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Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953), Color: Real and Imagined, 2016. Archival pigment with silkscreened color blocks, 38 3/4 x 54 13/16 inches. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery.
ATHENS, GA.- Very real and deadly outcomes result from imagined concepts and notions of race. The art exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects implicates these stereotypes in the deaths of Black men and women at the hands of police and confronts the viewer with the fact of judicial inaction by questioning stereotypes that associate Black bodies with criminality. The exhibition, organized by Courtney Taylor for the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from May 21 through August 7, 2022. Throughout the exhibition, photographer Carrie Mae Weems examines racism and the African American experience, especially the deaths of Black men, women and children. Weems describes her works focus as simply and directly [describing] those aspects of American culture in need of deeper illumination. The exhibition includes images from her series ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Pace is presenting an exhibition of new and recent work by sculptor Arlene Shechet at its Hong Kong gallery from May 20 to June 30. Titled Moon in the Morning, the show marks Shechetâs first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. © Arlene Shechet. Photo: Louise Lo, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| The new Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin: A new identity and outlook for the institution | | Xavier Hufkens opens expanded gallery in Brussels with a major exhibition by Christopher Wool | | Unique and rare pieces: Dorotheum's Design sale on 17 June |
The institution aims to stage new exhibitions and site-specific projects commissioning both Italian and international artists specifically for its spaces.
TURIN.- Pinacoteca Agnelli sets off on a new course which - with the appointment of Sarah Cosulich as artistic director - is set to transform the institution into a dynamic cultural centre, open to the multidisciplinary languages of the present while interfacing with the Pinacoteca's historical collection. The new Pinacoteca opened its doors to the public on 27 May 2022. The institution aims to stage new exhibitions and site-specific projects commissioning both Italian and international artists specifically for its spaces. Through research, exhibition projects and partnerships with Italian and international institutions, the Pinacoteca becomes a place open to reflection on contemporary issues, promoting the inclusion and participation of a range of different audiences. The new programme of Pinacoteca expands also on the iconic pista a former test track on the ... More | |
Christopher Wool, Untitled, 2022.
BRUSSELS.- Marking its 35th anniversary, Xavier Hufkens announces the opening of its gallery at 6 rue St-Georges, its flagship location in Brussels, following a two-year transformation led by the Belgian architecture firm Robbrecht & Daem. The design transforms and extends the 19th-century townhouse opened by Hufkens in 1992, nearly tripling its exhibition space, and creating a range of light-filled spaces for the exhibition of contemporary art. One of three gallery spaces in Brussels, the renewed and expanded space at rue St-Georges affirms the gallerys commitment to its home city and offers artists and visitors a destination for the art of our time in the heart of the Belgian capital. Opening 2 June 2022, the inaugural show will be a major exhibition of recent works in a wide range of media by American artist Christopher Wool (b. 1955), curated by Anne Pontégnie, independent curator and long-time collaborator of Wool. Every ... More | |
A rare coat-stand from the Kiss the Future series, designed by Marc Newson, in 1997. Estimate 7,000 9,000.
VIENNA.- From Carlo Bugatti to Studio Superego. A Viennese "Würfeluhr" (cube clock) meets lamps by Serge Mouille. Joe Colombo's circular shelf tower competes with Ron Arads "Bookworm." Dorotheums auction catalogue for the upcoming design sale on 17 June 2022 once again reads like a tour through the (mainly European) design history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Unique pieces and prototypes can motivate even the laziest of collectors - because whats better than rare and beautiful? The auction has plenty of that to offer. How about a Memphis icon? The MG3 armchair is one of three prototypes of the subsequently modified production. With this armchair, Michael Graves, the great architect and theorist of postmodernism, created a work that was both an early and exemplary specimen of this style (1984, estimate 45,000 - 60,000). Among the ... More |
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| Morphy's June 8-10 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction features 75 art-glass lamps | | Hauser & Wirth to open a new gallery in Paris | | Exhibition in Dresden focuses on 500 years of mechanical amusement |
Tiffany Studios table lamp with 20in conical leaded-glass shade in Poppy motif exhibiting the very highest standards of Tiffany artistry. Astounding colorway and complex composition. Exceptionally rare base with 16 iridescent Favrile-glass balls as supports for the telescoping stem. Tiffany stamps to both shade and base. Estimate $350,000-$450,000.
DENVER, PA.- A fine and decorative arts selection of incomparable quality awaits bidders at Morphy Auctions on June 8, 9 and 10. The gallery is at its shining best, with rare and beautiful objects at every turn, including 75 leaded and stained-glass lamps, 100 pieces of art glass, 100+ paintings, 50 figural bronzes, 50 lots of silver, and 30 pieces of coveted Amphora pottery. Additionally, there are 30 cylinder and disc music boxes; 15 bird boxes, and long-held private collections containing 100 figural napkin rings, 80 antique hand-blown colored-glass wedding bells; 50 figural and mechanical gadget canes; and the acclaimed Don and Mary Ann Livingston collection of antique sleigh bells. On day three, Morphys will unveil a ... More | |
Hauser & Wirth Paris, 26 bis rue François 1er. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
PARIS.- Hauser & Wirth today announced plans to open a new gallery in Paris, situated on the right bank of the River Seine close to the Champs-Ãlysées in the 8th arrondissement. Occupying an entire hôtel particulier dating from 1877, the gallery at 26 bis rue François 1er will cover 800 square metres over four floors. The neo-classical building formerly housed La Maison Decour, a decorative arts gallery, until the 1940s. The conversion of the space will reinstate the double-height, six-metre-tall ground floor gallery with a further exhibition space on the first floor. As in Hauser & Wirths existing locations, the gallery will establish meaningful partnerships to create an inclusive learning programme as an integral part of the programme in Paris. Hauser & Wirth continues a longstanding commitment to supporting the cultural and architectural heritage of the communities where it is present. Hauser & Wirths new ... More | |
Figuren-Automatenuhr "Reitender Pascha", um 1595 © Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
DRESDEN.- Automatons, androids and robots they now dominate our professional and private environments and are expressions of the human desire to create artificial life. The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon and the Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst and Puppentheatersammlung of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are presenting roughly 70 of these artefacts in their exhibition entitled The key to life. 500 years of mechanical amusement from 3 June to 25 September 2022 in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau. For the first time, the SKD is showing the full range of its unique collection of mechanical figurines and amusements in one exhibition, supplementing them with constructions of artificial life. Beside the unique wealth of mechanical objects spanning from the Renaissance to the present day from the inventory of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salons, the ... More |
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| The Aboriginal Memorial moves to heart of the National Gallery of Australia as part of major revitalisation project | | John Hansard Gallery opens 'Tangled Hierarchy' curated by Jitish Kallat | | Mayfair Art Weekend announces artists, galleries and exhibitions for 2022 |
National Gallery of Australias Assistant Director, First Nations Engagement Bruce Johnson-McLean, Wierdi | Birri Gubba people, pictured with Ramingining artists, Djon Mundine, Bandjalung people, The Aboriginal Memorial, 198788, purchased with the assistance of funds from National Gallery admission charges and commissioned in 1987.
CANBERRA.- Following three years of planning and community consultation, The Aboriginal Memorial has been relocated to the heart of the National Gallery, helping make the most important work in the national collection central to all visitors art experience. Ahead of the National Gallerys 40th anniversary in October, The Aboriginal Memorial is moving to Gallery 9 on Level 1 the first stage of a revitalisation project that will also include a major publication in 2023 and an ongoing program of public and educational activity. Commissioned by the National Gallerys inaugural director, James Mollison, before the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, The Aboriginal Memorial commemorates all First Nations people who lost their lives defending their land since European colonisation. ... More | |
Mona Hatoum, Map (mobile), 2019. Glass and stainless steel. Dimensions variable © Mona Hatoum. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis).
SOUTHAMPTON.- John Hansard Gallery, part of the University of Southampton, is presenting Tangled Hierarchy, an exhibition that centres on a collection of five humble yet remarkable used envelopes. Each envelope is addressed to Mahatma Gandhi and all are carefully conserved within the Mountbatten Archive at the University of Southampton. On Monday 2nd June 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten met with Mahatma Gandhi to discuss the imminent partition of the Indian subcontinent, a proposition strongly opposed by Gandhi. As a consequence of Gandhi undertaking a vow of silence on Mondays, the meeting took an unusual turn. Instead of conversing, Gandhi communicated with Mountbatten via handwritten notes on the backs of used envelopes, which are now the only surviving record of their exchange. Tangled Hierarchy opens on 2nd June 2022, marking 75 years to the day since this momentous meeting. John Hansard ... More | |
Poppy Green leading family activities at Marlborough Gallery during Mayfair Art Weekend, 2021. Photo by David Owens for MAW.
LONDON.- Mayfair Art Weekend is an annual celebration of Londons internationally renowned gallery district, bringing together Mayfairs leading galleries for a weekend showcasing the best in contemporary art. 30 of the UK's leading galleries will present modern and contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, installation, performance, talks and events, all completely free, across one weekend in June. Taking place from Friday 24th Sunday 26th June 2022, visitors can expect to see a diverse range of artists and exhibitions staged by regular favourites including the Hauser & Wirth, BASTIAN, Royal Academy of Arts and Richard Saltoun Gallery, with galleries participating for the first time in 2022 to include Pace, No. 9 Cork Street | Frieze, Carl Kostyál and Sapling. The weekend will kick off with the popular Friday night Gallery HOP! on 24th June from 6-8 pm, with a special late-night viewing of all par ... More |
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| 'The Elephant in the Room' opens at Durden and Ray | | Exhibition brings together 20 famous photographers from the world-renowned Magnum agency | | Cecily Brown presents newly created works alongside individual paintings from recent years in Munich |
Tom Farthing, Dodgems 1, 2022, oil on linen, 46.5 x 38 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- After several pandemic-related delays, Durden and Ray welcomes seven painters from the UK to exhibit in the gallery for a show that simultaneously explores the urgency and the futility of making sense of the world. This is the first edition of a series of ongoing exchanges between TURPS in London and Durden and Ray in Los Angeles. Durden and Ray has always had the goal of bringing work of artists from other parts of the world to our gallery in the heart of L.A.s Fashion District, said Max Presneill, a curator with Durden and Ray. But as the pandemic loosens its hold on the world, there can be no better time than now to be immersed in the art that defines our time especially from the viewpoint of excellent contemporary painters from another shore. The artists are all part of TURPS in London, an artist-led painting program, residency, exhibition space, and TURPS Painting Magazine, ... More | |
Eve Arnold, Andy Warhol. New York, USA. 1964. Magnum Photos.
COMPTON VERNEY.- An exhibition at Compton Verney this summer goes in search of the places where creativity takes shape and ideas are born - the artists studio. Magnum Photos: Where Ideas Are Born brings together more than 20 famous photographers from the world-renowned Magnum agency and includes over 60 photo portraits of the artists who created art history in the 20th century. In a series of revealing and characteristic images, artists such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Ai Weiwei, Salvador Dali, Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Henry Moore, Roy Lichtenstein and Yayoi Kusama can all be seen in their creative environments. These range from the cramped ateliers of the Parisian avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century, to the American pop artists New York lofts, and the highly professional, capacious studios of the international stars of the contemporary art market. The photograp ... More | |
Cecily Brown, The Lady and the Swan 6, 2022. Ãl auf Leinwand, 78,7 x 104 cm © Cecily Brown, Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
MUNICH.- Without a doubt, the work of New York-based British artist Cecily Brown (*1969 London) is one of the most exciting examples of painterly flair on the international contemporary scene. A hallmark of her unmistakable oeuvre is its crossover of classical subjects from art history with themes from everyday culture a sovereign, light-handed interweaving of the high and low-brow of our worlds of experience. With tremendous force, her visual worlds assault the viewer. Immersed in a fluidity of colorful progressions, painterly informal omissions are interwoven with simultaneously occurring facets of motifs, creating recurring kaleidoscopic pulsating afterimages on the viewers retina. Less well known is Cecily Browns extensive graphic work. In many cases, Brown uses drawing to approach individual pictorial motifs or groups of works or to rethink them through the ... More |
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Exhibition revisits Alex Webb's pioneering work in color over the past four decades
PARIS.- Magnum Photos presents Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light, the latest exhibition at its new Paris Gallery on rue Léon Frot in the 11th arrondissement. The show revisits the American photographers pioneering work in color over the past four decades, including images from his seminal monograph, The Suffering of Light. The Suffering of Light was originally published by Aperture in 2011, and was Webbs first comprehensive survey book, presenting 120 of his most iconic images from his travels in Southern America, Africa, India, Europe, and beyond. Webb began his career as a photographer in the 1970s, making pictures of the American social landscape in the streets of New England and New York, working exclusively in black and white. In the preface to The Suffering of Light, he describes having reached a kind of dead ... More
Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero appointed as Artistic Directors of the 24th Biennale of Sydney
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney is delighted to announce Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero as the Artistic Directors of the 24th Biennale of Sydney, which will take place 9 March 10 June 2024. Barbara Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Biennale of Sydney said: I am thrilled to be working with Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero - highly respected curators both together and independently with a deep understanding of the international and Australian creative landscapes. The Biennale of Sydney is a participatory platform designed to present the best in contemporary art from around the world, inviting discussion and shared learning about the joys and challenges of our time. I look forward to seeing their collaborative vision develop and sharing their Biennale with our global community in March 2024. Cosmin Costinaș is currently ... More
Hannah Traore Gallery presents 'Camila Falquez: Gods That Walk Among Us'
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery is presenting Gods That Walk Among Us, the first solo exhibition of New York-based photographer Camila Falquez, on view from June 2-July 9, 2022. Born in Mexico and raised in Spain, Colombian photographer Camila Falquez creates photographs that harness the traditions of fashion and portrait photography to honor a contemporary spectrum of social and gender diversity. Channeling the conventions of surrealism and a painterly color palette, she creates an empowering vision that ushers in the narratives of community, humanity, liberation and visibility. Falquez does nothing quietly. In Gods That Walk Among Us, rather than merely venture outside of preconceived notions of gender, power and beauty, her vibrant portraits forcibly push back against them. In her own words: "What if beauty ... More
Major exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Anthony Caro on view at Roche Court Sculpture Park
EAST WINTERSLOW.- The New Art Centre announced a major exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Anthony Caro, set within the landscape at Roche Court. Installed throughout the park, the show features seven works dating from the 1970s to the 2000s which together speak to Caros marriage of sculpture and architecture; to his interest in physical and emotional presence; and to how sculpture on a large scale can create a sense of place, both within itself and through interaction with its surroundings. These large outdoor works are complemented by a display of four painted steel sculptures from the 1960s and 70s the works through which Caro initially found his own unique voice and made his international reputation. These works have been installed in the award-winning glass-fronted gallery, which looks out onto ... More
Walter Abish, daring writer who pondered Germany, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Walter Abish, a widely admired if not widely read American author of experimental fiction whose early life drew a parabola of hasty escapes from hostile forces in Nazi-era Austria and revolutionary China, died Saturday in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 90. Amos Gelb, his nephew, on Tuesday confirmed the death, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, but did not specify a cause. Though he has published relatively late and little, John Updike wrote in a review of Abishs memoir, Double Vision: A Self-Portrait, in The New Yorker in 2004, he projects a distinctive presence in contemporary letters. Abish was in his early 40s when his first novel, Alphabetical Africa (1974), was published, striking a provocative and iconoclastic tone. Its first and last chapters use only words beginning with the ... More
Becoming Johnny Rotten, when John Lydon would rather you didn't
LONDON.- Anson Boon gave playing Johnny Rotten everything he had, including a front tooth. Boon embodies the punk frontman in Pistol, a new limited series charting the meteoric rise and fall of Rottens band the Sex Pistols, and the tooth was lost re-creating one of Rottens most animated performances, the 22-year-old actor said. I slammed my face into the microphone by accident. Sitting in a north London park, a mile from where Rotten grew up, Boon reeled off a list of other injuries sustained over six months of filming: He fractured his coccyx when he fell over a drum kit; zealous singing dislocated his jaw; he spent several hours a day hunched over to emulate the musicians posture, and still has back pain from it today. This roll call is, in some ways, appropriate. Rotten who now goes by his real name, ... More
Eurovision winners auction off trophy to support Ukraine's army
NEW YORK, NY.- Ukraines victory at the Eurovision Song Contest brought national pride, joy and artistic prestige to the country amid the devastation of war. Now, it will also help supply drones to the Ukrainian army. Kalush Orchestra, a Ukrainian band that won Eurovision after sweeping the phone-in popular vote, put up for auction its trophy and the pink bucket hat worn by its lead singer during the contest, and the items netted more than $1.2 million, the bands spokesperson said in a statement Monday. We believe that this is only the first victory before our biggest victory over the Russian aggressor, lead singer Oleh Psiuk said in a Telegram message. The money is going to the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, an organization founded by a Ukrainian TV presenter, and will be used to buy three drones that the army can ... More
Alan White, who drummed with Yes and ex-Beatles, dies at 72
NEW YORK, NY.- Alan White, a seasoned rock drummer who had worked with two former Beatles by the time he turned 21, but who was best known for his long tenure with the pioneering British progressive-rock band Yes, died Thursday at his home in the Seattle area. He was 72. His death was announced by his family. The announcement did not specify a cause, saying only that he died after a brief illness. News of Whites death came just days after Yes announced that he would not be taking part in the bands upcoming tour of Britain, which begins on June 13. He had been a member of Yes since 1972, but, the band noted in a statement, a number of health setbacks had restricted his time onstage since 2016, with Jay Schellen doing most of the drumming and White joining the band late in each set. Alan White was born ... More
In Los Angeles, a tree with stories to tell
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 1920s Los Angeles, a young boy refined his talents in the backyard of his familys modest bungalow running and jumping, running and jumping. The hard work got him far, all the way to the Olympics twice, in fact: first to the Games in Los Angeles in 1932, and then four years later to Berlin. It was in Germany where the young man, Cornelius Johnson, had his greatest triumph, one that transcended sport, defined his short life and established him as an important figure in the pre-civil rights era. On the first day of competition in Berlin, Johnson became the U.S. first champion of the Games, winning gold in the high jump. In a photograph from the day, Johnson, a Black man, stands at the medal ceremony surrounded by Germans with outstretched arms, the familiar Nazi salute. In Johnsons hand was a gift from ... More
Chelsea F.C. player Alan Hudson to sell his 1970 F.A. cup final winners' medal at Noonans
LONDON.- The unique 1970 F.A. Cup Final Winners medal awarded to Alan Hudson, who made 145 first-team appearances for Chelsea F.C between 1969 and 1974, sang on the original Blue is the colour Chelsea anthem and later broke the English football transfer record when he joined Stoke City, will be offered for sale by Mayfair auctioneers Noonans, specialist auctioneers of coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in a sale of Coins and Historic Medals. It is being sold by Mr Hudson and is estimated to fetch £20,000-30,000. The Cup Final replay, at Old Trafford on April 11 1970, is still considered the most brutal game in the history of English football. To this day it remains second only to the 1966 World Cup Final for viewing figures for a sports broadcast at 28 million, and is ranked among the ... More
The Polygon Gallery's Ghosts of the Machine dismantles binaries to unlock the true potential of the metaverse
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Polygon Gallery presents Ghosts of the Machine from June 3August 14, 2022, a new group exhibition by curator Elliott Ramsey that looks at the relationships between humans, technology, and ecology. Ghosts of the Machine features a new commission by Cease Wyss (Skwxwú7mesh), in addition to works by Ho Tzu Nyen, Juliana Huxtable, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Lu Yang, Skawennati, and Santiago Tamayo Soler. The term ghost in the machine refers to the mind-body duality: the idea of the mind as software inhabiting the body as hardware, says Ramsey, who curated Interior Infinite at The Polygon last summer. Such binaries arent real. The mind doesnt exist without ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra was born June 02, 1959. Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award. In this image: Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying 2009 (videostill, detail), collection De Pont Museum. Photo: Peter Cox.
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