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A man takes a picture of a painting on the eve of the public opening of an exhibition of the work of US artist Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), a friend and protege of French painter Edgar Degas, at the Jacquemart Andre museum. The exhibition runs until July 23. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS.- Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André is holding a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (18441926). Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris. The exhibition focuses on the only American female artist in the Impressionist movement; she was spotted by Degas in the 1874 Salon, and subsequently exhibited her works alongside those of the group. This monographic exhibition enables visitors to rediscover Mary Cassatt through fifty major works, comprising oils, pastels, drawings, and engravings, which, complemented by various documentary sources, convey her modernist approach that of an American woman in Paris. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artwork titled "Modern Chess Set," by artist Rachel Whiteread, appears in the exhibition, "Women House," featuring global artists and their reinterpretations about women in the home, during a preview showing at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, March 8, 2018. SAUL LOEB / AFP
| Major painting by Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa identified at Hearst Castle | | Row erupts over new Frida Kahlo Barbie | | Case dismissed in Guggenheim vs Guggenheim spat over Venice museum |
Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (c. 1634 - 1698), The Annunciation, approx. 8 feet high x 5 feet wide. ©Hearst Castle®/CA State Parks.
SAN SIMEON, CA.- A painting of the Annunciation, one of the most prominent works of art (approx. 8 feet high x 5 feet wide) in the Assembly Room at Hearst Castle, has been securely identified as a masterpiece by the Spanish painter Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (c. 1634 - 1698). Primarily known for his floral still-lifes, Pérez was named painter to King Charles II in 1689. Only a few large-scale figural compositions by him exist. This is a major new discovery for the oeuvre of Pérez, remarked Mary Levkoff, museum director at Hearst Castle. Thanks to the keen attention of Carson Cargill and Laurel Rodger, two of our guides responsible for public education, the signature and inscription were noticed in the raking light of late autumn. The painting at Hearst Castle is signed on the Virgins lectern with an abbreviation of the artists name and his title: B.me P.z / Pic[t]or Reg[is]. An inscription in the lo ... More | |
A journalist looks at the new series Barbie "Inspiring Women", featuring (L-R) Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo and Katherine Johnson that honors three historic figures who each made a major mark on the world. Laura BONILLA CAL / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A dispute has erupted over toy company Mattel's new Frida Kahlo Barbie doll, with the late Mexican artist's family and a Miami-based corporation arguing over who holds the rights to her image. Mattel raised eyebrows, and indeed unibrows, on Wednesday when it announced that Kahlo -- a brilliant painter famous for defying gender norms -- would be included in its newest collection of Barbie dolls. Released just ahead of International Women's Day, the "Inspiring Women" collection includes dolls based on Kahlo, pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart and other historic figures. But Kahlo's family soon issued a statement objecting to the doll. "Mrs Mara Romeo, great-niece of Frida Kahlo, is the sole owner of the rights of the image of the illustrious Mexican painter Frida Kahlo," it said. "The company Mattel does not have ... More | |
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (right) on the Grand Canal in Venice. Photo: David M. Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
PARIS (AFP).- The descendants of art collector Peggy Guggenheim have lost their legal battle against the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation over its stewardship of her Venetian art treasures, France's highest court has ruled in a decision seen Thursday by AFP. The Cour de Cassation, France's court of final appeal, on Wednesday dismissed the case heard by the Paris court of appeal in 2015 after Sandro Rumney, Peggy's great-grandson, his half-brother Nicolas Helion and their children accused the Foundation of not respecting the wishes of Peggy. They said the Foundation, a different branch of the family, had not kept her modern art collection at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni intact after World War II. The family were also upset that the collection had, in their view, been diluted by showing works at the Palazzo bequeathed by other collectors. In 2013, they brought a suit demanding the removal of works added by other collectors, including ... More |
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| David Byrne brings cheer with vision of US 'utopia' | | Chinese photographer undeterred by rooftopper's death | | Christie's to auction Carole King's piano |
In this file photo taken on May 11, 2017 David Byrne performs onstage during the WITNESS 25th Anniversary Gala at The Edison Ballroom in New York City. Dia Dipasupil / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Artists and scholars have been churning out dystopian visions since the rise of Donald Trump, but David Byrne is defiantly chipper. The pop legend and former Talking Heads frontman wants to preserve some of the optimism from his youth, which infuses his first album in six years, "American Utopia." "I realized that I was getting increasingly angry and depressed about the state of the world, or at least where I live," Byrne told AFP in his office in New York's Soho, his bicycle stationed in front of neatly classified shelves of books and records. "But occasionally I noticed some things that made me kind of hopeful," he said. The silver-haired 65-year-old began jotting down "reasons to be cheerful," which he has turned into a series of blog essays and public lectures ... More | |
Chinese photographer Yan Lei takes pictures from a rooftop on a high building, in Chengdu on February 12, 2018. FRED DUFOUR / AFP.
CHENGDU (AFP).- Yan Lei stands near the edge of a skyscraper as his camera pans out to capture a southwestern Chinese city's landscape -- an activity he won't stop despite the recent fatal fall of a more daring "rooftopper". The illicit journey above Chengdu saw him race up the building's stairwell armed with a torch, finally reaching a ladder to take him to his stunning lookout. In seven years, he has taken countless photos of Chinese cities like this one, often at night. "At first it was easy, there weren't many of us. But with digital SLR cameras being affordable now in China it has become more difficult. Everyone has the equipment," he said. "Now you have to know someone who can help you get in (to the buildings)." The pursuit of the perfect photo became even more complicated at the end of 2017 when a young Chinese "rooftopper" fell, plunging 62 storeys to his death. ... More | |
The Carole King piano, a model 'M' Steinway, 1924. Photo: Elissa Kline.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced that the personal piano of Carole King, one of the most successful and prolific American singer-songwriters of our time, will be auctioned in New York on April 20 in The Exceptional Sale. King used this 1924 model M Steinway piano to compose numerous hits, including Sweet Seasons and Been to Canaan, and it is pictured on the cover of two of her best-selling 1970s albums, Music and Sweet Seasons. The piano is estimated at $40,000 - $60,000 and it will be on view to the public from April 12-20 at Christies Rockefeller Galleries. Becky MacGuire, Head of The Exceptional Sale, comments It is magical to sit at this instrument that was played and loved for decades by the legendary Carole King, writer and performer of music beloved by generations of listeners. Since writing her first number 1 hit Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow at the tender age of 17, Carole King has written or co- ... More |
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| Indian architecture laureate Doshi has no plans to slow down | | Marian Goodman Gallery presents a selection of photographs by David Goldblatt in its bookshop | | Women artists deconstruct domesticity in Women House exhibition at National Museum of Women in the Arts |
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, 90, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, poses at his residence in Ahmedabad on March 8, 2018. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP.
AHMEDABAD (AFP).- Trailblazing Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi vowed Thursday to use his award, considered architecture's Nobel equivalent, to escalate his campaign for proper housing for the poor as the country battles a massive shortage of homes. The 90-year-old told AFP he had no plans of slowing down as he received well-wishers at his home in the western city of Ahmedabad, a day after becoming India's first winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize. "If I as an architect am not able to do something for my people and provide them with what they need, then I should say my job is incomplete," said the pioneer of low-cost housing. In a career lasting almost 70 years, Doshi trained with Swiss-Franco icon Le Corbusier and became known for the Aranya Low Cost Housing project, which accommodates 80,000 people with houses and courtyards linked by a maze of pathways in the city of Indore. He also oversaw the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad and ... More | |
On Eloff Street. May 1966. Silver gelatin print on fibre based paper January 2009. Image: 24 x 36 cm Frame: 42.5 x 54.5 cm Edition of 10.
PARIS.- On the occasion of the retrospective of his work organized by the Centre Pompidou between February 21 and May 13, Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting a selection of photographs by David Goldblatt in its bookshop. The black-and-white works on display are among David Goldblatts early photographs, most of which were taken in the 1960s in the streets of downtown Johannesburg in particular the Hillbrow neighborhood. These images portray the atmosphere of the city at a time when apartheid was in full-effect in South Africa. Although he feels connected to the city by a sense of belonging, Goldblatt remains critical: Johannesburg is a fragmented city. It is not a place of smoothly integrated parts. And it has a name that does not roll easily off the tongue. Unsurprisingly, the people of its fragments, which are severely divided by class, culture and, in particular, by race, have their own names, nicknames, elisions, dimi ... More | |
Zanele Muholi, Katlego Mashiloane and Nosipho Lavuta, ext.2, Lakeside, Johannesburg, 2007; Lambda print, 30 1/8 x 29 3/4 in.; Private collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Women House, a provocative new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, challenges traditional ideas about gender and domesticity. On view March 9May 28, 2018, the exhibition presents work by 36 global artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Mona Hatoum, Zanele Muholi, Leticia Parente, Martha Rosler, Miriam Schapiro, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Rachel Whiteread and Francesca Woodman. NMWA is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition, which is organized by La Monnaie de Paris. Women House forms a sequel to the famous project Womanhouse, developed in 1972 by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. The artists and their students at the California Institute of the Arts transformed a dilapidated Hollywood mansion with works that disrupted conventional ideas about the home as a feminine space. It attracted thousands of visitors and national media attention. A landmark exhibition in art history, ... More |
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| Littlejohn Contemporary opens exhibition of works by Lily Prince | | Christie's to offer Diego Rivera's "The Rivals" as a highlight in the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection | | The Armory Show announces blank projects as the winner of the second annual Presents Booth Prize |
San Giovanni d'Asso 48, 2017 (detail). Watercolor and gouache on paper, 58.5x 68.75.
NEW YORK, NY.- Littlejohn Contemporary is presenting a one-person exhibition of recent paintings by Lily Prince. The exhibit, Recurring Waves of Arrival, runs from March 8 through April 21, 2018. The exhibition title, Recurring Waves of Arrival, is taken from a line in a John Ashbery poem. Lily Prince, whose process includes oil pastel drawings and watercolor and gouache paintings, has an extensive exhibition and publication record. She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and has had her work included in numerous publications and commissions. The paintings in this exhibition, Princes first with the gallery, are all inspired by her repeated travels to Italy, where she returns to draw frequently. Her San Giovanni dAsso series began in 2013 when she was staying for an extended time in a tiny Tuscan village, after completing an artist residency in southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea. Plein air drawing and painting ... More | |
Diego Rivera (1886-1957), The Rivals. Oil on canvas. 60 x 50 in. Painted in 1931. $5,000,000-7,000,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the masterpiece by Diego Rivera, The Rivals (estimate: $5-7million), as a highlight of the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, included in the May 2018 auction. The work will be featured in the exhibition of collection highlights at Christies Los Angeles from April 6-12, which is part of the global tour presented by private aviation company VistaJet. The full collection preview will be held at Christies Rockefeller Plaza beginning April 28. Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Art, Christies: Diego Rivera painted episodes of history, past and present, in panoramic frescos where social, political and economic forces were at play. But it is the easel works that reveal a Rivera less motivated by ideology and more by his love for the common man, sense of place and tradition. The Rivals, inspired by a local festivity from the state of Oaxaca, ... More | |
Nicole Berry, Jonathan Garnham, Andrea Danese. Photo by Teddy Wolff.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show and Athena Art Finance Corp. announced blank projects (Cape Town) as the winner of the second annual Presents Booth Prize. Supported in its second edition by Athena Art Finance, the Presents Booth Prize recognizes an outstanding and innovative gallery presentation within the Presents section of the fair. By a majority decision, the international jury awarded blank projects a $10,000 prize for its exemplary presentation of Igshaan Adams and Cinga Samson. The 2018 Presents Booth Prize jury is comprised of: Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Glenn Fuhrman, Collector and Founder of FLAG Art Foundation; Marguerite Hoffman, Collector; and Pamela Joyner, Collector and Philanthropist. The Presents section within The Armory Show is a platform for galleries no more than ten years old to showcase recent ... More |
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Nancy Pelosi donates historic Speaker's gavel to the National Museum of American History
WASHINGTON, DC.- Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, presented the Smithsonians National Museum of American History with historic objects related to the Jan. 4, 2007, ceremony during which she was sworn in as the 52nd Speaker of the Housethe first woman to hold that office. This donation is the first in an expanded effort to document women in American politics. Pelosis donation enhances the growing collection of artifacts highlighting the role of women in American history. The collection includes objects representing other important womens firstsSally Rides space suit, from the National Air and Space Museum; Marian Andersons ensemble worn for her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture; and Sandra Day OConnors Supreme Court robe ... More
Royal Ontario Museum announces appointment of Chief Digital Officer
TORONTO.- Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, announced today the appointment of Shyam Oberoi as Chief Digital Officer (CDO), responsible for overseeing the Museums digital and technology strategy. With extensive experience at two of North Americas major cultural institutions, Oberoi is well positioned for his new role. Were very pleased to welcome Shyam Oberoi to the ROM, said Josh Basseches. Shyams in depth experience leading successful digital technology strategies in the cultural sector will be a great asset to the ROM as we continue to transform the Museum from the inside out. As CDO, Shyam will play an important role integrating digital thinking into all facets of the Museum on site, off site and online, while fostering a culture of innovation and creativity that will contribute to our visitors exceptional Museum ... More
Simon Lee Gallery opens the first solo exhibition in America of new works by Chris Huen Sin Kan
NEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition in America of new works by Hong Kong-based artist Chris Huen Sin Kan. With no prior sketching or planned outcome, Huens large-scale oil paintings are derived from observation of his own life, portraying quotidian experiences through a fresh set of aesthetic strategies. In constructing a constellation of moments that compose his daily life, Huen imbues domestic representational painting with both deft abstraction and the hallmarks of traditional ink painting. Maintaining an acute awareness to their surroundings, the paintings depict the people, activities, and landscapes near the artists home and studio. Based in the remote area of Yuen Long, located in rural land north of the dense urban center of Kowloon, Huen paints an extended narrative revolving around a recurring cast ... More
In war-torn C. Africa, ballet provides glimmer of unity
BANGUI (AFP).- The sound of drums rips through the air in a dusty alley scorched by the afternoon sun in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Passersby stop in their tracks, entranced by the hypnotic rhythm pounded out by the musicians of the national dance company. In a country bloodily divided by ethnic and religious strife, the National Central African Ballet is a rare unifying factor -- a melting pot, professing no favouritism or allegiance to any group or sect. For at least two days a week, the conflicts that ravage most of the country seem far away in downtown Bangui, where 30 or so professional artists come together. "It's for all Central Africans, whether they're Christian, or Muslim, or even if they're foreign. We can train them. That's how we like it," says Kevin Bemon, the dance company's 37-year-old technical director, as he puts on his costume. ... More
Julia Stoschek awarded the 2018 Art Cologne Prize
COLOGNE.- Koelnmesse and the Association of German Galleries and Fine Art Dealers announced that the winner of this years ART COLOGNE Prize is the prominent and committed art collector Julia Stoschek. The prize honours exceptional performances in the communication of art, and this year the award ceremony with invited guests will be held in Colognes Historic Town Hall at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 19 April 2018. The initial spark that inspired Stoschek to start collecting time-based media art with such enthusiasm was an encounter with Douglas Gordons Play Dead; Real Time in a New York gallery in 2003. Since then, the renown, well-connected collector has been acquiring contemporary media art works in constant exchange with gallery owners, artists and curators, and she has been exhibiting these works regularly in a former factory building in Düsseldorf- ... More
Exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery introduces a new body of work by Sarah Jones
NEW YORK, NY.- For her fifth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, London-based artist Sarah Jones introduces a new body of work that shifts between studio and location, night and day, limits and limitlessness. Her subjects are re-presented in two sizes; a small format for her still-lifes and a large format for photographs made outside the studio. These new works explore artifice, the complex relationship between reality and imagination, between the fixed and the hallucinatory. Using a large format field camera, and working with both black and white and color film, Jones works depict a range of subject matter that share a sense of impermanence; cut flowers, cultivated plants, upended glass objects, water cascading down a waterfall. A horse is photographed from one side and then the other, fixing a transitional moment when its coat changes from grey to white. The water ... More
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Natalie Arnoldi
SANTA FE, NM.- A bleak concrete room lit by a single bulb. Empty doorways leading to empty doorways. A corridor, peeling paint, exposed ducts. Pipes, a sealed door. Even without knowing that each of these paintings references a real place a room within a concentration camp the quality of the colors, the unexpected mix of sharp and blurred, light and dark, create a visceral reaction. Something happened here. Natalie Arnoldi grew up in an artist household a writer mother and artist father (Charles Arnoldi) - a kind of apprenticeship of daily life experience. She grew up studying her fathers decision making process in the studio, talking about art with her parents and their artist friends. Making the decision to pursue science in college and graduate school, focusing on Marine Science and Oceanography, did not separate her from the artistic life, however. ... More
Huis Marseille opens exhibition devoted to the so-called Düsseldorfer Photoschule
AMSTERDAM.- In the spring of 2018 Huis Marseille will be devoted to the so-called Düsseldorfer Photoschule, photographers who studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy under Bernd and Hilla Becher or their successors Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky. The photographic vision of Bernd and Hilla Becher was so influential and successful that these photographers also known as the Becher-Schüler have left their stamp on contemporary photography from the mid-1970s onwards. Huis Marseille has a considerable collection of photographs from the Dusseldorf school. These will be presented in the exhibition alongside early, mostly unknown work by photographers such as Höfer, Ruff and Struth, as well as more recent work by young and upcoming photographers. Bernd Becher (19312007) was professor of photography at the Staatliche ... More
Mahatma Gandhi photo sells for almost $42k at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- A Mahatma Gandhi signed photograph sold for $41,806 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The vintage glossy photo taken of Gandhi walking alongside Madan Mohan Malaviya after the second session of India's Round Table Conference, signed in fountain pen, MK Gandhi. As the delegate acting on behalf of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi attended the second session of the British-organized Round Table Conference, a three-part conference series held in London from 1930 to 1932, with the aim of discussing the ongoing constitutional reforms in India. Malaviya, who had formerly been president of the Congress and played a significant role in the Gandhi-led non-cooperation movement, joined him as a representative advocating for a free India. Interestingly, this signed photo also dates to a period in which Gandhi, suffering ... More
Daniel Shea wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2018
AMSTERDAM.- Daniel Shea (1985, US) was chosen as the winner of the twelfth Foam Paul Huf Award today. This annual prize, given to a photography talent under 35 years, consists of 20.000 and an exhibition at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. The Foam Paul Huf Award continues to attract portfolios from all over the world. The jury chose Shea from a pool of 100 nominated photographers, from 20 countries worldwide. The jury report states: In a profoundly strong and varied list of international artists, the quality and consistency of Daniel Sheas subjective visual idiom, greatly impressed the jury. Using a variety of visual mediums, Sheas work explores the complexity and ambiguities of urban development in his home city, New York. Drawing from his experience as a commercial photographer, Shea presents us with a seductive and disconcerting world ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Robert Mapplethorpe died March 09, 1989. Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank homoeroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks. In this image: Two women look at a self-portrait of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe made in 1986 while viewing the exhibit at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, April 9, 1990.
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