People visit the "In Focus: Protest" exhibition on July 1, 2021 at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition features images captured during periods of social struggle in the United States, including works by Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Davidson and John Simmons. Curated by Mazie Harris, the exhibition which opened this week will run until October 10, 2021. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Protest, an exhibition featuring images made during periods of social struggle in the United States, and highlighting the myriad roles protest photographs play in shaping our understanding of American life. The exhibition is on view at the Getty Center Museum June 29 -- October 10, 2021. Photographs not only capture a nation’s values and beliefs but also help shape them. Camera in hand, photographers often take to the streets, recording protests and demonstrations or bearing witness to daily injustices to make them more widely known. Such images have inspired change for generations. “In Focus: Protest reminds us of the ability of photographs to both document and propel action,” says Mazie Harris, assistant curator of photographs at the Museum. “With this exhibition we aim to give visitors a place to think about some of the ways that photographers have brought attention to ... More
The painter Hilary Balu at his studio in Kinshasa, Congo, April 20, 2021. In Kinshasa, art is everywhere. Hilary Balu finds his focus uncovering the West’s powerful influences on African life. Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times.
by Dionne Searcey
KINSHASA(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When painter Hilary Balu was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, one of the most populous cities on the African continent, he learned about all the masters: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and so on, until his curriculum turned to royal portraiture. He marveled at the 16th century images of men and women posed in gaudy, elaborate frocks. But he wondered, where were the Africans? He decided to find out. At about the same time velvet-robed European kings and queens were being feted in paintings, he learned, the Kuba kingdom was rising in Central Africa. Kuba kings wore leopard skins and eagle feathers. And they ushered in an important era of artistic innovation with their elaborately designed costumes as well as the embroidered textiles, ornately beaded hats and wooden ... More
Manuel Mathieu, Stick Chart 1, 2020. Acrylic, oil stick, chalk, charcoal, and tape, 110 x 90 inches. 279.4 x 228.6 cm. Courtesy the artist, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, and Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.-Kasmin is presenting a group exhibition of contemporary painters, all of whom hail from Canada or have spent significant periods of their art education or artmaking career there. Presenting work by Sara Anstis, Jane Corrigan, Holly Coulis, Wanda Koop, Manuel Mathieu, Stephanie Temma Hier, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Tristan Unrau, Janet Werner, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, and Matthew Wong, North by Northeast draws a through-line charting the distinctive ways in which artists from the region complicate traditional genres of portraiture and landscape painting. On view at the gallery’s 509 West 27th Street space, the exhibition runs from June 30 to August 13, 2021. The title of the exhibition riffs on the central premise of mistaken identity in the plot of Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North by Northwest, and the show queries what comparisons might be observable in these artists’ formal language. Depicting subjects in fantastical or dre ... More
William Fagaly, left, at his retirement party with Priscilla Lawrence, the director of the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2016. R. Alokhin/New Orleans Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When William Fagaly was a graduate student in art history at Indiana University in the early 1960s, the professor in his area of concentration nicknamed him Intrepid. That pleased Fagaly, although he never understood how the word applied to him. One reason may have been that the professor, Roy Sieber, was the first person in the United States to earn a doctorate in African art history and a progenitor of the field; Fagaly was one of his first students. Sieber would apply the nickname to subsequent students, perhaps because he knew he was sending them where few post-grads had gone before. In his book “The Nightcrawler King: Memoirs of an Art Museum Curator,” published shortly before his death May 17 at 83, Fagaly (pronounced FAH-gah-lee) expressed his affection for Sieber, with whom he stayed in touch for the ... More
Pietro Santo Bartoli, Rome: painted ceiling of an ancient edifice on the Oppio Hill. Black chalk, dark brown ink, watercolour, straightedge and freehand. Photo: Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- A collection of Italian architectural drawings held by Nationalmuseum was the subject of a recently completed research project. Anna Bortolozzi, associate professor of art history at Stockholm University, made a detailed study of the collection, which was once owned by the architect Carl Johan Cronstedt. By studying the drawings as material objects, using information beyond the purely visual, she made several new attributions and concluded that the collection belonged to Carlo Maderno, the most prominent Roman architect of the early baroque period. The extensive research project examined the collection of architectural drawings that Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1779) purchased and brought to Sweden in the mid 18th century, which was donated to Nationalmuseum ... More
Franklin Evans, franklinfootpaths15to20, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 57 1/8 inches, 198.1 x 145.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.-Miles McEnery Gallery opened an exhibition of recent paintings by Franklin Evans. fugitivemisreadings, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, at 520 West 21st Street and remain on view through 31 July 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Raphael Rubinstein. We inhabit a highly visual world where images substitute words as vehicles for communication and interpretation. Embracing the nature of hybridity and relishing in unexpected juxtapositions, Evans is an artist who rejoices in painting’s ability to assimilate new visual languages and technologies. His painting celebrates this time-tested medium as powerfully coexistent to the visual overload of digital media. His work lives between digital and material, process and object, thought and action, and present and memory. Analogous to an art historical lexicon, Evans has long explored the artist’s studi ... More
MONTGOMERY, AL.- The Board, staff, and community of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts shared the news of the death of Director Emeritus Mark M. Johnson, who died on Friday, June 25, 2021, after a long illness. Johnson, who was an esteemed scholar and museum director, led the MMFA from 1994 until his retirement in 2017 when, as the longest-serving chief executive of the institution, he was named the Museum’s first Director Emeritus. Over the course of his tenure, Johnson shaped the institution in many ways, including the addition of hundreds of works of art to the collection, organizing a number of exhibitions and publications, and leading two significant expansions of the Museum. “Our prayers are with Mark’s family and loved ones. Mark was dedicated to building a world-class institution and community of support for the ... More
Today, the company is run by Lewis Smith and Timo Koopman, who between them have more than 50 years experience of dealing in the finest and most important antique silver on the market.
LONDON.- The internationally renowned antique silver dealer, Koopman Rare Art has relocated its London gallery to the West End. After more than 50 years situated on Chancery Lane above the London Silver Vaults, Koopman Rare Art’s new address is 11-12 Dover Street, Mayfair, London W1. Lewis Smith, Director of Koopman Rare Art explained: “ We had been considering a move for sometime and the recent pandemic provided both the catalyst and opportunity. “The art world has changed dramatically since Koopman Rare Art opened its showroom back in 1969. Today’s art buyers collect across the artistic spectrum – they don’t just buy in one category – they buy paintings, silver, furniture, porcelain, tribal art, antiquities – whatever it is they are interested in. We felt, therefore, that in order to facilitate our customers we need to be in the traditional centre of the London ... More
Olivier Debré, Sans titre, c. 1946. Mixed media on paper (pastel and charcoal), 65.9 x 50.1 cm. Private collection.
LONDON.- This summer, the Estorick Collection presents an exhibition by French post-war painter Olivier Debré (1920-1999). Presented as a ‘Chairman’s Choice’, the show has been selected by Michael Estorick, Chair of the Estorick Foundation, and son of Eric and Salome Estorick – their renowned collection of Modern Italian Art is housed in the museum. The exhibition brings together some 30 oils and works on paper, including 16 of Debré’s large scale paintings. Olivier Debré: Fervent Abstraction opened at the Estorick Collection on 30 June and runs until 26 September 2021. Michael Estorick says: ‘Debré was a wonderful painter. Enormously prolific but also remarkably consistent in quality, he is highly regarded throughout the world, yet remains almost unknown in the UK. My parents’ taste for French 20th century art, of which they owned a great deal, means that I believe this exhibition will not be out ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation. Featuring Ai Weiwei, Huang Yong Ping, Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing, and more, the exhibition brings together 20 works of Chinese contemporary art created by 15 artists in response to international trade, political conflict, and global artistic exchange. Drawn from Yuz Foundation’s esteemed collection of contemporary art, Legacies of Exchange spotlights encounters, exchanges, and collisions between China and the West. This exhibition is part of LACMA’s ongoing collaboration with Yuz Museum in Shanghai, China and Qatar Museums in Doha, a joint effort to create exhibitions and to provide the museums with greater access to a more diverse collection of artworks. This spring, funds were contributed by the ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present a Cabinet of Curiosities, Decorative Arts & More on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Featuring over 290 lots from multiple collectors and estates, the sale offers a wide range of items from around the world, from the 17th century to the present day. Unusual items include original cels from Disney’s “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs;” a Sepik River mask; a Gothic-style religious triptych; silvered Aztec warrior busts; an erotic Meerschaum pipe; and several antique weapons. Among the many artworks are paintings by Chuck J. Sabatino, Harry Raymond Henry, and David Allen Halbach; Jules Chéret lithographs; antique botanical plates by Mark Catesby; antique maps by Pierre Lepautre and Joan Blaeu; several bronze sculptures; a pen & ink drawing by Charles Schulz; and a selection of erotic photographs. There are several pieces of furniture, including an Italian Rococo table and several games tables, plus clocks from Tiffany and Leroy & Fils. Porcelai ... More
In addition to publishing this report, the Arts Endowment has deepened its commitment to supporting activities at the intersection of arts and technology through the agency’s major funding program, Grants for Arts Projects.
WASHINGTON, DC.-The National Endowment for the Arts announces the release of the report Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium, the result of a two-year field scan, an initiative of the Arts Endowment in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The field scan and report explore the multi-faceted practices of artists who engage with digital technologies in both the creative and functional aspects of their work. The report also looks at the training and exhibition infrastructure that tech-centered artists have developed to pursue their creative practices, and diagnoses a critical need for funding to advance the field. A key finding of the study is that even with the willingness of audiences to move to digital spaces for arts and cultural programming during ... More
The grave of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison is pictured at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris on July 3, 2021 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. Martin BUREAU / AFP.
by Philippe Grelard
PARIS(AFP).- Rockers old and young cried, shared a drink and perhaps even a joint in a stylishly overgrown cemetery in Paris on Saturday, marking 50 years since the death of 1960s icon Jim Morrison. Dozens of fans of the frontman of psychedelic rock band The Doors, who decamped to the French capital in early 1971 and died shortly afterwards of a heart attack, flocked to his grave in an overcrowded corner of Pere Lachaise cemetery. "It's important because the music lives on... it’s like the music is alive today, like 'Light My Fire' was recorded last week," says Michelle Campbell, a fan from England, recalling the band's greatest hit. Proving her point, 19-year-old music student Marius de la Brosse, with tousled long dark hair and baggy linen shirt, whips out a guitar and strums a few blues ... More
Quote Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. Jackson Pollock
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Prayers ring out again in historic Budapest synagogue BUDAPEST(AFP).- For rabbi Peter Deutsch, it was an emotional moment to lead the first official morning prayer service since the Holocaust in the reopened 150-year-old Rumbach Street synagogue in Budapest. "The building has a big history and saw a lot of sadness. I can hardly believe that I am now able to continue the history," Deutsch told AFP at the renovated Moorish-style synagogue, which was built in 1872 by Viennese architect Otto Wagner. "It is perfectly proportioned, surely one of the three most beautiful synagogues in Europe," said Deutsch, at 35 one of Hungary's youngest Orthodox rabbis. A few blocks away from the Great Synagogue -- the world's largest Jewish house of worship outside New York -- the Rumbach Street synagogue lies at the edge of what was Budapest's Jewish ghetto during World War II in the city's seventh district. ... More
Last picture show looms for British India's summer capital SHIMLA(AFP).- With its ancient humming projector and elegant balcony, the Shahi Theatre is the last surviving single-screen cinema in Shimla, the Himalayan hill station that was once the summer retreat of British India. But like many other once-teeming movie houses across the country that were already struggling to stay afloat, the pandemic may be the final death knell for the century-old picture house. It was originally built as a theatre in British times, when the entire colonial administration would decamp from the blistering summer heat of the plains for the cool mountain climate further north. Current owner Sahil Sharma said his grandfather bought the building and turned it into a cinema after the British left in 1947, at a time when the town's other three theatres were too expensive for ordinary people. "In those days we still had the British ... More
A designer learns as he rides the wave NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The comments began on social media, as they usually do. Women who had bought a Brandon Blackwood purse and patiently waited weeks for it to arrive were disappointed. The purses, part of Blackwood’s latest collection, were either falling apart or arriving in less than optimal conditions. In June, Fatima Henry, 25, posted to Instagram a photo of her small square black purse with an oil-slick-green snakeskin stripe in the middle. At the front of the purse, where the company’s name is usually placed, silver letters read: “END SYSTEMIC RACISM.” It was the Brandon Blackwood bestseller, the ESR tote. She called it an expensive but cheaply made purse. Blackwood, 29, designed the purse in 2020, at the height of the civil unrest triggered by the murder of George Floyd. Profits from the sale of the tote were donated ... More
'Gone to hell': The battle to save Europe's oldest lake OHRID(AFP).- Dimitar Pendoski marches to the end of a rickety walkway, skips around sunbathing youngsters and sweeps back a tarpaulin protecting his empty lakeside restaurant, recently closed by officials under pressure from UNESCO. North Macedonia's government is scrambling to enforce environmental protection rules and shut down places like Pendoski's self-built restaurant, to save Lake Ohrid from being placed on the UN culture agency's list of endangered world heritage sites. "This way, everybody loses -- the employees, the local economy, and of course the tourists because they have no place to go on the beach," Pendoski tells AFP, a point hotly contested by environmentalists. Thanks to its unique animal and plant life, prehistoric ruins and Byzantine churches, Lake Ohrid and its surroundings have enjoyed four decades as a UNESCO ... More
The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Stefania Batoeva, Pam Evelyn and Francesca Mollett LONDON.- Le coeur encore brings together a group of new paintings by London based artists Stefania Batoeva, Pam Evelyn and Francesca Mollett. Drawing broadly on inspiration taken from hydrofeminism, psychoanalysis or the metaphysical (and metaphorical) essence of weather and the natural environment, the works included in this show ultimately find synchronicity through their expressiveness, where form and meaning is loose and ambivalent. The title, taking its name from a painting by Batoeva, perhaps suggests trusting in one’s intuition, staying with the abstract and allowing oneself to return again and again to a place of feeling and imagination unencumbered by self-consciousness. Le coeur encore also speaks of the core, the centre or meeting point of body and mind. Using a process where the outcome is dependent on physical application ... More
Exhibition focuses on the series of paintings made in the last years of John Hoyland's life SHEFFIELD.- The John Hoyland Estate, in partnership with Sheffield Museums, is presenting the exhibition John Hoyland: The Last Paintings at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. This exhibition focuses on the series of paintings made in the last years of Hoyland’s life; an exuberant celebration of a life well-lived and a meditation on its approaching end. One of Britain’s leading abstract painters, John Hoyland is renowned for his bold use of colour and inventive forms. His tireless innovation pushed the boundaries of abstract painting and cemented him as one of the most inventive British artists of the 20th century. The Last Paintings displays works made in the last eight years of Hoyland’s life, showing previously unseen paintings, such as Moon In The Water, the last ... More
Met Opera strikes deal with stagehands over pandemic pay NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with the union that represents its stagehands, increasing the likelihood that the company will return to the stage in September after its longest-ever shutdown. The deal was reached early Saturday, and the union is planning to brief its leaders and members after the Fourth of July holiday, said a spokesman for the union, Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The union and the company declined to share details of the deal, which must be voted on by the union’s members. The company’s roughly 300 stagehands were locked out late last year because of a disagreement over how long and lasting pandemic pay cuts would be. But the opera house is in desperate need of workers to ready its complex ... More
New textiles exhibitions opens at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Visitors to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the two expanded Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, will experience two new textile exhibitions: The Art of the Quilter opened on July 3 in the Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery and Navajo Weavings: Adapting Tradition will open in the Mary B. and William Lehman Guyton Gallery in early August. These exhibitions are certain to be popular with museum goers as exhibitions displaying Colonial Williamsburg’s renowned quilt collection have always been favorites of Art Museums guests, and Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade, the first exhibition at Colonial Williamsburg on loan from the collection of American folk art enthusiasts Pat and Rex Lucke, has been embraced by visitors since it opened in 2018. “Colonial Williamsburg’s curators ... More
The Cruz-Diez Foundation announces a change in leadership PARIS.-The Cruz-Diez Foundation Board of Directors has announced that after six years acting as both Executive Director and President of the Board, Adriana Cruz will step down from managing the day-to-day operations of the organization to focus on her role as President of the Board of Directors, starting June 30, 2021. Adriana Cruz said in a statement: “It has been the honor of my life to lead the Cruz-Diez Foundation during my father’s later years, having the opportunity to work closely with him in solidifying the organization that is called to be the steward of his legacy. Following my father’s passing in 2019, we have been preparing the organization to assume this important role and thus ensure its impact for generations to come. I am proud of the many achievements the foundation has accomplished during my tenure, for which ... More
Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of work by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster VIENNA.- For Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, making art is a tentative and experimental process that becomes a kind of personal learning experience. Her practice emerged in the 1990s with a series of “chambres” and sitespecific environments, but she soon branched out into other media; her oeuvre now also extends into fields adjacent to visual art such as architecture, design, and music. For her formally spare environments, she often combines literary references, influences from films, and quotations from other artists in rooms that are suffused with a peculiar mood. The qualities of a venue, be they architectural, historical, or emotional, are always an integral part of the composition. The result are subtly understated thematic and formal interconnections between the artist’s work and the exhibition site. Objects feature in subsidiary roles, as props ... More
Exhibition brings recent contemporary acquisitions into conversation with rarely seen works BOSTON, MASS.- This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtaposes each contemporary work with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history. The latest additions to the collection include works by emerging as well as local or Boston-born artists, while the earlier objects range from an ancient Egyptian carving of a princess to 20th-century textiles from southwestern Nigeria and Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Together, these objects invite visitors to explore an array of subjects—from religious devotion and ancestral heritage to queer communities and Indigenous resistance—sparking ... More
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