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Anticipated completion for the VBMAs expansion and renovation is 2026. Image: Vero Beach Museum of Art.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announced the appointment of international design firm Allied Works to lead the expansion and renovation project which will focus on building resiliency and future growth needs for the VBMA. After working with architect selection advisor David Meckel and completing a nine-month extensive search that entailed a highly competitive line-up of 13 national architectural firms and an eventual short-list of four, VBMA has selected Allied Works for the project. "This was a comprehensive process for which the Museum formed a seven-member Architectural Committee from our Board of Trustees. We took great lengths to review the exceptional proposals put forward by the invited architects and are thrilled to have unanimously selected Allied Works as our partner on this journey," said Emily Sherwood, Chair of the VBMA Board of Trustees. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Located in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong's newest arts and cultural landmark, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, held its opening ceremony today. © Hong Kong Palace Museum.
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| Carnegie Museum of Art shares list of artists participating in the 58th Carnegie International | | Hong Kong Palace Museum celebrates official opening | | Artangel presents new sound installation at London's Senate House Library |
Daniel Lie, Death Center for the Living, in partnership with Vivian Caccuri, installation view, Vienna Festwochen, Vienna, Austria 2017, photo by Daniel Lie.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Today, Carnegie Museum of Art officially announces artists and collectives that will participate in the upcoming 58th Carnegie International. The exhibition, titled Is it morning for you yet?, runs from September 24, 2022 to April 2, 2023, and unfolds along two conceptual overlapping currents: historical works from the collections of international institutions, estates, and artists, alongside new commissions and recent works by contemporary artists. Organized by Sohrab Mohebbi, the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International and associate curator Ryan Inouye with curatorial assistant Talia Heiman, the exhibition traces the geopolitical imprint of the United States since 1945 to situate the international within a local context. The exhibition borrows its title from ... More | |
Hong Kong Palace Museum Gallery 3. © Hong Kong Palace Museum.
HONG KONG.- Located in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong's newest arts and cultural landmark, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, held its opening ceremony today. The ceremony was co-organised by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. A collaborative project between the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) and the Palace Museum, the HKPM aims to promote the study and appreciation of Chinese art and culture as well as to foster dialogue between world civilisations. The opening of the museum marks a new chapter in the advancement of Chinese arts and culture in Hong Kong and signifies an important milestone for Hong Kong and the West Kowloon Cultural District in developing Hong Kong into an East-meets-West Centre for International Cultural ... More | |
A Thousand Words for Weather_Artangel and Senate House Library © Photography by Francesco Russo.
LONDON.- Artangel presents a specially commissioned sound installation at Londons iconic Senate House Library featuring thousands of words for the weather in ten languages commonly spoken across the city. A collaboration with writer Jessica J. Lee and sound artist Claudia Molitor, A Thousand Words for Weather is a new multilingual dictionary of words describing the weather and their definitions, exploring the role of translation and generating a shared language to describe our changing experience of climate and the environment. Throughout three floors of Senate House Library, which is part of the University of London, visitors can experience the sound of the weather as it responds to live data from the Met Office. To create the dictionary, Jessica J. Lee worked with seven other UK-based poets to translate ten words for the weather into ten languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Engli ... More |
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| Mimesis. A living design, currently on show at Centre Pompidou-Metz | | Exhibition at Joseph Bellows Gallery is a tribute to the lifework of George Tice | | Christie's presents 'University of Pennsylvania mRNA NFT: Vaccines for a New Era' |
Installation views, Mimesis. A living design © Centre Pompidou-Metz / Marc Domage / 2022.
METZ.- The group show, Mimesis. A living design brings together 400 works by 90 creators on the subject of the evolution of nature in design. From modern biomorphism to biomimicry, from biofabrication to the recreation of living things through digital design, this exploration is as much historical as it is forward-looking. Nature and the living world are invited to Gallery 2 in the exhibition conceived by Marie-Ange Brayer, Senior Curator of the Design and Industrial Prospective department at the Musée national d'art moderne-CCI, Centre Pompidou and Olivier Zeitoun, Associated curator in the Design and Industrial Prospective department at the Musée national d'art moderne-CCI, Centre Pompidou. From the iconic objects of modernism and their reinterpretation of nature to the most recent design exploring a new digital "naturalness" (Ross Lovegrove, Joris Laarman, Michael Hansmeyer ), the exhibition explores a profound ... More | |
George Tice, Industrial Landscape, Kearny, New Jersey, 1973 (detail). Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallerys current exhibition is a tribute to the lifework of George Tice, including many vintage prints of both famous and lesser-known images. Signed copies of his new book, Lifework, 1953-2013, are also available. Tice is drawn to vestiges of American culture on the verge of extinction-from people in rural or small-town communities to suburban buildings and neighborhoods that are often in decline. Although he has photographed throughout the Northwestern United States, he is best known for pictures of his native New Jersey, and the impeccable quality of his black-and-white prints. Tice was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey--the state in which his ancestors had settled generations earlier. At fourteen, he joined a camera club. A turning point in his self-training happened two years later when a professional photographer critiquing club members' work praised his picture of an alleyway. Tice briefly studi ... More | |
University Of Pennsylvania and Drew Weissman, The University Of Pennsylvania mRNA NFT. Estimate on Request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents, The University Of Pennsylvania mRNA NFT: Vaccines For A New Era. This breathtaking 3d digital work takes the viewer to the molecular level, showing a cutting-edge mRNA vaccine fighting COVID-19. Christies New York will offer this NFT online 15-25 July, 2022 (estimate on request). This one-of-a-kind digital piece was designed by the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Drew Weissman, whose groundbreaking research helped create mRNA vaccines. The NFT comes with a storyboard that explains what the NFT depicts, the University of Pennsylvania-owned mRNA patent documents, and an original letter from Dr. Weissman, whose research produced key innovations that made mRNA vaccines safer and more effective. Proceeds from the auction will support ongoing research activities at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine. MRNA vaccines ... More |
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| Serpentine opens a multi-site exhibition responding to the climate crisis | | Thomas Del Mar's sale to include items to benefit The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Marianne Boesky Gallery opens an exhibition of new works on paper by Gina Beavers |
Tabita Rezaire/AMAKABA and Yussef Agbo-Ola/OLANIYI STUDIO, IKUM: Drying Temple, 2022. Dyed cotton tensiles, reclaimed pine frame, medicinal plants, recycled cellulose cable ties. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
LONDON.- Back to Earth is Serpentines long-term, interdisciplinary, artistic programme responding to the urgent climate crisis. The programme features an exhibition staged at Serpentine North from 22 June to 18 September 2022, with further works situated in Serpentines restaurant The Magazine and further afield in Kensington Gardens. Back to Earth also features an extensive live programme with activations during the exhibition and for the next two years. Evoking responses to the climate emergency and spotlighting a multitude of durational perspectives from across the globe, Back to Earth reflects how we can learn from diverse experiences to create change. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North Highlights: Agnes Denes flag The Future ... More | |
A Composite German Full Armour, circa 1500/10. Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000.
LONDON.- A composite German full armour, circa 1500/10, from an European Collection which is estimated at £20,000-30,000 is among a number of lots that are being sold to benefit the Arms & Armor Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It will be offered for sale in Thomas Del Mars forthcoming sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria which will be held on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14. As Auctioneer and Expert in Charge Thomas Del Mar commented: The Arms & Armor Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York comprises approximately 14,000 objects, of which more than 5,000 are European, 2,000 are from the Near East, and 4,000 from the Far East. It is one of the most comprehensive and encyclopaedic collections of its kind. This continues Olympia Auctions successful fundraising initiative over the last year with part of the ... More | |
Gina Beavers, Applying Lipstick on Heart Shape Lips, 2022 Soft pastel on paper, 40 x 26 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Gina Beavers. Photo: Charles Benton.
ASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Pastel Looks, an exhibition of new works on paper by Gina Beavers. With these works, Beavers continues her examination of the performative nature and myopic self-obsession of social media, particularly within the phenomenon of makeup tutorials. Beavers sources imagery and inspiration from Instagram, YouTube, and other online sources for her drawings, mimicking stills from make-up tutorials as well as images that reference food porn photography and the proliferation of consumer culture. The use of pastels references both a commonly recognized tool in Western artmaking and an online genre of makeup techniques called pastel looks; thus the title of the show acts as a double entendre that both indicates and enacts the collapse of language into meme-ready ... More |
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| Large retrospective of Sean Scully opens at the MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna | | Eli Klein Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ji Zhou | | 'Downton Shabby': A commoner takes on an English castle |
Sean Scully, A Wound in a Dance with Love. Curated by Lorenzo Balbi. MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, June 22nd - October 9th 2022.
BOLOGNA.- The MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna presents A Wound in a Dance with Love, a large retrospective of Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945), an artist among the leading exponents of contemporary abstract painting, which is visible in the Sala delle Ciminiere from June 22nd to October 9th, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Balbi with Dublins Kerlin Gallery as the main partner, is based on the show Sean Scully: Passenger A Retrospective, curated by Dávid Fehér and organized by the Museum of Fine Arts Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (October 14th May 30th, 2021), later hosted by the Benaki Museum in Athens. It arrives in Bologna in a renewed version, specifically designed for the MAMbo. 26 years later, the artist is again the protagonist of a solo exhibition in Bologna: in 1996, it was the Galleria dArte Moderna, from whom the MAMbo is derived, ... More | |
Plant Portrait - Tillandsia 03, 2022. Archival pigment print, 39 3/8 x 37 3/8 inches (100 x 95 cm) Edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Ji Zhou: Symbiosis - the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist, based on his observation and reflection on the current situation of the contemporary environment, focuses on plants in the works in this exhibition. Every piece was shot and laid out on a specially designed structure, the light from which allows the artist to isolate and inspect each plant, with an emphasis on its pattern. The contrast between the natural plants and the appearance of artificial photography suggests a symbiotic relationship between what is ordinarily provided, and what is altered by humans. Since Ji Zhous 2017 solo exhibition at the Gallery, the world has changed radically due, in part, to the global pandemic. By experiencing this global change, the artist began to shift the focus of his works from urban landscapes to honeysuckle - the flower whose leaves endure the wint ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Hopwood Hall Estate shows Los Angeles actor and producer Hopwood DePree at his Hopwood Hall Estate in Middleton, England. Hopwood Hall Estate via The New York Times.
by Joanne Kaufman
NEW YORK, NY.- People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a long-lost relative. Hopwood DePree found a 60-room English manor. As a child growing up in Holland, Michigan, in the 1970s, DePree was transfixed when his beloved maternal grandfather, Pap, a history buff, told him about a huge slice of rolling land across the ocean where his forebears had a grand house called Hopwood Castle. A castle in Britain owned by his family? Named for his family? No way. Fast forward 3 1/2 decades. DePree, by then an actor and producer in Los Angeles, was at his computer early one night in the spring of 2013, trawling an ancestry website. The past had become a favorite destination ... More |
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Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens exhibition with works by major artists represented by the gallery since its founding
PARIS.- The gallery is presenting the exhibition Théâtres de verdure, named after Vieira da Silvas Petit Théâtre de Verdure, displayed alongside with works by major artists represented by the gallery since its founding. Renewing its commitment to Nature, this exhibition gathers 16 artists whose inspiration is strongly linked to the earthly elements. Particularly involved in the France-Portugal 2022 Season, and now located between Lisbon and Paris, the gallery also wishes to honor the Portuguese artists whom it represents. As well as the artists linked to Portugal whom the gallery has been defending since a long time ans who have importants events this year. The gallery has supported Michael Biberstein, ... More
Priska Pasquer presents an exhibition of works by Genaro Strobel
COLOGNE.- Genaro Strobels exhibition Shining Bright features a selection of four medium-sized wood engravings produced in Berlin and Vienna in early 2022 along with a previous one from 2018. Strobel first presented four of his Farbkreise (Color Wheels) at his exhibition Size held at Kunsthalle Darmstadt in 2021. Measuring 4 meters tall and 7 meters wide, they easily filled the main hall there. Displayed in an informal setting overlooking the Rhine (the Priska Pasquer Gallerys temporary home in Cologne), their theme takes center stage. In a nutshell, color is Genaro Strobels theme. Instead of the photogravure and letterpress inks hes previously experimented with, this marks a return to artists oil paints, no doubt because of their unsurpassed radiance and their spectrum and also perhaps because hes seeking ... More
Keijsers Koning exhibits Jimi Dams' most recent oeuvre of drawings and paintings
DALLAS, TX.- Celebrating Pride Month and Queer identity Keijsers Koning announces the exhibition "Dams Realism" presenting Jimi Dams oeuvre of drawings and paintings, including his most recent drawings which he started in 2022. The exhibition offers the artist perspective on life through various narratives from a youth marred by his conservative upbringing; detailed drawings of clouds that offer the reprieve of a daydream; to sexual situations entangled in humor. The artist sees life as a glass half full, but questions what the liquid is that remains; an optimist fueled by pessimism. Jimi Dams career began in the 80-90s as an artist, in the 2000s he took a hiatus to run Feature Inc under the tutelage of Hudson, eventually setting out on his own and built Envoy Enterprises. The latter a gallery that paved its own road supporting ... More
The Photographers' Gallery opens a new multimedia exhibition
LONDON.- How to Win at Photography Image-Making as Play is a new multimedia exhibition exploring the relationships between photography, image-making and play. It invites audiences to focus on the playful aspects of visual culture, and creates unexpected connections between the history of photography and the practices of image-making within computer games and wider digital screen culture. Featuring over 30 international artists and a rich assemblage of multimedia artworks and vernacular images representing a variety of positions across contemporary and twentieth-century photography, How to Win at Photography questions the very meaning and function of photography today. Artists include Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist Ai Weiwei; Polish multimedia artist Aneta Grzeszykowska; post-conceptual ... More
Trustees announce Counterculture, a public art installation by Rose B. Simpson
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Trustees of Reservations presents Counterculture, a new large-scale public artwork by media artist Rose B. Simpson (b. 1983, Santa Clara Pueblo) at Field Farm in Williamstown starting in June. Counterculture was commissioned as part of The Trustees Art & The Landscape public art series, whose goal is to create new experiences inspired by its iconic properties. Counterculture has been installed along the horizon line of a meadow at Field Farm that is visible from nearby Sloan Road. The exhibit consists of 12 figural sculptures honoring the transcendental nature of ancestral placea spirit that has been holding vigil through patriarchy, capitalization, and colonization. These figures are a reminder of a force that perseveres. The installation consists of 12 hollow, concrete-clay forms supported ... More
Rare Regimental Commander's Peninsula War group to be offered at Noonans
LONDON.- During the Peninsula War (1807-14) Scottish-born Lieutenant-General Sir John Cameron, K.C.B. of the 9th Foot saw not one but two horses killed under him and following a successful charge, he was involved in taking between 300-400 prisoners. Appointed one of the first Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B) on his return from the Peninsula Wars, in which his regiments losses exceeded those of any other regiment, his rare Regimental Commanders Peninsula War group of four will be sold by Mayfair-based Auctioneers Noonans on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. They are expected to fetch £70,000-90,000 and are being offered for sale by his descendants. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 9th Foot in September 1807, Cameron commanded ... More
A Stonewall visitor center will celebrate LGBTQ history
NEW YORK, NY.- The first visitor center within the national park system dedicated to LGBTQ history will honor and explore the history of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, a galvanizing moment in the fight for equality, the centers managers said Tuesday. When it opens in 2024, the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will occupy a vacant storefront in Greenwich Village in Manhattan next door to the Stonewall Inn bar, which was designated a national monument in 2016. Pride Live, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, is overseeing the creation of the site, which will include input from historians, activists, community leaders and allies. The organization is partnering with the National Park Service, which will use the center as a base for its rangers. Our goal is to create a place that honors both the bravery and courage ... More
Lead curatorial position for ancient art endowed at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the endowment of the Museums lead curatorial position for Ancient Art, made possible by a generous donation by long-standing museum supporters George and Judy Marcus. Marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Ancient Art Council at the Museums, the gift will support the Department of Ancient Art study and promotion of antiquities. Renée Dreyfus, who has worked closely with the Marcuses during her 45-year tenure with the Museums, is the first to assume the title George and Judy Marcus Distinguished Curator in Charge, Ancient Art. The first endowed position at the Museums, it marks the celebratory start to a dedicated initiative to secure endowments for key curatorial roles across the de Young and Legion of ... More
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston appoints New Glassell School Director
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced that Paul Coffey, vice provost and dean of community engagement at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been named director of the Glassell School of Art at the MFAH. He joins the MFAH on July 18, succeeding retiring director Joseph Havel. In announcing the appointment, Gary Tinterow, Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, commented, Paul Coffey brings to the Glassell School of Art and to Houston an extraordinary commitment to art, education and community, one that he has demonstrated over two decades in leadership roles at the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I know that he will bring thoughtful leadership to the Glassell School, which is so essential to the Museums ... More
Chrysler Museum of Art names McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
NORFOLK, VA.- The The Chrysler Museum of Art announced the arrival of Chelsea Pierce as the new McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Pierce was selected following an extensive, nationwide search and brings a fresh perspective and extensive background in contemporary art. Pierce will begin at the Museum this July. The Search Committee was particularly impressed by the thoughtfulness of Chelsea Pierces approach to Modern and Contemporary Art, said Erik H. Neil, Macon and Joan Brock Director of the Chrysler Museum of Art. She offers an ideal combination of intelligence and energy that will make her a fitting addition to the curatorial team at the Chrysler. Her experience at the Dallas Museum of Art along with her strong academic credentials will allow her to be a great contributor from day ... More
The Mosaic Rooms opens the first UK solo exhibition by Mahmoud Khaled
LONDON.- The Mosaic Rooms presents Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it, the first UK solo exhibition by Mahmoud Khaled. Through a series of unfolding installations and interventions Khaled builds an immersive environment. He ambitiously transforms The Mosaic Rooms period, domestic architecture into the imagined dwellings of the owner of a lost phone. The work continues Khaleds interest in historic house museums and the nostalgia and memorialising of individual perspectives found in them. In this new commission the artist repositions this museological form in a contemporary queer lens to explore male identity and intimacy. The artist notes: the exhibition is a spatial portrait of an absent person revealed through the (quite strange) contents of the phone he left behind ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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