Art and commerce join forces to create cultural cluster
Rotterdams M4H (Merwe-Vierhavens) area has a 120-year history. It started off as part of the greater Rotterdam port and for years boasted one of the worlds largest fruit terminals. Some buildings are currently recognised as industrial heritage.
ROTTERDAM
.- BRUTUS breaks the mould of art as a gentrification accelerator. Artist Joep van Lieshout (Atelier Van Lieshout) and project developer RED Company have joined forces to build a large-scale cultural cluster with residential units, offices and services in Rotterdams up and coming M4H port area. Their cooperation heralds a new model for urban renewal that does not automatically push out creatives once neighbourhoods upgrade.
Kunsthalle Mainz opens an exhibition of works by Joachim Koester
nhm:mz: Gips-Sandrose (M1990/2252-LS), Botanischer Garten JGU: Delosperma lehmannii Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
MAINZ
.- Perception, consciousness and connectedness are the crucial constant factors in Joachim Koesters thought and oeuvre. They constitute both the driving force behind his artistic work and what results from it. At a formal level, his photographs, videos, sound pieces and installations appear minimalistic, but they spread out bit by bit with their immense, interwoven spectrum of meaning.
They tell of people whose bodily movements have been induced by a tarantula bite, which essentially seems to be driving them to a state of rapture; of praying mantises that virtually merge with their surroundings; of imaginary journeys that lead to a place of abandoned futures; of the characteristic surface structures of cocaine or marijuana particles, which are far from being immediately recognisable to
Sally Grossman, immortalized on a Dylan album cover, dies at 81
The cover of Bob Dylan s Bringing It All Back Home .
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- One of Bob Dylans most important early albums, Bringing It All Back Home from 1965, has the kind of cover that can strain eyes and fuel speculation. It is a photograph of Dylan, in a black jacket, sitting in a room full of bric-a-brac that may or may not mean something, staring into the camera as a woman in a red outfit lounges in the background.
Fans became so fixated on deciphering it, the music journalist Neil McCormick wrote in The Daily Telegraph of London last year, that a rumor took hold that the woman was Dylan in drag, representing the feminine side of his psyche.
This 1908 Little Nemo in Slumberland original art, once displayed in museums, heads to auction
Winsor McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday Comic Strip Befuddle Hall Original Art dated 2-23-08 (New York Herald, 1908).
DALLAS, TX
.- In a letter to cartoonist Clare Briggs, Winsor McCay, the artist and animator, explained that he could no more stop putting pen to paper than he could cease filling his lungs with air. I never intended to be an artist, McCay wrote in the earnest missive. Simply, I couldn t stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew and drew.
Exhibition of mixed media paintings by Vivian Suter opens at Gladstone Gallery
Installation View of Vivian Suter: Wolf s Hour at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
BRUSSELS
.-Gladstone Gallery is presenting Vivian Suter: Wolfs Hour, an exhibition of mixed media paintings from more than thirty years of the artists career. This show is Suters second presentation with Gladstone Gallery, and her first in Belgium.
Expanding the artists investigation of using the painted medium to create surreal, immersive environments, Suter employs the gallerys classic architecture to transpose elements of her tropical studio onto the urban setting of this Belgian townhouse. The walls, ceiling, stairwell, and floor all find activation through the unique installation of unstretched canvases that simultaneously highlight and conceal the rectilinear components of the exhibition space. While conceived and created as unique,