Destruction inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral after a Russian missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine, July 25, 2023. The repeated missile strikes this week are new for Odesa, which has largely been spared from the widespread attacks that have hit cities including nearby Mykolaiv and the capital, Kyiv. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times).
by Valerie Hopkins
ODESA.- There are no longer walls behind the main altar of the Transfiguration Cathedral, a landmark heavily damaged when Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. So on Tuesday, when the breeze from the nearby Black Sea blew in, it disturbed the stillness inside one of Ukraine’s largest places of worship, sending a chandelier in the nave swinging like a slow pendulum from side to side. Detritus floated down from the roof as building inspectors, United Nations employees and priests donned hard hats to assess the damage to a cultural icon. “We hope God will protect the heart of our cathedral,” said Father Oleksii after a morning Mass held in front of the red-and-white caution tape roping off the main part of the church. Outside, residents gathered around the entrance to the cathedral, which is now boarded up with plywood. Many stopped to kiss an ic ... More
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Plum Brandy , ca. 1877. Oil on canvas, 29 x 19 3/4 in. (73.6 x 50.2 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (1971.85.1). Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 24, 2023, Manet/Degas examines one of the most significant artistic dialogues in the genesis of modern art. Born only two years apart, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917) were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists whose work shaped the development of modernist painting in France. By examining the ways in which their careers intersected and presenting their work side by side, this exhibition investigates how their artistic objectives and approaches both overlapped and diverged. Through 160 paintings and works on paper, Manet/Degas takes a fresh look at the interactions of these two artists in the context of the family relationships, friendships, intellectual circles, and sociopolitical events that influenced their artistic and professional choices, ... More
Catherine Opie, Justin Bond, 1993. C-print, 40 x 30 inches. Museum purchase made possible by the UMMA Director’s Acquisition Committee, 2023.
ANN ARBOR, MI.-The University of Michigan Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired a major work by acclaimed artist McArthur Binion. Self: Portrait (2022) was the centerpiece of the artist’s recent solo exhibition of the same name at Library Street Collective in Detroit. The new work expands on a body of paintings that Binion first created in 2016 that features a layer of collaged photographs and personal documents overlaid with the artist’s signature approach to painterly geometric abstraction. The mixed media work is the first by Binion to enter UMMA’s collection. It is a museum purchase with support from Joseph and Annette Allen, with proceeds from the sale going to support Binion’s foundation Modern Ancient Brown, which nurtures BIPOC artists and writers, and is developing a public skatepark designed by Binion and legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk. UMMA also announced the acquisition of an iconic painting from ... More
A figure of a yakshi, or courtesan, carved from ivory, on display in the exhibition “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, July 17, 2023. (Elizabeth Bick/The New York Times)
by Rachel Sherman
NEW YORK, NY.- What weighs more than 4,000 pounds, lives on a remote island and can only travel by boat during India’s dry seasons? Answer: five ancient limestone sculptures that needed to somehow arrive in New York — via crate, pontoon barge, ferry over the Krishna River and truck to an airport in Hyderabad. Now imagine the logistics involved in shipping another 120 or so rare Buddhist objects — dozens of which had never left India and many with their own sets of hurdles — to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you will have some sense of the challenges encountered by the curators of its new exhibition: “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE-400 CE.” Spoiler: The objects all made it to the Met, where the stone-carved sculptures glow like candles against ... More
This book is destined to become a standard reference for the international conservation community.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The care and conservation of paintings on canvas is an ongoing concern for museums and collections around the world. In 2019, Yale University, with the support of Getty, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss this vital topic. This was the first major symposium on the subject since 1974, when wax-resin and glue-paste lining reigned as the predominant conservation techniques. Over the past fifty years, such methods, which were often destructive to artworks, have become less widely used in favor of more minimalist approaches to intervention. More recent decades have witnessed the reevaluation of traditional practices as well as focused research supporting significant new methodologies, procedures, and synthetic ... More
Portrait of Laetitia Yhap, 2023.
LONDON.-Hales announced representation of British painter Laetitia Yhap. Yhap's first solo show with the gallery will open in September 2023 at Hales London, followed by inclusion in the gallery's presentation at Frieze Art Fair in October. Laetitia Yhap (b. 1941 London, UK) graduated from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1962. Following her graduation, and, through the support of the Leverhulme Research Scholarship, she travelled to Italy for a year to research Renaissance art and architecture. In 1965, she gained her postgraduate degree from the Slade School of Fine Art. Yhap lives and works in Hastings, UK. Yhap is best known for intricate paintings of fishermen on the beaches of Hastings, UK, created on unusually shaped panels individually hand-made by Yhap for each work. Born in England during the second world war, Yhap has Austrian and Chinese heritage, which, according to her, throughout her life ... More
Peter Burr, screenshot of Liquid Crystal at sunrise, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art launches Sunshine Monument, a new digital art project by artist Peter Burr, on whitney.org. The project was commissioned for artport, the Museum’s online gallery space for net art commissions. Burr’s work is part of the ongoing Sunrise/Sunset series that activates across the Museum’s website twice a day at sunrise and sunset in New York City. Sunshine Monument presents a series of seven animated architectures — one for each day of the week — that references the Museum’s structures literally and symbolically. Wandering figures populating the abstract building highlight the contrast between the ephemeral quality of a flow of short-term visitors to a museum site and the long-term engagement of its stakeholders, from artists to museum staff and patrons. Each scrolling animation that appears on the website twice daily reflects both the underlying formal principles of whitney ... More
TORONTO.- Awash in hot pink, rich ochre, blood red and lemon yellow, Sarindar Dhaliwal’s solo exhibition When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario on July 22, 2023. Featuring artworks from the past forty years, including photographs, immersive installations, watercolour paintings, drawings and textile works, Dhaliwal’s poetic and deeply personal expressions are rooted in her childhood memories and experiences of migration, from India to England and Canada. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition at the AGO, the exhibition is curated by Renée van der Avoird, the AGO’s Associate Curator of Canadian Art, and is organized by the AGO. Born in Punjab, India in 1953, Dhaliwal spent her formative years in Southall, England, before migrating to Canada as a teenager. While attending art school in ... More
This 'Operation Herrick IX - Afghanistan’ Conspicuous Gallantry Cross sold for: £160,000.
LONDON.- 37-year-old Brad ‘Bugsy’ Malone left the Royal Marines after 16 years in 2018 and he now wants to build a homestead/ retreat in the Scottish Highlands for like-minded soldiers to use and experience a new way of life. To be able to finance his plans, he decided to sell his ‘Operation Herrick IX - Afghanistan’ Conspicuous Gallantry Cross that was awarded when he was section commander with 45 Commando Royal Marines. The C.G.C sold for a hammer price of £160,000, which was a World Record Price for a C.G.C at auction, today (Wednesday, July 26, 2023), was awarded for his involvement on three separate occasions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2008 and was offered for sale by Noonans in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. It was bought by Private Collector. Following the sale, which Brad watched from a remote Scottish island, he said: “Wow, I’m overwhelmed. The medal ... More
Most recently, Dr Coates was at the helm of the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) as Artistic Director and CEO. Photo: Cam Matheson.
CAULFIELD EAST .- After an extensive search, Monash University has appointed Dr Rebecca Coates as the new Director of the Monash University Museum of Art. Dr Coates is an accomplished museum director, curator, writer and lecturer, and has previously worked at numerous acclaimed institutions, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Museum of Modern Art Oxford. She brings extensive experience in developing and implementing visionary and timely artistic programs, and a strong commitment to community engagement and increasing opportunities around diversity and inclusion. Most recently, Dr Coates was at the helm of the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) as Artistic Director and CEO. During her seven year tenure, Dr Coates oversaw a transformative period during ... More
A robot from the Studio Ghibli film “Laputa: Castle in the Sky,” at Ghibli Park in Nagakute, Japan, June 10, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
by Mike Ives
NEW YORK, NY.- One of our first infractions at Ghibli Park was hoisting our 1-year-old onto the polyester tummy of a woodland spirit creature. Another was letting him slip under a barricade and shelter inside a furry bus with cat eyes for headlights. “He’s not following the protocol,” I told my wife, as the staff overseeing the cat-bus play zone looked on anxiously. “He’s making a mockery of it,” she said. But we didn’t stop him. Ghibli Park, which opened in November outside Nagoya, Japan, pays homage to the eccentric, enchanting films of Studio Ghibli, a company co-founded in the 1980s by director Hayao Miyazaki. We took our two toddlers there because their favorite movie is “My Neighbor Totoro,” ... More
Jupiter (in the guise of Diana) and Callisto, 1733. Jacob de Wit (Dutch, 1695–1754). Black chalk, pen and ink, brown and gray wash, watercolor, gouache, white heightening, and brown ink framing lines; sheet: 44.5 x 30.8 cm (17 1/2 x 12 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 2023.45.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include Écriture No. 22-77 by Park Seo Bo (박서보), a pioneer in Korean postwar abstraction; a clay sculpture by Rose B. Simpson, a contemporary Native American artist; drawings by Dutch artist Jacob de Wit and British artist Richard Cosway; and five Nabeshima porcelain dishes from the province of Hizen in Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost island. Écriture No. 22-77 by Park Seo-Bo (Korean, b. 1931) is a masterpiece of Dansaekhwa, one of the most important movements in postwar Korean art. Park is widely regarded as the father ... More
Neil Ernest Tomkins, Emu Rockhole Again, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 85 x 50 cm.
NEW SOUTH WALES.- Australia’s oldest Indigenous gallery Cooee Art is relaunching as Art Leven, ushering in a new era for the gallery under the stewardship of long-term owner and Director Mirri Leven. Although the gallery remains focused on First Nations art, in this new chapter as Art Leven, the gallery is exhibiting non-Indigenous alongside First Nations artists, through specially curated individual projects. The new gallery vision focuses on transparent dialogue, offering an opportunity beyond the ordinary commercial relationship between artist and gallery, fostering an environment of openness and direct exchanges between artists. Art Leven is working directly with First Nations curators, art centres, and represented artists. Art Leven is unveiling its inaugural exhibition in line with this new programming focus today within its bespoke gallery space, located ... More
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Accademia delle Arti del Disegno presents 'Un Bestiario in Bronzo: A Bestiary in Bronze' FLORENCE.- Now extended through August 31, Un Bestiario in Bronzo – A Bestiary in Bronze is on-view at Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence featuring artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup. The exhibition space has become temporarily transformed, to use the titles dear to Skaarup, into a paradoxical bronze circus, or a “Carnival of The Animals.” Animals have often been represented as symbols and allegories; from national birds and symbols of empires to iconic figures in fables and fairy tales. The animals of this bestiary are similarly anthropomorphized as allegories of both human aspirations and human follies. The exhibited sculptures and drawings are based on thorough research and rethinking of the animalier tradition which dates back to classical antiquity and even beyond to the deepest annals of prehistory. ... More
'Camila Falquez and Luis Rincón Alba: The Voice Does Go Up' at Hannah Traore Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- The Voice Does Go Up, an exhibition by Camila Falquez and Luis Rincón Alba, is on view at Hannah Traore Gallery through October 7. The Voice Does Go Up is a multimedia installation and performance site that explores the various dimensions and potentials of the human voice. Activated through video, audio recording, and live performance, these scenarios feature collective assemblages of sound where the voice emerges through its gestural and material qualities. Emphasizing the role of the voice in music, the installation delves into and accentuates the most captivating and enchanting traits of sound. The exhibition’s title originates in a quote from the Saint Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. In an interview with Edward Hirsch for The Paris Review in 1986 entitled “The Art of Poetry,” Walcott compared the task of the poet to that of the ca ... More
Kate Dorrough's exhibition 'The Vessel and the River' opens today at Arthouse Gallery NEW SOUTH WALES.- The practice of Kate Dorrough sustains a conversation between paint and clay, launching an inquiry into the interplay and tension between the gestural mark and the hand built ceramic form. The artist's recent work explores landscape as metaphor, with its inland river systems a vital source of survival and bestowal of fertility. Dorrough considers the cyclicality of renewal and destruction that defines the land, her painterly gestural marks evoking totemic symbols of this enduring landscape. In her new exhibition 'The Vessel and the River' Dorrough reflects on the complexities of our relationship with landscape and the connections forged through the river. Her tactile, textural markings take on the form of a language inspired by the rhythmic undercurrent of nature, the vulnerable handwriting of her children and the calligraphic qualities ... More
A Lover's Discourse: Chase Hall exhibition to include painting by Jackson Pollock ASPEN, CO.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the opening of an exhibition by Chase Hall, on view at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, starting today to August 27, 2023. The exhibition is the second part of the series A Lover's Discourse, which began June 22, 2023. A Lover’s Discourse is a new series of artist-led presentations at the Aspen Art Museum introducing unexpected dialogues between artworks from different generations. Each exhibition juxtaposes recent works by an early-career artist who also selects a companion piece borrowed from private collections in Aspen spanning historical and contemporary pieces across figurative and abstract painting, sculpture, video, works on paper, and sound. Driven by a dialogic approach, the title of the program is inspired by Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse (1977) in which the author embarks ... More
Thierry Goldberg is opening Friends & Family today, group exhibition exploring the concept of familiarity NEW YORK, NY.-Thierry Goldberg is now opening Friends & Family, a group exhibition of works by Nicolas Lambelet Coleman, Carlo D'Anselmi, Sally Kindberg, Rocio Navarro, Nicholas Norris, Natalie Terenzini, and Bwambale Wesely. The exhibition opens on July 27th, with a reception from 6-8pm, and will run through August 25th, 2023. In Friends & Family, artists who have exhibited with the gallery over the past season converge, united by a single thematic underpinning: the concept of familiarity. Through a captivating dialogue on identity, community, and connection, the artists in the show offer a glimpse into the rich tapestry of human experience. Nicolas Lambelet Coleman creates paintings that skillfully command contemplation. Each work, which draws on an extensive understanding of art history and modern cultural symbols, exemplifies ... More
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art announces death of Ernestine Raclin, arts patron, business leader and philanthropist NOTRE DAME, IN. .- The University of Notre Dame mourns the loss yet celebrates the life of long-time arts patron Ernestine “Ernie” Morris Carmichael Raclin, who has passed away at age 95. Deeply engaged with the South Bend and Notre Dame communities, “Ernie” was a collector of 17th- to early 19th-century European art and a supporter of the Museum. From the construction of the Snite Museum of Art facility in 1980, Raclin has been deeply engaged with the arts on campus; she extended that support in 2017 when she announced a major gift for a new museum with her daughter Carmi and son-in-law Chris Murphy. The new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the entrance to Notre Dame’s ... More
From pet cemetery owner to identity thief to bestselling ghostwriter NEW YORK, NY.- From the driver’s seat of her Tesla, Lara Love Hardin leveled a steady gaze at a house on a sun-bleached cul-de-sac in Aptos, California, and talked about the afternoon in November 2008 when she was handcuffed and yanked out the front door by a sheriff’s deputy who told her she didn’t deserve to be a mother. “This whole street was filled with probably 10 sheriff’s cars. The neighbors were all standing here,” said Hardin, now 56. That day capped off a lengthy drug binge that cost her six years of sobriety and custody of her four sons, ages 3, 13, 16 and 17. Hardin’s second husband was also arrested; their toddler went to emergency foster care. “There was no more magical thinking,” she said. “There was no more, ‘I can talk my way out of this, I can spin a story.’ It was just over.” Before her cataclysmic nose-dive, Hardin owned a pet ... More
Biden creates monument to Emmett Till amid fights over Black history WASHINGTON, DC.- President Joe Biden established a national monument Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder helped galvanize the civil rights movement, making a case for reckoning with the legacy of racism in America even as some Republicans try to limit how Black history is taught. The monument honors Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open coffin at her son’s funeral, saying that “the whole nation had to bear witness to this.” The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument includes three protected sites in Illinois, where Emmett was born 82 years ago, and in Mississippi, where he was killed at the age of 14 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. In a ceremony at the White House, which was attended by Vice President Kamala Harris as well as members of the Till ... More
RISD Museum announces a new Director PROVIDENCE, RI.-The RISD Museum announced the appointment of Tsugumi Maki as its director effective October 10. Maki, who brings 25 years of experience in the museum field, is currently the chief exhibitions and collections officer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). “We look forward with great excitement to working with incoming RISD Museum Director Tsugumi Maki. We believe her experience, creativity and dedication to learning make her a perfect fit to carry on the great work of the museum, while at the same time preparing us for the urgencies of the future. On behalf of the museum and all its supporters we welcome Tsugumi to the RISD Museum family!” —Bob DiMuccio, chair of the RISD Museum Board of Governors As chief exhibitions and collections officer at SFMOMA, Maki oversees exhibitions, collection and ... More
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