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Please Dont Step on the Grass, by Sharon Stone (acrylic on canvas).
BERLIN.- Galerie Deschler in Berlin presents the European premiere of Sharon Stones art with the new exhibition Sharon Stone: Totem on view February 17 through May 18. We are honored to present Sharon Stones compelling paintings in her first exhibition in Europe, says Marcus Deschler, the owner of the Gallery. I could always relate to her because I felt that she perfectly represented the values that have guided my own development: freedom, self-determination, and autonomy, adds Deschler. During the art exhibitions opening weekend, Cinema for Peace 2024 will be honoring Sharon Stone throughout Berlin at several major events. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The M HKA presents a major solo exhibition featuring one of the most influential artists in the United States: Jim Shaw.
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| Asia Week New York zooms in on 'Kondō Takahiro: The Thinking Hand' | | The most powerful person in publishing doesn't like to talk about himself | | Baryshnikov Arts announces 2024 Spring Residency Artists |
Kondō Takahiro in his studio, Yamashina, Kyoto (2017),
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York will present Kondō Takahiro: The Thinking Hand, a webinar celebrating one of Japans most admired ceramicists, on Tuesday, February 20th, at 5:00 p.m. (EST). Kondōfeatured in Porcelains in the Mist: The Kondō Family of Ceramicists, on view at the Brooklyn Museumwill discuss his recent projects with renowned experts in the field: Glenn Adamson, Joan Cummins, and Xiaojin ... More | |
Nihar Malaviya, CEO of Penguin Random House, in the lobby of its headquarters in New York on Dec. 7, 2023. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK, NY.- As CEO of Penguin Random House, Nihar Malaviya runs a global company and the largest book publisher in the United States a powerful cultural force that helps drive public debate and shape the countrys entertainment and literary worlds. But when a member of his staff ... More | |
2024 Spring Residency Artists: Dorchel Haqq.
NEW YORK, NY.- Baryshnikov Arts announced its 2024 Spring Residency Artists. Baryshnikov Arts residencies provide space and support to artists for creative investigation in all performing arts disciplines: dance, music, theater, multimedia, performance art, or any combination thereof. Each year, Baryshnikov Arts hosts over 20 artists in residence at its Center in NYC, with support that can include use of Baryshnikov Arts studios and theaters, work-in-progress showings, ... More |
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| Sarah Entwistle showing all new works in main gallery at Galerie Barbara Thumm | | Impressionism's rebellious origins and legacy at DMA, 'The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse' | | Holabird's 'Marvels of the West auction', January 25-28, announces sales results |
Sarah Entwistle: So, you and I have come full circle. Do you accept the unending? 2023,
courtesy of Galerie Barbara Thumm.
BERLIN.- Engendered by isolation within a particular space, and by the emphasis on cleaning and service. A visually sensitive woman who spends day after day in the same rooms develops a compulsion to change, adorn, expand them as a kind of positive fragmentation or as the collage esthetic-the mixing and matching of fragments ... More | |
Claude Monet, The Seine at Lavacourt, 1880, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Munger Fund, 1938.4.M
DALLAS, TX.- This winter, the Dallas Museum of Art presents a radical reintroduction to Impressionism, featuring roughly 90 works created between 1870 and 1925 that illustrate the origins of the movement and its considerable impact on two successive generations of avant-garde painters. Marking the 150-year anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, ... More | |
Grape Nuts sign: Original appearing Grape Nuts breakfast cereal metal advertising sign with a graphic of a girl and a large St. Bernard, 20 inches by 31 inches, not the same size repro seen online ($1,062).
RENO, NV.- A John E. Smiths Pharmacy (Victor, Colo.) 32-ounce teal drug store bottle sold for $6,250; an early 1900s 14k Klondike, Alaska gold headed walking stick also realized $6,250; and a pair of mint state $25 U.S. Gold Eagle coins (1994 and 2008) fetched $4,700 at a four-day Marvels of the West ... More |
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| "Reflections": An exhibition of paintings by Timothy J. Clark opens at Moulton Museum | | 'Alberto Giacometti: What Meets the Eye', iconic depictions of long-limbed human figures, at SMK | | When the voice you hear is not the actor you see |
Timothy J. Clark, Bicycle Reflection,Watercolor on Paper, 30" x 22".
LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF.- The Moulton Museum announced the exhibition, "Reflections," featuring oil and watercolor paintings by the esteemed artist Timothy J. Clark. The show will run from February 10th to March 9th, 2024. A 40-yearlong resident from Capistrano Beach in Orange County, Clark boasts an illustrious career ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti. Annette Standing. Ca. 1954. Bronze, 47.5 x 10.5 x 20 cm. Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris, 2024
COPENHAGEN.- From February 2024, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst) presents an extensive exhibition featuring the famous Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Featuring major works within the fields of sculpture and drawing, the exhibition homes in on Giacomettis fascination ... More | |
The playwrights Mona Pirnot and Lucas Hnath in New York, Feb. 7, 2024. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the darkest moments of a family tragedy, when playwright Mona Pirnot couldnt find the strength to verbalize her feelings to her boyfriend or her therapist, she tried something a little unorthodox: She typed her thoughts into her laptop, and prompted a text-to-speech program to ... More |
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| Stefan Kürten has tenth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery | | 'Soulscapes', an ambitious exhibition of landscape art that will expand and redefine the genre | | White Cube opens an exhibition of sculpture, installation and painting by Tiona Nekkia McClodden |
Ghost Lily Hideaway, 2023, acrylic, ink and mother of pearl on linen, 39 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- "The most important themes in my work are flowers, wallpaper-like patterns and domestic architecture. Of course, I'm referring to places of beauty, comfort and safety in a complex and sometimes frightening world... and our attempts to create a 'perfect world' ... More | |
Kimathi Mafafo, Unforeseen Journey of Self-Discovery, 2020. Hand and Machine Embroidered Fabric, 112 x 98cm. Image courtesy of the artist / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
LONDON.- An ambitious exhibition, starting tomorrow, will explore new interpretations of landscape art, through some of the most essential voices working in contemporary art. Dulwich Picture Gallery will ... More | |
Tiona Nekkia McClodden portrait, Palais de Tokyo 2022. Courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- Marking the artists inaugural solo show with the gallery, White Cube is presenting A MERCY | DUMMY, an exhibition of sculpture, installation and painting by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Spanning two discrete bodies of work, McClodden takes two pivotal works of literature as her starting point ... More |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, to initiate the exhibition 'Lynloop' by Igshaan Adams
BOSTON, MA.- On February 13, 2024, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is unveiling a monumental, site-specific commission by multidisciplinary artist Igshaan Adams (born 1982 in Cape Town, South Africa), entitled Lynloop [Toeing the Line], organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Adamss woven tapestries point to the interconnectedness of the artists spirituality, familial histories, and local community narratives as rooted in his South African heritage. Drawing on the notion of desire linespaths created by pedestrians over time that fall outside of sanctioned walkwaysAdams visualizes the everyday movements of people through a range of tactile materials to contest fixed boundaries. At the ICA, Adams has transformed the first-floor lobbys Sandra and Gerald Fineberg ... More
'Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen' Norway opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- For centuries, Bergen, one of the largest port cities in Scandinavia, was a thriving hub of global commerce, with a burgeoning export of fish, timber and fur. That trade in turn spurred the development of a uniquely Norwegian approach to a timeless craft: gold and silver smithing. The exhibition Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway explores the art of the Bergen silversmiths from the 16th to early 20th centuries, and examines the evolution of the craft against the backdrop of greater political, social, and economic change in Norway and other parts of the world. Some 200 objects from spoons, tankards, sugar bowls and salt cellars to elaborate ceremonial wedding crowns and fantastical vessels are on exclusive loan to the U.S. from public and private Norwegian collections. Crowning the North: Silver ... More
An exploration of evolving concepts through historic, modern, and contemporary at at the Montclair Art Museum
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum is thrilled to present its latest exhibition, Family, Community, Belonging: Works from the Collection. This unique collection-based exhibition delves into the ever-evolving notions of family and community, and explores themes of belonging, diversity, and inclusion through a diverse array of artworks. Featuring a selection of historic, modern, and contemporary works, the exhibition aims to showcase the rich tapestry of American culture, emphasizing the individual and collective experiences shared across lines of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The works range from nineteenth-century portraits of European American mothers with children, providing a glimpse ... More
Hammer Museum presents premiere of 'Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s –1970s'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA has now opened Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s1970s, a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art (silheom misul) and its artists, whose radical approach to materials and process produced some of the most significant avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. The Hammer Museums presentation, on view since February 11 and continuing through to May 12, 2024, is the exhibitions first and only venue on the West Coast. Prior to the Hammer, the exhibition debuted at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (May 26July 16, 2023) and traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 1, 2023January 7, 2024). Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, said, We are tremendously ... More
'Kill B.' review: Dances of dominance
NEW YORK, NY.- Dancer Mia Zalukar lay collapsed on the stage of NYU Skirball, seemingly exhausted after a long solo but she wasnt doing it quite right. When you fall, you should be more like a dead person, her collaborator, Bruno Isakovic, interjected, instructing her to look like less like a worm on the floor. She adjusted an arm to make the pose more mangled, almost cartoonishly dramatic. Isakovic approved. This is one of many such exchanges in Kill B., a 2019 work by Isakovic and Zalukar that had its United States premiere Friday evening as part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival. Organized by Croatian curator Zvonimir Dobrovic, the festival features artists from Croatia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Germany exploring what it is to be outside of the norm, Dobrovic said in a curtain speech. He stressed ... More
At 73, Australia's most important Aboriginal writer is making her mark
MELBOURNE.- Long before Alexis Wright was a towering figure in Australian letters, she took notes during community meetings in remote outback towns. Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand. The work was laborious, and it soothed her youthful fervor for the change that seemed all too slow to arrive. It was good training, in a way, she said in a recent interview at a public library close to the University of Melbourne, where until 2022 she held the role of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature. They were teaching you to listen, and they were teaching you patience. Wright, 73, is arguably the most important Aboriginal Australian or simply Australian writer alive today. She is the author of epic, polyphonic novels that reveal the patience, perseverance and careful observation she ... More
How do you get acoustic instruments to play electronic music?
NEW YORK, NY.- If you start at the middle C of a piano and strike every key on your way up to the next C on the keyboard, you will play each of the 12 notes that make up an octave. Those 12 semitones are the foundation of most Western music. But what if they were not? What if that same octave were equally divided into 14 tones, or 16? What if Beethoven had written the Eroica Symphony with a scale of 19 notes, or Schoenberg had written tone rows with 23? What would their music sound like? Those were the questions that composer Easley Blackwood Jr., a pillar of the Chicago new music community who died last year, asked in his Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (1979-80). Composed for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, each of Blackwoods Etudes shows off the qualities ... More
Exhibition brings to light the core motifs of Jim Shaw's practice
ANTWERP.- The M HKA presents a major solo exhibition featuring one of the most influential artists in the United States: Jim Shaw. His idiosyncratic imagery is infused with references from popular American culture. In recent decades, his body of work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The Ties That Bind brings to light the core motifs of Shaw's practice, presenting his latest work alongside a selection of earlier works. Since the late 1970s, Jim Shaw has been developing a complex and exciting body of work that includes photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, films, and musical performances. Popular cultural formats such as comics, Hollywood films and caricatures constitute an essential part of his work, as do religion, folk beliefs, leisure culture and amateur ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and academic Grant Wood was born February 13, 1891. Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, an iconic painting of the 20th century. In this image: Grant Wood (1891-1942), American Gothic, 1930. Oil on composition board, 30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (78 x 65.3 cm). Art Institute of Chicago; Friends of American Art Collection 1930.934. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph courtesy Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY.
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