DRESDEN.- At a ceremony on 16 August 2023 in Sydney, Australia, the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony returned four objects to the Kaurna people that embodied their identity. Mizi Nam represented the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, Ophelia Rubenich the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Jens Hoch the German Embassy. The restitution took place in the presence of Dr Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider, representing the SES. Four everyday items were returned: a spear, a digging stick, a cudgel and a net, all collected between 1838 and 1839 by the Protestant missionaries Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann and Christian Gottlob Teichelmann on behalf of the Lutheran Protestant missionary society in Dresden. The missionaries worked in the region around Adelaide, South Australia, when the area was first colonised. That time was marked by the indigenous populace being displaced from their lands, losing their languag ... More
Sam Kerson, who painted the murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School 30 years ago, at his studio in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, Feb. 11, 2023. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past two years, administrators at Vermont Law and Graduate School have been locked in a legal battle with the artist they commissioned to paint a set of murals in the 1990s. Painted on the walls of one of their school buildings, the two murals depict the brutality of slavery, including a slave market. The administrators moved to conceal the murals, which some students believed depicted Black people in racist ways. But the artist, a white man named Sam Kerson, sued to block the school from hiding his work, saying the concealment violated federal law. Under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, artists have certain “moral rights” to their work, which include the right to prevent art from being destroyed, modified or distorted without their consent. Kerson’s lawyers had argued that the school’s installation of acoustic panels was equivalent to modifying, ... More
The clay brick from the National Museum of Denmark from which the samples were derived. Image courtesy: Arnold Mikkelsen og Jens Lauridsen.
OXFORD.- For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Currently housed at the National Museum of Denmark, the clay brick originates from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu. Known today as the North-West palace in Nimrud (modern-day northern Iraq), its construction began around 879 BCE. The brick has a cuneiform inscription (written in the now extinct Semitic language Akkadian) stating that it is "The property of the palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria." This makes it possible to date the brick precisely to within a decade (879 BCE to 869 BCE). During a digitalization project at the Museum in 2020, the group of researchers were able to obtain samples from the inner core of the brick—meaning that there was a low risk of DNA contamination since the brick was created. The team extracted DNA from the samples by adapting a protocol previously used for other porous materials, s ... More
The fourth collection produced by Pacsun and the Met was inspired by the museum’s collection of Greek and Roman statues. (Pacsun via The New York Times)
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NEW YORK, NY.- When Pacsun, the brand known for selling skate and surf wear at malls, announced last year that it would release a clothing collection in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, some reactions could be summed up as: Why? The type of laid-back West Coast lifestyle associated with Pacsun since its beginnings in California in the 1980s seemed at odds with the interests of the Met, an Upper East Side museum where saltwater could damage the artworks. Not to mention: Was there even an audience of skaters and surfers with an eye for Renoir? Apparently, yes. After releasing three collections with the Met, Pacsun will release a fourth Friday. The new line contains 25 pieces, ranging from $25 to $90, and is inspired by the museum’s collection of Greek and Roman statues. The items, sold on Pacsun’s website and at its stores, include a mesh long-sleeve shirt printed with the Marble Head of an Athlete ($35) ... More
Warden Wayne in costume being filmed by Tristan Lawrence for “Spider-Man: Lotus,” a fan film. (Austin Santibanez, via Gavin Konop via The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2020, Gavin J. Konop, a high school junior in Rancho Cucamonga, California, was going through a rough patch in life — his grades were dipping and his friendships strained — so he decided to create a film about his favorite superhero: Spider-Man. Drawing on various comics, he wanted to tell an emotional story of Spider-Man grappling with personal failure and self-doubt, a tale that would parallel his own problems as a teenager. This month, Konop’s “Spider-Man: Lotus,” made for $112,000 through crowdfunding, debuted on YouTube after a red-carpet premiere in Los Angeles. It has received about 3.5 million views, but it has also become mired in controversy after screenshots surfaced on social media showing racist texts sent by Konop and the lead actor. Between the comparatively large budget and the texts controversy, “Lotus” has gone viral, and the resulting ... More
Anne Neely, Aftermath, 2021. Oil on linen, overall: 153.04 x 118.43 cm (60 1/4 x 46 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV 2022.130.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- Exploring the relationship between figuration and abstraction, Anne Neely (b. 1946) evokes uncharted territories and imagined landscapes. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Aftermath (2021), a radiant canvas of poured paint and bold gestures with jewel-like passages. Aftermath joins two prints by Neely already in the National Gallery’s collection. Aftermath features a glowing sky created by layers of blue, pink, and gray paint applied by a combination of pouring and spattering. The resulting effect recalls the drama of the aurora borealis or perhaps (as the title suggests) nuclear fallout or the effects of climate change. This mood is underscored by the absence of any human presence, with only the tangled black marks surmounting a wall suggesting evidence of civilization. The brick wall in Aftermath not only references one of the favored motifs of Philip Guston, an influential artist ... More
Jo Baer, Snow-Laden Primeval (Meditations, on Log Phase and Decline rampant with Flatulent Cows and Carbon Cars), 2020, painting, oil paint on canvas.
DUBLIN.-IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) launched solo exhibitions by two renowned artists, Jo Baer and Anne Madden, opening today Thursday 24 August 2023. American artist Jo Baer and Irish-Anglo Chilean artist Anne Madden have both demonstrated an uncompromising commitment to painting as a medium lasting over the past seven decades. These solo presentations, alongside exhibitions by Patricia Hurl and Howardena Pindell, continue IMMA’s programming strand that champions the practices of long-established female artists whose relevance and contribution to the contemporary discourse remains as urgent as ever. The solo exhibition by Jo Baer, Coming Home Late: Jo Baer In the Land of the Giants, brings together a series of recent paintings inspired by the artist’s stay in the archaeologically rich countryside of Co. Louth between 1975 and 1982. Born in 1929, Baer was one of the key figures of the Minimalist painting movement in New York in th ... More
BASEL.-Gagosian has announced about an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by Christo at the gallery in Basel. Selected Works, which is presented as part of Kunsttage Basel, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s last project in the city in 1998, when they wrapped 178 trees around the Fondation Beyeler in 55,000 square meters of woven polyester fabric. Renowned for their monumental temporary works, artistic collaborators Christo and Jeanne-Claude effectively redefined the relationship between art and public space, expanding the possibilities of scale and transforming ... More
Tony Ortega, Frida y Diego Nos Muestran México, 1991. Silkscreen on paper, twelve col- ors, 37 1/2 x 28 inches. Gift of Charlie Miller and Museum Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, 1992.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.-Laguna Art Museum is currently hosting Marking an Era: Celebrating Self Help Graphics & Art at 50. Over the past 50 years, Self Help Graphics & Art (SHG) has grown to become one of the leading initiators of the creation of Chicana/o/x and Latinx art in the world. It has also played a substantial role in advancing printmaking in Southern California and beyond by engaging with hundreds of artists and fostering networks of collaborative opportunities. Laguna Art Museum is proud to have a significant collection of prints produced at Self Help Graphics & Art between the organization’s foundation in 1983 and 1992, when these works came into the museum’s collection. In celebration of Self Help Graphics & Art’s momentous 50th ... More
Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Charlotte, 2023.
BRUSSELS.- For her debut exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, Undivided Attention, French-Israeli artist Nathanaëlle Herbelin presents a series of paintings that capture the sensations of lived experience, and the intimate bond between art and life. People take centre stage. Friends, fellow artists, family members, her partner, neighbours, and occasionally strangers, are all captured in quiet portraits that bear witness to an intense act of physical and psychological observation. The settings are simple — bedrooms, bathrooms, domestic spaces, her studio — and the details sparse. In today’s fast-paced, ever-connected world, Herbelin explores the subject of focus and what it means to give someone, or something, your undivided attention. Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s portraits capture moments of unguarded intimacy. People are often engaged in rituals that are performed without thinking, such as ... More
Donnelly presents her work in Geologic as the physical artifacts of an imagined alternative geologic timeline. Image courtesy of the artist.
RICHMOND, VA.-Richmond - 1708 Gallery is opening Geologic today, an installation by conceptual textile artist Andrea Donnelly. Donnelly presents her work in Geologic as the physical artifacts of an imagined alternative geologic timeline. Here a small sliver of the story of a parallel present is told through a distant future discovery of curious objects that shimmer between their tangible materiality and layers of imaginative world-building and metaphor. Through the physicality of her process as a weaver, Andrea inhabits the role of both architect of this world, and its solitary explorer. This is a space of alternative geologic time. The Earth holds her stewardship and we, the human animal, have always existed without malice and in balance. Long ago we constructed our colonies and nests in many lovely and curious languages, the symbols ... More
Raton Oasis, 2023. Oil on panel, 72 x 48 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Jason Kowalski is regarded for his reverential images of mid-20th century Americana. His work emanates an engaging sense of the importance of preservation and memory of a time past. LewAllen Galleries presents an exhibition of Kowalski’s exquisitely painted works celebrating these elements entitled, Heritage Traveler, which opens today with an artist reception from 5 – 7 p.m. at the gallery. Kowalski’s paintings represent important places in the nation’s collective memory, depicting these places like flashbacks to times past, but as they exist today: old bowling alleys, roadside motels with their fading marquee signs, vintage cars and trucks, and abandoned filling stations. These works go beyond nostalgia, bespeaking the truth of time with no artificial embellishment, yet also softening a bit of time’s harshness with Kowalski’s masterful use of gentle atmospheric colors and sensitive perspec ... More
Phung-Tien Phan, Hans, 2023, detail, in: Phung-Tien Phan, Kartoffel, Kunsthalle Basel, 2023. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- A giant applesauce can, feathers, pants, a paper clip, a table, and tape. Or cable ties, cloth cord, doll clothes, paper napkins, and steel wire: these are the stuff of Phung-Tien Phan’s newest body of sculptures. They bear titles such as Charlie, Nicolas, or Takeshi the first names of men, nearly one and all. Shiny marble slabs topped with rocks and wonky, antenna- like wires conceal (at first view) the interiors of the sculptures’ hollow wooden forms. Like little ad hoc versions of the sorts of Buddhist altars popular among the Asian diaspora, they are replete with occasional shelves and offerings that contain within them clues to their respective titles: in most are nestled doll clothing along with one or more digitally- printed internet-sourced image of a Hollywood actor in one of his seminal movie roles, in one case next to a ... More
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After 122 years, a lost Edith Wharton play gets its debut NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE.- Edith Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, “A Backward Glance,” glances a bit more carefully at some things than others. She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry James a chapter, but names her husband of 28 years exactly once. (And that’s only because she quotes James referring to him.) One subject Wharton doesn’t mention at all? “The Shadow of a Doubt,” a full-length 1901 play that got close to a Broadway opening before foundering under murky circumstances. It was all but forgotten — which is perhaps what Wharton had intended — until two scholars unearthed a script in 2016. Mary Chinery, of Georgian Court University in New Jersey, and Laura Rattray, of the University of Glasgow, found the script in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. (Crucially, the play was filed not under ... More
Flying high at the beach: Birds, dancers, Merce and Michelson NEW YORK, NY.- With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without actual wings. They tipped forward from their hips, leaning their torsos ever so slightly forward. They stood still while holding up a quivering, bent leg. Sometimes, as they lingered in a position, gradually lowering an arm or bending to the side, a sea gull flew past the glinting sun, dipping and then rising before disappearing into the horizon. The glittering scene seemed like a dream. Surveying the shoreline of Rockaway Beach on a recent morning, Patricia Lent, from the Merce Cunningham Trust, was elated. “This is a dream come true,” she said, adding: “It’s someone else’s dream — but it is a dream come true.” Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” has finally made its way to the beach. ... More
Famed conductor accused of striking singer at performance NEW YORK, NY.- The appearance by conductor John Eliot Gardiner leading the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in southeastern France this week was supposed to be a celebration: the start of a tour across Europe by one of classical music’s most revered maestros and his esteemed ensembles. Instead, Gardiner, 80, provoked an outcry when, on Tuesday evening, he was accused of hitting a singer in the face backstage after a concert performance of the first two acts of Berlioz’s opera “Les Troyens” at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André. Gardiner struck the singer, William Thomas, because he had headed the wrong way off the podium at the concert, according to a person who was granted anonymity to describe the incident because the person was not authorized to discuss it publicly. Thomas, ... More
Johaar Mosaval, who broke free of apartheid for ballet, dies at 95 NEW YORK, NY.- Johaar Mosaval, a charismatic South African ballet dancer who left the racial barriers of apartheid behind to become a celebrated principal with London’s Royal Ballet, and who is believed to be the first South African man of color to have done so, died on Aug. 16 in Cape Town. He was 95. His death, in a hospital after a fall a few months earlier, was announced by his family. Mosaval was a magnetic performer whose solo roles — and the pyrotechnics he brought to them — were praised by critics and beloved by audiences for the many years he performed in England. A diminutive man, he was the prankster Puck in “The Dream,” Frederick Ashton’s one-act ballet drawn from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; the puppet Petrushka in Michel Fokine’s ballet of the same name, set to music by Igor Stravinsky; and the Blue ... More
'Freie Bahn ins Glück' by Michaela Eichwald now opening at Neue Galerie Gladbeck GLADBECK.-Neue Galerie Gladbeck is opening the solo exhibition Freie Bahn ins Glück by the artist MICHAELA EICHWALD at Neue Galerie Gladbeck. The opening will take place on today at 6:30 pm and will be introduced with a summer party. The new works in the exhibition Freie Bahn ins Glück are created on site in Gladbeck and are made especially for the gallery’s premises. With an open mind, Michaela Eichwald embarks on a frank work process to leave us standing in front of her paintings, perhaps overwhelmed, perhaps amazed. You only see what you know? Oh, dear Goethe! Michaela Eichwald also tries to see what she doesn’t know. At least that’s what I (also) claim now. Her painting does not affirm a provocation against the picture as such. The artist does not rest on her defiance. She negotiates an image, consistently until its liberation. Concentrated, ... More
Patron's Harold Mendez is now exhibiting at the Wexner Center for the Arts CHICAGO, IL.- Spanning two galleries, 'one way to transform and two and three' at the Wexner Center for the Arts represents Harold Mendez’s largest exhibition to date, bringing together over thirty recent works that focus on historical and personal narratives. Mendez’s exhibition offers a collection of new sculptures, large-scale mixed-media works, and assemblages. The title, from a poem by Canisia Lubrin, emphasizes states of flux, like the continuous process of becoming and the fluidity of transformation. As a first-generation American of Mexican-Colombian descent, Mendez’s experience of being raised in multiple places informs his carefully researched works. He deepens his ongoing exploration of the historical narratives that have shaped the Americas by reflecting on familial memories and personal stories. ... More
Château La Coste is featuring the new sculpture and painting work by Irish artist Guggi LE PUY-SAINTE-RÉPARADE.-Château La Coste has opened an exhibition of new sculpture and painting by Irish artist Guggi (b. 1959, Dublin) exploring the complexities of the human experience and the artist’s personal memories through interpretations of the humble vessel. Titled ‘Memory to Form’, and curated by Dr. Jon Wood, the show is a continuation of Guggi’s exhibition ‘Broken’, which was previously presented in Château La Coste’s Renzo Piano Pavilion. Guggi’s practice is characterised by its introspective and contemplative style, drawing on the spiritual and the transcendental through the depiction of everyday objects in their simplest forms. The vessel is one of the artist’s signature motifs and in its repetition, he has created a language of these precious objects, giving form to memories. In this exhibition, the artist continues working with canvas, ... More
She outgrew the wish to be perfect NEW YORK, NY.- Last month, author and podcast host Elise Loehnen joined Taryn Toomey, founder of the mind-body workout the Class, at a “Women’s Intuition” workshop in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. Loehnen spoke about her bestselling book, “On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good,” which argues that women have long been culturally programmed to fear being “bad” and to suppress their emotions, their needs and their voices. “The premise of today’s workshop is to reconnect to that voice,” she said. “To deepen it, to channel it, to find everything we’ve been taught to repress in our bodies and bring it to the surface.” As Loehnen read aloud a series of prompts (channel a fear of gluttony into a celebration of appetite, for instance), Toomey led the class through a series of exercises ... More
Scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer Nathan Myhrvold blends intellect with creativity NEW YORK, NY.-Nathan Myhrvold is founder of Modernist Cuisine Gallery and lead author and photographer of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, Modernist Bread, Modernist Pizza, and Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography. He routinely pushes the boundaries of culinary science as a chef, photographer, scientist, and writer. At a young age he consumed cooking books and invested in new cameras and lenses—even while doing postdoctoral cosmology work with Stephen Hawking. While working as the chief technology officer of Microsoft, he took a leave of absence to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine ... More
Scripps College's Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery announces exhibition 'Gettin' It Done' CLAREMONT, CA.- On August 26th, Scripps College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery will present “Gettin’ It Done: A Selection of Work by Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Betye Saar, Emma Amos, Alison Saar, Letitia Huckaby, LaToya Hobbs and Kenturah Davis.” The exhibition will be featuring 48 works by celebrated Black artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. In particular, “Gettin’ It Done” will highlight pieces from the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps, which focuses on works by women and artists of color. The collection, which honors the legacy of Scripps College Professor Emerita of Art History Samella Lewis, was created in 2007 by former Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Mary MacNaughton, ... More
To seize the fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector dance NEW YORK, NY.- They’ve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance studio in downtown New York City, feeling their way through a dance passage. Moving close together, they enter and exit each other’s orbit. They keep track of each other in the mirror, communicating every so often in short bursts: “I’ll link up with you here,” or, “There’s a fling-the-arm-thing here.” They are in the final weeks of preparing “Água Viva,” a dance loosely influenced by a 1973 novel by Brazilian experimental writer Clarice Lispector. The piece will premiere Saturday at Hudson Hall, in Hudson, New York. The dance is both a duet and a layering of solos. Now the two women are independent but complementary entities, now they move in near-unison, now in canon. They also move differently — Lee-Parritz ... More
On a day like today, French painter Henri Fantin-Latour died
October 25, 1904. Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 - 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. In this image: People gather in Arthur Rimbaud's museum as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the famed poet's birth, Wednesday Oct.20, 2004 in his native town Charleville-Mezieres, eastern France. Rimbaud is seen at left on a copy of Fantin Latour's painting "Rimbaud en discussion avec Verlaine" (Rimbaud Talks with Verlaine). Other characters on painting are unidentified.
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