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Six examples from Gerhard Richters 31-work Mood series flank a doorway to his latest sculpture, which suspends three panes of clear glass nearly 10 feet tall from a steel armature. The German artist says the 14 paintings here are among his last and even so, their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning. (via David Zwirner via The New York Times)
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past several years, prolific, celebrated German painter Gerhard Richter has twice figured prominently in art world news. In 2017, he announced that he had made his last paintings, a series of 47 abstractions. He was 85 and said he found painting tiring; forthwith, he would devote his energies to drawing. Then last fall, it was announced that Richter had left his longtime New York representative, the Marian Goodman Gallery, where he had shown since 1983, for a younger blue-chip franchise, David Zwirner in Chelsea. These unexpected developments meet in Richters current show in New York: His first appearance with Zwirner presents 14 canvases from his final series as well as three recent series of works on paper, a total of 76, all 8-by-11 inches, and one of his austere glass sculptures. Occupying four spaces on the ground floor of Zwirners main headquarters, this is a beautiful show. It might be summed up, with ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its "VARIETY | Antiquities, Ethnographic, Fine Art" sale on Mar 19, 2023 9:00 AM CST. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine / Visual Art, more! Attic Black-Figure Column Krater - Deity Assemblage, TL. Estimate $9,000 - $13,500.
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| An extraordinary and alienating exhibition on deformed faces on view in Venice | | ATLAS Gallery now representing Terence Donovan | | Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens Torbjørn Rødland's first exhibition in South Korea | 
Francis Bacon, Tre Studi per il ritratto di Isabel Rawsthorne, 1965 (detail). Olio su tela. Ogni pannello: 35,5 x 30,5 cm. Complessivo 47 x 115,5 cm. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich UEA 37 © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/ SIAE /Artimage 2022 Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
VENICE.- De visi mostruosi non parlo, perché senza fatica si tengono a mente, so one reads between Leonardo da Vincis annotations in the Codice Atlantico and in the Treatise on Painting. Visitors will be impressed by these numerous exaggerated and grotesque heads made by the great artists active in northern Italy during the 16th and 18th century and on display in this extraordinary exhibition, promoted by the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation in Venice. This new ambitious project, led by the institution guided by Inti Ligabue, will be held at Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti from 28 January to 27 April 2023. It projects us into an alienating and intriguing world, collateral compared to the beauty, the ... More | | 
Josephine Florent, 1970. ©Terence Donovan Archive. Courtesy of Atlas Gallery.
LONDON.- Terence Donovan (1936 1996), now represented by ATLAS Photography Gallery, was one of the foremost photographers of his generation, with a career spanning almost 40 years. He came to prominence in London as part of a postwar renaissance in art, design and music, representing a new force in fashion and, later, advertising and portrait photography. Donovan operated at the heart of Londons swinging sixties, both as participant in and observer of the world he so brilliantly and incisively captured with his camera. Gifted with an unerring eye for the iconic as well as the transformative, Donovan was a master of his craft, a technical genius who pushed the limits of what was possible with a camera, but also as an accomplished artist. Donovan never had gallery representation in his lifetime, nor selling exhibitions. Always focused on future photo-shoots and assignments, he never went back to revisit and reprint past images ... More | | 
Torbjørn Rødland, Allegory of Painting no. 1, 2020. Chromogenic print on Kodak Endura paper, framed, Ed. 3/3 + 1 AP. Image 76 x 60 cm / 29 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. Frame 78.5 x 62.5 cm / 30 7/8 x 24 5/8 in © Torbjørn Rødland.
SEOUL.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting Metal Balm by the Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland, hosted by Taxa in Seoul. It is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and his first exhibition in South Korea. In his photographic works, Rødland explores motifs such as desire, transience, and transition. He creates images that link pop culture and everyday life and which, with their precisely composed stagings, leave a deeply psychological, often sacred impression. Through their sometimes surreal, sometimes drastic compositions, they immediately touch viewers, urging them to identify their content, to say what is actually in the picture. However, this need to find a language does not lead to a conclusive understanding, but rather always back into the picture. The eleven works on ... More |
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| When the light, shadow and stars aligned: Standing where Ansel Adams stood | | Rockwells long at White House are now at the heart of a family dispute | | Anne Eschapasse appointed new head of the McCord Stewart Museum | 
Ansel Adams, Georgia OKeeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1937 (detail). Gelatin silver print. Cantor Arts Center. The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, 2019.42.20. Used with permission of and © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
by Kim Beil
NEW YORK, NY.- Ahead of me, an arc of 12,000-foot peaks corralled the top of a canyon. On my left, the white crags of Glacier Ridge were colored by the setting sun. Only an hour of daylight remained. I was looking for a rock feature that goes unnamed on most maps, but is known by climbers as Horn Peak. It should have been just north of Elizabeth Pass in Californias Sierra Nevada. But with barely 2 miles until I reached the top of the trail, it was nowhere to be found. I had originally seen Horn Peak in a lesser-known Ansel Adams photograph called High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon ... More | | 
Norman Rockwell. Photo: Underwood & Underwood - Library of Congress.
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades, through seven presidential administrations starting with Jimmy Carter, four works by Norman Rockwell hung inside the White House, at times in a hallway not far from the Oval Office. The drawings, titled So You Want to See the President!, show members of Congress, military officers, a beauty-pageant winner and others waiting for an audience with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among those depicted in the drawings is Stephen T. Early, FDRs press secretary, to whom Rockwell gave the images in 1943. Last summer, as reported by Politico, the Rockwells suddenly disappeared from a White House wall, a decision vaguely attributed to a family request. Now, the contentiousness that drove that decision has become clear in legal filings that detail how those works came to be at the center of a bitter dispute within the Early family. The disagreement has ... More | | 
New President and Chief Executive Officer of the McCord Stewart Museum, Anne Eschapasse.
MONTREAL.- The McCord Stewart Museum recently announced the appointment of Anne Eschapasse as President and Chief Executive Officer. The new head of Montreals museum of social history will assume her position on April 17, 2023. Ms. Eschapasse is a seasoned manager with more than 20 years experience at renowned museums, chiefly in the United States, France and Canada. She has an impressive track record, having served as Deputy Director of Agence France Muséums at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, as Deputy Director of the Musée dart contemporain de Montréal and the National Gallery of Canada, and as Director of Productions and International Relations at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. It is with great joy that I accept the mandate from the McCord Stewart Museums Board of Trustees to write a new chapter for this unique institution in the Montreal, Quebec and ... More |
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| New York City Fire Museum opens new exhibition 'Colonial Firefighting & The American Revolution' | | Announcing the formation of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative | | Jailed in Egypt at 17, he wrote to survive and to share his long ordeal | 
Installation view from 'Colonial Firefighting & the American Revolution'.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York City Fire Museum has launched a new exhibition, Colonial Firefighting & the American Revolution, which presents the untold story of a group of volunteers, the colonial FDNY, that stood between New York and disaster during years of rampant arson, wars for North America, and the American Revolution. The exhibition now on display since March 15, 2023, and continuing to August 13, 2023, features multimedia, video animations, and 3D models that illustrate the major events of the colonial era, including a breathtaking video-animation of the devastating fire in 1776 that destroyed 500 buildings homes, churches, schools, stores, and factories. Among the artifacts on display are original artworks that depict the Wall of Wall Street, the first fire engines, 1770 New York neighborhoods, and maps as New York City grew. Together the art, the artifacts, and the animations re-create the life of New York in the maelstrom of ... More | | 
Robert Indiana. Photo by Dennis Griggs. Courtesy of Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative.
NEW YORK, NY.- Simon Salama-Caro, who began working as a gallerist with Robert Indiana in 1988, devoting the next few decades to safeguarding and advancing Indianas artistic achievement, has announced the formation of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, LLC. Simon Salama-Caro is preparing the Catalogue Raisonné of Robert Indianas paintings and sculpture 1955-2007, to be published online in 2023. Simon Salama-Caro said, The Legacy Initiative continues the efforts my family and I have made over many years to foster a widespread understanding of Robert Indianas achievement as one of the great artists of his time. From 1995 onwards, Salama-Caro worked with Indiana as his exclusive world-wide representative for the authorized production, sale, and promotion of such Indiana sculpture series as LOVE (1966), ART (1972), AHAVA (1977), ONE Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers) ... More | | 
Abdelrahman ElGendy, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree, in Pittsburgh, Pa. on Nov. 1, 2022. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)
by Aida Alami
NEW YORK, NY.- Abdelrahman ElGendy envisioned the ending of his book would be inspiring, despite all the horrors he would have to recount. Starting at age 17, ElGendy spent six years and three months in squalid prisons in Egypt, and one way he survived, he said, was to imagine the memoir he would publish if he were ever freed. He knew the harrowing abuses he witnessed and endured during his detention including guards whipping prisoners and beating them with batons and wooden chair legs would make for a powerful story, if hard to read and even harder to share. But the thought of the book also gave him an existential purpose at a time when his life was little more than suffering. He knew he didnt want his memoir to be about only pain and degradation. The idea ... More |
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| A major new contemporary art exhibition opens at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery Exeter | | Solo exhibition of recent works by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge opens at Workplace | | Tony Cragg exhibition at the Gallery at Windsor in Florida open until May 19 | 
GhostDuck by Caroline Achaintre.
EXETER.- Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene brings these artists together in a major new exhibition at RAMM that responds to and engages directly with museum collections, specifically the Dartmoor Cauldron, once owned by the self-identified Witch of Dartmoor Elizabeth Webb. The Anthropocene epoch is a proposed definition of geologic time, describing this current period when human activity has had and is having a significant impact on the planet's ecosystems. The works in Earth Spells express a visceral, emotional response to the climate crisis, suggesting new spiritual relationships with the land, especially in Devon and Cornwall. Dartmoor is widely known as a place for self-healing and shamanistic practices with its Neolithic stone circles and burial mounds. Through the artist's performances, installations and provocations, Earth Spells invites the viewer to consider ... More | | 
Eric Bainbridge, Artisan, 2021, Glass, ceramic, fibreglass/resin, gold leaf, 61x10x10 cm, Photo by Tom Carter, Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.
LONDON.- Workplace is presenting PLUCKPLUCK, a solo exhibition of recent works by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge. The exhibition draws on Bainbridges interest in the inherent potential for meaning that is woven into everyday objects and brings together two distinct bodies of work to be exhibited for the first time. Brightly coloured vertical forms, arranged precariously through the gallery, are revealed on closer inspection to be combinations of glassware and ceramics collected by Bainbridge from second-hand shops and markets. These high gloss, often translucent, domestic vases, cups, and ornaments are fused together by garish, viscous resin paste in combinations that hover uneasily between the beautiful and the absurd. Downstairs, a diverse array ... More | | 
Tony Cragg at Windsor. Photo: Aric Attas.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Works on Paper, an exhibition by the leading contemporary sculptor Sir Tony Cragg is now open at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida. The exhibition, which runs until May 19, is curated by art historian Dr Jon Wood and includes bronze, steel and glass sculptures, and works on paper in the gallery as well as a large-scale fiberglass sculpture sited in the communitys gardens on 472 acres of a lush barrier island located between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean. Windsor co-founder and Creative Director for The Gallery at Windsor, the Hon. Hilary M. Weston hosted an exclusive weekend to celebrate the opening. The guest list included Windsor members and leading figures from the international art world, including Dame Julia Peyton-Jones, Dr Arne Ehmann, Matthew Teitelbaum, Christine and ... More |
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 The 2023 edition of RSA New Contemporaries features 57 emerging artists and architectsEDINBURGH.- RSA New Contemporaries, supported by Walter Scott & Partners Ltd, represents the Royal Scottish Academys commitment to supporting and promoting contemporary art and architecture in Scotland. Now in its 14th year, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see some of the best emerging talent in Scotland under one roof. Showcasing 57 graduates selected from the 2021 degree shows, the exhibition will feature a diverse array of painting, sculpture, film-making, photography, printmaking, installation, performance and architecture. Exhibition Convenor, Annie Cattrell RSA, made the selection of exhibitors with assistance from fellow Academicians and representatives from the five main colleges of art. The five Scottish schools of architecture are each represented by graduates selected by Architecture Convenor Rab ... More  New major exhibition announced with public call out for iconic pieces of fashion historyLONDON.- The Museum of London Docklands unveiled plans for its major exhibition, Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style (13 October 2023-14 April 2024). For the first time, the exhibition will uncover the major contribution of Jewish designers in making London an iconic fashion city. From East End tailors to the couture salons of the West End, the exhibition tells the story of Jewish designers, makers and retailers responsible for some of the most recognisable looks of the 20th century. Those who fought against the odds to become leading figures in their industries, founded retail chains still present on the high street today, and whose businesses boosted the British post-war economy. Featuring fashion and textiles, oral histories, objects, ephemera and photography, Fashion City will use the places and spaces ... More  A new exhibition opens in the house and garden at ChatsworthCHATSWORTH.- Chatsworth has always been a centre for creativity, with successive generations of the Cavendish family commissioning art and design contemporary to their times. Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth, which will be on display in the house and garden from 18 March to 1 October 2023, reflects on that history and introduces new works to the house and garden, continuing this legacy into the present day. Co-curated with writer, historian and curator, Glenn Adamson, the exhibition places contemporary works in direct relationship to the historic design at Chatsworth, creating unexpected connections with the houses architecture, interiors, furniture, ceramics, as well its essential materials of glass, stone, wood, and light. The sixteen contemporary artists and designers featured in the exhibition are: Ini Archibong, ... More  A tenor's secrets to 'Lohengrin': Golf and a blunt spouseNEW YORK, NY.- Piotr Beczala, tan from a recent trip to Mexico and hungry for a roast beef sandwich, walked offstage after the first act of Wagners Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night and bounded for his dressing room. It was intermission, and Beczala, the tenor in the title role, was preparing for one of the evenings biggest challenges: maintaining his voice and energy during his characters 90-minute break between the first and second acts. You have to keep the attitude; you have to keep the tension, he said. You have to do something, or else you will lose it all. Standing by a piano in his dressing room, he sang bits from other operas, including Puccinis Turandot, which he will perform in Zurich this summer. He practiced passages from Lohengrin, working through some of its lowest notes. In between, he took time ... More  Forum Gallery features exhibition Modernist to Contemporary in 'The Figure in Black and White'NEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery opened The Figure in Black and White, an exhibition of expressive figurative paintings, works on paper and textiles in grayscale by more than thirty artists from Modernist to Contemporary. The Figure in Black and White at Forum Gallery started Thursday, March 16, and will continue through Saturday, April 22, 2023. Family portraits are the subject of a large- scale four-figure charcoal drawing fresh from the studio of William Beckman, a psychologically-charged painting by Gregory Gillespie and a whimsical work in charcoal, feathers and gold leaf by Susan Hauptman. Moments of intimacy and quiet contemplation are experienced when viewing single portraits rendered by the sensitive hand of artists including Steven Assael, William Bailey, Robert Bauer, Claudio Bravo, Joseph Fioretti, Joseph ... More  Magenta Plains announces its representation of artist Rachel RossinNEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Rossin (b. 1987, West Palm Beach, FL),now represented by Magenta Plains, lives and works in New York and is an internationally renowned artist and programmer whose multi-disciplinary practice has established her as a pioneer in the field of virtual reality. Rossins work blends painting, sculpture, new media and more to create digital landscapes that address the impact of technology on human psychology, embodiment, sovereignty, and phenomenology. The New York Times has stated Ms. Rossin has achieved something, forging a connection between abstract painting and augmented perception that opens up a fourth dimension that existed only in theory for earlier painters. Rachel Rossin's works have been exhibited at prestigious institutions around the world; including the KW Institute of ... More  Lance Reddick, star of 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' dies at 60NEW YORK, NY.- Lance Reddick, a prolific actor who gained fame playing a police commander on the Baltimore crime drama The Wire and later had prominent roles in the John Wick movie franchise and the Amazon series Bosch, died on Friday. He was 60. His death was confirmed by his publicist, Mia Hansen. She did not say where he died or cite a cause. Reddick was having some success as a stage actor when, in 1996, he began landing small roles on New York Undercover, The West Wing and other television series, as well as some TV movies. Even then he was often playing law enforcement figures, and he would be doing so when his breakthrough came in 2002: He was cast as Lt. Cedric Daniels, the principled head of the investigation unit, on The Wire, the sprawling HBO series that was praised for its realistic and often ... More  For this classical piano star, a detour is business as usualPALM DESERT, CALIF.- Jean-Yves, when did you start playing the piano? Michael Feinstein asked from the stage of the McCallum Theater here on a recent Friday night. I started when I was 5 years old, said star pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, whose instrument was interlocked with Feinsteins for their cabaret-style show, Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More? Oh, me too, Feinstein responded. We both took a different path with our approach to the piano, Thibaudet continued, reading from an iPad on his music stand. I studied classical music And I, Feinstein said, facing the audience, studied nothing. There was laughter throughout the auditorium, while onstage, Thibaudet looked tickled. Speaking during a concert, beyond introducing an encore, was new for him. But he was warming up to it quickly. ... More  How they staged a little girl's inner universeNEW YORK, NY.- At Theater Row in Manhattan, a gigantic notebook, filled with lines of type, stands open onstage. As the audience gazes at the pages, the letters refuse to stay still. They push together and pull apart, all the while bobbing like drowning swimmers. Rubbing your eyes wont help. This moment from Fish in a Tree, a world premiere from New York City Childrens Theater, reveals the way a social studies textbook appears to Ally Nickerson, the plays 8-year-old heroine. Although Ally doesnt know it yet, she has dyslexia, a learning disability that, according to the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, affects 20% of the population. The goal was to give our audience a real picture of what its like, said Barbara Zinn Krieger, the companys artistic director, who consulted more than a dozen experts on dyslexia while writing ... More  Major touring exhibition Jerwood Survey III to take place across galleries in England, Scotland and Wales in 2024-2025LONDON.- Jerwood Survey is a major biennial touring exhibition led by Jerwood Arts that presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists from across the UK, providing a distinctive snapshot of current artistic concerns and approaches in the visual arts. It spans a wide breadth of disciplines and takes a non-institutional approach to selection by inviting leading artists to nominate the most outstanding early-career artists making work today. Jerwood Arts announced the partners for the next iteration, Jerwood Survey III, led in partnership with Southwark Park Galleries in London.The exhibition will launch at Southwark Park Galleries in March 2024, before touring to g39 in Cardiff and Site Gallery in Sheffield ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Josef Albers was born March 19, 1888. Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 - March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century. In this image: Color Study. Gouache on paper, 7 1/16 x 10 3/16 inches (18 x 25.8 cm) © 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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