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The dress ensemble spring/summer by Alexander McQueen is exhibited during the press preview for the annual fashion exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" at The Metropolitan Museum of art on May 7, 2018 in New York. KENA BETANCUR / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Costume Institutes spring 2018 exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, on view from May 10 through October 8, 2018 is on view at The Met Fifth Avenuein the medieval galleries, Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art, part of The Robert Lehman Wing, and the Anna Wintour Costume Centerand uptown at The Met Cloisters. The thematic exhibition features a dialogue between fashion and masterworks of medieval art in The Met collection to examine fashions ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism. A group of papal robes and accessories from the Vatican serves as the cornerstone of the exhibition, highlighting the enduring influence of liturgical vestments on designers. The Catholic imagination is rooted in and sustained by artistic practice, and fashions embrace of sacred images, objects, and customs continues the ever-evolvi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nice Mayor Chrisitian Estrosi (2L), his wife Laura Tenoudji (R), Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, stand in front of a painting of Queen Victoria during a visit at the Massena Museum in Nice, southern France, May 7, 2018. JEAN-PIERRE AMET / POOL / AFP
| 'King of Danish painting' Kirkeby dies aged 79 | | Fantastico! Exhibition at Ateneum Art Museum offers an introduction to the mysterious world of magic realism | | Claude Monet's 'Gare Saint-Lazare' to lead Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 
A picture taken on October 18, 2004 shows Danish artist Per Kirkeby. Keld Navntoft / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP.
COPENHAGEN (AFP).- Danish painter Per Kirkeby, one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period, has died aged 79, according to his gallery. Widely known as a sculptor, filmmaker and an author whose work focused on landscapes, light and colour, Kirkeby died on Wednesday in the city of his birth Copenhagen, the London-based Michael Werner Gallery announced in a statement. "Over his career of five decades he developed a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived primarily from observations of the natural world," it said. Kirkeby took part in several expeditions to the Arctic and Greenland as a natural history and geology student in the 1950s, and the trips inspired his colourful painting style, which he often described as the ongoing "process of sedimentation". Described as the "king of Danish painting" by the Danish media, Kirkeby's death comes after he fell down a staircase and suffered a brain injury in 2013, announcing an end to his work two years later, according to Ritzau ... More | | 
Antonio Donghi: Woman at the Café (1931). Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro. © Archivio Fotografico - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Photo: Franzini C.
HELSINKI.- From 10 May to 19 August 2018, the Ateneum Art Museum hosts the exhibition Fantastico! Italian Art from the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition explores an artistic movement known as magic realism, which emerged in Italy at the end of the First World War. The exhibition features masterpieces by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Carrà , Felice Casorati, Antonio Donghi and Cagnaccio di San Pietro. The works are drawn from esteemed public and private collections in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. The art of magic realists is simultaneously realistic and far removed from reality. The works show us the world as it manifests itself, while at the same time superimposing new, dreamlike layers on it. Many of the works are like still images from a film. We can imagine what has happened a moment ago and what will happen next, as the scene unfolds. The magic realism ... More | | 
Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, Vue extérieure, 1877 (detail). Estimate on Request. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Claude Monets iconic La Gare Saint-Lazare, Vue extérieure of 1877, will lead Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 20 June 2018. This magnificent painting, executed in 1877 as part of Monets celebrated Gare Saint-Lazare series will be offered for sale from The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass (Estimate on Request). Works from this esteemed collection were sold in New York in November 2017 where a highlight was Vincent van Goghs Laboureur dans un champ, which sold for $81,312,500, the second highest price achieved for a work by the artist at auction. The present work, La Gare Saint-Lazare, Vue extérieure, belongs to a series of 12 canvases painted in 1877 depicting the busy railway station which had been modernised and extended in the late 1860s. By 1870 the Gare Saint-Lazare was handling over 13 million passengers a year and had become a major transit point f ... More |
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| Diego Rivera painting sets record at auction | | Dayton Art Institute cuts ribbon on renovated Rose Auditorium | | Laurence Miller Gallery opens exhibition featuring over forty photographs by Larry Burrows | 
Auctioneer and SVP, Director of Trusts, Estates & Appraisals, Tash Perrin selling Diego Riveras The Rivals, which realized $9,762,500.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A Diego Rivera painting set a record Wednesday night for the highest price paid at auction for a Latin American artwork, fetching $9.76 million and taking the honor away from his partner Frida Kahlo. The colorful painting entitled "Los Rivales" (The Rivals) and sold by Christie's depicts two men at a traditional Mexican celebration. Until now the record was held by a Kahlo work auctioned in 2016 for $8 million. The 1939 painting is called "Dos desnudos en el bosque (La tierra misma)," which translates as "Two Nudes in the Forest (The Earth Itself)." A Rivera work also holds the record for most paid ever for a Latin American piece of art, not just at auction. That work, which the Mexican artist completed in 1928, went to a private Argentine collector, Eduardo Constantini, for $15.7 million in 2016. It was entitled "Baile en Tehuantepec." Baile means dance. ... More | | 
The museum announced the auditorium has been renamed the Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium in honor of a generous gift from the Dayton-area philanthropists to help fund the renovations.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute held a special dedication and ribbon cutting today for its newly renovated auditorium. The museum also announced the auditorium has been renamed the Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium in honor of a generous gift from the Dayton-area philanthropists to help fund the renovations. Our auditorium is one of the most beautiful performance spaces in the region, thanks to the vision of Julia Shaw Carnell, who funded the construction of our historic museum building in the 1920s, The Dayton Art Institutes Director & CEO Michael R. Roediger said. With this generous gift from Mimi and Stuart Rose, its now received a much-needed transformation for the 21st century. A great building like this needed a modernized auditorium something that was more usable, Mimi and Stuart Rose said. We ... More | | 
Khe Sanh, April, 1968, 12¾ x 8½ inch digital print, printed 2018. Larry Burrows Collection & copyright stamps on verso #1/15.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery is presenting Larry Burrows Revisited, featuring over forty photographs exemplifying Burrows' career as both one of the great humanist photographers of the Twentieth Century, as well as a pioneer in the use of color. When the opportunity to cover the Vietnam War arose, Burrows was ready. He went there in 1962, and as David Halberstam says in his introduction to the book Larry Burrows Vietnam, "From the start, the best photos from Vietnam were his. He had a feel for the war and the people fighting it ... and he understood that ... this was the ultimate assignment, demanding the ultimate risk." Many Burrows images were incorporated into Ken Burns recent documentary VIETNAM. Burrows best-known series is One Ride with Yankee Papa 13, which LIFE published across 14 pages in 1965. From the opening spread, where a young, ... More |
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| 20 buildings awarded RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2018 | | Artist run experimental project space DORF opens its doors with inaugural exhibition | | Untold stories of Singapore's national collection explored in new exhibition at National Gallery Singapore | 
BBVA Bancomer Tower, Mexico City by LegoRogers (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Legorreta + Legorreta).
LONDON.- The 2018 RIBA Awards for International Excellence have been awarded to 20 exceptional new buildings in 16 countries, ranging from large urban infrastructure schemes to private homes; cultural destinations to civic spaces; educational buildings to places of worship. In addition, Gustavo Utrabo and Pedro Duschenes, founders of Brazilian firm Aleph Zero, are the recipients of the RIBA International Emerging Architect 2018 for their project, the Childrens Village in Formoso do Araguaia, Brazil, designed with Rosenbaum. The Childrens Village provides boarding accommodation for 540 senior school children at the Canuanã School. The 20 winning projects announced today form the longlist for the RIBA International Prize 2018. The shortlist of four buildings will be announced ... More | | 
Manche and Vanderbeek open DORF as a response to recent closures of art spaces in Austin.
AUSTIN, TX.- Visual artists Eric Manche and Sara Vanderbeek announced the opening of DORF, a pop-up alternative and experimental project space located in their South Austin in-home studio. With DORF, Manche and Vanderbeek provide a space to support and promote Texas-based artists as well as add vitality and momentum to the South Austin art community. The inaugural exhibition, Landscapes, Portraits and Still Lifes, opens May 11. Manche and Vanderbeek open DORF as a response to recent closures of art spaces in Austin, attributed to skyrocketing real-estate prices. Over the past few years, rising rents have displaced hundreds of artists and art spaces in Austin, comments Sara Vanderbeek, When we were priced out of our East-Side studio in 2014, Eric and I converted our two-car garage into a furnished studio/ ... More | | 
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SINGAPORE.- National Gallery Singapore, South East Asias leading cultural institution, is showcasing over 120 works from the worlds largest institutional collection of modern art from Singapore and Southeast Asia. (Re)collect: The Making of our Art Collection unveils National Gallery Singapores journey of collecting and acquisition practice. It uncovers the untold stories of the Gallerys collection and brings to light how it is continuing to evolve dynamically two years after the opening of the Gallery. Dr. Eugene Tan, Director of National Gallery Singapore said, For a collection of over 8,600 visual artworks, it is an ongoing process for National Gallery Singapore to delve deep and uncover stories behind these works that are representative of the zeitgeist of the century. The diversity and inclusiveness characterise and differentiate our collection of Singapore and Southeast Asian ... More |
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| Eskenazi opens an exhibition dedicated to a rare geological phenomenon | | Kristen Lorello presents solo exhibition of paintings by Nadia Haji Omar | | John Mellencamp's sculptural assemblages and series of portraits on view at ACA Galleries | 
Gogotte, Fontainebleau, France, height: 49.0cm, width: 43.0cm, depth 25.0cm.
LONDON.- Eskenazi is presenting Gogottes: a Rift in Time from 10 May to 1 June 2018 in London. Reflecting the long-held Chinese affinity between art and nature and the tradition for collecting natural fragments - including scholars rocks and roots - this is the first exhibition dedicated to gogottes, a rare and mysterious natural phenomenon which has fascinated collectors and artists for centuries, from Louis XIV of France to Henry Moore. The first exhibition at the gallery to be dedicated solely to a phenomenon of nature, the show presents 12 gogottes of various forms and sizes and the catalogue includes essays by the legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FLS, FZS, FSA, and the celebrated artist Tom Phillips, CBE, RA. The gogottes are being shown alongside Song: Chinese Ceramics, 10th to 13th century (Part 5), an exhibition of 20 pieces from the Song period, widely regarded as the ... More | | 
Nadia Haji Omar, Sawd, 2017, Acrylic and dye on canvas, 24 x 20 inches (60.96 x 50.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting the second solo exhibition at the gallery of paintings by Nadia Haji Omar. The exhibition continues the artist's ongoing research of the intersection of language and abstract painting and will include six new 24 x 20 inch paintings on canvas. A full-color exhibition booklet is available. Drawing from her ongoing research of Sinhalese, Tamil, and Arabic script, the artist has structured each new composition according to the form of a linguistic character: an Arabic letter, two Tamil letters, one Tamil number, and two Sinhalese letters. These characters hover in the center of the picture plane, hinting at the aural dimension of script: "Aa," "Na," "Sawd," "Ha," "Ai," and "Onru." Tiny dots and lines create an infinitely repeating pattern that travels inside and outside of each character, suggesting a highly mobile relationship between language and territory. As the artist ... More | | 
John Mellencamp, 2018. Photo Myrna Suarez.
NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary artist John Mellencamp opened a new exhibition, Life, Death, Love, Freedom, at ACA Galleries in New York. This is Mellencamps second solo exhibition with the gallery, and showcases two bodies of work: Mellencamps sculptural assemblages and series of portraits. Heavily influenced by the German Expressionists, such as Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, whose anguish over human brutality and corruption speaks to his deep feelings about social justice, Mellencamps imagery takes its inspiration from the same sources as his music: the oppressive authority and social struggles of the working man and woman. But though that foundation is German, the evolved result is decidedly American, with the brash and snappy visual rhythms of our streets, lives, politics and passions. This can be seen in Black on Black, 2017, which repurposes text from iconic American literature and film, including The Fugitive Kind, directed ... More |
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 French sculptor Nathalie Decoster presents new work at Le French May Arts FestivalHONG KONG.- Le French May Arts Festival and Paris Aéroport jointly present an international premiere of contemporary exhibition by renowned French sculptor Nathalie Decoster Consciousness - A Monumental Sculpture. The exhibition runs from 9 May to 27 May 2018. For the third consecutive year, Le French May and Paris Aéroport work together in bringing world-class art to Hong Kong. More importantly, they promote talented French artists in Hong Kong and Asia. Specially commissioned by Paris Aéroport, Nathalie Decosters latest creation, Consciousness, together with interactive displays and photographs, is created to bring people closer to each other and allow them to momentarily escape the anxieties of daily life with an invitation to dream and reflect on the passing of time and mans frailty. Small human figures are precariously positioned ... More Painting by Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer leads Sotheby's Sale of 19th Century European Paintings LONDON.- Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyers love letter to the Amalfi coast is set to lead Sothebys 19th Century European Paintings sale in London on 24 May 2018. Painted in 1896, Oleanders in Bloom, Capri distils the architecture, flora, and above all the radiant light of the Italian south. Appearing on the international market for the first time, the painting is estimated to bring £400,000-600,000 (DKK 3.4-5.1 million). Nina Wedell-Wedellsborg, Head of Sothebys Denmark, said: We are delighted to be offering this impressionistic masterpiece by Krøyer to the international market. While Krøyers fame at home in Denmark goes without saying, his aesthetic with its obvious parallels with John Singer Sargent and the French Impressionists far transcends his local market, as we saw recently when we sold Wine Harvest in the Tyrol to an American collector ... More Toronto Biennial of Art announces curatorial team for inaugural event in 2019TORONTO.- The Toronto Biennial of Art today announced three new appointments to guide its curatorial program. For the inaugural, city-wide art event taking place next fall from September through December 2019, and for the subsequent 2021 iteration, Candice Hopkins has been appointed Senior Curator and Tairone Bastien has assumed the position of Curator. As part of the Biennials core team, Ilana Shamoon has been hired as Director of Programming. Toronto Biennial of Art Executive Director Patrizia Libralato said, We are delighted to welcome Candice, Tairone, and Ilana who bring significant depth of scholarship, experience, and passion to the launch of the Biennial. Candice and Tairones involvement into 2021 will set the tone for continuity between events. By celebrating contemporary art and artists from Canada and around the world, our goal ... More Howard Greenberg Gallery exhibits intimate photographs of Saul Leiter's muses NEW YORK, NY.- Saul Leiters intimate photographs of his muses over three decades are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from May 10 through June 30, 2018. Deeply personal and contemplative, many of the images in Saul Leiter: In My Room share tender moments underscored by the subjects trust in the photographer. The exhibition, which includes work from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, will be the subject of an upcoming book, also titled In My Room, to be published by Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library. Many of the 35 photographs in the exhibition are on public view for the first time. Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter's archive, the exhibition reveals the world of the artist and the women in his life through his studies of the female figure. Often illuminated by the lush natural light of Leiters studio in New York Citys East ... More Detained Russian director gets standing ovation at CannesCANNES (AFP).- A new film by the enfant terrible of Russian theatre -- who is under house arrest in Moscow -- received a standing ovation and rave reviews Thursday after it was shown at the Cannes film festival. The cast of Kirill Serebrennikov's "Leto", a biopic of the Soviet-Korean rock legend Viktor Tsoi, were cheered as the movie premiered at the world's top film festival. Influential US critic David Ehrlich of the IndieWire website called it "a sort of '24 Hour Party People' for the early 1980s Leningrad underground rock scene". "Exuberant, shapeless, gorgeous long-takes galore, a 'psycho killer' singalong, the end of an era. I dug it," he tweeted of the movie, which features music by Lou Reed, David Bowie and Blondie and animated sequences woven into the black-and-white film. Festival director Thierry Fremaux had earlier held up a white placard with Serebrennikov's name ... More Maurizio Cattelan to auction full set of Museums League scarves at Phillips to benefit the Brooklyn Museum NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, 17 May, Maurizio Cattelan will offer a full set of Museums League scarves in Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, with all proceeds going directly to the Brooklyn Museum, New York. The artist has personally donated this unique set, which was specifically created for this purpose. In addition to the thirty existing patterns, Cattelan has also designed a new Phillips scarf to commemorate the occasion. As the final lot of thirty eight works in the Evening Sale, the set is expected to raise over $20,000 for the Brooklyn Museum. Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, It has been an honor to work with Maurizio Cattelan and the Brooklyn Museum in the important sale of these iconic scarves. The Brooklyn Museum is among the most groundbreaking art institutions ... More Freeman's sale of Modern & Contemporary Art & Jewelery soars past estimatesPHILADELPHIA, PA.- It was an exciting week at Freemans, with two back-to-back sales that saw a combined 91 percent sell-through rate and totaled $4.14 million. On Tuesday, May 8, the Modern & Contemporary Art auction offered collectors 115 paintings, works on paper, prints and sculpture from artists such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Emil Nolde. The sale totaled $2.1 million, including Buyers Premium, and had a 90 percent sell-through overall; fine art within the sale achieved a 96 percent sell-through rate. Of the days buyers, 12 percent were new. The marquee lot of the sale was a three-panel painting by Chinese/French artist Zao Wou-Ki, 15.04.80 Triptych (Lot 44), which sold for $862,000, exceeding its presale estimate of $600,000-800,000 after a prolonged and intense bidding war ... More Fine art, antiques from prestigious N.J. estates to be auctioned May 16 by Sterling AssociatesCLOSTER, NJ.- The experts at New Jerseys estate specialists, Sterling Associates, have had a highly successful spring so far, selecting high-quality auction goods from some of the Mid-Atlantic regions finest homes. The outstanding array of fresh-to-market paintings, furniture, decorative objects and lighting they have gathered will be showcased in Sterlings Wednesday, May 16 auction. Leading the lineup are two excellent paintings by American Impressionist Reynolds Beal (1866-1951). His powerful oil-on-canvas seascape depicting craggy cliffs and marine-blue waters with a lighthouse in the distance exhibits a high standard of artistry and a deep understanding of natural tones. The 33¾ by 43¾-inch (framed) artwork is estimated at $10,000-$15,000. Reynolds Beal was perhaps at his best when painting water scenes, said Sterling Associates owner, Stephen ... More Artcurial announces highlights from its Design & Scandinavian Design salePARIS.- On 16th May 2018, Artcurtials design department, world leader in the speciality will host an auction of 118 lots dominated by a superb set of contemporary designs sourced from several private collections including pieces by Martin Szekely, Marc Newson, Ron Arad and Jasper Morisson. The essential chapter dedicated to 1950s French creations will include a Jean Prouvé trapeze table (estimate: 300,000 500,000 /$360,000 600,000) and an exceptional Charlotte Perriand cloud book shelf in a unique size. It will be preceded by a tribute to the « Mouvement Moderne » which revolutionised furniture from the last century with original editions of Marcel Breuer or Mies van der Rohe pieces dating from the 1920s-1930s. The auction will also present radical Italian design developed in Florence in the 1960s with prestigious main protagonists Superstudio, ... More From graffiti to gothic mythology, Rammellzee is remembered in New YorkNEW YORK (AFP).- Nearly a decade after his death, a New York retrospective of the rapper, composer, graffiti artist, painter, sculptor and cosmic theorist Rammellzee hopes to reveal to the world his multifaceted, iconoclastic work. While street art has worked its way into everyone's living room, and a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat can fetch more that $100 million, Rammellzee, although a key figure of 1980s New York, remains -- as Sotheby's put it -- "perhaps the greatest street artist you've never heard of." Like many aspiring artists of his time, a teenage Rammellzee in 1970s Queens, New York, started out spraying on subway trains. But as time passed, his letters transformed into abstract figures -- compositions that by the start of the 1980s could be found in galleries, even Rotterdam's prestigious Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in 1983. He also rapped ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme was born May 11, 1824. Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 - January 10, 1904) was a French artist born in Vesoul, France. The leading Orientalist painter of his time, he was also highly regarded for his polychromed sculptures, evocations of life in ancient Rome, and depictions of events from French history. In this image: a museum technician at Hearst Castle admires 'Napoleon before the Sphinx' (or 'Oedipus'), 60.3 x 101 cm, about 1886. Inv. no. 529-9-5092. Photo: Courtesy ©Hearst Castle®/California State Parks, photo by Vickie Garagliano. All rights reserved.
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