May 2023 Art News

Museum
Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum Opens in June with Major Updates and Expansion
Aerial view of the museum's campus, including a rendering of the new Gundlach Building, Great Lawn, and indoor Town Square covered by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann's Common Sky.

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is going through a major update.

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Jeff Koons Reveals How Duchamp Influenced His Art
jeff koons talking in a movie
Jeff Koons discusses how Marcel Duchamp liberates artists from materiality, allowing them to pursue pure ideas.
Auction
Masterpieces by Alma-Tadema, Moore, and Bouguereau to Headline Getty Collection Auction
William-Adolphe Bouguereau Le Printemps, oil on canvas Estimate $250,000-350,000, Courtesy Christie’s

Featuring exquisite Tiffany lamps, English carpets, and important paintings by Albert Joseph Moore, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Bouguereau, the upcoming sale of the

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Creature Comfort: Animal Art in the Home
Gerrit Dou, Sleeping Dog, 1650.
The term zoomorphism, when applied to art, can mean any object that uses animals as a visual motif.
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Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gains Support to Become a Historic Site
Nina Simone in 1965, Wikimedia Commons

This past Satuday, Pace Gallery held a Benefit Gala to support the Nina Simone Childhood Home Benefit Auction co-hosted by tennis champion Venus Williams and artist Adam Pendelton.

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Why Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" is a Masterpiece of Realism
Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1852–55. Oil on canvas. 96 1:4 x 199 1:2 in. (244.5 x 506.7 cm). The Met. Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887. 87.25.
Bonheur put a year and a half into location-based preparatory sketching for "The Horse Fair" and pulled from a number of unique masterworks to find inspiration for the final product. Unsurprisingly, it immediately drew praise upon its showing at the Salon of 1853.
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Beyond the Grooves: Exploring the Artistic Evolution of Record Covers
Second hand record store in Spain (2016)

One of the joys of spending time in a record store is not knowing what to choose. For those who go in “just to have a browse,” the risk is to spend hours flipping through countless records.

Museum
How Lucio Fontana's Slashed Canvases Changed Art History
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By ripping through his canvases, Lucio Fontana changed what a painting could be, and the course of art history. His groundbreaking slashed paintings, called Cuts (Tagli) embodied Spatialism, Fontana’s art movement that was meant to create a new kind of art synthesizing color, sound, space, and movement. Before his Spatialist manifestos and slashed paintings, Fontana was a sculptor, and the Met Breuer is exploring the Argentine-Italian artist’s early work in a new retrospective, Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold. 
Gallery
Bisa Butler: The World Is Yours
Bisa Butler, Genevieve Hanson for the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.

Fabric artist Bisa Butler, whose vibrant quilted appliqué portraits have been featured on the covers of Time, Essence, and

Gallery
3 Shows by Female Artists to See in NYC This Spring
Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023 (detail) © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro

As the blooms of spring emerge, so does a fresh wave of artistic brilliance in the heart of New York City. This season, the cultural landscape is filled with groundbreaking exhibitions that not only captivate the senses but also honor the remarkable contributions of female artists.