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Lotte Laserstein. Face to Face, Berlinische Galerie, exhibition view, Photo: Harry Schnitger © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019.
BERLIN.- Berlins Lotte Laserstein (18981993) was one of the most sensitive portrait painters of the early Modernist period when tradition vied with innovation. Already at the age of 30 years she was a well-known and successful artist. We live in a period marked by rediscoveries of artists whose careers were cut short, often brutally, by the turmoil of the 20th century, the age of extremes. And realism is on the way back. For several decades it was quite rightly a valid response to reject grandiose feudal self-projections, old chestnuts about the meaning of beauty and realism in the classical vein. The art of a new society order called for experiments and exploring of new perspectives. Now the art world is finding that contrasts between form and formlessness, between the figurative and conceptual symbolism, can once again broaden and enrich perception. Lotte Laserstein had a talent for combining two universes. She played with quotes from art history but also with hallmarks of Post-Im ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 9-September 1, 2019. Photo: Jeff McLane.
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 | | Conservation reveals Wellington Collection work was painted by Titian's Workshop | | Hammer Museum presents West Coast debut of first major U.S. survey of Sarah Lucas | | An ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea route? Adventurers to test theory | 
Orpheus Enchanting the Animals can now be seen by the public.
LONDON.- An 18-month English Heritage conservation and research project have concluded that an Apsley House painting thought for more than 100 years to be by Allesandro Varotari, is in fact by Titians workshop, in collaboration with the master himself. Orpheus Enchanting the Animals can now be seen by the public as it is back on display from today (Thursday 1 August 2019) at Apsley House, on Hyde Park Corner in London. Orpheus Enchanting the Animals was attributed to Titian from its earliest record in 1601 until the 19th-century, when its poor condition led art historians to downgrade it to a follower of Titian called Alessandro Varotari (nicknamed Padovanino because he was from Padua). The painting originally formed part of the Spanish Royal Collection, but was removed from the Royal Palace in Madrid by Napoleon. It was amongst those works of art rescued by the first Duke of Wellington in June 1813 from the baggage train on the battlefield at Vitoria, Spain at the end of the Peninsular ... More | | 
Sarah Lucas, Me Bar Stool, 2015. Plaster and cigarette stool, 39 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 22 in (100 x 60 x 56 cm). © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, the first major survey in the United States of the work of British artist Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK). The Hammer is the only venue on the tour and the exhibition is the first time the work of this internationally acclaimed artist is being shown in depth in Los Angeles. Over the past 30 years, Lucas has created a distinctive and provocative body of work. She transforms found objects and everyday materials such as furniture, cigarettes, vegetables, and household appliances into absurd and confrontational tableaux that boldly challenge social norms. The human body and anthropomorphic forms recur throughout Lucass works, often appearing erotic, humorous, fragmented, or reconfigured into fantastical anatomies of desire. Organized by the New Museum, Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel brings together more than 130 works in photography, collage, sculpture, ... More | | 
Abora IV expedition leader German archaeologist Dominique Goerlitz speaks to AFP in front of the 14-meter long sailing reed boat in the town of Beloslav, Bulgaria, on July 25, 2019. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP.
BELOSLAV (AFP).- Were the ancient Egyptians able to use reed boats to travel as far as the Black Sea thousands of years ago? A group of adventurers believe so, and will try to prove their theory by embarking on a similar journey in reverse. In mid-August the team of two dozen researchers and volunteers from eight countries will set off from the Bulgarian port of Varna, hoping their Abora IV reed boat will take them the 700 nautical miles through the Bosphorus, the Aegean and as far as the island of Crete. The team is specifically seeking to prove a hypothesis lent credence by Herodotus, the expedition's German leader, Dominique Goerlitz, told AFP. The ancient Greek historian wrote: "Egyptians sailed through the Black Sea to get materials that they could not have from the east Mediterranean." Goerlitz, 53, and his team say they drew inspiration for the design ... More |
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| | | Huxley-Parlour Gallery opens an exhibition of lesser-known colour works by Vivian Maier | | 2019 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction: World records set at $16.8 million sale | | Richard Mille RM 11-03 watch set for RM Sotheby's Monterey Auction | 
Chicago 1977 (detail) © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
LONDON.- An exhibition of lesser-known colour works by Vivian Maier (1926 -2009), many on display in the UK for the first time, opened at Huxley-Parlour Gallery. Vivian Maier was a professional nanny who worked for more than 40 years for families on Chicagos North Shore. In her spare time she would wander the streets of Chicago and New York, photographing fragments of everyday urban life, with spontaneity, empathy and insight. Although unknown in her lifetime, her photographic corpus was discovered in 2007, consisting of more than 100,000 negatives. Dating from 1960 to 1984, the works in the exhibition depict street scenes of Chicago and New York, as well as including a number of her enigmatic, staged self-portraits. Maiers colour work was made during the last 30 years of her life when she began to work with a 35-millimetre camera. During this time she produced roughly 40,000 Ektachrome colour ... More | | 
Frederic Remington (1861-1809), Casuals on the Range, 1909. Oil on canvas, 18 Ã 26 inches. Sold at Auction: $ 981,750.
RENO, NEV.- The Coeur dAlene Art Auction stampeded to a strong total of over $16.8 million during this years annual sale. Multiple lots sold for over $500,000, including world records for Victor Higgins (Taos in Winter $833,000) and Rosa Bonheur (Emigration de Bisons [Amérique] $773,500). Overall, 38 items which represents over 10 percent of the sale eclipsed the $100,000 price point. The single-largest event in the classic Western and American Art field set multiple world records and saw over 90% of all works selling at the 359-lot sale on July 27. The strength of the sale may have been foreshadowed when the third lot of the auction, Carl Rungius etching Over the Pass, shattered its presale estimate of $4,000-6,000, selling for a whopping $95,200! The top price of the sale was achieved for Frederic Remingtons painting Casuals on the Range (1909) fetching $981,750. Painted the year ... More | | 
The Richard Mille RM11-03 Ti Titanium Skeletonized Automatic Flyback Chronograph, 2019. Courtesy of RM Sothebys.
MONTEREY, CA.- RM Sothebys will present an exceptional luxury mens watch, the Richard Mille RM11-03, at its flagship Monterey auction on 15-17 August in California. Kindly donated in honor of the auction houses 40th Anniversary by couture watchmaker, Richard Mille, proceeds from the timepiece will benefit the Childrens Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent, a deserving organization located in RM Sothebys hometown in Ontario, Canada. Estimated at $125,000 - $175,000 and offered without reserve, the RM11-03 represents the first major change to Richard Milles legendary RM 011 timepiece since its introduction over a decade ago. The brands sportiest watch to date, the RM11-03 features skeletonized automatic wining movement with a variable-geometry rotor offering hours, minutes, and seconds, a power reserve of 55 hours, flyback chronograph, a 60-minute countdown timer at 9 oclock, a ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at C/O Berlin presents the varied history of food in photography | | Dayton Art Institute presents centennial focus exhibition The Moon Museum | | The John Michael Kohler Arts Center acquires a major collection of work by self-taught artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein | 
Ouka Leele, PeluquerÃa, 1979, C-Print © Ouka Leele.
BERLIN.- C/O Berlin is presenting the exhibition Food for the Eyes . The Story of Food in Photography from 08 June to 07 September 2019. Food for the Eyes at C/O Berlin presents the varied history of food in photography. The exhibition includes Swiss artist duo Fischli and Weisss legendary Sausage Series, showing hot dogs, German sausages, parsley, and pickles arranged as props in a grotesquely absurd scene; fashion photographer Irving Penns similarly iconic frozen fruit and vegetable sculptures and his numerous artful still lifes; and British Magnum photographer Martin Parrs images of bright fairy cakes, tea, and beans on toast, all instantly recognizable as typically British. The show also presents works by Cindy Sherman and Martha Rosler that disrupt the traditionally domestic role of the woman in the kitchen. Like the air we breathe or the water we drink, food is necessary for our survival. It ... More | | 
Lowell Blair Nesbitt (American, 1933 - 1994), Moon Shot (One of a Suite of Eight), 1969, screenprint on black paper, printed by Thelen, edition 74/98. Gift of Reese and Marilyn Arnold Palley, 1991.136.7
DAYTON, OH.- In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Dayton Art Institute is presenting the focus exhibition The Moon Museum, on view through September 8. The DAI recognizes the remarkable achievements of the Apollo program by showcasing the strange and intriguing story of The Moon Museuma compelling saga that crosses art and space! The Moon Museum is part of the DAIs 100 Happenings for 100 Years, as the museum celebrates its centennial in 2019. We are thrilled to present The Moon Museum and join in the global celebration around the 50th anniversary of NASAs Apollo 11 mission, said the DAIs Chief Curator, Dr. Jerry N. Smith. It is an intriguing story about our continued fascination with the moon and our ... More | | 
The acquisition spans the entire range of the artists subject matterfrom paintings and sculpture to slides and photographs.
SHEBOYGAN, WI.- The John Michael Kohler Arts Center announced today the acquisition of a major collection of work by self-taught artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (19101983). The more than 8,300 pieces, which come to the Arts Centers from Von Bruenchenheins estate, span the entire range of the artists subject matterfrom paintings and sculpture to slides and photographs. We are honored to receive this astounding collection of work thanks to the generosity of Lewis Greenblatt, owner of the artists estate, and through the exceptional support of Kohler Foundation Inc., said Sam Gappmayer, Arts Center director. The collection represents the remaining materials from the Von Bruenchenhein estate and joins the 6,000 Von Bruenchenhein objects already held in the JMKAC collection. Newly acquired works include fowl-bone sculptures, concrete ... More |
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| | | Albertina Museum exhibits original photographs, test prints, and book maquettes | | Eli Klein Gallery opens a group exhibition of nine multi-generational artists | | Foam presents the work of multi-disciplinary artist Dominic Hawgood | 
Umschlag von C. Angerer & Göschl Wien. Sechzig Jahre, 1932. Angerer & Göschl.
VIENNA.- While photography now dominates nearly every type of publishing genre, the origins of its interplay with publishing have increasingly been forgottenbut the path by which photography entered books was long and littered with numerous technical hurdles, a fact that makes the various creative solutions fielded by pioneers in this area all the more intriguing. Original photographs, test prints, and book maquettes (original book designs) from the collections of the Albertina Museum open up a new perspective on a previously overlooked aspect of Austrian cultural history, which is characterized by diverse interrelationships between scientific curiosity, industrial interests, artistic experimentation, and an educational policy beholden to the Enlightenment. This exhibition, which includes around 300 items from between 1840 and 1940, sheds light on an extraordinary panorama of innovative achievements ... More | | 
Hsiao Chin, Due Universi, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 55 1/8 x 43 1/4 inches (140 x 110 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Painting from Taiwan, a group exhibition of nine multi-generational artists. Art from Taiwan is a critical component of contemporary Chinese art; robust institutional support for artists within Taiwan has helped seed a flourishing and important art scene. The wide range of styles and subject matter in this exhibition aptly demonstrates the versatility of contemporary art from Taiwan. "Painting from Taiwan" is on view from August 1 through October 6, 2019. Hsiao Chin and Ho Kan are masters in abstraction who connect their roots in Eastern philosophy with the expressiveness of Western abstraction. Hos abstraction is constructed by subtracting redundant elements as a way to build a world of inclusiveness and diversity. Using dots, lines, color patterns and planes with distinctive elements of Chinese calligraphy, Ho not only creates a unique rhythm of ... More | | 
© Dominic Hawgood.
AMSTERDAM.- As part of the Next Level exhibition series, Foam presents the work of multi-disciplinary artist Dominic Hawgood (1980, UK). In this exhibition, titled Casting Out the Self, Hawgood visualises the effect of the drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which he personally experienced as a transfer into the digital realm. His work creates a hallucinatory effect: photographs seem to move, flat surfaces reveal hidden depths, and the perception of space turns out to be an illusion. Hawgood researches and appropriates elements of computational photography into his work, leading into intriguing site-specific installations and sculptural elements that refer to both spiritual ceremonies and the digital rituals of computer graphics. Through lighting design, Hawgood creates a unique atmosphere that transforms the exhibition space into a twilight zone between physical and digital reality. Hawgood not only pushes the boundaries of the medium of photography but ... More |
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 Fotohof exhibits groundbreaking work Imperial Courts, 1993-2015 by Dutch photographer Dana LixenbergSALZBURG.- Fotohof is showing the groundbreaking work Imperial Courts, 1993−2015 by Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg, its first such presentation in Austria. The project, featuring residents of Imperial Courts, a public housing project in Watts, South Central L.A., was produced over the period of twenty-two years. Lixenberg's highly committed project came about in the aftermatch of the riots of 1992, which were the consequence of the acquittal of the four LAPD officers who had used brutal violence against Rodney King, an African American motorist, during his arrest. In the wake of the riots, Lixenberg made a series on the rebuilding of South Cental L.A. for a Dutch publication. This trip was the genesis of her Imperial Courts work. She became interested in exploring life in the projects through a stripped down and de-sensationalized approach, and returned ... More Aargauer Kunsthaus presents Jean-Luc Mylayne's first institutional solo exhibition in SwitzerlandAARAU.- Jean-Luc Mylayne. The Autumn of Paradise is the French artists first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland. For more than forty years now, the work of Jean-Luc Mylayne (b. 1946) focuses on the encounter with birds, their fleeting presence captured by the camera. The bird in its natural habitat is Mylaynes distinctive subject, serving not only as actor but also as conceptual partner on equal terms. The exhibition presents an ensemble of about forty works created between 1979 and 2008. At first glance, Jean-Luc Mylaynes photographs appear like randomly obtained everyday images situated in the transitional areas between unspoilt and rural landscapes. In addition to dominant nature, one can see traces of human civilisation in the form of houses, streets, fences and walls in the distance or at the edge of the picture. Characteristically, ... More Jonathan Baldock joins Stephen Friedman GalleryLONDON.- Jonathan Baldock works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. The artists work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest in myth, folklore and the narratives associated with 'outsider' practices. With work often taking on a biographical form, Baldock addresses the trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits. Baldocks first solo exhibition with Stephen Friedman Gallery opens on Thursday 26 September 2019 in Gallery Two, coinciding with a solo exhibition of new work by Lisa Brice in Gallery One. Looking at ancient forms of communication, his exhibition will comprise a new series of ceramic masks that teem with bright colours and outlandish expressions. A ... More Saint Louis Art Museum announces 26th Romare Bearden FellowST. LOUIS, MO.- Asmaa Walton has joined the Saint Louis Art Museum as the 2019-2020 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow. The fellowship aims to expand the number of under-represented professionals working in art-related fields in museums, galleries, non-profit organizations and universities. Walton is a Detroit native with a masters degree in Arts Politics from New York University and a bachelor of fine arts degree in Art Education from Michigan State University. These two programs merge her interests in community-based art education and the use of art as a catalyst for social change. Walton was the inaugural KeyBank Diversity Leadership Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art. Named for African-American artist Romare Bearden, the one-year paid fellowship is designed to prepare graduate students of color seeking careers as art historians ... More Light on the Move: Exhibition at Asia Culture Center introduces Jeongju Jeong and Rangga PurbayaGWANGJU.- 2019 ACC Matching Project: the Korean and Asian Artists Exhibition known as Light on the Move is an exhibit that examines the perspectives and expressions of artists living in the same era that are both the same and different by matching artists in Jeollanamdo including Gwangju and Asians artists based on the same keywords. With three keywords such as light, space and history that can symbolically reveal the characteristics of Gwangju, the exhibition aims to look into how the artists of the regions and Asia display their stories and perspectives on life. Through this, the plan is to visually reveal the sorrow of the modern history of Asia of different countries to the audience at home and abroad to sympathize with their sorrow. The exhibition introduces Jeongju Jeong as the artist of the region and Rangga Purbaya of Ruang MES 56 of Indonesia who ... More Exhibition aims to encourage us to reflect on the man-animal future relationshipGENT.- Cattle in enclosed spaces or lab-grown meat? Stroking a cuddly pet or a robot? The relationship between man and animal is highly complex and fraught with contradiction. On the one hand pets are pampered and we have an idealised image of the animal world. On the other hand animals are often treated inhumanely out of sight in slaughterhouses, laboratories or during transport. Creatures Made to Measure strives to find the right balance between affection, respect and benefit. An exhibition as part of the design and society programme, in which Design Museum Gent wants to encourage us to reflect on the man-animal future relationship. Early cave paintings already demonstrated mans fascination with the animal world. However, we have also always felt a strong desire to use animals for our own benefit: what started with their meat and hides soon ... More Exhibition offers an autobiographical reflection of the upbringing of artist Nobukho NqabaCAPE TOWN.- The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened a solo exhibition titled Izicwangciso Zezethu
. This is an autobiographical reflection of the childhood home and upbringing of Cape Town artist, Nobukho Nqaba and has been situated in Zeitz MOCAAs project space, the Dusthouse and its adjoining room. Nqabas work is specific to the Dusthouse, a smaller and more unassuming structure when compared to the forty-two monolith cylinders that once formed the grain silo building and now house the museum. Positioned to the side of the building, the original purpose of the Dusthouse was to filter the air of the adjoining industrial silos through a vacuum system. This helped to protect the workers lungs and kept the building from exploding. In the Dusthouse, Nqaba has used overalls to commemorate the invisible men and women, such as those who ... More The Arena of the Body: Participation and activity are in focus in ARKEN's summer exhibitionCOPENHAGEN.- Step into the asymmetrical wooden labyrinth and explore the interior of the installation. Venture out on the water and experience new perspectives on the landscape in the mirror of the steel cage. Grasp the white and red rubber handles and try out the unusual steel sculptures. The exhibition explores the relationship between the human body and the surrounding world. Three works by Thilo Frank (b. 1978) and Lea Guldditte Hestelund (b. 1983) have been acquired for this summers exhibition, while Jeppe Heins (b. 1974) Cage and Mirror has been moved out to a newly established platform in the lagoon which surrounds The Art Island. They invite us to sense, interact and become aware through the body and stage our expectations of bodily activity and our views on bodily norms. From a distance the installation is impossible to comprehend and decode. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and the couple became the parents of two daughters. In this image: A self-portrait of British painter Thomas Gainsborough, painted about 1787, is seen to the right as a security guard watches over paintings in the Thomas Gainsborough exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, June 9, 2003, in Boston.
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