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Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Richard Armstrong and Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Member of the Board of the Lavazza Group Francesca Lavazza attend 'Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim' sponsored by Lavazza at the Guggenheim New York on February 9, 2017 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Lavazza/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening on February 10, 2017, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim features more than 170 modern objects from the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Assembling many of the foundation?s most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant-garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation?s identity as a forward-looking institution. Visionaries includes important works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, J ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In a full-scale association of functional operations, kurimanzutto gallery opened an OXXO, the most wide-spread convenience store in Mexico, which operates as such for the duration of thirty-working days within the gallery in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood. In this exhibition Gabriel Orozco proposes a game where logos and the rules of the market are set against each other. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City 2017. Photo: Estudio Michel Zabé
| Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art features nearly three hundred objects from international collections | | Gabriel Orozco opens a convenience store at kurimanzutto gallery | | Christie's announces new Los Angeles flagship |
Philippe Mercier, The Music Party: Frederick, Prince of Wales with his Three Eldest Sisters, 1733, oil on canvas, Royal Collection Trust, UK, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- This February, the Yale Center for British Art premiered the first exhibition to explore the instrumental roles of the Hanoverian princesses Caroline of Ansbach (16831737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (17191772), and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (17441818)all of whom married into the British royal familyand how they shaped the nations society and culture during a time of significant political and social transformation. Organized by the Center in partnership with the UKs Historic Royal Palaces, Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World brings together nearly three hundred objects from public and private collections across Britain, Europe, and the United States. The exhibition features works by the artists Hans Holbein the Younger (14971543), Mary Delany (17001788), Allan Ramsay (17131784), Joshua Reynolds (17231792), Ge ... More | |
Gabriel Orozco, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City 2017. Photo: Estudio Michel Zabé.
MEXICO CITY.- Gabriel Orozco proposes a game where logos and the rules of the market are set against each other, as two forms of understanding an ever-growing capitalist world in the midst of collapse: the art market and the market of household appliances in a supermarket within an art gallery. In a full-scale association of functional operations, kurimanzutto gallery opened an OXXO, the most wide-spread convenience store in the country, which operates as such for the duration of thirty-working days within the gallery in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood. Developed in the twentieth century, supermarkets took a clear direction: they offered functionality, standardization, and cheap prices. OXXO, a chain of convenience stores in Mexico, opened its first store in 1978 in Monterrey. Today it has over 14,000 stores and it is the largest of its kind in Mexico. Over ten million customers are served every day; 104,000 people are em ... More | |
To design its LA arts space, located on North Camden Drive near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard, Christies engaged wHY, the interdisciplinary design team known for collaborating with important local cultural clients. ©wHY.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In April 2017, Christies, the worlds leading art business, will open a new 5,400 square foot, two-story flagship location in Beverly Hills, California. This exciting move is in response to growing demand among Los Angeles-area collectors for greater access to buying and selling opportunities, fine art advisory and appraisal services, private selling exhibitions, auction highlight tours, and art-related estate and wealth management services. A team of highly-respected specialists working across Christies major collecting categories will call this new flagship home, supplementing the companys long-standing San Francisco presence, and dramatically increasing the companys influence on the West Coast. Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer: The expansion of our West Coast footprint is a key growth initiative for Christies in 2017. With its vibrant ... More |
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| MCH Group acquires a holding in Art Dusseldorf | | Rare sculptures by Alberto Giacometti and Richard Serra on display for the first time | | Hauser & Wirth to represent the Estate of August Sander |
Marco Fazzone (Managing Director of Design and Regional Art Fairs, MCH Group) and René Kamm (Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MCH Group)
DUSSELDORF.- MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd., a company owned by MCH Group in Basel/Switzerland, is acquiring a 25.1 percent holding in art.fair International GmbH in Cologne/Germany, the organiser of the new art fair Art Dusseldorf. 74.9 percent of the company will remain in the hands of the current proprietors to date, Andreas Lohaus and Walter Gehlen. MCH Group has the option of acquiring a majority stake in the next years. Marco Fazzone, Managing Director of Design & Regional Art Fairs within MCH Group, comments: "MCH Group's participation in Art Dusseldorf constitutes a further step in the implementation of our strategic initiative for the worldwide expansion of a new portfolio of regional art fairs in important art locations. We are convinced that Art Dusseldorf will be a success. Art Dusseldorf in the Areal ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Femme, 1928-29.
LONDON.- Monochrome, an exploration of the use of a single colour white focusing on sculptures by a number of significant 20th century artists, will open at Ordovas, London, from 10 February until 22 April 2017. Presenting works rendered in various tones of white by Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Isamu Noguchi and Richard Serra, the exhibition will explore the depth and diversity that is found in the use of white, a colour that is long associated with purity and clarity. The exhibition will include Alberto Giacomettis Femme, considered to be a pivotal link between British and European modernism in the 1930s, which will go on public display for the first time since it was made almost 80 years ago. Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) made Femme in 1928-29. One of Giacomettis most simplified female figures flat and almost abstract Femme is a negative relief that hovers between two an ... More | |
Gunther Sander, August Sander in Kuchhausen, 1956 / 1958. Gelatin silver print, 16 x 22 cm © Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced its worldwide representation of the Estate of August Sander in collaboration with the artists great grandson Julian Sander of Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne. August Sanders encyclopedic magnum opus, People of the 20th Century, constitutes one of the most monumental endeavors in photographic history. Over the course of a career spanning six decades and tens of thousands of negatives, Sander created a nuanced sociological portrait of Germany comprising images of its populace, as well as its urban settings and dramatic landscapes. Working in a conceptually rigorous fashion, he pioneered a precise, unembellished photographic aesthetic that was formative to the establishment of the mediums independence from painting and presaged conceptual art. Sanders ... More |
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| Brexit here: Daniel Crouch Rare Books explores the origins of the European nation state at TEFAF Maastricht | | Unsseen Jackie Kennedy letters to British aristocrat revealed for the first time at Bonhams | | The Davis Museum presents first U.S. retrospective of the works of Carlo Dolci |
Detail of an Atlas of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton, London, 1579 (£185,000).
LONDON.- As Great Britain prepares to trigger Article 50 and leave the European Union, Daniel Crouch Rare Books will be displaying a collection at TEFAF Maastricht on the theme of the artificiality of national boundaries and the mythical idea of the nation state. Highlights of the Daniel Crouch Rare Books stand look at how countries expressed ideas through cartography, like Christopher Saxtons atlas. As surveying techniques improved, it was considered crucial to have accurate maps of an area in order to control it. Elizabeth I understood this, and encouraged Saxton to complete his work, the first atlas of England and Wales, which was also dedicated to her. Maps could also show national pride. Daniel Crouch Rare Books is showing two maps of the Netherlands published during and after the Twelve Year Truce between the newly independent Dutch Republic and Habsburg Spain. Visscher published the first map as a celebration, showing th ... More | |
Jackie Kennedy reveals why she turned down Ormsby Gores marriage proposal - and why she married Onassis. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Heartfelt personal letters from Jackie Kennedy to David Ormsby Gore (the 5th Lord Harlech), Britains Ambassador in the USA during the Kennedy Presidency are to be sold at The Contents of Glyn Cywarch the Property of Lord Harlech Sale at Bonhams in London on Wednesday 29 March on behalf of Jasset, 7th Lord Harlech. They reveal for the first time that Ormsby Gore proposed marriage to Jackie Kennedy, why she turned him down and why, shortly afterwards, she married Aristotle Onassis. The letters form part of a cache of papers that have been locked away unseen in two despatch boxes at Glyn Cywarch, the Harlech family house, since Lord Harlechs death in 1985, including personal correspondence from President Kennedy and from British Prime Ministers, Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Wilson. The archive is estimated at £100,000-150,000. Bonhams Head of Fine Books and ... More | |
Carlo Dolci, The Virgin and Child, late 1640s. Oil on canvas, 44 2/5 x 39 1/3 in. (112.7 cm x 99.7 cm). Greenville, The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, P.65.367.19. From The Bob Jones University Collection.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present The Medicis Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence, the first-ever exhibition in America devoted to the luminous and meticulously rendered paintings and drawings of 17th-century Italian artist Carlo Dolci (16161687), and the Davis Museums most ambitious Old Master project to date. Dolci was arguably the most important artist in Florence during the 17th-century and the exhibition brings together for the first time in the U.S. the artist's sophisticated devotional work, pictures and drawings of the highest pictorial, technical, and spiritual qualities. On view in the Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery and the Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery, The Medicis Painter will open on February 10, and run through July 9, 2017. The ... More |
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| Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde presents the exhibition "Joan Miró: The Poetry of Everyday Life" | | The Ringling presents "Territories: Photography, Space, and Power" | | Fondazione Prada presents a newly commissioned, site-specific work by Pamela Rosenkranz |
Joan Miró, The first spark of the day ll (detail), 146 x 114 cm. FundacÃó Joan Miró, Barcelona. © Successió Miró, 2017.
STOCKHOLM.- Popular art always moves me. There is nothing tricky or phoney about this art. It goes straight to the point. It surprises, and it is so rich in possibilities, Joan Miró told Yvon Taillandier in the 1950s. The artist's interest in popular culture, but also in elements of the natural, rural environment led him to become an avid collector of objects. Joan Miró. The Poetry of Everyday Life highlights a new way to perceive art based on Miró's capacity to discover poetic possibilities in the simplest of objects. With 14 paintings, 16 sculptures, 4 drawings, 19 objects, 2 sobreteixims and a film, the exhibition focuses on the artist's work in the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which, in seeking to revise his work, he adamantly challenged painting, while he also worked prolifically with bronze sculpture. The exhibition reveals the great importance of everyday objects in Miró's output of sculptures, paintings, ... More | |
Thomas Struth, National Gallery 1, London 1989 (detail).
SARASOTA, FLA.- On Feb 10, Territories: Photography, Space, and Power opens at The Ringling, exploring the myriad ways in which spaces are claimed through cultural forces and political power. Visitors will be able to study not only the ways in which the camera can reveal how humans construct and encode the space they inhabit but also how the camera itself organizes space and place, thereby creating its own territory. Several large format works from The Ringlings collection, rarely on display, are included in the exhibition. Among these are immense light boxes from Lewis Baltz. Baltzs images examine how industrial landscapes shaped a new topography of life in the late 20th century. While Thomas Struths grand photographic print of the National Gallery in London causes us to reflect on the power of museum exhibition spaces. While the works included in Territories may at first seem eclectic, they all evidence the ... More | |
View of the exhibition Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz Infection, 2016. Fondazione Prada, Milan 9 February 2017 14 May 2017. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti. Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada is presenting Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz, the second iteration of a four-part project of newly commissioned, site-specific works hosted in sequence within the Cisterna, one of the pre-existing buildings at Fondazione Pradas Milan venue. Curated by the Fondazione Prada Thought Council, whose current members are Shumon Basar, Cédric Libert, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Dieter Roelstraete, Slight Agitation continues with a second instalment by Pamela Rosenkranz (Switzerland, 1979). She follows on from Tobias Putrih (Slovenia, 1972), while Laura Lima (Brazil, 1971) and Gelitin, the Austrian collective active since 1993, will produce future chapters. The title of the project was inspired by the poetic expression une légère agitation, employed by ... More |
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Outdoor exhibition of 40 images by Magnum photographers opens in Shrewsbury
SHREWSBURY.- A new outdoor exhibition of 40 images by Magnum photographers will explore Charles Darwins legacy in modern society. Inspired by Darwins links to Shrewsbury and to coincide with International Darwin Day on 12 February, Evolution Explored reflects on mans progression through technology, changes in society, environmental concerns, scientific discoveries, and the historical events which have shaped the world we live in today. Traversing the globe from Australia to Brooklyn via Malaysia, the exhibition includes a diverse selection of photographs from the seed vault in Svalbard by Jonas Bendiksen, Longleat Safari Park by Martin Parr, to the Horniman Museum and the protests in Tiananmen Square by Stuart Franklin. Other photographers included in the exhibition are Trent Parke, Philip Jones Griffiths, Elliott Erwitt, Peter Marlow, Alex Webb, Rene Burri, ... More
Victim of Colombia's ELN rebels paints his pain
CALI (AFP).- Juan Daniel Otoya was 10 years old when ELN guerrillas burst into the church in western Colombia where he was attending mass with his family and kidnapped 180 people. Today, the leftist guerrillas -- the last active rebel group in Colombia -- are in peace talks with the government to end a 53-year conflict that has claimed 260,000 lives. Otoya, meanwhile, is a 28-year-old artist who has dedicated himself to painting giant pictures of the violence perpetrated by the ELN, or National Liberation Army. It is, he says, an important reminder of the country's bloody history as it seeks to achieve lasting peace. It is also a form of therapy for his own terrifying childhood experience of the war. "I am traumatized, and I decided I was going to talk about it," he told AFP. "Victims of the conflict have long remained silent.... For me, capturing all that in a painting has been a way to get it out." ... More
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art introduces a new series of monographic architecture exhibitions
HUMLEBÃK.- With the exhibition The Architects Studio. Wang Shu Amateur Architecture Studio, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art introduces a new series of monographic architecture exhibitions offering the opportunity to get a closer look at the work process of an individual studio and gain a better understanding of how ideas become form. Over the coming years, a new generation of architects will be invited to shape an image, in collaboration with Louisiana, of their own practice. In accordance with the world around us, todays pace-setting architecture is concerned with sustainability and social challenges such as climate change and overpopulation, urbanization and cultural heritage. The exhibition series intends to shed light on how intention, expression and method come together for each individual architect. The exhibition series starts in China, more specifically ... More
Leading arts and crafts house welcomes 21st century exhibition celebrating light and form
BOWNESS-ON-WINDERMERE.- From Friday 10 February until Sunday 18 June 2017, Blackwell, Britains leading Arts and Crafts House, welcomes a new exhibition by up and coming artists Griet Beyaert and Paul Miller. Collaboratively known as The Glass Cyphers, Beyaert and Millers exhibition at Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, consists of a site-responsive glass, sound and video installation. The Light Within is a fusion of glass-making and digital technology, using video and sound recordings made in and around Blackwell. The installation, inspired by the use of light in Baillie Scotts architecture, brings together the architectural features of Blackwell with its unique setting overlooking Windermere. Presented in the Oliver Thompson Gallery, this immersive response to Blackwell is made of a multi-layered video projection-mapped onto sculpted glass works ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Juergen Teller on view at Blum & Poe
TOKYO.- Blum & Poe is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Juergen Teller, curated by Francesco Bonami. This is the artist's first solo presentation in Japan in twenty-five years. Teller first made his mark on the publics consciousness when his iconic pictures of Kurt Cobain were published in Details magazine in 1991. Thereafter, his first solo exhibition took place in Japan at Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo, in 1992, where he showed portraits and early fashion photographs. The following year he was the recipient of the 1993 Photography Prize at Festival de la Mode, Monaco. Since then Teller has collaborated with the worlds leading fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garçons, and Helmut Lang. The candid and casual nature of his work appears random yet it is based on precise planning and staging. This tension is evident in the bizarre ... More
The RAF Centenary Anthology: An extraordinary edition for an extraordinary service
LONDON.- The RAF Museum announced the launch of the RAF Centenary Anthology, a handmade, limited edition of 1,500 books of which 250 are signed exemplary copies. Forged in the crucible of the First World War, the Royal Air Force will commemorate its Centenary on 1 April, 2018.The story of the RAF has shaped the modern world. By inspiring technological development, pioneering cultural change and pushing the boundaries of human achievement, the RAF has touched the lives of millions around the globe. This new anthology, produced by award-winning specialist publishers Extraordinary Editions in association with the RAF Museum, will commemorate a hundred years of service and sacrifice, courage and honour whilst celebrating the spirit and values of the people who have contributed to the RAF Story A donation from all sales will be made to the RAF100 ... More
Eiffel Tower to be shielded by 2.5-metre glass security walls
PARIS (AFP).- The Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris, will soon be protected by bulletproof glass walls 2.5 metres (eight feet) high, part of a plan to prevent attacks at the monument, the city said Thursday. The walls costing some 20 million euros ($21.4 million) will be erected this autumn at the northern and southern ends of the monument area, city hall said in a statement. On the western and eastern sides, "inelegant temporary" barriers that were thrown up around the 324-metre (1,063-foot) tower during the Euro 2016 football tournament in France last year will be replaced by ornate fencing. "The terror threat remains high in Paris, and the most vulnerable sites, starting with the Eiffel Tower, must be the object of special security measures," deputy mayor Jean-Francois Martins told a press conference. The glass walls will prevent individuals or vehicles storming the site visited ... More
Works by Chagall, Dali, Haring, Warhol and many others to be offered by The Woodshed Gallery
FRANKLIN, MASS.- A pair of sanguine drawings on white paper by the renowned Russian-born French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985), two signed lithographs by the equally famous Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali (1904-1989), and other original drawings by notables like Keith Haring, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Jean Cocteau and Fernand Leger, will be sold in an online-only auction. Theyre just a few of the nearly 200 highly collectible prints and drawings, by Old and Modern Masters representing four centuries of artworks on paper, that will be offered by The Woodshed Gallery on Wednesday, February 22nd, at 12 oclock noon Eastern time. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and the website www.woodshedgallery.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. This started out as a nice little discovery auction, but ... More
French tourism 'rebounded' in late 2016
PARIS.- France's tourism industry rebounded in late 2016 after two tough years marked by a series of jihadists attacks, national statistics agency Insee said Tuesday. The number of overnight stays rose 3.9 percent in the last three months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, reaching 56.3 million, Insee said. "This strong rebound more than compensates for the marked drop recorded a year previously, linked to the impact of the attacks," the agency said. Friday's suspected terror attack on a group of soldiers on patrol outside the Louvre museum could endanger that recovery. Egyptian-born Abdallah El-Hamahmy, 29, lunged at a group of soldiers with two machetes, shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest). He was shot and seriously injured by one of the troops. The assault outside the world's busiest museum revived fears of violence in France which suffered ... More
Exhibition includes cleverly abstracted works
LONDON.- Visceral is curated by Coates and Scarry with guest curator artist Mark Surridge and includes a series of prints, paintings and sculptural ceramics that explore abstraction and materiality. The exhibition includes cleverly abstracted works by Surridge, Vincent Hawkins, Laurence Owen, Nina Royle, Jonathan Mess and Matthew David-Smith. Art can sometimes hit hard, slap you around the face and take you by surprise. The raw power of a gestural brushstroke, the alchemy of mixing materials or the haptic manipulation of clay can make the experience of appreciating art more visceral, more real. Imagine a work of art as having a tone of voice, some voices may convey impact and immediacy while others are like whispers, as sensitive as litmus paper on the stain of human consciousness. The intuitive artist is working with internal logic mechanisms able to create ... More
Andrew Bick's "original/ghost/variety/shifted/double/echo" opens at Haus Konstruktiv
ZURICH.- Andrew Bick (born in 1963 in Coleford, Gloucestershire, lives and works in London) is one of the leading contemporary painters working in the tradition of constructivist art. In his technically complex and layered paintings, using interplay of free and geometric forms, Bick amalgamates drawing and painting, line and plane, transparency and opacity, colorful and muted surfaces, as well as glossy and matt surfaces, to form a complex and enigmatic whole. Colorful triangular and trapezoidal forms, gesturally applied color fields and sharpedged structures in white, gray and black block out areas of his often unprimed canvases. Covered with translucent acrylic glass or partially coated with layers of wax that lie over the colors like fog, his precisely constructed compositions combine seemingly contradictory painting methods and multi-layered textures. His architectural ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ary Scheffer, was born February 10, 1795. Ary Scheffer (10 February 1795 - 15 June 1858), French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht. Scheffer was married to the widow of General Baudrand. His brother Hendrik, born at the Hague on 27 September 1798, was also a prolific painter. Scheffer was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1848, that is, after he had wholly withdrawn from the Salon. In this image: Self portrait of Ary Scheffer.
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