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Hauser and Wirth. Courtesy Art Basel.
BASEL.- War is raging in Ukraine. Stocks are down 20%; inflation is up more than 8%. The crypto economy is collapsing. But back in the bubble of the international art world, the wealthy, for the moment at least, appear to be on a spending spree. Following on from Mays bumper two-week series of marquee auctions in New York that raised more than $2.5 billion, collectors were on the hunt for further desirable modern and contemporary works at the 52nd edition of the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, which opened to VIP guests Tuesday. An iconic Spider sculpture by artist Louise Bourgeois, priced at $40 million, was announced as the biggest of numerous big-ticket sales. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this was the first in-person, full-scale Art Basel fair held in Switzerland in its customary June slot since 2019. A slightly reduced edition, held last year in September, was hampered by an unfamiliar date and continuing COVID-19 restrictions. September was down, New Y ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Koenig Galerie. Courtesy Art Basel
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| Pat Steir exhibition opens at LGDR Paris | | Claude Rutault, master of the painted word, is dead at 80 | | Historic Rodin exhibition opens in the United States | 
Pat Steir. Red from Black to White, 2022. Oil on canvas, 108 Ã 108 inches (274.3 Ã 274.3 cm).
PARIS.- LGDR opened an exhibition of new works by Pat Steir. On view now, at the gallerys Paris space at 4 Passage Saint-Avoye through July 15, Pat Steir presents the most recent developments in the acclaimed abstract painters ongoing experimentation with gesture, color, and chromatic perception. Beginning her career in the mid 1960s, Steir was among the first wave of women abstract artists to gain prominence in New York as a vital figure of the avant-garde. Her philosophical and conceptual approach to painting was embraced in Paris and throughout France, culminating in solo exhibitions at the Musée dArt Contemporain de Lyon (1990) and Centre National dArt Contemporain, Grenoble (1992). Pat Steir follows recent groundbreaking installations of the artists work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (201921), and Long Museum, Shanghai (2021). For Color Wheel ... More | | 
Exhibition view, monochrome 5 sur une grille de marelle, Fondation CAB.
NEW YORK, NY.- Claude Rutault, a French artist whose work stood at the intersection of painting and conceptual art, died May 27 at a retirement home in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, near Paris. He was 80. His daughter, Ninon Rutault, said that he had suffered from Alzheimers disease for about a year and a half, but that the cause of death was not known. Claude Rutault, who spent most of his career in Paris, was much better known in Europe than in the United States, partly because he didnt speak English and rarely traveled, and because his work was more frequently exhibited there. He became famous in the 1970s for what he called his dé-finition/méthode paintings, which were in fact sets of instructions for making a painting. One of his signature protocols, as they were also called, was to paint a canvas the same color as the wall on which it would hang. He did not do this himself; rather, he enlisted a charge-taker an art collector, ... More | | 
Auguste Rodin (French, 18401917), Cupid and Psyche, before 1886. Marble with original wood base. Iris Cantor Collection.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- While there has been much consideration of Auguste Rodins reputation in France and throughout Europe, less attention has been paid to his legacy in the United States. Organized by the Clark Art Institute, Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, presents one of the largest Rodin exhibitions in the United States in the last forty years. Featuring some fifty sculptures and twenty-five drawings, including both familiar masterpieces and lesser-known works of the highest quality, the exhibition tells the story of the collectors, agents, art historians, and critics who endeavored to make Rodin known in America and considers the artists influence and reputation in the U.S. from 1893 to the present. Rodin in the United States is on view at the Clark Art Institute June 18 through September 18, 2022. The exhibition will then travel to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, where ... More |
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| Christie's announces 20th / 21st Century: Paris Evening Sale & Post War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | | From the wreckage of Caribbean migration, a new kind of beauty | | Show focuses on major watercolors by American artists that were painted in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America | 
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), Composition. Estimate: EUR 180,000 EUR 250,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
PARIS.- On 28 June, the 20/21 London to Paris sale series returns after the huge success of previous editions. Celebrating the cultural dialogue between Paris and London, the season offers a broad selection of 20th and 21st century art, including exceptional collections and remarkable masterpieces. Etienne Sallon and Joséphine Wanecq, Heads of Sale: For this new edition of the 20/21 London to Paris sale series, we are very pleased to be able to present a strong selection of artists who have left their mark on the 20th and 21st centuries that include Yves Klein, Jean Paul Riopelle, Kazuo Shiraga, and Pierre Soulages. With the last edition in June 2021 reaching nearly 200m in sales, we are confident about the importance and appeal that the two capitals represent in the international contemporary art landscape. Yves Kleins Cosmogonie sans titre, (COS31) (1960, estimate: 2,500,0003,500,000) will lead the 20th / 21st Century: ... More | | 
Wendy Nanans Idyllic Marriage, 1990, an altar piece of papier-mache and oil paint, which depicts Krishna marrying the Virgin Mary and reflects the mixing of religious traditions, at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, May 31, 2022. An Rong Xu/The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- It was curiosity about his own familys fraught history of migration, from India to Trinidad, that persuaded Andil Gosine, a curator, artist and professor, to begin thinking about ways to connect with other artists who shared his history. Gosines great-great-grandparents went there as indentured laborers, part of a wave of more than half a million migrants from South Asia and, to a much lesser extent, China, who came to the Caribbean from 1838 to 1920. These men and women, desperately impoverished, were brought to replace people of African origin who had been forced to work on plantations until slavery was abolished in the British Empire. The new arrivals entered into what they were told were short-term contracts ... More | | 
Robinson, Patio Leones Alhambra.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hispanic Society Museum & Library is presenting a new exhibition, American Travelers: A Watercolor Journey Through Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. The show focuses on major watercolors by American artists that were painted in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, in dialogue with decorative art objects from the HSM&L collections from the actual places and monument depicted in the watercolors. The show includes a suite of contemporary watercolor paintings by California-based artist Timothy J. Clark (b. 1951), best known for his large watercolor paintings. The exhibition is on view at the HSM&L in the East Building Gallery from June 17, 2022 to October, 16 2022. American Travelers: A Watercolor Journey Through Spain, Portugal, and Mexico brings to the spotlight the museums robust collection of watercolors by United States artists painted in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Works by Childe Hassam, Max Kuehne, George Wharton ... More |
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| Rose B. Simpson thinks in clay | | Exhibition explores a range of styles among The Huntington's premier collection of British drawings | | In Dakar, African art speaks in all its voices | 
Artist Rose Simpson works in her studio in Española, N.M. on May 9, 2022. Minesh Bacrania/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
ESPAÃOLA, NM.- Artist Rose B. Simpson was sitting in her 1985 Chevrolet El Camino inside her metalworking shop, trying to get the car to start. She popped the hood, turned the ignition and then lightly pumped the gas pedal. After she repeated this a few times, the car started to rumble loudly. It wasnt her everyday car, but closer to a work of art she has made over the past 10 years, here in the self-proclaimed lowrider capital of the world. Simpson repaired large dents by learning how to shape metal at an auto body school. She replaced the engine with one she bought in a racing shop in Phoenix. And she painted the exterior with a black-on-black, gloss-and-matte geometric design and named the car Maria in homage to celebrated Tewa potter Maria Martinez of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, who died in 1980. Maria is as close as Ive come to making traditional pottery, said Simpson, 38, an enrolled member of the Santa Clara Pueblo (Khapo ... More | | 
Gwen John (18761939), Two Hatted Women in Church, 1920s. Matte water-based transparent paint on wove paper, 8 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- 100 Great British Drawings, a major exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, traces the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, spotlighting The Huntingtons important collection of more than 12,000 works that represent the great masters of the medium. On view June 18 through Sept. 5, 2022, in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery, the exhibition features rarely seen treasures, including works by William Blake, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, and J. M. W. Turner, as well as examples by artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and early 20th-century modernism. A fully illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition, examining for the first time the strength and diversity of The Huntingtons British drawings collection, a significant portion of which has never been published before. The Huntington is the sole venue for the exhib ... More | | 
A woman views Culture Lost and Learned by Heart Part 2 by Adji Dieye, which features a metal lattice that stretches cloth that has been screen-printed with vintage photographs, at the Dakar Biennales official exhibition at the former Palace of Justice, in Dakar, Senegal, May 21, 2022. Ricci Shryock/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
DAKAR.- Despite the rise to prominence of African contemporary art, its terms are still largely influenced by foreign validators: the mainly Western museums, galleries, collectors and auction houses whose attention anoints stars and assigns value. In African cities, state support for the arts can be anemic as a result of decades of budgetary pressure, notably from lenders like the International Monetary Fund. Foreign cultural agencies like the Institut Français or Goethe-Institut are often the major arts presenters, and thus gatekeepers. But every two years, the tables turn. For the five hectic weeks of the Dakar Biennale of African Contemporary Art, cultural producers from the continent and its diaspora converge here for the largest, densest artistic gathering ... More |
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| Duke Riley: Grand master trash | | Make the art yourself! Moderna Museet presents Jeppe Hein's Who are you really? | | A few hints on household taste from Charles Eastlake and Paul Reeves | 
The artist Duke Riley collects trash near Shell Bank Creek, in New York, June 12, 2022. Peter Fisher/The New York Times.
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Duke Riley isnt exactly sure why he had the idea to turn a plastic tampon applicator into a fishing lure, but he knows one thing for certain: It works. He put it to the test one summer day on a buddys boat in Block Island Sound, and, with his pastel bait bouncing along the ocean floor, pulled up a sizable fluke. It was a keeper I definitely ate it, he said. The applicator tube had first washed up ashore, part of the many tons of seaborne trash that Riley, a Brooklyn artist known to scavenge New Yorks waterways for materials and inspiration, has collected over the years. Putting this spent plastic product to use as fish food that was some DIY upcycling. Putting it into the Brooklyn Museum of Art: That ... More | | 
Jeppe Hein, 2022 Photo: Jan Strempel.
STOCKHOLM.- The Danish artist Jeppe Heins exhibition Who are you really? is co-created by the visitors. At Moderna Museet, in the building and the entrance plaza, the audience will find several stations that invite visitors of all ages to play, take part in physical activities and sensory experiences. Welcome to the spring and summer exhibition where you can join in and leave your mark, and perhaps find out who you really are! Jeppe Hein (b. 1974) is a Berlin-based artist who has created numerous permanent works and exhibitions all over the world in the past two decades. Increasingly, he involves the public in his work, in a highly concrete sense. Since 2013, following a period of illness due to overwork, his art has taken on a distinctly existential and explorative dimension. For the current exhibition at Moderna Museet, the director Gitte Ãrskou, curator of the current exhibition, stipulated certain conditi ... More | | 
Mary Ireland (1891-C.1980), The Embroidered Kimono', dated 1935. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull.
EDINBURGH.- Lyon & Turnbulls June 28 sale Hints on Household Taste: Paul Reeves - takes its title from one of the most influential design books of the Victorian age and its content from one of the most influential design dealers of the new Elizabethan era. Charles Eastlake (1833-1906) wrote his polemical self-help guide to home furnishing more than one and a half centuries ago. But many of his thoughts on the use of materials and craftsmanship appear remarkably prescient. In Hints on Household Taste, he asked the rhetorical question What use is it to decorate the interior of our country-houses if we are to permit ugliness within them? Reacting against decorative excess and the social and environmental ills of the industrial revolution, he advocated relatively simple furniture, made in solid wood by traditional methods of manufacture. He aimed ... More |
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The Completed Restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library and the new Morgan Garden
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 Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of celebrated European films, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Jean-Louis Trintignant, a leading French actor of subtle power who appeared in some of the most celebrated European films of the last 50 years, among them Bernardo Bertoluccis The Conformist, Eric Rohmers My Night at Mauds and Claude Lelouchs A Man and a Woman, died Friday at his home in southern France. He was 91. His wife, Marianne Hoepfner Trintignant, confirmed the death to Agence France-Presse. The actor had announced in 2018 that he had prostate cancer and was retiring. Trintignant seemed to specialize in playing the flawed Everyman and revealing his characters depths slowly. Jean-Louis Trintignant has been, for better than half a century, one of the great stealth actors of the movies, critic Terrence Rafferty wrote in The New York Times in 2012. He knows how to catch ... More  New York Philharmonic chooses arts veteran as leaderNEW YORK, NY.- Come this fall, the New York Philharmonic will have a transformed home, when David Geffen Hall reopens after a $550 million renovation. In the not-so-distant future, the orchestra will also get a new music director to replace its departing conductor. On Friday, the orchestra announced another change: Gary Ginstling, executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, will next year replace Deborah Borda, a revered, dynamic figure at the Philharmonic, as its president and CEO. The appointment signals the start of a new era for the Philharmonic, Americas oldest symphony orchestra, which is working to attract new audiences as it recovers from the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic. Although the orchestra seems to have weathered the worst of the crisis, the pandemic has brought ... More  New book offers a visually stunning portrait of a nearly abandoned Japanese islandNEW YORK, NY.- Teshima is one of the 28 islands of the Shiwaku Islands in Japan.In former times the island has been famous for its navy, and the islands shipbuilding and ship handling skills were valued and played a major role in maritime distribution. Today, there are only a dozen or so islanders living onTeshima.The terraced fields that once covered the mountains have been swallowed up by bamboo forest, including the stone walls that had been left.The islands last fisherman passed away at the end of last year, and his fishing boat remains tied up in the harbor, swaying in the waves. Listening to the islands quiet sleep without disturbing it will lead us to face the present situation of Japan as an island nation. From the essay by Matthias Harder: Japan officially comprises more than 6,800 islands,most of them very small; only about ... More  Julien's Auctions announces The Mob: A History of Organized Crime's Most Notorious ArtifactsBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced The Mob: A History of Organized Crimes Most Notorious Artifacts, a rare historic collection of items owned by Jay Bloom, founder of the Las Vegas Mob Experience, from the American organized crime figures that have fascinated the public for nearly a century. This historic memorabilia event will take place on Sunday August 28th, 2022, at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and live online juliensauctions.com. The auction will feature many items that were exhibited at Jay Blooms Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Hundreds of personal artifacts from the most infamous gangsters and crime family members, Ben Bugsy Siegel, Meyer The Little Man Lansky, Tony The Ant Spilotro, Sam MoMo Giancana, Charlie Lucky Luciano ... More  Garry Trudeau auctions 'Doonesbury' NFTs and signed prints to benefit Ukrainians displaced by warDALLAS, TX.- Garry Trudeaus Doonesbury has been around long enough to outlast many newspapers that once carried the Pulitzer Prize-winning strip 52 years and counting, its run now limited to the Sunday strips that still arrive like weekly Christmas gifts. And during that half-century, the strip has served myriad functions: as intimate narrative, sharp satire, unsparing political commentary, wry cultural chronicle. Its like opening a Russian novel, right? says Trudeau of the strip he began while still in college and for which he has created 73 characters over that celebrated half-century. Renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd would undoubtedly concur with its creators assessment. In 2010 Kidd wrote in Rolling Stone that Doonesbury, whenviewed as a single, uninterrupted work of historical fiction
reads less like 14,000- ... More  Brighton Museum & Art Gallery opens 'Goal Power! Women's Football 1894-2022' exhibitionBRIGHTON.- The Barclays FA Womens Super League Trophy was unveiled at a brand-new exhibition celebrating womens football at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The trophy was on show with a dream squad of inspirational women representing over eight generations involved in the womens game. The Super League cup has been loaned to the exhibition for two weeks by The Football Association as part of the celebrations around the Womens Euro championship taking place this summer. Equivalent to the mens Premier League and currently held by Chelsea FC Women, the trophy will be in the Goal Power! Womens Football 1894 2022 exhibition until 29 June 2022. Guests included Eileen Bourne, the first woman to be sent off for swearing in a football match, 86-year-old June Jaycocks who was one of the earliest volunteers ... More  Brontez Purnell brings his disparate parts back to the dance stageNEW YORK, NY.- Im such a Cancer, Brontez Purnell said. Double Sagittarius too. Just so pointlessly optimistic. With so many projects happening at once, Purnell, who turns 40 in July, has no reason not to be. Although he has been creating music, films, dance pieces and written works for years, it was his 2021 book, 100 Boyfriends, that gave him a heightened cultural visibility. Part memoir, part novel, part ethnographic study, the book creates an impressive, no-holds-barred map of his sexual adventures and misadventures in Northern California and earned him a Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction, awarded this week. He maps those experiences back onto his body, a site of his art, as evidenced by his stunning array of tattoos. With Purnell, who was born in Alabama and now lives in the Bay Area, there is practically no distinction ... More  LAUNCH Gallery exhibits works by John Koller, Nano Rubio and Michael Freitas WoodLOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is presenting Surface Play featuring John Koller, Nano Rubio and Michael Freitas Wood. These artists share a common love for and ability to build up their chosen surfaces with precision and a true sense of deeper purpose. The paint and other mediums expertly applied expose inner truths while attempting to shield us from many of todays complex challenges. These profound expressions respectfully acknowledge our past while filling us with optimism and joy as we curiously and cautiously move toward a new light. Michael Freitas Wood has been contemplating the cycle of life and the importance of centering ourselves in our truths - physically, mentally and spiritually. The mandala designs he incorporates serve as both a window to the world and a mirror held up to oneself. He skillfully ... More  Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence presents an exhibition with a dozen works from its collectionSAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE.- For the second year, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence presents an exhibition, curated by Grégory Lang, with a dozen works from its collection. This selection brings together minimalist works by American (Dan Flavin, John McCracken, Kenneth Noland, Keith Sonnier, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt) and European (Josef Albers, Martin Barré, André Cadere, Imi Knbel, Claude Rutault, Heimo Zobernig) artists. The contemporary relevance of this historical ensemble is underlined by a recent work by the artist Ann Veronica Janssens, which ties in with her solo exhibition running at the same time at the Fondation Saint-Paul de Vence. Each of these works is part of a spatial composition of a musical nature. Thus, the exhibition unfolds as a set of geometries dividing canvases and lines of different ... More  Museum of Broadway announces opening date; Tickets on sale nowNEW YORK, NY.- Today, tickets for the Museum of Broadway go on sale exclusively through Audience Rewards, with tickets going on sale to the public on June 21st at 10am EST. Fans who have signed up through the Museum of Broadways website will have early access to purchase their tickets on June 17th. These timed tickets start at $39, and a portion of every ticket sold will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The Museum also released the following video, giving fans a sneak peek at what they can expect to see when the Museum opens this fall: https://vimeo.com/719984238/cf41d3cbde Co-founders Julie Boardman and Diane Nicoletti tease that The Museum of Broadway will include exhibits and immersive experiences featuring The Ziegfeld Follies, Oklahoma!, The Wiz, Aint Misbehavin, and Rent, among ... More  Getty debuts two new works by acclaimed artist Tacita DeanLOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents the West Coast debut of two new works by acclaimed artist Tacita Dean: a 16mm film inspired by the grounds of the Getty Center, and a portfolio that mines the rich and varied holdings of the Getty Research Institute. The two works exemplify a long-standing creative relationship between the artist and Getty. Dean has long been an outspoken champion of 16mm analog film that became popular among documentary filmmakers during the second half of the 20th century. Combining the deeply saturated colors yielded by the mediums photochemical emulsion with long takes and tight framing, she creates contemplative films that have become one of her signature forms of expression. My year spent at the Getty Research Institute introduced me to Los Angeles, where I have chosen ... More |
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Edvard Munch
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Lee Krasner died June 19, 1984. Lenore "Lee" Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. In this image: Installation view. Photo by: Diego Flores / Paul Kasmin Gallery. © 2017 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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