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An 18th-century map of Ukraine hangs next to some assault rifles in Monte di Pietà , a sprawling, multilayered project by the Swiss-born artist Christoph Büchel, at The Prada Foundation in Venice, Italy, Aug. 7, 2024. The artist transformed the first three floors of Ca Corner della Regina, an 18th-century palace that the Prada Foundation now owns, into the venue for a fictional liquidation auction of a bankrupt Venice Pawn Shop. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
VENICE.- Ascending the grand marble staircase in the center of the Venetian palazzo, you encounter a selection of fake Gucci, Hermes and other luxury handbags laid out on a blanket. A street hawker seems to have been disturbed, leaving their knockoff wares behind. Then, turning right on the mezzanine level, you climb another staircase into a control room. A bank of live CCTV monitors flickers above an empty office chair and espresso-stained plastic coffee cup. Next, a room for cryptocurrency traders with whirring servers and a fridge a quarter filled with tins of Red Bull, followed by the recording studio of a grandmother-age TikTok influencer, a washroom with a print of Leonardo da Vincis $450.3 million Salvator Mundi pasted to the wall, a 1950s-style cocktail bar, a pole dancing den and a kitchen filled with untouched trash. Room after room looks recently abandoned. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is presenting the nationally touring Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, featuring intricate paintings of dream-like, mysterious realms that blend Eastern and Western influences. The exhibition will be on view at the MFAH from June 9 through September 2, 2024.
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| For Stonehenge's Altar Stone, an improbably long ancient journey | | Whimsical parade of Banksy animals sends fans on a giddy hunt | | An artist faces climate disaster with hard data and ancient wisdom |
Richard Bevins examining Bluestone Stone 46, a rhyolite most probably from north Pembrokeshire, on Waless southwest coast. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Near the center of the roughly 5,000-year-old circular monument known as Stonehenge is a 6-ton, rectangular chunk of red sandstone. In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ring of giant rocks that the wizard Merlin magically transported from Mount Killaurus, in Ireland, to Salisbury Plain, a chalk plateau in southern England a journey chronicled ... More | |
Each day for nine straight days, a new Banksy artwork appeared somewhere in London. For some, it became a citywide treasure hunt.
LONDON.- The first Banksy piece to show up was a mountain goat, spotted by passersby on a wall near the River Thames. The second work, a pair of elephants, appeared overnight on a house in southwest London. Then came some playful monkeys, a howling wolf, two hungry pelicans and a cat. For nine straight days, Banksy, the famed and elusive street artist, unveiled a menagerie of animal artworks around the city, a prolific ... More | |
Imani Jacqueline Brown stands in her exhibition Gulf at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, June 27, 2024. (Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times
NEW YORK, NY.- Every Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the members of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang emerge onto the streets of the Tremé neighborhood in a dawn ritual that dates back more than 200 years. Clad in black-and-white skeleton suits and ornamented papier-mâché masks, they wake the city to the sound of drums and bells summoning the ancestors. Their ritual carries deep ... More |
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| parrasch heijnen's first exhibition with Linda Vallejo opens in Los Angeles | | The Aaltos' unique contribution to church architecture | | Nelson-Atkins sculpture conservation work takes place in September |
Linda Vallejo, Untitled III (1969), stencil, watercolor, oil pastel on paper, 19 x 12-1/2 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen will present Linda Vallejo: Select Works, 1969 - 2024, the gallerys first solo exhibition with the Los Angeles-based artist (b. Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA, 1951). Vallejos imagery is drawn from her beliefs about the cosmos, creation, and the interlacing relationship between women and the earth. Her work is a celebration of the innate relationship of nature with humanity and the divine forces which give life and death to earths creatures. Exploring relationships to nature and the spiritual legacy ... More | |
Muurame Church (1926-28). Alvar Aalto Foundation.
JYVÃSKYLÃ.- Opening on September 27, 2024, at Aalto2, the exhibition "Sacred Spaces: Community and Continuity in Aaltos Architecture" offers a fresh perspective on the Aaltos design of sacred spaces. Curated and scripted by Dr. Tammy Gaber, this exhibition has been developed in collaboration with students from the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University. The exhibition showcases 35 sacred spaces designed by Alvar, Aino, and Elissa Aalto, presented through detailed 3D drawings. Over the course of five decades, ... More | |
Ursula von Rydingsvard, American, born Germany (b. 1942). Three Bowls, 1990. Cedar and graphite. 112 x 190 x 96 in. © Ursula von Rydingsvard. Photo courtesy Nelson-Atkins Digital Production & Preservation, Jamison Miller, E. G. Schempf.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A popular nine-foot-tall sculpture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City will undergo needed conservation work in full view of the public Sept. 3-6 thanks to a generous grant from Bank of America. Three Bowls, Ursula von Rydingsvards monumental cedar and graphite sculpture on the east side of the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park, consists ... More |
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| The Brooklyn Museum announces complete reinstallation of American Art galleries | | Kunstmuseum Den Haag announces "Grand Dessert: The History of the Dessert' | | Kestner Gesellschaft announces 'Me Myself, I Dance Too: Summer-Dream-Prélude to Hannah Arendt' |
Laura Wheeler Waring. Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Teresa A. Carbone, 2016.2. © Estate of Laura Wheeler Waring. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
BROOKLYN, NY.- On October 4, 2024, the Brooklyn Museum will debut Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a transformative reinstallation of its American Art galleries and a highlight of the institutions 200th anniversary programming this fall. This collection display will bring together over 400 extraordinary artworks spanning 2,000 yearsincluding more than 120 never-before-exhibited ... More | |
Pudding molds, designed by Andries Copier (1901-1991), produced by Glasfabriek Leerdam, circa 1930, pressed glass. Collection of Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
THE HAGUE.- From the traditional Dutch vlaflip to a royal dessert buffet, from baklava to a Charlotte Russe, from custard and ice cream to delicious gateaux: this winter the history and enjoyment of desserts in Europe will be the focus of a new exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag which opens on 23 November 2024. With exhibits including recipe books, baking tins, dinner services, paintings and much much more, visitors ... More | |
Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Hannah), 2024. Courtesy of Collection LZ, Milan and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, MilanAlbisola.
HANOVER .- this mere existence, that is, all that which is mysteriously given us by birth and which includes the shape of our bodies and the talents of our minds, can be adequately dealt with only by the unpredictable hazards of friendship and sympathy, or by the great incalculable grace of love, which says with Augustine, Volo ut sis (I want you to be) without being able to give any particular reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation. Hannah Arendt, The Origins ... More |
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| BMA to open LaToya Ruby Frazier's acclaimed More Than Conquerors installation in November | | 'Ilit Azoulay: Mere Things' opens at the Jewish Museum on September 13 | | 'Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva' celebrates pioneering Chicano photographer's legacy |
LaToya Ruby Frazier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, 2022. © LaToya Ruby Frazier, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today the November opening of LaToya Ruby Fraziers acclaimed installation More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022. Featuring a series of portraits and related narratives mounted on 18 socially distanced, stainless-steel IV poles, the large-scale installation captures and celebrates the essential work of community ... More | |
Ilit Azoulay, Vitrine No.9: The return of things that are no more (2017) from the series No Thing Dies. Inkjet print, gold leaf. 84.2 x 59 in. (214 x 150 cm). The Tony and Trisja Podesta Collection, Washington. D.C. © Ilit Azoulay.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum will present Ilit Azoulay: Mere Things, the first U.S. solo museum exhibition dedicated to the work of interdisciplinary artist Ilit Azoulay (Israeli, b. 1972; lives and works in Berlin), from September 13, 2024, through January 5, 2025. The exhibition features selections of Azoulays work from 2010 to the present, showcasing large scale digital photocollages ... More | |
Louis Carlos Bernal, El Gato, Canutillo, New Mexico, 1979, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona: Louis Carlos Bernal Archive. © Lisa Bernal Brethour and Katrina Ann Bernal.
TUCSON, AZ.- The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona celebrates the legacy of Louis Carlos Bernal, a pioneering Chicano photographer and Tucson arts icon, in Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, on view Sept. 14, 2024 March 15, 2025. The exhibition, the first major retrospective to highlight the career of Louis Carlos Bernal (19411993), is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. More ... More |
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Galerie Urs Meile to open a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Zhang XueruiZURICH.- Galerie Urs Meile announced In Search of Lost Time II, the solo exhibition by Chinese artist Zhang Xuerui (b. 1979, Shanxi, China) at its Zurich gallery. This exhibition follows the thread of the artists unique abstract painting showcased at the Urs Meile Gallery in Lucerne in 2019, providing a reflective summary of her recent works centered around the themes of time and object. It is also a sequel and further extension of her 2023 exhibition at the gallery space in Beijing. Employing painting and installation as her mediums, Zhang Xuerui engages in a dialogue that encompasses her personal experiences, family history, the passage of time, memory, and emotion. In life, it is difficult to achieve intimacy, and I hope to express it through painting. Zhang Xuerui Zhang Xueruis paintings unfold a progressive course. Her early ... More Honor Among Outlaws: Selected works from Kuniyoshi's 108 Heroes of the Popular SuikodenNEW YORK, NY.- This September, classic heroes gain fresh resonance in Kuniyoshi Utagawas 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden (c.1827-30). Pulling the viewer into a whirlwind of muscular limbs, lavish textiles, and lethal weapons, Kuniyoshi reimagined 12th-century Chinese bandits as fierce paragons of self-made justice for a 19th-century Japanese audience. Adapted from the classic Chinese novel of the same name, Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden) stresses honor and loyalty as a band of outlaw heroes bring down crooked officials through their own code of justice. Stifled by the social stratification and political censorship of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Edos merchant class embraced these stories. As Kuniyoshi channeled this zeitgeist, he elevated the warrior print genre and established himself as the master ... More A haven for Black film on Martha's Vineyard keeps growingAMHERST, MASS.- Ready for the Supremes? the Legendary Chris Washington called out from a DJ booth inside the packed auditorium at Marthas Vineyard Regional High School on a recent August evening, as he played Motown hits for the crowd. It was one of the biggest nights of the 22nd annual Marthas Vineyard African American Film Festival, a nine-day event devoted to celebrating Black filmmakers. The festival held on Marthas Vineyard, the quaint Massachusetts island, has drawn luminaries like actress Jennifer Hudson, director Spike Lee and former President Barack Obama in summers past. The crowd of about 800 was there last Wednesday night for the premiere of The Supremes at Earls All-You-Can-Eat, director Tina Mabrys adaptation of the bestselling novel about a trio of lifelong girlfriends who call themselves ... More Esa-Pekka Salonen: A conductor at the top, and at a crossroadsSTOCKHOLM.- On a late afternoon in May, pop and classical music luminaries gathered in the neo-Gothic sanctuary of a 19th-century church-turned-Soho House in Stockholm. With drinks in hand, they listened as media personality Cilla Benkö asked Esa-Pekka Salonen, So whats going on in your head at the moment? Well, Im at a crossroads, said Salonen, the composer and conductor, who is a year away from becoming a free agent for the first time in decades. Im kind of figuring out what to do, if anything. Salonen is in a good position to choose what comes next. He is a conductor at the top of his field, and the kind of composer who can bring on not just one high-profile commissioner but several for each new piece he writes. The day after his interview with Benkö, he received the Polar Music Prize, an honor ... More Exhibition of new work by Liza Lou to open at Lehmann MaupinNEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announces Liza Lou: Painting, an exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles-based artist. Spanning the gallerys New York location, the exhibition features a series of abstract works on canvas in which Lou explores the most singular feature of a paintingthe brushstroke. Activating the intense chroma and refractive qualities of glass beads, Lou uses her signature material to flow and coagulate into a new form of paint, applying beads in free-form gestures through an intuitive approach. As they collide and overlap on the canvas, Lous beads reconstruct strokes of paint, an often-fetishized aspect of mid-century American Abstraction. Concurrent to this exhibition, Lous landmark Trailer (19982000), will be installed in the Brooklyn Museum lobby gallery; it is a recent addition to the permanent collection ... More Eight artists nominated for Pauli-Prize: Exhibition opens 24 AugustBREMEN.- The Pauli-Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes for contemporary art in Germany and will be awarded for the 49th time this year. It was renamed in honour of Gustav Pauli (1866-1938), the first director of the Kunsthalle Bremen. Some of the museums most celebrated works of modern art came into to the collection thanks to Paulis progressive acquisition policy. Presenting the eight nominated artists from 24 August to 13 October, the Pauli-Prize remains dedicated to this forward-looking mind-set. The award exhibition, presenting works by the eight nominated artists, will be held from 24 August to 13 October, 2024 at the Kunsthalle Bremen. The artists were selected by six international curators as well as Prof. Dr. Christoph Grunenberg, director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, and by the Donors Circle for the Pauli- ... More Nazif Lopulissa opens exhibition at Museum Perron OostAMSTERDAM.- On 17 August 2024 Nazif Lopulissa will exhibit his work at Museum Perron Oost, as the second of our four part exhibition series 'Fluxus Corporum'. Nazif Lopulissa (1991) makes work inspired by the unwritten rules of play. Constructed from a variety of media sculpture, painting and photography Lopulissas works explore the dualities which both bind us and open up new possibilities for relating to ourselves and our environments. For this exhibition at Museum Perron Oost, Nazif Lopulissa presents a series of paintings made from bleach and oil. Exploring the role of light as a guiding force and catalyst for growth, direction and exchange, Lopulissa explores themes of migration, displacement, and adaptation. This new series of works are made with bleach a reductive material which strips away the linens natural ... More Monterey Museum of Art selects Jensen Architects for Pacific Street building renovationMONTEREY, CA.- Supporting its long-term vision to become a regional hub for California arts and culture, Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) announced today that it has chosen Jensen Architects of San Francisco to re-imagine its current Pacific Street location including the Miller Adobe, which MMA acquired in 2023 and is located across Frances Elkins Park from the Museum. President of MMAs Board of Trustees Tom Donnelly announced, This marks an important milestone for the Museum, now in its 65th year. Selecting Jensen Architects will facilitate a community-engaged design process over the coming months to envision how the Museum's physical transformation can improve arts access for all Monterey County residents. MMA's renovation will be a catalyst for the historic district to become a vibrant arts and cultural destination. ... More Last chance to see: 'Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love' at the Queens MuseumNEW YORK, NY.- Drawing together photographs and installations from both his celebrated and lesser-known series, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love charts new connections across the artistic practice of Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965, Bronx, NY). The exhibition explores Harriss critical examination of identity and self-portraiture while tracing central themes and formal approaches in his work of the last 35 years. The artists recently-completed Shadow Works anchor the exhibition. In these meticulous constructions, photographic prints are set within geometric frames of stretched Ghanaian funerary textiles, along with shells, shards of pottery, and cuttings of the artists own hair. Our first and last love follows the cues of the Shadow Works collaged and pictured elementswhich include earlier artworks and reference materials, personal ... More The Wolfsonian-FIU presents 'Smoke Signals: Cigar Cutters and Masculine Values'MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- The WolfsonianFIU presents the various forms of a single device as a way to explore the habits and values of the men who used them. Smoke Signals: Cigar Cutters and Masculine Values, on view April 25 through September 29, is drawn from a recent donation of 361 cigar cutters by Miami collector Richard Kronenberg. With the rising popularity of cigar smoking in the late 19th century, a new device emerged. Used to snip the end of the rolled cigar without damaging its structure, cigar cutters ranged from utilitarian knife-like tools to elaborate decorative and figural objects. The installation presents examples that take many forms, including dogs, revolvers, champagne bottles, or women, as well as others that advertise various businesses. As reflections of their owners interests, affiliations and tastes, these ... More Peggy Moffitt, 86, dies; Defined '60s fashion with a bathing suit and a bobNEW YORK, NY.- Peggy Moffitt, a model and muse who famously posed in designer Rudi Gernreichs topless bathing suit, and whose bob and heavy eye makeup helped define the look of the 1960s, died Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 86. Her son, Christopher Claxton, said the cause was complications of dementia. Moffitt started working with Gernreich as a fitting and show model in 1962. I entertained myself and the audience by regarding the collection as a play, with each outfit a new act or a new character, she wrote in The Rudi Gernreich Book (1991), a collaboration with her husband, photographer William Claxton, who took the topless photo. In fact, I didnt really model the clothes so much as perform them. She met Gernreich when she was working at a small boutique in Beverly Hills that was known for its unusual and avant-garde clothes. Moffitt was drawn to the humor in his designs. She was initially ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte died August 15, 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. In this image: Photograph of Rene Magritte, in front of his painting The Pilgrim, as taken by Lothar Wolleh.
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