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An undated photo provided by Metropolitan Museum of Art shows the French designer Paul Poirets 1919 opera coat, inspired by the loose drapery of the Japanese kimono, made from a single uncut swath of purple velvet. Japans T-shaped unisex garment cut from a single bolt of silk isnt a symbol or a relic at the Met, its the vibrant feature of an international fashion conversation. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- Id always suspected as much, but the exhibition Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has confirmed it for me: The kimono is one of the preeminent artistic mediums of the 20th century. The show tracks the evolution of Japans most famous traditional robe a T-shaped garment always cut from a single bolt of cloth from the staid, silken formal wear of the Edo period (1615-1868) to the unbounded canvas for graphic display it became in the 1920s and after. Its also become an unlikely cultural flashpoint. In 2015, protesters accused Bostons Museum of Fine Arts of using the garment as an Orientalist prop in a series meant to be about Impressionist painters using it the same way, and Kim Kardashian caused an uproar in 2019 for trying to appropriate the word as a brand name for her shapewear line. (Aside from the appropriation question, it was an ironic choice, since it was the kimonos straight silhoue ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Karma is presenting take care, a solo exhibition by Marley Freeman, on display at 22 E 2nd Street from June 10th to July 23rd, 2022. This is Freemanâs second solo show with the gallery. Courtesy of the Artist and Karma, New York.
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| New MoMA PS1 Director resigns | | Tom Wesselmann's fourth solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in Paris | | The precarious art of Cecilia Vicuña | 
Kate Fowle, the director of MoMA PS1, in Queens, April 5, 2022. Fowle, who arrived in 2019, is carving out an independent identity for the Queens institution distinct from that of the Museum of Modern Art. We are using art at the center of how we build community, she said. Camilo Fuentealba/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kate Fowle, who became director of MoMA PS1 in 2019 and barely had the chance to lead the museum as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, abruptly announced Friday that she was stepping down as of July 15 from the museum in Long Island City, Queens. This has been an extraordinary opportunity to lead MoMA PS1 over the last (nearly) three years and to work with all of you alongside our board, patrons and funders, she said in an email to the staff. I want you to know that I have deep respect and admiration for you all, and that I am incredibly proud of all the work we have achieved together. She did not give any reasons for her departure and declined requests for comment. But one person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said Fowle recently expressed difficulty managing her job during a meeting with ... More | | 
Tom Wesselmann, Man Ray at the Dance, 2004 (detail). Oil on canvas - 248.9 x 188 cm, 98 x 74 in / © Courtesy of the Estate and Almine Rech © 2022 The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - Photo: Jeffrey Sturges
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Tom Wesselmann's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from June 11 to July 30, 2022. Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) forged his distinctive, figurative fusion of color and line through a longtime engagement with Matisse. Wesselmann first learned about the French master while studying at Cooper Union (195659), where his teacher Nicholas Marsicano encouraged him to find your own way. . . You cant do what Matisse did.
Wesselmanns goal to bypass De Kooning and find his own direction was satisfied by his adaptations of the controlled, precise contours; bold, flat colors; and sensual imagery popularized by Matisse. The exhibition of Matisses cut-outs in 1961 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, may have reaffirmed his interest in Matisse as a precedent for exploring variations of a subject in serial form. Wesselmann repeatedly referenced Matisse in the Great A ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and David Heald shows Quipu del Exterminio/Extermination Quipu in the show Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene at the Guggenheim Museum. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; David Heald via The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- After the spectacle of high-end hoarding that was this springs art fair and auction season, its refreshing to find a career survey at the Guggenheim Museum of an artist who has always regarded much of her work as disposable she refers to one series of sculptures as basuritas (little garbages) and has used it to promote the ideal of a socially and environmentally sustainable world. The artist is Cecilia Vicuña, who was born in Chile in 1948. And the survey, with the wind-chime-sounding title Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene, is her first in New York, where she has lived, pretty much under the mainstream art market radar, for some four decades. This has changed in the past few years. International prizes, honors and major shows have suddenly flooded her way. But why so late? ... More |
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| Nicolas Poussin painting worth £19 million at risk of leaving UK | | Karma opens a solo exhibition by Marley Freeman | | Manhattan's new green space was J.P. Morgan's side yard | 
Nicolas Poussin (Les Andelys 15941665 Rome), Confirmation, about 163740. Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 121 cm.
LONDON.- Confirmation, a painting by Nicolas Poussin dating to c. 1637-40, is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found. Worth £19 million, Confirmation is part of Poussins series titled The Seven Sacraments which is widely regarded as the artists most important commission. The series marked a turning point in Poussins career at the birth of the French classical tradition and at one point had its departure from Rome blocked by the Pope. Confirmation is arguably the most significant of Poussins paintings from this series and is notable for its sophisticated composition woven together by glance and gesture. The painting has been in Britain for almost 240 years hanging, on several occasions, on the walls of some of the UKs most prestigious museums, including Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: The unprecedented Seven Sacraments series is an example of Nicolas Poussins extraordinary inv ... More | | 
Marley Freeman, I gentle you, 2022. Oil and acrylic on linen, 9 x 10 inches; 22.9 x 25.4 cm. 11 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches; 28.6 x 26 x 4.1 cm (framed). Courtesy of the Artist and Karma, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting take care, a solo exhibition by Marley Freeman, on display at 22 E 2nd Street from June 10th to July 23rd, 2022. This is Freemans second solo show with the gallery. Working in oil and hand-mixed acrylic, Marley Freeman layers paint to depict abstract forms and veils of color. Rooted in a process of patient revisiting, her complex compositions can take months to complete. Freemans paintings eschew rigid rules, oscillating between transparency and opacity, sparseness and density, luminosity and austerity. Glimpses of the representational world thread through her magnetic compositions, in which amorphic shapes become vessels for emotion and personal attachment. Her titles are often excerpted from poetry and fiction, provoking deeper inquiry. In ones former other one (2022) Freeman adeptly builds up a patchwork of jostling expressive forms: assertive blocks of color intertwine with the fluidity ... More | | 
An undated photo by Brett Beyer via Morgan Library & Museum, NY of the buildings landscape design, inspired by 15th-century French and Italian manuscripts in Morgans collection. Brett Beyer via Morgan Library & Museum via The New York Times.
by Jane L. Levere
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1908, an unnamed correspondent for The Times of London wrote the first public account of the 2-year-old library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan, next to his home just east of Madison Avenue on 36th Street. Modeled by architect Charles Follen McKim on Renaissance buildings such as the Villa Medici in Rome, the library contained Morgans storied collections of rare books and manuscripts and was built at a cost of just over $1 million, or about $32 million today. Describing the librarys lavish interiors and collections, the correspondent wrote, The Bookmans Paradise exists and I have seen it. This weekend and next, the Morgan Library & Museum will celebrate the restoration of the landmark McKim building and unveil an adjacent, new garden Manhattans new green space as well as ... More |
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| Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute host Norman Rockwell exhibition | | Exhibition explores the versatility of Korean traditional paper | | Luma Westbau opens an exhibition of sculptures by French artist Théo Mercier | 
Norman Rockwell, (American, 18941978), Cousin Reginald Spells Peloponnesus, 1918 (detail). Norman Rockwell Museum Collection.
UTICA, NY.- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute presents the landmark exhibition Norman Rockwell, June 11 through September 18, featuring iconic images of American scenes painted by the most beloved artist and illustrator of the 20th century. Over the course of his six-decade career, Norman Rockwell illustrated the everyday moments in America, featuring diverse races, nationalities, economic backgrounds, and creeds. Through two world wars, the Great Depression, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the Civil Rights struggles, Rockwell promoted an optimistic world in the face of hardship and struggle. This exhibition presents Rockwells story-filled scenes of American life as well as the people behind the imagesfrom presidents to postmen. With more than 50 original artworks including full-scale oil paintings, photographs, drawings, ... More | | 
Karma by Kim Keum Ja. Photo courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK presents Hanji: Paper Compositions, an exhibition that explores the possibilities of Koreas traditional paper, hanji. Organised in collaboration with the Hanji Development Institute in Wonju, Korea, this exhibition introduces the versatility of hanji, and features the work of over 20 artisans whose mastering of various techniques allows them to push the boundaries of their making processes and practices. Made using the bark of the mulberry tree, hanji is a strong and durable material that has many applications. Following the introduction of paper to Korea from China, hanji was developed across Korea between the 3rd-century and 6th-century. It was historically utilised as a medium for communication, namely as a surface upon which to record important information. While hanji was originally enjoyed by the royal family and nobility, its uptake became more widespread during the Joseon ... More | | 
For the duration of the exhibition the sand sculptures will transform as part of the performative activation, and through living organisms and plants that have been incorporated in their construction.
ZURICH.- Dream Hunters is the second chapter of the OUTREMONDE cycle by French artist Théo Mercier. The first chapter, presented at the Collection Lambert in Avignon in 2021, was a performative manifestation, consisting entirely of sand sculptures, which was inviting the visitors to participate in an experiential process leading eventually to the sculptures slow dematerialization. Through live performance, visitors were invited to explore the sculptural landscape, following a ten-year old boy that moved between moments and spaces and encounters, activating each time a unique context. For the second chapter, hosted at Luma Westbau, an augmented landscape of sand sculptures has been created. Hosting a labyrinth of elements that relate to processes of sleeping, birth and regeneration, ... More |
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| Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders | | Exhibition Silent Transition brings together around 90 new photographs by Georg Aerni | | Orange County Museum of Art commissions Sanford Biggers to create a monumental outdoor sculpture | 
Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Aerial Beach, 2022, Mixed media oil on canvas, 68 x 68 inches, 173.4 x 173.4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders. The artists third solo exhibition with the gallery, The Things I Cant Forget, opened on 9 June at 511 West 22nd Street and remains on view through 23 July 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by esteemed writer and critic Phyllis Tuchman. Greenfield-Sanders landscape paintings, with origins in found vintage photography, invite her viewer to forge a connection to their own experience. Using the old pictures as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. In her newest body of work, fragments of images have been distilled into carefully composed paintings. They emerge simultaneously familiar yet enigmatic. The exhibition title is a nod to the fabricated natur ... More | | 
Georg Aerni, Carmiano, 2015 © Georg Aerni.
ZURICH.- Georg Aerni has, in parallel to his work as an architectural photographer, produced a comprehensive artistic oeuvre. Although this has been exhibited sporadically, it is yet to receive any major recognition in a museum context. The exhibition at Fotostiftung Schweiz now focuses on the works he has produced since 2011 and shows Aernis oeuvre as a significant position within contemporary Swiss photography. In a consistent continuation of his earlier work, Georg Aerni sheds light on the interfaces between culture and nature, examines urban spaces language of signs, or devotes himself to the metamorphoses of landscapes and structures. His more recent works also revolve around issues regarding ecology and sustainability, for instance in impressive photographic essays on southern Spains gigantic stretches of land completely covered by greenhouses, or on wildly sprawling residential developments ... More | | 
Portrait of Sanford Biggers Photo: Matthew Morrocco.
COSTA MESA, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art today announced plans to present a monumental outdoor sculpture by artist Sanford Biggers when the museum opens on October 8 at its new home on the campus of Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The 24-foot-wide 16-foot-tall multimedia sculpture, Of many waters
(2022), has been commissioned for the Sculpture Terrace of OCMAs new building, designed by Morphosis under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and Partner-in-Charge Brandon Welling, and will remain on view through February 5, 2023. The artist will be honored at the museums Opening Gala on October 1, 2022. Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of OCMA, said: Ive been lucky enough to work with Sanford Biggers starting early on in his career, having curated his first museum solo exhibition, Psychic Windows, at the UC Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2002, and I continue ... More |
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 Heritage's first VHS event sets auction record with $75,000 sale of actor Tom Wilson's 'Back to the Future'DALLAS, TX.- You didnt need to drive 88 mph in a time-traveling Delorean to buy Biff Tannens shrink-wrapped copy of the 1986 Back to the Future VHS tape and set a new auction record while doing so. After a heated bidding war Thursday, a collector from New York picked up actor Tom Wilsons sealed, near-mint-condition videotape for $75,000 in Heritage Auctions inaugural VHS and Home Entertainment Signature® Auction. Thats the highest price ever paid at auction for a sealed, graded VHS tape. The blockbuster sold-out sale, which featured 260 VHS tapes, drew 598 bidders from around the world on its way to realizing a total of $584,750. And many of Thursdays collectors were eager to pick up Wilsons astonishing assemblage, which also included sealed, graded copies of Back to the Future II (which realized $16,250) and ... More  A Superman auction for the superfan takes flight at Heritage July 7DALLAS, TX.- Milt Rosenberg was many things a mathematician, says his son Adam, and an options trader and a world-class bridge player. He was also one of the worlds foremost collectors of Superman keepsakes, among them hundreds of items adorned with images of the Man of Steel rarely seen since they were first available beginning some eight decades ago. Among Rosenbergs assemblage are things only dreamed about by collectors for whom they remain holy grails thought lost to history, including posters and lobby cards and toys that now serve as works of art, items once meant to be worn now more likely to be displayed and, yes, comic books, too. Rosenberg owned a stunning Supermen of America Action Comics prize ring, one of nine known to survive the journey from 1940 to today. And the only known complimentary ... More  Legacy of Las Vegas performers lives on with 480 lots sold from the Estate of Siegfried & RoyLOS ANGELES, CA.- After a marathon two-day live sale, the estate of Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible achieved remarkable success when it sold 480 lots out of 481 at 100% by value for a total of $1,446,327 on June 8 and 9 at Bonhams Los Angeles. The memorabilia and costumes performed above expectations with participation from the magic community and collectors who recognized Siegfried & Roys significance in the history of Las Vegas and their impact on pop culture worldwide. The enduring magical legacy of the duo was obvious, with the sale attracting nearly 1,000 registered bidders and resulting in more than half of the lots selling above estimate. All proceeds will go towards the SARMOTI Foundation, Siegfried & Roy's personal charity. Siegfried & Roys combined talents of spectacular illusions with exotic ... More  Recording India's linguistic riches as leaders push Hindi as nation's tongueDHARWAD.- The task was gargantuan: assembling a team of more than 3,500 language specialists, academics and enthusiastic amateurs to determine just how many distinct languages still exist in India, a country of stunning linguistic diversity. Ganesh Narayan Devy has been obsessed with that question since, as a young scholar of literature, he came across a linguistic census from 1971 that listed 108 mother tongues spoken by Indians. At the end of the report, at No. 109, it said all others. I wondered what all others could be, he said. It turns out to be a huge number: His teams survey, perhaps the most exhaustive such effort ever in India, has researched 780 languages being used in the country, with hundreds more left to be studied. The Indian Constitution, in contrast, lists 22 languages, and the last government ... More  Wynne Prize to tour for the first time in 125 yearsSYDNEY.- The Wynne Prize, Australias oldest art prize, will tour regional NSW for the first time in its 125-year history after the Art Gallery of New South Wales received funding from the NSW Government. Deputy Premier Paul Toole and Arts Minister Ben Franklin today announced funding of $762,000 for a three-year touring program which will go towards two major exhibitions: the inaugural Wynne Prize regional tour and an extended regional tour for William Kentridge: I Am Not Me, The Horse Is Not Mine. From next year the annual Wynne Prize will tour to 12 regional art galleries throughout 2023, 2024 and 2025, while William Kentridge: I Am Not Me, The Horse Is Not Mine currently exhibited at Orange Regional Gallery until June 26 will continue touring to a further four regional NSW art galleries in 2023 and 2024. Mr ... More  Christie's Old Masters total: $14.5 MillionNEW YORK, NY.- Christies Old Masters sale on 10 June, realized a total of $14,430,900, selling 88% by low estimate, with strong prices for Northern Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as spirited bidding on sculptures from across centuries. The top lot in the sale was The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, an ambitious, monumental picture on panel that shows the strong influence of his father, Pieter Brueghel the Elder. It brought $2,580,000. Other highlights among paintings include Roses, lilies, an iris and other flowers in an earthenware vase by Clara Peeters, which realized $1,500,000; The Bagpiper and Marry Wife, by Jan van Hemessen, which fetched $1,134,000; and A View of Beverwijk, by Salomon van Ruysdael, which sold for $567,000. Two sculptures sold well above their estimates, A ... More  'Imprinted: Illustrating Race' at Norman Rockwell Museum confronts stereotypes and opens dialogueSTOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Norman Rockwell Museum announced Imprinted: Illustrating Race, a landmark exhibition on view June 11 through October 30, 2022. This special exhibition examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture. More than 150 works of art and artifacts of widely circulated illustrated imagery are on view, produced from 1590 to today. The exhibition explores harmful stereotypical racial representations that have been imprinted upon us through the mass publication of images and the resulting noxious impact on public perception about race. It culminates with the creative accomplishments of contemporary artists and publishers who have shifted the cultural narrative through the creation of positive, inclusive imagery emphasizing full agency and equity for all. A concurrent marquis ... More  Tiwani Contemporary now representing Miranda Forrester and Joseph Olisaemeka WilsonLONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary announced its representation of artists Miranda Forrester and Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson. Miranda Forrester explores the queer Black female gaze in painting vis-à -vis the history of men painting woman naked. Her work addresses the invisibility of Black women in the western history of art. She investigates how painting is able to re-articulate the language and history of life drawing through a queer Black feminist and desiring lens. In doing so, she depicts what the male gaze may not be able to see. Miranda Forrester lives and works in London. She holds a BA in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton. Recent exhibitions include The Company She Keeps, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos (2022), At Peace, Gillian Jason Gallery, London (2021); Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, ... More  Portland Art Museum repatriates objects to Tlingit tribePORTLAND, OR.- Nine objects of cultural patrimony removed from Wrangell, Alaska, in the 1930s and 1940s are now back home in the hands of the Naanya.aayà clan, the Portland Art Museum and the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced this week. The repatriated objects arrived in Juneau, Alaska, on June 8, 2022. These objects include a Killerwhale Hat from the original Chief Shakes House Flotilla of Killerwhale Hats; Killerwhale Flotilla Chilkat Robe; Killerwhale Stranded on a Rock Robe; a Mudshark Hat; three Mudshark Shirts; Killerwhale with a Hole Fin; and the Storm Headdress. Between 1921 and 1944, Axel Rasmussen, Superintendent of Schools in Wrangell, AK, and later in Skagway, AK, collected Native American art and cultural items primarily from the Tlingit communities he ... More  Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 'From Near and Far', an exhibition exploring the notion of collageLONDON.- Bringing together 16 contemporary female artists, the exhibition focuses on collage as a concept and an art form; from the traditional method of splicing together imagery to amalgamating figures, forms, gestures and viewpoints. The artists are united by a shared interest in figuration. Curated by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of The Great Women Artists, and artist Deborah Roberts, the exhibition features over twenty works, many of which have never been shown before. Gallery artists Sarah Ball, Deborah Roberts, Anne Rothenstein and Caroline Walker all present new works. Other highlights include significant, large-scale paintings by Jordan Casteel and Amy Sherald; a series of collages by Lubaina Himid that have never previously been exhibited; and new works by Kenturah Davis, M. Florine Démosthène, Genevieve ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890. Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 - 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. In this image: Egon Schiele, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,"Vorstadt" II, 1914. Estimate: £22-30 million/ $36-50 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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