October 2024 Art News

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is an art residency and studio program on 39th Street in Manhattan, just two blocks shy of the Port Authority bus station and New York Times headquarters. In their unassuming building, artists were invited to open their studios to the public, celebrating 25 years of Open Studios and sharing their inner worlds with anyone who happens to be curious. 

At the Louvre Museum in Paris, amongst the various works of art, is a painting with a tragic, yet captivating, story behind it. The Raft of Medusa was painted in 1819 by Théodore Géricault, an ambitious artist eager to achieve fame and glory.

Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines 400 artworks from the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition tackles political, aesthetic, and narrative challenges surrounding artworks spanning over 2,000 years. Many of the works on view have never been seen before, while others are still promised to the museum and currently on loan. 

Gallerist Sonya Sparks is focused. As a native of San Diego with an avid interest in both art and business, this young entrepreneur was aware that there were few options for the many artists who live and work in this southern California town to show and sell their work. 

KADIST gallery in San Francisco and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston have teamed up with joint exhibitions to examine the archival conditions of memory, ritual, and interconnectivity.

On January 23, 1944, Edvard Munch died peacefully in his sleep in Ekely, Norway, and the world lost an artist who would become one of the most well-known of the 20th century, thanks to his iconic artworks, “The Scream” chief amongst them. 

If you ever find yourself driving coast to coast across the United States, you’ll likely spend a good few hours cutting along the vast cornfields and flat farmlands of the midwest. While waiting for the horizon to never get any closer, a splice of color— a multi-colored wooden square cresting a barn, to be exact— suddenly breaks through the golden browns and dusty greens of the crops.

Edges of Ailey, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an exhibition that investigates, reveals, and honors the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931 and suffered the harsh realities of the south, before relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, California in 1942. 

October 11th marked the beginning of Art Basel Paris’ third iteration, and with that, came an abundance of exhibitions springing up in the city of love: “Arte Povera,” at La Bourse de Commerce; the major group exhibition “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselman &…”— featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Marcel Duchamp, David Hammons, Hannah Höch, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Rauschenberg

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