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Philippe Parreno, Marquee, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst München will open up its gallery spaces to a major new work, âVoicesâ, created by internationally acclaimed French artist, Philippe Parreno, opening to the public on 13 December 2024 and running until 25 May 2025. Philippe Parreno has transformed the exhibition experience by turning galleries into choreographed spaces that unfold like a script. His exhibitions are immersive journeys, where parallel realities are interconnected, creating a series of unexpected, interdependent events that alter perceptions of space, time, and boundaries. In âVoicesâ at Haus der Kunst, Parreno explores the power of language by introducing ∂A, a new language crafted through machine learning and voiced by the renowned TV speaker Susanne Daubner. This language, merging news authenticity with Parreno's imaginative realms, infuses the exhibitio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Beginning December 12, Rome will pay homage to one of the most groundbreaking Italian artists of the 20th century, Titina Maselli (1924-2005), with a major retrospective spread across two venues: the Casino dei Principi at the Museums of Villa Torlonia and the MLAC - Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea at Sapienza University of Rome. Timed to commemorate the centenary of her birth, this extensive exhibition, on view until April 21, 2025, brings together approximately 100 works---some rarely seen or not publicly displayed in decades---offering a fresh, in-depth look at an artist whose career straddled multiple styles, movements, and cultural milieus.
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| Midnight Moment: A Decade of Illuminating Times Square | | John McInnis Auctioneers will kick off 2025 with three important auctions | | National Gallery of Art appoints Andaleeb Badiee Banta as Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings |
Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square Hardcover.
AUSTIN, TX.- Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square is a captivating visual journey through a decade of innovative public art. This stunning volume celebrates the world's largest and longest-running digital public art program, showcasing the work of over 130 renowned and emerging artists who have transformed the iconic Times Square billboards into a canvas for their creative expressions. Presented nightly to millions of viewers, Midnight Moment has redefined the boundaries of public art, bringing cutting-edge moving-image content to the heart of New York City. This book offers a comprehensive look at this groundbreaking program, delving into the artistic process, the technical challenges, and the impact of these mesmerizing displays. The book features a diverse range of artists, including Jeffrey Gibson, Shantell Martin, Christian Marclay, William Kentridge, ... More | |
Large oil on canvas abstract painting by Edward Clark (American, 1926-2019), an early African American pioneer of abstract painting in the post-war era, 72 inches by 48 inches (est. $75,000-$150,000).
AMESBURY, MASS.- John McInnis Auctioneers will burst into 2025 with three important auctions set for January 3rd, 4th and 5th, online and live in the Amesbury gallery at 76 Main Street. Were kicking off New Years week with three exhibitions and auction sales, said John McInnis of John McInnis Auctioneers. Collectors and decorators should mark their calendars. The Friday, January 3rd Fine Art Collections auction, starting at 2pm Eastern time, features over 200 lots of collections from private estates, to include 19th and 20th century American and European artwork, with lots to discover, together with 60 original paintings by the noted mid-century artist Carl Ivar Gilbert (1882-1959). The star lot of Day 1, and the undisputed headliner of the three days, is a large oil on canvas abstract ... More | |
Banta comes to the National Gallery from the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she served as senior curator and head of the department of prints, drawings, and photographs.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Andaleeb Badiee Banta will join the museum as Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings and will assume the role on January 12, 2025. Banta will lead the department of prints and drawings, which is responsible for the care, study, display, and expansion of the National Gallerys collection of some 120,000 works on paper. Making up the majority of the National Gallerys overall holdings, this world-class collection includes prints, drawings, artists books, and ephemera from Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. It spans the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods as well as through the 18th to the 21st centuries and includes sizable holdings of postwar American works on ... More |
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| Engravings discovered on reverse of copper plates thought to be the earliest produced by William Blake | | Treatment of Savoldo's Adoration of the Shepherds from San Giobbe underway | | Canterbury Museum awards contract for new building |
William Blake, Tombs of Three Abbots, verso showing area of crosshatching. Gough Copperplate d. 57. ARCHiOx © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The Bodleian Libraries are announcing the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates, which are thought to be the earliest engravings by the poet and artist William Blake. The engravings, some of which are invisible to the naked eye, were discovered using the Bodleian Libraries innovative high-resolution scanning technology ARCHiOx, created in partnership with the Factum Foundation, which is able to scan the surface of objects at over one-million pixels per square inch. Mark Crosby, Associate Professor of Literature at Kansas State University and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, worked with ARCHiOxs Selene Photometric ... More | |
Savoldo's Adoration of the Shepherds, before conservation. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo first appears in Venetian records in 1521, and was known in Venice as Girolamo from Brescia, after his birthplace. He spent approximately two decades in Venice, both living and working there. His sole surviving painting in the city, the Adoration of the Shepherds in the church of San Giobbe, stands as one of the finest examples of his mature artistic style. This painting, with its nocturnal setting and striking realism, would go on to influence a new generation of artists, most notably Caravaggio. Due to its exceptional qualities, the San Giobbe Adoration of the Shepherds is regarded as one of Venices most treasured masterpieces. The altarpiece is still preserved in its original locationin the Franciscan ... More | |
Cantabrians will see their new Museum rising out of the ground from next year.
CHRISTCHURCH.- The Museum has awarded the contract to build the new base-isolated basement and 5-level building to Leighs Construction. This will include a large floor to ceiling atrium, a new home for the 26-metre long blue whale skeleton. Tenders for the construction contract were all well above the Museums anticipated budget. The projected cost of the new Museum has also increased due to an extra $3.8 million to remove asbestos from the Robert McDougall Gallery and another $5 million due to unexpected ground conditions which has slowed progress beneath the Gallery. In response to the tenders, the Museum has identified further cost savings of about $11 million. The projected total cost of the redeveloped Museum is ... More |
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| Vardaxoglou presents a solo exhibition with Irish artist Niamh O'Malley | | MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique opens exhibition by Stephanie Temma Hier | | ARCOmadrid presents the participating galleries in its next edition |
Niamh O'Malley, Two panels, rest, 2017. Graphite and filler on panels, beech, 169.5 x 71 x 22.4 cm, 66 3/4 x 28 x 8 7/8 ins.
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou is presenting a solo exhibition with Irish artist Niamh OMalley (b. 1975, Co. Mayo). It is the artists second exhibition with the gallery and includes new and previously unseen works incorporating graphite, wood, oil, glass, and metal. Niamh OMalley represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The exhibition features a series of artworks occupying the gallery at varying heights and scales. Folds of metal and wood balance high on steel rods and slabs of highly-worked graphite on panels sit propped against a wall. A large, oil on aluminium, painting, is painted in a layered tonal grisaille onto a primed aluminium sheet. OMalley resists settling on an image, the works serving as documentation of a restless search for a still point to resolve or solve. In this way, they seem to present an obliteration of images. Pencil and sandpaper, graphite powder ... More | |
Stephanie Temma Hier, Smothered, 2024.
PARIS.- Intrusions by Stephanie Temma Hier manifests as a visual and material disruption that evokes memory and nostalgia. Through this exhibition on view at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Hier employs bold imagery, rich materials, and striking colour to provoke the imagination. Hiers fusion of ceramic sculpture and meticulous painting draws on found imagery from cookbooks, fashion and nature magazines, stock photos, and personal photographs. By extracting these images from their original context, she creates a pastiche of memorabilia that resonates deeply with anyone who engages with her work. Hier breathes new life into these iconsmany of which were once discarded or forgottenreincarnating their significance within her artworks. It is through the evocation of memory that these pieces function as intrusions. The sources she draws from reflect the aesthetics of domesticity and interior life from the recent past, particularly the 1980s and '90s. Hier appears to ... More | |
Manoela Medeiros, Autoportrait par hasard, 2023. Paint, pigment coating and excavation on canvas, 61 x 50 x5 cm.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid celebrates its 44th edition from 5 to 9 March 2025. With an exceptional selection of national and international galleries, the fair promotes a broad dialogue between innovative projects from the international scene, becoming an event that transcends the market to encourage discovery, reflection and artistic research. On this occasion, 179 galleries make up the General Programme, in addition to the curated sections Wametisé: ideas for an Amazofuturism; Opening. New galleries and Profiles | Latin American art. The strength of the Spanish art scene, as well as its richness and plurality, will be widely reflected in the General Programme with the participation of galleries such as Alarcón Criado, ATM, Elba BenÃtez, Elvira González, CarrerasMugica, Luis Adelantado Valencia, Nordés, Prats Nogueras Blanchard, ProjecteSD, Sabrina Amrani ... More |
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| Sculpture Milwaukee exhibits a trio of sculptures made by Truman Lowe | | Bonniers Konsthall presents: Anastasia Savinvoa & Erik Thörnqvist | | Cristin Tierney Gallery presents a solo exhibition of rarely seen paintings and drawings from the estate of Audra Skuoda |
Working with malleable wood, soft organic lines, repetitions, and layering, Lowe drew on far-ranging references in his innovative practice, from his family traditions to the international stylings of twentieth-century minimalism.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Sculpture Milwaukee is presenting Canoe Man, Plains Image, and Untitled, a trio of sculptures made of pine and peeled willow saplings in 1988 by the late Wisconsin artist and celebrated modernist Truman Lowe (19442019). The latest additions to Actual Fractals, our current exhibition series, the works are on view now through March 9 in the Ellen & Joe Checota Atrium at the Bradley Symphony Center in downtown Milwaukee. In his serene and playful sculptures, Lowe, who grew up in a Ho-Chunk community outside of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, refigured supple natural materials into expressive compositions evoking traditional crafts and people and animals who have thrived in the woodlands. From an early age, Lowe learned basketry, beadwork, and other forms of traditional tribal handiwork from his parents, both renowned Ho-Chunk craftspeople. He developed ... More | |
Installation view, Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation scholarship holders Anastasia Savinova & Erik Thörnqvist.
STOCKHOLM.- The Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation annually awards grants to young artists to support and promote their work. As part of the grant, an extensive exhibition is produced at Bonniers Konsthall where their works are shown to a large audience, often for the first time. The 2024 grant recipients Anastasia Savinova and Erik Thörnqvist explore in their artistry the human relationship to the world around them through sculpture and installation. They share an interest in architecture and a fascination with found objects. Savinova transforms these materials into unique sculptural constructions that reflect on our ecology, while Thörnqvist explores how abstract ideas and ideologies can take physical form through objects and social structures. Anastasia Savinova (b. 1988) explores humanitys deep connection with nature by combining natural and industrial materials, to create a dialogue between the organic and the constructed. Her art highlights the delicate balance of ecosystems in a t ... More | |
Audra Skuodas, Angelic Emanations, c. 2011. Colored and graphite pencil on rag paper, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Vibrational Vulnerability, a solo exhibition of rarely seen paintings and drawings from the estate of Audra Skuodas (1940-2019). This is the artist's first solo show with the gallery and the first exhibition of her work in New York in over fifteen years. Vibrational Vulnerability will be on view through January 17th, 2025. Skuodas epitomizes the "under-recognized artist." Virtually unknown to a larger audience throughout her life, her oeuvre found greater attention only after her death when it was prominently featured in the 2022 Cleveland Triennial: Front. Over the past several years, museums such as the Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art have begun acquiring and exhibiting her work. A major museum is planning a retrospective exhibition with a publication. Despite a lifetime of relative obscurity, Skuodas' work resonates with profound depth and a distinctive voice that challenges conventional ... More |
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Artist Peter Wächtler: Between Precision and Play
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Kunsthaus Hamburg presents 'Politics of Love'HAMBURG.- In a time of increasing global crises, wars, humanitarian strife and ecological catastrophes, we are facing growing national and individual delimitation and isolation. More and more, visions for collaborative solutions and coalitions of action are disappearing, from which new concepts for networking and forms of mutual participation might emerge. Love, by contrast, is a positive, driving force of our existence that also affects our collective interactions. Despite its commercialization and depletion through the global mechanisms of consumerism, it retains its transformative potential. Against this backdrop, the exhibition explores the societal perspectives given by a committed politics of love based on diversity, as outlined by the political philosopher and literary theorist Michael Hardt. In his essay The Procedures of Love (2012), he ... More Rome unveils major retrospective honoring 20th-century artist Titina MaselliROME.- Beginning December 12, Rome will pay homage to one of the most groundbreaking Italian artists of the 20th century, Titina Maselli (19242005), with a major retrospective spread across two venues: the Casino dei Principi at the Museums of Villa Torlonia and the MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea at Sapienza University of Rome. Timed to commemorate the centenary of her birth, this extensive exhibition, on view until April 21, 2025, brings together approximately 100 workssome rarely seen or not publicly displayed in decadesoffering a fresh, in-depth look at an artist whose career straddled multiple styles, movements, and cultural milieus. Supported by Roma Capitale, the Department of Culture Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with Sapienza University, the Titina Maselli Archive, ... More Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents its 2025 exhibition programmeCOPENHAGEN.- With a long legacy dating back to 1857, the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is one of the most significant open-call juried exhibitions in Europe. Each year, a professional jury selects a wide-ranging array of artists from among the many who submit their work in an open application process. Reflecting current trends on the art scene, the annual exhibition offers plenty of opportunity to explore the rich diversity of contemporary art, architecture, applied art and design. All artists above 18 can apply until December 22, 2024. This years jury, who will also curate the Spring Exhibition, is the multidisciplinary artist and curator collective coyote. The exhibition is organised by the Charlottenborg Foundation in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu (b. 1970, Ankara) is interested ... More Over $7 million investment supports diverse creative communities across NSWSYDNEY.- Communities and audiences across the state will enjoy the exceptional calibre of homegrown creative talent with 51 NSW organisations funded to deliver diverse arts and cultural programming in the coming year. Organisations located across the state will share in $7.4 million through the Annual Organisation Funding round, delivered as part of Create NSWs Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP). The impact of these programs will be far-reaching, engaging artists, grassroots communities and audiences at large-scale events. Among the 51 diverse recipients are a First Nations program in the Riverina for youth to express themselves through dance and cultural connection; a multi-sensory art and music festival takeover of White Bay Power Station showcasing ambitious new works by NSW artists; and an annual artistic program ... More Galerie Lelong & Co. exhibits new paintings, sculptures, and watercolors made by Kate ShepherdNEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, announces a solo exhibition by Kate Shepherd, entitled ABC and sometimes Y, opening on Thursday, December 12, 2024. On view will be new paintings, sculptures, and watercolors made with Shepherds signature use of architectural logic to situate geometric configurations in space. The exhibition presents new forms, colors, and the artists largest sculptures to date, demonstrating Shepherds ongoing innovation of and expansion upon her decades long practice engaging in abstraction and perspectival space. A large-scale, site-specific wall painting commands the main gallery space. In this installation, Shepherd uses various tones of color to generate the illusion of translucent overlapping shapes. The construction implies a three-dimensional perspectival space on a single wallflat colors ... More Istanbul Modern celebrates its 20th anniversaryISTANBUL.- Türkiyes first modern and contemporary art museum, Istanbul Modern, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in its new building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Since opening its doors on December 11, 2004, the museum has hosted 10 million visitors and provided free art education to 1 million children and young people. Istanbul Modern has sought to create a multifaceted museum experience through the museum collection and 160 exhibitions held in four different galleries and abroad. Istanbul Moderns new building was inspired by its unique location at the intersection of the Bosphorus and Golden Horn. Renzo Piano describes the museum as a sea creature rising from the sea into the air, where it remains suspended. A one-of-a-kind viewing terrace at the top of the building hovers above a shallow reflection pool ... More Gallery Pradarshak presents debut solo exhibition by artist Manav Timbalia MUMBAI.- Gallery Pradarshak will present Stitching Expression, the debut solo exhibition of promising artist Manav Timbalia. This extraordinary showcase unveils Timbalias unique artistic style, seamlessly merging traditional needlework with contemporary painting to create captivating works of art. Timbalias artistic journey is deeply influenced by his upbringing as the son of a tailor, a childhood spent amidst the rhythm of sewing machines and the meticulous craft of stitching. Drawing from this foundation, he has developed a distinctive technique that transforms hand-stitched embellishments into a creative language all his own. Every piece in this exhibition reflects his passion and skill, offering a tactile interplay of paint and thread that invites viewers to connect on a deeply emotional level. Fascinated by human forms, expressions, and behaviors, ... More Glenstone Museum's spring 2025 exhibitions to include major presentations by Jenny Holzer and Alex Da CortePOTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum announced the full reopening of the Pavilions on March 20, 2025, featuring new exhibitions by artists Jenny Holzer, Alex Da Corte, and others to be shared in the coming months. Jenny Holzer has long used language as her primary medium, engaging words and phrases as tools for personal and political examination. Her presentation in Room 2 will include drawing, paintings, LED signs, and plaques alongside the seminal installation The Child Room (1990). Originally commissioned for the US Pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale, The Child Room combines vertical scrolling LED elements with a custom engraved marble floor featuring an original text by Holzer. This is ... More Dia Art Foundation presents its 2025 exhibition scheduleNEW YORK, NY.- Today Dia Art Foundation announced the 2025 exhibition schedule across Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea. The program of single-artist presentations includes Renée Green, Roni Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Hélio Oiticica, Kishio Suga, and Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon, as well as Duane Linklater at Dia Chelsea and Amy Sillman at Dia Bridgehampton. Roni Horn features works from Dias collection that were realized between 1980 and 1990 and highlight the artists early experiments with lead, cast iron, and copper. The two-part exhibition begins with Post Work III (198687), on view starting December 2024, followed by an expanded presentation spanning multiple galleries in the spring. Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved marks the multidisciplinary artists first major solo museum presentation in New York. ... More Largest solo show of Louise Giovanelli's work to date on view at The Hepworth WakefieldWAKEFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting the largest solo show of Louise Giovanellis work to date, including a new series of specially commissioned paintings that are on display for the first time. Giovanelli is known for beautifully crafting large-scale oil paintings that capture fleeting, moments and sensual textures in vivid colours. Her subject matter is diverse, ranging across staged photographs, film stills, classical sculpture and architectural elements. Regular motifs in her works include fabrics and locks of hair, components that are notoriously hard to capture in oil paint. Giovanellis work is as much influenced by Renaissance art, as popular culture from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and she creates her luminescent work using classical painting techniques, building up thin layers of highly pigmented oil paint. In her new body ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Bruce Price was born December 12, 1845. Bruce Price (December 12, 1845 - May 29, 1903) was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert Venturi. In this image: Winthrop Astor Chanler cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1885-86), Bruce Price, architect.
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