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McLendon comes to the McNay from The Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the J. Sanford Miller Family Director and Chief Curator since 2017. Photo: Daniel Perales.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums Board of Trustees has confirmed the appointment of Matthew McLendon, PhD, to serve as the museums fourth director in its 68-year history. McLendon comes to the McNay from The Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the J. Sanford Miller Family Director and Chief Curator since 2017. Matthews dynamic experience as an art historian, museum director and curator will strengthen the McNay Art Museums position as a global destination for modern and contemporary art, said Don Frost, President of the Board of Trustees. We are confident that his expertise and strong commitment to civic engagement will advance the Museums vision of becoming a place of belonging for our diverse community. An energetic and influential leader, McLendon is widely recognized for his emphasis on community engagement and education, advocacy of cross-discip ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of exhibition Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally on view at MoMA PS1 from September 2022 to April 17, 2023. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio
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| Ashley Bickerton, unflinchingly honest about his work and illness | | For U.S. museums with looted art, the Indiana Jones era is over | | They're taking jigsaws to infinity and beyond | 
The artist Ashley Bickerton in his studio in Bali in 2016 with works from his Wall-Wall series in progress. Photo: Ashley Bickerton Studio.
by Jamie Brisick
NEW YORK, NY.- I cant think of another artist who was both brilliant on canvas and on a surfboard, said Paul Theroux, the writer. He was speaking of one of the artists he most admired, Ashley Bickerton, and these words of Therouxs inspired me to plan a trip to his home: If Gauguin had caught some waves in Tahiti, then I think wed have an apt comparison. Ashley rose to prominence in the mid-1980s with ironic, abstracted constructions focused on ideas of consumerism, identity and value. He had been diagnosed with ALS in 2021, and by July, when I finally visited him in Bali, he needed help bringing food to his mouth, and he could no longer paint. But there was not an ounce of self-pity. I consider myself enormously lucky, said the artist from his power wheelchair. Its an incredible luxury that I can sit here on my big veranda on the hill overlooking the Indian Ocean, spend time with my wife and daughter, work on my computer ... More | | 
A photo provided by the RISD Museum shows, Head of a king (Oba), probably 1700s. Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost. (via the RISD Museum via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades, there was a swashbuckling aspect to collecting by American museums. In the 1960s, for example, some museum curators embraced the chase for prized artifacts as if it were big game hunting. Thomas Hoving, a Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who later became its director, took particular pride in his ability to outsmart rivals in the global pursuit of masterpieces. In one instance he recalled spiriting a Romanesque relief from a Florentine church out of Italy with the help of a dealer who, Hoving said, often stashed objects under a mattress in his station wagon. My collecting style was pure piracy, he boasted, and I got a reputation as a shark. Today many U.S. museums are facing a reckoning for their aggressive tactics of the past. Attitudes have shifted, the Indiana Jones era is over, and there is tremendous pressure on museums to return any looted ... More | | 
Nervous System Studio owners Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg at the design studio with their daughter, Xyla, in Palenville, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Siobhan Roberts
PALENVILLE, NY.- On a meandering mushroom hunt at North-South Lake in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Jessica Rosenkrantz spotted a favorite mushroom: the hexagonal-pored polypore. Rosenkrantz is partial to life-forms that are different from humans (and from mammals generally), although two of her favorite humans joined on the hike: her husband, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, and their toddler, Xyla, who set the pace. Rosenkrantz loves fungi, lichens and coral because, she said, theyre pretty strange, compared to us. From the top, the hexagonal polypore looks like any boring brown mushroom (albeit sometimes with an orange glow), but flip it over and theres a perfect array of six-sided polygons tessellating the underside of the cap. Rosenkrantz and Louis-Rosenberg are algorithmic artists who make laser-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles among other curios ... More |
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| Gagosian opens an exhibition of new neon works by Douglas Gordon | | Jessica Silverman announces representation of Pae White alongside solo exhibition | | Banksy's works near Kyiv have inspired Ukraine. But did one activist go too tar? | 
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Neon Ark, an exhibition of new neon works by Douglas Gordon that incorporates a live workshop in which artisans will fabricate works in situ that will then be installed in the gallery. During certain hours the space will be closed while activity in the workshop is visible through the street-facing window. In his films, projections, installations, photographs, performances, and works in other mediums, Gordon investigates collective memory and our sense of psychological security through extreme distortions of time and space, often using his own work and that of other artists and filmmakers as raw material. He has made text-based works since the 1990s; most of these have taken the form of vinyl transfers applied to walls, but a fewthe first being Empire, installed in 1998 in an alleyway outside a Glasgow pubhave employed neon light. Neon Ark, Gordons first gallery exhibition devoted entirely ... More | | 
Pae White, Undoing Done, 2022. Ceramic, glaze, and wood pedestal. Dimensions variable.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jessica Silverman will host a solo exhibition by Pae White, titled Slow Winter Sun. Opening on January 13, 2023, the show will include new tapestries, paper clay paintings, and ceramic works. Through her three-decade career, the Californian artist has enjoyed numerous institutional shows, public art projects, and commissions. Her work is collected by museums around the world. White has joined the Jessica Silverman gallery roster. White coaxes magic from humble materials, transforming clay, paper and yarn into gracious, otherworldly objects. Central to her practice is the influence of her life in Californiafrom the thriving studio craft movement of Pasadena where she was brought up to the coastal ecology and erudite design of Sea Ranch. The artists interest in the tension between the handmade and advanced industrial processes is evident in five large-scale ... More | | 
A stenciled painting attributed to Banksy, of a child defeating a Vladimir Putin-like character in a judo match, in Borodianka, near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Nov. 14, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
by Andrew E. Kramer
KYIV, UKRAINE.- Many Ukrainians saw messages of defiance and resilience in the seven artworks painted last month by Banksy, the British street artist, on war-ravaged buildings in and around Kyiv. At least one activist saw another kind of benefit: He removed one of the works, saying he intended to auction it and donate the proceeds to the Ukrainian army. The activist, Serhiy Dovhyi, says he is now under criminal investigation for removing the work from a wall in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel. The depiction, of a woman in a bathrobe wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher, suggests the wars intrusion on home life. A Ukrainian art dealer has estimated that the work is worth up to $1 million. Under wartime authorities, the Ukrainian military ... More |
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| Andrew Jones will offer the Jack & Ellen Phillips Collection, a time capsule of over 550 lots of fine art and antiques | | During the exhibition the gallery will be closed. | | Sotheby's to drop largest Keith Haring NFT | 
Oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1883-1947), titled "Fishermens Harbor, Concarneau, France", 30 inches by 30 inches (est. $30,000-$50,000).
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- On Sunday and Monday, January 15th-16th, Andrew Jones Auctions will be privileged to offer a time capsule collection of over 550 lots of important California plein air paintings, Americana, clocks, fine silver, antiques, Native American works and decorations amassed over fifty years by Jack and Ellen Phillips of San Diego County, Calif. Jack, a Naval engineer, and Ellen, a schoolteacher, were high school sweethearts in Colton, Calif. They married in 1961 and a year later began their collecting journey together. Their first purchase was a Victorian hanging lantern that cost $85. Over the decades their eyes sharpened and their tastes were honed as they sought out antiques, fine art, decorations and accessories. The auction offers works by California plein air artists such as Dana Bartlett, Maurice Braun ... More | | 
Barry Announcment.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This piece is about the unknown. How we react to it, and how contemplation of it leads to unique ideas in each persons own mind. This inaugural exhibition at Timothy Hawkinson Gallery recreates a seminal installation that Robert Barry originally presented in 1969 at three venues: In Los Angeles at Eugenia Butler Gallery (March 10 - 21), in Amsterdam at Art & Project (December 17 - 31), and in Torino at Galleria Sperone (December 30). The card for the presentation at Sperone read: For the exhibition the gallery will be closed, and at Eugenia Butler: The Gallery Will Be Closed. The gallery premises will remain locked and inaccessible for the length of the presentation. The artworks properties can be clearly and succinctly described in one sentence, yet it is somehow left open ended. The artwork requires a physical building in which to be installed, but by its very nature remains out ... More | | 
Sothebys selects Harings monumental peoples masterpiece, nine-story banner that recently headlined Miami Art Week. Photo: Courtesy of the CityKids Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- This week, Sothebys and the CityKids Foundation will drop the first-ever Keith Haring NFT, continuing the late artists legacy of using art for social good. In 1986, legendary artist Keith Haring and the CityKids Foundation co-created the banner Speak on Liberty, a nine-story masterpiece. 1,000 kids from across the city expressed what liberty meant to them at that time to honor the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. The 90 x 30 banner headlined this years Miami Art Week and is currently being displayed on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach for the first time through mid-January. Coming off of Miami Art Week, Sothebys will work in conjunction with CityKids and Deepak Chopras web3 accelerator Seva.Love to support the launch of the NFT ... More |
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| Sir Joseph Hotung's Personal Collection totals double-estimate £103 million | | LUPO + GIGA present ColorZenith, the first solo show by Luca Napoli at Lupo - Lorenzelli Projects | | University of Pennsylvania Libraries acquires archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music | 
An 11th-12th century gilt-bronze seated figure of Avalokitesvara, Dali Kingdom. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Following an auction series that began with sales in Hong Kong this October, today, the final hammer came down on the extraordinary personal collection of Sir Joseph Hotung. Sir Josephs home brought together remarkable Asian works from jewel-like jades and classical Chinese huanghuali furniture to works by titans of Western painting and rarities of French silver and superlative examples of 18th-century English craftsmanship. Over the course of four live sales and an online sale, 475 lots sold to bring a total of £103.3m / HK$931.6m / US$119.2m (est. £40.5-59.7m) more than doubling pre-sale expectations. Across the auctions, 93% of the lots offered found new homes, with 70% selling for sums in excess of their high-estimates and 22 lots breaking the £1 million mark. The series saw over 1,000 participants hail from 44 countries. Sir Joseph Hotung is a name that has long resonated in the sphere ... More | | 
Luca Napoli, Blanket, 2022, exposed silver-halide photographic paper.
MILAN.- Superglue yourself to a well known painting or swipe left or right to change the composition. Shift the angle of that well distributed cultural artefact. As if it is a touch screen, a temporary vision in- stead of a treasured moment frozen in time on canvas. The record of reality replaces reality and can be updated at any time, reality is mouldable far beyond the stroke of a brush. The Wikipedia entry on your raison dêtre just got rewritten. Why not view the entire world through the lens of Frida Kahlo or August Macke, any lamppost, street corner, building street scene, public life. Embracing the simulation while sober. The most ordinary moments, refuse, the mundane, ordinary, discarded ambitions made ornamental. Captured as light in a dying medium. No longer reproducible, the epitome of networked, and digitally exaggerated light instilled in time through a system, which is no longer manufactured ... More | | 
Historic partnership provides public access to nearly 175 years of Philadelphia's rich musical history.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Two iconic Philadelphia institutions are teaming up to provide public access to an extraordinary historical collection. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music in an agreement that will facilitate research and access to more than a century of Philadelphias rich musical history. These archives are an invaluable resource for scholars and a treasured part of the cultural life of the city of Philadelphia, said Penn President Liz Magill. Through this unique partnership, Penn is helping to preserve these materials and provide access that will spur new research in music, history, architecture, and other fields. We are honored to have the Penn Libraries serve as home to these important historical treasures. The materials document the early history of both institutions, starting with the time leading up to the Academy of Musics ... More |
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Spirit and Substance: A Conversation on the Work of Richard Pousette-Dart
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 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art explores origins, consequences, and solutions to fast fashion in new exhibitionSAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF.- The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is presenting Dirty Laundry, a group exhibition that delves into the vast problems of fast fashion through a series of multimedia and site-specific works. Fast fashion refers to the growing industry that mass produces cheap clothes to meet an insatiable global demand, a manufacturing model in which clothes are designed, fabricated, and sold quickly to keep up with the ever-changing trends. The model is not only wasteful with the average American throwing away 70 pounds of clothing a year but detrimental to human rights and the preservation of our environment. The exhibition brings together work by California-based artists to advance the conversation about this pressing issue ... More  Artist Fred Eversley to create large-scale sculptural installation at One Flagler in West Palm BeachWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Sculptor and artist Fred Eversley has been commissioned by Related Companies in partnership with the City of West Palm Beach to create a new public art installation. Slated for completion in spring of 2024, the artwork is titled Portals. It will comprise a constellation of eight of his signature parabolic shapes in transparent, violet-hued polyurethane resin, adorning the One Flagler office tower, a new 25-story building designed by architect David Childs and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Eversleys work is often associated with the Light and Space movement. It has been featured in over 200 exhibitions and is included in over 40 museum collections. He has executed 20 large public artwork commissions. By training, Eversley is an engineer, and his sleek creations in cast polyester resins and bronze, and laminated acrylics and stainless steel ... More  Woody Auction's 4 successful fine cut glass auctions in 2022 cement firm's reputation as world leader in that categoryDOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auction specializes in Victorian and pre-1920s antiques, but the firms real stock in trade is fine cut glass, which it has been offering at auction for years. This point was driven home over the course of 2022, when the company held four major cut glass auctions that all performed well and contributed to a highly successful year overall. The first was a two-day American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG) auction held March 4th and 5th that featured a pair of outstanding single-owner collections. Like nearly all Woody Auction sales, this one was held online and live in the Woody Auction hall located at 130 East 3rd Street in Douglass. And, per usual, all lots were sold to the highest bidder, without reserves. ... More  Paul Mpagi Sepuya now being represented by Bortolami Gallery in New YorkNEW YORK, N.Y..- Bortolami Gallery has announced its representation of Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is an artist working in photography whose projects weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium. His interests also include queer literary modernism, questions of artistic responsibility and care regarding representation and refusal. Sepuya received an MFA in photography at UCLA in 2016. From 2000 - 2014 Sepuya lived and worked in New York City, receiving a BFA from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. Sepuya became known for his 2005 - 2007 zine series SHOOT and body of work, Beloved Object & Amorous Subject, Revisited (2005-8) ... More  Laguna Art Museum spotlights the lost art of Photography & Seduction: William Mortensen's Laguna BeachLAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum is presenting Photography & Seduction: William Mortensens Laguna Beach on view October 1, 2022 through January 15, 2023. Honoring the Laguna Beach resident, the exhibition is one of the only museum exhibitions of his work, illustrating his ascent as one of the most famous photographers of his time. We look forward to presenting one of the only museum exhibitions dedicated to the work of the revered and hated William Mortensen, said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum. In addition to showcasing a variety of pieces throughout Mortensens famed career, the exhibition will be accompanied by a film narrated by Vincent Price on the artist. Photography & Seduction takes museum visitors on a journey through Mortensens career from his star-studded Hollywood beginnings to his teachings ... More  Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Monique van GenderenNEW YORK, NY.- Monique van Genderen's solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery is on view at 511 West 22nd Street until 28 January 2023. Monique van Genderen (b. 1965, Vancouver, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA. Her work may be found in the collections of AIG SunAmerica Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL; Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià dArt Modern, Valencia, Spain; KB Home, Los Angeles, CA; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany ... More  Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain presents the work of Fabrice Hyber PARIS.- Over the past forty years, Fabrice Hyber has sown some 300,000 tree seeds in the valley next to his family's farm in Vendée, gradually transforming the fields into a forest and the landscape into a work of art. It is in this valley, a veritable open-air laboratory, that the artist draws his inspiration. His prolific work - more than 20,000 creations, including nearly 3,000 paintings - incorporates into the field of art all areas of life, from mathematics to neuroscience, economics, astrophysics, but also love, the body and the mutations of the living: "Art is all the possibilities of the world," he says. As the starting point of all ideas, containing the seeds of all current and future works, painting occupies a primordial place in Fabrice Hyber's art. On large-format canvases, veritable notebooks on a human scale, Hyber puts down words, draws images, glues objects together ... More  Hugo Galerie announces new show by artist Fabienne Delacroix and book, "La Belle Ãpoque"NEW YORK, NY.- Hugo Galerie, a fine art gallery in New York City specializing in contemporary figurative painting and sculpture, announced its new show by French artist Fabienne Delacroix, featuring 32 new works that include quotidian city scenes, snowy countrysides, and quaint seaside towns that move and inspire. Fabienne Delacroix, the youngest daughter of naïf master painter Michel Delacroix, is internationally celebrated for her charming and nostalgic depictions of the French city, countryside and seaside. Although her work can be linked stylistically to her fathers, she has distinguished herself as a unique and talented artist in her own right. She has a mastery of light and color that is like that of French Impressionists and paints not only with acrylics but also with gouache and watercolor. Until recently, Fabienne was known mainly for her seascapes ... More  FotoFocus announces retirement of Executive Director Mary Ellen GoekeCINCINNATI, OHIO.- FotoFocus, the nonprofit dedicated to championing photography and lens-based art, today announced that its founding Executive Director Mary Ellen Goeke will retire at the end of 2022. She will be succeeded by FotoFocus Biennial Director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, who will take the role of the second FotoFocus Executive Director since the institutions founding in 2010. The transition is marked by a moment of tremendous growth, as FotoFocus plans to build a new center for photography and lens-based art in Cincinnati that will ensure the regions continued education and celebration of the medium. In her 12 years at the helm, Goeke matured FotoFocus from a grassroots collective of photography supporters to a distinguished organization esteemed for its year-round, public-facing programs and collaborations with internationally-acclaimed artists and curators ... More  Elisabeth Sherman named Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections, International Center of PhotographyNEW YORK, N.Y..- Elisabeth Sherman has been named Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography (ICP). She joins ICP from the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she has worked since 2010. Sherman will lead the ICP exhibition and collections program, as well as the growth and development of ICPs curatorial team. She begins her new position on January 17, 2023. Sherman has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions at the Whitney, including Time Management Techniques, a photography exhibition currently on view through January 8, 2023. She co-curated Dawoud Bey: An American Project (20192022), which had a four-venue tour and won the Lucie Award for Photo ... More  Yossi Milo Gallery opens Richard-Jonathan Nelson's debut solo exhibition in New York CityNEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo Gallery is presenting A Lacquered Egress, Richard-Jonathan Nelsons debut solo exhibition in New York City and his first with the gallery. The show will open with an artists reception on Thursday, December 15, 2022 from 68 PM and will be on view through Saturday, January 28, 2023. Multimedia artist Richard-Jonathan Nelsons (b. 1987; Savannah, GA) tapestries expand understandings of Blackness through Afrofuturist vision, boundless fantasy, and a reconstruction of the imagined spaces that hold Black bodies. Nelsons experience with textile work dates back to his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, when his mother and grandmother taught him to sew. Stitching together different materials, the artist discovered how sewing could allow him to build his own worlds where queer Black bodies could exist outside of the Western colonial imagination ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was born December 15, 1907. Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012)---known as Oscar Niemeyer---was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for BrasÃlia, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
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