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| | A Word from Collector Karun Thakar on "Indian Textiles: 1,000 Years of Art and Design" in Washington, DC | |
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Installation view. Photo by Dave Scavone.
WASHINGTON, DC.- "The place that The Textile Museum occupies in both the museum world and the textile field is quite unique: no other institution in the arts world is capable of acting as the ambassador for the textile arts. Its work demonstrates how the whole of human experience is captured and expressed in this medium in ways unlike any other art form. In broadening appreciation for textile arts, the museum helps to promote greater cultural understanding and generate interest in underappreciated forms of artistic expression. These are aims that my collecting interests share. It is a great privilege to be invited to be part of the museum's mission, an event that marks a high point in my own collecting journey. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Late Spring Variety Ancient / Ethnographica sale on May 05, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, more! All legally acquired, legal to sell. Satisfaction guaranteed. Convenient in-house shipping. In this image: Group of 4 Egyptian Wood Boatmen, ex-Royal Athena. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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| MFA Boston transfers antique marble head to the Republic of Italy | | Exhibition pairs masterworks of Italian Gothic painting with Lucio Fontana's spatial concepts | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens Elizabeth Peyton's first exhibition in France in over a decade | 
Portrait of a man; perhaps the Emperor Maximianus Herculius (late 3rdearly 4th century).
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has transferred the Late Imperial sculpture Portrait of a Man to the Republic of Italy, from where it is believed to have been stolen during World War II. The marble head dates to the 3rd or 4th century C.E. Its features were re-cut in antiquity from an earlier portrait, and it may represent the emperor Maximianus Herculius. It was found in December 1931 at Minturno, Italy, during a series of excavations undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania and the Superintendency of Campania in Naples. The head was published, inventoried and illustrated in a catalogue of sculptures from the excavations in 1938. During World War II, a number of archaeological finds and other works of art stored at Minturno were stolen, probably by German troops, or were otherwise dispersed in the upheaval of war. The Portrait of a Man was almost certainly taken at this time. After it was photographed ... More | | 
Raffaello Botticini, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, c. 150020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Robilant+Voenas latest exhibition pairs masterworks of Italian Gothic painting with Lucio Fontanas spatial concepts, presenting the old masters through the lens of Fontanas art and vice versa. On display in the New York gallery located at 980 Madison Avenue, the exhibition opened on 28 April and runs until 11 June 2022. This is the second exhibition pairing Italian Gothic pictures with Fontanas work. The first was presented by Marco Voena at Sperone Westwater in February 1999, Gold. Gothic Masters and Lucio Fontana. Puncturing and slashing clay, canvas and metal, Fontana created art which transcended the boundaries of painting and sculpture. His works stand as a record of time and process, tearing down physical and intellectual traditions to create the new. For an artist who propelled the fine arts so far into the future, Fontana saw great relevance to the new in Italian Gothic painting, explaining ... More | | 
Elizabeth Peyton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, March 2022, 2022. Colored pencil and pastel on paper, 21,3 x 15,2 cm (8,39 x 5,98 in). © Elizabeth Peyton. Photo: Charles Duprat.
PARIS.- For the first time in France in over a decade, Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents a solo exhibition of New York-based artist Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965), featuring new oil paintings on linen and board, as well as works on paper. One of the most influential painters of her generation, Peyton's paintings capture a depth of feeling that makes palpable the vulnerability of her subjects. Im fascinated with what people do with themselves and how that might show up on their face she stated in a recent interview, explaining that the face is for her a vessel capable of taking us from individual feelings to universal human experiences. Peyton works from life, photographs, video, and memory. She told The White Review in 2019: Sometimes I like the magical things that come from my own bad photography or photos I take from my computer screen. ... More |
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| David Claerbout solo exhibition opens at Sean Kelly Gallery | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Geneva Magnificent Jewels sale | | Gladstone 64 opens an exhibition of works by Kerstin Brätsch | 
David Claerbout, Still from The Close, 2022. Single channel video projection, black & white, 6 channel surround sound, 15 minutes © David Claerbout. Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Dark Optics, a solo exhibition by Belgium-based artist David Claerbout. The exhibition is the US premiere of Claerbout's two most recent film works, The Close, 2022 and Aircraft (F.A.L.), 2015-2021, alongside a series of works on paper relating to each film. The Close is conceived as a journey traversing the past and future of the camera. It brings together a reconstruction of amateur film, circa 1920, and a digital 3D rendering of that footage. Reminiscent of so-called city symphonies during the early days of film, which marked the proliferation of the movie camera into daily life, the film opens with a street scene whose occupants are muted twice - socially and again technically. Claerbout poetically attempts to restore their voices at the end of the film with a recording of 24 spatially distinct singers performing Arvo Pärt's 2004 vocal composition ... More | | 
Bulgari Emerald, Diamond and Gold Serpenti Bracelet-Watch, Estimate: CHF290,000-350,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
GENEVA.- Christies Magnificent Jewels sale on 11 May 2022 will offer a superb selection of historic and modern jewellery, alongside two diamonds that are each considered among the most exceptional gemstones to ever appear at auction. Headlining the sale at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues is THE ROCK (estimate: CHF19,000,000-30,000,000), at 228.31 carats, it is the largest white diamond ever seen throughout auction market history. Returning to Christies saleroom for a third time since its mining in 1901 is The Red Cross Diamond (estimate on request). This diamond was first sold at Christies in 1918, when the intense yellow cushion-shaped diamond weighing 205.07 carats first captivated collectors by being offered as part of the Red Cross Appeal. The Red Cross Diamond lives up to its celebrated history by once again being offered to benefit the International Committee of the Red Cross. For nearly half a century, our ... More | | 
Kerstin Brätsch, PARA PSYCHIC_Death, 2020-2021. Colored pencil and graphite on paper, Optium acrylic artists frame, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) paper, 16 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches (43 x 35 x 4 cm) framed © Kerstin Brätsch. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kerstin Brätsch began making the Para-Psychics (20202021) during prolonged periods of self-isolation in which the artist committed to a daily ritual or diaristic routine of visualizing ones own psychic realm. A long-standing interest in the mediumistic directly links this series of drawings to her earlier Psychics (2006-2008). While visiting fortune tellers, Brätsch was simultaneously beginning to explore the medium of painting itself, which she has continued to channel through other art forms, artisanal techniques, and collaborations since. Missing those social bonds, the Para-Psychics nevertheless symbolizes another form of clairvoyance, this time a move towards interiority. Rendered in simple colored pencil, a kaleidoscopic array of softly shaded foliage-like forms, labyrinthine tubular tendrils, and angular, ... More |
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| Thomas Dane Gallery opens an exhibition of Amie Siegel's new large-scale moving image work, Bloodlines | | First show of Mel Bochner's work to use drawing as its principal organizing focus opens in Chicago | | MLF Marie-Laure Fleisch opens Alice Cattaneo's new solo exhibition | 
Installation view. © Amie Siegel. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ive.
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery presents an exhibition of Amie Siegels new large-scale moving image work, Bloodlines, and an associated series of prints, Cloude, Clot and Cloot (all 2022), at the London gallery. Siegels layered, meticulously constructed works embrace moving image, installation, photography, painting, and performance to trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, cultural ownership and image-making. Filmed in numerous private estates throughout England and Scotland, as well as in public institutions, Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806) from aristocratic homes and private country houses to an exhibition in a public art gallery, then back again. First depicted within the lavish decor and stillness of the stately home interiors, the paintings take on a new presence when installed by museum workers on gallery walls and seen by a viewing public. ... More | | 
Mel Bochner. Language Is Not Transparent (Babel), 2019/22. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc. Image © Mel Bochner. Photo by James Powers.
CHICAGO, IL.- At the forefront of Conceptual Art since the 1960s, Mel Bochner (American, born 1940) has produced works in almost every mediumpainting, photography, sculpture, prints, and booksyet drawing has always been foundational to his practice. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago April 23 through August 22, 2022, Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective is the first show of the artists work to use drawing as its principal organizing focus. Nearly 90 works, including several from the museums collection of Bochners earliest drawings, have been brought together to highlight all phases of the artists career. Spanning traditional techniques on paper in ink, pencil, and charcoal; oil paint on newspaper; wall drawings in powder pigment; and even stones arranged on the floor, Bochners pioneering works helped to redefine traditional boundaries of drawing. Often subversive and imbued with the artists signa ... More | | 
Alice Cattaneo, Paesaggio ininterrotto #1, 2022. Sandstone, pigments 30 x 20 x 15 cm © The Artist. Courtesy of Galerie MLF Marie Laure Fleisch srl.
BRUSSELS.- MLF Marie-Laure Fleisch is presenting Unbroken Landscape, Alice Cattaneos new solo exhibition in the gallery. A dominant presence of glass might have characterized her earlier work, but the new landscape we get to see gives pride of place to stone. The Venetian glass so dear to Cattaneo does not disappear for all that. On the contrary, this exhibition proves to be fertile ground for a new hybridization between materials, with a fascinating contrast between mineral opacity and transparency. As always, the choice of material implies the prior exploration of a specific field. Apart from the artists long-time collaborations with master glassmakers, she now has new relationships with stonecutters. The fundamental principle of Cattaneos practice remains unchanged: the apparent simplicity of her work partly resides in her consummate mastery of ancestral knowledge. Following an invitation last year to create an in situ ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of new work by Ricky Swallow on view at Modern Art | | Thierry Goldberg opens an online exhibition of works by Brittany Miller | | White Cube opens an exhibition of works by Jeff Wall | 
Ricky Swallow, Sand in My Joints, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 7 April - 14 May 2022. Photo: Robert Glowacki. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Ricky Swallow at its Bury Street gallery. This is Swallows fifth solo exhibition with Modern Art. Ricky Swallows sculptures begin with ordinary, domestic materials that are then cast in bronze to create carefully honed final objects. For over two decades, Swallow has explored the process of conversion that takes place when an object or combination of materials becomes a sculpture. His initial objects are always made by hand; their tactile imperfections enduring into the casting process. Once cast at the foundry, Swallows bronzes continue to be worked on in the studio, his participation a critical part of maintaining connection and control over the final form of the work. Latent references to painting, and specifically the Dutch still life tradition, resonate both in ... More | | 
Brittany Miller,Why dont you lie down to pass the time?, 2021. Oil on linen, 66 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting In the Beginning Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street, an online exhibition of works by Brittany Miller. The exhibition runs from April 28 - May 28, 2022. Vacillating between interior and exterior environments, the paintings in Brittany Millers exhibition investigate the space between reality and reverie. The exhibition title, a reference to David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, speaks to the powerful relationship among feelings of isolation, madness, and fear. Utilizing the figures, and dispositions of the people who are closest to her, Miller creates dynamic portraits that exude an uncanny placidity. The body of work as a whole, marked by warped landscapes and dry staccato brush strokes, imparts a flattened fleeting depiction of everyday life. Nodding to her earlier work with embroidery, Miller generates her compositions with a combination of short disjointed ... More | | 
Jeff Wall, Man at a mirror, 2019. Inkjet print, 53 9/16 x 61 5/8 x 2 1/2 in. (136.1 x 156.6 x 6.4 cm) (framed) © Jeff Wall. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of works by Jeff Wall at Masons Yard. Comprising both new and earlier photographs spanning a twenty-year period, the selection foregrounds Walls attention to the forms and methods of picture making and his prolonged observation of everyday life. Since the 1980s, Wall has made documentary photographs alongside what he terms cinematographic pictures, all of which emerge from similar processes of study and reflection. Trap Set (2021) was taken during mink season on a cold February day in the suburbs of Walls native Vancouver. Animal traps, one of mankinds oldest devices, remind us of our original cunning intelligence. The equally cleverly designed Playground Structure (2008) depicts another contraption waiting for its users, in this case, children at play, possibly those living in the suburban houses in the background. ... More |
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 52 Walker opens an exhibition featuring the work of Amsterdam-based artist Nora TuratoNEW YORK, NY.- 52 Walker is presenting its third exhibition, govern me harder, featuring the work of Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato. Throughout her oeuvre, which spans performance, video, graphic design, and wall work, Turato boldly deploys text in various permutations to alchemize the onslaught of language in our contemporary moment and to challenge the continued dominance of the modernist vernacular in visual culture. In govern me harder, the artist debuts a series of enamel panels, site-specific murals, and a custom typeface. It is her first solo gallery exhibition in the United States and follows her March 2022 presentation, pool 5, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Trained as a graphic designer, Turato utilizes the written word and speech to conceive her works. Seemingly free-associative but deliberately ... More  Exhibition of new paintings by Georgian artist Tamo Jugeli opens at Polina Berlin GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Polina Berlin Gallery is presenting Solitaire, an exhibition of new paintings by Georgian artist Tamo Jugeli. On view May 3 through June 4, 2022, this marks the artists first one-person exhibition in the United States. Tamo Jugeli abstracts without directives, allowing intuition to guide the brush, producing gestural surfaces that are singular to her. She carves out her own space, pushing forward in alliance with her paints. Her compositions are lyrical; the figures that emerge are fortuitous and never preconceived. Forgoing themes, Jugeli commits herself to a practice driven by instinct. She turns off her analytical impulse, scavenging for what she needs as she lets go in the studio. Jugeli aligns herself with wrist and body painters, oscillating between large and small scale gestures, figuration and abstraction. ... More  Worcester Art Museum announces new Associate Curator of Contemporary ArtWORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum announced today the hiring of Samantha Cataldo to the position of Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. Cataldo has been at the Currier Museum of Art since 2015, and in 2021 she was promoted to Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. During her tenure there, she founded and directed an artist inresidence program, curated a number of well-received exhibitions, and stewarded the growth of the Curriers post-modern and contemporary collections. Bringing her specialized expertise in contemporary art and her commitment to community engagement, accessibility, and diversity to Worcester, Cataldo will begin her new post on May 23, 2022. Sam Cataldos work at the Currier Museum is inspiring, said Claire C. Whitner, Director of Curatorial Affairs and the James ... More  Almine Rech Paris opens Hajime Sorayama's first solo exhibition with the galleryPARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Hajime Sorayama's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from April 29 to May 28, 2022. In January 2022, Jérôme Sans held an interview with Hajime Sorayama. Jérôme Sans: You started your career in advertising, then worked in illustration, art, fashion, design, and even technology, having collaborated with Sony to make a robotic pet. What would you say your main occupation is? Hajime Sorayama: I work in entertainment. I never think of myself as an artist as I dont know what art is. JS: When did you start working on feminine cyborgs or sexy robots? The theme seems to be more and more relevant in our increasingly technological society. HS: I painted the first pinup robot in 1980. It was commissioned work for the Japanese whisky, Suntory. JS: While robots ... More  Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Alex Dodge and Tom LaDukeNEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Alex Dodge and Tom LaDuke. We Contain Multitudes opened on 28 April and will remain on view through 4 June 2022. This is the inaugural exhibition of Miles McEnery Gallerys fourth and newest gallery location at 525 West 22nd Street, contributing to a combined Chelsea presence of nearly 26,000 square feet. The fourth gallery is ideally situated a few doors down from the current 511 and 515 locations. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Evan Moffitt. Moffitt declares, Few painters appear to be as different as Alex Dodge and Tom LaDuke. Dodges crisply rendered, rumpled patterns, stenciled so that they acquire the texture of their referent fabrics, have a unique physical presence that invites our touch. ... More  Anna Laudel opens Serkan Küçüközcü's solo exhibition titled "Un-limited Motion"ISTANBUL.- Anna Laudel presents Serkan Küçüközcüs solo exhibition titled "Un-limited Motion" until June 10, 2022. The exhibition includes a collection of colourful paintings that take the viewer on a journey. Depicting natural spaces in his paintings as an indicator of his relationship with life and nature, Küçüközcü focuses on landscape painting as a tool of contemporary art, reflecting the relationship of the outer world with our inner world. In Küçüközcü's brush strokes, the subconscious, which secretly plays an important role in daily life, appears on a plane surface where unlimited and timeless relationships are fictionalised. Inspired by his subconscious, the artist points to childhood and innocence by bringing fragments of games, toys and tales into the painting in a symbol-like manner. Evoking the feelings of desolation and timelessness, ... More  Juana Williams named Associate Curator of African American Art at the Detroit Institute of ArtsDETROIT, MICH.- Juana Williams has been named Associate Curator of African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Williams most recently worked at Library Street Collective as the Director of Exhibitions and Wayne State University as Adjunct Faculty in Art History. She previously served as the Exhibitions Curator at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to joining UICA, Williams held multiple positions at various art institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Wayne State University Art Department Gallery, and the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery. She was also the 2021 Art Mile + Independent Curators International Inaugural Curatorial Fellow and is a current fellow of Black Embodiments Studio. She holds a BA in Art and an MA in Art History, both from Wayne ... More  Kelvin Browne to retire as Executive Director and CEO of the Gardiner Museum TORONTO.- The Gardiner Museum announced that Executive Director and CEO Kelvin Browne will retire at the end of 2022. Brownes initial retirement plans were put on hold due to the pandemic, when he accepted a contract extension that would see him guide the Museum through its temporary closure and recovery. He will continue in his role until the Board selects his successor. The Board has appointed a special committee to recruit Brownes successor, beginning this month. The committee has engaged Boyden Canada to lead the executive search. The Gardiner has thrived under Kelvin Brownes bold leadership since his arrival at the Museum in 2013, said Board Chair James Appleyard. His commitment and vision have transformed the Gardiner into a vital cultural hub that centres community and celebrates the potential ... More  Blue Star Contemporary names Asaiah Puente Education ManagerSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary introduces artist and educator Asaiah Puente as the organizations new Education manager. In this role, Puente will oversee the organizations multiple education initiatives including the artist resource center; creative classrooms, a program that sites professional artists in K-8 classroom with a goal to increase access to arts education; MOSAIC, an after school student artist program, and public programming such as Family Saturdays, lectures, and tours. Puente is an artist, arts activist, and scholar with four years of successful experience in the nonprofit and higher education sectors. She comes to BSC after spending three years in higher education, most recently with Yale University where she has held the role of Assistant Director of Student Engagement, a philanthropy ... More  Jack Hanley Gallery opens a solo exhibition with new paintings by Koichi SatoNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition with new paintings by Koichi Sato. While growing up in Tokyo, Japan and before moving to New York in the late 90s, Koichi Sato was fascinated with old American magazines that portrayed the sports players, sitcom stars, astronauts and cheerleaders of American pop culture. The language of his paintings is strongly informed by the pictures in those magazines, and gives them a distinct vintage feel that is evoked through thick mustaches and style choices of the 70s and 80s. These joyful group portraits focus on musicians and music groups posing and playing their instruments in various settings, including the New York City subway and unknown lands of mountains and rainbows. The groups face the viewer, laughing and proudly presenting themselves. Their inventiveness ... More  Anh Duong "Without Obsession I Am Lost", her first solo show opens in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting Without Obsession I Am Lost, Anh Duongs first solo show in Los Angeles and her second show with the gallery, coming on the heels of an acclaimed exhibition with the gallery in Zurich in 2021. Curated by Isabelle Bscher, Galerie Gmurzynska New Yorks Managing Partner, the exhibition is on view at Spring Place Beverly Hills, a members-only collaborative workspace and social club. Featuring more than 25 oil paintings, including several never before seen works created in 2022, the exhibition explores questions of self and identity in the 21st century. Captivating and voyeuristic, Duong's portraits and self-portraits are both revealing and mysterious, as if watching something about to unfold. The viewer enters private moments in intimate spaces. The paintings capture ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Frederic Edwin Church was born May 04, 1826. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. In this image: Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Twilight from Olana, about 1871-2. Oil on paper, 25.6 x 33 cm © New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (OL.1976.4).
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