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The exhibition unfolds in a phantasmagorical narration of trains, urban housing and a bricolage of fantastical creatures.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art dedicates Eleanore Mikus: Moving the Line to the artists Neo-Expressionist period; a stylistic shift first presented in a four-part exhibition organized by Ivan Karp at O.K. Harris across 1971 to 1974. With a soaring career as a monochromatic artist, Eleanore Mikus (19272017) heralded institutional recognition for her kinesthetic explorations of light and topographies throughout the 1960s. When awarded the McDowell Fellowship in 1969, she expanded the acclaimed oeuvre with vitalizing plays of colors in childlike figurations that presaged the Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s. In this unbridled imagination of cartoonish forms, there lays Mikus pursuit of the emotional liberty inherent in lines and geometric shapes that was simultaneously the crux of her monochromatic paintings. The exhibition unfolds in a phantasmagorical narration of trains, urban housing and a bricolage of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Fire Station: Artist in Residence opened The Present: The Future of the Past, a unique exhibition showcasing the practices of 31 talented alumni of Qatar Museumsâ Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme. The exhibition will remain on view until 16 December 2023 at the Fire Station's Garage Gallery, Gallery 3, and Gallery 4.
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| Lindemann family returns 33 looted artifacts to Cambodia | | Stolen Van Gogh painting is returned in Ikea bag | | Scholten exhibits important complete set of 100 modern woodblock prints contrasting two pivotal modern printmakers | 
A statue of a figure known as Dhrishtadyumna, one of the 33 items being returned to the Cambodia government by the family of George Lindemann. (United States Attorneys Office Southern District of New York via The New York Times)
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- A family of billionaire art collectors and philanthropists has agreed to return 33 ancient statues to the Cambodian government after investigators determined that the treasures had been looted, Cambodian and American officials said Tuesday. The officials said the objects, some dating back at least 1,200 years to the Khmer Empire, were purchased over several decades by George Lindemann, a gas and oil executive and Palm Beach, Florida, art collector who died in 2018 at age 82. While the items are hard to value, Cambodian investigators said Lindemann is believed to have paid at least $20 million for them, based on their research into known sales of Khmer antiquities. Cambodia has been on a worldwide hunt to recover ... More | | 
Flowers for general director Andreas Blühm from Evert van Os (director of Museum Singer Laren) - press conference 'Spring Garden' by Van Gogh back in the Groninger Museum.
by Claire Moses
NEW YORK, NY.- A Vincent van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 was returned Monday by a tipster, who delivered it encased in Bubble Wrap and tucked in an Ikea bag to the home of a private Dutch art crimes detective. The detective, Arthur Brand, had been investigating the theft of The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, one of van Goghs early works, painted in 1884. The painting was stolen while it was part of a temporary exhibition at the Singer Laren Museum, about 20 miles southeast of Amsterdam, where it had been on loan from the Groninger Museum in the northern part of the country. The exhibit opened in January 2020, but was forced to close two months later as Dutch museums shuttered in response to the pandemic. Security camera ... More | | 
Oda Kazuma (1881-1956), Musicians on a Verandah with Lanterns, ca. 1927. Color lithograph, 23 1/4 by 18 3/8 in., 59.2 by 46.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- For their autumn exhibition Scholten Japanese Art offers the work of two modern printmakers, Oda Kazuma (1881-1956), and Kishio Koizumi (1893-1945), both prominent members of the sosaku hanga (creative print) movement who shared an interest in depicting daily life in views of modern Japan, particularly following the transformation of Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake. Although both embraced the artist as creator ethos associated with sosaku hanga, they utilized varying techniques. Part One: Oda Kazuma: Oda Kazuma was the leading color lithographer in Japan who also produced self-carved as well professionally published woodblock prints, the exhibition includes examples of his landscape and figural prints produced in all three modes of production. Born in Tokyo in 1882 into family which had enjoyed koke ('high family') status under the shogunate, at the age of twelve he ... More |
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| Planning a day trip to Venice when it's crowded? It'll cost you. | | 'Tempest' new sculpture by Fujikasa Satoko opening today for Asia Week New York | | With $40 million gift, New York Philharmonic jump-starts Dudamel era | 
Gondolas pass under the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy on May 4, 2022. Starting next spring, day-trippers to Venice at times when the city is extremely crowded with tourists will be expected to pay 5 euros for the privilege. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
VENICE.- Starting next spring, day-trippers to Venice at times when the city is extremely crowded with tourists will be expected to pay 5 euros (about $5.40) for the privilege. A measure to impose the fee was passed Tuesday by the Venice City Council as part of its strategy to better manage and perhaps even limit the hordes of tourists who flock each year to the fragile lagoon city. We have to show the world that for the first time, something is being done for Venice, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said after the vote. Theres always someone who will say its not enough, but then nothing is done concretely, he added, according to the news agency ANSA. Rising improbably from the waters of the Venetian lagoon, this canal-crossed city is as beautiful ... More | | 
Fujikasa Satoko, Gust of Wind, 2023. Stoneware with white slip glaze, 11 x 11 x 6 7/8 in. Photo by Tanaka Taro. Courtesy of Joan B Mirviss LTD.
NEW YORK, NY.- The most highly anticipated exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD in years is finally opening with new sculptures by the extraordinary artist Fujikasa Satoko. Titled TEMPEST, this show marks her third solo outing in New York and the first since 2019. Join us for Asia Week New York starting today to see Fujikasas latest body of work inspired by the wilder side of nature. After an agonizing four-year wait, both collectors and curators now have the opportunity to encounter the latest creations by this youthful talent from Japan whose career is only just getting started. The inspiration for this body of work comes from the stormy seas and restless clouds that have characterized the atmosphere of the past few years. While also facing down personal headwinds, Fujikasa has felt at times unmoored from her artistic practice that had been anchored in themes involving growth, flowing water, and light. Her latest exploration of the wilder side ... More | | 
Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang with Deborah Borda, the New York Philharmonics former president and chief executive, at a New York Philharmonic gala in New York, Dec. 2, 2021. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Philharmonic has a sparkling home: the recently renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. It has a charismatic new conductor: superstar maestro Gustavo Dudamel, who will take the podium in 2026. And now it will start its next chapter with a groundbreaking gift: the Philharmonic announced Tuesday that it had secured a $40 million donation from financier Oscar L. Tang, a co-chair of its board, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, an archaeologist and art historian, the largest contribution to the endowment in the ensembles 181-year history. The donation will be used to endow the Philharmonics music and artistic director chair starting in the 2025-26 season, when Dudamel, the 42-year-old leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becomes music director designate. ... More |
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| Ignacio Uriarte first solo exhibition 'Drawn To See' private viewing today at Bartha_contemporary | | Essex Flowers now exhibiting survey of recent work by Conceptual Art artist Stephen Laub | | Jazz and classical Met in the 1940s, and we're still catching up | 
Ignacio Uriarte, London Window Greens, 2022. Permanent marker on paper, 107 à 77 cm, 42 ⅓ à 30 ⅛ in. Framed 113 à 83 cm, 44 ¼ à 32 ⅛ in.
LONDON.- Bartha_contemporary will be presenting an exhibition featuring recent works by internationally acclaimed artist Ignacio Uriarte. The artistʼs first solo exhibition with the gallery, ʻDrawn To See,ʼ will be held at the Notting Hill space. Ignacio Uriarte's thought-provoking works explore the intersections of art and perception and utilise everyday office materials, offering a unique perspective on the modern human experience. Ignacio Uriarte (b.1972 in Germany, lives and works in Valencia, Spain), known for his innovative and boundary-pushing practice, presents a diverse selection of recent works on paper that challenge conventional perceptions of the medium. Uriarte's keen observations of the modern workplace and his use of ordinary office supplies to construct intricate and captivating compositions make his works truly extraordinary. Through ... More | | 
Stephen Laub, Map, 2022. Wood, foam core, paint 36 x 28 x 8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Essex Flowers has opened The Daily Mirror, a survey of recent sculpture by Stephen Laub. Like the eponymous work in the exhibition, these objects refer to the personal, political and social concerns that inform the artists daily practice. Laubs wooden wall sculptures in the front gallery are memorials to paper documents that have had outsized historical effects. Individual works in the series may represent the grave differences between documents as plans and as records, matter-of-fact memos impacting individuals or entire populations, and maps of abstracted territories. These works evoke an intention to dissemble information, misrepresent motives, and retract evidence, as wry inquiries into both the precarious nature of social agreements, and the uncertain outcome of personal ambitions. In the rear gallery, the artist displays works from three series that use the forms of traditional mens hats as tropes for masc ... More | | 
The pianist Aaron Diehl at home in New York, Aug. 31, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Seth Colter Walls
NEW YORK, NY.- This September, audiences will at last possess a more dynamic, more elegant and just plain improved sense of how New York Citys jazz and classical scenes converged in the 1940s. Was eight decades a galling length of time to have waited? Naturally. But better late than never. The belated occasion is because of a pair of new recordings. Each one has located and dusted off a holy grail artifact, dating from an era when Black composers with sway in jazz circles dared to pursue hybrid musical styles, all while meeting various forms of resistance or disrespect. Their classical works were discussed as they premiered, yet were rarely programmed twice. Nor were they properly documented on recordings. That last bit of the story is whats changing, starting this week. One CD, out Friday from the Naxos label, brings the world premiere recording of ... More |
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| Unique exhibition reveals various stages of creative process of 31 artists in residence | | Sydney Contemporary records over $21 million in art sales | | Dinner Gallery opens a solo exhibition featuring 5 sculptures by Wen Liu | 
Farah Alisidiki, The End of Fascination.
DOHA.- The Fire Station: Artist in Residence opened The Present: The Future of the Past, a unique exhibition showcasing the practices of 31 talented alumni of Qatar Museums Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme. The exhibition will remain on view until at the Fire Station's Garage Gallery, Gallery 3, and Gallery 4. The Present: The Future of the Past, comprises artworks created during residencies for the years 2021-2022 (AIR 6) and 2022-2023 (AIR 7). It offers visitors a glimpse into inner workings of artists' studios and artists' unique processes, from concept to realization, resulting in provocative artworks in varied media. The Fire Station's AIR programme is a nine-month residency for artists across all disciplines in Qatar, empowering them to nurture and grow their talents through production support, curatorial guidance, and expert mentorships. Artists are provided with well-equipped studio spaces and unrestricted access to ... More | | 
Over 500 artists from 96 galleries across Australia, New Zealand and beyond showcased thousands of works over the five-day art fair. Photo: Wes Nel.
SYDNEY.- Australasias premier art Fair, Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with MA Financial Group, attracted over 25,000 visitors and recorded over $21million in sales over five days at the Fair, with further sales expected over the next few days. Held at multi-arts precinct Carriageworks from 710 September 2023, Sydney Contemporary represents the highest concentration of art sales annually in Australasia, a significant boost to the art market, and critical to the growth of contemporary art in the region. Sydney Contemporary 2023 saw the Fairs largest edition to date featuring 96 emerging and established galleries and over 500 artists from Australia, New Zealand, and around the world. The Fair provides an incredible opportunity for collectors, curators, art lovers and institutions from across Australasia to come together on a grand ... More | | 
Wen Liu, House of Mime - Fall, 2022. Epoxy clay, paint, acrylic on board, stainless steel, 40 x 26 x 2 in (101.6 x 66 x 5.1 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Dinner Gallery presents In Convalescence, a solo exhibition featuring 5 sculptures by Wen Liu. The exhibition will be on view from September 14th through October 28th. Employing mold making processes to mimic the molting process of animals, Lius practice is an exploration of loss and abandonment. Her sculptures are an assembly of new and found materials that echo the shape of their predecessors and serve as analogies for lived time and memory. As an immigrant in the United States, Liu has often questioned her belonging and security. While navigating her new home, she began collecting found furniture from estate sales as subjects for her molds. Combining these discarded objects and giving them new life, her organic and bodily forms fluctuate between time and space, commenting on concepts of value, ... More |
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 3 actors, 1 unshakable bondNEW YORK, NY.- What promises to be the most passionate love story of the new Broadway season is a tale of three people. Like many triangles, this one involves jealousy, guilt, misunderstanding, recrimination and betrayal. As is usually the case with such affairs, it begins in ecstasy and ends in tragedy. (You could also say it begins in tragedy and ends in ecstasy, but more on that later.) One big difference, though, between this triangle and the more classic variety: Sex is not part of the equation for its leading lovers. What propels the highs and lows of Merrily We Roll Along, the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical that begins performances this month at the Hudson Theater, is friendship. But for the stars of this first Broadway revival Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe embodying the implosion of that friendship may well ... More  The new punk, (La)Horde style: Working 'for a Brighter Future'NEW YORK, NY.- They are three, but they create as one. They work in dance, music, cinema and fashion worlds they enter in ways both playful and subversive, including choreographing a video for Burberry inspired by Singin in the Rain, in which blocks of ice crash down from the sky. It weighs in on climate change. Everyone is smiling, but it isnt sweet. They love how musicals can pivot from light to dark. They have worked with Sam Smith (the videos Im Not Here to Make Friends and Unholy); with Spike Jonze a hero who wrote Ghosts, a film they directed; and recently with Madonna, as artistic director of choreography for the Celebration Tour. Their own works are experimental and daring, filled with energy and a bright, churning spirit to carry and uplift dance, to blow on the embers of its flame, to give it a new future. They may only be three ... More  'Infinite Life' review: Is there a cure for pain and desire?NEW YORK, NY.- A woman collapsed in a chaise longue on a brick and breeze-block patio is trying to read George Eliots Daniel Deronda. Over several days, various acquaintances also taking the sun will ask her what the book is about, a question she finds hard to answer as she keeps getting stuck on page 152. Still, she calls the novel very weird and great. If Im not reading it all the time it seems really boring, she says, but once Im into it its like the most entertaining thing in the world. This might be Annie Bakers mission statement, and, sure enough, her latest play, Infinite Life, which opened Tuesday at the Atlantic Theater Company, is very weird and great. Like The Flick, The Aliens, John and other previous work, it peeps at the greatest mysteries of life in this case principally pain and desire, and what they have in common through the tiny, seemingly inco ... More  National Academy of Design presents drawing exhibition in new space, connecting rich history with contemporary practicesNEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy of Design is welcoming Drawing as Practice, a group exhibition centering on drawing as both the medium and practice connecting the many divergent points of interests that have contributed to the founding and history of the National Academy. The exhibition marks the first activation of the National Academys new home and exhibition space in Chelsea, welcoming viewers to experience the next chapter for the organization. Placing an emphasis on technique, representation, and abstraction, Drawing as Practice illustrates how drawing is a through-line in the National Academys history, connecting historical works from the Academys collection with the vastly diverse contemporary ... More  Impressive result for Robert Colescott's '1919' at dedicated Bonhams auctionNEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams is excited to announce the successful sale of 1919 (1980) by Robert Colescott (1925-2009) for $3.5 million, achieved today (Sept 8) in New York. The announcement in early summer that Colescotts masterpiece was coming fresh to market, straight from the family, to Bonhams for a single lot sale garnered national attention, and right at the beginning of Armory Week in New York the painting radiated through a fervent atmosphere. Collectors and enthusiasts from around the world bid in the room and over the phone, signalling an exceptional start to the fall auction season. Bidding in the room was Alia Dahl from Jeffrey Deitch, who won the painting for a leading American private collection. This magnificent work will join one of the most robust collections in the nation, with a number of institutional-level works. The ... More  Phillips to offer monumental Gerhard Richter as 'star lot' of the house's international fall auction seasonNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips presented the star lot of the fall auction season Gerhard Richters exceptional Abstraktes Bild. Painted in 1987 and comprised of two large-scale panels, the work is over thirteen feet wide and nearly nine feet tall, making this one of the largest works from Richters oeuvre to ever be offered at auction. Following a tour to Taipei and Hong Kong, the monumental painting will be exhibited in New York in the lead up to the Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, where it will be offered with an estimate available upon request. Jeremiah Evarts, Deputy Chairman, Americas, Senior International Specialist, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, A towering example from the most significant body of work in Richters career to date, we are honored to present Abstraktes Bild as the cornerstone of our fall auction season ... More  'The Grand Gathering of the Century: Zodiac Heads from the Yuanmingyuan and Important Treasures' now on viewHONG KONG.- The Indra and Harry Banga Gallery of City University of Hong Kong is presenting its second phase of the exhibition The Grand Gathering of the Century: Zodiac Heads from the Yuanmingyuan and Important Treasures. Commencing with four authentic zodiac heads from the Yuanmingyuan in the first phase, the exhibition will enter its second phase with a complete set of 12 zodiac head sculptures in collaboration with Singapores Asian Civilisations Museum, to recreate the exquisite design and ingenuity of the fountain in the Western architecture of the Yuanmingyuan. Created for the movie CZ12: Chinese Zodiac, the 12 zodiac head sculptures were vividly crafted to faithfully replicate the original ones from ... More  Monterey Museum of Art presents "Tsherin Sherpa: Different Worlds"MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art opened the highly anticipated exhibition, Tsherin Sherpa: Different Worlds, showcasing the extraordinary talent of contemporary California artist Tsherin Sherpa. Visitors will witness the evolution of Sherpas fearless practicebridging cultural divides and igniting conversations. Tsherin Sherpa: Different Worlds presents the captivating artworks of Tsherin Sherpa, a globally renowned contemporary artist. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tsherin Sherpa emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998. The artists work is grounded in his personal experiences within the Himalayan Diaspora and his rigorous training as a thangka painter (traditional Buddhist art). Upon relocating to the United States, Sherpa encountered new artistic influences, which led him to develop a distinctive artistic practice that seamlessly ... More  'Moonlight' writer Tarell Alvin McCraney to lead Geffen PlayhouseNEW YORK, NY.- Tarell Alvin McCraney, an acclaimed playwright who won an Oscar for writing the story that became the 2016 film Moonlight, has been named the next artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse, a prominent nonprofit theater in Los Angeles. The Geffen, like many regional theaters in the United States, has been hit by a downturn in the field as of this spring, its subscriptions were 40% below prepandemic levels. But it was among the more innovative theater companies when theaters were closed during the pandemic, producing some popular virtual shows, and it is now in better shape than many. McCraney, 42, said he was fully aware of the crisis facing the field, which he said was the impetus for him to decide to step into leadership. Were at a place where, if I really love this, if I really want to effect change, I have to get in, he said. I ... More  The 'Forever' glaciers of America's West aren't forever anymoreMOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, WASH.- Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-covered mountain in the contiguous United States. The changes reflect a stark global reality: Mountain glaciers are vanishing as the burning of fossil fuels heats up Earths atmosphere. According to the World Glacier Monitoring Service, total glacier area has shrunk steadily in the last half-century; some of the steepest declines have been in the western United States and Canada. Mount Rainier National Park, a popular tourist destination that gets roughly 2 million visitors every year, is feeling the effects acutely. Wildflowers, among its main summer attractions, are blossoming at odd times. ... More  Curtis Fowlkes, avant-jazz pioneer of the 1980s, dies at 73NEW YORK, NY.- Curtis Fowlkes, a trombonist and vocalist who was best known as a founder of the Jazz Passengers, a playfully eclectic ensemble that emerged from the New York avant-jazz underground of the 1980s to achieve critical acclaim while collaborating with the likes of Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry and Jeff Buckley, died Aug. 31 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 73. His son, Saadiah, said he died in a hospital of congestive heart failure. Blending sly humor and artistic daring with soft-spoken dignity, Fowlkes was the balancing magician of the Jazz Passengers, Roy Nathanson, the bands co-founder and saxophonist, said in a phone interview. The Jazz Passengers released 11 albums, starting with Broken Night Red Light in 1987, without ever achieving more than modest commercial success. But with a fan base largely consisting ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Renzo Piano was born  September 14, 1937. Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world." In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100. In this image: Italian architect Renzo Piano, right,waits to receive the Danish Sonning Prize and its 1 million kroner (US$190,000) award during a ceremony Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008, at Copenhagen University in Copenhagen. His wife, Emilia Rossato, left, was seated next to him during the ceremony. The architect received the award for "commendable work that benefits European culture" and Piano's works include the New York Times building and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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