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Exhibition view "Guido Reni. The Divine". Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- One of the most celebrated artworks by the Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (15751642) is currently in conservation at the Städel Museum. Christ at the Column (c. 1604) is a masterpiece by the star painter of the 17th century. The conservation is made possible through the support of funding through Bank of Americas Art Conservation Project. The conservation work sees the removal of old varnish from the painting along with retouching and overpainting that has taken place over the years. The masterpiece is being presented to the public in a major exhibition dedicated to the rediscovery of the artist, at the Städel Museum. The Städel Museum stands for excellence in the field ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Marlborough is presenting the gallerys first exhibition of the American sculptor, Deborah Butterfield, well known for her renditions of horses made from found detritus, metal, wood, and patinated cast bronze. In this image: Butterfield, Kosmo, 1966, mixed media, 76 x 110 x 36 in., 193 x 279.4 x 91.4 cm
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| Museum to observe 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln | | Hauser & Wirth presents a fully-functional, specially-crafted bar designed by Björn, Oddur and Einar Roth | | LaiSun Keane opens an exhibition featuring Japanese artists | 
The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States, to take effect January 1st, 1863. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture is recognizing the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. In honor of this important moment, the museum encourages visitors to reflect on the words featured in early copies of a handheld pamphlet of the Emancipation Proclamation, an original signed copy of President Abraham Lincolns Executive Order and an original handwritten signed copy of the 13th Amendment, all on display in the museums Slavery and Freedom exhibition. The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment are two of the most important documents in the nations history. They helped the country fulfill the highest ideal of liberty by ensuring a more inclusive manifestation of freedom. For more details and to learn more, visit nmaahc.si.edu/emancipation. It is important that we remember ... More | | 
Roth Bar (Zürich), Björn Roth, Oddur Roth, Einar Roth, 2004 2015. Mixed media installation, 470 x 430 x 1050 cm / 185 x 169 1/4 x 413 3/8 in.
ST. MORITZ.- Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz is presenting a fully-functional, specially-crafted bar designed by Björn, Oddur and Einar Roth, son and grandsons of German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 1998). This exhibition activates the gallerys ground floor space as a hub for socialising, music, readings and talks. First conceived by Dieter Roth in the early 1980s, the bar is a dynamic and changing installation and is a continuing element in the Roths cross-generational practice. A driving force of Post-War European art, Dieter Roth produced a diverse oeuvre during his five-decade- long career that included drawing, painting, sculpture, film, immersive installations and bookmaking. Roth experimented with materials and language, exploring the interplay of different mediums, which underscores his distinct approach to artmaking. The bar, comprised of scavenged materials, embodies a central motif found throughout ... More | | 
Aico Tsumori, Eyes with Kompeito Tears, 2022. Ceramic, glaze, pigment, gold, 16.535 x 7.874 x 8.071 in (42 x 20 x 20.5 cm).
BOSTON, MASS.- LaiSun Keane is presenting a four person exhibition, PHANTASM featuring Japanese artists, Rena Kudoh, Taeko Maezawa, Risa Takahashi and Aico Tsumori on view from January 6 to February 26, 2023. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, January 6 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm in the gallery. This will be the artists inaugural exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as this being the first United States exhibition for Kudoh, Takahashi and Tsumori. This exhibition is a meeting of fantasy and reality, as four female artists come together to share their varied work. The pieces on view are inspired by a variety of sources including childhood memories, Japanese fairytales, and even their childrens drawings. These works are made by two different generations, with one painter and one ceramic artist each born in the 1970s and the others in the 1990s. Despite the gap in age, these artists share a commonality ... More |
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| Exhibition features a selection of photographs by Bruce Bernard | | Florence Griswold Museum Announces Executive Director Joshua Campbell Torrance | | Deborah Butterfield on view at the Marlborough Gallery through January 14th | 
Bruce Bernard, Francis Bacon in his studio (with three sections of wall), 1984 (printed c 1993) © Artwork Estate of Bruce Bernard (courtesy Virginia Verran).
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends, at the gallerys Grosvenor Hill location in London. The exhibition features a selection of photographs by the distinguished picture editor, author, and photographer Bruce Bernard (19282000) and is on view concurrently with Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, which elucidates connections between the four painters respective practices, and also includes some of their portraits of each other. Bernard established close friendships with Andrews, Auerbach, Bacon, and Freud in the 1950s and beyond. His photographs of the artists offer insight into these relationships, which were sparked by mutual respect and a shared knowledge of painting. The painter Virginia Verran, who represents Bernards estate, notes: The link between painting and photography ... More | | 
As Executive Director of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum in Wethersfield Torrance oversaw the opening of the sites 9,300-square-foot education and visitor center.
OLD LYME, CONN.- The Trustees of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut have announced that Joshua Campbell Torrance of Wethersfield will take the reins of the 75-year-old cultural institution beginning February 6, 2023. After former Director Rebekah Beaulieu left the Museum in August to become the President and CEO of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, a nationwide search was launched by the recruitment firm Museum Search & Reference. The perfect candidate was found in our own state. Torrance brings over 22 years of experience as Executive Director to his new post. Id like to thank the Museums search committee for moving the process along to a quick completion and in particular Kay Knight Clarke, chair of the committee, for her knowledge, expertise ... More | | 
Deborah Butterfield building bronze armature with Mark Anderson at Walla Walla Foundry, 2007.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough began on November 3rd, 2022 the presentation of the gallerys first exhibition of the American sculptor, Deborah Butterfield, well known for her renditions of horses made from found detritus, metal, wood, and patinated cast bronze. This exhibition coincided with the presentation of Butterfield as the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center on November 4th at Marlborough Gallery, and will end on January 14th, 2023. Deborah Butterfield was born on the same day as the 75th Kentucky Derby, an event which she describes as an impetus for her lifelong fascination with her unique subject matter: horses. Along with boarding and caring for her own horses, her sculptures exemplify the great appreciation and respect she has for them. Despite being an accomplished rider herself, Butterfield renders her horses as stoic and unridden, fixed in a perpetual ... More |
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| Almine Rech Paris set to presents a selection of mixed-media, abstract works by Takesada Matsutani | | MACRO in Rome presents 'Hanuman Books 1986-1993 With a contribution by Francesco Clemente and Raymond Foye' | | Solo exhibition of new works by Maurice Mboa on view at Pace | 
Takesada Matsutani, Fly 2000-7, 2000. Vinyl adhesive and graphite pencil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, 63 3/4 x 51 1/8 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Hauser & Wirth and Almine Rech © Takesada Matsutani. Photo: Benoît Fougeirol.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris, Matignon, is excited to announce its presentation of a selection of mixed-media, abstract works by the pioneering Japanese modern artist Takesada Matsutani, which will open at the gallery on January 6, 2023, and run through February 18, 2023. Featuring an overview of the artists creations from the past two decades, the exhibition will also include several of Matsutanis emblematic works from the 1970s and 1980s; together, these works will offer a compact survey of his arts themes and technical development during the most recent phase of his long career, which has spanned some of modernisms most notable eras. Matsutani, who has been based in Paris since the 1960s, is best known for his involvement with the Gutai Art Association, a group of young ... More | | 
Installation view.
ROME.- Hanuman Books was a publishing house founded in 1986 by the artist Francesco Clemente and the editor and curator Raymond Foye. The name comes from a Hindu divinity depicted in the Indian epic poem Ramayana, represented in the Hanuman Books logo designed by Clemente. The editorial research began one year earlier, during a trip to India, when Clemente introduced his friend Foye local miniature prayer books. These very small, light volumes symbolize contemplation and worship, which precisely due to their size no larger than the palm of a hand could be practiced upon frequently during the course of the day. The small hand- stitched format with bright colours, features the face of the guru or saint to whom the booklet is dedicated, on the front cover. Over the course of seven years, the two founders used this format to publish fifty books (with the exception of God with Revolver by Rene Ricard, which is larger in size), twelve per year, tracing a non-linear ... More | | 
Maurice Mboa, Untitled, 2022, acrylic spray paint and gold leaves on engraved steel panel, 103 cm à 79 cm (40-9/16" à 31-1/8").
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery is presenting Maurice Mboa: Resilience, a solo exhibition of new works by the Geneva-based, Cameroonian artist. This exhibition brings together recently completed works in the artists singular style, including large-scale diptychs, marking the first time Mboa has worked in this format. At the core of Mboas artistic practice is an enquiry into the spiritual world. His signature face-less portraits, often set in wild lush surroundings, are intentionally ambiguous as Mboa seeks to convey their inner spirit. Despite the absence of features, each figure is imbued with a strong presence as they look out at the viewer at times questioning or mirroring those who stand before them. Mboa calls his portraits Ãme-preinte or soul prints a play on Empreinte, the French word for imprint. Having endured multiple near-death experiences in his life, Mboa has a strong sense of the delicate ... More |
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| For 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio,' a star built from tiny gears and 3D printing | | Bruce Museum Curator of Science and Curatorial Associate discover new bird species | | Wiurila Chair joins Nationalmuseum collection | 
The studio behind stop-motion hits like Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox started work on the new film in 2008 but had to wait for the technology to catch up.
by Charles Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- From its earliest stages of development more than 15 years ago, Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio was envisioned as a stop-motion production. The director explained, It was clear to me that the film needed to be done in stop-motion to serve the story about a puppet that lives in a world populated by other puppets who think they are not puppets. He also knew that key members of the cast had to be built by the British studio Mackinnon and Saunders. They are the best in the world, he said in a recent video interview. The starring roles of the movie needed to be fabricated by them. As producer Lisa Henson put it, They do things that other puppet builders do not have the patience or the expertise to do. Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio is the latest example of the efflorescence of stop-motion animation ... More | | 
Fossil skeleton of Centuriavis lioae, an 11-million-year-old bird species from Nebraska.
GREENWICH, CONN.- A fossil bird that sat unstudied for nearly a century has finally received a name. Bruce Museum Curator Dr. Daniel Ksepka and Curatorial Associate Kate Dzikiewicz led a study of the fossil, in which they used CT scans to reconstruct the shape of the brain and analyzed skeletal features to determine the placement of the fossil in the evolutionary tree of birds. They named the species Centuriavis lioae, in honor of their colleague Suzanne Lio (Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer of the Bruce Museum). Centuriavis lioae was identified as an extinct member of the family Phasianidae, which includes modern day grouse and turkeys. The holotype skeleton (the fossil used to propose the new species name) is beautifully preserved, with the head, neck, and wing still in life position. About the size of a modern sage grouse, Centuriavis lioae lived in Nebraska approximately 11.4 million years ago, when the American Midwest ... More | | 
Bernadotte & Kylberg (designers), Made by Choice (manufacturer), Wiurila Chair, 2022. Ash. NMK 207/2022. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- The Wiurila Chair, designed by Bernadotte & Kylberg, has been donated to the Nationalmuseum collection. Created for a restaurant at Wiurila, a manor house at Halikko in southern Finland, the chair was donated by the Finnish design business Made by Choice. Bernadotte & Kylberg is a design partnership set up in 2012 by Prince Carl Philip and Oscar Kylberg. Their aesthetic is often described as graphic and Scandinavian. To achieve optimal results, the two designers devote equal effort to every stage of the creative process, from research, understanding, premise and concept through to design. Bernadotte & Kylberg see each stage as equally important. Sustainable design always comes down to the concept as much to its effectiveness as to its sustainability over time. The aesthetic and the robust design process appealed to Made by Choice, who invited the partnership to create the chair for the famous Wiurila manor house ... More |
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 Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art awards lifetime achievement medals for contributions in Asian artWAS.- The National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2023 recipients of the Freer Medal, a lifetime achievement award that honors individuals who have substantially contributed to the understanding of the arts of Asia throughout their career. This year, the institutions centennial, the honor will go to Vidya Dehejia, the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University, and Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard Universitys History of Art and Architecture Department. They will be honored for their lifetime work in South Asian art and arts of the Islamic world, respectively. The medal will be presented to Dehejia April 28 and to Necipoğlu Oct. 27 ... More  'This far and further' opens at the Voorlinden Museum & GardensWASSENAAR.- How can we together paint a hopeful picture for the future in these bizarre times? Since December 17th, 2022, Museum Voorlinden takes a pause in its new collection exhibition This far and further to show how artists explore other paths. Thanks to the powers of their artistic imagination, you yourself start longing for a new vista and want to contribute to change. The exhibition can be seen until September 24th, 2023. Artists are particularly good at thinking in terms of possibilities. Dreaming out loud, creating new images and different perspectives is often their great motivation. Art stimulates, challenges, moves and encourages thinking in new directions. With This far and further, museum Voorlinden offers a selection of artworks that encourage the creation of new vistas. The collection exhibition is populated by artists who take a critical look at our society ... More  Galerie Parisa Kind presents Charlotte Thrane: "In A Pale Place"FRANKFURT.- Charlotte Thrane's sculptures are aesthetic and spatial gestures that speak directly to multiple senses, creating a new syntax and logic out of the everyday and familiar. Through the use of soft items such as found fabrics, used mattresses, worn clothing and shoes arranged with careful intent, the artist employs a method of arranging these materials by stacking, folding, stretching, colouring, binding and squeezing them into sculptures and installations. These works create a seductive tension between contrasting materials, surfaces and forms. Central to the works are the traces and markings that we leave through touch and through living: Brown coffee droplets spilled on a cushion, recurrent amber sweat stains on mattresses, dark grey scuff marks from being dragged on the ground, together form a rich palette ... More  Peter Buggenhout exhibits at Konrad Fischer Galerie, BerlinBERLIN.- With the sixth solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout, Konrad Fischer Galerie, since November 18th, 2022, is gathering works that, although originating from different groups of works, were all created in 2022. The exhibition will end on February 18th, 2023. These include works from the series "The Blind Leading the Blind" (since 2004), "Mont Ventoux" (since 2007) and "On Hold" (since 2013). Also on display are works from the more recent series of works "Mute Witness" (since 2018) and "I am the Tablet" (since 2020), as well as from the newest series just begun, "King Louie" and "L. do D.. Peter Buggenhout confronts his audience with materials that have rarely found their way into contemporary art: household dust meets garbage, tanned cow stomachs and remnants of bouncing castles meet acrylic glass and Ertalon ... More  The John Waters Collection organized by Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson at BMABALTIMORE, MD.- John Waters bequest of 372 works by 125 artists, currently on view through April 16th, 2023, brings a particular cutting-edge articulation of American individualism to the Baltimore Museum of Arts collection, particularly as it relates to queer identity and freedom of expression. Waters favors works that are visually witty, abstract, and often refer to the absurdities of the art world. To showcase this provocative gift, queer photographers Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson are guest curating highlights from the collection for the BMAs Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. The exhibition will include approximately 90 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints by Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool ... More  Baert Gallery presenting "Practicalities", curated by Marina Dacci, until January 14th, 2023LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Baert Gallery is currently presenting Practicalities, a group exhibition curated by ffiarina Dacci. The show takes its title from the journal of ffiarguerite Duras, originally titled La Vie ffiatérielle and translated into English as Practicalities, which was first published in 1987. The exhibition is the result of a lengthy process of sharing and exchange of ideas by a grouping of women artists. The Los Angeles version is the third iteration of the exhibition whose prior versions took place at the CENTRALE Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels Belgium (as La Vie ffiatérielle), and the Palazzo ffiagnani in Italy (as La vita ffiateriale). Works and venues have changed, but the spirit animating the project has remained the same. In this American iteration, German-born, L.A.-based Sophie Wahiquist has joined the group of Italian artists who all share a similar sensitivity ... More  Last week at Affirmation Arts to see The Blessing Tables by artist William T. Hillman and architect Maurice Saragoussi NEW YORK, NY.- Affirmation Arts, a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts space in Hudson Yards, is presenting until this January 10th The Blessing Tables, a show of new large-scale sculptural tables by artist William T. Hillman (American, b. 1954) in collaboration with architect Maurice Saragoussi. On view since November 17 January 10, 2023, the 12 ft. wood and metal tables incorporate three- panel photograms from Hillman. Known for his photograms images created by direct exposure of photographic materials to light, without the use of a camera or lens the works on display are the result of a unique collaboration between the artist and Saragoussi to create original sculptural pieces which both consider and embody the act of a seated dinner ... More  Giga-Hertz Award by ZKM, Karlsruhe awarded to Daniel TeruggiKARLSRUHE.- The Giga-Hertz Award 2022 was presented at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. Winner of the main prize of 10,000 is Daniel Teruggi. The new PopExperimental Advancement Award goes to the Ugandan collective Nyege Nyege. Each year, since 2007, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents the Giga-Hertz Award for electronic music and sound art, in collaboration with the SWR Experimental Studio. Previous award winners include Pierre Boulez, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, and Christina Kubisch. This year, the the Argentinian composer and longtime director of the INA GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales ) in Paris, Daniel Teruggi, will receive the Main Award, endowed with 10,000. The Production Awards, each endowed with 5,000, will go to the sound and multimedia artist Yu-Jung Chen from Taiwan and to Peter Gahn ... More  David Shaw's 'Last Steps' speaks of the challenges we face in the natural world and our potential to rebuildRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- David Shaws Last Steps (2021-22) is on view as part of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museums Main Street Sculpture program from September 9, 2022 to August 20, 2023. Since its founding in 1964, The Aldrich has activated its grounds with public sculpture and outdoor installations. Free and open to the public, Museum visitors can find Last Steps installed at 258 Main Street in Ridgefield, CT. Shaws recent work explores the indistinct boundaries that separate nature, technology, and consciousness. Last Steps, which takes the form of a step ladder, is in a process of decomposition as well as rebirth, with gleams of spectral light appearing in gaps in the moss-like growth that has enveloped it, suggesting an alternate reality or a regenerative possibility lurking beneath the surface. Shaw states about the piece ... More  'Three Pines,' based on Louise Penny books, tackles Indigenous sufferingNEW YORK, NY.- Murder is as ubiquitous in Three Pines, the noirish Amazon series from the creators of The Crown, as the bone-chilling Canadian weather. But as the bodies pile up in a claustrophobic Quebec village, one discovery shakes the fictional community to its core: the graves of three dead Indigenous children, surreptitiously concealed in the basement of a former Victorian residential school. The discovery by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the morally unimpeachable detective at the center of the show, is notable because the scene is absent from the Louise Penny books that inspired the series. The scene also stands out for another reason: It was written a year before Indigenous leaders reported that ground-penetrating radar in 2021 had uncovered what appeared to be the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children near a residential school in British Columbia ... More  When Daniel Giménez Cacho met the three amigosNEW YORK, NY.- At 24, two years into a degree in physics, Daniel Giménez Cacho received a casual invitation to attend a singing class. To the initial dismay of his engineer father, that unexpected offer derailed a planned career in science and ignited a lifelong zeal for performance. It was a physical discovery, a rebirth for my body, Giménez Cacho said in Spanish during a recent interview at a Mexican restaurant on historic Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Born in Madrid but raised in the heart of Mexico City, the acclaimed actor, now 61, has amassed an eclectic list of credits displaying both his gravitas and comedic chops over nearly four decades. Beginning Friday on Netflix, he can be seen as director Alejandro G. Iñárritus alter ego, Silverio Gama, in Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, a dreamlike fantasia of personal and political ruminations. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 1900. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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