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Claude Monet, Villas à Bordighera, 1884 (detail). Huile sur toile, 60 x 73 cm. Collection particulière © Collection particulière - Droits réservés.
PARIS.- The Musée Marmottan Monet is presentinguntil 10 February 2019an exhibition entitled Collections Privées: un Voyage des Impressionnistes aux Fauves (Private Collections: From the Impressionists to the Fauves). The exhibition includes sixty-two paintings, drawings, and sculptures held in private collections (in Europe, the United States, and Latin America)most of which have never or rarely been exhibited in Parisin a pictorial itinerary that ranges from Monet to Matisse. The private mansion in Rue Louis Boilly, in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, provides the ideal showcase for this event. It is worth noting that the Musée Marmottan Monet is primarily a collectors museum, that is to say an institution whose permanent collectionsincluding the worlds most extensive collection of Claude Monets workshave been privately donated. Hence, the muse ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French instrument maker David Zammitti works on a guitar in his workshop in Calmont, on December 19, 2018. ERIC CABANIS / AFP
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| | | Kunsthalle Mannheim opens major exhibition 'Constructing the World: Art and Economy' | | Modern American Realism on view at the Portland Art Museum | | Five questions to the curator of the Painting the Night exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz | 
Francis Criss, Tagesschicht, 1943 © Katherine Criss.
MANNHEIM.- It is ten years after the peak of the 2008 global financial crisis, which shook the economies of Europe and America to their foundations and has had a lasting impact on our lives in the present. The special autumn exhibition Constructing the World: Art and Economy sheds light on the dramatic influence of the economy on art for the first time, comparing global visual art between the two World Wars (19191939) and in the present (20082018). The first part of the exhibition (191939) displays economic phenomena in the classical modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, with a focus on Germany, Russia, and the US. Starting out with New Objectivity, a term coined at Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1925, the exhibition observes a similar rediscovery of contemporary realism in the socialist Soviet Union and in the US an orientation towards the object and the present. Kunsthalle Mannheim is the first museum ... More | | 
Paul Cadmus (born New York City 1904 - died Weston, Connecticut, 1999), Night in Bologna, 1958. Egg tempera on fiberboard, 50 3/4 x 35 in. (129.0 x 89.0 cm). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.
PORTLAND, ORE.- A selection of treasured artworks from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Modern American Realism encompasses the range of what can broadly be called modern realismfrom sociopolitical to psychological, from satirical to surrealist. Drawn from works collected by the Sara Roby Foundation, the exhibition includes 44 paintings and sculptures from the 1910s to 1980s by Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Wolf Kahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh, and Honoré Sharrer, among others. Sara Roby (1907-1986) believed that the most effective way to encourage the visual arts in the United States was to acquire the works ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Moonscape, 1965 (detail) © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein New York / ADAGP, Paris, 2018.
METZ.- Q: How was the idea for this exhibition born? JEAN-MARIE GALLAIS: The idea came to me when I realized that almost all museums in the world own at least one painting of a night scene. Some ancient nightscapes even have the presence of a modern painting since the artist had to simplify shapes, abandon perspective, and use effects thus evolving to a form of pre-abstraction. It is the very particular power of night-time that intrigued me. Then I became aware of the fact that in modern times a new relationship to the night had come about, the night was omnipresent and, right from the beginning of the 20th century, shaped the future of visual arts. Furthermore, artists often work at night, they talk about it and for some night painting affects their pieces. Some even believe the night defines them. The more I thought about it, the more I fell under the spell of that giddying expanse, a thrill ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Winnipeg Art Gallery brings together 16th-to-19th century paintings presented in salon-style fashion | | Exhibition highlights women designers who have been forgotten | | Exhibition is result of an over year-long inquiry into the encyclopedic collections of museums | 
Director & CEO Dr. Stephen Borys and Chief Curator Andrew Kear got so inspired by some of the gems they were rediscovering, they just had to have a showfeaturing almost 200 paintings!
WINNIPEG.- Some of the oldest and best-loved artworks in the Winnipeg Art Gallery collection are back on view in an exciting new way. Salon Style: Reimagining the Collection brings together 16th-to-19th century paintings presented in salon-style fashion. We're not talking the hair salon; the artworks have been hung closely next to and above one another so as to fit in one gallery. Salon Style runs into 2019. As construction continues on the WAG Inuit Art Centre, impacting on some of the exhibition galleries, theres been lots of artwork moving around behind-the-scenes. Director & CEO Dr. Stephen Borys and Chief Curator Andrew Kear got so inspired by some of the gems they were rediscovering, they just had to have a showfeaturing almost 200 paintings! Salon-style references how the Paris Salon installed paintings beginning in the late 17th century and continuing through the 19th century. Attempting to save space ... More | | 
Bertha Senestréy, 1923. Privatbesitz © Foto: unbekannt.
DRESDEN.- With the founding of the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau in 1898, Dresden became an important center of the international Arts and Crafts and Reform Movement for several decades in light of its innovative design and social renewal. The opening of the Deutsche Werkstätten to women as artistic collaborators at the beginning of the 20th century was virtually unknown until today. It is largely thanks to Karl Schmidts (*18731948) engagement at the time of the reform movement that numerous women were commissioned as designers immediately after the founding of his company and that their products were produced under their names. For the first time, Against Invisibility Women Designers at the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, 1898 to 1938 presents 19 women who worked in the context of the Deutsche Werkstätten in the early 20th century. The special exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) highlights women designers ... More | | 
Carl Cheng, Erosion Machine No. 3, 1969. Acrylic plastic, wood, glass aquarium, LED lighting, florescent black light lamp and fixture, water pump, metal racks, switches and an assortment of human-made erosion rocks. 22 x 12 x 8 in. (55.9 x 30.5 x 20.3 cm); Case: 18 x 25 x 40 in. (45.7 x 63.5 x 101.6 cm) ©Carl Cheng.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Corporate mottos, like metonyms, are a function of partial stand-ins for the mission of a whole: From HPs "Invent" to Apples "Think different" (in answer to IBMs "Think"), from Googles "Dont be evil" to Facebooks "Move Fast and Break Things" to Palantirs "Save the Shire" and Neuralinks "Decompress"; the mottos of these companies encapsulate identities that their consumers desiringly buy into. Long before these mission-driven corporations drilled and mined our relationship with information, images, and networks, what is now known as the Bay Area was controlled by the Franciscan emissaries of the Spanish Crown imposing and enforcing their mission onto the indigenous populations who had occupied the territory for over 5,000 years: the Ohlone, once declared extinct but in actuality not so and today very ... More |
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| | | Architecture under the microscope: rem koolhaas's essential toolkit to building anatomies | | Exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg turns the spotlight on the power of language | | Musée de l'Elysée exhibits works by Swiss photographer Matthias Bruggmann | 
A resource that can be revisited over and over again, one that will arm the current and future designers of our built world with the knowledge theyll need to address the issues they have yet to even confront. ArchDaily
NEW YORK, NY.- Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail.The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulatory requirements, and new digital opportunities. Its a guide that is long overduein Koolhaass own words, Never was a book more relevantat a moment where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition. Derived, updated, ... More | | 
Dominik Steiger, Letterfälle PEINTRE, 1997. Silk screen print on paper, overworked with pencil and acrylic paint and diluted tempera, Generali Foundation Collection. Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg © Generali Foundation.
SALZBURG.- The collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Austrian Federal Photography Collection, and especially the Generali Foundation Collection include numerous works by international artistswell-known treasures as well as others that have never been on public display or await rediscoverythat probe the creative potential of language as well as its role in defining society and engendering reality. The exhibition presents graphic work, collages, and publications that mix and match written language and imagery together with audio plays, objects, and installations that examine the interrelations between language and art, poetry, politics, discrimination, or questions of gender. The power of language ... More | | 
Matthias Bruggmann, Industrial City, Deir ez-Zor, May 5, 2015 © Matthias Bruggmann. Courtesy Musée de lElysée, Lausanne and Galerie Polaris, Paris.
LAUSANNE.- Matthias Bruggmann is the winner of the second edition of the Prix Elysée, with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier, for his project on Syria. Hoping to "bring, to Western viewers, a visceral comprehension of the intangible violence that underlies conflict", he takes the gamble of hiding nothing in his explicit and brutal pictures. Taken in the field, they force the viewer to slow down and take stock of the war geographically distant, admittedly, but made omnipresent by the media. If the tens of thousands of pictures of torture taken by Syrian photographers do not attract the attention of a Western audience, what can a foreigner who doesnt even speak Arabic hope to accomplish? The photographs of Matthias Bruggmann take a critical look at the representation of the atrocities of war. They give Westerners a more nuanced ... More |
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| | | 'Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism' on view at the Royal West of England Academy | | Exhibition lets visitors experience Le Corbusier as a graphic artist for the first time since 1966 | | 'Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern' on view at the Heide Museum of Modern Art | 
Albert Irvin, Rosetta, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 121.9cm, RWA Collection. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estates of Albert and Betty Irvin and allocated to the Royal West of England Academy, 2018. Photography by Colin White. Photo © RWA © The Estate of Albert Irvin. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018.
BRISTOL.- The Royal West of England Academy is presenting the first major retrospective of British artist Albert Irvin, alongside a 60th anniversary celebration of the seminal exhibition, The New American Painting. Albert Irvin RA OBE (1922-2015) was one of Britains most important post-war painters and printmakers. He is best known for his large-scale abstract colourist paintings - some of the most distinctive to have ever been produced in this country. Sixty years ago in 1959, Irvin visited an exhibition called The New American Painting at Tate. This MOMA curated show brought the boldest and best new artistic talent from across the Atlantic to London. The exhibition redefined what was ... More | | 
Portrait, 1960, Le Corbusier, ©FLC/BONO, Oslo kommune. Photo: Werner Zellien.
OSLO.- The exhibition is being held in the Vault at the National Museum Architecture, where lithographs from the final years of Le Corbusiers life are on display. These works were the highlights of the major commemorative exhibition of Le Corbusier at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in 1966, the year after his death. These works are now being featured in an exhibition for the first time since then. The 1966 commemoration differed greatly from the rest of the museums exhibition programme. For its curator, the architect and Le Corbusier expert Robert Esdaile, it was important to present Le Corbusiers ideas in Norway. The lithographs now is being shown once again along with installation photographs, Esdailes correspondence, and newspaper presentations of the exhibition. With this exhibition the National Museum is widening its focus on the links between Le ... More | | 
Installation view, Meditation on a Bone: Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern, 2018. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Christian Capurro.
MELBOURNE.- Meditation on a Bone: Albert Tucker Beyond the Modern explores how Tuckers fascination with art of the past and other cultures informed his painting over the decades. In researching the exhibition, ceramicist and guest curator Glenn Barkley mined Tuckers library and archive for images of the maskan age-old and culturally loaded motif that has inspired artists across time. Along with iconic paintings from across Tuckers career, the display includes books, photographs and archival material from his personal collection, together with works by a range of modernist and contemporary artistsincluding Barkleywho use the mask literally and conceptually as a way to obscure meaning, invite nostalgia, and connect histories. Curator Glenn Barkley says: Reading though Tuckers library, it is revealing how many ... More |
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Why Diego Velázquez?s Las Meninas Is One of the Most Important Paintings in Art History
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 Exhibition conveys how density contributes to the quality of life in a cityBASEL.- In Switzerland, the concept of density has noticeably negative connotations and is often used to provoke fear. Political campaigns with images of old towns overrun by high-rise buildings illustrate an alleged proximity stress (Dichtestress) and make balanced discussion impossible. The exhibition Dichtelust Forms of Urban Coexistence in Switzerland (running from 24/11/2018 to 5/5/2019), which the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum has developed with the support of the Canton Basel-City Construction and Transport Department, refutes these irrational arguments and demonstrates the real meaning of density: the thoughtful and compact utilisation of buildable territory. It examines different forms of historical density and contemporary redensification, and clarifies how density contributes to quality of life by creating tangible added value for the individual ... More Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition of Polaroids from collector Robert E. JacksonBELLEVUE, WA.- Polaroids: Personal, Private, PainterlyPhotographs from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, currently on view at Bellevue Arts Museum, features Polaroids from Seattle-based collector Robert E. Jackson. The exhibition is the first museum exhibition of Jacksons collection in the Northwest and one of the first to feature the vernacular Polaroid. For over two decades, Seattle-based Robert E. Jackson has been a serious collector of mass popular photography and photographic ephemera. Aspects of his collection have been exhibited in both the National Gallery of Art in D.C. and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as via gallery shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. His collection is the subject of two catalogs, The Art of the American Snapshot: 18881978 (2007) and Pure Photography (2011), and his photos ... More UCCA Dune Art Museum exhibits works by nine Chinese artists who span a range of generationsBEIDAIHE.- UCCA is presenting After Nature, the inaugural exhibition at the UCCA Dune Art Museum, the newest addition to UCCAs growing portfolio of projects. Included are works by nine Chinese artists who span a range of generations, born between 1942 and 1988. The works on display, by Li Shan, Liang Shaoji, Liu Yujia, Nabuqi, Yang Xinguang, Trevor Yeung, Yu Ji, Zheng Bo, and Zhuang Hui & Daner, engage with the question of how humanity discoveredand in some ways inventedthe natural world, a question given increased urgency by the release of a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report this week forecasting climate-induced crises before 2040 if carbon emissions continue at current levels. The exhibition is specifically devised for the singular spaces of UCCA Dune Art Museum, a subterranean building designed ... More Paper cutting in process, Storyworlds at the Writers' MuseumEDINBURGH.- Storyworlds is a new exhibition to celebrate the Year of Young People 2018 which gives budding young artists the opportunity to exhibit their work for the first time. The exhibition is made up of paper sculptures, inspired by the Writers Museum and works of Scottish Literature to create delicate worlds that bring these stories and the images they inspire to life. Working with the Museums & Galleries Edinburgh Learning and Programmes Team, as well as artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb, 12 senior students have each selected their own text from which to create their Storyworld. Following six weeks of workshops, the finished Storyworlds are being exhibited each in their own glass dome for six months, alongside pieces from Tessa Asquith-Lamb. As part of the Year of Young People 2018, this is an incredible opportunity for young art students to display their ... More DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents first mid-career survey of Sheila Pepe's workLINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is presenting Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, featuring more than seventy works of art including large-scale fiber installations, sculptures, works on paper, and video. The exhibition, organized by Phoenix Art Museum, sheds light on Pepes practice as it developed in the 1980s to the present. It is on view through March 20, 2019. Hot Mess Formalism celebrates an under-recognized artist who has played an important role as thinker, innovator, and mentor within the field of contemporary art for almost thirty years. The first mid-career survey of Pepes work, it examines how the artist plays with feminist and craft traditions to counter patriarchal notions of art making. While Pepe incorporates personal and cultural narratives into her work, she also invites a broad range of viewers interpretations. ... More Exhibition by the American visual artist Sarah Oppenheimer opens at Von Bartha, S-chanfS-CHANF.- Von Bartha, S-chanf, presents an exhibition by the American visual artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Situated in von Barthas project space in the Engadin Alps, the show runs from 28 December 2018 - 28 January 2019. Entitled I-131311, the work on display is described by the artist as an instrument: a set of mechanically linked architectural elements which are manipulated by the viewer, or player, within the space. Embedded within the gallery walls, the instrument resembles movable windows and doors. Activated by touch, the manipulation of its elements causes a chain reaction: pivoting a window opens a wall, whilst rotating a column constricts the dimensions of a doorway. The artist creates the potential for this sequence of events through mechanical linkage - a helical screw at the center of the piece transforms rotary motion into linear oscillation, thus shaping the instruments mobile path. ... More Boise Art Museum opens two exhibitionsBOISE, ID.- Glass has been called a new state of matter because it does not fit squarely within the definition of a liquid, solid, or gas. Its amorphous molecular structure allows it to transition from a liquid to a solid over a wide temperature range, causing it to be nicknamed chameleon matter. This quality makes glass an ideal medium for a wide array of processes including blowing, kiln-forming, casting, and flame-working. Glass can be translucent, transparent, or opaque; it can refract images or reflect them back to the viewer; it is strong, yet delicate. The ineffable and paradoxical qualities of glass make it perfectly suited for artists to explore fragility, resiliency, transparency, and transformation. This exhibition features work by contemporary artists who are using glass in innovative ways, while presenting its metaphorical possibilities. Their artworks also connect ... More Sagmeister & Walsh open exhibition at The MAK in ViennaVIENNA.- With their fascinating exhibition project Beauty, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh make a multimedia, highly sensory plea for us to take delight in beauty. Almost throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, beauty (has) had rather negative connotations in the design discourse. Sagmeister & Walsh counter this antipathy with convincing arguments and make it possible to experience beauty as a key and functional aspect of appealing design. Spreading across the entire MAK on Viennas Stubenring, the exhibition taps into all the senses and clearly demonstrates that beauty is more than merely a superficial strategy. In the MAK Columned Main Hall, the MAK DESIGN LAB, the MAK GALLERY, the MAK Works on Paper Room, and the MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art, a combination of installations produced especially for the exhibition and examples ... More Exhibition offers a personal interpretation of the Baroque based on innovative juxtapositionsMILAN.- Fondazione Prada is presenting the exhibition Sanguine Luc Tuymans on Baroque, curated by Luc Tuymans, in its Milan venue until 25 February 2019. Organized with M KHA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp) and KMSKA (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and the City of Antwerp, the project is being featured in Milan in a new and more extensive version, following its first presentation in the Belgian city from June to September 2018. Luc Tuymans conceived an intense visual experience presenting more than 80 works by 62 international artists, including 25 exhibited exclusively at Fondazione Prada. Sanguine is a personal interpretation of the Baroque based on innovative juxtapositions and unexpected associations of works by contemporary artists and Old Masters. Avoiding a rigid chronological order or a strictly historiographical ... More ARoS Aarhus Art Museum presents an exhibition featuring more than 40 gigantic works by Julian SchnabelAARHUS.- ARoS is presenting the largest Julian Schnabel-exhibition to date in the Scandinavian countries. Many of the artworks are from Schnabels own collection and have never been exhibited publicly. Julian Schnabel is seen as one of the leading protagonists of painting in the last half of the 20th century and still influences painting today. ARoS has put in more than two years of work to make this exhibition possible, closely collaborating with the artist and designed by interior architect Louise Kugelberg. Exploring new possibilities and stepping out of our comfort zone is an inherent part of the spirit of ARoS. Consequently, the organizers have enjoyed a great deal of surprises in the development of this exhibition and he has created a structure that enlightens the museum guests the moment they enter his universe, says museum director ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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