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A picture taken on May 23, 2019 at the Sforza castle in Milan, shows the Leonardo da Vinci multimedia installation "Leonardo mai visto", (Leonardo never seen). The second scenographic multimedia installation "Leonardo a Milano", (Leonardo in Milan) shows a virtual Leonardo da Vinci telling the public his life in Milan. 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the artist and inventor. Miguel MEDINA / AFP.
MILAN.- From 16th May 2019 until 12th January 2020, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Sala delle Asse has been reopened to the public. The most important room in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan is once again accessible to the public after 6 years of investigations and restoration works, that have brought Leonardos paintings back to light on its walls. After the Sala itself was found at the end of the 19th century, this is yet again another discovery, revealing a new geography of the decoration project conceived by Leonardo. In turn, it lays the basis for new investigations on Leonardo da Vincis uniquely ingenious work. Through the amazing multimedia installation Sotto lombra del Moro. La Sala delle Asse, visitors will be guided through a better understanding of the whole room, shifting their attention from the vault to the side walls, to learn more about the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Peter Fetterman Gallery's June 7th collaboration with Phillips "Artist, Icon, Inspiration: Women in Photography" is just around the corner! The photographs, by female and male photographers alike, will highlight and celebrate every aspect of women's historic and continuing involvement in photography. For a private tour of the exhibition, please rsvp to peter@peterfetterman.com. In this image: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Paris, 1967. Gelatin silver print, printed later. 9 3/8 x 14 in. (23.8 x 35.6 cm) Signed in ink and copyright credit blindstamp in the margin. Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
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 | | Sharis Alexandrian has joined Lévy Gorvy as Director | | Declining fertility may be behind Neanderthal extinction: study | | Annie Lennox creates a site-specific installation for exhibition at MASS MoCA | 
Sharis Alexandrian. Photo Benjamin Eagle 2019
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy announced today that Sharis Alexandrian has joined Lévy Gorvy in the role of Senior Director. Based in London, Alexandrian will support Lévy Gorvys global efforts by developing exhibitions and managing the gallerys participation in art fairs worldwide. Her extensive experience in the international art market will enrich Lévy Gorvys comprehensive art advisory services and play a critical role in continuing to expand the companys engagement with museums, artists, and collectors in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Alexandrian comes to Lévy Gorvy with two decades of experience in the arts, most recently through seven years as a Director at White Cube. Substantially expanding White Cubes market into Europe and beyond, Alexandrian developed sales and key client relationships in France, Benelux, and Italy, and most recently in Israel and the ... More | | 
A model representing a Neanderthal man on display at the National Museum of Prehistory. AFP PHOTO PIERRE ANDRIEU.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A small reduction in the fertility rate of young Neanderthal women over a period of thousands of years could account for the extinction of the ancient human species, according to a study published in PLOS ONE on Wednesday. Our closest human relatives lived across Europe between around 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, their disappearance coinciding with the arrival of Homo sapiens on the continent. But the reasons for that disappearance have remained an enigma: were they massacred by our forebears? The victims of a mass epidemic? Or did they die off slowly faced with competition for resources from a more adept species (our own) Researchers at France's CNRS developed a mathematical model that would simulate scenarios under which Neanderthals went extinct in 10,000 years or less ... More | | 
The site-specific installation is comprised of hundreds of artifacts culled from her personal collection of memorabilia, found objects, and personal effects amassed throughout her lifetime.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- Across and within a massive earthen mound wending through two galleries, renowned performer and social activist Annie Lennox created a site-specific installation comprised of hundreds of artifacts culled from her personal collection of memorabilia, found objects, and personal effects amassed throughout her lifetime. Writing about the exhibition, Now I Let You Go
, Lennox explains, We interact with an infinity of objects from birth to the grave. Over time our belongings become more steeped and resonant with memory and nostalgia. In many ways, personal objects express aspects of who we are our identity: our values: our statements and choices. The passages of time through which we exist become defined by the objects with which we interact. ... More |
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| | | Exhibition examines the early development of one of the most recognizable textile genres: copperplate-printed cotton | | Marianne Boesky announces appointment of Bradford Waywell as Senior Director, Sales and Acquisitions | | Japanese master Tanabe Chikuunsai IV presents a spectacular bamboo installation at Asian Art Museum | 
Nicolaes Berchem, Dutch, 16201683; The Shepherd Playing the Flute; etching; sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 110:1914.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting Printing the Pastoral: Visions of the Countryside in 18th-Century Europe, a free exhibition examining the early development of one of the most recognizable textile genres: copperplate-printed cotton, popularly known as toile. It opened May 24 in Gallery 100. Toile has remained popular since its inception more than 250 years ago, when technological advances allowed textile printers to exploit the type of copperplates long used by artists to print on paper. Artisans were then able to create nuanced, intricate designs, and their creativity flourished. The emergence of copperplate-printed textiles coincided with the taste for scenes of country life and other pastoral imagery in Europe. Middle- and upper-class audiences clamored for fabrics patterned with idyllic scenes of shepherds, ladies on swings, amorous couples and village celebrations. Textile printers responded, drawing inspiration ... More | | 
Prior to re-joining Marianne Boesky Gallery, Waywell held the position of Director at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art in New York (2017-2018), where he oversaw the development of the artists and acquisitions program and was responsible for expanding the gallerys network of global relationships. Courtesy Bradford Waywell.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced today that it has appointed Bradford Waywell as Senior Director, Sales and Acquisitions. Waywell joins from Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, where he served as the Director. Waywell also previously worked with Marianne Boesky Gallery as a Sales Director, from 2011 to 2012. In his new role, Waywell will lead the gallerys expansion of its secondary market business, while also supporting artist relations and sales for the gallerys growing roster of artists. He will start at the gallery in September 2019. Brad brings with him great knowledge of Impressionist, Post-War, and Contemporary artists and art movements. His keen eye and wide-ranging relationships with collectors, curators, and artists are incredible assets, said Marianne Boesky. ... More | | 
Connection, 2019, by Tanabe Chikuunsai IV (Japanese, b. 1973), installation in progress with the artist and apprentices. Installation at Asian Art Museum. Photograph Courtesy Asian Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Asian Art Museum invites visitors to experience the grandeur and artistry of Connection, a soaring, site-specific bamboo sculpture that pushes the limits of this art form. Open May 31 to August 25, Connection will be only the second U.S. installation ever and the largest made by Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, who magnifies the scale of traditional Japanese basket-making techniques, weaving together past and present into astonishing, gallery-sized organic shapes that have captivated audiences across the globe. Chikuunsai IV (pronounced, Chee-kuh-oon-sye, the fourth) creates dramatic, immersive environments that evoke the bamboo forests where these works began their lives. For this commissioned project at the Asian Art Museum, the artist and three apprentices from his studio in Japan will spend two weeks weaving strips of bamboo into a complexly textured, twisting shape ... More |
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| | | Exhibition debuts two new works by Eleanor Antin | | New company smashes world record auction price for a work of Inuit Art | | Marlborough opens an exhibition of selected works from the Collection of Holly Solomon | 
Installation photograph, Eleanor Antin: Time's Arrow, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 12 - July 7, 2019, © Eleanor Antin, photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Eleanor Antin: Times Arrow, an exhibition debuting two new works by the artist. One of the most important artists of her generation and a pioneer of performance and conceptual art in Southern California, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935) challenged definitions of sculpture, performance, self-portraiture, and documentation with her 1972 work CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture. Consisting of 148 black-and-white photographs, CARVING shows the transformation of Antins body as she lost 10 pounds over 37 days. In 2017, Antin restaged her landmark performance. In CARVING: 45 Years Later, the artist again documented herself as she carved her body, producing 500 black-and-white photographs ... More | | 
Joe Talirunili, Migration Boat. Stone, skin, wood, thread. Signed "JOE" on label, early-mid 1970's, 11 x 15 x 7 in 27.9 x 38.1 x 17.8 cm. Courtesy of First Arts. Photo: Dieter Hessel.
TORONTO.- On May 28th, First Arts held its inaugural live sale of Inuit and First Nations Art. Offering a select group of 75 works from important Canadian and American collections, the auction realized a total of over $1.2 million, and sold an astonishing 95% of lots offered. Held at Waddingtons Auctioneers in Toronto, the First Arts sale included historical, classic and modern sculptures, graphics and textiles. The sale established new record prices for several artists, with 36% of lots selling above the high estimate. The highlight of the sale was the exceptional Migration Boat by Joe Talirunili, which realized $408,000, setting a new world record price for a work of Inuit art. Another strong performer was Fisherwoman by Osuitok Ipeelee, which realized a price well over its estimate, reaching $90,000 against ... More | | 
Holly in her New York Apartment c.1996.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough is presenting Selected Works from the Collection of Holly Solomon 1968-1981 curated by Thomas Solomon. The exhibition documents new directions in contemporary American art and illuminates how collector, gallerist and early supporter of some of the 20th centurys leading artists, Holly Solomon embarked on building an art collection reflecting one of the most radical periods of change in modern art. As an aspiring theatre actress in 1950s New York, Holly Solomon found herself visiting various uptown galleries between casting calls. Her weekly gallery visits to Sydney Janis, Leo Castelli, and Betty Parsons gradually nurtured close relationships with artists, gallerists, and the art community. Her persistence led her to develop a markedly discerning eye, in the process infusing her collection with a daring direction and recognition of a different art aesthetic. The 1960s were ... More |
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| | | Mamco Genève opens a major exhibition of works by Walead Beshty | | Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery announces new Director of History | | New exhibition explores the creative process | 
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GENEVA.- This summer, a major exhibition of works by Walead Beshty makes explicit the status of the image as the outcome of a processmore software than hardware. As scripted productions, Walead Beshtys works examine both the apparatus of their making and their connection to the real world. His productions also give us the measure of the lasting transformation wrought by Conceptual practices on art, and bring us face-to-face with one of its most distinctive legacies: the notion that art may inhere less in the object itself and more in its surroundings, in the things that bring an object to life when we utilize it, look at it, display it, and interpret it. Other presentations, related to MAMCO collections politics of development, such as the exhibitions dedicated to the Givaudan donation, the work of Piotr Kowalski, and a major installation by Nam June Paik recently gifted to the m ... More | | 
Shaw is the first woman to hold this senior position at the National Portrait Gallery. Courtesy Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has appointed Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, undergraduate chair and associate professor of history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, as the museums new director of history, research and scholarship / senior historian. Shaw will work with the History, Curatorial, and Audience Engagement departments to strengthen the museums scholarly programs and be a thought leader on the connections between portraiture, biography and identity in America. Shaw is the first woman to hold this senior position at the National Portrait Gallery. I have long admired Gwendolyns scholarship and her particular focus on looking at contemporary issues through the lens of both history and portraiture, said Kim Sajet, director ... More | | 
Auguste-Xavier Leprince (French, 17991826), The Artist's Studio, 1826 (detail), oil on canvas, Harry and Margaret P. Glicksman, Juli Plant Grainger, John S. Lord, and Earl O. Vits Endowment Funds, and Norman Bassett Foundation Fund purchase, 1982.58
MADISON, WIS.- As fascinating as a polished final work of art is to the viewer, a deeper connection often lies within the process that created it. In the Studio, on view June 1-Aug. 11, 2019, looks into the permanent collection of the Chazen Museum of Art in search of the small details that illuminate artists personalities, processes and creative inspiration. Curated by Chazen Director Amy Gilman, Ph.D., In the Studio will showcase the Chazens extensive permanent collection. Continuing a practice shes conducted throughout her career, since arriving at the Chazen Gilman has committed to visiting artists studios on campus and in the community. Given the breadth of the artistic work ... More |
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Diego RiveraÂs Dream of a Sunday Afternoon, a Surrealist Tableau of Mexican History
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 Photographs by award-winning photographer celebrate individuals from every walk of lifeYONKERS, NY.- The Hudson River Museum is continuing a year of Centennial celebrations with the exhibition Can I Get A Witness: Photographs by Herb Snitzer, which will be on view at the HRM from May 31August 18, 2019. Contemporary American photographer Herb Snitzer (b. 1932) has spent sixty years capturing images of people from all walks of life. He is the winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP for his work with social justice causes. Famous for his iconic photographs of jazz musicians, Snitzers remarkably broad artistic vision is present in this selection of forty-five photographs and ephemera, and includes images that document the struggle for social equity and equal rights, as well as exultations of the human spirit. Subjects range from street scenes of 1950s New York to jazz legend Louis Armstrong on the road ... More Virginia Museum of Fine Arts debuts historic exhibition at the National Museum of China RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announces the opening of Jean Schlumberger: Twentieth Century Treasures from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at the National Museum of China (NMC) in Beijing, on view May 30Sept. 1, 2019. This historic exhibition is the result of a five-year cooperative agreement between the two institutions to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and China. The agreement promotes the exchange of exhibitions, facilitates loans of artwork from each museums collection and allows the museums to jointly organize major exhibitions together. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is honored to be the only American institution to have a partnership with the National Museum of China of this caliber, said VMFA Director Alex Nyerges. We have a longstanding ... More Exhibition takes a panoramic view of Candice Lin's recent projectsLOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is presenting Meaningless Squiggles, Candice Lins fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition takes a panoramic view of Lins recent projects, drawing on her expanded research into subjects ranging from Chinese coolie labor in the Caribbean, James Baldwins travels outside the U.S., plants that heal and hurt, disciplinary masks used as Medieval European public shaming devices and their similarity to slave torture devices, and John Searles writings on artificial intelligence. Seemingly disparate, these topics are connected by a consideration of the entangled movements of people, plants, viruses and other species. Lin uses these histories of migration and control to think about how ideas of toxicity, contamination, humanness and usefulness are categories that become racialized and implemented ... More Choir helps Rio's homeless sing a different tuneRIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- For years, Edson Santos has slept in an abandoned taxi or on church steps in Rio de Janeiro. Now the 58-year-old is trying to sing a different tune in a choir for the homeless. Santos is a member of the "With One Voice" singing group originally created by British performing arts charity Streetwise Opera for the 2016 Rio Olympics, but kept going by the city's government to help some of its most vulnerable residents. Taking the stage to belt out tunes about love and hard knocks with his fellow choristers, Santos says his heart beat accelerates when he sings, and then a feeling of "victory, greatness and pride" washes over him. "It has enabled me to go back to school and now my life is getting better," says Santos, who ended up on the street in 2015 after his son was killed. "I want to graduate from high school and then go to law ... More MAAT opens new exhibitions featuring interventions especially designed for the museum's spacesLISBON.- MAAT opened five exhibitions simultaneously, featuring interventions especially designed for the museums most iconic spaces. The Oval Gallery presents a new commission by Danish artist Jesper Just, with a dialogue between two extraordinary video installations, Pedro Tudela reinvents the spatial and sensory experience of the Turbine Hall in an intersection of sound, sculpture and machinery, and Carla Filipe proposes a new appropriation of the Project Room with a provocative aesthetical combination, somewhere between political memory and the future of art. This year will also see Amanda Levetes rooftop being occupied for the first time. Encompassing the recently-inaugurated pedestrian bridge, French artist Xavier Veilhan brought an intriguing sculpture installation to this new Lisbon viewpoint. Using the exhibition ... More 100s of women create artwork in Cairngorm mountains inspired by Nan Shepherd's Into the MountainGLENFESHIE.- A unique new live artwork, inspired by Nan Shepherds masterpiece, The Living Mountain, brings together dance, song and a guided walk within Scotlands dramatic Cairngorm mountains. Into The Mountain, the first project of its kind, has been developed over the past six years by artist and choreographer Simone Kenyon, in collaboration with hundreds of women who live and work in the Cairngorm Mountain Range. At the projects heart is The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherds celebrated book charting her own journeys into the harsh yet beautiful Cairngorm Mountain Range. Written in the 1940s during the Second World War, the Aberdeen writers book remained unpublished until 1977, and has recently been championed by luminaries of nature writing, including Robert Macfarlane. Indeed, her most famous quote Its ... More Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien gathers positions that use, appropriate and play with feminist methodologies VIENNA.- In any society, one fundamental field in which gender is expressed is technology. Technical skills and domains of expertise appear to be divided between the sexes, shaping masculinities and femininities. Hysterical Mining gathers artistic positions that use, appropriate, and play with feminist methodologies to question and test the (sexist) breeding ground of technology in order to decode and deconstruct the ideological terrain of the supposedly objective, universal knowledge it is founded on, as well as to reinvent the relations between techno-sciences and gender. Hysterical Mining fervently acknowledges the gendering, ethnicising, and racialising biases inscribed and embedded in technologies generally taken as neutral. The exhibition thus seeks to negotiate gender politics in an attempt to resist and counter traditional dichotomies (male/ ... More Pi Artworks Istanbul opens a solo exhibition of works by Gulay SemerciogluISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks Istanbul reveals for the first time Gulay Semercioglus drawings in an exclusive solo exhibition Desire to Survive, from 29 May to 29 June 2019. Gulay Semercioglus works have been acquired by major national and international institutions and collections, including İstanbul Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. Semercioglu is known for her colorful metal wire works. It takes her weeks, sometimes months, to create these abstract and minimalist works. They require intricately weaving many kilometers of metal wire around thousands of minuscule screws, carefully placed on wooden surfaces, turning them into magically shimmering pictures. Semercioglus characteristic works stand out by virtue of concentration, control and stability. Her approach, combined with countless repetitions inherent to her ... More Waverly to auction NC bookstore owner's sci-fi & fantasy book/ephemera collectionFALLS CHURCH, VA.- On Thursday, June 6, Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinns Auction Galleries, will conduct a 286-lot auction brimming with scarce and significant examples of science fiction and fantasy. The majority of the sale features items from the collection of Daniel Dan Breen, a lifelong collector of rare science fiction and fantasy. Titled a Science Fiction and Fantasy Auction, the event will be held at Quinns Falls Church gallery, with all forms of remote bidding available, including absentee and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. Previews will be held on Saturday, June 1 from 10 a.m. till 12 noon; and Monday through Thursday, June 3-6, from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. Dan Breen was the owner of the Second Foundation bookstore in Chapel Hill, N.C., where important items such as the first edition of The Dark Knight were signed. Many ... More Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn focuses on modern and contemporary masksBONN.- People have always been fascinated by masks in all eras and cultures. When placed upon the face, a mask changes its wearer into someone or something new while simultaneously offering protection and connecting the individual with the outer world. Especially in the visual arts of modernism, in the movements of Dada, Surrealism and Expressionism, there was great interest in masks. Artists such as Hannah Höch,Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Meret Oppenheim and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff took up the theme repeatedly. After the art of modernism, it is the art of our present era that focusses with remarkable frequency on the mask and its paradoxical possibilities of revelation and concealment, of disguise and (digital) self-optimization, thereby treating themes of particular importance in a society which generates new faces non-stop in both the real and virtual ... More Exhibition presents six key art projects that have revolutionised our understanding of what public art can beCOPENHAGEN.- A newly discovered Arctic island is floating above the forecourt of KÃS Museum of Art in Public Spaces in suburban Køge south of Copenhagen. Floating Island is a new work by UK artist Alex Hartley created specifically for the exhibition The Other Place in extension of his renowned project Nowhereisland; a new island nation that travelled around the south west region of England and engaged more than 23.000 people in writing its constitution. The exhibition The Other Place at KÃS positions the latest developments in public art at the top of the agenda. The Other Place presents six key art projects that have revolutionised our understanding of what public art can be, showing its constant evolution in new and surprising directions. The exhibition introduces art projects that over the past decade have conquered new territory ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly was born May 31, 1923. Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. In this image: A woman walks past the work 'White Relief with Black III' by the artist Ellsworth Kelly during a press conference at the Haus der Kunst (House of Arts) in Munich.
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