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Kyung An, an associate curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, at the museum in New York, Sept. 29, 2023. There are at least five exhibitions of Korean art at major U.S. museums this fall. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK, NY.- When Hyunsoo Woo arrived in the United States in 1996, she was, in her words, fresh off the boat from South Korea. And she noticed something right away. Korean art was nowhere to be found in American museums, even encyclopedic ones, said Woo, now the deputy director for collections and exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I was very puzzled by that. What a difference 27 years makes: This fall, there are at least five exhibitions of Korean art at major museums across the country. The art they are featuring varies from an early 12th-century stoneware ewer to works made recently, like Lee Youngsils lacquer on wood Yeongchuksan Gamnodo (Nectar Ritual Painting) (2022). The confluence of shows now represents the museum worlds recognition that it must c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Pera Museum is hosting a series of special events on the 100th anniversary of the Republic. Turkish Music Concerts identified with the museum continue with the "100th Anniversary Concert of our Republic" on October 29. Art lovers who visit the museum on Republic Day have the opportunity to explore the collection exhibitions with free guided tours. We present our newsletter for your consideration and wish you good work.
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| The National Museum of Women in the Arts, transformed | | Giving the gift of Calder | | For Annie Leibovitz, an opportunity to work and build on the past | 
The artist and sculptor Rina Banerjees work, Lady of Commerce wooden," is featured in The Skys the Limit exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, Oct. 5, 2023. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
by Jane L. Levere
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Skys the Limit. Thats the title of one of the featured exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts here, which is reopening after a two-year, $65 million renovation. And why not aim high again? Located in a former Masonic Temple that once forbade women from entering, the museum became the first one in the United States solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. The 1908 six-story, wedge-shaped, Classical Revival-style building just three blocks from the White House was designed by the local architectural firm Wood, Donn & Deming. The museum, which opened in 1987, has undergone an interior renovation to create about 4,500 square feet of new exhibition and programming space. Galleries have been enlarged to better present contemporary artworks and complex installations, while accessibility also has ... More | | 
Red Curly Tail, 1970, Alexander Calder, 18981976, sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint, 192 x 275 x 144 in., Promised gift of Jon and Mary Shirley, © 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo: Nicholas Shirley.
by Tanya Mohn
NEW YORK, NY.- Jon Shirley discovered Alexander Calder in a book for a high school humanities class, and then saw his work in person on a school trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He took really simple elements, wire, steel, paint, and created a whole new art form, Shirley said. And all of a sudden he created sculpture that was open, that moved, and that was constantly changing. It just grabbed me. Soon after, he encountered Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a large mobile that evokes the motion of the sea, hanging in a stairwell at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. That was an amazing experience for me, and Calder just stuck with me, said Shirley, the former president and chief operating officer of Microsoft. Shirley purchased his first work by the artist three decades later, in 1988, and has added to his collection every year since. The first comprehensive public displa ... More | | 
Annie Leibovitz at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art via The New York Times)
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK, NY.- Annie Leibovitz often says she is obsessed. In a recent video interview from her Manhattan studio, she related how obsessed she was with space exploration. She also described her obsession with Abraham Lincoln and how she cleared rooms one Thanksgiving by incessantly talking about the Civil War and Gettysburg. But most of all, she is obsessed with photography, which has been her calling for more than 50 years. It requires drive, she said, and you have to be obsessed. All of these passions and more appear in Annie Leibovitz at Work, a show of about 300 photographs at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 29 before traveling to other museums, is unlike any Leibovitz, 74, has ever done. But it started small. When she first arrived in Bentonville in 2021, she was there only to shoot a commissioned portrait of the museums founder, Alice L. Walton, ... More |
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| Flight of the Drones lights up Central Park | | Stone by ancient stone, Mexico recovers its lost treasures | | Park Seo-Bo, whose quiet paintings trumpeted Korean art, dies at 91 | 
Franchise Freedom, one of three aerial drone performances by the Dutch collective Drift over The Lake in Central Park in New York on Saturday night, Oct. 21, 2023. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- It began with a sudden, breathtaking emergence over the trees to the south a thousand points of blue light that expanded and dispersed into the sky. They organized into a kind of butterfly formation and set off in a northerly direction and then the flotilla vanished, as if at the flip of a switch. Several beats later, it reappeared, to loud oohs and aahs from the crowd, as a stunning grid of white, pink and ruby luminosity. It took five years to cut through New York City red tape before Dutch collective Drift could release its synchronized flock of 1,008 small, light-emitting drones above Central Park. But Saturday night, there they were, making their debut over The Lake, in designated airspace, for nearly 7 minutes: a murmuration rising, swooping, blinking and changing color to the delight of thousands of spectators who gathered for performances at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Most viewers were concentrated around Bethesda Fountain on the 72nd Street Transverse, ... More | | 
Monument 9, an ancient Olmec carving looted from the ruins of Chalcatzingo in Mexico nearly 60 years ago, tracked down in the United States this year and returned, at the Museo Regional de los Pueblos de Morelos, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Sept. 19, 2023. (Marian Carrasquero/The New York Times)
by David Shortell
NEW YORK, NY.- Mesoamerican archaeologists know it as Monument 9: a 2,600-year-old carving in stone of a jaguars gaping face, roughly 5 feet wide and tall and weighing 1 ton. Nearly 60 years ago the relic was looted from the ruins of Chalcatzingo, an Olmec site south of modern-day Mexico City, and smuggled into the United States, where it disappeared into a network of private collections. The absence of the relic, constructed between 700 B.C. and 500 B.C., long vexed Mexican scholars. In its time the stone would have been used as a portal for priests and rulers to pass into the underworld, but the few photos that existed of Monument 9 could not fully convey its symbolic heft. In March, however, U.S. authorities notified Mexican officials that they had seized the stone after tracking it to a warehouse ... More | | 
The Korean painter Park Seo-Bo at his studio in Seoul, June 6, 2021. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Seo-Bo, a painter whose elegantly furrowed monochromes and indefatigable drive made him a pillar of the Korean art world, died on Oct. 14 in Seoul, South Korea. He was 91. His son Park Seungho said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, adding that his father had chosen to forgo treatment for lung cancer. Park Seo-Bo was primarily known for monochromes, which he made by moving a pencil or stylus through wet oil paint in a wavelike motion; art critic Baang Ken-Taik advised him to call the works Ãcritures, from the French word for writing. Park later adapted the process for Korean mulberry paper, or hanji, which he believed to be more durable. Like most artists of his generation, Park had been trained in calligraphy and ink painting as well as in oil, but his approach in the Ãcritures had less in common with writing or even with conventional painting than it did with conceptual art. By distilling mark making to an essential gesture with no specific meaning, and then repeating that ge ... More |
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| Thelma Golden wins Gish Prize | | Canadiana, folk art, pottery, textiles & more, from the 19th/20th centuries combine for $167,560 | | Sarah Crowner exhibits at Pulitzer Arts Foundation | 
Thelma Golden, the Studio Museum's director and chief curator, in New York, July 1, 2015. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, was awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Gish Prize Trust announced Monday. The annual prize is given to a highly accomplished figure who has pushed the boundaries of an art form, contributed to social change, and paved the way for the next generation, according to a statement by the Trust. The prize comes with a $250,000 cash award. (Last years winner was choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the founder of Urban Bush Women.) Golden said in an interview that it was a total surprise when Sade Lythcott, the CEO of the National Black Theater and chair of the selection committee, told Golden she had won. Im usually on the other side of this, someone who nominates artists for awards, she ... More | | 
Collinson flask: Important cobalt-washed flask with incised work on both panels by the English-born Canadian artisan William Collinson (1830-1890), 9 inches tall, incised in a cursive script (CA$15,340).
ONTARIO.- Four original oil paintings by the renowned Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) sold for a combined $167,560, and an extremely rare cobalt-washed stoneware flask from the 1850s by William Collinson finished at $15,340 in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Canadiana & Historic Objects auction held on October 7th. The four paintings by Ms. Lewis included The Three Black Cats ($47,200); Two Deer ($44,250); Oxen in Winter ($38,350); and Covered Bridge in Winter ($37,760). The first two were serial images found only in the 1960s; Oxen in Winter spanned two decades; Covered Bridge in Winter was painted toward the end of Ms. Lewiss rich life. All four paintings were signed and framed. Maud Lewis lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in ... More | | 
Sarah Crowner: Around Orange at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2023. Photography by Virginia Harold, © Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
ST. LOUIS, MISS.- A bold red, orange, blue, and black abstract painting installation nearly as long as a tennis court, glazed red terracotta tiles, and a pale birchwood floor structure are among the building blocks of a major three-part commission project by the artist Sarah Crowner (b. 1974) that will transform the ground level of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation this fall. Currently on view Sarah Crowner: Around Orange is organized by Stephanie Weissberg, Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation. As specially commissioned by the Pulitzer, the three-part installation represents an intergenerational visual dialogue between Crowneran artist whose buoyant abstractions engage the history of artand the late Ellsworth Kelly (19232015)painter, sculptor, and printmakerwhose wall sculpture Blue Black (2000) hangs permanently in the main gallery of the Pulitzer and has become an emblem of the museum. Through subtle ... More |
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| Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass to have ninth solo show at Friedman Benda | | The glowing secret that mammals have been hiding | | The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation receives extraordinary gift of historic dress collection | 
Installation view. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Ettore Sottsass. Photography by Timothy Doyon.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 26, Friedman Benda presents Ettore Sottsass 1947-1974, the ninth solo show in an ongoing series dedicated to the expansive oeuvre of the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007). As part of the gallerys continuing commitment to survey Sottsass pioneering investigations across different media, the exhibition features distinct series of rare works supported by a range of original drawings and publications, serving as a gateway to understanding an extremely diverse and fertile period in Sottsass life. Among Sottsass earliest projects was a collaboration with his father designing a shop interior for Negozio Cittone in Turin, for which he designed one of his very first furniture pieces. Starting in the mid-1950s, Sottsass embarked on a long and fruitful exchange with Poltronova an artisanal ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Jonathan Martin/Northland College, a flying squirrels glow. The researchers say more study is needed into how mammals fluorescent features manifest in nature. (Jonathan Martin/Northland College via The New York Times)
by Cara Giaimo
NEW YORK, NY.- At first, it seemed to be another caprice of two already unusual animals: Flying squirrels and platypuses were found to be fluorescent, absorbing invisible ultraviolet light and re-emitting it in shocking pink or bright cyan. But they are far from alone. According to a paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science this month, lions, polar bears, scaly-tailed possums and American pikas also fluoresce. So does every mammal species a group of scientists could get their hands on. While this large survey of museum specimens doesnt reveal any broad evolutionary benefit, it overturns the view of mammal fluorescence as an ... More | | 
Suit: coat; waistcoat; breeches; Warsaw, Poland, 1787-1795: Coat: silk, linen, silver, gold, garnets, wood, paper; Waistcoat: silk, copper, linen, wool, and paper; Breeches: silk, linen, iron, wood, and paper; Gift of The Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA, 2023-21.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Adding to what is already a renowned assemblage of historic dress, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has recently received a gift of nearly 330 objects from The Valentine Museum in Richmond, Va., as part of the redefinition of the museums holdings. The collection includes gowns, coats, trousers, breeches, waistcoats, vests, petticoats, underwear, accessories, hats, childrens clothing and more, all of which predate 1840. Within the larger group is a 20-piece collection of garments that were owned by and descended through the stepfamily of Lewis Littlepage (1762-1802); it is the largest grouping of clothing owned by a single person to come into the Foundations collection. Historic dress allows us to look closely at the physical natures of people ... More |
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 The doyenne of classical publicists takes on a final client: HerselfNEW YORK, NY.- Mary Lou Falcone has lived most of her life away from the spotlight. I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be behind the scenes, she said over a recent lunch at Café Luxembourg, a few blocks from Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Fifty years ago, after brief careers as a performer and a teacher, Falcone changed course and became a leading publicist in the world of classical music. She worked in the background with leading organizations and artists including soprano Renée Fleming, pianist Van Cliburn, flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal and maestros including Gustavo Dudamel, Georg Solti and Jaap van Zweden, helping him raise his profile in the years before he was named music director of the New York Philharmonic. Now, for the first time since she was 28, Falcone has put herself center stage ... More  Superflux and King's Culture present 'The Quiet Enchanting'LONDON.- Acclaimed design studio Superflux and Kings Culture are exhibiting The Quiet Enchanting, an installation of digitally generated artworks displayed along the newly pedestrianised Strand Aldwych. As visitors walk along the Strand, The Quiet Enchanting will place them in a speculative world where the surrounding Borough of Westminster has been rewilded. A series of digital screens and printed artworks, installed on the external façade of Bush House South West Wing, will imagine a mythic time of ecological abundance, where Londons recognisable landmarks exist in harmony with the natural world. The project has been inspired by Superfluxs Cascade Inquiry research initiative, based on a year-long residency and conversations with researchers across Kings College London and developed with Kings Culture. ... More  Trance music is coming back. Evian Christ is part of the revival.NEW YORK, NY.- It was the seventh soggy weekend in a row in the city, but a throng of 20-something club kids with chunky boots and shaggy mullets still made the pilgrimage to a punk venue in an industrial stretch of Brooklyn where British producer Evian Christ was performing a 4-hour DJ set to celebrate the release of his debut album, Revanchist. Backlit by a rig of xenon strobe lights and silhouetted by arena-grade fog that engulfed the dance floor in a blissed-out haze, Christ did the most to bring a religious experience to the room. His masterful, theatrical buildups full of relentless bass lines, pounding synths and prismatic arpeggios blasted from the speakers as a single disco ball sparkled overhead. The crowd seemed to rise off its feet and levitate alongside it. But Christ, born Joshua Leary, didnt always know how to work ... More  'Sung Tieu: The Ruling' opens today at Ordet gallery in MilanMILAN.- Ordet is now opening The Ruling, the first solo exhibition by Sung Tieu in Italy. Tieus practice is grounded in historical and political research, and her installations often feature documentary and fictional elements. In The Ruling, the artist investigates how standardization, measurability and quantifiability are deployed as tools of extraction. In 1897, during the French colonial rule of Indochina, Governor-General Paul Doumer issued a decree that affected the ancient chǐ measurement units widely prevalent in the region before colonization. This French-initiated reduction, amounting to seven centimeters, was carried out under the pretext of broader efforts to standardize and unify various aspects of cultural life in Indochina while spreading la civilisation française. This seemingly minor alteration, which eventually led to the near elimination ... More  Griselda Pollock curates group exhibition 'Medium & Memory' about trauma and cultural memoryLONDON.- HackelBury is currently hosting the group exhibition Medium & Memory curated by art historian and contemporary art writer Griselda Pollock. Medium & Memory stages four conversations pairing eight artists from different countries, generations, ethnicities, and personal histories, who all share a deep engagement with the materiality of their mediapainting, drawing, moving image, photography and photo-collagewhile focussing on memorypersonal, historical, cultural, suppressed, discovered, restored. Putting a still resonant, modernist medium-consciousness into tension with a post-modern sense of responsibility to the burden of history, these artists explore an ethical dimension in contemporary arta refusal to forgetand the potential of contemporary art for aesthetic transformation of traumatic legacies ... More  Nancy Hoffman Gallery to exhibit new paintings by Don EddyNEW YORK, NY.- On October 26, an exhibition of new work by Don Eddy opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and continues through December 9. Eddy is one of the few early Photorealist artists who has taken his vision into new terrain, and has expanded his unique painting process. Please join us for the opening reception Thursday, October 26, from 6 to 8pm. In this exhibition, more than 20 new paintings from 2020-2023 are presented, ranging in scale from 59 x 44 inches to 9 x 12 inches. This new body of work was made during and directly after COVID- 19 lockdown in New York City. Eddy explains, The streets were empty, there was nobody out, and in an interesting way, this became my city in a way it never had been before. I would take epic walks, and subway ridesI would just get off and start walkingand it had a profound ... More  Innovative brand, marketing, and creative leader Scott Schwebel chosen as CXO at Milwaukee Art MuseumAMSTERDAM.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced the hiring of Scott Schwebel as Chief Experience Officer, a new role focused on creating new visitor experiences. Under the leadership of Marcelle Polednik, Ph.D., Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, this new senior leadership role was designed to invigorate, expand, and enhance the experiential journey of visitors and the Museums brand engagement across all its platforms, shaping the future direction of the already-iconic Milwaukee institution. Over the past several years, art museums have started to see the visitor experience as paramount, with a very small group taking definitive steps to hire leadership positions to pursue it strategically. MAM is one of a handful of art museum peers creating CXO roles to place the visitor ... More  Alexander Gray Associates opens 'Bethany Collins: Undercurrents', the artist's first solo exhibition with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Bethany Collins: Undercurrents, the artists first solo exhibition with the Gallery. Undercurrents features new cast paper works alongside a body of song-based drawings and compositions from the artists Antigone and Lost Friends series. These works mine a range of historic sources to uncover currents of resistance and perseverance while simultaneously exposing the cataclysmic forcesundertows of violence and conflictthat shaped them. Speaking directly to these prevailing currents, many of Collinss Antigone compositions focus on characters dissent, metaphorized as treacherous journeys across the sea. Collins creates these works ... More  92NY halts reading series after pulling author critical of IsraelNEW YORK, NY.- 92NY, one of the citys leading cultural organizations, announced Monday that it was putting its prestigious literary reading series on pause, after an outcry over its decision to cancel an appearance last week by a prominent writer who had been critical of Israel. The controversy started Friday afternoon when 92NY, formerly known as the 92nd Street Y, decided to pull an event that evening featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who had planned to discuss his memoir. The reading, organized by 92NYs Unterberg Poetry Center, instead moved to a bookstore in downtown Manhattan, without any sponsorship from the Y. 92NY confirmed afterward that the decision not to go ahead with the event stemmed from Nguyens public statements about Israel. The decision drew criticism from advocates ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 â 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso watches the filming of his life story in Nice, France, on July 26, 1955. Henri Georges Clouzot, seated, is producing the picture. Picasso's daughter Maya is at left.
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