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Brahma, Cambodia, Preah Vihear, mid-10th century Sandstone sculpture is on display at the exhibition, "Angkor: Exploring Cambodia's Sacred City" at Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore on April 4, 2018. In a collaboration with Frances Guimet Museum (Musee national des arts asiatiques Guimet), Singapores Asian Civilisations Museum is holding a special exhibition showcasing over 140 sculptures, drawings and historic memorabilia from Angkor will be open to public viewing on April 8 to July 22. Roslan RAHMAN / AFP.
SINGAPORE.- Angkor is widely considered to be among the world's most magnificent architectural masterpieces its extensive complexes and detailed stone carvings have intrigued innumerable travellers, scientists, historians, and archaeologists since its sensational re-emergence onto the world stage in the late 19th century. The Asian Civilisations Museum welcomes visitors to re-discover the art, architecture, and legacy of this ancient city through its special exhibition Angkor: Exploring Cambodias Sacred City. Masterpieces of the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet. The exhibition showcases more than 140 sculptures, watercolours, drawings, and historic memorabilia from the Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet (Guimet Museum), one of the premier Asian art museums in Europe. Angkor: Exploring Cambodias Sacred City kicks off ACMs Year of Southeast Asia, which features exhibitions dedicated to Southeast Asian ar ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The skeleton head of an carnivorous dinosaur "still unknown" is pictured on March 14, 2018 at the Aguttes auction house, located in the former Brotteaux railway station in Lyon. The 9-metre-long, 2,5-metre-high skeleton was found in Wyoming, USA, in 2013 and is some 150 Million years old. This utterly unique object of a completely unknown Theropod, will go on auction on June 2018 during an exhibition held by Aguttes auction house on the first floor of the Eiffel tower. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP
| Exhibition Examines a rare portfolio by Diane Arbus presented in its entirety for the first time | | Gagosian exhibits Cy Twomblys epic painting Coronation of Sesostris | | Christie's announces highlights from its Post-War and Contemporary Evening and Day Sales in Amsterdam |
John Gossage, Diane Arbus in Central Park, 1967, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in. Private Collection. Photo © John Gossage.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Diane Arbus (19231971) was one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century. Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs forges new ground as the first exhibition to focus on the portfolio Arbus was working on at the end of her life. This heretofore missing piece from her biography was as important to her evolving artistic identity as it was to the broader public recognition of photography as a fine-art practice. Central to the transition Arbus was making away from magazine work at the time of her death, the portfolio bridges a lifetime of modest recognition with a posthumous career of extraordinary acclaim. Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs is on view from April 6 to Jan. 21, 2019, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition is organized by John Jacob, the McEvoy Family Curator for Photography. The museum is the only venue for the exhibition. This exhibition sheds ... More | |
Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris (Part V), 2000. Acrylic, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas, 81 x 61 1/2 inches (206 x 156.5 cm). Private Collection. © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Coronation of Sesostris, Cy Twomblys epic painting that was shown for the first time at Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue in 2000. The exhibition coincides with In Beauty it is finished: Drawings 19512008, at Gagosian 21st Street, the first career-spanning presentation of Twomblys works on paper. Coronation of Sesostris (2000) is a painting cycle in ten parts. Begun in Gaeta, Italy, and completed in Lexington, Virginia, it combines Twomblys graphic inventiveness and poetic sense of history, rhythm, and elision. In his Histories, Herodotus recounts the conquests of the Egyptian pharaoh Sesostris, who led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, fighting his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians. In Twomblys interpretation, this war-making, world-building ancient figure ... More | |
Karel Appel (1921-2006), Composition, signed and dated 'ck.appel '54' (lower left), oil on canvas, 133 x 110cm. Painted in 1954. Estimate EUR 100,000 - EUR 150,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
AMSTERDAM.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Evening and Day Sales in Amsterdam will take place on 23 and 24 April, the second series of auctions to be conducted in the new venue, De Westergasfabriek. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Cobra, a focused group of works by artists who shaped the movement, will be led by Pierre Alechinskys large-scale Soutien de famille (Provider) (1960, estimate: 280,000-400,000), which has been held in the same private collection of Cobra works since 1961. This is complemented by Karel Appels Composition (1954, estimate: 100,000-150,000). Reflecting the exuberant, collective, experimental mode of art making typical of Cobra, further works by Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen and Enrico Baj, amongst others, complete the selection. In addition, works from two leading Dutch collections will be offered: The ... More |
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| Craig F. Starr Gallery opens an exhibition of work by Eva Hesse | | Bonhams to offer exceptional Reid Collection of archaic bronze and early Chinese ceramics | | Laura Aguilar fearlessly reclaims her body and her journey through life with "Show and Tell" |
Eva Hesse, No title, 1966. Acrylic, cord, papier-mâché, and wood, 7 ½ x 7 ½ x 4 inches. LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT.
NEW YORK, NY.- Craig F. Starr Gallery presents Arrows and Boxes, Repeated an exhibition of work by Eva Hesse (1936-1970), one of the most influential artists of the post-war era and an early pioneer of Post-Minimalism. On view from April 6 through May 25, 2018, this will be the first exhibition of her work in New York in seven years. Hesse is best known for the pioneering sculptural works in nontraditional materials like latex and fiberglass that she made between 1966 and her untimely death in 1970. Prior to identifying herself as a sculptor, Hesse worked in more traditional media like painting, and she made hundreds of drawings over the course of her short but prolific career. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures are often considered separately, but this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view early and late works side by side, illuminating the underlying structural similarities ... More | |
A very rare archaic bronze ritual food vessel, ding, late Shang Dynasty, Reid Collection. Photo: Bonhams.
SYDNEY.- Bonhams announced the sale of the Reid Collection of Archaic Bronzes and Early Chinese Ceramics, to be offered in two parts with Bonhams Sydney and London in May 2018. The collection comprises a very rare archaic bronze food vessel, ding, from the Late Shang Dynasty, estimated at £180,000 240,000 (AU$330,000 440,000), in addition to more than 40 early Chinese ceramics dating from 8th to 14th century, as well as other Chinese works of art. The Reid Collection carries a pre-auction high estimate of £850,000 (AU$1.7 million). The Reid family has, over the years, formed a fine art collection which spans numerous cultures and eras. The highlight of the collection, the archaic bronze ding from the late Shang period, is estimated at £180,000 240,000 (AU$330,000 440,000), and was previously exhibited in the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and on loan to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, ... More | |
Laura Aguilar, Barbara Carrasco, 1990. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches. Courtesy of the artist and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center © Laura Aguilar.
MIAMI, FLA.- Lesbian, Latina and large-bodied, Laura Aguilar fearlessly reclaims her body and her journey with Show and Tell: the headline-grabbing exhibition that captured the heart of the art world during the recent PST: LA/LA, the massive art initiative led by the Getty. During this unprecedented exploration of Latin American and Latino art, Aguilars show was hailed as one of the most critically acclaimed of all the 70+ exhibitions at cultural institutions across Southern California. Show and Tell now makes it East Coast premiere in Miami at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU through May 27, located on the campus of Florida International University. The first comprehensive retrospective of the American photographers work assembles more than one hundred photographs and video spanning three decades. A rebellious and ... More |
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| Arts Council Collection announces 2017-18 acquisitions | | Howard Greenberg Gallery opens an exhibition of work by Ed van der Elsken | | New series of paintings by Gabriella Boyd on view at Blain/Southern London |
Magali Reus, Leaves (Harp, January), 2015. Model board, phosphated aluminium, silicone rubber, pigments, powder coated, zinc plated, etched and anodized aluminium, steel, 42 x 61 x 15 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and The approach, London. Photo: Plastiques.
LONDON.- The Arts Council Collection, the UKs largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary art, today unveils the full list of 47 works by 25 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2017-18. It was a noteworthy year for female artists coming into the Collection and for the first time the number of female artists outweighs the number of works by men, 15 to 10. Among the highlights are works which will soon be on view in galleries across the country; Emma Hart s, Fork Face, 2017 is currently included in Arts Council Collections latest touring exhibition at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, In My Shoes: Art & the Self since the 1990s, before setting off on a nationwide tour. Two works from Manchester-based artist Miskha Henners series Dutch Landscapes, 2011 will be shown at Towner Art Gallerys exhibition At Altitude in Eastbourne in June this year. The Arts Council C ... More | |
Vali Myers in Saint Germain des Pres, Paris, 1951. Gelatin silver print; printed c.1980. Image size: 10 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches Paper size: 14 x 11 inches. Photo: © Ed van der Elsken, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of work by Ed van der Elsken, known as the enfant terrible of Dutch photography, is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 22 through May 5, 2018. Love & Other Stories focuses on the celebrated street photographers work from the 1950s and 60s documenting the social culture around him in Amsterdam, Paris, and Tokyo. With a confident, gritty, and unconventional style, van der Elskens confrontational portraits of young love, alienation, and counterculture bohemian life paved the way for late 20th century photographers such as Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Wolfgang Tillmans. He is best known for his iconic photography book, Love on the Left Bank, 1954, acclaimed for expanding the boundaries of documentary photography. His work was most recently seen last year in a retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which traveled to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and ... More | |
Gabriella Boyd, Help Yourself, Installation view, 2018, Courtesy the artist and BlainSouthern, Photo Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- For the fourth exhibition in Blain|Southerns Lodger series, the artist Gabriella Boyd has created a new series of paintings, in which dream logic appears to dominate, and the atmosphere is suffused with both eroticism and threat. Caught between fretful urgency and an odd, immobilising calm, these canvases feel like glimpses into a sideways dimension, where everything from social conventions to the laws of physics have been subtly redrafted by some shadowy consciousness. Rendered in a palette of warm yellows, pinks, oranges and deep reds, we might imagine these works giving off heat, like sunbaked brickwork, or human skin. Time accretes on their surfaces, marked by single, swift brushstrokes and dense fogs of pigment. Space buckles and collapses in on itself, and bodies are turned inside out. Human relationships take on shapes that are at once strange and strangely familiar, while near-diagrammatic modes of depiction coexi ... More |
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| Vitra Design Museum offers first large-scale examination of the relationship between club culture and design | | mumok exhibits a three-part television series by American-Belgian artist Cécile B. Evans | | German artist Hanns Schimansky opens exhibition at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger in Lisbon |
Installation view Vitra Design Museum »Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 Today«, 2018, photo: Mark Niedermann.
WEIL AM RHEIN.- The nightclub is one of the most important design spaces in contemporary culture. Since the 1960s, nightclubs have been epicentres of pop culture, distinct spaces of nocturnal leisure providing architects and designers all over the world with opportunities and inspiration. »Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 Today« offers the first large-scale examination of the relationship between club culture and design, from past to present. The exhibition presents nightclubs as spaces that merge architecture and interior design with sound, light, fashion, graphics, and visual effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. Examples range from Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular, from the Haçienda in Manchester designed by Ben Kelly to more recent concepts by the OMA architecture studio for the Ministry ... More | |
Cécile B. Evans, Video Still: AMOS WORLD: Episode One, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna/Rome.
VIENNA.- In her work, AmericanBelgian artist Cécile B. Evans examines the significance and role of emotion in contemporary societies while looking at the increasing influence of new technologies on our feelings and actions. For her solo show at mumok, Cécile B. Evans presents a re-configuration of the work AMOS WORLD: Episode One. In total, three episodes are planned of which Episode Two is currently in the making. AMOS WORLD is a three-part television series that takes place in a socially progressive housing estate inspired by famous Brutalist housing complexes such as Le Corbusiers Unités dHabitation in Marseille, Berlin, and Nantes-Rezé (195257), Alison and Peter Smithsons Robin Hood Gardens in London (1972), and Moshe Safdies Habitat 67 in Montreal (1967). The aim was to encourage perfect individualcommunal living communes for the capitalist ageyet they nearly always failed, as people di ... More | |
Hanns Schimansky, Untitled, 2015 (detail). Pastel and graphite on paper, 8,27 x 11,81 in 21 x 30 cm. Photo: Eric Tschernow. Courtesy Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris.
LISBON.- This exhibition presents the latest drawings and a selection of representative works from recent years. Its the first time the work of the German artist Hanns Schimansky is shown in Lisbon. Throughout the years, Hanns Schimansky has been patiently developing an original form of visual poetics that stems from a strong ethical stance: a deliberate choice to make drawing his exclusive practice. His work is divided technically and stylistically into three distinct groups: graphite pencil drawings on prepared paper, foldings in which vibrant colour emerges as a structural element, and Indian ink drawings made with a nib pen. These visual melodies have inspired several generations of new artists and collectors. Given the limits of a blank sheet of paper, often prepared and usually folded vertically and horizontally, the first step is to select the material to suit the type of surface: acrylic paint or ink ... More |
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Exhibition of recent abstract paintings by Paul Corio on view at McKenzie Fine Art
NEW YORK, NY.- McKenzie Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of recent abstract paintings by Paul Corio, running through Sunday, April 29, 2018. This is the artist's second solo show with the gallery. At first glance the work of Paul Corio appears focused on geometry and form, but the true subject is color. He employs a vocabulary of simple geometric shapes, squares and triangles, but it functions primarily as an organizing framework for the arrangement of color in his paintings. Corios color sequences are disciplined and ordered in terms of value, hue and saturation to explore aspects of movement, space, light and atmosphere. Color choices are often system-driven: in the hue-circle paintings, for example, the rotation and positioning of light to dark value sequences are determined by the numbers of winning horses from a particular day at a New York ... More
Richard Saltoun Gallery opens the first solo exhibition in London of Brazilian artist Paulo Bruscky
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in London of Brazilian artist Paulo Bruscky (b.1949, Recife, Brazil), one of Brazils most important contemporary artists. The exhibition at the gallery follows his recent survey at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and his inclusion in Viva arte viva at the 2017 Venice Biennale. A pioneer of Mail art in Brazil in the 60s, associated with Fluxus in the 70s, and influenced by the work of pioneers of the avant-garde such as Marcel Duchamp and John Cage; Brusckys practice resists straightforward classifications, boldly combining visual and literary language to voice his artistic identity and position within society. Since the late 60s, Bruscky has committed to an experimental approach which has combined his own performance and radical public interventions, with conceptual strategies of documentation ... More
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Max Cole
SANTA FE, NM.- To stand still, quiet, stripped of everything. The opposition of voices and chatter, mood and desire gone. To be that stillness. To be that quiet point in the universe. Max Cole paints from this place. And her paintings, if the viewer is able to come wholly into their unique space, can travel there with her. With their elegant simplicity and implicit balance, Max Coles paintings center and ground the viewer. The basic palette of black, greys, and pale browns work to strip away distraction. Max Cole has long been known for the exquisite precision of her work stacking alternating bands of horizontal lines, many of which are made up of tiny, hand-drawn vertical lines. The majority of works in this exhibition use the same techniques, but with the added element of a reference to the geometric form of the Greek Cross. In 1958, as a young art student, Max Cole ... More
Bonhams to offer Emile Munier's Her Best Friend for the first time at auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams May 2nd sale of 19th Century European Paintings will bring to the market for the first time Emile Munier's Her Best Friend, from 1885 (estimate: $80,000-120,000). The painting is one of his most popular compositions, which he repeated in several variations. This work, which will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist, has been in a private collection since the 1930s and thence by descent to the present owners. Born into a modest working-class family from Paris in 1840, Emile Munier and his two brothers followed into their father's footsteps as upholsterers at the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, where they started their artistic training under the tutelage of Abel Lucas. Emile distinguished himself as a particularly gifted artist, exhibiting at the Salon from 1869 onwards. Munier's two children, Henri and Marie-Louise, ... More
Turkey's artist-led contemporary art event Mamut Art Project to exhibit 400 works by 50 emerging artists
ISTANBUL.- Dedicated to engaging up-and-coming artists with new collectors, galleries and curators, Mamut Art Project will be back this spring, providing a dynamic platform for emerging creative talent throughout Turkey and abroad. Directed by Seren Kohen and sponsored by Akkök Holding, the project will exhibit 400 accessibly-priced artworks across a wide range of disciplines including painting, sculpture, collage, photography, textile, digital art, animation, street art, new media and installation. 50 up-and-coming artists selected from 1000 applications across the region, by a jury of five multi-disciplinary experts comprising Ayşe Erkmen, an acclaimed contemporary artist who has exhibited at the Turkish pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale; the Barbican Centre in London and most recently at Skulptur Projekte Münster with her new project entitled On Water; Ay ... More
Four new exhibitions of contemporary art open at SFMOMA
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces four exhibitions of contemporary art, media arts and architecture and design: Sublime Seas: John Akomfrah and J.M.W. Turner, the U.S. premiere of a cinematic video installation by John Akomfrah; Nothing Stable under Heaven, an exhibition of contemporary artworks from SFMOMAs collection that reflects on our charged social and political climate; Jim Campbells hypnotic light installation Tilted Plane; and new architecture and design projects by the Mexico City based duo LANZA Atelier. This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of John Akomfrahs Vertigo Sea (2015), a three-channel video installation comprised of poetic texts, natural history documentary and film essay. This cinematic work, which debuted in 2015 at the Venice Biennale, presents a voyage of discovery, an exploration of water and the ... More
Lena Henke shows a selection of sculptures at Galerie Fons Welters
AMSTERDAM.- For her exhibition Embrassade at Galerie Fons Welters, Lena Henke shows a selection of sculptures which all derive from an ongoing project, Geburt und Familie that started in 2014. These bright colored sculptures look like enlarged childrens drawings. They hark back to Rudolf Steiners charcoal drawings, which are to be seen as a notation of his doctrine. This is the notion that drawings you make before your seventh birthday form the fundament for all later developments in life. The shapes of the sculptures in this series all relate, often directly, to the human body: there is an ovum, a blood cell, and a white eye on view. The things depicted cause an odd kind of intimacy and simultaneous awkwardness, especially in combination with their titles that often hint at certain emotional and physical attachment. The elegant, see through sculptures ... More
Hunter College Art Galleries exhibit "The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey"
NEW YORK, NY.- The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey foregrounds the relationship between Downeys artistic and pedagogical practices as illustrated in his works from the series Life Cycles and Mi Casa en la Playa, produced in the early to mid 1970s while Downey was teaching at Hunter College and Pratt Institute. These works address Downeys concerns and theories around architecture, ecology, cybernetics, and feedback. Downey sought to redefine architecture as the wielding of invisible forcesphysical, social, and psychic. In his assignments, he likewise challenged his students to reconsider their potential as producers of social change through the transformation of space. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Downey (b. Chile, 1940, d. New York, 1993), like many of his peers, became interested in the expanded field of art and architecture, ... More
Groundbreaking exhibition explores national identity through art
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, is presenting The Britishness Project, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores national identity through art. From September to December 2017, eight professional artists undertook residencies for one term at seven schools and education organisations in Colchester, Harlow and Harwich. During this time, the artists and students aged from 7 to 16 investigated notions of Britishness through art-making. The project used engagement with visual arts to enable young people to explore issues of identity and Britishness in the context of the recent European Referendum. The residencies have created content for a major exhibition at Firstsite, showcasing work made by young people in a gallery with an international profile. A total of eight projects are being exhibited, including a display of loans from the collections of the Colchester ... More
Latvian National Museum of Art opens solo exhibition of works by Romāns Korovins
RIGA.- Romāns Korovins solo exhibition Satori of Master Wu and Master Lee is on view in the Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Torņa iela 1, 2nd floor) from 23 March to 13 May 2018. Romāns Korovins solo exhibition Satori of Master Wu and Master Lee presents photography series of the same title that tell the life story of two imaginary Zen Buddhist masters from the moment of birth to death. The series follow their friendship and studies the path towards enlightenment, their rivalry, the characters they encounter on their way, and the final results. The photo series reflect on spirituality and the human propensity for transcendence. Personae and acts typically associated with Zen Buddhism and Eastern religions show up in the material world that is very familiar to the local public in Riga cityscapes ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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