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Pages from the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" are on display at the exhibition "Franz Kafka - The entire Trial" at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau museum on June 28, 2017. The unfinished novel, written by Kafka between August 1914 and January 1915 in Berlin, was published posthumously by his friend Max Brod in 1925. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN.- More than 100 years after it was written, the entire manuscript of Franz Kafkas famous novel The Trial has gone on show at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. It is being displayed page by page in the order given to it by Kafkas friend, executor and editor, Max Brod. The Berlin presentation is based on the 2013/2014 exhibition The Entire Trial at the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach; the manuscript is part of the collections of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. StresemannstraÃe 111, in the immediate vicinity of the Gropiusbau (StresemannstraÃe 110, then Königgrätzer StraÃe), was once the site of the Hotel Askanischer Hof. It was at the Askanischer Hof, on 12 July 1914, that the legendary conversation took place between Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer, her sister Erna and friend Grete Bloch, after which the engagement between Kafka and Felice Bauer was broken off. Kafka wrote later in a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (C), accompanied by V&A director Tritram Hunt (R) and chairman Nicholas Coleridge, walks in the newly created Sackler courtyard as she visits the new extension to the V&A museum in London on June 29, 2017. RICHARD POHLE / POOL / AFP
| Creative community of Mayfair joins together to celebrate one of the world's most dynamic cultural districts | | 42 galleries and 3 auction houses take part in London Art Week | | Newly attributed Bosch painting goes on view at Nelson-Atkins |
Domenico Conti, Portrait of Antonio Canova in his studio completing the La Touche Amorino, 1792. Courtesy of Simon Dickenson Gallery.
LONDON.- Mayfair Art Weekend (30 June - 2 July 2017), in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, has just announced an extensive programme of exhibitions, events, talks and tours, which will bring the cultural landscape of Mayfair to life. Mayfair Art Weekend celebrates the diverse offering of Mayfair as a vibrant hub of creativity and craftsmanship, where the worlds of art, fashion and luxury converge. Over 60 galleries, auction houses, leading fashion brands and restaurants in Mayfair and St. Jamess will open their doors to the public, inviting art lovers to explore the capitals commercial galleries out of hours and engage with the world-class curatorial expertise on offer through a series of special events. The Royal Academy of Arts will be the central hub for Mayfair Art Weekend, providing information about the open galleries and art activities taking place ... More | |
Roman marble torso of a satyr, 1st-3rd Century AD, Height 52 cm, Courtesy Rupert Wace.
LONDON.- London Art Week, summer 2017 will start on 30th June with a glittering array of special exhibitions hosted across more than forty of the capitals most prestigious galleries and three leading auction houses. With masterpieces from seven millennia and works ranging from priceless antiquities to the leading names in modern art, London Art Week presents the best the capital has to offer, complete with special events and art experts on hand to share their specialist knowledge and advice. Highlights from an outstanding selection of exhibitions include Master Draughtsmen of the Venetian Settecento: Drawings by the Tiepolo at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art; a once in a lifetime exhibition of 22 drawings by the great 18th century Venetian masters, Giambattista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, including studies for Giambattistas renowned ceiling frescos. To coincide with the Centenaire Rodin, Daniel Katz ... More | |
Hieronymus Bosch, Netherlandish (ca. 14501516). The Temptation of St. Anthony, ca. 1500-1510. Oil on panel (oak), 15 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches (38.6 x 25.1 cm). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 35-22.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- For the first time since its reattribution, Hieronymus Boschs The Temptation of St. Anthony will go on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City on June 30. It will be shown with Christ Crowned with Thorns, an early Netherlandish painting recently confirmed as an autograph work by Albrecht Bouts. Both panels came into the Nelson-Atkins collection as original compositions, but scholars subsequently thought they were by assistants or followers. Stylistic analysis as well as the use of scientific techniques demonstrated that the paintings were consistent with other known works by the artists. What Lies Beneath: Rediscovering Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Bouts is the first time the two paintings will be ... More |
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| Blockbuster exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors' opens at Seattle Art Museum | | North Carolina Museum of Art opens expanded African art gallery with more opportunities to learn and interact | | Thousands of Rome's historical images digitized with help of Stanford researchers |
Installation view of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017; Life (Repetitive Vision), 1998, Photo: Cathy Carver.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (June 30September 10, 2017), exploring the contemporary Japanese artists 65-year career. Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the exhibition comes to Seattlethe city of Kusamas first North American solo show in 1957after opening to record-breaking crowds in Washington, D.C. The in-depth survey of the artists work offers an unprecedented opportunity for visitors to experience five of her iconic, immersive, multi-reflective Infinity Mirror Rooms, alongside more than 60 works on paper, sculptures, and largescale paintings from the 1950s to the present, including the West Coast debut of vibrant works the artist recently created in her Tokyo studio. Infinity Mirrors traces Yayoi Kusamas development from the 1950s to the present. In her early work of the 1950s, the artist addressed her experiences ... More | |
Dan artist, Face Mask (gunyege), 20th century, wood, fabric, metal, fur, and teeth, H. 10 3/4 x W. 7 3/4 x D. 3 1/4 in., Courtesy of Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
RALEIGH, NC.- On Friday, June 30, the North Carolina Museum of Art opens its new, expanded African art gallery. The 6,500-square-foot gallery, reinstalled on the entry level of the Museums East Building, is three times as large as the old gallery and features African creativity spanning 16 centuries. Highlights of the gallery include improved light control, a site-specific wall drawing by Nigerian-American artist Victor Ekpuk, a special North Carolina lender wall, and nearly twice as many works of art on viewincluding some that have not been on display in a decade. The Museum also opens an interactive learning space that invites visitors to learn more about the collection and create their own art. To launch the new gallery, the Museum will host several public programs this summer and an all-day community celebration and free concert on September 23. We are excited to ... More | |
An 18th-century painting of the Spanish Steps by Francesco Panini is part of the collection. Courtesy of Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dellArte.
STANFORD, CA.- A team including Stanford researchers created a new digital archive to study Romes transformation over the centuries. The exhibit, which went online in the spring, consists of almost 4,000 digitized drawings, prints, photographs and sketches of historic Rome from the 16th to 20th centuries. The pieces were collected by renowned Roman archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani, who sought to document the entire history of Romes archeology up to the end of the 19th century. Rome is a layered city, said Erik Steiner, co-director of the Spatial History Project at Stanfords Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). To be able to see that history you need to look through those layers, and this collection helps that process. The archive is a culmination of a two-year collaboration among CESTA, the Stanford University Libraries, University of Oregon, Dartmouth College and the Italian ... More |
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| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation appoints Karole P.B. Vail to lead the Peggy Guggenheim Collection | | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Ryan Brown | | "Canova and His Legacy" launches new Jermyn Street gallery for Tomasso Brothers Fine Art |
Karole Vail, Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Guggenheim Foundation Director for Italy. Photo: David M. Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, announced the appointment of Guggenheim curator Karole P.B. Vail as Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Foundation Director for Italy. A member of the Guggenheims curatorial staff since 1997 and a granddaughter of Peggy Guggenheim, Ms. Vail becomes only the second director in the history of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, succeeding Philip Rylands, who led the museum for 37 years and will become Director Emeritus. Ms. Vail will assume her duties in Venice this month, reporting to Richard Armstrong. Ms. Vails most recent exhibition for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York was the highly regarded retrospective Moholy-Nagy: Future Present ... More | |
Ryan Brown, Lots on View, 2017. Acrylic, ink, watercolor and graphite on paper, 84 x 65 x 3 inches, 213.4 x 165.1 x 7.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Lots on View, an exhibition of new work by Ryan Brown. The cycle of drawings in this exhibition contends that the meaning of a work of art is inextricably bound to the context by which it is presented. The implied neutrality of the gallery, its latent societal and economic functions are interrogated, exposed and absorbed into the drawings themselves. The form of pages from an enlarged art catalogue offer an analogy to support the overarching theme of hyper-reflection, where all points of reference loop, feedback and spiral inwards towards an indefinite center. Images of anonymous abstract paintings contribute to the loop by matter-of-factly describing themselves. The effect blurs the distinction between opposites: copy to original, source to residual, end to beginning. The artist emphasizes layers, like Russian dolls of representation ... More | |
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Character Head, c. 1780. Terracotta. 8 cm (3 ¼ in.) high.
LONDON.- Tomasso Brothers Fine Art is opening a new London gallery space at Marquis House, 67 Jermyn Street, St. Jamess with a very special exhibition timed for London Art Week 2017. Canova and His Legacy will focus on the Italian master Antonio Canova (1757-1822), arguably the greatest and most illustrious sculptor of his age, and synonymous to this day with the height of Neoclassicism. His works, celebrated for their timeless beauty and grace, have never ceased to inspire generations of artists and collectors alike, and are exhibited in pride of place in the most important museums across the world. Highlights include a magnificent and exquisite pair of plaster busts by Antonio Canova depicting Paris and Helen, cast at the artists atelier in 1812; the supremely graceful Baccante Cimbalista (1837) by Cincinnato Baruzzi (1796-1878), one of Canovas leading pupils, and, by Bertel Thorvaldsen ... More |
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| Exhibition at Fundación MAPFRE aims to recover and praise the valuable legacy of Albert Renger-Patzsch | | Pérez Art Museum Miami opens first contemporary art exhibition inspired by the game of dominoes | | Exhibition showcases how artists use the city as a source for materials, subjects, and ideas |
Albert Renger-Patzsch, Ein Knotenpunkt der Fachwerkbrücke Duisburg-Hochfeld, 1928. Copia de época sobre gelatina de plata, 22,7 à 16,7 cm. Albert Renger-Patzsch Archiv / Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Pinakothek der Moderne, Múnich. N.º INV. AJW 883 © Albert Renger-Patzsch / Archiv Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich / VEGAP, Madrid 2017.
MADRID.- Fundación MAPFRE is presenting Albert Renger-Patzsch. The Perspective of Things, an anthological exhibition which aims to recover and praise the valuable legacy of this extraordinary photographer, considered to be one of the most influential figures of 20th century photography. Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) is the most renowned photographer of the New Objectivity, an artistic movement that emerged in Germany in the mid-1920s and signaled the possibilities of a new perceptive alphabetization spearheaded by photography. At a distance from the legacy of Pictorialism, his work was major factor in the process of affirmation and independence of photographic culture within the ... More | |
Kenny Rivero, Juguetes, 2016. Dominoes, cigarette butts, dust, and debris. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Natalie Conn.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, on view June 30October 29, 2017. This thematic exhibition highlights the domino game, an activity played daily in Miami, as metaphor for contemporary art practice. Played throughout the American South, Latin America, and the Caribbean, dominoes have been used extensively in contemporary art to address notions of abstraction, politics, race, urban life, and social practice. The exhibition originated at Hunter East Harlem Gallery (HEHG) in New York and features more than 19 international contemporary artistsincluding Adriana Lara, Oscar Murillo, Betye Saar, Donald Sultan, Nari Ward, and Lawrence Weinerworking across a variety of media, including painting, mixed-media, sculpture, installation, and video. Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles is organized by Maria Elena ... More | |
Carl Andre, Belgicube I, 1988. Limestone, in 10 parts. Overall 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (45 x 45 x 45 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery New York is presenting Metropolis, an exhibition that showcases how artists use the city as a source for materials, subjects, and ideas. The works present how artists can interpret the metropolis in multifarious forms, and illustrate the universality of the city. The cityscape is a source of disorder, a place to play and learn; its a site of both creation and destruction. A warren of brick alleys and concrete streets expanding and contracting in unison, the metropolis is a living organism. A stimulant for cultural circulation, the city lends itself as a platform for the creative community. The work presented within this exhibition displays how the urban environment affects and is influenced by the artists residing inside. Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan conditionhyper-density ... More |
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The Columbia Museum of Art gets groovy with 'That '70s Show'
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents the summer exhibition That 70s Show: Cool Art from the Collection, featuring rarely seen works from a decade-sized slice of the CMA collection of contemporary art, on view from Friday, June 30, through Sunday, September 17, 2017. Drawing on the amusing nostalgia for the decade that taste forgot while showing a complicated portrait of art, current events, and identity in America, That 70s Show is both a meaningful examination of art and history and a light and fun viewing experience. The 1970s is an area of nostalgia and personal interest of mine, says CMA Curator Catherine Walworth, possibly because it feels like the last time we lived simply, but we were also fighting like tigers to shift reality. I went to the vault to unearth works from our collection made in the 70s and then stood back and listened ... More
High Museum of Art debuts second interactive piazza installation by Jaime Hayon
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art continues its innovative multiyear initiative to animate its outdoor space with Merry Go Zoo (June 24 through Nov. 26, 2017), a new interactive installation by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon on The Woodruff Arts Centers Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. Inspired to create a playful, 21st-century version of an outdoor public sculpture, Hayon designed four large-scale, vibrantly colored, kinetic structures for Merry Go Zoo. The structures feature a round metal-and-wood base topped by an animal-shaped polyurethane sculpture. Visitors are able to interact with the structures either by spinning on the base or by rotating the sculpture. The installation transforms the piazza into a playground and summer refuge that offers a welcoming atmosphere for socializing and recreation. The installation will also become the stage for performances, ... More
FISCHERSPOONER present their dazzling and playful universe full of queer passion at mumok
VIENNA.- When Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner founded their art, music, and performance project FISCHERSPOONER in 1998 in New York, they had a missionto make the stuffy and elitist art scene more open and accessible. Success came quickly. After their first orgiastic and opulent performances, like those at MoMA PS1, FISCHERSPOONER became the talk of the town and key protagonists in the citys art scene. With their song Emerge, first published in the year 2000, they landed an international club hit that took them into the top 40 in the British charts and in 2002 even led to an appearance in the cult TV show Top of the Pops. From June 30, 2017, FISCHERSPOONER will be presenting their dazzling and playful universe full of queer passion for the first time at mumokin a show entitled SIR. A photo series by Yuki James will form the basis of an installation ... More
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam appoints Beatrice von Bormann Curator of Art 1860-1960
AMSTERDAM.- Beatrice von Bormann is the new curator of art 1860-1960 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The Dutch art historian served as Head of Collections and curator at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg since 2014, curating shows such as Charlotte Salomon Leben? oder Theater? and Affichomanie. Toulouse-Lautrec und das Plakat um 1900. Previously, in the role of freelance curator, von Bormann curated exhibitions including Oskar Kokoschka Humanist und Rebell for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which travelled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Dix/Beckmann: Mythos Welt for the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, and the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich. She also mounted the exhibition Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947 for the Van Gogh Museum. Von Bormann was guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam from 2002-2010. ... More
Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibits works by illustrator Alice Pattullo
WAKEFIELD.- This summer, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting Of House and Home by illustrator Alice Pattullo. The artists most ambitious project to date includes 60 new screen-printed editions revealing Pattullos fascination with traditions, superstitions and folklore. Of House and Home runs at YSP, near Wakefield, from 17 June to 17 September 2017. Transporting you into a forgotten era, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through a Victorian household from garden to parlour, culminating with the heart of the home a recreation of a traditional fireplace and mantelpiece. Informed by a love of historical research and the discovery of curious superstitions and rhymes surrounding the domestic every day, Pattullos new works introduce the modern day house dweller to parlour pastimes, homemade plant remedies, kitchen folklore and protective ... More
TAI Modern opens a two-person show of contrasting but complementary bodies of work
SANTA FE, NM.- TAI Modern welcomes back LAs Monique van Genderen and introduces current New Mexico resident, Bart Exposito, for a two-person show of contrasting but complementary bodies of work. In this exhibition, the artists, former colleagues from the art department at UCLA, probe the possibilities and boundaries of contemporary abstract painting. Since her last solo exhibition at TAI Modern in 2014, van Genderen has continued to experiment with techniques and materials, such as wax resist, egg tempera, watercolor and ceramic glazes. The artist explains I have been trying to undo structure in order to get at the underpinnings of the conceptual mode of painting. I have experimented with materials in order to unravel ideas I have seen myself as an artist very concerned with breaking away from traditional approaches to painting. ... More
Geelvinck Music Museum opens for the public
AMSTERDAM.- On Thursday 29th June 2017, the Mayor and the Aldermen for Finance and Culture, together with prof.dr. Giovanni di Stefano, curator for musical instruments of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Adri van Straten, senior specialist for Sounding Heritage of the National Cultural Heritage Service, have performed the opening ceremony of the new venue in Zutphen of the Geelvinck Music Museum. They unveiled the recently acquired square piano built by Erard Frères in 1788, which is thought to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, who, after the French Revolution, was guillotined in 1793. This square piano was part of the collection of Gustave count de Reiset (1821-1905) and since by descent at the Château du Breuil-Benoit. It has been previously on view at the exhibition "Marie-Antoinette, Archiduchesse, Dauphine et Reine" ... More
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens announces new appointments in curatorial and collections leadership
WASHINGTON, DC.- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens announced the promotions of Wilfried Zeisler to the role of chief curator and Estella Chung to director of collections, effective immediately. Overseeing the areas of collections management and conservation, the research library, and the archives, Chung will also continue in her role of curator of American material culture, historian, and head of the oral history program, ensuring a synergy between Hillwoods history and the collections that furthers Hillwoods mission to engage and delight future generations. As chief curator, Zeisler will lead the areas of collections research, stewardship, and acquisitions; publications; and special exhibitions. He will keep the areas of Russian and 19th-century art within his personal curatorial portfolio, and direct and advance the Liana ... More
Group exhibition of paintings posing as ideograms opens at Sperone Westwater
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presenting Pictography, a group exhibition of paintings posing as ideograms. The exhibition intends to convey a mood rather than a hypothesis, exploring aspects of a pictographic turn in painting. At times these works seem to acknowledge the pervasiveness of digital screens. Others appear overtly archaic or totemic in cast, as if to emphasize their non-digital nature, whether in facture or in esoteric subject matter. Throughout, the works behave as text or read as thought-pictures, like cartoons of ideas. Subjecting motifs to distillation and transformation, these artists suggest that long-discarded Modernist notions about painting as text (or sign) might have mileage in them yet. Writing assumes a constitutive role in the work of EJ Hauser, who churns out sketches in sessions called "drawing labs;" she hopes to preserve ... More
The Hyde promotes three staff members
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection announced the promotion of three staff members, Colette Broestler, Kayla Ditlefsen, and Keri Dudek. "We're proud to offer new growth opportunities to our talented staff," said Director Erin Coe. "We want our team to grow and learn, while ensuring the absolute best experience for our visitors and members." Colette Broestler, who has served as administrative assistant for the past two years, is the new External Affairs Associate. In this role, she will manage the Museum's donor database system and support department activities including membership, cultivation, and special events. Working under Director of External Affairs Tawn Malison, Colette will provide support for development goals and marketing strategies. Kayla Ditlefsen has been hired as administrative assistant after a year as Visitor Services associate. Kayla ... More
Family of Doris Totten Chase gifts the Henry with works of art
SEATTLE, WA.- Randall and Gregary Chase, sons of artist Doris Totten Chase, have gifted the Henry with 59 works of art by their mother, including 29 works on paper, a model for Kinetic Sculpture for Children (1971-72), and 29 videos. This generous gift adds to our collection of 42 Chase works, including six early works on paper, 21 computerized drawings, and three maquettes for her sculptures, which were gifted by the artist herself in 2004. Many of the works are included in Changing Forms, the first retrospective of Seattle-born artist Doris Totten Chase (U.S., 1923 - 2008), which will be on view July 8 October 1, 2017. The exhibition offers a selection of paintings, sculptures, and videos created between 1956 and 2000, including important early films from the Dance Series, Video Sculpture, and Concept Series dating from 1970 to 1984, as well as her early gouache ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, The Spaniards were expelled from Tenochtitlan. June 30, 1520. Tenochtitlan was a Nahua altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the seat of the growing Aztec empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521. It subsequently became a cabecera of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was one of two Mexican altepetl, the other being Tlatelolco. In this image: Model of the temple district of Tenochtitlan at the National Museum of Anthropology.
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