensteins. He opened a public gallery on West 23 ... More | | 
Bradford Sprouse, brother of the designer Stephen Sprouse, at the exhibit Stephen Sprouse: Rock, Art, Fashion, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 13, 2022. Cheney Orr/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Music by the Rolling Stones blared from speakers at the Ritz nightclub on East 11th Street in New Yorks Manhattan borough as men and women walked side by side down the runway. More than 1,500 audience members, a sheen of sweat glistening off their necks in the tightly packed space, sized up the glow-in-the-dark creations under strobe lights. But this show did not take place last week, or last year, or even in the last decade. It was the debut of designer Stephen Sprouses sophomore collection 38 years ago, in May 1984. He was so, so far ahead of his time, said rock legend Debbie Harry, 77, who shared a bathroom and a kitchen with Sprouse in a loft in Manhattans East Village for several years in the mid-1970s. In the 1980s, Sprouse, who died in 2004, distinguished himself as a designer with day-glo ensembles that mixed graffiti with cashmere, bringing a punk-rock sensibility to high-end apparel. ... More |
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| 'Nope,' Eadweard Muybridge and the story of 'The Horse in Motion' | | National Gallery of Art acquires works by Alfred Sisley and Richard Hunt | | Yi Gallery opens a new exhibition of new paintings by GJ Kimsunken | 
A photo provided by Eadweard Muybridge and the National Gallery of Art shows Plate Number 626, Eadweard Muybridges study of a horse in motion. The study is a key part of Jordan Peeles new film Nope. Eadweard Muybridge/National Gallery of Art via The New York Times.
by Ben Kenigsberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Near the beginning of Nope, Emerald (Keke Palmer), who with her brother, Otis Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya), runs an animal-wrangling service for Hollywood shoots, delivers a pitch on a set. (If youve seen the trailer, youve heard the abridged version.) She cites a milestone in the development of cinema: a famous series of sequential photographs from the 19th century depicting a horse in motion. Emerald suggests that the crew members she is addressing will know the name of the man who captured those images, photographer Eadweard Muybridge. But they wont be able to name the jockey riding the horse. That pioneering actor ... More | | 
Alfred Sisley, On the Banks of the Loing: The Cart, 1890 (detail). Etching with bitten tone and burnishing on laid paper, plate: 5 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund 2022.25.1.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (18391899) was dedicated to capturing the landscape while working outdoors, in plein-air. The National Gallery of Art has acquired a rare set of four etchings that depict views of the Loing River, southwest of Paris, that join two other prints in the collection, making the National Gallery the only institution outside of Paris to have impressions of all six of Sisleys prints, in addition to seven paintings depicting various French vistas. Sisley made and exhibited impressions of these four etchings in Paris in 1890 at the request of the Société des peintres-graveurs français, a group that explored printmaking as an original art form and a means of personal expression. It appears that Sisley used an etching needle to sketch these landscapes directly into the waxy, acid-resistant ground of prepared ... More | | 
GJ Kimsunken, Figuration 22. 17, 2022. Oil on canvas, 71 x 19 1/2 in. 180 x 50 cm. © The Artist.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Yi Gallery is presenting Figuration, an extraordinary body of new paintings by GJ Kimsunken. This is Kimsunken's first solo show in New York. Starting July 28, an online viewing room of Kimsunkens new works on paper will be live. In his work, Kimsunken asks questions about human existence: who are we, why are we and what are we for? Generally, he titles each work Figuration. The new works represent a significant departure from his previous series and are an exciting development in his continuing interest in and investigation into human figuration. Kimsunken still methodically primes the canvas with gesso, which he then covers in multiple layers of oil paint, giving the surfaces an otherworldly luminescence, as well as substantial weight. Despite his compositions reductive, abstract appearance achieved by scraping away paint from the canvas Kimsunkens paintings represent ... More |
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| Cheim & Read presents 'Matthew Wong: Paintings from Los Angeles 2016' | | Exhibition is first show of LACMA's notable holdings of Spanish American art from 1500-1800 | | Exhibition brings together works by Keltie Ferris, Joanne Greenbaum, Arlene Shechet and Jessica Stockholder | 
Matthew Wong (1984 - 2019). Act of Faith, 2016. Acrylic on paper. 12 x 9 in. / 30.5 x 22.9 cm. © 2022 Matthew Wong Foundation / Artist's Rights Society (ARS). Photography: Alex Yudzon / Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Matthew Wong: Paintings from Los Angeles 2016, which runs through September 10 at the gallerys Chelsea location. This is Wongs second solo exhibition at the gallery, which follows Matthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 20132017 (May 5September 3, 2021), a suite of works that charted the artists exploration of ink wash on rice paper, materials traditional to Chinese landscape painting, some of which he began while living in Hong Kong and working in Zhongshan, China. The works in Paintings from Los Angeles 2016 differ markedly from those widely exhibited during the artists lifetime. Instead of the blues which have become virtually synonymous with the artist in the public imagination, the palette and textures of these paintings reflect the super-heated atmosphere of Los Angeles, where a teeming ... More | | 
Measuring Cup (Vaso para medir), Bolivia, possibly Moxos or Chiquitos, c. 17501800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800. Grounded in LACMA's collection of Spanish American art formed largely in the last 15 years, the exhibition, curated by Ilona Katzew, curator and department head of Latin American Art at LACMA, features over 90 works in a range of media paintings, sculptures, textiles, and decorative arts-including over 20 recent acquisitions that will be on view for the first time. The exhibition emphasizes the complex dynamics that led to the creation of these stunning artworks, underscoring the generative power of Spanish America and its central position as a global crossroads. After the Spaniards began colonizing the so-called New ... More | | 
Keltie Ferris, HER*CU*LES, 2016. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 110 by 80 in. 279.4 by 203.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting Informal Get Together, an exhibition bringing together painting and sculpture by Keltie Ferris, Joanne Greenbaum, Arlene Shechet and Jessica Stockholder on view from July 14 through August 19, 2022. Taking its title from the 2014 sculpture by Jessica Stockholder, Informal Get Together highlights Shechet and Stockholders painterly approach to sculpture alongside Greenbaum and Ferriss three-dimensional and structural approach to painting. Keltie Ferris has developed his exuberant and complex approach to abstract painting using a variety of methods including spray gun, dry pigment and hand-painted fields. On view in the present exhibition are two works spanning the most recent decade of Ferriss career. HER*CU*LES, 2016 demonstrates his range of mark making, scale shifts and close ups. Ferris couples syncopated brushstrokes with airbrushed oil paint to create surfaces that combine ... More |
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| Exhibition of new paintings by Derek Aylwar on view at Over the Influence | | Galerie Krinzinger presents an exhibition of works by Eva Schlegel | | Gregory Hodge opens an exhibition of new works at Sullivan+Strumpf | 
Derek Aylward is known for his unique visual language.
HONG KONG.- Over the Influence, Hong Kong is presenting Animal House, an exhibition of new paintings by Massachusetts-based artist Derek Aylward. Animal House will be on view from 15 July to 27 August 2022. Derek Aylward is known for his unique visual language that can be described as contemporary folklore, combining humanoid figures that are generally depicted with animal or otherworldly qualities, peppered with superheroes and cartoons of the mid-21st century, and with a cubistexpressionist edge. Aylwards practice is rooted in drawing, with a feverish compulsion to put pencil to paper, pen to napkin, or any mark-making tool that may leave a record on a surface. As such, Aylwards paintings retain the raw and gestural qualities of a drawing; expressive marks punctuated with hard clean lines reveal a similar urgency, but with broad ... More | | 
Eva Schlegel, Untitled, 2021. Steel, motor, 230 x 120 x 120 cm.
VIENNA.- To make possible impossible space. In her exhibition liminal spaces Eva Schlegel expands the properties and limits of photography and sculpture by situating each discipline in relationship to the other. Her photographs are studies of space in depth. One looks into them rather than at them. They create the recessive, architectural spaces they purport to represent. Her sculptures, meanwhile, deny depth. Flat, opaque, impenetrable, their mirrored surfaces refuse to reflect either body or being. They fracture the three-dimensional space of existence. In their presence, the viewer experiences absence. This is photography and sculpture that together make possible impossible spaces. One finds oneself aching to enter her photographic spaces and cant; ... More | | 
Gold Cloak, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 230 x 160 cm.
SYDNEY.- Part of the joy of Gregory Hodge's new exhibition Figures, Lights, and Landscapes is that there's no one way to read his paintings. Created from highly pigmented, highly translucent acrylics and gels, these paintings mimic everything from collage to trompe loeil techniques to woven 17th century textiles. Hodge takes the modernist precedent of cutting up things that dont necessarily belong together. The result: paintings that are utterly contemporary. Figures, Lights, and Landscapes is now open in the gallery and the online viewing room. Part of the joy of Gregory Hodges paintings is theres no one way to read them. Its like visual orienteering; with a topographic map of symbols and gestures and hints of interiors that layer like a choose your own adventure on the history and art of painting. So, what can you see? In the Window, at the back of the Light ... More |
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 Cannabis! review: Preaching to the partaking choirNEW YORK, NY.- The reminder takes up only a single line of small print in the program, but its the kind of rule that doesnt usually need spelling out: No smoking permitted inside the venue. Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville knows its crowd. A music- and dance-filled celebration of marijuana, it belongs no question to downtown theaters cherished tradition of weird art. Inside the doors of the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa in Manhattans East Village, audience members are enveloped in a thick cloud thats really just theatrical haze, not a pot-smoke fug. But it does the trick, visually if not aromatically, of establishing the atmosphere. Created by Grace Galu, a magnetic, powerhouse vocalist whose character here is called Sativa Diva, and Baba Israel, who conceived the show and serves as its Magical Mystical MC, Cannabis! is like ... More  'Tony Cokes: On Clubbing, Mourning, and Critique' on view at Greene NaftaliNEW YORK, NY.- Tony Cokes distills the ever-dizzying newsreel into pungent visual language paired with pop music. Evil.48 (fn.kno.it.alls) confronts visitors to his latest exhibition at Greene Naftali with an eerily prescient work from 2012, compiling Republican reactions to then-President Obamas efforts to ensure workers rights to access contraception; found quotes from conservative politicians are scored to radio hits by Kelly Clarkson and Whitney Houston. Cokes intends for the music to complicate a singular reading of his works, and proposes that it is possible to form insights into serious issues while in a state of enjoyment. Thus, dancing is a completely appropriate response to the work. Like our current news cycle and social media, these immersive videos saturate us in viewpoints, manifestos and occasionally propogandist ... More  Vincents dominate at H&H Classics Bike & Scooter sale at National Motorcycle MuseumLONDON.- Three Vincents from the 1940s and 50s dominated this H&H Classics sale at the National Motorcycle Museum on July 20, returning strong prices and some 86% of machines sold. This beautifully presented Black Shadow had been fully restored. Purchased by the current owner some 12 years ago in large lumps! It was a complete restoration that took two years to complete. No expense was spared on the quality of the work and parts. An all correct numbers machine as verified by the VOC, it comes complete with a current V5C and original RF60 logbook. This machine has been on display and has not been used for a few years, therefore light recommissioning will be required before any use. This Shadow was bought by the vendor in 1997. After buying the bike he discovered that it had a non-matching rear frame member, at some time ... More  Nominees for the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation's International Prize for Contemporary Art announcedLONDON.- The Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation presents the two works shortlisted by the Artistic Council for the International Prize for Contemporary Art 2022 (PIAC). First awarded in 1965, the PIAC rewards a recent work proposed by the Artistic Council, which is chaired by HRH The Princess of Hanover, every three years. The winner of this prize is awarded the sum of 75,000. The following artists are shortlisted for the International Prize for Contemporary Art 2022: Nguyen Trinh Thi for her work How to improve the world (2020), nominated by Zoe Butt; Christine Sun Kim for her performance The Star-Spangled Banner (2020), nominated by David Horvitz. Set in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, home to a large concentration of Indigenous groups, How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi is a film about listening. The film reflects on the differences ... More  Ken Lum solo exhibition Death and Furniture opens at the Art Gallery of OntarioTORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario, Death and Furniture is acclaimed Canadian artist Ken Lums first AGO solo exhibition. This focused, career-spanning exhibition showcases the artists newest pandemic-inspired works, alongside selected works from his internationally celebrated, 40-year practice. The recipient of the 2019 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO, Lums wry, always insightful image and text works, sculptures and installations use everyday objects to probe the tensions between what is and what can be, and to expose and challenge social distinctions of race, class and gender. Curated by Xiaoyu Weng, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, AGO, Death and Furniture takes as its starting point Lums newest body of work, Time. And Again. (2021). The pandemic surfaced a collective exasperation with labour ... More  Galerie Leu presents Bertil Vallien's first solo exhibition in GermanyMUNICH.- Bertil Vallien is one of the most famous glass artists in Sweden and the world - and one of the most popular Swedish artists in general. Since the 1960s he has worked primarily with glass as a sculptural material, with a visual language based on eternal human symbols. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Vallien has realized numerous highly acclaimed exhibitions both in Sweden and internationally. His art is represented in leading institutions and private collections around the world, not least in the United States, where Vallien began his career and is a household name. Strangely enough, Bertil Vallien has remained a relatively unknown name in the art scene in Germany to this day. Although he is represented in renowned German private collections as well as in important public collections in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Munich, No ... More  "The Double" in modern art explored in expansive exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- When two forms or motifs are presented together, or doubled, our eyes cant help but compare them. Doubling focuses and divides our vision; it causes us to see double and identify differences and similarities in what we observe. The art of the double causes us to see ourselves seeing. On view in the National Gallerys East Building from July 10October 31, 2022, The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 is the first major exhibition to consider how and why artists have employed doubled formats to explore perceptual, conceptual, and psychological themes. Presenting more than 120 works made from the beginning of the 20th century to today, this expansive show is organized in four parts: seeing double; reversal; dilemma structures; and the doubled and divided self. Artists in the exhibition explore ... More  National Gallery Singapore premieres Asia's largest exhibition of First Peoples art of AustraliaSINGAPORE.- National Gallery Singapore invites visitors to see the rich artistic practice of the worlds oldest living culture with its latest exhibition, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia. The largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art to travel to Asia gives audiences a rare and comprehensive look into First Peoples of Australias culture, history, and social action in the present. Ever Present showcases over 170 artworks drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, including many of their most significant artworks. These visually captivating works produced by over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Islander artists highlight the diversity of First Peoples art; with works as far back as 1890 until the present, ranging from paintings, video installations, bark paintings, to sculptures ... More  Below an Israeli city, a musical harmony belies the tensions above groundRAMLA.- In a subterranean reservoir, underneath the Israeli city of Ramla, the stone walls echo with an Arab-Jewish harmony at odds with the frictions of the world above. Visitors to the medieval site, built by Muslim rulers 1,233 years ago, enter hearing the words of Jewish liturgical poetry and Arab folk songs, each sung to the same Arab music. To listen to the composition, you descend from street level via a steep staircase, down to a turquoise pool. From a jetty at the bottom, you step into a white dinghy. Then you paddle across the carp-filled water, underneath several loudspeakers, and through an arcade of 36 stone arches that give the place its name: Pool of the Arches. Under the speakers in the eastern arches, you can hear the Jewish poetry. Under the western arches, the Arab songs. And in the middle, a mix of the two. Each track is different, ... More  The Menil Collection presents Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing InstituteHOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection is presenting Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute, the first major museum retrospective in more than twenty-five years to focus on the dream-like landscape drawings of Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1891-1972), a self-taught, visionary American artist. On view in Houston from April 22 through August 7, 2022, the exhibition illuminates Yoakums vivid creativity, imaginative vision of the land, and deep spirituality and also explores his rich, complex biography as an African American man who claimed Native American heritage. Coorganized by the Menil Collection, Houston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive study to date of the artist, who made a significant and highly original contribution to American ... More  Nora Schultz and Mirjam Thomann open an exhibition in the ruins of a Franciscan monastery churchBERLIN.- The artists Nora Schultz and Mirjam Thomann share a methodical interest in the material, architectural and cultural properties of spaces. Their sculptures do not remain external to the architecture of the monastic ruins, but rather intervene in its workings and involve the visitors in processes of positioning and re-orientation. Schultz and Thomann activate spaces and cultivate a sense of the porosity and movement in the historically resonant space of Klosterruine. Nora Schultz often develops large installations that involve and re-code the venues structure and sometimes project beyond its confines. By working with temporal structures, language and recording systems, everyday objects and cultural displacements, her work extends an ordinary understanding of the sculptural process. The observation and critical activation ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha was born July 24, 1860. Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 - 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.
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