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Calder-Picasso: Two giants of modernity meet at the de Young museum
Triple Gong, ca. 1948. Brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 39 x 75 x 2 3/4 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Calder-Picasso at the de Young museum. Conceived by the artists grandsons Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, it is the first major museum exhibition to explore the formal resonances between the works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, two of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century. In more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographsincluding many iconic worksthe exhibition presents a compelling presentation of the artists exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which they defined from the figure through to abstraction.
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In the final Monday edition of this column, which is moving permanently to Wednesdays (yes, really) starting next week, let’s consider how a cure can divide markets as surely as a disease…
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As vaccination campaigns ramp up around the United States, more and more businesses are trying to do well by doing good in a whole new way: by offering special perks to consumers who can prove they’ve been inoculated against everyone’s least favorite spike protein. But while a broadening range of national corporations and local entrepreneurs are joining in the effort, so far there seems to be little interest from inside the art industry another subtle reminder that connecting with a wide audience rarely rates as a priority in the realm of high culture.
Regen Projects opens a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner
Installation view of Liz Larner As Stars and Seas Entwine at Regen Projects, Los Angeles March 27 May 22, 2021. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Regen Projects is presenting As Stars and Seas Entwine, the eighth solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner, whose deep research-based practice is united by a continual exploration of form, material, and color. This exhibition debuts one of the new large-scale floor sculptures and a number of ceramic works that will be included in Below Above, a forthcoming museum exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich in the summer of 2022.
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Vermont Business Magazine Bennington College has received a gift of some 500 works of art to benefit
Art for Access, an innovative fundraising program launched in 2018. Art for Access celebrates the College’s pioneering legacy in the visual arts by pursuing dual goals: to expand and enhance Bennington’s art holdings for teaching, enrichment, and enjoyment and to raise funds for scholarships through the sale of art, advancing the College’s commitment to equity, diversity, and access.
The gifted works including prints, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture are from the collection of noted art patron and curator
Melva Bucksbaum (1933-2015). In assembling her private collection, Mrs. Bucksbaum was a risk-taking collector who focused on the artist, not art-world trends, and supported artists through her philanthropic work as well as studio acquisitions. She served as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and on many other boards including