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Gerard & Kelly, E for Eileen, 2023. 4K video, color, sound; 22 min. Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is presenting the first major exhibition in Paris devoted to the work of Gerard & Kelly. Entitled Bardo, the exhibition features new sets of works by the duo that collectively illustrate the hybridity and multidisciplinarity of their practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of history, architecture and sexuality. The exhibition is imagined as a time-based and multi-sensory experience, and the title, inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, refers to the transitional state between death and rebirth, during which consciousness undergoes profound changes. Through the evocation of three saintly historical figures, openly or symbolically queer, Gerard & Kelly create a space for reflection and resonance between past and present, shadow and light, the profane and the sacred. Eileen Gray (1878-1976), a Paris-based Irish architect and designer, was the author of a fundamental work of architectural modernism: villa E-1027, built in the bay of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981-2025), Galerie Barbara Thumm, 2025, Photo: Olga Litetskaya.
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| Carrie Mae Weems's new work and key series on view in San Francisco | | Toots Zynsky: Past/Present, a retrospective of glass art at Heller Gallery's new space | | Philadelphia's Black history along the Delaware: Uncommon Ground Project uncovers untold stories |
Blues and Pinks 3, 2020. Six archival inkjet prints, 53-3/4 x 55 inches (overall installed) [141.6 x 139.7 cm], edition of 3.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Carrie Mae Weems featuring new work as well as highlights from several key series in the artists four-decade career. The exhibition continues Weemss long exploration of questions about power, history, and identity. Two new photographs from Weemss ongoing Museum Series depicting San Franciscos Legion of Honor will be on view for the first time, shown with other selections from the project. Large-scale photographs from Painting the Town present boarded-up storefronts in Portland, Oregon following protests against the murder of George Floyd. Other works reference earlier moments in the struggle for racial justice, including scenes from Civil Rights protests in the 1960s. Weems will speak at FOG Design+Art on Saturday, January 25, at 5pm, followed ... More | |
Toots Zinsky in her studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery presents Past/Present, the gallerys second solo exhibition of work by award-winning, Providence, RI-based artist Toots Zynsky, on view from January 23 - February 15, 2025. Following Zynskys recent solo show at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, Past/ Present will include 11 works from the artists archive dating as far back as the 1980s alongside eight of her most recent works. This exhibition, Heller Gallerys first since closing their Chelsea space in June 2024, inaugurates The Curator Lab at 529 West 20th Street. Zynskys distinctive style incorporates her unique technical approach entitled Filet de Verre, wherein sculptural vessel forms are created from thousands of hair-thin extruded Italian glass cane filaments fused together and hand shaped while still hot in her kiln. Distinctly painterly, the instantly recognizable shapes and striking color patterns of Zynsk ... More | |
Marcy Francis.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In November 2023, Independence Seaport Museum (ISM) announced a multi-year oral history initiative to further its mission as a seaport museum focused on the Delaware River, its people and the environment and how it connects to the larger world. Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River is a multi-generational endeavor to collect the stories of African-American Philadelphians who lived and worked along the river in the mid- to the late 20th and 21st centuries. The stories will guide further development and expansion of the museums flagship exhibition, Tides of Freedom: The African Presence on the Delaware River, which currently focuses on the history between the 1800s-1920s. The oral histories will also be preserved in an audio/visual component, an online presence through ISMs YouTube channel and an online archive in the J. Welles Henderson Research Center ... More |
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| ceramic brussels: An expanded second edition! | | 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' the most popular ticketed exhibition in National Gallery history | | New report: Unique cultural items obtained for UK museums, galleries and archives |
Samuel Yal, Geste XII. Photo: Youske Kojima Galerie Ariane C-Y.
BRUSSELS.- Following its first edition, gathering almost 13,000 visitors, ceramic brussels, the world's leading international contemporary art fair dedicated to ceramics, launches the programme for its second edition, to be held from January 22nd to 26th 2025 on the Tour&Taxis site in Brussels. We've been buoyed by an exceptional response from galleries, collectors and institutions: thanks to this enthusiasm, we're back this year with a bigger, livelier and more international edition in every way! announces Gilles Parmentier, co-director of ceramic brussels. The fair continues to feature its distinctive scenography, structured around two large circles, and welcomes some 65 Belgian, European and International galleries (+20% vs. 2024), allowing visitors to discover over 200 artists during the 4 public days. For its second edition, ceramic brussels officially opens ... More | |
Visitors at Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery. Photo: © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (14 September 2024 ‒ 19 January 2025) has just closed with 334,589 visits - making it the most popular ticketed exhibition in the National Gallerys history. The figure announced today (Monday 20 January 2025) follows a final weekend of the exhibitions run in which it was open through the night from Friday 17 January to Saturday 18 January to accommodate unprecedented demand. This was only the second time in the Gallerys history that this has happened (the first being for Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan in 2012.) 19,582 people visited Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers during the last weekend alone, one person every 10 seconds. Figures for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers have overtaken the previous first and second most visited ticketed (or paid) exhibitions - Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan ... More | |
LS Lowry, River Scene, Sunderland.
LONDON.- 44 unique cultural items and collections, hailing from a range of creators and disciplines including Bach, Lowry and Bridget Riley were acquired between March 2023 and April 2024 through the Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu, as found in the Arts Councils new Annual Report. These items will now go on display at a range of museums and galleries across the country for full public access and enjoyment, as well as scholarly research in some cases. Both Acceptance in Lieu and the Cultural Gifts Scheme offer considerable support to cultural institutions in creating engaging collections enjoyed by the communites they serve. The Annual Report includes information on the historical and cultural significance underpinning each of the 44 items, as well as the factors considered by the Panel when making a decision on acceptance and where these items were subsequently allocated ... More |
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| The Salon du Dessin unveils its programme and exhibitors | | $65.4 million US coins sales lift Heritage's FUN Numismatic auctions above $78 million | | New book: "STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos" by Kim Hastreiter |
Lucas Cranach The Younger (attributed to), Portrait of Duke Philip I of Pomerania- Circa 1540/1541. Tempera, black stone and charcoal on laid paper pasted in full on cardboard 34.8 x 23.7cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims- Photo: Corentin Le Goff.
PARIS.- The Salon du Dessin is the worlds leading event showcasing the very best in Old, Modern and Contemporary art. It is also the central event for all the peripheral shows and sales focusing on paper-based arts during Drawing week (La Semaine du Dessin) when Paris becomes the global capital of drawing for a week. With 39 exhibitors and a significant proportion of foreign galleries (19 from 8 different countries), the 33rd edition of the Salon du Dessin will be welcoming important new exhibitors who have never before exhibited at the Salon du Dessin: the London galleries Stern Pissarro and James Butterwick, the Michael Werner gallery of contemporary art present in 5 cities around the world, the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, specialising in 20th century Italian art, the renowned ... More | |
1927-D $20 MS65+ PCGS. CAC. Ex: Fox-Duckor.
DALLAS, TX.- A 1927-D Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, MS65+ PCGS. CAC, the rarest regular-issue copper, silver or gold 20th-century American coin, sold for $3.84 million to lead Heritages January 15-19 FUN US Coins Signature® Auction to $62,679,159. That total, along with the $12,831,321 FUN US Currency Signature® Auction headlined by Americas Inaugural Federal Reserve Note Proof Archive and a Fr. 2220-G $5,000 1928 Federal Reserve Note. PMG Choice Uncirculated 64, each of which realized $456,000, and the $2,768,760 auction of The COL Steven K. Ellsworth Collection of Large Cents 1796-1814 brought the total of Heritages FUN numismatic events to $78,279,240, making it one of the largest ever held. Those impressive results, combined with the NYINC World & Ancient Coins Auction that concludes this week, will help lift Heritages numismatic auction events past $100 million in the first three weeks of 2025. I am always astounded ... More | |
Cover of STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos by Kim Hastreiter (Damiani Books, 2025).
NEW YORK, NY.- Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved PAPER magazine, has spent her entire career participating in, documenting, and creating explosive cultural movements that began in downtown New York City and quickly spread throughout the world. For over 50 years she has also amassed a vast and iconoclastic collection of amazing stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos (Damiani Books, 2025), chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiters singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens. The book features rare cover art by the elusive, yet legendary artist Jim Joe, best known for their iconic album cover for Drakes If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "I am a fanatical collector and curator of stuff, writes Hastreiter. Mostly stuff that I think is amazing, important, tells a good story, or just grabs my heart. After decades ... More |
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| Exhibition at Dorothee Nilsson Gallery explores nature in the age of over-consumption | | 'Journeys: Landscape as Self Expression' opens Jan. 21st at the Brunnier Art Museum | | Yasuhiro Ogawa captures the silence and beauty of Japan's landscapes in exhibition at Galerie 94 |
Inka & Niclas, 4K Ultra HD IX, 2018.
BERLIN.- The acclaimed artistic duo Inka and Niclas Lindergård primarily create photography-based works. Their diverse practice draws inspiration from the aesthetics of popular culture, examining its influence on how we perceive nature. Perceptions presents a selection of their works, exhibited for the first time at Dorothée Nilsson Gallery. How does one summarise a practice spanning nearly two decades? The photographic medium possesses a violent power. Photography creates beauty, but it can also consume the nature it depicts like the generic image of a palm tree at sunset that has adorned printed calendars, beach towels, and posters since the 80s. Consumed by popular culture, the motif became so saturated that it still tends to touch on kitsch aesthetics. As a result, viewing an actual palm tree at sunset can seem trivial to someone who has seen too many reproduced depictions. In their lens-based practice, Inka and Niclas Lindergård recurrently delve into the realm of the overly c ... More | |
Joseph Stella (Italian-American, 1877-1946), Detail of Tree of My Life, 1919.
AMES, IA.- It's a well-recognized art genre, and this spring landscapes will abound in the Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Beginning on Tuesday, January 21, the Journeys: Landscape as Self Expression exhibition will open in the Brunnier Art Museum, 2nd floor of the Scheman Building. The exhibition will feature landscapes in a variety of media and time periods, including photography, art collage and painting. The exhibition challenges viewers to consider the humanity found in nature, and the genre as a tool for identity and self-expression rather than merely for beauty. Included are loaned works of art along with many examples from University Museums permanent collection and recent acquisitions, exhibited in a manner to impactfully represent the myriads of ways artists work with landscapes and identity. "Landscapes are an important genre of art and one that can often be relatable for a wide range of art museum visitors," said ... More | |
7:30PM, 2021 © Yasuhiro Ogawa.
BADEN.- Yasuhiro Ogawa is recognised as one of the new strong voices in Japanese photography. Through his unique perspectives and emotional depth, Yasuhiro Ogawa captures the beauty and mystery of travelling, creating images that are both timeless and striking. His work reinterprets the classic motifs and contemplative attitude of Japanese landscape photography. Landscapes appear as if on a canvas, pierce the steamed-up windows of a train, darkness and light bordering on each other. Snow falls on soft, darkened colours. The places in Yasuhiro Ogawaâs pictures seem to be enchanted. For his current series «Into the Silence», Ogawa followed in the footsteps of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō, who travelled through northern Japan in the 17th century. The collection of poems that emerged from this journey, now known as Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Path to the Deep North), combine the complex and multi-layered form of expression of haiku with descriptions of nature in a largely unknown territory (t ... More |
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The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art presents 'Jenine Marsh: Microcosm'
BUFFALO, NY.- The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art announced Jenine Marsh: Microcosm, the second exhibition in the series I WANT TO BELIEVE. This exhibition of new sculptural works by Toronto-based artist Jenine Marsh opens on Friday, January 24, from 710 PM, followed by an artist-led walkthrough on Saturday, January 25 at 12pm. Both events are free and open to the public. In Microcosm, Jenine Marsh constructs a precarious island where history, value, and utopian longing converge. The exhibition takes its title from an 1808 artists manual, Microcosm, which was designed for house-bound bourgeois women to help them imagine and depict the daily lives and labor of the working class. From the protective utopia of the country estate or city mansion, these hobby artists drew and painted images of another utopia: a quasi-real ... More
Digging into history: New exhibition traces INAH's role in protecting Mexico's fossil heritage
SANTA LUCÃA.- A fascinating new exhibition at the Santa LucÃa Paleontological Museum, Quinamétzin, explores the rich history of paleontology in Mexico and the crucial role played by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in preserving this vital part of the nation's heritage. The exhibition, titled INAH and the Fossils: A Look at its History, coincides with the museum's third anniversary, celebrating its opening on February 10, 2022. Using 12 infographic posters, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through time, from the pre-Hispanic era to modern-day Mexico, showcasing how fossils have been understood, studied, and protected. It reveals the deep connection between the study of ancient life and INAH's mission. The museum itself houses an impressive collection of nearly 70,000 fossil remains, including mammoths, ... More
Project Arts Centre presents its 2025 programme
DUBLIN.- Project Arts Centre shared their 2025 Visual Arts exhibition programme. Eva Richardson McCreas film The Decameron / Na Deich Lá departs from Giovanni Boccaccios 14th century book of short stories wherein ten young people flee to a villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death pandemic. In this new work, ten protagonists and their frame story are relocated to a contemporary co-living development near Dublin where they live, work and play together. Aimed at a young, affluent and globally transient workforce, co-living developments function to normalise housing crises in an age of loneliness by redefining the concepts of home and living. Through focusing on experience and convenience over space and privacy, living becomes a service that is provided, and the notion of a stable home is replaced by home as a subscription. ... More
Keramis celebrates artistic partnerships with two exhibitions
LA LOUVIÃRE.- Keramis is exploring the power of artistic collaboration with two exhibitions on view this autumn/winter season (November 16, 2024, to March 2, 2025). The exhibitions celebrate the creative synergy between artistic couples, highlighting how shared lives and mutual support enrich artistic practice. The first exhibition, The Obscure Object of the Clearest Desires, showcases the work of Rachel Labastie and Nicolas Delprat, a couple who share a life and studio in Brussels since 2011. Labastie, a ceramic sculptor, and Delprat, a painter, have carte blanche to transform Keramis's white box space. This marks their sixth collaborative exhibition, and they have created an integrated scenography where each artist's individual identity is not only preserved but also energized by the presence of the other and the surrounding architecture. Labastie, ... More
Christian Petersen Art Museum opens spring exhibition by Iowa printmaker
AMES, IA.- The trees take center focus in the new art exhibition set to open at the Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall, Iowa State University, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. The exhibitions feature artwork by Jeanine Coupe Ryding (American, b. 1948), an artist whose works can be found throughout Iowa State University Museums' and the Memorial Union's permanent collections. She is known for her innovative printmaking, often using woodcut prints to help incorporate storytelling, social commentary and personal introspection into her work. Coupe Ryding graduated from the University of Iowa in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in Printmaking. In the years that followed, she took courses in French from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and later received her Meisterschuler (MFA) in Sculpture and Printmaking from ... More
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025 celebrates 30th anniversary
TOKYO.- Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025Docs: Images and Records will be held mainly at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025 over 15 days. Founded in 2009, the annual Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions is a comprehensive international festival of moving images and art taking place in Ebisu, Tokyo that combines exhibitions, screenings, live performances, and talk sessions. This edition of the festival will focus on transformations in media and, by examining a wide range of works through the lens of images and words, will pursue a reconsideration of documents and the concept of documentary. A document is a record of fact-based information, traditionally in the form of words but more recently also as images such as photographs and moving ... More
Hiba Kalache: Painting fables from the Kalīla wa-Dimna at Altman Siegel
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Hiba Kalache. This suite of paintings finds its origins in the Kalīla wa-Dimna, a book of fables dating back to the 13th century. Though the text was first composed in Sanskrit, titled The Panchatantra, in the year 200 B.C., it has been translated numerous times throughout the millennia. From Sanskrit to Persian, from Persian to Arabic, and more. Here, Kalache has translated the ancient text and illustrations yet again, through the act of painting. These folk stories engage universal human themes with animal protagonists and narrators. Each story contains ancient wisdom and powerful political subtexts that remain relevant today. The strength of storytelling has been used over the centuries as both entertainment and propaganda, often to support those with power. Masked ... More
Louisiana Art & Science Museum furthers commitment to inclusivity with KultureCity certification
BATON ROUGE.- KultureCity®, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting inclusivity and accessibility for individuals with sensory needs, announces the achievement of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum (LASM) for its commitment to creating sensory inclusive spaces. This new certification expands upon LASMs commitment to inclusivity and adds a new museum experience for sensory-sensitive individuals, Sensory Second Sundays. KultureCitys flagship initiative, the Sensory Inclusive program, has been widely embraced by venues, stadiums, and cultural institutions across the nation and around the world. This groundbreaking program provides training and resources to staff, enabling them to better accommodate individuals with sensory sensitivities. As a result, countless families and individuals can now experience ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, fashion designer Christian Dior was born January 21, 1905. Christian Dior (21 January 1905 - 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault. His fashion houses are now all around the world. This file picture taken on July 3, 2017 shows a man adjusting a dress prior to the opening of the Dior exhibition that celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the Christian Dior fashion house, at the Museum of Decorative Arts (Musee des Arts Decoratifs) in Paris. 708 000 people visited the exhibition dedicated to Christian Dior from July 5, 2017 to January 7, 2018 in Paris.
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