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The landmark Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, reopened to the public on Tuesday after closing in July due to hurricane damage. The church features 14 large paintings by Color Field abstract artists, as well as monumental sculptures by American abstract artist Barnett Newman broken obelisk (1963-67) Outside. It was commissioned in 1964 by John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, powerful collectors in the art world, and opened in 1971. Groundbreaking for the church expansion was announced in April and is expected to take two years to complete. Related articles However, the medieval building was damaged by Cyclone Beryl in…
A team of researchers from Florida and Italy recently discovered trace amounts of a hallucinogenic mixture in an ancient Egyptian drinking cup in the Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The cup depicts the god Bes, who was regarded as the family protector of mothers, babies, and children during pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy, and was believed to ward off predators, disease, and evil spirits. The Bess mug, which measures four and a half inches tall, was donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1984 along with 45 other ancient Egyptian objects from the David S. Hendrick III collection. Preliminary…
Kim Hong-hee explains a vision of Korean art history in which no one is left out Korean Feminist Artists: Confrontation and Deconstruction (2024). Through essays on 42 artists, the curator and scholar traces the history and trajectory of Korean feminist artists from the 1970s to the present, focusing on 15 themes, including body art, queer politics, ecofeminism, and North American Diaspora—All but two of the artists are living. at the time of publication. The publication is structured after Kim’s monthly column in Kim magazine Jingxiang News Published from 2021 to 2022, the newspaper will examine the work of Korean artists…
As the year 2024 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the artists and photographers who have created interesting works. Among them is Pasquale J. Cuomo, a photographer whose career spans more than fifty years. His journey began as a teenager with a simple passion for capturing the world through his lens. By the early 1980s, what started as a hobby had grown into a professional pursuit. By 1985, photography became his full-time career, allowing him to dedicate himself entirely to the craft. Pasquale’s portfolio is as diverse as his interests. Over two decades, he explored…
Christmas is coming, which means Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti went out of his way to bring some holiday cheer by analyzing the auction house’s 2024 data during his end-of-year press conference on Tuesday. Cerutti said the company’s expected sales of art and luxury goods this year total $5.7 billion, down about 8% from last year’s total sales of $6.2 billion.During a Zoom press conference on Tuesday, Cerruti reiterated the rhetoric he used in July, when he described the market landscape as continuing to be “challenging.” “Despite the challenging art market environment, this has been a productive year for Christie’s,” he…
After 19 children and two teachers were murdered at DeRob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022, art therapist Wanda Montemayor spent a year driving back and forth between the town and her Round trip time between homes in Austin is 6 hours. In August of that year, Montemayor launched “Tacos and Tiles” at St. Henry Church in Uvalde, inviting survivors and community members to create mosaic pieces in community art therapy sessions. Over the course of several months, Montemayor fired thousands of clay bricks designed by Uvalde students, teachers and families in her kiln, an initiative she…
Steven Mark Englander, a historic Lower East Side artist and longtime director of the squat-turned-nonprofit ABC No Rio, died in Manhattan on December 12 at the age of 63 , due to a rare lung disease he has been battling for more than a decade. . Among other accomplishments, Englander is known for leading ABC No Rio’s fundraising efforts to secure the property for a dollar after city officials threatened eviction for decades. The organization announced Englander’s death, saying he died “comfortably, painlessly, and surrounded by the two things he relied on for survival – his family and the ABC…
Hyperallergic’s Tarot Mirror series is a combination of tarot and astrology, a reading for a collective readership, combining cards of the main astrological symbols and grouped by their elemental associations, developed by AX Mina, it is the Five and Nine Producer of , a podcast about magic, work, and life. economic justice. With a special focus on art and creative practice, these tarot decks mark the changing of the seasons at each summer solstice and spring equinox.The winter solstice enters the Northern Hemisphere, a time when metaphorical winter occurs around the world. Mars has gone retrograde and we see only…
In 2024, New York City’s gallery infrastructure continues to feel the structural changes that began in 2023. Last year, all eyes were on Tribeca as Chelsea’s red-eyed art dealers either expanded into the chic downtown neighborhood or completely swapped their spaces for the greener pastures (and cobblestone streets) of Lower Manhattan. . To some, this year seems bleaker than last. Chinatown and the Lower East Side, often a petri dish for exciting new artists and project spaces, have suffered two major losses this year, with both Simone Subal and Helena Anraser deciding to close their doors permanently. Two months after…
Japanese chemical company DIC Corporation announced in a press release on Saturday that its board of directors has decided to “downsize and relocate” the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, which it owns in the city of Sakura, 25 miles northeast of Tokyo. August, art news The company is heavily in debt and is reassessing the future of the museum, the report said. In a press release issued on December 26, the company said that the downsizing plan will allow DIC to sell 25% of the 384 works it owns at the museum. DIC has projects with a total value…