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After an 11-year closure, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, reopens with a bright new space for modern art.
by Nina Siegal
ANTWERP.- From the outside, its difficult to see the impact of the $105 million, 11-year renovation and expansion of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, one of Belgiums most prestigious and important museums. There is no glass pyramid jutting from the sidewalk or new modernist curlicue declaring itself a new wing. The 19th-century museums limestone facade with its high neoclassical columns, carved busts and winged horses seems to have had just a good cleaning. When the building finally reopens Saturday, however, the public will discover that the interior has been dramatically transformed. Where there once was one museum, visitors will now find two. As well as the original museum, with a grand hall containing Peter Paul Rubens altarpieces and galleries full of works by Flemish masters, KAAN Architects, a Dutch firm, has added a modern art wing that curators here are calling the new museum. Its galleries, with bright white walls and white poured-resin floors, fit seamlessl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The mumok collection contains nearly five hundred works related to animals---a considerable quantity that raises the question of what kind of zoo the museum in fact is. What is kept, researched, and displayed both here and there to protect âwild lifeâ and the âfreedom of artâ? And in whose interest?.
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| White House restores arts commission dissolved under Trump | | Gallery Wendi Norris opens 'Uncovering Alice Rahon', the artist's first solo gallery show in over 45 years | | ARKEN Museum of Modern Art opens the first major Leonora Carrington exhibition in Scandinavia | 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Medicare and Social Security in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order reestablishing the Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory board that was dissolved five years ago after its members resigned in protest over President Donald Trumps reaction to the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The announcement reverses the outcome of one of the stormier episodes in Trumps mutually antagonistic relationship with artists and cultural figures. In a group resignation letter in August 2017, the committee, whose 17 members included artist Chuck Close, novelist Jhumpa Lahiri and architect Thom Mayne, decried what it called Trumps support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans, saying the false equivalencies you push cannot stand. In response, the White House ... More | | 
Alice Rahon, Rendez-vous des rivières (Encounter of Two Rivers) (1942).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris presents Uncovering Alice Rahon, the artists first solo gallery exhibition in over forty-five years. With seventeen works on display, Uncovering Alice Rahon reveals Rahons mastery of oil and sand painting, assemblage, and sculpture. Her art has not been shown in San Francisco since 1953, when the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) presented a Rahon solo show. Almost seventy years later, Uncovering Alice Rahon underscores Rahons contemporary relevance and deepens Gallery Wendi Norris commitment to advancing the work of this remarkable artist, who was brought into the gallerys program three years ago. The exhibition is on view from October 1 through November 5, 2022, in a historic landmark building at 436 Jackson Street, in San Franciscos Jackson Square neighborhood. As with Rahons peers Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, and Remedios Varo, scholarly inqui ... More | | 
Leonora Carrington, St Martin dArdèche, France 1939 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2022. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
COPENHAGEN.- Leonora Carrington was one of Surrealism's key figures. She rebelled against power hierarchies and conventions with a magical universe filled with humour, witchcraft and spirit, yet she remained an overlooked figure in art history. Today, interest in Carrington is immense and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, located just south of Copenhagen in Denmark, opened the first major Leonora Carrington exhibition in Scandinavia. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. Exhibition curator Sarah Fredholm who is in charge of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at ARKEN explains why the surreal artist resonates so much today: "Leonora Carrington's artistic vision of freedom and equality is more relevant than ever in times of global warming, natural disasters, and war. In response to the crises of our time, spirituality, the occult and the forces of nature are being increasingly ... More |
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| World class collection visits Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum | | Blue Star Contemporary announces new name, graphic identity, and website | | Brooklyn Museum's entire floor devoted to arts of Asia and the Islamic World is now open | 
View on the Grand Canal: From the Palazzo Bembo to that of Grimani Calerghi, now Vendramini. From the Woburn Abbey Collection.
WORCESTER.- Canaletto: A Venetians View arrived at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum on 1 October until 7 January 2022. The exhibition celebrates the wonderful work of Canaletto, featuring stunning paintings on loan from the Woburn Abbey Collection together with artworks from Worcesters Fine Art Collection and loans from Birmingham Museums, Tate and Compton Verney. Born in Venice, Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697 1768), commonly known as Canaletto, was an important member of the 18th century Venetian school. He became very popular with English collectors, and visited England repeatedly between 1746 56. Canaletto revolutionised the use of colour, ground and canvas and pioneered the technique of painting from life, sitting in front of the subject outdoors as opposed to his contemporaries who completed paintings in the studio. This exhibition explores Canalettos work and the impact ... More | | 
The cultural institution will be known as Contemporary at Blue Star and invites the public to celebrate with a First Friday Block Party on Friday, October 7 at 6:00 pm.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonios first and longest running contemporary art nonprofit, announced a new name, graphic identity, and website. The cultural institution will be known as Contemporary at Blue Star and invites the public to celebrate with a First Friday Block Party on Friday, October 7 at 6:00 pm. In 2021, a series of community focus groups were conducted to create the Contemporarys new name and graphic identity, and included artists, educators, donors, program participants, community leaders, and the organizations founders. The participants were asked about the Contemporarys role in the community, past and current, and how the organization could continue to grow and serve successfully into the future. James Lifshutz, owner of the Blue Star Arts Complex and a member of the Contemporarys Advisory Council shared, Over the past three decades, ... More | | 
Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa. China, Song dynasty, 986. Silver, 14 in. (35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Mrs. Walter N. Rothschild and anonymous gift, by exchange, 2012.5a-d.(Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
BROOKLYN, NY.- The new home for the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World creates cross-cultural dialogue among collection areas and highlights diverse aesthetic, creative, social, and intellectual accomplishments across Asia and around the Mediterranean, from ancient times to the present day. These newly renovated galleries on the Museums second floor feature Asian and Islamic artworks in bespoke casework enhanced by state-of-the-art lighting. The renovations create greater flexibility, facilitating the rotation of installation objects to showcase a wider range of materials. Arts of South Asia and Arts of the Islamic World will be the final galleries on the floor to reopen, marking the first time in ten years that artworks from across these collectionswhich boast more than seventeen thousand objects, including sculptures, textiles, ... More |
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| Gruin Gallery opens the first group exhibition of Dana James and Jo Hummel | | Christie's to offer works from one of the world's premier Chinese art galleries J. J. Lally & Co. | | Honor Fraser opens an exhibition of works by Lucy McRae | 
Dana James is a painter and New York native.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Gruin Gallery is pleased to present the first group exhibition of Dana James and Jo Hummel, Love Letter. Jo Hummel's work is characterized by a painted and paper collaged surface on which she employs spontaneous variations of space, color and form. Although her painting collages are physically engaged and materially driven the context is purposefully anthropological. Hummels works are informed by both free will and deterministic formal human behavior. Hummel runs experiments where the process helps determine the outcome while providing an arena for improvisation, a place where rational procedures can co-exist alongside intuition. In doing this she explores the unpredictable nature of intuition and spontaneity. Her practice functions as a simulation of decision making experiences which enable us to grasp sensations such as anxiety or serenity. It is via these conflicting emotional ... More | | 
A Langyao Baluster Vase, Guanyin Zun Kangxi Period (1662-1722), 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high, gilt metal stand. Estimate: $120,000-180,000. Zhong Kangxi Period, dated to period, dated by cast inscription. 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high. Estimate: $400,000-600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present a dedicated sale of works from the gallery of one of the most important connoisseurs and dealers in fine Chinese art. The live auction will encompass Chinese ceramics and works of art from the Shang through the Qing dynasties, and will be complemented by an online sale of the gallerys world-class library. Both sales will take place in March, 2023 in New York. These auctions will celebrate the legacy and significant contribution to the field of Chinese art made by J.J. Lally & Co. For nearly four decades J. J. Lally & Co. presented pieces of the highest caliber to the most prominent collectors and museums worldwide. J.J. Lally & Co.s carefully planned ... More | | 
Future Survival Kit, 2022 Archival print with artist frame.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser is presenting Future Sensitive, a solo exhibition of short films, soft sculptures, and kinetic installations by the filmmaker and body architect, Lucy McRae. Lucy McRaes genre bending, science fiction films and installations gesture to a speculative, not-so-distant future where advanced genetic engineering will enable humans to be grown in laboratories outside of the womb. The exhibition spotlights McRaes dynamic capacity for world-building, and brings together a selection of her recent projects to ask how future technologies of design will fundamentally alter entrenched notions of human intimacy, reproduction, spirituality, and wellness. Can our technologies be more than a quick fix, and instead help us find strength in our imperfections? Can sensitivity be a guiding principle as we dream about the future? Future Sensitive cultivates these questions and asks ... More |
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| Casino Luxembourg opens an exhibition of works by Adrien Vescovi | | Interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z awarded 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT | | 'American (Tele)visions' review: Tune in, and buckle up, for family drama | 
Adrien Vescovi, Vue dinstallation, Soleil Blanc, La Traverse, Marseille. © Jean-Christophe Lett.
LUXEMBOURG .- In his Marseille studio, we find pigments, washing machines, jars of colour in which pieces of textile are bathed, rusty steel bars and hanging canvases, waiting to be assembled with others, after cutting and sewing. Thought and composed like paintings, they are then hung in spaces where they act with their environment. In the middle of nature, where they are impregnated by the elements and the weather; indoors, where these canvases and their layout respond to the architecture of the place. Grandeur and vulnerability come together in the work of Adrien Vescovi like two discordant notes that are brought into tune in a deliberately soft, safe, desaturated space. While disproportionate, the scale at which Vescovi conceives his paintings never seems excessive. Working at such a vast scale means working at the scale of nature itself, which also implies wrestling with shortcomings, ... More | | 
Award includes $100K prize, artist residency, gala, concert, and lecture/demo at MIT.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z is the recipient of the 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in her honor also includes an artist residency at MIT in spring 2023, during which Pamela Z will perform selections from her work in a concert open to the public on April 19, 2023, then will present a public lecture/demonstration on April 20, 2023. A pioneering composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist for more than four decades, Pamela Z has toured to major festivals and venues worldwide. She works with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video, and is known for using custom music technology, activated by physical gesture, to explore deeply personal themes. This McDermott residency builds on her prior visits to MIT in 2013 and 2016, ... More | | 
Raúl Castillo, left, and Bianca b Norwood in Victor I. Cazaress play American (Tele)visions at the New York Theater Workshop.
NEW YORK, NY.- The program for American (Tele)visions, which opened Thursday at the New York Theater Workshop, comes with an addendum tucked inside: a bibliography of the nearly 50 books, movies, and works of art and music that inspired playwright, Victor I. Cazares. The wide-ranging list of titles includes works by Luis Buñuel, Haruki Murakami and the Magnetic Fields, as well as Stephen Mitchells 2000 translation of the Bhagavad Gita. Its a fitting way to illustrate the occasionally unwieldy yet often absorbing treasury of themes, metaphors and 90s American cultural touchstones that is this memory play, which is set among the reflective screens of a Walmart television department. For young Erica and her family, Mexican immigrants living in the country illegally in a poor but racially diverse trailer park, Walmart is the linoleum-floored, discount- ... More |
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 Kavi Gupta presents From Your Special Friend by Beijing-born artist Su SuCHICAGO, IL.- Kavi Gupta presents From Your Special Friend, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Beijing-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Su Su. This exhibition coincides with the inclusion of Su Sus work in the groundbreaking exhibition Wonder Women, inspired by Genny Lims eponymous poem and featuring thirty Asian American and diasporic women and non-binary artists responding to themes of wonder, self, and identity through figuration, curated by Kathy Huang for Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, CA; and State of the Art 2020 at the Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL; and follows her recent participation in There Is Always One Direction, the widely applauded exhibition during Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 at the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Museum, Miami, FL; and acclaimed group exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; and The ... More  Major new exhibition at Firstsite this autumn revisits the work of Denis Wirth-MillerCOLCHESTER.- Before his death in Colchester aged 94, Wirth-Millers work had been shown in London's leading galleries and acquired by the Queen, the Arts Council England and Contemporary Art Society. The self-taught painter was both a friend and collaborator with Francis Bacon, but following an explosive disagreement with Bacon, Wirth-Miller ended his career in painting in 1977. In the largest retrospective of his work to date, Firstsite displays over one hundred paintings by this influential artist. The exhibition is curated by the renowned writer and curator James Birch, who has secured key loans from a variety of sources, to give visitors a chance to view pieces that have never before been seen in public. Many artworks are from private collections, including more than 70 never shown and important artworks from Jon Lys Turner, the holder ... More  Design classics from the Winter Art & Antiques Fair November 1-6LONDON.- Visited by interior designers as well as collectors and creative home owners, the fair shows design classics such as Windsor Chairs as well as familiar Modern British artists Terry Frost and Mary Feddon mixed in with Art Deco cocktail cabinets and Renaissance rings. Prices start at under £100 and finish well over £100,000 for rare, museum-quality pieces. New exhibitors to The 31st Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia (November 1-6) include Messums, Santos London, Annecy-based 20th century design dealers, Studio Marjan Ertefai, David Stanley and Karen Taylor Fine Art. Santos London is selling a very rare Chinese export porcelain wall vase modelled as a carp decorated in iron red, c 1770, Qianlong reign, Qing dynasty. In the dealers 45 years of dealing in Chinese porcelain he has never seen anything like this before. ... More  Kyoto wants you back, but it has some polite suggestionsKYOTO.- In the months before March 2020, the food sellers in Kyotos Nishiki market often wished for an end to the seemingly endless stream of photo-hungry visitors from abroad who always seemed to be underfoot. We werent used to foreign tourists, said Nobuyuki Hatsuda, who leads a business alliance promoting the shopping street in the city center, where vendors sell a dizzying array of traditional Japanese foods, carefully displayed and attractively packaged. Nishiki has long been a working market, and the parade of visitors rifling through the meticulously arranged merchandise, haggling with frazzled shopkeepers and blocking storefronts with their luggage interfered with the flow of daily business, driving away locals who had long done their shopping on the street. But then the pandemic hit. The tourists along with their money ... More  FOG DESIGN+ART announces galleries exhibiting in 2023 fairSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- FOG Design+Art announced that the ninth edition of the fair will be held January 19 - 22, 2023 at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in San Francisco. The fair will open with a Preview Gala on Wednesday, January 18 benefitting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts (SFMOMA) education and exhibitions program. The fair will be co-chaired by philanthropists and collectors Komal Shah & Gaurav Garg. FOG Design+Art brings together an international roster of leading contemporary design and art galleries, offering visitors the opportunity to experience the best of art and design from around the world all in one place. The 2023 fair will include 45 booths featuring 48 galleries from Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, New York, and San Francisco, among others, with longtime participants ... More  Octavia Art Gallery opens an exhibition oil paintings by Melinda HackettNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery announces City by the Sea, featuring oil paintings by Melinda Hackett. This is the first solo exhibition for the artist at Octavia Art Gallery. Hacketts paintings defy popular convention. They are not figurative, decorative, representative, or even completely abstract. While it is hard to tie them to any one style or movement, they manage to be a part of all of them. Hacketts work is influenced by pattern, midcentury design, art of indigenous peoples, and the art and craft movement, combined with a loose examination of the natural world. She creates a visual environment that is both recognizable yet strangely mysterious. While steeped in art history and influenced by a range of artists from Miro to Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Agnes Pelton, Florine Stettheimer Sonia Delaunay and Hilma af Klimt, among many others, ... More  Taft Museum of Art opens the first major exhibition of female pictorialist, Nancy Ford ConesCINCINNATI, OH.- Nancy Ford Cones created photographs that earned her an international reputation and recognition in prestigious journals such as Camera Craft, as well as popular outlets including National Geographic magazine and Kodak advertisements. Despite the praise her works received during her lifetime, Coness imaginative and exquisitely crafted photographs were largely forgotten after her death. The Taft Museum of Arts special exhibition, Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones (October 1, 2022January 15, 2023) will be the first major presentation of her work. The Taft presents Craft and Camera as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennials theme, World Record, which considers photographys extensive record of life on earth while exploring humankinds impact on the natural world. Nancy Ford Cones (1869 ... More  The Power Plant spotlights contemporary Indigenous artists from the Circumpolar Arctic and the AmazonTORONTO.- The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery , Toronto, announces that its Fall 2022 exhibition, Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, will be open to the public October 1December 31, 2022. Arctic/Amazon features the works of twelve artists from three continents, taking on issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and contact zones in the Arctic and Amazon during a time of crisis. The exhibition encompasses both new and existing works, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Curated by Governor Generals Awardwinning Indigenous curator and educator Dr. Gerald McMasteralongside co-curator Dr. Nina Vincent and institutional curator Noor Alé Arctic/Amazon seeks to shed light on the geopolitical and environmental sustainability issues currently informing artistic practices in these ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Donna Karan was born October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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