HOUSTON, TX.- Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s drawing practice. For Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), drawing marked the beginning of a lifelong interest in and commitment to art, playing a foundational role as she experimented with diverse materials and processes to develop a distinct visual language. Co-organized by the Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in close collaboration with the estate of Ruth Asawa, the exhibition presents drawings, collages, watercolors, and sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, and copper-foil works, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. Ruth Asawa Through Line will be on view at the Menil Drawing Institute until July 21, 2024. Rebecca Rabinow, Director, The Menil Collection, said: “Ruth Asawa’s drawings are complex and rich, owing much to her striking creativity, her curiosity about the world around her, her cultural background as an American ... More
HONG KONG.-Gagosian announced Andy Warhols Long Shadow in Hong Kong, on view March 25May 11, 2024, and coinciding with Art Basel Hong ... More
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950. Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board, 12 x 18 in. 30.5 x 45.7 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.-James Cohan is presenting Si Lewen, curated by Art Spiegelman, on view at the gallerys 52 Walker Street location from March 23 through April 27, 2024. Polish born artist Si Lewen (1918-2016) is best known for The ... More
Curator Alison Palmer in the Best Bedchamber.
HEVER.-Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn arguably the most beguiling and famous of Henry VIIIs six wives - will unveil the Boleyn Apartment on the first floor of the castle on 25 March 2024 to give visitors a truly unique and immersive experience of Tudor history. The apartment, the only surviving suite of rooms in the world that the Boleyn ... More
HONG KONG.-Pace presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Kylie Manning at its Hong Kong gallery. On view from March 26 to May 9, the show, titled Sea ... More
SEOUL.-White Cube is presenting the first solo exhibition in Asia of pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (19272004), opening in Seoul in March 2024. A ... More
Giorgione da Castelfranco, La vecchia, tela, 1506 ca. Photo: Gallerie dell'Accademia.
VENICE.- From 24 March to 23 June 2024, paintings and drawings from Museum Berggruen - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin are on display in Italy for the first time. More than 40 works by Picasso, Matisse, ... More
In a rendering provided by teamLab, via Pace Gallery, the second of a two-work display by the art collective teamLab, titled Resonating Trees, in which the light of the trees responds to the light of ovoids arrayed across land and sea. (teamLab, via Pace Gallery via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- This month, just before Art Basel Hong Kong begins, an array of artworks some towering, some glowing, another harking back to old Hong Kong will pop up outside the walls of the ... More
The Australian artist Daniel Boyd. At Art Basel Hong Kong, two celebrated First Nations Australian artists will present complex and contrasting perspectives on Indigenous identities. (Joshua Morris, via STATION via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At Art Basel Hong Kong, two celebrated First Nations Australian artists will present complex and contrasting perspectives on Indigenous identities. In their work, the two artists, Naminapu Maymuru-White and Daniel Boyd, carry ... More
SAN ANTONIO, TX.-The San Antonio Museum of Art is presenting teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change, a focus exhibition featuring a contemporary digital artwork by renowned art collective teamLab alongside a seventeenth-century Japanese screen from the Museums collection. We are thrilled to present teamLabs digital artwork ... More
Zoe Gallagher, who plays Pamela Zatti, during a rehearsal of Indiana Universitys new production of Star on the Rise, the reimagined La Bayadère, in Bloomington, Ind., March 7, 2024. (Noble Guyon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- One after the other, women in white step out of the wings, reaching forward into space before swaying gently back, arms overhead. Then they take two steps forward and begin the ... More
Mickey Barreto in Manhattan on March 12, 2024. Barreto was born in Brazil and came to the United States in the 1990s to attend college. (John Taggart/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior ... More
LONDON.- A display of rare, nationally significant outfits is at the heart of Out shopping: The dresses of Marion and Maud Sambourne (1880-1910), a major new exhibition which shines a spotlight on the intimate story of a middle-class mother and her affluent daughter at ... More
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Delving into the secret lives of old Hong Kong buildings HONG KONG.- Sacha Yasumoto likes to serve dinner with a side of danger. Her guests are blindfolded and driven to a mystery location in the middle of nowhere Hong Kong. Depending on the night in question, they might have to trek into the jungle to reach their final destination. Here, in the decaying ruins of a mansion or temple or other abandoned site, the guests might be served a menu of kabocha potage, gin jake (salmon), slow-cooked wagyu beef and chocolate cake, while at any moment, a bat, gecko or wild monkey could make an appearance. Its all multisensory, said Yasumoto, who has been organizing these 30-40 person Dangerous Dinners in Hong Kong since early 2023. Things like the wind, the creaking, maybe the passing leopard cat. The meals are a chance to get a glimpse of a ... More
Maurizio Pollini, celebrated pianist who defined modernism, dies at 82 NEW YORK, NY.- Maurizio Pollini, an Italian pianist of formidable intellectual powers whose unrivaled technique and unwavering interpretive integrity made him the modernist master of the instrument, died Saturday morning in Milan. He was 82. His death, in a clinic, was announced by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he performed frequently. The announcement did not specify a cause, but Pollini had been forced to cancel a concert at the Salzburg Festival in 2022 because of heart problems and had pulled out of a number of subsequent recitals. Pollini, who performed for more than half a century, was that rare pianist who compelled listeners to think deeply. He was an artist of rigor and reserve whose staunch assurance, uncompromising directness and steadfast dedication to his ideals were evidence of what his colleague Daniel ... More
It's a golden age for shipwreck discoveries. Why? NEW YORK, NY.- Some were fabled vessels that have fascinated people for generations, like Endurance, Ernest Shackletons ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. Some were common workhorses that faded into the depths, like the Ironton, a barge that was carrying 1,000 tons of grain when it sank in Lake Huron in 1894. No matter their place in history, more shipwrecks are being found these days than ever before, according to those who work in the rarefied world of deep-sea exploration. More are being found, and I also think more people are paying attention, said James P. Delgado, an underwater archaeologist based in Washington, D.C. He added: Were in a transitional phase where the true period of deep-sea and ocean exploration in general is truly beginning. Experts point to a number of factors. Technology, they say, has made ... More
New and historical works by Anselm Kiefer engage in a profound dialogue at Palazzo Strozzi FLORENCE.-Palazzo Strozzi presents a major exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest masters of the 20th and 21st century art, Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition allows direct contact with the art of the German artist thorough new and historical works that engage in a profound dialogue with the Renaissance architecture of Palazzo Strozzi, including a new work especially created for the palaces internal courtyard. Curated by Arturo Galansino, General Director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angel is a journey that reflects on topics such as identity, history, and philosophy. Through painting, sculpture, installation and photography, Kiefers art offers deep introspection into the human condition, in a complex weaving of connections between the past, present and future. Since his debut on the art scene in the late sixties, ... More
Piknik, a longtime Russian rock band, stands at center of tragedy NEW YORK, NY.- Early Saturday, Piknik, one of Russias most popular heritage rock bands, published a message to its page on Vkontakte, one of the countrys largest social media sites: We are deeply shocked by this terrible tragedy and mourn with you. The night before, the band was scheduled to play the first of two sold-out concerts, accompanied by a symphony orchestra, at Crocus City Hall in suburban Moscow. But before Piknik took the stage, four gunmen entered the vast venue, opened fire and murdered at least 133 people. The victims appear to have included some of Pikniks own team. On Saturday evening, another note appeared on the bands Vkontakte page to say that the woman who ran the bands merchandise stalls was missing. We are not ready to believe the worst, the message said. The attack at Crocus City Hall has brought renewed att ... More
Shani Mott, Black studies scholar who examined power all around her, dies at 47 NEW YORK, NY.- Shani Mott, a scholar of Black studies at Johns Hopkins University whose examinations of race and power in America extended beyond the classroom to her employer, her city and even her own home, has died in Baltimore. She was 47. She died of adrenal cancer on March 12, said her husband, Nathan Connolly, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins. Although Mott spent her career in some of academias elite spaces, she was firmly committed to the idea that scholarship should be grounded and tangible, not succumbing to ivory tower abstraction. She encouraged students to turn a critical eye to their own backgrounds and to the realities of the world around them. In a city such as Baltimore, with its complicated and often cruel racial history, there was plenty to scrutinize. How do we think about what were doing and how ... More
Judith Butler thinks you're overreacting NEW YORK, NY.- The first thing I did when reading Judith Butlers new book, Whos Afraid of Gender?, was to look up the word phantasm, which appears 41 times in the introduction alone. (It means illusion; the phantasm of gender, a threat rooted in fear and fantasy.) The second thing I did was have a good chuckle about the title, because the answer to the question of who is afraid of gender was ... well, I am? Even for someone who has written on gender and feminism for more than a decade and who once carried the title of this newspapers gender editor, to talk about gender today can feel so fraught, so politicized, so caught in a war of words that debate, or even conversation, seems impossible. I am perhaps the intended reader of Butlers book, in which the notoriously esoteric philosopher-turned-pop celebrity dismantles ... More
M+ announces Sparrow on the Sea, a brand-new 'architectural film' HONG KONG.-M+ is presenting a brand-new film Sparrow on the Sea (2024) by celebrated Chinese artist and filmmaker Yang Fudong, co-commissioned with Art Basel and presented by UBS. The moving image work is being shown on the M+ Facade every night from Friday, 22 March to Sunday, 9 June 2024. This is the third year M+ has collaborated with Art Basel to activate the Facade, presented by UBS. Sparrow on the Sea is an architectural film as Yang describes, intertwining moving image with Hong Kongs landscape, architecture, and soundscape. Shot in the vibrant city, home to both M+ and Art Basels only fair in Asia, the black-and-white film weaves together enchanting scenes from picturesque seaside villages to the captivating allure of nocturnal city streets. Drawing inspiration from the visual motifs and textures of classic ... More
David Zwirner opens 'Wolfgang Tillmans: The Point Is Matter' HONG KONG.-David Zwirner is presenting The Point Is Matter, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Wolfgang Tillmans at the gallerys location in Hong Kong. The exhibitions title stems from Tillmanss long-term understanding of his work sitting between the physical reality and presence of the world he works and lives in and the conceptual, sociopolitical, sensual, and spiritual concerns that underpin his practice. Presented across both floors of the gallery, the works on view include depictions of changing forms of atmosphere and elusive natural phenomena; pictures that explore notions of time and temporality; and images that engage with the artists expansive conceptions of the still life and the portrait. Tillmans punctuates the exhibition with works made in Addis Ababa, Berlin, Lagos, and Mongolia, along with those ... More
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On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Daniel Buren was born
March 25, 1938. Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist. Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. In this image: Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' works 'in situ' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire.