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NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan announces the significant solo exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto: To Step Beyond, organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua. This major presentation will feature painting and sculpture spanning the Italian artists practice from the early 1960s to the present, illuminating the radicality of his evolving oeuvre. In the words of Pistoletto, If art is lifes mirror, then I am the mirror maker. To Step Beyond will highlight the artists use of the mirror in his practice, beginning with the historic painting Uomo grigio di schiena (Gray Man from the Back, 1961). In the Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings, 1962) that followed, Pistoletto activated space, perspective, and dimension to revolutionize the relationship between the work of art and the viewer. Tracing the progression of his postwar mirrored works to their final form in highly polished stainless steel, To Step Beyond will present examples of Pistolettos early photogra ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition View "Save Land. United for Land", Bonn, Photo: David Ertl, 2024 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH.
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| Peter Freeman, Inc. now represents the Estate of Myron Stout | | A major retrospective of Raoul De Keyser's mature work opens at David Zwirner | | Christie's announces changes to executive leadership |
Myron Stout, Untitled, 1950, charcoal on Strathmore paper, 25 1/8 x 19 inches (63.8 x 48.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. announced the representation of the Estate of Myron Stout and will present their inaugural exhibition of the artist's work with a selection of charcoal drawings from his personal collection that have never been shown before. Myron Stout (b. 1905, Denton, Texas; d. 1987, Chatham, Massachusetts) was one of the most respected abstract artists of his generation, though he famously exhibited a limited body of work. While studying under Hans Hofmann at his studio-school in New York, Stout developed his distinctive spare, exacting style that bridged abstract expressionism to an anticipation of minimalism while existing outside of both. Working within the traditions of Constantin Brancusi or Piet Mondrian, Myron Stout found meaning within a simplified vocabulary. His first mature works were colorful depictions of geometric, almost neoplastic patterns, yet he found his stride in the black-and-white compositions that he said came out of his interest in the Greek tragedies of ... More | |
Raoul De Keyser, Come on, play it again nr. 4, 2001 © Raoul De Keyser/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SABAM, Belgium. Courtesy Family Raoul De Keyser and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by Raoul De Keyser (19302012) at the gallerys 519 and 525 West 19th Street locations in New York. Curated by Helen Molesworth, this exhibition will feature major works by the artist with a focus on the mature phase of De Keysers career from the 1980s to the 2000s. The exhibition, which marks the first time the gallery has shown such an expansive selection of De Keysers oeuvre. Touch Game follows David Zwirners celebrated presentations of the artists work in Hong Kong in 2021 and 2022, and Raoul De Keyser: Drift, his last solo exhibition in New York in 2016, which was first on view at David Zwirner London in 20152016. Throughout the course of his highly influential career, De Keyser engaged in a singular investigation of the potential expression and pictorial capabilities of abstract painting. Made up of simple ... More | |
Bonnie Brennan and Guillaume Cerutti. Photo: Darren Gerrish.
LONDON.- With the approval and full support of the Pinault family, and on the recommendation of Guillaume Cerutti, the Christies Board has appointed Bonnie Brennan as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1, 2025. This change takes place as Guillaume Cerutti has been entrusted by François Pinault and François-Henri Pinault with the responsibility of implementing and overseeing a new organization for the artistic and cultural activities of their holding company, Artémis. As part of this new organization, Guillaume Cerutti will become the President of the Pinault Collection and continue to serve as Christies Chairman of the Board. Mr. Cerutti, who has served as Christies CEO for 8 years, has overseen a period of growth and stability for the company which has led to extraordinary accomplishments including breakthrough pricing for exceptional artworks, the highest grossing collection sales in auction history, geographic and category expansion and business acquisition. ... More |
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| McArthur Binion's "Rawness Dancing" unveils 15 years of layered abstractions | | Lorne Michaels entrusts Harry Ransom Center with historic SNL collection | | Light emerging from darkness: Ross Bleckner's ethereal new works at Maruani Mercier |
McArthur Binion, dna:sepia:xiii, 2016. Paintstick, ink and paper on board, 121.9 Ã 101.6 Ã 5.3 cm, 48 Ã 40 Ã 2 1⁄8 in. Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Rawness Dancing:With Intellect is an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering work of American artist McArthur Binion (b. 1946, Mississippi). Curated by Anne Pontégnie, it showcases the development of Binions work over the course of the last 15 years. Different series are brought together for the first time, divided into three themes across three floors. Highlights include a rare early work from 1985, together with a series of DNA works, the never previously exhibited Haints series (2014) and a group of six new Visual:Ear paintings (2023-24). McArthur Binions work blends elements of minimalism and conceptualism with autobiographical and cultural narratives, resulting in paintings and drawings that are both visually compelling and emotionally resonant. Over the years, his art has evolved through changes in technique, theme, and the exploration of personal and ... More | |
Unidentified photographer, [Lorne Michaels], 2000s. Lorne Michaels Collection. Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels's career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up through and including the nearly 50-year history of Saturday Night Live, the most Emmy Award-nominated show in television history. The Lorne Michaels Collection provides insight into the creative and production processes behind Saturday Night Live, which, since its debut in 1975, has made a lasting imprint on American culture through its satiric, comedy sketches and memorable performances. The show has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedic performers of their generation, including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Bill Murray and in so doing left an indelible ... More | |
Ross Bleckner, Touch and Go, 2024 oil on linen, 183 x 152 cm. 72 x 60 in
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier is presenting Ross Bleckner: Commune, the exhibition of new paintings by the artist, opening at the Brussels gallery on 16th January 2025. In Commune, delicate outlines of figures, plants, sinuous lines and colour fields seem flooded with light, as if briefly arising in our visual field from the iridescent dark ground. The compositions at times flicker in our perception, shifting from abstract shapes, to celestial bodies, to human heads. They are reflections on the possibility of communing with the external world and the importance of empathy with others during the moments of social and political turmoil. As the artist notes, To commune with someone, to commune with something is the blending of you and something outside of yourself, something bigger than you. Hopefully thats whats being an artist, and that is what art is about. In Two Meet Again, radiant lines overlap and dance in space, configuring into an ethereal image of an encounter between ... More |
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| Jack O'Brien's "Cascade" debuts at Capitain Petzel | | Peter Halley's geometric abstractions explore modern confinement at Berggruen Gallery | | Elizabeth Catlett bust of Martin Luther King Jr. acquired by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Installation view of Jack O'Brien: Cascade at Capitain Petzel Berlin, 2024.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting Cascade, Jack OBriens debut solo exhibition with the gallery, opening on January 11, 2025. For the exhibition, OBrien presents a striking suspended sculpture that merges two grand pianos into a singular, imposing form, hovering mid-air within the gallery space. The pianos are stripped of their traditional function yet retain their physical grandeur. Between them is a striking void, a central negative space that becomes the focal point of the composition, evoking both a sense of dialogue and rupture. By suspending these instruments and cutting a void at their core, OBrien reimagines them as objects of silence and memory, rather than tools of sound. Assemblage becomes a means of storytelling for the artist, where fragments of materials carry traces of their past. The cascade emerges as a unifying gesture within the exhibition, threading through each work with a sense of motion that feels simultaneously fluid and interrupted. The works ... More | |
Peter Halley, False Front, 2024. Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas, 76 1/2 x 66 1/2 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Peter Halley. This show marks Halleys first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view January 16 through February 27, 2025. A prominent figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley uses geometric abstraction to explore the social, technological, and spatial linkages of the modern world. Halleys paintings are based upon a visual pun suggesting the square as a representation of urban confinement. Taking Malevichs square, Halley added stucco and bars to transform the modernist square into a prison, creating a two-dimensional icon of the physical isolation produced by technologically determined space and urban architecture. Halleys fluorescent cells, made up of glowing yellows, pinks, greens, blues, and oranges, are layered with the readymade texture of ... More | |
Elizabeth Catlett "Bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.," 1990. Bronze with a green patina on a black marble plinth base; 18 x 13 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. ©Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Randy Dodson.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the acquisition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1984-1985), a bronze portrait bust of the legendary Civil Rights leader by trailblazing artist Elizabeth Catlett. The Fine Arts Museums hold the most significant survey collection of American art in the western United States and the portrait bust will be on public view at the de Young museum beginning Saturday, January 18th, 2025. Elizabeth Catlett is among the most consequential American artists of the 20th century, whose groundbreaking sculptures and prints bear witness to her lifelong advocacy for Black Americans and other historically marginalized communities, said Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. We are immensely proud to make Catletts ... More |
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| Cantona celebrates 30 years of unearthing ancient mysteries | | Asian Art Museum appoints Dr. Soyoung Lee as Director and CEO | | From pixels to paint: 'Graphic Serendipity' explores the digital influence on art |
The ancient city, now an archaeological zone, reached its greatest urban development between 600 and 800 AD. Photo: INAH.
TEPEYAHUALCO DE HIDALGO.- The ancient city of Cantona, a sprawling pre-Hispanic metropolis nestled in the lava fields of Puebla, is celebrating 30 years of public access. While only a small portion of this once-vast city is currently open to visitors, ongoing archaeological work continues to reveal fascinating details about its unique urban design and rich history. To mark this milestone, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), in collaboration with the INAH Puebla Center, is hosting "Stone and Memory: The Ancestral Legacy of Cantona" on January 18th and 19th, 2025. The event will not only celebrate the site's anniversary but also honor the legacy of archaeologist Ãngel GarcÃa Cook (1937-2017), whose years of dedicated work were instrumental in uncovering much of what we know about Cantona today. Cantona, which thrived between 600 and 800 AD, is unlike any other ancient city in the region. Built on a malpaÃs, a rugged lava field, ... More | |
Dr. Lee joins the Asian Art Museum from the Harvard Art Museums, where she has served as the Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator since 2018. Photo: Ian Chin.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Board of Trustees of the Asian Art Museum Foundation and the Asian Art Commission today appointed Dr. Soyoung Lee as the next Barbara Bass Bakar Director and CEO of San Franciscos Asian Art MuseumChong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture. She will start in April 2025. Dr. Lee joins the Asian Art Museum from the Harvard Art Museums, where she has served as the Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator since 2018. At Harvard, she led the museums collections-building and exhibitions, as well as its highly regarded Museum Training program, mentoring the next generation of museum professionals. She co-curated the exhibitions Future Minded: New Works in the Collection (2024) and Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics (2022). This is an exciting moment for the Asian Art Museum, said Salle Yoo, Chair of the Asian Art Museum Foundation and Asian Art ... More | |
Adam Lister, Lady With a Pickachu (After Leonardo), acrylic on canvas, 40x30 inches, 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery presents the group exhibition 'Graphic Serendipity,' featuring the artworks of Adam Lister, Gavin Lynch, and Jiri Mayer. The title takes inspiration from the historical exhibition 'Cybernetic Serendipity' (London, 1968) alongside from the artists paintings in the digital generation. As the historical exhibition is focused on the mechanical sense as a new manner in art, GR gallery seeks to explore how digital sensibilities are integrated into contemporary painting through the unique perspectives of the three artists. As our daily lives become increasingly intertwined with technology, contemporary visual observations are shifting toward digitization. The exhibition Graphic Serendipity presents 15 paintings that explore this evolving relationship, resembling low-resolution digital screens or glitches captured in computer programs. Yet what visitors encounter are Digital Code-scapes a new graphical style of painting that merges the originality of art with the precision of ... More |
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Marco Eusepi paints "Involuntary Memories" through nature's code at Ada Project in RomeROME.- The idea of nature that Marco Eusepi presents in his works an idea, certainly, as it is the result of a mental processing of subjects inspired by nature, not their literal translation: a flower, an atmosphere, a landscape is a pictorial code to which he relies to express his petites phrases, a syntax behind which hides the set of "involuntary memories" that mark its existence. These are memories, close or distant in time, forgotten and kept by the unconscious, which cyclically resurface in the presence of any element related to as fleeting as the existence they attest to. From an iconographic and iconological perspective, this system evokes floral and vegetal forms that, by their very nature, are capable of emphasizing the transience of the emotional process they account for, yet they are not necessarily witnesses to the visual universe they refer to. Eusepi ... More Lucia Koch's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Nara RoeslerNEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York will present People and Natural Numbers, Lucia Kochs first solo exhibition in the city. The show is accompanied by a critical essay written by architect and educator Mark Lee, bringing together around 14 recent works that unfold the research that the artist has been undertaking over the last few decades, with spatiality as its main axis. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the set of works from the Numbers series, developed by Koch throughout 2024, and which has as a starting point the Fundos series [Backgrounds], in which Koch photographs the inside of boxes and packages and, through enlargements and the use of natural lighting, gives these objects an architectural character, as if they were extensions of the very space in which they are located. As with Fundos, the basis for the recent ... More From propaganda to paint: Max Luisetto reclaims images of dictators at Michel ReinBRUSSELS.- Any form of power, whether religious, political, or today economic, needs to incarnate itself and multiply its modes of appearance; art is thus a privileged means of affirmation that no power neglects, whether or not leaving artists margins of freedom within which they must operate. The different dictatorships that have marked and continue to mark the history of humanity share the same obsession with locking down the representations of their authority. In these images, the signs must unilaterally converge toward the uncontested affirmation of the power they represent: the composition, hues, perspective, figures, and symbolic objects are unilaterally orchestrated toward the same goal. However, the global dissemination of these images facilitates their critical reappropriation, in other places and at other times. It is within this historical perspective ... More Janice Nowinski's "Mirrors" explores the power of subtraction and colorNEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben presents Mirrors, Janice Nowinskis third exhibition with the gallery. Accompanied by a compact survey catalogue with an essay by Charity Coleman, the show comprises new paintings, complemented by earlier works to further insights into the artists practice. Using 19th century postcards of female nudes in erotic poses or occasionally canonical paintings as compositional devices, it is Nowinskis process that transforms these tropes without denying the artists deep engagement with paintings history in a freshly contemporaneous way. Though her paintings may be modest and often surprisingly small in scale, it is the concentration, conceptual clarity and time invested that imbues them with a presence far greater than their physical size. Nowinskis most recent works reveal an increased engagement with color, ... More Alina Perez's "Family Romance" explores memory and trauma through surreal drawings at Yossi MiloNEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo announces Family Romance, Alina Perezs first solo exhibition with the gallery. Family Romance opens to the public on Thursday, January 16, with an artists reception from 6-8 PM, and will be on view through Saturday, March 8, 2025. Alina Perezs (b. 1995; Miami, FL) drawings operate on a psychic plane, using an internal emotional logic to create scenes that are altogether new. Using imagination as a plan of action, Perez alters her own closely held recollections to compose surreal tableaux. The artists path forward is far from linear, diverting into scenes of tenderness, violence, and eroticism in a search for resolution. Perezs drawings act as portals; glimpses of alternate and parallel realities in which the artist gives form to emotional sensation and recognizes the true power of fantasy. In Family Romance, ... More Calder Gardens announces September 2025 opening and appointment of Juana BerrÃoPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Board of Trustees of Calder Gardens announced today that the new cultural destination on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will open in September 2025 and that curator, educator, and arts programmer Juana BerrÃo has been appointed as the Marsha Perelman Senior Director of Programs. With a building conceived by Pritzker Prize-winning design practice Herzog & de Meuron and gardens by internationally acclaimed Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, Calder Gardens will unite the art of Alexander Calder with nature and architecture to create an oasis that invites introspection and nurtures human connection. Starting on January 21, 2025, BerrÃo will be responsible for curating public programs that foster engagement, enrichment, and community, including a robust and inclusive slate of performances, events, ... More The Fundació Joan Miró announces the list of artist finalists for the Joan Miró Prize 2025BARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró has announced the names of the five artists nominated for the ninth edition of the Joan Miró Prize. The award, one of the most important in the international art world, recognises and promotes the work of artists whose practices have a major impact on the development of contemporary art. The Joan Miró Prize pays tribute to the extraordinary legacy of Joan Miró, both for his fundamental contribution to modern art and for his lifelong commitment to young artists. The award is given every two years to contemporary artists whose recent work reflects the spirit of research, innovation and commitment that characterised Mirós artistic practice. The list of artist finalists showcases creators at a key moment in their careers, characterised by a consolidated initial success. This call reflects a commitment diversity, ... More Timed auction: The Artists of the WPA at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will open the winter 2025 season with an auction dedicated to the Artists of the WPA. Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in this reflection on how the early twentieth century changed American culture. The sale is a timed online auction open for bidding on Thursday, January 16 at 10AM EST and will begin closing on Thursday, January 30 at 12 PM EST. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on live.swanngalleries.com. Exhibition hours are 12 pm to 5 pm on Saturday, January 25, and Monday, January 27 through Wednesday, January 29. The economic hardships of the 1930s, as well as the drought across the North American prairie, were of great concern to lawmakers in Washington, DC. The agencies that formed ... More Gregor Eldarb presents films and paintings in ViennaVIENNA.- With his new series of works »Seeped into Form«, The Polish-born and Vienna-based artist Gregor Eldarb takes the audience on a multi-layered exploration of the creation of forms and spaces. The title Seeped Into Form refers to the slow and organic process by which ideas, concepts and environmental influences are transformed into visible and tangible structures. Eldarb uses a sophisticated reference system in his artistic work, which forms the background but also the cement in the construction plan of both his paintings and his films. The primarily abstract formal languages contain substantial content that is selectively combined with figurative elements or the use of text quotations. Eldarbs film on view entitled- A Seed is Planted immerses the viewer in the materiality of flowing, merging and drifting forms, pulsating surfaces and polarized ... More Intuit to reopen April 25 as Intuit Art Museum following $10M renovationCHICAGO, IL.- Chicagos Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, recognized worldwide as one of the few institutions dedicated solely to championing the work of self-taught and outsider artists, will officially reopen to the public as the Intuit Art Museum (IAM), Friday, April 25, 2025, following a transformative $10 million renovation and expansion of its current facility at 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicagos eclectic West Town neighborhood. In tripling its footprint, the new Intuit Art Museum will dramatically update its exhibition, programming, and learning spaces for the showcase and study of self-taught art, defined as work made by artists who work outside the mainstream and have developed a serious artistic practice. Some artists may have faced societal, economic, or geographic barriers to pursuing extensive training in the arts. Now ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Andrew Wyeth died January 16, 2009. Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In this image: Andrew Wyeth, LejanÃa, 1952 (Faraway). Pincel seco sobre papel. 34,92 x 54,61. The Phyllis and Jaimie Wyeth Collection.
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