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Dawn Williams Boyd The Right to (My) Life 2017. Mixed media, 91.4 x 121.9 cm / 36 x 48 inches. © Dawn Williams Boyd. Courtesy the Artist and Fort Gansevoort Photo: Ron Whiterspoon.
SOMERSET.- Curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, The New Bend travels from Hauser & Wirth's Los Angeles location to Somerset, bringing together 12 contemporary artists working in the raced, classed and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice Anthony Akinbola, Dawn Williams Boyd, Myrlande Constant, Ferren Gipson, Tomashi Jackson, Basil Kincaid, Eric N. Mack, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Tuesday Smillie, Rachel Eulena Williams, Qualeasha Wood and Zadie Xa. Their unique visual vernacular exists in tender dialogue with, and in homage to, the contributions of the Gees Bend Alabama quilters Black American women in collective cooperation and creative economic production and their enduring legacy as a radical meeting place, a prompt and as intergenerational inspiration. This exhibition acknowledges the work of Gees Bend quilters such as Sarah Benning (b. 1933) ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artist Johnny McEwen works at his studio in East Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 30, 2023. Deprived areas have been used to help bolster the Belfast art scene. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times).
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| In 'Prima Facie,' Jodie Comer finds her light | | Teiger Foundation awards total of $4.2 million to curator-led initiatives across U.S. | | Vivan Sundaram, 79, dies; a pivotal, and political, figure in Indian art | 
Jodie Comer in New York on April 5, 2023. The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the Killing Eve stars first stage role. She dared herself to do it. (Sabrina Santiago/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Until last year, actress Jodie Comer had never performed onstage. Comer, 30, a native of Liverpool, England, who began her career as a teenager, hadnt gone to drama school. She hadnt studied voice or movement. Her comfort was in the close-up, the medium shot. She knew how to make her face still and her voice quiet, and to let the camera do the rest. The theater directors she auditioned for didnt trust that she could fill a stage. It kind of felt unattainable, she said. But she is filling one now. On Broadway, at the John Golden Theater on West 45th Street, her face is emblazoned above the marquee, twice. The art for the Olivier Award-winning Prima Facie an intimate and harrowing monodrama about a woman contending with the fallout of a sexual assault shows Comer bathed in pink tones, serene, in a barristers wig, her eyes closed; it also shows her washed in blue ... More | | 
Lucy Raven (American, b. 1977), Demolition of a Wall (Album 2), 2022, Color video, quadrophonic sound, bleacher seating, natural light, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Teiger Foundation announced that it has awarded a total of $4.2 million in support of innovative curator-led projects, coalitions, and climate action within the field of contemporary art. Of this total, $3.3 million has been awarded through the Foundations inaugural Call for Proposals, the first initiative of its kind to support the full spectrum of curatorial activities, from community integration of traveling exhibitions, to research and the development of major exhibitions, to multi-year programming at small institutions. The new grantmaking program, designed to help address critical gaps in funding for contemporary art curators, awarded grants to 39 curators/curatorial teams throughout the United States, including Mary V. Bordeaux, Olivian Cha, Stefanie Hessler, and Diya Vij, among many others. As part of the Call, seven grantees have been selected to be ... More | | 
May 1968, 1968. Oil, Canvas, 171 x 180 cm. Photograph by Gireesh GV. Collection of the artist, New Delhi.
NEW YORK, NY.- Vivan Sundaram, an artist and activist widely credited with spearheading a transition in modern and contemporary Indian art from European-inspired abstract painting to multimedia forms addressing social and political realities in his country, died on March 29 in New Delhi. He was 79. The cause was a brain hemorrhage following a long illness, said Esa Epstein, a curator who, with Sepia International, organized two of Sundarams United States exhibitions. The product of a comfortably elite upbringing (he described it as colonial) in northern India, Sundaram studied art at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda (now Vadodara), then enrolled in the Slade School of London in 1966 on a scholarship. The four years he spent in England changed his life. At Slade, he was tutored by the iconoclastic British American pop figurative artist R.B. Kitaj. At the same time, he was swept up in the radical student politics of the day and became acutely aware of his own position as an out ... More |
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| Tokyo Gendai announces gallery line-up for its inaugural edition in July | | Taylor Kibby: "There are things I'd rather whisper" on view at Stroll Garden starting tomorrow | | Ronald Forbes: The Everyman Variations on view for last 3 days until Sunday 16 April | 
© Marria Pratts, Fantasma Damunt Del Castell, 2022, Courtesy of Carl Kostyà l.
TOKYO .- Tokyo Gendai today announces the list of 79 participating galleries and is delighted to welcome SMBC Group as Principal Partner for the inaugural edition. Organized by The Art Assembly, the Fair takes place at Pacifico Yokohama from 7-9 July 2023 (VIP Preview on 6 July). Comprising galleries from Japan, the wider Asia Pacific region and across the globe, Tokyo Gendai is a major new platform for commercial, artistic and intellectual exchange, and a nexus of cross-cultural discovery. As one of the worlds most exciting destinations, Japan is home to a dynamic contemporary art scene and a rich tapestry of cultural offerings, providing a strong draw for international exhibitors and visitors. Tokyo Gendai is delighted to additionally announce the support of a grant from the Japan Tourism Agency. This government grant goes towards a bespoke program of unique experiences highlighting cultural havens around Japan inc ... More | | 
Installation view from Taylor Kibby: "There are things I'd rather whisper" at Stroll Garden.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Stroll Garden to open There are things Id rather whisper, the debut solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Taylor Kibby. Starting Friday, April 14th, the exhibition will feature all new sculptural work that showcases Kibby's signature ceramic chain link motif. Kibby's work explores the concept of change and how it can evoke fear of the unknown. Through her process of making, she has come to understand change as inevitable, unstoppable, and necessary. There are things Id rather whisper embodies this exploration and understanding of change, showcasing transitional thresholds and states of being through the use of nets, chains, and fragmented remains. These sculptures represent a constantly evolving perception of the world, and symbolize the dichotomies that exist within it. Delicate yet strong, obscuring yet revealing, hard yet soft, Kibby's sculptures challenge our perceptions of the world and urge us to question th ... More | | 
Ronald Forbes, RSA, Everyman: Floral Surprise, 2022, Acrylic on linen on board, 31 x 31 cm.
EDINBURGH.- Make sure you see Ronald Forbes' vibrant, energetic solo exhibition The Everyman Variations in the Academicians' Gallery. You can also purchase your copy of the new publication A Blind Man's Dreams by Tom Normand HRSA on our website. On completing the design of his book, A Blind Mans Dreams: The Paintings and Films of Ronald Forbes by Tom Normand HRSA, Forbes became aware of some gaps in his overall oeuvre. There was a period in the 1980s where he produced a range of paintings featuring a collage-formed figure searching for something undeclared among masses of black polythene refuse sacks and heaps of fragments of consumer items. Some of these paintings he felt worked quite well, but others, less so, and he felt the theme was worth further exploration. These works were inspired by a Bruegel drawing called Elck. Elck was the Netherlandish version of Everyman who figures centrally in a range of morality plays in various ... More |
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| 'Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans' at the New Orleans Museum of Art until this Sunday | | Josephine Halvorson's solo exhibition Unforgotten on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | | Rona Pondick: Selected Work on view at Thaddaeus Ropac London Ely House | 
Jack Robinson, Katherine Choy in New Orleans, 1952-1955. Photo courtesy Robinson Archive.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Katherine Po-yu Choy (192758), whose exhibition is on view until this Sunday at the New Orleans Museum of Art, was born into an affluent merchant family in Hong Kong. In 1946 Katherine Choy left her childhood home in Shanghai to study in the United States, earning degrees from Mills College in Oakland, California, where she was introduced to ceramics at the school known to foster an experimental environment in clay. In 1952 Katherine Choy, by then a 24-year-old rising star of American craft, became director of ceramics at Newcomb College. Katherine Choy is remembered among national craft audiences for her 1957 founding of the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, which still operates in her honor fostering a community around the practice of ceramic arts. Choys early pots show inspiration from Asian clay traditions, as was popular among American ... More | | 
Josephine Halvorson, Peony, 2022; acrylic gouache on panels; 65 x 80 inches (165.1 x 203.2 cm) overall (25 panels, 13 x 16 inches each). Photo: Julia Feather.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is currently presenting the solo exhibition Josephine Halvorson: Unforgotten, on view through April 22, 2023. This is Halvorsons sixth solo presentation at the gallery and includes recent paintings made during the COVID-19 pandemic.Josephine Halvorsons paintings emerge from chance or repeated encounters with objects the artist comes across while wandering and traveling. Her practice often takes place outdoors, naturally relating to daylight, geography, and season. The works in this show center on still life and memento mori, artistic genres that, for Halvorson, hover between liveliness and decay. She is drawn to things which have little apparent valueobjects and spaces that have been, or may be, forgotten. Sharing the same air and hours with a subject, Halvorson finds within ... More | | 
Muskrat, 2002-05 Stainless steel, 25.4 x 31.8 x 11.7 cm (10 x 12.5 x 4.6 in). Ed. of 3 + 1 AP. (RP 2021.3).
LONDON .- In American sculptor Rona Pondicks first UK solo presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac London Ely House, animals and humans are fused together in uncanny hybrid figures, while trees bear human heads in the place of fruits or flowering buds. The stainless steel and bronze sculptures, presented on the ground floor of the gallery, span the evolution of this significant body of work within Pondicks oeuvre, reflecting her experimental approach to materials, technique, process and imagery. Foregrounding ideas of metamorphosis and transformation, Pondick draws upon a rich body of literary, art-historical and scientific references: from Ancient Egyptian sphinxes and Ovids retelling of classical mythology in the Metamorphoses to contemporary cloning technologies, the 1984 cinematic cult classic The Terminator and, an enduring touchstone for Pondick, Franz Kafkas giant insect. ... More |
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| A pianist revisits his youth, in payful fragments | | 'Tomokazu Matsuyama: Episodes Far From Home' to begin next week at Almine Rech | | Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil last 2 days on view at Cromwell Place | 
Stephen Hough performs with the New York Philharmonic in New York on Feb. 14, 2019. In his new memoir, Enough: Scenes From Childhood, Hough recalls his artistic and sexual coming-of-age with a light touch. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On the cover of the book Enough: Scenes From Childhood, out this week from Faber & Faber, a young Stephen Hough sits at the piano, wearing a velvet jacket stitched with sequins and fake pearls. Hes dressed as Liberace. Obviously, theres a gay subtext to that costume, Hough said in a recent video interview. Even then, I loved the outrageousness of it, even though I was quite shy. Theres a hint of subversion, something Hough maintains today with a twinkle permanently in his eye. Hough, an English pianist and composer, has carried his lifelong love of creative writing into two previous books: Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More, and a novel, The Final Retreat. Where Hough described his novel as Sibelian ... More | | 
Tomokazu Matsuyama, Winter Song Solitudes, 2023 - Acrylic and mixed media on canvas - 190.0 x 261.4 cm / © Tomokazu Matsuyama - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Matt Grubb.
LONDON .- The upcoming exhibition "Episodes Far From Home" by New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, running at Almine Rech London wil open 20 April and continue through 20 May 2023. This will be the artist's first exhibition with the gallery. If you could read a pattern like a page in a book, the intricate textiles and wallpapers in Tomokazu Matsuyamas paintings would speak volumes. Colorful motifs crowd the dense, graphical surfaces of his works, forming garden vistas or intimate boudoirs. Their origins are eclectic: a luscious floral might be drawn from a print by 19th century British designer William Morris or from an Edo Period kimono. In a bed of plants from divergent climes, an empty Sapporo bottle and a Starbust wrapper lie like the detritus of globalization. A portrait inspired ... More | | 
David Petrovitch, 23. Detail, 2023. German gunpowder ink on paper. Each part 54 x 196 cm.
LONDON .- British artist Piers Secunda presents Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil, an exhibition of new work and the result of over three years research, on show at Cromwell Place until 15 April 2023. For the past 15 years, Secunda has focused his practice on exploring themes around the destruction of culture, with extensive bodies of work about the Taliban, ISIS in Iraq, and other geopolitical events. And in this new series, he turns his attentions to a subject close to home the British Channel Island of Alderney, which, occupied by Germany from 1940 to 1945, is the location of the only German concentration camp to have been established on British soil. Thousands of slave labourers were brought to the Island under the Nazi regime. A fact-based exhibition supported by a wealth of archival material and newly discovered documents, Alderney: The Holocaust on British ... More |
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 Featuring a singular history of photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White CollectionNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will present A Singular History of Photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White Collection in the spring Fine Photographs auction on Thursday, April 27. This dynamic offering tells the history of the medium through Whites distinct perspective; one honed through decades in the business collecting and selling, and as many years living with, studying, and loving photographs. Beginning with early prints describing the excitement around the invention of capturing and fixing an image and continuing through the early decades of experimentation with process and expression, Whites collection describes a heady period of discovery and exploration of various possibilities of representation. Photographys immediate importance in documenting and sharing information serves as an early ... More  Cashless society? Not during National Coin WeekCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- Every coin, every piece of paper money in your pocket, wallet, or purse has a story to tell about history, and the stories will be celebrated by collectors nationwide during the 100th annual National Coin Week, April 16-22, 2023. Designs on U.S. coins and paper money commemorate notable people, events, accomplishments, and shared principles. This years theme, Our Money, Our Heritage, Our America, focuses on how our money tells the story of our country and helps form our national identity, explained Kim Kiick, executive director of the American Numismatic Association (money.org). Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the nonprofit association has sponsored National Coin Week each year since 1924. Money is history you can hold in your hands. Each coin and banknot ... More  DeBose to return as Tony Awards hostNEW YORK, NY.- Ariana DeBose, whose exuberant embrace of song and dance enlivened last years Tony Awards, will return to host the annual ceremony this spring. DeBose, who in 2022 won an Academy Award for her performance in Steven Spielbergs West Side Story remake, appeared in six Broadway shows between 2012 and 2018, and was nominated for a Tony Award as one of three actresses playing Donna Summer in the jukebox musical Summer. She is currently featured in Schmigadoon!, a streaming musical comedy series on Apple TV+, and she has several upcoming films. Earlier this year, she sang the opening number at the BAFTA Awards, and a rapped section paying tribute to female movie stars was mocked and memed for a hot second. DeBose, who is 32, seems to have taken it in stride ... More  John McInnis Auctioneers announces Single Family Collection, May 4-7AMESBURY, MASS.- An important single-family private collection out of Metro-West Boston featuring over 2,200 choice lots in a wide range of collecting categories will come up for bid in a four-day auction planned for May 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, by John McInnis Auctioneers, online and live in the Amesbury gallery at 76 Main Street. Start times will be 11 am Eastern all four days. This is an unreserved, extensive and diverse auction thats so wide, so important and so breathtaking in its scope and size, its taking four days to sell it all, said John McInnis of John McInnis Auctioneers. There are no other consignments in this auction, just the one family collection. There is truly something for everyone in this sale, and within everyones budget. Day 1, on Thursday, May 4th, will feature fine paintings, Asian furnishings ... More  Almine Rech now represents Hew LockePARIS.- Almine Rech announced the representation of Hew Locke in mainland Europe. The gallery will feature his work in Art Basel 2023 and his first solo exhibition with the gallery will be held at Almine Rech Brussels in 2024. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, Hew Locke spent his formative years in Guyana, South America, before returning to the UK to study Fine Art at Falmouth (1988), and MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (1994). Developing a practice that explores the visual codes of power and cultural diversity, Locke draws attention to a range of subject matter; including royal portraiture, coats-of-arms, public statuary, trophies, weaponry and costume. His ability to successfully fuse influences from both his Caribbean and British backgrounds, together with his own political and cultural concern ... More  The Tyler Museum of Art announces change in leadershipTYLER, TEX.- The Tyler Museum of Art board of trustees announced that they have unanimously selected Caleb Bell to serve as the museums next Executive Director, following the retirement of Christopher M. Leahy on June 30. Bell will assume the position on July 1. We are proud of the many strides we have made together under the direction of Chris, and he will be greatly missed, said TMA Board President Suzanne Perkins. Caleb has played a key role within the organization for years, and we are excited for our future under his guidance. Bell has been with the TMA since April 2012, most recently serving as curator since July 2016. In addition to group exhibitions, he has presented solo exhibitions for numerous contemporary artists including Helen Altman, Daniel Blagg, Abhidnya Ghuge, Letitia Huckaby ... More  Review: 'Champion,' at the Met Opera, spars with historyNEW YORK, NY.- Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1948. The next year the Met put on his Salome. It took until Monday evening more than 70 years later before another living composer had different operas staged at the Met in back-to-back seasons, as Terence Blanchards Champion followed his Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Just a couple of years ago, few would have predicted this milestone. Fire was supposed to have its premiere at the Met this coming fall, and Champion wasnt scheduled at all. But in the wake of the widespread calls for racial justice in 2020, Fire was moved up to opening night of the 2021-22 season, the symbol of the companys resurrection as it reopened after a year-and-a-half pandemic closure. It was the first opera by a ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Lawrence was born April 13, 1769. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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