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18 Impressionist Artworks that Capture the Spirit of the Movement
via artnews.comBetween 1853 and 1870 under Emperor Napoleon III, Paris saw a radical transformation from medieval city to modern metropolis. This renovation saw old buildings razed and narrow streets erased in favor of wide boulevards and more open space for a cleaner and safer city.Just as the city of Paris—not to mention society itself—was transforming radically in the latter part of the 19th century, so too were the styles and subjects of some of the painters of the time. Bucking academic conven -
Mary Cassatt at Work review – stunning show blows the Mother’s Day card cliches away
via theguardian.comPhiladelphia Museum of ArtThis exceptional exhibition celebrates a trailblazing impressionist – one of the original group – who took the labour of women in her time seriouslyMary Cassatt’s paintings of mothers and babies were relegated to the untouchable category of “sentiment” by 20th-century critics and art historians. They have now become better known to many people as Mother’s Day cards rather than fine art. But 19th-century critics commented on the very l -
Curator Stefanie Hessler Talks Pirate Symbols and Distilleries for Art Basel’s Public Art Sector
via artnews.comWith the 2024 edition of Art Basel in Switzerland now officially underway, one component that often gets overlooked—amid the frenzy over artworks selling for multimillion-dollar sums on the first day—is Parcours. Taking place outside the cold convention center on the Messeplatz at public and historic spaces across the city, Parcours is a packed showcase of site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances that are free—yes, free—to the public. This year’s it -
Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold
via theguardian.comThroughout his life, the great German playwright made punky montages that explored how Nazism infested the country he had to flee. Why have they taken so long to come to light?Bertolt Brecht believed that theatre should not merely entertain its audience but make them think politically. To achieve this effect, thought the German playwright and poet, a play should not be polished – but jarring. Actors should break out of character to address their audience, plotlines should be broken up and -
On Art Basel’s First Day, Sales Roll In and the Art World Breathes A Sigh of Relief
via artnews.comOn Tuesday, the first day of VIP previews for the bellwether Art Basel fair in Switzerland, several dealers admitted they had waited with bated breath for how the day would turn out amid the apparent market slowdown—or “correction,” as it has often been called.“We were all waiting. We were watching the auctions very intently, and they did well. We didn’t know how this was going to go,” Samanthe Rubell, the president of Pace, told ARTnews.Art Basel CEO Noah Hor -
Animal Rights Activists Plaster King Charles III Portrait with ‘Wallace and Gromit’ Stickers
via artnews.comJonathan Yao’s divisive portrait of King Charles III has been vandalized with stickers by two animal rights activists. The group Animal Rights shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, showing the protesters using rollers to plaster a picture of Wallace, from the animated film series Wallace and Gromit, over the monarch’s face. The portrait is on display at Philip Mould gallery in London through June 21.Also stuck to Yao’s painting was a speech bubble that said, “No cheese, -
Former Vatican Staffer Arrested for Sale of Missing Bernini Manuscript
via artnews.comVatican authorities have arrested a former employee for attempting to sell a 17th-century manuscript by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that he allegedly stole from an official archive of the Holy See. The news was first reported by the Italian daily Domani.Bernini is renowned as a master of Baroque architecture, and the disappearance of the 18-page manuscript spurred an elaborate sting operation. The suspect allegedly met with Mauro Gambetti, head of administration at St. Peter’s Basilica, on May 27 -
John Wormell obituary
via theguardian.comMy father, John Wormell (latterly John Linsey), who has died aged 97, was a painter who worked for many years as a senior lecturer in fine art at Hornsey College of Art in north London. He retired from the college at 56 to devote the rest of his life to his own work, producing a series of highly individualistic paintings that recalled the landscapes of his youth as he had recorded them in his sketchbooks from the early 1950s.Inclined to shun the limelight, he was perhaps out of sympathy with the -
A Bay Area Dealer Who Rewrote the History of Surrealism Makes Her Art Basel Debut
via artnews.comThese days, it is hard to imagine a time when everyone wasn’t talking about Leonora Carrington’s art. In 2022, the Surrealist artist’s writings lent the Venice Biennale its name. Earlier this year, a painting by her sold for $28.5 million at Sotheby’s following a 10-minute bidding war, setting a new auction record for the artist. Next year, a vast survey of her art will be staged in Italy.But in 2002, when dealer Wendi Norris visited the British-born artist at her home in -
Photofairs Cancels New York Iteration for 2024
via artnews.comAfter the inaugural edition of Photofairs New York took place last September steps from The Armory Show, it will not take place this year.A spokesperson for Creo, which operates the contemporary art fair dedicated to photo-based works, digital art and new media, told ARTNews that market conditions and consultations with “our community of galleries and partners” led to the decision.“Our priority is mounting a dynamic and high-quality event, so we feel it is best to hold the -
The Best Monumental Works at Art Basel Unlimited, From an Animatronic Gorilla to a Wrapped Car
via artnews.comOnce again, Art Basel has taken over the Swiss city with various events, including Unlimited, the exhibition platform devoted to monumental installations that are larger than a regular art fair booth can hold.The 172,000-square-foot hall reserved for Unlimited is currently home to 76 projects and live performances by Seba Calfuqueo, Resto Pulfer, and Anna Uddenberg and others. Giovanni Carmine, director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen in Switzerland, has curated this edition of Unlimited, which, -
Art Basel Welcomes First Visitors, Academy Museum to Revise Show on Jewish Hollywood History, Oxford University Returns Hindu Relic, and More: Morning Links for June 11, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESUNDER REVIEW. The Academy of Museum Motion Pictures in Los Angeles announced Monday that it will revise an exhibit on Hollywood Jewish History following backlash, as first reported in the New York Times. The exhibition, titled “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” opened on May 19, and was swiftly me -
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – a gasping death-rattle of conservative mediocrity
via theguardian.comRoyal Academy, London
Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misruleThis year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is best enjoyed as a mirror of the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Conservative government. It is a gasping death-rattle of mediocrity, a miserable garden party of vapid good taste. There are no laughs and precious few glimpses of goo -
The Riotous Basel Social Club Returns—This Time on 50 Acres of Farmland South of the Messeplatz
via artnews.comCows are among the attendees at the much-anticipated third edition of the itinerant Basel Social Club (BSC) this week. Rather than being in central Basel, the art fair–cum–social gathering is located on 50 acres of open farmland south of the city in Bruderholz. But the organizers of the selling exhibition, which runs opened Sunday and runs through June 16, hadn’t bargained on the local bovine population being such keen art lovers.“They will go up to the artworks, and lick -
Sidney Felsen, Cofounder of Printmaking Workshop Gemini G.E.L., Dies at 99
via artnews.comSidney Felsen, cofounder of the famed printmaking workshop Gemini G.E.L., died of renal failure on June 9 in his Los Angeles home. He was 99. “Richard Serra once said, ‘Sidney prefers to hurry slowly,’ and we think that captured him perfectly,” Felsen’s family said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news. Felsen, his fraternity brother Stanley Grinstein, and Kenneth Tyler founded Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) in 19 -
Staff at American Folk Art Museum, Glenstone Museum Vote to Unionize
via artnews.comStaff at the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, have voted to unionize. The election results among staff at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) were unanimously in favor on June 6. Voting with UAW Local 2110 occurred a month after workers at the institution announced their intention to organize for a variety of issues including fair wages and better benefits.AFAM was created in 1961 and changed its name from the Museum of Early American Folk Arts -
Shahzia Sikander’s Luminous Art Explores East and West, Past and Present, Order and Chaos
via artnews.comOn a surprisingly springlike day in late February, Shahzia Sikander was hard at work at Pace Paper Studio in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Having just sent off the artworks for her upcoming retrospective in Venice, she was now immersed in a new series of works on paper. She was also fielding calls about a controversy over her work that had just erupted in Texas. The dispute involved an 18-foot-high bronze sculpture recently installed in a plaza at the University of Houston. Titled Witnes -
Auditing Body Warns Centre Pompidou’s Major Renovation Project is ‘Underfunded’
via artnews.comAs the Centre Pompidou’s planned five-year renovation of its Paris flagship approaches its 2025 start date, new questions arise over the financial viability of the project.At the end of April, a critical report from France’s court of auditors, who assess the use of public funds, revealed that the Centre Pompidou‘s economic model is unsustainable. The report outlines the financial strain on the museum caused by its forthcoming renovation, as well as its establishment of a n -
Artist hopes to reintroduce cockney rhyming slang to young Londoners
via theguardian.comMichael Landy’s east London installation plays on creativity of phrases such as ‘apples and pears’ and ‘chew the fat’Would you Adam and Eve it? Cockney rhyming slang, the lyrical patter that once punctuated daily life in London’s East End, is at risk of dying out as young people abandon its use.That is the view of one artist who wants to reintroduce the dialect to a new generation of Londoners and international visitors by drawing attention to its creative nat -
Kehinde Wiley Denies New Allegations of Sexual Assault from Activist Derrick Ingram
via artnews.comFor a second time, Kehinde Wiley denied allegations of sexual assault after new claims emerged Monday morning.On Instagram, activist Derrick Ingram accused Wiley, a painter most widely known for doing Barack Obama’s official portrait, of having raped him in 2021. Ingram alleged that the assault happened in Wiley’s SoHo apartment.“Posting something to Instagram doesn’t make it true,” Jennifer Barrett, an attorney for Wiley, said in a statement to ARTnews. “Yet, -
Hundreds Laid Off from Philadelphia’s UArts in Conference Call on Last Day of Operations
via artnews.comSome 600 staffers at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts were laid off on a conference call Friday, on what the college said was its final day of operations. According to local media reports, some staffers were given the option to work through the end of June. On May 31, the University of the Arts, commonly called UArts, informed its approximately 1,100 students and 700 staffers of the imminent closure. Confusion and outrage immediately erupted, as students scrambled for a means to -
In New Exhibition Series, Curator Avi Lubin Centers Artists from Kibbutzim Along the Israel-Gaza Border
via artnews.comIn his 1968 print Remaining Words, Israeli artist Dov Heller wrote in blocky Hebrew letters: “I finished reserve duty on Friday/I was in Gaza they threw rocks there/Today I want peace more than ever.” The work, created not long after the 1967 Six-Day War, was never exhibited during Heller’s lifetime—he died in 2018. The print, along with numerous other works, was found tucked in a drawer at his home in Kibbutz Nirim, a community along the border with Gaza, where he l -
Glasgow International review – so how many art critics can you fit in an Opel?
via theguardian.comThis year’s biennial takes you up tenement staircases and into city centre car parks to see fine work from Delaine Le Bas, Cathy Wilkes and Lawrence Abu HamdanIt’s a dreich – as they like to say in these parts – afternoon in June. Four strangers are crammed into an Opel in a city centre car park, listening to the radio. A broadcast of field recordings and vocal fragments is punctuated with bleeps and static. It is a very Glasgow International (GI) experience. In this bien -
Mass Layoffs at Philly’s UArts, New Museum Set for Naples, Glenstone Workers Vote to Unionize, and More: Morning Links for June 10, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESCLOSED FOR BUSINESS. More details are emerging about the sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UArts), whose last day of operation was on June 8. Students and faculty only learned of the shuttering days one week prior. Local publications report that 600 staffers were laid off during a conference call that Friday, with some giv -
Glenstone Workers Vote to Unionize, Mass Layoffs at Philly’s UArts, New Museum Set for Naples, and More: Morning Links for June 10, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESCLOSED FOR BUSINESS. More details are emerging about the sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UArts), whose last day of operation was on June 8. Students and faculty only learned of the shuttering days one week prior. Local publications report that 600 staffers were laid off during a conference call that Friday, with some giv -
A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber review – pocket portraits that are a breath of fresh air
via theguardian.comStar interviewer, provoker of the Chapman brothers and the woman who made Howard Hodgkin cry… Barber’s slim book about her obsession with artists – particularly those who smoke – is wonderfully entertainingErnest Hemingway, who knew a lot of artists, said the essential gift for a writer was a bullshit detector, and Lynn Barber’s crackles and wows like a Geiger counter during her adventures in the art world. The author of An Education, which was made into a film sta -
It Turns Out That Microsoft Default Capturing Your Screen Every Few Seconds Is A Really Bad Idea
via wired.comWho could have predicted this was a bad idea? “In the preview versions of Recall, … screenshot data, complete with the user’s every bank login, password, and porn site visit would have been indefinitely collected on the user’s machine by default.” – Wired -
When A Beach Book Author Says Goodbye To The Beach
via nytimes.comElin Hildebrand’s noves, “set among the misbehaving moneyed class on Nantucket Island juggle romance and crime and a sun-kissed beach vibe that her fans soak up like coconut oil.” But Hildebrand is saying goodbye to all that. – The New York Times -
A Different Dolly Comes To Broadway
via theguardian.comFor Hello, I’m Dolly (some of us would get tickets simply based on the title), “the star is writing new songs to go along with some of her past hits and co-writing a stage story inspired by her life.” – The Guardian (UK) (AP) -
Reservation Dogs Doesn’t Have An Emmy Why, Exactly?
via vulture.comThere’s a “glaring similarity” among One Day at a Time, The Wire, and Reservation Dogs: “TV shows about Black criminals and cops in Baltimore or a Cuban American family or Native teens on the reservation aren’t able to lure a historically white television academy to vote for them.” – Vulture
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