WELLESLEY, MASS.-David Hall Gallery is presenting an exhibition of early works by the American artist Ralph Coburn, 1923 2018. Working across canvases, drawings, and collages between France and the United States, Ralph Coburn redefined the contours of abstract art through a substantial body of work spanning from the late 1940s to the late 1980s. In close dialogue with Ellsworth Kelly during their formative years in France, Coburns innovative approach deconstructed the traditional conventions of painting, dismantling its spatial logic and reimagining its interaction with the viewer. He was among the first postwar artists to question the very foundations of the medium and propose a serious rethinking of the painted canvas format. Yet, his radical inventions from the Latin etymology radix (meaning root) deserve renewed ... More
Jan Hendrik Verheyen (Utrecht 1778- Utrecht 1846), A Dutch Street Scene Along a Canal, signed and dated J. H. Verheyen (with the first three initials conjoined) f. 1811 in the lower left, oil on panel, 20 1/4 x 26 inches (53 x 66 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Jan Hendrik Verheyen was a distinguished 19th century Dutch painter best known for his meticulous cityscapes, particularly of his hometown, Utrecht. Verheyens passion for Utrecht went far beyond that of a casual observer or even an artist seeking inspiration. Utrecht was Verheyens muse. From a young age, ... More
James Turrell City of Light, 2019. 121 x 213 cm. 47 5/8 x 83 7/8 in. Installation of the work City of Light (2019) at Almine Rech Shanghai, 2019.
PARIS.-Almine Rech Paris announces its 12th exhibition in 3 decades with James Turrell organized by the gallery. A new light piece from his ongoing Glassworks series started in 2004 will be on view. Ive always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that... We dont normally ... More
BERLIN.- Berlin celebrates one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: along with Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals ranks among the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. In addition to unconventional, expressive portraits of the Haarlem elite, he was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders as individuals in portrait format. With his extraordinarily relaxed ... More
HUMLEBAEK.- OCEAN is the major exhibition of the autumn at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It follows in the footsteps of previous exhibitions such as Arctic and The Moon, bringing art, cultural history and science together into one grand narrative. This is a diverse story about man and nature, the beauty and horror of the ocean, myths and politics, capitalism and climate realities. For humanity, the ocean has always been at once tangible and abstract. It covers 71 percent of the globe, in Denmark it is never more than around fifty kilometres away and it is ... More
Glenn Brown, The Hoi Polloi, 2024. Photo: The Brown Collection.
PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting In the Altogether, Glenn Browns eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, and the second in the Paris space. Furthering the artists ongoing dialogue between antiquity and modernity, ingenuity and appropriation, the beautiful and the grotesque, Brown presents a new body of paintings of the human form, where dichotomous worlds collapse and collide. Over a career spanning more than three decades of painting, drawing and sculpture, Brown has explored concerns of a technical, ... More
PARIS.- Gagosian announces Maison Ancart, an exhibition of new paintings by Harold Ancart, opening on October 14, 2024, at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The paintings in Maison Ancart are conceived in conversation with the spirit of radical freedom and innovation put forth by pioneering abstractionists, from the Post-Impressionists and the School of Paris to postwar American artists, among others. The trees, meadows, ponds, ... More
BREGENZ.- Music and sound are an integral part of the artistic program of Kunsthaus Bregenz. This is where, in 2015, Susan Philipsz played her arrangements of Hanns Eislers score for the film Night and Fog, and in 2021 KUB proved to be the perfect venue for the art of Anri Sala. For Peter Zumthor, music is a major inspiration for his architectural ideas. For Expo 2000 in Hannover, Zumthor, a winner of the Pritzker award who had originally wanted to be a double bass player, ... More
FRANKFURT.- What may sound like a contradiction is at the heart of the exhibition The Presence of Absence. Breathtaking artworks and scientific exhibits at the Frankfurter Kunstverein invite visitors to experience a sense of awe and deep emotion. The casts of victims from Pompeii, who lost their lives nearly 2,000 years ago and whose figures were preserved as moulds by volcanic materialwhat do they reveal to the viewer? The fossilised footprints of ... More
PARIS.- On November 20, Christies will present the ninth edition of The Exceptional Sale, a highly anticipated event for art collectors and enthusiasts. This sale will feature an extraordinary selection of masterpieces spanning various categories: decorative arts, rare books, haute couture, and even classic cars. Each item in the sale is remarkable, whether for its provenance, craftsmanship, or rarity, ensuring a captivating experience for all attendees. ... More
Dance First think Later, 2024, LED bulbs and Flex led on wood, 135 x 90 cm.
PARIS.- Michel Rein is presenting Alliance des Corps, the inaugural solo exhibition of Marinella Senatore at the gallery. Throughout the gallerys spaces, the light works, collages, drawings, banners and films express Marinella Senatores amazing creativity. Marinella Senatore has imposed a participatory art experimenting with the creative power of the collective. Through The School of Narrative Dance, Marinella Senatore, ... More
View of the exhibition Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano. Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas, 2024. Photo: Dani Pujalte.
BARCELONA.- The MACBA presents the work of Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano, Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas. Inspired by Ay mi pescadito, a popular Spanish song about young fish studying forms of survival and belonging, this immersive work addresses concepts of cohesion and disharmony among species. The installation is on view as part of a solo presentation of the artists ... More
Suzanne Wallinga. Photo: Tengbeh Kamara.
AMSTELVEEN.- Museum Cobra announced the appointment of Suzanne Wallinga as its new General Director, effective October 1, 2024. Together with Financial Director Cor Dinkgreve, Wallinga will form the museums new leadership team, ushering in a fresh era for the institution. Her forward-thinking vision and approach will further strengthen the museums unwavering commitment to modern and contemporary art. Suzanne ... More
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Solo exhibition of new work by Naomi Kawanishi Reis opens at Morgan Lehman Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery is presenting Strange Light, a solo exhibition of new work by Naomi Kawanishi Reis. Through layers of color pencil, pigment prints, acrylic-washed washi cutouts, and semi-precious stones, Reis finds reprieve in the quiet moments of everyday life. The series particularly works through grief, an empty cavern left by loss, with the meditative repetition of manual labor. Drawn from photographs taken on her phone over the past decade, the works search for answers about unseen and unknowable worlds beyond the physical plane, imbuing the landscape with an intensified, animistic presence. The exhibition captures in shadows and glowing refracted light what Reis describes as unheroic moments scenes that take shape in a reflection in a window or a passing glance at a roadside garden at dusk. ... More
Xenia Hausner's first solo exhibition in the Americas opens at KÖNIG MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY.- KÖNIG MEXICO CITY is presenting ALL PASSION SPENT, Xenia Hausners first solo exhibition in the Americas. Hausner borrowed the exhibition title from the famous novel of the same name by British author Vita Sackville-West, who led an unconventional life and marriage during the 1930s, living apart from her husband and engaging in relationships with both men and women. The spirit of freedom and strength of both Sackville-West and her protagonists seems to flow through the works on display, which predominantly feature women. When asked why she mainly paints women, Hausner once explained: "Women are more interesting because they are more contradictory and complex. They have to be more capable, and therefore, they are more expressive." In the exhibitions titular piece, we see two women in a close ... More
The Moths: CRAC Alsace opens a group exhibition ALTKIRCH.- Read The Death of the Moth aloud on a late summer evening on the banks of the Nérac Ponds*; begin this reading with the words Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths**; immerse yourself in the rhythm and accents of the multiple voices of the readers gathered for this collective reading; later, reread The Waves by yourself while learning about the first title that Virginia Woolf gives to her writing project, The Moths, as announced in her diary: Now the moths will I think fill out the skeleton which I dashed in here: the play-poem idea: the idea of some continuous stream, not solely of human thought, but of the ship, the night&c, all flowing together: intersected by the arrival of the bright moths***. The sound of waves can be heard in the distance; a moth bangs against the glass; it seems we can perceive the movement ... More
Take a shine to the Dan Kennedy collection of precious metals at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- In some cases, the old adage is true: bigger is better. Such is the case with the minerals of Dan Kennedy, a longtime collector whose trove is stuffed with specimens as impressive because of their sheer size as they are for their dazzling aesthetic beauty. The big man with a big personality believed in doing things in a ... wait for it ... big way an approach that is visible throughout the magnificent offerings in Heritages October 30 The Kennedy Precious Metals Collection Signature® Auction. Kennedy was a celebrated California collector who collected magnificent minerals that were as big he rarely took in anything less than 15 centimeters in length as they were attractive. The upcoming auction will be one of three from his collection at Heritage, and will focus on his extraordinary subcollection of native crystallized metals. The others, including one coming up in M ... More
Gagosian Le Bourget presents largest exhibition by James Turrell in Europe in over 25 years LE BOURGET.- Gagosian announces an exhibition of works by James Turrell, opening on October 14 at the Le Bourget gallery. It features two new large installations: a Ganzfeld piece, All Clear, and a Wedgework piece, Either Or (both 2024). Additionally included is an early projection work, Shanta, Red (1968); the newer Corner Projection, Afrum Again (2024); and six new in-wall Glassworks pieces that present every configuration of the series. Also on view are holograms, models, prints, and plans of Roden Crater (1976), along with survey lap desks used in their production, as well as other photographs, prints, and archival materials. Since the 1960s, Turrell has worked with perceptual phenomena ranging from sensory deprivation to optical effects. In 1966, he began using planes of light in relation to architectural interiors, launching ... More
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Jake Berthot NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery presents the Wound is the Place the Light Enters, October 14 through December 6, 2024. The exhibition and online viewing room features 5 paintings and 8 works on paper by Jake Berthot. The selection focuses upon Skulls, a subject that Berthot returned to intermittently up to the time of his death in December of 2014. Throughout his 45-year career, Berthot held on to the geometry of the grid (all his sketches are grids) and the poetry of an indeterminate space. Twisting the grid to achieve several vanishing points allowed him to realize, as he would call it, a Rothko-like space. In his early abstract work, the central, deep space is framed by a painted edge. In the 80s, the oval enters, tautly fixed by the grid, confronting the viewer as a portrait. After Berthot moves from the city in the 90s, trees, ... More
Pola Museum of Art presents 'Philippe Parreno: Places and Spaces' HAKONE.- The Pola Museum of Art presents Philippe Parrenos Places and Spaces, his largest solo presentation to date in Japan. Encompassing his diverse practice, and spanning early works of the 1990s through to the present day, the exhibition unfolds in Pola Museum of Arts Galleries 1, 2, 5 and the outdoor setting. Parrenos groundbreaking approach to the presentation of works alters the paradigm of the exhibition, and poses profound questions regarding the ways in which art can be explored and interpreted. He challenges concepts of art and authorship, collaborating with artists, architects, musicians and scientists; and integrating time as a factor in its own right. Drawing on a variety of media including film, sound, objects, and text, but also advanced technologies including AI and robotics, allows him to deconstruct narrative ... More
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On a day like today, American fashion designer Ralph Lauren was born
October 14, 1939. Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz, October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. In this image: Designer Ralph Lauren walks the runway to audience applause after his fall 2010 collection was presented in New York, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.