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The Long Room, at the heart of a $95 million conservation project at Trinity College Dublins Old Library, May 12, 2022. The school, where some of Irelands most ancient and valuable books are stored, is a popular tourist attraction. Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times.
by Ed OLoughlin
DUBLIN.- The Long Room, with its imposing oak ceiling and two levels of bookshelves laden with some of Irelands most ancient and valuable volumes, is the oldest part of the library in Trinity College Dublin, in constant use since 1732. But that remarkable record is about to be disrupted, as engineers, architects and conservation experts embark on a 90 million euro ($97 million) program to restore and upgrade the colleges Old Library building, of which the Long Room is the main part. The library, visited by as many as 1 million people a year, had been needing repairs for years, but the 2019 fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was an urgent reminder that it needed to be protected, according to those involved in the conservation effort. We already knew that the Old Library needed work because of problems with the building, said professor Veronica Campbell, who initiated the project. When we saw Notre Dame burning, we realized, Oh, my God, we need to do somethi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nathalie Obadia is presenting The Traveler Walking On Tiptoes, the first exhibition of the artist Guillaume Leblon in her Brussels gallery. Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris / Brussels.
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| Mnuchin Gallery opens its first exhibition dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg | | "Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene" on view at the Guggenheim | | First retrospective exhibition of Etel Adnan alongside works by Vincent van Gogh | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Favor-Rites (Urban Bourbon), 1988. Silkscreen ink and acrylic on mirrored and enameled aluminum, 120 5/8 x 96 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches (306.5 x 246 x 3.8 cm). © 2022 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz, courtesy of The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Mnuchin Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mnuchin Gallery is presenting Robert Rauschenberg: Exceptional Works, 1971-1999, the gallerys first exhibition dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg. On view from May 3-June 11, 2022, the show is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring a conversation on Rauschenberg between curator and critic Jeffrey Weiss and artist Kevin Beasley, with an introduction by Christopher Rauschenberg. Robert Rauschenberg is rightfully situated as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His use of found and experimental materials, collapsing of distinct artistic categories, and an eye towards collaboration and political activism have been inspiration for younger artists ... More | | 
Cecilia Vicuña, La mulata costeña de Colombia (The Mulata Costeña of Colombia), ca. 1977. Oil on canvas, 47 à 39 1/4 in. (119.4 à 99.7 cm). Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. Photo: Matthew Herrmann, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Cecilia Vicuña.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years. Showcasing Vicuñas artistic production from the late 1960s to today, this focused exhibition features new works specifically for this show and the breadth of her multidisciplinary practice, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, films, a site-specific Quipu (Knot) installation, and Ex-termination Living Quipu, a one-time performance in the museums rotunda commissioned by the Guggenheims Latin American Circle. The title of Vicuñas show, Spin Spin Triangulene, is a poetic creation based on new scientific discoveries ... More | | 
Etel Adnan, 2016. Courtesy Galerie Lelong. Photo: Fabrice Gibert.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum presents Colour as Language, a retrospective of work by artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021). The exhibition focuses on Adnans colourful paintings, which are presented alongside ten works by Vincent van Gogh, who was a source of inspiration for Adnan. Colour as Language was developed in close collaboration with the artist herself: before Adnans death in November 2021, the museum spoke with her on numerous occasions regarding her life, work, and Van Gogh. Her own words are a theme throughout the exhibition. Colour as Language explores the connection that both artists felt with nature, their intense use of colour as a form of expression, and the role of language in their lives and work. The exhibition is on display until 4 September 2022. Adnans work is inextricably linked with her mixed cultural background and the fact that she lived in so many different places around ... More |
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| 'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes | | Hirshhorn's Sam Gilliam exhibition spotlights his decades-long investigation into abstraction | | 20th/ 21st Century Art Sale series achieved a combined total of $231,529,651 at Christie's Asia | 
A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
by Manohla Dargis
CANNES.- The satire Triangle of Sadness, from Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme dOr at the 75th Cannes Film Festival at a ceremony here Saturday. A blunt, ugly sendup of class politics, the movie had sharply divided critics. The awards ceremony ran a relatively painless 90 or so minutes, another reminder that the emphasis at Cannes remains on the movies themselves, not the accompanying circus. Held inside the magnificent Grand Lumière Theater inside the festivals headquarters with the nine-person jury watching from the stage the awards confer critical legitimation and generate much-needed public relations for movies that, years into the pandemic, are headed into a still-difficult world for art cinema. ... More | | 
Sam Gilliam portrait by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This spring, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is presenting an exhibition by pioneering abstractionist artist Sam Gilliam. Between May 25 and Sept. 11, Sam Gilliam: Full Circle pairs a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with Rail (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorns permanent collection. Filling the museums second-floor inner-circle gallery, Gilliams first solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn reflects the breadth of his multilayered practice and mark the first exhibition in Gilliams chosen hometown of Washington, D.C., since 2007. Full Circle is organized by Evelyn C. Hankins, the Hirshhorns head curator. In the 60 years since moving to Washington, Gilliam has produced a prolific body of abstraction across media through which he has continually pursued new avenues of artistic expression. He initially rose ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Buste dhomme dans un cadre. Price Realised: HK$174,950,000/ US$22,383,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
HONG KONG.- On 26 27 May, Christies 20th/21st Century Art sale series established an exceptional sale total of HK$1,809,526,380/ US$231,529,651 (Evening Sale: HK$1,407,783,000/ US$180,116,966; 21st Century Art Day Sale: HK$232,268,280/ US$29,717,263; 20th Century Art Day Sale: HK$169,475,100/ US$21,695,423), and outstanding sell-through rates of 97% by lot and 91% by value. The sales attracted fervent global bidding from 19 countries across 3 continents, for diverse masterpieces by international established and rising artists, setting a total of 36 new world auction records. Evelyn Lin, Deputy Chairman and Co-Head of the 20th and 21st Century Art Department, Christies Asia Pacific, remarked, We are thrilled to once again lead the auction market in Asia, and to witness ... More |
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| 'Pistol' tells Steve Jones' story. With a touch of showbiz. | | Modern Art Oxford opens the first public solo exhibition in Europe of Ruth Asawa's work | | Christie's to offer two Andy Warhol screenprints of Queen Elizabeth II | 
Steve Jones, the guitarist for the English punk band the Sex Pistols, in London, May 26, 2022. Alex Ingram/The New York Times.
by Hugh Morris
LONDON.- For Steve Jones, direct has always been best. The Sex Pistols guitarist is known for rejecting what he describes as fancy Beatle chords in favor of a sound without frills, and for drunken retorts on prime time British television. This approach is at the fore in his 2016 book, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. In the introduction, he writes, Im not gonna come out of this smelling of roses, before detailing the rampant kleptomania of his late teens and his sex addictions. There are also details of the sexual abuse by his stepfather, his descent into addiction after the band collapsed and the near illiteracy that hampered him until well into his adult life. The book forms the basis for Pistol, a six-part series directed by Danny Boyle and arriving on FX/Hulu on Tuesday. The show stars Toby Wallace as Jones and Anson Boon as the Sex Pistols lead ... More | | 
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.040, Hanging Eight-and-a-Half Open Hyperbolic Shapes that Penetrate Each Other), c. 1956. Private collection. Photograph by Kerry McFate. Artwork © 2021 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / ARS, NY and DACS, London. Courtesy David Zwirner.
OXFORD.- Citizen of the Universe is the first public solo exhibition in Europe of the work of Ruth Asawa (b. 1926, Norwalk, CA d. 2013, San Francisco, CA). Focusing on a dynamic formative period in her life from 1945 to 1980, the exhibition gives audiences a unique experience of the artist and her work, exploring her legacy as an abstract sculptor crucial to modernism in the United States. The exhibition features her signature hanging sculptures in looped- and tied-wire and celebrates her holistic integration of art, education and community engagement, through which she called for an inclusive and revolutionary vision for arts role in society. Running parallel with the creation of her acclaimed sculptures Asawa was committed to arts education. This aspect of her practice will be explored in the exhibition through a selection of her drawing and ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Queen Elizabeth II, from: Reigning Queens (Royal Edition), 1985. Estimate: £250,000-350,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies announced two Andy Warhol screenprints of Queen Elizabeth II, on view within The Art of Literature: Auction Highlights Exhibition, part of London Now, taking place from 6 15 June. Created in 1985, Warhols Reigning Queens series brought together four ruling monarchs, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The series was issued in two editions, a standard edition of forty, and a Royal Edition of thirty with diamond dust. (Illustrated on page 1 right, blue screenprint), Queen Elizabeth II, from: Reigning Queens (Royal Edition), 1985, (estimate £200,000-300,000) and (illustrated on page 1 left, red screenprint), Queen Elizabeth II, from: Reigning Queens (Royal Edition), 1985, (estimate £250,000-350,000) both from the diamond dust Royal Edition. The source image for Warhols celebrated ... More |
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| Phillips' ULTRA/NEO series spotlights a diverse range of ultra-contemporary international talent | | Nohra Haime Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Julie Hedrick | | Exhibition features Christine Howard Sandoval's architectural drawings, sculptures and experimental film | 
Issy Wood, A junction, 2020. Oil on linen, 131 x 100 cm. Estimate: HK$ 900,000 -1,200,000/ US$ 115,000 - 154,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips presents the ULTRA/NEO themed series in its upcoming 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Hong Kong Sales on 21-22 June, which features a broadened group of up-and-coming international artists such as Javier Calleja, Edgar Plans, Rafa Macarrón, Issy Wood, Danielle Orchard, Katherine Bernhardt, Melissa Brown, Aboudia and Robert Nava. This follows the success of Phillips ULTRA/NEO series introduced in the Hong Kong Fall Sales last year, which shined a spotlight on a new generation of ultra-contemporary Asian artists. Works featured in the series were 100% sold and set multiple auction records for Susumu Kamijo, Izumi Kato, Atsushi Kaga, Ayako Rokkaku, Mayuka Yamamoto and Roby Dwi Antono. Charlotte Raybaud, Head of Evening Sale, Phillips Hong Kong, said: Building on the ... More | | 
Julie Hedrick's Ukraine is being sold to benefit Ukraine. The total value will go to them.
NEW YORK, NY.- Julie Hedrick explores the light energy from the Earths Sun in her new body of work, LIFE. The exhibition comes to Nohra Haime Gallery as a fresh sunrise we are collectively excited to see on the horizon after keeping to ourselves for two years. The exhibition is comprised of 17 paintings done in the past three years. They are based on her research of the solar coronal mass ejections and solar flares on a scale never measured before. She studied with astrologers and Geo-Astral scholars for the last few years who say we are now coming into a new age with massive shifts in energy with all the planets, especially earth with consciousness, energy and DNA upgrades plus new planets being discovered. The light energy radiating upon the earth and thus every living cell is extraordinary at this time. These meditations have brought these paintings into being. Light and energy says Hedrick. Julie Hedrick ... More | | 
Stretcher- For The Transportation of Water, 2021. Adobe mud, tape, steel, wood, wire, 54 x 56 x 27-1/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting the gallerys first exhibition with Vancouver-based Christine Howard Sandoval (b. Anaheim, CA, 1975) featuring the artists architectural drawings, sculptures and experimental film. Howard Sandovals embodied work confronts the complex history and innate interconnection of land and body. As she traces a path to her ancestral home, the artist scrutinizes the narrative of erasure in early North American settlers records and reassigns power through documentation of embedded Indigenous cultural practices. Her poetic oeuvre seeks to weave a collective awareness back to nature by means of a more cyclical and deepened relationship with land and place. The land, as an ever-evolving being, plays a central role in Howard Sandovals visual language. Taking adobe as her main medium, the artist explores ... More |
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 Morton L. Janklow, agent for best-selling authors, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Morton L. Janklow, the storied New York literary agent who struck megadeals with publishers for bestselling authors, ghostwritten celebrities, several presidents and a pope, and who influenced international book lists and the reading habits of millions for decades, died Wednesday at his home in Water Mill, New York. He was 91. The cause was heart failure, said Paul Bogaards, the president of Bogaards Public Relations, which works with Janklows company, Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Janklow was arguably Americas most powerful independent literary agent. His agency represented such hugely successful commercial writers as Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz. It also represented Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, as well as Pope ... More  The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens the most comprehensive survey of Nick Cave's work to dateCHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opened Nick Cave: Forothermore, the first career-spanning retrospective of internationally renowned, Chicago-based artist Nick Cave. The most comprehensive survey of Caves work to date, the exhibition is curated by Naomi Beckwith, former Manilow Senior Curator, MCA Chicago and is on view at the MCA from May 14 to October 2, 2022. Im thrilled to be sharing my careers work in my chosen hometown. I dont take the gravity of this moment for granted, said Cave. From the MCA to the DuSable and beyond, this community and city-wide project is the realization of a dream that could only happen in Chicago this way, with this brilliant team and throughout this great city. Running concurrently with Forothermore, Cave also debuts a new video work ... More  Artpace San Antonio announces Summer 2022 International Artists-in-ResidenceSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced the Summer 2022 International Artists-in-Residence, selected by guest curator Andy Campbell, Associate Professor of Critical Studies at USC's Roski School of Art and Design. Resident artists Hellen Ascoli (Guatemala City, Guatemala / Baltimore, Maryland), Jonesy (Los Angeles, California), and Betelhem Makonnen (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia / Austin, TX) began their residency on May 23, 2022, and will live and work at Artpace until July 25, 2022. Hellen Ascoli is a weaver, a word that encompasses art, craft, pedagogy, and transition. To move differently can make us think and feel different. Using the back-strap loom, Ascoli extends her body into a toolmaterialand connects to site, listening to its embedded and embodied knowledge. By situating herself within this specific ... More  John Moran Auctioneers announces its California Living post-sale resultsLOS ANGELES, CA.- On May 17, 2022, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and it was the perfect California day for John Moran Auctioneers to host their California Living sale. This finely curated selection offered a treasure trove of fine art and accessories in the California aesthetic everyone knows and loves. Major interest was given to paintings that illustrate the various breathtaking scenes the Golden State is known for. The luscious valley and mountain view depicted in the work of Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, View Down the Valley (lot 1094) had estimate of $3,000-5,000 but realized at $5,625 (including buyers premium). Lot 1134 was a calm capture of an ocean setting in Beach Houses, Belgium, by Armin Carl Hansen that was all in at $3750 (including buyers premium) blowing the estimate of $1,200-1,800 ... More  Creative Growth exhibition opens at Kohler Arts Center SHEBOYGAN, WI.- The first exhibition to present the history of the influential Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California, is on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from May 21, 2022 through May 21, 2023. Creative! Growth! surveys the work of eight key artists and others affiliated with Creative Growth, the preeminent center for artists with disabilities in the United States. Considering the organizations history and legacy through the lens of the present, Creative! Growth! focuses on work by artists who wereor remainaffiliated with Creative Growth, including Dwight Mackintosh, John Martin, Dan Miller, Tony Pedemonte, Judith Scott, William Scott, Nicole Storm, and Monica Valentine. Photographer and documentary filmmaker Cheryl Dunn presents a selection from her more than 20 years of documenting ... More  Christie's presents Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private CollectionNEW YORK, NY.- A celebration of the titan of American design at the turn of the century, Christies will offer Tiffany Masterworks from the Garden Museum: A Private Collection in a live sale on Friday, 10 June 2022 at Rockefeller Plaza. The dedicated single-owner sale presents one of the greatest Tiffany collections in existence amassed in the 1990s by Japanese businessman Mr. Takeo Horiuchi who endeavored to open a museum devoted to the American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany. The sale is led by the historically significant Wisteria Transom Window from Louis C. Tiffanys Long Island estate, the acclaimed Laurelton Hall (estimate: $700,000-1,000,000), the only remaining window from the iconic 7-pane transom in private hands. Additional important windows in the collection include the renown ... More  Exhibition at ADA Rome investigates the concept of appearance as an aspect of realityROME.- The meaning of the usual exhortation to go beyond appearances is unclear. In fact, choosing to appear in a certain way, in a certain circumstance, should say a lot about the essence of things. Would it not therefore be more accurate to say that appearances are a representation of reality itself? A slow and context-responsive process characterizes the work of Gaia Di Lorenzo, You are not alone, 2017 - 2022, whose research investigates the nature of things in their opposites - the fragile in the hard, the natural in the artificial - without privileging either aspect, but making them accomplices. Her artistic practice revolves around ecologies of adaptation, their role in processes of self-identification and power dynamics. Conceived as misleading representations of reality, her works are the product of a sedimentation of ideas ... More  Brian Gross Fine Art opens 'Willem de Looper: Stain Paintings 1968-1969'SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announced the opening of Willem de Looper: Stain Paintings 19681969, on Thursday, May 26th. A noted American Post-War painter from Washington D.C. who exhibited with artists of the Washington Color School movement, Willem de Looper (19322009) created nuanced, lyrical paintings through the repeated staining of thin layers of acrylic paint on unprimed canvas. Richly hued in emerald greens and lapis blues, with passages of vermillion, indigo, and chrome yellow, de Loopers colorful, transcendent paintings explore sublime beauty through sweeping passages of pigment. The exhibition will be on view through July 30, 2022. De Loopers stain paintings from the late 60s and early 70s are related to work of the founding Color School painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, ... More  The South Enta Montauk Foundation opens an exhibition of recent work by Faith RinggoldMONTAUK, NY.- The South Enta Montauk Foundation is presenting Faith Ringgold: Jazz Stories, an exhibition of recent work by one of the United States most important living artists. Featuring five of her signature Story Quilts, the presentation incorporates over twenty drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints from Ringgolds Jazz Stories series, which she began in 2004. Ringgolds renown stems in part from the wide range of media she incorporates into her practice, and this exhibition charts Ringgolds connection to jazz accros numerous techniques. For this exhibition, the South Etna Montauk Foundation has worked closely with ACA Galleries, which has long represented and championed Ringgolds work. Organized to complement Faith Ringgold: American People, her major retrospective at the New Museum ... More  A starry 'Into the Woods' will play Broadway this summerNEW YORK, NY.- A production of Into the Woods that garnered ecstatic reviews during a sold-out two-week run at New York City Center this month will transfer to Broadway this summer. The Broadway production, scheduled to run for just eight weeks, will again feature singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles as the Bakers Wife and Gavin Creel as a prince (and a wolf), but the other lead roles will be played by newcomers to the production including Patina Miller, a Tony winner for Pippin, as the Witch; Brian dArcy James (Something Rotten!) as the Baker; Phillipa Soo (Hamilton) as Cinderella; and Joshua Henry (Carousel) as the other prince. When things dont make sense anymore, this is the show that holds our hand, said Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters and the productions lead producer. Thats why it resonated . ... More  Nathalie Obadia opens an exhibition of works by Guillaume LeblonBRUSSELS.- Nathalie Obadia is presenting The Traveler Walking On Tiptoes, the first exhibition of the artist Guillaume Leblon in her Brussels gallery. The sculptor, who presented the solo exhibition THERE IS A MAN and more at the S. M. A. K. (Ghent) in 2018, will have a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in the autumn of 2022. An artist with a rich and intuitive visual vocabulary, Guillaume Leblon presents sculptures that alter our perception of time and space. The artist brings to the fore the physical potential of the forms and materials he uses, which seem to be imbued with the passage of time and memory. His sculptures dialogue with the space, and engage in an active, mobile and open relationship with the world. Guillaume Leblon's work combines familiar and abstract elements, implying a number of meanings ... More |
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At the Dawn of a New Age
Flashback On a day like today, American artist Eva Hesse died May 29, 1970. Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s. In this image: No title, 1963. Ink, gouache, crayon, and graphite on paper, 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches. Private collection.
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