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Caroline Rubens, Appalshops archives director, with some of the damaged items in the organizations vault, in Whitesburg, Ky., July 26, 2023. Many of the more than 13,500 items from the cultural and arts centers rich archive of Appalachian history that were damaged in last years record floods in southeastern Kentucky are being restored and digitized. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
by Remy Tumin
NEW YORK, NY.- First came the rain, unforgiving in its force. Then the mud, slippery and smothering before it began to bake under the heat. The humidity only made the task of saving one of the biggest repositories of Appalachian history that much more challenging. Appalshop, a culture and arts center and a cornerstone of Whitesburg, Kentucky, was underwater. It was all consuming, Caroline Rubens, Appalshops archive director, said in a recent interview. Now, a year after record floods tore through southeastern Kentucky, killing more than three dozen people and displacing hundreds more whose homes were washed away, Appalshop and its community are still writing the next chapter of its 54-year history. Appalshop started as a film workshop in 1969 but expanded its mission to include documenting and celebrating Appalachian culture through theater, music, photography and literary programs. Over the d ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view. MACHINATIONS at Museo Reina SofÃa.
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| GalerÃa Marlborough participates in the 1st contemporary art fair in the South of France | | "Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons" by Yayoi kicked off Factory Internationals summer programme | | Public Art Fund opening 'Unruly Forms', eight new and recent paintings by Felipe Baeza | 
Pedro Almodóvar, Reds. 2018. Digital printing on paper and dibond, 92 x 100 cm.
MARSEILLE.- For this edition of ART-O-RAMA, Marlborough presents a dialogue between two artists who promote a multiple ontology. The two selected artists -Pedro Almodóvar and Santi Moix- highlight in their works discourses oriented towards an anti-anthropocentric vision of our relationship with the world in dialogue with Santi Moixs aritistic practice with filmmaker Pedro Almodovars photographic work and the delicate drawings by Peruvian artist Rita Ponce de León. In this way, the proposal will be much deeper and interesting to the public of the fair. The work of Santi Moix (Spain, 1960) is characterized by the accumulation of elements, fragmentation, sensuality, and a poetic sense of form in a flat and dense space to build biomorphic structures that allude to the environmental crisis and the consumption and destruction of nature. In the specific case of Art-o-rama, we will be presenting part of the ... More | | 
Yayoi-chan, 2012-2023, Installation View from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition "Yayoi Kusama/You, Me and the Baloons" at Aviva Studios. Images © David Levene.
MANCHESTER.- One of the worlds most loved artists has taken us up and away as part of Factory Internationals summer programme with the opening of her exhibition this past July 19th, 2023. Yayoi Kusama has brought her largest-ever immersive environment to Manchester. Conceived especially for the soaring spaces of our new home, Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons celebrates three decades of the pioneering Japanese artist's inflatable artworks, which have been brought together for the first time in this major exhibition. Journey through Kusama's psychedelic creations - many over 10m tall - including giant dolls, spectacular tendrilled landscapes and a vast constellation of polka-dot spheres. Kusama is renowned and adored for her surreal world of dots and pumpkins amongst other artistic motifs. Her ... More | | 
Felipe Baeza, Confined but still intoxicated with freedom, 2023 . Ink, acrylic, graphite, varnish, and cut paper on panel. Image credit: © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: John Kiffe.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening today, Public Art Fund is presenting Unruly Forms, a series of eight new and recent paintings by Felipe Baeza. These artworks will be displayed on over 400 JCDecaux bus shelters and street furniture across New York, Chicago, and Boston in the United States, as well as in Mexico City, León, and Querétaro in Mexico. The exhibition will mark Public Art Funds first exhibition in Mexico, as well as the artists first public art exhibition in Chicago, Boston, and Mexico. Drawing on his research into Mesoamerican artifacts in museum collections across New York City, Chicago, and Boston, Unruly Forms considers how the collection, displacement, and display of these objects shifts their energetic properties. The installation of the series on bus shelters in the cities where these artifacts are held acts to reanimate their power and ... More |
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| William Friedkin, director of 'French Connection' and 'Exorcist,' dies at 87 | | 'Sail Power: Martyn Mackrill and Traditional Marines' now on view at David Messum Fine Art | | Paramount agrees to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR | 
William Friedkin at the steps where he filmed the climatic scene of The Exorcist, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, April 7, 2018. (Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose gritty, visceral style and fascination with characters on the edge helped make The French Connection and The Exorcist two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s, died Monday at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 87. The cause was heart failure and pneumonia, said his wife, Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. His death came just weeks before the release of his most recent directorial effort, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, a movie based on the Herman Wouk play. Friedkin was a promising but not well-known director with ... More | | 
Martyn R. Mackrill (b.1962) The Pilot Boat, 2023, watercolour on Saunders Waterford paper, 76 x 57 cm.
LONDON.- David Messum Fine Art is now staging a selling exhibition of new work by the celebrated marine artist, Martyn Mackrill. The pictures in this show demonstrate how Mackrill is now accepted among the foremost marine artists of his generation, working in the tradition of some of the famous names in the world of maritime painting, such as Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) and Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971). Both Napier Hemy and Wilkinson held the position of honorary painter for the Royal Yacht Squadron, a post that is currently occupied by Martyn Mackrill. Mackrills oils and watercolours underline the enduring importance and fascination the sea exerts on the psyche of both artists and collectors alike. Their diversity beautifully illustrates the importance of Britains maritime history and the working landscape of coastal Britain. They are ... More | | 
Simon & Schuster in New York, July 20, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times).
by Elizabeth A. Harris, Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin
NEW YORK, NY.- Paramount said Monday that it had reached a deal to sell Simon & Schuster, one of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses in the United States, to the private equity firm KKR, in a major changing of the guard in the books business. The deal, for $1.62 billion, will put control of the cultural touchstone behind authors including Stephen King and Bob Woodward in the hands of a financial buyer with an expanding presence in the publishing industry. Although private equity investors have had a significant footprint in the book business different firms have owned literary agencies, publishing houses and retailer Barnes & Noble the acquisition of one of the largest publishers in the country vastly increases the hold of financial ... More |
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| Fine Arts Work Center names 20 writing and visual arts artists for 2023-24 fellowship | | 'Over Order: Padma Rajendran & Sarah Ingraham' now opening at Uprise Art | | 'Beyond Here: The Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography' at the Cantor Arts Center | 
The Fine Arts Work Center is an international home for artists and writers in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
PROVINCETOWN, MASS.- Twenty writers and visual artists from eight countries have been selected for the Fine Arts Work Centers 2023-24 Fellowship program and will spend seven months in the town that inspired generations of creative luminaries like Eugene ONeill, Jackson Pollock, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The Fine Arts Work Center counts authors Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Woodson, Denis Johnson, and Ann Patchett; poets Louise Glück and Ada Limón; photographer Jack Pierson; filmmaker Jennie Livingston; and groundbreaking visual artists Jacolby Satterwhite and Tala Madani among its alumni. More than 1,000 fellows have passed through the program in its lifetime and have gone on to win, among other honors and awards, one Nobel Prize for Literature, two Poet Laureate appointments, five ... More | | 
Artwork by Padma Rajendran
NEW YORK, NY.- Uprise Art is opening Over Order, an exhibition of new work by Sarah Ingraham and Padma Rajendran. Akin to the excess of over ordering at a meal, Ingrahams paintings celebrate lush abundance in an intoxicating deluge. Her works contain a freedom from fastidious arrangement, with bounty overflowing the confines of each vessel. In Rajendrans paintings, reverence for the home, and homage to the experience of building and tending to one, supplants ordered structures. In these works, Rajendran echews the conventions of the rectilinear canvas, and neatly repeating patterns. Ingrahams paintings are ideated intuitively, without preliminary drawing. She starts on a vibrantly colored ground and freehand renders florals, abundant piles of citrus and stonefruit, dizzyingly patterned tableware, and resplendent vessels. Inspired by a recent trip to Portugal, Ingraham includes tile and deco ... More | | 
Cristina Kahlo (b. Mexico, 1960). Fumador de Huejotzingo, Carnaval de Huejotzingo, Puebla, 2011. Gelatin silver print. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Promised gift from the Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography. Courtesy of the artist. © Cristina Kahlo.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is pleased to announce Beyond Here: The Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography, an exhibition highlighting selections from the promised gift of the Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography. On view from August 9, 2023January 28, 2024, the exhibition celebrates influential photographers from Central and South America, surveying a remarkable period of industrial, artistic, and political revolutions that occurred across the Americas in the twentieth century. This major gift is accompanied by the establishment of the Zuber Family Art Fund, which will enable the Cantor ... More |
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| Compton Verney announces new senior appointments | | Rare "Painted Cross" is the oldest of 30 paintings to travel from Italy to Miami art exhibition | | Jack Fischer Gallery opens a group show of work by 5 artists | 
Louise Sinclair.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verney announced the appointments of David Guilding and Louise Sinclair as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Head of Marketing and Admissions (HMA), respectively. David joins the Warwickshire art gallery and park after leading Warwick District Councils arts & heritage services for more than a decade. During this time, he and his team forged a reputation for delivering high quality activities in several of Leamington Spas renowned cultural venues, including the iconic, grade II listed Royal Pump Rooms, the Royal Spa Centre, and Leamington Town Hall. As part of his role at the Council, David was responsible for providing the vision, direction, and operational oversight of the business and ensuring that it was artistically ambitious, effective, and financially sustainable in the longer term. He has also made ... More | | 
Painted Cross ca. 1295, Umbrian-Marches Master, tempera, gold and silver on panel, 63x46.8.
MIAMI, FLA.- A "Painted Cross" dating back to ca. 1295 may be one of the earliest surviving crucifix paintings from medieval Umbria to be exhibited in the United States. This remarkable piece, along with 30 other works from the 13th 17th centuries, will make their journey from Italy to a South Florida art exhibition.Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings will open to the public on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. It is extremely rare to find a surviving work from the late 13th century - a sort of miracle, in fact, as explained in the catalog that will be on sale at the exhibition. Moreover, in this instance, the Umbrian master once identified as Rinaldo di Ranuccio by Roberto Longhi (one ... More | | 
Peter Gutkin, Two Bars. 18.75 x 14.75", Pencil on Paper, 2022.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Jack Fischer Gallery is presenting meditations, a group show of work by 5 artists whose work slips and slides easily with each others in a conversation I hope to facilitate. I have always said that, for me, one of the most important aspects of an artists work is the hand. I want to see the hand as it travels over the medium-- marking, erasing, forcing decisions. Nothing is solid
.all is mutable and transient. The work varies from the verisimilitude apparent in Ian Everards watercolors of found book covers that remind me of a cover band, with every scratch and skip perfectly rendered, to the incredibly poignant watercolors of stamps commemorating nuclear bombs by Timothy Wells. The vibrating, meditative pen and ink line work of Chris Whitefield, the work of Peter Gutkin where its all about ... More |
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 Africatown International Design Ideas Competition has chosen its winnersMOBILE, AL.- A team of acclaimed designers from the African and Caribbean diaspora and the noted women-owned firm WXY architecture + urban design has won the Africatown International Design Ideas Competition, which challenged architects to conceive solutions that both honor history and promise to spark revitalization in an Alabama community created in 1860 by former slaves brought on the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States. Working to energize and celebrate the extensive site in Mobile, Alabama, the team assembled by WXY architecture + urban design includes design-build firm Total Consult and architects Brandt:Haferd and Body Lawson Associates, as well as landscape architect Elizabeth J. Kennedy ASLA, The group joined forces to conceive a composition of new urban interventions that also knits ... More  Asian Art Museum welcomes Yoon-Jee Choi as Korean Art CuratorSAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- In the culmination of an international search, Yoon-Jee Choi has been named the Assistant Curator for Korean Art at the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture. Starting in July of 2023, Choi oversees the museums Korean art holdings, which are among the most prominent public collections outside Asia. With more than 1,000 artworks spanning millennia of history and including textiles, jewelry, important celadons and ceramics, paintings, household objects, and contemporary multimedia and digital artworks, the Asian Art Museum was the first in the United States to create a department and designate a curator devoted exclusively to Korean art and culture. The Asian Art Museum has never been more dynamic in its offerings and outlook, says Dr. Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar Director ... More  Fotohof opens an exhibition of works by Gerald Domenig and Andrea WitzmannSALZBURG.- Gerald Domenig and Andrea Witzmann lend the real world an air of emptiness and enigmatic silence. Despite the different formal execution, the works of both are characterized by the precise creative work on the image as well as the content-related references to fine art, architecture, literature and philosophy. In his exhibition conception, Gerald Domenig focuses on the theme of house and architecture: »The full wall A is a rude collage of architectural photography, a second, distinguished section refers to a mythical prank, namely having built a house without windows. GD provides a remedy. Thirdly, somewhere there is a door box, in front of which small and large visitors can be photographed. In addition, a seating area is provided where one can delve into a so-called artist's book« (Domenig). As a radical expression of a state of mind ... More  Onna House presents the group exhibition 'Supernatural Beauty'EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Onna House is now presenting Supernatural Beauty, a group exhibition of work by Lisa Eisner, Saskia Friedrich, Tamiko Kawata, Lisbeth McCoy, Adriana Meunié, and Setsuko Morita. Ranging from natural-fiber textiles to handmade jewelry and metal sculptures, each of these works celebrates the pleasure of discoveryartists dedicated to exploring the delicate and intricate qualities of their medium and encouraging audiences to draw their own stylistic and thematic associations from their work. When unifying metals and stones for her bespoke jewelry, Lisa Eisner allows nature to guide form. She sees each piece as a sculpture or talisman that will be passed down through generations, accentuating the unique qualities of turquoise, white and black jade, sun stone, imperial topaz, citrine, malachite, and simbercite. Saskia ... More  Troubetzkoy, Guffogg, and Mid Mod furniture highlighted Moran's ReDesigned saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- On Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, John Moran Auctioneers presented their ReDesigned sale. The auction offered over 400 lots featuring a variety of styles, periods, designers, and marquee names from favorite masters of 20th and 21st centuries. Works by legends such as Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Richard Wyatt Jr., Itzchak Tarkay, Shane Guffogg, LeRoy Neiman, Victor Vasarely, Corita Kent, Keith Haring, Harold von Schmidt, and Larry Poons represented the art. For sculpture, there was a large collection of Romain (Erté) de Tirtoff bronzes and fine examples by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. Furniture highlights ranged from Art Deco and Mid-20th Century to contemporary, coming from designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Chiavari, Hudson-Rissman, Baker Furniture, and Michael Aram. Once of the standouts ... More  Exhibition showcases diverse ways in which space can be depicted and exploredCOMPORTA.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) is hosting kurimanzutto (New York and Mexico City) for a collaborative exhibition at Casa da Cultura da Comporta. The meeting of the two galleries programs presents a chance to explore works spanning distinct genres, techniques, and geographies within a unified curatorial perspective. The exhibition unfolds in two acts. The first act opened on July 8 and proposes the natural world as that which is external to us. The selection of works showcase diverse ways in which space can be depicted and explored, encompassing intricate investigations on architecture and landscapes. Through varied applications of forms and materials, the sculptures, photographs, and paintings in act one collapse the delineation between organic and constructed space. Plants teeter between the abstract ... More  Artists Robin Rice, Shannon Greer and Charlotta Janssen featured in 'sitting...three approaches' at Hudson Milliner HUDSON, NY.- Robin Rice Gallery is all about collaboration. This collaborative spirit has been internalized behind-the-scenes. In addition to a cooperative process of curation, we also feel lucky to have Doug Meyer design and conceptualize the exhibition. Although the featured artists operate distinctly, their work is united by its investigation of the many angles of interface and environments through which relationships develop. Brought together, these three approaches invite viewers to form new connections, with the work, each other, and the community. Ever since Robin Rice got her hands on her first camera at eleven years old, Rices work has spanned myriad continents, decades, and nightclubs. ... More  Six new street art commissions will bring inspiration and colour to ThamesmeadTHAMESMEAD.- Peabody has partnered with a local community street art group to co-commission six murals across Thamesmead, with sites including lift shafts, tower vents and garage doors. Nadina Ali, duo Daisy Allen and Ellen Camilla Rose, Paige Denham, Lours, creative collective Trapped in Zone One (lead artist Alex Cullen) and Jeru Nomi make up the line-up of artists whose proposals were selected from over thirty submissions via an open call. Featuring vibrant typography, ordinary shapes from the urban environment and local wildlife, with Thamesmeads swans taking centre stage, the new murals will serve as striking indicators that signal to the areas creative community. These new works will become part of the Thamesmead Street Art Trail, following a 2020 commission that saw eight permanent murals created for Thamesmeads ... More  Infamous Beauty exhibition by controversial American photographer Andres Serrano on view in PraguePRAGUE.- A crucifix submerged in urine, torture chambers, or followers of the Ku Klux Klan: DOX launches the exhibition Infamous Beauty - a cross-section of the work of controversial American photographer Andres Serrano. An artist who has been searching for beauty all his life and is not afraid of taboo subjects. In Infamous Beauty, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art unveils 120 large-format photographs by the artist who rewrote the history of the American cultural scene. The work of New Yorker Andres Serrano (72) conveys strong emotions, contrasts, and the exposure of half-truths. For 40 years, his work has dealt with social issues, sexuality, racial intolerance, and the darker aspects of the human condition. Serrano has photographed various sensitive subjects, including Ku Klux Klan members, the dead in a morgue, close-ups of firearms, and ... More  Rhiannon Giddens is a songwriter, tooNEW YORK, NY.- Rhiannon Giddens has earned a little fun. Giddens a singer, songwriter, banjo player, fiddler and actress who won a MacArthur genius grant in 2017 has devoted herself to serious, high-concept, deeply researched projects. Im a mission-based artist, she said in a video chat. Im that girl at the party that you back away from, because shes going to talk about either banjos or slavery, or maybe both. But Youre the One, her new album due Aug. 18, mostly sets duty aside. Its her first full album of her own songwriting; its also her most playful project yet. I need to make the record that I need to make at that moment, she said. I needed to do something with these songs that I loved. And I wanted to have fun and I wanted to explore different sounds. Giddens, 46, was at the home in Ireland that she shares with her two children and her partner, Francesco Turrisi an It ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors pose for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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