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Charles Demuth, Eggplant and Tomatoes, c. 1927, watercolor on paper, 13 7/8 x 19 7/8. Bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is honored to be the recipient of nearly 200 works of art as part of the estate of Barbara R. Palmer, longtime benefactor, beloved friend, and champion of the museum, who passed away in January 2019. The bequest of her world-class collection will elevate the already significant national reputation of Penn States art museum. Both Penn State and central Pennsylvania have been immeasurably enriched through Barbara and Jim Palmers commitment to the arts and the community, and their legacy will live on through all who experience the Palmers collection on our campus, said Penn State President Eric J. Barron. The University is deeply honored that Barbara chose to entrust these works to our institution, and we look forward to preserving and sharing this generous gift. Widely considered one of the finest private collections of American art in the count ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Irish New York Times' photojournalist Ivor Prickett talks about his exhibition "End of the Caliphate" during the Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan on September 7, 2019. Raymond ROIG / AFP
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 | | Two paintings by top Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong for sale with Hindman Auctions in Chicago | | Gagosian exhibits a series of new paintings in watercolor on canvas by Albert Oehlen | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces new acquisitions | 
Wu Guanzhong（1919-2010, Bridge and City. Oil on canvas work, signed and dated 96 in. Estimate: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00.
CHICAGO, IL.- Two beautiful modern paintings by the late Chinese artist, Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) are the lead items in Hindman Auctions sale of Asian Works of Art estimated at $1.4m in Chicago on Sept 24th One of Chinas leading auction houses, Poly, set a record in 2016 for an oil painting by Wu Guanzhong of $30m and according to the influential publication Artprice, last year Wu had sales of $103m. Estimates for the two Wu Guanzhong pictures at Hindman are $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 for the painting titled Jiangnan and: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00 for Bridge and City. Director of Asian Art at Hindman, Annie Wu, says of the Wu Guanzhong paintings: In these two works we see the distinct style of this great Chinese art innovator, one image, a townscape and one that encapsulates the change that engulfed China. His work is collected because it is visually stunning and because ... More | | 
Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 2019. Watercolour on canvas, 84 1/4 x 72 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, 214 x 183.5 x 2.9 cm. © Albert Oehlen. Courtesy Gagosian. Photo: Jeff McLane.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is presenting a series of new paintings in watercolor on canvas by Albert Oehlen, his first exhibition in Asia. Oehlen approaches painting as a perceptual challenge, a puzzle set within the unpredictable arena of the picture plane. He often imposes specific rules or limitations on his workkeeping to a certain palette or beginning with a straight lineas a way to interrogate the infinite possibilities that the act of painting presents. By continuously flipping between chaos and control, he opens up new relationships between pictorial space, color, and gesture. In these new paintings, Oehlen emphasizes the importance of spontaneity within his artistic method. Diverging from his recent works created with oil or lacquer on aluminum or the aluminum composite Dibond, Oehlens decision to use watercolor in this series marks a stylistic return to his hazy, blended, almost impressionistic oil paintings dating from 20 ... More | | 
Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman, 2018, Oil on linen, 96 Ã 72 in., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas., Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces new acquisitions to the museums permanent collection, both historic and contemporary, including works by Kehinde Wiley, Jordan Casteel, Loie Hollowell, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and 23 artworks from the Gordon W. Bailey collection. The museum is fully committed to diversifying our collection to better reflect a broad range of perspectives and experiences, said Austen Barron Bailly, chief curator, Crystal Bridges. Each new acquisition advances the conversation about American art in ways that are representative of more of the American people and their stories. With the installation of Yayoi Kusamas Infinity Mirrored Room, we had a chance to reimagine a section of our contemporary gallery with the addition of these recent acquisitions. Its thrilling to welcome artists like Kehinde Wiley, Jordan ... More |
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| | Equinox Gallery announces the death of photographer Fred Herzog | | Christie's opens for bidding its first dedicated online auction of Banksy editions | | Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris | 
Fred Herzog, Flaneur Granville, 1960, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of Equinox Gallery.
VANCOUVER.- Equinox Gallery announced the death of Fred Herzog who passed away September 9th, 2019 in Vancouver at the age of 88. He is survived by his daughter Ariane and son Tyson and was predeceased by his wife Christel who passed away in 2013. Fred Herzog is best known for his street photography which began in 1952 in Canada and continued throughout his life as a daily practice of observing the world around him. While he traveled and made important photographs in almost 40 countries, his adopted homeland of Canada was the place he concentrated his gaze. Herzogs iconic explorations in colour photography came very early in the artistic development of the medium. As Geoff Dyer wrote in the New York Times, Herzog is a pioneer who mastered color photography before such a thing respectively ... More | | 
Banksy, Girl with Balloon Colour AP (Gold), 2004, estimate: £150,000-250,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Banksy: I cant believe you morons actually buy this sh*t online sale is open for bidding from 11-24 September 2019, the first dedicated online auction of Banksy editions at Christies featuring thirty editions by the anonymous and notorious street-artist. The sale is titled in homage to the artists Morons (Sepia) screenprint (2007, estimate: £12,000-18,000), which parodies a photograph of the record-breaking Christies sale of Vincent van Goghs Sunflowers in 1987, with van Goghs canvas replaced by Banksys text. Highlights of the sale will be on view at Christies King Street, London, from 14-17 September 2019. The sale is led by an extremely rare artists proof of Girl with Balloon Colour AP (Gold) (2004, estimate: £150,000-250,000). Banksys ... More | | 
A picture taken on September 11, 2019 shows a mechanical lion that has been recreated 500 years after its invention by Leonardo da Vinci, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Leonardo da Vinci's famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death. The lion, which is two metres (six feet, seven inches) high and three metres long and made of wood with a metal mechanism, is a reconstruction based on a rudimentary sketch left by da Vinci. The original automaton, long since lost, was designed by da Vinci on a commission from Pope Leo X to amuse French king Francois I. Da Vinci, who died in May 1519, had a legendary obsession with the flight of birds and how understanding the mechanism could lead to the creation of a human flying machine. The lion is on display at the Italian Cultural Institue in Paris. ... More |
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| | Scotland's national art collection gifted powerful Damien Hirst sculpture | | Proyectos Monclova opens an exhibition of works by Gabriel de la Mora and Sofie Muller | | Nationalmuseum acquires two Flemish masterpieces | 
Damien Hirst (b. 1965), Wretched War, 2004. Bronze (edition 4/10), 158 x 70 x 86 cm Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Frank Dunphy and allocated to National Galleries Scotland, 2019 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2019.
EDINBURGH.- A powerful and poignant sculpture by one of the worlds leading living artists, Damien Hirst (b.1965), has been donated to Scotlands national art collection by the artists business manager of two decades, Frank Dunphy, it is announced today. Wretched War (2004) shows a poignant and moving bronze sculpture depicting a pregnant woman whose body has been fractured and decapitated. It is partly based on anatomical models, while the pose is borrowed from Edgar Degass famous sculpture, Nude Study for 'The 14-Year-Old Dancer' (c.1880), a bronze cast of which is in the National Galleries of Scotlands collection. The sculpture encapsulates the theme which has been central to Damien Hirst's art: life versus death. It has been given to the National Galleries of Scotland ... More | | 
Sofie Muller, Untitled (detail), 2019. Hand carved alabaster Overall dimensions: 11.02 x 9.84 x 6.69 in 28 x 25 x 17 cm 5.5 Kg.
MEXICO CITY.- Every era tends to decree the death of painting, whose cataclysm can be extended to the homily of the death of art and of history. Emil Cioran warned about our inveterate habit "of putting apocalypse above cosmogony, of idolizing the explosion and the end, of banking to an absurd degree on the Revolution or the Last Judgment."1 The twentieth century and its avant-gardes, many of which were brutal enemies of representation, ferociously attacked painting, abolishing any narrative element in it in dogmatic anticipation of its imminent death. In this sense, abstract painting in the new, technology-dominated millennium can be understood as another entry in the litany of modern resuscitations. Thus, in the face of the dissolution of manual language, the eternal return of painting appears as a reformist counterpart in a cycle of perennial indetermination. Gabriel de la Mora (Mexico City, 1968) has made use of the randomness of the weather to generate erasures ... More | | 
Daniel Seghers, Flower Garland with the Virgin and Child, ca 164550, NM 7505. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired two important oil paintings by Frans Francken the Younger and Daniel Seghers, both influential artists in 17th-century Antwerp, the Golden Age of Flemish art. Before now the Nationalmuseum did not own any painting by Francken of this significance. And by acquiring Seghers large-format painting on copper, the museum is now better able to reflect the earliest period of art collecting in Sweden. Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) belonged to a large, well-known family of artists whose members were active in Antwerp for several generations. They specialised in typically richly coloured, small-figure cabinet paintings. The Wedding at Cana of circa 1618/20, depicts the story from the Gospels of St. John about the miracle that occurred at the wedding in Cana, a popular motif in the Francken studio. The bride and groom are shown seated among the wedding guests under a canopy at the centre of the co ... More |
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| | Exhibition of new work by Rachel Howard opens at Blain│Southern | | 303 Gallery opens "I Am With You", their fourth exhibition of new work by Jeppe Hein | | MOCA presents a new outdoor installation by artist Larry Bell | 
Rachel Howard, Lappel du vide, 2019, Installation view, Courtesy the artist and Blain│Southern, Photo Adam Reich.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blain|Southern New York opened Lappel du vide, an exhibition of new work by Rachel Howard (b. 1969, Easington, County Durham, UK). The artists first exhibition at the New York gallery, Lappel du vide includes painting, sculpture and works on paper. The title of the exhibition translates as the call of the void: it is the voice that tells you to leap off the edge, the fleeting impulse to swerve into oncoming traffic, the curious what if? call of self-destruction thats ultimately ignored. It is this slippage between control and chaos that fascinates Howard. The exhibition opens with five large-scale paintings dominated by a single hue alizarin crimson. Howard pushes paint through lace curtains to imprint the complex patterns onto canvas. In some areas the pattern is distinct, in others it is obliterated as the blood-red paint pools under the synthetic material. Applying and r ... More | | 
Jeppe Hein, Breathe from Pineal to Hara, 2019. Powder-coated aluminum, violet, blue, green, yellow and red neon tubes, two-way mirror, powder-coated steel, transformers, 51 1/4 x 51 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches, 130 x 130 x 13 cm. Edition of 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Finding inspiration in the constant regeneration of perception, Hein's work asks the viewer to become aware of the elemental processes that form sensory reality. Born from ideas in Eastern philosophy and sculpture's potential for profound spatial recombination, the works offer a world of experiential simultaneity. Intersecting Circles uses the artist's mirror lamellae (tall strips of highly polished mirror anchored to the floor) to create a blurred, labyrinthine experience of the gallery space. Walking through the space awakens the latent capacity for infinite suggestive spaces, causing a temporary interruption in experience that is both disorienting and elevating. On opposing walls, Sun Mirror and Moon Mirror face one another, each made from fragments of mirror ... More | | 
Larry Bell, Bill and Coo at MOCAs Nest, 2019. Installation view, MOCA Grand Avenue. Laminated glass, two parts, each 72 x 96 1/4 x 96 1/4 in, 182.88 x 244.48 x 244.48 cm. Proposed purchase with funds provided by Carol and David Appel. Image courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo by Zak Kelley.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, presents a new outdoor installation by Los Angeles-based artist Larry Bell. Commissioned specifically for the Sculpture Plaza at MOCA Grand Avenue, Bill and Coo at MOCAs Nest is a signature, space-defining work, at once creating a public art space while also echoing and highlighting the geometric forms that comprise the museums Pritzker Prize winning Arata Isozaki-designed building. This installation was generously gifted by MOCA Trustee Carol Appel, who has served on the board for four years, and her husband David Appel. Bill and Coo at MOCAs Nest extends Bells decades of experimentation with glass. With this work, the pioneering artist long associated with Californias Light ... More |
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 Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Board of Trustees announces appointment of three new membersJACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Board of Trustees announced the appointment of three new members: Mari Kuraishi, Ashley Stein Wotiz and Preeti Swani. The new trustees were elected in May 2019, and will each serve a five-year term. Board of Trustees Chair Ricardo Rick Morales, III highlighted the value of the new members diverse professional and personal experiences to ensuring the Museums governing body reflects the broader Northeast Florida community. Mari, Ashley and Preeti bring different strengths to the board, but they all share one trait that is of singular importance: a desire to serve others, said Morales. Our board is stronger as a result of their presence. Their insights and perspectives will benefit all of our Members and visitors as we seek new and innovative ways to fulfill Ninah Cummers vision ... More  Filmmaker Lynne Siefert wins the 2019 Betty Bowen AwardSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum and the Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, announced that filmmaker Lynne Siefert is the winner of the 2019 Betty Bowen Award. The juried award comes with an unrestricted cash award of $15,000 and a solo exhibition at SAM. Founded in 1977 to continue the legacy of local arts advocate and supporter Betty Bowen, the annual award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. Siefert is the first filmmaker to win the award. She creates experimental nonfiction films on both 16mm and digital film that addresses the climate crisis in seductive yet unsettling ways. Her work will be featured at the Seattle Art Museum in spring 2020. In addition, Anthony White won the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award and Andrea Joyce Heimer won the Special Recognition Award, with awards ... More  Influential singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58NEW YORK (AFP).- Daniel Johnston, one of rock's ultimate loners beloved for his earnest if haunting lyricism, died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 58 years old. The enigmatic singer-songwriter and visual artist had been in and out of the hospital in recent months for issues linked to his kidneys, his brother and manager Dick Johnston told AFP. But the death was "unexpected," his brother said, saying "just yesterday his spirits were great and his ankles were swollen and he was looking and feeling really good." In between stints in psychiatric care for severe manic depression, Johnston gave new meaning to lo-fi with decades' worth of homemade recordings in which he pours out stories of personal pain and unrequited love set to classic, Beatles-inspired pop. In recent years, he had largely been under his family's care in the small town of Waller ... More  New large-scale ceramics by Francesca DiMattio on view at Pippy Houldsworth GalleryLONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents Caryatid, Francesca DiMattio's third solo exhibition at the gallery, running from 13 September to 19 October 2019. The exhibition comprises new large-scale ceramics that respond to caryatid carvings used as columns in antiquity. These sculptures engage critically with women's traditional role of support within the domestic sphere and strength drawn from femininity. Totemic in structure, the caryatid sculptures are assembled from a combination of opposites that fuse to form a new hybrid. Reworking the female form, DiMattio explores conflicting expectations of womanhood, presenting feminine identity as a balancing act, precarious and full of possibility. The artist uses porcelain to shape and graft together objects from different cultures and time periods, sampling from the art historically revered and the quotidian. ... More  Shana Moulton's first institutional solo show in the UK opens at Zabludowicz CollectionLONDON.- Zabludowicz Collection announced the 2019 annual commission solo exhibition by American artist Shana Moulton, giving audiences in London a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in her highly influential practice. In Moultons first institutional solo show in the UK, new video work and sculptural installations commissioned by Zabludowicz Collection are presented alongside key recent projects, all linked together by an exploration of feminist spirituality. Ideas central to todays cultural debate, such as ecological fragility, the personal wellness industry and alternative models of living are addressed with off-kilter humour and a strange sincerity. In 2002 Moulton began a body of work she collectively titles Whispering Pines, the name taken from the senior citizen mobile-home park near Yosemite, California that her parents ran. Using video, ... More  Cultural treasures worth nearly £60 million accepted for the nationLONDON.- The Arts Council today published its 2018/19 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu Annual Report. 46 cases worth £58.6 million were accepted for the nation under the governments Cultural Gifts and Acceptance in Lieu schemes. This is the highest figure since 2013 (the year of the Cultural Gifts Schemes inception), and over double the value of items accepted in the last financial year. For the first time the total tax settlement value exceeded £30million, making use of the increased allowance established in 2014. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, furniture, archives, manuscripts and even a 17th-century manor house have been accepted and allocated to institutions throughout the UK, with items allocated outside London accounting for 86% of the total tax settled. A record number of items were given through the Cultural Gi ... More  London selfie shop lets Instagram generation strike a poseLONDON (AFP).- Posing in a bath of pink balls or throwing up handfuls of multicoloured confetti, teenagers and 20-somethings snap away at a purpose-built London mini-studio for social media selfies. The Selfie Factory pop-up at Westfield, one of Europe's biggest shopping centres, has seen thousands pass through the 20-odd themed booths and backdrops for quirky images to upload on social media. The space includes a wall of doughnuts, a big fluffy teddy bear, a giant ball pit, a 1950s diner, a confetti corner and coloured ribbons to wander through. Mothers take pictures of their babies sat with a bright-yellow old-style telephone, while teenagers pose in the roll-top bath or goof around with the doughnuts. "I love all the different rooms," said Molly Bryant, 19, from Stevenage, north of London. "It will look good for my Instagram and be different from what ... More  Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens the seventh solo exhibition with the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric SchnyderZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting the gallerys seventh solo exhibition by the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder. Beginning with experimental objects created within the context of Pop Art in the late 1960s, Schnyder (born in 1945 in Bern) has created a significant oeuvre encompassing photography, sculpture, painting, objects, and installation. Highly conceptual, his works are also fundamentally disparate. In the early 1970s, he created his first paintings and has since produced a vast quantity of small-format series. In 1972, Schnyder took part in Documenta 5, and his work was presented in the Individual Mythologies section. There, he contributed a collection of ten folders with the title Farbstufe weià - violett in 1000 Tönen ( Color level white - violet in 1000 shades ). Meticulously exploring and portraying the ordinary rather than the extraordinary ... More  HIX Award finalists announcedLONDON.- The HIX Award, the art prize set up by the restaurateur and author Mark Hix, is delighted to announce the years shortlisted artists, all whom will feature in a group exhibition at HIX ART, opening September 14, 2019. The shortlisted artists are: Alexander Dixon, Bianca Barandun, Christopher Hartmann, Dafni Atha, David Mullen, Gabriela Giroletti, Jacob Littlejohn, Jung Min Park, Lucy Gregory, Megan Mary Baker, Melissa Hartley, Paul Wood, Richard Baker, Saroj Patel, Yulia Iosilzon. The award, which carries a £10,000 first prize to put towards studio costs, is open to current students and recent graduates of UK art colleges. It was created in 2013 by Hix to give young artists a platform to showcase their work and take their first steps in their professional careers. The winner will also receive a solo exhibition at HIX ART, Hixs Shoreditch gallery. This years ... More  A collection of mostly early-to-mid 20th century Native American baskets will be part of Susanin's auction CHICAGO, IL.- A large and impressive collection of Native American baskets, nearly 50 lots in all and largely dating from the early to mid-20th century, will be part of Susanins Fall Premiere Auction on Friday, September 20th, online and live in the gallery located at 900 South Clinton in Chicago, starting at 10 am Central. Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.com. The Native American basket collection comes from the estate of a private collector. Most were purchased at Quintana Galleries in Portland, Oregon; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Hopi and Navajo reservations in Arizona. The California baskets came largely from museums and galleries in Palm Desert, California. All the baskets are rare and highly collectible. Star lots from the collection will include a Pima round woven tray with a geometric pattern, 15 ¾ ... More  A fine huanghuali armchair achieves top lot at Bonhams Asian Art Sales in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- On September 9 and 11, Bonhams New York held four auctions for Asian Art Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings, Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, Part I, and Fine Japanese and Korean Art. The top lot of the four sales was a fine huanghuali Southern Official's Hat Armchair, Nanguanmaoyi, 17th/18th century, which realized $375,075 from the Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings sale. Dessa Goddard, Director, US Head, Asian Art Group, commented: We are delighted by the solid prices achieved across the Asian art sales especially for the fine huanghuali armchair as well as the modern Japanese screen by Morita Shiryu from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis. We look forward to the next Asian Art sales in October in Hong Kong. Additional highlights ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
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