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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Sunflowers | Tournesols, 1888 (detail). Canvas , 92,0 x 73,0 cm © Neue Pinakothek.
LONDON.- In 1888/9 in Arles in the South of France, Vincent van Gogh painted several versions of one of the most famous paintings ever made his Sunflowers. Today five Sunflowers paintings are located in museums across the globe and have never been united. Until now that is. On 14 August 2017, in a world first, all those Sunflowers will come together in a virtual exhibition bringing the paintings together in a way the artist could never have imagined. Over 95-minutes on that evening, The National Gallery (London), Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Neue Pinakothek (Munich) and the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art (Tokyo) will link up in a unique and unprecedented global collaboration to explore the Sunflowers series, live on Facebook. Starting at 5.50pm (UK time) in London, there will be a consecutive relay of five, 15-minute Facebook Live broadcasts. Each will take place in front of a different Sunflowers painting, all will celebra ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Indian school children form the shape of a 'Rakhi' at a their school ahead of the upcoming festival of Raksha Bandhan, in Patiala. AFP
| Ilona van Tuinen appointed new Curator of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Drawings at the Rijksmuseum | | Two Japanese master printmakers go head to head in "Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada" | | Arctic/Alaska dinosaur expert plays role in discovery of Japan's oldest diving bird | 
Van Tuinen is currently the Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum announced the appointment of Ilona van Tuinen as the successor to Marijn Schapelhouman, who retires this month as Senior Curator of Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet. Van Tuinen currently the Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York will take up the post of Curator of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet on 1 February 2018. Van Tuinen (1982, NL) studied art history at the University of Amsterdam (M.A. cum laude, 2009). Prior to her appointment at the Morgan Library (2015), she worked as an Assistant Curator at the Frits Lugt Collection Fondation Custodia, Paris (201415), as Assistant Curator at the Leiden Collection, New York (201114) and at the Museum De ... More | | 
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 17861864), The In-demand Type, from the series Thirty-two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World, 1820s Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Nellie Parney Carter CollectionBequest of Nellie Parney Carter. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Rival artists Utagawa Kuniyoshi (17971861) and Utagawa Kunisada (17861864) were the two best-selling designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. Featuring 100 works drawn from the preeminent Japanese collection housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada revives the centuries-old competition and invites visitors to decide which of the two artists is their personal favorite. Kunisada was more popular during his lifetime, famous for realistic portraits of kabuki theater actors, sensual images of beautiful women and the luxurious settings he imagined for historical scenes. Kuniyoshi is beloved by todays connoisseurs and collectors ... More | | 
Chupkaornis keraorum. Illustration by Masato Hattori.
HOKKAIDO.- During a walk near a reservoir in a small Japanese town, amateur collectors made the discovery of their lives the first and oldest fossil bird ever identified in their country. After sharing their mysterious find with paleontologists at Hokkaido University, brothers Masatoshi and Yasuji Kera later learned the skeletal remains were that of an iconic marine diving bird from the Late Cretaceous Period, one that is often found in the Northern Hemisphere but rarely in Asia. The remarkable specimen which includes nine skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones is being heralded as the best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia and to be the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent. Identified as a new species, it has been named Chupkaornis keraorum Chupka is the Ainu word used by indigenous people ... More |
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| The Fabric Workshop and Museum opens major retrospective of Philadelphia icon Louis Kahn | | BFI offers viewers in the UK and across India to a collection of extremely rare films of India | | Rizzoli to publish 'Tracey Emin: Works 2007-2017' | 
Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, Louis Kahn, 196572 © Iwan Baan.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture (August 11 November 5, 2017). Organized by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, this landmark exhibition represents the first major retrospective of Kahns work in twenty years. Through more than 200 objects and ephemeral items, The Power of Architecture offers new insight into the famed architects methods and inspiration. The only East Coast venue for this momentous show, FWM is also the final stop on its international tour. Louis Kahn, who spent most of his life and distinguished career in Philadelphia, is regarded as one of the greatest master builders of the twentieth century. With complex spatial compositions and a choreographic mastery of light, Kahn created buildings of archaic beauty and powerful universal symbolism. Among his ... More | | 
Mahatma Gandhi, Noakhali, 1947.
LONDON.- BFI, in partnership with British Council, today release India on Film: 1899-1947, Treasures from the BFI National Archive, providing access to viewers in the UK and across India to an unparalleled collection of extremely rare films of India, which have survived from the earliest days of cinema. The BFI National Archive holds and cares for the largest collection of early films of India, unmatched anywhere in the world. This extraordinary collection of massive international importance, follows on the back of BFIs hugely successful Britain on Film digitisation programme one of the largest and most complex archival projects undertaken by the BFI making over 7500 films digitally available. Drawn from material held in the BFI National Archive in partnership with National and Regional Film and Television Archives across the UK, Britain on Film has seen over 30 million people to date access their countrys film heritage through BFI ... More | | 
Tracey Emin: Works 2007-2017. Text by Jonathan Jones
NEW YORK, NY.- Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emins drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliqués and embroideries, neons, video stills, and installations. A multimedia artist whose intensely personal work blurs the boundaries between art and life, Emin remains one of the most highly publicized contemporary British artists and continues to stir as much controversy as she does acclaim. Moving chronologically through a prolific decade of workfrom major public installations to recent reflective paintings and sculpturesthis book shows a coherent vision that defies the idiosyncrasies of Emins evolution as an artist. The same mixture of anger, hope, curiosity, and vulnerability that informs her delicate drawings and handwritten neons can be felt in the darker tones of recent gouaches and the weight of later bronze pieces. Jonathan ... More |
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| Launch of infinite mulitple, an online platform selling unlimited editions by established and emerging artists | | Klein Sun Gallery opens LÃ Wei's first solo exhibition in North America | | Institute of Modern Art opens Ross Manning's first-ever survey exhibition | 
Lenticular print playing with notions of distance, using imagery from time in Afghanistan as a war artist by David Cotterell.
LONDON.- infinite multiple is a new model for making and buying contemporary art; an online platform selling unlimited editions at accessible prices. Developed and managed by a London-based collective of artists and curators, the vision of infinite multiple is to widen the scope for owning and collecting art. The first set of 30 exclusive unlimited editions by 20 emerging and established artists is launched online at www.infinitemultiple.com on 1st September, accompanied by an exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher in London. The works for sale span the breadth of contemporary art in the post-internet age, from the overtly political to the wittily observational and the gently anarchic. Forms range from sculptures, objects and digital prints to a bookwork, woodcut and wearable artworks including Santiago Sierras NO armband from his NO global tour and Lizzie Hughes scarf printed with satellite images of Californian donutting trac ... More | | 
Là Wei, A Block of Cake, 2010. Performance, installation and video. Installation: variable dimensions. Video duration: 15 minutes. Courtesy Klein Sun Gallery and the artist, © Là Wei. Photograph by Jin Jun.
NEW YORK, NY.- Klein Sun Gallery announces LÃ Wei: Cellar and Garret, the artist's first solo exhibition in North America, on view from August 10 through September 2, 2017. Using Gaston Bachelards elaboration on Carl Jungs psychoanalytic studies on space as a base point, LÃ Wei brings a group of installations which demonstrates a seeming cellar and garret, unleashing an unorthodox conversation between the viewers internalized desire and external facade of hypocrisy. In Bachelards psychology, a garret gives shelter from fear where all thoughts are clear and conscious while a cellar hosts all subterranean forces where rationalization is never definite and ones unconsciousness dominates. Verticality and centrality are the two key elements hosted by a versatile space with a cellar and a garret. LÃ Wei entertains ... More | | 
Ross Manning, Bricks and Blocks, 2016. Photograph by Louis Lim.
BRISBANE.- Dissonant Rhythms is Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Mannings first-ever survey exhibition. Best known for his use of everyday materials, Mannings exhibition features sculptures that repurpose ceiling fans, fluorescent tubes, and overhead projectors, creating exquisite interplays of light and sound. Over the past decade, Manning has developed what could be described as his own world, animated by light and sound. He is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, and of moving objects propelled by electricity and their own kinetic forces. This is a sculptural practice with a totalising scope and vision: just as it appears to consume all manner of household and industrial objects, hardware, and technologies, so it harnesses visible and audible frequencies. It then uses those same energies of light, sound, and motion to colonise nearly every surface and wavelength in its vicinity. Stemming from Mannings musical background, ... More |
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| Zaha Hadid Architects' inaugural exhibition in Singapore showcases a collection of seminal projects | | Latvian National Museum of Art opens exhibition of Biruta Baumanes paintings | | Stunning contemporary British silver from V&A exhibition at Bonhams Decorative Art Sale | 
Installation view.
SINGAPORE.- For the first time ever, Singaporeans can now gain insight into the works of the late Dame Zaha Hadid at the Zaha Hadid Architects : Reimagining Architecture exhibition, which is currently on view at ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands. UEM Sunrise Berhad, an international lifestyle and property developer, brings the first-of-its-kind exhibition series on the world-renowned architecture and design firm to Southeast Asia, with a stop at Singapore after its premiere at the Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival 2017 last month. The exhibition will then travel to Melbourne, Australia to coincide with the Companys official launch of Mayfair for the Australian market an ultra-luxuriously development in Melbourne which is one of the last developments designed by Zaha Hadid herself. Mayfair is UEM Sunrises latest addition to its development portfolio in Melbourne. Located on St Kilda Road, Melbourne ... More | | 
Biruta Baumane. Self-Portrait at Night. 1965. Oil on canvas. LNMA collection.
Photo: Normunds Brasliņ
RIGA.- An exhibition of Biruta Baumanes paintings, which continues the museums cycle of exhibitions The Generation, will be on view in the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 12 August to 10 September 2017. In the second exhibition, which the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) presents as part of the cycle of exhibitions The Generation, the visitors will see 26 paintings of Biruta Baumane (19222017) the artists bequest to the museum. Among the most significant works of the gift are Self-Portrait at Night (1965), Country Musician (1968), the triptych Childhood (1983), Carrousel (1981) and End of the Feast (1978), as well as two compositions from the cycle Wedding in Latgale Housekeepers (1967) and Women ... More | | 
Waves by Nan Nan Liu. Estimate: £12,000-14,000.
LONDON.- Stunning and pioneering works in silver specially commissioned for the recent Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Silver Speaks: From Idea to Object will be offered at Bonhams Decorative Art and Design Sale in London on 27 September. The exhibition, curated by design critic Corinne Julius, was organised by Contemporary British Silversmiths to mark its 20th anniversary and showcased the very best of British silver design and craft. The sale marks the first collection of contemporary silver to come to auction straight from a significant museum display, and will feature number of pieces including: Animus, a sculptured centrepiece by Kevin Grey estimated at £58,000-62,000. In the work Grey, three times holder of the prestigious Goldsmiths Company Crafts and Design Council award, uses cutting edge technology to explore the idea of a continuous revolving thought, which demands total ... More |
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 Elaine Reichek and Jeanne Silverthorne to explore invisibility in a new collaborative project ANDOVER, MASS.- This fall at the Addison Gallery of American Art, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, artists Elaine Reichek and Jeanne Silverthorne will team up to present Invisible Citings, an installation exploring their shared interest in text and notions of invisibility. As the so-called Gutenberg age gives way to glowing screens, Invisible Citings celebrates writing as material and medium and looks to the printed page to consider invisibility. Weaving Reicheks embroidery and Silverthornes sculpture together with classic and contemporary literature, the exhibition, on view September 1December 31, 2017, addresses themes such as the legible and the obscured, word and image, illumination and luminescence, archiving and discarding. In conjunction with the exhibition, Reichek ... More Young at art for Macmillan's 15th anniversary art showEDINBURGH.- Macmillan Cancer Supports high-profile Art Show has returned this year as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Celebrating its 15th anniversary exhibition, the carefully selected artwork, from a variety of styles and tastes, will be showcasing (Thursday 24th August Sunday 27th August) at the prestigious Bonhams Auction House, in the heart of Edinburgh. Since it was first launched in 2002, the popular event has raised over £500,000, through renowned and emerging artists donating almost 50% of the sale price of their work to Macmillan Cancer Support. The true value of the money raised and the artwork donated is recognised in the services that Macmillan provides for cancer patients across Scotland. In supporting the event, artists and art lovers are helping people to live their best possible life with cancer. This years Macmillan Art Show will showcase work from almost 140 exhibitors with a focus ... More pavlov's dog opens Kirsten Becken's 'Seeing Her Ghosts'BERLIN.- With her exhibition "Seeing Her Ghosts" the artist processes the struggles of her mother Angela Becken. It brings together works by various international artists to provide a platform for a new perception of psychological problems. Art plays a decisive role for Becken. In addition to her own photographs, which reflect the watercolors of her mother, she shows humorous and critical works by David Shrigley and deep-bodied and abstruse photographs by Roger Ballen. The result is a spectrum that reflects the human soul in all its facets on an eye level and adresses it with respect. Kirsten Becken describes her work as a constant search for the otherworldly moment. She immerses into her counterpart with empathy and sensitivity and wants to touch the viewer with her work. With her photographic series "Seeing Her Ghosts", Becken transports the unconscious ... More Works by Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach on view in exhibition at the Portland Museum of ArtPORTLAND, ME.- A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach is the first exhibition to investigate the integral relationships between modernism, classicism, and popular imagery in the interwar sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach. The exhibition, co-organized by the Portland Museum of Art and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, explores how this circle of European-born artists became preeminent figures of modernism in the United States. By juxtaposing their works, A New American Sculpture reveals the confluences of sourcesfrom archaism and European avant-garde art to vernacular traditions and American popular culturethat informed these artists' novel contributions to the history of sculpture. Assembled from public and private collections, this exhibition of approximately ... More A rainbow of colored diamonds at Heritage's Fine Jewelry AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The legendary Hope Diamond, the Dresden Green and Hancock Red exemplify the breathless beauty found deep in the earth's crust. These coveted gems are symbols of power and wealth, romance and intrigue. Heritage Auctions is celebrating colored diamonds on Sept. 25 with its Beverly Hills Fine Jewelry auction. A collection of the extraordinary diamonds offered will tour the country showing off their rainbow hues and mystic beauty in Dallas, New York and Beverly Hills beginning Sept. 7 in Dallas. An exceedingly rare 3.23-carat Fancy Blue Diamond, Diamond, Platinum Ring (est. $900,000-1,200,000) is worth noting with its mesmerizing hue. Rarely encountered, this Fancy Blue Diamond is fashioned into a lovely cushion-shape. "No two diamonds are alike and all collectors would agree that natural fancy blue diamonds, although possessing the same ... More Exhibition explores the gallery space as a fluid cultural siteLONDON.- Lost Senses is a living space for encounters, open everyday to everyone. Revisiting the exhibition as format and exploring the gallery space as a fluid cultural site, artists and practitioners will work in close relation with people reorganising the selfs relation to perception. The notion of direct material experience in modernity has fallen into a semantic crisis which does not leave enough space for moments of Real and shared embodiment. The purpose of the project is to create new collective experiences and ways to actively participate in everyday life. Lost Senses is structured around a one-month campus for kids and adults to experience and enjoy senses, remembering that embodiment is not textual but consumed by a world filled with smells, textures, sights, sounds and tastes. Generating a re-opening of senses exploring otherness, lost ... More Ancient shell stringing tradition lives on in touring exhibitionCANBERRA.- A national touring exhibition focused on shell stringing, one of the Tasmanian Aboriginal communitys most culturally significant and closely guarded traditions, opened at the National Museum of Australia today. kanalaritja: An Unbroken String, from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), features a variety of beautiful, delicate and rare shell necklaces, created by Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestors in the 1800s. This collection is complemented by works by acclaimed makers of today and a new wave of stringers who had the opportunity to learn the tradition through the luna tunapri (womens knowledge) cultural revitalisation project. TMAG has worked with the local Aboriginal community since 2010 to facilitate a number of luna tunapri workshops in which women, who did not benefit from intergenerational transfer of knowledge, were guided through the intricate ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Jackson Pollock died August 11, 2017. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting. In this image: Former Museum of Fine Arts, Houston director Peter Marzio poses near works by Jackson Pollock on display Friday, Oct. 17, 2003, in Houston. The works are titled, from left to right, "Echo (Number 25, 1951)," "Number I, 1948" and "Gothic."
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