MARA MANUS TO LEAD PIONEER WORKS - Artforum
September 12, 2023 3:22 pm. Mara Manus. Photo: Ric Sechrest. Brooklyn nonprofit Pioneer Works today announced Mara Manus as its next chief executive officer. Manus was previously executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). In her new role, which she has already assumed, she will work closely with the cultural ...
FRIEZE ANNOUNCES PARTICIPANTS IN 2024 NEW YORK EDITION
Feb 6, 2024 · The Shed, New York, October 15, 2019. Photo: C. Taylor Crothers/Getty Images. Frieze officials have revealed the sixty-eight galleries that will be participating in the company’s 2024 iteration of its New York fair, one fewer than last year. The event is scheduled to take place May 2–5, with a preview day on May 1, at the Shed, in the city ...
Josh Kline’s highlights of 2023 - Artforum
Josh Kline is an artist who lives and works in New York City. In 2023, he was the subject of A major survey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Kline is currently at work on a screenplay for a feature film and is preparing for a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art that opens in June 2024. 01.
THE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADE - Artforum
The New York Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions strongly objected to this ruling in a letter published in American Artist (May, 1952, p. 71): We artists believe that at the completion and after payment for monumental works of art, such works of art become the property of the people and that neither the government nor any private ...
NEW DEAL MURALS IN NEW YORK - Artforum
By means of a series of fair and financially rewarding local and national competitions, it succeeded in the years between 1934 and 1943 in sponsoring some 1,116 murals. Sixty-eight of these were painted in New York City and State. Equally important, close to 240 New York artists won commissions to paint Section murals elsewhere in the country.
MONDRIAN THE NEW YORKER - Artforum
MONDRIAN’S FIRST NEW YORK PAINTING, New York, 1941–42, is part of a group of three city paintings belonging to the last part of his classic phase. The others are Place de la Concorde, 1 1938–43, and Trafalgar Square, 1939–43. It was appropriately De Stijl for Mondrian to be concerned with urban squares—as much for their visible social ...
BENJAMIN PATTERSON - artforum.com
Nov 12, 2013 · Benjamin Patterson, Paper Piece, 1960. Performance view, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963. THE COMPOSER, performer, and visual artist Benjamin Patterson was one of the founding figures of Fluxus, the massively interdisciplinary international art movement that emerged in the early 1960s, encompassing music, text-sound, sculpture ...
New Terminal at New York’s JFK Airport to Host Permanent
Jul 18, 2024 · The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on July 16 announced that it had tapped eighteen contemporary artists to create commissions for its forthcoming Terminal 6. The works will be in place when the first gates at the $4.2 billion terminal open in 2026 (the terminal is expected to open fully by 2028). A committee composed of members of ...
THE ART OF PETER VOULKOS - Artforum
It will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York from October 21 to December 1; it will open at the Milwaukee Arts Center on February 23, 1979. —Hal Fischer ————————— NOTES. 1. Rose Slivka, Peter Voulkos, A …
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, WEAPON OF THE COLD WAR
It was reconstituted as the International Council of MoMA and officially launched six months after the censorship scandal of USIA’s “100 American Artists” show. MoMA’s newly expanded role in representing the United States abroad was explained by a …