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☆ Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Pioneer of Supergraphics, Dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Penelope Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, an audacious graphic designer, landscape architect and artist who first made a splash in the 1960s with the supersize, geometric architectural painting movement known as supergraphics, died on Tuesday at her home in San Francisco. Her daughter Nellie King Solomon confirmed the death. In 1962, Ms. Stauffacher Solomon was the rare woman to set up shop as a graphic designer in the Bay Area, working for clients like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (now SFMOMA). It was architecture, however, that put Ms. Stauffacher Solomon on the national stage. In the early 1960s, an architect turned developer named Al Boeke envisioned a new community on a windswept bluff and former sheep ranch a few hours north of San Francisco.

Persons: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Nellie King Solomon, Stauffacher Solomon, Baskerville, Al Boeke, Lawrence Halprin, Joseph Esherick, Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull Jr, Richard Whitaker Organizations: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Times Locations: San Francisco, Bay, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss

☆ At SFMOMA, Disability Artwork Makes History
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Jonathan Griffin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 1974, Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz — she an artist, he a psychologist — turned the garage of their Berkeley home into an art studio for adults with developmental disabilities. Across California at that time, people with a range of disabilities were being deinstitutionalized, with little provision made for them after their release. Half a century on, Creative Growth — as the iconoclastic and influential studio in Oakland was named — is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition, “Creative Growth: The House That Art Built,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition draws from SFMOMA’s half-million-dollar acquisition of more than 100 Creative Growth artworks, the largest purchase by any American museum of the work of disabled artists. The museum acquired 43 more pieces from Creative Growth’s sister organizations in California, also founded by the Katzes: Creativity Explored in San Francisco and NIAD (Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development) in Richmond.

Persons: Florence Ludins, Katz, Elias Katz —, — Organizations: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Locations: California, Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond

☆ Renowned American artist Frank Stella dies aged 87
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Frank Stella, the American artist renowned for his abstract works, died on Saturday at the age of 87, his longtime representative said in a statement. “It has been a great honor to work with Frank for this past decade,” said Marianne Boesky, who has represented Stella since 2014, in a statement. “His is a remarkable legacy, and he will be missed.”Born in 1936, Massachusetts native Stella attended Phillips Academy Andover, where he studied painting under Patrick Morgan. Stella continued to create art well into his ninth decade, with his some of his recent sculptures being displayed at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York City. One of his final pieces is still on display in Florida at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.

Persons: Frank Stella, Stella, Harriet E, McGurk, Frank, ”, Marianne Boesky, Patrick Morgan, Stephen Greene, Willliam Seitz, Frank Stella's, Gabriel Bouys, Moby Dick ”, Jeffrey Deitch Organizations: CNN, The New York Times, Stella, Phillips Academy Andover, Princeton, Guggenheim, Getty, Museum of Modern Art, Jeffrey, Museum of Contemporary Art Locations: American, Manhattan, Massachusetts, New York City, Rome, Italy, AFP, Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville

☆ Artist Yves Klein’s unusual nude performance restaged decades after artist’s death
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Twice a week this spring, a nude performance artist sits inside a small wooden box in a New York gallery waiting to be touched. Courtesy Lévy Gorvy DayanVisitors to Lévy Gorvy Dayan on New York's Upper East Side can interact with the sculpture and performance artist inside during twice-weekly performances this spring. “Yves Klein: The Tangible World” brings together many of the artist’s lesser-seen works. “I wanted to show Yves Klein’s love for the body, and the aliveness that the body represents,” said Dominique Lévy, a co-founder of the gallery, which represents Klein’s estate. “He’s the first artist to really incorporate performance as an artistic act and as a practice,” Lévy said.

Persons: ‘, Yves Klein, ”, “, —, “ Yves Klein, Gorvy Dayan, Klein, Dominique Lévy, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Julian Rigg, Yves Klein’s, ” Klein, ” Lévy, ” Hugo Alexander, Rose, he’s, ” Krause, Lévy, Alexander Organizations: CNN, Lévy Gorvy Dayan Visitors, Artists Rights Society, Marina, Museum of Modern Art, School of Visual Arts Locations: New York, French, New, ADAGP, Paris

☆ India is drawing lessons from Ukraine to counter China's military might
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

India is trying to modernize its military of 1.5 million people with lessons from Ukraine. AdvertisementAs India boosts defense spending amid tensions with China and Pakistan, it is closely studying the Ukraine conflict for clues to the future of warfare and how to thwart its neighbors. Some lessons that Indian experts have already drawn: India needs lots of artillery, drones and cyberwarfare capabilities. Drones have become the stars and workhorses of the air war, with both sides deploying — and losing — drones in the hundreds of thousands. AdvertisementThere are lessons here for Indian airpower, according to Arjun Subramaniam, a retired Indian Air Force air vice marshal who helped write the ORF report.

Persons: —, Amrita Jash, Wolfgang Schwan, Arjun Subramaniam, Subramaniam, Cyberwarfare, Shimona Mohan, Mohan, Michael Peck Organizations: NATO, Service, Artillery, Indian Army, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Observer Research Foundation, Getty, Russian, Indian Air Force, Air Force, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: India, Ukraine, Russia, China, Pakistan, Eastern, Western, Indian, Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, Anadolu, cyberwarfare, Forbes

☆ Klimt portrait missing for nearly a century sold for $32 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction estimate. The sale price was less than half that fetched by another Klimt painting – “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) – in London last year. The last portrait completed by Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction, when it sold for a £85.3 million ($108.4 million). However, new research by the auction house suggests Justus’ wife, Lilly, hired him to paint one of their two daughters. A cape richly decorated with flowers is draped around her shoulders,” the auction house said.

Persons: Gustav Klimt, Fräulein, ”, Klimt, Fächer ”, Lieser ”, Roland Schlager, Getty Images Brothers Adolf, Justus Lieser, Adolf, Margarethe Constance, Justus ’, Lilly, –, “, “ Adolf, Henriette Lieser, Claudia Mörth Organizations: CNN, Austrian, Getty Images Brothers, Washington, Nazi Locations: London, Vienna, Austrian, Austro, Washington, Austria, Central Europe

☆ Keith Haring’s Legacy Is Not Found at the Museum
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Max Lakin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In their eyes I don’t exist.’”Haring’s frustration surely feels surprising for anyone who is familiar with his work, which is mostly everyone. You needn’t be able to name a Keith Haring picture to recognize it; its vibrating line and electric palette announce itself as efficiently as a neon sign. And it is more so now, 34 years after his death, in 1990 at the age of 31, as his work continues to permeate contemporary art. In his short but intense career, Haring’s pulsating figures became an inextricable part of New York City life, like ancient hieroglyphics that weren’t as much drawn as unearthed. And yet the most likely place you’ll encounter it now is still not the museum, but the mall, which was his own doing.

Persons: Keith Haring, ” Brad Gooch’s, Haring, ”, needn’t Organizations: Museum of Modern Art, Swatch, Medical Locations: New York City, East Harlem

☆ Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Faith Ringgold, who died Saturday at 93, was an artist of protean inventiveness. Painter, sculptor, weaver, performer, writer and social justice activist, she made work in which the personal and political were tightly bonded. And much of that work gained popularity among audiences that didn’t necessarily frequent galleries and museums. But the art establishment, as defined by major museums, big-bucks auction houses and a few talent-hogging galleries, never knew quite what to do with it, or with her. In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art finally brought Ringgold into its collection with the acquisition of several pieces from early in her career.

Persons: Faith Ringgold, Painter, Ringgold Organizations: Museum of Modern Art Locations: Venice

☆ Faith Ringgold obit: ‘Tar beach’ author and Black quilt artist dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Yahya Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Faith Ringgold, pictured in her studio in New York City in 1999. Anthony Barboza/Getty Images(CNN) — Faith Ringgold, the pioneering artist and author best known for her narrative quilts that interwove art with activism, has died at 93. After earning her bachelor’s degree in fine art and education in 1955, Ringgold began teaching art in public schools while developing her own art. Her early work was influenced by civil and racial unrest, and had patent and profound political and social tones. The painting, arguably the series’ most famous, gorily depicts a group of men, women and children brutally attacking one another.

Persons: Faith Ringgold, Anthony Barboza, Faith, ”, Dorian Bergen, “, Ringgold, Ringgold’s adamancy, Jacquelyn Martin, Madame Willi Posey, ” Ringgold, Leila Macor, Connie’s Organizations: New York Times, ACA Galleries, Ringgold, CNN, Harlem, City College of New, City College, Civil, Museum, Modern, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women, Arts, Washington , D.C, New Museum, American, de Young Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Getty Locations: New York City, New Jersey, Harlem, America, African American, Washington ,, Vietnam, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Miami Beach , Florida, AFP

☆ A Reverse Art Heist? Museum Finds Employee’s Painting on Its Wall
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Christopher F. Schuetze | More About Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Unfortunately for the worker’s burgeoning art career, the ruse was discovered and the painting was removed from the wall. The museum and the worker agreed to part ways, the museum said. The man, a well-respected employee that the museum did not identify, was also banned from visiting his old workplace, the museum added. Adding to the aspiring artist’s troubles, the police said on Wednesday that they were investigating him for property damage — for drilling two small holes in the museum wall to hang his painting. The Pinakothek der Moderne has one of Germany’s largest art collections, with more than 20,000 pieces of art, including works by prominent artists like Max Beckmann and Pablo Picasso.

Persons: Ms, Nehler, Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso

☆ Partying on a Tuesday With Elon Musk and His 3-Year-Old
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Madison Malone Kircher | Nina Westervelt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The future looked bright despite the rain on Tuesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art, where guests — including Elon Musk and Seth Meyers — gathered for a screening of a new PBS documentary series, “A Brief History of the Future.”Mr. Musk, flanked by security, came with a preschooler in tow, his 3-year-old son, X Æ A-12, who is better known simply as X. (Same as Mr. Musk’s social media platform.) X’s mother, the musician Grimes, is featured in the documentary series, which follows innovators who are trying to tackle some the world’s most pressing problems, like climate change and pollution. The documentary, as the title might suggest, centers on futurism. Its adherents approach these obstacles and challenges with a distinct sense of optimism.

Persons: Elon Musk, Seth Meyers —, Mr, Grimes Organizations: Museum of Modern Art, Elon, PBS

☆ 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

How do we define furniture? The goal was to land on a wide range of offerings, but there were parameters: To qualify, each piece was required to have been fabricated, even if just as a prototype, within the past 100 years. Lighting was excluded from the debate — “which is nuts,” said de Cárdenas, a former men’s wear designer who started his firm in 2006 — unless it was attached to, say, a desk. (The Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass’s illuminated Ultrafragola mirror, which presaged selfie culture by decades, made the cut.) There were no limits placed on provenance, and a piece didn’t need to have been designed by a known name, or even attributable.

Persons: Rafael de Cárdenas, Daniel Romualdez, Modern Art’s, Paola Antonelli, Julianne Moore, Katie Stout, Tom Delavan —, Oki, ”, de Cárdenas, Ettore Sottsass’s, Antonelli, Charles, Ray Eames, Le Corbusier Organizations: New York Times, Museum, Modern Locations: Italian

☆ Robert Moskowitz, Abstract Painter of New York’s Skyscrapers, Dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline to stake out a unique position on the border of abstraction and representation, died on Sunday in Manhattan. His son, Erik Moskowitz, said the cause of death, at a hospital, was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Moskowitz first came to broad notice with collagelike paintings in which he glued window shades to canvases that had been painted various shades of off-white. Some of these works, which evoke stripped-down Rauschenbergs, were exhibited in the 1961 Museum of Modern Art show “The Art of Assemblage.” He later made a series of similar collages with envelopes. From the mid-1960s into the ’70s, after an interlude painting Surreal interiors, Mr. Moskowitz settled on views of empty corners, which again flirted with the limits of legibility — they were usually one color, sometimes even black on black.

Persons: Robert Moskowitz, Erik Moskowitz, Moskowitz, legibility — Organizations: Modern Locations: York City, Manhattan, legibility

☆ Why Nora Turato is taking on the wellness industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Victoria Woodcock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

stop lying!” — a solo show at Sprüth Magers’ Los Angeles gallery, and a riposte to the wellness industry. Robert Wedemeyer/Courtesy Sprüth MagersAt the latter in 2022, she performed her one-woman “pool 5” monologue live more than 20 times over a two-week period. Born in Zagreb, Turato refers to her home country as “very in-between — not really eastern Europe; not really west,” she said. Robert Wedemeyer/Courtesy Sprüth MagersFor Sprüth Magers co-founder Philomene Magers, “Nora’s work puts people in front of a mirror,” she said. Tellingly, Turato’s self-optimization journey has ended in digital detox.

Persons: Nora Turato, “, ”, Zoom, Robert Wedemeyer, Barbara Kruger, —, Magers, Philomene Magers, it’s, haha, Turato, Julie Adams, It’s, — “, You’ve, “ I’ve Organizations: CNN, YouTube, Museum of Modern Art, Hollywood, Systems, “ Locations: Croatian, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, New York, Zagreb, Croatia, Arnhem, Netherlands, Turato, Europe, ”, LA

☆ How to 3D-print a school in a war zone
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Project Hive will provide the school with four extra classrooms to help it accommodate additional students displaced by the war, said Bonis. But he continues undeterred: “(This) is also a way of taking technology to give back hope.”A model of the 3D-printed school showing the four new classrooms. Where 3D printing is really great is when you have special geometries and shapes, because you’re totally free. According to Lange, there are cheaper, faster alternatives to 3D printing, such as prefabricated and modular buildings. Team4UAReconstructing communitiesTeam4UA is not the only organization to see the potential of 3D-printed construction in disaster and conflict zones.

Persons: Jean, Christophe Bonis, “ I’m, ” Bonis, Team4UA, Olga Gavura, “, ”, DUS, Christian Lange, you’re, Hong Kong University Lange, Lange, Jack Oslan, Oslan, ‘, Andriy Zakaliuk, Bonis, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Team4UA, United Nations ’ International Organization for Migration, ”, Balbek, Ars Longa, Dubai Future Foundation, Hong Kong University, Robotic, 7CI Group, Russian, Diamond, Kyiv School of Economics, Lviv City Council’s Locations: Lviv, Ukraine, Europe, Russia, —, Texas, Austin , Texas, Nacajuca, Mexico, Dubai, Malawi, Arizona, “, Kherson, Kyiv

☆ The ‘war photographer’ surveying the liminal spaces of conflict—and peace
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Dan Q. Dao | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —An-My Lê doesn’t identify as a war photographer. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryAn-My Lê. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman Gallery“It doesn’t have the same explosive, devastating quality of real combat,” Lê said of the series. Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryA portrait of an arresting gear mechanic on board the USS Ronald Reagan, also from "Events Ashore." Courtesy the artist/Marian Goodman GalleryLê’s work doesn’t impose any particular morality on the viewer; instead, she intentionally utilizes distance and scale to convey a complexity often overlooked.

Persons: it’s, Marian Goodman, ” Lê, Lê, ”, “, Preble, Ronald Reagan, we’re, “ I’m, Gustave Le Gray, Manning, ineffable, John, Jonathan Dorado, — Organizations: CNN, US, Stabilization, Museum of Modern Art, “, Marines, Conservatives, Rail, Navy, MoMA Locations: United States, Vietnam, New York, Iraq, Afghanistan, California, Rivers, ”, Hudson, Mekong and Mississippi, Asia, Africa, USS New Hampshire, Da Nang, Ghanaian, Tortuga, “ Manning, Bayou St, New Orleans

☆ Are these the most beautiful coffee shops in the world?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( David Tran | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The Budapest Café is one of many eye-catching businesses featured in “Designing Coffee: New Coffee Places and Branding,” a coffee table book — no pun intended — that puts the world’s most photogenic, eccentric cafés and roasters on display. Its "bright, playful design and color palette transform a former dental office into a bustling and vibrant bakery café," Kingston writes in "Designing Coffee." In an increasingly competitive coffee industry, coffee shop owners are putting thoughts into how their spaces are designed. Across its ambience and menu, the Genovese Coffee House in Sydney offers Australian consumers an "espresso" ticket to Mediterranean café culture. Anson Smart/Genovese Coffee House/Courtesy gestaltenElsewhere, Genovese Coffee House (pictured above) in Sydney, Australia drew inspiration from Italian coffee culture.

Persons: James Morgan, they’re, Wes Anderson, Lani Kingston, Kingston, Mikhail Loskutov, Yuh Nguyen, Luca Rinaldi, Jamie Yelo, Urbain, Jin Weiqi, Marco Pinarelli, Julius, Damir Otegen, Karin Pasterer, Hernan Taboada, Carlos Artalejo, Xavier Alexander, Alexander, ”, “, ” Alexander, ” Kingston, David Dworkind, ” “, ’ ”, Fritz, K Kim, Angela Wijaya, Fritz Coffee, Ben Hamilton, Anson Smart, “ It’s Organizations: Budapest Cafe, CNN, Portland State University, Melrose, Rupertinum, Salzburg's Museum of Modern Art, Kingston, Fritz Coffee Company, Coffee House, Genovese Coffee, Coffee Locations: Budapest, Chengdu, China, Odessa, Ukraine, Hanoi, Vietnam, Milan, Italy, Taipei, Taiwan, Montréal, Canada, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Central Highlands, Kyiv, Ukraine's, Hong Kong, Forme, Beirut, Lebanon, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Salzburg, Austria, 220GRAD, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Caffettiera, Montreal, Asia, Seoul, South Korea, Belfast, Los Angeles, California, Sydney, Australia

☆ Following Yoko Ono’s Anarchic Instructions
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Emily Labarge | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To a man who had trouble locating the show, the interviewer conceded, “It’s here, it’s just mostly in people’s minds.”The man nodded. “Yes,” he said, “I thought that might be the case.”These were some of the reactions to Ono’s “Museum of Modern (F)art,” a self-appointed MoMA debut, staged without the museum’s permission. It was up to visitors to find them, the notice said, perhaps by following the errant wafts of fragrance drifting past the Pollocks, Picassos or Van Goghs. The show, “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” contains more than 200 works spanning seven decades. Like “Museum of Modern (F)art,” which is part of the retrospective, most of those works are in people’s minds.

Persons: Yoko Ono, “, it’s, ”, Van Goghs, John Lennon Organizations: Museum of Modern, “, of, MoMA, Tate Modern Locations: Tokyo, London

LONDON (AP) — Before there was John and Yoko — and after — there was just Yoko Ono. Yet that period forms just a small part of an exhibition opening this week at the Tate Modern gallery in London. One of the largest shows of Ono’s work ever mounted, it includes seven decades of work by the artist, who turns 91 on Sunday. In her landmark 1964 performance “Cut Piece,” she gave gallery visitors scissors and invited them to snip away at her clothes. For an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s, Ono falsely claimed to have released hundreds of flies soaked in perfume for gallery visitors to find.

Persons: Yoko —, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Ono, Lennon, London —, ”, Juliet Bingham, ” Bingham, It’s, Bingham, “ Organizations: Ono, Tate, ”, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern Locations: American, London, New York, Japan, Britain, Montreal

☆ teamLab Borderless: Art collective behind some of the world’s most popular museums unveils new Tokyo project
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( David Mcelhinney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Tokyo, Japan CNN —When art collective teamLab opened its flagship Tokyo venue, teamLab Borderless, in 2018, the group wanted it to fundamentally change the way we perceive and think about modern art. teamLab Borderless TokyoSo, it’s perhaps no surprise that a significant amount of hype surrounds the grand return of Borderless, which reopens this week in an upmarket new high-rise in Tokyo’s Azabudai district. teamLab Borderless TokyoKudo’s rhetorical style is circuitous, which is apt in a venue that eschews a linear approach to museum design. teamLab Borderless TokyoWandering around Borderless is more like “shinrin-yoku,” the Japanese art of forest bathing, whereby you let your body react to its environment so that it subconsciously directs your movements. teamLab Borderless TokyoThere may be no centerpiece at Borderless, but when another teamLab member, Sakurako Naka, opened a curtain to the new “Light Sculpture” series, she said the collective is “super excited” about this one.

Persons: teamLab Borderless, Takashi Kudo, “, …, ”, teamLab, motioning, There’s, Sakurako, Kudo Organizations: Japan CNN, Google, CNN Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, Melbourne , New York, London, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo’s Azabudai district, ichi, Sakurako Naka

☆ Eileen Agar: Her Jewel-Like Paintings Stretched Surrealism
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Titled “Eileen Agar: Flowering of a Wing: Works, 1936 -1989,” this knockout is at Andrew Kreps Gallery (through Saturday). Its title, taken from one of the canvases here, signals Agar’s lifelong devotion to nature and to ambiguous meanings. Agar may be best known for her collages and their fusion of Surrealist imagination and Cubist structure and geometry. But this show homes in on the paintings, which have a contemporary air and are plenty interesting enough. Most of the paintings here involve several shades of blue, as if haunted by Matisse’s “The Blue Window” (1913) in the Museum of Modern Art.

Persons: Hilma af, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Mary Delany, Eileen Agar, Andrew Kreps, Agar, —, Matisse, Matisse’s “ Organizations: Museum of Modern Art Locations: Hilma af Klint, Sweden, United States

LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced Saturday that it will offer “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7 sale in London marking a century of the surrealist movement in art. The painting includes several of the Belgian artist’s signature motifs, including a bowler-hatted man and fluffy white clouds on a blue sky. Last exhibited publicly in Brussels in 1998, it’s being auctioned for the first time since 1980, and has a pre-sale estimate of between 30 million and 50 million pounds ($38 million and $64 million). Camu said Magritte, who died in 1967, has become the most “in-demand” of all the surrealists.

Persons: René Magritte, hasn’t, Olivier Camu, Magritte, Last, it’s, Andre Breton’s, ” Camu, Camu, Salvador Dali, “ Magritte, —, “, ”, Gilbert Kaplan —, Lena Kaplan Locations: London, Belgian, Brussels, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong

☆ Martha Stewart could function on 3 hours of sleep as she built her business empire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Martha Stewart started her catering business in 1973 from her basement in Westport, Connecticut. Her former catering staff said Stewart could function on three hours of sleep. AdvertisementBefore she became a cookbook author , a business mogul, and the first self-made female billionaire in America , Martha Stewart was a caterer. Stewart in her kitchen in 1976, where she launched her catering business. AdvertisementStewart, now 82, said at a recent MasterClass event that she still wakes up "really, really early" — as soon as the sun rises.

Persons: Martha Stewart, Stewart, —, Alexis, Susan Wood, Martha, Carla Hall, Louise Felix, Felix, Dolly Parton, Parton, I've, it's Organizations: Service, CNN, Wall Street, Westport News, Revlon, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art Locations: Westport , Connecticut, America, Connecticut, Westport, Turkey, Fairfield County, New York City, Bedford , New York

☆ An artist who appeared nude in a Marina Abramović piece sues MoMA, alleging it failed to protect him from sexual assault
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —An artist who appeared nude in a highly publicized piece by famed performance artist Marina Abramović is suing New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) after he said he was sexually assaulted during the 2010 event. In the lawsuit obtained by CNN, New York artist John Bonafede claims MoMA didn’t do enough to protect him and fellow nude artists from assault. “Imponderabilia” was one part of “The Artist is Present,” a larger MoMA exhibition celebrating Abramović’s storied career. Several “Imponderabilia” performers reported being groped during the 2010 exhibit. Abramović’s “Imponderabilia” was originally staged in 1977 at the Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, in Bologna, Italy, with Abramović and her former partner, the late German performance artist Ulay.

Persons: Marina Abramović, John Bonafede, Bonafede, Imponderabilia ”, Abramović’s, ”, ” “ John, Jordan Fletcher, “, ” Bonafede, Abramović, Ulay Organizations: CNN, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, York, MoMA, Marina Abramović Institute, New York Times, Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, London’s Royal Academy of Arts Locations: CNN , New York, Bologna, Italy, London

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