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A worker touches up the paint from a Keith Haring carousel from the Luna Luna carnival in Los Angeles, Oct. 7, 2022. In 1987, the Austrian artist André Heller debuted an avant-garde amusement park. Its disappearance was a winding tale, but its return is even more bizarre. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)
by Joe Coscarelli
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Earlier this year, in a 50,000-square-foot warehouse lined with weathered shipping containers and crates, Viennese artist André Heller was reunited with one of the great loves of his life and career. The psychedelic works inside, unseen by Heller or the world for 35 years, had long been lost to history, despite their flashy provenance. Together, they made up Luna Luna a functional amusement park where the rides and attractions also happened to be contemporary art from the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Salvador DalÃ, which Heller had conceptualized and opened, briefly, in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987. For decades, he had obsessed over its loss. Forget about it, he told himself repeatedly. This is like a love affair where you cant stop having erotic dreams. Eventually, Heller managed to move on. And then, he said via video chat from Austria, when everything was out of my mind, I met some people that started reminding me. In th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Laurel Gitlen announces Fata Morgana, the first New York solo exhibition of paintings by You Ni Chae, on view from November 5 - December 17, 2022. You Ni Chae makes intimately-scaled paintings where diffuse and layered pigment register subtle shapes and oscillating patches of light, suggesting the possibility of fuzzy forms emerging from rich ambient surfaces.
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| Pierre et Gilles open an exhibition at Galerie Templon | | Jakob, Franz and Rudolf von Alt on view through January at the Albertina Museum in Vienna | | Brooklin A. Somahoro presents "Supernova" solo exhibition at Rodolphe Janssen | 
Pierre et Gilles, Les moissons du chagrin (Olga Sklyar), 2022, inkjet photograph printed on canvas and painted, photographie imprimée par jet dencre sur toile et peinte, 150 x 110 cm, 59 x 43 1/4 in., unique.
PARIS.- Galerie Templon has chosen the subtly engaged work of Pierre et Gilles to see out 2022 on the Rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare space in Paris. With The Colours of Time exhibition, the couple, famed for their portraits where painting and photography meet, unveil a series full of sensitivity, bearing witness to the contradictions of our time. In a carefully designed layout, Pierre et Gilles present the works they have produced over the last three years. Their paintings, all unique, are meticulously executed in the intimacy of the studio, using life-size custom-built sets. Pierre directs the initial photo session, with Gilles then undertaking a slow process of hand-painting directly onto the canvas print. The result, an artisanal and ambiguous photographic painting, offers a vision of the world that is both enchanting and disturbing, a universe where the sensuality of colour transfigures each subject. The exhibition opens with a short series ... More | | 
Jakob Alt, View from the Artists Studio toward Dornbach, 1836. Pencil, watercolor. The Albertina Museum, Vienna.
VIENNA.- This exhibition features treasures from the Albertina Museums own holdings that impressively document the Alt family painters great importance in the context of 19th-century art, and is currently on view at the ALBERTINA Museum since 9 November 2022 - and will continue until 29 January 2023. The artworks created by members of the Alt family number among the masterpieces of Austrian watercolor painting. Rooted in Biedermeier-era Vienna, their output proceeded to follow the grand arc of cultural history through to the dawn of modernism. They revolve around themes such as architecture and landscape, urban life and natural beauty. This family of painters included Jakob Alt (17891872) and his sons Rudolf (18121905) and Franz (18211914). Jakob Alt left his home city of Frankfurt am Main to settle in Vienna in 1810. He supported his family by producing series of printed graphics showing townscapes and landscape ... More | | 
Brooklin A. Soumahoro, Untitled (Lightning Field Drawing (push/pull), R.M.LF.BLE.1.22, 2022 Colored pencil on paper, 125.7 x 95.3 cm., 49 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. Photo Courtesy of Rodolphe Janssen.
BRUSSELS.- PERCEPTION IS THE MEDIUM, Sampling, the technique of first digitally encoding sound and then layering it in a new composition of music, in the exhibition Skupernova that is now on view through December 23rd, 2022, can be analogized to the drawing process of Brooklin A. Soumahoro. The artist has so far assigned close to a hundred of his favorite pencil colors with unique numbers in his DIY color chart, assembling a repertoire for him to explore color relationships with economic forms, neat surfaces and geometric compositions to activate colors into synchronistic flows, note by note and beat by beat. In Supernova, Soumahoros solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, every colored drawing begins with him arranging a few color codes into a sequence, which is then translated into an expanded tessellation of short and uniformed hard-edge colored stripes, and followed by him meticulously applying back & forth pencil strokes to laye ... More |
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| Contemporary Week at Dorotheum featuring modern and contemporary art, jewellery and wristwatches | | Powerhouse takes international leadership position to achieve net zero by 2025 | | 'Art De L'Avant-Garde A Nos Jours: 1918-2021' at Bonhams Cornette De Saint Cyr, Paris | 
Andy Warhol, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, from the Reigning Queens series, 1985, 150,000 - 200,000.
VIENNA.- At the end of November, Contemporary Week at Dorotheum once again brings together top 20th and 21st century works. Modern and contemporary art, jewellery and wristwatches will be auctioned at various sessions. The offer ranges from works by well-known Austrian artists such as Egon Schiele, Alfons Walde, Hermann Nitsch and Martha Jungwirth to works by international greats such as Lucio Fontana, Tamara de Lempicka, Andy Warhol, Hans Hartung, Bill Viola, Carla Accardi and Daniel Richter. Works by the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s, including Paolo Scheggi, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi, are also prominently represented.
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese polka dot queen much celebrated in her adopted home of late 1950s New York, creates and covers her universe with dots a universe which often seems to extend into infinity through the use of mirrors. She does not stop at herself or even George Clooney. At the contemporary a ... More | | 
L-R. Carmel Reyes, Powerhouse Climate Action and Sustainability Manager, First Nations consultant Dr Terri Janke, Powerhouse Director, First Nations Emily McDaniel and Powerhouse Chief Executive Lisa Havilah. Photograph by Zan Wimberley.
NEW SOUTH WALES.- Powerhouse today launched its inaugural Climate Action Plan 2022 2025, which sets out 12 key objectives encompassing infrastructure, programs and operations across the museums four sites, including the ambitious target of achieving net zero operational carbon emissions by 2025. These important commitments place the Powerhouse in a global leadership position. Sustainability is integral to the Powerhouse renewal, which presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to embed low carbon solutions into Powerhouses infrastructure to reduce its operational environmental impact and improve its responsiveness to climate, season and sustainability. The pioneering action plan is guided by the museums Caring for Country Principles. Developed in consultation with First Nations peoples of the Country on which Powerhouse sites are located, these principles will support Powerhouse staff and collabor ... More | | 
Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992), La Ville Fermée, 1965, Estimate: 400,000 600,000.
PARIS.- An exceptional work by Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) entitled La Ville Fermée will be the top lot of the Art de lAvant-Garde à nos jours : 1918-2021 sale organised by Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr on 1st December in Paris. The sale will include a section devoted to the Second School of Paris, another to Italian Art and a final section to Abstraction-Creation. Real or imaginary cities play a major role in Vieira da Silva's painting. Her compositions evoke networks of streets, building facades or urban landscapes in the mist, represented as labyrinths with impossible perspectives and a reduced chromatic range. This Ville Fermée has these characteristics and could be Lisbon. The artist's native city has strongly influenced Vieira da Silva's work, who left it at the age of twenty for Paris. A complex tangle of lines and planes broken into facets occupies the centre of this canvas like a mirror shattered into a thousand p ... More |
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| Sullivan+Strumpf open solo exhibition from acclaimed First Nations contemporary artist Tony Albert | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Hong Kong | | Barbati Gallery presents a new exhibition program showcasing the Venice art scene | 
Installation view, Tony Albert, Remark Flower Arrangement, 2022, acrylic and vintage appropriated fabric on canvas 183 x 137 cm. Image Courtesy: Tony Albert and Sullivan+Strumpf.
MELBOURNE.- Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne gallery opened its doors on Thursday November 10, and the team couldnt be more thrilled to be launching with the Naarm solo exhibition debut of internationally acclaimed First Nations contemporary artist Tony Albert. For anyone who doesnt know Tony and his work, this show is going to be a treat, and an inspirational introduction to one of Australias most exciting contemporary artistic voices.
In a career spanning almost 20 years, Tony has won numerous awards and garnered critical acclaim, both nationally and on the world stage. In the past 12 months alone, he has created artworks and installations for group shows around Australia and internationally in New York, Singapore and Bali, in addition to several major public art commissions for QAGOMA, the Queens Wharf in Brisbane and the new Alliance Stadium in Sydney, where his design, Two Worlds Colliding: Water & ... More | | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jeune femme en costume oriental devant une table à thé, 190910, oil on canvas, 31 7/8 à 26 inches (81 à 65.9 cm).
HONG KONG.- Gagosian announced an exhibition of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Featuring nine works that span his career from the 1870s through the 1910s, the exhibition includes Impressionist landscapes and female figure paintings. As a founder and principal figure of Impressionism, Renoir played a fundamental role in the groups move from studio-based traditionalism to an art centered on modern life in and around Paris. Working in the open air, the Impressionists transcribed their sensory experience, rendering ephemeral effects of light through broken brushstrokes of saturated color. Bords de Seine à Argenteuil (c. 188182) pictures one of the Impressionists favorite sites in a town near Paris. Two stylishly dressed women on the banks of the Seine are integrated into a dynamic composition of boats, bridge, clouds, and water. Le Jardin dessai à Alger (1881) emerged from the artists travels to Algiers. Represent ... More | | 
Riccardo Muratori, Ecpirosi I (2020).
VENICE.- Barbati Gallery is presenting Genius Loci, a new exhibition program showcasing the Venice art scene. The gallery is hosting the works of local contemporary artists, in support of cultural activity in the City of Venice. The first Genius Loci project is the solo exhibition Fuoco, vuoto by Venetian painter Riccardo Muratori. The exhibition includes several new works and will run from November 19, 2022 until January 11, 2023. For the pieces on display at Palazzo Lezze, Muratori uses oil and acrylic on canvas, cardboard, and wood as vehicles to interpret the questions arising from our very existence. Traditional tools are released from the strict tenets of painting to favor an intuitive approach. It is the impulse of a thought or a feeling that guides the artist, in an intimate desire for liberation and rebirth through the creative process. In Fuoco, vuoto Muratori aims to ignite the viewers mind and bat at the idols of our ... More |
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| Staughton Lynd, historian and activist turned labor lawyer, dies at 92 | | High Museum of Art opens exhibition of work by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian | | Notable collections achieve top results at Bonhams Fine Art Sales in New York | 
The historian, labor lawyer and activist Staughton Lynd, at his home in Niles, Ohio on September 26, 2019. who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led antiwar protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest, died in Warren, Ohio one Nov. 17, 2022. He was 92. (Dustin Franz/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led anti-war protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest, died Thursday in the town of Warren, in northeast Ohio. He was 92. His wife and frequent collaborator, Alice Lynd, said his death, at a hospital, was caused by multiple organ failure. Lynd was one of the last of a generation of radical academics including his friend and colleague Howard Zinn who in the 1960s overthrew their predecessors obsession with detached, objective scholarship in favor of political engagement. Many of his colleagues stayed within the bounds of academia, but Lynd burst beyond them. As a young professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, he led students in marches against nuclear weapons. In 1964, he was one of the main organizers behind Freedom Summer, which brought Northern college students to Mississippi to teach and organize in Blac ... More | | 
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iranian, 19222019), Heartache No. 16, 1992, mixed media. Photo courtesy the estate of the artist and Haines Gallery. © Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.
ATLANTA, GA.- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922-2019) was one of Irans most celebrated and revered visual artists, known internationally for her geometric mirror sculptures that combined the mathematical order and beauty of ancient Persian architectural motifs with the forms and patterns of hard-edged, postwar abstraction. The High Museum of Art presents the first posthumous exhibition of her work in an American museum with Monir Farmanfarmaian: A Mirror Garden (Nov. 18, 2022-April 9, 2023). The exhibition was inspired by the Highs 2019 acquisition of Farmanfarmaians 2012 cut-mirror sculpture Untitled (Muqarnas) (2012) and her 2014 drawing Untitled (Circles and Squares). Muqarnas was acquired with funds from the Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation as part of a significant gift to The Woodruff Arts Center, of which the High is an arts partner, to purchase and present work by Persian artist ... More | | 
Sam Gilliam (1933-1922), Blue Unions (1972), estimated at $600,000 800,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most remarkable Modern masterpieces by Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) achieved $3.3 million in The Estate of Melvin S. Rosenthal auction on November 16. Additional highlights from the dedicated sale include Robert Motherwells (1915-1991) Untitled (Elegy), which sold for $1.1 million and Ed Ruschas (b. 1937) The Eighties, which sold for $1 million. This collection presented some of the best examples of 20th and 21st century art that were cherished by Mr. Rosenthal in his California homes. Were thrilled with the results from this single-owner sale and its a testament to Bonhams long-standing history in the California market to a bring collection of this caliber to New Yorks marquee sales, commented Ralph Taylor, Global Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art for Bonhams. Later in the evening, the Post-War & Contemporary Art sale presented another important collection from The Estate ... More |
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She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400â2000 B.C.
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 Ned Rorem, composer known for both his music and his diaries, dies at 99NEW YORK, NY.- Ned Rorem, who was honored as a composer of beguiling music and famous for publishing revealing diaries about his life and loves, died Friday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 99. Mary Marshall, a niece, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. Rorem won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1976 and for a man who had declared that to become famous I would sign any paper, it was both an ecstatic moment and, characteristically, an occasion for irony. The Pulitzer, he said, carried the decree that bitterness is henceforth unbecoming. And if you die in shame and squalor, at least you die Official. The prize was awarded for Air Music, a suite commissioned for the U.S. bicentennial by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Though he wrote many other orchestral works including his Symphony No. 3, which was given its premiere by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein in 1959 Rorems enduring appeal rested mo ... More  Wide-ranging selection of works by Alekos Fassianos leads Bonhams Greek sale in ParisPARIS.- The death in January of the Greek painter Alekos Fassianos (1935-2022) robbed the country of one of its most respected artists. Considered the rightful heir to the fabled 1930s Generation, Fassianos was hugely popular in Greece itself and his works were also widely exhibited throughout the world. Bonhams Greek Art Sale in Paris on Thursday 24 November offers a selection of his paintings that illustrate the breadth of his talent. They include: La photo oubliée executed in 1975 during the artists painterly period. It demonstrates the mastery of colour and the combination of control and freedom that secured his reputation both in his home country and internationally. Estimate: 80,000-120,000. Le Cavalier blanc. Painted in 1983. Captured in sharp profile and set against a solid background that accentuates his heroic scale, Fassianos's horseback rider is remoulded into an archetypal figure echoing the timeless symb ... More  Keith Levene, Public Image Ltd.'s buzz-saw guitarist, dies at 65NEW YORK, NY.- Keith Levene, a founding member of the seminal British bands the Clash and Public Image Ltd. whose slashing yet melodic fretwork helped define the sound of post-punk guitar, died Nov. 11 at his home in Norfolk, England. He was 65. His sister Jill Bennett said the cause was liver cancer. Considered by rock cognoscenti to be a pioneering if often overlooked guitarist, Levene was best known for his six-year stint with Public Image Ltd., the aggressively uncompromising quartet that John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, formed in 1978 after his industry-tilting punk band, the Sex Pistols, imploded. Public Image Ltd., also known as PiL, did not scandalize polite society in Britain as the Sex Pistols had with their haute-guttersnipe fashion sense, obscenity-laced television tirades and unceasing potshots at the queen. But musically, PiLs early incarnation was hardly more accommodating to mainstream tastes. Propelled by Lydons braying vocals and Levenes buzz-saw guitar, the band jum ... More  nara roesler new york opens an exhibition of works by Artur LescherNEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York announces Orbital Tango, a solo exhibition by Artur Lescher (b. São Paulo, Brazil, 1962) curated by Luis Pérez- Oramas, presenting an important part of the artists recent production. One of the most prominent artists in the contemporary Brazilian art scene, Artur Leschers pieces transcend their sculptural character, crossing the boundaries between installations and objects to modify the understanding of these categories and the space in which they insert themselves. With an uninterrupted and precise dialogue with both architecture and design, Lescher has produced since the late 1980s, a core of three-dimensional work that stands out as a significant contribution to the legacy of abstraction in the Americas. Known for his impeccable pendular sculptures, his oeuvre also addresses metaphors of labor through useless machines, it challenges physical laws through radical solutions of balance and equilibri ... More  Review: Two debuts make for a week of Philharmonic firstsNEW YORK, NY.- The New York Philharmonic is still rolling out the features of its new home, the freshly gut-renovated David Geffen Hall. For its performances this week, the orchestra is deploying a 50-foot-wide media wall in its lobby, with the promise of regularly simulcasting concerts free to the public. Thats a technological coup, to be sure, but the bigger news this week ought to be conductor Hannu Lintus Philharmonic debut. A Finn with a global audience, thanks to a discography stacked with recorded premieres of exciting works by composers including Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg, he steered the orchestra Wednesday through the most revealing and entertaining concert Ive heard the ensemble deliver this season. It helps that the program, which runs through Saturday, is compelling and unusual. Stravinskys tangy Symphonies of Wind Instruments pairs well with the playful strangeness of Bartoks rarely heard Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion, which featured star p ... More  The case for a less-effective altruismNEW YORK, NY.- Last weekend, I took my family to Harkness Memorial State Park, a spread of green lawns and gardens that occupies a point on the Connecticut shore just southwest of New London. We visited a great many state parks during the worst COVID months, wandering and climbing and killing time outdoors, but this was our first visit to Harkness, and we timed it well: It was one of those November late afternoons where the landscape still has just enough of fall for the setting sun to sharpen all the colors, and the varied monuments of the park a carriage house, an Italianate garden, a Renaissance Revival mansion, a former windmill assumed a kind of hyperreality against the stark backdrop of the grass and sky and sea. The park is named for Edward and Mary Harkness, early-20th-century heirs to one branch of the Standard Oil fortune, to whom the mansion Eolia, the house of the winds and all its outbuildings once belonged. In 1918, the first-ever Forbes list of A ... More  Tina Kim Gallery opens its first exhibition dedicated to Minoru NiizumaNEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition dedicated to the practice of Japanese-American sculptor and educator Minoru Niizuma (b. 1930, Tokyo; d. 1998, New York). Recognized for his abstract marble sculptures in the postwar period, Niizuma exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and was an active organizer of public sculpture exhibitions across both continents. Although a lifelong artist and educator whose works entered multiple institutional and private collections, Niizumas legacy has rarely been acknowledged since his passing at the age of 67, in part due to a lack of formal representation. Marking the first attempt to introduce a deeper understanding of the artists practice, the exhibition brings together works from two key decades of his practicethe 1970s and 80s. In addition, on view are a range of rare archival material that contextualize his efforts to promote broader cros ... More  Laurel Gitlen opens the first New York solo exhibition of paintings by You Ni ChaeNEW YORK, NY.- Laurel Gitlen announces Fata Morgana, the first New York solo exhibition of paintings by You Ni Chae, on view from November 5 - December 17, 2022. You Ni Chae makes intimately-scaled paintings where diffuse and layered pigment register subtle shapes and oscillating patches of light, suggesting the possibility of fuzzy forms emerging from rich ambient surfaces. Tawny reds, purple grays, and dusty blues glow next to luminous violet, electric turquoise and earthy green fields, with an unknown light source that pushes against the just-visible nub of the canvas. Her brushy, near-monochrome paintings invite situations of undetermined, fluid and unutterable feeling. Despite this seemingly vague and doomed intention, Chaes canvases are concise, cogent and present a convincing if indescribable visual narrative in color, scale and latent meaning. Fata Morgana is a term used to describe a superior mirage - an unusually persistent mir ... More  Stunning selection of American and English Silver brings more than $1.8 million at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A celebration of expert silversmithing, Heritage Auctions Nov. 15 Silver & Vertu Signature® Auction soared to $1,808,011, exceeding its presale estimate by more than $360,000. Featuring works by American masters like Gorham Mfg. Co. and Tiffany & Co., as well as pieces by English greats such as Charles Johnston Hill and John Bridge, the auction teemed with exquisitely detailed examples from some of the most notable names in silver and bidders took notice. Collectors, dealers and institutions competed vigorously for the best silver available, says Karen Rigdon, Vice President of Fine Silver & Decorative Arts at Heritage Auctions. This was a great silver auction bookended by two large collections amassed in the 20th century. Between them laid treasures untold with results that far exceeded expectations. Leading the auction was a circa 1880 Tiffany & Co. Silver and Mixed Metal Tray, which sold for $52,500 ... More |
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The seduction of beauty 
Mehmet Sinan Kuran 
Barbara Hepworth 
Nan Goldin
Flashback On a day like today, American nun and artist Corita Kent was born November 20, 1918. Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 - September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, also known as serigraphy, pushing back the limitations of the two-dimensional medium by the development of innovative methods. In this image: Corita Kent, Boston Gas Tank Model, c. 1971. Paint on wood. Collection of National Grid, Dorchester, Massachusetts. © National Grid. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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