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Jitendra V. Singh in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., March 7, 2024. (James Jackman/The New York Times)
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- Jitendra V. Singh was nearly 60, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, when he finally bought his first woodblock print by revered Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, whose work from the Edo 19th century includes a masterly series, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. It was 2013, and Singh was enchanted by Hokusais view of the sacred mountain in Japan, central to each image in the artists series: sometimes dominant, sometimes in the background, but always present. By then Singh had made three long trips into the Himalayas, gone high-altitude trekking on Mount Everest, and journeyed to Mount Kailash in Tibet, which is sacred to Hindus. I have a thing about mountains, Singh, now 70 and retired, said during an interview in his apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. To me Hokusai captured the essence of the mountain. Fascination with Hokusai and his i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Raiko Conquering the Shuten Doji Demon of Oe Mountain, by Sugioka Yoshitoshi 1864, is an outstanding action-packed woodblock triptych in Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters, the exhibition at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints. 37.1 x 77.7 cm. Asia Week New York.
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| M Leuven presents a new installation by Sarah Smolders and recent work by Lola Daels | | Galerie Lelong opens "Casablanca" (2022): A suite of six graphic works by Richard Serra | | 2nd man charged in theft of Judy Garland's ruby slippers |
Homage to Ivan K., Vern Blosum 1963. Courtesy of the estate of Vern Blosum and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York.
LEUVEN.- M Leuven opened Alias on 15 March: a group exhibition exploring the theme of fictional artistry. By adopting a different identity, artists liberate themselves from ... More | |
Richard Serra, Casablanca #3.
PARIS.- Since the 1980s, Galerie Lelong has regularly presented Richard Serra's etchings in its Paris space, building up a remarkable body of work over the years. "Casablanca" (2022) is a suite of six graphic works produced in close collaboration with master printer Xavier Fumat at the Gemini G.E.L. workshop in Los Angeles. These prints are spectacular in their size and sculptural quality, which ... More | |
A photo provided by the FBI shows ruby slippers, featured in The Wizard of Oz and stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn., in 2005. (F.B.I. via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A second man has been charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, according to authorities, who said he had threatened to a release a sex tape of a woman if she told ... More |
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| Orlando Museum of Art promotes Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon to Chief Curator | | Who loves fashion more than a vintage clothing buff? | | MoMA opens the most comprehensive Joan Jonas retrospective in the U.S. to date |
Claeysen-Gleyzon has been with the museum since January 2018.
ORLANDO, FLA.- The Orlando Museum of Art announced the promotion of Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon to the position of Chief Curator. Coralie has been an integral part of the museum since January 2018, serving in various roles, including Associate Curator, Curator, and most recently, Interim Head of the Collections and Exhibitions ... More | |
Steven Guarnacciam, who loves primary colors and considers himself an expert on Hecht ties, at the Sturbridge Vintage Show in New York, March 14, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Few people on Earth put more thought, care or flair into their outfits than the aficionados at a rare vintage clothing sale. The elite collectors invited to attend the opening-night cocktails for the Sturbridge Show in New York City on Thursday ... More | |
Joan Jonas posing for an unrealized poster for a performance of Organic Honeys Visual Telepathy at LoGiudice Gallery, New York 1972. Photograph: Richard Serra. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Joan Jonas: Thood Night Thood Morning, the artists most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, spanning more than 50 years of her ... More |
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| The CCCB presents 'Suburbia. Building the American Dream' | | African American Art at Swann April 4 | | Exhibition premieres the artist duo Birdhead's ongoing project "Yun Yun" |
Bill Owens, No creo que el hecho de que Richie juegue con armas deba tener un efecto negativo en su personalidad. (Ya quiere ser policia), 1972. Bill Owens Archive, Milan.
BARCELONA.- The American dream can be summed up in a mental image that seems frozen in time: a home of ones own, surrounded by lawns, with a pool ... More | |
Jacob Lawrence, The Legend of John Brown, portfolio with complete text, printed folder, the printed poem by Robert Hayden, and 22 color screenprints, 1977. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries spring 2024 African American Art sale will take place on Thursday, April 4, with a standout selection of house favorites from ... More | |
Installation view.
BEIDAIHE.- UCCA Dune presents Birdhead: Yun Yun from March 17 to June 30, 2024. A critical artist duo in the development of Chinese contemporary art since the early 2000s, Birdheads practice is both unique and diverse. They record and deconstruct daily life and social reality through ... More |
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| Humanosh Foundation announces 4th Charity Art Auction to Benefit Ukrainian and Belarusian Refugees | | Gylan Kain, a founder of the Last Poets and a progenitor of rap, dies at 81 | | Anacostia Community Museum presents exhibition about Black arts education in Washington, D.C. |
Aleksei Vrublevskii, Dakini, malowany gips.
WARSAW.- Humanosh Foundation is organizing a charity art auction to raise funds for Ukrainian and Belarusian refugees displaced by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The auction will take place on 20th March, 2024. The #ArtofSupport charity auction features artworks by leading artists from Belarus, Poland and also, for the first time, Afghanistan and the ... More | |
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, laying a foundation for what was to come.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gylan Kain, a Harlem-born poet and performance artist who was a founder of the Last Poets, the spoken-word collective that laid a foundation for rap music starting in the late 1960s by delivering fiery poetic salvos about racism and oppression ... More | |
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), Portrait of Hudson, 1932, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The John Axelrod CollectionFrank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection. Photograph © 2024 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900 2000, opens March 23 at Smithsonians Anacostia ... More |
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Asian art and jewelry departments lead March gallery auction
ALAMEDA, CALIF.- Michaans Auctions March Gallery Auction, held on Friday, March 15th realized a strong sell-through rate as Michaans Auctions orchestrated another successful sale for its consigners. The sale was headlined by a celadon glazed dish from the Asian Art Department, which inspired intense action from multiple bidders, and several collectible items that achieved significant prices. The sale was headlined by the Asian Art Department, which featured numerous vases and porcelain of excellent workmanship in addition to fine furniture and jewelry. A Chinese Celadon Glazed Stem Dish inspired intense competition from multiple bidders, which eventually drove the price to $26,000 after several minutes of bidding. Later in the sale, Two Huanghuali and Mixwood Armchairs and a Table, attracted significant attention from ... More
Shakira's family came apart. Then her music soared.
NEW YORK, NY.- For Shakira, 2022 was a year of heartbreak. Decades of hit singles and groundbreaking Latin-pop crossovers couldnt insulate the Colombian pop star from personal upheavals. In the glare of celebrity coupledom, she broke up with soccer player Gerard Piqué, her partner for 11 years and the father of her two sons, Milan and Sasha. Her father was hospitalized twice for a fall that caused head trauma; he went on to require further brain surgery in 2023. Shakira was also facing charges of tax evasion in a long-running case disputing whether she had lived primarily in Spain from 2012 to 2014; she declared residency there in 2015. Last November, she settled for a fine of 7.5 million euros (about $8.2 million), citing the best interest of my kids. Just days earlier, Shakira had collected the Latin Grammy for song of the year ... More
Gossip Dance back into action after a 12-year pause
ORTLAND, ORE.- Its possible that there are better people to dig you out of an ice storm than the frontwoman of a dance-punk act, but few would do it as resourcefully or cheerfully as Beth Ditto. Since her band Gossip started 25 years ago, its scrappy, do-it-yourself roots have always run strong. Early this year, when Portland, Oregon, Dittos adopted home of two decades, was overtaken by a deep freeze, my windshield was a sheet of ice, and there was no scraper in sight (do better, Portland rental car agencies). Over my protestations, Ditto fished out her old ID, hopped out of the slowly warming sedan in her black beret and Chuck Taylors, and shaved the ice off herself. She has never been fazed, she said, by the unexpected. Though Gossip has been a major label act since 2009, when it made the leap from the storied indie Kill ... More
For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture is now
NEW YORK, NY.- On Feb. 17, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago unveiled a new sky show called Niyah and the Multiverse, a blend of theoretical cosmology, Black culture and imagination. And as with many things Afrofuturistic, Ytasha Womacks fingerprints are all over it. Womack, who writes both about the genre and from within it, has curated Afrofuturism events across the country including Carnegie Halls citywide festival and her work is currently featured in the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture. Afrofuturism is perhaps most popularly on display in the Black Panther films, which immerse viewers in an alternate reality of diverse, technologically advanced African tribes untouched by the forces of colonialism. (In 2023, Womack published Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration, Marvels reference ... More
Heller Museum opens 'Sacred Land by Ralph Gibson', a unique portrayal of the soul of Israel
NEW YORK, NY.- In Sacred Land, legendary American photographer Ralph Gibson, and producer Martin Cohen, have created a unique photographic exhibition and publication that capture the soul of Israel, both ancient and contemporary. The photographs convey the fundamental humanity and underlying affinities that connect all who deem this land as sacred, and express aspirations for mutual understanding and peace. At a time when the war and suffering in Israel and Gaza overwhelm us, Gibsons images offer a compelling and hopeful outlook for the future. Sacred Land invites us into the eye of the photographer as a first-time visitor to Israel we see what he sees, what captures his attention. It is in the details, a particular gesture, a candid pose, a fragment, a moment, that we glimpse a deeper meaning. The essence of the images ... More
Marc Jancou Contemporary announces Oliver Osborne's 'Grund und Figur' at The Saanen Vitrine
SAANEN.- From the 10th of February to the 31st of March 2024 Marc Jancou Contemporary presents the first exhibition of Oliver Osborne in Switzerland titled Grund und Figur. Borrowing its title from a term used in Gestalt psychology to describe the concept of figure-ground, ie. the perceptual grouping that is a vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision, the exhibition at the Saanen Vitrine brings together a selection of recent works, both paintings and works on paper, all completed in the past year. Since the distant days of the 1990s bodies of work made by artists dealing with paintings and Painting started progressively looking back at history and its representational codes. Returning to things is not a novelty of the late 20th century, however. Artists have been running up and down the place since antiquity; opening cabinets, ... More
Clyfford Still Museum names Molly Warnock Director of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné Project
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) named Molly Warnock the Director of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné Project. She will oversee the writing and editing of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works and related research, curatorial, and publishing initiatives. Warnock is an internationally recognized scholar of modern and contemporary art. Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works is a comprehensive collection of all known works with full details including title, dimensions, creation date, medium, provenance, exhibition, and publication history. This major scholarly project will present Stills entire body of work for the first time, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and lost works. The Museum will announce the publisher of the project at a later date. Clyfford ... More
Agata Słowak joins BLUM with "A Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
TOKYO.- BLUM announced the representation of Warsaw-based artist Agata Słowak on the occasion of her first exhibition with the gallery, A Marriage of Heaven and Hell. This two-person presentation with Aleksandra Waliszewska is organized by curator Alison M. Gingeras and opens at BLUM Tokyo on March 23. Słowak will be co-represented by BLUM and Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw. Agata Słowak paints audacious pictorial narratives with a disarming, Old Master-stylistic flair. Whether appearing alone or in group tableaus, Słowaks youthful mien engages the viewer with the same defiant yet serene gaze. The artist is almost always the protagonist of her scenes that surpass conventional self-portraiture and tasteful subject matter with their allegorical density. Perfumed with a radical strain of feminism, her compositions ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron died March 20, 1999. Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. In this image: Patrick Heron's painting "Nude in Wicker".
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