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First New York solo show by Austin Thomas in over five years opens at Morgan Lehman Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Through her art, the artist navigates city life, capturing architectural geometries and the contagious energy of urban spontaneity. References to soaring skylines and vertiginous views collide to form a maze of shapes and angles that reflect the artists unique perspective of metropolitan experience. Her work celebrates the city with a palette of sunny yellows, sky blues, brick browns, and sidewalk-gray hues. The bold markings and eccentric shapes, guided by formal improvisation, reveal multilayered meanings and invite joyful puzzling. For the viewer, looking at her works is akin to traversing the bustling streets of Manhattan. Thomas invites audiences to react freely to and engage with these abstract urban narratives. Through her process-driven approach, ordinary urban experiences morph into extraordinary aesthetic spectacles. ... More

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen features Second World War in exhibition 'Art Amid the Ruins'
ROTTERDAM.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is currently presenting the project Art Amid the Ruins about artists in Rotterdam during the Second World War. How were their lives affected by the bombing of 14 May 1940? What impossible choices did they face? The exhibition in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen features artworks from the collection that were made during the period or that have a connection with the occupation. It coincides with the publication of The Firebird Generation, a book by art historian and guest curator Sandra Smets that describes the lives of ten artists in Rotterdam during the war. Lastly, the museum is launching an interactive, digital walking map of Rotterdam that invites everyone to explore this history for themselves. Art Amid the Ruins has been made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund, the Pieter Haverkorn ... More

Francis Alÿs presents a more comprehensive version of the exhibition 'The Nature of the Game'
BRUSSELS.- Following his presentation for the Flemish entry for the Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Francis AlÃ¿s presents this new, more comprehensive version of the exhibition The Nature of the Game, twelve years after the artist's memorable retrospective at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre that introduced Belgian audiences to the full scope of his work. Since 1999, during his many travels, AlÃ¿s has documented children playing in public places. At the Venice Biennale, AlÃ¿s presented a series of filmed children games made during the pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Hong Kong, Mexico and Switzerland, in dialogue with a group of his discreet small-format paintings. For the presentation in WIELS, he completes several new films, including children's games he recently saw in Ukraine. He confronts ... More

For Brussels Gallery Weekend, Pei-Hsuan Wang opens exhibition at Ballon Rouge
BRUSSELS .- Ballon Rouge is opening Pei-Hsuan Wangs GraĒiĒude Is A Colored Vessel starting today. The title is a direct translation of her grandmothers married name in Chinese, 謝彩盆. It is a love letter. Wang, who was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States in her late teens, has been exploring her identity as an East Asian woman growing up inundated and inﬂuenced by both Eastern and Western ideologies and culture since she began her career as an artist. Whether it be incorporating her half-Asian, half-White niece Iris as a muse and a metaphor, or drawing inspiration from her maternal grandmother's fruit farm in Taiwan, Wang has been parsing her identity vis-a-vis her matrilineal heritage. Woven throughout this is her use of myths and folklore from China and East Asia, and her invested knowledge in history, both real and fantastical as well as personal. In her works, her famil ... More

'Alison Croney Moses: The Habits of Reframing', reframes her own identity as an artist at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
BOSTON, MA.- Abigail Ogilvy Gallery presents The Habits of Reframing, a solo exhibition of artwork by Boston-based artist and craftsperson Alison Croney Moses. Working primarily in wood, the presentation debuts two new series by the artist. The artworks remind us of the power we possess to shape how we view ourselves through our own experiences and the world around us. Through the new series, Croney Moses reframes her own identity as an artist while holding the values we are taught against a mirror of our own reality, bringing into view the misalignmentand understanding the necessity to celebrate our scars without minimizing the hurt that caused them, and reframing perfection to embody imperfection. ... More

Templon's New York space celebrates 1st anniversary paying tribute to American master painter and sculptor George Segal
NEW YORK, NY.- A pioneer of installations combining plaster and everyday objects, the Bronx native, George Segal (1924-2000), began his career as an abstract painter. When he discovered the use of pre-cut plaster bandages in the early 1960s, he abandoned paint as a medium and, at the height of the Pop Art movement, turned his focus on three-dimensional paintings with plaster casts applied directly to living models. This unique visual language soon became his signature, opening the door to endless formal possibilities. Both spontaneous and frozen, his compositions reveal an unexpected poetic force as well as a social and political radicality. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey over 25 years of the artists ... More

Eiji Uematsu's first-ever New York exhibition opens at Alison Bradley Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects opened the exhibition, Works in Clay: Eiji Uematsu, featuring sixteen works by Eiji Uematsu in his 1rst-ever New York exhibition. Eiji Uematsu (b. Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 1949) works in clay, actively evading categorization as artist or ceramicist. Rather, he approaches the medium as an exploration, delving into both the tactile and immaterial possibilities of the clay. In his own words, Uematsu does not see his ceramic practice as producing new forms, but as drawing out the shapes that have already existed in the soil from its beginning, and without the use of glazing. Uematsu began experimenting with clay as a student in Tokyo in the early 1970s, initially engaged in painting and lithography before being taken by the materiality and possibilities of clay work. Like the Mono-ha (School of Things) artists ... More

'Ye Funa - The Big Dream Show' opens at Eli Klein Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery has opened The Big Dream Show, Ye Funas ﬁrst solo show with the gallery. The exhibition features 12 new mixed media collage works from the Neo Folk Matrix series, in addition to a video and two paintings, each demonstrating a unique dream where different characteristics, items, symbols, colors, traditions, and cultures intersect. Filled with intricate details, these pieces are elaborately executed and contain a variety of elements such as plastics, artiﬁcial crystals, metals, fabrics, and an assortment of found objects. These little worlds and dreams, in Ye Funas own words, highlight her aspiration to explain what roles folk should play under the framework of contemporary art. As is true with the majority of single-child families in China, Funas relationship with her mother was offspring-centered. Her mother Fu ... More

Getty Research Institute acquires Maren Hassinger archive
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of Maren Hassinger. The archive contains original sketches, drawings for large scale projects, photographs, correspondence, print media, handwritten notes, documentation of exhibitions, and audio-visual material. The Maren Hassinger archive complements, and supplements, texts and other research materials related to African American art in GRI collections, specifically within the context of mixed-media sculpture and performance on both coasts, says Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. Hassingers archive along with other GRI archival holdingsfor example, the Kitchen archive, and materials related to the Womans Building, and performance artists such as Blondell Cummings and Suzanne Lacywill help expand and complicate narratives of women artists during the twentieth century. ... More

Thomas Erben Gallery exhibits work by Agata Kus and Zbigniew Libera
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben Gallery is now hosting Kus + Libera, featuring the work of Agata Kus and Zbigniew Libera. The show, opening today, is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and co-curated by its Curator of Visual Arts and Design, Izabela Gola. On view are recent photo works by critically lauded and prominently exhibited conceptualist Zbigniew Libera (b. 1959) as well as paintings by Agata Kus (b. 1987), who is part of the current surge of mainly young, female, figurative painters, and whose work has garnered widespread attention. Libera began working in the early 1980's, behind the iron curtain in a Poland seeking to free itself from Soviet rule, whereas the art of Kuss generation operates within and confronts a market-oriented, now capitalist society. The juxtaposition of their work shows how two artists 30 years apart in age ... More

Gloria Coates, composer who defied conventions, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Gloria Coates, an adventurous composer who wrote symphonies she was one of the few women to do so as well as other works, pieces that were seldom performed in her home country, the United States, but found audiences in Europe, where she lived much of her professional life, died Aug. 19 in Munich. She was 89. Her daughter, Alexandra Coates, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Gloria Coates composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice. In 1999, when she was working on her 11th symphony, composer and critic Kyle Gann wrote in The New York Times that Ms. Coatess symphonies are dark and sensuous, and distinguished by an imaginative use of orchestral glissandos (gradual rather than stepwise changes of pitch, like slow sirens), which culminate powerfully in drawn- ... More