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British Art Fair is under new ownership having been bought by the global group Ramsay Fairs from the Sandelson brothers earlier this year.
LONDON.- British Art Fair, the marketplace for Modern and Contemporary British Art, announces the galleries who are taking part in its 31st edition to be held 29 September 2 October 2022 at Londons iconic Saatchi Gallery. British Art Fair is under new ownership having been bought by the global group Ramsay Fairs from the Sandelson brothers earlier this year. It will open its doors again after a two year interval due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The participating galleries include the UKs best dealers in Modern British Art such as Osborne Samuel Gallery, Piano Nobile, Jonathan Clark and many more, some of whom have been with the fair since its inception in 1988. New this year are ten contemporary galleries who will be each be showing the work of one British artist in a second floor showcase curated by Zavier Ellis of CHARLIE SMITH. The space is titled Solo Contemporary. There are also three special exhibitions: Paint ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Following the appearance of her retrospective in New York City, the Wichita Art Museum stages a career survey for artist Beth Lipman. This major loan show, âBeth Lipman: All in Time,â displays exquisite work presenting the development and strength of this exceptional artist. The exhibition is on view through September 25, 2022, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. Photos by Kirk Eck.
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| British Museum to display newly conserved ancient glass vessels damaged in 2020 Beirut port explosion | | National Gallery of Art acquires works by Chakaia Booker, Carla Accardi, and Sonia Gomes | | The Phillips Collection presents 'Jacob Lawrence and The Children of Hiroshima' |
Roman beaker, 1st century AD, The Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
LONDON.- The British Museum will exhibit eight ancient glass vessels which were damaged in the 2020 Beirut port explosion and newly conserved by experts. The beautiful vessels were painstakingly pieced back together and conserved at the conservation laboratories at the British Museum in London and will be shown as part of the Asahi Shimbun Display Shattered glass of Beirut before their return to Lebanon in late Autumn. The display is the culmination of a collaborative conservation project between the British Museum and the Archaeological Museum of the American University in Beirut (AUB) which began in 2021. Situated 3km away from the explosion point, the AUB Museum sustained heavy damage to its windows and doors when the port explosion occurred in Lebanon Beirut on 4 August 2020. The case containing 74 vessels fell over from the force of the blast, shattering the glass objects inside: 72 glass vessels from the Roman, ... More | |
Chakaia Booker, Egress, c. 2000. Rubber tires, 50 x 53 x 50 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of the Collectors Committee.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) works almost exclusively with recycled tires to transform familiar symbols of urban waste and blight into extraordinary compositions of renewal. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Egress (c. 2000), the first sculptural work by Booker to enter the collection, joining her woodcut print, Untitled (2011). In Egress, numerous long, spiraling bands and short, spiky shards of rubber appear to unfurl from within and pour over and around the pedestal. The layers curl, pile, and protrude to form a mound that is simultaneously monstrous and playful, hard and soft, abstract and representational. While the plantlike, layered form recalls ivy or fern, the tracks, treads, and manufacturer name (Cooper) embossed on the sidewalls remind us of the medium's previous automotive life. Booker's artistic practice is highly physical, from transporting the tires to reshaping ... More | |
Jacob Lawrence, Hiroshima Series: Family, 1983, Color screenprint on Somerset paper, 13 x 10 in., Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, Ed. 19/35, The Phillips Collection, Gift of Nora Lee and Jon Sedmak
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima. The museums latest exhibition reexamines the impact of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan through a conversation between Jacob Lawrences Hiroshima prints and selected drawings by the children of Hiroshimas Honkawa Elementary School. Created 35 years apart, the clear call and response in these two powerful bodies of work convey the emotional impact of nuclear warfare and the potential for peace and reconciliation. Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima will be on view August 23 to November 27, 2022. The Phillips has an enduring and deeply valued relationship with the work of Jacob Lawrence, says Vradenburg Director and CEO Dorothy Kosinski. We are so pleased to partner with All Souls Church ... More |
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| 'Artistic Awakening' in Benin as return of royal artifacts attracts huge crowds | | Noonans to sell stunning three carat diamond ring formerly the property of Mrs. Flora Abraham Sassoon | | Hungarian abstract art makes Korean debut during Frieze Seoul |
Drusille Fagnibo by a mural she painted along the nearly half-mile-long art wall in Cotonou, Benin, July 14, 2022. As more looted art comes back to Africa, its countries are exploring how best to exhibit them and how to educate a public that may have never heard of their existence, let alone seen them. Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times.
by Elian Peltier
COTONOU.- For centuries, his ancestors had ruled over a powerful kingdom in what is now Benin, but the first time Euloge Ahanhanzo Glèlè saw the throne of his great-great-great-grandfather was in a Paris museum a decade ago. How did it end up here? he remembered asking himself as he faced the throne of King Glélé, surrounded by artworks that were plundered by French colonial forces at the end of the 19th century. That throne is now back in Benin after France returned 26 artifacts last year, and on a recent morning Ahanhanzo Glèlè bowed and sat barefoot in front of it, just as subjects would do in front ... More | |
Flora Sassoon ring. Photo: Noonans.
LONDON.- An early 20th century diamond and platinum ring formerly the property of business woman, philantrophist, Jewish scholar and famed hostess, Mrs Flora Abraham Sassoon (1856-1936), of the legendary Sassoon dynasty, is to be sold by Mayfair-based auction house Noonans on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 in a sale of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu. It is estimated to fetch £20,000-30,000 the beautiful ring was passed on to Floras eldest daughter, Rachel Sassoon Ezra (Lady Ezra) and thence by family descent to the current vendors. Frances Noble, Associate Director and Head of Jewellery at Noonans commented: In the 19th century, the Sassoon dynasty were known as the 'Rothschilds of the East - Mrs Flora Abraham Sassoon played a significant role at the end of the 19th century in the companys history, as the first Jewish woman to lead a global business. She was indeed a ... More | |
Ilona Keserü Ilona (1933), Stream, 1975-1989. Acrylic, canvas, 180 x 120 cm. Courtesy of MNB Arts & Culture.
SEOUL.- The first major exhibition of Hungarian abstract art in Korea will open at Sungkok Art Museum from Aug. 27Oct. 15, 2022. Folded Unfolded introduces the work of 15 influential Hungarian artists who defiantly created abstract paintings and films from behind the Iron Curtain during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. The exhibition aims to raise awareness about post-war art in Hungary, which has long been overlooked due to the politics of the time. The show draws upon works from the nascent, but richly curated collection of the Central Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, MNB); the collection is overseen and managed by the banks cultural branch, MNB Arts & Culture. Folded Unfolded brings to light the incredible work of both widely known and newly discovered Hungarian artists, and illustrates the broader historical, political contexts within which these artworks ... More |
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| Art Omi presents a new collaborative commission by Hana Kassem and Spencer Topel | | Donald Jonas, retail magnate who sold art to help nurses, dies at 92 | | Getty exhibition reexamines the Americas |
Ensemble Hana Kassem + Spencer Topel. Photo: Alon Koppel Photography.
GHENT, NY.- In August, in the Sculpture & Architecture Park, Art Omi unveiled a new collaborative commission by architect Hana Kassem and sound artist Spencer Topel, and a temporary outdoor drawing installation by Outpost Office. Ensemble is an immersive art experience that explores the spatial and acoustic resonance of our surrounding environment. Here the installation itself is a space-defining instrument, featuring a series of 17 reeds constructed of hollow steel pipes of varying heights. As visitors engage with and move around the field of reeds, their gentle movement activates sound elements which resonate through the chambers of the pipes. They range in tone quality and volume based on the reeds height and positioning to create a collective soundscape and a constantly shifting environment. The reeds' hues capture the color of the sky at different times of day and along the seasonsat times standing out against the exp ... More | |
A founder of the Lechters housewares chain, he and his wife focused their philanthropy on a profession they felt had been largely ignored.
by Ed Shanahan
NEW YORK, NY.- Donald Jonas, whose success as a retailer enabled him and his wife to amass an impressive collection of abstract expressionist paintings, a good number of which they ultimately sold to finance philanthropy geared especially toward nurses, died July 23 at his home in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his family. Jonas and his wife, Barbara, began collecting art in the 1970s, primarily for their own enjoyment. We never, ever bought with an investment view, Barbara Jonas told The New York Times in 2005. We bought because we loved the work. The decision to sell some pieces that year and use the proceeds to do good, Donald Jonas told the Times, was influenced by two men he considered mentors: Sol Price, the founder of the warehouse store chain ... More | |
The Celebration of the Lizard, 2022, Denilson Baniwa. Digital intervention based on Columnam à Praefecto Prima Navigatione Locatam Venerantur Floridenses, from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (French, ca. 1533before 1588), Brevis Narratio Eorum Quae in Florida Americæ Provincia Gallis Acciderunt (Frankfurt, 1591), pl. 8. Getty Research Institute, 87-B24110. Courtesy the artist. © Denilson Baniwa
LOS ANGELES, CA.- America is a European invention. Between 1492 and the late 1800s, European conquistadors, travelers, and artists produced prints, books, and objects that illustrated the natural resources and Native peoples of the Americas, often constructing fantastic and fictional ideas. Mixing reality with their own conventions and interpretations, they created portable and reproducible images that circulated around the world, fueling the spread of stereotypes and prejudices. (Re)Inventing the Americas: Repeat. Erase, Construct, on view August 23, 2022, through January 8, 2023,analyzes the creation of the mythologies that arose during the conquest and exploration of the continents and reveals ... More |
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| The Shin Collection's first Asian show set to open in Seoul | | Museum of Decorative arts and Design exhibits the work of Nanda Vigo | | Avant Arte to launch first public art programme with Tschabalala Self |
David Hockney (b. 1937), Isolde and Brangane, 1987, Acrylic on Canvas, 122.5 x 92 cm. (48 ¼ x 36 ¼ in.).
SEOUL.- The Shin Collection will present the first Korean exhibition of the Shin Collection. From Toulouse-Lautrec, whom Picasso adored and whose energetic post-impressionist style distinguishes him from his compatriots, to Balthus, Giacometti's lifelong friend and the great, unmatched provocateur, the Shin Collection includes some of the most important figures of the twentieth century avant-garde. From September 1 3, 2022, Hong Gyu Shins collection, over twenty years in the making, will be presented to the Seoul public. The Shin Collection includes over 50 works of art, many of which have been loaned to and exhibited at the world's leading modern and contemporary art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim, Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This exhibition is composed of almost seventy paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs, ranging in style and art historical epoch. Personal collections, unlike gallery shows or curated exhibitions, offer ... More | |
Presenting the work of Nanda Vigo at the madd-bordeaux, is an opportunity for visitors to immerse themselves in her avant-garde and unique work to grasp its contemporary dimension.
BORDEAUX.- Nanda Vigo, the inner space is an exhibition that introduces the work of the artist through immersive installations. Architecture, art and design are approached as total creative fields. The objective is to see, perceive and feel all the dimensions of Nanda Vigos artistic creation. More than a chronological presentation of her career, it is an experience that allows the audience to live the unframed dimension of her work. I searched for the dematerialization of the object through the creation of false perspectives, in such a way that the space around the viewer identifies with the object itself. --Nanda Vigo, 2006 In order to communicate the contemporary, innovative and total value of Nanda Vigo's work, several historic environments and installations, most of which have been demolished, will be reconstructed. Immersed in a sensory experience that invites introspection, visitors will ... More | |
Tschabalala Self, Lady in Yellow on Spiral Seat #2, 2021, framed. Image courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- Avant Arte, the creative marketplace that makes discovering and owning art radically more accessible, has partnered with Kings Cross to deliver its first public art programme. Launching with the artist Tschabalala Self on 5 October 2022, the public art programme continues Avant Artes mission of making art radically more accessible and its work in supporting artists to push the boundaries of their practice towards a transformative scale. This will be Tschabalala Selfs first public art commission, inspired by her current body of work which focuses on domestic space and trappings. The artist will create a large bronze sculpture of a seated figure, bringing her exploration of the domestic into the public realm and exploring the significance of taking up space and taking a seat. The installation will be located on the northern gateway to Coal Drops Yard on Lewis Cubitt Square, in the heart of the Kings Cross estate. It will be accompanied by online and offline progra ... More |
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Lecture---On the Move: 17th-Century Dutch Artists and Their Travels with Jane Shoaf Turner
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OUT OF SPACE: DÃSSELDORF VARIATION: An intervention of art in public spaces
DUSSELDORF.- OUT OF SPACE: DÃSSELDORF VARIATION is a five-day intervention of art in public spaces across Düsseldorf. Curated by Junni Chen and Sophia Scherer, the 202122 fellows of the Curatorial & Research Residency Program, time-based media art abandons the conventional framework of an exhibition venue during the event, bringing works by artists into dialogue with specific sites in the city of Düsseldorf. OUT OF SPACE presents more than twenty works from the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, including ones by Heike Baranowsky, Hannah Black, Tracey Emin, Cyprien Gaillard, Ana Mendieta, Tony Oursler, and Kandis Williams, at public sites including the Bilker Bunker, the Walther König Bookstore, Dreischeibenhaus, La Tête/the HMG Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co KG, HafenKunstKino, Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein- ... More
Works by renowned artist Oliver Ressler to be displayed at Tallinn Art Hall
TALLINN.- The exhibition explores global warming and the climate justice movement and its relationship with art. The title of the exhibition refers to the true state of emergency faced by climate justice and the scope of the planned activity. The action of barricading the melting ice sheets is impossible in actuality. And yet, in the face of this, the movement, deeply aware of the stakes of the interlacing threats to our planet, is endeavouring to achieve what has never been done before. For the exhibition, the artist has captured and documented some of the commendable initiatives of the climate movement. Oliver Ressler himself has insisted on the importance of artists and cultural practitioners being part of the climate justice movement as opposed to the climate movement, offering examples of deeper engagement between art and social movements. The exhibition ... More
Christine Borland's three-year, slow time exploration of linen narratives and know-how culminates with event
HUNTLY.- After seeing artefacts in the former Brander Museum which document Huntly's thriving 18th century linen industry, Christine Borland embarked on researching this heritage and its subsequent decline in slow time by growing, harvesting and processing the flax plant, which for centuries was widespread in the area, then spinning and weaving the linen thread. Her enquiry has been taking place alongside and in partnership with a community of interested local growers and craftspeople combined with 3D technologies to explore alternative forms of archiving. Huntly once had a thriving linen industry and supported up to 900 local spinners. In common with the rest of the country, linen production was super-ceded by imported cotton, and the flax fields that once surrounded the town have disappeared. How can we make the process of producing linen ... More
Nantucket Historical Association gifted Naval officers sword with island ties
NANTUCKET, MASS.- The Nantucket Historical Association announced it will receive the commissioning sword of islander and U.S. Navy Commander John Franklin Walling, who was lost at sea in 1945 while commanding the submarine USS Snook during World War II. The NHA is collecting the sword in honor of Wallings sacrifice and to share this island family story. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 2, 1912, Walling grew up on island, attending Academy Hill School and teaching sailing at the Yacht Club. He then attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school, before continuing on to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he graduated in 1935. Throughout his naval career, he served on many submarines, reached the rank of commander, and was awarded two Silver Stars. His parents were Charles H. Walling and Georgie L. (Smith) ... More
A video project/game initiated by Chip Lord, Jack Massing & Sean Miller @ the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery
FORT MYERS, FLA.- Florida Southwestern State College is presenting The Exquisite Moving Corpse a video installation featuring more than sixty internationally-renown artists at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery. Each making one-minute movies in response to a still from the previous artists digital short, this collective art film includes video segments by Chip Lord, Jack Massing, Sean Miller, Nina Katchadourian, Kristin Lucas, William Wegman, Tony Oursler, Mel Chin, Muntadas, Hasan Elahi, Mark Dion and many others. The Exquisite Moving Corpse installation temporarily transforms the exhibit space into a screening room with this feature length moving-picture - inspired by a nearly century-old Surrealist artists pastime/amusement looping continually during regular Gallery hours from August 22nd through December 10, 2022. The ... More
Sullivan+Strumpf announce Melbourne gallery
MELBOURNE.- Gallerists Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf have this morning announced plans to expand their Sydney and Singapore operations with the opening of a Melbourne gallery, designed by multi-award-winning Melbourne architects Flack Studio. The new 300sqm space in Collingwood, on the citys coveted north-eastern fringe, will showcase works by Sullivan+Strumpfs impressive stable of leading contemporary Australian and Asia Pacific artists - amongst them Lindy Lee, Polly Borland, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Tony Albert, Angela Tiatia, Alex Seton, and Darren Sylvester. One of the only major Australian contemporary art galleries to open in both Sydney and Melbourne, the move builds on more than 20 years as an integral part of the national arts community, forging relationships as advocates and ambassadors for contemporary ... More
Museum makes changes in Māori Galleries
CHRISTCHURCH.- Members of Ōhākī o Ngā Tīpuna, the Museums iwi liaison group, and a group of Museum staff, gathered to share karakia and waiata before the removal process got underway. Puamiria Parata-Goodall, Kaiurungi (Chair) of Ōhākī o Ngā Tīpuna, described the ceremony as an appropriate end to exhibits depicting a story that culturally and historically is not acceptable today. Canterbury Museum Director Anthony Wright said, The dioramas will be completely dismantled later this year along with all our other galleries as we prepare to move out of the Museum for our major redevelopment. But after consultation with representatives of mana whenua and local Papatipu Rūnanga and on the recommendation of Ōhāki o Ngā Tīpuna, we have removed the mannequins now. We acknowledge it has taken time to come to this decision and we appreciate everyone ... More
Michael in Black by Nicole Miller and forthcoming book releases
NEW YORK, NY.- Center for Art, Research and Alliances is an arts nonprofit, research center, and publisher opening in October 2022. CARA aims to expand public discourses and historical records to reflect arts abundant pasts, presents, and futuresdeepening our inquiries through diverse initiatives including publications, public programs, fellowships, and exhibitions. CARA has already established itself as a publisher under the working title New York Consolidated, with 1996, Ed. Matt Keegan, co-published with Inventory Press (2020), Alice Mackler, co-published with Gregory R. Miller & Co. (2021), and An Oral History of Sara Penns Knobkerry, Ed. Svetlana Kitto, co-published with SculptureCenter (2021). CARAs focus as a publisher has been on elder and mid-career practitioners, artists estates, and not-resourced cultural histories and scholarship. ... More
The City of Anaheim donates collection of historic signage to MONA Museum of Neon Art
ANAHEIM, CA.- The Museum of Neon Art has accepted a historic donation of neon signs from the city of Anaheim. Most of these signs, which are notable due to their aesthetic and nostalgic appeal, were assumed long gone. Some of the signs have been in storage for the past 20 years. The Sandman Motel and Silver Moon Motel signs measure over 14 and 12 feet respectively. From the 1950s onward, the signs attracted many families who were visiting the Knotts Berry Farm and Disneyland theme parks. A sign for 5 Points Liquor Market, bulb arrow, and marquee sign were also donated to the Museum. Mid-century neon signs are part of Anaheims history, said Mike Lyster, chief communications officer for the city of Anaheim. Regrettably, some of the motels, restaurants and other businesses that pioneered neon signs in our city have ... More
The Merchant House presents an exhibition of works by Pino Pinelli
AMSTERDAM.- The new solo show of Pino Pinelli at TMH is a dazzling survey of his rettangolo tagliato, or broken rectangle paintings. In his sketches for TMH, Pinelli opted for fiery red and tone-neutral sequences. Starting with Pittura GR of 1976 as a centerpiece, and with his later works in a point/counterpoint dialogue, the radically monochromatic sweep of the show creates a sense of physical immersion. It highlights the works palpable embodiment of color (pittura con corpo) and their emotional, baroque effect. Pinelli started out in Milan, where novel art practices in the 60s-70s, led by Lucio Fontana and later the artists of Arte Povera, powerfully merged pictorial history and contemporary aesthetics. It is precisely with the now famous Pittura GR broken rectangleslike the one on view at TMHthat Pinelli crystalized his own approach ... More
de Gerenday's fine art materials and curiosities is now open at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts
OLD LYME, CONN.- The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts announced the formal opening of de Gerendays Fine Art Materials and Curiosities, a new shop offering fine art materials and giftable objects from around the globe. Modeled after the most famous and storied art stores in Paris and London, such as Sennelier and L. Cornelissen, this destination shop is as photogenic as it is substantial. Artists will find an abundant array of the finest quality oil, acrylic and watercolor paints, brushes of all sizes, fine linen papers, canvas on rolls, and sculpting tools, all chosen by the professional artists who comprise the faculty of the Lyme Academy. In addition to supplies for artists, a unique collection of curiosities adds a sense of old-world charm and sophistication to the store, including an extensive collection of new and rare art books, taxidermy, architectural ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born August 23, 1846. Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 - June 4, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, would become significant sculptors in the 20th century. In this image: William Warner Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery (1889).
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