Amir H. Fallah is Making Watercolors at Home with his Son by Katy Donoghue May 1, 2020 Were it not for the current global pandemic, Amir H. Fallah’s solo show of new paintings would be on view at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles, CA, right now. His major museum exhibition “Scatter My Ashes on Foreign Lands” at Museum of Contemporary Art Tuscon was also cut short, after opening in January. Like so many artists, he’s had a number of projects…Read More
Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the Online Editions of the Dallas Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, and David Zwirner’s ‘Platform’ We’ve adapted our art-fair sales column for our new virtual world. Eileen Kinsella, & Tim Schneider, April 23, 2020 Conventional wisdom has it that there is no such thing as “the art market”—only many mini-markets with overlapping clientele. But over the past two months, all of these markets have collapsed into one: the big convention center in…Read More
5 Artists on our Radar Artsy Curatorial and Artsy Editorial Apr 22, 2020 “Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series produced collaboratively by Artsy’s editorial and curatorial teams. Utilizing our editors’ art expertise and our curatorial team’s unique insights and access to Artsy data, each month, we highlight five artists who have our attention. To make our selections, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month, whether through online exhibitions, art fairs, viewing rooms, or sale inquiries…Read More
5 Artists on Our Radar This April Apr 22, 2020 “Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series produced collaboratively by Artsy’s editorial and curatorial teams. Utilizing our editors’ art expertise and our curatorial team’s unique insights and access to Artsy data, each month, we highlight five artists who have our attention. To make our selections, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month, whether through online exhibitions, art fairs, viewing rooms, or sale inquiries through Artsy. ……Read More
Will Online Viewing Rooms Increase Price Transparency at Galleries? Alina Cohen Apr 15, 2020 1:01pm Courtesy of Frieze, Pace, Lisson Gallery, Garth Greenan Gallery and Allied Editions. As I’ve reported on art fairs over the past few years, I’ve become accustomed to a degree of caginess about pricing. Some gallerists decline to share dollar amounts or price ranges—sometimes they won’t even distribute checklists of artworks in their booths. So I was surprised to visit Art Basel in Hong Kong’s online viewing…Read More
10 Hong Kong Exhibitions To See In April 2020—Online Or In Person By Zabrina Lo and Oliver Giles April 13, 2020 We may be living in an age of social isolation, but art lovers can still get their hit this month with these Hong Kong exhibitions . . . Denny Dimin Gallery: Hong Kong: Tales of the City Ip Wai Lung, Qingdao Lotus Pond (2018). (Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery) New York-based gallery Denny Dimin is hosting an online…Read More
2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are some shows worth viewing virtually. By Jillian Steinhauer and Jason Farago April 9, 2020 ‘How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?’ Ongoing; artatatimelikethis.com. The title of this online exhibition is a question I’ve been asking myself the last few weeks. A pandemic rages; people are dying — who cares about virtual viewing rooms? And yet, culture is sustaining…Read More
Artist Kennedy Yanko Wants to Teach Your Children How to Make Art During Quarantine By Alex Greenberger Next week was supposed to be a big one for artist Kennedy Yanko, as she was supposed to present new work at the Dallas Art Fair by way of New York’s Denny Dimin Gallery. Then the fair, like so many other art events happening around the world, got postponed indefinitely. (It is now scheduled for the beginning of October.) But she had been at least…Read More
Iranian-Born Artist Amir H. Fallah Creates Work That Thrives In A Cultural Limbo By Rand Al Hadethi 07 April 2020 Fallah creates work with stupefying subtext The 40-year-old artist paints idiosyncratic portraits that unfurl infinite narratives to his audience. Ask him, and he explains that his detail-rich, colour-drenched paintings are a new kind of portrait, one that shows a person without physicality at all. More often than not, these portraits – usually created in close collaboration with his subjects – forego face…Read More
On the gallery’s instagram… To enter to win the drawing see the terms below. We will be reposting our favorite posts at the end of each day, and all entries to our story! 1. POST a picture of an artwork you have acquired from the gallery, OR a picture YOU TOOK of one of our recent exhibitions. 2. We will only accept one entry per artwork, or per exhibition. You may submit different artworks in your collection or exhibitions at…Read More
Clarity Haynes DENNY DIMIN GALLERY A pair of hairy, pendulous tits and a huge belly marred by stretch marks, drooping skin, fresh bruises, and old wounds: This is a general yet reasonably accurate description of an obese, middle-aged physique—one that belongs to me, a gay man.I see myself reflected in the luminous portraits of nonbinary, trans, and female torsos—fat, scarred, imperfect—by Clarity Haynes. But in her pictures, I don’t find shame or self-loathing—feelings I imagine those with nonnormative bodies, like…Read More
KENNEDY YANKO AT DENNY DIMIN GALLERY “Nothing feels as good as scouring a yard, spotting a piece that calls to you, digging for its entirety, and revealing its full glory,” says Brooklyn-based sculptor Kennedy Yanko. She is speaking of her trips to salvage yards in search of discarded metals she will later repurpose for her sculpture practice. “It’s a full day or multiday activity, scavenging. But again, it’s an integral thrill and informs everything that follows.” The fruit from some…Read More
Hong Kong Video Art Lands in New York City In New York, amidst the current pandemic demobilizing our cities, Denny Dimin Gallery in New York mounts “Hong Kong — Tales of the City,” a panoramic showcase of Hong Kong video art, co-presented with Videotage. TEXT: Barbara Pollack IMAGES: Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit New York, leading to a general shutdown of galleries and museums, at-home quarantine and panic shopping, shocking locals who seemed entirely unaware that…Read More
10 More Recipes From Artists Who Are Getting Creative in the Kitchen to Spice Up Dining in the Era of Social Distancing Dana Sherwood, Olafur Eliasson, and other artists share some of their favorite recipes. Sarah Cascone, March 25, 2020 As much of the world hunkers down, practicing social distancing and sheltering in place, everyday life is shifting dramatically. And for artists, like the rest of us, that means preparing for an extended stay at home by stocking up their larders….Read More
Restarting the Art Market By Abby Schultz March 23, 2020 2:00 pm ET A Mariko Mori sculpture at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. Kelly has launched a campaign to help demystify the art market. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York. Courtesy of Sean Kelly, New York People who are comfortable buying pricey cars or jewelry often don’t carry the same level of confidence when they step into an art gallery. “Why?” asks Mike Steib, the CEO of Artsy….Read More
Amir H. Fallah Remember, my child, nowhere is safe Science is the antidote, superstition is the disease Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion Empathy even for those who do not speak You will always live between borders Everything happens for no reason What you seek is seeking you Ideas are bulletproof Dying for invisible lines, killing for invisible gods The animals of the world exist for their own reasons Let your teacher be love itself No gods, no…Read More
‘What Does a Gallery Become?’: Small Galleries Seek Solutions as They Face a Perilous Spring Without Fairs or Exhibitions Small and mid-range galleries are the most vulnerable to economic shifts, but they are also more spry. Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella, March 19, 2020 Vernissage in Cologne. Image courtesy of Art Fair Cologne, 2015. For decades, the contemporary art market has essentially functioned as a bountiful flow of physical meetings: crowded openings, boozy dinners, and chatty fair floors, not to mention handshake deals….Read More
March 17, 2020 at 10:07am ARTADIA NAMES 2020 LOS ANGELES AWARDEES Artadia has announced the recipients of the sixth annual Los Angeles Artadia Awards: Beatriz Cortez, Amir H. Fallah, and Suné Woods. Cortez, a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist, whose work explores topics such as versions of modernity, memory and loss in the aftermath of war, and migration, and Woods, who is best known for her multichannel video installations, photographs, and collages, will be given $10,000 in unrestricted funds. The artist…Read More
Art Industry News: The Metropolitan Museum of Art May Be Closed, But the Met Gala Is Still On + Other Stories Plus, Studio 54 regulars look back ahead of the Brooklyn Museum’s show and mega-galleries in New York temporarily shutter. Artnet News, March 13, 2020 Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, March 13. For an up-to-the-minute list…Read More
For Immediate Release March 12, 2020 ARTADIA ANNOUNCES 2020 LOS ANGELES AWARDEES NEW YORK, NY – Artadia is pleased to announce the recipients of the sixth annual Los Angeles Artadia Awards are Beatriz Cortez, Amir H. Fallah and Suné Woods. Beatriz Cortez will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds supported by Capital Group, Suné Woods was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Angeles Art Fund Artadia Award and will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds, and Amir H. Fallah was selected…Read More
As Tensions Rise With Iran, So Does Interest in Art It Inspired This year, several museums in the United States will feature works by Iranian artists in exile. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary works out of a luminous studio in a leafy corner of southwest London. Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife. To make them, she floods the canvas with water, pours pigment over it and draws tiny marks over the…Read More
Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns. Dessane Lopez Cassell Amir H. Fallah’s work on view in the Denny Dimin booth as part of Focus at Pier 90, curated by Jamillah James (all photos by Dessane Lopez Cassell for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise stated) ’Tis the season: with Thursday’s public opening of the Armory Show, spring art fair…Read More
MAR 06 2020 ROUNDUP FROM THE ARMORY SHOW 2020 BY PAUL LASTER The blackened entrance to The Armory Show 2020 at Pier 94, New York, during the VIP Preview Day. All photos by Paul Laster for ArtAsiaPacific. The Armory Show, which returned to Piers 90 and 94 on New York’s Hudson River for its 26th edition boasted 183 exhibitors from 32 countries, although most were American and European galleries while only 14 were from Asia or have a presence there. “The fair looks…Read More
MARCH 6, 2020 Scenes from the 2020 Armory Show The 2020 edition of the Armory Show opened to invited guests on Wednesday, March 4, and runs at Piers 90 and 94 through Sunday, March 8. Despite ongoing concerns around the world over the new coronavirus and the ways in which it could spread in large crowds, the fair went on, and many dealers said the affair was business as usual during its early hours. The fair brings together over 180 galleries from…Read More
