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Elizabeth Murray's "Wishing for the Farm" (1991) is a recent acquisition featured in "Approaching Landscape" at Sheldon Museum of Art.
LINCOLN, NE.- Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska presents the exhibitions Approaching Landscape and For Freedoms: In the future days
from August 10 through December 31, 2018. Wally Mason, Director and Chief Curator, explains that the two exhibitions explore issues currently on the minds of many people. As we navigate daily through social and physical landscapes, we are increasingly cognizant of and vocal about change. Approaching Landscape focuses attention on the convergence of nature and culture, on crossroads of human activity and perception. Emphasizing that each exhibition offers more questions than answers, Mason described For Freedoms: In the future days
as an effort to draw on past and current events that shape, or have shaped, where we find ourselves currently. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of French artist Laurent Langlois' work "Heritage" illuminating the San Francisco church in the historical center of Quito on August 7, 2018, during the pre-inauguration of the Festival of Light. The third edition of Quito's Festival of Light takes place from August 8 to 12 with the projection of audiovisual works on 19 monuments and public spaces. RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP
| Norton Museum announces Director Hope Alswang's retirement in March 2019 | | Claremont Rug Company Pyramid Video Explains How to Evaluate Antique Oriental Rugs | | Exhibition of photographs by Geoff MacCormack documents his time and travels with David Bowie | 
Hope Alswang. Photo: Jacek Gancarz.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Hope Alswang, who brought The Norton Museum of Art into the forefront of the nations institutions dedicated to a more inclusive approach to art, both contemporary and historic, announced today that she will retire as Executive Director and CEO as of March 1, 2019. She will cap her transformative nearly nine-year tenure at the West Palm Beach museum with the opening on February 9, 2019 of a major expansion and enhancement designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster. Under Alswangs leadership, the Norton is in the final phase of a $100 million capital campaign for The New Norton. Throughout her tenure, the Museum has significantly expanded its collection, receiving donations of more than 875 artworks and acquiring more than 700, which notably increased its collections in contemporary art and photography. With these additions, the Norton grew its representation of works by women artists and artists ... More | | 
Eminent global authority Jan David Winitz, founder/president of Claremont Rug Company, has created a proprietary Oriental Rug Pyramid (tm) to guide collectors and connoisseurs as they evaluate Oriental rugs for acquisition. In this new educational video, Winitz discusses the history, provenance and value of rugs woven from the 13th century through contemporary reproductions.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company today released the second of a continuing educational series of videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuENet9ni1A&feature=youtu.be) designed to guide collectors and connoisseurs make informed decisions regarding acquiring antique Oriental rugs. Featuring commentary by globally recognized expert Jan David Winitz, who founded the Gallery in 1980, the video describes rugs in a proprietary Six-Level Antique Rug Pyramid he developed. In the video, he explains the history and characteristics of Oriental rugs woven from the 13th century through modern day ... More | | 
Included in this show will be some of MacCormacks images signed by Bowie himself. POA.
ST LEONARDS ON SEA.- Lucy Bell Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Geoff MacCormack documenting his time and travels with David Bowie. Geoff MacCormack, AKA Warren Peace, was one of David Bowie's oldest and closest friends, their relationship dating back to their childhoods in Bromley. MacCormack toured with Bowie for three years as a backing vocalist, dancer and percussionist. During this time he recorded with Bowie on five albums from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station, also co-writing the track "Rock n Roll With Me on Diamond Dogs, and Turn Blue with Bowie on Iggy Pops album Lust for Life. As Bowie preferred not to fly, he and MacCormack travelled together by boat, train and road. The photographs in the exhibition explore this period, and give a rare insight into their friendship. The exhibition also includes a short film of their journey through Siberia & Russia shot by David Bowie, ... More |
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| Lenbachhaus exhibits Dan Flavin's installation 'Untitled (for Ksenija), 1994' | | Exhibition takes rare look at the influence of the Hamptons on Ellsworth Kelly's work | | Van Gogh, Monet, Degas sets all-time exhibition attendance record at the Frick Pittsburgh | 
Dan Flavin, Untitled (For Ksenija), 1994. Schenkung von Heiner und Philippa Friedrich im Angedenken an ihre Eltern Erika und Harald Friedrich und Dominique und John de Menil © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo: Lenbachhaus, Ernst Jank.
MUNICH.- The Kunstbau, which was designed by the architect Uwe Kiessler, opened in 1994. The new subterranean space enhanced the Lenbachhauss ability to mount large special presentations. For the inaugural exhibition, Dan Flavin (19331996) created the installation Untitled (for Ksenija), 1994. Conceived specifically for the gallery, this late work is an imposing example of Flavins ongoing creative engagement with the dynamic interplay between light art and architecture. His longtime friends and patrons Heiner Friedrich and Philippa de Ménil donated the work to the Lenbachhaus in memory of their parents, Harald and Erika Friedrich and John and Dominique de Ménil. In celebration of Heiner Friedrichs eightieth birthday, the museum is bringing Untitled (for Ksenija) back to the Kunstbau. Flavin was a leading protagonist of minimalism, a movement in visual ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), Red, White and Blue, 1961. Oil on linen, 88 1/4 x 66 9/16 in. (224.2 x 169.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Gift of Betty Parsons 70.1582 © Ellsworth Kelly.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons, a rarely-grouped exhibition of works by artist Ellsworth Kelly, made on the East End, will be on view beginning Saturday, August 11 to Monday, October 8, at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. The exhibition is organized by guest curator Phyllis Tuchman, who previously brought to Guild Hall the exhibition Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944-1952. Further, the exhibition coincides with a year of Kelly celebrations, prompted by the opening of the sanctuary, Austin, a site of joy and contemplation designed by the artist and inaugurated posthumously earlier this year at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Ellsworth Kellys sabbaticals in the Hamptons during 1960 and 1961 and a few years later, during 1968 and 1969, were pivotal episodes in the artists career, which spanned more than six decades. While based on the East End, Kelly, one of Americas most significant abstra ... More | | 
The exhibition, which was on view at the Frick from March 17 through July 15, 2018, featured more than 70 masterpieces collected by Pittsburgh-born collector and philanthropist, Paul Mellon.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Pittsburgh announces that Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was visited by nearly 48,000 people during its recent presentation at The Frick Art Museumfar more than any exhibition in the institutions history. We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to present Paul and Bunny Mellons remarkable collection of French art for so many people to experience in Pittsburgh, said Frick Executive Director Robin Nicholson. By all calculations, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas is the best attended exhibition the Frick has ever presented, and we are grateful for the generous support of the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the Allegheny Foundation for making the Pittsburgh presentation of this exhibition possible. The exhibition, which was on view at the Frick from March 17 through July 15, 2018, featured more than ... More |
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| Phoenix Art Museum presents first-ever virtual reality exhibition | | Blain/Southern London opens exhibition of paintings and collages by Moshekwa Langa | | Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg opens exhibition of works by Goshka Macuga | 
Travis Hutchison, David Bowies Ziggy Stardust with Mick Rock, 2017. 360° stereoscopic mp4. Courtesy of the artist.
PHOENIX, AZ.- For the first time ever at Phoenix Art Museum, guests will have the opportunity to experience photography and video in a whole new dimension. From August 11 through September 30, 2018 in the Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Moonage Virtual Reality takes guests on a simulated journey through the fashion and culture of Pop Art, rock and roll, and the East Village Art Scene in New York City thanks to three virtual reality films by filmmaker Travis Hutchison. Offering an out-of-this-world perspective, the suite of films celebrates the music, fashion, and style of three legendary figures who helped define popular culture in the late 1960s, 70s, and early 80s: Andy Warhol (1928-1987), David Bowie (1947-2016), and Kenny Scharf (b. 1958). Guests will be able to explore the simulated environments of Moonage Virtual Reality by using ordinary smartphones and virtual reality headsets provided by the Museum. The exhibition will be ... More | | 
Moshekwa Langa, Installation View, Relatives, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Blain/Southern, Photo Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- Moshekwa Langa is known for a practice that manifests in virtually every medium. He brings his freewheeling process of loose association to Blain|Southern London this summer, in an exhibition that focusses on his painting and collage. The work here is largely informed by questions around belonging and the artists own identity. He has been living in Amsterdam since 1997, having grown up in the homeland of Kwa_Ndebele, a semi-independent country in South Africa, which was set aside for black inhabitants during apartheid. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, however, Langa boarded at a Steiner school near Pretoria with a diverse racial mix of international students. Upon leaving he began to develop a distinctive artistic voice that referenced his contradictory social experiences and distilled the preconceived expectations of him as a black South African artist. His early-career assemblages comprised materials at his immedia ... More | | 
Goshka Macuga, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 11, 2015. Photo: Neues Museum (Annette Kradisch). Courtesy: Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle.
NUREMBERG.- Intellectual Co-operation is the first solo exhibition by the Polish-British artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967 in Warsaw) at a major institution in Germany. In her many-facetted work, the artist creates networks between places and times, people and stories. She is known for her diverse practice that extends to curatorial and narrative fields, using media as varied as photo collage, sculpture, large-format tapestry, video and performance. The exhibition offers a wide-ranging insight into Macugas oeuvre and takes its title from a series of large-scale sculptural works, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation (2015). They refer to a historical gathering of scientists and intellectuals who met in the 1920s and served as a council of elders (for the League of Nations). In these works, she interconnects the specially made bronze heads of scientists and thinkers who took an interdisciplinary approach, as ... More |
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| Million dollar penny & Mint's first coin return "home" for Philadelphia World's Fair of Money | | The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents a site-specific commission by Federico Herrero | | Women's art featured at Hyde | 
1943 Philadelphia bronze alloy cent. It sold earlier this year for over $1 million.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A Philadelphia Mint million dollar mismade penny, a $2.5 million example of the Mints first coin from 1792, a $3 million nickel made under mysterious circumstance at the Mint a century ago and $1 billion of other rare coins and vintage paper money will be publicly displayed in Philadelphia, August 14-18, at the 2018 Worlds Fair of Money® Hosted by the nonprofit American Numismatic Association, the educational and family-friendly Worlds Fair of Money will be held in Hall D of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. The public can also find out what their old coins and currency may be worth with free, informal evaluations by many of the 500 dealers attending the five-day show. This will be a Philadelphia homecoming for these historic and valuable coins, some of which have never before been publicly displayed in the town in which they were minted, explained Douglas Mudd, dire ... More | | 
Federico Herrero, From the exhibition First Day of Good Weather, Sies+Höke hosting Despacio, 2017. Photo: Sandino Scheidegger.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents a site-specific commission by Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero for the museum's two-story atrium. With Herrero's characteristic color blocks, Alphabet splashes bright colors onto the MCA entrance to create a large-scale, abstract landscape reminiscent of the tropical landscape in Central America. Alphabet flows down the atrium wall to the façade window to immerse the space with colored light that comes through the windows and changes as the day goes by. From summer through next spring, the mural can be experienced from inside the museum and from the MCA's front plaza, and like a real landscape, dramatically changes with the shifting weather conditions of the city. Alphabet is on view from August 11, 2018 to May 5, 2019 and is organized by MCA Associate Curator José Esparza. ... More | | 
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), The Lagoon, Venice, ca. 1920 (detail), Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 in., Hofstra University Museum Collections, Gift of Martin Horwitz, HU72.1.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Jane Peterson (1876-1965) was born to Scandinavian immigrants in a Midwestern town just a decade after the Civil War. Ideas of women pursuing higher education and even careers were just gaining traction when the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago featured The Woman's Building. There, the teenager saw paintings by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and Mary MacMonnies (1858-1946), and likely learned about the growing women's suffrage movement. Inspired and with her sights set on a career as an artist, Peterson ventured to New York City and enrolled at the Pratt Institute. She went on to travel the world, befriend major artists of the time, earn a generous living, and build a life as a modern career woman. Her accomplishments are examined in Jane Peterson: At Home and Abroad, ... More |
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 Archives of American Art announces new exhibition focused on international mail art movementWASHINGTON, DC.- The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, presents a new exhibition from its expansive collections documenting the international mail art movement. Opening August 10, 2018, Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art features postcards, letters, and packages that tested the limits of what could be posted. Beginning in the 1960s, mail art (alternatively called correspondence art or postal art) emerged as a form of artistic practice in which an international network of participants used the mail to make art and share it with others. Mail artists circumvented traditional, elite modes of display and distributionsuch as museums and commercial galleriesin favor of the more accessible space of the modern postal system. The exhibition surveys the diversity and depth of mail art-making internationally ... More 'Venice Beach' released coinciding with an accompanying exhibition at Venice ArtsVENICE, CA.- Over the past three years, Los Angeles based photographer Dotan Saguy has spent hundreds of hours documenting the diverse culture, people, and pageantry of the iconic Venice Beach boardwalk. He was irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, anti-materialistic, and inclusive nature of the world-famous location which he found to be a breath of fresh air from Los Angeles's sometimes homogenized, celebrity obsessed culture. Saguy hung out with his subjects for many hours at a time so he could learn about their passions, struggles, and gain their trust. As a result, he became part of the Venice Beach family of local artists, transient hippies, tattoo covered surfers, oiled body builders, street performers, skateboarders and local vendors, among other Venice denizens. He photographed them in raw, candid moments that are unique to the human ... More Studio Drift presents the European premiere of Frranchise Freedom in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- On August 10, Studio Drift will present Franchise Freedom for the first time in Europe, following a successful premiere at Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2017. The performative artwork will be on view for three days during sunset, from 10 12 August above the river IJ in Amsterdam. A representation of FRANCHISE FREEDOM is on display now at the Stedelijk Museum as part of Studio Drifts retrospective. This large performance, now accessible for everyone, is the perfect example of how pure nature, the most innovative technology and society can blend. After the unprecedented number of visitors to the Stedelijk Museum for Studio Drifts retrospective, the City of Amsterdam in collaboration with Intel, BMW, Rabobank, RAI, NDSM and Studio Drift will offer the public the unique opportunity to view this autonomous performative artwork, consisting of 300 ... More Poster Auctions International unveils new Poster Price GuideNEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions International, Inc., has unveiled its all-new Poster Price Guide, an expanded and revamped version of its poster-dedicated database, consolidating a full pricing history of over 40,000 of the rarest vintage posters sold in 75 proprietary auctions over the past 33 years. Its a must-have reference tool for poster collectors and dealers worldwide. The new Poster Price Guide includes a new, mobile-responsive database, larger images and links to auction listings, with all relevant details (to include references, sizes and printer and historical details). Poster Auctions International, Inc., has also redone the user interface, allowing for easier browsing and searching. Even the technologically challenged will find it very simple to navigate. Access is competitively priced, at just $4.99 per week, $14.99 per month or $149.99 for a year. Its an ... More Participants announced for the 4th Istanbul Design BiennialISTANBUL.- The 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, titled A School of Schools and curated by Jan Boelen with Nadine Botha and Vera Sacchetti, is pleased to announce the first participants of this years edition, which takes place from 22 September to 4 November 2018. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by VitrA, the biennial will bring together old and new knowledge, academic and amateur, professional and personal, engaging multigenerational, transdisciplinary practitioners from Turkey and abroad. Over the course of six weeks, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will inhabit six of the citys most iconic cultural institutions, which will play host to the biennial's many schools, exploring the multiple dimensions of design as learning. At Akbank Sanat, the Unmaking School emphasizes the irrepressible human instinct to be creative ... More Outsider Art Fair announces exhibitor list, programming & new venue for 6th Paris editionNEW YORK, NY.- The Outsider Art Fair, the premiere fair dedicated to Self-Taught Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art, is announced the exhibitor list, programming and new venue for its 6th Paris edition. OAF Paris will move to Atelier Richelieu, located in the 2nd Arrondissement, easily accessible from the Grand Palais. The fair will run from October 18-21, 2018, concurrent with FIAC, and showcase 37 exhibitors representing 18 cities from 10 countries, with 8 first-time galleries. In keeping with the fairs international scope, OAF Paris is pleased to welcome several new exhibitors to the fair in 2018, including: Artpool Projects presentation of Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto; Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery, which will debut work from a selection of Danish ateliers; Galerie Atelier Herenplaats (Rotterdam); Galerie LJ (Paris); Gliacrobati (Turin); Le Moineau Ãcarlate (Paris); Morrelandmore (Paris), ... More The Studio Museum appoints Legacy Russell as Associate Curator, ExhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, today announced the appointment of Legacy Russell as Associate Curator, Exhibitions. Russell brings to the Studio Museum extensive, wide-ranging experience in organizing exhibitions and events, writing for diverse audiences from popular to academic, and, most recently, serving as European Gallery Relations Lead at Artsy. Thelma Golden said, Its a great pleasure to welcome Legacy Russell to The Studio Museum in Harlem. She is an exciting emerging curatorial voice, combining keen critical and visual intelligence with broad experience in the cultural sphere and an energetic spirit of public engagement. As we enter our fiftieth anniversary year and prepare to begin construction on our new home, were thrilled to have Legacy join us in advancing ... More Totally Thames returns this September to celebrate the river with over 100 creative eventsLONDON.- Totally Thames fantastic annual season of over 100 events celebrating the River Thames is back for the month of September. This years programme will look at the river as an inspiration and source of creativity connecting London to other cities around the world. It will also celebrate the heritage of our river and illuminate the long-standing traditions and unique stories the river holds. Totally Thames will give Londoners and visitors the opportunity to take part in a programme of arts, culture, heritage and active events including foreshore archaeological walks, a poetry boat party and live music under the river in Tower Bridges Bascule Chambers! Rivers of the World is a Thames Festival Trust project in partnership with the British Council which has worked with 30,000 12-14 year olds in 30 countries around the world to inspire young people to learn ... More Exhibition considers landscape photography from the early twentieth century through the present day,CHICAGO, IL.- From July 19 to September 30, 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is presenting View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection, an exhibition that considers landscape photography from the early twentieth century through the present day, examining not only the role of parks as sites of leisure, but also the complex history of landscape photography in the formation of state parks. View Finder unites photographs from the museums permanent collection and the Midwest Photographers Project, a rotating collection of portfolios at the MoCP by photographers from the Midwest region. Historically, landscape photography has played a vital role in conceptualizing the outdoors in the American imagination. Photographer William Henry Jacksons federally funded photographic survey of the American West ... More Susan R. Ewing named Interim Director of Cranbrook Academy of ArtBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Dominic DiMarco, President of Cranbrook Educational Community, announced today that Susan R. Ewing has been named Interim Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. An internationally recognized metalsmith, professor, and administrator, she brings decades of experience to Cranbrook. Susan is a perfect fit for Cranbrook Academy of Art at this time, said Dominic DiMarco, President of Cranbrook Educational Community. She has a strong background as an accomplished studio artist and educator, and I am confident that she will collaborate with and guide the Artists-in-Residence and mentor the Academy staff as we look toward the future. Susan has a strong track record as a strategic thinker and we look forward to the fresh insight she will bring to the Academys programs. Ewings first day at the Academy will be August 20, 2018. ... More Charles de Gaulle WW2 letter to FDR "from warlord to warlord" sold for $33,689 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A letter written by Charles de Gaulle to FDR old for $33,689 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The handwritten draft of a letter in French by Charles de Gaulle, two pages with writing on both sides, undated circa 1943. Letter to "Monsieur le President," President Franklin D. Roosevelt, about the war situation and their misunderstanding. In part (translated): "Mr. President, it is from warlord to warlord that I address you on this day where the staging triumphed the well-founded human and political realities to give way to the theatralism of which the officer that I am totally stranger. I know from your various writings and remarks, that they were held in public or in private, that your faith indisputably brings you to the side of General Giraud
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Flashback On a day like today, Scottish-English painter Allan Ramsay died August 10, 1784. Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 - 10 August 1784) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter. Ramsay has paintings in the collection of a few British institutions including the National Gallery in London, Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery (attributed), Glasgow Museum and Newstead Abbey. In this image: Allan Ramsay, Portrait of John Campbell. Estimate: £80,000 - 100,000.. Photo: Bonhams.
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