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| Anastasia Pelias: mama now on view at McNay Art Museum in San Antonio | |
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SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Commissioned by the McNay Art Museum from New Orleans-native Anastasia Pelias, mama is comprised of a monumental sculpture immersed within a painted landscape, and is now on view at the Museum. Located on a small hill just inside the North New Braunfels gate, the installation activates the landscape of the museum grounds by creating a space the artist intends to be a place for people to be, to think, and to meditate. We are thrilled to feature mama this winter on the grounds of the first modern art museum in Texas, said Richard Aste, Director of the McNay. It is a paragon of artistic excellence--which we have defined in San Antonio for almost 65 years--and a thoughtful, meditative addition to our growing outdoor museum experience. Peliass artworks span the areas of painting, drawing, video, sculpture, and installation, united through a cultural identity combining her native Louisiana birthpl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An exhibition of artwork by the world-renowned father of the Op Art movement, Victor Vasarely, opened at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum on Saturday, December 1.
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| Beyonce helps Paris Louvre attract record visitor numbers | | Editions sale to include an important set of 10 Donald Judd woodcuts | | Exhibition explores the arts and culture of the Armenians | In this file photo taken on October 16, 2017, a tourist takes a selfie picture with the Louvre Pyramid, outside the Louvre museum on October 16, 2017 in Paris. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP. PARIS (AFP).- The world's most popular museum, the Paris Louvre, received over 10 million visitors in 2018, a record which it partly attributed Thursday to a Beyonce video shot against the backdrop of the Mona Lisa and other famous works. Some 10.2 million people visited the museum last year, a 25 percent increase over 2017, which its president Jean-Luc Martinez also linked to a stunning tourism recovery in Paris after a slump caused by a spate of terror attacks. But Martinez also gave some of the credit to pop power couple Beyonce and Jay Z, who shot the video for their hit "Apeshit" in the galleries of the former royal palace. The wildly popular clip, which has been viewed 147 million times on YouTube, went on to form the basis of a tour designed by the Louvre that takes in the 17 paintings and sculptures featured in the video. ... More | | Donald Judd, Untitled, 1988 (detail). Estimate: £150,000 - 200,000. Image courtesy of Phillips. LONDON.- Phillips Evening & Day Editions sale in London will unite Contemporary artists including Banksy, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte alongside Modern icons of 20th century printmaking from Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Pablo Picasso and David Hockney. Exhibiting a variety of media, artists and fundamental stages of Modern and Contemporary art history this sale explores Editions in their many shapes and forms. Taking place at Phillips London on 24 January, the sale will feature 290 lots and is expected to realise in excess of £2,000,000. Leading the sale is a set of 10 Donald Judd woodcuts. Printed in ultramarine, Untitled comes to this sale from a Private London Collection. Judd first began to experiment with woodcuts in 1953 when he turned to his father, experienced wood worker Roy Judd, for assistance. Throughout the 1960s Judd explored methods by which abstract shapes and straight lines ... More | | Altar Frontal (detail). New Julfa, 1741. Gold, silver, and silk threads on silk. Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia. NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Armenia! explores the arts and culture of the Armenians from their conversion to Christianity in the early fourth century through their leading role on international trade routes in the 17th century. The exhibition emphasizes how Armenians developed a distinctive national identity in their homeland at the base of Mt. Ararat (widely accepted as the resting place of Noah's Ark) and how they maintained and transformed their traditions as their communities expanded across the globe. More than 140 opulent gilded reliquaries, richly illuminated manuscripts, rare textiles, liturgical furnishings made of precious materials, khachkars (cross stones), church models, and printed books demonstrate Armenia's distinctive imagery in their homeland and other major Armenian sites, from the Kingdom of Cilicia on the Mediterranean to ... More |
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| Helmut Newton Foundation opens its first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the genre of nude photography | | KP Projects exhibits new and lifetime prints by Vivian Maier | | Exhibition illustrates the multiple meanings attributed to ruins through the centuries | David Lynch, Untitled, 1990s. © David Lynch. BERLIN.- The three-part exhibition Saul Leiter. David Lynch. Helmut Newton: Nudes opened at the Helmut Newton Foundation on 30 November 2018. It marks the first time in the history of the Berlin institution that an exhibition is being dedicated exclusively to the genre of nude photography. Saul Leiter, parallel to his fashion photography for Harpers Bazaar and the colorful abstractions he captured on the streets of New York from the late 1940s onwards, also photographed nudes in the studio. These pictures remained under lock and key during his lifetime and only a few of his friends knew his quiet, intimate black-and-white images. While Leiter had his color film processed by photo labs in New York, he developed the nudes himself in his own darkroom. His female models were friends or lovers, whom the artist portrayed in his New York apartment over the course of some 20 years. After Leiters death in ... More | | Vivian Maier, 1979. LOS ANGELES, CA.- KP Projects is presenting an exhibition of Vivian Maier photographs entitled Living Color featuring new chromogenic color prints, black and white gelatin silver prints, and a rare selection of Lifetime prints from the Maloof collection. It is the inaugural exhibition at the gallerys new location at 633 N. La Brea Avenue. Vivian Maiers poignant visual narrative continues to captivate public attention as one of the most important photographers of the 20th Century, despite being virtually unknown to the public during her lifetime. Maiers allure endures even though many details of her life continue to remain a mystery, leaving her photographs to tell us much about whom she was. Discovered and acquired by John Maloof in 2007 at a local Chicago auction house, the vast collection of Maiers negatives, film, and prints capture urban and domestic spheres, as well as more intimate moments through self-portr ... More | | Jan Sanders van Hemessen, San Girolamo, 1543 olio su tavola (quercia), 102 à 83,5 cm. Museo Statale Ermitage, San Pietroburgo. VENICE.- Over 250 works from the Venetian Civic Museums and the State Hermitage Museum, as well as from other Italian and international public and private collections, illustrate the multiple meanings attributed to ruins through the centuries: from the architectural and sculptural remains of the Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian-Babylonian and Syrian civilisations, to contemporary art that looks at the physical and moral ruins of todays society. Ruins of its architecture, cities and suburbs, but also of men and ideas, as the result of time, negligence, degeneration, natural or political tragedies such as war and terrorism. As a result of the collaboration between the City of Venice, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg strengthened by the agreements signed in recent ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Packer on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | | Koopman Rare Art to offer the silver-gilt masterpiece The Shield of Achilles at TEFAF Maastricht 2019 | | Rubell Family Collection presents exhibitions by Purvis Young and new acquistions | Jennifer Packer, Citizen, 2018. Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting Quality of Life, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Packer. This is Packers second solo show at Sikkema Jenkins. Packers painted figures and still lifes are exceptional for their expressive fields of color, worked tenderly by the artists hand. They are images made with the utmost carefor the subject, and for the artist herself. Packers subjects are often friends and family, loved ones who serve as an emotive force in her life. Her representations critique the positionality, autonomy and power of the marginalized subject. Her work intends to address the primacy of the gaze within painting as a locus for accountability and representation. In Packers work, distinct features fade against the color of their environment, creating a protective distance between the direct gaze of the viewer and the subjects interiority. The floral still lifes ... More | | The most spectacular example of Regency silver of all time --Lewis Smith, Director of Koopman Rare Art LONDON.- The highly historic and impressive silver-gilt shield, which bears the Royal Arms of Ernst Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1771-1851), will take centre stage on the stand of Koopman Rare Art at TEFAF Maastricht 2019. It has an asking price in the region of £5 million. Lewis Smith, Director of leading London silver dealers Koopman Rare Art, said: We are hugely honoured to offer this exceptional silver-gilt work of art at TEFAF Maastricht. The Shield of Achilles is without doubt the most spectacular example of Regency silver of all time. Made by one of the most pre-eminent English silversmiths Philip Rundell (1743 - 1827), the circular shield is cast in silver-gilt and chased after a design by John Flaxman (1755 1826). In its form, the shield follows the Renaissance tradition of imposing display chargers or shields elaborately decorated with scenes commemorating great military battles a ... More | | Janiva Ellis, Thrill Issues. MIAMI, FLA.- Purvis Young is a large-scale exhibition, featuring over 100 paintings from this Miami-born artist who spent the entirety of his life (1943-2010) observing and documenting the lives, deaths, struggles and dreams of the people around him. Numerous universal themes within Young's paintings are highlighted and presented in depth. This marks the foundation's largest solo exhibition to date. Several of the paintings on view were recently donated to the foundation in memory of Janet Fleisher. A comprehensive, 364 page, hardcover catalog with 254 color plates accompanies the exhibition and includes an interview with Young by Hans Ulrich Obrist, recorded in 2005, and writings by Rashid Johnson, Gean Moreno, Franklin Sirmans, César Trasobares, and Barbara N. Young. The catalog is available at the foundation and the online bookstore. New Acquisitions presents paintings, sculptures, and installations by 20 artists; all of the works were acquired ... More |
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| Video projection Dark Waves by Johannes Bosgra at concert in Miami | | Joel Quadracci named President of Milwaukee Art Museum Board of Trustees | | Wythe Hotel announces 2019 Artist Residency Program | Print North Sea, Schoorl IV, 2017 from Stripes series. Photographer Johannes Bosgra. MIAMI, FLA.- An immersive projection of minimalist seascapes by Dutch photographer Johannes Bosgra will accompany the piece Dark Waves at the concert The Oceans soul on Sunday 13th of January in Miamis New World Symphony Hall. The seascapes flow slowly into one another in the video projection, just like in John Luther Adams Dark Waves the groups of notes flow into one another, both in the pianos and in the electronic music. Dutch pianists Maarten van Veen & Ralph van Raat are invited by the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation to play a program of music inspired by humanitys relationship to our oceans in this concert. Johannes Bosgra (1979, NL) travelled around the world to the most desolate places to capture the essence of colors, forms and shapes of oceans and seas into minimalist seascapes in his series Stripes. He uses contemporary classical music as an inspiration in the creation of his photographic work and explores the links between classical ... More | | Quadracci officially began his role as President after the Board of Trustee voted unanimously in favor in October 2018. MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announces that Joel Quadracci has been appointed president of the institutions Board of Trustees. Joel Quadracci has served as a Board Trustee since 2014 and, along with the Harry V. Quadracci family, has been a part of the Windhover Foundation, a major donor to the Museum. We are incredibly grateful that Joel has deepened his already considerable involvement with the Museum, said Marcelle Polednik, PhD, Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director, Milwaukee Art Museum. Joels keen understanding of the Museums connection to peoples lives and the community and his business acumen are invaluable, especially as we undertake the strategic planning process. The Quadracci family has supported the Museum for decades, including leading the efforts for the Calatrava-designed expansion of the Museum in 2001, named after the Quadracci family, as well as ... More | | As artist, independent curator and educator, Katya Grokhovsky is a Founding Artistic Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) and Feminist Urgent (FU). NEW YORK, NY.- Wythe Hotel, Brooklyns original boutique property, today announces the official 2019 line-up for its Artist Residency Program. First conceived in 2015, the interdisciplinary series brings to life the hotels mission to act as an incubator space for local creativity and art. Wythe Hotels Artist Residency Program is a line-up of free one-night performances in the hotels screening room that provide a platform for the community to gather and celebrate local New York-based artists who are leaders in their fields, covering the full spectrum of creative pursuits from visual through to performing arts. Risk taking creativity is an important part of Brooklyns story and the Williamsburg waterfront has served as a home for these pursuits for some time, says Peter Lawrence, Wythe Hotels Owner. Our artist residency program is consistent with Wythe Hotels ... More |
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Oskar Kokoschka. A Retrospective at Kunsthaus Zürich: December's Must-See Museum Exhibitions
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| More News | Bruneau & Co. to hold vintage pop culture auction, January 12 CRANSTON, RI.- A Vintage Pop Culture Auction bursting with more than 300 lots of movie posters, vintage lunchboxes, cap guns, original toy artwork and more is scheduled for Saturday, January 12th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the firms gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, starting at 12 noon Eastern, with a 150-lot, in-house-only pre-sale at 10 am. The first portion of the catalog will offer 169 lots of movie posters, featuring a selection of original Star Wars (1977), Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi posters; original Toho American release Gammera the Invincible and Mothra one-sheets; plus posters from Halloween (1978), Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Rocky (1977); Jaws (1975); Godzilla and many others. The second portion of the catalog will feature the lunchbox and toy collection of a Rhode Island gentleman, highlighted ... More Gallery NAGA opens the new year with exhibition of works by Jeremy Foss and Robert Ferrandini BOSTON, MASS.- Ringing in 2019, Gallery NAGA presents an exhibition bringing together two old friends. Foss & Ferrandini: A Fruitful Friendship runs from January 4 through 26. Jeremy Foss taught painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design during the 1970s and 80s. It was during the 70s, while Robert Ferrandini was a student at Mass Art, that he and Foss formed a friendship that has lasted to this day. Ferrandini entered MassArt interested in drawing but after taking Foss painting classes his sophmore year, he emerged as a painter. He greatly respected Foss instruction, especially his color sense. Ferrandini, although just a kid, was a spectacular blues guitarist. Foss remembers fondly going to hear Ferrandini play a gig at some dive bar at the time. Over the years the two have stayed in close touch talking about life, music, and, of course, painting. ... More Locks Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jennifer Bartlett PHILADELPHIA, PA.- During the winter of 197980, Jennifer Bartlett (born 1941) traded homes with British novelist Piers Paul Read, exchanging her SoHo loft for a mediocre villa in Nice far from the famed seafront which had inspired the paintings of Matisse, Bonnard, Renoir, and Picasso. The series borne of this disappointing tourism, In the Garden , reinvented her practice and captured the myriad of natural forces and emotional states that she experienced during her stay. The fluency with which Bartlett transcribed the emotive potential of an otherwise desolate scene and the deftness of her mark-making prompted a 1983 review in Time Magazine where Robert Hughes proclaimed Bartlett to be a connoisseur of unease, because she simultaneously captured the banality of her surroundings while developing a forensic antidote to ennui of her generation. ... More Linda Mieko Allen's Supernatura, work of the past four years, on view at Nancy Hoffman Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- In Supernatura the artist investigates place and displacement, a favorite subject of hers for ongoing exploration. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings and a sculptural installation. Allen has long been interested in the cycle of constructive, deconstructive and reconstructive behavior in the environment. As she says:I am always intrigued with the shifting, mysteries and temporal qualities of the natural world, which she attempts to capture in her new body of work. Parallel to her interest in constructive, deconstructive, reconstructive behaviors is her technique, similar to suminagashi Japanese ink on water technique. The palette is torn, cut, shaped, deconstructed and reconstructed into a new realm. The installation, Half Glass Full, is a collection of fabricated blown glass test tubes in a large scale. They lean against the wall and have ... More Art on the Underground presents a major public commission by British artist Linder LONDON.- Art on the Underground is presenting a major public commission by British artist Linder at Southwark Station on view until October 2019. The work, the first large-scale public commission by Linder in London, consists of an 85 meter long street-level billboard at Southwark Station and a cover commission for the 29th edition of the pocket Tube map. Linder has spent four months as artist-in-residence, carefully researching and mapping a vertical history of Southwark. The artist's starting point begins in the belly of the architecture at Southwark Station. Designed by Richard McCormack and opened in 1999, the station was inspired in part by the 18th Century notion of the English landscape garden and sought to create a place of peace and tranquility, a refuge from urban life. Further research draws on local collections including Southwark Council's ... More 'Visiting: Logan MacDonald' on view at Grenfell Art Gallery CORNER BROOK.- Grenfell Art Gallery is presenting in partnership with Identify: A Celebration of Indigenous Arts and Culture and Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre the exhibition Visiting: Logan MacDonald. Connecting body and land as both sites of colonization and resilience in queer and Indigenous people, Visiting by Logan MacDonald thoughtfully reflects and unpacks indigenous/settler identity, pan-indigenous cross-cultural exchange, and cultural revival through photography, installation, and drawing. MacDonald looks at manipulated landscapes, earthworks, structures, and signage established by Indigenous communities as a means to assert property against government and/or corporate encroachment, and reflects on the dynamics of community and belonging while negotiating access, viewership, and intimacy. Exhibition curator Emily Critch ... More Swedish painter Kent Iwemyr's debut New York solo exhibition on view at Anna Zorina Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting The Red House in the Woods, a debut New York solo exhibition of Swedish painter Kent Iwemyr. This is the artists first exhibition with the gallery. Iwemyr creates his acrylic paintings at a scale that draws viewers close. From this intimate vantage point we see snapshots of Nordic life. Each image is a straightforward observation of both nature and human behavior, captured in the expressive, primitive style that Iwemyr employed in his youth when first starting to paint. He harkens back to the time when he was discovering his surroundings through tactile exploration. The artist, still living in the town in which he was born, continues to take everything in and relays without concern to refine or gloss over details. Naïve glimpses of ordinary occurrences mingle with dark, twisted, sarcastic and ironic humor to transform ... More Exhibition at Tommy Simoens gallery presents five projects by Rirkrit Tiravanija ANTWERP.- Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His practice defies media-based description combining traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. In a market-driven art world, he has remained, since the early 90s, a steadfast conceptualist whose immaterial projects, enmeshing daily life and creative practice, have earned him a key role in the development of relational art. The starting point of the exhibition at Tommy Simoens, which consists of five projects, is Tiravanija's interest in Gordon Matta-Clarks relationship to Antwerp and the work he did in this city. When I had the opportunity to make an exhibition here, I asked myself how I could do something in this gallery context that would make sense to me, Tiravanija explains. So I thought, alright lets close up the g ... More Times Art Center Berlin highlights the incredible variety of video art created in the Pearl River Delta BERLIN.- The inaugural exhibition of newly founded Times Art Center Berlin highlights the incredible variety of video art created in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) between the mid-1980s and now. The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta introduces the shifting cultural landscape and visions of the region in an era of globalisation. In its inaugural three-part exhibition, Times Art Center Berlin will present a vital component of the Chinese art world which remains lesser known to international audiences and is underrepresented on the global art scene, namely the contemporary art production from the Pearl River Delta (PRD). A highly specific region of China with its distinct cultural characteristics and traditions, the PRD has been closely related to international influences and interwoven with popular culture from the beginning. Frequent exchanges ... More Exhibition at Tarrawarra Museum of Art pairs the work of Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester HEALESVILLE.- Love and intimacy is the focus of a landmark exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art that for the first time pairs the work of Patricia Piccinini with that of important Australian modernist Joy Hester. Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester: Through love is curated by Victoria Lynn and presents more than 50 works, including Sanctuary, a major new sculpture by Piccinini, and rarely-seen works by Hester. The exhibition explores the incredible spectrum of human and non-human relationships, from romantic love and maternal devotion through to the connections formed between humans and animals, and animate and inanimate objects. Melbourne-based artist Piccinini describes her early practice as being profoundly influenced by the work of Hester (1920-60), who was acclaimed for highly personal brush and ink drawings that evoked emotional extremes ... More Broadway hits Iran with unique take on 'Les Miserables' TEHRAN (AFP).- Iranian theatre director Hossein Parsaee calls Victor Hugo's classic a "masterpiece without borders" but his groundbreaking production of "Les Miserables" that has hit the stage in Tehran has a few unique twists. For a start, none of the actresses are allowed to reveal their own hair, and in case their wigs look too natural, the poster advertising the show carries a bright red notice underscoring that their locks are fake. Nor do the actors and actresses touch hands, or have any other physical contact throughout the musical. This is, after all, the capital of the Islamic republic, even if the blockbuster show in the luxurious Espinas Hotel feels a world away from the usual stereotypes about Iran. The concessions to the government's view of Islamic rules are often subtle. There is, for instance, always at least one other voice accompanying an ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Marsden Hartley was born January 04, 1877. Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. In this image: The Iron Cross, 1915, oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1952.
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