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Henry Monnier (French, 17991877), The Connoisseurs, 1855, black chalk, watercolor, and gum arabic on card, 7 3/8 x 10 ¼ inches (sheet). Bequest of John D. Reilly, ND 63, 64 in memory of Armand Dorville. 2014.061.301
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The University of Notre Dame reached an agreement with the heirs of Armand Isaac Dorville (18751941) this summer, completing the restitution of a 19th-century drawing by the French illustrator and caricaturist Henri Monnier. After purchasing the watercolor drawing entitled The Connoisseurs (1855) from an auction at Christies in 20II, John D. Reilly, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and among its most supportive benefactors, put it on loan to the Snite Museum of Art (now the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art). Upon Reillys passing, the drawing was converted to a gift and entered the collection in 2014. Through consultation with representatives ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A young visitor looks at Gauguinâs âThe Yellow Christâ (1889) on display at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2024. A new extension has doubled the museumâs gallery space. (Amrita Stuetzle/The New York Times)
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| For a great museum road trip, get in an Empire State of mind | | Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary presents 'Vargas-Suarez Universal: Time and Space Fabric' | | Van Gogh masterpiece with a royal pedigree graces Christie's Hong Kong evening sale |
The Montataire Bowl, a rare glass vessel from Roman Gaul, probably made between 350 and 400 AD, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y. (Amrita Stuetzle/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City becomes unspeakably humid. To afford a Sag Harbor quarter-share, you now need a loan from the International Monetary Fund. In the Hudson Valley, you must do battle with Brooklyn transplants cosplaying locavore Marie-Antoinette. But there is a solution to summer in New York: Keep driving! In upstate New York and we can debate the ... More | |
A long-time admirer of the Hudson River School, Vargas-Suarez Universal relied on imagery from cameras, satellites, and telescopes to paint abstract celestial landscapes.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary is presenting Vargas-Suarez Universal: Time and Space Fabric, a solo exhibition of Vargas-Suarez Universals recent textiles and works on paper. To offer a more in-depth exploration of Vargas-Suarez Universals rich artistic practice, an online Study Room at Hutchinsonmodern.com accompanies the exhibition. Time and Space ... More | |
Vincent van Gogh, Les canots amarrés, 1887. Estimate: HK$230,000,000 380,000,000 / US$30,000,000 50,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
HONG KONG.- Christies will present Vincent van Goghs Les canots amarrés, a cherished piece of The Royal Family of Bourbon-Two Sicilies collection for over 30 years. Estimated at a record-setting HK$230,000,000 380,000,000 / US$30,000,000 50,000,000, this work will be a highlight of Christies 20th/ 21st Century Inaugural Evening Sale at The Henderson on 26 September. ... More |
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| Exhibition sheds light on the reception of early concrete art in Finland | | At Los Angeles galleries, savoring the waning days of summer | | Scientists discover similar dinosaur footprints on opposite sides of the Atlantic |
Lars-Gunnar Nordström: Composition in Blue (1952). Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen.
HELSINKI.- In August 2024, 100 years will have passed since the birth of the pioneer and trailblazer in Finnish concrete art, Lars-Gunnar Nubben Nordström (19242014). Trained as an interior architect and practically self-taught as an artist, Nubben was a key influential figure in Finnish post-war modernism and a multidisciplinary reformist in art. The exhibition presents a selection of around twenty works from the collections of the Finnish National Gallery: paintings, sculptures, ... More | |
Eric N. Mack, There Is No Other Way, 2022. Silk and wool scarves, cotton apron, Irish linen, rope, ribbon, polyester, felt, cotton shirt, and wool, 128 x 88 in © Eric N. Mack. Photo: Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the artist, Morán Morán and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- The traditional summer lull in the art gallery calendar typically spurs a rash of phoned-in group shows, a chance to drag unsold works out of storage and repackage them under limp catchall themes. Not so much this month in Los Angeles, where several eye-catching solo exhibitions feature artists who are overdue for a moment in the sun. On the evidence of these shows, ... More | |
Theropod tracks in the Sousa Basin of Brazil. (Ismar de Souza Carvalho via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- They may be an ocean apart, but dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa are so similar that their discovery suggests dinosaurs may have roamed a narrow corridor that connected the two continents before they split. Researchers found more than 260 footprints more than 3,700 miles apart in Brazil and Cameroon that were preserved in mud and silt where ancient rivers and lakes once stood, according to a study published Monday by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History ... More |
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| A Parisian found patriotism as he designed Paralympics costumes | | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein to open exhibition of works by Georgia Sagri | | Auckland Art Gallery opens a major new show: "Modern Women: Flight of Time" |
A costume designed by Louis-Gabriel Nouchi for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. (Vincent Fandos via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Louis-Gabriel Nouchi, of the Paris-based fashion brand LGN, was thrilled when he got the phone call asking him to design the costumes for the Paralympics opening ceremony, which was held Wednesday in Paris, with a procession down the Champs-Ãlysées that ended at the Place de la Concorde. I wanted to put all my heart into this project, said Nouchi, 36, because it was the Paralympics, you know, and ... More | |
Georgia Sagri, Deep Cut, 2018. Laserprint on 3M vinyl sticker, 151 à 337 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens © the artist.
VADUZ.- Georgia Sagris forthcoming exhibition, Case_O. Between Wars, at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, explores the complex interplay of personal and collective struggles amidst global tensions. With a practice deeply rooted in performance, sculpture and social engagement, Sagri navigates the fluidity of conflict, survival and transformation. The exhibition examines how wars both internal and ... More | |
Helen Stewart, Portrait of a woman in red, 1930s, oil on canvas, Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, purchased with Ellen Eames Collection funds, 2006.
AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki opened a major new show, Modern Women: Flight of Time. This landmark exhibition highlights the leading role women artists have played in shaping the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Spanning the period from 1920 to 1970, the exhibition combines more than 80 paintings, prints, sculptures and textiles ... More |
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| Christie's announces 'Collection Paul et Jacqueline Duchein: Le théâtre de l'imaginaire' | | Princeton University Library opens "Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary" | | Heritage to auction Boy Scouts of America masterpieces to compensate survivors of childhood sexual abuse |
This collection a true theatre of the imagination that perfectly captures its founders creativity and intellectual curiosity is deeply inspired by Surrealism. Photo by Nina Slavcheva.
PARIS.- Christies presents Le théâtre de limaginaire, Collection Paul et Jacqueline Duchein sale taking place in Paris on 24 September. The passion and uniqueness that define this pair of collectors can be felt throughout the 150 works selected for auction. The lots are a fine tribute to the couples unique artistic heritage and trajectory, one fundamentally entwined with their home city of Montauban a city whose ... More | |
Giulio Bertoletti (1919-1976), Pax Britannica, 1943. Italy, Latin.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Princeton University Library (PUL) opens a new exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library on September 12. Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary examines the global use of bestiary in visual satire during the period from the beginning of World War I through the end of the Cold War. The exhibition is curated by a team of PUL librarians: Thomas Keenan, Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian; Lidia ... More | |
Among the landmark works from the collection are masterpieces by Norman Rockwell, led by 1961s Homecoming, and such highlights as J.C. Leyendeckers 1918 Weapons for Liberty.
DALLAS, TX.- Some of the most celebrated and iconic art created for the Boy Scouts of America will begin to be auctioned in November as Heritage Auctions offers selected works from the collection of the BSA Settlement Trust, with proceeds benefitting Survivors of childhood sexual abuse while in Scouting. Among the landmark works from the collection are masterpieces by Norman Rockwell, led by 1961s Homecoming, and ... More |
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Sign from fabric set for display in new London MuseumLONDON.- A sign from iconic London nightclub fabric will go on display in the new London Museum when it opens its doors in 2026. The sign, which hung outside fabric in 2019 to mark their 20th anniversary, is the latest to be donated following the museums call-out last year for signs from across the capital. Its now bound for its new home just down the street where the museum will take up residence in the historic Smithfield market buildings. It will appear as part of Hanging Out a permanent installation which celebrates the meeting spots that bring Londons communities together. London Museum is still seeking other signs to include in the display - from music venues, theatres and restaurants to nail salons, barbers and beyond. The donation is the latest step in a partnership between the future neighbours, following a 2022 announcement ... More Hove Museum of Creativity presents a mechanical trip to the circus for families with a new free exhibitionBRIGHTON.- Roll up! Roll up! Its showtime! Hove Museum of Creativity presents a selection of circus-themed automata in a free family-friendly exhibition which brilliantly combines art, science, engineering and humour. These beautifully hand-crafted mini masterpieces are created by talented artists curated by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre. Automata comes from the Greek word for self- propelled. The moving mechanical devices showcase intricate designs and clever mechanisms. The push of a button or the turn of a handle brings the performers and side-shows to life. The works are fun, whimsical and educational. They include a man sitting in a bath eating spaghetti, a muscle man lifting weights and another pedalling a penny farthing bike a simple button will make each of the machines move. Creative Programmer Fiona Story said: In this marvellous ... More Ellen de Bruijne Projects announces an exhibition of works by Kasper Akhøj AMSTERDAM.- In his new series of works Untitled (Bichos) (2024), Kasper Akhøj documents the weekly conservation protocol for Lygia Clarks Bichosalso known as Crittersa series of hinged, unstable sculptures created in aluminum by the Brazilian artist beginning in 1959. Untitled (Bichos) includes a series of analogue, black and white photographs, hand-printed by the artist, taken over the summer of 2024 in the conservation laboratories of Pinacoteca de São Paulo, where Clarks Bichos were on show in the exhibition Lygia Clark: Project for a Planet. With Untitled (Bichos) Akhøj continues his practice of complicating the history and theory of mid-twentieth century modernism by documenting the processes of preservation, displacement, replication and alteration through which works of art, architecture and design are transmitted over time. In Welcome ... More Ofra Bikel, filmmaker with a focus on criminal justice, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Ofra Bikel, a crusading filmmaker for PBS Frontline investigative series whose documentaries about the criminal justice system in the United States exposed deep flaws in the convictions of 13 people, died Aug. 11 at her home in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was 94. Her niece, Tamar Ichilov, confirmed the death. Bikel left no immediate survivors. After making an eclectic mix of Frontline documentaries, including ones about the war in El Salvador, people older than 75 who were beset with spiraling medical costs and the Solidarity movement in Poland, Bikels focus shifted mainly to criminal justice cases. I hate injustice, Bikel told The New York Times in 2005. It just bugs me. One case, in particular, consumed her for seven years. In 1990, she started looking into a case in Edent ... More Vardaxoglou opens a solo exhibition with British artist Thérèse OultonLONDON.- Vardaxoglou presents a solo exhibition with British artist Thérèse Oulton (b. 1953, Shropshire, UK). It is Oultons first solo exhibition in London in 10 years and consists of paintings made between 1983 and 2024. Oulton lives and works in London. For the past 40 years Oulton has held a critical position in painting towards both abstraction and figuration, challenging the orthodoxies of both. Oulton evolved a way of working from an oil painting tradition in a discipline related to conceptual art. The artists hermetic explorations oscillate between provocative image and sensuous form, the connection between abstraction and representation paralleling familiar tropes of Romantic oppositions between nature and culture. Repetition is central to the work, motifs on the canvas replete with their fluctuations and permutations ... More The 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' reunion reunion: How it came togetherNEW YORK, NY.- If you wonder why it took 36 years for Beetlejuice to spawn a sequel, consider how complicated it was simply to reunite its busy principals for a video call last month. Director Tim Burton joined from the south of France, where he was editing the second season of the Netflix series Wednesday, while Winona Ryder signed on from Atlanta, on a brief break from filming the final season of Stranger Things. Michael Keaton spent the call roaming a cabin hed built in rural Montana Im reheating coffee, if you want some, he told the group while Catherine OHara, the last to sign on, did so from her cottage in Ontario, Canada. Still, even on a video call that catered to a torturous number of time zones, the quartets comic chemistry remained strong. Ryder said revisiting their decades-old bond was the best part of making Beetlejuice ... More MCA Australia unveils Kate Newby's Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission for 2024SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) today unveiled a new site-specific sculpture Hours in wind, 2024 by US-based Aotearoa New Zealand artist Kate Newby (b. 1979, Auckland). Newbys work is the seventh Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission and will be on view until Spring 2025. Kate Newbys sculptures invite the viewer to consider the poetic qualities of everyday materials and their surrounding environment. The artists installations made from found objects, ceramics and glass, and site-specific sculptural interventions operate between public and private, and interior and exterior space. For the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission in 2024, Newby has created a body of work that responds to the site of the MCA at Tallawoladah and the surrounding environment of Warrane/Sydney Cove. Newbys Hours in wind, is a three-part s ... More First Australian solo exhibition of acclaimed Korean artist Lee Ufan opens at the Art Gallery of New South WalesSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents a new solo exhibition of by internationally renowned Korean artist Lee Ufan. Lee Ufan: Quiet Resonance distils more than six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery. An artist, writer, philosopher and poet, Lee is widely recognised for his deceptively minimal paintings and sculptures and sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, to create a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self. Lees approach to art embraces ideas of classical and modern European and Asian philosophy, and he believes in the power of emptiness, ... More Gagosian to participate in Frieze Seoul 2024SEOUL.- Gagosian will participate in the third edition of Frieze Seoul with paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by an international grouping of gallery artists. Gagosians presentation features Whatever (En Vogue) (2024), a painting by Derrick Adams from a body of new work that debuts in The Strip, an exhibition held from September 3 through October 12 at APMA Cabinet in the headquarters of Amorepacific, Seoul. Inspired by mannequin heads adorned with wigs in store windows, these paintings explore themes of style, beauty, and urban life. Taking a different approach to portraiture in her detailed oil painting Portrait with Pearls (after François Gérard) (2024), Ewa Juszkiewicz shrouds her sitters features, obscuring them with elaborate folds of red drapery so that only her jewelry is revealed. Meticulously ... More "Joanne Leonard & Brittany Nelson" opens at Luhring Augustine Chelsea on Saturday, September 7NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine will present a two-person exhibition of photographers Joanne Leonard and Brittany Nelson, which will be on view in our Chelsea location from September 7 through October 19, 2024. This presentation will mark Leonards first exhibition with Luhring Augustine and Nelsons second show with the gallery, her work previously featured in Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen, Recent Photography (Spring 2024). A conversation with both artists moderated by Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at International Center of Photography (ICP), NY, will be held at the gallery on Saturday, September 7 from 3-4pm. Joanne Leonard's photographs of interiors are celebrations and examinations of the cacophony of domestic settings and many of the now-obsolete technologies of the mid- ... More Missoula Art Museum presents multimedia and installation works by Mary Ann Bonjorni MISSOULA, MONT.- The Missoula Art Museum presents multimedia and installation works Mary Ann Bonjorni in Head and Heart. From the perspective of a ranch hand, range rider, poet, and artist, Bonjornis wall constructions and large installation works investigate the myth of the American West and human relationship with the land and wildlife of the West, from the romanticized past to the Anthropocene present. Bonjorni says, As an artist, Im interested in how visual vernacular represents cultural complexitiesperhaps even influencing customs and values. . . . I rely on the viewers ability to relate referentially to images and objects as cultural puzzles with a Western twist. A consummate draughtswoman, Bonjorni is able to deftly and naturalistically render, for instance, the human form or a horse in actionbut the artists ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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