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This month’s exhibitions celebrate veteran breakthroughs as well as contemporary artists forging their own paths. Pace Gallery pays tribute to iconic African American photographer Gordon Parks, while Eastern Projects pays homage to Chicano collective Los Four, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their groundbreaking Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition. Rusha & Co. presents the first in a series of exhibitions highlighting Parallel Magazinewhile Sade showcased collages by reclusive Denver artist John Lupe. FOCA presented a group show of young artists exploring how the internet mediates our world, Wendy Red Star excavated historical artifacts to recover their indigenous origins, and…

The Jung-Luke Museum in Seattle announced in a statement on Friday, June 28 that an exhibition at the museum, which sparked a staff walkout in protest of the exhibition for equating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, will be moved to a new location that has yet to be determined. Twenty-six staff members, about half the museum’s staff, walked out of the institution, which is centered on Asian Pacific American art history, in response to “Together Against Hate,” an exhibit co-hosted with the Washington State Black Heritage Society and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. The exhibit focuses on violence against local black,…

On June 12, Jean Simeon Chardin’s Sliced ​​melon (1760) sold for €26.73 million (US$28.76 million) at Christie’s Old Masters sale in Paris. The sale shattered the painting’s estimate of €8 million to €12 million (US$8.57 million to 12.8 million). The sale set a new auction record for Chardin’s work and for 18th-century French Old Masters, according to the auction house.A master of still life, Chardin captured intimate scenes and interiors in vivid paintings. Characterized by impasto techniques and soft lighting, these genre paintings were influenced by 17th-century Dutch still life paintings—even though Chardin himself was French and lived in Paris…

As part of the United States As a scorching heat wave gripped the United States over the weekend, sending temperatures to record levels, a six-foot-tall wax statue of Abraham Lincoln went viral for its demise, sparking humorous quips and memes on social media, some innocent, some outrageous. Titled “40 Acres: Buck’s Camp” (2024), the wax sculpture consists of 10 candle wicks that visitors are encouraged to light and then extinguish after one to two minutes. The sculpture was installed on February 15 outside Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on the site of Buck’s Camp, a Civil War-era contraband camp…

A St. Louis art center has been criticized for closing an exhibition because it deemed several pro-Palestinian works on display to be anti-Semitic. The works were created by artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough, who were selected by the exhibition and gallery space Craft Alliance for an 11-month artist-in-residence program in July 2023. The residency program provides artists with shared studio space, a stipend, tuition waivers, and the opportunity to organize an exhibition. The exhibition, titled “Sowing Seeds, Sprouting Hope,” opened on June 21 and was scheduled to run until July 20. However, shortly before the opening, two of Colette’s…

New York artist Audrey Flack, a pioneer of the Photorealism movement, died on June 28 in Southampton, New York, at the age of 93. Her death was confirmed by her former dealer, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, and her current dealer, Hollis Taggart. “We mourn the passing of a true artistic legend who has left an indelible mark on the history of American art,” said Hollis Taggart, founder of the eponymous gallery. “Audrey’s boundless creativity defined her seven-decade career, as she constantly innovated and found new ways to express herself.”Born in New York City in 1931, Fleck was educated at Cooper…

James Alexander Simpson’s Portrait, Probably the Mary Ann Tritt Cassell (1839), on long-term loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art (Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Art) More than a decade ago, Dorita Sewell of Florida and her late mother, Doris, received a painting from a distant relative. It was an unsigned portrait of a fair-skinned woman with dark curly hair. The painting had been passed down through generations of family members, and they speculated that it belonged to an ancestor from the early 1800s. For the next decade, the mysterious painting sat wrapped in protective…

During a rescue highway excavation in the Czech Republic, a team of archaeologists from the University of Hradec Kralove (UHK) discovered a prehistoric monumental cemetery. Located on the border of the villages of Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s East Bohemia region, this ancient mound is approximately 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its widest point. Believed to date back to the 4th millennium BC, it is one of the earliest known burial sites in Europe. The structure is also likely the longest of its kind in the region. related articles “This type of mound is found…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabGlenn Pushelberg and George Yabu with the Gao brothers Miss Mao No.1 (2006). Image courtesy of Yabu Pushelberg.One afternoon last fall, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg stopped by 125 Newbury Gallery on their way to their offices in Tribeca. The couple had been drawn to the gallery’s Peter Hujar exhibition, “Echoes,” which examined queer life in New York City from the Stonewall riots of the 1970s to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The two were unfamiliar with the artist at first, but they soon became avid collectors and advocates of his work. “That period was very interesting,”…

AllergicThe monthly opportunity listings provide resources for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox every month, sign up here! If you found this list valuable, please consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us achieve this goal each month. Residencies, workshops and fellowships Bryn Du – Artist-in-Residence Program 2025To strengthen local arts participation in Granville, Ohio, Bryn Du offers $2,000 for an 8-week residency and $3,000 for a 12-week residency to artists from all fields in the United States. The application fee is $15.Deadline: August…