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Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs conservation treatment on Jacques-Louis Davids Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (17431794) and MarieAnne Lavoisier (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, 17581836) (1788) in The Mets Paintings Conservation studio. Photo: Eddie Knox © Oxford Films, 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today extraordinary new insights into Jacques-Louis Davids 1788 portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie-Anne Lavoisiera landmark of European painting and a cornerstone of The Met collectionfollowing nearly three years of in-depth analysis. The discovery of the paintings underlying composition shows that David initially emphasized the couples privileged role as rich tax collectors and fashionable consumers of luxury, rather than as progressive scientists. In the paintings first iteration, for example, the later-prominent scientific instruments were entirely absent. These changes reveal the couples shifting public face on the brink of the French Revolution and Davids ingenuity in formulating a new kind of portrait. The revelations about Jacques-Louis Davids painting completely transform ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of the Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Berlin's Museum Island on September 2, 2021. The museum, finished in 1830 according to the plans by Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is the oldest of the island's 5 museums. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
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| SFMOMA presents world premiere of Joan Mitchell exhibition | | Morton Subastas organises first crypto art auction in Latin America | | Godine publishes 'The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana' by Bob Keyes |
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1948; Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York; © Estate of Joan Mitchell; photo: Kris Graves.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force a painter who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York. She then spent nearly four decades in France creating distinctive, vibrant abstract paintings that draw on landscape, memory, poetry and music. With its world premiere at SFMOMA from September 4, 2021 through January 17, 2022, Joan Mitchell is a comprehensive retrospective featuring approximately 80 distinguished works. In addition to rarely seen early paintings that established the artists career, the exhibition includes colorful large-scale multi-panel masterpieces from her later years. SFMOMAs presentation will include 10 paintings not traveling to other venues, several from the museums own holdings. These works demonstrate Mitchells ability to create powerful paintings in widely different scales ... More | |
In alliance with ARTEREUM, Morton Subastas will offer 22 NFTs, Latin American digital art protected with OARO Eco-NFT blockchain technology which preventS their reproduction.
MEXICO CITY.- In a sale that is the starting point for the digital art market in Mexico, Morton Subastas, in collaboration with the ARTEREUM platform, will hold from September 6th to the 11th the 1st NFT Auction: Latin America is Crypto Art, where more than 22 digital pieces will be available, all created by renowned artists. The catalog can be consulted both at www.mortonsubastas.com and at https://artereum.io/ where you will find the works of analog artists who on this occasion present their first work of digital art, as well as works by crypto artists with some years of experience in the work on virtual support. Starting prices range from 900 to 2,300 dollars. In this auction, interested participants can leave their bids during these five days, and on September 11th at 12:00pm the winners will be announced. The NFTs that will be sold by ARTEREUM and Morton Subastas ... More | |
Engrossing [a] hard-hitting exposé of the contemporary art world Publishers Weekly
JAFFREY, NH.- When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artists final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. Im not a businessman, Im an artist, Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965. An odd and tortured soul, an artist who wanted both fame and solitude, Indiana surrounded himself with people to manage his life and work. Yet, he frequently changed his mind and often fired or belittled those who worked with him. By 2008, when Indiana created his HOPE sculptureor did he?the artist had signed away his work for others to exploit, eventually casting doubt about whether he had even seen some artwork attributed to him and sold for very high prices. At the time of his death, Indiana left a ... More |
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| A Fellini museum, as lavish as his movies | | An artist who brings order to chaos | | Thomas Nozkowski's final statement |
The Fellini Museum, dedicated to Italian director Federico Fellini, in Rimini, Italy. The museum opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini the directors birthplace earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellinis idiosyncratic cinematic universe. Riccardo Gallini/GRPhoto, via Comune di Rimini via The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
RIMINI (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Federico Fellini is one of a select group of movie directors to have gotten an Oxford English Dictionary-sanctioned adjective: Felliniesque, which is defined as fantastic, bizarre; lavish, extravagant. That description could easily apply to the Fellini Museum, which opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini the directors birthplace earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellinis idiosyncratic cinematic universe. The museum is at turns fantastic (pages from the so-called Book of Dreams, Fellinis drawings and musings on his nighttime reveries, appear on a wall when visitors blow on a feather); lavish (it includes outlandish costumes from the liturgical fashion show in his 1972 film Roma); and bizarre (what to make of a gigantic plush sculpture of actress Anita Ekberg, which visitors can recline on to watch ... More | |
The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in London, Aug. 3, 2021. Akomfrahs films have shaken up official narratives around Black identity and imperialism. His latest tries to make sense of life in the coronavirus pandemic. Adama Jalloh/The New York Times.
by Elizabeth Fullerton
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Shortly before artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah left Ghana for Britain after a 1966 coup, the 9-year-old-boy had a final encounter with his grandfather, the High Priest of the Akomfrah clan. The venerated old man wore a ring that had passed down through generations, representing the power to bring order to lifes chaos. It seemed like a perfect parting gift for his eldest grandson. Instead the old man swallowed it. Akomfrah always assumed this gesture signaled that the rings powers had ended with his grandfather, but when his friend, filmmaker Arthur Jafa, heard the story, he instantly felt it meant something different. What his grandfather did as a High Priest was a perfect fit for what John does as a filmmaker, Jafa said recently by phone: Akomfrahs films also bring order to chaos, he said. When he swallowed the ring, Jafa added, that meant, You have to apply what Ive taught you in a radically new ... More | |
The studio of the artist Thomas Nozkowski in High Falls, N.Y., Aug. 9, 2021. In the face of terminal cancer, Nozkowski focused and refined his singular style of abstract painting right till the end. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- With a farmers diligence and a detectives ingenuity, painter Thomas Nozkowski marked out and cultivated a deceptively modest territory for nearly five decades. His harvest was inexhaustibly bountiful. What I most respect about Nozkowskis work is its endless inventiveness, sculptor Martin Puryear, who was his upstate New York neighbor and close friend, said in a phone interview. Each of his paintings is its own story, and the story of the painting is in the painting. When he died at 75 in 2019, Nozkowski was at the top of his game. A selection of 15 works, Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings, which opens at Pace Gallery in Chelsea on Sept. 10, demonstrates how in a compact format all but one are on linen on panels of 22 by 28 inches he was able to conjure up surprising and beautiful combinations of abstract forms. Dating from 2016 to 2019, each painting is strikingly different from the next but ... More |
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| $25M endowment gift will support textile art & fashion at Denver Art Museum | | Exhibition looks at oceans from a local perspective | | Ernst van de Wetering, leading Rembrandt authority, dies at 83 |
Kansai Yamamoto. T-shirt Dress. About 1980. Printed cotton Jersey. Denver Art Museum Textile Art and Fashion Collection.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum today announced a $25 million endowment gift from an anonymous donor. This gift will support programming, art acquisitions and outreach of its Textile Art and Fashion department, creating a new Institute of Textile Art and Fashion. Florence Müller, the museum's Avenir Curator of Textile Art and Fashion, will lead the Institute of Textile Art and Fashion, established by this transformational gift. "The museum is deeply grateful for this significant and powerful endowment gift," said Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. "The goals of the new Institute are to support the development and sharing of the museum's Textile Art and Fashion collection and create a basis for scholarly research and exchange in ways that are engaging and valuable for our community. Textiles have been wonderful ambassadors and connectors ... More | |
Nina Canell, installasjonsbilde fra den 57. Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
BERGEN.- Over centuries, the city of Bergen has been largely defined by its relation to the sea. Situated on the Norwegian coast, halfway between the fishing grounds of Northern Norway and continental Europe, the city has developed as an international trading hub and today is one of the most important cities for the oil industries and maritime research. «The Ocean» at Bergen Kunsthall uses these diverse relationships to the sea as a starting point for a large-scale exhibition with works by artists and designers, research projects, and an extensive events programme. With some of the artistic projects taking place in public space, the exhibition makes use of the city, not only as a topic, but also as an arena in which art can initiate public discussions. The future of the oceans has become one of the most pressing issues today due to intensification of human activities. Oceans are crucial providers of necessary and valuable resources ... More | |
Ernst van de Wetering studying a painting in a private collection in 1969. The professor van de Wetering, an art historian who was a towering figure in the world of Rembrandt studies, died on Aug. 11 at his home in Amsterdam. He was 83. RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Rembrandt Research Project Archive via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ernst van de Wetering, an art historian who was a towering figure in the world of Rembrandt studies and widely regarded as the leading authority on the authenticity of paintings by or said to be by Rembrandt, died Aug. 11 at his home in Amsterdam. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his partner, Carin van Nes. She did not specify the cause, but she said he had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a condition that caused him to have strokes, and polyneuropathy, a disease that affects peripheral nerves. Van de Wetering spent more than a half-century examining ... More |
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| Art Museum of WVU reopens with Rauschenberg in China exhibition | | More than 400 railway and street signs to be sold in an online sale | | Bruce Museum to present 'Creative Today, Creative Tomorrow: The Future of Arts Education' |
Robert Rauschenberg, Lotus Bed II (The Lotus Series), 2008 . Inkjet pigment on paper . From an edition of 50, published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Universal Limited Art Editions.
MORGANTOWN, WV.- The Art Museum of West Virginia University reopened for the fall semester on Saturday, Aug. 21 with a new exhibition, Rauschenberg in China: The Lotus Series. This is the first U.S. venue for the exhibition after debuting in Denmark in 2017. Robert Rauschenberg was an influential American artist who, over a six-decade career, worked in painting, sculpture, photography performance and printmaking. Driven by curiosity, he was committed to a collaborative, experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practice. Rauschenberg is best known for his Combines, three dimensional collage works made between 1954 and 1964, which blurred the distinction between painting and sculpture through the juxtaposition of found objects and traditional art making materials. Rauschenberg in China: The Lotus Series, highlights Rauschenbergs artistic interest ... More | |
The JS Collection of Railwayana was one mans life-long passion and focuses on rare signs from the earlier part of the twentieth century.
LONDON.- More than 400 distinctive railway and street signs from two separate collections - will be offered by Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers in a two-week timed auction that commences on Friday, September 10, 2021 on www.the-saleroom.com. Comprising a Single Owner Collection of Railwayana as well as the final part of the Westminster City Council collection of London street signs, estimates range from £60 upwards. The JS Collection of Railwayana was one mans life-long passion and focuses on rare signs from the earlier part of the twentieth century. Comprising 200 lots, the collection ranges from a large tube station platform sign which shows an unrealised extension to the Northern line to Bushey Heath there are two of this sign (est: £800-1,200) to a very nice and rare 1930s bronze framed station roundel for Highgate station (est: £1,000-1,500) and a London Underground Oxford Circus enamel 'bullseye' round ... More | |
The roundtable will tackle such questions as: How do we position arts education as a right, not a privilege? How do we turn all the research proving the academic benefits of arts education into a demand for more of it? And what is arts education anyway? And who says so?
GREENWICH, CONN.- For students who revel in self-expression and creativity, last year was an especially dispiriting time. Visual arts, for one, was largely shuffled off to Zoom. Arts education is pivotal to the mission of the Greenwich, CT-based Bruce Museum, a centuryold nonprofit institution of art and science. On Thursday, September 9 at 7pm, via Zoom webinar, the Museum will present Creative Today, Creative Tomorrow: The Future of Arts Education, a national roundtable exploring not just where arts education has been, but where it is going. The roundtable will tackle such questions as: How do we position arts education as a right, not a privilege? How do we turn all the research proving the academic benefits of arts education into a demand for more of it? And what is arts education anyway? And who ... More |
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Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof opens an exhibition of works by photographer Martin Schoeller
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents an exhibition of the German portrait photographer Martin Schoeller from 5 September 2021 until 31 January 2022. With the exhibition 'Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust', the museum is showing 75 close-up portraits of Jewish men and women. The compelling, large-format photographs give a face to survivors of the Holocaust. Martin Schoeller is internationally known for his iconic, extreme close-up portraits of celebrities and lesser-known people. In the same style, the photographer has portrayed Holocaust survivors; frontal and hyper-realistic. The 75 unique life stories form a mosaic of personal memories and embody the most tragic events in modern human history. At the end of World War II, survivors of the Holocaust emerged, as representatives of European ... More
Hayward Gallery unveils gigantic tea-inspired sculpture from art collective Slavs and Tatars
LONDON.- A 14-metre sculpture from Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars was unveiled this week against the iconic backdrop of the Hayward Gallery. The new work, titled Samovar (2021), is the Hayward Gallerys inaugural Bagri Foundation Commission and invites visitors to the Southbank Centre to question the role of the popular drink tea in the UK and its ties - historical, traditional and cultural - to Central Asia. Taking the form of an oversized inflatable water boiler, teapot and serving tray, the artwork is titled after the eponymous tea brewer commonly found across Central Asia. A Russian invention of the mid-18th century, today Samovars are used across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and some parts of Asia, in both domestic and communal settings. Drawing on their practice of addressing complex and overlooked cultural ... More
Thailand Biennale, Korat 2021 announces artists
NAKHON RATCHASIMA.- Thailand Biennale, Korat 2021, titled Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital, announced the complete list of participant artists, creatives, and collectives. One of the initial leading goals of the Thailand Biennale is to invite artists to create site-specific works at the biennale venues to enhance the potential of the sites to be cultural capitals. Nevertheless, the Biennale was postponed several times due to the current pandemic. The preparation of the biennale has not been a smooth journey. In the process of numerous virtual research and communications, it was inevitable for many invited artists to change and revise their proposals. However, in each revision, they have come up with creative ideas on transforming this unfortunate situation into a positive experience in collaboration with local coordinators ... More
Stephen Vizinczey, 'In Praise of Older Women' author, Dies at 88
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Stephen Vizinczey, whose novel In Praise of Older Women, about a mans sexual education by paramours not in his age bracket, caused a stir in the mid-1960s and became a cultural reference point, died Aug. 18 at his home in London. He was 88. His stepdaughter, filmmaker Mary Harron, said the cause was kidney and heart failure. The full title of Vizinczeys best-known book was In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of Andras Vajda. Its title character was a philosophy instructor who reminisces about finding his way to maturity through his relationships with a series of older lovers. The characters definition of older and Vizinczeys may seem odd today; a woman in her mid-30s qualified. But the point, Vizinczey said at the time, was to provide an alternative to the prevailing view of sex. ... More
Venice Film Festival: How does Kristen Stewart play Princess Diana?
VENICE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- While watching the new film Spencer, which premiered Friday at the Venice Film Festival, I kept pondering Kristen Stewarts long, unlikely association with the fashion house Chanel. The actress has been an ambassador for Chanel since 2013, when she was fresh off the Twilight series. At first blush, it might have seemed like a bad pairing: In her off-hours, the insouciant Stewart is more of a jeans-and-Converse type, while Chanel is high-end clothing that can verge, without the proper styling, on prim and fusty. But something fascinating happens when Stewart dons those tweed jackets. Because they arent a natural fit for her, she wears them more provocatively: Sometimes theyre slung over her shoulders with the casual cool of a leather jacket, or theyre fastened only at the top with nothing on underneath. Instead ... More
'We're like athletes here': The maestro with a gym habit
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lorenzo Viotti stood before the orchestra, without a baton, conducting with both hands. As the music swelled, his arms swayed. Three fingers plucked the air, then he swept forward to guide the sound to a crescendo. The 31-year-old Swiss maestro, who recently became the chief conductor of both the Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, is a very physical conductor. But that would hardly come as a surprise to anyone who knows him from social media. He is also an avid boxer, tennis player and swimmer, who skateboards to work, it seems (although he has embraced Dutch bicycling culture as well). On Instagram, nearly 53,000 followers see images of Viotti looking dapper in bow tie and tails, as might be expected, but also shirtless, revealing a muscular torso. A recent ... More
'The doors didn't open easily' on her path to 'Cinderella'
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Midway through Andrew Lloyd Webbers new Cinderella, the male ensemble throws itself into a thrusting, muscle-popping number that perfectly illustrates the musicals fictional setting of Belleville, a town devoted to beauty in all its superficial forms. Its also laugh-out-loud hilarious, a sly take on an objectification more usually embodied by a female chorus, and a witty amplification of the musicals reimagining of the Cinderella myth. That dance (which incorporates kettle bells) and all the others in this West End production are the work of JoAnn M. Hunter, a longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts very few women and even fewer women of color. A great number of choreographers go their own way, Lloyd Webber said, but JoAnn is completely ... More
Environmental Reflections exhibition opens at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
MALIBU, CA.- Pepperdine Universitys Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art is presenting Environmental Reflections: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation now through Sunday, December 5, 2021. There is no admission charge but free, advanced reservations are required. Timed entry tickets can be reserved here. Throughout history, artists have attempted to capture the beauty in the forces of nature, each interpretation unique and distinctly different from the other. In Environmental Reflections: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, a diverse range of practices come together to bring fleeting glimpses of nature through the human experience. Nature is constantly shifting and changing, sometimes in minuscule ways that are often overlooked, such as how the sky shifts with sunrise ... More
Art Cinema publishes 'The Photograph That Changed My Life' by Zelda Cheatle
LONDON.- More than 50 acclaimed photographers, including Nan Goldin, David Bailey and Don McCullin (and a sprinkling of collectors, composers, directors and actors) have come together to reveal which are the special images that had a life-changing effect on them. The resulting book, The Photograph That Changed My Life, tells the stories behind their choices. The book is the brainchild of Zelda Cheatle, a long-esteemed photography gallerist and curator, whose rolodex of significant names across the globe in the photography world is probably second to none. The range of international contributors to the book bears witness to her long, lustrous career as a ground-breaking gallerist and curator, although her own choice is not revealed. The photographs they have chosen, says Cheatle, are not part of the daily visual onslaught but are important ... More
Galerie Karsten Greve opens a solo exhibition featuring new work by Scottish artist Georgia Russell
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is showing a solo exhibition featuring new work by Scottish artist Georgia Russell, who has been represented by the gallery since 2010. The show, which will be Georgia Russell's sixth solo exhibition with Galerie Karsten Greve, is a DC OPEN GALLERIES 2021 event. New works on canvas will be presented, created at her Méru studio between 2020 and 2021 during a worldwide state of crisis that was characterised by confinement and social distancing measures. By contrast, Georgia Russell has created her most recent works by breaking through matter. Her pieces epitomise the idea of the permeability of matter and breaking through the surface ajouré to bring this materiality to life by deliberately incorporating daylight and air into space. A radical gesture on which Georgia Russell's oeuvre is based is dissection ... More
Beth Lipman installs a site-responsive work on the windows at Nohra Haime Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ravelled Edge by Beth Lipman is a site-responsive installation for the windows at Nohra Haime Gallery, open September 2 October 16, 2021. The Ravelled Edge reflects on the transitional moment we are in, on the precipice of an existential threat of climate change. It is a commentary on geological time in the evolution of the earth. As we live through the 6th extinction, this exhibition reminds passersby of the entropy that is occurring. The window is a liminal interior setting yet accessed through the public realm of the street. In a city where windows are almost always commercially utilized, this question of desire or consumption is being negotiated using an artificial construction for wilderness. The exhibition occurs within an architectural space paradoxically proposing the premise of wilderness as seen in the time-lapsed element ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. In this image: Two visitors watch the painting "Kreidefelsen auf Ruegen" from 1818 from painter Caspar David Friedrich at the museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, May 2, 2006. The exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich - Invention of romance" shows a retrospective of the great German painter from May 5 to August 20, 2006.
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