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An installation view of Henry Taylor: B Side at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Sept. 28, 2023. From left, im yours, 2015; Man, Im so full of doubt, but I must Hustle Forward, as my daughter Jade would say, 2020; Untitled, 2022; Wegrett, 2006; and Cora, (cornbread), 2008. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- As long as there are artists like Henry Taylor around, painting is in little danger of dying. That is because Taylor, like most great painters, has reinvented the medium for his own purposes, reshaped it to his own particular needs. Those needs seem complex, encompassing and exceptionally empathetic. They are those of an ambitious artist attempting to give as full an account as he can of Black life in America, starting with his own, and spiraling out to family, friends and fellow artists (some of whom are white) as well as Black figures from politics and culture, and urgent issues like incarceration and racial violence. In Henry Taylor: B Side, a thrilling survey at the Whitney Museum, you will see paintings of the artist watching his toddler daughter feed herself; Barack and Michelle Obama sitting cozy on a couch; Philando Castile dying in his car after being shot by a Minneapolis police officer; a self-portrait based on a 16th-century portrait of King Henry V in profile w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Baltimore Museum of Art opened a groundbreaking exhibition exploring the wide-ranging achievements of women artists and artisans working in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries.
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| Yayoi Kusama apologizes for past racist remarks | | Artist is found guilty in French sex tape scandal | | 'The William Dana Lippman Collection: Splendor of American Furniture' being offered by Bonhams Skinner | 
Revelations from the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's autobiography threaten to cloud her new show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Peter Fisher/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Popular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose Infinity Mirror Rooms have brought lines around the block for one blockbuster exhibition after another, has apologized for racist comments in her 2002 autobiography that drew renewed attention as her new show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I deeply regret using hurtful and offensive language in my book, Kusama, who is 94, said in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle last week. My message has always been one of love, hope, compassion and respect for all people. My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused. Kusamas apology, which came the day before her show, Yayoi ... More | | 
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky, right, and Oksana Shalygina in Paris, Jan. 16, 2017. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted on privacy invasion and consent laws in France after publishing intimate texts and videos of a politician for an art performance that he titled Pornopolitics. A French court issued the decision last week, ending a three-year legal battle that halted the political ambitions of Benjamin Griveaux, an ally of President Emmanuel Macron and a Paris mayoral candidate in 2020. Griveaux ended his race shortly after Pavlensky published the explicit images. The court said Pavlensky violated the private life of a politician by publishing images of the strictest privacy that were obtained clandestinely, adding that Pavlensky did so under the guise of an artistic project. Pavlensky received a six-month prison sentence and will most likely ... More | | 
William Dana Lippman.
BOSTON, MA.- Bonhams Skinner, New Englands leading auction house for Americana, is thrilled to offer The William Dana Lippman Collection | Splendor of American Furniture, one of the finest and most comprehensive single owner collections of 18th and 19th century New England furniture to come to market, on November 14. From the California estate of William Lippman, the sale will present over 100 exceptional examples which reflect Lippmans high standards, connoisseurship, knowledge, and appreciation of beauty. Born and raised in Providence, Lippman developed a passion for collecting early and, after settling in California with his wife, filled their Holmby Hills residence with an eclectic blend of East and West coast styles, Indigenous art, European paintings, colonial furniture and antique Persian and Caucasian carpets. Throughout his life, his collecting was guided by some of the most notable dealers of the time who helped him curate a ... More |
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| How the art world finally caught up with a Mexican artist | | Baltimore Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum to present 50-Year retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott | | Pace welcomes Alicja Kwade | 
Roberto Gil de Montes at his studio in La Peñita de Jaltemba, Mexico, on Sept. 9, 2023, where he paints for several hours every day. (Cesar Rodriguez/The New York Times).
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
LA PEÃITA DE JALTEMBA.- Roberto Gil de Montes is not sure how, in his early 70s, he became the art worlds next big thing. He has made the same work for half a century, he insists, painting seven days a week, producing surreal, stylized portraits of ordinary people that he encounters in his daily life. But an email arrived, not quite three years ago, at his home in the small fishing town of La Peñita de Jaltemba on Mexicos Pacific coast, where he has lived for more than two decades. It was from a friend who had a friend who worked at a gallery in Mexico City called Kurimanzutto. Would Gil de Montes be interested in a chat about showing some work there? The artist had never heard of Kurimanzutto. He did a quick call with one of its sales directors, Malik Al-Mahrouky, and then an interview ... More | | 
Peeping Redux (necklace). 2013. Collection of Brenda and Steffen Jacobsen, Winnetka, Illinois © Joyce J. Scott.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum have co-organized the 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time. Best known for her virtuosic use of beads and glass, Scott has upended hierarchies of art and craft across a spectrum of media over the course of five decadesfrom her woven tapestries and soft sculpture of the 1970s and audacious performances and wearable art in the 1980s to sculptures of astonishing formal ingenuity and social force from the late 1970s to the present moment. The artists works across all media beguile viewers with beauty and humor while confronting racism, sexism, ecological devastation, and complex family dynamics. Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams was developed in close dialogue with the Baltimore-based artist and her collaborators to reveal the full breadth of Scotts singular ... More | | 
Portrait of Alicja Kwade, photo by: Doro Zinn © Alicja Kwade.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Glimcher, CEO of Pace Gallery, announced today that the gallery will begin representing Alicja Kwade. In May 2024, Pace will present a curated exhibition at its Los Angeles gallery bringing together historical positions and works by Kwade. Kwades internationally celebrated practice that spans sculpture, expansive public installation, film, photography and works on paper challenges scientific and philosophical concepts by dismantling the boundaries of perception. Her distinctive artistic language involves reflection, repetition, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of everyday objects and natural materials in an effort to explore the essence of our reality and to examine social structures. Often veering towards the absurd and transforming commonly accepted assumptions into open-ended questions, her poetic and mesmerizing oeuvre disrupts familiar systems and searches for new explanations to comprehend ... More |
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| Venus Over Manhattan opens an exhibition of works by Susumu Kamijo | | Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art now showcasing Victorian, and American Arts and Crafts Movement | | Derek Eller Gallery hosting solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Scott Covert | 
Susumu Kamijo, "The Blossom, 2023. Oil paint, flashe vinyl paint, and pastel pencil on canvas; 30 x 26 in (76.2 x 66 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is began The Motherland, an exhibition of new paintings by New-York-based Japanese artist Susumu Kamijo. This exhibition marks Kamijos first solo exhibition with the gallery since announcing representation of the artist earlier this year, and is on view at 39 Great Jones Street. Comprising a series of twelve brilliantly hued and deftly balanced paintings, this exhibition continues to expand upon Kamijos menagerie of animal figurescanines, birds, a lambas vehicles for his penetrating investigation of form, color, pattern, and texture. These highly considered compositions are rendered in oil paint, flashe vinyl paint, and pastel, lending the surfaces nuance and vividness in both finish and color. Kamijos exploration of patterning soars in the flora populating these works. The flowers and trees serve as armatures for his mark making, at turns redolent of dahlias, other times ... More | | 
Grueby lamp base with a Tiffany Studios (190232) leaded-glass lamp shade.
WINTER PARK, FL.- The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art opened two new exhibitions on Tuesday, October 17. These exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into two distinct yet interconnected eras of American art: Victorian America and the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Morse Members had a first look at the installations during the Museums fall reception on Monday, October 16. The exhibition Fascinating Clutter: American Taste during the Reign of Victoria explores the rich aesthetic landscape of Victorian America. In the 19th century, the young republic of the United States followed Great Britains imperial and industrial example and eagerly pursued the romantic trends sparked by young Queen Victoria (18191901). The reckonings of youth, industry, expansion, and war kindled forms of visual expression in American cultureinnocence, nostalgia, mourning, revivalism, and more. Far from the ... More | | 
Scott Covert, Johnny Thunders Christian Dior #1, 2023. Wax oil crayon and acrylic on muslin, 16 x 12 inches. SC0065.
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is currently hosting a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Scott Covert entitled THE DEAD SUPREME NEW YORK. For nearly four decades, Covert has traveled around the world making gravestone rubbings on canvas which he layers one on top of another into expressionistic paintings. His colorful compositions frequently contain multiple epitaphs and names, of individuals both famous and infamous, which he gathers from cemeteries in vastly disparate locations. Equal parts earnest homage, collection of celebrity ephemera, subversive performance art, and travel diary, Coverts Monument Paintings are about being there, making the visit, he explains, Each mark of color on the canvas represents a lifetime. Covert got his professional start as an artist and actor living in Downtown New York in the 1970s and 80s. It was there that his friend ... More |
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| 'Freya Douglas-Morris: This star I give to you' exhibition captures and enhances the magic of enchanting landscapes | | Antony Gormley exhibition on view at the Musée Rodin | | Architecture's 'Young Savior' rebooted after the bottom fell out | 
Freya Douglas-Morris, Pink moon, 2023. Oil on canvas, 66 7/8 x 57 1/8 in. (170 x 145 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen now has on view Freya Douglas-Morris: This star I give to you. This exhibition opened on Wednesday, October 18th with a reception at the gallery on Madison Avenue. Occasionally, a landscape enchants with winding vistas, fragrant aromas, the company of loved ones, and dynamic light and weather conditions. Freya Douglas-Morris captures and enhances the magic of these atmospheres, inviting one to settle down to wonder and rest with her poetic paintings. While her landscapes are often catalyzed by her encounters with real places, they become surreal and inexact as they are transformed by the painters memory and imagination. Through her fluid paint application, the artists landscapes appear to be internally illuminated, pulsing with resonant rhythmic light. In oil paintings on small framed copper panels to larger canvases, Freya Douglas-Morris: This star I give to you is an ... More | | 
CRITICAL MASS II, 1995, Fonte, Vue de linstallation au musée Rodin © Agence photographique du musée Rodin - Jérome Manoukian.
PARIS.- The Musée Rodin is now welcoming British artist Antony Gormley. For over forty years, Gormley has explored the relationship of the human body to space through a critical engagement with his own body and, more recently, through examining the relationship of the body to the built environment. Titled Critical Mass, this exhibition at the musée Rodin will activate all areas of the museum, including the temporary exhibition space, gardens, Marble Galerie and Hotel Biron. Key works from across Gormleys career will enter into dialogue with Rodins own sculptures, inviting visitors to reflect on the two sculptors and their shared investment in asking what the body offers sculpture as a subject, object and reflexive tool. At the centre of this exhibition is Critical Mass II (1995), an installation comprising sixty life-sized sculptures that punctuate the museums temporary exhibition space ... More | | 
Joshua Ramus in front of a glowing laminated marble wall at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan, on Oct. 10, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Sam Lubell
NEW YORK, NY.- Joshua Ramus really doesnt want to talk about Rem Koolhaas anymore. Seventeen years ago, Ramus, then 36, a diligent, buzz-cut partner at the New York office of Koolhaas famed architecture firm, OMA, bought out Koolhaas, took the helm of the staff of 35 and rebranded the office Rex. Since then, through recessions, competition near-misses, abandoned projects, the COVID-19 pandemic and the more routine challenges that confront new firms, hes been wrestling with sky-high expectations, lingering doubts and Koolhaas XL-size shadow. With two groundbreaking new buildings, he is primed to finally emerge from all of this. The structures are the Perelman Performing Arts Center at ground zero ... More |
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In Conversation: Musa Mayer & Adam Gopnik on âNight Studio: A Memoir of Philip Gustonâ
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 In northern France, riding the rails into the pastNORTHERN FRANCE.- On the tracks of a railway depot in northern France, a steam locomotive puffs out smoke as if it just took a drag. An engineer and two apprentices stand inside its teal-colored cab wearing dark clothing and gloves. Its hard to make out their faces under the glare of the midmorning sun. Theyve been warming up the engine for three hours and are ready to roll out. One of the apprentices leans against the open window with his arms crossed, contemplating his work. What excites him most is to feel the machine live, he says gesturing around the cab as it shakes, jolts and howls, as if to say, See? This is the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme. This 19th-century railway connects the towns of Cayeux-sur-Mer, St.-Valery-sur-Somme, Noyelles-sur-Mer and Le Crotoy on the Picardy Coast of France, where the narrow Canal ... More  Justin Torres finds inspiration in the erasures of queer historyNEW YORK, NY.- Any sense of anonymity that Justin Torres had enjoyed as an author was on the verge of vanishing. Shortly before the release of his debut novel, We the Animals, in 2011, critics were starting to praise him and his slim, semi-autobiographical book about childhood, family and sexuality. Overnight, he was considered an authority. Just as quickly, impostor syndrome set in. I suddenly kind of got thrust into the world, Torres, 43, said during a recent video interview. I was being asked my thoughts about queer literature and Latinx literature, as if I had some kind of expertise. Getting started on his next novel was a helpful distraction. But whatever that was, Torres knew, it wouldnt come quickly. We the Animals was everything I had in my 20s, he said. And it takes a while to refill the well. A dozen years later, ... More  Carla Bley, jazz composer, arranger and provocateur, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Carla Bley, an irrepressibly original composer, arranger and pianist responsible for more than 60 years of wily provocations in and around jazz, died on Tuesday at her home in Willow, a hamlet in upstate New York. She was 87. Her longtime partner in life and music, bassist Steve Swallow, said the cause was complications of brain cancer. Bleys influential body of work included delicate chamber miniatures and rugged, blaring fanfares, with a lot of varied terrain in between. She was branded an avant-gardist early in her career, but that term applied more to her slyly subversive attitude than to the formal character of her music, which always maintained a place for tonal harmony and standard rhythm. Within that given frame, Bley found plenty of room to confound expectations and harbor contradictions. In the 2011 biography ... More  'All the Devils' review: Patrick Page as friendly guide investigating evilNEW YORK, NY.- The events of the world trail us into the theater always. There is no separating a live performance from the moment in which we experience it, not even if the words an actor speaks were written hundreds of years ago. What a powerful time, then, to encounter Shakespeares Shylock in Patrick Pages solo-show investigation of evil, All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain. Because Shylock, the Jewish moneylender who infamously demands a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice, is, if a villain, a complicated one: persecuted, spit upon and scorned by Christians for being a Jew. But even in his bitterness, he recognizes that he and they are similar in almost every respect, because they are all human. And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? he says. If we are like you in the rest, ... More  'Cecilia Paredes: The Weaving of Dust' on view in San Antonio at Ruiz-Healy GallerySAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art currently has on view two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new works by Peruvian born, Philadelphia based, artist Cecilia Paredes. This is Paredes fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Cecilia Paredes: Walking In My Galaxy Blue opened at our New York City gallery on Thursday, September 21st. Cecilia Paredes : The Weaving of Dust opened at the San Antonio gallery on Thursday, September 28th, with an opening reception. A fully illustrated catalogue was published accompanied by an essay by art historian Emily Alesandrini. Born in Lima, Peru, and based in Philadelphia since the early 2000s, Cecilia Paredes uses her camouflaged body as an expressive medium to interpret themes influenced by nature, femininity, transformation, and identity. Paredes explores these themes through ... More  'Inventing Isabella' explores how Isabella Stewart Gardner used art, fashion and photography to shape public imageBOSTON, MA.- This Fall, Inventing Isabella at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores how the Museums founder leveraged art, fashion and photography to shape her identity and cultivate her public persona. The exhibition brings together more than seventy works paintings, drawings, photographs and fashion culled from the Museums collection and archive, in addition to select loans. Simultaneously, the Museum will present the exhibition, Fabiola Jean-Louis: Rewriting History, as well as a newly-commissioned work, Carla Fernández: Tradition Is Not Static. Together, these exhibitions demonstrate how throughout history, fashion choices have enabled women to exert agency and power in communicating ... More  Art Gallery of Ontario exhibits Arnold Newman photographs with iconic 20th-century portraits and imagesTORONTO.- Now open at the Art Gallery of Ontario since October 18th, Building Icons: Arnold Newmans Magazine World, 19382000, invites visitors to explore the creative vision of the 20th century American photographer Arnold Newman (19182006). Drawn from the AGOs extensive holdings and spanning six decades, the exhibition considers the role magazines played to inspire, educate, and fuel Newmans ambition. On view through January 21, 2024, Building Icons: Arnold Newmans Magazine World is curated by Sophie Hackett, AGO Curator of Photography with photography scholar and independent curator Tal-Or Ben-Choreen, and organized by the AGO. Raised in a Jewish family in Miami Beach, the Depression forced Newman to leave art school. His first professional photography job in 1938 was making 49-cent studio ... More  Stephen Rubin, 'Quintessential Hitmaker' of the book world, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Rubin, a book-business fortune seeker who helped make John Grisham and Dan Brown famous writers and who published Michael Wolffs 2018 chronicle of the Trump White House, Fire and Fury, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause of his death, at a hospital, was complications of sepsis that arose after a recent infection, his nephew David Rotter said. Rubin was a patron of classical music who employed a chauffeur. Yet he was also a child of the working-class Bronx who valued literary prestige less than the bottom line. When I read something that I know is simply wonderful, I see dollar signs, he told The New York Times for a 2018 profile. In that same article, Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, called Rubin the quintessential hitmaker. He is to the book business, Karp said, what Clive Davis is to the music industry. ... More  John F. Kennedy's leather satchel carries Heritage's Americana & Political Auction rich with the President's treasuresDALLAS, TX.- The almost 700 items that constitute Heritage's November 13-14 Americana & Political Signature® Auction are, in the end, time travelers. Among the auction's numerous offerings: flags and banners, leather satchels and paper posters, silver badges and gold-engraved cigarette cases, dinner plates and license plates. Were it not for their previous owners, proud relatives or grateful caretakers, all these things might have long ago landed in the dustbin of history. They survive today because of their connections to milestones and memories, presidents and peacekeepers, landmarks and legacies. These pieces of yesterday serve as teachers and tour guides better than any history book; words don't carry the weight of a Texas Ranger badge, weren't held by John Kennedy, weren't flown over one of the first federal properties in the 1790s ... More  32 historic offerings from celebrated Zaricor Flag Collection unfurl at Heritage in NovemberDALLAS, TX.- In 1969, as a senior at St. Louis' Washington University, Ben Zaricor thought about the American flag as much as any other kid who'd memorized the Pledge of Allegiance and The Star-Spangled Banner. Which is to say, not all that much. But as the Tennessee native would often recount, Zaricor's perception of the flag and its potency as a symbol dramatically changed one afternoon while he ate at a pizzeria near campus. When asked how he came to amass one of the world's largest and most significant collections of American flags, Zaricor always began with the story of a young man snatched from his seat, taken outside that restaurant and beaten simply for wearing a vest emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes. "This led to a small riot in front of the restaurant, with several people, including myself, trying to help the young man," Zaricor once said during an interview with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. "We were then attacked by a total of 15 men. Guns were shown by the attackers ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni was born October 19, 1882. Umberto Boccioni (19 October 1882 - 17 August 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. In this image: Francesca Rossi, curator in charge of the Sforzesco Castle drawings collection, looks at a work by Umberto Boccioni, in the same room where sketches by mannerist painter Simone Peterzano are preserved, in Milan, Friday, July 6, 2012.
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