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An aerial view of an ongoing archaeological excavation below San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy, June 16, 2023, that revealed an extraordinary discovery. A trove of well preserved bronze statues, mostly dating from the second century B.C. to the first century A.D., were discovered under layers of mud in what had been a sacred pool of thermo-mineral water. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI, ITALY.- An exhibition that opened Friday at Romes Quirinal Palace could be described as a classic rags-to-riches story. Just 10 months ago, many of the bronze statues now on show there artfully spotlighted and captioned were submerged in layers of thick mud in what had been a sacred pool of thermo-mineral water roughly halfway between Florence and Rome. Their rediscovery last fall during an ongoing archaeological excavation in a field just below the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni made headlines around the world, propelling the bronzes via a stint in Italys main restoration institute to the rare honor of being exhibited at the presidential palace. Its an extraordinary discovery, Luigi La Rocca, the culture ministry official responsible for archaeology, fine arts and landscape, told reporters at the palace Thursday, praising the variety of the bronzes, their quality and their high degree of conservation. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Elise Corpataux, Installation view. Photo Guillaume Python. Courtesy of Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and the artist.
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| The artist making glassware with Solange Knowles and Saint Heron | | The Morgan presents "Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift" | | A new British arts venue tracks its city's changes | 
Jason McDonald became a glassblower knowing that throughout history, theres little to no record of Black glassblowers hed like to change that. (Rafael Rios via The New York Times)
by Christine Jean-Baptiste
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason McDonald discovered glassblowing more than two decades ago at an after-school program in his hometown, Tacoma, Washington. He was 14 at the time, and it was nothing like anything he had ever seen before, he said: immediate, dangerous and sobering. It was like magic, he said. When he was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at 37, he realized that some things held his attention more than others. And glass artistry was one of those things that stuck. The practice of fusing liquid sand into art objects dates back more than 2,000 years, and yet theres little to no record of Black glass blowers. I can count on my fingers and toes the number of professional Black glass artists that I know, and still have some toes leftover, McDonald said. He ... More | | 
Nora Thompson Dean, Letter to Francis Jennings, 9 April 1968. Courtesy James Rementer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift, celebrating the gift of more than 130 drawings and photographs from the collection of Morgan Trustee Karen B. Cohen. On view through October 22, 2023, the exhibition combines objects from Cohens generous gift with related examples from the Morgans collection. This selection of over seventy works on paper by French nineteenth-century artists explores pioneering approaches to the rural landscape and its inhabitants and helps to illuminate the role artists played in defining a modern relationship to nature. The development of portable equipment, the expansion of the railway system, and the technical innovation of photography all helped reshape artists relationship with nature in the nineteenth century. As France continued to industrialize, artists sought out the countrys less-explored and rich ... More | | 
Aviva Studios, formerly known as Factory International, in Manchester, England, on June 21, 2023. (Duncan Elliot/The New York Times)
by Hugh Morris
LONDON.- Since the late 70s, Manchester, in the north of England, has been a focal point for British pop culture. The city is still mostly known by the rest of the world for the bands it helped produce: Joy Division, New Order, the Stone Roses, Oasis and the Smiths all have ties to the city. Now a new multipurpose arts venue aims to cement Manchester as a destination for the fine arts, too. It marks how the citys cultural scene has transformed in recent decades, from a site for DIY art-making to a desirable home for large-scale investment and corporate sponsorship. Aviva Studios, named for the insurance company that provided some of the funding, opens in Manchesters city center at the end of the month. It is a huge, highly configurable space that includes a nearly 70-foot-high, 5,000-capacity warehouse venue and a 1,500-seat auditorium. It will also provide ... More |
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| Métis artist Rosalie Favell creates her own kind of hero in new AGO exhibition | | Rita Reif, antiques and auctions columnist, dies at 94 | | Why Mark Ruffalo and Wendell Pierce are fighting for a crumbling church | 
Rosalie Favell. If only you could love me the way I am, 2018. Oil on linen, Overall: 121.9 à 121.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Rosalie Favell.
TORONTO.- Opening at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on June 24, 2023, Rosalie Favell: Portraits of Desire presents a selection of poignant and wryly humorous photographs and paintings by Métis artist Rosalie Favell. Surveying four decades of artmaking, the works highlight Favells on-going quest to locate her place in the world be it through the surfacing of family photographs, the adoption of new identities or re-figuring art history. The exhibition is curated by Wanda Nanibush, AGO Curator of Indigenous Art and organized by the AGO. Born in Winnipeg in 1958, Favell was 10 years old when she was given her first camera. Overlaying personal experience, family history and pop culture with text, her diary-style approach to artmaking blends mediums and art historical references, to create oil paintings, self portraits and digital collages. I see the photograph as a performance space, where identity is constantly worked ... More | | 
Rita Reif, antiques and auctions columnist. Reif, who after starting out in some of journalisms lowest-rung jobs spent decades covering the worlds of antiques and auctions for The New York Times, and made news herself in the late 1990s when she challenged the ownership of an Egon Schiele painting thought to have been stolen from a relative of her late husband by the Nazis, died on June 16, 2023, in Washington. She was 94. (Duane Michals/DC Moore Gallery, New York via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Rita Reif, who after starting out in some of journalisms lowest-rung jobs spent decades covering the worlds of antiques and auctions for The New York Times, and made news herself in the late 1990s when she challenged the ownership of an Egon Schiele painting thought to have been stolen from a relative of her late husband by the Nazis, died June 16 in Washington. She was 94. Her son Timothy M. Reif said she died at his home, where she had been in hospice care since last year for congestive heart failure and dementia. Rita Reif accumulated thousands of bylines in her half a century at the Times. She started working at the newspaper ... More | | 
West Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, on July 22, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Mihir Zaveri
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, a conflict over whether to tear down one of New York Citys historic churches, a 19th-century Romanesque Revival building on the Upper West Side, has been cast in epic terms, as a battle between the little people and big business. In this case, however, those who see themselves as representing the little people include a growing list of New York celebrities. And big business? That would be a real estate firm working with the tiny congregation of the West Park Presbyterian Church, which says it cannot afford to fix up the deteriorating building and hopes to sell it to a developer to build luxury apartments on the site. What has ensued is a perplexing tug of war for the moral high ground, set against the backdrop of a long-running conflict over who thinks they should have control over the citys future. Its about the people versus the corporations in this city, as Mark Ruffalo, ... More |
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| Bruce Museum first venue to exhibit Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld | | Santa Barbara Museum of Art is presenting The Private Universe of James Castle | | The Hispanic Society Museum & Library unveils Jesús Rafael Soto's Penetrable in New York City | 
Mark Dion (American, b. 1961), Cabinet of Marine Debris, 2014. Wood and metal cabinet, marine debris, plastic, rope 113 x 84 x 32 inches. Margulies Collection, Miami Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
GREENWICH, CONN.- On June 24, 2023 the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT became first venue to showcase Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Natures Underworld, a new traveling exhibition surveying 30 years of both artists work, on view through August 27, 2023. The exhibition is the first two-person survey of these renowned artists and will explore their shared allegiances and sustaining friendship over three decades. Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Natures Underworld is guest curated by Suzanne Ramljak and organized by the American Federation of Arts. Both Dion and Rockman have achieved international prominence for their own distinctive practices. Together they have embarked on tropical expeditions; published dialogues; and co- edited the pioneering 1996 book Concrete Jungle, on anthropogenic ecosystems. Each has ... More | | 
James Castle, Farmscape, n.d. Soot on found paper. James Castle Collection and Archive.
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- With more than 90 works, this exhibition features many of the most beautiful and accomplished drawings created by the extraordinarily gifted, self-taught artist James Castle. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) represents the sole venue for this show, which highlights the artists remarkable technical skills and attempts to foster a better understanding of his evocative and unconventional images, particularly his landscapes and architectural interior scenes. Unfortunately, the common perception of Castle and his art has tended to be very limited due to emphasis on his physical impairmentshe was profoundly deaf and largely muteand his geographic isolation, working in rural Idaho. The exhibition and accompanying scholarly catalogue places Castle in a larger artistic and cultural context and explores the imaginative innovations of his works, mainly drawings produced with soot from a woodstove and his saliva, rendered on scr ... More | | 
Jesús Rafael Soto (19232005), Penetrable, 1990. Steel, aluminum, and plastic hoses, 508 x 508 x 508 cm. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Installation at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Mexico), in the exhibition "Cruce de Miradas. Visiones de América Latina en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros" (2006). Photo by Carlos Germán Rojas.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hispanic Society Museum & Library (HSM&L) the primary institution dedicated to the preservation, study, understanding, exhibition and enjoyment of art and cultures of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries and communities and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), reveal Jesús Rafael Soto's interactive sculpture Penetrable (1990) to the public, installed in the HSM&Ls Upper Terrace this Summer. Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the birth of the Venezuelan artist, the installation of Penetrable at the HSM&L marks the first time a sculpture from Sotos Penetrables series will be showcased outdoors to be experienced by New York Citys diverse audiences. The Penetrable (1990), on long-term loan ... More |
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| Laguna Art Museum has opened Joseph Kleitsch: Abroad and At Home in Old Laguna | | Frist Art Museum organizes exhibition exploring how black identity and experiences are expressed in collage | | USC Fisher Museum of Art announces the presentation of Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick | 
Joseph Kleitsch, The Artist, c. 1907, Oil on canvas; 30 x 25 in. Laguna Art Museum Collection. Purchased with funds provided in part from Janet Barker Spurgeon and John Roger Barker.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum is now presenting the exhibition, Joseph Kleitsch: Abroad and At Home in Old Laguna, on view since June 24 through September 24, 2023. The exhibition will showcase the work of Joseph Kleitsch, an important California Impressionist painter born in Hungary in 1882. Kleitsch's artwork vividly captures the energy and beauty of Southern California. We cannot wait to welcome guests to this exhibition that touches upon every period of Joseph Kleitschs artistic output, said Julie Perlin Lee, Director of Laguna Art Museum when it was first announced in May. More than 25 individual and organizational lenders have enthusiastically come together to bring the best of Kleitschs artworks together in a showing of sensuous portraits, realistic still lifes and landscape paintings that document the artists experimentation and growth ... More | | 
Helina Metaferia. Headdress 43 (Part of By Way of Revolution series), 2022. Mixed media collage; 96 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Helina Metaferia.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, the first major museum exhibition devoted to the rich yet understudied subject. Featuring approximately 80 collage and collage-informed works, Multiplicity explores the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States. Conceived and organized by Frist Art Museum senior curator Katie Delmez, the exhibition will be on view in the museums Ingram Gallery from September 15 through December 31, 2023, before traveling to two additional venues to be announced. With an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity examines how concepts such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory are expressed in the practice of collage. By assembling pieces of paper, fabric, and other often-salvaged or repurposed materials, the ... More | | 
Kara Walker (American (b. 1969)) Excerpt, edition PP 3/5, 2014. Lithograph, 37 7/8 x 24 1/4 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. Image: Aaron Wessling Photography.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- USC Fisher Museum of Art is proud to announce the presentation of Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The career-spanning exhibition presents Walkers powerful and provocative images that employ contradictions to critique the painful legacies of slavery, sexism, violence, imperialism, and other power structures, including those in the history and hierarchies of art and contemporary culture. The exhibition will be on view from September 8 through December 9, 2023. A leading artist of her generation, Kara Walker (b. 1969) works in a range of mediums, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, film, and the large-scale silhouette cutouts for which she is perhaps most recognized. Walkers process involves extensive research in history, literature, art history, and popular culture. Intentionally unsentimental and ambiguous, the works ... More |
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 Troubetzkoy, Wyatt Jr., and a collection of Ertè sculptures highlight Moran's ReDesigned saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- Collectors, get ready! This July, John Moran Auctioneers is pleased to present their ReDesigned sale, taking place Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, at 10:00am PDT. The auction will offer more than 400 lots featuring a kaleidoscope of styles, periods, designers, and marquee names from favorite masters of 20th and 21st centuries. Works by legends such as Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Richard Wyatt Jr., Itzchak Tarkay, LeRoy Neiman, Victor Vasarely, Corita Kent, Keith Haring, Harold von Schmidt, Larry Rivers, Larry Poons and The Date Farmers highlight the art. There will be a large collection of Romain (Erté) de Tirtoff bronzes and fine examples of pieces by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, Tiffany, Daum, Durand, and Baccarat. Old Hollywood glamour comes through with some Chinoiserie style slipper chairs and a French bronze and crystal ... More  Art Omi is now presenting Pippa Garner: $ell Your $elf GHENT, NY.- Art Omi is presenting the first New York institutional solo exhibition of visionary artist Pippa Garner (American, b. 1942). On view since June 24 to October 28, 2023, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF will feature sculptures, drawings, video, installations, and garments from the last fifty years. Presented during the fiftieth anniversary of Garners Backwards Car (1973-1974), the exhibition will premiere Art Omis new commission Haulin' Ass! (2023): a custom pickup truck with its exterior rotated 180 degrees and welded back together, replete with super-sized truck nuts. Fully functional, the truck will be activated in performances in New York City and the Hudson Valley throughout the run of the exhibition. For more than five decades, Garner has produced work across sculpture, video, drawing, photography, and performance that playfully ... More  Philip Schuyler is knocked off his pedestal in AlbanyALBANY, NY.- There was a time when one probably had to be a committed Revolutionary War buff or an aficionado of early Albany aristocracy to know the name Philip J. Schuyler. But that was before Hamilton. Indeed, as any devotee of the blockbuster musical can tell you, the Schuylers were Colonial-era movers and shakers, and the central figures in the shows fraught love triangle between Alexander Hamilton and two of the Schuyler sisters. And while Philip Schuyler never speaks during the show, he is a presence even before he becomes Hamiltons father-in-law: Take Philip Schuyler, the man is loaded, Aaron Burr intones, and Schuyler is mentioned frequently by his daughters, Angelica, Eliza and Peggy. In reality, Schuyler was much more prominent than a bit part: the patriarch of a wealthy Albany family a patroon, as Dutch-era landowners were ... More  Exhibition reflects on conceptual art in the San Francisco Bay Area in the later part of the 20th centurySAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Starting this June, 500 Capp Street delves deep into its vast collection and archive to present two exhibitions that reflect on the history and practice of conceptual art in the Bay Area in the later part of the 20th century. THE CONDITION WHERE ART WOULD DISAPPEAR brings out some of David Irelands most iconic works to explore questions surrounding conceptual art and the issues artists confront when deep in studio work. The rooms of the House have been populated with works that, for the first time since 500 Capp Streets public opening, reconstruct what was in these spaces when Ireland was working and living there from 1974 to 2004. These iconic tableaux illuminate how Ireland navigated between the correlation of work and site and casts light on the point in his work where the studio became ... More  RIBOCA3 launches INTERMEZZO in collaboration with 44MöenRIGA.- Beginning RIBOCA3s exhibition programme, INTERMEZZO is a celebration of art, respect, and coexistence across and in spite of the conflicted waters of the Baltic Sea. With new and existing work from the region and beyond, 44Møen is the centre of an artistic dialogue that was unable to take place in Riga in 2022. Under the heading Exercises in Respect, Block had previously invited 60 artists to exhibit in the old industrial harbour Andrejsala. However, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, RIBOCA3 was postponed and now opens in another format at 44Møen and in Riga. Block has invited 13 artists to participate in INTERMEZZO, including Nanna Abell, Meriç Algün, Mehtap Baydu, Evelīna Deičmane, Dace Deriņa, Jason Dodge, Ingrid Furre, Boris Mikhailov, Bjørn Nørgaard, Māris Subačs, Superflex, Evita Vasiļjeva and Maaria ... More  Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture now open at the WhitneyNEW YORK, NY.- Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture opened on the fifth-floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art on Saturday, June 3. Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist who works across ceramic, metal, printmaking, painting, and performance, highlighting connections between our contemporary lives and the landscapes we inhabit. The exhibition at the Whitney will showcase five large-scale sculptural figuresincluding three works recently acquired for the Whitneys collectionthat offer a sage reminder of the ancestral past and natural wonder of the land we occupy. My goal with this presentation at the Whitney is to remind us that we are not independent, says Simpson. The inanimate are watching, and we are responsible not only to the present but to the ancestral spirits that inhabit a particular place. Simpson titled both the exhibition and ... More  Brooklyn Academy of Music lays off 13% of its staffNEW YORK, NY.- The Brooklyn Academy of Music, one of the most important cultural organizations in New York, has laid off 13% of its staff members and reduced its programming as it seeks to plug a sizable structural deficit during a challenging time for the arts, officials confirmed Monday. BAM moved last week to eliminate 26 positions, according to a letter sent to staff members by the organizations president, Gina Duncan. In the letter, which was reviewed by The New York Times, Duncan said that the changes were necessary in part to help BAM to weather the downturn in charitable giving for the arts, and address an outdated business model that heavily relies on a shrinking donor base. She said that the organization faced a sizable structural deficit each year. This is us putting on our oxygen mask so that we can continue to fulfill our promise ... More  Asia Society names new leaderNEW YORK, NY.- Yasufumi Nakamori, a senior curator of international art at the Tate Modern in London, will become director of the Asia Society in New York, the museum announced Monday. The position of director has been vacant since Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe departed in June 2022 for another job. Nakamori will start in August. Asia Society is one of the countrys preeminent institutions exhibiting and collecting artworks of Asian heritage, including Chinese and Korean ceramics, Indian bronzes and Southeast Asian sculptures. Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1956, it has a growing contemporary collection of video, animation, photography and new media art by Asian and Asian American artists. I want to bring power and dynamism to the museum, Nakamori said during a phone interview, adding that he was already developing ... More  Sale of the Stuart and Phyllis Moldaw Collection exceeds estimatesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions June 18th auction featuring the collection of Stuart and Phyllis Moldaw of Atherton, California, curated by Anthony Hail, was a White Glove event, achieving 170 percent of its pre-sale estimate and totaling more than $720,000, with live, in-room bidding, thousands of online bidders and phone and absentee bids. The auction included Chinese porcelain, Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dinnerware, wonderful furnishings and accessories. Leading the way was fine silver, featuring a selection by Buccellati that included bowls, Rigato flatware, candelabra, sack form vases and a group of seven shell form dishes that sold for $11,875. Georgian silver mixed with William van Erp Arts & Crafts silverplated serving ware, and a Puiforcat Royal pattern flatware service for twelve hit $18,750. All prices quoted include ... More  The thrilling programme for Shubbak Festival 2023 has been announcedLONDON.- Art curators Najlaa El-Ageli and Tewa Barnosa are now presenting the exhibition Totalitarian Props with The Africa Centre (London), in partnership with Shubbak Festival 2023. Taking place since 23 June, 2023-14 July, 2023 at The Africa Centre, it will be accompanied by a parallel engagement programme led by filmmakers, artists and researchers. Set within the context of the Pan-Africanism ideal and Pan-Arabism dream, this trans- disciplinary show explores and investigates how the state, government and utopian dictatorships develop modalites of population mass-control and utilise surveillance mechanisms that distort the common reality. By playing with political props, both real and imagined, a further link is made to the ongoing colonial conversation. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Totalitarian Props also demonstrates how truth can be per ... More  The work of artist Amy Winstanley 'Lost Hap' is now on view at Margot SamelNEW YORK, NY.- Margot Samel is pleased to present Lost Hap, a new suite of paintings by Glasgow-based artist Amy Winstanley (b. 1983, United Kingdom). The exhibition title derives from Sara Ahmeds meditation on happiness and its etymology in her book Living a Feminist Life (2017). Here, Ahmed traces the words origin back to the Middle English word hap, defined as luck or chance, asking how, in this current moment, happiness seems to have lost its hap, meaning its lightness and curiosity, its ease and unsystematic nature. Winstanleys title itself has some of these attributes, at first registering humorously as a spelling error hat for hap. Ahmeds text refuses to separate the personal and political, or mind from body, and she writes against the hierarchies, racism and sexism of our societies. For Winstanleys purposes, this has implications ... More  CHART art fair returns to Copenhagen for its 11th editionCOPENHAGEN.- CHART, the leading Nordic event for contemporary art, returns to the Danish capital for its 11th edition from 24 27 August 2023. Taking place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the heart of Copenhagen, CHART 2023 brings together 37 exhibitors from across the Nordic region, creating a single-entry point into the region's gallery scene. Building on Copenhagens stronghold of art, design and architecture, CHART 2023 will present an art fair, an art book fair and a public programme of talks, performances and architectural projects. Going against the grain of the global mega fairs, CHART gathers the entire ecosystem of the Nordic art scene to celebrate the local market and community in all its diversity. CHART, as a non-profit organisation, emphasises Nordic values that both shape and go beyond aesthetics; social awareness, democratic principles, forward thinking and collaborative practices. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Philip Guston was born June 27, 1913. Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In this image: Philip Guston, "Untitled", (book, ball and shoe), 1971. Oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.5 cm., 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. (T004167) ©The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
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