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An employee of SAVAMA-DCI, an organization that works to preserve the Timbuktu manuscripts, blows dust off a page preparing it for digitization, in Bamako, Mali, on March 11, 2022. Tens of thousands of manuscripts containing a wealth of knowledge about science, governance and peace-making, were smuggled out of Timbuktu, Mali, under jihadists noses. Now the public is getting a look. Nicolas Remene/The New York Times.
BAMAKO, MALI.- In an air-conditioned room on a quiet, tree-lined street in Malis capital, Bamako, three young men sat at desks with cameras mounted overhead, picked up one page of parchment at a time from tall stacks at their left, clicked the shutter button and then reached for the next page. Click. Flash. Repeat. One of the men, Amadou Koita, said he had been doing this work for five years. But the job is far from complete. Rooms full of metal trunks crammed with manuscripts await him. The documents are part of a trove of tens of thousands of old manuscripts legal documents, copies of the Quran, scientific writings that for centuries were conserved and passed down by the desert-dwelling families who owned them, or collected in libraries. Then, suddenly, they were in danger. In 2012, jihadis took over Timbuktu today a small, sunbaked city in northern Mali but once the most prominent of numerous centers of Islamic learning in pre-colonial West Africa and burned many ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca: Five Times Brazil," 2022. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum.
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| Pace Gallery opens its first exhibition with Mika Tajima who joined the gallery earlier this year | | Seattle Art Museum presents major Alberto Giacometti exhibition | | dan guz man opens "The Rise of the Observed" at Avant Garde gallery Armario916 Part IV |
Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy (TAE, Norman, Test Shots, Red, Double), 2022. Cotton, polyester, nylon, wool acoustic baffling felt, and wood, 54 1/2" x 42" x 1 1/2". © Mika Tajima, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Charles Benton.
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery is presenting their first exhibition with multidisciplinary artist, Mika Tajima who joined the gallery earlier this year. On view from 13 July to 13 August, Air Max brings together new works from three of Tajimas most iconic bodies of work: Negative Entropy, Anima, and Pranayama. At the core of Tajimas practice is an interrogation of deeply sensed, invisible forces. Encompassing performance, sculpture, painting, textile, and installation, her work seeks to materialise the ungraspable, bringing awareness to the energies and frequencies that exist within and between humans. A driving force in Tajimas practice is an inquiry into the relationship between nature and technology, mapping and exploring the relational structures of human bodies in built environments. ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, 19011966, Man with a Windbreaker, 1953. Bronze, 50 à 28.6 à 22.5 cm. Fondation Giacometti, © Succession Alberto Giacometti / ADAGP, Paris, 2022.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure (July 14October 9, 2022), featuring the iconic explorations of the human form by the modern artist, focusing on his visionary achievements during the postwar years including sculpture, painting, and drawing. The exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation Giacometti in Paris; SAM is the second and only West Coast stop on its North American tour. It is the artists first exhibition in Seattle. Alberto Giacometti (19011966) is an internationally celebrated sculptor whose delicate figures speak to the search for humanness and humility following the trauma and destruction of World War II. Toward the Ultimate Figure features over 60 portrait busts and statuettes in both bronze and plaster that vary widely in scalefrom miniatures to commanding figures ... More | |
My Canvases portray a rhetorical speech around human nature, were the urban landscape is not sterile background, acting more like a main character as well. My work shows reminiscences of a Surreal Expressionism.
MONTERREY.- Located in Barrio Antiguo, which is the heart of the artistic district in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and just a few blocks from the Museo de Arte Contemporario and Museo del Noreste, the art gallery Armario 916 possesses within itself an exquisite personalization of its own architecture and interior with its unique blend of Mexicos old barrio and new industrial architecture styles under just one roof. The artwork within the current exhibition,"The Rise of the Observed", hanging on their walls reflects artist dan guz man's very personal view of his paintings. Considered to be of international renowned ever since guz man (manguzdan) was recognized by the Chinese 2019 Modern Art World Exhibition, he now represents Mexicos talent as a Modern artist. Below is the fourth part of a conversation ArtDaily correspond ... More |
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| Eric Firestone Gallery features the utopian visions and abstract landscapes of over 20 artists | | Hilma af Klint Catalogue raisonné: Seven volumes, 1600 works, releases Oct 31 2022 | | Paris+ par Art Basel announces line-up for its inaugural edition |
Elizabeth Hazan, Potion, 2021, oil on linen, 60h x 50w inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Psychedelic Landscape is inspired by a current in the art world: a desire for dreamscapes, invented topographies, and utopian visions of the environment. As the San Francisco-based ceramic artist John de Fazio noted, Psychedelics create optimism in dark times. The exhibition includes a cross-generational group of more than 20 artists, from estates to young New York-area painters like Amie Cunat and J.A Feng. Cunat has conceived a site-specific painting installation that extends the shows subject onto the gallerys walls, while Feng has contributed a recent oil on canvas that is both organic and uncanny in nature. The landscapes in this exhibition utilize a hallucinogenic color palette and depict acid-trip-like visions. They are not always idealistic; they also reflect frightening and painful realities. Raised in Nyack, Peter Williamswhose estate Eric Firestone Gallery now ... More | |
To celebrate this release, a unique Virtual Reality experience titled The Temple, produced by Acute Art will premiere during Frieze London
LONDON.- The final volume in a unique catalogue raisonné of the abstract pioneer Hilma af Klint, one of the first to be compiled for a Swedish artist, is now being released. The series comprises seven volumes, and nearly 1,600 of Hilma af Klints works. Hilma af Klint has taken the art world by storm. Having once been virtually unknown, she is now compared with the greatest modern painters, and her works are considered ground-breaking. Nearly 70 years after her death, the map of early abstract art, both in Sweden and internationally, has been redrawn. The paintings are presented in the same order as the anthroposophist Olof Sundström numbered them in 1945, based on the artists notes. A specially produced slipcase to hold all seven volumes will be available in the autumn of 2022. A catalogue raisonné is necessary in order to see ... More | |
Clément Delépine, Director, Paris+, par Art Basel © Art Basel. Photo by Ilyes Griyeb.
PARIS.- The inaugural edition of Paris+ par Art Basel will bring together 156 leading French and international galleries to present exceptional artworks across all media from painting and sculpture to photography and digital works. From curated presentations of 20th century masterpieces to solo booths by emerging artists, Paris+ par Art Basel will present a global showcase of the highest quality, firmly embedded in Paris and its cultural scene. A strong line-up of galleries from France will be joined by exhibitors from across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and the Middle East, including several first-time participants to any Art Basel show, such as such as Galerie Anne Barrault, Christian berst art brut, Magnin-A, Salle Principale, and We Do Not Work Alone from Paris; Efremidis and Heidi from Berlin; Galerie Cécile Fakhoury with spaces in Abidjan, Dakar, and Paris; LC Queisser ... More |
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| World Monuments Fund announces new projects to protect Ukraine's cultural heritage | | Sprovieri showcases recent figurative and expressionistic works by Ben Quilty | | Columbus Museum of Art only US venue of exhibition of six tapestries designed by Raphael |
The Black House in Lvivs Market Square © World Monuments Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund today announced the launch of four new projects as part of its recently established Ukraine Heritage Response Fund to address the immediate, critical needs of heritage professionals in Ukraine and to lay the groundwork for the future rehabilitation and long-term recovery of cultural heritage in the country. These projectseach developed with local and international partnersinclude: installing a temporary structure for the protection of the Black House, a remarkable sixteenth-century Renaissance building on the Market Square in the city of Lviv; providing 440 water-mist fire extinguishers for the protection of historic wooden churches, known as tserkvas; and delivering technical equipment to protect and monitor St. Sophia of Kyiv National Sanctuary Complex and Holy ... More | |
Bat Wing Self Portrait #2, 2022. Oil on linen, 112 x 92 cm.
LONDON.- Sprovieri is presenting THE EMU MAN, in collaboration with A3 Arndt Art Agency, Ben Quiltys debut exhibition at the Gallery. Quiltys paintings are largely influenced by his experience of contemporary Australian culture, and particularly the drug-and-alcohol imbued culture of his youth; later experiences including political activism and a position as an official war artist have also shaped his practice. The bold themes which dominate Quiltys practice are denoted through his painting aesthetic which is equally dimensional, confrontational and dynamic. Painting is very personal, its all about confronting your own humanity [....] there is so much to make work about and if welded in an idyllic Utopian world, maybe then I will make beautiful paintings (Ben Quilty, 2021) THE EMU MAN showcases recent figurative and expressionistic works in the artists characteristic impasto style, ... More | |
Anthony van Dyck, Charles I of England, c. 1637. Oil on canvas, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, gal. no. 1038.
COLUMBUS, OH.- As part of a historic exhibition, the Columbus Museum of Art will bring a set of six important tapestries designed by Raphael from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (GAM) in Dresden, Germany, to the U.S. for the first time. These tapestries are woven from the same Raphael designs used to create the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in 1515-16. RaphaelThe Power of Renaissance Imagery: The Dresden Tapestries and their Impact will be on view at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the exclusive U.S. venue, from July 17 to Oct. 30, 2022. The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue published in German and English, demonstrates the enduring influence of Raphaels designs and the tapestries across eras and ... More |
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| The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Phillip Allen | | Chapel of St. Luke in the Convent of the Santissima Annunziata restored thanks to support from Friends of Florence | | Completely reimagined and reinstalled collection galleries opening at the North Carolina Museum of Art |
Phillip Allen, Coarse Grain - (Tragedy of the Horizon Version), 2021. Oil on polystyrene support, 180 x 150 cm.
LONDON.- Phillip Allen in conversation with The Approach Whats with these unusual surfaces and the title of the show Coarse Grain? What are the works made from? They resemble those sweets from the 70s Rainbow Drops; theres always been a gustatory feel to your paintings is this part of your research? Theyre made using small polystyrene balls mixed with an acrylic primer like what you fill bean bags with? Exactly. That must be pretty difficult to paint on, with not much scope for slippage or facture or densely layered brushstrokes etc.? All that lovely stuff we expect painters to do. Theyre quite unforgiving surfaces, and so I had to rethink how I approached making a painting. It all came about as a natural extension of my thoughts from my previous works ... More | |
Sculptures of St. Peter by Domenico Poggini and St. Paul by Giovan Angiolo Montorsoli in the Chapel of St. Luke, Convent of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy. after restoration supported by Friends of Florence, 2020-2022. Photograph by Ottaviano Caruso.
FLORENCE.- Restoration of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegnos Chapel of St. Luke (also known as the Chapel of the Painters) is complete. This uniquely designed space within the Convent of the Santissima Annunziata is known for its unusual combination of materials and techniques and the artworks adorning it.
The two-year restoration project was commissioned by the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno and conducted through the support of Friends of Florence under the supervision of the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Firenze e le Province di Pistoia e Prato. ... More | |
Maria Watt, Acknowledgment: Indigenous Land, Pachamama, Story Circle, 2020. Cast bronze, cedar, LP Unito blankets, patches and embroidery floss, 45 Ã 28 Ã 28 in. Purchased with funds from the Matrons of the Arts and with additional funds from various donors, by exchange.
RALEIGH, NC.- This October, the North Carolina Museum of Art will complete an ambitious reinstallation of its collection, featuring the presentation of five new thematic galleries, exploring portraiture and power, Egypt and Africa, the Americas, the art of conservation, and a gallery connecting visual and performing arts. In development for several years, this refreshed interpretation of the entire collection will be strengthened through a community voices project spotlighting visitor viewpoints on artwork labels; new interactive learning experiences, including digital ... More |
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Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together ceramics by 11 contemporary women artists
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents an all-women group show bringing together ceramics by 11 contemporary artists, from pioneers of the medium to young artists who keep pushing it forward. The exhibition features a bespoke display designed by Lisa Chan, founder of London-based creative studio Its a Local Collective, which will transform the gallery in an earthen landscape striking a dialogue between art and architecture. The display is realised with the support of MALIN+GOETZ. To accompany the exhibition, Chan and Chinese contemporary artist Yushi Li will deliver an educational programme of talks and events in collaboration with the Architectural Association, where they are both tutors. The aim is to explore possibilities and responsibilities of architectural practice while making the research process more accessible and inclusive. From Rose ... More
Derek Eller Gallery opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Dutch artist Philip Akkerman
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Dutch artist Philip Akkerman, featuring selections from his decades-long project of self-portraiture. Although the works are comparable in their intimate scale, Akkermans variety of styles, colors, and compositions reveal the infinite possibility within his chosen genre. Akkerman has exclusively been painting self-portraits since 1981. Confounded by the enigma of existence, he turned to self-portraiture as a means of comprehending. His inclination was validated by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who professed that existence demands examination, and that the more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." Utilizing a traditional Old Master technique of grisaille underpainting, Akkerman layers his panels with washes of color or thick brushstrokes ... More
Naomi Milgrom Foundation announces ninth MPavilion designed by all(zone)
MELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has today released the design for its ninth MPavilion 2022 by Bangkok-based architecture and design practice all(zone) led by internationally-acclaimed architect Rachaporn Choochuey: a striking canopied structure set to bring the Queen Victoria Gardens to life from Thursday 17 November 2022. Experimenting with materials and forms being used for the first time in Australia, all(zone) has designed a unique and stimulating space for people to interact with MPavilions thought-provoking and diverse program, heading into its ninth season as a pivotal part of the citys cultural calendar. Naomi Milgrom said: Were so excited to work with all(zone) and Rachaporn. Her unique vision rethinks how design can impact our ways of living and the environment, and her work will require audiences to think more deeply about ... More
Selfridges & Reference Festival host SUPERFUTURES exhibition
LONDON.- This summer, Selfridges will partner with Berlins Reference Festival to present SUPERFUTURES, an immersive exhibition which will bring together 13 experiential spectacles and surreal interventions by leading artists, brands and thinkers. Installed throughout Selfridges London, the exhibition will also be available to view digitally. The SUPERFUTURES Exhibition will seek to explore and imagine tomorrows world how might we live, what might we look like, how will we behave, and what might it feel like? The exhibition will present a vision of a hybrid future, serving as a generative portal between the world-as-is and world-yet-to-come. Staged within Selfridges retail environment a familiar and safe space for many the installations will be designed to disrupt, provoke and inspire, gently probing customers to consider, if we continue ... More
Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Edifice as Artifact
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting Edifice as Artifact, an exhibition focusing on the monumental, large-scale color photographs of Turkish artist Ahmet Ertuğ. A trained architect and a lifelong photographer of architectural heritage, Ertuğ has identified and masterfully documented the interiors of civilization's most exemplary structures since he began in the early 1970s. From Unesco World Heritage Sites, vaulting places of worship, and opulent palazzos, to staid university libraries, magnificent theaters, and classically styled banks, Ertuğ's formalist photographs have explored the role of architectural spaces within all segments of society and presented them as stand-alone works of art. For this exhibition, Ertuğ reflects upon images produced over the last 50 years in his homeland, Istanbul, Turkey, exhibiting dramatic large-scale color photographs taken l a ... More
Galerie Max Hetzler presents a solo exhibition by Charles Gaines
PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting Gridwork: Palm Canyon Watercolors, a solo exhibition by Charles Gaines, of new works in watercolour and ink on paper, composed according to a rational arithmetic system. This is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery and second in its Paris location. In these works, Gaines continues to question the idea, prominent in 20th century art, that subjectivity, imagination and individual expression are at the origin of the creative process. Charles Gaines is one of the major representatives of American conceptual art. Since the 1970s, he has been working with alternative, rule-based systems, combining numerical sequences, principles of cognition and mathematical diagrams to generate images. As an influential educational figure, he has forged an essential bridge between early American conceptual artists such ... More
LACMA announces 2022 Art + Tech Grant recipients
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the recipients of its 2022 Art + Technology grants. The grant awards include monetary and in-kind support for projects that engage emerging technologies. LACMA issued the 2022 Request for Proposals in December 2021, and the museum received over 6OO submissions. The grant recipients selected for 2022 will explore the materialization of microscopic imaging technology, the distributive properties of mycelium networks, artificial intelligence, and relationships between diverse fields of research and the inquiries of contemporary artists. LACMAs Art + Technology Lab and its artist projects benefit from the experience and expertise of an advisory board composed of leading innovators across a variety of technological industries, who help drive the conversation around how museums ... More
Kohn Gallery announces representation of Alicia Adamerovich
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery announced the representation of Brooklyn-based artist Alicia Adamerovich, who will hold her first solo exhibition with Kohn Gallery in the beginning of 2023. Alicia Adamerovichs works are depictions of introspective journeys that traverse the subconscious, a world that is often achingly familiar yet wholly alien. This dichotomy of mixed emotions: joy and pain, attraction and disdain, and safety and danger, foray into a terrain filled with apprehension, anxiety and disquiet. We are so honored to welcome Alicias voice into the program, said Joshua Friedman, partner of Kohn Gallery. Her compositions paint a foreign way of feeling, inviting the viewer to explore the symphony of a new visual vernacular. The amorphous shapes in Adamerovichs works are anthropomorphic and seductive in nature, their soft curvatures taking inspiration alternately ... More
Friedman Benda opens a joint solo exhibition of work from Mattias Sellden and Thaddeus Wolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting a joint solo exhibition of work from Mattias Sellden and Thaddeus Wolfe, two artists whose practices converge at the intersection of art, craft, and design. Working with ancient materials, Sellden and Wolfe each pair traditional process methods and radical, out-of-the-box approaches to create one-of-a-kind, angular, geometric forms that defy easy categorization. Embracing the happenstance irregularities of their chosen mediumsemphasized by an explorative and playful application of color that is layered and contrasted to either highlight or occlude formboth artists elevate their respective material beyond preconceived ideas of what form they should take. With no formal urgency to be pushed into any typological category, both artists work presents an opportunity to renegotiate value systems in the field. ... More
Disaster and hope in rarely seen works by master painter Chiura Obata at Asian Art Museum
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- How do artists react to catastrophes? How do they capture feelings of desperation and hope in the wake of naturaland manmadedisaster? On view only at the Asian Art Museum, Bearing Witness: Selected Works by Chiura Obata showcases this singular artists firsthand depictions of the 1906 earthquake and fire as well as his experience of the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Born in Japan, but with a life and career deeply entwined with the Bay Area, Obata (1885-1975) is renowned as a 20th-century master who merged Japanese painting techniques and styles with modern American abstraction. On view June 23, 2022 through February 2023, Bearing Witness invites audiences to follow the evolution of Obatas distinctive vision, from some of his earliest, rarely seen, watercolors, ... More
New Museum opens the first US survey of works by Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: Fives Times Brazil, the first survey exhibition in the United States featuring works by Bárbara Wagner (b. 1980, BrasÃlia, Brazil) and Benjamin de Burca (b. 1975, Munich, Germany). Working together for a decade, the duo produces films and video installations that feature protagonists engaged in cultural production, collaborating with nonactors to make their filmsfrom writing scripts to staging performances on camera. The resulting works are marked by economic conditions and social tensions present in the contexts in which they are filmed, giving urgency to new forms of self-representation through voice, movement, and drama. Installed on the Third Floor, Five Times Brazil focuses on five projects developed by the artists over a period of particular socio-political turmoil ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was born July 14, 1862. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916 - 1917).
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