Tim Marlow celebrates the new year with the formidable collections of two English monarchs, Grayson Perry’s provocative creations, a moving instalation by Doris Salcedo and more.
January 2018 Art News
BOSTON, MA – Skinner, Inc. will present an auction of European Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston Gallery on Friday, January 12th. With over 600 lots on offer, the auction will feature an expansive selection of fine silver as well as European furniture and decorative arts of the 17th through early 20th centuries.
SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents one of America’s most iconic artists in a new light. Georgia O'Keeffe: Art, Image, Style is the first exhibition to explore O’Keeffe’s unified, modern aesthetic and distinctive self-styling by presenting her paintings with her never-before-exhibited handmade garments and photographs of the artist. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and guest curator Wanda M.
Susan Norrie is an Australian artist, based in Sydney whose work is a combination of photography, film and documentary shown in large-scale multimedia installations. Her work, often set in the Asia-Pacific, explores the relationship between technology and the environment and the complicity between global media and government.
Focusing on intimate gesture and free experimentation, “Close at Hand” reveals a breadth of formal, conceptual, and material approaches to sculpture, including assemblages, ceramics, and found objects.
Looking at Avedon’s mid-century portraits feels like his camera was at once a laser beam and a spotlight, seeing presciently through the haze of history.
Marlborough Contemporary, New York is pleased (and slightly nervous) to present Inconsiderate Fantasies of Negative Acceleration Characterized by Sacrifices of a Non-Consensual Nature by the legendary Survival Research Laboratories. The exhibition, the first solo presentation by SRL in a commercial gallery, comprises eight kinetic sculptures dating from 1986 to the present, along with video documentation of past performances in which these machines were engaged.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to present Wu Bin’s Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone, featuring one of the most extraordinary paintings of a stone ever created. In ancient China, strange and marvelous stones were valued for their beauty and as reflections of the hidden structures underlying the universe. Stones were seen as fluid and dynamic, constantly changing, and capable of magical transformations. Wu Bin’s Ming dynasty handscroll, painted in 1610, comprises 10 separate views of a single stone from the famous site of Lingbi, Anhui Province.
As the V&A’s first Engineer in Residence, Julian Melchiorri was interested in exploring how the latest advances in biotechnology and engineering could be applied to everyday objects to improve the quality of our lives. Taking inspiration from the Museum’s Art Nouveau and Islamic art collections, Melchiorri created Exhale, the world’s first bionic chandelier, which now sits in the new Members’ Reception of the V&A. Formed of modular leaves containing microorganisms, this living and breathing chandelier removes carbon dioxide from the air and releases oxygen.
Thorough & Whimsical: Canada’s First Florine Stettheimer Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario
“Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry” is the first show of its kind in twenty years, and Stettheimer’s first ever retrospective in Canada. It offers unprecedented insight into the paintings, drawings, writings, and overall aesthetic of the twentieth century New York-based female artist. The exhibition makes up for lost time by comprehensively extending beyond the works on display to include poignant spatial design. In short, the exhibition is atmospheric. No sign of the era’s wartime strife or uncertainty makes its way into this space.
