The artist Tom Sachs prepares a rocket for launch in Chicago, July 8, 2022. Sachs is selling NFTs, designing Nikes, exploring outer space (sort of) and uncorking three concurrent shows in Seoul. Evan Jenkins/The New York Times.
SEOUL.- By now, artist Tom Sachs is used to people suggesting that the way that he runs his studio has some parallels with the operation of cults. “A cult just means — when you look it up — it just means a group of people with idiosyncratic and shared values,” Sachs said one recent afternoon. “Everyone’s welcome to leave whenever they want.” Sachs, 55, was taking a break from putting the finishing touches on his show “Tom Sachs Space Program: Indoctrination” at Art Sonje Center, one of three solo exhibitions he was readying in the South Korean capital. To get it all done, he had flown in five members of his 25-person New York-based team, who were identifiable by their Sachs-branded apparel and Nikes (he just designed a sold-out model; a rerelease arrives in August). Visitors to Art Sonje have the chance to learn some of the studio’s guiding principles (called “the code”) — be on time, keep to-do lists, pay fines for various infra ... More
Ilana Savdie, The mouth briefly shut itself, 2022. Oil, acrylic, and beeswax on canvas stretched on panel, 72 x 67 in.
LONDON.-White Cube is presenting ‘In jest’, an exhibition by Ilana Savdie. Her first solo show in London, it features new large-scale paintings and drawings which explore performance and excess as modes of dissent and resistance. Expanding on the carnaval tradition of her native Colombia, a subject she has worked with in the past, in this group of paintings Savdie introduces theatrical themes relating to the circus through the repeating motifs of a curtain, a hoof, a ball, a hoop (sometimes becoming a hole or portal), and in the suggestion of stretching, hanging and reaching bodies. Savdie’s fascination with performance is focused on destabilising agents and excessive modes of behaviour, and her visceral, dream-scape paintings celebrate the jester, the trickster, the parasite, the witch and the clown. As Savdie describes it: ‘They are always protesting, always resisting, ... More
Stefan Soltesz is the fourth conductor to collapse midperformance in Munich since the early 1900s.
by A.J. Goldmann
MUNICH.- Stefan Soltesz, a prominent and in-demand Austrian conductor, died Friday night after collapsing during a performance at Munich’s main opera house. Soltesz, 73, was conducting the Richard Strauss opera “The Silent Woman” at the Bayerische Staatsoper, or Bavarian State Opera, when he fell from his podium shortly before the end of the first act. He was pronounced dead at a hospital several hours later, said Michael Wuerges, the spokesperson for the company. “At some point, the music stopped,” said Sebastian Bolz, 35, a research assistant in the music department at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, who attended the performance with his wife. He said that they did not see the conductor’s fall shortly before 8 p.m. but that they did hear calls for help from the stage and orchestra pit. Wuerges said that the theater’s on-site ... More
LONDON.-The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the six buildings contending for the coveted 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize, awarded to the UK’s best new building. Now in its 26th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is the highest accolade in architecture. The six new buildings in the running to be crowned the UK’s best are: 100 Liverpool Street, London (Hopkins Architects): a net zero development encompassing a dramatic renovation and extension of a 1980s office block to create a suite of offices and commercial and public spaces in the heart of London’s financial district. Forth Valley College – Falkirk Campus, Scotland (Reiach and Hall Architects): a set of three cutting-edge higher-education facilities connected by courtyards and open learning spaces. Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, London (Henley Halebrown): a striking red-brick complex that uniquely combines affordable housing ... More
Stephanie H. Shih, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda, 2022. Ceramic, 4 3/4" H x 2 1/2" W x 2 1/2" D.
NEW YORK, NY.- I read a story about a woman who worked in a convenience store. She ate only food from the convenience store. The water she drank was chilled in plastic bottles from the refrigerators that hummed fluorescent light from the back of the store. She imagined the light interacting with her skin like the sun might. It would change its tone the way the sun does. She arrived at work before sunrise and left the store long after dark. A humming fridge sounds like a cicada This was not a chain convenience store, it was family owned. They were open every day, including Sunday. The owners of the store were not Christian. The clientele varied with each day. On Sundays, employees of nearby restaurants would come in to purchase last minute items for service, as their deliveries would not come until Monday. Sometimes the Church van drivers would stop in for coffee before starting their pick-ups. Others not observing the Sabbath came in for prepared foods. The prepared food menu also varied by day, thou ... More
ATHENS.-Gagosian Athens is presenting Works on Paper and a Sculpture, an exhibition of work by Albert Oehlen featuring recent drawings and collages and a new sculpture. The exhibition opened on June 9 and is part of a dynamic calendar of art events taking place in Greece this summer. In the exhibition’s solitary sculpture, Oehlen refers to his cryptic Ömega Man motif, a genderless humanoid form prompted by the character of Dr. Robert Neville in the eponymous dystopian sci-fi action movie from 1971. A doomed survivor of a global pandemic, Neville symbolizes, in his desperate predicament, the runaway scientific development that led to humanity’s downfall; Oehlen’s deliberately crude but powerfully robust homage, rendered in cast aluminum, suggests a firm stance in the face of impending calamity. While sculpture is a more recent area of interest for Oehlen, he remains committed to testing the boundaries of painting, ... More
Installation view, READ NO READ, organized by Lisa Williamson, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022, Photo by Jeff McLane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- READ NO READ brings together the work of seven artists based in Southern California. The artists and the respective artworks presented in this exhibition, while distinct from one another, share a layered approach to language and a concentrated relationship to form. Whether an object, an image, a text, or an amalgamation, the ways in which artists choose to articulate or obfuscate carries meaning — it has weight. Artworks are strange containers, forms authored by the artist to convey some thing or idea, while also maintaining a certain resistance. This negotiation between visibility and concealment, between what is legible and what is left intentionally obtuse, is perhaps one reason that art remains such an infinite and compelling read. In certain instances within this exhibition, meaning(s) rest on the surface of an artwork, worn on the sleeve of a form, while in other moments there is the embedding of intent, a language that is held on to, or ... More
Gavin Turk, Holy Egg (Pale Pink), 2022, Acrylic paint on canvas, 173 x 122 x 4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Live Stock Market and Reflex Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.-Reflex Amsterdam presents Fragmented Realities, a summer group exhibition featuring the artists Anna Liber Lewis, Daniel Firman, Gavin Turk, Helen Beard, Harland Miller, Keith Coventry, Marcus Harvey and Michael Craig-Martin. Each artist composes fragments in their work, be that through abstraction or figuration, paintings or sculptures. Dwelling on the artists’ work with fragments, this exhibition offers a kaleidoscopic vision of a whirlwind of bits and pieces that altogether composes reality. Fragmentation is a working method of each of the artists Reflex invited; they are deeply engaged with the world and visualizing its shards. Daniel Firman conjures up wild sculptures examining human existence as a magnetic force attracting objects, little items stick to a person’s head as a lifesize sculpture of the flux of information we exist in every day. Also fascinated with this, Michael Craig-Martin on ... More
SALZBURG.- The Shadow of Figuration presents an exhibition of new works by the Irish-born American artist Sean Scully. Conceived for the gallery space in Salzburg, the exhibition brings together large-scale paintings from the artist’s most formative series – including Wall of Light and Landline – as well as a selection of watercolours. Alongside paintings and works on paper, a monumental sculpture titled Indoor Sleeper (2020) will be presented in the gallery’s outdoor space, offering an insight into Scully’s sculptural practice. The exhibition in Salzburg follows the critically acclaimed fifty-year retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (until 31 July) and coincides with three further major institutional presentations of Scully’s works – at the Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (until 7 August); the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy (until 9 October) and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, ... More
B. Ingrid Olson, Elastic X, installation view, Secession 2022. Photo: Campos.
VIENNA.- B. Ingrid Olson’s art undertakes an insistent exploration of the question of what it means to see and to be seen. Her sculptural and photographic works are studies of the body and space in interaction with the staging of the gaze and connotations of materiality, gender, and power bound up with it. In her exhibition Elastic XOlson presents a series of new works: a sculptural installation that both responds to and inverts the gallery’s architectural characteristics, small anthropomorphic ceramics, and multidimensional photographic objects. Whether captured with the camera, machine made, or cast in a mold, the artist’s works unerringly represent the perceived interrelations between her own body, the bodies of the beholders, and the architectonic body. The group of sculptures Reciprocal Fixtures in the first room embodies Olson’s reading of the setting’s specific qualities. The four corner reliefs pick up on the room’s unusual ground plan, which ... More
Jadé Fadojutimi. Photo: Anamarija Ami Podrebarac. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.-Gagosian announced the representation of Jadé Fadojutimi. To inaugurate the relationship, Fadojutimi will take over the gallery’s booth at Frieze London in October 2022 with an installation of new works. In her paintings, which are often monumental in scale, Fadojutimi orchestrates color, space, line, and movement in the service of fluid emotion and the quest for self-knowledge. She interprets everyday experience in ways that are at once compelling and confrontational, reflecting a drive to understand more completely otherwise indescribable but perpetually intertwined ideas of identity and beauty. “Human. Animal. Natural. We all have souls; objects too,” she states. “We are all beauty, and that is what is encapsulated by the word life.” Making use of key visual elements from twentieth-century painting such as grids, layers, and the juxtaposition of disparate types of mark, Fadojutimi conjures ... More
An exceptional Japanese Imari jar with a lid, executed circa 1880. Estimate: INR 15,00,000 – 20,00,000.
MUMBAI.-AstaGuru Auction House celebrates its 75th auction this August with an extraordinary vintage and antique “Opulent Collectibles” auction scheduled on July 30-31, 2022. Through the course of reaching this milestone, AstaGuru has consistently showcased some of the finest examples of art and craftsmanship in several categories. The third edition of the ‘Opulent Collectibles’ category since its inception in January 2021 is a fine example of AstaGuru’s consistent growth in presenting unique and diverse offerings to collectors. AstaGuru hosted its first auction in 2008 and has since carried out auctions across categories such as Modern Indian Art, Contemporary Art, Vintage Jewellery and Timepieces, Collectibles, Vintage Cars. Textiles, Numismatic, Interiors, Furniture, and International Memorabilia. AstaGuru has grown exponentially over the years and has become a pioneer in the auction market ... More
Grommetype #8, 2017. Monotype on grommeted Twinrocker paper, 13 x 10 1/4 in (33.02 x 26.04 cm).
GERMANTOWN, NY.- This exhibition follows the evolution of Hammond’s monotypes, featuring a selection of works from three series that trace her deep engagement with process: the Bleeding Manuscripts made at the Vermont Studio Center in 1997; a series of “near-monochrome” works created at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado in 2008; and her recent body of Grommetypes (2011–ongoing). Hammond’s works on paper represent an extension of her interest in post-minimal concerns with materials and process, simultaneously in conversation with her painting practice while pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Whereas her paintings imbed fabrics and metal grommets in thick layers of pigment, her monotypes involve a slow build-up of thin layers of ink or paint on a printing plate that is then imprinted onto paper. Viewing the press itself as a collaborator, Hammond works ... More
Quote The content of art is never its subject. Leo van Puyvelde
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LA County Department of Arts and Culture announces more than $4.5M for local arts organizations LOS ANGELES, CA.- To support local arts nonprofits and the communities they serve, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has announced $4,518,000 million in grant awards through its Organizational Grant Program (OGP). The awards provide two-year grants for 227 organizations. OGP is Los Angeles County’s longest-running arts grant program, providing funding for the diverse ecosystem of arts nonprofits that range in size, budget, and discipline—from arts education, to theater, music, and dance, to visual, media, and literary arts. This cycle’s grantees are located and provide services across the County, and many have deep and culturally rooted ties in their communities. The program also addresses systemic inequity in arts funding. Over 80% of grantees have budgets under $1M. These small and micro budget organizations are often ... More
Explore the Arctic landscape through the eyes of 2021 Sobey Art Award-winner TORONTO.- From acclaimed Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) artist ᓛᒃᑯᓗᒃ Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory comes Naak silavit qeqqa?, a multimedia installation opening July 16 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Incorporating video, soundscape and sculpture, the installation seeks to describe sila, the all-powerful Inuktitut word that captures the universe, the environment, and the intellect. Curated by Georgiana Uhlyarik, the AGO’s Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, the installation will transform the AGO’s Fudger Rotunda and features texts in both English and Kalaallisut (Greenlandic). Admission to Naak silavit qeqqa? is free for AGO Members, Annual Passholders, all Indigenous Peoples and visitors 25 and under. On view for the first time since its 2018 debut and at the heart of the installation, is Silaup Putunga (2018) -- a large-scale double-sided ... More
NADA announces new exhibition space & offices at 311 East Broadway NEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is pleased to announce the opening of a new 1,300 sq. ft. exhibition space, housed on the second floor of the historic, turn-of-the-century building at 311 East Broadway on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The year-round, flagship exhibition space, presented as an extension of NADA’s art fairs and events, will host presentations, exhibitions, and programs from NADA’s global community of galleries, non-profit arts organizations, and artist-run spaces. Slated to open in September 2022, coinciding with the organization’s 20th anniversary, the exhibition space will be situated alongside the organization’s new offices on the the third floor as well as the new offices of communications consultancy Cultural Counsel. “We’re thrilled to open an expanded gallery space alongside our new office at 311 East ... More
Shandaken: Storm King announces 2022 season of Artist Residencies NEW WINDSOR, NY .-Storm King Art Center and Shandaken Projects announced the 2022 season of Shandaken: Storm King, comprised of fifteen participating artists: Patricia Ayres, Quinci Baker, Caleb Jamel Brown, Nickolas Calabrese, Lucas de Lima, Manal Kara, Tina Lam, Juan Luna-Avin, Susan Metrican, Narcissister, Mimi Park, Peat Szilagyi, Ruby T, Christopher Udemezue, and Phyllis Yao. Representing a wide range of interdisciplinary practices, the artists will live and work onsite at Storm King starting in mid-June through early October for residencies ranging from two to six weeks. A record number of applications for the residency’s eighth season were reviewed by a panel of artists and curators. The 2022 selection panel included Chrissie Iles, Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Nora Lawrence, Artistic ... More
Lyrical Cool: Kohn Gallery presents a tribute to Shirley Berman LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the Spring of 1951, Shirley Morand famously entered the annals of American art history. Standing in line at the art house Coronet Theater to see Jean Cocteau’s surrealist classic The Blood of a Poet, she was approached by then-unknown artist Wallace Berman. Their chance encounter would put the couple at the forefront of the counterculture movement, with Wallace as the hipster-mystic artist and Shirley as the quiet, yet steadfast first lady of California cool. Like Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas before them, the Bermans cultivated a social sphere unbeholden to the commercial art world. While not an artist herself, Shirley occupied the dual roles of observer and subject, at once the center of the orbit and the cause of its fascination. With her elfin beauty, preternatural poise, and powerful visual appeal, Shirley Berman embodied ... More
Wilding Cran Gallery presents the work of emerging artist Jonah Elijah LOS ANGELES, CA.-Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting A Day In The Life, a curatorial assemblage of the memories and everyday influences of emerging artist, Jonah Elijah. In an effort to capture the essence of life in his hometown of Houston, Texas, Jonah Elijah invites the viewer to take a walk in his shoes, harnessing everything from oil paint and pastel, to newsprint and found objects. Through an odyssey punctuated by snapshots of street scenes and basketball courts, shopping carts and sneakers, A Day In The Life introduces the viewer to a series of vignettes that guide us through the experience of a young black man growing up in America. Throughout his practice, the now Los Angeles-based artist utilizes representational and abstract approaches to painting in order to isolate and examine the impact of certain images, objects, and rituals ... More
Deborah Schamoni presents an exhibition of works by exhibition by Aileen Murphy MUNICH.-Deborah Schamoni is presenting the second gallery exhibition by Aileen Murphy. In Murphy’s paintings, figurations out of loose uncontrolled body parts meet one another. They bite, they lick, they tease, they taste, they kiss, they pet, they feel, they love. Sensual and humorous, dark and witty, sexy and cute are the dynamic compositions, whose playfulness intensifies in the accompanying drawings, or routines (2022) as they are called. Among the paintings, a headless figure, Companion (2022), runs energetically through the picture space, strong black outlines, their breasts pointed, their hands clenched in a fist, they remind us of a superheroine of the 1980s who is always on the spot. Comforting in a different way is the puppy, Softener (2022), head turned to the side, overlong tongue sticking out, legs intertwined. Another decapitated ... More
Bob Rafelson, director of 'Five Easy Pieces,' dies at 89 NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Rafelson, an iconoclastic director and producer who was a central figure of the New Hollywood movement that jump-started American cinema in the wake of the 1960s counterculture upheavals, died Saturday at his home in Aspen, Colorado. He was 89. He had lung cancer, his wife, Gabrielle Taurek Rafelson, said in confirming the death. As a director, Bob Rafelson was best known for “Five Easy Pieces,” his melancholic 1970 road movie about a classical pianist, played by Jack Nicholson, who spurns the bourgeois life to drift through California working as an oil rigger. Nominated for four Academy Awards, the film embodied the era’s downbeat, anti-establishment ethos and cemented Nicholson’s position as a Hollywood leading man. More than a filmmaker, Rafelson was also a skilled navigator of the rapidly shifting ... More
GNYP Gallery opens 'Ariane Heloise Hughes: Better Luck Next Time' BERLIN.- Appearances can be deceiving. Likewise, the present is always constituted by distant reverberations, even when all we see is the unmistakable face of everyday life. Ariane Heloise Hughes’s début exhibition with GNYP Gallery revolves around identity, specifically female identity, conjugating the timeless representations of women with the ways contemporary sensibility apprehends their bodies, passions, fears, and desires. Arcane and modern symbols congregate in these dark canvases, ancient and new stories are interwoven, thus inviting us to a fresh look at old yet contemporary tropes. It might sound like a paradox at first. Most of the paintings presented in this show revolve around Hughes’ personal life. They depict, in her own words, “heart breaks, rejection, growing pains, loss and moments of (in hindsight funny) misfortune.” However, ... More
Vincent Castagnacci's Notes from a Quarry: A special exhibition opens at the Cape Ann Museum GLOUCESTERSHIRE.- This summer, the Cape Ann Museum presents a special exhibition of works by contemporary artist Vincent Castagnacci. Notes from a Quarry focuses on Castagnacci’s drawings and paintings from the mid-2000s to the present, pulling in earlier works that reflect the strong influence Cape Ann has had—and continues to have—on the artist. “All that I have become I owe to the first time I set foot on Cape Ann, and specifically Gloucester,” said Castagnacci. “For close to sixty years, I have lived with its presence in my life.” Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Castagnacci studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and with George Demetrios in Boston and Gloucester in the early 1960s. In 1964, he earned a BFA from Yale, and two years later an MFA from the same institution. It was through his work ... More
The Parrish Art Museum presents "Another Justice: Us Is Them" WATER MILL, NY.-The Parrish Art Museum announces the opening of Another Justice: US is Them—Hank Willis Thomas | For Freedoms, featuring work by 12 contemporary artists from For Freedoms—the artist coalition founded by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery—with the mission to model and increase creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. On view July 23 through November 6, 2022 in the Parrish galleries, outdoors on the Museum grounds, and as digital billboards on the Shinnecock Monuments on Sunrise Highway, Another Justice: US is Them includes nearly 30 works and series—many created specifically for the exhibition—in mixed media, sculpture, site-specific installation, wall painting, and photography. Another Justice: US is Them ... More
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On a day like today, American artist Thomas Eakins was born
December 25, 1844. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer,[2] sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. In this image: A person views Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, on Jan. 5, 2007. To help finance a $68 million deal to keep the masterpiece in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, that it has sold another Eakins painting, "The Cello Player."
