An image provided by Iwan Baan shows, Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, with the entrance atrium and a monumental statue of Ramses II. With designs that strive to enhance ecology, strengthen community and affirm cultural identity, today’s innovative buildings and projects transcend style. Via Hill International via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been a harrowing ride for projects coming to fruition this fall, planned in what now seems a faraway time before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ricocheting effects of COVID-19 and disasters fueled by climate change. Yet, the best architecture can transform our ways of thinking, our work, our connections to local community. The designs presented here seek to transcend the moment’s crises. Projects such as the international effort to protect Ukraine’s great architectural heritage and, half a continent away, an Egyptian museum that assembles a trove of ancient artifacts affirm national identity against forces determined to erode it. Other designs address a hunger for the natural landscape as respite. As if on cue, an enormous airport in India and a diminutive public garden behind a skyscraper in the New York City borough of Manhattan envelop us with nature where we least expect it. A prairie landscape in Houston tries to restore damaged ecosystems — and visit ... More
Sherman Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965. Courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate the start of Asia Week New York Autumn 2022, a webinar entitled Sherman Lee: Master of Art will be held on Tuesday, September 13 at 5:00 p.m. To register click: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CNxATZ-JTnmo7V7XErJ8Pg Sherman Lee is considered one of the leading Asian art experts in the United States. As director of the Cleveland Museum of Art for twenty- five years, elevated it into the top echelon of American museums. Primarily known for the superb Asian art collection he amassed–including Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan, circa 600, one of the most important Southeast Asian sculptures in a Western collection–Lee also acquired many major paintings by old masters such as El Greco, Goya and Velazquez. Before landing at the Cleveland Museum in 1952, he was associate director of the Seattle Art Museum and curator of Far Eastern ... More
CANDYMAN - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory album cover art by Ruby Mazur.
HONOLULU.- Legendary pop artist Ruby Mazur, who just recently opened the 3000 square foot Ruby Mazur Gallery 280 Beach Walk in Waikiki, may be best known as the creator of the original “mouth & tongue” image designed for The Rolling Stones, first used on the “Tumbling Dice” record sleeve in 1972, and has also been quite vocal about his own personal battles with cancer in recent years, including just over this past year. Knowing first-hand the struggle facing cancer, having gone through it himself for the third time and still battling, Mazur has been involved as a major philanthropist of giving back, especially to children in need fighting cancer. “Having just gone through hell again for the 3rd time battling this killer … Cancer, no one, especially a beautiful innocent child, should ever have to endure this horrible disease. A cure is long overdue and I for one am blessed to try and help”, explained Maz ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Haines Gallery is presenting Social Abstraction, a group exhibition showcasing works by Angelo Filomeno, Won Ju Lim, Aili Schmeltz, David Simpson, Robert Stone and Lena Wolff. Working in a diverse selection of media and practices, these six artists demonstrate the potential for line, color and form to address both real-world concerns—political truths, environmental degradation and conservation, affordable housing—and matters of the mind and spirit. Lena Wolff’s (b. 1972, lives and works in Berkeley, CA) interdisciplinary practice merges craft traditions with geometric abstraction, feminist, and political art. Drawing from American quilt iconography—a medium steeped in history and political potential—her work investigates the transformative power of shape and symbol. Social Abstraction features one of the artist’s signature, hand-cut paper collages, as well as delicate line drawings and wall-hung wo ... More
Vertical Wedge, No. 4, 2022. Solid graphite, 7 x 1-1/4 x 3 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Parrasch Heijnen is presenting the gallery’s first exhibition with New Mexico-based artist Susan York (b. Newport, RI, 1951) featuring a selection of the artist’s sculptures and works on paper dating from 2007 – 2022. Through subtly askew geometric shapes, York explores the visceral aspect of intrinsically felt anomalies as she combines precise elements of geometry with unexpected asymmetry and tension. Her graphite sculptures and works on paper reveal complexities of form in relation to the architecture they inhabit. There are no illusions or tricks in York’s sculptures; the medium is exactly as it appears to be–solid throughout. Each graphite block structure requires an intense physical process, through focused labor and repetition. York developed the reductive technique utilizing chisels, saws and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines with programmed motions to cut away compressed carbon, follo ... More
The architect James Stewart Polshek, at his office in Manhattan in August 1985. Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times.
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NEW YORK, NY.- James Stewart Polshek, who over a nearly 70-year career designed some of the country’s most significant works of public architecture even as he resisted the profitable allure of trendy ideologies and design celebrity, died Friday at his home in Manhattan, New York. He was 92. His son, Peter Max Polshek, said the cause was kidney disease. In an era when so-called starchitects dominated the profession, using their acclaim to pick up lucrative projects around the world, Polshek went the other way, embracing a modest approach to architecture that prioritized a design’s social value over its aesthetic worth. “The true importance of architecture lies in its ability to solve human problems, not stylistic ones,” he wrote in 1988. “A building is too permanent and too influential on public life and personal comfort to be created ... More
Erna Rosenstein, Bardzo dawne (From Long Ago), Undated. Paint and pencil on particleboard, 35.2 x 25.1 x 0.6 cm / 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 1/4 in. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
ZURICH.- This September, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse presents ‘Erna Rosenstein’, the first major presentation in Europe outside of Poland devoted to the iconoclastic artist (1913 – 2004). Rosenstein’s wartime survival, commitment to Surrealism and lifelong adherence to leftist ideologies course through the visual language of her paintings, drawings and assemblage sculptures, as well as poems, diaristic writings and deceptively whimsical children’s stories. Steeped in an extraordinary personal history and responding to traumas suffered in the Holocaust and the postwar sociopolitical upheaval of her native country, the art of Erna Rosenstein defies simple classification. Erna Rosenstein’s six-decade career was fueled by the formation of prewar artistic, intellectual and political affiliations, and is expressed in a constant oscillation between autobiographical figuration and biomorphic abstraction. Whi ... More
Caleb Stein, Braily. The Watering Hole. Poughkeepsie, NY, 2020. Archival Pigment Print 11 x 17 inches.
SANTA MONICA, CA.-ROSEGALLERY is presenting, Down by the Hudson, an exhibition of photographs by Caleb Stein. The show exhibits a selection of works from Stein’s ongoing project of the same name. Wappinger Creek is a 41.7-mile-long creek that connects the waters of Thompson Pond to the mouth of the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York. Carved by the creek’s path is a hidden Eden nestled in a small wooded area behind the Overlook Drive-In Theater on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie. Amongst the trees and muddy banks, residents congregate in and around this watering hole. Physical and social dissonance is forgone in this haven. The maple leaves rustle in the soft breeze, and rushed footsteps progress into a subsequent splash. Placid conversation fills the air, accompanying the slow trot of those wading in the water. Caleb Stein’s Down by the Hudson series is an ongoing ‘ode’ to the small ... More
Large Jar, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Stoneware with natural ash glaze, Shigaraki ware; h. 43.8 cm, diam. 38.1 cm. Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.191.
CLEVELAND, OH.- In March 2020, Clevelanders Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley gave and promised their private collection of more than 100 works of art to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the largest gift of art to the museum since the bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. in 1958. For the first time, the collection is on view in its entirety in the CMA’s newest exhibition, Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, from September 11, 2022, to January 8, 2023 in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall. Throughout two decades of collecting, the Keithleys selected works of art to complement and enrich the CMA’s collection. At times, the Keithleys built upon a strength in the museum’s collection; on other occasions, they acquired a work of art that would bring something entirely new to the collection. Certain ... More
Laura Goin, Aquarelle.
LENOX, MASS.-Sohn Fine Art is presenting Abstract Rhythm & Blue Notes, a celebration of abstract photography highlighting the work of eight emerging and established artists from around the globe. The works on exhibit were created during an intensive, year-long workshop which explored the intersection of photography, abstraction and creativity under the guidance of Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery. The show features the two instructors and six of their students, Deborah Loeb Bohren, Edie Clifford, Laura Goin, Jennifer Gordon, Linda Hacker and Barb Kreutter. The exhibition is on view at Sohn Fine Art (69 Church Street, Lenox, MA) September 9 – October 3. The exhibition and events are made possible by Sohn Fine Art’s Master Artist Series program, which hosts world class photographers in the Berkshires annually. The goal of this program is to offer unique experiences with artists in the top of their fields to patrons and collectors of ph ... More
RESTON, VA.-Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art presents What Makes the Earth Shake, an exhibition of work by proliferate, figurative painter Dominic Chambers, on view September 10–November 20, 2022, at Tephra ICA. Chambers (b. 1993 St. Louis, MO; lives and works in New Haven, CT) creates vibrant paintings that simultaneously engage art historical models, such as color field theory and gestural abstraction, along with contemporary concerns around race, identity, and the necessity for leisure. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. “Dominic Chambers’ practice is vivid, poetic, and imbued with a spirit of restoration,” says Tephra ICA Executive Director and Curator. “We’re thrilled to share his work with the region.” The exhibition takes its title from James Baldwin’s 1962 Letter to My Nephew, where Baldwin ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Gagosian is presenting Meditations on Social Sculpture, an exhibition of new works by Rick Lowe, including paintings that emerged from his Project Row Houses (1993–2018) and Victoria Square Project (2016–), as well as new abstract works that forge links between the conceptual and communal aspects of his practice. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in New York. Lowe’s work is included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and will be featured in Notes on the Great Migration, a solo exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago, opening on October 25, 2022. Lowe’s current paintings evolved from ongoing public community projects—works of “social sculpture” that saw him move beyond the conventions of visual ... More
Caroline Heinecke, Master of Things, Collection of Bricks, 2020, courtesy the artist.
AMERSFOORT.- Brick, we see it every day. An ancient building material that occurs frequently in our environment for both the construction of walls and paving. The exhibition BAKSTEEN | BRICK pays tribute to this material with works by more than fifty artists, architects and designers from the Netherlands and abroad. In new and existing work they show the beauty and expressiveness of fired stone. BAKSTEEN | BRICK can be seen from 10 September in Kunsthal KAdE, the Elleboogkerk and via a tour through Amersfoort with new folly's and existing buildings. Judith van Meeuwen, exhibition curator: 'The appeal of brick walls is anchored in thousands of variations in size, shape, colour, texture and repetition. But it is also the intrinsic layering that makes the material unique. The same brick that gives someone a sense of security can serve as a weapon in an ... More
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Emma Prempeh's debut solo exhibition with Tiwani Contemporary opens in London LONDON.-Tiwani Contemporary is presenting You were, you are, and you always will be, Emma Prempeh’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. "You were, you are, and you always will be, is a recent body of works representing my exploration of interior spaces pictorially colliding with aspects of my personal history. My thoughts whilst making this series were to build an environment around these moments to physically weave around and between, to grasp moments of familiarity, expectation and nostalgia. My reflections are about how we exist within spaces of (in)tangible realities that are present and simultaneously experienced as metaphysical: spiritual, supernatural, or transcendental." Emma Prempeh You were, you are, and you always will be, is held in a space poetically circumscribed by ode and elegy to family, and to friendships. The artists’ ... More
PalaisPopulaire shows the first major solo presentation dedicated solely to LuYang's avatar DOKU BERLIN.- Born in Shanghai, LuYang is one of the most important contemporary Asian artists and this year’s Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year.” LuYang belongs to a young art scene in China inspired by science fiction, manga, gaming, and techno culture that works with hypermodern technologies and deals with the ideas of posthumanism or transhumanism. These schools of thought explore how to extend the limits of human possibilities through the use of high-tech. What is extraordinary about LuYang’s work is that the posthuman is put in the context of Buddhist and Hindu cosmologies. The exhibition DOKU Experience Center focuses entirely on a virtual reincarnation called Dokusho Dokushi, or DOKU for short. The gender-neutral avatar is a hyperrealistic figure whose countenance is modeled on LuYang’s face. All facial expressions and movement ... More
Zachary Armstrong: Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole at Tilton Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Tilton Gallery is presenting Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Zachary Armstrong. This is Armstrong’s third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition is on view from September 6th through October 26th, 2022. Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole is a title taken from a work by Lawrence Weiner that, for Armstrong, encapsulates his desire in this exhibition to gather a wide variety of interests and areas of conceptual exploration into one show. In this exhibition, Armstrong continues to create his own blend of Americana with art history. The works, densely installed, touch upon multiple aspects of his repertory of imagery. Some paintings are beautiful and complex abstractions, painted in layers of encaustic, his chosen medium for painting ... More
Faurschou New York announces three shows NEW YORK, NY.-Faurschou announced the opening of three major exhibitions this fall, featuring works by Zachary Armstrong, Curtis Barnes Sr., and Robert Rauschenberg. The shows are on view from September 10, 2022 through January 29, 2023. “This time we set out to explore flickers of American art, which continues to inspire us. Three different artistic viewpoints across culture and generations, each of them inviting us into their rich and moving practices, unique stories and place in American culture and history,” says Jens Faurschou, Founder of Faurschou. The upcoming shows mark the third round of exhibitions in Faurschou’s Greenpoint galleries, which opened in 2019. On view are three solo exhibitions: Robert Rauschenberg’s exhibition features iconic paintings and a sculpture spanning the artist’s lifelong practice; Zachary ... More
Kewenig opens a survey of the interface between the worlds of the aural and the visual BERLIN.- A survey of the interface between the worlds of the aural and the visual is presented by KEWENIG with 'Paracusia: Of Sounds & Visions', mapped through works from artists as diverse in approach as Helen Chadwick, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kimsooja, Haroon Mirza, Chris Newman, Camille Norment, Sean Scully, Jeremy Shaw, Liliane Tomasko, Naama Tsabar, Don Van Vliet, and Marcelo Viquez. Paracusia seeks to trace the kaleidoscopic steps of this existential tango between two most ardent siblings, wherein, as Walter Pater famously observed, “all art constantly aspires toward the condition of music”. Since the earliest days of the modern era, art has been enthralled by music: even as music broke new ground – Schoenberg’s dissonance crackling into the space revealed by abstraction, as if the stuttering fuse to the explosive nature ... More
Judith F. Baca presents the first complete presentation of monumental, collaborative mural LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Judith F. Baca: World Wall, the first complete presentation of the monumental, collaborative mural World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear (1987-ongoing) by celebrated Chicana artist Judith F. Baca (b.1946, Los Angeles) in her hometown of Los Angeles. “Judy Baca belongs to a generation of Chicanx artists who were inspired by El Movimiento to give voice to the voiceless through public art, and for nearly fifty years, she has been our city’s foremost muralist. With the World Wall mural, she took a homegrown form–muralism, which was disparaged in many quarters–conceived of it as an arena for international dialogue, and sent it around the globe in order to envision nothing less than world peace. It is a tremendous honor for MOCA to join the legacy of Baca’s profoundly ... More
New exhibition explores over 130 years of artists' responses to the changing West Coast landscape OAKLAND, CA.-Mills College Art Museum is featuring over 200 works from the collection in Shifting Terrains, an exhibition examining artists’ responses to the West Coast landscape. Works in the exhibition explore the impact of climate change and the importance of environmental justice and preservation, as well as capture the stunning beauty and ecological diversity of the American West Coast. The exhibition pulls from the Art Museum’s deep holdings of California artists, including early twentieth-century California Impressionist paintings that celebrate the state’s northern coastal scenery, and images by pioneering photographers whose work helped establish Yosemite Valley as part of the National Park Service. These pieces underscore the conflicting interests of land conservation and commercial development throughout ... More
Why did Instagram pause this play? Its creators still don't know. PARIS.- It was hailed as France’s first “Instagram play.” In Marion Siéfert’s “_jeanne_dark_,” a 16-year-old character, Jeanne, goes live on the app to tell the world about her private frustrations — and as she films herself with a smartphone onstage, Instagram users can watch, too, and weigh in. Yet in early 2021, a few months into the production’s run, Instagram started cutting off these livestreams, citing “nudity or sexual acts.” Then the account tied to the play disappeared from the platform’s search results. For months, Siéfert and her team scrambled to understand why their work — which will have its New York premiere Wednesday, as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival — was being repeatedly targeted. “People thought what we were doing was great, the future of creation,” Siéfert said in Paris this month. “But ... More
James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Spencer Finch NEW YORK, NY.-James Cohan is presenting We send the wave to find the wave, an exhibition of work by Spencer Finch, on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location from September 10 through October 8. This is Finch’s fourth solo exhibition with James Cohan. We send the wave to find the wave features new paintings, light-based work, watercolors, and major installations that deepen Finch’s investigations into light, colorand the variability of human perception. The works in the first gallery are dynamic expressions of Finch’s enduring interest in the ways in which color and light are translated into a formal vocabulary rooted in minimalism, yet harnessed to an expressive effect. The installation Bauhaus Light (Kandinsky’s Studio/ Klee’s Studio, afternoon effect), 2022, installed across two sides of a wall in the center of the gallery, brings ... More
After decades of silence, art about abortion (cautiously) enters the establishment NEW YORK, NY.- In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which became all the more timely when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Depictions of abortion are still rare in the art history canon. Check the walls of museums and flip through the pages of H.W. Janson or other art textbooks, and you are likely to encounter countless images of beatific mothers, dimpled infants and a world in which pregnancies are not terminated. But the subject of abortion, which historically was shrouded in shame and relegated to the realm of unspeakable secrets, has lately been gaining visibility in the art world. The change owes something to a mix of museum ... More
'Glorious' hero or 'deplorable' traitor? Pétain's legacy haunts French island ÎLE D’YEU, FRANCE.- On a recent afternoon, three French friends, still groggy from a long night of partying on a tiny island south of Brittany, stopped by a cemetery to snap a photograph of a grave they had heard so much about. The tomb, flanked by conifers, was nestled at the far end of the burial ground. Once they finally found it, a lively debate ensued. “He was successful in the 1918 battle,” said Théophile Jamet, 24. “But who cares, man?” his friend Victor Beaufort sighed. “You saw what he did after.” The person lying beneath the white stone slab they had come to see is the subject of many similar arguments across France: Philippe Pétain, who led the French army to victory in World War I but later collaborated with Nazi Germany as the head of a nationalist and antisemitic regime. More than 70 years after Pétain’s death, his grave ... More
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January 12, 1829. Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 - 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. His works are housed at leading public galleries in Germany. Stuttgart has the second version of Iphigenia; Karlsruhe, the Dante at Ravenna; Munich, the Medea; and Berlin, The Concert, his last important painting. In this image: Francesca da Rimini und Paolo Malatesta c. 1864.
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