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In an image provided by Ezra Stoller, via The Museum of Modern Art Archives, the architect Gregory Ain's glass-walled house while it was on exhibit in the Museum of Modern Arts garden in New York in 1950. Ezra Stoller, via The Museum of Modern Art Archives via The New York Times.
by Eve M. Kahn
CROTON-ON-HUDSON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1950, a glass-walled house, now nestled amid flowering trees here, spent a few months in Manhattan. Skyscrapers loomed over its flat roof while it was on exhibit in the Museum of Modern Arts garden. The installation, designed by architect Gregory Ain and co-sponsored with Womans Home Companion magazine, was meant to inspire creativity on a budget for residential subdivisions. According to the museums brochure, a system of movable walls conveys an illusion of spaciousness in the two-bedroom building. Its flexibility and expansive windows offered a view to the future, as the magazine noted in an eight-page color feature. But once the attraction was shuttered and dismantled, its fate fell into obscurity. It seemed to have disappeared. A few months ago, however, George Smart, a historian who founded and runs USModernist, a nonprofit in Durham, North Carolina, which focuses on mid-20th-century modernist homes, pored through MoMAs arc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "We are all humans" states Sue Gray in her solo "Bottles" at Art Porters Gallery in Singapore, a parable for the human condition. "In the supermarket shelves where their beauty attracted the Singapore-based South African artist, the bottles are of all kinds of shapes, sizes, colours, content --- all in glass, at the same time pure and fragile, all of a gorgeous unique and equal beauty, an invitation to discover, acknowledge, celebrate, fall in love with the beauty in each of us" said Guillaume Levy-Lambert in the e-catalogue https://bit.ly/3whMw6k.
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| Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana presents a major exhibition dedicated to Bruce Nauman | | Go vegan to save planet? UK show looks at eco cost of meat | | Hauser & Wirth Southampton opens 'There's There There' curated by Rashid Johnson |
Contrapposto Studies, IV, 2015-2016. HD video installation (color, stereo sound, continuous play). c. Video element. 7min. 5sec. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art © Bruce Nauman by SIAE 2021.
VENICE.- Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, curated by Carlos Basualdo, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Caroline Bourgeois, curator at Pinault Collection, is an homage to one of the major figures of the contemporary art international scene and focuses on three fundamental aspects of his uvre: the artist studio as a space where creation takes place, the body through performances and the exploration of sound. From the 1960s to today, Bruce Nauman has constantly experimented with different artistic languages from photography to performance, sculpture and video to explore and mine their potentialities in a body of work that interrogates the very definition of what constitutes artistic practice. Bruce Nauman was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2009 for Best National Participation and his work has ... More | |
Meat The Future serves up serious food for thought about how the consumption of meat affects our health and the planet.
OXFORD (AFP).- Science and art collide in a new British exhibition which opened on Friday and hopes to raise awareness about the environmental impact of eating meat, while promising a guilt-free look at the "difficult problem". "Globally we eat too much meat, and we need to reduce it," said Kelly Richards, exhibition officer at Oxford University's Natural History Museum. "It's a very nuanced, very difficult kind of problem to unpick," she told AFP. Rather than imposing dogma, she hopes the "Meat The Future" exhibition will "give people the information that allows them to make up their own mind about the kind of future that they want". The show uses interactive installations, a virtual supermarket, fake shelves and works from artists including Damien Hirst to highlight the environmental costs of meat consumption, which has tripled worldwide in 50 years. Visitors are met at the entrance by piles of fake burgers on a gingham tablecloth, each pile representing the average daily amount of meat eaten in d ... More | |
Wolfgang Laib, Untitled (Stairs), 2002. Burmese red lacquer and wood, 125 x 41 x 84 cm / 49 1/4 x 16 1/8 x 33 in © Wolfgang Laib. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Hauser & Wirth Southampton is presenting Theres There There, a group exhibition organized by Rashid Johnson showcasing a diverse group of contemporary and late 20th century artists exploring the power of simple forms and gestures. Together, the works reveal the rewards of considering more closely the mundane: the routine gestures, daily detritus, and ebbs and flows of time that fill the backdrop of our lives. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect upon the pleasures and complex histories of the shapes, movements, and objects that permeate the everyday. Artists included in Theres There There, are Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Willie Cole, Rob Davis, Alteronce Gumby, David Hammons, Mary Heilmann, Leslie Hewitt, Sheree Hovsepian, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Longo, Richard Mayhew, Joel Shapiro, Xaviera Simmons, and John Smith. The idea for this show is rooted in trying to find simplicity in ... More |
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| Andrew Kreps Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Liz Magor | | Faye Schulman, who fought Nazis with a rifle and camera, dies | | He came to Berlin to change the world. Then the world changed Berlin. |
Liz Magor, Stall, 2021 (detail). Silicon rubber, polyester, workbench, shelves, 42 x 90 Ã 31 inches. Image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting I Have Wasted My Life, an exhibition of new works by Liz Magor at 22 Cortlandt Alley. On the wall, a new sculpture titled Perennial is formed from a duffle coat, which in the 1960s and 1970s had become a de-facto uniform for student protestors, including those part of the nascent environmental movement in Vancouver, where Greenpeace was founded in 1971. A near artifact from this time, the coat carries with it the accumulated wear from these actions. The artists own interventions seek to repair the garment, though in lieu of erasure, Magor marks the damage using paint, ink, and sculptural material. Simultaneously, Magor adds vestiges of the coats past activity, such as two cookies cast in gypsum placed in its pocket to resuscitate it to its prior use. Magor often positions humble objects at the center of her sculptures, the stuff that plays fleeting roles in our lives as repositories ... More | |
An undated photo from Faye Schulman, via Second Story Press, of herself with the Compur camera she used during WWII. Faye Schulman, via Second Story Press via The New York Times.
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Aug. 14, 1942, barely seven weeks after German troops invaded Soviet-occupied Poland, they massacred 1,850 Jews from a shtetl named Lenin near the Sluch River. Only 27 were spared, their skills deemed essential by the invaders. The survivors included shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, blacksmiths, a barber and a young novice photographer named Faigel Lazebnik, who later in marriage would become known as Faye Schulman. The Germans enlisted her to take commemorative photographs of them and, in some cases, their newly acquired mistresses. (It better be good, or else youll be kaput, she recalled a Gestapo commander warning her before she, trembling, asked him to smile.) They thus spared her from the firing squad because of their vanity and their obsession with ... More | |
Sir Henry, whose given name is John Henry Nijenhuis, at the Volksbühne theater in Berlin on May 13, 2021. Lena Mucha/The New York Times.
by A.J. Goldmann
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Not long ago, Sir Henry stood on the main stage of the Volksbühne theater in what was once East Berlin and conducted the cosmos. In Quarantine, For Solo Human, Sir Henry, whose given name is John Henry Nijenhuis, did so as part of an interactive musical installation that sent a planet spiraling through a computer-animated universe using motion-sensor technology. As he gracefully waved his arms, a delicate celestial choreography emerged. Earth hurtled through a galaxy that expanded and shrank at his command. His gestures also controlled the cosmic soundscape, adjusting the pitch and volume of a space choir that harmonized to a Bach prelude playing from a MIDI sequencer. Quarantine, which streamed on the Volksbühnes website during the summer lockdown, was the musicians first solo work on the main stage of the theater ... More |
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| Sotheby's $40.7 million May design sales drive record-breaking spring season in New York and Paris | | Superflux's "vast, immersive" installation opens in Vienna | | Ido Bruno to step down as Director of Israel Museum, Jerusalem in late 2021 |
10-minute bidding battle drives Harry Berotias Dandelion Sculpture to $1.9 million in New York. A new auction record for the artist. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys concluded its spring sale series of 20th and 21st Century Design with an outstanding total of $40.7 million, and an overall sell-through rate of 90%. Comprising three auctions across two days in New York and Paris, the series outshone its pre-sale high estimate of $28.7 million, with 408 lots on offer. These tremendous results bring Sothebys worldwide auction sales for the category to a running total of $78.5 million in 2021 on track to eclipse the 2020 auction total for Design, which was $99.8 million. The May series also followed the record-breaking sales of works from the collection of Washington D.C. philanthropist and businesswoman Michelle Smith last month in New York, which achieved $45 million and set numerous auction benchmarks for coveted models by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, and Alberto and Diego Giacometti. Jodi Pollack, ... More | |
Invocation for Hope Installation by Superflux For Vienna Biennale 2021 at Museum for Applied Arts. Photo: Courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux Zetteler.
VIENNA.- This spring, speculative design studio Superflux invites humanity to reassess its place in the natural world, emerging from the grid-like ashes of fire-blackened trees into resurgent greenery and a glistening pool with a surprise below the surface. Invocation for Hope is a vast, immersive installation that examines the complex interconnected relationships throughout the natural world, and which raises the possibility of a more-than-human future a post-anthropocentric planet in which humanity is just one part of a dynamic and multifaceted ecosystem. After travelling through a grid-like forest of burnt and blackened pines the unexpectedly graceful skeletons of a former time you find, at its heart, a resurgent living forest, where multiple species living in harmony with humanity offer a promise of alternative life. In this cradle of biodiversity, you come to a freshwater pool, which reflects, ... More | |
Ido Bruno has announced that he will be stepping down by the end of this year.
JERUSALEM.- After four years as Director of the Israel Museum, Professor Ido Bruno has announced that he will be stepping down by the end of this year. During his tenure, the Museum embarked on a strategic plan to build upon its institutional legacy and create a long-term vision for its future. Professor Bruno also helped the Museum navigate the impacts of the pandemic while maintaining its staff and balancing its budget. Over the coming months, Professor Bruno will continue to work with the Museum's Board of Directors to advance its long-term strategic goals, while also paving the way for a new director. In a statement to the Museum staff, Bruno noted that after such meaningful years as the Museum's Director, he will be moving on to new endeavors. Prof. Bruno: "The Israel Museum is the most important cultural institution in Israel and among the worlds leading museums, so it has been my great privilege to stand at its helm. Together with ... More |
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| Color Field paintings from 1960s and 70s by artist Willem de Looper at David Richard Gallery | | Thomas Erben opens a solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based artist Anne Minich | | Toppled UK slave trader statue to go on temporary display |
Willem de Looper, Ten Years, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 48. Artwork Copyright © Frauke and Willem de Looper Foundation for the Arts, Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Color Field Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s: Aesthetic Transitions Through Process, Willem de Loopers first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in New York City since 1988. The presentation of 13 paintings from 1968 to 1976 covers a seminal period in de Loopers career. De Looper (1932, The Hague, Netherlands 2009, Washington, D.C.) maintained his focus on formal concerns using a process driven approach that yielded numerous color-based abstractions during these decades. The big shift during this period was his moving away from pouring and physically rolling and manipulating the paint on the canvas surface to bringing brushes and rollers into the process to guide the location, but not always the flow ... More | |
Maria!, 2020. Found wood and wax, 9 x 8 x 3 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben is presenting Her Bone, a solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based artist Anne Minich (b. 1934, Philadelphia). Bringing together drawings on paper, carved wooden sculptures, and three-dimensional paintings inlaid with found objects and text, this show centers on Minichs fascination with the human body. In particular, it follows the themes of sexual desire, erotic excitement, and pleasure throughout Minichs decades-long career. This is the first exhibition to bring together a substantial group of drawings from across the artist's practice. Drawing has always played an outsized role in Minichs evolving work, as a source for probing dreamlike visions, developing her own personal mythologies, or paying homage to friends, family, lovers, and artistic inspirations. Similarly, Minichs paintings are painstakingly made and suffused with a life spent traversing the human bodys physical limits and s ... More | |
The plinth on which the statue of Edward Colston previously stood in Bristol, England, surrounded by messages of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, on June 11, 2020. James Beck/The New York Times.
LONDON (AFP).- A controversial statue of a 17th-century British slave trader toppled last June in Bristol will go on temporary display in a museum as city authorities debate its fate. The bronze statue of Edward Colston, a former top official in the Royal African Company, was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter rally in the southwest English city on June 7. It was dragged through the city and dumped in the harbour, as anger at the death of George Floyd in US police custody the previous month prompted protests in numerous British cities and around the world. Four people will stand trial later this year after pleading not guilty to criminal damage charges. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is pressing ahead with contentious legislation to ... More |
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The National Gallery of Canada announces the passing of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander CC OBC
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada mourns the loss of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, C.C., O.B.C. (June 20, 1921-May 22, 2021) who served as the chief landscape architect for the design and construction of the magnificent home of the National Gallery. Oberlander worked in collaboration with NGC architect Moshe Safdie from 1983 to 1988 on the landscaping of the grounds for the Gallery. The building opened in 1988, but three decades later her work continues to enchant visitors. Cornelia Oberlander believed in the concept of wilding which meant to create landscapes that would grow and mature as they would in nature. To be in the presence of Cornelia Oberlander was to know someone who believed in nature and how it affects the way we experience art whether we are outside a magnificent building or inside an intimate courtyard. Cornelia Oberlander believed in sustainability ... More
Art Fund launches new 'Reimagine Grants' to support the future of museums and galleries
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, announced today that it is opening applications for its new £2million project grants scheme to support the museum and gallery sector as it navigates the next phase of recovery from the pandemic. Reimagine grants will help UK organisations transform their activities and build expertise, capacity and connections within and beyond the sector. Museums, galleries, historic houses, arts-focussed archives, libraries, festivals, biennials and a range of professional networks will be eligible to apply for support of between £5,000 and £50,000. The first deadline for applications is 5 July 2021. Two further rounds of applications to the Reimagine programme will be held in August and October. The Reimagine grants will support large and small projects and professional networks. Building on the successful partnership and collaborative response to ... More
Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards 2021 announce winning titles
LONDON.- The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the winners of the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards. The winning titles have been chosen as exemplary demonstrations of originality and excellence in the fields of moving image and photography book publishing, from the past year. The titles explore a range of themes, with particular cultural relevance for our current times including most notably cultural identity; collective experiences; social injustices; migration and memory, and global settings from India to Estonia and Africa. Each prize category is awarded £5,000. Sunil Gupta has been jointly awarded the Photography Book Award for Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity, Edited by Mark Sealy (published by Autograph in association with The Photographers Gallery, London, and the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto) Through a detailed and ... More
Alix Dobkin, who sang songs of liberation, dies at 80
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Long before k.d. lang transformed herself from a country artist into an androgyne pop idol and sex symbol, smoldering in a mans suit on the cover of Vanity Fair being mock-shaved by the supermodel Cindy Crawford; long before Melissa Etheridge sold millions of copies of her 1993 album, Yes I Am, and in so doing came out as a gay rock star; and long before singer-songwriter Jill Sobules I Kissed a Girl hit the Billboard charts, folk singer Alix Dobkin chopped off her hair, formed a band and recorded Lavender Jane Loves Women. Released in 1973, it was the first album recorded and distributed by women for women arguably the first lesbian record. Dobkin started her own label, Womens Wax Works, to do it. Once a folk star playing clubs in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village with Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dobkin turned ... More
Miller & Miller announces June 12th Watches & Jewelry Auction
NEW HAMBURG.- A Patek Philippe Reference 3940 perpetual calendar mens watch with 18kt white gold case and clasp, a Rolex Reference 1680 red Submariner Date mens watch from 1972 with stainless steel case and band, and a VS2 diamond solitaire ring with a 1.99-carat center stone and 14kt white gold band are a few expected highlights in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Watches & Jewelry auction slated for Saturday, June 12th. This sale, starting at 9 am Eastern time, contains a generous offering of railroad grade and early pocket watches, as well as a curated selection of vintage wrist watches, said Justin Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. With demand for 1970s sports model watches from Tag Heuer, Rolex and Omega at all-time highs, were pleased to include a diverse offering in this auction. Mr. Miller added, This past year has confirmed that the right ... More
Clyfford Still Museum announces Joyce Tsai as next director
DENVER, CO.- After an extensive national search, the Clyfford Still Museum Board of Directors announced the selection of Joyce Tsai, PhD as the new director of the Clyfford Still Museum. Tsais tenure will begin on August 1, 2021. Over the last fifteen years, Joyce Tsai has grown in stature as a curator and a scholar, said Christopher Hunt, CSM Board President. Tsai brings a rich mix of knowledge and expertise to the position of CSM director. We are excited to bring her in at the beginning of our 10th anniversary season, and we look forward to what she will do for the Museum in its next decade. Tsai is currently the Chief Curator at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Art and Art History. She is an award-winning educator and scholar whose research received support with fellowships from, among others, the Fulbright ... More
New exhibition charts sixty years of life, work and leisure in Berwick upon Tweed
BERWICK UPON TWEED.- Documenting six decades of everyday life, the father and son photojournalism team of David and Ian Smith captured the friendships, characters and trades of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Although many of the photographs were taken at a time when life in northern England and Scotland was often depicted as tough or grim, the Granary Gallerys new exhibition, Portrait of a Town, portrays a different reality. You can almost smell the diesel, oil and exhaust fumes of the old bus garage, as a cleaning lady smiles for the camera, all while holding a metal bucket in one and hand and resting the other on top of her mop handle, the rolled-up sleeves of her cardigan suggest she has indulged the photographer mid-task. However, it is her smile and those of many of the other subjects in Portrait of a Town the jolly tailor, the shipyard workers, or the young woman with her ... More
Paul Revere, Jr. spoon sets world record in $2.4 million fine silver auction at Heritage
DALLAS, TX.- Adrenaline remained high throughout Heritage Auctions eight-hour Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Auction May 20, as one great collection followed the last. The room was electrified from the onset of the sale as an auction record was set for a single American silver spoon by Americas most famous silversmith Paul Revere, Jr. and this momentum continued to the end. Interest was staggering, selling 99 percent by volume, and the value incredible, with the auction flying past its high estimate to reach $2,433,894. A stunning collection of well-provenanced silver by Paul Revere, Jr. sold for a combined $336,250, well above expectations. This was the largest number of his pieces ever sold in a single auction said Karen Rigdon, Director of Silver and Fine and Decorative Arts at Heritage. It was extremely exciting to bring this collection to auction and watch it perform so well. ... More
Romy St. Hilaire becomes Now + There's first-ever Curatorial Fellow
BOSTON, MASS.- Romy St. Hilaire was recently named the first-ever Curatorial Fellow with Now + There, a Boston-based nonprofit that brings temporary, site-specific public art to all of the citys neighborhoods. Coming with an educational background in art history, St. Hilaire will support the Now + There team throughout the curation, creation, and development of public art installations. Growing up in South Miami, she experienced public art and mural art in Little Havana as well as Art Basel. Its exciting to see more mural art become esteemed art, St. Hilaire said. I love street art and local ground movements. I also really appreciate artists of color who are bending and combining different methods and aesthetics in really interesting ways to confront people in public. St. Hilaire holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from University of Massachusetts in Boston and is currently a city ... More
The finest post-war Bank of England note in the public domain sells for £27,280
LONDON.- A £5 banknote with serial number A01 000003 that was originally presented to Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, in 1957 sold for £27,280 against an estimate of £18,000-22,000 at Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes today (Thursday, May 27, 2021) at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). This is the first time that a serial number three note, for a new design, has ever been offered on the open market. The Bank of England £5 note was housed in a blue leather presentation wallet dated 21 February 1957, and showed Britannia at left, Saint George slaying the dragon at low centre, reverse blue, lion and key at centre. It was bought by an anonymous buyer [lot 198]. As Thomasina Smith, Head of Numismatics (Associate Director) at Dix Noonan Webb, explained: This important note is the lowest serial number note ... More
Malaika Temba receives YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award
MIAMI, FLA.- Malaika Temba (2014 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts) is the 2021 recipient of National YoungArts Foundations Jorge M. Pérez Award. Temba was chosen for her artistic excellence and promise of future achievement by Jorge M. Péreza nationally recognized philanthropist, founder of The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation and Chairman of leading development firm, Related Groupalongside Patricia GarcÃa-Vélez Hanna, Art Director for Related Group and El Espacio 23. Temba will receive an unrestricted prize of $25,000. Jewel Malone, YoungArts Executive Director, said, National YoungArts Foundation is deeply grateful to The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation for the continued and unwavering commitment to emerging artists such as Malaika Temba. We are thrilled to be able to provide this continued support to Malaika and look forward to supporting her process ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930. Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930 - February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City. In this image: Robert Ryman, Untitled, signed and dated 61; signed four times and dated 61 three times on the overturned left edge, oil on canvas, 48 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. 123.7 x 123.7 cm. Est. $15/20 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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