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Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles to premiere David Hammons performance film of restaged 'Global Fax Festival'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Starting 25 May, Hauser & Wirths digital art magazine Ursula will present Global Fax Festival a new performance film by David Hammons dedicated to composer/conductor Lawrence D. Butch Morris and created in collaboration with Los Angeles venerated Monday Evening Concerts and virtuoso pianist Myra Melford. The film documents Hammons first-ever restaging of his noted 2000 project Global Fax Festival here conducted in the gallerys outdoor courtyard in early May 2021. After more than a year of isolation during the pandemic, Hammons conceived this event as a gesture toward the reawakening of Los Angeles, set within the space that two years ago hosted the largest survey of his work ever organized. On view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles from 18 May through 11 August 2019, the exhibition David Hammons ... More

Phillips announces additional highlights from dual-location sales in collaboration with Poly Auction
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced the full offering of its Hong Kong-Beijing dual-location 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Sales in collaboration with Poly Auction, following the earlier announcement of leading highlights including Yoshitomo Naras Missing in Action executed in the artists watershed year of 2000, Gerhard Richters Abstraktes Bild (940-7) offered for the first time at auction, and Banksys Laugh Now Panel A to be sold with the option for the buyer to pay with cryptocurrency. The Evening Sale on 8 June presents a stellar line-up of works by the most prominent international names, including George Condo, Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Zhang Xiaogang and Matthew Wong. The Day Sale on 7 June offers an exceptional selection of art, design, editions and sculptural pieces of unparalleled diversity. In addition, a group of emerging female ... More

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum welcomes new leadership
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum announced the arrival of eight new members to its Board of Trustees and two new members to its Leadership Team. We are very excited to have new members on our Board of Trustees and Leadership Team, says Cody Hartley, Director of The Georgia OKeeffe Museum. As we look towards the future, they bring invaluable expertise and knowledge to the organization. I look forward to working with this dynamic group. Ric E. Abel joins the Board of Trustees after a career as Managing Director and Dedicated Principal at Prudential Capital Energy Partners. Abel is currently a member of the Energy, Development, and Global Environment Advisory Board of Duke Universitys Fuqua School. Abel was a professional ballet dancer for 15 years with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, Irish Ballet, Eglevsky ... More

Vito Schnabel Gallery opens an exhibition of flower paintings by Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel
NEW YORK, NY.- Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings, featuring recent works by the Spanish and American artists who last exhibited together in Madrid in 2011. This is Galindos first presentation of works in the U.S. in over five years, and his second collaboration with Vito Schnabel Gallery; Galindos work was included in Incubator, Vito Schnabels first exhibition as a gallerist in 2003. Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings is on view through July 9 at the gallerys 455 West 19th Street location. Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel first met in Madrid. Their lifelong friendship developed while Schnabel was teaching a workshop at the CÃrculo de Bellas Artes in 1991. Over the last three decades, through their related visual languages of emotive and gestural painted surfaces, and through ... More

Tilton Gallery opens a solo exhibition of photographs by Texas Isaiah
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of photographs by Texas Isaiah. Texas Isaiah is a visual narrator whose photographs, primarily of Black people, especially those of queer, trans, non-binary and gender expansive experiences, create arresting and poignant portraits that are significant both for the subject matter and for their remarkable visual beauty, rich color and soft natural light. Working in black and white and, more often since his move to Los Angeles a few years ago, in color photography, Texas Isaiah captures the essential humanness of his sitters. Texas Isaiah has stated that he "acts as a conduit, as a vessel for [Black trans and gender-expansive people] to tell their own stories." In doing so, he feels it is important to create "joyous images...images that are sensual or calm or that express moments of freedom ... More

The MusÃ©e des Arts DÃ©coratifs in Paris reopens with "An uncertain spring"
PARIS.- The MusÃ©e des Arts DÃ©coratifs has invited creators, artists, designers, artisans, and graphic designers who during these long, suspended months, never stopped creating, writing, drawing, or collecting. Mixing disciplines and generations, An uncertain spring reveals these intimate moments. It was a chance to pick up a pen in hand, reactivate dormant projects, create useful objects for the public, or everyday items for the home. It was a time for questioning creation, shifting viewpoints, and exploring. The pieces on display are laden with personal history. They bear witness to a singular moment, warily passed, that allowed some creators to take a step onto forgotten or unknown paths. The exhibition is a dialogue between works that reflect the life of the museum during the spring of 2020 and the museums mission and role in society. From drawings ... More

National Gallery of Art announces gifts from the Tony Podesta Collection
WASHINGTON, DC.- Over the past two decades, gifts from the collection of Tony Podesta have made significant contributions to the contemporary holdings of the National Gallery of Art. Podesta has recently donated several outstanding works in a variety of media by artists from eight different countries. Israeli artist Oren Eliav (b. 1975) is inspired by old master paintings, exploring their techniques and perspective while highlighting themes with contemporary relevance, such as sexual violence, political corruption, false testimony, and refugee experience. Rest on the Flight into Egypt (2015) incorporates controlled effects like layering, transparency, and blotting to create a suggestive, surreal landscape with a mysterious figural narrative. This is the first work by Eliav to enter the National Gallerys collection. The Kenyan German artist ... More

Review: Bill Robinson's rags-to-riches tap tale
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Every year, National Tap Dance Day is celebrated on or around May 25 the birthday of Bill Robinson, the most prominent Black tap dancer of the first half of the 20th century. Seldom, though, do Tap Day events honor Robinson himself. Since 2018, three of the contemporary scenes most prominent tap dancers Derick K. Grant, Jason Samuels Smith and Dormeshia have been celebrating Tap Day in Harlem with a festival they call Tap Family Reunion, a few days of classes and a show they collectively choreograph and direct. This year, its all virtual, and the show, presented for the first time by the Joyce Theater, is streaming on demand on the theaters website through June 3. This one is about Robinson. Its called The Mayor of Harlem, after the honorary title that Robinson earned as an informal ... More

National Gallery of Art announces appointment of new Chief Curatorial and Conservation Officer
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that E. Carmen Ramos will join its senior leadership team as chief curatorial and conservation officer. The first female and the first person of color in this role, Ramos will support the National Gallery's mission, vision, and strategic priorities. She will also represent the institution's values in ways that both build from its history and reflect the nation as she oversees all aspects of the curatorial and conservation departments at the National Gallery of Art. Ramos will begin her tenure in August 2021. "E. Carmen Ramos brings two decades of experience as a museum curator and leader, a record of significant award-winning projects, and a deep commitment to scholarship," said Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art. "She is widely admired in the field as a ... More

Gaza bookshop owner's dreams buried under the rubble
GAZA CITY (AFP).- For decades, it was the place to go for books in the blockaded Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European literary classics. But last Tuesday, owner Samir al-Mansour watched in disbelief as the bookshop and publishing house he had poured his life into went up in smoke. "Forty years of my life were obliterated in less than a second," said the man in his 50s, a cigarette between his fingers, staring at a mound of concrete, paper and squashed plastic chairs. "There are 100,000 books under this rubble," he said. At around 5:00 am on Tuesday, Mansour was at home watching television when the channel reported the Israeli air force was about to hit the building housing his bookshop. Mansour rushed over, but came to a dead stop some 200 metres (220 yards) away from the building, just in time to see ... More

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition spotlights 19th-century romantic bronze sculpture
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is featuring the bronze sculptures of 19th-century French artist Antoine-Louis Barye. On view until August 22, 2021, Romantic Bronzes showcases more than 30 extraordinary works of art. The exhibition illustrates the distinctive features and methods of bronze casting, exploring the historical period and stylistic approach that make the sculptors works a singular part of VMFAs European collection. Over the past 20 years, Patti St.Clair [Mrs. Nelson L. St.Clair, Jr.] has donated an outstanding collection of Baryes casts to VMFA, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. We are very fortunate to now have one of the premier collections of the artists finest work, thanks to both the generosity of Mrs. St.Clair and the connoisseurship she has demonstrated in carefully choosing each of these ... More