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In a photo provided by via The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York shows, a view of The Black Image Corporation (2018), by Theaster Gates, wholl be at the New Museum. Via Theaster Gates; Delfino Sisto Legnani And Marco Cappelletti.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- There is no time like the present ever. In terms of art, this moment has been distinguished by startling fluidity, rapid change and thrilling expansion both in terms of what constitutes art and who makes it. (Or who has made it, since arts past is expanding too.) The fall exhibitions that intrigue me most continue this expansion. The latest cracks in the barriers between art and craft include a show of 19th-century African American stoneware jars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a survey of some of the most outrageous costumes of this century at the Museum of Arts and Design. Overdue retrospectives will occur at the American Folk Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. And three museums have given midcareer artists the run of their galleries. With Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in concert with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ventures into the expanding study of 19th-century African Americ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of exhibition Life Between Buildings on view at MoMA PS1 from June 2, 2022 to January 16, 2023. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio
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| Calder Gardens in Philadelphia to honor a native son | | Rago/Wright announces merger with Toomey & Co. | | Miles McEnery Gallery now representing Jacob Hashimoto | 
From left, Alexander S. C. Rower, Alexander Calders grandson, and the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, with Calders stabile Saurien (1975) on the family estate in Roxbury, Conn. on June 10, 2022. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
ROXBURY, CONN.- The future of Calder Gardens, a Philadelphia cultural project that is scheduled to open in early 2024, was being planned on a sunny day in June here on the lush Litchfield County estate where famed sculptor Alexander Calder once lived and worked. This is where Alexander S.C. Rower, Calders grandson and the president of the Calder Foundation, met Piet Oudolf, the Dutch landscape designer known for his work on New York Citys High Line. They went over the $70 million project, the design of which will be announced Wednesday. Calder Gardens, as the renderings show, will be jewel-box in scale and an untraditional art space in many ways, more of an oasis than a shiny new attraction. A garden can move you, ... More | | 
Based in the suburb of Oak Park, IL, the Toomey & Co. office and galleries will relocate to Wrights Chicago headquarters at 1440 W. Hubbard St. in the fall of 2022.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago/Wright announced that Chicago auction house Toomey & Co. will join the brand, building on the companys continued momentum and growth in the industry. As with Rago/Wrights 2021 partnership with LA Modern Auctions (LAMA), Toomey & Co. will maintain its name while all four houses work together to share technology, expertise, and marketing efforts. Based in the suburb of Oak Park, IL, the Toomey & Co. office and galleries will relocate to Wrights Chicago headquarters at 1440 W. Hubbard St. in the fall of 2022. "The business I began 40 years ago has evolved significantly in the last four decades, and were proud to be embarking on an exciting new chapter, which we are confident will benefit our brand as well as the industry and its clients, says John Toomey, President of Toomey & Co. Joining forces with Rago/Wright expands our ability to serve our clients, extends ... More | | 
Jacob Hashimoto in his studio, 2022, Ossining, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973 in Greeley, CO) studied at Carleton College and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Hashimoto has presented solo exhibitions and installations at the Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Governors Island, New York, NY; Museo dArte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; and Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art,Turku, Finland, among others. Hashimotos work may be found in the collections of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State; Capital One, McLean, VA; Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France; Cornell Tech Art Collection, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; McDonalds Corporation, Chicago, IL; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; Oak Park Public Lib ... More |
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| Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Dan Colen | | She's the Peggy Guggenheim of SoHo | | Bonhams appoints Marcel Brouwer as International Specialist of Modern Decorative Art & Design | 
Dan Colen, Woodworker (Candle), 202122 (detail). Oil on canvas, 50 x 68 x 1 1/2 inches, 127 x 172.7 x 3.8 cm © Dan Colen. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Lover, Lover, Lover, an exhibition of new paintings by Dan Colen from the Mother and Woodworker series. All the paintings belong to the final group of his Disney-inspired canvases, which he initiated with the Candle series in 2003. Also included are three sculptures by Sy Colen, the artists father. Borrowing its title from a song written by Leonard Cohen on a visit to his ancestral homeland of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, Lover, Lover, Lover employs the aesthetics of Disney animation to reflect on the many loversgod, birthplace, friend, father, mother, spouse, and childthat we have, lose, and move between. Colen, who is also Jewish, relocated briefly with his family to Israel when he was five years old, an experience that shaped his idea of home in all its charged complexity. Lover, Lover, Lover, which was conceived of during another pivotal moment in the artists life, ... More | | 
Antonio Mancini, Venditore di cerini (The Match Seller), 1872-78, on display in the exhibit Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917, at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, March 14, 2022. Steward of a collection of 20th century art, Laura Mattioli made a future for the Futurists at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Joseph Giovannini
NEW YORK, NY.- Think of her as Peggy Guggenheim in reverse. Laura Mattioli Rossi: an Italian, not an American, living in New York, not Venice, Italy, near Canal Street, not the Grand Canal. She established and runs a private foundation in New York, the Center for Italian Modern Art, which recalls the private, one-woman Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Since 2013, Mattioli has exhibited Italian art of the interwar and postwar period in the SoHo loft building on Broome Street where she lives. Guggenheim displayed surrealists and abstract expressionists of the same period in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, where she lived. The two heirs, raised by nannies some 50 years apart, also shared ... More | | 
Born in the Netherlands, Marcel studied Art History in Utrecht and Leiden and in 1999 became Head of Sale of the 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design department at Christie's Amsterdam. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams has appointed Marcel Brouwer as International Specialist of Modern Decorative Art & Design in Europe with immediate effect (September 2022). He will be based in the Netherlands. Marcel will play a key role in the International Design department, helping the Paris team to build Design sales, and also supporting the teams in London, New York, and Brussels. He will work closely with our colleagues in Scandinavia to develop synergies across the Bonhams network. Born in the Netherlands, Marcel studied Art History in Utrecht and Leiden and in 1999 became Head of Sale of the 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design department at Christie's Amsterdam. In a senior specialist position, he had business getting responsibilities for the design sales in Paris and London. After leaving in 2009 he became an entrepreneur in the auction world. Marcel partnered with a franchise ... More |
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| MASSIMODECARLO opens an exhibition of works by Josh Smith | | Galerie Urs Meile opens an exhibition of works by jakob bill | | Derek Eller Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Jameson Green | 
Josh Smith, Walk Into the Night, 2022. Oil on poly cotton, 182.8 Ã 152.4 cm / 72 Ã 60 inches.
MILAN.- MASSIMODECARLO is presenting OK, Josh Smiths fourth personal exhibition with the gallery, and first solo presentation at Casa Corbellini-Wassermann in Milan. Premiering a new series of paintings, monotypes, and printed works on paper, OK is at the crossroads between pure abstraction and an entirely new iteration of Smiths iconic figurative vocabulary. Briming with energy, warmth, and a sense of optimism, twelve large-scale abstract works grace the rooms of Casa Corbellini-Wasserman, guiding us through Smiths return to abstraction. Working in series, Smiths practice was first anchored in his name paintings begun in the 2000s, spelling out the nine letters of his name in an infinite set of combinations, colors, and formats. The palm trees, grim reapers and New York cityscapes series ensued, all harboring Smith's bold, relentless expressionistic brushstrokes. Today, with OK, Smith turns ... More | | 
jakob billl, no 04, 2015.
LUCERNE.- Entgrenzungen [Dissolving Boundaries] jakob bills Bisections Its actually very simple: the works by jakob bill presented in this show can be described in just a few words: square pictures, hung at an angle as if they were diamond shaped, evenly covered by stripes a few centimetres wide and centred along a horizontal or vertical line. But as is often the case with constructivist and concrete art, bills paintings are not limited to what can be measured and described in words. It would not be doing them justice to describe them only in terms of their material state and thus, the factual facts, as Josef Albers1 put it. Rather, they can really only be grasped when their optical effect the actual facts are properly appreciated. Even the format is remarkable: the diamond shape bill has chosen for his bisections is based on the square, a central, symmetrical form that one of the fathers of abstract painting, the Russian suprematist Kaz ... More | | 
Jameson Green, Wise Men #1, 2022. Oil on linen, 16 x 14 in. JG0095.
NEW YORK, NY.- There comes a time in every boys life, says Jameson Green, when he starts to see just how powerless he is. This is the prelude for understanding With Regards, Without Regrets, Greens second solo exhibition of paintings at Derek Eller Gallery. In this show, Green explores the tail end of boyhood and the process of becoming a man. What does that meanto be a manto obtain this power of adulthood and independence? Where can that road lead for one who is misguided? Some boys may become doggish, like Greens ubiquitous wolf men, chasing after only momentary pleasure and living off impulse. Some boys do not make it to manhood at all. With steady guidance and some luck, some may end up like the blue man, strutting across the canvas in a style reminiscent of old cartoons, each movement accompanied by the flutter of a flute. His squashed form and raised foot build anticipation, as a yello ... More |
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| Almine Rech London hosts its first solo exhibition of German artist Jenny Brosinski | | Venus Over Manhattan presents 365 NFTs by Justin Aversano | | Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Robert Szot opens at Anita Rogers Gallery | 
Jenny Brosinski, fill me up with confidence, 2022. Oil, oil stick, pencil and spray paint on canvas, 162 x 132 cm, 64 x 52 in / © Jenny Brosinski. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Joost Jossen.
LONDON.- Almine Rech presents German artist Jenny Brosinskis first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition shows both two and three-dimensional works, emphasising the alternation between painting and sculpture. At first glance, Brosinskis world conveys a close kinship between the opposite poles of abstract and figurative art. Her work can be understood as dirty minimalism or cool expressionism. Riotous conceptual painting also fits. They are abstract worlds that reflect each painterly gesture and decision in an honest way, undisguised. The animals and monsters have sacrificed themselves; they step out of the painting and become sculptures. Something happens when the characters are extracted from the frame: the red sled heading toward an unknown destination the black imposes on the baby blue. The Yeti, the unicorn, the sparrow, and the dolphin have all ... More | | 
Justin Aversano, Cognition. (2014-2015/2022).
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announces Justin Aversano: Cognition, an unprecedented collaboration with the trailblazing artist and photographer. Aversano made headlines last year with his photographic NFT collection Twin Flames, which broke auction records and catalyzed the growth of a massive community of photography NFT collectors. Cognition expands Aversanos experimentation with blockchain technology, playing with expectations around impermanence, physical presence, and the life cycle of an aesthetic gesture. Cognition is comprised of 365 NFTs, each corresponding to a physical painting created by Aversano. All 365 paintings have been digitized as 3D models and minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The NFTs were minted on August 11, 2022 for the price of 1 ETH each and immediately sold out. Building on the momentum of this historic collection, the artist has partnered with Venus Over Manhattan founder Adam Lindemann t ... More | | 
Robert Szot, Loud Love, 2022, oil and charcoal on linen, 74h x 58w in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Special Music, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Robert Szot. The exhibition will be on view September 7 through October 15 at 494 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor in New York City. Special Music, Szots largest exhibition to date, is the culmination of his 20+ years as a working artist in New York City, and more recently, in Los Angeles as well. Szot approaches his paintings without preconceived notions or strict plans he follows the work where it takes him, choosing to let color and composition inform him as opposed to bringing information to the work. There is a clear rigor to his methodologies, with obvious evidence of searching combined with a willingness to destabilize, utilizing risk and chaos to reach sometimes elusive conclusions. He chooses colors intuitively, ignoring traditional tenets of color theory and more academic approaches to making art ... More |
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 Woman in Veil, by MartÃnez and Vidaurreta jewelry lead Moran's Made in Mexico auction resultsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Made in Mexico auction, presented by John Moran Auctioneers, was held on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at 10:00am PST. Bidders near and far showed interest in the 300-lot sale, featuring fine and decorative art and jewelry from Mexico, Cuba, Central, and South America, as well as some from the Los Angeles Latino community. Mexican fine art led the auction, starting with lot 142, Woman in Veil, 1969, by Ricardo Martinez De Hoyos. Known for his figurative work on surreal atmospheres, this oil painting garnered strong interest, bringing in $18,200 (including buyers premium) with an estimate of $8,000-12,000. Then, lot 214 presented a work by the Mexican/American artist, José Luis Cuevas. His large (54.75" H x 55" W) Marquis De Sade, Niño, 1964 started with an estimate of $2,500-3,500, but ended ... More  Holabird announces results of its Rush to the Rockies auctionRENO, NEV.- A rare American flag with 37 stars, showing an interesting star pattern and in very good condition, made sometime in 1867 upon the admission of Nebraska as a state, sold for $10,625 at a huge, four-day Rush to the Rockies auction held August 25th-28th by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and live at Holabirds spacious gallery in Reno. The 37-star flag is quite rare, as a 38-star flag was introduced to celebrate the 1877 Centennial with Colorado added later in the year. The flag sold by Holabird measured 48 inches by 90 inches and had hand-sewn stars. The flag company logo patch was sewn near a bottom grommet. It followed no known 37-star pattern. The Great Star pattern became official in July 1867. The auction, boasting more than 2,000 lots in a wide array of collecting categories, was headlined ... More  Oolite Arts' Shares program makes collecting art accessible to MiamiansMIAMI, FL.- As the local visual arts community grows, more Miamians want to get involved - but often dont know where to start. Oolite Arts Shares program makes collecting art accessible, by providing members a way to build their own art collection with the works of local artists. Shares uses the model of supporting local agriculture and adapts it to support the arts. Buy one of Oolites Community Supported Art Shares for $500, and instead of getting a bushel of colorful produce, youll receive a bounty of nine pieces of high-quality works, created by Miamis talented artists. Memberships are for sale now, though people interested should hurry to sign up online: Only 50 are available per year. Over the past five years ... More  Heritage announces largest anime art auction everDALLAS, TX.- Anime collectors who subscribe to the notion that bigger is better will find no better destination than Heritage Auctions The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Signature® Auction Vol. III. The Sept. 23-26 event includes more than 900 lots of anime from an exceptional array of artists, enough to appeal to collectors of all tastes. This incredible auction is the third of its kind, following the record-breaking Part II in December that reached $2.6 million, said Jim Lentz, Vice President and Director of Anime and Animation Art at Heritage Auctions. This auction includes more than 900 lots, making it one of the largest collections of anime ever to reach the auction market. It features some of the most notable characters, titles and artists in the rich history of anime, the hand-drawn and computer-generated artwork that started in Japan and has become ... More  Orange County Museum of Art announces leadership gifts and named spacesCOSTA MESA, CA.- Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of the Orange County Museum of Art, today announced the naming of pivotal gifts, which include key spaces in the museums new building, which opens on October 8 with general admission free to the public. The named spaces recognize the generous leadership gifts made in support of the museums new home, designed by Morphosis under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and Partner-in-Charge Brandon Welling located on the campus of Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California. As we prepare to welcome people to our beautiful new home, we are so grateful for our many leadership donors who are making this new chapter in the life of OCMA possible, said Zuckerman. We are honored to recognize their extraordinary generosity to support ... More  New Yorker Festival to host Bono, Quinta Brunson and Jamie RaskinNEW YORK, NY.- The New Yorker Festival returns for its 23rd edition, featuring conversations with Bono; Quinta Brunson; Ben Stiller; Chloe Bailey; Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and more, and will run from Oct. 7 to Oct. 9. Bono, the Irish rock star and more recently the motorbike-riding lion in Sing 2, will be in conversation with The New Yorkers editor, David Remnick, about his new memoir and his decades as an activist and musician. The book, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, will be released in November. Like so many memoirs that Ive read, the most intriguing part is how someone becomes himself or herself, Remnick said in an interview. Quinta Brunson, who plays the chirpy yet clumsy elementary school teacher in Abbott Elementary, will speak with the magazines television critic, Doreen St. Félix. And Bailey (of R&B sister duo ... More  Biting satires dominate Booker Prize shortlistNEW YORK, NY.- A barbed political satire about the fall of an African dictator, told from the perspective of talking animals. A mordantly comic novel about the inescapable horrors of racism in America. A bleak but slyly funny story that explores the trauma of Sri Lankas civil wars. These potent satirical novels are among the six finalists for the Booker Prize, one of the worlds most prestigious literary awards. This years shortlisted novels, announced at a news conference Tuesday, included authors from five countries and four continents, and encompassed a diverse range of prose styles and subject matters, from quiet, introspective literary fiction to fantasy and magical realism. Several of the novels recognized by judges this year deploy humor, myth and allegory to tackle painful chapters of history. In her novel Glory, Zimbabwean ... More  Carolee Schneemann's first major exhibition since her death in 2019 opens at the BarbicanLONDON.- Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is the first survey in the UK of the work of American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) and the first major exhibition since her death in 2019. Tracing Schneemanns diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary work over six decades, the show celebrates a radical and pioneering artist who remains a feminist icon and point of reference for many contemporary artists and thinkers. Addressing urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war, Schneemanns work is concerned with the precarious lived experience of humans and animals. With over 300 objects, the exhibition draws from the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, as well as numerous private and public collections, spanning the extraordinary range of Schneemanns artistic ... More  rodolphe janssen opens two new exhibitions of works by Louisa Gagliardi and Cornelia BaltesBRUSSELS.- The method of loci is a mnemonic device used for perfecting the act of cognitive recall, designed to enhance memorys function through the construction of a mental form of architecture1. The memory palace, as it has often been referred to, is an immaterial construction visualized as a familiar space, or place. The intent is that through memorizing a particular site, one can train the mind to enact specific recollection based on the location of information within this mental architecture. Visualizing oneself searching for knowledge in this way is considered a method of enhanced recall, one aided by this palace of the mind. A mind palace is often familiar to its maker. It could be an ornate folly or as simple as a stone structure, like a house. When navigating the enclaves of the mind, memory operates as the mortar for the bricks ... More  Phoenix Art Museum appoints new head of education, engagement, and community programsPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has selected Paul A. Rogers, PhD, to serve as the Museums new Gerry Grout Director of Education and Engagement following an extensive national search. Rogers will officially begin in the role on October 3, 2022. We are thrilled to welcome Paul Rogers to the senior leadership team at Phoenix Art Museum, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museums Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. As an arts scholar, museum leader, and educator, Paul has the passion, creativity, and strategic vision needed to galvanize the Museums Education and Engagement Division as we work to innovate our suite of public programs and curricula offerings with an eye toward equity and inclusion. Dr. Rogers will also work to create new and grow existing community partnerships, while re-envisioning arts education for the multiplicity ... More  Colby Museum announces new curatorial hiresWATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art announced today that Sarah Humphreville has been appointed Lunder Curator of American Art. Humphreville possesses a keen interest in museum collections and a deep commitment to identifying artists worthy of new research and recognition in the field of American art. With rigorous and comprehensive curatorial skills, special expertise in American art of the 20th century, and knowledge of art mediums and techniques, Humphreville is uniquely prepared to develop exhibitions and undertake research at the Colby Museum, where she will have the opportunity to further her work as an innovative interpreter of American art, culture, and history. Humphreville comes to Waterville from New York, where she has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2012, first as a curatorial intern ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died September 08, 1954. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
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