| The Dalà Museum acquires one of Salvador DalÃ's first surreal objects | | Beatriz Milhazes breaks the circle | | Rindon Johnson opens a solo exhibition at François Ghebaly's new New York space | 
Salvador DalÃ, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, cast c. 1976-77, original plaster 1933. Hand-painted and gilded bronze, feathered cap, beads, plastic strip and two wooden ink pens. 27 1/2 in x 21 1/4 in x 13 3/4 in. Collection of The Dalà Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- On Sept. 27, the Dalà Museum will debut one of its newest acquisitions, Retrospective Bust of a Woman. The mixed media sculpture is one of Salvador DalÃs first surreal objects and explores his core themes of popular culture, death, decay and sexuality. The Dalà has one of the most acclaimed collections of a single modern artist in the world, with artwork representing every moment and medium of DalÃs creative life. This work will join the Museums unparalleled collection of over 2,400 Dalà works including paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, textiles, sculptures and objets dart. Retrospective Bust of a Woman feels particularly contemporary and joins other surrealist objects in our collection including the Lobster Telephone and Venus de Milo with Drawers, all of which demonstrate DalÃs imaginative synthesis of separate ... More | | 
The Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes at Pace gallery, which she joined in 2020, in New York, Sept. 14, 2022. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beatriz Milhazes used to be fearful of diagonals. They were disturbing, she said, pushing you out of the canvas. Over the past two years, however, the Rio de Janeiro-based Brazilian artist has been exploring those angular lines in her paintings and found that they actually gave her signature circles a three-dimensional quality making them into globes, evoking the natural world and the planet, which she had increasingly come to appreciate during the pandemic. The results are now on view at Pace in Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood, Milhazes first solo exhibition since she joined the gallery in 2020 and her first show in New York in nearly a decade. I feel like a scientist. Its about experimenting with new things and challenging yourself, Milhazes, 62, said in a recent interview at the gallery, where her paintings had just been installed. I needed this kind of a provocation to introduce something that you fear is a g ... More | | 
Rindon Johnson, As nearly like the day., 2022. Leather, bleach, 89 x 28 inches (226 x 71.5 cm) Courtesy the Artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles/New York. Phoebe d'Heurle.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is proud to present Cuvier by Rindon Johnson, the artists first solo exhibition at the gallerys New York space. Following his presentation at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Johnsons latest body of work offers homage to Ziphius cavirostris, or the Cuviers Beaked Whale and features new sculptures in stained glass, a work in cow leather and bleach exposed to the elements, and a new video game that places players in the perceptual apparatus of the whale. The Cuviers Beaked Whale is among the deepest divers in our oceans. In temperate and tropical waters across the globe, the whales hunt for squid at depths of over 800 meters. Their bodies are uniquely adapted for such feats: scientists postulate that with each dive they dilate their lungs to handle the pressure of such an altitudinal shift. A rare sight in the wild, the whales were first thought to be a wholly extinct lineage based ... More |
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| Häusler Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Michael Venezia | | Kunstmuseum Luzern opens the first comprehensive exhibition of David Hockney's work in Switzerland | | Galleria Continua announces the representation of Carlos Cruz-Diez | 
Michael Venezia, Untitled, 1966. Acrylic on canvas, 246 x 116.5 x 3 cm. Photo: Günter König.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary opened a solo exhibition by Michael Venezia which presents new works from his series of «Block Paintings» as well as a distinctive series of paintings from 1967 in which the artist first used a spray gun, playing a significant part in the renewal of painting in the period around 1970. The uniformly large, vertical-format paintings by Michael Venezia (b. 1935 in Brooklyn, US; lives in Brooklyn and Trevi, IT) which Häusler Contemporary is presenting in Zurich have an almost majestic quality. Divided into multiple vertical bands of color and rendered in earth tones, the paintings feature a variety of textures: at times the paint is applied densely, at others it is thinly layered or clumped together. The works, the majority of which date back to 1967, are being exhibited in this combination for the first time. They mark a pivotal point in Venezias creative evolution: in making this series, he became ... More | | 
David Hockney, Celia with Green Hat, 1984. Lithografie auf Papier, 76 à 56.5 cm. Tate: Schenkung des Künstlers 1993, © David Hockney / Tyler Graphics Ltd., Photo: Richard Schmidt.
LUCERNE.- David Hockney (*1937, UK) is one of the worlds most influential living artists. He rose to fame during the 1960s for his carefree images of Los Angeles and during the following decade for his life-size double portraits. As the first comprehensive exhibition of Hockneys work in Switzerland, David Hockney. Moving Focus brings together more than 120 of the artists paintings, drawings, prints and digital works dating from 1954 to today. Charting his early days as a student in London to his latest iPad drawings, it reveals Hockneys delight in artistic experimentation and lifelong obsession with perspective. Comprised chiefly from Tates collection, David Hockney. Moving Focus also features a number of important loans from public and private collections in Europe and beyond. At the heart of the exhibition are two monumental ... More | | 
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromatic Induction Walkway SCAD 1, 2017. © Carlos Cruz-Diez / Bridgeman Images 2022.
PARIS.- A major protagonist of contemporary art, all-round and social artist, and pioneer of kinetic art, Carlos Cruz-Diez is an undisputed master of colour. Throughout his career, he experimented with and developed a large number of researches that remain emblematic of his artistic language. Carlos Cruz-Diez defined himself first and foremost as a painter, listening to the profound societal changes happening around him, in Venezuela and in the world. From the beginning, he was interested in the invention of a new work, requiring the constant search for unconventional techniques and technologies, which would come to play a key role in his approach. From 1994, this placed him in the avant-garde of the digital revolution that would follow, allowing the public to create unique, computer-assisted works from his characteristic palette. He figures among the most prolific artists of his time ... More |
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| Heritage Auctions is shaken and stirred by the original artwork for James Bond's 'Thunderball' poster | | $9.5 million from Pew Center supports 30 Philly organizations & 12 artist fellowships | | By day, Richie Weeks sorted mail. At night, he was a disco mastermind. | 
Thomas Blackshear (American, b. 1955), Legend, movie poster, 1985. Airbrush, pencil, and pastel on board, 39 x 24-1/2 inches. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.
DALLAS, TX.- You know Robert McGinnis work famous faces, drop-dead bodies, glitz and glam and grime illuminating a single image even if you do not know Robert McGinnis. The 96-year-olds paintings have appeared in dozens of magazines, ranging from 1950s mens mags Cavalier and True to the pages of The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan and even National Geographic. They live forever on bookshelves, adorning the covers to hundreds of pulp paperbacks and romance novels and the interiors of swashbuckling titles. They hang on museum walls, have appeared in numerous classic advertisements and for decades decorated countless movie theaters showing such films as Breakfast at Tiffanys, Semi-Tough, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella, The Incredibles and a decades worth of James Bond films. If a person is to be judged by the sum of their lifes experiences and an artist is judged by the sum of the expression in their work, then Bob McGinn ... More | | 
Pew Fellow Odili Donald Odita, Walls of Change, 2021, acrylic-latex wall paint on wall, 128', commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for New Grit: Art & Philly Now; photo by Timothy Tiebout, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Odili Donald Odita, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced its 2022 grants and fellowships today in support of cultural events and artistic work that will enliven and enrich the Philadelphia region and represent diverse identities, personal experiences, and historical narratives. The 42 awards total $9.5 million: $7.2 million in project funding, plus $1.4 million provided as unrestricted general operating support for the 30 local organizations receiving project grants, and $900,000 going to 12 Philadelphia-area artists as Pew Fellowships. Many of the newly funded projects spotlight artists and communities of color, engaging with topics such as the rich history of social dance within Philadelphias Black communities, the contributions of Japanese artists working in the U.S. in the mid-20th century, and the cultural traditions and contemporary practices of Mexican artists and migrants. Several projects will bring creative work to public ... More | | 
Richard Weeks, who had a Top 10 hit in 1981, plays the keyboard at his apartment in Newark, N.J., Aug. 28, 2022. The New York producer, songwriter and artist punched the clock at the post office as he amassed an archive of tracks previously unheard until now. Nate Palmer/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Richard Richie Weeks recalls his working life, the 78-year-old Bronx native sounds as if hes describing two divergent selves. For 30 years, he was a U.S. Postal Service employee, toiling mostly in the vast mail-sorting room beyond the imposing columns of what was New York Citys general post office in midtown Manhattan. At the same time, he moonlighted as a dance-music producer, songwriter, arranger and artist, releasing albums on the seminal New York labels Salsoul and Prelude. He collaborated with some of the leading lights of the citys disco and post-disco boogie scenes, including studio wizard Patrick Adams, chart-topping vocalist Jocelyn Brown and soulful singer-songwriter Leroy Burgess. Adams, who died in June at 72, once compared Weeks prowess in the recording studio to that of the masterful Quincy Jones. He is that brilliant, Burgess agreed in a recent phone ... More |
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| White House announces appointment of Leslie Chihuly to President's Advisory Committee on the Arts | | When the Ground Was: Sarah Almehairi opens exhibition at Carbon 12 | | After 'Phantom,' which shows will be the longest-running on Broadway? | 
Leslie Jackson Chihuly in Seattle, 2019 © 2022 Chihuly Studio. All rights reserved. Photo: Scott Mitchell Leen.
WASHINGTON, DC.- President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve as members of the Presidents Advisory Committee on the Arts: Established in 1958 by President Eisenhower, the Presidents Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA) has played a valuable role in sustaining the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Cultural Center. Members of the Committee are civic and cultural leaders who are selected by the President of the United States to serve as representatives in their own communities for the Kennedy Center. The Center considers PACA appointees to be Ambassadors for the Arts. Acting as a national network for the Center, the PACA helps to broaden the Centers influence and extend its vision across the country. The Committee serves as a national forum, ... More | | 
Sarah Almehairi, 11. When the Ground Was a Changing Season, 2022. Acrylic gouache on canvas, 250 x 200 cm. 98 1/2 x 78 3/4 in.
DUBAI.- In When the Ground Was, Sarah Almehairi takes us along for a walk. Upon entering the space, viewers are met with visual pathfinders laid out by Almehairi to trace walks taken by her, revisiting trails she frequented and pockets of temporary remarkableness she observed. The exhibition title suggests a timeline, but it isnt clear if the works are meant to present a chronicle or an invitation. It does, though, gently suggest maneuvering between the physical act of motion and the abstract provocation of finding intimacy in the everyday. The collective body of work ranges across floor sculptures, made of concrete, and works on paper and canvas installed at varying heights. Sometimes architectural, other times cartographic, together they toy with the notion of scale and perception. Shapes are like thoughts
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The Circle of Life procession as The Lion King reopens at the Minskoff Theatre in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. What will be the most-enduring-and-still-running shows on Broadway once Phantom closes? Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Phantom of the Opera has been running on Broadway longer than many of the industrys hoofers have been alive. But Friday, the show announced it will close Feb. 18, a few weeks after celebrating its 35th anniversary. The musical holds a distinction unlikely to be overtaken anytime soon: It is the longest-running show in Broadway history, by a long stretch. By the time it closes, if all goes well, it will have played for 13,925 performances. Many of Broadways longest-running shows closed years ago, including the original productions of Cats, which ran for 7,500 performances; Les Misérables, which had 6,691 performances; and A Chorus Line, whic h ... More |
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 Bruneau & Co. announces Historic Arms & Militaria Auction, online-onlyCRANSTON, RI.- A World War II leather flight jacket from the U.S. 23rd Bomb Squadron, a worsted wool tunic worn by a brigadier general who was a commanding officer at the legendary Tuskegee Army Advanced Flying School, and a Polish pre-World War II VIS-35 Radom pistol are expected top lots in Bruneau & Co.s Historic Arms & Militaria auction on September 29th. The online-only auction, beginning promptly at 6 pm Eastern time, is packed with 265 lots of historic objects from World Wars I and II and the modern era. These include flags, uniforms, bayonets and an array of iconic arms of both World Wars for the discerning collector. But not to worry, the catalog promises something for the novice collector as well as the advanced dealer. A large portion of the auction was built from a single-owner collection of fine long arms, pistols, and revolvers ... More  Magazzino Italian Art presents 'Margherita Raso: Vizio di Forma' at NYUNEW YORK, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art presents Vizio di Forma, Margherita Rasos first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, curated by Chiara Mannarino and exhibited in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University. Rasos practice spans a variety of mediums, from sculpture to site-specific installation, and has a material focus. Vizio di Forma is composed of three bodies of sculptural work that engage with diverse languages, forms, and stylestogether encapsulating the artists practice to date. Nearly each piece was newly produced for the exhibition. Hoarders (2020-2022) is a series of thirty urns molded under a specific set of limitationsimposed by both the COVID-19 pandemic and the artist herself. Rasos self-established parameters included starting and finishing ... More  Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles opens 'Ish Lipman: The Looming Night'LOS ANGELES, CA.- A lone psychological protagonist walks through a series of sparse, if vast, liminal landscapes, uncanny spaces where deserts and seasides merge with slightly modernist and slightly mysterious interiors and architectures. The skies appear apocalyptically oceanic or on fire, both perhaps the result of pollution or climate change, both ready to swallow the protagonist at any moment. You follow this protagonist through this fraught landscape, through a series of jump cuts, snippets in a novella, the narrative plane constantly expanding but never really resolving. It is this protagonist, perhaps an unreliable one, perhaps the artist himself, who has been leading viewers through his work for the past five years. This same protagonist will lead you through Ish Lipman: The Looming Night, the artists solo debut in Los ... More  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council appoints Craig T. Peterson as PresidentNEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Directors of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announced today the appointment of Craig T. Peterson as President following a six month national search and a unanimous Board decision. Peterson, who assumes the Presidency of LMCC on October 17, 2022, arrives at a very important moment in time for LMCC as it celebrates half a century as a cultural leader in New York City, and embarks on a campaign to support the next fifty years of The Arts Center at Governors Island in helping to advance the Island as a publicly accessible, global hub for arts and culture, research, development, and education centered on climate solutions and environmental sustainability. A dynamic curator, programmer, and producer who has championed artists throughout all career stages and disciplines, Peterson brings over three ... More  Eight new immersive experiences by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer transform the North Forest at Crystal BridgesBENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Arts North Forest glows this year with the debut of Listening Forest, a new interactive exhibition featuring immersive installations by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Listening Forest consists of eight site-specific audiovisual artworks installed along the North Forest trail at Crystal Bridges. The exhibition is designed to be experienced at night and will be on view August 31, 2022, through January 1, 2023. Lozano-Hemmer is an award-winning media artist originally from Mexico City. He creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and telematic networks. His work has been ... More  Elizabeth Leach Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with deluxe monographPORTLAND, ORE.- Elizabeth Leach Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with the publication of an official monograph detailing the gallerys history. Published by Lucia/Marquand and distributed by DAP, Forty Years is a gorgeously bound art book with something for everyone, including essays by friends and collaborators, as well as an extensive interview with Leach herself. The book is a comprehensive account of four decades of exhibitions, artistic endeavors and community connections that also alludes to the intimate details and rigorous energy of growing a small regional gallery into a national flagbearer. The gallery will celebrate the release of Forty Years with a collectors weekend on October 15 16, including a public discussion between Elizabeth Leach and former Portland Art Museum curator Bruce Guenther, introduced by critic ... More  The Jim Haas Native American Art Library and a Collection of Southwest Jewelry go up for bid at Turner Auctions + AppraiSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- collection of Jim Haas; this noted, long-time specialist in Native American and Ethnographic Arts retired several years ago as Director from Bonhams after 32 years with the company and its predecessor. In addition, over 30 lots of Southwestern bracelets, rings, and necklaces are offered from various collectors and estates. Many of these are Old Pawn pieces, that is, old Indian jewelry that was traded for credit or goods, often Navajo-made. Rounding out the sale are several publications on other ethnic arts, including Pre-Columbian, Mexican, and tribal. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding ... More  Lily Renée Phillips, pioneering comic book artist, dies at 101NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1940s few people reading the comic book adventures of Señorita Rio, a stylish spy working for U.S. intelligence in South America, appreciated just how much the artist drawing her was putting into those vivid images. Few even knew that the artist was a woman. Señorita Rio got clothes that I couldnt have, the artist, Lily Renée Phillips, told comic book artist and historian Trina Robbins in 2006. She had a leopard coat, and she wore these high-end shoes and all of this, and had adventures and was very daring and beautiful and sexy and glamorous. Señorita Rios battles against comic book Nazis and their South American collaborators had personal resonance for Phillips, who with her once-prosperous family had been driven out of Austria by real-life Nazis and spent World War II struggling to get by in New York City. Her ... More  The eight film festival movies that got the biggest awards boostNEW YORK, NY.- Who are the front-runners, the dark horses and the long shots? After major film festivals in Venice, Italy, Toronto and Telluride, Colorado, where most of the years remaining prestige films have screened, the awards season has finally begun to come into focus. There are still a few significant contenders yet to debut, including Damien Chazelles glitzy Hollywood drama Babylon, and the industry is buzzing that Apple will soon announce a year-end release for its big-budget slavery drama, Emancipation, even though the films leading man, Will Smith, was banned from attending the Oscars for the next decade. And some tantalizing questions from these festivals still linger, including whether Glass Onion, the rollicking sequel to Knives Out, can score the best-picture nomination that the first film missed out on. 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Flashback On a day like today, American glass artist Dale Chihuly was born September 20, 1941. Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. In this image: Dale Chihuly sits in front of a wall featuring his drawings in the cafe during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Seattle. The new, permanent 1.5 acre exhibit is located near the base of the Space Needle. It looks at the career of Chihuly and features an eight-gallery exhibition hall, conservatory and garden as well as a cafe with a selection of Chihuly's collections of vintage accordions, radios, clocks and other mid-century memorabilia.
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