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Bosco Sodi, Muro, 2017. Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery - Chris Stach/Diego Flores.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A wall created from 1,600 handmade Mexican bricks appeared in New York's Washington Square Park on Thursday -- only for it to be torn down a few hours later. Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, 46, says he decided to build a wall destined for destruction in January, when President Donald Trump arrived in the White House. In light of Trump's promise to build a wall along the US-Mexican border, Sodi set out to demonstrate "how when people come together, they can destroy any wall, be it mental, political, psychological or physical." New York-based Sodi explained he came up with the idea while making bricks with local craftsmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, who told him about their experiences of illegal immigration to the United States. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fifty years ago this Friday, September 8, Reynolda House Museum of American Art opened its doors. There were just nine paintings in the permanent collection, the initial acquisitions from the wish list of Barbara Babcock Millhouse, granddaughter of Richard Joshua (R. J. ) Reynolds. The tobacco tycoon's grand country manse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, completed exactly 50 years before, was an appropriate backdrop for the collection's earliest works.
| Christie's to offer avant-garde masterworks from a European collection | | Palazzo Ducale hosts the renowned exhibition of Indian gems and jewels from The Al Thani Collection | | Rare works by Dutch Old Masters to be offered at Koller Zurich | 
Hemba Figure, Democratic Republic of Congo. Estimate: 200,000-400,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies has been entrusted with the sale of masterworks from an important European private collection, Beyond Boundaries: Avant-Garde Masterworks from a European Collection which will be offered throughout the second half of 2017 in New York, Geneva, and Paris. This ground-breaking collection was assembled by a couple with a keen eye for rare exceptional works of art and design. The collection is expected to achieve in the region of $30,000,000 and comprises around 180 works from five categories: Impressionist and Modern Art, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Magnificent Jewels, African Art and Design. The Modern and Post-War works of art were assembled with the guidance of renowned advisor Alain Tarica, who also advised Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé as well as Hubertus and Renate Wald. This collection is led by Wassily Kandinskys Improvisation mit Pferden (Studie ... More | | 
Elemento decorativo dal trono di Tipu Sultan Mysore, 1787-1793 circa; plinto 1800 c. Oro, diamanti, rubini, smeraldi, lacca Plinto: marmo nero, metallo dorato, h. 17,1 cm /Elemento decorativo h. 6,8 cm, largh. 5,4 cm, sp. 5,5 cm Plinto h. 10,3 cm, largh. 10 cm, sp. 10 cm © The Al Thani Collection.
VENICE.- Dazzling gems, precious stones and jewels brimming with centuries of history and legend, together with historic and contemporary creations take us on a journey through five centuries of sheer beauty and remarkable craftsmanship charting the glorious tradition of Indian jewellery: from the descendants of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane to the great Maharajas, whose lavish jewellery commissions in the 20th century produced stunning and innovative works from the European jewellery houses. Since antiquity, India has been a land rich in precious stones and home to an extraordinarily refined jewellery tradition. Here, gems and jewels are an integral part of daily wear and lifestyle. South Asia is renowned for the fine quality of the diamonds from Golconda, beautiful Badakhshan ... More | | 
Dirck Van Baburen, (circa 1594 Utrecht 1624), Violin player with a wine glass. 1623. Oil on canvas. 80.4 x 67.1 cm.
ZURICH.- Important works that have just now come to the market after spending decades in private collections will be featured in Kollers September auctions of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings. Highlights include a beautiful floral still life by one of the greatest masters of this genre, Osias Beert the Elder; a rare work by a Dutch artist inspired by Caravaggio, Dirck van Baburen, and two important marine paintings by the great Russian seascape artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. The Old Master & 19th Century Paintings auction features a floral still life by one of the pioneers of 17th-century still life painting, Osias Beert the Elder. The artists arrangement and use of colour is particularly remarkable here for its subtlety and clarity, as well as for the manner in which the subject is tastefully highlighted against its dark brown background. The painting has been in a private collection in the USA for the past t ... More |
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| Rijksmuseum presents Dutch masterpieces at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | | Paul Kasmin Gallery opens exhibition of the early paintings of Robert Motherwell | | 'After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History' on view in New York | 
Rijksmuseum Schiphol. Photo: Thijs Wolzak.
AMSTERDAM.- Rijksmuseum Schiphol opened today. Anyone flying in or out is welcome to stop off here to enjoy the artistic glories of the Dutch Golden Age. Ten paintings from the Rijksmuseum collection will be on show, with landscapes, seascapes, portraits and floral still lifes by Dutch masters such as Jan van Goyen, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Abraham Mignon and Michiel van Mierevelt. Travellers can view the paintings at any time, day or night, free of charge. The Rijksmuseum is back on Holland Boulevard, the recently refurbished leisure zone between Lounge 2 and 3, past security at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. In 2002 the Rijksmuseum became the first art museum in the world to open a new branch at an airport. And Schiphol is currently the only airport in the world with a museum exhibiting original 17th-century art, right in the terminal building. Holland Boulevard is now also home to NEMO Science Museum, a library, as well as a relaxatio ... More | | 
Robert Motherwell, La Belle Mexicaine (Maria), 1941, oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches / 74.9 x 60.3 cm. © Dedalus Foundation Inc. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announces an exhibition of the early paintings of Robert Motherwell, which opened on September 7, 2017. Comprised solely of works from the 1940s and early 1950s, the exhibition is one of only three such solo presentations in the last forty years to explore the artists developmental beginnings in painting, and the first in New York City. The paintings from this period trace Motherwells emergence from an initial Surrealist influence to the more gestural and expressionist paintings for which he has become canonized. Building on the revelation of Motherwells innovative approach to art-making that was solidified by the universally lauded exhibition, Robert Motherwell: Early Collages, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2013, this show aims to delve deeper into the artists ... More | | 
Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai, (Detail) ID Card, 2014. 340 heat transfer prints on recycled fabric on a table. Each: H. 2¼ x W. 3⅛ in. (5.7 x 8.1 cm). Image courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents a timely exhibition exploring artistic practice as a response to social and political change through the works of seven contemporary artists and one artist group from three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. After Darkness: Southeast Asian Art in the Wake of History comprises works of sculpture, photography, video, and mixed-media installation that reflect how each countrys political transition toward democracy forged vibrant, socially conscious contemporary art movements. The artists featured in the exhibition are: FX Harsono (b. 1949 in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia. Lives and works in Jakarta.) Htein Lin (b. 1966 in Ingapu, Myanmar. Lives and works in Yangon.) Dinh Q. Lê (b. 1968 in Ha Tien, Vietnam. Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh ... More |
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| Barbara Kasten's second solo exhibition with Bortolami opens in New York | | Linda Pace Foundation celebrates the work of Chuck Ramirez, Hills Snyder, Frances Stark and more | | Callum Innes opens first solo exhibition in Dublin since 2012 | 
Barbara Kasten, Collision 2T, 2017. Fujiflex Digital Print. Framed: 63 x 48 in / 160 x 122 cm. Edition 1 of 1 + 2 APs. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami announces PARTI PRIS, Barbara Kasten's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Endlessly experimental and now in her eighth decade, Kasten will show three recent bodies of work: an extension of her colorful, large scale photographs, Collisions, and new sculptural, photographic hybrids entitled Progressions. She will also present Parallelsher first freestanding sculpture since the early 1970s. In architectural terminology, the parti pris is the chief organizing principle of a project. Kasten utilizes the structural principles of architecture and process in her new works, which can be read within the realm of architectural diagrams. Kastens inventive Progressions, composed of face-mounted photographs with geometric acrylic shapes affixed to the surface, emphasize the duality of the photograph and of the reliefs sculptural forms. Transitioning from photographic representation ... More | | 
Hills Snyder, Pitch, 1996. Plexiglas, birch and enamel, 15 x 2 in. © Hills Snyder. Linda Pace Foundation Collection.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Linda Pace Foundation announces its fall 2017 exhibition, INCITE, featuring a dynamic selection of works from the Foundations extensive collection of contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by Chuck Ramirez, Hills Snyder, Frances Stark, Diana Thater and Cheyney Thompson. Rivane Neuenschwanders room sized installation Secondary Stories will remain on view. Themes of whimsy and ephemerality connect the selected artworks on exhibit in INCITE. At first glance, they give an impression of light-hearted simplicity, as brightly colored depictions of confetti balls, pom poms and piñatas attract viewers and provoke a feeling of festivity. Yet, when looked at in depth, layers of more complex themes emerge alluding to the temporary nature of these ordinary objects. The element of chaos versus order lingers as well when the viewer encounters the interactions between honeybees in a multicolored hexagonal beehive i ... More | | 
Callum Innes, Untitled, 2017. Pastel on Two Rivers paper, 96 x 81 cm / 37.8 x 31.9 in framed. Image courtesy the artist and Kerlin Gallery.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by acclaimed artist Callum Innes. The exhibition presents new paintings on aluminium, oil paintings on linen and pastel works on paper. On the long wall of the gallery, Innes presents a new series of paintings made on large-scale, asymmetric aluminium panels. These works are a subtle sculptural extension of the site-specific, monochromatic wall paintings Innes first created for his recent survey exhibition at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Each painting is subtly distorted by an almost imperceptible curve on one or more sides. The large-scale panels both occupy and activate the wall on which they hang, expanding the pictorial field of the viewer, creating subtly undulated spatial and perceptual references. A related series of new pastel works on paper hangs on the opposite wall. Though they may initially appear as straightforward, abstract rectangular composit ... More |
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| The Print Center opens Martin Puryear's first exhibition in Philadelphia in twenty-five years | | Qing Dynasty treasures expected to be among most coveted lots at Heritage Auctions' Asian Art Auction | | Exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the lifting of martial law in Taiwan | 
Martin Puryear, Big Bling, 2016. © Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, Photo: James Ewing Photography for Association for Public Art.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Print Center celebrates one of our most important and influential contemporary American artists: Martin Puryear. An internationally renowned sculptor, the exhibition, Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962 - 2016, will be the first in Philadelphia dedicated to Puryear in twenty-five years and will offer an in-depth investigation of the printed works created from 1962 to 2016 by this MacArthur Fellow. The Print Center presents a major exhibition of Puryear's woodcuts and etchings, guest curated by independent curator Ruth Fine, in conjunction with the Association for Public Art's (aPA) installation of Puryear's monumental work Big Bling in Philadelphia. Accompanying this landmark exhibition, an essay on Puryear's prints by Fine will be published, in which she states: "[A] critical marker of Martin's Puryear's art in all of its multiple dimensions remains his intense curiosity as to what is possible, ... More | | 
Zhang Zongcang (Chinese, 1686-1756), Detail of Album of Ten Landscape Paintings, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, 9-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches. Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A Large and Extremely Rare Chinese Imperial Cloisonné and Gilt Bronze Censer and Cover, Qing Dynasty, 18th century (est. $200,000-400,000) is expected to be the top lot in Heritage Auctions Asian Art Auction Sept. 12 in New York. Large cloisonné and bronze censers often are associated with the vast temples and chambers of Beijings Forbidden City, at times used for burning various forms of incense or as heat-generating braziers. This example comes from the collection of Henry C. Gibson (1830-91), a Philadelphia-area banker and financier, as well as a director and vice president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. It is believed this piece was acquired in Europe in the second half of the 19th century and is offered in its unrestored condition, complete with its fitted interior copper charcoal tray. The only known cloisonné censer ... More | | 
Su-Chen Hung, Falling Red, 2015. Mechanical spatial installation.
ITHACA, NY.- On July 14th, 1987 the order of martial law was lifted in Taiwan, ending a policy that had lasted 38 years and 56 days. The lifting of Martial Law (1987) was a turning point for Taiwan's progression toward democratization and openness. This year, on the 30th anniversary of the lifting of martial law, the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York has organized special events including a contemporary art exhibition to memorialize this particular time in history. Power, Haunting and Resilience is organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and Taipei Cultural Center in NY. This show features the most representative artworks between the martial law period and 2014, which is on view through December 17 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. During the period under martial law, politics and the operation of society in Taiwan were oppressed and restrained. From the imposition of martial ... More |
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 UB Art Galleries opens largest and most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to dateBUFFALO, NY.- The UB Art Galleries presents Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017, one of the galleries largest and most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date. The exhibition opened at both the galleries locations on September 7, 2017 and will be on view through December 31, 2017. It will then travel to the Des Moines Art Center and open February 18, 2018. Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 questions and explores the complex nature of artists as voyagersthose who depart their studio to create work outside of the confines of four walls. This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the artists need to roam and the work that emerges from this need. No longer separately relegated to walking art or land art, but including an array of action-based processes, Wanderlust allows viewers to experience 50 years of artistic practices ... More Exhibition opens entirely new perspectives on the logic of the Real in the age of the digital revolutionKARLSRUHE.- The neologism Datumsoria conjugates datum and sensoria, denoting a new perceptual space immanent to the information age. The exhibition Datumsoria: The Return of the Real conceived by Chinese-American curator ZHANG Ga is a cooperation project between the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul as well as the CAFA Art Museum in Peking, and brings together ten highly extraordinary and space-consuming works. Datumsoria opens entirely new perspectives on the logic of the Real in the age of the digital revolution. A reality is created which is based on the omnipresent instructions in the form of codes and in which the rules of work and leisure, politics and economy as well as artistic imagination and cultural sensitivity have changed on the whole. The participating artists include ... More Cleveland Print Room opens exhibitions of works by Lissa Rivera and Laura Ruth BidwellBROOKLYN, NY.- Cleveland Print Room hosts a joint exhibition featuring the Cleveland debut of internationally-shown, NYC-based artist Lissa Rivera, and new work by Cleveland artist Laura Ruth Bidwell. Beautiful Boy, the ongoing project of Lissa Rivera, focuses, as she writes, on my domestic partner as muse, documenting our exploration of femininity and the nuances of photography as a transformative medium. I am using photography as a testing ground for my partner, who is genderqueer, to visualize multiple feminine identities. The photographs provide a canvas to investigate the visual language of womanhood that I was raised with, and that my partner is only beginning to explore. Through watching movies, listening to music and viewing countless photographs, Ive absorbed an archive of techniques to share. The photographs recall childhood fantasies ... More Kristin Hjellegjerde opens exhibition of new works by British sculptor and painter Richard StoneLONDON.- Mysterious figures in cascading robes and bird-like forms appear as if they are swirling around, caught in dance, in the background there is a recurrent, repetitive beat, a call to movement. There is life to them, or rather, a life force, an impression that they are breathing. They generate energy; sculptures positioned, but circling, promising the dance of the Sufi. As thick swathes of marble and stone whip and wrap around them we feel a sense of being caught up in a maelstrom, of being in that perfect moment of stillness within movement that is the eye of a raging storm. These sculptures for that is what they are stand throughout the gallery like sentinels, with a mind to breaking out. everywhen (8 September 8 October 2017) at Kristin Hjellegjerde evokes sensations of stillness and movement, surrender and resistance, of past and present and future rolled ... More Kallos Gallery to bring ancient and rare treasures to Frieze Masters 2017LONDON.- Kallos Gallery returns to Frieze Masters (5 to 8 October 2017) with an outstanding selection of ancient art, representing the impressive breadth and diversity of works offered by the gallery. From rare Egyptian, Greek and Roman sculptures to curated groups of ancient jewellery, coins and glass, the exhibition represents over 3,000 years of civilisation featuring works of art formerly held in renowned collections including those of Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807-1884), Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein (1840- 1929), Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939) and Marion Schuster (1902-1982). Madeleine Perridge, Gallery Director: Following on from last years Frieze Masters, our art fair debut, this year weve selected objects which showcase both the diversity and range of objects offered at the gallery, and our primary focus on handling only ... More Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad's "Immortal City" opens at Rose Art MuseumWALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents Immortal City, an exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad created in response to the war in Syria and the destruction of the artists beloved city of Aleppo, September 8, 2017 January 21, 2018. A public opening reception to celebrate the museums fall exhibition season will be held 69 pm on Saturday, October 14. Kevork Mourad (b. Syria 1970) is known for paintings made spontaneously in collaboration with composers, dancers, and musicians. Of Armenian descent, Mourad performs in his art both a vital act of remembering and a poetic gesture of creativity in the face of tragedy, as he mediates the experience of trauma through finely wrought, abstracted imagery that celebrates his rich cultural heritage even as he mourns its loss. Mourads ... More Barbara Chase-Riboud's "Malcolm X: Complete" opens at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Barbara Chase-RiboudMalcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that the artist has created over the last half-century in honor of the slain human rights leader. The exhibition, her second large-scale solo show at the gallery, will be accompanied by a fully illustrated color catalogue featuring a recent interview with the artist by Carlos Basualdo, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For over five decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud has created abstract art with a deep and nuanced understanding of history, identity, and a sense of place. Her celebrated work operates on several dichotomies that have become central to her practice: hard/soft, male/female, flat/three-dimensional, ... More Jennifer Y. Chi appointed Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Brooklyn MuseumBROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Y. Chi as Deputy Director and Chief Curator. Chi joins the Museum after 10 years as the Exhibitions Director and Chief Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University, where she founded and created the curatorial vision for its critically acclaimed exhibitions programs, widely known for their eloquent and sometimes unusual installations, their high academic standards, and their broad public accessibility. In addition to bringing never-before-seen ancient material to American audiences, some of her exhibitions bridged antiquity and the contemporary world, illustrating the diverse connections between the art and culture of the past and modern and present-day artists. From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, for example, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died September 08, 1954. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
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