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Bob Thompson, Untitled, 1960-61. Oil on canvas. The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts. © Estate of Bob Thompson; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum announces four groundbreaking African American art exhibitions opening in Spring 2018. Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art; 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection; and Haitis Revolution in Art: Jacob Lawrences Toussaint LOuverture Series open on February 8 and continue through May 6. 4 Texans: The Next Chapter opens on March 1 and continues through May 6. Something to Say is the first major survey of modern and contemporary African American art to be presented at the McNay. The exhibition juxtaposes works from the pioneering collection of Harmon and Harriet Kelley with loans from the collections of Guillermo Nicolas and Jim Foster, John and Freda Facey, and the McNay. We are honored to present this extraordinary range of community-building exhibitions concurrently, said Rich Aste, Director of the McNay. They exemplify the Museums commi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The nineteenth edition of Art Rotterdam forms the hub of Art Rotterdam Week, an annual festival of contemporary art, design and architecture. It is an excellent moment to visit Art Rotterdam, for an exploratory look at the latest developments in the visual arts. Not only because of its enormous diversity but also because of the exciting presentations of both young and renowned galleries, as an art lover you should not miss Art Rotterdam. Photo: Joost de Leij.
| Rarest and most valuable white diamond ever to appear on the market unveiled by Sotheby's Diamonds in London | | J. Paul Getty Museum announces gift of rare illuminated manuscript leaves | | Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design Serpentine Pavilion 2018 |
A gallery assistant poses with a 102.34 carat flawless white diamond at Sotheby's in central London on February 8, 2018. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
LONDON.- To celebrate the first anniversary of its New Bond Street salon, Sothebys Diamonds, a retail boutique specialising in the worlds finest diamonds, unveiled a stone of exception an extraordinarily rare 102.34 carat white diamond. The stone is the only known round brilliant-cut diamond over 100 carats perfect according to every critical criterion: in addition to the high number of carats, the stone is also perfect in colour, clarity and cut. At 102.34 carats, this masterpiece of nature is the rarest white diamond ever to come to the market and the largest, round D colour flawless diamond known to man. The only stone of its kind ever graded by the GIA (Gemological Institute of America), the diamond has achieved the highest rankings under each of the criteria by which the quality of a stone is judged (the four Cs). The diamond is D colour (the highest grade for a white diamond); of ... More | |
Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, Detached leaf from the Gradual of the Carthusian Monastery Santo Spirito near Lucca, about 1392 - 1402. Tempera and gold leaf. Leaf: 14 à 12 in. Accession No. 2017.122.2 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Elizabeth J. Ferrell, Ms. 115 (2)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the gift of six rare Italian manuscript illuminations from collectors James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell. The donation has been made in Elizabeths name. The generous donation comprises large historiated initials from a group of twenty known leaves originally from a choir book made around 1400 for the Carthusian monastery of Santo Spirito in Farneta (Lucca), Italy. The book was commissioned by Niccolò di Lazzara, the archbishop of Lucca. Jim and Zibbie Ferrell have been longtime supporters of the Museum, and we are deeply grateful for this important gift, says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Over the past two decades, they have been very generous and ... More | |
Serpentine Pavilion 2018 Designed by Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Design Rendering, Interior View © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Renderings by Atmósfera.
LONDON.- The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018. Harnessing a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry, her atmospheric courtyard-based design draws on both the domestic architecture of Mexico and British materials and history, specifically the Prime Meridian line at Londons Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Escobedo (b. 1979, Mexico City) is the 18th and youngest architect yet to accept the invitation to design a temporary Pavilion on the Serpentine Gallery lawn in Kensington Gardens. This pioneering commission, which began in 2000 with Zaha Hadid, has presented the first UK structures of some of the biggest names in international architecture. In recent years, it has grown into a hotly ... More |
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| From idea to masterpiece: Exhibition at National Gallery of Denmark explores how a work of art is made | | Guggenheim opens first comprehensive overview of work by artist Danh Vo | | Exhibition of new works by Luisa Rabbia opens at Peter Blum Gallery |
Alessandro Casolani (1552/53 -1607), Woman contemplating a skull, 1552-1607. Black and red chalk with a reddish wash, 286 x 199 mm. SMK, The Royal Collection of Graphic Art.
COPENHAGEN.- A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark discusses how artistic creativity has found expression through the ages while also refuting the Romantic notion of the lonely artist-genius who, in a momentary rush of inspiration, creates a unique masterpiece independently of time and place. Throughout the spring of 2018, SMK visitors can explore works by Donato Bramante, Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Rembrandt van Rijn, Edgar Degas, Nicolai Abildgaard, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Christen Købke, P.S. Krøyer and many other great masters of art history. The exhibition Art in the Making delves into the artists creative processes, offering insight into their deliberations as they created their works. For how is a work of art made? How do ideas arise, and what processes does the work undergo before it is finished? These questions are addressed in this exhibition, which invites visitors to trace the evolution ... More | |
Danh Vo, Installation view: Danh Vo وادي الحجارة, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, November 13, 2014February 25, 2015 Photo: Abigail Enzaldo and Emilio Bernabé GarcÃa, courtesy Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
NEW YORK, NY.- From February 9 through May 9, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the first comprehensive survey in the United States of work by Danish artist Danh Vo (b. 1975, Ba Ria, Vietnam). Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away offers an illuminating overview of Vos production from the past 15 years, including several new projects created on the occasion of the Guggenheim presentation. Filling the ramps of the Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned rotunda and comprising more than one hundred objects, the exhibition interweaves installations, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper from various points in the artists career, amplifying thematic resonances among diverse cultural and political subjects. Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away is organized by Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art, with Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, and with additional support from Ylinka ... More | |
Luisa Rabbia, LingamYoni (1), 2017. Acrylic and colored pencil on paper mounted on canvas, 74 x 48 inches (188 x 122 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Luisa Rabbia entitled Death&Birth at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition runs through April 7, 2018. Luisa Rabbia's practice is deeply rooted in the dialectic between inner and outer space, between the phenomenological and the symbolic. Rabbias paintings operate on a macro and micro level, making reference to the touch and form of the human body, and depicting systems where everything is relational. Each works foundation is a field of deep blue acrylic on canvas, upon which colored pencil marks are intricately layered to create a glowing palette of yellow, red and violet hues. The surfaces of her paintings are a complex geography where the organic and human merge. This exhibition is the culmination of the trilogy Love-Birth-Death, of which Love, 2016 is currently ... More |
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| Exhibition showcases artwork largely unknown to American audiences by modern German artists | | MoMA appoints Inés Katzenstein as Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute | | Tate marks centenary of women's right to vote |
Hans Uhlmann, Male Head, 1942. Steel sheet. Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, FrK 4237/1995. © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Jürgen Diemer.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums newest special exhibition, InventurArt in Germany, 194355, will be on view from February 9 through June 3, 2018. The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines a largely unaddressed moment in modern German artfrom just before the end of World War II to the decade just afterand features more than 160 works by nearly 50 artists, including women who were integral to exhibitions at the time but whose work has often been ignored. Much of the artwork presented has never been on view outside Germany. Taking its name from a 1945 poem by Günter Eich, the exhibition focuses on modern art created at a time when Germans were forced to acknowledge and reckon with the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the countrys defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications ... More | |
Inés Katzenstein, Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America. Photo: Alejandra López.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Inés Katzenstein as the inaugural Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America. In this role, she will provide intellectual and administrative leadership to the institution as it expands its approach to the study and interpretation of modern and contemporary art from Latin America. Endowed by Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the Institute is poised to become the preeminent research center in the field of Latin American art, building upon MoMAs long history of studying the artists, architects, and filmmakers of the region and acquiring and exhibiting their work. The Institutes programs will include working with visiting scholars and fellows; presenting symposia, lectures, and education programs; and producing publications, in both print and digital formats, on subjects ... More | |
Annie Louisa Swynnerton Dame Millicent Fawcett, C.B.E., LL.D, Exhibited 1930. Tate collection, presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930.
LONDON.- Annie Swynnertons portrait of Millicent Fawcett went on display at Tate Britain to coincide with the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which gave women over 30 the right to vote. The painting will then travel to Manchester Art Gallery for their exhibition Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope opening on 23 February, while a new statue of Fawcett by Gillian Wearing will be unveiled in Parliament Square later this year. The display at Tate Britain is one of many ways Tate is celebrating women in the arts over the coming months. Maria Balshaw, Director Tate said: The struggles of women to get the basic right to vote were long and arduous. It is hard to believe that it is only one hundred years since that historic victory which set us on course for equal rights. Great strides have been made in the intervening decades but we still have a long road to travel. We are delighted to be marking Millicent F ... More |
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| Carrie Moyer's second solo exhibition with DC Moore Gallery opens in New York | | Amy Sherald awarded 2018 David C. Driskell Prize by High Museum of Art | | The Mennello Museum of American Art presents the work of Grace Hartigan |
Carrie Moyer, Arch, 2017. Acrylic and glitter on canvas, 96 x 78 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces Carrie Moyer: Pagans Rapture, the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. Pagans Rapture is a reaffirmation of Moyers Pleasure Principle, providing joyful sustenance and declaring that the End Times are not near. Overflowing with the seductions and materiality of color and paint, Moyers latest work rejects the relentlessly dour focus of the zeitgeist, proposing instead a kaleidoscopic worldview that embraces the sensual as much the rational. Playful, logo-like silhouettes of flora, fauna, body-parts, vessels, and planets utilize a collapsed history of signs. These flattened archetypes and cheeky references often perform as compositional rigging around which cascades of paint, glitter and light flow. A catalogue with an essay by Mia Locks will accompany the exhibition. Carrie Moyer: Seismic Shift, will also be on view at Mary Boone Gallery from March 1st through ... More | |
Amy Sherald (American, born 1973), A clear unspoken granted magic, 2017, oil on canvas. Collection of Denise & Gary Gardner, Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced artist Amy Sherald as the 2018 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African-American art. A Georgia native now based in Baltimore, Sherald is acclaimed for her profoundly creative and distinctive portraits of African-American subjects. In 2017, she received the commission to paint former first lady Michelle Obamas official portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, which will be unveiled on Feb. 12, 2018. Accompanied by a $25,000 cash award, the Driskell Prize, named for the renowned African-American artist and art scholar, was founded by the High in 2005 as the first national award to celebrate an early- or mid-career scholar or artist whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African-American art or art history. Sherald will be honored ... More | |
Grace Hartigan, Parson Brown, 1962 (detail), oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the Perry Collection, Courtesy of Michael Klein Arts, LLC.
ORLANDO, FLA.- The Mennello Museum of American Art is presenting the work of Grace Hartigan in a solo exhibition, Grace Hartigan 1960-1965, The Perry Collection. The exhibition is on view from January 19 through March 18, 2018. Grace Hartigan 1960-1965, The Perry Collection presents a rare selection of paintings and collages that represent Hartigans noted Abstract Expressionist style as it evolved in the early 1960s toward new levels of abstraction and representation. Long overlooked, Hartigan was a key innovator among the painters of the New York School. Shannon Fitzgerald, Mennello Museum Executive Director, states I am thrilled by the opportunity to share rare and pivotal work by Grace Hartigan with our community. As one of the most important mid-century women painters whose practice, especially in the 1950s and 60s America, was always part of art history but often undervalued for her role, ... More |
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Items from the Taos home of the famous fashion icon Millicent Rogers to be sold at auction
WEST COLUMBIA, SC.- The contents of Turtle Walk the Taos, New Mexico home of renowned fashion icon and art collector Millicent Rogers (Am., 1902-1953) will be at the center of an auction planned for February 22nd and 23rd by Charlton Hall Auctions, online and in the firms gallery at 7 Lexington Drive in West Columbia. Start time both days is 11 am Eastern. For those unable to attend the sale in person, online bidding will be provided by Invaluable.com. Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers was the granddaughter of Henry Huddleston Rogers, Sr., one of the original founding partners of Standard Oil, along with John D. Rockefeller, Sr. As heiress to her familys vast wealth, Ms. Rogers was able to freely indulge her passions for travel, fashion, romance (she was married three times and had romances with Clark Gable, Ian Fleming and ... More
Seattle Art Museum announces Manish Engineer as its first Chief Technology Officer
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announced today that Manish Engineer has joined its executive team as the museums first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This newly created position oversees technology and digital efforts across the institution to amplify the museums mission and improve business operations. As our first CTO, Manish will lead the museum to greater levels of engagement with exciting new technologies in support of SAMs mission to connect art to life, says Kimerly Rorschach, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. His expertise, experience, and genuine love of art will help us deploy technology to serve broad audiences more effectively than ever. Prior to SAM, Engineer worked at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as a Project Director in the membership and development departments. He also worked as MoMAs IT Associate Director ... More
Haute Photographie returns to Art Rotterdam Week
ROTTERDAM.- Haute Photographie, the photography fair with a concept unlike any other, returns to Rotterdam in February 2018. Centered around a group exhibition, Haute Photographie features works by the grand masters of photography to the youngest and most exciting talents working with the medium today. This collection brings together a select group of international galleries from New York to Milan. Strengthened by a fascinating educational programme, created in collaboration with Nederlands Fotomuseum, and a high-quality book market curated by Artibooks, visitors can explore and enjoy the many facets of fine art photography at the 4-day event. Haute Photographie will be a meeting place for artists, curators, collectors both young and experienced and anyone with a genuine love for photography. All participating galleries from the 2017 edition ... More
BRAFA breaks a new record
BRUSSELS.- On the evening of the closing of its 63rd edition of Brafa, held from 27 January to 4 February, the fair for the fifth consecutive year broke a record in terms of attendance, having welcomed some 64,000 visitors. This 5% increase was for the most part due to foreign visitors, chiefly from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France, but also to the presence of a new, younger public. This new record also confirms the pre-eminent position of Brafa among the major events of the European art market, among which in fact it has seen the most significant progression over recent years. Overall sales figures have also grown steadily in comparison to the previous edition, which had already been considered excellent. The growing interest in the fair on the part of art lovers and collectors, both public and private, was evident from the opening of the event ... More
Vero Beach Museum of Art announces new Director of Education
VERO BEACH, FLA.- Vero Beach Museum of Arts Executive Director/CEO Brady Roberts announced today that after conducting a national search with Management Consultants for the Arts, the Museum is delighted to appoint Sara Klein as Director of Education effective February 26, 2018. Ms. Klein is currently the Teacher and School Programs Manager at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. From 2009 she has worked at the Amon Carter where she developed, facilitated, and evaluated professional development for educators and supervised a team of gallery teachers who conduct PreK-12th grade experiences at the museum, in schools, and via distance learning. During her tenure at the Amon Carter, Klein created and formalized programming for a variety of under-served museum audiences and managed many grant ... More
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College opens three new exhibitions
AMHERST, MASS.- On Thursday, February 8, 2018, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College opened three new exhibitions: HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland, Fragmented Identities: The Gendered Roles of Women in Art through the Ages, and New Publics: Art for a Modern India, 1960s90s. HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland features fifty-eight artworks that present complex interpretations of the house in various shapes, sizes, materials, and imaginative manifestations. A total of thirty-two major international artists are represented, including Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson, David Goldblatt, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Ed Ruscha, and Ai Weiwei. Their artworks explore the house as an aesthetic formfrom prefabricated low-cost structures to luxury high designthat also serves ... More
India's top court demands answers on Taj Mahal protection efforts
NEW DELHI (AFP).- India's top court demanded a detailed plan for the future of the Taj Mahal on Thursday, warning the state government's "ad hoc" approach jeopardised the centuries-old monument to love. Smog has been slowly yellowing the Taj's brilliant marble and conservationists have long fought to close polluting industries near the 17th-century icon. But years of interventions -- including using mudpacks to draw the stain from the stone -- have failed to arrest the slow decay of India's biggest attraction. The Supreme Court has ordered the state government of Uttar Pradesh to produce a "vision document" outlining its plan for protecting the wonder of the world within a month, the Press Trust of India reported. In particular the court expressed concern about a "sudden flurry of activities" in the Taj Trapezium Zone -- a buffer around the monument to protect it from pollution. ... More
From strippers to rebels: the quiet genius of Susan Meiselas
PARIS.- For one of the greatest women photographers of the last 40 years, Susan Meiselas had huge misgivings when she first picked up a camera. "I felt I was trespassing in people's space," said the American artist, whose picture of a Sandinista rebel throwing a Pepsi bottle petrol bomb came to symbolise the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979. "I thought, 'Who am I to look at you and fix you? How does that feel for you?'" she said. So she began the sometimes uncomfortable task of asking her subjects what they thought of her photos -- and noting down what they said. These are the "kind of fundamental questions we don't ask anymore when everyone is taking pictures with their iPhones," she told AFP, as a major retrospective of her work opened in Paris. Before her iconic images of Nicaragua, which pricked America's conscience over the kind of dictatorial regimes ... More
OBJECT 2018: Architectural monument full of design talent
ROTTERDAM.- From Friday 9 to Sunday 11 February 2018, the design fair OBJECT Rotterdam takes place in the monumental HAKA building. Over a hundred well-known and upcoming designers will present their design objects. This edition is bigger than ever in both participants and size. The striking HAKA building has been reopened for the first time and OBJECT offers an extraordinary tour inside. A visit to the iconic Euromast is included this year. After three editions on the former cruise ship ss Rotterdam, OBJECT Rotterdam moves to a new and exciting location: the industrial HAKA building in the bustling Vierhavens area. The HAKA building was designed by two Dutch architects in the 1930s: Mertens and Koeman. The property has been acquired by Dudok Group and will be developed into a dynamic office building with an attractive restaurant ... More
Exhibition focuses on Eduardo Paolozzi's idiosyncratic and experimental work of the 1940s to the 1970s
BERLIN.- Born in Edinburgh, the sculptor and graphic artist Eduardo Paolozzi (19242005) was one of the most innovative and irreverent artists of the British postwar period. He co-founded the influential London Independent Group, a union of British artists from different disciplines formed during the war that broke with the conventions of aesthetic and academic practice. Paolozzi was one of the first to embrace consumer culture and mass production in the UK. In his glued pictorial worlds, modern cards, aliens, pin up girls and figures from comic books collide upon one another a diverse mix rendered in brash colours that was soon to make art history as Pop Art. In the following years, Paolozzi used the collage technique as an artistic strategy, innovatively applying it to the mediums of sculpture and print. His expressive works explore the intersections between man ... More
Meredith Rosen Gallery opens inaugural exhibition with new work by Jennifer Rubell
NEW YORK, NY.- Meredith Rosen Gallery announces Consent, an exhibition of new work by gallery artist Jennifer Rubell. It is the gallerys inaugural exhibition. The show of paintings, drawings and food performance, which takes place across all three of the gallerys exhibition spaces, opened February 8 and remains on view through March 31, 2018. Public performances will take place frequently over the duration of the exhibition. Slapstick is Rubells first food performance open to the general public in New York. It is also the artists first time as a live performer in her work. The performance consists of two pedestals, one with hundreds of cream pies and the other with Rubell standing on it. One viewer at a time is permitted to approach the pie pedestal, pick up a pie, and throw it in Rubells face ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Gerhard Richter was born February 09, 1932. Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In this image: German artist Gerhard Richter gestures in front of his painting "Abstract Painting (946-3)" during a press conference before the opening of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter, New Paintings" on May 19, 2017. ROBERT MICHAEL / AFP.
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