| Station Independent Projects, Toronto opens 'At Face Value' curated by Robert Curcio and Leah Oates | | Xavier Hufkens opens Esther Kläs' fourth exhibition with the gallery | | Exhibition at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona focuses on the life and work of Mari Chordà |
Amy Hill, Woman In Orange Jean Jacket, 2016, oil on wood panel, 30.4 x 22.8 cm, 12 x 9 in. United States.
TORONTO.- Station Independent Projects, Toronto, and curcioprojects, NYC, present At Face Value featuring thirteen artists from Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Premiering on Friday, July 5th, with a reception from 6 to 8pm at Station Independent Projects, ends Saturday, 27th, 2024. Many of the artists and Robert Curcio, curcioprojects, will attend the reception. As humans, we inherently enjoy people-watching regardless of whether the situation is ... More | |
Esther Kläs (b. 1981, Mainz, Germany), color, 2024.
BRUSSELS.- The title of Esther Kläs fourth exhibition with the gallery As of Now hints at a similar kind of duality, or threshold. Things that are fixed, but which could also shift. A phrase that, on the one hand, means the here and now, but on the other, change and possibility. The idea that, henceforth, things can be different. Today and tomorrow, encapsulated in three brief words. Esther Kläs sculptures are still and restrained but ultimately informed by movement. As is typical of her practice, these are multipartite ... More | |
Mari Chordà Llà grimes, 1966. 45 x 61 cm. MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. Work acquired thanks to Banc Sabadell Foundation. © Mari Chordà , VEGAP, Barcelona. Photo: FotoGasull.
BARCELONA.- Image, language and social action are the foundations of the work of Mari Chordà and an integral part of her life: the artist, the writer and poet, and the activist form an unbreakable bond and a basis for an attitude and convictions that make up the backbone of her work and biography. As well as being an active, attentive observer of the reality around her, she takes part ... More |
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| Newly discovered letter of Thomas Jefferson shows him struggling to pay household expenses while president | | Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery celebrates James Baldwin's 100th anniversary | | David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans |
Kept in a private collection for nearly a century, a newly discovered and unpublished Thomas Jefferson letter about his financial state has evaded scholars until now.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Raab Collection today announced that it has discovered, acquired, and is offering for sale an unpublished letter of Thomas Jefferson that reveals his financial insecurity while president. Written in 1802, the letter shows Jefferson juggling funds to pay household expenses, such as groceries and servants wages, for his Monticello estate while he ... More | |
James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney, pastel on paper, 1963. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator; courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the writer, essayist, playwright and activist. Through portraiture and biography, ... More | |
Michaël Borremans, The Talent, 2023. Oil on canvas © Michaël Borremans. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting The Monkey, an exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans, taking place at the gallerys London location. In these works, Borremans continues to explore surface and artifice in his careful consideration of mise-en-scène, combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation to create works that are simultaneously humorous ... More |
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| New Finding Committee of documenta 16 appointed | | Behind the curtain at the Supreme Court | | Galerie Xippas will present for the first time in Switzerland the work of artist Mathieu Cherkit |
Mami Kataoka. Photo: Ito Akinori.
KASSEL.- Six outstanding international contemporary art experts have been appointed to documenta 16's new Finding Committee, unanimously approved by the Supervisory Board upon recommendation of the Managing Director. The Committee brings together Yilmaz Dziewior, Sergio Edelsztein, N'Goné Fall, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mami Kataoka, and Yasmil Raymond. The Finding Committee has the task of inviting pioneering ... More | |
The justices bench in the Supreme Court chamber in Washington on May 8, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Supreme Court conducts its work largely out of public view, letting its opinions stand as one of the most visible markers of the justices rigorous debates on all aspects of American life. The justices typically take the bench to announce their decisions after presiding over arguments that have touched on some ... More | |
Mathieu Cherkit. Le grand merle, 2024. Oil on canvas 190 x 150 cm. Courtesy de lartiste et Xippas.
GENEVA.- Galerie Xippas will present for the first time in Switzerland the work of artist Mathieu Cherkit. A major figure in the young generation of figurative painters in France, his works are now exhibited internationally. For this Geneva exhibition, the artist will present a series of new paintings. Mathieu Cherkit paints his environment with meticulousness and particular sensitivity. His ... More |
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| My first trip to Norway, with AI as a guide | | Art Fund and Jerwood Foundation launch new fund supporting artist commissions | | At American Ballet Theater, a new swan takes flight |
The Munich Museum, which features extensive works by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch and also offers sweeping views of the harbor, in Oslo, Norway, June 8, 2022. (David B. Torch/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The assignment was clear: Test how well artificial intelligence could plan a trip to Norway, a place Id never been. So I did none of my usual obsessive online research and instead asked three AI planners to create a four-day itinerary. None of them, alas, mentioned the saunas or the salmon. Two assistants were, however, ... More | |
Ashish Shah, Be More Tender (Woman with Hose), Handprinted C-type photographic print, 2023 Commissioned by the William Morris Gallery, London, made possible with Art Fund support. © Ashish Shah. Courtesy William Morris Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Art Fund and Jerwood Foundation have announced a new partnership to increase the support available for museums and galleries to commission early to mid-career artists working across all visual art forms and disciplines. Jerwood Art Fund Commissions will support museums and galleries ... More | |
Chloe Misseldine of American Ballet Theater in New York on June 27, 2024. (Kristina Dittmar/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- I grew up with boys, Chloe Misseldine said. What has being the middle child with two brothers given this striking American Ballet Theater soloist? Not glamour; she was born with that. But a crucial quality for any young ballerina: thick skin. Nothing really bothers me, Misseldine said. Im not offended easily. If somebody says something to me, Ill brush it off. Yet over the ... More |
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Newly Discovered Letter of Thomas Jefferson Managing the Expense of his Presidential Household
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This student is undertaking a world record - will she succeed?SUNDERLAND.- A student at the University of Sunderland is trying to break a world record by drawing portraits for 80 consecutive hours. Abidemi Praise Omopariola, who came to the University from Nigeria to study Film Production, is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Marathon Portrait Drawing. Praise will be at Deigos Joint in Sunderland where she will be there for five days finishing on Friday 5 July. Praise said: My love for art is the main motivation behind this. I started drawing at the age of 10, and Ive always been a girl who aims for bigger. I feel inspired by women who are always aiming for greatness. I lost my father at a very young age, but my mother has always been the one striving and pushing hard to see me achieve great success in life and to see the sky as the starting point. ... More Kunsthaus Graz presents Azra Akšamija: SanctuaryGRAZ.- What is sacred to people? What are their rights, what is their duty? And where is this revealed? Searching for traces of the conditions and possibilities of agreement, for signs and locations of human life together, the artist and architect Azra Akamija opens up protective spaces of different kinds. The works, which involve the public in the Sanctuary, range from identity-creating clothing both in the present and the future to a protective tent for refugees that can be individualised, and the communal creating and processing of recycled textiles. The exhibition explores the concept of the safe harbour, turning the spotlight on social, ethical and ecological sustainability. Posing questions about our consumer economy, it provides us with tools with which we can take action ourselves through unbiased repurposing and productive acquisition. ... More Design Museum opens Barbie exhibition, featuring rare first edition doll and 250 objects LONDON.- The Design Museum in London today unveils the dolls, dresses and Dreamhouses inside its major Barbie exhibition. Opening to mark the 65th anniversary of the Barbie brand, Barbie: The Exhibition in partnership with Mattel, a leading global toy company features over 180 remarkable dolls, with rare, unique and innovative Barbie dolls and accessories amongst the highlights. Visitors will come face-to-face with important and distinctive dolls, from the first Barbie to move to the first Barbie to talk, as well as a vast selection of others that have been a part of the Barbie universe and have made an impact on culture throughout the decades. The exhibition opening on Friday and running until February 2025 explores Barbies changing appearance in relatio ... More Shay Youngblood, influential Black author and playwright, dies at 64NEW YORK, NY.- Shay Youngblood, a novelist and playwright whose works about her upbringing by a churchgoing cohort of Big Mamas and her adventures in Paris as a young aspiring writer inspired a generation of young Black women, died June 11 at the home of a friend, Kelley Alexander, in Peachtree City, Georgia. She was 64. Alexander said the cause was ovarian cancer. Youngblood, whose mother died when she was 2 years old and whose father was not in her life, grew up in a housing project in Columbus, Georgia, where she was raised by her maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, along with a close circle of eccentric and adoring maternal stand-ins. The Big Mamas stoic, arthritic and wise had much to impart to the young Shay: their dim view of most men; their love of music, dancing and church; their often ... More 'Dämon: El Funeral de Bergman' brings electricity to AvignonNEW YORK, NY.- Theater critics can be masochistic creatures. On Saturday, Spanish provocateur Angélica Liddell opened the Avignon Festival in France, one of Europes most prestigious theater events, with a no-holds-barred diatribe against them. She quoted, and taunted, several writers who were in the audience. The response from the rows of journalists in attendance, and the nearly 2,000 attendees? A standing ovation. Bizarre and grating as it was, Liddells Dämon: El Funeral de Bergman (Demons: Bergmans Funeral) brought a level of electricity to the Avignon Festival, which runs through July 21, that few have matched in recent years. Its most prized venue, the open-air Cour dHonneur of Avignons Palais des Papes, or papal palace, tends to foil even the most experienced artists. Not so Liddell and her visceral monologues. ... More Brooke Shields has worn many hats. Now she's a labor boss.NEW YORK, NY.- Brooke Shields has a new office. Its empty, and she hasnt figured out how she wants to furnish it, or even how often shell be there, but its a sign of her new and unexpected status, as president of Actors Equity Association, the labor union representing theater actors and stage managers in the United States. Shields candidacy was a surprise, even to herself. But when Kate Shindle, who had led the union for nine years, announced in April that she was stepping down, Shields music director suggested she consider the opening, and soon enough, she had tossed her hat in the ring, and in May she won the vote by members, defeating two more-seasoned labor activists. Shes already led her first meeting of the unions council, and came away realizing she has a lot to learn, starting with parliamentary procedure. ... More At 100, the intergalactic jazz hero Marshall Allen is still on a missionNEW YORK, NY.- In late June, the Sun Ra Arkestra was onstage at Roulette in Brooklyn, swinging its way through Queer Notions, a jaunty big-band tune by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. The rendition hewed closely to the relaxed, seesaw riffing of the original, recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933. But there was one prominent difference: the barrage of bleeps, whooshes and wobbly theremin-like tones emanating from an EVI short for electronic valve instrument played by Marshall Allen, the multi-instrumentalist and longtime Arkestra mainstay who had recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Allens longevity onstage would be noteworthy on its own. But when you take in an Arkestra gig watching Allen repeatedly leap to his feet to solo, resplendent in a gold-sequined cap and vest his endurance ... More There's trouble right here in Tap CityNEW YORK, NY.- If Chicago, St. Louis and Rio de Janeiro all have annual festivals celebrating tap dancing, shouldnt New York City? Thats the question Tony Waag asked in 2001, before he founded the New York City Tap Festival, or Tap City. And its the question he is asking again after deciding to cancel this years edition. For almost 25 years, Tap City has been an important gathering each summer, a hub on a circuit of festivals that combine performances with classes. These festivals have been pivotal to the passing on of a tradition, largely left behind in popular and commercial culture, that might otherwise have been lost. For a major art lacking major institutions, festivals have served as the next best thing. Tap City has been an incubator of talent, crucial to the early careers of now-prominent artists such as Michelle Dorrance, Chloe Arnold ... More 'My Lady Jane' asks: 'What if history were different?'NEW YORK, NY.- Lady Jane Grey is generally considered a tragic heroine, the teen queen of England and Ireland for nine days in 1553 before her foes manipulated her into an early death by execution. As the cheeky narrator of the Amazon series My Lady Jane puts it, History remembers her as the ultimate damsel in distress. He then adds, using a vulgar term for forget: [Expletive] that. What if history were different? This is the animating question (and tone) of My Lady Jane, which premiered June 27 on Prime Video. Playful, optimistic, a little raunchy, this take on the Jane Grey story plays like an R-rated version of The Princess Bride, with touches of everything from A Knights Tale to the cult Britcom favorite Blackadder. It is also just the latest of a handful of recent series that feature strong women attempting to wrest control of their ... More Following a river through the heart of the BerkshiresNEW YORK, NY.- For much of my childhood in the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts, I didnt give a hoot about the Housatonic River. In contrast to the many lakes where my brother and I would swim or skate, attend Scout camps or sprawl out for family picnics, the hushed and shaded Housatonic seemed unfamiliar and at times downright eerie. Notions of Edenic riverbanks came from my mom reading The Wind in the Willows out loud after dinner not from encounters with the actual river that flowed 330 yards from our front door. Later, I came to associate the Housatonic with sorrow. An arched bridge over it, which I crossed on my walk to high school, marked the transition from home to the stresses of my teenage years. I learned, too, that reaches of the river acclaimed by Melville, Ives and Longfellow were laden with PCBs, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Erwin Blumenfeld died July 04, 1969. Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 - 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. In this image: "The Doe Eye" 1949 New York. © 2024 Lisette Georges-Blumenfeld Foundation/Kicken Berlin.
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