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Piranesi in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, conservator Mireille Linck onderzoekt watermerk of achttiende-eeuwse Piranesi prent, foto: Aad Hoogendoorn / Piranesi in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, curator Mireille Linck conducts research on watermark of eighteenth century Piranesi print, photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.
ROTTERDAM.- The work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) appears to have become reality in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen; when entering the building, the eye wanders upwards through the maze of the stairways. On 14 November, a start was made on mounting Piranesi on paper, the presentation of research into all Piranesi prints in the museum collection. Piranesi is the most famous graphic artist of his time and this study project focuses on his world of paper. The research and the presentation not only show the extensive collection of prints by the Italian artist, but also reveal his decisions as living, travelling maker, trader, and his bustling work-place. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has, with 751 works, the most extensive collection of Piranesi prints in the Dutch museum world. The works are extremely sensitive to light and highly vulnerable and will only be exhibited for three months, after which they will not be shown for th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view "GROW. The Tree in Art" Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
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| West Point to remove Confederate monuments from its campus | | Exhibition introduces art enthusiasts in Istanbul to Paula Rego's paintings with an unprecedented selection | | A major survey of artist Paul Chan captures his work over past decade | 
Class at West Point, 1929. Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-08174 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
NEW YORK, NY.- The U.S. Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus in New York state, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from the academys library, officials said. Over the next year, West Point will also remove, relocate, modify or rename busts, memorials, streets and buildings named after Confederate figures as part of a directive from the Department of Defense. Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland, the academys superintendent, said in a message on the academys website that the first stage of the removal process would begin during the holiday break, which started this past Sunday. During the break, the academy plans to remove the portrait of Lee, as well as a stone bust of Lee, who was superintendent of West Point before he led the Confederate army, Gilland said. The academy will also remove a triptych of bronze plaques that include Lee and other Confederate figures and an image ... More | | 
Paula Rego, Untitled, 1986. Acrylic on paper, 112 x 76 cm. British Council Collection. Courtesy of the British Council Koleksiyonu |Collection.
ISTANBUL.- Pera Museum now hosts the works of a unique artist who redefined figurative art. The exhibition Paula Rego: The Story of Stories introduces art enthusiasts in Istanbul to Rego's paintings with an unprecedented selection. Rego, who passed away at the age of 87 last June, held her last exhibition as part of a retrospective at Tate Britain showcasing her works from all the phases of her artistic practice. The works of Paula Rego, who was born in Portugal, studied art in London, and made a name for herself among the most significant European artists, were also featured in this year's Venice Biennale. Immediately following the Tate Britain retrospective and the Venice Biennale, the works of Paula Rego now await their visitors at the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum in Istanbul. Curating paintings that blend innocence and experience with elusive messages and narratives, the exhibition entitled Paula Rego ... More | | 
Paul Chan, Volumes, 2012 (detail). Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center opened the first major U.S.-based museum exhibition of works by artist, writer, and publisher Paul Chan in 15 years. Chan, who was recently awarded the prestigious 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, came to prominence in the early 2000s with vibrant moving image works that touched on aspects of war, religion, pleasure, and politics. Around 2009, Chan embarked on what he described as a breather from the art world, turning his attention to experimental publishing by founding the press Badlands Unlimited. The forthcoming exhibition, titled Paul Chan: Breathers, traces the artists return to artmaking through approximately 40 works and suites of objects, including a new installation made especially for the Walker. Together, the featured works capture Chans creative and conceptual innovations, from his publishing through to his current experimentations with the boundless possibilities of the moving ... More |
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| Lower Belvedere presents "Grow" The Tree in Art" | | Neue Galerie showcases rarely seen works from the Ronald S. Lauder Collection | | Regen Projects announces publication detailing thirty-five years of Jack Pierson's practice | 
Giuseppe Penone, Respirare lombra, 1998. Private collection, installation view Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2016, © Bildrecht, Vienna 2022, Photo © Archivio Penone.
VIENNA.- The Tree of Knowledge, the Tree of Enlightenment, the Axis of the World: Following these narrative strands, the exhibition GROW is centered around the tree as a subject in art and its relationship to humankind. Trees accompany our lives as sources of oxygen, shade-givers, anchors of calm. Culturally, the tree has always been symbolic a mysterious bearer of knowledge, signifier of strength and power, or harbinger of ecological aberrations to come. Director Stella Rollig: In the current climate crisis, the tree is perceived more than ever as a companion whose survival or demise has direct, tangible effects, not the least of which are emotional ones. While a tree dying on your own street is painful, the far-off deforestation of the rainforest is downright frightening. This exhibition explores this deep connection between humans and trees. Throughout the centuries, the tree ... More | | 
Developed over the course of 65 years, the Lauder Collection is defined by an absolute dedication to art of beauty, quality, and rarity.
NEW YORK, NY.- Neue Galerie New York culminates its twentieth anniversary season with the opening of The Ronald S. Lauder Collection, a major exhibition featuring approximately 500 works from the collection of the museums co-founder and President, many of which have never been on public display. On view at the Neue Galerie from November 11, 2022, through February 13, 2023, the exhibition provides unique insight into one of the finest private collections in the world and introduces visitors to the mindset of a passionate lifelong connoisseur of art, whose forward-thinking vision laid the groundwork for the museum. Developed over the course of 65 years, the Lauder Collection is defined by an absolute dedication to art of beauty, quality, and rarity. Only on one other occasion has the public had the opportunity to explore the collection comprehensively, in a special exhibition organized in honor of the museum ... More | | 
Designed by Dorothée Perret. Printing and binding by Snel Grafics, Belgium.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This volume celebrates and documents the career of pioneering New Yorkbased artist Jack Pierson. Published on the occasion of Piersons tenth solo presentation with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, this full-color publication illustrates works produced over 35 years of the artists multidisciplinary practice. The publication follows the design of the exhibition, creating a personal sojourn through the artists career. Featuring a new contribution by Evan Moffitt that surveys the artists body of work in relation to queer cultural zeitgeists of the 1990s, a conversation between the artist and Andy Campbell, and an essay by Bruce Benderson, Less and more shines new light on Piersons oeuvre. Designed by Dorothée Perret. Printing and binding by Snel Grafics, Belgium. Jack Pierson (b. 1960, Plymouth, MA) earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1984. He gained early recognition for being the youngest founding member of the Five of Boston group ... More |
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| First major U.S. museum survey of Puerto Rican art in nearly 50 years on view at the Whitney Museum | | Silverlens New York opens a group exhibition featuring all new works by Southeast Asian artists | | Camilla Engström opens her first exhibition in Thailand at Over the Influence | 
Image from the exhibition "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria", on view at the Whitney Musem of American Art.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- The Whitney Museum of American Arts exhibition no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria brings together over fifty works by an intergenerational group of twenty artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora whose art has responded to the transformation brought on by Hurricane Mariaa high-end category four storm that hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. Organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the storm, the exhibition is defined by the larger context in which the devastation was exacerbated by historic events that preceded and followed this defining moment. The first scholarly survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art presented by a major U.S. museum in nearly half a century, the exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator, with Angelica Arbelaez, Rubio Butterfield ... More | | 
Bernardo Pacquing, Vagueness of Dynamics 01, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Silverlens New York is presenting EXTERNAL ENTRAILS, an intergenerational group exhibition featuring all new works by Southeast Asian artists Nicole Coson, Corinne de San Jose, Bernardo Pacquing, and Arin Sunaryo. EXTERNAL ENTRAILS is a response to the unremitting socio-political aggressorsnational and foreign governments, colonialism, erasure, and dissimulationand environmental disastersvolcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, extreme floods, and monsoonsthat Southeast Asia faces as one of the worlds most natural disaster-prone regions. The exhibition links four intergenerational and mixed-gender artists who use abstraction to confront the precarious and uncertain state one experiences when bracing for impact. Emulating the tension felt before breaking, the exhibition examines the inevitable and reactive violence of nature and technology, the result of trauma ... More | | 
Camilla Engström, Peaceful Napper, 2022, oil canvas, 152.4 by 121.9 cm, 60 by 48 in, Photo courtesy of the Artist and Over the Influence.
BANGKOK.- Over the Influence Bangkok is presenting Undercurrents, an exhibition of 16 paintings by Camilla Engström. This is the first time the artist has shown in Thailand. Camilla Engström paints the seasons. In the summer her work is exuberant and cheerful, demonstrative of a spirit embracing the exterior world, overflowing with abundance and energy. In winter, the artist says she goes inward. She hibernates. Her usual technicolor palette cools, her sun is eclipsed by a moon, and the energy slows to a near stillness. Or least thats how it appears on surface. But beneath the visage of darkness, and stasis, new life and revelations continues to burn brightly. Undercurrents explore the profound transformation that occurs beneath the surface of the earth, and the human body, during times of perceived stillness and rest. A theme that mirrors the artists own practice, who during her blue ... More |
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| Recipient of the 2021 Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist opens exhibition | | Lora Webb Nichols on view at the Danziger Gallery in Los Angeles through February 4th | | David Kordansky Gallery now represents Jenna Gribbon | 
Vera Vladimirsky So Long (1), 2021-2022.
TEL AVIV.- Vera Vladimirsky's (b. 1984, Ukraine) exhibition brings four photographic series together. In these works, Vladimirsky, who immigrated to Israel at the age of 7, engages with the experience of immigration and the encounter with the new country. In her photographs, she combines personal biography and documentation, fusing memory and longing with fiction to create a new narrative inspired by her childhood and by traditional Ukrainian crafts and ornaments. Vladimirsky's work process is stratified, involving different photographic practices. Her aesthetic choices and techniques refer to early 20th century avant-garde photography and modernist architecture, utilizing photographic collage and the encounter with natural Israeli light. She photographs architectural spaces, prints the photographs, installs them in other spaces, and photographs anew, thus spawning ... More | | 
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928, 15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print from the original negative. Image size: 14 x 8 inches. Edition of 15.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Danziger Gallery is continuing their exclusive representation of the archive of Lora Webb Nichols with the first show of her work in Los Angeles. The recent discovery of Nichols turn of the century frontier work, which began on November 19th, 2022, has been met with the acclaim of such other out of the mainstream photographers as Mike Disfarmer, Seydou Keïta, and Vivian Maier. Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment ... More | | 
Portrait of Jenna Gribbon. Photo:Â Annie Klebanoff.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Jenna Gribbon. The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery will be presented in Los Angeles in 2024. Gribbons oil paintings constitute an important new entry in the long lineage of figurative art, extending its narrative possibilities to explore the act of looking. Her vivid portraits, frequently nudes or partial nudes, depict those closest to her, and sometimes the artist herself, in candid poses, during uncanny moments. Replete with saturated colorsand spotlit in awkward, uncomfortable, or humorous positionsthe protagonists are often seen looking directly at the artist, blurring the line between observer and the observed. By including her own image in her paintings, whether its her legs brushed up against her partners or her dramatic shadow lurking in the foreground, Gribbon becomes both actor and director in an unfolding ... More |
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 Irish Museum of Modern Art presents solo exhibition by Irish artist Kevin MooneyDUBLIN.- IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) is presenting Revenants, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Kevin Mooney. Featuring a cross-section of key works made between 2016 and 2022, Revenants reflects Mooney's ongoing commitment to creating a 'speculative art history', one which imagines the 'lost' art of an Irish diaspora. As a colonised nation, there are large gaps in the record of our art history caused by poverty, famine and mass migration. Revenants marks the gaps in our visual culture as a traumatic break and a reverberant event in the Irish psyche. Through a distinctive approach to figuration that draws on sources as varied as Vincent Van Gogh, Irish mythology and 1980s horror films, Mooney's work reconsiders these gaps and reverse-engineers the lost art of this Irish diaspora, imagining it as a mutant absurdist folklore ... More  Gosport Museum and Art Gallery set to open with specially commissioned exhibitionGOSPORT.- Following a major refurbishment project, Gosport Museum and Art Gallery opened its doors to the public on Tuesday 22 November. Situated on Gosports High Street, the former Old Grammar School has been transformed following a significant capital works project, with a new museum for the town, a new community gallery, new café, enlarged Play Gallery for under-fives and enhanced learning rooms to cater for the venues extensive schools and learning programme. Gosport Museum and Art Gallery, which is operated by Hampshire Cultural Trust, opened with a specially commissioned new video artwork exhibition created by Portsmouth-based artists, Heinrich & Palmer. Alien Native reveals plant life from the local area using a unique and fascinating technique. The installation is a film, which has been edited to create a multi-channel ... More  Korean Cultural Centre UK presents '2022 KCC UK x Germany Open Call Begin Again'LONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK is presenting a new exhibition 2022 KCC UK x Germany Open Call Begin Again, on view until 4 February at 1-3 Strand, London, featuring six international artists: Iden Sungyoung Kim, Kyungmin Sophia Son, Nina Nowak, Sooun Kim, Yambe Tam and Ya-Wen Fu. To expand the opportunity of these talented emerging artists, the KCC Open Call hasbeen designed to travel across two major cities, London and Berlin. Entitled Begin Again, the finalists of the 2022 KCC UK and Germany Open Call creatively reflect upon the notion of change and re-imagination. The title Begin Again means an attempt to look for change through uncertainty. The process of finding innovation in a chaotic situation is achieved through constant questioning. The KCCUKs annual Open Call exhibition invites six artists selected by the following four jurors ... More  Artists announced for The National 4: Australian Art NowSYDNEY.- Sydneys leading visual arts institutions will showcase ambitious new works and commissions by 53 artists and collectives for the fourth edition of The National, which is on display from March to July 2023. The National is Sydneys largest biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. A collaboration between four major cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the exhibition is staged concurrently at each venue and explores the latest ideas and forms in contemporary art today. The National 4: Australian Art Now is curated by Beatrice Gralton at the Art Gallery of NSW, Emily Rolfe at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Freja Carmichael and Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley at Carriageworks, and Jane Devery at MCA Australia ... More  EENWERK presents "Tracks" exhibition, a cross-section of the multidisciplinary work of Scarlett Hooft GraaflandAMSTERDAM.- Inhabiting the border between straight photography, performance, and sculpture, Scarlett Hooft Graafland's photographs are records of highly choreographed live performances that are currently on exhibition at EENWERK until January 31st, 2023. In these isolated and often surreal landscapes, she constantly refers to a more profound cultural discourse of her surroundings. In Tracks she shows her latest work: these are embroideries on photographs, through which the viewer can experience how her embroidery on photos intensifies and accentuates visual perception. The photos were taken on the island of Socotra in Yemen, Bolivia, Norway, and the Netherlands. Scarlett Hooft Graafland has won international fame for her images of uncultivated landscapes that she contrasts with cultured stagings, often in collaboration with local people ... More  The Biennale of Sydney launches rīvus on Google Arts & CultureSYDNEY.- The rīvus journey continues on Google Arts & Culture with the launch of an immersive digital experience of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney. Following the success of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) digital exhibition on Google Arts & Culture, the Biennale expands on the platform with access to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus, at The Cutaway, Barangaroo and Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. With one click, users will experience site specific projects and living works alongside a selection of newly commissioned content, podcasts, exclusive participant interviews, workshops and audio readings from The Glossary of Water plus 360 tours of the exhibition featuring large-scale immersive installations. Users can get up close with Cave Urbans Flowone of the largest bamboo structures ever produced in Australia, navigate Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S ... More  LewAllen Galleries now representing painter of contemporary naturalism Ron KingswoodSANTA FE, N.M..- LewAllen Galleries announcing that we are now representing the work of Ron Kingswood, an internationally regarded painter of contemporary naturalism. At a time when biodiversity, habitat, and species are imperiled, Kingswoods sophisticated paintings are reminders about the precious wonder present in the natural world. Kingswoods beautiful paintings are elegant, intimate glimpses of nature and the remarkable life within it. They are distinguished for redefining traditional wildlife painting and presenting a uniquely different approach to exploring the spatial grandeur and inner spirit he finds at the intersection of landscape, habitat, and wildlife. There is a sense of quiet nobility and dignity in the works that helps the viewer relate to them as real and with a penetrating empathy. Scenes seem to be snipped from the thread of time and stopped ... More  Theodora Allen's Gimlet Eye on view at the Huset for Kunst & DesignHOLSTEBRO.- Huset for Kunst & Design began on November 18th the exhibition Theodora Allens Gimlet Eye, a presentation of ten recent paintings installed in the dome space of Inger & Johannes Exners 1971 exhibition building, which will end on February 19th, 2023. Gimlet Eye, from Middle English, describes a piercing or watchful gaze. Its a term which compares a manner of looking to the action of a small hand toola gimlet is used to bore tiny holes in tight spaces. In the collection of ten works on view, Allen presents a chimera of meticulous and crystalline compositions, where shooting stars, alongside a sequence of emblems, interwoven and succinctly reduced, denote an inward and outward gaze. At once sensuous and ascetic, with lapidary-like precision, the paintings in Gimlet Eye map out a legend of time and devotion. In six of the small paintings on view ... More  Atelier Editions publishes a new edition of Séance, a monograph by photographer Shannon TaggartNEW YORK, NY.- Atelier Ãditions announced a new edition of Séance, a monograph by photographer Shannon Taggart. American photographer Shannon Taggarts fascination with Spiritualism, the belief in deceased individuals ability to communicate with the living, began during her adolescence when a medium revealed a family secret about the circumstances of Taggarts grandfathers death. Years later, Taggart, then a practicing photojournalist, found herself obsessively drawn to Lily Dale, New Yorkthe worlds largest Spiritualist community. Her transformative experiences there catalyzed a 20-year odyssey documenting Spiritualist societies worldwide in search of ectoplasman emanation exorcised from the body of the medium, believed to be both spiritual and material. Named one of Times best photobooks of 2019, and now revisited by Atelier Ãditions ... More  The Museum of the City of New York opens 'City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and UrbanSpace'NEW YORK, NY.- City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and UrbanSpace, a new exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York, looks under the surface of New Yorks image as a secular city and maps the complex and often surprising relationships that connect religion to public space. Using art as a mode of imagination and critical inquiry, City of Faith explores how New Yorks secularism renders specific communities foreign and therefore hyper-visible. Focusing primarily on South Asian American communities, the exhibition shows how activists and artists use art and collective action to claim space in the city and to build solidarity with others. As a topic, religion is often seen as the third rail but the truth is that it is omnipresent in our lives and inextricably linked with the story of New York City, says Whitney Donhauser ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max Beckmannâs Hölle der Vögel (Birdsâ Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © Christieâs Images Limited 2017.
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