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Robert Delaunay, The Runners, 19241925. Oil on canvas, 153 x 203 cm. Private collection.
ZURICH.- From 31 August to 18 November 2018 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a major exhibition devoted to the work of Robert Delaunay (18851941). Its key themes include Paris, early aviation, sport and colour at the dawn of the modern era. Spanning some 80 paintings and works on paper, it is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Delaunays oeuvre to be shown in Switzerland. Delaunay was an artistic pioneer who investigated the use of colour in the depiction of movement, technology, sport, and his own position as a central figure within the development of a dynamic, new and modern world. The Kunsthaus will show the full range of his work, from the early divisionist and Fauve portraits of 1906 and 1907 to his designs for the Palais des Chemins de Fer and the Palais de lAir at the 1937 Paris Worlds Fair and the last great series of paintings, Rhythms without End, created in the final years o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Rebuilt tools, inspired by found prehistoric patterns, are pictured at the salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria, on August 16, 2018. Like for all mines, a fresh round of strengthening work has become necessary for Hallstatt, the world's oldest salt mine which is located in the Austrian Alps. But Hallstatt isn't like other mines. Alex HALADA / AFP
| Comprehensive presentation of the works of photographer Alfred Seiland on view at the Albertina | | Expansive Mediterranean vista by Pierre Bonnard acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum | | Exhibition brings together two major figures in the story of twentieth-century Australian art | 
Alfred Seiland, Toltec, Arizona, USA, 1989. C-Print. The Albertina Museum, Vienna © Alfred Seiland.
VIENNA.- The Albertina Museum is devoting a comprehensive presentation to the works of photographer Alfred Seiland (*1952), one of the first Austrian photographers to devote himself entirely to color photography. Seilands oeuvre revolves around his interests in various cultural spheres ranging from the East to the West Coast of the USA and on to the former territory of ancient Rome, to Austria, and to present-day Iran. His documentary photography stands out for its finely balanced colors and color gradiation in combination with the sharpest possible focus at all levels of a picture. The present Albertina Museum exhibition shows five of his major work series. Seilands pictures reproduce the visual impressions that he has while on location taking themand their consistently large depth of field accords equal status to all depicted elements, from the most prominent foreground motifs to those appearing farthest ... More | | 
Pierre Bonnard, Landscape at Le Cannet, 1928 (detail), oil on canvas, 50 3/8 x 109 ½ in. (128 x 278.2 cm). Signed (lower right) "Bonnard.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of a major painting by Pierre Bonnard, one of the most admired artists of the twentieth century. Landscape at Le Cannet, the first work by Bonnard to enter the Museums collection, was painted in 1928 and depicts the colorful, sun-washed landscape surrounding the artists villa near Cannes, in the south of France. Suffused with the brilliant colors of the Cote dAzur, the large canvas, around nine feet in width, is the latest in a distinguished group of landscape paintings in the Museums collection, extending from Bonnards beloved Monet and Cézanne back through the centuries to the Italian Renaissance. The Kimbell Art Foundation acquired the painting in honor of Kay Fortson, its president from 1975 through 2017. Landscape at Le Cannet is on view tomorrow, Friday, August 31, in the Kimbells ... More | | 
Brett Whiteley, Sacred baboon, 1975. Brush and ink, wood stain, watercolour, gouache and cut printed colour illustration on cardboard, 81.6 x 67.6 cm (image and sheet) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, 1978 © Wendy Whiteley.
MELBOURNE.- George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were born in the same year 1939 and in the 1960s and 1970s experienced meteoric success in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney. Tragically, both artists also died unexpectedly young. Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions brings together the work of these two major figures in the story of twentieth-century Australian art and reveals, for the first time, the startling and unusual synergies found between their provocative and expressive imagery. Featuring over 120 rare and important works, Parallel Visions is the most comprehensive display of works by each artist presented in the last two decades and surveys the careers of both Baldessin and Whiteley. Highlights include Whiteleys magnum opus The ... More |
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| National Gallery of Canada exhibition Impressionist Treasures enjoys highest attendance in six years | | Famed Malaysian Hindu temple complex gets technicolour paint job | | Hauser & Wirth presents Mary Heilmann's first Los Angeles solo exhibition in over 20 years | 
Camille Pissarro, Plum Trees in Blossom, Ãragny, 1894 (detail). Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm. Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canadas presentation of paintings from the world-renowned Ordrupgaard collection has attracted more than 114,000 visitors to date, making it the most attended summer exhibition since Van Gogh: Up Close, the Gallerys 2012 summer show. Impressionist Treasures:The Ordrupgaard Collection opened May 18, 2018 in Ottawa, the only North American stop on its international tour. The exhibition travels to Italy, Switzerland and the Czech Republic after completing its run at the Gallery on September 9, 2018. Impressionist Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection features 76 paintings by the masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the Danish Golden Age, such as Pissarro, Gauguin, Monet, Matisse, Delacroix, Renoir and Cézanne, to name but a few. Assembled by Wilhelm and Henny Hansen in the early 20th century, the collection is regarded today as one of Europes most comprehensive and exquisite; and whil ... More | | 
Visitors walk up the newly-painted 272-steps staircase leading to Malaysia's Batu Caves Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur on August 30, 2018. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
MALAYSIA (AFP).- A famed Malaysian Hindu temple complex has had its steps painted in a dazzling array of colours, sparking excitement from some visitors but angering officials who oversee heritage sites. The Batu Caves complex, a series of caverns set in a limestone hill on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, is popular with devotees from Malaysia's ethnic Indian minority and tourists, with a regular stream of people clambering up the 272 steps to reach the temples. The steps have been painted in a kaleidoscope of bright colours ahead of a Hindu ritual that is conducted in temples every 12 years, which will take place Friday. But the temple management committee has found itself in hot water with the government heritage department, after allegedly failing to seek permission to paint the steps. The committee will receive a warning letter from the department, while Deputy Culture Minister Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik ... More | | 
Mary Heilmann, Hellfire Series #2, 1984. Glazed ceramic, 14 x 27.3 x 27.3 cm / 5 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. Photo: Nick Ash. © Mary Heilmann. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Memory Remix, Mary Heilmanns first Los Angeles solo exhibition in over 20 years, is a survey of paintings, ceramics, and furniture in which the artists unwavering dedication to abstraction merges with sly references to her favorite landscapes, songs, movies, and Mexican weavings. This preeminent American artist is acclaimed for her unique ability to deploy the analytical geometries of Minimalism with the spontaneous freehanded spirit of the Beat Generation from which her generation emerged, and for her weaving of pop culture influences into a wholly original and pioneering oeuvre. Heilmanns deft handling of paint and spatially dichotomous compositions have exerted a profound influence upon a younger group of artists. Born and raised in California, Heilmann studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Berkeley. In 1968, she moved to New York City to immerse herself in the ... More |
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| Jawahar Kala Kendra presents the first Indian Ceramics Triennale: Breaking Ground | | mumok exhibits works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection | | The Dorsky Museum opens "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List" | 
Madhvi Subrahmanian working in the studio.
JAIPUR.- Jawahar Kala Kendra in collaboration with the Contemporary Clay Foundation presents the first Indian Ceramics Triennale:Breaking Ground, from 31 August to 18 November, 2018. This first ever international ceramics event to be held at the Jawahar Kala Kendra will present 35 Indian and 12 international artist projects, 10 collaborations, 12 speakers, a symposium, film screenings and workshops for adults and children. Breaking Ground has developed and grown under the advice and experience of Peter Nagy (Director, Nature Morte gallery), Ray Meeker (Co-Founder, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, renowned artist and educator) and Pooja Sood (Director General, Jawahar Kala Kendra). "Jawahar Kala Kendra is excited to be pioneering India's first ever Ceramics Triennale. From a historical perspective, there has been a major turn in the field of ceramics worldwide. In a country like India where ceramics ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama Silver Dress, 1966. Dress, artificial flowers, paint, clothes hanger 137 x 90 x 20 cm. mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Former Hahn Collection, Cologne, acquired 1978 Photo: mumok © Yayoi Kusama, 2017.
VIENNA.- Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann do not see their collection as just private property or a prestige object, but rather as an item of cultural value that needs exchange with the public. Their collection has been constantly growing since the late 1970s, and it provides an incomparable view of the development of contemporary art from the 1980s onward. This is a progressive statement on behalf of contemporary art that is anchored in social issues and sees itself as a form of communication. The rationale behind the collection, which is held in Herzogenrath near Aachen and in Berlin, is both creative and productive, and the two collectors practice can be described as a particularly free-spirited form of cultural production. The act of collecting is realized less in the processes of ... More | | 
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Nicole Maines, 2015, inkjet print, courtesy the artist.
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz opened Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List, an exhibition featuring 40 portraits and a film by legendary photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Curated by Dorsky Museum curator of exhibitions and programs Anastasia James, the exhibition is on display from Aug. 29 through Dec. 9, 2018, in The Dorskys Morgan Anderson and Howard Greenberg Family galleries. Greenfield-Sanderss The Trans List consists of a documentary film and portrait series exploring the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender. The documentary, directed and produced by Greenfield-Sanders, features trans journalist and author Janet Mock conducting interviews with noteworthy figures including Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox. The film was first broadcast on HBO in December 2016. Through the film and the ... More |
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| The Hepworth Wakefield presents a survey of work by Dutch artist Viviane Sassen | | Georgia Museum of Art hires Nelda Damiano | | National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 shortlist announced | 
Viviane Sassen, Ra, series Mud and Lotus 2017. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. © Viviane Sassen.
WAKEFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting a survey of work by internationally renowned Dutch artist and photographer Viviane Sassen (b.1972). Straddling both the fashion and fine art worlds, Sassen is one of the most innovative photographers working today. For Hot Mirror Sassen selected individual images from her notable art photography series of the last ten years, as well as new photographs and collages. These selections have been combined to create imagepoems that draw on the Surrealist strategies of collage, offering new and unexpected juxtapositions. Sassen cites Surrealism as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies and dream-like landscapes in her work. Timed to sit alongside The Hepworth Wakefields exhibition exploring Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, Hot Mirror highlights the Surrealist themes ... More | | 
Damiano comes to the museum from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, in Jacksonville, Florida.
ATHENS, GA.- After a national search, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has hired Nelda Damiano as its Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, effective immediately. Damiano comes to the museum from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, in Jacksonville, Florida, where she was associate curator. At the Cummer, she organized exhibitions, conducted primary and original research on its permanent collection and other objects, gave lectures and actively engaged with the museums community. Prior to her work at the Cummer, Damiano was curatorial assistant in prints and drawings and then senior exhibitions manager at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. She received her doctoral degree in art history from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where she wrote her dissertation on the Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Salviati. She obtained a masters degree in museum studies and a bachelors degree i ... More | | 
Keisha Ncube, Cape Town, South Africa, 2017.
LONDON.- Four photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018, the international photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, now celebrating its eleventh anniversary under Taylor Wessings sponsorship. The prize-winning portraits include photographs of a London mother holding her baby; a child from a remote village in the jungle of Sierra Leones Eastern Province; a series on the all-female teams of drum majorettes in South Africas Western Province; and a double portrait of a pair of shoppers taken in Englands capital. The annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world and showcases new work that has been submitted by some of the most exciting contemporary photographers. Since the international competition began in 1993, it has remained a hugely important platform for portrait photograph ... More |
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 Frieze Film 2018: Artists announcedLONDON.- Frieze announces the international artists participating in Frieze Film 2018, a series of new moving image commissions premiered at Frieze London and broadcast on national television. The Otolith Group, Paul Pfeiffer and Lucy Raven will create new works as part of Frieze Projects, overseen by Diana Campbell Betancourt (Samdani Art Foundation & Dhaka Art Summit). Taking place at Frieze London in Regents Park from October 57, 2018, with a two-day Preview October 34. The 2018 Frieze Film programme will explore natural, technological and psychological means of mass communication and control. Inspired by the 1991 volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and the subsequent evacuation of nearby US military stronghold Clark Air Base, Lucy Raven has created a short film focused on the material erupted by the volcanoa ... More Luxembourg Art Week is back in 2018LUXEMBOURG.- The fourth edition of Luxembourg Art Week will take place from 9 to 11 November 2018 at Halle Victor Hugo in Luxembourg. The event will gather 50 contemporary art galleries, cultural institutions and artists collectives in two distinct yet complementary sections: 32 in Positions and 18 in Take Off. 18 new internationally renowned exhibitors will join the Positions section this year, including Galerie Albert Benamou & Véronique Maxé (Paris), Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris), Galerie Arnoux (Paris), Anne Barrault (Paris), DavisKlemmGallery (Wiesbaden), Espace A VENDRE (Nice), Galerie 8+4 (Paris), Michael Janssen (Berlin), Kunsthandlung Osper (Cologne), PACT (Paris), Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery (Knokke-Heist), Valerius Art Gallery (Luxembourg) and Albert Baronian who will team up with Yoko Uhoda (Knokke-le-Zoute, Liège). Luxembourg ... More Van Doren Waxter opens exhibition of works by Aiko Hachisuka and John WilliamsNEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is exhibiting works by Los Angeles-based Aiko Hachisuka and John Williams, on view at the gallerys 195 Chrystie Street location from August 29 September 29, 2018. This first two-person project with the artists presents new wall-based assemblages by Hachisuka and recent paintings by Williams, highlighting their respective, unfettered approaches to material based and chromatically-arduous abstraction. Hachisuka and Williams are innovative and uninhibited colorists, who each move their works to the edges of extreme physicality, intuitively challenging conventions of contained beauty. For this exhibition, Hachisuka presents three new large-scale wall pieces. These dense, hybrid sculptural works are comprised of silkscreened clothes on a rectangular support, which extends physically into space. From afar they present themselves ... More Arthur Analts represents Latvia at the 2018 London Design BiennalRIGA.- The Latvian National Museum of Art and its department the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MDAD) coordinate the preparatory process of participation of Latvia at the second London Design Biennale (LDB) in 2018. The author of Latvias exposition entitled Matter to Matter is young designer Arthur Analts from the multidisciplinary design company Variant Studio. Project is implemented as a part of international programme of Latvias Centenary. Latvia will be represented in this significant forum on design industry for the first time. Building on the enormous success of the inaugural 2016 London Design Biennale, over 40 countries, cities and territories will be welcomed to the second edition of this prestigious global event in response to the theme of Emotional States. A highlight on the global cultural design calendar, the Biennale will see some ... More JAUS opens exhibition of works by Shingo Francis, Paul Gillis and Darcy HueblerLOS ANGELES, CA.- JAUS is presenting the 3-person exhibition Liminimal featuring painting by Shingo Francis, Paul Gillis and Darcy Huebler, and curated by Ichiro Irie. The following was written by Irie. In the early summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to visit the then freshly reopened SFMOMA. There were 19 exhibitions on display in the massive multi-story venue, with a formidable quantity of work by the usual suspects and other lesser known talents, all seemingly competing for me the visitors attention. Among these exhibitions was a collections show called Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art, again featuring canonical artists from each category such as Warhol, Judd and Close. Of all the hundreds of works on display at SFMOMA, the Minimalist section of this exhibition was what had stuck with me the most. Gone was the sense of rupture or challenge to the ... More The Kunsthalle Bremen opens exhibition of early computer graphicsBREMEN.- The Kunsthalle Bremen holds one of the largest collections of computer art in the world. In 2018, the museum is taking the opportunity to celebrate three anniversaries through the presentation of an exhibition of this extensive international collection. Programmed Art: Early Computer Graphics shows a selection of computer-generated graphics from the Bremen collection which were created between 1955 and 1979. The show also presents two new works by Frieder Nake, one of the founders of computer art. Nake was directly involved in the conceptual design of the exhibition. Fifty years ago, in 1968, two events promoted the international recognition of computer art: The exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts held first in London and subsequently in New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C., and Tendencies 4: Computers ... More Exhibition focuses on the relationship between Josef Hoffmann and Koloman MoserVIENNA.- This years annual exhibition Josef HoffmannKoloman Moser (through 28 October 2018) in Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice, a joint branch of the Moravian Gallery in Brno and MAK Vienna, is dedicated to relations between two artist friends and preeminent designers of Viennese Modernism. The works of Koloman Moser (18681918) are considered the artistic antithesis of Josef Hoffmanns (18701956) when it comes to the architecture of their designs: while Hoffmann remained a tectonically austere creator, Koloman Moser always incorporated a decorative, painterly element. Designs and objects from the areas of graphics, glass, and ceramics are displayed in the exhibition so as to place these exceptional artists works in dialogue with one another and render their individual characteristics visible. The careers and works of both creators are closely linked. ... More Damiani to publish 'A brief movement after death' by Caleb Cain MarcusNEW YORK, NY.- Caleb Cain Marcus, a photographic artist living in New York City, has a practice rooted in photography and centered around the tangible presence of space as a connector with the universe. In his critically acclaimed book, A Portrait of Ice (Damiani, 2012), Cain Marcus used the vertical frame to capture sublime images of glaciers and began his study of color. In Goddess (Damiani, 2014), his transcendental photographs taken along the Ganges river explored how space can be defined using light, color and atmospheric conditions. In A brief movement after death (Damiani, October 2018), Cain Marcus' fourth monograph, the photographer pushes deeper still with his masterful use of color to imagine what the release of energy from the body into the universe might look like when we die. The painterly images, which are rendered in exquisite hues ... More Brussels shows why it's a leading destination for contemporary artBRUSSELS.- From September 6-9, Brussels Gallery Weekend holds its 11th edition. This year, 40 galleries, a dozen institutions and several artists run spaces will open their doors to the public. Once again, Brussels Gallery Weekend is a highlight on the international arts calendar, reinforcing Brussels reputation as a global contemporary art destination and shining a light on the diversity of approaches and actors that contribute to this. In 2017, more than 7000 visitors attended the event and more attendance is expected this year. New in 2018 is a meeting point, which can be found in the Vanderborght building, which will also host an exhibition dedicated to local artists without gallery representation. Selected by a committee of renowned galleries (dépendance, Xavier Hufkens, Harlan Levey Projects, Jan Mot, Templon and Waldburger Wouters), participants ... More Gallery list announced for sixth London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art FairLONDON.- 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the 42 galleries from 21 countries exhibiting in its sixth London edition, taking place at Somerset House, 4-7 October 2018 (preview on Wednesday 3 October). As part of the programme of Special Projects, 1-54 is partnering with Somerset House to present an exhibition of new and rarely seen works by the internationally renowned South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga, which will run through to 7 January 2019. Over the past six years 1-54 has established itself as a leading voice in the global discussion on contemporary African art. 1-54 brings together a diverse set of perspectives from around the world, and has carefully selected 42 leading galleries specialising in contemporary art from 21 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America: Angola, Belgium, Côte ... More 'Soviet Sinatra' Iosif Kobzon dies at 80 MOSCOW (AFP).- Popular Russian singer and pro-Kremlin lawmaker Iosif Kobzon -- sometimes called "the Soviet Frank Sinatra" -- died aged 80 on Thursday. Born in Ukraine's Donbass region to Jewish parents, Kobzon began his career in 1959 and was most popular in the 1970s and 80s. Kobzon won a competition to perform in front of Stalin in the Kremlin with a children's choir as a 10-year-old boy. He also performed in front of Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. No major concert on Russian national holidays would take place without Kobzon, who also entertained Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Russian troops in Syria in 2016. A legend of Soviet patriotic music, Kobzon recorded more than 1,500 songs and held a world record in the number of concerts performed in one day: he once gave 12 concerts in a single day spending ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and publisher Roger Dean was born August 31, 1944. William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The artists for whom he did the most art are English rock bands Yes and Asia. In this image: Roger Dean, Archipelago. © Roger Dean.
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