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Art MarketEric Augustine PamInterior view of Tokyo Hyundai, 2023. Courtesy of Tokyo Hyundai.With the VIP preview ending today, expectations are high for the second edition of Art Tokyo Contemporary, which runs until July 7 at Pacifico Yokohama, and aims to build on the momentum of last year’s inaugural edition, which took five years to get off the ground. This year’s fair will feature 70 galleries (up from 73 last year) from 20 countries, including the United States, South Korea, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as Japan, and will also feature an expanded public program of lectures,…
The names of late South Korean artists Lee Jung-seop and Park Soo-geun have been embroiled in scandal after several of their paintings exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) were accused of being fakes. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will cancel the publication of a catalog for its exhibition, titled “Treasures of Korea from the Collection of Chester and Cameron Chang,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan said on Monday. From the outset, doubts appeared to be raised about the authenticity of some of the artworks, including two paintings each by Chung…
Megan Mulrooney, former senior director of Nino Mier Gallery, will open her own open gallery in three Los Angeles spaces run by her former employer. “As a native Angeleno, I wanted my gallery to reflect the creative spirit and rich artistic tradition of Los Angeles,” Mulroney told Art News “I aspire to create a space that fosters community and intergenerational dialogue, bringing together established and emerging artists to showcase not only their diverse practices but also their curatorial visions,” she wrote in an email. related articles Nino Mier Gallery closed its Los Angeles space earlier this year due to The…
American photographer, artist and activist Nan Goldin (Photo: Max Cramer, courtesy of the artist) This article comes from Allergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, interviewing queer and trans elders in the arts community throughout June. How bold is this? I took these photos of Nan Goldin on a cracked iPhone 13 — in the privacy of her home. But somehow, the brilliant photographer allowed me to take her photos during a recent interview in her New York apartment, even though she had reason to be wary. I took a low-light shot of her playing with a cat; another of her sitting…
ArtCourtney TanzInstallation view of Philippe Parreno, membrane2023, with Fujiko Nakatani, Untitled2024, as part of the Summer Exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2024. © Philippe Parreno and Fujiko Nakaya. Photo by Marc Niedermann. Courtesy of the artist.Summer in Switzerland means one thing: Basel is getting ready to welcome art lovers from all over the world. Art Basel 2024 will take place from June 13 to 16, and there will be plenty of action, but there are other places in Basel that are just as exciting. In addition to the Messeplatz, the art fair is also a great opportunity to experience…
Published onsponsor The Visual Arts Doctoral Graduate School is accepting applications for the September 2024 intake. IDSVA students will be in residence at the Venice Biennale in June 2024 (Photo: Simonetta Moro) Apply now to join the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts (IDSVA) Class of 2024. The IDSVA PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory is a research-based, non-studio doctoral program for artists and creative thinkers. Your program will begin online in September 2024 and travel to Mexico City in January 2025. For more information, please contact IDSVA Director of Admissions Molly Davis at mdavis@idsva.edu or…
Perrotin announces a new representation relationship with Ali Banisadr, an Iranian artist based in Brooklyn known for his exquisite oil paintings. Banisadr’s first solo exhibition with Perrotin will take place in Shanghai in November 2024, where the artist will exhibit his latest works for the first time. Mirror World (2024), which the gallery will exhibit at this year’s Art Basel.The representation announcement is a significant step for the artist’s career. In 2025, Banizad will be included in a mid-career retrospective at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, “Ali Banizad: Alchemist.” The exhibition will present a comprehensive survey of…
Grief, distance, and connection: These are themes that run through the abstract paintings of Soleé Darrell’s latest solo exhibition, “Where You Need to Be: Studies in Teleportation,” on view through July 13 at pt.2 Gallery in Oakland, California. The Bermuda-born, Bay Area-based artist was guided by intuition to create this new body of work, a dance of cosmic colors that evokes an awakened confidence.I first met Darrell in 2018, when she was still working as a jewelry artist at her booth at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. More than five years later, the bright gemstones she once mounted…
CHICAGO — Grief comes in many forms: It can be a warning sign inside you, or a quiet voice telling you that something is irreversible and that only you know how wrong it is. In the work of artist Bimbola Akinbola, Island of Sorrownow on view at the Romain Susan Art Foundation, Sorrow is a lonely place, with back-to-back beach chairs and crushed aluminum cans. For Akingbola, Sorrow Island is a place of relief and sorrow, a place of mourning and remembrance. Roman Susan opened in 2012 in a mere 280 square feet on the ground floor of a flatiron…
Art MarketMaxwell RaabPortrait of Dooyong Ro. Image courtesy of CYLINDER.The meteoric rise of 33-year-old Korean art dealer Dooyong Ro began in a former fried chicken shop. He spent four years in London, earning an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art. In 2020, he returned to his birthplace, South Korea. There, he discovered this space in Seoul’s Gwanak district. Initially, he planned to use it as his makeshift art studio. But as the coronavirus lockdown kept him from working for longer than expected, he decided to take a different path when Wonwoo Lee, an artist he admired, inquired…