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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Emma Talbot in the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale in Italy, April 23, 2022. A plan to give more space to the event in a waterside heritage site has kicked off a debate over the future of one of the citys largest public properties, and, by extension, of the city itself. Gus Powell/The New York Times.
by Max Norman
VENICE.- Since its founding in 1895, the Venice Biennale has become one of the worlds most important venues for contemporary art, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city for its influential exhibitions and performances. The event, which this year runs through Nov. 27, keeps Venice at the center of the worlds cultural conversation. More practically, it generates repeat, often overnight visitors that the city prefers to day trippers. But some of Venices rapidly shrinking local population feel that the Biennale, aided by the current city government, is monopolizing space that could be used by locals to create a sustainable, year-round cultural and economic life beyond tourism. The citys concession to the Biennale this past March of more space in the Arsenale a former shipyard whose tall, red brick walls enclosed an industrial operation capable of producing a warship a day has become entangled in a complicated debate over the future of one of t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Hagueâs art space 1646 opened Los vestigios de La Turista, a solo exhibition by artist Sol Calero, showing a new installation that transforms the space of 1646 into an archeological site.
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| Gagosian now representing Stanley Whitney | | Ernie Barnes' The Sugar Shack goes on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 15 | | Fred the Mastodon's tusks reveal a life of fighting and roaming |
Stanley Whitney. Photo: Jeannette Montgomery Barron/Trunk Archive.
LONDON.- Gagosian announced the representation of Stanley Whitney. Following the 2020 exhibition of his work at Gagosian Rome, the artist will have a solo exhibition with the gallery in London in 2023. Renowned for the depth of his exploration into the expressive potentials of painted color and form, Whitney has been committed to abstraction since the mid-1970s. While living in Rome in the 1990s, he consolidated a process-based painterly approach which he has now sustained and developed over the course of three decades. Dividing square canvases into sequences of loosely defined rectangular blocks of saturated color that are demarcated by linear bands, Whitney progresses from the top of the canvas across and down, choosing each successive color in relation to those laid down previously. His visible brushwork establishes nuanced passages amid the boundaries of these rectangular planes. The resulting chromatic and spatial interactions define re ... More | |
Ernie Barnes, The Sugar Shack, 1976 (detail), acrylic on canvas, Collection of William O. Perkins III and Lara Perkins. © Ernie Barnes Family Trust.
HOUSTON, TX.- On Wednesday, June 15, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will place on view The Sugar Shack, Ernie Barnes iconic 1976 painting of vibrant, ecstatic figures dancing in a crowded Black music hall in segregated mid-century North Carolina. The painting is on loan to the MFAH through December 31 from Houston collector Bill Perkins, who acquired The Sugar Shack at auction last month. I want to thank Bill Perkins for his generous loan to the Museum of Ernie Barnes extraordinary painting, commented Gary Tinterow, Director, Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Sugar Shack will take pride of place in the Museums newest home for modern and contemporary art, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, where it can be appreciated by our visitors in the context of works in the permanent collection. Lara and I are thrilled to be able to share this phenomenal painting with all of ... More | |
Closeup showing pieces of a mastodon tusk (not from the Buesching mastodon) held by University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher. Credit: Jeremy Marble, University of Michigan News.
by Jeanne Timmons
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 13,000 years ago, an American mastodon roamed what is today the American Midwest. Year after year, he returned to an area in northeast Indiana believed to be a mating ground. It was there that he died in battle. Where the mastodon spent his life and how he died were all recovered by studying chemical signatures recorded in his tusk, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their techniques offer new insight into one of several ancient elephant relatives that roamed North America before going extinct. Scientists studied the Buesching mastodon, named for the family farm where it was found in 1998, and it is now on display at the Indiana State Museum. Also known as Fred, his tusks, like those of modern elephants, record an ... More |
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| IU Eskenazi Museum of Art launches a research project celebrating the contributions of women artists | | Major STIK work comes to Bonhams' Post-War & Contemporary Art sale in London | | One man's vision of his dream Ferrari offered at H&H Classics |
A Space of Their Own is a comprehensive online resource that documents the lives and careers of women artists.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announced the launch of A Space of Their Own, a database focused on the work of women artists, which is made possible by the Jane Fortune Fund for Virtual Advancement of Women Artists and is supported in part by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In August 2018, the museum began placing its collections online to allow people around the world to explore the breadth of the museums holdings and use them for research, teaching, and more. This new portal features up-to-date information about women artists represented in the museums own collection, as well as other museums and private collections around the world. Timelines, lists of works, biographies, and high-quality images illustrate the range of individual artists contributions to the history of artfocusing a spotlight on an often forgotten, but important ... More | |
STIK (B. 1979), Children of Fire, 2011 (detail). Estimate: £120,000-180,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Children of Fire, a large artwork by the street artist STIK, is one of the highlights of Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on Thursday 30 June at New Bond Street, London. STIK created the work in the aftermath of the London Riots in 2011, sprayed onto the garage door of a vegan community centre in Hackney. The large-scale work, which comes to Bonhams from a private collection, has a pre-sale estimate of £120,000-180,000 the highest estimate given to a work by the artist. Oliver Morris-Jones, Head of Sale, commented: This is a signature work by STIK, with his distinctive figures framed by flames symbolic of the London riots, which shook the community in 2011. His works are hitting new hights of popularity, and were confident this striking work will attract a lot of interest from collectors. Born in 1979 and based in London, STIK is famously guarded when it comes to his personal life. Having ... More | |
1969 Ferrari 365GT rebodied in the style of a Pontoon Fender Testa Rossa featuring coachwork by Giovanni Giordanengo. Estimate £350,000 - £400,000.
LONDON.- H&H Classics are selling one mans no-expense-spared vision of creating the ultimate Ferrari Barchetta at their sale at IWM Duxford on June 22nd for an estimate of £350,000 to £400,000. This scarlet vision has had just five custodians from new, including ownership by Dorothy Perkins & Co. in the early 1970s. A matching numbers RHD Ferrari Speciale, utilising the chassis, drivetrain, suspension and all running gear of the donor vehicle and powered by the legendary 4400cc two cam V12 engine (breathing through triple carburettors), it is said to produce 320BHP at 6600 RPM. For many, the Ferrari 250 Pontoon Fender Testa Rossa is simply one of the most beautiful and versatile road-going competition cars ever made. Boasting an enviable racing pedigree with a highly impressive three World Sportscar Titles under its belt and victories at Le Mans, Sebring and the Targa Florio. ... More |
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| Dimbolas summer show is a retrospective of decades of archive photography by Sussex photographer Marilyn Stafford | | In bits of rocks, cues to solar system's origins | | Property from the collection of Dino & Martha DeLaurentiis and Mitzi Gaynor up for auction |
Ãdith Piaf, Paris, c1950. © Marilyn Stafford.
ISLE OF WIGH.- The first ever retrospective exhibition of US born Sussex based photographer, Marilyn Stafford (b.1925), encompassing the most comprehensive display of the photographers work to date. Works come from an international archive spanning four decades, and include celebrity portraits, fashion shoots, street photography, humanitarian stories and newspaper reportage. This exhibition, A Life in Photography provides a reflective and engaging look at a period of 20th century history through the photographers unique gaze. It features many of the stories from her career, which remain untold, with images never seen before by the public and specially organised expanded content such as a film about Marilyns life and more. This special touring exhibition has been curated by Nina Emett in collaboration with Staffords daughter Lina Clerke and was previously ... More | |
In an undated image provided by the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, a C.I. type of meteorite that fell to Earth in 1938. Trustees of the Natural History Museum via The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK, NY.- One-fifth of an ounce of dark specks brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are some of the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists announced Thursday. That fact should help planetary scientists refine their knowledge of the ingredients in the disk of dust and gas that circled the sun about 4.6 billion years ago before coalescing into the planets and smaller bodies. We must rewrite the chemistry of the solar system, said Hisayoshi Yurimoto, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Hokkaido University in Japan and the head of the research analysis described in a paper published by the journal Science on Thursday. The ... More | |
Mitzi Gaynor.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Wednesday, June 29th, Andrew Jones Auctions will present, via an Online-Only Auction, property from the different collections of two Hollywood legends: Dino & Martha DeLaurentiis and Mitzi Gaynor. The De Laurentiis collection will feature Italian and European antiques, furnishings, fine art and decorative items; while the Mitzi Gaynor collection will showcase fine art, antiques, books, silver, porcelain and glass, decorative arts and Louis Vuitton luggage. On June 29 starting at 10 AM Pacific Time, Andrew Jones Auctions will be offering property from the collection of film producer Dino De Laurentiis and his wife Martha. During their 30-year marriage, the couple assembled a collection of artworks and furniture that reflected their backgrounds and aesthetics, and which featured items that are European in style but peppered with Americana. These ... More |
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| Turner Prize shortlisted artist creates UK's largest ourdoor exhibition across Surrey | | James Fuentes opens Daisy Parris' first solo exhibition in New York | | New Pre-Raphaelite Curator and Chief Curator announced at the Delaware Art Museum |
Charleston. Nathan Coley. Photo: Keith Hunte.
EASTBOURNE .- A series of large scale outdoor light sculptures by Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley have been installed at six locations across Sussex as part of a new outdoor exhibition featuring some of the artist's most important works sited in spectacular locations across the region. The exhibition, Tentative Words Change Everything, which runs until 29 August 2022, is part of Sussex Modern, a pioneering partnership bringing together some of the regions leading cultural organisations and vineyards in the distinctive landscape of the South Downs National Park. A major new commission by the artist has been unveiled at Charleston, the former home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The new work will encourage audiences to think differently about the history and contemporary relevance of the rural home of the Bloomsbury group. Exhibition locations: ... More | |
Daisy Parris, I Do Ache, 2019. Signed and dated verso with pencil. Ink on paper, 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
NEW YORK, NY.- James Fuentes presents London-based artist Daisy Parris first solo exhibition in New York, The Warm Glow, in collaboration with Sim Smith, London. An exhibition of Parris' works on paper, Concrete Saviour, will be concurrently on view at JamesFuentes.Online. Irrespective of their scale, an encounter with Parris works feels intimate. Passing through the painting, a subtle connection or energy is shared from one human to another. The works are visceral experiencesthey feel alive. In some, faux fur affords a fleshy, corporeal structure. Physical and complex, the fur is arduous to paint on. Onto others, Parris applies oil paint straight from the tube, directing its insistent, laborious path with a brush. Scraps of poetry, mantras, observations, and notes to self scrawled onto fragments of canvas hang ... More | |
Dr. Margaretta Frederick.
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum celebrates several staff transitions in the curatorial department this summer. Dr. Margaretta Frederick recently retired from her role as the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator. She has transitioned to Curator Emerita to work on independent research projects. Dr. Sophie Lynford has been appointed the incoming Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection, beginning her work with DelArts famed Pre-Raphaelite collection in August. Dr. Heather Campbell Coyle will rotate out of the Chief Curator role to begin dedicated research on the Museums illustration collection, and Margaret Winslow will lead the department as Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art. We congratulate Dr. Margaretta Frederick on her outstanding career and thank her for her dedicated work at the Delaware Art Museum. We welcome Dr. Sophie ... More |
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After 10 years, Barrie Kosky leaves his opera house dancing
BERLIN.- It is difficult to pinpoint the most outrageous moment of Barrie Koskys All-Singing, All-Dancing Yiddish Revue, which opened at the Komische Oper here on Friday. Is it the 1960s-era pilot and flight attendant in drag belting My Way (sorry, Mayn Veg) under a shower of golden confetti? The subtle camp of an imaginary Choir of Temple Beth Emmanuel singing with straight-faced sincerity? The message from our sponsors advertising delectably light, always right, gefilte fish in jars? But maybe the evening is less about those moments than about Kosky himself: the Australian-born director who has become an essential figure of the Berlin, not to mention European, opera scene, an erstwhile foreigner who speaks in a fluid blend of German, English and Yiddish and has risen to being addressed Friday ... More
New York Philharmonic agrees to restore pay for musicians
NEW YORK, NY.- When the coronavirus pandemic erupted in 2020, battering the cultural sector and forcing the New York Philharmonic to cancel a season, the orchestra worked to cut costs, slashing its musicians pay by 25%. The Philharmonic promised at the time to reverse those cuts, which provided more than $20 million in savings, once its financial outlook brightened. And Monday, the orchestra announced it would do so in September, much earlier than expected. The decision to restore pay is a milestone in the Philharmonics recovery, and it offered some hope that the worst of the pandemic, which cost the orchestra more than $27 million in anticipated ticket revenue, had passed. Theres nothing more important than our musicians, president and CEO Deborah Borda said. It was just a very important ... More
As air-raid sirens sound, a Lviv orchestra opens summer festival with Mozart's Requiem
LVIV.- The audience members took their seats among boxes of medicine, first-aid kits and intravenous tubes. The orchestra was missing four men who are now fighting on the wars front lines. A handful of guest singers who had fled bombings and bloodshed stood onstage with the choir. The war in Ukraine has upended the meticulous planning that has gone into the Lviv Philharmonics annual summer music festival for four decades. But for musicians and the audience, the show must go on. Even as the space a Baroque, pastel-colored chamber in western Ukraine has become a coordination site for humanitarian supplies during the war, it has remained a home to musicians and choirs. This spring, instead of playing upbeat music at the festivals first performance, the orchestra decided to open with Mozarts Requiem. ... More
Never missing a curtain this season, the Met Opera takes a final bow
NEW YORK, NY.- In a season dogged by wave after wave of the coronavirus, there were moments when the Metropolitan Opera was on the verge of cancellation. There was the time a wicked stepsister in Cinderella tested positive shortly before a performance, and the Met had to enlist a soprano from another production to sing the role from the wings while a dancer acted it onstage. And there was the time that five of the principal performers in Hamlet were out at the same time, but covers as the company calls its invaluable understudies stepped in to make sure the show went on. We had covers for covers, said Tera Willis, head of the wig and makeup department, recalling how she would sit a last-minute performer down next to a pile of wigs and try one after another until something fit. The omicron surge in winter forced ... More
June Art Fair opens 4th edition in Basel
BASEL.- Yesterday, June Art Fair, a gallery-led alternative to the conventional art fair viewing experience, opened its fourth edition in Basel, returning to an iconic concrete bunker designed by Pritzker Prize winning architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. By obviating booths altogether and prioritizing an open format, June Art Fair distinguishes itself with a highly-selective, intergenerational group of 19 galleries and 5 special projects amongst whom dialog and collaboration is encouraged. The fair remains on view to the public free of charge until June 19, 2022. Were so pleased to have returned to the site of Junes original location, the Herzog and de Meuron bunker, because it perfectly reflects the ethos of the fairintimate, and a breath of fresh air from the more corporate machinations of the art worldallowing for a more ... More
Parco Arte Vivente presents 10 years of smellscapes, labs and conversations y Elena Mazzi
TURIN.- PAV Parco Arte Vivente is presenting On copper, wax, iron, wisteria and ice. Elena Mazzi: 10 years of smellscapes, labs and conversations, Elena Mazzi's solo exhibition curated by Marco Scotini. The relationship between geographic areas at risk and the communities that inhabit them inspires the practices of Elena Mazzi (1984) as they deconstruct and challenge the epistemic dichotomies of modernity, encouraging us to consider a new ecological relationship between nature, culture and the world. Mazzi collects cases from fieldwork, workplaces and mobile laboratories, and uses different sets of procedures, interdisciplinary exchanges, indigenous and specialist vocabularies in order to overcome the limitations of the environments within which knowledge produces and is produced. In line with the idea of contrasting ... More
Coronation brooch realises £180,000 in Noonans sale
LONDON.- A stunning Royal presentation diamond brooch given by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Lavina, Duchess of Norfolk, for assistance prior to her Coronation in 1953, sold today (Tuesday, June 14, 2022) for £180,000 to an European Collector at Mayfair Auctioneers Noonans in a sale of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu. Formerly the property of Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, the diamond and platinum brooch by Garrard & Co. Ltd. was modelled in the form of the letters ER in the Queens own handwriting, and signed to the reverse With grateful thanks. As Frances Noble, Head of the Jewellery Department and Associate Director at Noonans, explains: The Duchess stood in for The Queen during the rehearsals held at Westminster Abbey in the lead up to the Coronation on 2 June 1953. As ... More
Birmingham 2022 Festival and Ikon launch Foreign Exchange: A temporary public artwork by Hew Locke
BIRMINGHAM.- Launched today, Birminghams city-centre sculpture of Queen Victoria has been reimagined by acclaimed Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. Presented by the Birmingham 2022 Festival and commissioned by Ikon, Foreign Exchange will remain on view through the summer and during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. This temporary work is seen within the context of a wide-reaching festival of performances, events and projects which all consider our place in the Commonwealth, the present moment and stories of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Originally unveiled in 1901, Sir Thomas Brocks marble figure of Queen Victoria was recast in bronze by William Bloye and members of the Birmingham School of Art for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Seventy years on, Locke draws attention to the original ... More
Sol Calero presents Los vestigios de La Turista in The Hague's art space 1646
THE HAGUE.- How do we (re)write the history of places that have ceased to exist? A long and unknown time ago, a canteen called La Turista'' served sunny-side ups on glossy glazed plates with walls covered in colorful mosaic tiles. Once peacefully residing on the Nordic west coast in a place called Bergen, now, we find its stolen remains in The Hague, during an excavation in Sol Caleros solo exhibition at 1646. Until July 10th, you will find Los vestigios de La Turista in The Hagues art space 1646, a solo exhibition by artist Sol Calero, showing a new installation that transforms the space of 1646 into an archeological site. Digging grounds, we explore the transformative nature of cultural signs and stories through phenomena like exoticisation, commodification, and the gaze, while the once-upon-a-time canteen slowly resurrects by the mountains and the fjords. ... More
Leading British artist Conrad Shawcross creates new work for Ukraine
LONDON.- Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross has made a new work which will be sold for the benefit of the charity War Childs work supporting children affected by the crisis in Ukraine and conflict zones around the world. The print, Study for the Patterns of Absence; Ukraine 11, will be available to purchase for the duration of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 from 21 June 21 August 2022. Conrad worked with War Child in Bosnia in 1997 when he was 18, painting murals in music rooms, and so has a history of collaboration with this important charity. Conrad Shawcross said: In 1997, at the age of 18, I travelled to a war-torn Sarajevo to work for the charity War Child. Seeing the catastrophic effect of war on people and children has marked me forever, and Europe faces a similar if not worse crisis now. I ... More
MOHAI announces $10 million gift from Jeff Bezos to expand Center for Innovation
SEATTLE, WA.- Seattles Museum of History & Industry has announced a $10 million donation from Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, to expand the museums Bezos Center for Innovation. The new gift will allow the center to expand interactive storytelling; enhance educational programs including an Innovation Classroom where young people test solutions to the challenges they face; create a dynamic innovation hub where the community comes together to tackle major problems on topics ranging from climate change to social justice; present insights from leading-edge innovators; and build a definitive collection of artifacts and archives that preserve Seattles history as a global center of innovation. It will also support expanded hands-on learning opportunities, designed to serve 30,000 young people and their ... More
Heritage Auctions, Screenbid team up to offer authenticated Hollywood memories straight from the set
DALLAS, TX.- Pop-culture powerhouse Heritage Auctions and Screenbid, the world's best source for screen-used and studio-authenticated Hollywood memorabilia, announced Wednesday they have teamed up to present co-branded auctions featuring props, costumes and other memorabilia directly from some of the worlds biggest television and movie studios. This new partnership leverages the respective strengths of both companies: Dallas-based Heritage Auctions will use its global reach in the entertainment-memorabilia marketplace to offer Screenbids extraordinary collection of keepsakes, which has spanned Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Veep to New Girl, Insecure and Silicon Valley. We can think of no better way to engage the fanbases for some of these modern classics than by being able to offer our collector-clients ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Paul Georges was born June 15, 1923. Paul Georges (Paul G Georges, Paul Gordon Georges) (June 15, 1923 - April 16, 2002) was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77. He painted large-scale figurative allegories and numerous self-portraits. In January 1966, the cover of Art News featured "In The Studio" now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Works were included in Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 & 1969. Paintings by PG are also in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Smart Museum University of Chicago; National Academy Museum, NYC; Rose Art Museum, Mass; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Virginia Art Museum; Parrish Museum Southampton, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton and numerous others across America In this image: Paul Georges, The Extremists, 1991-92, 136 h x 154 w.
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