Installation view, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomorrow is the Question, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2019. Courtesy Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Photo: Blaine Campbell.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Among the fall’s surveys of contemporary art, I’m most excited about “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living,” (Oct. 1-Dec. 31) the sixth incarnation of the Hammer Museum’s always enlightening biennial survey of Los Angeles-area art. Its illustrated checklist — all there is to go on before a show actually opens — is palpable with hand making and color. It has body heat. There’s an undercurrent of assemblage to many of the paintings and objects in the show, most evident in the frequent use of found objects and materials that add new strands of political thought. Some works reflect the long arm of conceptual art; more perpetuate outsider and folk art, craft and Indigenous traditions, as with the paintings of self-taught octogenarian Jessie Homer French. Back in New York, two of the Los Angeles art scene’s heaviest hitters — born 20 years apart and emblematic of very different phases of the city’s cultural history — will take over sub ... More
Carol Bove. Photo: Jeff Henrikson. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.-Gagosian announced the global representation of Carol Bove. “Carol Bove is a leading voice in sculpture today,” said Larry Gagosian. “I’ve been following her work for years and was struck by her installation in the Swiss Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia in 2017. Her intervention into the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2021 further impressed me, revealing her acute sense of architecture as a framework for sculpture. Carol exhibits a unique capacity for illusion in her use of materials and color. It’s a privilege and honor to partner with her and pursue more ambitious projects together.” Born in Geneva, and raised in Berkeley, California, Bove relocated to New York in 1993, and is still based there. Since the early 2000s, she has focused on the interdependence of artworks and their contexts. From found objects to industrial construction elements and ... More
In an undated image provided by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s “Replenishing,” 2001, composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs. Big, globe-leaping historical art shows are still scarce, post-pandemic — but the Metropolitan Museum of Art persists in doing them, and no one does big and global better. (María Magdalena Campos-Pons via The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- Big, globe-leaping historical art shows are still scarce post-pandemic. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art persists in doing them, and no one does big and global better. I have high expectations for “Africa and Byzantium” (Nov. 19-March 3, 2024), a roots-and-routes exhibition that promises to illuminate cultural exchanges made between medieval African kingdoms in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia and the Byzantine Empire across the Mediterranean. There are sure to be surprises and beauties beyond compare. Relatedly, I’ll be heading to Baltimore to catch ... More
Elizabeth Olds. American, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1896–1991 Sarasota, Florida Miner Joe Print 1942, Screenprint image: 16 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (41.9 x 31.1 cm),sheet: 18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (47.6 x 32.4 cm). Museum Accession, transferred from the Lending Library Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s, now on view at The Met, features more than 100 works, from paintings, photographs, and decorative arts to fashion, film, and ephemera. The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the United States, and the art and visual culture of the time reflected the unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensified social activism, including a powerful labor movement. Featuring more than 100 works from The Met collection and several lenders, Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s will explore how artists expressed ... More
Chaïm Soutine, The Bellhop, 1925. Oil on canvas, 98 × 80.5 cm. Ancienne collection du baron Kojiro Matsukata affectée en 1959 au Musée national d'art moderne en application du traité de paix avec le Japon de 1952 Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industrielle bpk | CNAC-MNAM | Philippe Migeat.
DÜSSELDORF.- As of last September 2nd, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen opened a presentation of a comprehensive exhibition of works by the artist Chaïm Soutine (Smilavičy 1893–1943 Paris). His expressive paintings reflect his Jewish origins and his life in emigration, and at the same time bear witness to an existence on the fringes of society. With some sixty paintings, the exhibition at K20 deliberately concentrates on the artist’s early masterpieces, focusing on the various series created between 1918 and 1928. The overarching theme of the exhibition is emigration and the permanent uprooting of people that results from it. This phenomenon, both individual and societal, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Americas Society presents El Dorado: Myths of Gold, a new exhibition exploring the myth of El Dorado from the Pre-Hispanic period to the contemporary era. The show is co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator, Art at Americas Society, Tie Jojima, Associate Curator, Manager of Exhibitions, Art at Americas Society and Edward Sullivan, the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, New York University. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, engravings, and videos that offer new interpretations and questions about the myth. Since the invasion of Europeans to the Americas, rumors spread quickly about a kingdom filled with gold, driving conquistadores to find it. Despite never being found, the mythical El Dorado defined the continent as an empty land up for grabs. El Dorado: Myths of Gold brings ... More
PARIS.- "Le Foyer (etymologically, “the domestic hearth” in French) underwent an unprecedented revolution in the 1960s when the washing machine, a symbol of women’s liberation, was widely introduced. With this series, Rose Barberat pens a sarcastic ode to this everyday machine. For the artist, it is when the washing machine is shared that it best reveals the blind spots in our social interactions. The launderette therefore serves as the ultimate common place, as this series of large format canvases shows, offering a delirious foray into this place of collective intimacy. Real life elements are intermittently spread across the white space of the gallery. “Beyond a simple image and setting,” explains the artist, “this is a first attempt at an installation.” In the form of a pictorial story, she sketches a new kind of totem path, depicting half flying machines, half useful objects, around which numerous rituals take place on a daily basis. These ... More
A Margaritaville restaurant in New York’s Times Square on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
by Jordyn Holman and Tiffany Hsu
NEW YORK, NY.- Jimmy Buffett, who died of cancer Friday, was many things: a singer, a songwriter and a spokesperson for tropical escape. But beyond crafting music that inspired listeners to grab a cold drink and take it easy, Buffett was also a businessperson who turned his personal brand into a lifestyle empire that included everything from restaurants and resorts to lines of merchandise such as at-home “frozen concoction makers” and cornhole game sets. Along with music sales and tours, Margaritaville’s success helped propel Buffett into the billionaire ranks; in April, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1 billion. Now Buffett’s empire, named Margaritaville Enterprises after his signature song, must find ways to sustain its business without its founder. “On behalf of everyone ... More
Sicily, Naxos, silver tetradrachm, circa 460 BC, attributed to the Aitna Master.
LONDON.- A fabulous collection of Greek coins formed over 20 years ago by a European connoisseur is to be sold at auction by Morton & Eden Ltd in London on 26-27 September. The sale will take place in Sotheby’s St George Street Gallery just before the major annual UK coin fair Coinex, enabling many prospective buyers to be present. Estimated to realise over £4million, the 561 lots include numerous rarities preserved in outstandingly good condition. Specialist Tom Eden said of the collection, ‘We are very excited about this collection which is probably the finest to appear on the market since the sale of the ‘Prospero’ collection in New York in 2012, and both collectors and dealers are eagerly looking forward to the event’. Two major highlights are coins from 5th century BC Sicily when the island was a Greek colony and part of what has come to be known as Magna Graecia. ... More
Chakrasamvara with Consort Vajravarahi, Kham region, eastern Tibet; 19th century
Pigments on cloth. Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, F1997.7.2 (HAR 99).
CHESTNUT HILL, MA.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College presents Gateway to Himalayan Art, a traveling exhibition organized by the Rubin Museum of Art that introduces the main forms, concepts, meanings, and traditions of Himalayan art and cultures. The exhibition features 101 objects from the Rubin Museum’s collection as well as multimedia elements—audio, videos, essays, maps, and more—from the Rubin’s recently launched educational initiative, Project Himalayan Art, a resource designed to support the inclusion of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into undergraduate teaching on Asia. The McMullen Museum is the first New England venue to host Gateway to Himalayan Art. The exhibition will be on view in the McMullen Museum’s ... More
Important Philadelphia Queen Anne Carved Walnut Armchair.
HILLSBOROUGH, NC .- On Saturday, September 9th, at 9:00am (EDT) Leland Little Auctions will hold its Signature Fall Auction, following the conclusion of their Fine Wine and Rare Spirits Auction on Thursday and Friday. The Signature Fall Auction offers bidders a vetted selection of quality fine art, antique furniture, and fine jewelry. American Fine Art offerings are led by an Indian ink and watercolor on paper by Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957), titled Mujer Cargando Ayate. This work was originally purchased from Diego Rivera’s first art broker, Alberto Misrachi, in January of 1944 by Gimbel Brothers. This work is signed and dated at the lower right. This auction features several works from highly celebrated and collectible North Carolina artists, such as an oil on canvas by Claude Howell (NC, 1915-1997) titled, Heading Shrimp. This large work is signed and dated at the lower right. Other works of note include ... More
BRUSSELS.-rodolphe janssen announced the opening of Florid, the first solo exhibition of Gina Beavers at the gallery, which will take place today. Finding an accurate translation of the word ‘florid’ is hardly feasible, as its meanings in English are numerous. It can refer to a flushed or rosy complexion — the blush of shyness, or the red of the bon-vivant. It could also refer to language; a ‘florid’ language is somewhat elaborated, full of ornaments. ‘Florid’ also alludes to things that are overloaded, too ornamented, excessive. ‘Florid’ also just recalls floral, flowers. By playing with this word, Gina Beavers creates a tension between the beautiful and the grotesque. Where is the thin line that separates them and is there such a thing as ‘too much beauty’? From those reflections, Gina Beavers has unfolded a new series of paintings that almost seem to be shouting. ... More
George Kolbe (1877-1947), Model for Beethoven monument. Bronze, 33.25” H x 13” W x 14” D est. $30,000-50,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As we start to plan and prepare for the party-packed part of the year, John Moran Auctioneers is getting ready to present The Traditional Collector sale, Tuesday, September 26th, 2023, at 10am PDT. The auction, having over 400 lots, is filled with beautiful furniture, art, and sophisticated table settings— all the necessities to delight and impress holiday guests! Highlights include a bronze sculpture by the German artist George Kolbe, a work by a follower of Pierre Jacques Volaire, and over 80 lots of Chinese art and design, including a pair of vibrant Chinese flambe porcelain fanghu vases from the Qianlong Period (1736-1795). Other standouts are a Wooton Renaissance Revival walnut and burl maple secretary desk, and a 65-piece Tiffany sterling silver “Chrysanthemum” flatware service. A Steinway player piano, estimated $6,000-8,000, and over 25 ... More
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First New York solo show by Austin Thomas in over five years opens at Morgan Lehman Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Through her art, the artist navigates city life, capturing architectural geometries and the contagious energy of urban spontaneity. References to soaring skylines and vertiginous views collide to form a maze of shapes and angles that reflect the artist’s unique perspective of metropolitan experience. Her work celebrates the city with a palette of sunny yellows, sky blues, brick browns, and sidewalk-gray hues. The bold markings and eccentric shapes, guided by formal improvisation, reveal multilayered meanings and invite joyful puzzling. For the viewer, looking at her works is akin to traversing the bustling streets of Manhattan. Thomas invites audiences to react freely to and engage with these abstract urban narratives. Through her process-driven approach, ordinary urban experiences morph into extraordinary aesthetic spectacles. ... More
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen features Second World War in exhibition 'Art Amid the Ruins' ROTTERDAM.-Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is currently presenting the project Art Amid the Ruins about artists in Rotterdam during the Second World War. How were their lives affected by the bombing of 14 May 1940? What impossible choices did they face? The exhibition in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen features artworks from the collection that were made during the period or that have a connection with the occupation. It coincides with the publication of The Firebird Generation, a book by art historian and guest curator Sandra Smets that describes the lives of ten artists in Rotterdam during the war. Lastly, the museum is launching an interactive, digital walking map of Rotterdam that invites everyone to explore this history for themselves. Art Amid the Ruins has been made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund, the Pieter Haverkorn ... More
Francis Alÿs presents a more comprehensive version of the exhibition 'The Nature of the Game' BRUSSELS.- Following his presentation for the Flemish entry for the Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Francis Alÿs presents this new, more comprehensive version of the exhibition The Nature of the Game, twelve years after the artist's memorable retrospective at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre that introduced Belgian audiences to the full scope of his work. Since 1999, during his many travels, Alÿs has documented children playing in public places. At the Venice Biennale, Alÿs presented a series of filmed children games made during the pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Hong Kong, Mexico and Switzerland, in dialogue with a group of his discreet small-format paintings. For the presentation in WIELS, he completes several new films, including children's games he recently saw in Ukraine. He confronts ... More
For Brussels Gallery Weekend, Pei-Hsuan Wang opens exhibition at Ballon Rouge BRUSSELS .-Ballon Rouge is opening Pei-Hsuan Wang’s GraĒiĒude Is A Colored Vessel starting today. The title is a direct translation of her grandmother’s married name in Chinese, 謝彩盆. It is a love letter. Wang, who was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States in her late teens, has been exploring her identity as an East Asian woman growing up inundated and influenced by both Eastern and Western ideologies and culture since she began her career as an artist. Whether it be incorporating her half-Asian, half-White niece Iris as a muse and a metaphor, or drawing inspiration from her maternal grandmother's fruit farm in Taiwan, Wang has been parsing her identity vis-a-vis her matrilineal heritage. Woven throughout this is her use of myths and folklore from China and East Asia, and her invested knowledge in history, both real and fantastical as well as personal. In her works, her famil ... More
'Alison Croney Moses: The Habits of Reframing', reframes her own identity as an artist at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery BOSTON, MA.-Abigail Ogilvy Gallery presents The Habits of Reframing, a solo exhibition of artwork by Boston-based artist and craftsperson Alison Croney Moses. Working primarily in wood, the presentation debuts two new series by the artist. The artworks remind us of the power we possess to shape how we view ourselves through our own experiences and the world around us. Through the new series, Croney Moses reframes her own identity as an artist while holding the values we are taught against a mirror of our own reality, bringing into view the misalignment—and understanding the necessity to celebrate our scars without minimizing the hurt that caused them, and reframing perfection to embody imperfection. ... More
Templon's New York space celebrates 1st anniversary paying tribute to American master painter and sculptor George Segal NEW YORK, NY.- A pioneer of installations combining plaster and everyday objects, the Bronx native, George Segal (1924-2000), began his career as an abstract painter. When he discovered the use of pre-cut plaster bandages in the early 1960s, he abandoned paint as a medium and, at the height of the Pop Art movement, turned his focus on three-dimensional paintings with plaster casts applied directly to living models. This unique visual language soon became his signature, opening the door to endless formal possibilities. Both spontaneous and frozen, his compositions reveal an unexpected poetic force as well as a social and political radicality. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey over 25 years of the artist’s ... More
Eiji Uematsu's first-ever New York exhibition opens at Alison Bradley Projects NEW YORK, NY.-Alison Bradley Projects opened the exhibition, Works in Clay: Eiji Uematsu, featuring sixteen works by Eiji Uematsu in his 1rst-ever New York exhibition. Eiji Uematsu (b. Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 1949) works in clay, actively evading categorization as artist or ceramicist. Rather, he approaches the medium as an exploration, delving into both the tactile and immaterial possibilities of the clay. In his own words, Uematsu does not see his ceramic practice as producing new forms, but as drawing out the shapes that have already existed in the soil from its beginning, and without the use of glazing. Uematsu began experimenting with clay as a student in Tokyo in the early 1970s, initially engaged in painting and lithography before being taken by the materiality and possibilities of clay work. Like the Mono-ha (School of Things) artists ... More
'Ye Funa - The Big Dream Show' opens at Eli Klein Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Eli Klein Gallery has opened “The Big Dream Show,” Ye Funa’s first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition features 12 new mixed media collage works from the “Neo Folk Matrix” series, in addition to a video and two paintings, each demonstrating a unique “dream” where different characteristics, items, symbols, colors, traditions, and cultures intersect. Filled with intricate details, these pieces are elaborately executed and contain a variety of elements such as plastics, artificial crystals, metals, fabrics, and an assortment of found objects. These “little worlds and dreams,” in Ye Funa’s own words, highlight her aspiration to explain what roles “folk” should play under the framework of contemporary art. As is true with the majority of single-child families in China, Funa’s relationship with her mother was “offspring-centered.” Her mother Fu ... More
Getty Research Institute acquires Maren Hassinger archive LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of Maren Hassinger. The archive contains original sketches, drawings for large scale projects, photographs, correspondence, print media, handwritten notes, documentation of exhibitions, and audio-visual material. “The Maren Hassinger archive complements, and supplements, texts and other research materials related to African American art in GRI collections, specifically within the context of mixed-media sculpture and performance on both coasts,” says Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. “Hassinger’s archive along with other GRI archival holdings—for example, the Kitchen archive, and materials related to the Woman’s Building, and performance artists such as Blondell Cummings and Suzanne Lacy—will help expand and complicate narratives of women artists during the twentieth century.” ... More
Thomas Erben Gallery exhibits work by Agata Kus and Zbigniew Libera NEW YORK, NY.-Thomas Erben Gallery is now hosting Kus + Libera, featuring the work of Agata Kus and Zbigniew Libera. The show, opening today, is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and co-curated by its Curator of Visual Arts and Design, Izabela Gola. On view are recent photo works by critically lauded and prominently exhibited conceptualist Zbigniew Libera (b. 1959) as well as paintings by Agata Kus (b. 1987), who is part of the current surge of mainly young, female, figurative painters, and whose work has garnered widespread attention. Libera began working in the early 1980's, behind the “iron curtain” in a Poland seeking to free itself from Soviet rule, whereas the art of Kus’s generation operates within and confronts a market-oriented, now capitalist society. The juxtaposition of their work shows how two artists – 30 years apart in age ... More
Gloria Coates, composer who defied conventions, dies at 89 NEW YORK, NY.- Gloria Coates, an adventurous composer who wrote symphonies — she was one of the few women to do so — as well as other works, pieces that were seldom performed in her home country, the United States, but found audiences in Europe, where she lived much of her professional life, died Aug. 19 in Munich. She was 89. Her daughter, Alexandra Coates, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Gloria Coates composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice. In 1999, when she was working on her 11th symphony, composer and critic Kyle Gann wrote in The New York Times that “Ms. Coates’s symphonies are dark and sensuous, and distinguished by an imaginative use of orchestral glissandos (gradual rather than stepwise changes of pitch, like slow sirens), which culminate powerfully in drawn- ... More
On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born
September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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