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"Simon Fujiwara: Who is Who-Dimensional?" recently opened in Milan
MILAN.- GiÃ³ Marconi announced Who is Who-Dimensional?, Simon Fujiwaras third solo exhibition at the gallery, hasreturned to its former venue in Via Tadino 15 in Milan this past February 17th, and will continue through to April 20th, 2023. Building on a string of international exhibitions centered around his cartoon character Who the Baer, Fujiwara presents a body of new two dimensional or flat works from his highly acclaimed series which debuted in 2020 at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. Who the Baer was developed by the artist during the first pandemic lockdown as a Dada-esque response to an increasingly absurd and incomprehensible world. Faced with the seemingly unresolvable questions raised by global protests and the dissolution of our traditional identity structures, Fujiwara created an avatar in the form of an identity-free cartoon character named ... More

Richard Belzer, detective Munch on 'Law & Order: SVU,' dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Belzer, who became one of American televisions most enduring police detectives as John Munch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and several other shows, died Sunday at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. He was 78. The death was confirmed by Bill Scheft, a friend of Belzers. Scheft, who has been working on a documentary about Belzers life and career, said the actor had suffered from circulatory and respiratory issues for years. As Munch, Belzer was brainy but hard-boiled, cynical but sensitive. He wore sunglasses at night and listened to the horror stories of rape victims in stony silence. He was the kind of cop who made casual references to Friedrich Nietzsche and novelist Elmore Leonard. He spoke in quips; when accused of being a dirty old man, he responded: Who are you calling old? In a 2010 interview ... More

Wilding Cran Gallery exhibits recent works by Fran Siegel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting Fran Siegel, Chronicle, curated by jill moniz of Transformative Arts. Chronicle is the culmination of recent works that express Siegels contemplation of place, dreams and perspectives. Chronicle features 216 small drawings on paper that Siegel started at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She visualized the discourse around the virus as extensions of her focus on pinwheel and maps, as a shorthand of place, and the aesthetics approaching abstraction. moniz pairs these ephemeral works with Siegels painted tapestries that incorporate porcelain as armatures, structural hardware that deciphers colonial appropriation and cultural production. The exhibition offers multiple entry points into dialogues that magnify how making transforms moments, from staged and beautiful, to essential ... More

Exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin on view at Gagosian
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin. This is the artists first exhibition with the gallery. Gavins landscape paintings transmute subjective responses to specific places into expansive works with striking palettes and fluid, gestural brushwork. Composed in dimensions that are in keeping with the scale of experience, these paintings interpret the sites and processes of the natural world. In this body of work, Gavin concentrates on subjects he finds in the vicinity of his studio in New Yorks Hudson Valley. He proposes a conception of landscape in relation to his status as a citizen and steward of the land, developing ways to explore themes of growth, renewal, and belonging. Gavins paintings respond to the land as he finds it, which he endeavors to preserve and rewild. Made following the artists move ... More

The man who discovered Escher: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
THE HAGUE.- This year is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). With the worlds largest museum collection of work by Escher, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Escher in The Palace are the focus of this special anniversary year. Both museums host major exhibitions devoted to Escher. His successful career is being celebrated, which would never have been possible without his mentor and close friend Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868-1944). The moving work of De Mesquita is being shown alongside Eschers work in The Man Who Discovered Escher: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. De Mesquita was not only a magnificent artist and printmaker, he also taught graphic techniques. It was in this capacity that he first met a keen young man at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. Encouraged ... More

Toledo Museum of Art pairs works by Caravaggio with paintings from the permanent collection in early 2024 exhibition
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art will present four important paintings by Caravaggio in conversation with works from the Museums permanent collection in The Brilliance of Caravaggio: Four Paintings in Focus, on view Jan. 20-April 14, 2024. The exhibition marks the first time in more than a decade that four paintings by this renowned Italian artist have been on view together in the United States and only the second showing ever of Caravaggios work at the Toledo Museum of Art. A single composition by the artist was shown at the Museum in 1951. Caravaggios theatrical works will appear alongside examples of paintings by Italian, French, Dutch and Spanish artists from TMAs collection to demonstrate ... More

Bellmans to sell part of the property of Meredith Etherington-Smith
LONDON.- Meredith Etherington-Smith (19462020) was a British fashion and art journalist and biographer, well-known for working with Diana, Princess of Wales, on her charity clothes auction at Christie's in 1997. Bellmans is selling a selection of works of art, furniture and fashion items in the February auction (22-24 February 2023). She started her career as a journalist in the 1960s, worked as the London editor for Vogue Paris in the 1970s, and for a year was the only female editor of GQ in the US and Deputy and Features editor at Harpers & Queen in London from 1983. By the early 1990s, however, she had established herself as an art journalist and was the founder of Art Fortnight, edited ArtReview and Artinfo.com. She was editor-in-chief of Christie's Magazine and was not only closely involved with the famous Diana charity auction, but also ... More

The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is on-track for a 2024 reopening
KEARNEY, NE.- The expansion, restoration, and renovation of The Museum of Nebraska Art is on-track for a 2024 reopening. This past fall, Phase One of construction began with the removal of both the parking lot and former Sculpture Garden, making way for the 23,000 square foot addition. In an effort to maintain energy efficiency, twenty-four geothermal wells have been installed, thus creating temperature-controlled buildings throughout the seasons. The next major milestone was the excavation of roughly 9,000 square feet of terrain, making way for the two-story expansion. Additional preparation includes removal of the surrounding ground water, followed with a foundation pour of approximately 600-800 cubic yards of concrete. Upon completion of the three-foot foundation, steel members will be installed to bolster the mass wood timbers ... More

For a film about Korean adoptees, a group effort
NEW YORK, NY.- Her biological father insists on buying her ballet shoes she does not want. She is repulsed by a tortured relatives overzealous dinner prayer and insistence on physical touching. When she visits her adoption agency, her eyes linger on pictures of smiling, happy parents and children. But Freddie, a 25-year-old adoptee born in South Korea and raised in France, also grows up. She realizes that South Korea is toxic for her. And she goes back anyway with mixed results. Return to Seoul, a critically acclaimed drama that earned a place on the Oscars shortlist, has drawn praise for bringing forward a story that feels authentic to many adoptees and at the same time resonates with anyone who has ever felt a little lost. The film tracks Freddie as she repeatedly returns to her birth country in a series of vignettes that play out over r ... More

With 'Letters From Max' onstage, Sarah Ruhl again mourns a poet's death
NEW YORK, NY.- About 10 minutes into Letters From Max, a Ritual, Sarah Ruhls new play about her epistolary friendship with poet Max Ritvo, something akin to a sacred rite takes place: The lights dim, a spotlight illuminates center stage, and the actor portraying Ritvo walks toward a winged tattoo artist. For a few moments, they circle each other. Then the tattoo artist-angel removes the hospital gown that the poet is wearing and lifts him with grace. With a miming gesture, he offers a compact mirror to Ritvo so he might examine the birds newly adorning his back. Its dope, Ritvo says of the tattoo, looking over his shoulder. I really love it in this light. But that quiet exchange was not dreamed up by Ruhl. It is actually a scene from a play that Ritvo wrote for Ruhl when he was a student at Yale in 2012, four years before he died of cancer at age ... More