Gazelli Art House opens a group show of works by Pauline Boty, Niyaz Najafov and Markus Martinovitch
LONDON.- Gazelli Art House is presenting Silver Lining, a group show of works by Pauline Boty, Niyaz Najafov and Markus Martinovitch exploring the artists diverse cultural backgrounds and the worlds they occupy. The exhibition examines their different generations, social and economic environments, personal stories and unique influences behind their works. Covering three different epochs and ages, these artists highlight the role of art in their lives from sociopolitical tools to forms of therapy and shared struggles towards meaning. Pauline Boty, one of the few British women involved with Pop Art, used her position as an artist to denounce male domination in the art world, politics and beyond. As a free and rebellious spirit, she struggled to be recognized in London in the swinging Sixties and railed against the prevailing sexism of those years. Boty developed her own ... More

ROSEGALLERY opens an exhibition of photographs by Graciela Iturbide
SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY is presenting Hay Tiempo, an exhibition of photographs by Graciela Iturbide. The exhibition opened the 26th of February and will be on view until the 20th of April, 2019. Hay Tiempo is in on view alongside the landmark exhibition Graciela Iturbide: Mexico at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Graciela Iturbide, celebrated as one of Mexicos most prolific and distinguished photographers, observes with patience and exhibits her world with beauty, serenity and dignity. Born into a conservative family in Mexico City, Iturbide decided to create her own path, leaving a traditional domestic life to pursue the arts. During her studies in cinematography at the Universidad Nacional Autonama de Mexico, she became the achichinle (the assistant) to Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the distinguished Mexican photographer who later became a lifelong ... More

Immersive site-specific installation by Vanessa German reimagined at Fralin Museum of Art
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- A powerful multisensory installation of sculpture and sound by American contemporary artist, poet and activist Vanessa German is on view at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia Feb. 22 through July 7, 2019. The major work, which combines figures without their heads, heads without their bodies, found objects and ephemera, grapples with some of the most profound challenges of contemporary life, including violence, loss and inequity, particularly in communities of color and for the LGBTQ community. Entitled sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., the installation was originally presented at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2017. It was organized for the Fralin by Matthew McLendon, the Museums J. Sanford Miller Family director. German has described the installation as a dimensional living reckoning. the living reckoning ... More

Rare casting of Rodin's seminal 'Age of Bronze' is top lot at Bonhams
LONDON.- A bronze cast of one of Rodins most famous sculptures, LAge dairain (The Age of Bronze), sold for Â£260,750 at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in London today (28 February). It had an estimate of Â£100,000-150,000. Conceived between 1875-1877, L Age dairain caused great controversy when it was first shown. The figure was so intensely realistic that critics initially refused to believe Rodin had not simply made a cast of his model. The version of L Age dairain in the sale was cast between 1935-1945 by the Alexis Rudier Foundry in Paris and had resided in a private collection for generations. Bonhams Global Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, India Phillips, said, This was a beautifully rendered version of a crucially important work in Rodins career the piece that brought him to public attention and secured for him the commission for La ... More

San Antonio Museum of Art hires Lucia Abramovich as Associate Curator of Latin American Art
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today that it has hired Lucia Abramovich as the Museums new Associate Curator of Latin American Art, following the completion of an international search. Abramovich brings to the Museum extensive curatorial, research, and community engagement experience, including at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of the American Indian. The San Antonio Museum of Arts commitment to the presentation of Latin American Art spans almost 40 years. Lucia Abramovich will step into a role defined for all American institutions by the dedication and brilliance of Marion Oettinger, Jr., whose leadership and dedication defined the field as we presently know it, said Kelso Director Katherine Crawford ... More

BOZAR opens an exhibition of works by Brussels based artist Richard Venlet
BRUSSELS.- The work of Brussels based artist Richard Venlet (Â°1964) is hybrid. It combines sculpture, installation art, artistic research, exhibition design and architecture. Within his practice, Venlet frequently reconfigures existing spaces. As well as autonomous art works, his composed and designed environments often operate as presentation-contexts, wherein the culture of exhibiting is explored together with affiliated artists, architects and curators. In his oeuvre there is no essential distinction between art works and exhibition. Its Walls, Floors, Ceiling and Windows emphasizes the importance of display conditions within the practice of Venlet and forms an autonomous exhibition project in which works of art and artifacts are presented as fragments. The exhibited elements not only give shape to Its Walls, Floors, Ceiling and Windows, but also become the exhibition itself. ... More

FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen opens exhibition of photographs taken in Central Australia
ANTWERP.- From 1 March 2019 FOMU presents the exhibition Restricted Images. When the first British colonialists disembarked in Australia in 1788, they looked hopefully at what for them was terra nullius: an empty, barren land that belonged to nobody. However, Australian Aboriginal society, the longest continuous culture in world history, operated so differently to their own that the settlers found it hard to comprehend what they were seeing. They were not able to understand the unfamiliar landscape or recognize such a radically different way of life. The settlers were unaware of the fact that these people had survived the Ice Age, successfully modified and managed the landscape, and handed down from generation to generation one of the longest oral histories on Earth, one that is derived from the belief that people and the land upon which they live are at one ... More

Christie's announces the sale of the collection of the prestigious and influential decorator Serge Royaux
PARIS.- Christies France announced the sale of the collection of one of the most prestigious and influential decorators of the 20th century, Serge Royaux (1924-2016). Nearly 400 lots gathered over several decades by this passionate decorator will be offered on April 17th including drawings, furniture, decorative arts as well as some of his own creations. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Art Historian: Proponent of a modern classicism, re-discoverer of Art Deco, scenographer of public collections (Lehmann halls at the Metropolitan, Rijksmuseum, MusÃ©e des Arts DÃ©coratifs in Paris), Serge Royaux also had a "sense of the Palace" as AndrÃ© Malraux said of him: as demonstrated by his work at the Trianon for General De Gaulle. He also knew how to highlight the collections of his private clients, in always very architectural settings. Ranked among the top 100 decorators by Architectural ... More

Kelly Cahn to join Sean Kelly as Director, Private Sales
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announced that Kelly Cahn has joined the gallery as Director, Private Sales. Kelly will oversee the gallerys private client and secondary market sales, building on existing relationships, and cultivating new client engagement and opportunities. She has worked in art advisory since 2006, including eleven years at The Heller Group, where she was a Partner and the Head of Research and Gallery Outreach. Kelly has worked on behalf of significant collections focused on contemporary, modern, and impressionist art. She holds a Bachelors degree in Art History from Tulane University and a Masters degree in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and the History of the Art Market from Christies Education. Sean Kelly says of her appointment, We are delighted that Kelly, who we have known for a number of years and has such a distinguished career working ... More

Swiss luthier striving to make a 21st-century Stradivarius
LYON (AFP).- Meet the man who is trying to make the closest thing you will get to a 21st-century Stradivarius. Award-winning Swiss luthier David Leonard Wiedmer has set himself the task of reproducing the legendary Italian violin at his workshop tucked away in a quayside in Lyon, southeast France. Working from the details of one of the most famous Stradivarius violins, Wiedmer told AFP: "This is the first time I'm making this model so I'm looking forward to hearing how it sounds. "Apparently the original sounds very, very good, so we'll have to find the same features again. It's a challenge." Wiedmer may still only be 29, but he has already made his reputation as a master craftsman. One of his violins won gold at the Violin Society of ... More

Free Augmented Reality tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall to debut March 1
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced today that a Centennial commissioned work by renowned artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, entitled Thought Experiments in F# Minor (a free augmented reality walking tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall), will become available to the public beginning March 1, 2019. Accessed on iPad Minis and headphones and featuring LA Phil musicians, the Cardiff and Miller artwork takes visitors on a dreamlike trip through the spaces of WDCH, revealing an otherwise invisible world complete with a hypnotic 3D sound environment. Thought Experiments in F# Minor features original music by Ellen Reid. Yuval Sharon, currently in residence as Artist-Collaborator of the LA Phil, served as curator for the work. The 40-minute artwork will be offered during the same hours as the Music Centers self-guided audio tour of WDCH, ... More