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'Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection' opens at V&A South Kensington |
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Installation images of 'Fragile Beauty' at V&A South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- The V&A opened the exhibition Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Showcasing over 300 rare prints from 140 photographers the exhibition is a major presentation of twentieth and twenty-first century photography on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Selected from their collection of over 7,000 images, the exhibited photographs (many of which are on public display for the first time and some in the collection’s bespoke frames) are era-defining images which explore the connection between strength and vulnerability inherent in the human condition. Whilst universally compelling, the images are intensely personal for John and Furnish, as they are the photographs they live with in their home. Following on from the 2016 exhibition The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection at the Tate Modern, this exhibition covers the period fro ... More |
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| Exhibition at Deichtorhallen Hamburg aims to present possible worlds beyond artistic practice |
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Broadway opened 12 shows in 9 Days. Here's what that looked like. |
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The Momentary opens new photography-focused exhibition: 'Kristine Potter: Dark Waters' |
Kablusiak. Ookpiks. Courtesy Norberg Hall © Courtesy the artist.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition project Survival in the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of life in the age of poly-crisis. The exhibition, developed by Georg Diez and Nicolaus Schafhausen in close coordination with the Deichtorhallen, incorporates fundamental questions of ecology, technology, and spirituality. The School of Survival will augment the works by some forty international artists featured in the exhibition and transform the museum into a learning space for the future. Survival in the 21st Century focuses on the basic questions of human existence and reflects on the radical changes ahead: climate change, the digital revolution, increasing injustice on national and global scales, democracy in crisis, and the necessity of community. This elaborate exhibition, featuring numerous multimedia installations and an exhibition architecture designed by the office of Bundschuh Architects, demonstrates how cultural survival needs new cul ... More |
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A starry opening-night Broadway crowd for “Stereophonic,” including Miriam Silverman, left, a Tony winner last year, and Rachel Brosnahan, center, at the Golden Theatre on Broadway on Friday, April 19, 2024. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Broadway recently got busy. Really busy. Seven musicals and five plays opened in nine days, scrambling to beat the April 25 deadline to qualify for this year’s Tony Awards. Just five days after the last opening, the nominations were announced. The overlapping runs constitute a risky bet by producers and investors, who have tens of millions of dollars at stake. Even in the best of times, most Broadway shows fail, and these are not the best of times: Production costs have soared, and season-to-date attendance is 18% below prepandemic levels. But the shakeout will unfold over time. First: fanfare and flowers, ovations and optimism. We sent a reporter and a photographer to chronicle the crush of openings. ... More |
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Kristine Potter, Breakneck, 2016 from Kristine Potter: Dark Waters (Aperture, 2023) © 2023 Kristine Potter.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- On May 11, 2024, the Momentary opened Kristine Potter: Dark Waters, an exhibition of richly detailed black-and-white photographs inspired by the enigmatic terrain surrounding bodies of water that bear names of violence in the American South: places like “Murder Creek,” “Deadman’s Branch,” and “Bloody Fork.” The series of photographs, complemented by a video and sound installation, unravels the deeply held associations between land and a history of violence in this area of the nation. Kristine Potter: Dark Waters is accompanied by Potter’s second monograph, co-published by the Momentary and Aperture, which continues the artist’s engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. The exhibition is curated by Sarah Meister, executive director at Aperture; Alejo Benedetti, curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary; and Elise Raborg, curatorial associate of cont ... More |
| The Hepworth Wakefield acquires a new work by Ashraf Hanna |
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Academy Museum presents 'Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital' |
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Annely Juda Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū |
Ashraf Hanna, Yellow Undulating Angular Bowl, 2022. Photo: Michael Harvey.
WAKEFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield acquired a new work by artist Ashraf Hanna, thanks to the generosity of The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust’s Emmanuel Cooper Prize. The Hepworth Wakefield’s director, Simon Wallis, attended Ceramic Art London, 19 – 21 April 2024, and selected Hanna’s Yellow Undulating Angular Bowl, 2022, to join Wakefield’s art collection. Hanna was born in 1967 in El Minia, Egypt and has worked in Pembrokeshire, UK for over 20 years. Hanna’s Egyptian heritage plays a significant role in informing his sense of form and scale in his work. His early artistic training in Egypt augmented his understanding of form through observation during still life studies and he cites being inspired by the ‘quiet beauty of an ever-changing sand dune and the timeless flow of the River Nile’. Most of Hanna’s formal art and design education and discovery of ceramics happened in the UK. He studied at the Royal College of Art and was taught b ... More |
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Mabel Normand behind the camera, 1916. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presents Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, the museum’s first permanent exhibition. Hollywoodland, presented in English and Spanish, tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema. Hollywoodland is curated by Dara Jaffe, associate curator, with support from Gary Dauphin, former associate curator of digital presentations, and Josue L. Lopez, research assistant. Author and film critic Neal Gabler is an advisor for the exhibition. “The American film industry began developing amid an influx of immigration to the United States by Jewish émigré s escaping European pogroms and poverty,” said Jaffe. “Most of Hollywood’s founders were among this ... More |
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Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū, Rei (things that flow and stagnate point in the direction of water veins) 2023, Yakinuki-type ‘Rock’ White Raku bowl, 11 x 14.1 x 9.6 cm.
LONDON.- Following on from the landmark 2022 Annely Juda Fine Art exhibition of Kasimir Malevich and Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū in London - which was also shown at the Sagawa Art Museum in Moriyama, Japan the year before – the gallery announced a second exhibition, conceived together with Raku Jikinyū, of a new group of 30 Black Rock and White Rock tea bowls which are being shown accompanied by the music of Alban Berg and Toru Takemitsu; composers whose music influenced and inspired him as he created the tea bowls. There is a continuity from the previous exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art in the sense that Malevich and Berg were both early pioneers of the avant-garde – a subject very close to Raku Jikinyū’s heart. Of these stunning new tea bowls, he has said: “When I started working on my Rock tea bowls for this exhibition, my inclination was to work with blackness. The results – metaphors ... More |
| Venus Over Manhattan opens solo exhibition with artist and cultural activist Xenobia Bailey |
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Kalfayan Galleries opens the second gallery solo exhibition in Greece of works by Slavs and Tatars |
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Exhibition presents three California-based artists connecting historical symbols with contemporary realities |
Xenobia Bailey, "Untitled," c. 2008. Hand crocheted cotton and acrylic yarns; 30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk: The Second Coming, the gallery’s debut solo exhibition with artist and cultural activist Xenobia Bailey. This landmark presentation—Bailey’s first solo gallery exhibition in New York City in over two decades—explores her signature method of crochet, featuring some twenty recent and historic works that comprise an immersive installation. Notably, this presentation marks Bailey’s first gallery exhibition since the unveiling of “Funktional Vibrations” in 2015, the artist’s large-scale mosaic commissioned by the MTA for the 34th Street Hudson Yards subway station, one of the largest works ever commissioned by the authority. Staged in advance of Bailey’s participation in the Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition “Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture,” the exhibition f ... More |
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Slavs and Tatars, Astaneh (English), 2024. Steel, glass, 94 x 75 x 25 cm. Courtesy the artists and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens - Thessaloniki.
THESSALONIKI .- Kalfayan Galleries are presenting the second gallery solo exhibition in Greece of the internationally acclaimed art collective Slavs and Tatars. Titled “Simurgh Self-Help”. Slavs and Tatars’ exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries débuts work from Simurgh Self-Help, the collective’s first new cycle of work since Pickle Politics (2016-2023). Works from this new cycle are being featured in museum shows in 2025 in Germany (Kunsthalle Baden Baden) and France (Frac, Pays de la Loire). The exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries features new works of Slavs and Tatars in different media: vacuum-formed plastic panels or signs (‘Tranny Tease pour Marcel’ series), a woolen carpet-door, wall sculptures made of steel and glass and unique glass blown lamps in the form of melons. “Simurgh Self-Help” draws inspiration from Marcel Broodthaers’ “Musée d'Art Moderne - Département des Aigles” (1968-197 ... More |
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Zhang Jian-Jun, Water & Fire #16, 1992. Ink, water, fire on watercolor paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alisan Fine Arts is presenting Light, Space and Time, a group exhibition featuring the work of California-based Asian American visual artists Julie W Chang, Summer Mei Ling Lee and Zhang Jian-Jun. Influenced by the Californian coast and the Light and Space movement, Chang, Lee and Zhang approach light and space through a different lens and additional dimension. Informed by historical-cultural perspectives, their practices add a “time” element to the works in the exhibition. Light, Space and Time runs through June 22, 2024, in Alisan Fine Arts’ newly opened New York gallery at 120 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065. The particular light of the California coast has long informed the work of artists living and working on the West coast of the U.S., most notably in the atmospheric works by artists associated with the Light and Space movement (1950-1970). Artists who were part of this movement—including Robert Irwin, James Turrell and Larry Bell—typically cre ... More |
| The Vancouver Art Gallery opens the first major museum exhibition dedicated to artists' zines in North America |
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At Cannes, inspiration from ancient Romans and modern women |
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Torre delle Arti Bellagio opens a solo exhibition by Nancy Cadogan |
Robert Ford with Trent Adkins and Lawrence Warren, Thing, no. 4, Spring 1991, offset zine, Collection Steve Lafreniere, Courtesy Arthur Fournier, Photo: Evan McKnight, Brooklyn Museum.
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, the first exhibition dedicated to the radical history and vibrant aesthetics of artists’ zines from North America. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, this monumental exhibition offers a thrilling journey through counter- and subcultural movements of the twentieth century. Zines or “fanzines"—self-published booklets, often made with a copy machine—have been a potent tool for artists and activists since the 1970s, putting the power of print in the hands of everyday people. Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and its significance to subcultures, grassroots movements and avant-garde practices, from punk and street culture to conceptual, queer and feminist art. Featuring over one thousand zines and artworks by more than one hundred artists—including Vaginal Dav ... More |
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George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”.
CANNES.- It must say something about the anxious state of the movie world that two of the hottest tickets at this year’s Cannes Film Festival draw inspiration from ancient Rome. In George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” Chris Hemsworth zips around a wasteland like a heavy-metal charioteer, while in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Adam Driver plays a guy named Cesar. That each movie offers a vision of a culture in decline seems too on the nose for this festival, where attendees celebrate the art amid nervous chatter about the state of the industry. This year’s festival opened Tuesday under gray skies, as if nature itself were mirroring all the gloom and doom. Yet while the opening-night movie, the unfunny French comedy “The Second Act,” was a dud, the hourlong ceremony that preceded it was unexpectedly touching. The show’s focus on women that night was instructive, and it suggested that Cannes, a festival that has long promoted the ... More |
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Nancy Cadogan, Listen to the Song, 2024.
COMO.- Nancy Cadogan's 'Stanza', a solo exhibition of new work, reflects her two decades of painting on Lake Como. With approximately 20 works, many painted specifically for this exhibition, ‘Stanza’ follows her 2021 exhibition in the Keats-Shelley House Museum, Rome and her critically acclaimed exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Cadogan’s paintings explore dreams and poetry, moments of stillness, contemplation and the infinitely changing landscape of Lake Como itself. This is the first international exhibition to take place in the historic Torre delle Arti Bellagio, a medieval tower relaunched as a public art space in the heart of the lakeside town. The artist sees this exhibition as a meditation on the many writers, artists and musicians who have found inspiration in the waters of Lake Como. 'This atmospheric landscape has provided a place of solace and reflection that has attracted Romantic writers such as Percy and Mary Shelly and Wordsworth, as well as Longfellow ... More |
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 How lowriders put a vivid stamp on New York City's car scene
NEW YORK, NY.- Growing up in Mexico, Marco Flores fantasized about the lowrider cars he saw in magazines, studying their colorful bodies and gleaming engine compartments. He adored his father’s Chevrolet Chevelle, too. In a tribute, Flores eventually restored a Chevelle in electric blue — the same muscle car his father had owned — with the help of his children. Now, his custom-made creations, which he designs and fabricates after work in his garage in Port Chester, New York, are featured in those same lowrider magazines. His blue Chevelle “represents my entire childhood and the passion I have for cars,” said Flores, 55, who works six days a week at a Mamaroneck auto body shop. “When I turn the ignition, I am overcome with the emotion of feeling my father knows I did this for him.” Family is a pillar of lowrider culture, which flourished in car-crazy postwar Los Angeles among Mexican Americans who took used ... More Driver takes down a 113-year-old salt tram tower in Death Valley
NEW YORK, NY.- A century ago, the timber-and-iron tower had supported a tram carrying precious salt across the Inyo Mountains that had been mined from a remote valley in the California desert. More recently, it stood as an artifact in the Saline Valley, and it marked the edge of a hiking trail through the sun-baked wilderness. But a visitor to Death Valley National Park in California brought the 113-year-old structure down on April 19 when it was used in an effort to pull a pickup truck out of the mud, prompting the National Park Service to investigate who was responsible for the damage. The service’s request for information from the public elicited dozens of calls and messages, a video uploaded to YouTube, and finally a confession. A park visitor said that the damage “was done during a time of desperation while being deeply stuck in mud” and had taken full responsibility, according to a park service update provided Thursday. ... More Solo exhibition celebrates the profound and lasting impact of artist Fahren Feingold
NEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting "Ethereal Legacy: The Art of Fahren Feingold," a retrospective solo exhibition celebrating the profound and lasting impact of artist Fahren Feingold (1980-2023). The exhibition curated by The Untitled Space gallery founder, Indira Cesarine, offers a poignant look at the legacy of an artist whose life was tragically cut short by cancer on September 26, 2023. Fahren Feingold's artistic journey was one marked by a fearless exploration of the female form, challenging societal norms and patriarchal constructs through her ethereal and sensual watercolor paintings. Her untimely passing left a profound void in the art world, but her legacy lives on through the captivating works she left behind. This retrospective exhibition, "Ethereal Legacy: The Art of Fahren Feingold," offers a comprehensive view of the artist's evolution and the enduring impact of her art. Featuring over 50 never-before-seen paintings ... More Michael Gregorjev Murn inaugural UK solo exhibition 'ECHOES' opens at Miart Gallery in London
LONDON.- Miart Gallery in Mayfair have opened the first UK solo exhibition of Slovenian multi-media artist Michael Gregorjev Murn. ‘ECHOES’ by Michael Gregorjev Murn is on view until 6th June, 2024. Set to be a defining moment in MGM’s artistic journey, the exhibition is the first stop on an ambitious eight-year global tour for the artist, which will involve art fairs around the world and culminate in a retrospective exhibition in New York. The exhibition showcases a curated selection of 35 artworks, emphasising MGM's prowess in abstract paintings and digital graphics. The curation of the exhibition provides an immersive insight into MGM’s creative evolution and thematic diversity, and also involves a presentation of his monograph, offering an in-depth look into his artistic endeavours and narratives. Miart Gallery London presents MGM’s first UK solo exhibition in its expansive Mayfair space, as part of an ongo ... More Lyndsey Ingram opens the first exhibition of the celebrated British conceptual artist at the gallery
LONDON.- Lyndsey Ingram is presenting Kate Daudy: SUPERBLOOM, the first exhibition of the celebrated British conceptual artist at the gallery. Daudy, who is well known for a practice that encompasses sculpture, textiles, written interventions and large-scale public installations, has filled the gallery with a new body of work that focuses on nature as a metaphor for the state of humanity today. Daudy’s title SUPERBLOOM refers to a rare botanical phenomenon where whole landscapes are miraculously transformed into sheets of vibrant flowers. A ‘superbloom’ normally occurs once every few decades, when favourable weather patterns coincide and activate dormant seeds. Seeds in the earth, requiring a very specific set of atmospheric conditions, will blossom into flowers in even the most barren of landscapes. Occurrences of superblooms are exceptional events and are evidence of a world outside of our usual experience. Daudy has al ... More Prince's Cloud 3 guitar re-discovered and heading to Julien's Auctions Music Icons sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Julien’s Auctions announced today yet another extraordinary guitar from the chronicle of rock and roll history has been added to their highly anticipated MUSIC ICONS event taking place live Wednesday, May 29th, and Thursday, May 30th, 2024 at Hard Rock Cafe in New York and online at juliensauctions.com. After nearly twenty years, Prince’s legendary Cloud 3 returns to the auction podium, joining alongside some of rock’s greatest guitars ever to come to auction, including the previously announced John Lennon’s recently found Help! Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar and Randy Bachman’s collection of over 200 of his most coveted guitars. Julien’s re-discovery of the Cloud 3 guitar marks a pivotal moment in its remarkable history and reinstates its rightful status as an iconic symbol of the seven-time, GRAMMY-Award winning music artist’s titanic career and rock ‘n’ roll heritag ... More When a tale of migration is not just fiction
GUÉDIAWAYE.- The two teenagers on the screen trudging through the endless dunes of the Sahara on their way to Europe were actors. So were the fellow migrants tortured in a bloodstained Libyan prison. But to the young man watching the movie one recent evening in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal’s capital, the cinematic ordeal felt all too real. His two brothers had undertaken the same journey years ago. “This is why they refused to send me money to take that route,” said Ahmadou Diallo, 18, a street cleaner. “Because they had seen firsthand how dangerous it is.” Critics in the West have praised the film “Io Capitano” — nominated for the 2024 Academy Award for best international feature film — noting its visceral yet tender look at migration to Europe from Africa. It is now showing in African countries, and is hitting close to home in Senegal. That’s where the two main characters in the movie embark on an odyssey that epitomizes the dreams and hardships of ... More Sutton Foster to star in 'Once Upon a Mattress' on Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Sutton Foster, a classic Broadway triple threat beloved for her comedic skills and her big belt, will star this summer and fall in a Broadway revival of “Once Upon a Mattress.” The production had a brief and exuberantly received run earlier this year as part of the Encores! program at New York City Center, where critic Elisabeth Vincentelli, writing for The New York Times, said Foster “makes a banquet of the material” and added that “Foster’s glee in taking possession of the stage creates an all-encompassing manic energy that both the audience and her scene partners feed off.” The musical, first staged in 1959, is loosely based on “The Princess and the Pea” fairy tale; Foster plays Princess Winnifred, a graceless minor royal who is a possible bride for a local prince. The role is a fun one for comedically gifted actresses — it was first played on Broadway by Carol Burnett, and then, in a 1996 revival, by Sarah Jessica Parker. The show f ... More National Gallery of Art acquires work by Remedios Varo
WASHINGTON, DC.- Remedios Varo (1908–1963) is one of the most important surrealists in the history of the movement and a major 20th-century artist in Mexico. She is celebrated for her paintings that combine ideas of the occult, mysticism, psychoanalysis, astrology, esotericism, and science. Her images blend nature with the built environment and feature characters and open-ended narratives that reflect her life and times. The National Gallery of Art has acquired our first two works by Varo: the painting Banqueros en acción (Bankers in Action) (1962) and a preparatory drawing of the same scene, which reveals her precise working methods. The painting is on view in gallery 415B on the Upper Level of the East Building. Likely inspired by Agatha Christie’s “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery,” Banqueros en acción was created during the productive final years of Varo’s life. The work depicts a woman crouching behind a wall watching a group of men pass by. Wearing ... More |
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On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born
May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
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