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Honor Titus in his studio in Los Angeles on May 19, 2023. In a new gallery show, Advantage In, in Los Angeles, the artist brings an undercurrent of social critique to a Gatsby sensibility. (Carlos Jaramillo/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Mens suits were better made in 1940 than they are now. I want to know the cut. I want to know where the tweed came from. I like those details. On a California clear day, artist Honor Titus was sitting on a sofa in his spare industrial studio, talking about the paintings that will be on view in his first show with Gagosians Beverly Hills gallery starting July 20. Lanky and elegant at almost 6-foot-4, Titus, who just turned 34, seems born into the wrong century. He loves tailored clothes, The Great Gatsby, classic jazz and old movies. He views with romance the days when bus tokens had holes and he had to call on the landline to reach his friend Philip. The subjects of his paintings swing rackets in tennis whites, slow dance in full skirts, play the horn in fedoras. At the same time Titus is very much a product of his own generation, having grown up as the son of Andres Dres V ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Works by François Bocion on display at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 11, 2023. Bocion was born in Lausanne and frequently painted working boatmen around Lake Geneva in the 19th century. (Clara Tuma/The New York Times)
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| Dulwich Picture Gallery to expand its visitor experience in first major transformation of site for over 20 years | | Einstein's great letter on the Bible and creation for sale publicly for the first time | | The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne opens Magdalena Abakanowicz. Textile Territories. Homage to Elsi Giauque | 
Innovative plans will fully integrate the existing gardens with the Gallery, opening up previously inaccessible land with an interactive sculpture garden and a new building for families. Courtesy Carmody Groarke.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery has received planning permission for an innovative transformation of its site and three acres of green space, in its biggest redevelopment in over 20 years. A brand new, free to access outdoor gallery will extend the visitor experience into the gardens while a new building and extension will reveal new views of the site and provide much needed facilities for families, with a focus on art and creative play. Under the banner Open Art, the ambitious plans will maximise the Gallerys unique potential - its building, art, gardens, people and location - for future generations. To deliver this vision, the Gallery has appointed award-winning architects Carmody Groarke alongside leading landscape artist Kim Wilkie. The proposed developments comprise a series of permanent enhancements across the site including ... More | | 
Valued at $125,000, the letter has just been listed for sale by The Raab Collection, which acquired it from heirs of the recipient. It has never been publicly sold before.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Raab Collection announced today that it has acquired and is offering for sale for the first time ever publicly Albert Einsteins great letter on the biblical version of creation, a spectacularly compelling letter comparing science and religion. The letter was written to a group of students, whose teacher had contacted the great scientist on their behalf. In it, Einstein states that a person of science could not believe in the Genesis version of creation and confirms his belief that science replaces and supersedes it. This letter has never before been publicly offered for sale. It is valued at $125,000. Einstein was the worlds most influential scientist and a Jewish German who fled the Holocaust. His letters touching on the correlation between science and religion are compelling and insightful commentaries into the issue. They grapple with age-old questions that have followed humankind in its pursui ... More | | 
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Abakan Situation variable II (Abakan Variable Situation II), 1971. Sisal and rope, 400 à 250 à 100 cm © Collection dart de la Ville de Bienne Photo Norbert Piwowarczyk.
LAUSANNE.- The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and Fondation Toms Pauli are presenting an exceptional exhibition devoted to Magdalena Abakanowicz, a textile-art pioneer and leading 20th-century sculpture artist. Textile Territories celebrates the stunning works of Abakanowicz in the period 1960 to 1985 and brings to light the emergence of a new art form. Organised in partnership with Tate Modern, this international event offers a fascinating immersion into the Polish artists category-defying creative universe. Magdalena Abakanowicz (19302017) was a key figure at the Lausanne Tapestry Biennials in the 1960s and 1970s, widely acclaimed for the power and originality of her woven creations. Her works were soon displayed in Europe, and then worldwide, so that by the 1980s the artist had gained global recognition ... More |
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| Richard Saltoun Gallery exhibits the work of British architect Sir Peter Cook | | The "Christ" by Salvador Dalà will be exhibited in Figueres | | National Gallery of Art acquires aquatint by Louis-Jean Desprez | 
Peter Cook (1936 - ), Hotspot, 2022. Signed and dated lower right recto. Ink, colour pencil and watercolour on paper, 50 x 50 cm. Framed: 56 x 56 x 3.5 cm. Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery London, Rome. © The Artist.
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery is presenting the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook. Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical conceptual vision underpinning the artists oeuvre. Visitors are invited to have a visual discussion about cities: cities reimagined and dismembered, and cities climbing over themselves to become new forms. The exhibition coincides with the 60-year anniversary of the exhibition Living City at the ICA, at that time on the same street as Richard Saltoun Gallery. In Living City Peter Cook, together with Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb who were shortly after to become formally known as the celebrated neo-futurist architectural group, ... More | | 
Salvador DalÃ's painting the Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) from Glasgow will be exhibited at the Dalà Theatre-Museum in Figueres from November 2023 to April 2024.
FIGUERES.- The Christ, an exceptional painting by Salvador Dalà from the collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, will be on view in a temporary exhibition at the Dalà Theatre-Museum in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) from 1st November 2023 to 30th April 2024. For the first time at the Dalà Theatre-Museum, given the importance of this exhibition, the entire Loggias area at Galatea Tower ─DalÃ's last house─ is being prepared to display an exhibition centred on this iconic painting and the creative process behind it. This exhibition allows us to revisit a piece that had not been seen in Spain since 1952, when it was shown in Madrid and Barcelona. More importantly, it enables us to delve into the artists universe and explore the importance of DalÃs studio in the Mediterranean Bay of Portlligat (Cadaqués), set in a landscape without which this painting would not acquire its full significance. The ex ... More | | 
Louis-Jean Desprez, Tomb with Death Standing, c. 1779/1784 (detail). Etching and aquatint on laid paper. Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund 2022.158.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- Louis-Jean Desprez (17431804) was one of the most imaginative and inventive artists working in late 18th-century Europe. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Tomb with Death Standing (1779/1784), one of four aquatinted tombs that Desprez made following his travels in southern Italy. The aquatint joins a proof of the same subject matter that was acquired by the National Gallery in 2019. The tomb series appears to be his earliest known work in the then-new medium of aquatint. Desprezs embrace of this innovative medium enabled him to create new subject matter and set his work apart from tomb and architectural designs produced by his predecessors and contemporaries. Desprez created this untitled series of four aquatinted tombs to appeal to contemporary interest in archaeological excavations, southern Italian catacombs, and Egyptian ... More |
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| Holly Hendry's public commission 'Slackwater' is now on view on the roof of Temple Underground station | | Facing a future of drought, Spain turns to Medieval solutions and 'ancient wisdom' | | Szabolcs Bozó's first solo exhibition in Venice on view at Palazzo Cavanis | 
Slackwater emerges as an immense sculptural entanglement that weaves together the watery history of its riverside location, with references to the abstract rhythms of the Thames and liquid movements within the human body.
LONDON.- theCoLAB announced Slackwater, Holly Hendrys first public commission in London and her most expansive to date. Made for The Artists Garden, this site-specific work occupies the vast terrace on the roof of Temple Underground station. The project continues theCoLABs dedication to commissioning innovative contemporary installations by women artists within this unique, half-acre site. The Artists Garden has been realised in close partnership with Westminster City Council since 2021. Slackwater emerges as an immense sculptural entanglement that weaves together the watery history of its riverside location, with references to the abstract rhythms of the Thames and liquid movements within the human body. In conceiving the work, Hendry was drawn to changes in the pattern of the rivers surface; after ... More | | 
A public water fountain in Cañar, Spain, on June 11, 2023. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
by Constant Méheut
PITRES.- High in Spains southern mountains, 40 or so people armed with pitchforks and spades cleared stones and piles of grass from an earthwork channel built centuries ago and still keeping the slopes green. Its a matter of life, said Antonio Jesús RodrÃguez GarcÃa, a farmer from the nearby village of Pitres, population 400. Without this water, the farmers cant grow anything, the village cant survive. The extreme heat sweeping across much of southern Europe this week is just the latest reminder of the challenges that climate change has foisted on Spain, where temperatures reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, putting half of the territory on orange and red weather alert. Such heat and extended droughts have presented the threat that three-quarters of the country could be engulfed by creeping deserts over this century. Faced with that reality, Spanish f ... More | | 
Installation views of 'Faces Instead of names', Palazzo Cavanis, Venice © Szabolcs Bozó. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Ugo Carmeni.
VENICE.- Almine Rech & Palazzo Cavanis are presenting Faces Instead Of Names, Szabolcs Bozó's first solo exhibition in Venice, on view from July 14 to September 24, 2023. Szabolcs Bozós happy creatures never really look straight at you. Too wrapped up in their own world, they turn their iris-less pupils towards each other, smiling and grinning openly. If they dont have mouthsas is the case for many of themthey stare with an expression of benign anticipation. And if theres the vaguest sense that something might not be rightthe shadow of a frown, a glance tinged with a hint of anxietyit is swept away in the generalized euphoria generated by a creatures many companions; often piled high one atop the other, or wobbling up against each other, or all squished into the confines of a cartoon car (or helicopter), ready to fly off to yet more happiness. Bozós characters exude positivity. In an in ... More |
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| SuperRare opens new in-person exhibition celebrating the intersection of art and technology | | Baltimore Museum of Art forefronts works by artists with ties to Baltimore and region | | Football heroes, memories and myths make new Wembley Park summer art exhibition unforgettable | 
Matt Kane, Crown Flowers, 2023, courtesy of the artist and SuperRare.
NEW YORK, NY.- SuperRare, the leading curated NFT marketplace for unique digital artworks, is presenting A Digital Transcendence - The Intersection of Art and Tech, a new exhibition curated by Paloma Rodriguez, Curator and Art Advisor at SuperRare Labs. The exhibition celebrates the visionary work of Botto, Camibus, Emily Xie, Jack Kaido, Matt Kane, Osinachi, and William Mapen x Christiane Lemieux, eight digital artists who consistently push the boundaries of traditional art by seamlessly integrating technology into their creative process. This transformative showcase takes viewers on an immersive journey that explores a fusion of techniques rooted in technological innovation. Each artist invites the viewer to appreciate their artistry while emphasizing the importance of understanding these works within an art history context. A Digital Transcendence - ... More | | 
Amoako Boafo, Tonica's Locks. 2021. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchased as the gift of Kevin and Lisa Pham, BMA 2022.46. © Amoako Boafo, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.
BALTIMORE, MD.- With the latest reinstallation of its contemporary collection, now open to the public, the Baltimore Museum of Art has expanded the number and range of featured works by artists with ties to Baltimore and the region. In fall 2021, the BMA significantly changed its approach to presenting its contemporary holdings by departing from the standard museum focus on chronology and the evolution of style to an emphasis on how artists observe, understand, and respond to our everyday circumstances, whether shared or personal. Rotations of the contemporary collection are presented under the umbrella title, How Do We Know the World?, with approximately half of the works changing every six months. The latest iteration dedicates the front room gallery to specifically ... More | | 
Messenger by Claire Luxton. Image credit: Chris Winter / Wembley Park.
LONDON.- Wembley Park has revealed details of two brand new public artworks being launched for summer 2023 as part of the areas popular art trail. On public view across the North West London neighbourhood from the first week of July, the new artworks on display include an outdoor photo exhibition, titled Football Should Be Unforgettable, curated by Alzheimer's Society and produced by Wembley Park. Paying tribute to the deep-rooted connection between Wembley Park and English football, the collection features three illuminated portraits of English football stars Jack Grealish, Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw to help raise funds and awareness of Alzheimers Societys work. On the large-format photographs, each footballer reflects on their earliest memories of falling in love with the beautiful game, sharing childhood photographs to feature in the display. Images of other recipients of Alzheimers ... More |
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 Preserving history and rebuilding hope: Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens moves into Phase II SAN CLEMENTE, CA.- Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, is thrilled to welcome back visitors after its partial closure in late spring, thanks to the generous donations from across California, the San Clemente Rotary Club, and several anonymous donors. In hopes of continuing the restoration of the cultural gem, the non-profit is launching phase II of its rebuilding campaign, seeking the sustained involvement and encouragement of the community. The support we have received thus far has been remarkable and truly demonstrates the strength and unity of our community. We are extremely grateful, shared Jacqui Groseth, Executive Director, Resource Development and Administration. The continued support from our community is immensely valuable and plays a crucial role in ensuring our sustainability, both in the short and long term. Casa ... More  Kick start your digital creativity with Drawing DigitalLONDON.- In Drawing Digital (Walter Foster Publishing | October 17, 2023 | $24.99 USD), artist and teacher Lisa Bardot, the expert behind @Bardot Brush, introduces the art of digital drawing. Using your tablet and Procreate, or another favorite drawing app, you can leave behind your pencil and paper and make art anywhere and at any time. Lisa gets you started with a range of easy-to-follow projects, including: A still life, plants, animals, self-portraits, characters, city scenes, and more! Accompanying each project are complete step-by-step instructions and Lisa Bardots signature, vibrant artwork. Also in the book are: o Tips for finding creative inspiration o Information on tools o App basics o How to draw and paint lines and shapes o Instructions for layering, duplicating, exporting, and more o A review that promises to help you draw anything ... More  i8 Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Karin SanderREYKJAVÃK.- i8 Gallery is presenting Ideoscapes, a solo exhibition by Karin Sander. The artist first exhibited at i8 in 2001 and this is Sanders fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show opened with a reception for the artist and remains on view until 2 September. Sanders Ideoscapes features maquettes of twelve Icelandic mountain landscapes retrieved and printed directly from Google Earth 3D geospatial data. Approaching the digital data as found objects, the artists minimal intervention consists of selecting the data at scales just big enough to contain each mountain and its surrounding context, given the maximum width of the printers output. Ideoscapes captures each mountain as a memory of sorts, its datas conflated past moments of Google Earths scanning, imaging, and compositing retrieved by Karin Sander at a specific date and ... More  Can 'Miss Saigon' be saved? Two British shows disagree.SHEFFIELD.- Miss Saigon is back and so, inevitably, is the surrounding discourse. Claude-Michel Schönbergs musical melodrama about an ill-fated romance between a Vietnamese sex worker and an American GI during the Vietnam War has polarized opinion ever since it was first staged in 1989. In that original West End run, Jonathan Pryce donned yellowface to play a mixed-race pimp, and the shows critics have continued to raise concerns about its portrayal of East Asian people, particularly its tawdry sexualization of Vietnamese women. So not everyone was pleased when the Crucible Theater in Sheffield, England, announced it would stage a new production of Miss Saigon this summer. A British East and Southeast Asian theater troupe pulled their own show from the playhouse in protest, saying the musical peddled damaging ... More  NSW designers take up Powerhouse Residency as inaugural fellowship recipientsSYDNEY.- Three talented emerging designers Marlo Lyda, Joel Sherwood-Spring and Ben Styles have been selected for the inaugural NSW Design (Early-Career) Fellowship Powerhouse Residency Program, providing a rare opportunity to enrich their professional practice under the guidance of experienced mentors at Powerhouse Ultimo. Powerhouse Chief Executive Lisa Havilah shared her support for the initiative. We are excited to be providing this unique opportunity to three of NSWs most talented emerging designers. The Powerhouse is committed to nurturing emerging talent and supporting their growth. We believe this residency will be a pivotal opportunity, fostering the development of their work and practice, Ms Havilah said. Create NSW Chief Executive Annette Pitman said this exciting new Fellowship promises to be a significant ... More  Sullivan + Strumpf Melbourne opens Lara Merrett 'tissu tissue' todayMELBOURNE.- Sullivan+Strumpf Melbournes upcoming exhibition 'tissu tissue' from one of Australias most highly regarded abstract colourists Lara Merrett opens Thursday July 20 until August 12, 2023. A manifestation of the way she observes the world around her, Melbourne-born Merrett's stunning works on canvas are a visual language through which she expresses a world view, charged with a conceptual exploration of materiality and mystical thinking. Lara Merrett works within an expanded field of painting, with as deep an understanding of the interplays of colour as those of surface in works of both intimate and monumental scale. Within her colour fields, the artist imagines all the geographies of space, atmosphere and physicality, layering and pouring water-based materials directly in a process never fully anticipated yet always ... More  'Rachel Nicholson: A mug, a spoon and a landscape' currently on view at Anita Rogers GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is currently presenting a solo exhibition of works by British artist Rachel Nicholson (b.1934). The painter, daughter of artists Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) and Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), began her career in her early 40s and has since become known for her sensitive still lifes and landscape paintings. This exhibition will include works from both genres in acrylic and oil on canvas, paper, and board. This selection will be complemented by two works on paper by the artists father, Ben Nicholson. Rachel Nicholsons work is defined by her simple yet powerful renderings, her balanced sense of color, and her understanding of harmonious patterns and geometry. In her still life paintings, she focuses on the small yet meaningful items that make up our daily lives cups, spoons, pitchers. She elevates her subjects ... More  'THE THIRD BODY' Koffi Kôkô, Manos Tsangaris, and Johannes Odenthal at Festival Bolzano Danza BOLZANO.- The Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation will host during the Festival Bolzano Danza/Tanz Bozen the performance The Third Body. Koffi Kôkô, renowned choreographer and dancer from Benin, joins the German musician and composer Manos Tsangaris and the writer Johannes Odenthal to explore the link between movement, music and text. The Third Body is a kind of rite of initiation, a contemporary rite between body and sound, between inside and outside, in which dance, text, rhythm and meditation create a sense of community. The dialogue between the dancer and choreographer Koffi Kôkô from Benin, the German musician and composer Manos Tsangaris and the writer Johannes Odenthal began in Berlin in 2018 with the idea of rethinking the relationship between body and sound, movement, music and text. Sin ... More  On view until August 11th, Tara Walters "Sailing to the Garden Party" and Soft Baroque "Inox Detox" at Barbati GalleryVENICE.- On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbati Gallery is presenting two new exhibitions conceived especially for the spaces inside Palazzo Lezze in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice. For her first exhibition in Europe, Los Angeles-based artist Tara Walters (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) has produced a series of new paintings titled Sailing for the Garden Party, displayed in the rooms on the Fist Floor. Walters paintings are imbued with sea water, sand and sea shell dust that give the works a subtle and mystical luminescence, capturing the fleeting language of our intuition and memory using elements of the physical world, the starting point of our mind and spirits voyages. The colourful dream-like works disguise ... More  Phoenix Art Museum presents first major exhibition of work by Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso in more than 30 yearsPHOENIX, ARIZ.- This past spring, Phoenix Art Museum opened Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, the first retrospective in an art museum since 1992 to explore the career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. The exhibition is organized by El Museo del Barrio and guest curated by Olga Viso, curator-at-large at PhxArt and senior advisor at Arizona State Universitys Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, in collaboration with Susanna V. Temkin, curator at El Museo del Barrio. The survey offers a rare opportunity for U.S. audiences to experience Elsos fragile extant works, including sculptures and installations that demonstrate the artists rigorous study of Afro- Cuban rituals and ancient Indigenous cultures ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Lucian Freud died July 20, 2011. Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. In this image: A Sotheby's employee holds British Artist Lucian Freud's 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' during a Sotheby's auction preview in London.
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