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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…
Artist June Leaf, known for her experimental and intuitive curiosity about movement, gesture, and the female form, died on Monday, July 1, at her home in New York City at the age of 94. Leaf’s death was confirmed by her agent and close friend, Andrea Glimcher of Hyphen Advisory, who said the artist had recently been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Born in Chicago in 1929, Leaf knew from a very young age that she wanted to work with her hands, especially when she saw her mother sewing. She recalled in a 2016 interview Allergic She once asked her mom to…
On June 7, the Serpentine Galleries opened its 23rd annual pavilion. The islands are hollow, Designed by Minsuk Cho, founder of Seoul-based architecture firm Mass Studies, Cho’s design was inspired by the concept of a Madang, or traditional Korean courtyard, with a central area surrounded by five distinct structures, known as “islands.” These areas will serve different functions and provide a platform for the Serpentine’s live programming this summer. The pavilion’s main exhibition hall will feature a six-channel sound installation by Chang Young-kyu that captures the seasonal changes in the local landscape. Next to the main exhibition hall is the…
George Clark, wet-plate print of Abraham Lincoln’s campaign emblem based on an 1860 portrait by Mathew B. Brady (All images courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery) How do you imagine the president? We might think of many ancient presidents as being from a time before photography, but in fact, 39 of the 45 highest-ranking leaders of the United States have been captured by photography. The earliest surviving portrait is an 1843 daguerreotype of our sixth leader, John Quincy Adams, who served from 1825 to 1829. This portrait is one of several on display. Portraying the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Wet-plate Photographs…
Published by Christopher Wool in 1997 Ninth Street IncidentThis is a collection of his studio photos taken while filing a fire insurance claim. His bland snapshots document blown-out windows, collapsed ceilings and torn-up floors – with papers and materials strewn everywhere. In one of the photos, however, two of Wool’s paintings are seen leaning against the wall, intact amid the ruins. See Stop Run, an exhibition in a century-old office building in New York’s financial district, focuses on Wool’s work from the past decade, though his practice dates back to the 1980s. The exhibition features photographs of undamaged paintings—a temporal…