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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), 1786-1865, A Collection of Charming Tales of Genji: Chapter 2, The Broom Tree.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art announced their gallery presentation, Fashion Forward: Edo Beauties of the Floating World, inspired by the concurrent museum exhibitions, Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (through September 11th), and Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (through February 2023). The prints on view at the gallery explore the swagger and finesse of kimono styles from the 19th century as presented by woodblock print artists, who themselves could be considered the tastemakers and fashion editors of their time. By the mid-18th century, the city of Edo was a booming cultural and economic metropolis of over one million residents. The local population of commoners and sophisticated mercantile Edokko (lit. children of Edo) was augmented by an ever-changing influx of samurai that served regional lords who were obliged t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, 'Zoe Leonard. Excerpts from 'Al rÃo / To the River,' Hauser & Wirth New York 22nd Street , 8 September - 29 October 2022 © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
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| Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of new paintings by Christina Quarles | | The Laing Art Gallery displays The Lindisfarne Gospels | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park unveils new works in the landscape | 
Christina Quarles, Caught Up, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm / 84 x 72 x 2 in. © Christina Quarles. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. © Christina Quarles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the presentation of her work at this years Venice Biennale, and ahead of her inclusion in the 16th edition of the Biennale de Lyon this fall, Christina Quarles unveiled a series of new paintings in her first major solo exhibition in New York with Hauser & Wirth. Many of the works on view were created during the artists 2022 residency at the gallerys Somerset location and draw inspiration from the surrounding English countryside. Here, Quarles has incorporated many unique elements from the natural world within her signature patterns and textures, achieving a new degree of spatial openness that expands upon her instinctual approach to figuration and richly layered visual vocabulary. Known for the fragmented and polymorphous bodies that animate her critically acclaimed canvases, Quarless fascination ... More | | 
The Macregol (or Rushworth) Gospels, before 822, Oxford, Bodleian.
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- The Laing Art Gallerys landmark exhibition for 2022 - The Lindisfarne Gospels - celebrates the most spectacular surviving manuscript from early medieval Britain and feature new work by Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller, who is also acting as an artistic advisor for the show. This is the first time the venerated book, on loan from the British Library, has been displayed in the city since 2000. The exhibition investigates the meaning of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the world today and explore its relationship with themes of personal, regional, and national identity. Ambitious in scale the show will take place across three galleries. Jeremy Deller's new film commission explores the journey of the Lindisfarne Gospels from London to Newcastle upon Tyne. The Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition begins with an immersive digital experience, where visitors will journey back to Lindisfarne during the 8th century. Though remote, t ... More | | 
Vanessa da Silva, Muamba Grove #3, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo © Linda Nylind.
WAKEFIELD.- YSP announced the acquisition of Ro Robertsons Stone (Butch) (2021) into its permanent collection. The sculpture reclaims a space in the landscape for queer and butch identities, which have historically been deemed against nature. Stone (Butch) prompts us to question who is depicted and commemorated in art. Made by plaster casting from rock formations at Godrevy Point, St Ives Bay, Cornwall. Robertson explores natural rock formations as queer forms and changing bodies. Installed near The Family of Man (1970) by Barbara Hepworth, Stone (Butch) reflects the landscape and artistic heritage of YSP. Robertson first worked with YSP when they were selected to be an Associate Artist during the Yorkshire Sculpture International festival in 2019. During this time, they began to consider the creation of public sculpture, an area of the arts which has traditionally represented a narrow demographic and a binary understanding of ... More |
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| Gagosian Paris opens an exhibition of photographs by Andy Warhol from the 1970s and '80s | | Norton Museum of Art appoints new Contemporary Art Curator, Arden Sheman | | Exhibition of new works by Ruby Neri opens at David Kordansky Gallery | 
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait in Fright Wig, 1986. Polaroid 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. 10.8 x 8.6 cm © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by ADAGP, Paris, 2022. Photo: Ed Mumford. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian Paris is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Andy Warhol from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. Taken primarily during his trips to Paris, the images capture notable figures in the artists inner circle, including many key names in fashion, and depict well-known locations in the city. All of the works come from a distinguished collection that incorporates one of the most extensive selections of Warhols photographs in private hands. Warhol was a lifelong photographer and even had a darkroom in his family home when he was a young man. Best known for using a Polaroid camera, he also took photo booth strips in the 1960s, and these became the source material for paintings reflecting his preoccupation with mechanical reproduction, serial repetition, and the removal of the artists hand. In 1977, Swiss art ... More | | 
She currently serves as Director & Curator of Hunter East Harlem Gallery, a multi-disciplinary space for art exhibitions and socially-minded projects located at Hunter College in New York City. Photo: Christina Arza.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA..- Today, the Norton Museum of Art announced that it has appointed Arden Sherman to the role of Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. Sherman will be responsible for overseeing the Museums Department of Contemporary Art, including the organization of temporary exhibition programming as well as the ongoing research and expansion of the permanent collection through new acquisitions. She will also lead the Nortons Contemporary and Modern Art Council, whose members provide critical support for the Museums Contemporary Art initiatives and acquisition efforts. Sherman assumes her position on November 14, 2022. She currently serves as Director & Curator of Hunter East Harlem Gallery, a multi-disciplinary space for art exhibitions and socially-minded projects located at Hunter College in New ... More | | 
Ruby Neri, Monkey on My Back, 2022, ceramic with glaze, 80 x 81 x 10 inches (203.2 x 205.7 x 25.4 cm). Photo: Jeff McLane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles is presenting Wall Works, an exhibition of new works by Ruby Neri, on view from September 17 through October 22, 2022. Ruby Neri is a Los Angeles-based artist who draws upon twentieth-century West Coast traditions as well as a global catalogue of art historical and anthropological modes. In recent years, Neri has become increasingly recognized for floor-based vessels and sculptures featuring figurative female forms. Here, she pushes the limits of the ceramic medium that has been at the center of her practice for much of the last decade, engaging in new experiments. For this exhibition, her fifth solo presentation with David Kordansky Gallery, these include new wall-based ceramic sculptures and a major bronze sculpturean eight-foot-tall form that represents the artists first time working with the medium. Related to Neris ongoing interest in ... More |
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| Museum Ludwig opens 'Green Modernism: The New View of Plants' | | Craft in America opens an exhibition of works by Joan Takayama-Ogawa | | Moderna Museet opens an exhibition of works by Korakrit Arunanondchai | 
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Rittersporn am Fenster, 1922. Museum Ludwig, Köln © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/Sabrina Walz.
COLOGNE.- What do plants mean to human beings? The exhibition Green Modernism: The New View of Plants takes us back to the early twentieth century and examines the depiction of plants in the visual arts and how they were viewed in botany and society in general. After all, as plain as potted plants in pictures may appear at first glance, and as matter-of-fact as botanical reports read, they always also attest to the contradictions, fears, longings, and ideologies of the modern age. The exhibition focuses on this topic with around 130 exhibits in four chapters. The Comedian Harmonists sang about a plant that was extraordinarily popular at the beginning of the twentieth century. Cactuses were hunted in the Americas in order to be grown and sold on the German market. Like a big ... More | | 
Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Hope for a Cure Cupcakes: The Pandemic of 2020, 2020.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Craft in America is presenting the exhibition Ceramic Beacon: Joan Takayama-Ogawa. Ceramicist Joan Takayama-Ogawa is known for conveying her candid and prophetic take on contemporary life through playful and witty narratives in ceramics. This exhibition includes roughly 30 sculptures made over three decades. It is the first significant survey of this respected Pasadena born and based artists work thus far. Unequivocally tackling issues ranging from the housing crisis and global overfishing, to the pandemic, internment camps, and human-induced species loss, Takayama-Ogawa makes objects that embody her world view and life experience. She draws the viewer into her intricate sculptures and initiates a conversation because they are a pleasure to behold. She tackles the core issues that define our contemporary society, from the political, to the historical, social, ... More | | 
Korakrit Arunanondchai , Korakrit Arunanondchai, portrait Photo: Harit Srikao.
STOCKHOLM.- What brings us together and what divides us? Gatherings, both ritualistic and political, are at the core of Korakrit Arunanondchais work. In this exhibition the celebrated artist explores the threshold between life and death, as a space where new possibilities can be imagined, involving the individual and the collective. On show are a number of new works in immersive settings, by an artist who can rightly call himself a storyteller. Korakrit Arunanondchai was born in Bangkok in 1986, but after studying in the USA, he now divides his time between the city of his birth and New York. His distinctive combination of various mediums and techniques as well as his collaborative practice have attracted international attention during recent years. Dualities life and death, past and present, dream and reality, fiction and documentary, reflection and rapture, ... More |
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| 'M-A-S-H' at 50: War is hell(arious) | | Misty Copeland creates program to bring more diversity to ballet | | Exhibition brings together a range of contemporary artists whose work formally or conceptually relates to fraktur | 
Five decades ago, M*A*S*H anticipated todays TV dramedies, showing that a great comedy could be more than just funny.
NEW YORK, NY.- The pilot episode of M-A-S-H, which aired on Sept. 17, 1972, on CBS, lets you know immediately where and when you are. Sort of. KOREA 1950, the opening titles read. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. The Korean War could indeed seem a century away from 1972, separated by a gulf of cultural change and social upheaval. But as a subject, it was also entirely current, given that America was then fighting another bloody war, in Vietnam. The covert operation that M-A-S-H pulled off was to deliver a timely satire camouflaged as a period comedy. The year before, CBS had premiered Norman Lears All in the Family, a battlefield dispatch from an American living room. But M-A-S-H was another level of escalation, sending up the lunacy of war even as Walter Cronkite was reading the news about it. The caption acknowledged ... More | | 
Misty Copeland of American Ballet Theatre performs at the Joyce Theater in New York, Oct. 15, 2019. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Dance superstar Misty Copeland has often spoken about the impact of enrolling in a free ballet class when she was 13, on the basketball court of a Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro, California, where she grew up. The class set in motion Copelands remarkable career, which included in 2015 becoming the first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre. Now Copeland, 40, would like to provide similar experiences to a new generation of dancers, especially Black and Latino students, who are underrepresented in ballet. She announced Thursday that she was starting a free 12-week program for children 8 to 10 years old, beginning this month with about 120 students at two Boys and Girls clubs ... More | | 
Jeffry Mitchell, Terra Cotta Alphabet Bucket, 2021.Terra cotta, 17 x 13 1⁄2 x 12 1⁄2 inches.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart, Then soon youl gain this noble art, a special group exhibition that brings together a range of contemporary artists whose work formally or conceptually relates to fraktur, as well as select examples of this traditional folk art. The exhibition is curated by Amy Adams and Marie Catalano and is on view at the gallery in Portland from September 17 through October 15, 2022. Fraktur, named for the German script, are elaborately decorated and personal forms of record keeping and commemoration that were created by the Pennsylvania Dutch between approximately 1740 and 1860. Fraktur were created to record key events such as a birth or marriage, to bless a house, or to serve as rewards or gifts, and are characterized by stylized script, as well as flourishings and arabesques, ... More |
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 Solo exhibition by Gulay Semercioglu opens at Pi Artworks IstanbulISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks Istanbul is presenting Gulay Semercioglu's solo exhibition More Than a Memory. Semercioglu (1968, Istanbul) creates fields of kinetic impact, altering lines of coloured, silver and copper wire through exposure to light - a signature material and method that she has employed for more than 30 years. Blending the complexity of her craftsmanship with her artistry, she toes the line between physical, personal, and socio-political oppositions created through optical illusions. More recently, İznik tiles and Anatolian-Seljuk motifs, geometric forms and cultural symbols, appear prominently in her works. More than a Memory connects to our collective consciousness through weaving feeling, motifs and stories into hand-knotted carpets made of Semercioglus distinctive copper and silver wires. The show features carpets of different ... More  Multimedia group exhibition opens at Praz-DelavalladeLOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade is presenting Storm Before the Calm, a multimedia group exhibition opening tonight, Saturday, 17 September in Los Angeles. Ones mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, wrote Robert Smithson in his seminal 1968 essay A Sedimentation of the Mind.The actual disruption of the earths crust is at times very compelling, and seems to confirm Heraclituss Fragment 124, The most beautiful world is like a heap of rubble tossed down in confusion. As these disruptions, far beyond any of those de-differtiations anticipated (or executed) by early land art pioneers, have increased over the decades, the confused beauty of the natural world has taken the form of what the British artist Marc Quinn has called the toxic sublime. As global temperatures increase, so does the disorder of the planets ... More  Brazilian Elbaite and Lepidolite shimmer in Heritage Minerals Auction October 4DALLAS, TX.- A stunning Elbaite and Lepidolite specimen from an elusive but exceptionally fertile Brazilian mine will become a centerpiece in a new collection when it is sold in Heritage Auctions' Fine Minerals Signature® Auction Oct. 4. This Elbaite and Lepidolite on Quartz (estimate: $100,000+) is exceptional in many ways, from stunning aesthetics to size. It stands a little over 21 centimeters (8-1/4 inches) tall, with gorgeous sea-green Elbaite crystals crossing each other to almost form an upside-down triangle shape, accented by touches of purple Lepidolite on some of the terminations. "The Chia mine doesn't produce a high quantity of specimens, but the quality that comes from that mine often is exceptional, as is the case with this beautiful piece," said Nic Valenzuela, Associate Specialist of Nature and Science at Heritage Auctions. "Museum- ... More  Charleston announces new exhibitions 'Very Private?' and 'Linder: A Dream Between Sleeping and Waking'LEWES.- Charleston announced details of Very Private?, the first exhibition of Duncan Grants recently discovered erotic drawings, which are being shown for the first time alongside new contemporary responses by artists Somaya Critchlow, Harold Offeh, Kadie Salmon, Tim Walker, Alison Wilding and Ajamu X. The exhibition opened alongside a new installation by artist Linder, Linder: A Dream Between Sleeping and Waking, which is a multimedia response both to the history of Charleston and the work of Duncan Grant. Exploring themes of sex, intimacy, gender, and identity, Duncan Grants recently uncovered erotic drawings were produced during the 1940s and 50s, a period of persecution and oppression of queer bodies and culture, when sex between men was still illegal in England. The drawings, long feared lost or destroyed, were donated ... More  Now live Amy Feldman Online Viewing Room at Galerie Eva PresenhuberZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced an online viewing room of Amy Feldmans first Zurich exhibition Goodnight Light, which is on view until November 26, 2022. Echoing Feldmans exhibition Mothercolor last year at the gallerys New York space, the variously-scaled gray paintings highlighting her unique visual language contain silkscreen elements, as well as the artists own fingerprint touches with thick paint. This novel addition of tactility, an urgent act of the hand, signals the artists duello with the physical and formal aspects of abstract painting. The surfaces of Feldmans recent works are enlarged and exaggerated facsimiles of raw canvas over pristine gray fields. In this presentation, Feldman introduces a moiré effect within her printed fields. The moiré that appears as another new direction furthers Feldmans relationship with tonalities as ... More  Phoenix Art Museum receives transformative $1 million grant from Men's Arts CouncilPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announces a transformative $1 million grant from Mens Arts Council (MAC), a non-profit member organization of Valley philanthropists dedicated to supporting the Museums community-outreach programs through annual giving. The unprecedented gift, the largest single gift in Mens Arts Councils 55+ year history, will directly benefit the Museums education efforts, fund technology updates in public gathering spaces, and create new access programs for the community, including free quarterly Family Days and free admission for Maricopa Community College District students. Phoenix Art Museum is truly honored by the profound generosity of Mens Arts Council, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museums Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. This gift will empower the Museum to not only rebuild its public program ... More  Gallery FUMI opens an exhibition of works by Andreas Voukenas and Steven PetridesLONDON.- It has been a busy summer in the Athens studio of Andreas Voukenas and Steven Petrides, with new works and sculptures being developed. These have been revealed for the first time at Gallery FUMI in Mayfair on 17 September. Two standing light sculptures - at a heroic 2 metres tall - are made in their trademark Gypsum plaster, polished to a marble-like finish. A coffee table and mirror have been cast in aluminium, and a standing lamp, a bench, three chairs, and twelve small sculptures have been cast in their preferred red bronze. Both form and materiality are key in the work of Voukenas Petrides. The pair has worked together for seven years, combining their design backgrounds to create a body of furniture, mostly in plaster and bronze, imbued with strong sculptural qualities. Voukenas studied interior architecture and product design ... More  Reflex Amsterdam presents 'Spencer Tunick │ Public Interventions'AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition of the American photographer Spencer Tunick from 17 September until 1 November 2022. The Public Interventions show includes new and unseen works by the visual artist, worldwide renowned for his colossal nude photography and human installations in urban and natural surroundings. For Tunick its the first gallery exhibition in the Netherlands. The opening is in presence of the photographer. Spencer Tunicks work defies genres. He transforms public spaces with temporary monuments of people rewriting the locations through their complex, organic compositions. They are figurative yet abstract, inherently public, and deeply intimate; they depict sincere unity and wild differences. The photographs are simultaneously painterly, sculptural, and installations. In this show, the selection ... More  The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Magali ReusLONDON.- Kerbside construction waste skips are transfigured as domestic fruit bowls in Magali Reus photographic series Landings. Pertly animated fruit and sliced cabbage slivers graze among heaped rubble, plaster dust, exhausted paint tubs, scraps of peeled wallpaper and splintered floorboards. Not some chance apparition of a discarded lunchtime kebab, this vegetal script, between semantic meaning and ornament, spells out the months of the Gregorian calendar. These photographic prints are mounted onto steel panels bearing cropped and desaturated images of one of Reus childhood paintings, depicting a self portrait of the artist in arcadia. Sculptural powder-coated trays, accessorised with physical tags of the construction skip welded hooks and tabs, custom swatches of ripped tarpaulin, wire and electric cable enclose these idylls. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch realist painter Anton Mauve was born September 18, 1838. Anthonij (Anton) Rudolf Mauve (18 September 1838, Zaandam, North Holland - 5 February 1888, Arnhem) was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. A master colorist, he was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh. In this image: Morning Ride on the Beach (1876), oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum.
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