Innehållsförteckning för November-December 2023 från Art & Antiques

GildedArtistry BARBARA NANNING, who describes herself as a ceramic and glass artist, began her notable career making monumental ceramic sculptures. Her dramatic, organic, and large clay sculptures caught the attention of critics, making her a figure in the international art scene early on in her career. Nanning, who was born in 1957 in the Netherlands and graduated from Gerrit Rievtveld Academie in 1979, lives and works in Amsterdam. She is part of a generation of ceramic artists who defined contemporary Dutch ceramics in the mid-1980s. Her interest in glass was sparked in 1995, when she was asked to design an object for the Netherlands’ National Glass Museum. Fascinated by the clarity of line and optical effects of glass, she began working with this material. “Nature, both organic and inorganic, is…

A MUCH-DESERVED career retrospective for the painter Denyse Thomasos will be shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery from November 10th through March 24, 2024. The exhibition, “Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond,” will showcase over 70 paintings and works on paper. Thomasos, who received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1989, had a mere 23 years of painting before she died unexpectedly in 2012. Nevertheless, she produced a powerful body of work in that short span of time, securing a place as one of the finest contemporary artists of her generation. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Thomasos immigrated to Canada with her family when she was 6 years old. The covert racism she and her family encountered in Toronto, as well as the sudden death of…

Art World Migration DECEMBER in the modern and contemporary art world means one thing—Miami. Art Miami and Art Basel Miami are the main attractions to a lineup that includes over fifteen fairs all taking place the first week of December. Over 170 galleries from around the world will gather in Miami December 5-10 for the 33rd edition of Art Miami, the leading fair in the global contemporary and modern art market. This year, galleries will travel from London, Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Venice, and Hong Kong to come together with blue chip American galleries for this annual winter ritual. The fair will feature thousands of works of art by over 900 artists including investment quality examples of paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, video art, photography, installations and works…

SINCE THE 17th-century founding of the Academy System—starting in France but quickly spreading through the rest of Europe—the art world was structured as a hierarchy. Supposed fine art forms, such as painting and sculpture, were viewed as superior, while the decorative arts were viewed as less important. That same academic art tradition closely prescribed stylistic conventions, training designers to look to the past, yielding a tendency toward stagnant revivalism rather than invention. Known variously throughout Europe as Jugendstil (“young style”) in Germany, Style Nouille (“noodle style”) in Belgium, or the Tiffany style in America, Art Nouveau—quite literally the new art—positioned itself in direct opposition to such conventional tendencies at the end of the 19th century. An international cast of practitioners looked to the natural world for form and inspiration to…

AS THE ELEVATOR doors part, the energy quickens, and a cluster of museum visitors encounters the first artworks in the exhibition. We are drawn in by something that feels like an unknown treasure trove. “Ruth Asawa Through Line,” co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, examines the centrality of drawing in the artist’s practice and features over 100 drawings, collages, stamped prints, copper foil works, and sketchbooks, many of which have never been previously exhibited. Arranged around themes that illuminate Asawa’s education, material invention, and recording of everyday subjects, the show reveals how her daily drawing practice sustained her growth just as it reflected her artistic, familial, and social spheres. The prodigious volume and technical range of Asawa’s oeuvre, coupled with interpretive…