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A late 10thearly 11th century bronze sculpture of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is prepared for repatriation to the Kingdom of Cambodia. Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it is physically returning to the care of Cambodia 14 sculptures that the Museum deaccessioned last year. The repatriation follows the launch of The Mets Cultural Property Initiative, which includes undertaking a focused review of works in the collection as well as the hiring of Lucian Simmons in a newly-created Head of Provenance position and additional provenance researchers. The 14 works, along with two sculptures already returned to the Kingdom of Thailand, were deaccessioned in December 2023 in connection with the Southern District of New Yorks investigation of dealer Douglas Latchford. The Museum is continuing to review its collection of Khmer art and remains in constructive dialogue with Cambodia. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition by American artist Merrill Wagner at the gallerys Hong Kong location. Installation view, Merrill Wagner: Nature, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, May 30—August 2, 2024. Courtesy David Zwirner.
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| MoMA announces Alex Katz: Seasons, on view in the Marron Atrium this summer | | Gagosian to present "The Grief Paintings" by Helen Marden | | Solo exhibition of works by Pavlina Vagioni opens at The Opening Gallery |
Alex Katz. Winter Tree 1, 2023. Oil on linen. 120 x 120 inches (304.8 x 304.8 cm). © Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photography by David Regen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Alex Katz: Seasons, a selection of works from the artists new series of landscape paintings, on view in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium from July 4 through September 8, 2024. The presentation will feature four monumental ... More | |
Helen Marden, Grief XVI, 2023. Resin, shells, feathers, and gold ink on canvas, 23 1/2 x 20 in © Helen Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced The Grief Paintings, an exhibition of new paintings by Helen Marden, opening at Park & 75 on July 24, 2024. Begun in 2023 as Marden cared for her husband, Brice, and made over the months following his passing, the Grief Paintings are intimately scaled abstractions ... More | |
Pavlina Vagioni, Gorgon Amulet III, 2023. 71 x 70 x 4.75 in. Oil, acrylic, liquid charcoal, encaustic wax and collage on marine-grade plywood.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Opening Gallery will present "Medusa Unraveling," a captivating solo exhibition by multi-media Greek artist Pavlina Vagioni. This enigmatic exploration of themes encompassing power, fear and protection presents wall-mounted works which delve into Greek mythology and various presentations of the Gorgon ... More |
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| Carnegie Hall's past comes alive in its archive | | June Leaf, artist who explored the female form, dies at 94 | | Christie's Evening Sales total $64,145,774 comprising: Old Masters Part I Sale and The Exceptional Sale |
A square of Carnegies stage, with the permanent markings for the placement of Vladimir Horowitzs piano, featured on Carnegie Hall and WQXRs new podcast If This Hall Could Talk, in New York on June 24, 2024. (Peter Garritano/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ella Fitzgeralds glasses. Benny Goodmans clarinet. A ticket from opening night in 1891. These items have long been a part of Carnegie Halls archive. But now they are getting a moment to shine on the new podcast If This Hall Could Talk. In eight episodes, the podcast ... More | |
June Leaf in her New York studio, 2018. Photo: Andrea Glimcher. Courtesy Hyphen, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died Monday at her home in New York City. She was 94. The cause was gastric cancer, said Andrea Glimcher, her agent at the Hyphen management firm and a friend. Leaf worked for much of her long career outside the mainstream. Idiosyncratic ... More | |
Auctioneer Henry Pettifer, Christies International Deputy Chairman auctioning Old Master paintings. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Christies Classic Week Evening sales Old Masters Part I Sale and The Exceptional Sale realised a combined total of £50,788,420 / $64,145,774 / 59,676,394. The top lot of the evening was Titians early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt which realised £17,560,000 / $22,178,280 / 20,633,000, setting a new auction record for the artist, having attracted ... More |
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| The Baronian Gallery announces its closure in December 2024 | | Peter Shear joins BLUM with "Reality Show" | | Serpentine to unveil large-scale public sculpture by Yayoi Kusama |
Closing chapter, new horizons: Baronian's grand finale.
BRUSSELS.- Albert Baronian opened his gallery in Brussels in 1973. In September 2023, the gallery celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with, amongst other events, an exhibition at Fondation CAB entitled Quinquagesimum. In 2018, Albert Baronian received the Order of Leopold. In June 2024 at Art Basel, the Federation of European Art Galleries Associations (FEAGA) also granted him the Lifetime Achievement Award. ... More | |
Peter Shear, Body of Water, 2023.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- BLUM announced the representation of Bloomington, Indiana-based artist Peter Shear on the occasion of Reality Show, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Utilizing the art of suggestion, Shear loosely renders recognizable forms in distinctive palettes to create paintings that trigger open-ended recognition in their viewers. Drawing inspiration from a range of topics as disparate as the internet is vast, Shear intakes a large quantity of visual ... More | |
Digital rendering of Pumpkin, 2024, © YAYOI KUSAMA, Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
LONDON.- Serpentine and The Royal Parks announced the unveiling of a new large-scale sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Japan; lives and works in Tokyo, Japan). Located by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, Pumpkin (2024) will be staged from 9 July to 3 November 2024 with an unveiling on Tuesday 9 July from 9am to 11am. Pumpkin (2024) marks a ... More |
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| Kerlin Gallery to open an exhibition of new paintings on canvas, aluminium and paper by Mark Francis | | Exhibition showcases compositions from throughout Merrill Wagner's career | | The Met to present exhibition of newly acquired works by Yankton Dakota artist Mary Sully |
Mark Francis, Collating Field, 2024, oil on canvas, 214 x 183 cm.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery will present Acoustic Oceans, an exhibition of new paintings on canvas, aluminium and paper by Mark Francis. Mark Francis has long made paintings driven by the revelatory insights of contemporary science. This new body of work responds to the speed and complexity of the information age, interpreting data and binary sequences as pulsating bands of colour that stimulate the eye. Vertical stripes in rich tones pulse into one another, creating a sense of movement and vibrational energy that ... More | |
Merrill Wagner, Outerbridge Crossing, 1986 © 2024 Merrill Wagner. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
HONG KONG.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition by American artist Merrill Wagner at the gallerys Hong Kong location. Showcasing compositions from throughout Wagners careerexecuted on a variety of conventional and unconventional supports, ranging from canvas, paper, slate, and stone to plexiglass and steelNature brings together a group of works that explore Wagners ongoing interest in process, chance, and the transformational effects of time. This is Wagner's second solo ... More | |
Mary Sully (Dakota, 18961963). Alice (detail), ca. 1920s40s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and funds from various donors, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern, opening July 18, 2024. Mary Sully (18961963)born Susan Mabel Deloria on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakotawas a little-known, reclusive Yankton Dakota artist who, between the 1920s and 1940s, produced highly distinctive work informed by her Native American and settler ... More |
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Christo: Wrapped 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon (1963-2014)
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art names James Glisson as Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary ArtSANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art announced that James Glisson, PhD has been named Chief Curator and will continue in his role as Curator of Contemporary Art, effective July 1, 2024. Glisson had been Curator of Contemporary Art since his hire in February 2020. I am delighted that James has agreed to lead the curatorial programs at the Museum. His commitment to scholarly rigor and community outreach sets us on a strong course for the future, says Amada Cruz, Eichholz Foundation Director. During his tenure at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Glisson has been active in curating significant exhibitions, including Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century (2022), Out of Joint: Joan Tanner (2023), Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz (2023), Inside/Outside (2023), Serenity and Revolution ... More First major exhibition of Shilpa Gupta's work in the Midwest opens at The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art MADISON, WI.- I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt presents a collection of 12 works by the Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta (b.1976). Showcasing her expertise across various media, the exhibition features her interactive sound installations, sculptures, photographs, and drawings. A conceptual artist, Guptas distinctive approach challenges viewers to reflect on how information shapes our perception of reality in today's global society. Guiding Gupta's art is her research into the power of language, examining how large-scale institutions and invisible structures adopt it to define and enforce societal norms. She also considers language as a tool of resistance, empowering individuals to ... More 15 summer theaters for that nearby, out-of-town experienceNEW YORK, NY.- Summer used to be when playgoing in the city came to a full stop. With no air-conditioning, most shows closed, at least until fall. But now that urban theater is a year-round sport, Memorial Day is more like a comma than a period. Notable productions play straight through the hot months some even opening in August, even on Broadway. So what has happened to the regional festivals, straw-hat theaters and avant-garde outposts that once flourished as the city languished? Many are struggling. Yet others are surging. Regardless, theyre worth visiting. Theres something different about summer theater outside the city. Subways are rarely involved, though a train ride or overnight stay at a lovely inn might be. Dress is casual by which I mean more casual than usual because Ive seen people at Shakespeare in ... More Videos show ants amputating nest mates' legs to save their livesNEW YORK, NY.- The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival colonies in the Southeast. Combat can leave the ants with leg injuries. But as scientists recently discovered, these ants have evolved an effective wound treatment: amputation. In the journal Current Biology, on Tuesday, researchers report that the ants bite off the injured limbs of their nest mates to prevent infection. Although other ant species are known to tend to the wounds of their injured, typically by licking them clean, this is the first time that an ant species has been known to use amputation to treat an injury. The ants in the study performed amputations on only certain leg injuries, suggesting that they are methodical in their surgical practices. Aside from humans, no other animal is known to conduct such am ... More Carbon 12 to open exhibition of works by Amba Sayal-BennettDUBAI.- Seeded Futures, Arboreal Drifts forms part of a larger body of work focusing on colonial botany and imperial gardens. Colonial botany involved both a process of extraction and erasure extraction of local knowledge, plants and labour, and erasure of indigenous knowledge. This also involved the transfer of specimens across the globe, a movement which went hand in hand with transfer of bodies. Scattered across three sites: London, Mumbai, and New York, Amba Sayal-Bennett traces the movement of botanical matter across different continents. For her first solo presentation in New York, rubber seeds and taxonomic drawings become protagonists followed on a botanical drift, charting stories of oppression and resistance. In her reflections on diasporic space, Avtar Brah discusses the entanglement of genealogies of dispersion ... More Major exhibition of early and unseen work by Joel Meyerowitz opens at Museo Picasso MálagaMALAGA.- A major exhibition of early work by renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938, New York) opened at the Museo Picasso Málaga. The exhibition brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs taken by Meyerowitz during his formative European road trip from 1966-67, many of which have not been seen before. In 1966, at the age of 28 and shortly after leaving his advertising job in New York to pursue photography, Meyerowitz embarked on a year-long road trip around Europe. He drove 20,000 miles through 10 countries and took 25,000 photographs. During this period, Meyerowitz settled in Málaga for six months, where he was befriended by the Escalona family, one of the great flamenco families in the city. While in Málaga, Meyerowitz took 8,500 photographs and captured hours of high-quality sound recordings ... More Adelaide Contemporary Experimental announces Mark Valenzuela as the recipient of the 2025 Porter Street CommissionADELAIDE.- Now in its fifth year, the Porter Street Commission annually awards $20,000 to a South Australian artist at any stage of their career to create an ambitious new work to be presented as a solo exhibition at ACE in the following year. Mark Valenzuela is an Adelaide-based artist who works between Australia and the Philippines. With a career spanning two decades, his work examines themes of conflict, dominance, occupation and resistance, often reflecting on his early experiences growing up in army base camps throughout the southern Philippines, and exploring the intersection of the personal and the political. Valenzuelas work defies categorisation, weaving together elements of ceramics, painting, drawing, ... More UCCA launches its fourth museum: UCCA Clay to open in Yixing in October 2024YIXING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Chinas leading independent contemporary art institution, announced the launch of its latest museum UCCA Clay, set to open in October 2024. Situated in Yixing City, approximately two hours west of Shanghai and renowned as the City of Ceramics, the 2,400-square meter museum is designed by Kengo Kuma. Following on the successful programming and operations of UCCA Beijing (opened 2007), UCCA Dune (opened 2018, Beidaihe), and UCCA Edge (opened 2021, Shanghai), UCCA Clay will become the fourth member of the UCCA constellation in China. This new location underscores UCCAs ongoing commitment to presenting great contemporary art to audiences in China, and addresses the growing demand for top-quality programming throughout the country. Operated in collaboration ... More Famine drove Jamestown settlers to eat native dogs, DNA revealsNEW YORK, NY.- For 30 years, archaeologists have been digging at Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in America. The trumpets, childrens shoes, pistols and millions of other unearthed objects have provided fresh clues to what life was like at the fort that settlers built in 1607 on the James River in Virginia. Now some of the most intriguing clues are coming from bones not of the people who lived in Jamestown, but of the dogs. The earliest written records of European colonists make only fleeting references to dogs. Spanish and British explorers brought mastiffs, bloodhounds and water spaniels to the New World, though probably not as pets. Some European dogs helped hunt down deer and birds, while others were sent into battle: When Powhatan forces attacked Jamestown, English soldiers retaliated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley RA (July 3, 1738 - September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was suspected to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America.
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