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Mauricio Diazgranados, the new chief science officer of the New York Botanical Garden, in the Mertz Library herbarium at the sprawling facility, which is a National Historic Landmark, in the Bronx, July 13, 2023. The botanist, who hails from Colombia, has worked in delicate, threatened tropical ecosystems like the páramos and rainforests. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Jennie Erin Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Frailejones are oversized members of the sunflower family with thick stems and crowns of pointed, hairy leaves. Shrouded in the mists of cold, wet, nearly treeless tropical highlands called páramos, they evoke the Spanish monks for which they are named. Mauricio Diazgranados, the new chief science officer of the New York Botanical Garden, had his first encounter with them as a teenager in Bogotá, Colombia, when he set off alone to survive in the páramo of a nearby national park. He still keeps photos from that three-day adventure, which ended with him hungry, soaked and rescued by farmers. A passion for páramos and their otherworldly plants never left him, even as Diazgranados, now 48, embarked on a peripatetic career, taking research positions in the United States, Colombia and England, before arriving in the Bronx borough of New York City in June. Botanical gardens tend to reflect their countries histories of empire or influence. Visitors to the New York Botanical Garden, seeki ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "KarmaComa" , a captivating group exhibition curated by Ayça Okay, is now open at Anna Laudel Bodrum. Surrounded by colourful bougainvilleas, sea salt, and gentle breezes, "KarmaComa" invites everyone to experience the enchanting beauty of Bodrum from a dystopian perspective, while exploring new fictional paths that utilises the concept of melodrama to depict and evaluate the economical and cultural intricacies of modern Turkey.
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| Bonhams Scotland unveils new Edinburgh saleroom with 'Best of Bonhams' show | | An unorthodox melodrama: "KarmaComa" now on display at Anna Laudel Bodrum | | Paul Reubens, creator of Pee-wee Herman, is dead at 70 | 
May Matthews, Managing Director, Bonhams Scotland. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- Bonhams will unveil its new headquarters and saleroom in Edinburgh this August, during the citys Festival Fringe and International Festival, when the world of culture and arts looks to Scotlands capital. The new building, a five-storey double-fronted townhouse in Melville Crescent, New Town, will house the specialist departments and valuations team as well as a large new saleroom. A new exhibition space on the ground floor will host its debut show, spotlighting some of Bonhams most remarkable pieces that will be offered from across the globe. The Best of Bonhams exhibition, which will mark the opening, draws on star lots from Bonhams forthcoming sales. It will celebrate the breadth of sales and specialisms across the international auction house, with works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including an oil on canvas painting, Deux femmes en promenade, from 1906 with an estimate of £200,000 ... More | | 
Ece Ağırtmış, Home, 2022, Balsawood, poplarwood, acrylic paint, crayon, 33x80x33cm, Anna Laudel.
BODRUM.- Anna Laudel Bodrum continues its diverse exhibition program during the summer season with "KarmaComa", a captivating group exhibition curated by Ayça Okay, offering an engaging exploration of Turkish television's melodramatic world. From daytime broadcasts to seasonal soap operas, "KarmaComa" weaves together provocative, sometimes even satirical references to every emotional moment, alluring audiences with its surprising narrative. The exhibition, featuring an innovative lineup of artists, including Cem A., Serdar Acar, Ece Ağırtmış, Ateş Alpar, Ronit Baranga, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Isabella Chydenius, Ebru Döşekçi, Alicia Framis, Ece Haskan, Berka Beste Kopuz, Mert Ege Köse, Alican Leblebici, Adriana Ramić, Sally von Rosen, Hoda Tawakol, Koray Tokdemir, Metehan Törer, Nathalie Rey and Nevet Yitzhak, will be on display until 3 September 2023 at ZAI Yaşam. Surrounded by colourful bougainvil ... More | | 
Paul Reubens in West Hollywood, May 1, 2007. Reubens, the comic actor whose childlike alter-ego Pee-wee Herman became a movie and television sensation in the 1980s, and whose career was briefly derailed by a sex scandal in the early 1990s, died on Sunday, July 30, 2023. He was 70. (Axel Koester/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Reubens, the comic actor whose bow-tied childlike alter-ego Pee-wee Herman became an unlikely if almost uncategorizable movie and television sensation in the 1980s, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 70. His death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was confirmed Monday by his longtime representative, Kelly Bush Novak, who said he had privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. Please accept my apology for not going public with what Ive been facing the last six years, Reubens said in a statement released with the announcement of his death. I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you. ... More |
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| The collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern is an inexhaustible source of stories | | L&L Holding Company unveils massive drawing by acclaimed artist Sol LeWitt | | In Asia, if you like a watch brand, you start a club | 
Max Buri (18681915), Portrait of Hedwig, the artist's daughter, 1913. Oil on canvas 110 x 81 cm. Depositum of the Swiss Confederation, Federal Office of Culture, Foundation Gottfried Keller.
BERN.- Since 28 July 2023 and continuing to 7 January 2024 the exhibition Anecdotes of Destiny presents works from the collection that have barely been shown to a larger public. Texts by renowned German-language authors broaden the narrative aspect of the 2023 summer exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern. The exhibition Anecdotes of Destiny shows both works that have been forgotten, ignored or barely noticed and key works from the collection. Visitors are invited to rediscover the collection, and see it as a dynamic field which, on closer inspection, constantly reveals new meanings. The exhibition clearly demonstrates that the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern is full of unknown stories. The exhibition includes works by almost 80 artists. Those represented include Annie Stebler-Hopf, ... More | | 
L&L pays further tribute to visionary artist with illuminated digital display on ornamental fins atop the 47-story tower.
NEW YORK, NY.- L&L Holding Company has unveiled an eye-catching, oversized drawing by famed American artist Sol LeWitt, which now adorns a prominent central wall in the triple-height lobby of 425 Park Avenue, L&Ls art-filled Plaza District office tower. The original artwork, titled Bars of Color within Squares, features geometric configurations, vibrant colors and isometric perspectives that create a sense of volume, making it appear to pop from the wall. At 39 feet tall by 13 feet wide, the massive piece is easily visible to all passersby on Park Avenue. L&L in collaboration with Lord Norman Foster worked with Peter Cooper Gallery to procure the artwork. The installation was handled by dedicated artists and craftspeople from LeWitts estate, who adhered strictly to specifications left by LeWitt prior to his passing in 2007. To further pay homage to LeWitt, L&L partnered with Sensory Interactive to curate a digital tri ... More | | 
Koji Nakazawa, leader of Maurice Lacroix Watch Club Japan, in Tokyo, March 5, 2023. (Shiho Fukada/The New York Times).
by Vivian Morelli
TOKYO.- On a Tuesday night at a cafe in the lively Shinjuku district, 10 people were gathered around a long table, chattering and sharing appetizers and drinks. Nothing unusual here except each was wearing a Maurice Lacroix watch and, at the end of the gathering, they formed a circle and extended their arms for a collective wrist shot. It was the Maurice Lacroix Watch Club Japan, a group founded in 2019 by a fan of the Swiss watch brand. I fell in love at first sight with the Aikon Automatic model at Baselworld in 2018, said Koji Nakazawa, 43, who organized and now leads the club. I fell in love not only with the watch, but also with the brand. As I learned more about it, I felt that it would definitely grow in the future. Clubs started by watch aficionados are nothing new: Tudor, Nomos, F.P. Journe ... More |
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| Open Eye Gallery presents 'The Italian Connection' a celebration of John Bellany | | Heritage Auctions' Three-Day Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction surpasses $8.29 million | | 'Remedios Varo: Science Fictions' currently on view at Art Institute Chicago | 
John Bellany, Bellany at 70, 2012. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
EDINBURGH .- Considered by many critics and curators to be the most significant Scottish painter of the twentieth century, John Bellany (1942-2013) is being celebrated in the summer exhibition from Open Eye Gallery. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of his death, Open Eye Gallery is presenting works held by the Bellany Family, ranging from the urgency of his highly productive student years, until his final years of serenity, which he spent in the beauty of the Serchio valley in Italy. Close collaboration with the Bellany Family allows this exhibition to spotlight works that have rarely been on public display. For their Festival show, Open Eye looks back on the works of a man who is remembered as a stylistic rebel who broke with the expectations of twentieth century art. In 1963, Bellany exhibited his paintings on the railings of Castle Terrace during the Edinburgh Festival. In the following two years, Bellany and fellow artist Sandy Moffat managed to audaciously display their work outside the bu ... More | | 
Precise Lost in Space B-9 Robot Recreation Built by Greg Jein from Studio Molds Screen Used in The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (TCF TV, 1995).
DALLAS, TX.- One of the biggest hits of 1974 was again one of the biggest hits of 2023. Over the weekend, John Berkey's original artwork for The Towering Inferno's poster sold for $350,000 during Heritage Auctions' $8.29 million Hollywood/Entertainment Signature ® Auction. The movie boasted one of cinema's all-time great casts, including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire and Jennifer Jones in her final role. Yet none of those legendary faces appears in the action-packed artwork, which puts front and center the true star of the show: the 138-story Glass Tower engulfed in flames. "Make it bigger" was the mantra of the film's producer, Irwin Allen, when referring to his escapist sci-fi adventures and star-studded disaster epics. The so-called Master of Disaster proved he's still capable of that very thing more than three decades after his passing. Heritage's star-studded July 27-29 event ... More | | 
Remedios Varo, Bordando el manto terrestre (Embroidering the Earth's Mantle), 1961. Oil on Masonite, 39 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (100.3 x 123.2 cm). Copyright ©2023 Gallery Wendi Norris, All rights reserved.
CHICAGO, IL.- Mystical musicians, eccentric scientists, voyagers in curious contraptionsRemedios Varo (19081963) mixed notions from disparate fields of knowledge to create modern paintings suffused with material enchantment. Remedios Varo: Science Fictionsthe first museum exhibition dedicated to the artist in the United States since 2000brings together more than 20 paintings Varo created in Mexico from 1955 until her death in 1963. Additional materials from the artists archivelarge-scale cartoons for paintings, notebooks, sketches, detailed studies, ephemera, and personal possessionsoffer an even deeper understanding of her distinct and diverse practice. The exhibitions subtitle, Science Fictions, alludes to the tensions and possibilities Varo brought together in her work as she searched to visualize hidden orders and unseen truths. Born in ... More |
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| Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Virginia Wesleyan University unveil plans for groundbreaking partnership | | On the New Viennese Scenes and Beyond at the Belvedere 21 | | 'Wall, New Piece, One-Two-Three' by Tony Smith is now on view at Pace Gallery | 
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Virginia Wesleyan University proudly announce their collaboration on the construction of a state-of-the-art facility to be built on the Universitys Virginia Beach campus. This monumental partnership is a major leap forward for the arts and education in the Hampton Roads community and beyond. Both organizations are expressing excitement about the project with Nicole Naidyhorski, Chair of the Virginia MOCA Board of Trustees, and Jonathan E. Pruden, Chair of the VWU Board of Trustees, emphasizing how profoundly it will enrich the cultural and educational landscape of our region. Naidyhorski shared her enthusiasm for the venture, stating, In our new home on the VWU campus, Virginia MOCA will continue to create an environment where art thrives and inspires individuals of all ages. The future of the arts and education will be even brighter ... More | | 
Installation View, Sara Ghaland. Belvedere 21, On the New Viennese Scenes and Beyond.
VIENNA.- What is going on in local art scenes, studios, and alternative exhibition spaces? How can one exhibition capture the diversity of the production and presentation of art? The Belvedere 21 explores these questions in a three-part show. General Director Stella Rollig: The anniversary-year theme, "Golden Spring," evokes new beginnings, awakenings, and the desire to shape the future. This attitude is reflected in the exhibition's vitality and many voices of artistic production. The diversity of practice by these artists offers a guide to the possibilities of facing reality with optimism despite the current challenges. In joint curatorial authorship, a team of five curators has collaborated with numerous contributors to devise a dynamic format at Belvedere 21's main gallery. The exhibition takes up the concept of the 2019 exhibition On the New, Young Scenes in Vienna. However, the ... More | | 
Tony Smith, One-Two-Three, 1976 © Estate of Tony Smith / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is currently presenting 'Wall, New Piece, One-Two-Three' an exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Tony Smith at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view since mid July, the show will offer a unique opportunity for viewers to experience Smiths monumental works, highlighting the evolution of the artists sculptural practice during the 1960s and 1970s. Though he would become widely known for his sculpture, Smith began his career as an architect, working with Frank Lloyd Wright on Usonian homes and other projects in the late 1930s. The artist was an independent architectural designer from the early 1940s through the 1950s, crossing over into sculpture in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Smith often drew inspiration for his dynamic geometric abstractions from phenomena in the natural world. Through his artworks, Smith investigated the formal possibilities of ... More |
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 Bridget Moser & Sharon Fortney win Mid-Career Visual Artist & Curator AwardsOTTAWA, ON .- Every year, The Hnatyshyn Foundation awards one visual artist and one curator at mid-career a prize for excellence in their disciplines. This year, the laureates are Bridget Moser (artist) and Sharon Fortney (curator). Bridget Moser is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award ($25,000). Moser is a performance and video artist who combines strategies associated with prop comedy, experimental theatre, performance art, absurd literature, existential anxiety, and intuitive dance. She performs fragmented scenes that take multiple forms, including monologues, abstract body movement, and bizarre interactions with everyday inanimate objects. Her work deals with the trouble of constructing self-identity and the conditions of life under late capitalism. Moser has presented work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, ... More  Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023 to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, award ceremony and exhibition in 2024BERLIN.- The Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, who has lived in Germany since 1995, has been awarded the 2023 Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The jury, consisting of Academy members Ulrike Grossarth, Raimund Kummer and Ulrike Rosenbach, honors Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, an artist whose visual language addresses conflicts that contemporary society around the world has to deal with. Her works bring together archetypes of our collective consciousness, gender issues and sexuality, cross-cultural reflections, and issues of spiritual practice. The artist, who now lives in Berlin, grew up in a time that after the military junta putsch in 1973 and Augusto Pinochet came to power was dominated by torture, kidnappings ( Desaparecidos ) and numerous human rights violations for more than 17 years. Only with the return to democracy in 1990 ... More  Kennedi Carter draws from her ancestral canon of Black and Southern experiences in exhibition at RosegallerySANTA MONICA, CALIF.- Rosegallery has recently opened A Meditation on the Untitled, curated works by acclaimed fine art photographer, Kennedi Carter. Kennedi Carter draws from her ancestral canon of Black and Southern experiences through skin, texture, intimacy, home, and community. A MEDITATION ON THE UNTITLED is Kennedi Carters Big Bang - a precipice conjured by notions of creativity and self- reflection. Carter creates her own cosmology in the realm of Blackness, bolstered by a reverence for self and identity. She lures audiences into a universe of her own making - that which is queer, that which is other, that which is woman, that which is too often colonized, but that which, by her artistry ... More  New-York Historical Society explores the meaning, distinction, evolution, and politics of women's workNEW YORK, NY.- This summer, the New-York Historical Society debuted Womens Work, a new exhibition focused on the meaning, evolution, and range of how and what has been considered womens work. On view in the Joyce B. Cowin Womens History Gallery, the exhibition, organized by the Center for Womens History, examines how broad trends in American economic, legal, and political history have influenced which jobsboth paid and unpaidhave been performed by women. It explores how race, ethnicity, social class, legal status, sexual orientation, and gender presentation have impacted which kinds of positions are deemed acceptable for women to holdas well as the kinds of labor women have actually performed. Showcasing approximately 45 objects from New-York Historicals collection, ranging from a 19th-century mahogany cradle ... More  'Transformation: Modern Japanese Art' showcases major gift from philanthropist Terry WelchHONOLULU, HAWAII.- Celebrating a recent donation of 127 artworks by noted collector Terry Welch, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents Transformation: Modern Japanese Art. The exhibition features paintings, ceramics and lacquerware produced between the 1860s and 1930s, a dynamic yet often overlooked chapter in Japanese art history. We are honored that Mr. Welch entrusted HoMA with his important collection, said HoMA Director Halona Norton-Westbrook. This monumental gift shines a light on a period of profound social change and artistic innovation, and it further enriches the museums noteworthy collection of modern Japanese art. We look forward to sharing these works with our community and offering visitors a glimpse into Japans past through these stunning creations. Amidst political, economic and social influences from other ... More  Sargent's Daughters now representing Carlos Rosales-SilvaNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters announced the representation of New York-based artist, Carlos Rosales-Silva following his debut Los Angeles solo exhibition, Border Logic earlier this year. Sargents Daughters will be presenting a solo booth of new works by Rosales-Silva at The Armory Show 2023. Rosales-Silvas works juxtapose a variety of textures, further defined as fields of saturated color and inter-locking abstract forms. These varied surfaces include the stucco-like impasto of acrylic paint blended with particles of glass and stone, the hard edge of machine-cut plastic, and the roughness of individually placed rocks. Though the compositions are occasionally on the edge of being recognizable as architecture or landscape, the shapes resist categorization as foreground or background and instead produce a space of disorientation. Rosales ... More  An exiled publisher creates a 'brotherhood across Tibetans'NEW YORK, NY.- In the winter of 1982, Bhuchung Sonam left his home in Central Tibet. For five days, he trekked with his father across the Himalayas to the Nepali border. Only about 11 years old then, he knew little about what they were fleeing Chinas decadeslong colonization of his homeland and why. He also didnt realize that he would never again see his homeland, his mother or his six siblings. After arriving in Nepal, Sonam and his father made a pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in neighboring India, the home of the Dalai Lama and of many other Tibetans in exile. Without offering much explanation, the father then returned to Tibet, leaving Sonam under the care of a family friend. Sonam never again saw his father, who died when he was in the 11th grade. He last spoke to his mother nine years ago. During the short call, she promised, We ... More  Smithsonian American Art Museum receives $2 million to advance American art scholarship WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum today announced a $2 million gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation that culminates a major campaign to support the museums fellowship program, considered the preeminent program for American art scholarship since being founded in 1970. The gift will establish an endowment to support the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship in modern and contemporary art and the professional development of fellows at the museum. It is the largest single gift to the campaign and the largest gift ever to the museums fellowship program. The fellowship program is part of the museums Research and Scholars Center, dedicated to advancing new scholarship by providing emerging and established scholars with financial support, publication guidance, unparalleled research resources ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades died  August 01, 2006. Jason Rhoades (July 9, 1965 - August 1, 2006) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was recently celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs with African, Caribbean, Creole and hip-hop slang for the female genitalia. His work remains part of the permanent collection in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, where he was a part of exhibit "Beg Borrow and Steal" at the time of his death. In this image: Jason Rhoades, Installation view, 'Perfect World', Deichtorhallen , Hamburg, Germany , 1999. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jens Rathmann.
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