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| Lourdes Grobet, photographer of Mexico's masked wrestlers, dies at 81 | | Free family fun at Tate this summer with Yayoi Kusama's The obliteration room and Tate Draw | | Public Art of the University of Houston System announces 2 new commissions + 20 new acquisitions, on view Fall 2022 | 
In her innovative career, she found her ultimate subject in lucha libre wrestling: men and women who, to her, were members of an unexplored subculture. Milton MartÃnez / SecretarÃa de Cultura CDMX.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Lourdes Grobet, whose father would not let her attend professional wrestling matches in Mexico because she was a girl, but who later became a photographer best known for her images of the body-slamming masked luchadores, both in the ring and in their everyday lives, died on July 15 at her home in Mexico City. She was 81. Her daughter, Ximena Pérez Grobet, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. For nearly 20 years, Grobet found innovative ways to showcase her photography, including in an installation in which viewers explored a labyrinth containing life-size photos of prisons and nude men and women, different light sources and false floors. But around 1980, she stepped into wrestling arenas, camera in hand, believing ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, The Obliteration Room 2002- present at Tate Modern, 2012 © Tate photography.
LONDON.- Yayoi Kusamas interactive work The obliteration room returns to Tate Modern for its biggest iteration to date, joining a summer of free art-inspired activities for all ages across Tate galleries. As part of UNIQLO Tate Play, Tate Moderns year-round family programme in partnership with UNIQLO, visitors to Tate Modern are invited to transform a white domestic apartment into a sea of colourful dots using bright stickers. Families visiting Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives can also discover an exciting range of creative activities and materials on offer for free, while the launch of Tate Draw, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, at both London galleries and online will give budding young artists a new platform to produce their very own digital drawings. Mark Miller, Director of Learning, Tate said Its more important than ever before that families in the local communities around Tates four gall ... More | | 
Rendering_Folly by Jorge Pardo. Courtesy of Petzel Gallery.
HOUSTON.- Public Art of the University of Houston System, an arts organization that enriches and serves multiple campuses across the UH System and the greater Houston community with one of the most significant university-based art collections in the United States, announces the installation of two new site-specific commissions and the acquisition of 20 works by some of the most dynamic artists working from Houston today, all of which will be on public view this fall. Commissions include a permanent light sculpture by the American artist Leo Villareal for the new Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine and a temporary, large-scale architectural installation by Mexico-based Cuban-American artist and sculptor Jorge Pardo for Wilhelminas Grove, both at the University of Houston. These new installations and acquisitions further the mission of Public Art UHS to collect and show artworks that are representative of and accessible to the ... More |
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| Charm City at Asya Geisberg Gallery connects Baltimore abstract artists to New York | | A Gentil Carioca Rio de Janeiro extends Rodrigo Torres's 'Livro de Quartzo' until August 13 | | Mid century Modern steals the show with £15,000 haul at Ewbank's | 
Hannah Knight-Leighton, Blue Slice, 2022. Yarn on monks cloth, 60h x 48w x 1d in. 152.40h x 121.92w x 2.54d cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Baltimore is like the flower you didnt realize was beautiful at first glance. Its love, joy, heartache, anger, and community. Baltimore is deep reds, yellows, blues, and hues of purple. It's magical, your favorite song in the summer and favorite hoodie in the winter. Charles Mason III Charm City is a collection of materially-driven abstract works by artists who live in or have a deep connection to Baltimore, Maryland. Through material exploration, these artists push against traditions of art-making in abstraction. By utilizing found objects, fibers, undulating lines, maximalism, and deeply personalized processes, the artists are redefining abstraction while charming the eye in curious and playful ways. Baltimore is a gritty space with complicated narratives but is also a hotbed for creativity with an underground ... More | | 
Rodrigo Torres, Da seiva ao canto, 2022.
RIO DE JANEIRO.- A Gentil Carioca is presenting the solo exhibition Livro de Quartzo [Quartz Book], by Rodrigo Torres. - The artist, an archeologist of the future By VIctor Gorgulho One night, after a sudden bang, he woke up startled, still entangled in a fragmented dream, now lying shattered on the dirty floor of his studio. He rubbed his eyes trying to see the world as if for the first time again, perhaps and took in the environment around him. In disbelief, he briefly glanced at the damage the ceramic oven had caused to his studio. It was not the apocalypse itself, nor a foretold tragedy. There was fire and mud, burning clay, chunky shards of ceramics scattered all over the floor, spread out like a red carpet welcoming him into a new world. Inert, perfectly unafraid, he rehearsed his first short steps towards the back of the room, from where a weak glow seemed to flicker in delicate beams of light that reached his ti ... More | | 
Boomerang chairs with lacquered brass legs by Peter Hvidt and Orla Molgaard for France & Son. Sold for £2,000.
WOKING.- Mid Century Modern chairs headed a healthy list of furniture lots at Ewbanks on July 27 at a top-estimate £2,000. The pair of Danish teak Boomerang chairs with lacquered brass legs by Peter Hvidt and Orla Molgaard for France & Son were among a series of highlights from Scandinavian and British designers. A beautifully patinated 7ft 5in wide rosewood Model 66 sideboard by the Danish designer Ib Kofod-Larsen (1921-2003) made £1,800. Kofod-Larsen, a prize-winning glass artist, attracted the attention of manufacturer Faarup Møbelfabrik after scooping the annual award from the Danish Cabinetmakers Guild for his furniture. His work for them included the 1950s classic Model 66, an iconic piece of Mid Century Modern furniture. Niels Moller (1920-82) is another Mid Century Danish designer who ... More |
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| House of Illustration rebranded and renamed as Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | | U.S. authors dominate Booker Prize nominees | | Coeur d'Alene Art Auction's $ 16.4 million sale sets the standard for 2022 | 
© Quentin Blake Centre For Illustration By Fraser Muggeridge Studio.
LONDON.- Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has today unveiled a new visual identity designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio as part of a major capital development project. Visual arts charity House of Illustration has changed its name to Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration as part of a £12 million capital project to create a new permanent site at New River Head in Clerkenwell, London. 43% of the fundraising target has already been reached, and planning permission was recently granted for the New River Head scheme. The balance is set to be raised through individual donations, grants from trusts and foundations and a public fundraising campaign that will enable restoration work to begin next year, with the Centre opening in 2024. Illustrator Quentin Blake founded the charity in 2002 to champion illustration in UK public arts spaces. The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will become the national centre ... More | | 
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Elizabeth Strout, Karen Joy Fowler and Leila Mottley are among six American authors nominated for this years Booker Prize, which announced its nominees in a news release Tuesday. Strout, the highest-profile author on the 13-strong list, is nominated for Oh William!, a novel about a grief-stricken woman who helps her ex-husband investigate his family past; Fowler, for Booth, a fictional family portrait of the clan of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; and Mottley, for Nightcrawling, a bestseller about a desperate Black teenager in California who ends up in a sex-trafficking ring. The other Americans nominated are Hernan Diaz for Trust, Selby Wynn Schwartz for After Sappho, and Percival Everett for The Trees. The Booker Prize, one of the worlds most prestigious literary awards, is given each year to the author of a novel written in English and published ... More | | 
William Herbert Dunton (1878-1936), Treed (ca. 1915), oil on canvas, 40 Ã 30 inches, 49 Ã 39 Ã 2 inches (framed), signed lower left. Sold at Auction: $1,200,000 (New World-Record price).
RENO, NEV.- The Coeur dAlene Art Auction set the 2022 high-water mark for Western Art with its $ 16.4 million sale, which set numerous world records. A capacity crowd of almost 400 collectors at the Grand Sierra Resort was joined by over 400 registered online bidders to create an electric environment throughout the day. The impressive auction was led by William Herbert Dunton, as the Taos Society artist brought over $ 2.2 million in sales, including Treed (ca. 1915), which sold for over $ 1.4 million a world record for the artist. Other staggering results included: Philip R. Goodwins Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea for $ 968,000 a world record; Charles M. Russells Mexican Vaqueros Roping a Steer (1925) for $ 544,500; Alfred Jacob Millers The Lost Greenhorn for $ ... More |
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| Daisuke Yokota Sediments extended through August 13 at Casemore Kirkeby | | Tony Dow, big brother Wally on 'Leave It to Beaver,' dies at 77 | | Pangolin London explores the career of one of Britain's most exceptional bronze founders Ken Cook | 
Installation view.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Kirkeby is presenting Sediments a first solo exhibition for Daisuke Yokota at the gallery. In the forefront of Japanese artists experimenting in photographic image making, Yokota explores the perception of time through photography inquiring how can time be included in a still image. Using the photographic negative as the starting point, Yokota focuses on the materiality of photographic construction, namely film and paper before layering sheets of unused, large-format color film, ranging in size. Yokota develops the layers of unused color film using boiling water to allow new colors to emerge as the emulsion melts and silver oxidizes, then the damaged sheets of film, which no longer can be developed, are scanned to create the final work. Often described as hallucinatory, Yokotas process relates to his interest in distilling photography to its elemental matter while eliciting abstraction through ... More | | 
He went on to a varied career as an actor, director, producer and sculptor, but he could never shake his association with the sitcom that brought him stardom. His death came a day after it was announced erroneously.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Dow, who became a star at 12 as Wally Cleaver, the barely teenage older brother on the popular 1950s and 60s comedy series Leave It to Beaver, died Wednesday at his home in Topanga, California. He was 77. His death was confirmed by his manager, Frank Bilotta. On Tuesday, his representatives announced his death erroneously in a Facebook post; it was later deleted, but not before many news organizations, including The New York Times, published obituaries, relying on that post as confirmation of the death. In May, Dow said he had been diagnosed with liver cancer. He had gone on to a varied adult career, finding mixed success as an actor, a director, a producer and later a sculptor, but he could ... More | | 
LONDON.- This exhibition explores the career of one of Britains most exceptional bronze founders Ken Cook. Bringing to light his close connection with a range of established and contemporary sculptors, Out of the Workshop highlights his contribution to the canon of Modern British Sculpture. Artists include Ralph Brown, John Carter, James Castle, Lynn Chadwick, Ann Christopher, Robert Clatworthy, Elisabeth Frink, Stephanie Fuller, John Hoskin, Liliane Lijn, John Maine, Leonard McComb, Breon OCasey and Alison Wilding. Growing up on the rural outskirts of Bristol, Ken Cook, aged 14, remembers a neighbours son returning from school one day carrying a wonderfully bright and multicoloured lamp. This sudden exposure to colour after the dour greyness of the Second World War astounded him, and was the starting point for what was to become a lifelong career in the art world. Ken Cook went on to study at the West of England ... More |
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 Joni Mitchell reclaims her voice at NewportNEW YORK, NY.- This summer, quite unexpectedly, two of musics brightest stars havent been fresh young upstarts, but a pair of semi-reclusive female elders whose brilliance is being reaffirmed by a new generation of fans. The 63-year-old pop legend Kate Bushs 1985 anthem Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) is a legitimate contender for Song of the Summer it currently sits at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, nestled between recent smashes from Harry Styles and Jack Harlow thanks to its prominent use in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. And on Sunday night, Joni Mitchell, 78, stunned attendees of the Newport Folk Festival (and the countless people who have since watched viral cellphone videos of the event) when she performed in public for the first time since her 2015 brain aneurysm, playing her first full-length live ... More  Dallas Museum of Art diversifies board with new appointmentsDALLAS, TX.- In a recent election held by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, the 20222023 Board of Trustees was approved, including four new Officers and 12 elected Trustees representing diverse backgrounds, international leadership expertise and distinction in business, technology, building design and creative industries. The Officers Nominating Committee, chaired by Catherine Marcus Rose, announced that Gowri Natarajan Sharma, former Vice President, was unanimously elected President of the Board of Trustees. Trustees Jeffrey S. Ellerman, Sheryl Adkins-Green and Venu Menon were elected Chairman of the Board, Vice President and Secretary, respectively. Jun Il Kwun will continue his tenure as Treasurer in his second year as a Board officer. Sharma is the first person of color to be elected President of the DMAs Board ... More  Goodman Theater names Susan V. Booth as artistic directorNEW YORK, NY.- Susan V. Booth, the artistic director of the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, has been named the next artistic director of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, a dominant force in that citys vibrant theater scene and one of the most influential regional nonprofits in the country. Booth, 59, who will assume the position in October, will be the first woman to lead the Goodman, which was founded in 1922. She succeeds Robert Falls, who announced in September that he would be stepping down after 35 years at the helm. The Goodman, which has an annual budget of $22 million and a staff of roughly 200, won the 1992 Tony Award for excellence in regional theater. Under Falls, it staged more than 150 world or American premieres, while also helping to transform Chicago from a theater scene known primarily for actors to one recognized as a seedbed ... More  David Warner, actor who played villains and more, dies at 80NEW YORK, NY.- David Warner, who started his career on the British stage, including playing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he was just 24, then gravitated toward film and television, accumulating more than 200 credits, including The Omen, Time After Time, TRON, Titanic and Wallander, died on Sunday in Northwest London. He was 80. His family said in a statement that the cause of death, at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, was a cancer-related illness. Although Warner played a wide variety of roles, he may have been most frequently identified with villainous ones. He was Jack the Ripper in Time After Time in 1979; two years later, in Time Bandits, his character was named simply Evil Genius. In TRON, the 1982 film in which Jeff Bridges character, Kevin Flynn, is transported into the innards ... More  Heritage Auctions welcomes Joe Orlando as Executive Vice President of SportsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that Joe Orlando, one of the foremost experts in the sports collectibles and memorabilia industry, has joined its Sports department as Executive Vice President. The cornerstone of any successful business is the quality of the people that it employs, Heritage Sports Auctions Director Chris Ivy said, and we are extremely excited to have someone with Joes pedigree and knowledge joining our team. The former CEO of Collectors Universe, Inc. and president of Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Orlando was responsible for developing the authentication and grading standards used by the hobbys recognized leader. Orlando spearheaded PSAs educational content efforts through various vehicles. He operated as the editor of Sports Market Report (SMR), a nationally distributed, monthly publication, ... More  MMoCA presents "Home": An Exhibition that explores the tenuous and elusive concept of homeMADISON, WI.- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents Home, a multi-media exhibition that creates conversations around concepts often tied to the sense of homememory, comfort, loss, displacement, and reclamation. Sometimes described as a state of mind, home occupies both a physical and emotional space. Each artist in the exhibition examines how the concept of home can alternate based on an individuals perception, simultaneously serving as a site of renewal or rejection, longing or resistance. Whether stemming from self-selected removal or forced exile, each artist grapples with the impact of displacement and utilizes their work to provide a space of meditation on the experience. Drawing its title from Warsan Shires poem Home, which will be shared in the space, the exhibition combines written and visual art. Recalling ... More  Manetti Shrem presents 'Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art'DAVIS, CA.- The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, at the University of California, Davis is pleased to present Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. This wide-ranging exhibition highlighting artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history makes its West Coast debut July 28. Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art is the first public stand-alone exhibition curated from the renowned Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection. As a key component of collector and advocate Bernard Lumpkins public education focus, Young, Gifted and Black is traveling primarily to college and university galleries ... More  JG.Limited will hold its online-only inaugural saleDANVERS, MASS.- JG.Limited the recently formed auction arm of the venerable collectibles powerhouse JG Autographs, Inc. will hold its online-only inaugural sale, July 25th to August 23rd, at www.JG.Limited. The 500-lot History & Culture auction has items pertaining to JFK, Thomas Jefferson, the Wright Brothers, Harry Truman, Al Capone and other historical notables. The list of categories is long and impressive and includes art, business and finance, Civil Rights, classical music, film and television, literature, militaria, modern music, the Nobel Prize, politics, Presidents and First Ladies, science and medicine, space and aviation, Supreme Court, theater and world leaders. Autographs and artifacts span three centuries; collectors, mark your calendars. Were thrilled to announce JG.Limited, our brand new premium auction and content platform, ... More  A maestro and his musicians face scrutiny over ties to RussiaSALZBURG.- Teodor Currentzis is revered as one of classical musics most original voices, a rebellious conductor who can breathe fresh life into well-known works. In this European cultural capital, where artists, agents and impresarios gather each summer, he is omnipresent, his name emblazoned on banners and brochures. His fans travel from around the world to hear his performances. But this summer, it is not just his music that is the talk of the Salzburg Festival, one of classical musics premier events. Currentzis who began conducting a new double bill of Bartoks Bluebeards Castle and Carl Orffs De Temporum Fine Comoedia here Tuesday and his ensemble, MusicAeterna, are drawing attention for another reason: their ties to Russia. Amid the war in Ukraine, Currentzis and MusicAeterna have been assailed for their reliance ... More  Tate announces international conference 'Reshaping the Collectible: Learning Through Change'LONDON.- Tate will host an online conference, Reshaping the Collectible: Learning Through Change, on 14, 15 and 16 September 2022. This international conference will bring together different voices from within and outside the museum, including artists, collection managers, conservators and curators and from different fields within academia. The conference provides an opportunity to share research and reflect on an ongoing dialogue, exploring new questions and perspectives. In January 2018 Tate was awarded a major grant from the Mellon Foundation for a programme of research named Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. This initiative was an invitation to think anew about practice in response to the conservation and management of recent and contemporary works of art, in particular ... More  Two operas conjure apocalypses personal and cosmicSALZBURG.- The public has spoken. Any fears the Salzburg Festival had over whether conductor Teodor Currentzis presence there would attract boos or disruptive protests were dispelled on Tuesday. Since the invasion of Ukraine began, he has attracted controversy over his and his ensemble MusicAeternas Russian state support, as well as their silence on the war and ties to associates of that countrys president, Vladimir Putin. But at the opening of a new double bill led by Currentzis and featuring members of the MusicAeterna choir, the audience responded only with applause. Whether the evening a pretentious, overlong yet occasionally illuminating marriage of Bela Bartoks Bluebeards Castle and the Carl Orff rarity De Temporum Fine Comoedia, directed by Romeo Castellucci at the expansive Felsenreitschule could ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887. Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. In this image: Marcel Duchamp's wanted poster is seen as part of the exhibit, "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portraiture," at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
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