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Museum visitors view Fons Americanus an installation by Kara Walker at the Tate Modern in London on Oct. 18, 2020. For her installation, the American artist Walker directly questioned the romanticization of colonial narratives by public sculptures. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Precious Adesina
LONDON.- At the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, a statue in Bristol, in the southwest of England, was pulled from its plinth, stomped on, graffitied and thrown into the river. Before the incident, Edward Colston, the British slave trader and merchant the sculpture depicted, was a name generally only known by historians. But the toppling of the Colston statue forced into the mainstream conversations about who is represented by public art in Britain, and where Black Britons experiences fit within that. Since then, numerous public sculptures of and by Black people have been erected across Britain. Last year, a bronze monument to Betty Campbell, the first Black woman to become a head teacher in Wales, was unveiled in Cardiff. In June, two 9-foot bronze figures by artist Thomas J Price titled Warm Shores were revealed outside Hackney Town Hall in east London. The statues were made using 3D images of more than 30 Hackney residents with a personal connection to the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of China - The past is present, on display at NGV International, Melbourne from 15 October 2022 - 20 February 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
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| Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock 'n' roll original, dies at 87 | | MoMA opens Meret Oppenheim's first exhibition in the U.S. in 25 years | | Multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson to showcase installation work at the Dallas Museum of Art | 
Jerry Lee Lewis in New York on Sept. 8, 2010. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Jerry Lee Lewis, the hard-driving rockabilly artist whose pounding boogie-woogie piano and bluesy, country-influenced vocals helped define the sound of rock n roll on hits such as Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On and Great Balls of Fire, and whose incendiary performing style expressed the essence of rock rebellion, died Friday at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of Memphis, Tennessee. He was 87. His death was announced by his publicist, Zach Farnum. No cause was given, but Lewis had been in poor health for some time. Lewis was 21 in November 1956 when he walked into Sun Studio in Memphis and, presenting himself as a country singer who could play a mean piano, demanded an audition. His timing was impeccable. Sun Records had sold Elvis Presley ... More | | 
Meret Oppenheim. Stone Woman (Steinfrau). 1938. Oil on cardboard. 23 ¼ x 19 5/16 in. (59 x 49 cm.). Private collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition, the first major transatlantic exhibitionand the first in the United States in over 25 yearsto survey this visionary Swiss artists career. On view October 30, 2022, through March 4, 2023, the exhibition considers the full scope of Oppenheims lifelong innovation through over 180 works, including paintings, sculptures, objects, collages, and drawings. Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Bern; and the Menil Collection, Houston. Organized by Anne Umland, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA; Nina Zimmer, Director, Kunstmuseum Bern; and Natalie Dupêcher, Associate Curator, the Menil Collection; with Lee Colón, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA. ... More | | 
Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
DALLAS.- The Dallas Museum of Art invites visitors to step into the artwork of renowned multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson in Focus On: Rashid Johnson, an installation showcasing Johnsons multimedia work The New Black Yoga Installation. Gifted to the DMA by the artist in 2022, this installation combines a video projection and branded Persian rugs to create an experience that is, at once, intense and intimate. The film features five men performing an enigmatic dance of ballet, yoga, tai chi and martial arts across a sun-soaked beach, exploring the complexity of personal and cultural identity. Their choreographed movements reflect Johnsons ongoing meditations on Black masculinity and mysticism, as well as his investigations of the body in space. Rugs branded with crosshairs, a symbol that is etched into the sand in the video, are situated throughout the gallery, projecting the films combined sense of peace and foreboding ... More |
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| How did Steve Keene make 300,000 paintings? Lots of room for easels. | | Mark Dion: Tree of Life, new public art installations in Belgium and Germany | | Margo Feiden, Hirschfeld's idiosyncratic gallerist, dies at 77 | 
The artist Steve Keene in his home workspace, a studio encircled in chain-link fencing that he affectionately calls the cage, in New York, Oct. 18, 2022. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK, NY.- When artist Steve Keene and his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, spent $140,000 on a dilapidated former auto body shop to live in, in Brooklyn in 1996, it was understood that he would use most of it for his studio space. His brightly painted works are typically not large, but they are numerous: Over the past 30 years, he says, hes created more than 300,000. Sold them, too most for $10 or less apiece. His images, with visible brushstrokes on plywood panels that he cuts himself, are done in rapid-fire multiples: lo-fi renderings of album covers, presidents, streetscapes and pastorals inspired by discount art books from the Strand, sometimes with a lyric or funny non sequitur on top just to kind of slow you down, to look at it, he said. ... More | | 
Mark Dion, Tree of Life, 2022. Photo by Michiel De Cleene.
HASSELT.- Mark Dions Tree of Life is the first permanent artwork developed for the public art project Art on the Meuse. The American artist created a tree sculpture featuring animals and objects that refer to the surrounding landscape of Herbricht. His Tree of Life is like a journey through the past, present and future of the Meuse Valley. The creative power of nature is the central theme. The artwork is as symbolic as its location. Residents are moving out of Herbricht, a small village in Lanaken frequently beset by flooding, and no one else is taking their place. While the village is dying out, the majestic Meuse river remains. On a small hill near the water, galloway cattle and konik horses seek refuge at high tide. That image of the river receding after a flood was a great source of inspiration for me. After the flood, the trees were still standing, full of grasses, plastics and strange objects, Mark Dion explains. ... More | | 
The gallerist Margo Feiden, left, and Stanley Goldmark, her husband at the time, in New York on April 18, 1975. (Jack Manning/The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger and Alex Traub
NEW YORK, NY.- The scene on a recent Friday at a Greenwich Village townhouse was like a cross between an art opening and a rummage sale. On the sidewalk, a barker urged passersby to take a look. Inside the townhouse, a five-story mansion on East Ninth Street on the market for nearly $11 million, the wares included signed prints by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld elegant line drawings of Frank Sinatra, Jerry Seinfeld and dozens of others selling for thousands of dollars as well as a plastic tub of electrical wiring, a heated massage cushion, a pair of 1998-edition Happy Holidays Barbies, and boxes of worn hats and purses. Overseeing it all, somewhat reluctantly, was Jeremy Rosen, who for weeks has been trying to dispose of what his mother, who died in April in Manhattan, left behind. ... More |
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| A celebrated Japanese artist died trying to save others from drowning | | The Currier Museum of Art acquires a long-lost painting by Judith Leyster, a pioneering Dutch woman artist | | Smithsonian American Art Museum names Lindsay Harris as new head of Research and Sholars Center | 
An undated photo provided by Brian Lamar/U.S. Army's 10th Support Group of Mermaids Grotto, the diving spot in southern Japan where Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the internationally famous Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, was last seen alive, in Okinawa prefecture, Japan. At the time, officials did not disclose the circumstances of his death. (Brian Lamar/U.S. Army's 10th Support Group via The New York Times)
by Mike Ives and Hisako Ueno
NEW YORK, NY.- As a chaotic rescue unfolded off the coast of Japan in July, an American eyewitness saw a tall, thin man wade into waters where other swimmers were battling a deadly rip current. The glare and the sunlight was kind of silhouetting him, so I didnt see his face, the witness, Capt. Neda K. Othman of the U.S. Army, said by phone this week. What she saw, from a distance of at least 40 feet, was his short hair, red shorts, black top, fins and snorkeling mask. The two distressed swimmers, a 12-year-old girl and a man, later reached safety with help from Othmans husband and the couples diving instructor. But at some point during the rescue, ... More | | 
Judith Leyster, Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat, around 1630. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire.
MANCHESTER, NH.- Judith Leyster was the first woman to be admitted to a professional artistic guild. She was also one of the most expressive and innovative painters of the 17th century. Alan Chong, director of the Currier Museum, states: The acquisition of this innovative painting by Judith Leyster fulfills our wish to highlight an important woman artist in our historical collection. The Currier Museum owns powerful works of art by contemporary women, including Joan Mitchell, Marisol, and Faith Ringgold, but this is the Curriers first work by a woman painter from the 17th century. Leyster mastered an original style to capture scenes of everyday life. Her quick brushwork perfectly suits figures which appear in motion. In this painting, the boys tilted head and open mouth seem spontaneous. Moreover, the subject of a laughing boy holding a bunch of grapes and a hat is a unique subject in art history, which suggests that it was a ... More | | 
Lindsay Harris, head of the museum's Research and Scholars Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
WASHINGTON D. C..- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that Lindsay Harris will join its senior leadership team as head of the museum's Research and Scholars Center, which has had a profound impact on the field of American art and museum studies for more than 50 years through its programs and resources. Harris will lead a team of nine staff members who manage the museum's fellows and academic programs, intern programs, the journal American Art, publication prizes, art research databases and special collections used by national and international scholars. She begins work at the museum in spring 2023. Lindsay comes to SAAM with a wealth of experience in arts administration, developing research-driven exhibitions and publications, mentoring scholars and teams, and producing public programs and scholarship of the highest caliber, said Stephanie Stebich, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museu ... More |
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| Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna opens its autumn season with 'The Floating Collection' | | New selection of limited edition of Al Hirschfeld prints signed by legendary Broadwary Stars now up for bid | | Dimming the lights for sensuously flowing Bach | 
Geo-fenced commodity futures (renewable, traced, hard) I-V, 2022, David Jablonowski, stampe 3d realizzate con plastica riciclata, alluminio, ottone, rame, acciaio, specchi, alluminio fresato a controllo numerico, legno, marmo / 3d prints made with recycled plastic, aluminum, brass, copper, steel, mirrors, CNC-milled Aluminium, wooden flail, marble. Courtesy: SpazioA, Gallery Fons Welters, Gallery Markus Luettgen. MAMbo Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna. Photo: Ornella de Carlo. Courtesy Settore Musei Civici Bologna.
BOLOGNA.- The MAMbo Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna opened its autumn season of exhibitions with The Floating Collection, a group exhibition born out of the desire to study the collections of the museums in Bologna the Settore Musei Civici Bologna and other museum systems of the city through the gaze of six artists: Alex Ayed (Strasbourg, 1989), Rä di Martino (Rome, 1975), Cevdet Erek (Istanbul, 1974), David Jablonowski (Bochum, 1982), Miao Ying (Shanghai, 1985), Alexandra Pirici (Bucharest, 1982). In preparation for the exhibition, through visits, in-depth sessions with museum staff and unplanned journeys, ... More | | 
Betty Buckley, Autograph Series Photo. Auction, in partnership with Heritage Auctions, benefits: Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS, and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
Twenty one limited-edition prints of acclaimed caricature artist Al Hirschfeld signed by the iconic stage and screen stars featured in the image are being auctioned online to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, in partnership with with Heritage Auctions, the largest collectibles auctioneer in the world. The acclaimed performers who hand-signed the collectible prints this year are Eileen Atkins, Betty Buckley, Cher, Michael Crawford, Clive Davis, Judi Dench, Michael Feinstein, Ellen Greene, Joel Grey, Harry Groener, Mark Hamill, Billy Joel, Nathan Lane, Jose Llana, Reba McEntire, Donna McKechnie, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Steve Martin, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Faith Prince, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, Martin Short, Bruce Springsteen and Meryl Streep. ... More | | 
A photo provided by Jennifer Taylor of Jean Rondeaus recital in Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. The harpsichordist Jean Rondeau played the Goldberg Variations at Weill Recital Hall, the most intimate of Carnegies three spaces, with patience and a vibrant yet subtle touch. Jennifer Taylor via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- A quiet battle over lighting simmers in classical music. During concerts, halls tend to be kept bright enough for audience members to be able to find their cough drops and consult their programs. But wheres the focus and drama in that? The brightness can come across as stilted and bland compared with what its like at a movie or play. But the lights have stayed, mostly, on. For his return to Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, though, the superb harpsichordist Jean Rondeau turned them off. He made Weill Recital Hall, the most intimate of Carnegies three spaces, unusually dark for his performance of Bachs Goldberg Variations. The only illumination was a dim spot on him and his instrument. ... More |
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 In a marathon of one-act plays, boundaries are pushed and pulledNEW YORK, NY.- In Harron Atkins multigenerational saga Still
, artistic ambitions rub up against personal relationships. Careers wax and wane. A couple forms, bickers, ends and may or may not be reborn on different terms. We even hear exquisite renditions of Doo Wop (That Thing) and Valerie. All of this in only 40 minutes. The scope and length of Still
make it an outlier not just in Ensemble Studio Theaters 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays, but in short-form theater in general, which tends to focus on economical vignettes and snapshots. Not here: Atkins follows Noah and Jeremy, starting with their meet-cute as tweens, then tracking them as young adults uploading songs on social media before they eventually make moves in the music industry, and going all the way to their reminiscing but also looking ahead when they are in their 60s. Much of the time ... More  Madelynn Green opens her second solo show at Amine RechBRUSSELS.- For her second solo exhibition with Almine Rech, Madelynn Green has created a body of spirited paintings and drawings that unveil the ironies of self-fashioning, or dolling up. The paintings consider the notion of spectacle from the lenses of subject versus spectator, individual versus collective, and styled versus stylist. Dolls is a vivid departure from Madelynn Greens 2021 show Birth of a Star at Almine Rech Paris and her 2020 show Heartland at Taymour Grahne Projects, which respectively explored stardom and her hometown. While these shows centred on aesthetics of celebrity, the celestial, and the American Midwest, Dolls considers aesthetics more literally by examining beauty through the lenses of performance and self-fashioning. Dolls inhabit many forms. They can be tiny human figures meant for children or elegant mannequins draped in jewellery. ... More  Solo exhibition by American artist Will Rawls opens at Adams and OllmanPORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman opened Amphigory, a solo exhibition by American artist Will Rawls. This exhibition, his first at the gallery, builds upon Rawls long-standing interests in the politics of movement and language with a large-scale, multi-panel installation of prints on paper and a sculpture. The exhibition opened on Saturday, October 29 and is on view through December 3, 2022. For more than twenty years, Rawls has been creating performances that bring together dance, installation, text and video. Across his practice, Rawls grapples with language as an ever-evolving site of negotiation, drawing parallels between its fluctuating meanings and the human body as it dances, contorts, transforms, speaks, groans and repeats itself. The artists work poetically embraces glitches and failures in communicationwhether linguistic, gestural or visual. ... More  Smoke, mirrors and passing the torch at American Ballet TheaterNEW YORK, NY.- American Ballet Theater had its fall gala on Thursday, celebrating Kevin McKenzies final New York season as artistic director. In a preshow talk, he was joined by Susan Jaffe, the companys incoming artistic director and a former principal. Their attempt at back-and-forth banter with some bickering thrown in for laughs was more than a little strange, but eventually they hit on a theme: what it takes to be an artistic director. Hiring dancers and staff, commissioning choreographers, casting, fundraising its not for the meek. Dont worry, McKenzie said. Just the whole ballet world will be looking over your shoulder pick, pick, pick, pick. Finally, McKenzie passed the torch, which turned out to be the image of one on his smartphone. Sorry, fire regulations, he said, handing her the phone. ... More  Outstanding private family collection at Bonhams Modern British and Irish art saleLONDON.- In 1959 the Cornish painter Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) joined his local gliding club. Soaring above the landscape gave him a new perspective on it that had a profound, revelatory effect on his output (and tragically on his life which he lost in a gliding accident in 1964). One of his gliding paintings Still Air from 1961 features in Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale in London on Tuesday 22 November. Estimated at £200,000-300,000, it leads an outstanding private family collection of works from a Knightsbridge residence by major names of Modern British Art. Artists of the St Ives School are especially well-represented. Christopher Dawson, Head of Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Department, said: Lanyon's gliding paintings represent the pinnacle of his achievements as an artist and Still Air is among the most successful manifestations of his all-consuming ... More  ACCIONA Cultura delivers the 'Lusail Museum' exhibition in QatarQATAR.- ACCIONA Cultura is responsible for delivering the technical development and museographic implementation for the Lusail Museum: Tales of a Connected World exhibition for Qatar Museums (QM). Located in the heart of Doha at the Qatar Museums Gallery - Al Riwaq, the Lusail Exhibition explores cultural interactions between the greater MENA (the Middle East North Africa) region and its peripheries, Europe, Central and East Africa, and Central, South and East Asia. The exposition will excite visitors about the forthcoming Lusail Museum, currently under development, showcasing a world-class collection of Orientalist art, archaeological artefacts and media from antiquity to the 21st century. The 237 artefacts displayed represent a large collection of paintings on canvas, jewellery, tapestries, costumes, film props, books, manuscripts, photographs, decorated ceramics, glass, and metal. ... More  NY artist Richard Pasquarelli to be showcased in upcoming exhibitioin at ArtegoQUEENS, NY.- Studio Artego, NY., presents "The thing about things", a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Richard Pasquarelli from November 04th through 29th, 2022. Opening reception will be held on November 4th between 5:30 - 8:00pm. Richard Pasquarelli's paintings make visible the relationships between physical reality and the mind. Through analysis of his own compulsions for perfection and order, and research into mental health, psychology, the physical properties of nature, and philosophy, Pasquarelli seeks a better understanding of the connection between mind and matter and its observable presence in the world around us. To build upon his research, Pasquarelli has immersed himself into the study of OCD and hoarding disorder by conducting field research in the homes of people affected by these conditions. ... More  FuturDome presents "La linea che ci divide dal domani" by artist Matteo PizzalanteMILAN.- FuturDome began the presentation of "La linea che ci divide dal domani" (The Line Dividing Us From Tomorrow), a solo show by Matteo Pizzolante, curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi this past October 27th, where it will continue through to January 28th, 2023. The project presents a new body of site-specific artworks developed in relation to the spatial peculiarities and the history of FuturDome's exhibition spaces, as well as to the materials that redefine its building shell, activating a change of temporal intensity that entails a subtraction of the present. "La linea che ci divide dal domani"investigates the instant from which the reconstruction of the narrative of an event originates, determining how a memory switches from its state of inert sensibility to its state of active sensibility. In psychology, events of reality are not identified as facts but rather as experiences. ... More  Two large-scale, American 19th-century yachting trophies sail into Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TEXAS.- Heritage Auctions Nov. 15 Silver & Vertu Signature® Auction is a celebration of expert silversmithing. From works by English greats such as John Samuel Hunt and John Bridge to American masters like Gorham Mfg. Co. and Tiffany & Co., the auction teems with exquisitely detailed examples from some of the most notable names in silver. This is probably the strongest collection of English silver that weve had in the last 10 years, says Karen Rigdon, Vice President of Fine Silver & Decorative Arts at Heritage Auctions. But the American offerings are equally exceptional, with rare and important pieces from the American Aesthetic Movement. As Rigdon notes, English silver dominated the industry until the mid-1800s, when the world began to take notice of the magnificent wor ... More  "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll": Julien's Auctions to hold three-day auction at Hard Rock Cafe in NYNEW YORK, NY.- Juliens Auctions announced today Property from the Archives of Steve Vai, an exclusive presentation honoring the legendary three-time GRAMMY award-winning rock maestro, guitar pioneer, renowned axe-slinger for David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, and Frank Zappa and collaborator with artists from Public Image Ltd. to Alice Cooper, taking place Saturday, November 12th, 2022, day two of Icons & Idols: Rock N Roll, the world-record-breaking auction house to the stars three-day event running Friday, November 11th to Sunday, November 13th live at the Hard Rock Cafe® New York and online. It was also announced that a portion of the proceeds will benefit Kicking The Stigma, the Indianapolis Colts and the Jim Irsay familys national initiative to raise awareness about mental health disorders and to remove the stigma too often associated with these illnesses. ... More  Key Jo Lee appointed Chief Curator at Museum of the African Diaspora in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) announces the appointment of Key Jo Lee as Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs, a newly created leadership position at MoAD supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation to elevate the Museums presence as a global leader within the contemporary art world in presenting and celebrating art from a uniquely African Diasporic perspective. Lee will begin in her new role January 2023. Lee comes to MoAD from The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), where she is Associate Curator of American Art. Lee joined the CMA in 2017 as Assistant Director of Academic Affairs. She was promoted in 2020 to Director of Academic Affairs and Associate Curator of Special Projects and later to Associate Curator of American Art. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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