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☆ Why the pioneering abstract painter Janet Sobel disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Helen Stoilas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Edward C. Robison III/Courtesy The Menil CollectionSobel’s rise in the New York art scene was speedy — and short-lived. An untitled Sobel work, featuring totemic figured rendered in crayon and gouache on drawing pad paper. There’s a lot to still learn.”An untitled Sobel work, circa 1946. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art/The Menil CollectionAn untitled Sobel work, circa 1946-1948. James Craven/Courtesy The Menil CollectionWhat the exhibition demonstrates above all is how innovative Sobel was, in both her media and methods of application.

Persons: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Janet Sobel, you’ve, Sobel, Edward C, Robison III, Sol Sobel, Sidney Janis, Janis, “ Janet Sobel, Clement Greenberg, Pollock, ” Greenberg, —, totemic, Paul Hester, Len Sobel —, — Sobel, Baruch, ” Len Sobel, Peggy Guggenheim, Guggenheim, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Leonora Carrington, New Jersey —, Natalie Dupêcher, ” Dupêcher, Len Sobel, William Rubin, Rubin, Sobel —, Len Sobel’s, I’m, James Craven, …, ”, Dupêcher, “ Organizations: CNN, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Art Students League, Arts Club of Chicago, Brooklyn Daily, New, Puma, ”, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Menil, Brooklyn, Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts, Guggenheim, EPA, of Modern Art, MoMA, San Diego Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Locations: New York, Paris, Brighton Beach , Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Washington ,, Houston —, Ukrainian, New Jersey, York, Manhattan, Venice, Perth Amboy, Plainfield , New Jersey, Ukraine, Bentonville , Arkansas, America

☆ Was John Singer Sargent also the first celebrity stylist?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

London CNN —In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Despite curating a selection of her best frocks, Eleanor Iselin was captured in her casual day dress at the insistence of Sargent. Working during the rise of haute couture, both Sargent and his subjects were living through a new dawn of fashion. Rachel was styled in a scrap of pink fabric which Sargent manipulated on canvas to become a dress. “Their work was ready-to-wear, using off the (rack) elements of portraiture, whereas with Sargent it always was bespoke.

Persons: Eleanora Iselin, John Singer Sargent, Eager, Iselin, “ Sargent, Eleanor Iselin, Sargent, It’s, James Finch, ”, —, Finch, Margaret Oliphant, Edith Wharton, Gretchen, Rachel Warren, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Rachel, Tate Britain “ He’s, ” Finch, “ He’s, ” Sargent, Sybil Sassoon, couturier Charles Fredrick Worth, Worth, Sassoon, ’ Reframing, Lily, Lily Rose ”, Sybil Sassoon’s, “, they’ve, Ellen Terry, Lady Macbeth, Jai Monaghan, Tate Britain ‘, Sargent’s Organizations: London CNN —, Fashion, Tate, of Art, Tate Britain, CNN, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Locations: New York, Tate Britain, of Art , Washington, London, Scottish, Boston, Worth, Paris

☆ Opinion | Can Culture Be Society’s Savior?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society,” by David Brooks (column, Jan. 28):As a published author married to a writer/filmmaker, I deeply appreciated Mr. Brooks’s column. It pains me to witness the modern-day devaluation of the arts and humanities. When I was a child, my art history major mother dragged me to many of the world’s great museums: the National Gallery of Art, the Met, the Louvre. I may have protested after the first hour, but certain works left indelible impressions: the terrifying passion of Klimt’s “Kiss,” the seductive movement of the Calder mobile. Likewise, literature plunged me into different perspectives.

Persons: David Brooks, Ingalls, Brooks, MeiMei Fox, David Brooks’s Organizations: Gallery of Art, Met, Calder, mater, Stanford University, “ College Locations: Louvre, “, MeiMei Fox Honolulu

☆ Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jason Farago | More About Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Melt the world away, lose its details, dissolve its borders; it doesn’t sound like such an unwelcome prospect right now. The most substantial Mark Rothko retrospective in a generation has opened at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and it is a show of monumental dispersion: a pull-out-all-the-stops blockbuster where life passes into vapor. From 1949, when his early figurative pictures finally liquefied into stains of translucent color, Rothko painted with no allusions, no particulars. A lot of people find his large paintings consoling, or seek the Romantic sublime in the depths of his reds and violets. “Behind the color lies the cataclysm,” he said in 1959 — a citation that rarely makes the auction preview catalogs.

Persons: Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, ”, it’s, Frank Gehry Organizations: Fondation, Art Basel, National Gallery of Art, Whitney, Fondation Vuitton, Boulogne Locations: Paris, Washington, New York, Bois

☆ Brice Marden, Who Rejuvenated Painting in the 1960s, Dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( William Grimes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

While in Boston, he became immersed in the city’s folk music scene and married Pauline Baez, the older sister of the singer Joan Baez. In addition to Helen Marden, his second wife, he is survived by a son from his first marriage, Nicholas; two daughters from his second marriage, Mirabelle and Melia Marden; a younger sister, Mary Carroll Marden; and two grandchildren. After receiving a master’s degree in fine arts in 1963, Mr. Marden moved to New York. His first monochromatic panels were exhibited in 1964 at Swarthmore College and, soon after that, at the Bykert Gallery. And this was my way of thinking, well, there are things that haven’t been done,” he told Mr. Cooper of the National Gallery.

Persons: Pauline Baez, Joan Baez, Helen Marden, Nicholas, Mirabelle, Melia Marden, Mary Carroll Marden, Michael, Marden, Nancy Graves, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, “, ”, Harry Cooper, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cooper Organizations: Yale, Yale University School of Art, National Gallery of Art, Mr, Chiron Press, Jewish Museum, Swarthmore College, “ Locations: Boston, Norfolk, Conn, Washington, New York

☆ Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Benjamin Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. (CNN) — Jeffrey Gibson, the Colorado-born, New York-based artist who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale, becoming the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the US Pavilion. Gibson’s work mixes many traditions, combining techniques from Indigenous beading, weaving, metalwork and more with the formal language of hard-edged abstract painting, Pop Art sculpture. For his exhibition in Venice, Gibson will create installations inside the US Pavilion, on its exterior and in its courtyard, incorporating elements of performance and multimedia in addition to static works. Jeffrey Gibson Brian Barlow“The last 15 years of my career have been about turning inward and trying to make something I really wanted to see in the world,” Gibson, reflecting on his selection for the Biennale, told The New York Times.

Persons: — Jeffrey Gibson, Gibson, Jeffrey Gibson Brian Barlow “, ” Gibson, Kathleen Ash, Louis Grachos, Abigail Winograd, Jeffrey, ”, Milby, Venice —, ” Winograd, Ruth, Elmer Wellin, Leigh Bowery, Simone Leigh Organizations: The Art, CNN, Colorado -, Mississippi Band, Choctaw, Institute of American Indian Arts, Bard College, Biennale, New York Times, Portland Art Museum, SITE, Portland Museum of Art, US State Department, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Biennial, Gallery of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum Locations: Colorado, New York, United States, Venice, Santa Fe , New Mexico, Navajo, Portland , Oregon, SITE Santa Fe, American, Oregon, New Mexico, Clinton , New York, Bentonville , Arkansas

☆ After a Year of Climate Protests, the Toll Rises for Museums and Activists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two climate activists made a beeline for a beautiful Monet painting exhibited at the National Museum in Sweden on a recent Wednesday morning. They wanted to convey the urgency of the environmental crisis — pollution, global warming and other man-made disasters — that could turn the artist’s gorgeous gardens at Giverny into a distant memory. So the young protesters followed what has become a familiar playbook: gluing a hand to the artwork’s protective glass and smearing it with red paint. Similar scenes have unfolded at more than a dozen museums over the last year, leaving cultural workers on edge and at a loss for how to prevent climate activists from targeting delicate artworks. Just last weekend, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was targeted for the second time, as more than 40 activists occupied galleries, silently holding signs that proclaimed “No art on a dead planet.” Meanwhile, the costs for security, conservation and insurance are growing, according to cultural institutions that have experienced attacks.

Persons: Monet, Degas, “ Organizations: National Museum, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: Sweden, Giverny, Washington, Manhattan

☆ Can You Spot the Dog Hidden in This Picasso Painting?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In Pablo Picasso’s 1900 painting “Le Moulin de la Galette,” revelers sporting dresses or top hats appear to be drinking, dancing and chatting. Beneath the partyers, under layers of paint, there is a hidden dog that the artist seems to have hastily painted over. But recent research and extensive restoration of the painting for an exhibition revealed an auburn-coated King Charles spaniel with a red bow. The treatment revealed subtleties — such as the brushwork, color palette and spatial definition — that had previously gone unnoticed in the painting. Then, technical imaging unveiled an earlier version of the painting that included the lap dog in the foreground.

CNN —Conservators at the Guggenheim Museum in New York have uncovered a small dog hidden beneath the surface of a Pablo Picasso painting. The image of a charming lapdog wearing a red bow was revealed by museum experts during a technical analysis of the Spanish artist’s painting “Le Moulin de la Galette” ahead of an exhibition of his early works. “Le Moulin de la Galette” depicts a lively scene at the titular venue — a famous Parisian dance hall that was painted by other artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Modifying paintings later became part of Picasso’s regular practice, Barten said, adding that “Le Moulin de la Galette” is now considered one of the earliest examples of this. “Le Moulin de la Galette” is the “centerpiece” of the Guggenheim’s show, said Barten, whose team of conservators also restored the artwork’s surface by removing decades of dirt and non-original varnish.

☆ ‘Vermeer’s Secrets’ Review: A Master Under the Microscope
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Mary Tompkins Lewis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

WashingtonThe disparate realms of art and science have often converged in attempts to explicate the rarefied and indescribably beautiful paintings of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Revered by his fellow painters in Delft, the Dutch artist fell into obscurity after his death, in part because of the scarcity of his output. Vermeer’s rediscovery by 19th-century scholars, connoisseurs, and especially the French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger spurred a crucial reassessment of his art, his stature in Holland’s Golden Age likened to that of Rembrandt. While only about 35 works can now be ascribed with certainty to the artist, a smattering of others—including likely copies, outright counterfeits, and paintings inspired by his own—have been considered over the years as candidates for inclusion in his prestigious oeuvre. “Vermeer’s Secrets,” a small exhibition at the National Gallery of Art that is drawn exclusively from its own holdings, navigates this contested territory with the aid of new research and imaging technology, and the results are as riveting as they are convincing (the show is a prelude to the Vermeer retrospective to be held in 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam).

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▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

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The repatriation is part of a worldwide movement by cultural institutions to return artifacts that were often stolen during colonial wars. African nations and scholars have put pressure on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to return stolen African artifacts for years, according to Chika Okeke-Agulu, program director of African studies at Princeton University. But he said most African artifacts tend to remain in Europe. The following year, he commissioned a report focusing on restitution efforts, which commenced a repatriation movement of African artifacts throughout Europe. Abba Isa Tijani, director-general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, agrees, hoping the recent transfer of the African bronze sculpture inspires more museums to return African artifacts, opening the door for better relationships.

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