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Irving Blum and Roy Lichtenstein, Los Angeles, 1968 © Malcolm Lubliner. Courtesy of Malcolm Lubliner and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- The art dealer Irving Blum remembers walking into Leo Castellis New York gallery in 1965 and being taken by Roy Lichtensteins painting of a composition book, because he himself had carried one throughout grade school. Blum called Lichtenstein, a friend of his, and said he needed to see the Pop artist. He said, How urgent? Blum recalled. I said, Life or death. He said, Come on over. At Lichtensteins studio, Blum told him he was determined to buy the painting. But it had already been sold to the dealer Ileana Sonnabend, Castellis wife. I said, Roy, Ive got it: Ill marry Ileana. I simply have to have that painting. Two months later, a crate arrived at Blums gallery with a duplicate version of the composition book and a note from Lichtenstein: Dear Irving, Not necessary to marry Ileana. Best, Roy. The exchange speaks to the close ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The 81st Street Studio, a sprawling 3,500-square-foot space in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. The 3-to-11-year-old crowd can sample music, rest on scented pillows, make digital woodblock prints and study Met museum objects at this new drop-in center. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
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| JFK assassination witness breaks his silence and raises new questions | | Art Gallery of New South Wales presents first major solo exhibition of Hoda Afshar | | Galeria Jaqueline Martins presents 'Daniel de Paula: infraestructure, institution, individual' | 
Paul Landis, one of the Secret Service agents just feet away from John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated, outside his home in Cleveland on Aug. 7, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Peter Baker
CLEVELAND, OH.- He still remembers the first gunshot. For an instant, standing on the running board of the motorcade car, he entertained the vain hope that maybe it was just a firecracker or a blown tire. But he knew guns, and he knew better. Then came another shot. And another. And the president slumped down. For so many nights afterward, he relived that grisly moment in his dreams. Now, 60 years later, Paul Landis, one of the Secret Service agents just feet away from President John F. Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas, is telling his story in full for the first time. And in at least one key respect, his account differs from the official version in a way that ... More | | 
Hoda Afshar 'Portrait #3', from the series 'Agonistes' 2020, pigment photographic print, text, 69 x 55 cm © Hoda Afshar, image courtesy the artist.
SYDNEY2.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line, the first major solo exhibition of one of Australias most innovative and unflinching photo-media artists, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar. Featuring photographs and moving image works from the past decade, including a newly commissioned series, the comprehensive exhibition provides an overview of the artists recent practice and examines the politics of artmaking. Amassed together in dialogue for the first time by a major public institution, these works offer a poignant reminder of the power of images and their coercive potential. Art Gallery of NSW director Michael Brand said it is a great pleasure to present Afshars first major solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. Hoda ... More | | 
Rulers for measuring water level of São Paulo dams.
SAO PAULO.- infrastructure, institution, individual, Daniel de Paula's second solo exhibition at Galeria Jaqueline Martins, updates and gives continuation to the conceptual artist's critical investigations into the violent social relations that dominate us and also transform space in order to satisfy the needs of our modern capitalist society: to produce and exchange commodities. Through a rigorous juxtaposition of objects, texts, and immaterial procedures, and informed by a self-critical stance, de Paula reveals the interrelationship of his own artistic production, the commercial context of Galeria Jaqueline Martins, and the disposition of a vast global infrastructural spatial system; all parts albeit asymmetrical implicated in the social, political, economic, and environmental catastrophes that result from the competitive logic of the production of value within our capitalist sociability. ... More |
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| The treads of identity in a Palestinian craft | | ONE AND J. Gallery opens an exhibition of works by MeeNa Park | | The Leiden Collection reaches more than 750,000 museum goers in the Netherlands | 
Traditional thobes at the Palestinian Museum, in the West Bank city of Birzeit, June 22, 2023. (Samar Hazboun/The New York Times)
by Raja Abdulrahim
BIRZEIT, WEST BANK.- In every stitch, there is a story. Like layers of history, the hand-stitched Palestinian embroidery known as tatreez, traditionally used to ornament Palestinian dress, tells of towns and villages lost, old customs abandoned, past lives and survival. The stitched designs and symbols once functioned almost as an identification card. The rooster, an old Christian symbol, indicated the wearers faith. A red bird on a blue-threaded robe worn by widows meant the woman was ready to remarry. An image of a particular plant or fruit suggested the garments origin, such as orange blossoms adorning robes from Jaffa or cypress trees on those from Hebron. Every towns embroidery has ... More | | 
MeeNa Park, Beehive House, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 122 cm.
SEOUL.- Upon a simple instruction Draw a house on a sheet of paper using 12 color pencils, an array of different houses appear. A house made of square walls and a triangular roof, a house with a chimney and yard, a high-rise apartment, a glittering gem house, and the list goes on for unlimited forms of houses we could ever imagine. When one tries to visualize a house, people are often influenced by socio-cultural fixed ideas about houses and desires of a dream house. MeeNa Park works on the very aspect of how such influences had formed personal views, experience, and taste in many complex levels, which are reflected again in this image of house. As Park had been questioning social systems including rules that we abide by, she explores this question via components of painting: color & image. After collecting vast data of contemporary consumption ... More | | 
The collections Young Woman Seated at a Virginal by Vermeer to remain on view in the Rijksmuseums Gallery of Honour through October 10.
AMSTERDAM.- The Leiden Collection, the worlds most important private collection of paintings by revered Dutch artists of the 17th century, nears the conclusion of its tour in Amsterdamwith a selection of works seen by more than 750,000 people across two venues. On August 27, the Hermitage Amsterdamas of September 1, the HART Museumclosed Rembrandt and His Contemporaries: History Paintings from The Leiden Collection. Over 100,000 visitors saw the exhibition of 35 works by the iconic Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn, his teacher Pieter Lastman, and many other leading artists of the Dutch Golden Age including Ferdinand Bol and Arent de Gelder. The Leiden Collections painting by Vermeer, Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, was seen by some 650,000 visitors ... More |
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| In search of cool green spaces, Paris turns to an old rail line | | MARC STRAUS opens an exhibition of works by Michael Brown | | The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents an exhibition by fields harrington and Nancy Valladares | 
Philippe Billot leads a team working along the Little Belt, a ring of disused train track around Paris that is being turned into recreational space, on Aug. 29, 2023. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
by Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle
PARIS.- Across the street from a block of dense office buildings in western Paris, Bernard Sokler was surrounded by trees, weeds and crickets, as he tended to a bush of purple wildflowers in a largely forgotten strip of land. Sokler, 60, and his team look after the greenery around a set of disused train tracks that circle Paris, known as the Little Belt, that the city is pushing to revitalize as it aims to mitigate the effects of climate change. With temperatures recently soaring to as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the project is intended to offer some respite for the citys residents although it will come at a cost to the flora and fauna that now call the tracks home. If you want a true nature reserve, you cant let humans ... More | | 
Michael Brown, Untitled (February 20, 2023), 2023. Oil on panel, 12 x 12 x 0.75 in (30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Brown (b. 1982, Poughkeepsie, NY), who was originally trained as a sculptor, became well-known at a very young age for his stainless steel welded cracked mirrors and a series of works made with melted vinyl discs. More recently, Brown has turned to highly sculptural paintings, working with gold leaf and oil paint. Now he takes on painting at a smaller scale 12 x 12 inch square canvases where his soft, pastel driven color palette takes a sharp inward turn. These intimate, quieter works hark back to paintings by Agnes Martin, Giorgio Morandi, Etel Adnan, Miyoko Ito, to Shaker drawings and the transcendentalist movement. Brown has opted for both a limited color palette and reduced forms. His use of soft, predominantly warm hues such as amber, ochre, sun-yellow and ... More | | 
Nancy Valladares by Ethan Kan.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center is presenting List Projects 27: fields harrington and Nancy Valladares, a two-person exhibition that inaugurates a year-long series of three experimental List Projects exhibitions that foreground and support artistic collaborations. In their respective practices, harrington and Valladares work across disciplines and media including sculpture and installation, text, photography, and the moving image. Both artists center research, and their works and related inquiries take a critical eye to overlooked technological and industrial histories. Each has also employed citizen science to shed light on the enduring toxicity of various colonial projects and the extractive processes that underpin racial and fossil capitalism (the ideas that racialized exploitation and carbon-intensive development directly support capital accumulation). Alongside a jointly authored new commission that debuts ... More |
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| A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map. | | Paul Thiebaud Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Tom Birkner | | Sainsbury Centre launches the first of its new 'Big Question' seasons | 
The Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus and an orchard that grows in front of the headquarters for the small but growing order of Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, in Gower, Mo., Aug. 12, 2023. (Katie Currid/The New York Times)
by Ruth Graham
GOWER, MO.- In life, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was known to her fellow nuns for her devotional poetry, her sense of humor and her fierce piety. Im Sister Wil-hel-mina, she was known to say. Ive a hell of a will and I mean it! A biography published by her order after her death at age 95 in 2019 described her as the little nun who persevered in faith. In death, Wilhelmina has become something much larger to some: a potential saint, a pilgrimage attraction, a miracle. The transformation started this spring at the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus, run by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, a small but growing conservative order whose headquarters are nestled in the rolling ... More | | 
Tom Birkner, Cheerleaders, 2011, oil on canvas 12 x 8 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced the opening of Tom Birkner: Mass Abstractions & DemoGraphica. The exhibition features two series of paintings by Tom Birkner: DemoGraphica the newest iteration of on ongoing series presented as an installation of 88 panels depicting everyday people in the post-industrial America of today and Mass Abstractions, in which scenes of mass gatherings, such as concerts, have been rendered in a loosely abstracted manner. Known for his depictions of people and places on the margins of society, Tom Birkners new explorations into mainstream gatherings reveal his continual interest in situations where prevailing social norms breakdown. The exhibition will be on view through October 28, 2023. Visually balanced on the edge between abstraction and realism, Tom Birkners Mass Abstractions series represents a shift in both his painting style and his subject ... More | | 
The first of these new seasons kicks off in autumn 2023 with Planet for our Future.
NORWICH.- The Sainsbury Centre is embarking on a new approach to exhibition programming, empowering art to address fundamental societal challenges building on its successful relaunch in May. Artworks from all over the world will be travelling to the Sainsbury Centre to pose these urgent, global questions to visitors and to help them to find the answers. This is part of a radically new approach that understands art as alive and capable of engaging people with the fundamental questions of life. The first of these new seasons kicks off in autumn 2023 with Planet for our Future. This asks one fundamental question that confronts us all: How do we adapt to a transforming world? An interconnected programme of exhibitions, interventions, collection displays, an artist residency, museum-late, artist-led workshops, and special projects, taking place across the whole art landscape and out into neighbouring communities, ... More |
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 Robin Kid opens second solo show with Templon in ParisPARIS.- For his second solo show in Paris with Templon, Robin Kid is coming back to the Grenier-Saint-Lazare space with his new series « Kingdom of Ends », taking over the entire gallery to create an immersive experience consisting of painting, sculpture, video and installation, all centering around a two-story high mobile. Through the evocative poignancy of mass-produced foundational imagery depicting our commonly shared childhood, Robin kid is delving into the notion of personal and cultural memories, conjuring up feelings of uncertainty but also of the most naive hopes and dreams gathered during childhood and teenage years. By combining stainless steel panels and aluminum sculpture with oil painting in a toylike way, the artist is manufacturing an idealized billboard to our shared desire while operating in the context of power and control; Borrowing ... More  Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection opens 'Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins'BRONX, NY.- Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale announced their fall exhibition, Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins, which will be on view from September 10, 2023 through January 21, 2024. Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins features ten recent large-scale ink paintings on rice paper, some with brightly colored stripes in oil pastel, a neon light installation, and a seven-minute film by Chinese feminist artist Zhen Guo. Her newest paintings evolved from a series of black and white, semi-abstract landscapes that Guo titled Muted Landscape, a body of work she began in 2016 that alludes to the marginalization of vulnerable people and placesin this case, women and the environmentand the experience of being silenced and effaced. Intentionally eschewing the strong lines characteristic ... More  Synthesis: LAUNCH Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Chiho Harazaki Kaoru MansourLOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery presents Synthesis, featuring the mixed media creations of Japanese American artists Chiho Harazaki and Kaoru Mansour. Both artists work display the profound use of multiple mediums that combine clever storytelling and alluring imagery to provide the viewer with a look into both their personal histories and rich imaginations. Chiho Harazaki was born and raised in the countryside of Japan. Spending time at the studio of her uncle, a renowned rock sculptor, Harazaki's interest in art was stimulated at an early age. After moving to Los Angeles, she began using adhesive tape as her art medium while developing her practice in drawing, painting, and installation. Her use of precisely cut adhesive tape gives her work the feel of modern graphic design while also lending itself to works reminiscent of traditional Japanese ... More  Allen Memorial Art Museum opens 'Anna Von Mertens / Henrietta Leavitt: A Life Spent Looking'OBERLIN, OH.- Contemporary artist Anna Von Mertens works at the intersection of art, history, and science to create textiles and drawings that encourage us to see important events and phenomena in a new light. Patterns, mapping, methods of measurement, and other sources of data are embedded in her practice. Through a rigorous process that involves both digital technology and traditional hand-quilting methods, she creates works that investigate our shared history and environment, inspiring contemplation and reflection on our place in the universe. Henrietta Leavitt (18681921) was an American astronomer who studied at Oberlin College from 1885 to 1888, before leaving for Radcliffe College, from which she graduated in 1892. She worked in the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, studying glass plate photographs of the night ... More  Max Gomez, longtime TV medical reporter, dies at 72NEW YORK, NY.- Max Gomez, an award-winning medical and science journalist who delivered informed reports for more than 40 years on TV stations in New York and Philadelphia, most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic, died Sept. 2 at his home in Manhattan. He was 72. His partner, Amy Levin, said the cause was head and neck cancer, with which he had been diagnosed four years ago. Billed as Dr. Max, he brought an easygoing gravitas to reporting on subjects such as vaccinations, knee replacements, prostate cancer, colonoscopies, sickle cell anemia and, when he himself contracted them, Lyme disease and the MRSA infection. One of his reports on Alzheimers disease focused on his father, a physician, who was swindled as his memory abandoned him. Gomez had been chief medical correspondent at WCBS, Channel 2, in New York ... More  Semiose opens Laurent Proux's 'Sunburn'PARIS.- Laurent Prouxs recent paintings, created at the Casa de Velázquez, are flooded with sunlight. Madrids climate is obviously no stranger to the sunburned element that has given a new twist to his art. Prouxs large-format, sun-drenched paintings play on naturally contradictory levels of intensity. Light cascades through them, bathing everything in its aura, or on the contrary, carving out and incising shadows and figures. Through this approach, the exhibition Sunburn highlights two seemingly opposite scenarios: on the one hand naked characters frolic in natural surroundings, while on the other, figures labor in weaving or sewing workshops. Two universes sit side by side, the first a product of fantasy, the other one of realism. Light plays an essential, dramatic role: Proux has come up with contrasting storylines, alternating between naturalism and ... More  König Seoul opens Leiko Ikemura's first solo exhibition in South KoreaSEOUL.- SOUL SCAPE SEOUL is the first solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Leiko Ikemura in South Korea, invited by König Seoul for this unique occasion. As with her poems, the sound play in the title is evocative of a multitude of ideas, embracing the idea of a landscape of our soul. The show comprises paintings from the last decade until now, including a triptych, each of which are rendered on porous fibers such as nettle, jute, and paper. Additionally, SOUL SCAPE SEOUL features five sculptural works, ranging in medium from patinated bronze in HARE COLUMN II to works in cast glass. The more figurative nature of these objects is meant to align with the sprawling landscapes captured in the paintings, turning these complementary works into an immersive pictorial field. The results on view in SOUL SCAPE SEOUL are the expression of many ... More  Bruneau & Co. announces Marvel Comics collection auctionCRANSTON, RI.- An outstanding single-owner Marvel comic book collection featuring copies of Incredible Hulk #181, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1, Werewolf By Night #32, Tales of Suspense #39 and Iron Man #1 will be sold to the highest bidder with no reserves on Saturday, September 16th, by Bruneau & Co, Auctioneers, online and live in the gallery. The collection is that of William Troy Potter, who turned his passion into a career, being the proprietor of Wonderland Comics in Putnam, Conn. While owning a store was a job, it was the perfect way to build and perfect his collection. The auction consists of 741 lots, of which 597 are CGC graded comics. The rest are bagged and boarded raw groupings. Numerous other Silver through Modern Age key issues will come up for bid. Troy had a focus on collecting rare 30-cent and 35-cent variants, along ... More  Clars' Fine Art announces highlights included in Fall Modern + Contemporary Art AuctionOAKLAND, CA.- Clars Fine Art department will present their Fall Modern + Contemporary Art Auction on September 14th. The sale will offer an array of artworks spanning movements and decades, with notable works for all collectors. An important highlight to be offered in this sale is an oil on canvas by French artist Henry Moret (French, 18561913) titled Maisons à Volendam, Hollande. Moret, while trained in the Neo- Classical and Orientalist style at the Ãcole National des Beaux-Arts, took much inspiration from Impressionist artists and painted the Western European countryside and Coastlines, incorporating vibrant tones of blue, green, and peachy orange. This work, completed in 1900, is a strong example of his bold palette choices and forceful and short brushstrokes, a style he credited much to Claude Monet. This painting will be offered at $50,000$70,000. Also to be featured in the Fall Modern + Contemp ... More  Select historical objects and artworks illustrate White origin myths in 'Conceptions of White' at Vancouver Art GalleryVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery has opened Conceptions of White, a thought-provoking exhibition that examines the idea of Whiteness as a concept and a racial constructan idea invented by humans to organize and enforce power relationships. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, and co-curated by John G. Hampton and Lillian OBrien Davis, the exhibition examines the relatively recent idea of a distinctive White race, and the various ways in which this construction has shaped the modern world. Conceptions of White is the product of extensive research on the part of the curators and artists, and the resulting exhibition prompts thoughtful consideration of the shows relevant ... More  University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University opens 'This Side of Blue: The Art of Mimi Chen Ting'ROHNERT PARK, CA.- The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University is presenting This Side of Blue: The Art of Mimi Chen Ting, which will be on view through December 10, 2023. Guest curated by Holly Shen, the exhibition is a watershed event: it is the most comprehensive survey of Mimi Chen Ting's five-decade career, it marks the first posthumous exhibition after her passing last year, and offers an in-depth assessment of Ting's extraordinary life and work. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Estate of Mimi Chen Ting and Artist Estate Studio, LLC. A fully illustrated catalogue with essay by Holly Shen accompanies this exhibition. Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022) was a painter, printmaker, and performance artist whose life and career offer a view into the Bay Area art scene during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. A Chinese American ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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