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Included in the exhibition is a 1952 portrait by French photographer Robert Doisneau in which the painter appears for the first time with his trademark striped jumper. AFP.
BARCELONA (AFP).- A marine stripe jumper, a crown of grey hair surrounding his bald spot and a penetrating gaze: it is an image that has become emblematic of Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist adored by some of the 20th century's greatest photographers. A new exhibition in his museum in Barcelona, "Picasso, Photographer's Gaze", is a journey through the artist's life through pictures, some of them taken by Picasso himself and others with him as the protagonist. Included is a 1952 portrait by French photographer Robert Doisneau in which the painter appears for the first time with his trademark marine striped jumper behind a window, leaning on the glass. By then, Picasso was living in the south of France where he would spend the last years of his life as a celebrity, under the lens of prestigious photographers like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai or David Douglas Duncan. "Picasso is photogenic. He'd had that awareness since he was very young and played with this image," says Violeta Andres, cur ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors watch a human body at "Bodies:The Exhibition" in Bogota on June 5, 2019. The exhibition presents human bodies that have been preserved through a polymer preservation process which prevents the natural decay process, making specimens available for study for an indefinite time period. Juan BARRETO / AFP
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| | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Hour Zero. Art from 1933 to 1955' | | Chinese artists set new records at Paris auction | | Dora Maar shakes off Picasso's shadow in new Paris show | 
Otto Baumberger, Masse, 1936. Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 100 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, on loan from the Canton of Zurich, 1949, © 2019 ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 7 June to 22 September 2019 the Kunsthaus Zürich turns its attention to developments in art between the watershed year of 1933 and 1955. How did artists respond to the historical rift created by Fascism and the Second World War? And how, once the conflict was over, did they find new ways to give shape to existence and indeed the existence of art itself? This exhibition looks for answers in the Kunsthaus Collection, with a thematic presentation of around 70 works including many paintings and sculptures that have not been shown for decades. The art of this period is characterized by drastic change and massive contrasts. After the war which culminated in Hour Zero as the fighting finally came to an end the post-1945 decade sees a shift, from a reckoning with the conflicts far-reaching consequences to the creation of a new artistic language accompanied by a new freedom of expression. The cont ... More | | 
Zao's work "24.1.61/62" went under the hammer for more than 4.6 million euros in the same Artcurial auction -- four times what it was expected to sell for. © Artcurial.
PARIS (AFP).- Paintings by two of the "Three Musketeers" of Chinese art, Chu Teh-Chun and Zao Wou-Ki, have set new records, going for nearly 10 million euros ($11.2 million) at a Paris auction. The abstract work "Synthese hivernale C" by Chu went for more than 5.17 million euros -- five times its estimate in an Artcurial sale late Wednesday. The Chinese-born painter, who like his fellow modernist master Zao spent most of his life in France, was the first ethnic Chinese member of the French academy of fine arts. He died in Paris aged 93 in 2014. With Wu Guanzhong, the pair are known as the "Three Musketeers" of Chinese art. Zao's work "24.1.61/62" went under the hammer for more than 4.6 million euros in the same Artcurial auction -- four times what it was expected to sell for. Both paintings went for record prices for the artists outside Asia. A triptych by Zao -- "Juin-Octobre ... More | | 
Dora Maar, 29 rue dAstorg vers 1936. Ãpreuve gélatino-argentique rehaussée de couleur 29,4 x 24,4 cm. Achat en 1990. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national dart moderne Centre de création industrielle © Adagp, Paris 2019 Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / P. Migeat / Dist. RMN-GP.
PARIS (AFP).- She has gone down in his history as the muse who was almost Picasso's match, but a new show in Paris tries to drag Dora Maar out from under his shadow. The huge retrospective at the Pompidou Centre -- which will transfer to London's Tate Modern in November -- portrays Maar as a leading surrealist who had a sparkling career in her own right before she met Picasso. Indeed, it was she who first took him as a model when she got Picasso to pose before her camera in her Paris studio in 1935. Picasso was going through what he called "the most difficult period of (his) life" at the time, having not painted for several months. Their tumultuous nine-year affair, conducted almost entirely in Spanish, began in 1936 and helped rekindle his creative spark. From the start "they began ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's Paris presents African masterpieces from the Collection of Marceau Rivière this June | | Getty Museum announces online resource to mark Rembrandt anniversary year | | Rubell Museum to open new home in Miami on December 4, 2019 | 
Baulé, Mask, Ivory Coast. Height: 22,5 cm; 8 ⅞ in. Estimate: upon request. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- Sothebys unveiled the African art collection of Marceau Rivière, the great African art promoter, specialist and dealer and, above all, eminent art historian. For more than 50 years, this discreet man has gathered several hundred works, which Sothebys will present for sale on 18 and 19 June in Paris. Alexis Maggiar, Sothebys European Head of African and Oceanic Art, said: I was honoured when Marceau Rivière welcomed me into his home for the first time a few years ago; what I discovered there was stunning. His collection, kept hidden from the public for more than half a century, immediately established itself as one of the finest and most comprehensive in African art. We are particularly delighted to promote a beautiful collection which has been guided throughout Marceau Rivières life by his passion and knowledge. As one of the most important collectors in this field, Marceau Rivière is distinguishe ... More | | 
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669), An Old Man in Military Costume, about 16301631. Oil on panel, 78.PB.246, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- There are few painters as widely and historically admired as Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669). Works by Rembrandt can be found in museums throughout the world, but Southern Californians have the exceptional opportunity to see many important Rembrandts in their own backyard. Re-launched today, Rembrandt in Southern California is an online resource and virtual exhibition that presents all of the Rembrandt paintings in Southern California museum collections and features information about the rich holdings of Rembrandts drawings and prints in the region Southern California is home to an exceptional group of paintings by Rembrandt, the third largest in the United States, and the Getty possesses the most significant collection of early works by the artist in the country, says Timothy ... More | | 
Portrait of Mera and Don Rubell, Photo: Chi Lam.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Rubells created their collection by looking at art, talking with artists, and trusting their instincts. They started collecting 54 years ago when Don was in medical school and Mera was teaching at Head Start, and continue to follow the same practice today, now with their son Jason. They acquired their first work after a studio visit and were only able to do so by paying on a modest weekly installment plan. Art became the Rubells passion and, since that first acquisition in 1965 theyve built one of the most significant and far-ranging collections of contemporary art in the world, now encompassing 7,200 works by more than 1,000 artistsand still growing. The collection is further distinguished by the diversity and geographic distribution of artists represented within it, and the depth of its holdings of seminal artists. In 1993, their passion became their mission with the opening of the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Art Foundation in the Wynwood ... More |
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| | | Festival tackles role of photography in the era of fake news | | Stonewall@50: A celebration of pride at Bonhams New York | | Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein examines little researched aspects of Arte Povera | 
Jump Trump. © Erik Kessels, Unseen Amsterdam, 2017.
BELFAST.- Northern Irelands premier month-long visual arts festival, the Belfast Photo Festival, has taken over art galleries and dominate outdoors spaces throughout Belfast this June with experiential and engaging exhibitions exploring the role of photography in the era of post-truth, alternative facts and fake news. The photography festival, which presents some of the finest national and international contemporary photography, runs from Thursday 6 Sunday 30 June. Under the theme of Truth and Lies, the festival looks at how photography can be used to influence opinion; from carefully choreographed photoshoots to image manipulation and misrepresentation. The camera never lies, the age-old saying goes, but increasingly consumers are having to be ever-more diligent in distinguishing fact from fiction and photography has a crucial role to play in the era where billions of new images ... More | | 
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010), Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Jeff Goodman, 1963. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- From June 27 to July 10, Bonhams presents Stonewall@50, an online sale of photographs celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising which heralded a new era of gay and transgender equality. This exceptional sale of over 130 lots, with a range of estimates starting from $1,000, includes works from renowned photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Annie Leibovitz. In celebration of the legacy of Stonewall and World Pride, a portion of the proceeds from this sale will be donated to The Elton John Aids Foundation. Sir Elton John, Founder, Elton John AIDS Foundation, said: Im delighted that Bonhams sale will help support The Elton John AIDS Foundations efforts to save lives of some of the most vulnerable LGBT groups in the world. It is a very fitting part of Stonewalls legacy. The sale also includes a selection of ... More | | 
Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. Photo: Ines Agostanelli © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
VADUZ.- In an extensive exhibition, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein examines hitherto little researched aspects of Arte Povera. In addition to legendary artworks of the main protagonists of this movement, the show also features a number of hardly known photographic and film documents. They spotlight the processual, performative and theatrical actions that defined the work of the Arte Povera artists from 1959 to 1979. In the 1960s and 70s both society and art underwent dynamic changes. In Italy, the link between art, culture and radical-reforming efforts was particularly strong. The Arte Povera movement gave rise to artistic approaches that poeticised everyday life and honed peoples sense of time in an attempt to unite ephemeral action and material objects. The actions of the Arte Povera artists eclectically interwove elements of process, performance and theatre. Live animals, such as horses or a white ... More |
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| | | Large-scale exhibition at Postmasters Gallery marks the #stonewall50 anniversary | | Ruiz-Healy Art opens a two-person exhibition featuring works by Nate Cassie and Constance Lowe | | Exhibition at Skoto Gallery brings together the works of thirteen artists | 
Tom Bianchi, Untitled #331, 1975/1983. Archival pigment print (printed later), 20 x 20 inches, edition 4 of 10.
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters Gallery announced PRIDE, a large-scale exhibition marking the #Stonewall50 anniversary through art and artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Curated together by Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Magda Sawon, PRIDE occupies both gallery spaces and feature 30 artists. Cross-generational, varied, and diverse, arriving in tumultous times when gay life is still under threat - PRIDE includes explorations of historic marginalization and contemporary threats of repression. It has love, play, and tenderness, queer resilience and resistance to hate, lovers and muses, friends and flings, comrades and communities. Bridging generations, PRIDE presents Barbara Hammers masterpiece Nitrate Kisses (1992), an exploration of LGBT peoples marginalization since World War I, alongside Zachary Tye Richardsons opening ... More | | 
Nate Cassie, Bottles, 2015 (detail), cast porcelain with enamel.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Minding the Gaps, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Nate Cassie and Constance Lowe. Working within the realm of sculpture, Nate Cassie and Constance Lowe come together in an exhibition that explores domesticity by pairing fabricated objects of wood, fabric, leather, and calfskin with arrangements of ceramic pieces. Lowes altered familiar objects occupy a perceptual space between abstraction and representation and imaginative space that contrasts familiarity with permutation. Similarly, Cassies thematic practice centers on the gaps that distance surface from volume, skin, and structure, formal and intuitive systems. By exploring the thresholds of perception and the spaces in between what we see, and imagine, both artists invite multi-dimensional encounters with material and form. Constance Lowe was an artist resident at the Artpace ... More | | 
Al Loving, Prince Street Series, ca 1986, collage on hand-made paper, 46.25x36 inches. Courtesy Skoto Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting a Group Show of paintings, drawings, sculpture and mixed media work. This exhibition brings together the works of thirteen artists including Osi Audu. Sokari Douglas Camp. Nanette Carter. Mor Faye. Sam Gilliam. Wadsworth Jarrell. Wosene Worke Kosrof. Al Loving. Andrew Lyght. Allie McGee. Afi Nayo. Owusu-Ankomah. Howardena Pindell. Despite their varied experiences working across different time periods each of these artists represent a resonant voice that achieves its own distinction and clarity amidst fluxional experiences. Their creative voices are simultaneously reclamatory, instrumental, reconstructive if not interrogative and in some cases seek to retrieve both individual and collective memory. Sam Gilliam is an innovative color field painter who has advanced the inventions associated with the ... More |
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 Magnificent Roman coin discovered in a ploughed field sells for £552,000LONDON.- A very rare Roman gold coin dating from AD 293-296, discovered in a newly ploughed field in Kent, sold for £552,000 (£460,000 hammer) at an auction held by Dix Noonan Webb, the Mayfair-based international coin, medal, banknote and jewellery specialists today (Thursday, June 6, 2019). It was estimated to fetch £70,000-100,000. After fierce competition in the room, on the internet and on the telephone, it was bought by private collector bidding on the telephone. The coin, known as an aureus - a gold coin of ancient Rome, is relatively small: only 4.31grams in weight and slightly larger than a current penny. Dating from the reign of Allectus, who was seen as the first Brexiteer, it was found by a 30-year-old metal detectorist and his brother near Dover in March this year, adjacent to a Roman ... More Galerie Barbara Thumm presents works on paper from 1961 to 1981 by eight groundbreaking female artistsBERLIN.- This exhibition presents works on paper from 1961 to 1981 by eight groundbreaking female artists: Jo Baer,Teresa Burga, Judy Chicago, Beatriz González, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Anna Oppermann, Barbara Rossi, and Regina Vater. The Oxford dictionary defines the word shero as: A woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities; a heroine, what an amazing experience to be able to meet your shero she is undoubtedly one of my generations most iconic and influential sheroes. Surprisingly, the word first appeared in the mid 19th century and must be linked to the Suffragette movement. It was only fifty years ago that, lifted by the feminist activism of the 1960s and 1970s, women became permanently and centrally involved in art theory and practice. It was in that context, that American art historian Linda ... More Survey on Vasco Araújo's work and a show by Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela open in LisbonLISBON.- On Tuesday, June 4, The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology opened two new exhibitions in the galleries of Central Power Station. A Moment Apart offers a cross-sectional perspective on Vasco Araújos work, based on the link established by the artist between performability of voice and body. In the Ashpit 8, the artistic duo Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, whose transdisciplinary and multifaceted work revolves around the movement of images, present Midnight, a series of original artworks resulting from their recent use of cyanotype which dialogue with various sculptural, spatial and cinematic elements. The exhibition A Moment Apart offers a cross-sectional perspective on Vasco Araújos work, based on the link established by the artist between the performability of voice and body, through specific devices ... More Sotheby's S│2 gallery exhibits 100 newly unearthed works on paper by Roger HiltonLONDON.- From 6 June to 4 July 2019, Sothebys S|2 gallery is presenting an exhibition of never-before-seen works charting the final years of Roger Hiltons pioneering, and provocative, career. Presented in collaboration with Jonathan Clark Fine Art and co-curated by Kenny Schachter, the exhibition showcases approximately 100 newly unearthed works on paper, painted from the confines of the artists bed between 1973 and 1974, and is accompanied by the publication of a new artist monograph. Speaking about the show in his accompanying catalogue essay, art world commentator and exhibition co-curator Kenny Schachter explains: Hiltons drawings were composed with an economy of line and meansthere were no bells or whistles (few big flashy canvases, for instance).Yet, Hiltons last body of work, on intimately scaled sheets of paper, were fresh, ... More Danziger Gallery presents a mix of pictures that look forward and backwards at the gallery's historyNEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the gallerys 30th anniversary Danziger Gallery is presenting two different exhibitions with a mix of pictures that look forward and backwards at the gallerys history. In keeping with the general practice of summer shows many of the works are luminous and beautiful while at the same time engaging with the history of the medium in original and challenging ways. Summer Show 1: From Edward Steichens view of late afternoon Venice to Harry Callahan, Helmut Newton, and Thierry Cohens images water is a subject that the gallery has frequently embraced. Another theme is experimental process as seen in works by Adam Fuss, Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Farrah Karapetian, and Petra Cortright (who we look forward to exhibiting in November). Another artist the gallery is showing is Risaku Suzuki whose deep engagement ... More Hirshhorn's concept for revitalized sculpture garden approved unanimouslyWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden today passed an important milestone in plans to revitalize its Sculpture Garden, receiving unanimous approval from the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) for its concept design. This news follows last months unanimous support of the Hirshhorns plans from the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA). Working with a design team led by architect and artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, the museum has conceived a dynamic new space for visitors to experience a greater range of art and programming that opens a second front door to the museum from the National Mall, directly engaging the more than 35 million people who pass through the Mall each year. Following the June 6 NCPC public meeting, the museum will address comments and prepare to move the project into the design ... More Bobbie Moline-Kramer's debut solo exhibition opens at LichtundfireNEW YORK, NY.- Lichtundfire is presenting Abstract Narratives, Bobbie Moline-Kramer's debut solo exhibition of mixed media paintings on paper and wood. A convergence of figuration and abstraction, Moline-Kramer's renderings of natural elements intermingle with abstract-expressionist brushstrokes - blending reality with illusion to create abstract narratives. Trained as a biomedical illustrator, Moline-Kramer, has made her way with each work through layers of representation and abstraction to arrive at the surface of an intuitive amalgam of both. Forged with brush, oil paint, ink, colored gesso, oil stick, graphite, thread, Moline-Kramer's work is both, conceptual and spiritual. Her careful gestural brush strokes and anatomical drawings merge with a free movement and a distinct sense of the materials applied. Evading ... More Works by Zhang Daqian lead Clars major Asian Art and Antiques AuctionOAKLAND, CA.- On Sunday, June 16th, Clars Auction Gallery will host its semi-annual major Asian art and antiques sale that will present an exciting and impressive selection of investment level property from prominent California estates, museums, private institutions and special collections. This sale will be held in conjunction with their monthly Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, and Jewelry. Headlining the June 16th sale will be two paintings attributed to Zhang Daqian (Chinese, 1899-1983). The first is Beauty, an ink and color on paper, the upper right with colophon, bearing his signature and cyclical date yiyou and two seal. This scroll measures 86.5 high by 26.5 wide. This work will be offered together with the book The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1979, in which this painting is featured. Beauty will be offered ... More LX opens first exhibition in New York City of fine art photographer David YarrowNEW YORK, NY.- LX, an art space that integrates exhibitions and art advisory services on 60th Street and Park Avenue, presents an exhibition of large-scale photography by world-renowned fine art photographer David Yarrow. Its Five OClock Somewhere is Yarrows first solo exhibition in New York City. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition will benefit Wild Tomorrow Fund and their mission to protect threatened and endangered species and the habitats they depend on for survival. My images always strive to push boundaries of both perspective and storytelling, states David Yarrow. I play multiple roles in this process as an artist, an inventor (of innovative gear and set ups to capture the exact moment of an image) and a conservationist. I am deeply committed to drawing attention to the plight of our natural world today and am thrilled ... More The FLAG Art Foundation announces the U.S. debut of Richard Forster: Notes on ArchitectureNEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting the U.S. debut of Richard Forster: Notes on Architecture on view June 6-August 16, 2019, on its 10th floor. Notes on Architecture expands upon the British artists recurring themes of social change, nostalgia, and a fear of the future, with inspiration drawn from the increasingly congested and confused geopolitical climate of Brexit Britaina nation divided along old political lines and economic fissures. Richard Forsters thirty-five new photocopy-realistic1 drawings, which originated as an artist book, stem from the artists stream of consciousness and idiosyncratic visual vocabulary. Created between 2016-2018 and collectively titled Notes on Architecture, the works in the exhibition feature subject-matters including: pre-planned suburban housing developments; ostalgia2 of the former German ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born June 07, 2019. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. In this image: Paul Gauguin. Figure Tahitienne circa 1892-3. Height 10 5/8 in. Wood. Inscribed with the monogram PGO (at the bottom)
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