The artist Theaster Gates, inside his work “Black Chapel” at Kensington Gardens in London, June 7, 2022. Gates said the temporary summer pavilion, designed for the Serpentine Galleries, is about optimism and openness, particularly in the face of racism. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times.
by Farah Nayeri
LONDON.- The wooden edifice looms quietly over the trees and lawns of Kensington Gardens. Shaped like a bulky cylinder and painted black, it has apertures on two sides and a circular opening in the ceiling that lets light into what is otherwise a dark and contemplative space. This is “Black Chapel,” a temporary summer pavilion designed for the Serpentine Galleries in London by the Chicago artist Theaster Gates. Gates — a potter whose practice also involves converting derelict buildings into cultural centers — joins a long line of architects and artists including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Peter Zumthor, Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson who since 2000 have conceived temporary structures for the Serpentine. Gates was awarded the commission for the 2021 pavilion, but the pandemic delayed the project. This year’s pavilion opens Friday, and runs through Oct. 16. It will host a program of events including talks and debates; performances of choral and experimental music, jazz and s ... More
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Often referred to as the most important book in English literature, Shakespeare's First Folio is an extraordinary piece of history dating back to 1623. One of fewer than twenty remaining in private hands, Sotheby's will offer a First Folio at its forthcoming sale of Books and Manuscripts in New York on 7 July, carrying an estimate of $1.5 - $2.5 million. Well-loved and read over the past 399 years, this book reveals details about each of its owners who have left their marks on its pages. It is thought to be the only copy with early Scottish provenance, having been first acquired by the historic Gordon Family in the early 17th-century, it was then passed down through the generations to famous racehorse breeder and socialite William Stuart Stirling Crawfurd (1819 –1883), whose bookplate can ... More
Roberto Matta, Untitled, 1967-1969 (detail). Oil on canvas, 137 x 141 cm.
ZURICH.-Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting in Zurich from the 10th of June, 2022 a selection of masterpieces by Roberto Matta (Santiago de Chile, 1911 – Civitavecchia, 2002), a leading global figure of the Surrealism movement. The ten paintings displayed in the show are dated from 1947 to 1969, a climax period in the artist’s itinerary, reflecting his great influence on the Post-War movements in New York and Paris. To Roberto Matta the mission of the artist is to reveal the invisible and show the inscrutable. The artist invented a new perspective in his painting, conjuring up animated forms as if from another galaxy, diluting the colors and letting the brush flow over the canvas. The scope of expression of Matta’s visual hallucinations seems limitless. Andre Breton said frequently that “Matta is at the very forefront” of the artistic avant-garde of Surrealism. In this selection of rare and monumental paintings, one ... More
Werner Herzog in Venice, Italy, May 26, 2022. The filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “Fitzcarraldo” makes a late-career foray into fiction with his new book, “The Twilight World.” Robbie Lawrence/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Five minutes into our interview, filmmaker Werner Herzog revealed that he doesn’t like talking about himself or what drives him. “My knowledge of myself is limited, and we shouldn’t get too deep into it. I don’t want this to end up like a confessional,” he said via video last month. “I still try to avoid psychological introspection.” Herzog steers from self-reflection in part by throwing himself into work. He has made films at an astonishing clip — more than 70 in the past 61 years, by his count. Now nearly 80 years old, he is maintaining his prolific streak. During the course of the pandemic, he completed two films and wrote two books, “a memoir of ideas” and, even more surprising, a debut novel titled “The Twilight World,” due out from Penguin Press on Tuesday. ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Tony Feher, on view June 4 through July 22, 2022. Over a career spanning more than thirty years, Tony Feher’s unique body of work recasts the utilitarian and ubiquitous into sculptures of elegant, ambiguous sublimity. The elements composing his structures and installations often include found materials culled from the everyday, items typically procured and consumed for one-time use before being discarded; jars, bottles, cords, containers, packing supplies, hangers, and marbles are only a handful of the various objects that appear within his works. Rejecting ideas of material hierarchy, Feher foregrounds the formal properties and aesthetic potential of these items against their physical disposability. It is through this broad and inventive range of compositional ... More
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COPENHAGEN.- Just about all of us are kept busy translating what we are privileged to witness¬—life, its setting and its dramas, its joys and its ups and downs—into images visible, exchangeable and maybe mental, even if the latter are obviously trickier to share.
The artist makes a profession out of this, and representing what is beyond our scale, both spatial and temporal, stimulates his imagination and guides his hand, from cave paintings to the present day. In the case of Eduardo Terrazas it is neither more nor less than the entire universe that the artist takes on the task of containing and synthesizing in abstract geometric constructions. In a systematic, apparently limitless combinatorial game, he explores the possibilities offered by compasses, rulers, pencils, paper, acrylic paint and—wool! Ahead of its time in many respects, his work heralds a number of research projects since carried out by younger artists. It must be said that Terrazas has been running around the world fo ... More
Georges Seurat, Vagabond, ca. 1883. Conté crayon on paper, 31.1 × 20.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
BILBAO.-The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Serra/Seurat. Drawings, the exhibition that brings together a selection of 22 drawings by the late 19th-century master Georges Seurat, which in turn engage in dialogue with the drawings of Richard Serra, a great admirer of Seurat’s and without a doubt one of the most outstanding artists of the present day. Despite the years that separate them, both artists are notable for working with drawing as an end in itself and taking it to new levels, imbuing it with innovative characteristics and extrapolating it to other areas of their work. The drawings of Georges Seurat were highly valued by artists of his time like Maximilien Luce, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Signac, who described them in 1899 as “the most beautiful painter’s drawings in existence,” and they have continued to win appreciation from later artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Bridget Ri ... More
Ira Aldridge as Othello. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
by Rachel Sherman
NEW YORK, NY.- A new performance space at New York University will be named “The African Grove Theater” in honor of the African Theater, a historic New York production company and venue widely considered to be the first Black theater in the United States, the university announced Wednesday. Supported by a $1 million donation, the theater is on the fourth floor of a new multipurpose educational building at 181 Mercer St. that will open in spring 2023. It also will house the graduate acting and design programs for stage and film of the university’s Tisch School of the Arts. Where there was once merely a plaque with a brief history of the theater, there will be space to host theatrical performances, lobby displays, educational seminars and an annual symposium on the history ... More
Matthew Angelo Harrison, Photo: Naaman Rosen.
ZURICH.-Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the representation of the American artist Matthew Angelo Harrison. Galerie Eva Presenhuber's representation of the artist is in partnership with Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. A sculpture by Harrison will be featured in Galerie Eva Presenhuber's presentation at Art Basel this month, and the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery is planned for Spring 2023 in Zurich. I first saw Matthew Angelo Harrison's work in his Kunsthalle Basel exhibition in 2021. I was immediately drawn to how boldly he confronts the legacy of colonialism and his personal history of growing up in Detroit, a city inextricably linked to the automobile industry and labor strikes. Matthew Angelo Harrison is a remarkable artist, and I am grateful to him and his gallerist Jessica Silverman for their trust and collaboration. — Eva Presenhuber The sculptor Matthew Angelo Harrison is known for his clear block ... More
Mónica Ramírez-Montagut at the Parrish Art Museum. Photo: Victor Miranda.
WATER MILL, NY.-The Parrish Art Museum announced Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Montagut as the next director of the Museum. The announcement was made by Frederic M. Seegal and Alexandra Stanton, Co-Chairs of the Board of the prominent art museum, located in the Hamptons, on Eastern Long Island, NY. A former assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ramírez-Montagut was most recently the Executive Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum of Michigan State University. She will assume her new role on July 8, 2022. “The Parrish Art Museum Board of Trustees is thrilled to announce Mónica Ramírez-Montagut as its new director at this exciting moment, as we celebrate our 10thanniversary in Water Mill and approach our 125th anniversary as a leading arts institution,” said Parrish Board Co-Chairs Frederic M. Seegal and Alexandra Stanton. ... More
Lash currently serves as Vice President on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and is a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Courtesy Prospect New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.-Prospect New Orleans announced the appointment of Miranda Lash as Artistic Director of the upcoming Prospect.6. Building off Lash’s long history in New Orleans, and with Prospect’s partners and artists, the appointment is an exciting development as preparations for the upcoming Triennial commence. P.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow was open to great acclaim from October 22, 2021 to January 22, 2022. Prospect.6 is currently slated to open in Fall 2024. Currently, Lash is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and has organized major exhibitions of the work of Eamon Ore-Giron, Jason Moran, Rashaad Newsome, Keltie Ferris, and Mel Chin. Previous posts include the Speed Art Museum, where she was Curator of Contemporary Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, where she was the founding Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Miranda will bring extensive knowledge of both our city ... More
LONDON.-Christie’s announces First Editions, Second Thoughts: An Auction to Benefit English PEN, a landmark literary auction taking place online from 28 June - 12 July comprising First Edition books and works of art from contemporary artists and authors, each of which has been uniquely annotated, illustrated or added to by their creator. First Editions, Second Thoughts (FEST) will raise much needed funds to support English PEN’s work to defend free expression and campaign for writers who are at risk. The sale comprises over 80 annotated First Edition books by internationally renowned writers, including work by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie, John le Carré, Sebastian Faulks, Ben Okri, Ian McEwan, Bernardine Evaristo, and Philippe Sands. ... More
Wyatt Kahn, Untitled, 2021. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Xavier Hufkens. Presented by Public Art Fund as part of Wyatt Kahn: Life in the Abstract on view at City Hall Park, New York City, June 8, 2022-February 26, 2022. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.-Public Art Fund is presenting Life in the Abstract, an exhibition of new large-scale sculptures by artist Wyatt Kahn. It brings seven vibrant rust red Cor-Ten steel artworks to City Hall Park for Khan’s first exhibition in public space. Kahn has adapted forms previously explored in his canvas wall works, combining elements of geometric abstraction with playful “readymade” objects from everyday life like a comb and a phone. Juxtapositions such as glasses resting on abstract shapes and a foot about to crush a lightbulb produce playful narrative compositions. These new works expand the lineage of modernist public sculpture, while the significance of each artwork takes on personal meaning and resonance for the viewer. Life in the Abstract is the New York City-based artist’s first public art exhibition and is on view from June 8, 2022 through February 26, 2023 at City Hall ... More
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Rare Dam Busters film poster set to take up to £8,000 at Ewbank's auction WOKING.- One of the rarest film posters used by cinemas to promote upcoming features is expected to sell for up to £8,000 at Ewbank’s Auctions on June 17. The 30 x 40 inch display British Quad poster was created for the 1955 film of The Dam Busters, starring Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Michael Redgrave as bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis. “As these posters were not designed to be kept after use, the majority were thrown away once the cinema run came to an end,” says Ewbank’s specialist Alistair McCrea. “In some cases, fans rescued them as souvenirs, but most of these deteriorated or were lost over the years, leaving any survivors as rarities.” In the case of The Dam Busters, fewer survived than with most other films. As an iconic movie about a famous Second World War operation, that ... More
Freeman's sets new world auction records for American women artists PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Exemplary works by women artists once again yielded strong results in Freeman’s June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. Totaling $2.64M and attracting an impressive number of new buyers (40% of total), the sale reconfirmed the auction house’s ability to steward fresh-to-market works with strong provenance to successfully satisfy market demand. The sale was led by Winter Decoration—a large-scale view of Lambertville by celebrated Pennsylvania Impressionist Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951)—that more than doubled its pre-sale low estimate of $100,000 to achieve $252,000. New world auction records were set for both Philadelphia Illustration Artist Sarah S. Stilwell Weber (1878-1939) and Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974), a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy ... More
Fabergé Mayflower egg to debut aboard Mayflower II PLYMOUTH, MASS.- Creations Theo Fabergé will debut its commemorative decorative art piece Mayflower Egg, the only of its kind in the United States. This extraordinary piece will be on display for its world launch aboard Plimoth Patuxet Museum’s Mayflower II on June 11-12th at the State Pier in Plymouth, MA, as part of the Mayflower II’s Sapphire Jubilee. In 1620, the original Mayflower set out on a journey that would start a nation. Sixty-five years ago, in 1957, Mayflower II, Plimoth Patuxet Museums’ full-scale reproduction of the tall ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, made that same transatlantic journey in a show of friendship and alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom following World War II. In honor of these two journeys, Creations Theo Fabergé is launching the Mayflower Egg. Reflecting ... More
'Come From Away' to close, the latest Broadway show to end run NEW YORK, NY.- “Come From Away,” the inspirational musical about a remote Canadian community that rallied to support thousands of stranded air travelers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will end its run on Broadway in October. The musical, which has been a hit on Broadway and has been successfully staged around the world, is the third show to announce a plan to close in the last two days, as it becomes clear that with New York City still attracting fewer tourists than it did before the pandemic, there are not enough patrons to support all the productions now running. On Tuesday “Dear Evan Hansen” and “Tina,” two musicals that had been selling strongly before the pandemic, both announced that they would close late this summer. “Come From Away” will close on Oct. 2. It began performances Feb. 18, 2017, and ... More
The Tribeca Festival returns in full bloom NEW YORK, NY.- Spring in New York City is a season of promise. It’s terrific timing for the Tribeca Festival, which runs from June 8-19 and features its trademark community focus and sweeping bill of fare. Like visitors to a botanic garden, Tribeca audiences seem as keen on roaming through thickets of mainstream movies (not to mention immersive installations, TV series and scripted podcasts) as they do savoring the small films blooming alongside. This year’s opening night feature, “Halftime,” an admiring Netflix documentary that traces a hectic year in the life of Jennifer Lopez, slots into the former category, boasting exclusive access and the whiff of celebrity gossip and prestige. But the standouts among this year’s world and international premieres are more homespun productions. If “Halftime” is the program’s ... More
Watches by world-classmakers to be sold by Noonans LONDON.- A white gold chronograph wristwatch by A. Lange & Söhne is among the highlights of Mayfair Auctioneers Noonans, sale of Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. It is estimated to fetch £12,000-18,000. The manual winding wristwatch dates from circa 2005 and is in an 18ct white gold case with a sapphire display back and 18ct white gold buckle. As Joanne Lewis, Watch Expert at Noonans comments: “Established in Glashütte, Saxony by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in 1845, A. Lange & Söhne produced some of the most sought-after watches in the world. The company was forced into a 40-year hiatus when a bomb at the end of the Second World War destroyed their workshops. In 1990, Walter Lange, the great grandson of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, revived the brand. ... More
Naomi Milgrom Foundation announces architect of MPavilion 2022 MELBOURNE.-The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the commission for its 2022 MPavilion has been awarded to internationally renowned architecture and design practice all(zone). The appointment of the playful Bangkok-based studio, led by co-founder and Design Director Rachaporn Choochuey marks the ninth consecutive MPavilion season and will be housed in the Queen Victoria Gardens. The design and build details of all(zone)’s MPavilion will be revealed in July 2022. With their commitment to designing built environments where people can feel at home in the world, all(zone) are known for their lively projects which reuse and recycle local materials in bold and innovative ways. Rachaporn and her team hold people at the heart of their designs, viewing the spaces they are creating not just as physical architecture ... More
Neue Auctions announces results of May Modern Auction BEACHWOOD, OH.- An abstract acrylic on canvas collage and enamel on aluminum work by African American artist Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) sold for $67,650 in an online-only May Modern auction held May 28th by Neue Auctions. The work, titled Pantheon #5, was created in 1984. It was an exuberant, highly textured and complex composition, executed with deft craftsmanship. The piece, impressive at 85 inches by 55 inches, was signed verso and titled on the stretcher and sold within its $50,000-$80,000 estimate. It was easily the top achiever in just the third annual May Modern sale for Neue Auctions, one that featured a fine collection of modern works of printwork, original paintings, pottery, sculpture and classic modern furniture by name designers. Following are additional highlights from the 262-lot auction. Internet ... More
Ingram Marshall, minimalist composer of mystical sounds, dies at 80 NEW YORK, NY.- Ingram Marshall, a minimalist composer known for the mystery and melancholy of his works, which featured sounds as disparate as San Francisco fog horns and Balinese bamboo flutes, died on May 31 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 80. His wife, Veronica Tomasic, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Marshall was an influential figure in American experimental music, part of a group of composers who, beginning in the 1960s, stripped music down to basic elements of rhythm and tempo and incorporated digital sounds. A self-described “expressivist,” he was known for haunting, mystical works that fused various traditions, among them European Romanticism, Indonesian gamelan and electronics. “A musical experience should be enveloping,” Marshall said in a 1996 interview ... More
Kavi Gupta opens a solo retrospective of paintings by Sherman Beck CHICAGO, IL.-Kavi Gupta presents a solo retrospective of paintings by Sherman Beck, original member of the historic Black Arts collective AFRICOBRA. Following inclusions of Beck’s work in pivotal group exhibitions such as I Am Somebody at the Peninsula Hotel, Chicago, AFRICOBRA 50 at Kavi Gupta, and AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Sherman Beck at Kavi Gupta offers a comprehensive introduction to Beck’s practice. Building on a central tenet of AFRICOBRA’s philosophy, Beck’s aesthetic vision is rooted in positive portrayals of Black family. Reveling in the mystery and mysticism of everyday life, Beck extends the definition of family through space and time, including humanity’s kinship with nature and the metaphysical world. Wielding portraiture as an instrument ... More
Getty Foundation awards over $1 million to fund curatorial innovation at 15 art institutions LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Getty Foundation has awarded 15 new grants totaling nearly $1.3 million to support exhibitions, publications, digital projects, and workshops that foster curatorial innovation in the graphic arts as part of its Paper Project initiative. Created in 2018, The Paper Project funds a variety of projects by ambitious curators across the world who study prints and drawings, simultaneously boosting their professional development and bringing new discoveries about works on paper to light. “These grants celebrate the resourcefulness of graphic arts curators who are focusing on hidden gems and neglected artists within their institutions’ own walls that can resonate with today’s museum audiences,” says Heather MacDonald, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation. “We’re also empowering curators ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Leandro Bassano was born
September 10, 1557. Leandro Bassano (10 June 1557 - 15 April 1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Bassano del Grappa who was awarded a knighthood by the Doge of Venice. He was the younger brother of artist Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of artist Jacopo Bassano. Their father took his surname from their town of Bassano del Grappa, and trained his sons as painters. Painting by Bassano, Allegory of the Element Earth, believed in the 16th century to be one of the four elements. The Walters Art Museum.
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