From left: Mana Caceres, Kalehua Caceres and Edward Halealoha Ayau attended a ceremony to hand over remains at the Übersee Museum in Bremen, Germany, on Tuesday. Photo: Volker Beinhorn/Uebersee-Museum Bremen.
BERLIN.- Edward Halealoha Ayau, a lawyer from Hawaii, remembers a mission his grandmother gave him over 30 years ago: Bring your ancestors home. “She told me the house couldn’t stand again unless the foundation was firm,” he said. “She told me to go and get them, and I did.” It’s a quest that has taken Ayau to the other side of the world. This week, he is leading a delegation to collect human remains that European explorers and researchers removed from Hawaii more than a century ago. Ayau and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the remains in four German cities — Berlin, Bremen, Göttingen and Jena — and Vienna. Ayau leads Hawaii’s efforts to recover its plundered heritage abroad, and his job has become easier over the years: Museums that once resisted repatriation claims are now taking on the delicate task of investigating human remains stolen in the colonial era and returning them to ... More
Hans Holbein the Younger, A Member of the Wedigh Family, 1533. Oil on panel, 16 9/16 × 12 13/16 in. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, 586B bpk Bildagentur / Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin / Photo: Jörg P. Anders / Art Resource, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.-The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting Holbein: Capturing Character, running through May 15, 2022. Co-organized with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, this marks the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543). The Morgan’s display features around sixty objects from over twenty lenders across the globe, including thirty-one paintings and drawings by Holbein himself. Hans Holbein the Younger was among the most skilled, versatile, and inventive European artists of the sixteenth century. He created captivating portraits of courtiers, merchants, scholars, and statesmen in Basel, Switzerland, and later in England, and served as a court painter to King Henry VIII (1491–1547). Enriched by inscriptions, insignia, and evocative attributes, his portraits not only conveyed truthful likenesses but also celebrated the individuals’ identities, ... More
A nearly 1,200-year-old statue that was looted from the Devisthan Kundalpur Temple in Bihar, India. It was returned to Indian officials in Milan on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Christopher A. Marinello via The New York Times.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Indian officials have received a Buddha statue that had gone missing more than two decades ago from its altar at one of the country’s most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, the Devisthan Kundalpur Temple in Bihar. The stone sculpture, a nearly 1,200-year-old relic, was voluntarily surrendered by an Italian collector to the Consulate General of India in Milan on Thursday. “The climate is changing for restitution,” said Christopher Marinello, a lawyer who specializes in tracking down looted and stolen art, who helped negotiate the statue’s return. “Collectors are being criminally charged worldwide and collections are being seized as more and more jurisdictions let it be known that it is unacceptable to possess looted and stolen art.” Marinello tracked down the missing Buddha in partnership ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Almine Rech is presenting In its Daybreak, Rising, an exhibition of new works by Sarah Cunningham (b. 1993, UK), running February 10 to March 12 2022 at the gallery’s New York location. The show marks the British painter’s first solo show in the US. Cunningham’s works depict complex psychological landscapes drawn from nature, vision and dreams. The artist frequently paints through the night until sunrise, a habit that engenders her use of deep, saturating pigments like Prussian blue and viridian green that evoke the duskiness of evening’s onset. Gestural strokes of crimsons and yellows frequently illuminate the compositions, mimicking the crepuscular light of dawn and casting into sharper relief the topography of the painted canvases. Similarly, Cunningham’s process in creating these landscapes mirrors nature’s daily rhythms. Using heavily loaded brushwork as well as swathes of glazing and washes, app ... More
LONDON.- A pioneer of the New York School, Ed Clark pushed the boundaries of abstraction beyond expressionism, with a focus on materiality, form and colour. This exhibition is the artist’s first ever solo presentation in the UK and follows his inclusion in the landmark touring exhibition ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 – 1983’. The exhibition spans three decades of his career from the 1970s to the 1990s, providing insight into Clark’s breakthroughs in abstract painting and the shift from controlled horizontal brushstrokes to a more loose and assertive style, as displayed in his Broken Rainbow series. Ed Clark’s resolutely physical strokes create a remarkable sense of ‘drive’ and movement. As the artist explained: ‘I began to believe that the real truth is in the stroke. For me, it is large, bold strokes that do not refer distinctly to seen nature. The paint is the subject. The motions of the strokes give the work life.’ Bor ... More
Unidentified workshop (Perú). Our Lady of Cocharcas, 1751. Oil and gold on canvas, 49 7/8 x 41 1/8 in. Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma, 2011.040. Image: Public domain, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, photo by Jamie Stukenberg.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A focus exhibition comprising 15 works made by artists in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru during Spanish colonial rule in the 17th and 18th centuries opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Feb. 12 and runs through Sept. 4, 2022. Paintings from South America: The Thoma Collection (1600-1800) contains work from the distinguished holdings of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation in Chicago, which is committed to promoting the art of the Spanish Americas through scholarship and exhibition of its extensive collection from South America and the Caribbean. These offer visitors a major opportunity to learn about an important art history moment: the development of an extraordinarily vibrant art form that fused European precedents with indigenous elements in the Americas. “These exquisite works from an important private foundation will be a revelatory first look for many ... More
MONTREAL.- Considered to be a major artist of our time, Nicolas Party is known for his meticulously composed pastels, his painted sculptures and his installations drenched in saturated colours. For his first exhibition in Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has given him carte blanche to create a dialogue between his works and a selection from the Museum’s wide-ranging collection. Through over 100 works and a series of monumental murals realized in situ, the Swiss-born artist presents a dreamlike experience on the theme of nature. The Museum’s galleries provide the canvas onto which this visual artist and muralist – cum curator and exhibition designer – expresses the full measure of his art. Drawing on his vast knowledge of art history, Party weaves a singular and profound oeuvre that exalts pictorial conventions. Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, Giorgio Morandi, Rosalba Carriera and Félix Vallotton, ... More
From left to right: Maribel López, Director of ARCOmadrid; Eduardo López-Puertas, General Manager of IFEMA MADRID; Sergio Rubira, curator of ARCO 40 (+1) Anniversary section.
MADRID.-ARCOmadrid, the fair organised by IFEMA MADRID, returns to its usual dates to celebrate its 40 (+1) Anniversary, from February 23rd to 27th. A unique fair that will bring together past and future through the galleries and their essential relationship with artists and collectors. Following the exceptional celebration of the fair in July of 2021, the commemorative edition of ARCOmadrid 2022 is conceived as a tribute to the actual galleries as the architects of the 40 (+1) consecutive editions of the fair. An edition that once again extols the professional reunion in front of the works at a fair that has endeavoured to uphold the learnings of the pandemic. Thus, in addition to continuing with its digital initiatives, ARCO presents itself in a more contained format, in response to the suggestions of the Organising Committee, with a view to improving the visitors’ experience and the galleries’ success. Halls 7 and 9 of ... More
LONDON.- Nearly twenty years after her last solo exhibition in London, Thomas Dane Gallery showcases a rare presentation of works by Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020). The five paintings on show span almost the entire career of the groundbreaking American painter. This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Sperone Westwater, New York, the exclusive representative of the artist and her estate since 1987. Since she rose to prominence in New York in the mid-seventies with her now iconic paintings of horses, Rothenberg has held a special place in her peers’ hearts and souls, referred to often as a ‘painter’s painter’. Throughout a career spanning five decades, her work has remained uncompromising and original, and often touched upon the metaphysical and contemplative. Blue Frontal (1978) is a striking and majestic example of her horse paintings, which the art ... More
Leading the auction was a work by artist Bharti Kher. An untitled work, lot no 23, which also appeared on the cover of the auction catalogue was acquired at INR 1,00,01,267.
MUMBAI.-AstaGuru concluded its ‘Present Future’ Contemporary Art Auction last evening achieving an impressive total sales value of INR 12,13,03,661 (US$ 1,684,711). The auction featured an extensive showcase of works by some of the most distinguished contemporary Indian artists such as Bharti Kher, Atul Dodiya, Anju Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sudarshan Shetty, L N Tallur, Thukral & Tagra, Raqib Shaw along with several rising stars of the contemporary art world. In total the auction presented one of the largest collections of contemporary art in India with 115 works by 83 artists going under the hammer. Commenting on the success of the auction, Ankita Talreja, Contemporary Indian Art - Senior Specialist, AstaGuru, Auction House, said, “We are extremely proud with the outcome of our ‘Present Future’ Contemporary Art Auction. While there continues to be a steady demand for modern Indian art in the aucti ... More
Desmond Lazaro, Venus Transit, The Endeavour, 2020-21. Egg tempera on gesso board with raised gild, 39.5 x 27.5 in. 100.3 x 69.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
MUMBAI.- Desmond Lazaro’s art has often been situated in a history of diasporic experience spanning the colonial and postcolonial eras. The multiple geographical and cultural displacements in which his family has participated, across generations, would seem to support this choice ofexplanatory framework. What has rarely been noted is that the artist has also always been preoccupied with a deep condition that I would describe as radical homelessness: a preoccupation that he has articulated as a properly spiritual quest. Lazaro refuses to have his choices overwritten by generic accounts of empire and nation-state, which emphasise foundational events of rupture and amnesia separating ‘pre-colonial’ or ‘pre-national’ pasts from the postcolonial or national present. Instead, he urges us to shift our conceptual framework and points to forms of continuity, both spiritual and ... More
Designers Laz Ojalde and Nat Zlamalova from AMLgMATD.
MIAMI, FLA.-Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College launches a new multipurpose Education Lab on the third floor of the College’s National Historic Landmark Freedom Tower. Adjacent to the Museum’s galleries and conceived and executed by the Miami studio AMLgMATD, the lab will host education programs for all ages, from children to adults. The Education Lab opens in late February 2022. In a project several years in the making, MOAD commissioned the designers of AMLgMATD to reimagine its existing education room and make it adaptable to the variety of education programs the Museum offers, from lectures and workshops for adults and college students to hands-on artmaking activities with kids. They created a dynamic ensemble of custom-built cabinetry, furniture, and wall and floor treatments that can be reconfigured for multiple uses. Monochrome wooden surfaces alternate with strategically deployed moments of strong and vivid color. AMLg ... More
Nacol joins the museum from Northwestern University, his alma mater, where, through multiple leadership roles, he participated from inception to conclusion in Northwestern’s recently completed $6.1 billion comprehensive campaign.
CHICAGO, IL.-The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that the museum has appointed David Nacol as the Vice President for Philanthropy. Nacol joins the museum from Northwestern University, his alma mater, where, through multiple leadership roles, he participated from inception to conclusion in Northwestern’s recently completed $6.1 billion comprehensive campaign. In his current role as Assistant Vice President, he oversees fundraising for Northwestern’s seven non-professional degree granting schools as well as its research enterprise. Nacol excels at building teams that value each individual’s contribution and perspective, balancing a deep commitment to mission with exquisite attention to donor dynamics. “We are thrilled to welcome Dave Nacol to the Art Institute,” said Eve Jeffers, Chief Operating Officer. “His ... More
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Even with Hugh Jackman, 'The Music Man' goes flat NEW YORK, NY.- There comes a moment in the latest Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” when high spirits, terrific dancing and big stars align in an extended marvel of showbiz salesmanship. Unfortunately, that moment is the curtain call. Until then, the musical, which opened Thursday night at the Winter Garden Theater, only intermittently offers the joys we expect from a classic revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster — especially one so obviously patterned on the success of another classic revival, “Hello, Dolly!,” a few seasons back. The frenzy of love unleashed in that show by Bette Midler, supported by substantially the same creative team — including director Jerry Zaks, choreographer Warren Carlyle and set and costume designer Santo Loquasto — has gone missing here, despite all the deluxe trimmings and 42 people ... More
A shape-shifting opera singer, with a debut to match BERLIN.- You might know her as world-famous diva Emilia Marty. Or as Ellian MacGregor — maybe even Eugenia Montez or Elsa Müller. It’s an open question in Janacek’s operatic thriller “The Makropulos Case,” about the twilight of a woman who has adopted an assortment of identities throughout her unnaturally long life. Her real name is Elina Makropulos, born 337 years ago on Crete and still going, thanks to an elixir her father tested on her as a teenager. She’s not so different from Marlis Petersen, the soprano playing the part in a new production that premieres at the Berlin State Opera on Sunday. OK, Petersen is a mere 54. But like Emilia, she comes from Greece and is currently inhabiting just the latest in a long line of personas. There are few singers with Petersen’s dramatic ferocity and intelligence — who understand that opera is, fundamentally, ... More
The center that shaped Black life in 1970s Brooklyn NEW YORK, NY.- At 10 Claver Place, sandwiched between a 24-hour parking garage and a beige apartment building, stands a three-story complex that was once the epicenter of Pan-Africanism in Brooklyn. The brick building, on the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, is now home to 10 apartments, but starting in 1969, it was the headquarters of The East, an organization and meeting place where Black people from all walks of life could learn about the African diaspora and its history and culture, beyond slavery. The building’s first floor once housed an iconic jazz club where Sun Ra and Gil Scott-Heron played into the wee hours of the morning. Above it, there were workshops on politics and activism for adults, and a state-certified school for children of all ages known as Uhuru Sasa Shule, Swahili for “Freedom Now School.” ... More
M+ appoints Marc Walton as Head, Conservation and Research HONG KONG.-M+ today announced the appointment of Marc Walton to the position of Head, Conservation and Research. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibition, Marc Walton has taken on a key leadership role and be an integral part of the Collection and Exhibition Department of the museum to develop an integrated approach to conservation for the institution. His appointment was effective on 4 February 2022. In 2013, Marc Walton joined the Northwestern University / Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts as an inaugural Senior Scientist and as a Research Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the university. In January 2018, he was appointed as the co-Director of the Center. Walton possesses a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford in archaeological science and a Master of Arts ... More
Douglas Trumbull, visual effects wizard, dies at 79 NEW YORK, NY.- Douglas Trumbull, an audacious visual effects wizard who created memorable moments in a series of blockbuster science-fiction films, including the hallucinogenic sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in which an astronaut in a pod hurtles through space, died Monday at a hospital in Albany, New York. He was 79. His wife, Julia, said the cause was complications of mesothelioma. With colleagues, Trumbull was nominated for visual effects Oscars for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Blade Runner” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” but perhaps his most stunning work came in “2001” — his first big break in motion pictures. He was in his early 20s when Kubrick hired him as a $400-a-week artist, and his first job was to create graphics for the 16 screens that surround the “eyes” of HAL 9000, the seemingly ... More
Dix Noonan Webb hold sale devoted to Irish coins, tokens and historical medals LONDON.- An intriguing and extremely rare Irish coin dating from 1927 that was designed by an Italian but was never put into circulation is among the highlights of the sale of Irish Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals by Mayfair-based international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Known as the Free State Penny (1921-1937), the bronze penny in the sale, which is decorated with a harp on one side, and hens and chickens on the other, was designed by Roman sculptor Publio Morbiducci (1889-1963) for the competition to design Ireland’s new money in 1928. He was ultimately unsuccessful and the precise numbers of pieces which now exist are uncertain. In 1976, it is believed that only three pieces existed in bronze. It is estimated at £4,000-5,000 and is part of a collection ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Karla Black on view at Modern Art LONDON.-Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Karla Black. This is Black’s fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art. For the past twenty years, Karla Black has been making sculptures that explore the physical and psychic properties of the materials that populate her everyday life. Black’s sculptures come from modest means: paper, cellophane, cosmetics and other household, ready-to-hand substances (bath bombs, Gaviscon, soil, polystyrene, Sellotape, and Vaseline, for example) are her materials of choice, employed for their visual and tactile properties, as opposed to any overt referential significance. These materials are processed and worked through to the limits of their physical parameters, becoming unrecognizable and utterly unique forms, shapes and structures that hover mid-air from the ceiling, attach to walls or other ... More
Vibrant color and master technique will be explored in 'Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest' MADISON, WIS.- Occasionally, in the late 20th century and early aughts, artists from the American coasts would make their way to the Midwest with a need: technique and craftsmanship to bring their work into vivid, sharp relief on the page. They found it in collaborations with printmakers of the upper Midwest, a group of people contributing to American printmaking traditions in their own inventive workshops. The histories of five important fine-art printing presses of the region will be explored in Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest, on view Feb. 14-May 15, 2022 at the Chazen Museum of Art. “It’s fascinating to discover the role these printing presses played in the wider American printmaking tradition,” said Amy ... More
'To Be Like Water' at TENT Rotterdam explores and expands on the meaning of code-switching ROTTERDAM.- To Be Like Water explores and expands on the meaning of code-switching. The exhibition aims to examine and complicate the notion of identity, and consider code switching as a manifestation of a fluid multiplicity that operates within vectors of power. In linguistics, code-switching denotes the practice of alternating between two or more languages in a conversation by multilingual speakers. Now, the term also commonly refers to the adaptation of a style of speech according to the group who is being addressed. In this sense, code-switching is the conscious or unconscious reworking of different cultural and linguistic identities, depending on different situations. As a performance of different codes, such as language, dialect, movement, gestures, sound, or rhythm, code-switching allows for significations of mutual belonging as well ... More
Phoenix Art Museum presents major exhibition of postwar Japanese avant-garde photography PHOENIX, AZ.-Phoenix Art Museum announces the recent opening of a new exhibition that explores the radical evolution of photography in post-World War II Japan. Featuring works from 1961 through 1989 by 19 contemporary Japanese photographers who played integral roles in shaping Japanese photography of the postwar period. Farewell Photography: The Hitatchi Collection of Postwar Japanese Photographs, 1961-1989 displays 87 of these prints gifted by the Hitachi Corporation to the Center for Creative Photography together for the first time. The exhibition, curated by Audrey Sands, the Norton Family Curator of Photography, and Adam Monohon, former Curatorial Assistant at the Center for Creative Photography, will be on view through June 26, 2022 in the Norton Family Photography Gallery in the Museum’s Katz (South) Wing. “We are excited ... More
Whether he's talking 'Amélie' or 'Bigbug,' Jean-Pierre Jeunet doesn't hold back NEW YORK, NY.- French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a conjurer of whimsical visions for the big screen, such as his most beloved work, “Amélie.” But for his first movie in nearly a decade, “Bigbug,” he chose to work with Netflix. This retro-futuristic comedy, which debuted Friday, is set in 2045, when artificial intelligence facilitates most quotidian tasks but also threatens mankind. Featuring Jeunet’s signature irreverence and colorful mise en scène, “Bigbug” follows an ensemble cast of offbeat characters and their domestic robots, confined to a technologically advanced home by the malevolent androids that now rule the world. Together they must find a way out. Jeunet considers it a cynical entry in an oeuvre that includes “Delicatessen” (1991), about a murderous landlord and his tenants in a postapocalyptic reality, and “The City of Lost Children” ... More
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