New platform aims to empower and impact the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene
Steeve Nassima and Suzanne Landau. Photo: Meir cohen.
TEL AVIV
.-Nassima Landau is a new and ambitious platform that aims to empower and impact the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene, by showcasing emerging and established International artists. Nassima Landau will act as a foundation identifying and supporting artists with outstanding talent, quality, and promising market value, whilst engaging in activities yielding financial support. Its innovative program includes exhibitions, site-specific installations and one-time events of the highest standard in its new art space located in the center of Tel Aviv.
Superheroes and trailblazers: Black comic book artists, rediscovered
Ace Harlem, a Dic Tracey-like detective created by Orrin C. Evans and John Terrell. The comic ran in the premiere (and only) issue of All-Negro Comics, the first all-Black comic produced by an all-Black staff in 1947. Yoe Books via The New York Times.
by Helene Stapinski
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Ken Quattros deep dive into Black comic book artists started out of frustration. Twenty years ago, while researching a man named Matt Baker whose drawings were distinguished by his strong style, Quattro, a comics fan and blogger, kept coming up empty-handed. There was nothing about him except that he was Black and that he died young, said Quattro, who is known as the Comics Detective.
Process and invention: Four West Coast photographers expanding the medium
Meghann Riepenhoff, Ice #78 (29-34℉, Big Creek, WA 03.09.20), 2020. Unique Dynamic Cyanotype, 42 x 88 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- From the landscape photography of Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins to Eadward Muybridges panorama of San Francisco, the West Coast of the United States has long been an epicenter of American photography. Process and Invention, a new viewing room by Haines Gallery, brings together works by four photographers whose analog practices draw from this storied lineage while expanding the possibilities of their chosen medium.
The images and alternative processes of John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw and Meghann Riepenhoff owe as much to this history of photography as they do to the West Coasts stunning and varied environs. Together, they represent an exciting new generation of artists who are reinvigorating handmade photography in our digital age.
The Architectural Digest Design Show is now the NY Luxury Design Fair
Located on the West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to Hudson Yards, the largest development in U.S. history, the steel-and-glass structure of the I.M. Pei-designed Javits Center will provide the setting for exploration and discovery.
NEW YORK, NY
.- theMART announced the launch of the NY Luxury Design Fair, an innovative and immersive design experience for trade professionals and consumers, September 912, 2021. The new show is an exciting evolution of the long-running Architectural Digest Design Show, created by the same producers. Offering a fresh take on a twenty-year tradition, the NY Luxury Design Fair will provide access to the best in home design, combining dynamic emerging talent with the newest introductions and launches from preeminent brands across many categories.
MPavilion announces trailblazing, adaptive takeover of Parkade Carpark
Slow Art Collective, Infinity Parasite.
MELBOURNE
.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria announced that from 8 January 2021 MPavilionAustralia s most loved architecture and design eventwill take residency at the architecturally significant Parkade Carpark designed by Melbourne architect Peter McIntyre AO at 34 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. As an extraordinary contribution to the City of Melbournes recovery strategy, MPavilion Parkade, will be a highly-accessible cultural destination, hosting events, workshops, and performances designed to stimulate, entertain, and engage the public, 7-days-a-week.
In a timely example of adaptive re-usethe process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than that for which it was designedMPavilion will use the Parkade car park as a new home for its unique, multi-faceted program of public