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An exhibit displaying drawings from the Bibiena family at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, May 27, 2021. The Bibienas, the focus of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, dominated Baroque theatrical design. Janny Chiu via The New York Times.
by Joseph Cermatori
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Many of us have not seen the inside of a theater in well over a year. But as performance spaces around the country are on the verge of reopening, the Morgan Library & Museum is offering a quietly astonishing reminder of what weve been missing. Open through Sept. 12 at the Morgan, Architecture, Theater and Fantasy is a small but exquisite show of drawings by the Bibiena family, which transformed theatrical design in the 17th and 18th centuries. Organized around a promised gift to the museum of 25 Bibiena works by Jules Fisher, the Tony Award-winning Broadway lighting designer, the exhibit is the first in the United States of the familys drawings in over 30 years. From Lisbon to St. Petersburg, Russia, the Bibienas dominated every major court theater in Baroque Europe. Their innovations in perspective opened new dramatic possibilities, and their lavish projects cost vast sums, with single spectacles running budgets of up to $10 million in todays dollars. Wri ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the exhibition, "Senga Nengudi: Topologies." Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by Joseph Hu, 2021.
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| Hauser & Wirth Zürich opens an exhibition of new and recent work by Guillermo Kuitca | | Treasures of a Storied Manhattan Collection: Christie's Online Auction June 15- July 1 | | New display at The Fondation Beyeler explores the relationship between nature and culture in art |
Planta Mar, 2020 © Guillermo Kuitca.
ZURICH.- Informed by the worlds of architecture, music, theater and cartography, Guillermo Kuitcas paintings seek to incite the potential for a theatrical experience. This summer, the celebrated Argentine artist returns to Hauser & Wirth Zürich with an exhibition of new and recent work exploring these long-standing motifs. Exhibited across the ground floor of the gallery, the presentation is divided into three distinct bodies of works: paintings from The Family Idiot series first exhibited in Los Angeles in 2019, new works including Kuitcas House Plan series made during the 2020 lockdown in Buenos Aires, and the artists ongoing Theatre series. The exhibition opened during Zurich Art Weekends June edition, and coincides with two major museum presentations: Kuitcas curated exhibition of the Fondation Cartiers collection at the Triennale di Milano, and Guillermo Kuitca Dénouementat Lill ... More | |
A spectacular armoire that is a rare example of early French ébénisterie incorporating Chinese lacquer on a large scale previously in the Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard (estimate: $80,000-120,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present the online auction Treasures of a Storied Manhattan Collection which is open for bidding June 15-July 1. The carefully selected collection from the Park Avenue pied-à -terre formerly owned by Enid Annenberg Haupt encompasses 130 lots of European furniture and decorative art, Chinese furniture and ceramics, 19th century porcelain and silver, and 20th/21st century works of art. The sale features many esteemed objects from renowned private collections such as a spectacular armoire that is a rare example of early French ébénisterie incorporating Chinese lacquer on a large scale previously in the Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard (estimate: $80,000-120,000). The armoire ... More | |
Louise Bourgeois, SPIDER IV, 1996. Steel, wall piece, 198 à 175 à 53.3 cm. Private Collection, New York © The Easton Foundation / 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: Mark Niedermann.
BASEL.- The Fondation Beyelers next collection display references Olafur Eliassons exhibition Life, currently on display at the museum, and explores the relationship between nature and culture in art. Landscapes, still lifes and portraits uncover a dense web of relationships with the environment. The exhibition brings together 170 works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, including masterpieces and major groups of works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko, Sigmar Polke, Roni Horn, Peter Doig, Philippe Parreno, Tacita Dean and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as rarely displayed works and recent acquisitions. From 13 June to 21 September 2021, Nature Culture will ... More |
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| ARCOmadrid 2021 celebrates its return with a view to reactivating the art market | | An onscreen chat with Hito Steyerl, art's great screen skeptic | | Gottfried Böhm, master architect in concrete, dies at 101 |
Annie Morris, Stack 8, Copper Blue, 2019, Timothy Taylor Gallery.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid 2021, organised by IFEMA MADRID, will celebrate its 40th edition from July 7th to 11th with the objective of marking a turning-point to relaunch and reactivate the contemporary art market. The support received from institutions, museums and art centres, galleries, collectors and other professionals has been essential to set in motion this cultural encounter. Rising to the current challenges of providing a scenario that allows for reactivation and a long-awaited professional reunion, ARCOmadrid will strive to further its spirit of service to galleries, redoubling its conscientious efforts to drive the art market, promote artists and foster collecting. The overriding trust of the sector; the return to international fair activity already initiated and tested, and the positive evolution of the vaccination rates with the resulting effect of bringing the pandemic into remission, forecast a positive scenario for the eve ... More | |
Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013; HD video, single screen in architectural environment; 15 minutes, 52 seconds; Image CC 4.0 Hito Steyerl; Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If any artist can make sense of this sense-defying period, it would be Hito Steyerl: poet laureate of digital dislocation and social upheaval. In her video installations, essays and lecture-performances, the German artist has dismantled the boundaries between the internet and something called the real world, probing how digital technologies bleed off the screen into war zones, financial markets, real estate developments and auction houses. With bitter humor and a deft mix of high- and low-res imagery, Steyerl has underscored the violence and absurdity that result from melding human life and data hence the brutal ... More | |
Bensberg City Hall. © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas.
by A.J. Goldmann
MUNICH (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Gottfried Böhm, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who was known for his strikingly sculptural concrete buildings and as a leader of a generation of German architects whose task was nothing less than rebuilding their country in the wake of World War II, died Wednesday at his home in Cologne. He was 101. His son Paul, also an architect, confirmed the death. Böhm was considered one of his countrys leading architects long before he won that coveted award, often considered the Nobel for architecture, in 1986. Like his father, expressionist architect Dominikus Böhm (1880-1955), he was highly regarded as a builder of churches. His first, completed in 1949, was Madonna in the Ruins, a chapel that is now part of the Kolumba museum complex in Cologne, a city whose postwar reconstruction he was particularly involved ... More |
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| Christie's and amfAR announce 'From the Studio: Part Two' | | Lunds konsthall opens an exhibition devoted to the internationally renowned artist Runo Lagomarsino | | US gold coin sells for record $18.87 mn at Sotheby's auction |
Katherine Bradford, Beach Walkers at Night (2020, estimate: £10,000-15,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies announced From the Studio: Part Two, part of an ongoing partnership with amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. This encompasses a group of nine contemporary artworks, offered as part of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale taking place on 2 July 2021 in London. Proceeds generated by From the Studio: Part Two will benefit amfAR and its research efforts to develop effective treatments for COVID-19. From the Studio: Part Two presents contemporary artworks that have been generously donated by artists for this initiative, debuting works that have never been seen before by the public. They have been sourced with the help of Michael Nevin, director of The Journal Gallery, and include artworks by Jenna Gribbon, Michael Kagan, Katherine Bradford, Nicole Wittenberg, Eleanor Swordy, ... More | |
Installation view.
LUND.- Lunds konsthall is presenting an exhibition devoted to the internationally renowned artist Runo Lagomarsino, who was born in Lund in 1977 and studied at the Malmö Art Academy. After basing himself in both Brazil and Sweden for some years he now lives and works in Malmö. Lagomarsino works in a variety of media but often creates installations that combine ready-made objects, sculptural elements, photography and film, as well as occasional performance-based or interactive elements. He enlists the autobiographical to comment on social and political issues that affect all of us. He allows private memories to challenge collective ones, reminding us how intricately history even its overlooked facts is embedded in the present. The Square Between the Walls, Lagomarsinos solo exhibition at Lunds konsthall, brings together a group of recent and older works with two new commissions dwelling on his own famil ... More | |
In this file photo taken on March 11, 2021 A Sothebys employee holds a 1933 Double Eagle Coin during the "Three Treasures Collected by Stuart Weitzman," a dedicated live auction, of three treasures from the personal collection of the fashion designer and collector. The US coin sold for record $19.5 mn at Sotheby's auction on June 8, 2021. Angela Weiss / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A 1933 US gold coin that was never issued after Franklin D. Roosevelt removed America from the gold standard sold for a record $18.87 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York Tuesday. The auction house described the 1933 Double Eagle, the last US gold coin made and intended for circulation, as "one of the most coveted coins in the world" and it didn't disappoint. The $20 coin, designed by the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sailed past its pre-sale estimate price of between $10 million and $15 million. It also smashed the record for the most expensive coin in the world, ... More |
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| The Frye Art Museum presents a new yearlong thematic presentation of the collection and archival materials | | Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents a group of Roger-Edgar Gillet's figurative paintings from the early 1960s | | Li Hongbo's third solo exhibition with Eli Klein Gallery opens in New York |
Percival Rosseau. Two Gordon Setters in a Field, 1904 (detail). Oil on canvas. 23 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. Founding Collection, Gift of Charles and Emma Frye, 1952.146. Photo: Jueqian Fang.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum is presenting Human Nature, Animal Culture: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection (on view June 12, 2021August 21, 2022), an exhibition featuring a focused selection of 34 works from the permanent collection as well as archival photographs and ephemera from the Frye & Company meatpacking operation. Beyond appearing as subjects in many of the paintings collected by the museums founders, Charles and Emma Frye, domesticated animals were critical to the formation of the museum itself: Charles Frye, raised on an Iowa farm before moving to Seattle in 1888, built a successful meatpacking business, which in turn provided him the means to begin collecting art. This exhibition, guest curated by art historian Kathleen Chapman, prompts a ... More | |
Roger-Edgar Gillet, Sans titre, 1996-1997. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Roger-Edgar Gillets work for the first time. The artist (1924-2004), a painter of the Second School of Paris, followed a singular trajectory, embracing, at first, the lyrical abstraction of the 1950s, before turning to an expressionistic figuration akin to that of Eugène Leroy, Jean Fautrier, Paul Rebeyrolle and Zoran Muič. In collaboration with the Estate, the exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents an emblematic group of Roger-Edgar Gillets figurative paintings from the early 1960s all the way through to his mature, late 1990s works. Attesting to his absolute engagement with painting, this exhibition sheds light on an artist who was on the fringes of the avant-garde and who left a very personal mark on the postwar artistic landscape. A graduate of the Ecole Boulle, Roger-Edgar Gillet first worked as a decorator before dedicating ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Li Hongbo: Empathizing - the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery, showing 10 new sculptures utilizing the mediums of stainless steel, cast iron, and rebar. Li Hongbo has received universal acclaim for his Tools of Study and Absorption series, both of which were paper-based maneuverable sculptures. Lis mastery in metal was first critically acknowledged when, in 2017, he was awarded the coveted Sovereign Art Prize, which recognizes the most significant contemporary art from the Asia-Pacific region. As an important continuity and progression of his exploration in metal, the exhibition brings a selection of sculptures within this extended oeuvre, showing Lis sensitivity towards materials other than the use of paper. It invites the viewers to empathize with the contemporary living experiences which are illustrated by the sculpted figures. Su ... More |
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Dix Noonan Webb to sell large collection of 19th century Sheffield tokens and badges
LONDON.- The most important collection of Sheffield tokens and badges to come to market is to be included in a sale of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday, July 6 & Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb. Amassed by 68-year-old Sheffielder Tim Hale, who was diagnosed with Parkinsons a few years ago, the collection of 61 lots, date from the 19th century and cover the city's social history including transport, sport, politics, industry and entertainment. It is expected to fetch £7,000-9,000 with a percentage of the proceeds going to a Parkinsons charity. Tim Hale, who has lived in Sheffield for most of his life, commented: like most Sheffielders (I) am fairly passionate about the place. For most of my adult life I have collected Sheffield memorabilia, starting when I was in ... More
Hearing the city, too, at an outdoor Berlin film festival
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Thursday night, the mood at the Hasenheide open-air movie theater was buoyant. An audience of about 200 people had assembled for a screening of The Seed, a German drama about a construction worker struggling to take care of his daughter in a rural part of the country. Despite the grim subject matter, audience members chatted and drank beer, and a faint smell of pot smoke drifted through the air. The screening was part of the Berlinale Summer Special, a one-time outdoor edition of the annual Berlin International Film Festival, one of Europes most important and the worlds largest in terms of audience. Unlike the continents other top movie events Cannes and Venice the Berlinale, as it is known here, prides itself on catering to locals and is a cherished entry on Berlins cultural calendar. After ... More
Juilliard students protest tuition increase with marches and music
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Juilliard School, one of the worlds leading performing arts conservatories, is better known for recitals than picket lines. But students protesting a planned tuition increase occupied parts of its Lincoln Center campus this week and, when they were later barred from entering a school building, led music- and dance-filled protests on West 65th Street. The protests began Monday when a group of students, objecting to plans to raise tuition to $51,230 a year from $49,260, occupied parts of the schools Irene Diamond building and posted photos on social media of dozens of sheets of multicolored paper arranged to form the words TUITION FREEZE. On Wednesday, students said, they received an email from the administration saying that school space could not be used for nonschool events without permission. Posting signage, posters ... More
ConnectiveCollective on view through June 27 at the Neuberger Museum of Art
PURCHASE, NY.- In early 2020, as college campuses nationwide were forced into quiet by the pandemic, the idea developed for an ongoing and evolving art-based project that would inspire students at Purchase College, SUNY to raise their voices and take positive action on the issues that affected, inspired, or troubled them most. Entitled ConnectiveCollective, the project became a collaboration between the Neuberger Museum of Art; For Freedoms, the artist-led, nonpartisan collective whose mission is to promote civic engagement, civil discourse, and direct action through art; and the Purchase College Center for Engagement, an alliance of organizations whose projects inspire community engagement, encourage open dialogue, and impact social change. As ConnectiveCollective evolved, its scope grew to encompass a student town ... More
'Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art' premieres at the Toledo Museum of Art
TOLEDO, OH.- The first museum exhibition to explore more than 200 years of American art through the lens of the spectral and supernatural will be on view in Toledo this summer. Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art brings together a diverse cohort of established and emerging artists active in the United States since the late-18th century, whose work has approached this mysterious and compelling subject through a wide variety of styles and media. The exhibition presents approximately 160 objects, including painting, drawings, sketchbooks and printed books, photographs, video and other objects such as scientific instruments and Spiritualist ritual objects. It will be on view June 12 through Sept. 5, 2021 in Toledo Museum of Arts Levis Gallery and New Media Gallery. Supernatural America is organized by ... More
Polaroid celebrates Pop artist Keith Haring with exclusive collaboration
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of two cultural forces Polaroid and Keith Haring present an exclusive offering of the Polaroid Now camera and Polaroid i-Type instant film marked with Harings signature motifs. Inspired by a shared spirit of democratic creativity and designed to spark inspiration at any turn, Keith Haring and Polaroid fans alike can purchase the collection today. Ever since the heyday of New York in the 80s, Keith Haring and Polaroid have had a mutual admiration for each others work. Partnering with the Keith Haring Foundation feels so natural its almost like a homecoming for us. We are so proud to keep Keiths legacy alive, which is why we approached this collection of Polaroid products as another love letter to his amazing work, Marta Martinez, Polaroid Chief Marketing Officer, said. From drawing on subway walls, ... More
Kate Frances Lingard's first solo exhibition opens at arebyte Gallery
LONDON.- arebyte Gallery presents emerging Glasgow-based artist Kate Frances Lingards first solo exhibition, tender spots in hard code . Kate is the 2020 finalist from the gallerys annual young artist development programme, hotel generation. The programme mentors the next generation of UK digital artists, based outside of London, during the critical early stages of establishing a career in the arts. Exploring the role of care in society, this interactive exhibition uses ideas of play to deconstruct socio-political structures surrounding how we care for ourselves and one another. Care and its labour has been systematically undervalued and constrained by the distribution and management of economic resources. Popular emphasis on care as an individual undertaking removes the necessity of interdependence and promotes ... More
Ernesto Neto returns to Italy with a brand new project
BERGAMO.- Mentre la vita ci respira SoPolpoVitEreticoLe is the title of a solo exhibition by the renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (Rio De Janeiro, 1964) hosted in Bergamos Palazzo della Ragione: the first of a new three-year cycle curated by Lorenzo Giusti for the evocative Sala delle Capriate, GAMeCs summer venue for the fourth year in a row. Twenty years after the artists debut participation at the Venice Biennale (2001), curated by Harald Szeeman, when he was invited by Germano Celant to represent Brazil in the section given over to the national pavilions, Ernesto Neto returns to Italy with a brand new project, a prelude to the exhibition Nothing Is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, to be staged at the GAMeC in the autumn of 2021. Netos multisensory installations pervade the space, immersing the visitor in evocative ... More
Designing Motherhood exhibition opens at the Mütter Museum
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Designing Motherhood, a multifaceted project comprising a two-venue exhibition, a book, a design curriculum, a Story Bank oral history project, and public programs, debuts its inaugural exhibition in Philadelphia at the Mütter Museum's Cadwalader Gallery, on view now through May 2022. Organized by design historians and writers Michelle Millar Fisher, Amber Winick, and Juliana Rowen Barton, in partnership with Maternity Care Coalition (MCC), Designing Motherhood will explore the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design from the nineteenth century to the present day. The Designing Motherhood book, a 344-page volume published by the MIT Press, will debut in September 2021 concurrently with the second exhibition at the Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia. Throughout ... More
Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam opens a surreal solo exhibition of Dutch mixed media artist Leon Keer
AMSTERDAM.- Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective exhibition of Leon Keer from 5 June until 28 August 2021. The Dutch mixed media artist is the master of optical illusion. The solo exhibition 'Forced Perspective' shows a colourful selection of new paintings, sculptures, installations, anamorphic artworks and Augmented Reality (AR). The two floors of the gallery have been transformed into a surreal universe. Leon Keer is one of the worlds leading artists in anamorphic art. By playing with perspectives he creates incredible new worlds. The artist has executed numerous 3D murals and street paintings in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In the Netherlands, he has cooperated with the Fries Museum, Museum Arnhem, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Van ... More
The Stedelijk Museum exhibits the single-channel video installation SaF05 by Charlotte Prodger
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum is presenting the single-channel video installation SaF05 by Turner Prize winner Charlotte Prodger (Bournemouth, 1974). Prodger is regarded as one of todays most original time-based media artists. The video installation SaF05 was previously on view during the 2019 La Biennale di Venezia where Prodger represented Scotland, and was produced in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum presentation partner If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. SaF05 draws upon multiple sourcesarchival, scientific and diaristicand combines footage from a number of geographical locations (the Scottish Highlands, the Great Basin Desert (western US), the Okavango Delta (Botswana) and the Ionian Islands of Greece). SaF05 is named after a rare maned lioness that figures in the work as a cipher for queer ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born June 13, 1935. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. In this image: Workers build 'The Mastaba', an outdoor work made up of over 7000 stacked barrels by Bulgarian artist Christo on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 11, 2018. Niklas HALLEN / AFP.
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