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Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting AARON SISKIND/Into Abstraction. This is the Gallerys first photography exhibit since the move down to the Chelsea district in 2018 from the Upper East Side. Aaron Siskind, a master of capturing the essence of abstract forms in his photography, has been a pivotal figure in transforming photography into a novel visual language. This exhibit features a remarkable collection of Siskind's works that delve deep into the realm of abstract expressionism, a territory where photography intersects with the emotional and the enigmatic. On view are fifteen gelatin silver prints that represent the crux of Siskinds artistic practice all while serving as a visual diary chronicling his extensive cross-continental explorations. Siskinds works, characterized by their intense focus on the details of everyday objects and surfaces, hold the power to transform the mundane into mesmerizing forms ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Some of the structures featured at the Art Shanty Projects on frozen Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. The Art Shanty Projects, in which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats recreate traditional ice fishing huts in their own eccentric style, was closed days later due to rising temperatures. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times).
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| Alice Mackler, sculptor discovered in her 80s, dies at 92 | | Slotin Auction's February sale holds a Black History Month surprise | | University Archives announces online-only auction, February 21st | 
Alice Mackler at Independent New York, May 2022.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- Alice Mackler, who toiled in obscurity as a painter for more than 60 years before taking up sculpture and exploding onto the art scene in her 80s, died Jan. 27 at a hospice in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. She was 92. The cause was complications of COVID-19, according to the Kerry Schuss Gallery, which represented her. After taking up art as a teenager at boarding school in the 1940s, Mackler spent a lifetime supporting herself with low-level office jobs while dedicating her nights and weekends to painting and drawing buxom figures much like her own, using a confident, imaginative, sometimes wiry line that evoked the work of Paul Klee. In one typical untitled painting from 1968, a bulbous white form pauses in front of large blocks of yellow, reddish orange and lavender. Its outline is almost as loose as a doodle, and without the sketchy little face on top and the dark black dots she added for eyes and nipples, you might not ... More | | 
This circa 19th century sculpture resembles the famous figure created by Josiah Wedgewood depicted on the seal for the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (a British group formed in 1787) that included the motto, "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" Est. $2,000-4,000.
BUFORD, GA.- Slotin Auctions annual February sale this year is a tale of two auctions. The Southern Folk Pottery & Quilt Extravaganza auction, much anticipated every winter by collectors of these art forms, unfolds on Saturday, February 10. But Sunday, February 11, brings something entirely different: The African American Experience Collection of the late Illinois collector Richard Harris, 156 lots in all. Documenting the long history of the African American struggle, its a fascinating, powerful collection that spans from slavery to the Great Migration, through the Jim Crow South to the Civil Rights Movement and all the way to Black Lives Matter. Its not like a trophy collection, says Steve Slotin, auction house co-owner with his wife Amy. Its a thoughtful, in-depth collection powered by inarguable historical facts. It includes great artifacts ... More | | 
Lot 84 is an Abraham Lincoln signature (boldly signed as A. Lincoln) on a leaf of Executive Mansion stationery and displayed with an etching of Lincoln (est. $8,000-$10,000).
WILTON, CONN.- Marilyn Monroes signed Connecticut drivers license from 1958, three lots dedicated to Albert Einstein (a two-page autograph letter signed and a one-page scientific manuscript, both handwritten in German, plus a vintage photograph from 1923), and a Steve Jobs signed release authorizing the audio use of his 1988 NeXT demonstration, are just a few of the items up for bid in University Archives next online-only auction planned for Wednesday, February 21st. The Rare Signed Manuscripts, Books, Photos & Relics auction will start promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. All 469 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website: www.UniversityArchives.com as well as the platforms Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The February 21st auction features our ... More |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts presents 'Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971' | | 'Takesada Matsutani / Kate Van Houten. Paris Prints 1967-1978' on view at Hauser & Wirth | | India Art Fair closes landmark 15th edition celebrating the best of South Asian art and culture | 
The Bronze Venus, Re-release of 'The Duke is Tops', 1938. Lithograph. Director: William N. Nolte. Poster collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, a landmark exhibition exploring the deeply influential yet often overlooked history and impact of Blacks in American film from cinema's infancy, as the Hollywood industry matured and the years following the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition, originally organized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, also includes a new, unique film series in partnership with the Detroit Film Theatre. On view since February 4 and through to June 23, 2024, Regeneration highlights how trailblazing African American artists persisted despite barriers of discrimination and prejudice in order to showcase their talent, tenacity, and commitment to creative expression. Regeneration features nearly 200 historical items including photographs, ... More | | 
Kate Van Houten, The Owl and the pussycat went... (variation) 1968. Etching from Zinc on BFK paper 64.5 x 49.8 cm / 25 3/8 x 19 5/8 in © Kate Van Houten. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Thomas Barratt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lifelong partners in art and life, Takesada Matsutani and Kate Van Houten first met in 1967 while working at Atelier 17, the celebrated print studio established in Paris by Stanley William Hayter. Beginning 25 January 2024, Hauser & Wirth New York is presenting a two-part exhibition exploring the couples overlapping oeuvres and deep involvement with printmaking over the years through a selection of etchings, screenprints, photography, painting, sculpture and various ephemera on view at the gallerys 18th Street location in New York City. The first installment of this presentation focuses on works made using intaglio techniques, while the second foregrounds hard-edge silkscreens in vibrant color. Through these works and related public programs, Paris Prints ... More | | 
India Art Fair closes its 2024 edition, reporting robust sales and strong attendance.
NEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, the leading platform showcasing modern and contemporary art from India and South Asia, closed its landmark 15th edition to reports of robust sales and strong attendance. Taking place 1 4 February 2024 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi, the fair featured a record line-up of 109 exhibitors, including 72 galleries, 23 institutions and 7 debut design studios. Led in partnership with BMW India for the eighth time, the fair brought together galleries, collectors, institutions, artists, designers, organisations and visitors alike, fostering crucial opportunities for dialogue, discovery and exchange. With creative voices at its centre, the fair was a platform for local and international audiences to discover the best of the art scene from South Asia and beyond, ranging from established artists and designers to the emerging talents of tomorrow. Jaya Asokan, Fair Director, India Art Fair, comments: This ... More |
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| Exhibition at The Met to present the Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian court painting | | 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' by Alessandra Sanguinetti at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson | | 'Cleveland by Night' an exhibition at Fort Gansevoort by Michelangelo Lovelace now on view | 
An Elephant and Keeper, India, Mughal, ca. 1650-60. Opaque color and gold on paper. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022 (2022.187).
NEW YORK, NY.- Widely regarded as one of the finest of its kind, British artist Howard Hodgkins collection of Indian paintings includes works created at the Mughal, Deccan, Rajput, and Pahari courts dating from the 16th to the 19th century. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 6, 2024, the exhibition Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting presents a unique and personal vision of Indias great painting tradition through newly acquired works from the artists collection. In 2022, The Met announced a major acquisition of more than 80 drawings and paintings from the Howard Hodgkin Collection. The exhibition is made possible by the Florence ... More | | 
The Black Cloud, 2001. © 2021 Alessandra Sanguinetti.
PARIS.- Alessandra Sanguinetti (born 1968) was raised and educated in Argentina. In 1999, she met two inimitable children, Guillermina Aranciaga and Belinda Stutz. The two young women, whose lives she then followed, became icons in her life and work. Against the backdrop of rural Argentina, in an overwhelmingly male world of gauchos and farmers, the artists documentary work spans different stages of life, reflecting on the irreversibility of time. With the help of the two cousins (Aranciaga and Stutz), using scenography and accessories, Sanguinetti puts her photographs and her models into dialogue in a resolutely phantasmagorical series. As Morpheus holds a mirror in one hand while offering the power of dreams in the other, the artist paradoxically transports us to the realm of illusion and portrays a world proper to the two individuals, at first no more than points on the horizon. In dreamlike, psychoanalytical images, Sanguinetti subtly addresses the continual question of a ... More | | 
Michelangelo Lovelace Life Trapped In The Bottle, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 63.5 x 44.5 inches. ©Michelangelo Lovelace. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Since February 1, 2024, Fort Gansevoort has been presenting Cleveland by Night, its second exhibition devoted to the work of late artist Michelangelo Lovelace (1960-2021). On view are paintings and drawings depicting nocturnal city life in Cleveland, Ohioexterior and interior tableaux capturing the city where he was born and lived for all of his sixty years. Best known for urban genre scenes set within sprawling cityscapes, Lovelace attracted critical praise in his lifetime for intimate depictions of Clevelands Black community and its built world. His subject matter explores topics of policing, poverty, war, and healthcare, all replete with deep personal expressions of Black identity and shaped by his immersion in art as an antidote to the effects of poverty and addiction. Through a rich color palette and a distinctive, even eccentric, approach to spatial perspective, Lovelaces art imbued his subjects with im ... More |
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| The retrospective 'Richard Mayhew: Inner Terrain' in Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History | | 'Eddie Martinez: Wavelengths' now on view in fifth solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash | | Museum of Bath Architecture to reopen to the public this March | 
Richard Mayhew, Untitled (red tree), c. 1990. Collection of Stan and Marguerite Lathan.
SANTA CRUZ, CA.- The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has opened Richard Mayhew: Inner Terrain, a rare and timely exhibition of the artwork of Richard Mayhew (b. 1924), featuring works that speak to American arts, culture, and history. The exhibition is on view at the MAH since February 1 and will continue through to May 12, 2024. Mayhew, who lives in Soquel, California, works from inside the painting. His unique practice blends multiple genres in the history of art including Baroque landscape, Impressionism, plein-air, Abstract Expressionism, and Color Field painting using mechanisms from each. He calls his landscapes moodscapes as an introspective excavation of the terrain of his mind. Mayhews use of color is intuitive and is alive with emotion. When his work is viewed from a distance, fields of color become fields of space and resolve as landscape. ... More | | 
Eddie Martinez, Full Bloom, 2023, Oil, acrylic paint, spray paint and footprint on linen, 60 by 48 in. 152.4 by 121.9 cm. © Eddie Martinez.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash annunced its fifth solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based painter Eddie Martinez. Wavelengths features nine new paintings and will be on view to March 9, 2024. Over the past two decades, Martinez has become known for his striking and energetic style of painting, part of an expansive practice that includes painted bronze sculptures, works on paper and printmaking. Deftly layering oil, acrylic and enamel paint, and employing an ever-evolving vocabulary of characters and symbols, Martinez has cultivated a style uniquely his own. Many of the new paintings featured in Wavelengths belong to Martinezs ongoing Whiteouts series. Started in 2015, he has continuously returned to this series in which a colorful, underlying painting is covered with white paint. Ranging from a thick impasto to a thin wash, ... More | | 
The Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, home to MOBA © Museum of Bath Architecture Bath Preservation Trust.
BATH.- Bath Preservation Trust announced that the Museum of Bath Architecture will reopen on 30th March 2024. During this time the museum will be open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am-4pm, every week. As part of the re-opening, consultation will take place asking the public to contribute to ideas towards the museums future. This will ensure the collection remains relevant, and the building is sustainable for current and future users. The Museum of Bath Architecture closed in December 2019 and, following the emergence of Covid-19 in 2020, was unable to reopen. As the pandemic waned and BPTs other museums reopened, the Museum of Bath Architecture remained closed while the team considered its future. The museum tells the story of the rich architectural history of Bath, from its transformation from ... More |
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 Nina Beier's 'Women & Children' moves to Helsinki from New YorkHELSINKI.- In late May, the equestrian statue of Marshal Mannerheim will get new neighbours when a group of 11 bronze women and children are permanently installed in the pool in front of the Kiasma outdoor café. Nina Beiers Women & Children (2022) is composed of found bronze sculptures, with water streaming from their eyes. The work was acquired for the Finnish National Gallerys collection and will be on display from 30 May. The individual sculptures date from different periods and represent different styles. All figures are nude, in keeping with the Western art-historical convention of depicting women and children. The water flowing from the eyes of the sculptures recalls the way in which crying is often depicted in cartoons and animation, with the tears gushing forth like a waterfall. Drawing inspiration from the fountain at the Sanctuary ... More  Taylor Swift makes history on a night dominated by womenNEW YORK, NY.- Women thoroughly dominated the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, with a history-making album of the year win by Taylor Swift and victories by Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, SZA, Lainey Wilson, Colombian pop star Karol G and the band boygenius. The wins capped a year when women were extraordinarily successful in pop music, and also signified a change for the Grammys, which have frequently been criticized as recently as five years ago for overlooking female artists on the show. In addition to the wins, the show featured powerful performances by SZA, Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and even Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman two godmothers of modern songwriting who have made only rare public appearances in recent years. In taking album of the year for Midnights, Swift became the first artist to win ... More  How AI is remodeling the fantasy homeNEW YORK, NY.- I was scrolling through Instagram recently when I found a new page slipped into my feed through a suggested post: @tinyhouseperfect. It seemed designed to poke at my frustrated longings for a space of my own. I want to own a house; I cannot currently buy a house. But what if the house were very small? Very small and also perfect? Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chefs kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy loch house in the Scottish Highlands. I had projected my future self to the Scottish seaside, wondering how much the house might cost to rent for a weekend, when I realized that price was no object because the house did not exist. Each of these teensy homes had been rendered by artificial intelligence software and smoothed with an assist from more AI software. I had ... More  The musical force behind the communal, queer 'Bark of Millions'NEW YORK, NY.- Its the last hour, and Im feeling the energy draining, performing arts polymath Taylor Mac announced near the end of a recent rehearsal at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. If the artists an ensemble of a dozen singers, as well as several instrumentalists were exhausted, it was because of the sheer scale of what they were working on: Bark of Millions, a show by Mac and musician Matt Ray, which has its American premiere Monday at BAMs Harvey Theater. Essential to that scale is Rays score of 55 original songs that add up to four hours of performance. That would be enough to fill several albums by any recording artist, and yet its business as usual for Ray. He has been not only the musical core of Macs recent shows the daylong marathon A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, for which he arranged ... More  Jesse L. Martin is watching youNEW YORK, NY.- Jesse L. Martin can tell when youre lying. You might look away, he said. You might look down. Your nose will perspire and you will feel compelled to touch it. Theres also intense eye contact, he said, demonstrating this across a low table in the bar of a downtown hotel last week. Martin, an actor who spent his young adulthood in New York but has since relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, was in town for a few days to promote The Irrational, the NBC procedural in which he stars. (The final episodes of its first season are now airing; the network has already renewed it for a second.) Martin, 55, plays Alec Mercer, a professor of behavioral science at a fictional university. Somehow, Alec spends more time assisting the FBI than he does in the classroom. (Thats tenure for you.) He solves each weeks case by applying ... More  Mesmerizing displays in Anila Quayyum Agha solo exhibition transform galleries at the Bruce MuseumGREENWICH, CT.- Dramatic shadows, intricate designs and thought-provoking themes are now immersing visitors at the Bruce Museum. On view Feb. 3-April 21, Anila Quayyum Agha: Dualities showcases 10 works by the internationally recognized artist, from intimate embroidered drawings to her iconic large-scale light installations that shift and respond to each new visitor in the space. I encountered Aghas work in person six years ago, and that experience stays with me to this day, said Robert Wolterstorff, the Susan E. Lynch executive director and CEO of the Bruce. Her work is utterly captivating, enthralling, enveloping. Then you discover the underlying themes of differences bridged and dualities brought together. By casting a mesh of light and shadow across walls and people, her work implicates all the beholders, uniting ... More  Week-long celebration for two exhibitions of Indigenous art features more than a dozen events CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Since the end of January the University of Virginia (UVA) museums, The Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection have been hosting artists, events and discussions around the opening of two exhibitions of Indigenous art. Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala opened at The Fralin on Feb. 3 joining Voices of Connection: Garamut Slit Drums of New Guinea, on view now. The Fralin and Kluge-Ruhe are hosting more than a dozen events throughout the week in partnership with UVA, the city of Charlottesville and several other arts organizations. Opening Week and Events: A delegation of six Yolŋu artists and curators who worked on Madayin arrived in Charlottesville on Jan. 28 from Australia. While in Virginia they, will visit the Monacan Indian Nation Museum (Amherst, ... More  USC Fisher Museum of Art announces the presentation of 'Scene Shift: The Exhibit'LOS ANGELES, CA.- USC Fisher Museum of Art is now presenting Scene Shift: The Exhibition. Inspired by the book, Scene Shift: US Set Designers in Conversation, the exhibition features work by Abigail DeVille, Regina Garcia, Marsha Ginsberg, Shing Yin Khor, Mimi Lien, Collette Pollard, Deb O, and others. On view since February 2 through April 6, 2024, this exhibition offers visitors an immersive experience to explore the work of contemporary scenic designers up close and personal. The first exhibition of its kind, Scene Shift, places contemporary scenic designers front and center, focusing on the scenery and allowing the designer to own what they make in a new way," said exhibition co-curator Sibyl Wickersheimer. For many years, our experience has existed within a collective of voices as a collaborator. In this exhibit, I am interested in singling ... More  Turn back the hands of time and discover a beautiful exhibition of mechanical marvelsLONDON.- A major exhibition opened at the Science Museum on Thursday 1 February 2024 featuring more than 20 resplendent mechanical clocks, called zimingzhong, on loan from The Palace Museum in Beijing and never before displayed together in the UK. Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍: Clockwork Treasures from Chinas Forbidden City takes visitors on a journey through the 1700s, from the Chinese trading port of Guangzhou and onto the home of the emperors in the Forbidden City, the UNESCO-listed palace in the heart of Beijing. The exhibition shines a light on the emperors keen interest in and collection of these remarkable clockwork instruments, the origins of this unique trade, and the inner workings of the elaborate treasures that inspired British craftsmen and emperors alike. Translating to bells that ring themselves, zimingzhong were ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916 - 1917).
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