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Prints by the photographer Ansel Adams, part of the collection of NYC Health + Hospitals, in a storage unit in New York, Sept. 27, 2023. Over nearly a century, New York Citys public hospital system has amassed 7,452 works of art, now hiding in plain sight. (Sara Hylton/The New York Times)
by Winnie Hu
NEW YORK, NY.- The sign on the wall suggests: Look above you. But really, no prompt is needed. It is impossible not to notice the parade of red, blue, green and yellow figures dancing across the walls, winding around air vents and windows, right up to the ceiling. It is, unmistakably, the work of Keith Haring. Only this art is not in a museum or gallery; its the otherwise unremarkable lobby of Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1986, when Haring was already well known, he perched for long hours atop scaffolding at the public hospital, laboring over a three-part mural that starts in the atrium and continues down two long corridors. The Haring mural is just one of the surprises among the 7,452 works of art that have been amassed over nearly a century by New York Citys sprawling public hospital system, which serves more than 1 million patients every year. It is one of the largest public art collections in the country hiding in plain sight. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Alison Jacques is presenting 'Sheila Hicks: Infinite Potential', the inaugural exhibition of Alison Jacques' new Mayfair gallery at 22 Cork Street. The exhibition surveys both historical and new works whilst Hicks created a new site-specific installation that echoes earlier monumental environments at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018), 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and Glasgow International (2016).
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| National Gallery of Art acquires work by Sam Gilliam | | Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, composed of a banana duct taped to a wall added to NGV Triennial | | 'Robert Irwin and Mary Corse: Parallax' explores the intersections and convergences between artists and light | 
Sam Gilliam, Yellow Edge, 1972 (detail). Acrylic on canvas. Overall: 139.7 x 114.3 cm (55 x 45 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Elinor K. Farquhar 2023.17.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- American artist Sam Gilliam (19332022) was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, DC-area abstract artists focused on color field painting from the 1950s to the 1970s. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Yellow Edge (1972), an example of Gilliams revolutionary beveled-edge Slice paintings. The work was given to the National Gallery by Elinor K. Farquhar. Yellow Edge exemplifies Gilliams innovations in process and display from the 1960s and 1970s and his predilection for bright hues, which are seen in much of his 1970s work. Gilliam came to Washington, DC, in 1962 and joined the second generation of Washington Color School painters. Like the first generation of the group, which included Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, Gilliam was interested in the expressive qualities of color. By applying acrylic paint ... More | | 
Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian 2019. Courtesy of Perrotin and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York © Maurizio Cattelan Photo: Zeno Zotti.
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria has announced that Maurizio Cattelans work, Comedian, 2019, composed of a banana duct taped to a wall, will make its Australian debut as part of the institutions hugely popular NGV Triennial exhibition of contemporary art, design and architecture. For the NGV Triennial, the NGV has loaned one of three editions of Cattelans Comedian, 2019. The artwork requires staff to replace the real banana affixed to the gallery wall with duct tape every 3 to 5 days. The work made its premiere at the Perrotin gallery booth at Art Basel Miami in 2019 and was recently anonymously donated to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Comedian might be seen as a commentary on the arbitrary and capricious nature of the art market, where value is often ascribed based on an artists reputation or a prevalent trend. Similarly, the work could be a commentary on how society ... More | | 
Mary Corse, Untitled (White Multiband with White Sides, Beveled), 2023, acrylic and glass microspheres on canvas, 243.8 cm à 198.1 cm à 11.4 cm © Mary Corse, courtesy of Pace Gallery. The act of painting has the ability to transcend your moment. We need meaning which is consciousness. And I find it there in painting. I find the infinite conversation instead of finite thinking. Mary Corse.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is exhibiting Robert Irwin and Mary Corse: Parallax, an exhibition that brings together the work of two pioneering American artists. Marking the first time their work has been brought into direct dialogue, this exhibition explores the intersections and convergences between these two artists radical experiments with light, perception, and the role of the viewer. Opening on 9 October, coinciding with Frieze London, the ground floor galleries will place Corses iconic White Inner Band paintings in conversation with the largest examples to date from Irwins Unlight series. The lower ground floor gallery will hold an immersive, site-specific light installation by Irwin. This exhibition comes ... More |
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| Dense in paint and often expansive in scale, Rheingantz's landscapes now on view at White Cube | | Site Santa Fe invites visitors to 'scream until you can't breathe' in new exhibition by Nicholas Galan | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Daniel Richter | 
Marina Rheingantz, Lightning Water, 2023. Oil on linen, 150 x 180 cm | 59 1/16 x 70 7/8 in.
LONDON.- Opening during Frieze London, White Cube presents the first UK solo exhibition, 'Maré', of works by São Paulo-based artist Marina Rheingantz and her debut with the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings and tapestries informed by the artists observations of tidal rhythms, ocean beds and meteorological conditions. Rheingantzs works, which expand the genre of landscape painting, embody the dichotomies inherent within Latin Americas social relations, industrialisation and the sublime natural world. Dense in paint and often expansive in scale, Rheingantzs landscapes impart the experience of seeing distant, vanishing horizons and wide, panoramic views. Formed by an accumulation of paint, her works are characterised by their rich surface texture, sense of mass and dissolution of image. Privileging the physicality of paint and its application, Rheingantz explores the realm of the ... More | | 
Nicholas Galanin, Loom, 2022, Prefabricated children's school desks and chairs with graphite and pencil carving. Courtesy of Forge Project Public Collection.
SANTA FE, NM.- Site Sante Fe is now presenting Interference Patterns, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by multidisciplinary Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin through February 5, 2024. Rooted in his relationship to Land as well as Indigenous visual language and thought, Galanin merges conceptual and material practices in his expansive creative approach, employing numerous materials and processes to reflect on and speak to contemporary issues from an Indigenous perspective. Interference Patterns presents over twenty-five new and existing works (2006-2023), including video installation, sculpture, performance art, works on paper, and installation, celebrating Indigenous knowledge and reenvisioning legacies and consequences of colonization and occupation. Boldly and ... More | | 
Daniel Richter, Parzen, 2023. Oil on canvas © Daniel Richter.
LONDON.- An exhibition of new work by Daniel Richter reasserts the German artists ever-inventive approach to depicting the human body. For his second solo show at Thaddaeus Ropac in London, he presents a group of paintings that portray biomorphic forms in a series of twisting, metamorphic poses. Music and its countercultures have been of deep importance to Richter throughout his life, and their influence is felt in much of his work. Nightmare, a song by the German-Austrian composer Hanns Eisler (18981962), stands as a touchstone for this new group of paintings. Taken from Eislers monumental cycle of songs the Hollywooder Liederbuch (Hollywood Songbook; 193848), Nightmare describes the composers enraged response to his persecution by the US House Un American Activities Committee, following his emigration from Germany to Los Angeles. Against the backdrop of McCarthyism ... More |
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| 'Fragments of Epic Memory' is now open for viewing at the Portland Museum of Art | | First solo presentation at Victoria Miro of works by New York-based Iranian artist Ali Banisadr to open | | The quiet reading room that gets trippy after dark | 
Leasho Johnson (Jamaica, born 1984), Jaw bone (man looking back at the cane fields), 2019, charcoal, watercolor, distemper, acrylic, oil stick, oil paint on canvas, 24 à 30 à 1 3/4 inches. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from Friends of Global Africa and the Diaspora, 2021. © Leasho Johnson. Photo AGO. 2021/30.
PORTLAND, ME.- 'Fragments of Epic Memory' is an immersive encounter with the Caribbean and its diaspora that vividly intertwines past and present, memory and myth, and continuity and change, creating a testament to the enduring power of art to illuminate the complexities of personal experience. From the streets of Jamaica to the shores of Trinidad and Tobago, Fragments of Epic Memory connects, contextualizes, and complicates historical depictions of the Caribbean region as a place for colonial profit and tourist pleasures. By combining historical and contemporary materials, the exhibition transforms stagnant and biased narratives into multifaceted and revelatory ways of understanding the regions ... More | | 
Book cover, Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past, 2023 © Ali Banisadr. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro will be opening tomorrow The Changing Past, an exhibition of paintings by Ali Banisadr. The first solo presentation of works by the New York-based artist since he joined the gallery in 2021 features a substantial body of paintings completed over the past two years. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring new writing on the artist. A painter of epic vistas and dazzling intricacies, Ali Banisadr creates complex worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from history and art history, as well as allusions to our own turbulent times. In any single, expansive canvas one might sense the crystalline detail of the Persian miniature tradition, the muscular brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, the narrative dexterity of the early Dutch masters, the bravura technique of the Venetian Renaissance, or the libidinous glyphs of Surrealism, among others. Banisadrs works invite the vie ... More | | 
Books and knickknacks on display at the Anthenaeum, a library devoted to the psychedelic experience and its devotees, in New York, Sept. 1, 2023. Mind-altering drugs may be illegal, but learning and talking about them isnt. (Sara Hylton/The New York Times)
by Rachel Nuwer
NEW YORK, NY.- Midtown Manhattan doesnt usually come to mind when thinking about the epicenters of psychedelic culture. But just three blocks from Grand Central Terminal, tucked within the sprawl of advertising offices, finance firms and chain stores, a community center dedicated to consciousness-altering substances has taken root. The only drug sold on-site is the caffeine in the coffee and the tea, and visitors typically remain sober. But psychedelics are on the minds of everyone who stops by the Athenaeum, as the center is called. Currently these substances are illegal, said Kat Lakey, the Athenaeums 33-year old founder, but talking about them isnt. By day, the Athenaeum among the few psychedelic libraries in existence is a ... More |
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| Hamiltons Gallery presents exhibition of photographs taken in Skye, Scotland by photographer Albert Watson | | Chinese art from a German family collection offered at Bonhams Cornette Saint Cyr | | Milestone's Oct. 28 auction to launch multi-year series devoted to toys from famed Wisconsin museum | 
Albert Watson, Quairaing, Skye, 2013.
LONDON.- Hamiltons is currently showing the exhibition Albert Watson: SKYE until 17th November. In honour of his first exhibition with the gallery in over a decade, the artist chose a selection of breath-taking landscapes from his first fine art project shot in the photographers native Scotland. His most personal project to date began in 2013 when he toured the Isle of Skye, working 12 hours a day for 5 weeks, inspiring him to create a series of other-worldly landscape photographs. Known to him since childhood, the islands dramatic landscapes produced an inescapable magical quality that compelled him to produce a body of extraordinary photographs that he hoped would do more than simply document the landscape. Watson recalls, I was terrified of coming to Skye and producing picture postcards. I wanted to create landscapes that were quite mysterious, I deliberately went in October and November because I was ... More | | 
A very rare lacquered wood figure of the thousand-armed Guanyin Kangxi period. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- Bonhams Cornette Saint Cyr announces the auction of Chinese Art from a German Family Collection in Paris on 26 October 2023. Formed over many decades, this formidable collection estimated at more than 2.5 million covers a wide range of works of art from the early dynastic periods to the 20th century. The collection has a strong focus on Buddhist sculpture, as well as early ceramics and imperial porcelains, jades and cloisonné enamels, scholarly objects, furniture, and classical and modern paintings, reflecting the broad interests of the collectors whose curiosity extended well beyond the arts of China. Asaph Hyman, Global Head, Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, comments, It is a great pleasure to offer this collection, formed over many years, building on the success of the Rousset Collection sale last year and the first Chinese Art sale held ... More | | 
Rare I.Y. Japan tin friction Romance motorcycle, known to collectors as the large blue version. Size: 12in long. Excellent condition. Estimate: $2,000-$3,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- Just about everyone in the antique toy hobby knew about Elmers place. Formally known as Elmers Auto and Toy Museum, the one-of-a-kind haven for vehicles and automotive toys of all types was almost as legendary as Elmer himself, who passed away in 2019 at age 79. Now, with the blessing of Duellmans heirs, Milestone Auctions is auctioning the vast collection of antique and vintage toys that Elmer displayed at his Fountain City, Wisconsin museum. The multi-year series of quarterly sales will debut on October 28, 2023 at Milestones Willoughby (suburban Cleveland), Ohio gallery, with all forms of remote bidding available, including live via the Internet through a choice of online-bidding platforms. Its impossible to describe how comprehensive Elmers collection is. He ... More |
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 Harry Smith was a culture-altering shaman. Can the Whitney contain him?NEW YORK, NY.- Far-out is an accurate, but inadequate, descriptor for the high-flying (and often plain high) cultural magus named Harry Smith (1923-91). And the label polymath, too, while true, falls short for this innovative painter-filmmaker-collagist-musicologist-designer-scholar-curator-collector/hoarder, whose very first and very strange (it could not be otherwise) institutional solo is at the Whitney Museum of American Art. When speaking of Smith, its hard to know where to begin, or end. To the degree that he is familiar at all in the art world (never mind in the real world), its as an experimental filmmaker. His chief reputation, however, lies in a different field, music, notably as the compiler of the 1952 six-LP collection called the Anthology of American Folk Music, an ethnological document that had a subtle but palpable role in ... More  Group exhibition devised by renowned Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey opens at Turner ContemporaryMARGATE.- Turner Contemporary opened In The Offing, a group exhibition devised by renowned Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead). Embracing a dual role in this exhibition, Leckey serves as both artist and editor, utilising the concept of a magazine editorial as his foundation to choreograph an experience that seamlessly blends moving image, sound, light, and painting throughout the galleries. The phrase in the offing, dating back to the late 1700s, evokes the image of the distant sea visible from the shoreline and carries a sense of anticipation and foreboding, hinting at what lies on the horizon. Leckey has commissioned artists and musicians to make work responding to ... More  Mazzoleni and Kukje Gallery present 'The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio'LONDON.- Mazzoleni is presenting the exhibition The Paradox of Proximity: Agostino Bonalumi and Lee Seung Jio, in collaboration with Kukje Gallery, from 11 October to 30 November 2023, at Mazzoleni London. The show is curated by esteemed Italian writer, art critic and curator Marco Scotini, in conjunction with Archivio Agostino Bonalumi, Milan and the Estate of Lee Seung Jio, Seoul. This intimate display will showcase pioneering abstractionist Lee Seung Jios works, specifically his Nucleus series, where cylindrical pipe forms challenge the notion of opticality and played a pivotal role in defining Korean Modernism. These works will be exhibited alongside Agostino Bonalumis extroflexions, which seek a new dimension of space through monochromatic shaped canvases, each named after a specific colour. The exhibition will adopt this monochromatic ... More  Noonans hold three coin sales in a week which total hammer price of £515,885LONDON.- Three coin sales in one week at Noonans Mayfair achieved a combined hammer price of £515,885 on Tuesday & Wednesday, October 3 & 4, 2023. Starting with the Roy Ince Collection of British Coins which was 100% sold and realised a hammer price of £140,590 against a pre-sale estimate of £97,000-124,000. Comprising 400 lots, the highlights included a groat from the reign of Richard III (1483-1485) which sold for a hammer price £2,600 against an estimate of £1,200-1,500 and was bought by an overseas collector [lot 19], while from the reign of James I (1603-1625) a Second coinage Unite realised a hammer price of £2,400 it had been expected to fetch £1,500-1,800 and was purchased by a UK dealer [lot 57]. Tim Wilkes, Head of the Coin Department at Noonans explained: Richard III is always popular, and his coins are ... More  Ten exceptional new pieces by the American designer Chris Schanck now on view at David Gill GalleryLONDON.- David Gill Gallery has commenced the presentation of ten exceptional new pieces by the American designer Chris Schanck. Created in 2023 as part of an exciting new partnership with the gallery. Including chairs, tables and a chandelier, the work sees Schanck taking his practice to a new level of imagination and refinement. This is my first formal introduction to the UK and Europe, says Schanck, and I wanted to push both form and process to a new sense of resolution. Chris Schancks new designs are characterised by a spikey entanglement of hundreds of found pieces, unified by the artist beneath a coating of aluminium, then dipped into luscious resin. They are fantastical and yet functional, with this new collection marked by an enhanced rigour. Schanck, who has been based in Detroit since 2011, studied sculpture at the ... More  In 'Naive and Sentimental Painting' artist Liu Ye examines art-historical legacy of portraitureLONDON.- David Zwirner is offering for view recent paintings by Chinese artist Liu Ye, at the gallerys London location. This will be the artists second solo presentation with the gallery and the first time his work has been shown in London since 2002. In his deeply meditative paintings, Liu investigates the intersections of history and representation through a distinct vocabulary that transcends time and place, evoking distinct conceptual and emotional registers of meaning. Carefully balanced and lushly rendered, his works encompass a diverse range of aesthetic and cultural sources. Drawing on both his childhood memories and his early education in Europe, Liu captures the likenesses and legacies of authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Hans Christian Andersen, and William Shakespeare; twentieth-century Chinese cultural icons, including actress ... More  Alison Jacques opens 'Sheila Hicks: Infinite Potential'LONDON.- Alison Jacques is pleased to announce Sheila Hicks: Infinite Potential, the inaugural exhibition of Alison Jacques new Mayfair gallery at 22 Cork Street. Sheila Hicks first exhibited in London in 1965 and had her first major UK survey show at the Hepworth Wakefield in 2022 curated by Andrew Bonacina. This exhibition is the artists fourth solo show with the gallery. Infinite Potential follows Hicks recent critically celebrated exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Malaga (2023) and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2023). The exhibition surveys both historical and new works whilst Hicks created a new site-specific installation that echoes earlier monumental environments at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018), 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and Glasgow International (2016). For the exhibition Hicks also made new lianes; vine- ... More  Review: In 'Bite Me,' taking aim at familiar teenage tropesNEW YORK, NY.- Good girls falling for bad boys is a cornerstone of high school dramas. Usually the story goes something like this: She sticks to the rules while he breaks them, and their meeting inspires a mutual coming-of-age. In Bite Me, by playwright Eliana Pipes, the reasons a studious girl cant afford to slip up while her crush has the privilege to slack off hum beneath their budding friendship like the drone of a fluorescent bulb. The pair share custody of a neglected supply closet (the set is by Chika Shimizu), where Melody retreats to hide her tears from the queen bees and Nathan stores the petty contraband he swipes for fun, not because he needs money. As Nathan (David Garelik) makes clear, he has plenty of cash to pay for the homework he buys from Melody (Malika Samuel), a top student and an obvious outsider, who rides ... More  'Blood on Blood', a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Austyn Weiner, opens todayLONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO is now presenting Blood on Blood, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Austyn Weiner. The exhibition is a deeply personal exploration of relationships, encompassing the familial, the romantic, and the diverse roles that Weiner embodies as a daughter, sister, and partner. The artist's practice, chaotic and emotionally charged, is born amidst the frenetic repetition of music and the incessant phone calls to loved ones. Blood on Blood takes its name from the lyrics of the Bruce Springsteen song Highway Patrolman, from the 1982 album Nebraska. The song alludes to the overwhelming feeling of unconditional love one feels towards their kin. The exhibition's title represents how deeply unwavering these bonds are felt by Weiner and her family - an affection that knows no bounds, an impassioned ... More  Sequences Biennial announces full artist list for 11th Edition, 'Can't See'REYKJAVIK .- Sequences Biennial announced the full list of participating artists for its 11th edition, which will open to the public from 1322 October in ReykjaÂvÃk, Iceland. Titled Cant See, the Biennial explores the ever-growing threat of ecological destruction by delving into spaces that cannot be perceived by the human eye, from the depths of the sea and layers of the soil, imagining the debris of the past and visions of the future. Curated by Marika Agu, Maria Arusoo, Kaarin Kivirähk and Sten Ojavee, a curatorial collective from the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Sequences XI will feature a central exhibition, displayed across four local institutions (The Nordic House, The Living Art Museum, National Gallery, Kling & Bang) and a wider programme of installations, performances, workshops, concerts and more, taking ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was born October 10, 1684. Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 - died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. In this image: Exhibition view "Watteau. The Draughtsman". Photo: Städel Museum.
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