LONDON.-The Royal Academy is presenting the 254th Summer Exhibition, a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. Celebrated British sculptor Alison Wilding RA has co-ordinated this year’s Summer Exhibition, and working with the rest of the Summer Exhibition Committee, explores the theme of Climate. Artists exhibiting new work this year include artistic duos Harvey & Ackroyd, The Singh Twins, and Special Olympics GB Athlete and artist Niall Guite. Other artists invited to exhibit this year include Royal Academy Schools graduate Clara Hastrup, Dominica-born British painter Tam Joseph, sculptor Kathleen Ryan, conceptual artist Simon Starling, sculptor Gavin Turk, Brazil-based artists Denilson Baniwa and Sallisa Rosa, art-activist Jerilea Zempel and painter and photographer Diane Burko. Wallbased works made by Roger Ackling (1947-2014) using sunlight ... More
LONDON.- On 10 May 2024 the National Gallery will be 200 years old, and we will start our Bicentenary celebration, marking two centuries of bringing people and paintings together. For 12 months from 10 May 2024, we will celebrate our past and look forward to our future with a year-long festival of art, creativity and imagination which sets the tone for our third century. We invite everyone to join the celebration as part of an ambitious programme of events and exhibitions that extends from the Gallery into Trafalgar Square, across the nation, and to the world through a series of online and virtual experiences. ‘Your pictures, your stories.’ We will make it easier than ever for everyone to share a space with some of the greatest paintings in the world. From seeing a real work in the context of your local museum or gallery to enjoying a dive into the virtual history of the nation’s collection, ... More
All proceeds to benefit UNICEF’s humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine and affected regions.
NEW YORK, NY.-Heritage Auctions announced today that its sale of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to independent Russian journalist and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, fetched $103.5 million from an anonymous buyer at a live global auction event at the Times Center in Manhattan on Monday night. Proceeds raised from the auction will support UNICEF’s humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine and affected regions. Heritage Auctions donated its efforts to bring worldwide attention to Muratov’s desire to aid those impacted by the war. “Several months ago, we at Novaya Gazeta asked ourselves what we could do to stop the war and help these civilians get their lives back,” Muratov said Monday night. “We decided to sell our Nobel Peace Prize medal through Heritage Auctions, which managed the process very efficiently and waved all their fees and commissions completely. We thank them for this.” “We were ... More
Organizers of the international art exhibition in Germany said they would remove a work after diplomats and lawmakers said it contained antisemitic images.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Even before Documenta opened Saturday in Kassel, Germany, the renowned contemporary art exhibition had roiled with controversy over the inclusion of artists who have criticized Israel. Now, just four days into the 100-day show, which runs through Sept. 16, its organizers said Tuesday that they would remove a work that “triggers antisemitic readings” after an outcry from lawmakers and diplomats. That piece, a nearly 60-foot-long painted banner called “People’s Justice,” was created by the Indonesian collective Taring Padi in 2002, when its members included activists who had struggled under Indonesia’s military dictatorship. The banner’s busy, cartoonlike depiction of political resistance involves hundreds of individual figures. Two of those figures stirred outrage Monday ... More
TORONTO.-The Art Gallery of Ontario has installed its first-ever public art commission, a new sculpture by acclaimed contemporary artist Brian Jungen. Renowned for his artworks made of repurposed consumer goods, Couch Monster: Sadzěʔ yaaghęhch’ill (2022) is Jungen’s first large-scale work in bronze. A poetic tribute to the plight of creatures in captivity, Jungen modeled second-hand leather furniture into the figure of a performing elephant, measuring five and a half meters long, and 4 meters tall. This new public artwork resides at the corner of Dundas and McCaul Streets, adjacent ... More
ROME.- The project, Richard Serra: Animal habitats live and stuffed... Roma, La Salita, 1966 is dedicated to the reconstruction, through photographic and archival documents, of a legendary, yet largely unknown exhibition: Richard Serra’s first solo show, which inaugurated in Rome at Galleria La Salita on 24 May 1966. After having studied painting at the Yale School of Art, Richard Serra took off for Europe on a study grant, stopping in Paris first. Then, in 1965, he moved to Florence with artist Nancy Graves, his wife at the time. During this period he traveled to North Africa and other parts of Southern Europe: in Madrid he saw Diego Velásquez’s Las Meninas (ca. 1656), an experience which marked a rupture in his relationship with pictorial space; in Florence he visited the Museo de La Specola and became interested in the history of menageries and zoological gardens in the city, the last of which had been destroyed by the flood which devastated Florence in November, 1966. While in I ... More
Kennedy Yanko, In the Whole Word Together, 2022. Crushed aluminum and paint skin. 121 x 48 x 48. Courtesy of the Artist. Installation view as part of Set It Off at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York.
WATER MILL, NY.-The Parrish Art Museum presents Set It Off, an exhibition created for the Museum and curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires—on view May 22 through July 24, 2022. Set It Off brings together work by an international roster of female artists—Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Karyn Olivier, and Kennedy Yanko—who engage the monumental, the site specific, and/or the immersive in their practice, often combining multiple elements of readymade, painting, photography, language, sculpture, and installation. Featuring more than 50 works—many of which are new or never-before-seen—the exhibition is presented outdoors in the Meadow and in the Parrish galleries. “For Set It Off, we wanted to bring together a group of women who work in a range ... More
Inside the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, which opened in 2017, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, June 14, 2022. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Of the many feats Harriet Tubman accomplished, none awe me more as a historian than the estimated 13 trips she made to Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Each time, she stole family and friends from enslavement much in the way Tubman first secreted herself away to freedom in 1849. Born on the Eastern Shore, Tubman grew into a fearless conductor along the perilous routes of the Underground Railroad, guiding enslaved people on journeys that extended hundreds of miles to the north, ending on the free soil of Pennsylvania, New York and Canada. This year commemorates the 200th anniversary of her birth, and tributes to Tubman abound, including those set in the landscape of her native Dorchester County. I headed to the Eastern Shore to learn how people there remember this Black American ... More
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PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Continuing its trajectory of national and international growth, Freeman’s has appointed Kate Della Monica as a regional representative in Florida, effective immediately. “We are continuing our ambitious expansion plans for Freeman’s,” says Fraser Niven, Freeman’s Chief Executive Officer. “At the heart of that expansion is a firm commitment to meeting and exceeding the needs of our client base. We’re delighted to appoint Kate Della Monica as the company’s first regional representative in Florida; her presence will be indispensable to clients throughout the state and region.” Kate is available to clients seeking valuations and paths to consignment across Freeman’s many areas of specialization, spanning centuries and mediums. She is particularly attuned to consignments of jewelry, timepieces, and design objects.
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“George Michael: Freedom Uncut,” a film the musician worked on with his longtime collaborator David Austin, tells the story of his professional life via interviews and previously unseen footage.
NEW YORK, NY.- George Michael and David Austin were best friends who met because their mothers were best friends. Austin’s family lived at 67 Redhill Drive in the working-class East Finchley area of North London, and Michael’s family was at 57. The two wrote songs together and remained close even as one became a global superstar and the other didn’t. Michael was a gifted and determined musical dynamo who became a star at the age of 19, first as a member of the British duo Wham! He won two Grammys in the solo career that followed, and collaborated with some of the greatest stars of the previous generation, including Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Elton John. He was a gifted writer, producer, arranger and musician, sometimes playing all the instruments on his songs. And as a singer, he moved fluidly from Motown pop to hard funk to Brazilian bossa nova, with a voice ... More
The 25 never-before-seen photos are expected to auction for £50,000+ with UK dealer Paul Fraser Collectibles
BRISTOL.- 25 original, never-before-seen print photographs by Fidel Castro’s personal photographer Alberto Korda are set to auction on Thursday, June 23. The 25 photographs depict Fidel Castro and other Cuban revolutionaries in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. They include photographs of Fidel Castro making impassioned speeches and playing baseball, as well as gun-toting, cigar-smoking revolutionaries. They form a collection of 130 original print photos of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Che Guevara set to auction with Paul Fraser Collectibles for an estimated £50,000+. 73 of the original prints were taken by Korda. Korda’s celebrated shot of Che Guevara has appeared on posters and T-shirts the world over. Paul Fraser, ... More
Fire Complex brings together photography and video in the public realm to raise momentum and resources for the regeneration of our forests.
LONDON.- The prestigious £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award has been won by Uta Kögelsberger for her video work, Cull, in the Royal Academy’s 254th Summer Exhibition. Established in 1978 and presented to the ‘most distinguished work’ in the exhibition, it is one of the most significant art prizes awarded in the UK. Kögelsberger’s 5-channel video installation Cull follows the gigantic task of the clear-up process after the devastating impact of wildfires. It charts the efforts of the teams responsible for cutting down the dead trees left standing, that are now endangering the remaining structures and roads. In a metaphor for the suspended sense of emergency we find ourselves in, each tree is documented as it comes crashing ... More
Melati Suryodarmo, Eins und Eins, 2016, aufgeführt bei Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapur, 2016, Photo Courtesy of the Artist, Photo: Riki Zoelkarnain
MAASTRICHT.-The Bonnefanten presents Melati Suryodarmo (1969, Surakarta, Indonesia) as the eleventh winner of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA). On 12 June, the museum opened the exhibition I am a Ghost in My Own House, Suryodarmo’s first big solo exhibition in Europe and the Netherlands. Suryodarmo is a versatile artist, but is particularly known for her compelling performances. In her work, she interprets strong political and social insights in a poetic and physical visual idiom. Awarding her the BACA is a welcome reason for the Bonnefanten to present Melati Suryodarmo to the public in the Netherlands and to pay tribute to one of the pioneers ... More
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Kistefos announces Pierre Huyghe as the artist of the year 2022 JEVNAKER.-Kistefos is presenting Variants by the French artist Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris) as the 50th work in the sculpture park. Variants is a site-specific work made especially for Kistefos. It is Huyghe’s largest permanent work to date, and the most ambitious Kistefos sculpture park commission so far. The work comprises artificial intelligence, 3D-scanned objects, living creatures and organisms, and offers something completely unique in the sculpture park. Variants is located on a previously inaccessible island that is often flooded. The location has been chosen specifically by Pierre Huyghe and required significant expansion of the landscape and Kistefos as a whole. Scanned forest, real-time simulation, generative mutations and sounds, intelligent camera, environmental sensors, animals, plants, micro-organisms ... More
Music video captures Japanese artist SaiakuNana's East London gallery before it closes next month LONDON.- Celebrated Japanese artist SaiakuNana, who has exhibited her work in Tokyo, London and New York, has joined forces with award-winning Cornish animator and filmmaker Ignatius Rake to produce a music video that documents her must-see gallery in London's East End before it closes this coming July 17. "I became a fan of SaiakuNana's work the moment I saw it at the Watari-um gallery in Tokyo," Rake says. "I was immediately struck by the power and vibrancy of her paintings, which combine the kawaii aesthetic of modern Japanese popular culture with the raw energy of punk rock and abstract expressionism." "When I heard that she was opening her own gallery in Shoreditch in the East End of London, I had to get in touch and was honoured when she invited me to a private showing before officially opening the gallery ... More
The man behind fashion's most famous bob NEW YORK, NY.- For the past six years, at 8 a.m. sharp, Andreas Anastasis has walked to Anna Wintour’s Greenwich Village town house, where for about 20 minutes every weekday he maintains upkeep, whether it’s cutting, coloring, spraying, blow-drying or styling, of the most instantly recognizable bob in fashion — maybe the world. A short distance from there, “right across the street from Carrie Bradshaw’s house,” he has spent nearly a decade running his namesake salon, where he now works two days a week. The only magazine in the waiting area is Vogue. But back at his loft in New York’s meatpacking district, Anastasis practices another discipline. For this one, he keeps the heads hidden. During a recent visit, plaster casts of muscular backs and thick calves protruded from walls like the specters of ancient Greek ... More
Sebastian Cichocki appointed as Curator of the 40th EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art LIMERICK.-EVA International announced Sebastian Cichocki as Curator of the 40th EVA International, taking place across sites and spaces in Limerick from 31 August - 29 October 2023. In a statement of his appointment, Cichocki writes: “My proposition for the Guest Programme of the 40th EVA International is driven by an old dream of overcoming artistic autonomy by fusing art, politics and everyday life. We are facing the irreversibility of climate crisis and its morbid consequences: fossil fuel wars, mass migration, energy terrorism, loss of biodiversity, and a general deficit of hope for the future. I believe that EVA should be a component of a larger mobilisation of art thinkers and practitioners, exploring ... More
The Chazen Museum of Art awarded $250,000 Mellon Foundation grant MADISON, WIS.-The Chazen Museum of Art has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation in support of its re:mancipation project, a collaboration between artist Sanford Biggers, MASK Consortium and the museum. By reimagining and repositioning works in the Chazen’s permanent collection, including the problematic sculpture Emancipation Group by Thomas Ball, re:mancipation will address the often complex and difficult past associated with works that glorify racism in the United States. The Mellon grant will support projects that will augment the exhibition, including a documentary, the first of several symposia, an interactive website and the development of curriculum materials for adolescents and adults. re:mancipation opens February, 2023 “The Chazen Museum of Art continues to put considerable thought ... More
Exhibition recreates America's first Confederation-era Department of Foreign Affairs NEW YORK, NY.- While Fraunces Tavern in New York City is one of the 18th-century’s best-known taverns and the site of General George Washington’s famous farewell to his officers at the end of the American Revolution, it is less known that in the late 1700s, the site at 54 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan was also home to the nation’s first executive governmental building that housed three offices of the Confederation Congress. (Although Congress met in City Hall, the space was too small for the government’s departments and other office space had to be leased.) In 1785, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of War and offices of the Board of Treasury leased space at the Tavern and remained tenants there until 1788. Thanks to an extraordinary document—a cashbook that detailed the purchases for the Department ... More
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast: Gaia Di Lorenzo, Gaia Fugazza, Shadi Yasrebi exhibit at ADA Rome ROME.- The meaning of the usual exhortation to go beyond appearances is unclear. In fact, choosing to appear in a certain way, in a certain circumstance, should say a lot about the essence of things. Would it not therefore be more accurate to say that appearances are a representation of reality itself? A slow and context-responsive process characterizes the work of Gaia Di Lorenzo, You are not alone, 2017 - 2022, whose research investigates the nature of things in their opposites - the fragile in the hard, the natural in the artificial - without privileging either aspect, but making them accomplices. Her artistic practice revolves around ecologies of adaptation, their role in processes of self-identification ... More
Tel Aviv Museum of Art opens 'The Last Photograph Ran Tal After Micha Bar-Am' TEL AVIV.- The Last Photograph is a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in which a documentary film is disassembled and re-edited into a multi-channel video installation where viewers can move around freely. The art exhibition as a curatorial form meets the cinematic medium, with the museum offering itself as an experimental platform for a new creative collaboration. In this instance, artist Micha Bar-Am, the father of Israeli photojournalism, opened his archive comprising fifty years of activity for award-winning filmmaker Ran Tal, and the intergenerational encounter spawned a documentary film made up entirely of still photographs that appear consecutively to the sounds of Tal’s poignant conversations with Micha and Orna Bar-Am. The archive of Micha Bar-Am, one of the fathers of photojournalism in Israel ... More
Broadway will drop mask mandate beginning July 1 NEW YORK, NY.- Broadway theaters will be allowed to drop their mask mandates starting July 1, the Broadway League announced Tuesday. The league described the new policy as “mask optional” and said it would be reevaluated monthly. “Our theater owners have been watching the protocols, watching admissions to hospitals, watching as we have no issues across the country where tours are mostly not masked, and they decided it was time to try,” said Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League. “This is not an easy decision — there are more people that want masks off than on, but plenty still want them on — and we’re encouraging people that have any concerns to wear their masks.” St. Martin said the theater owners would continue to meet weekly to assess the health situation and are open to reimposing ... More
The Mayor Gallery re-stages Billy Apples®'s famous Rainbows exhibition LONDON.- To coincide with Mayfair Art Weekend (24–26 June), Billy Apple® 'Rainbows 1965' at The Mayor Gallery will run extended hours, open throughout the weekend and until 8pm on Friday night. In November 1965, Billy Apple® (b.1935– d. 2021 Auckland, New Zealand) staged his second solo exhibition at Bianchini Gallery in New York City. This ground-breaking exhibition is credited with being one of the first to treat electric light as a new sculptural medium, a move that was then beginning to galvanise a range of artists working in the USA and Europe. Taking the rainbow as its central motif, this show proved Apple’s attraction to new products and advancing technologies, and his fascination for the science of colour and light. The exhibition featured seven neon sculptures variously based on the rainbow shape and colours. ... More
Kyoko Hamaguchi raises sea monkeys in gallery show BROOKLYN, NY.- Kyoko Hamaguchi, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a conceptual mixed-media artist living and working in New York City. By utilizing her daily experiences and social systems, she creates transient forms to reflect her ever-shifting perspective as an immigrant. Her practice takes form in many different media including photography, sculpture, and installation. This time in her work, Hamaguchi utilizes systems of direction to construct an installation exploring navigation in its many forms. In early Japan, there were twelve compass directions, each represented by an animal of the zodiac (imported from China) including the mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, etc. People consulted sorcerers to help them navigate their lives, believing in superstitions about whom to marry, where to live, and where to take a trip, among others. For example, ... More
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On a day like today, painter and academic Ed Paschke was born
October 22, 1939. Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 - November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso and Seurat. In this image: Ed Paschke, Menagerie, 1969.
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