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Exhibition view "Victor Vasarely. In the Labyrinth of Modernism" Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum is showing the special exhibition Victor Vasarely. In the Labyrinth of Modernism. The retrospective presents the founder of the op art of the 1960s with more than one hundred works. Victor Vasarelys (19061997) oeuvre, however, spans more than sixty years and makes use of the most diverse styles and influences: Key works of all phases of his production trace the development of the once-in-a century artist. Often reduced to his op art, the artist forged a bridge between the early modernism of Eastern and Central Europe and the avant-gardes of the Swinging Sixties in the West. He drew on traditional media and genres throughout his career, incorporating the multiple, mass production, and architecture into his complex work in the 1950s. The exhibition also looks back at Vasarelys beginnings as an artist with such works as Hommage au carré (1929) or figurative paintings like Autoport ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Royal Museums Greenwich opened four new permanent galleries following a major £12.6M redevelopment project. With over 1,100 objects on display, the galleries based in the National Maritime Museum bring the theme of exploration alive, giving visitors unprecedented access to its world-class collections and responding to the public's growing fascination with Britain's maritime heritage.
| The most beautiful pastel ever seen: The Chocolate Girl by Jean-Ãtienne Liotard is focus of exhibition | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquires Howard Greenberg Collection of Photographs | | Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries reopen at the British Museum |
Jean-Ãtienne Liotard, La Belle Chocolatière, circa 1744 (detail). Pastel on parchment, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister © SKD, photo: Herbert Boswank.
DRESDEN.- La Belle Chocolatière or The Chocolate Girl by Jean-Ãtienne Liotard (17021789) is one of the central works held at Dresdens Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. The art dealer Count Francesco Algarotti acquired it directly from the artist for the collection of King August III in Venice in 1745. From 28 September 2018 to 6 January 2019, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is dedicating an exhibition to the famous pastel. For the first time, the acclaimed work can be experienced as a part of Liotards oeuvre through an exhibition of more than 100 works. Serving as examples, they provide insights into the artists diverse practice, which alone accounts for around forty of the pastels, oil paintings, drawings and graphic works that are shown here. In addition, the Swiss citizen Liotard is introduced as a person, a man who, inspired by his travels in the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Moldavia, ... More | |
Edward Steichen, Gloria Swanson, 1924. Gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg CollectionMuseum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced the acquisition of the Howard Greenberg Collection of Photographs, funded by a major gift from the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Carefully assembled over more than three decades, the collection comprises 447 photographs by 191 artists, including rare prints of modernist masterpieces and mid-20th-century classics. Social history and the human experience form an important thread of the collection, presented through documentary photography and photojournalism. Major works from between the wars in Europe, among others, also trace the evolution of photography as an art form. The acquisition substantially enriches the MFAs collection, introducing a significant number of works by more than 80 major photographers not previously ... More | |
Full set of matching armour with hinged breastplate. Metal, paper, lacquer, stencilled leather, hemp fibre, water buffalo horn, wood and gold, 1700s. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum reopened some of its most popular galleries after nine-months of refurbishment. The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries opened to the public again on 27 September 2018, displaying highlights from the Museums extensive Japanese collections, one of the most comprehensive outside of Japan. The refurbishment has been made possible by the generous support of Mitsubishi Corporation, who have sponsored the galleries since 2008, and who have confirmed a further 10 year partnership with the British Museum. The galleries have seen major improvements to their design and infrastructure which considerably improve the display of some 430 artworks and archaeological and historical artefacts dating from ancient prehistory to the present day. Together, these objects tell many of the significant stories about Japans ... More |
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| Wooden library lures bookworms outside Beijing | | Andre Fu designs the interiors for the newly opened art gallery Perrotin in Shanghai Bund | | Sotheby's to offer the painting that brought Jenny Saville to international acclaim |
People read at Liyuan Library on the outskirts of Beijing. Fred DUFOUR / AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- Deep in the heart of a valley surrounded by rocky hills, a wooden library sits just over a creek on the outskirts of Beijing, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Every weekend, hundreds of bookworms flock to Liyuan Library in Jiaojiehe village, a book sanctuary surrounded by chestnut, walnut and peach trees whose branches were used to decorate the building. The lush environment is what first drew architect Li Xiaodong to the village -- the library has a steel and glass base but its facade is cladded with branches and twigs arranged in vertical rows. Visitors cross a narrow wooden bridge which leads to a bright and airy space, sunlight seeping in through gaps in the uneven wood, a design feature. Bookshelves that double up as walls line the reading area -- basically one large room -- and readers lounge with tomes on the floor or on elevated platforms. With space ... More | |
Perrotin Shanghai, facade.
SHANGHAI.- Following openings in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, contemporary art gallery Perrotin, founded in 1989 by French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, opened its newest outpost in Shanghai Bund this month. The distinct spatial experience has been designed by the internationally renowned Hong Kong architect André Fu and his studio AFSO. This marks Fus third collaboration with Perrotin - Fu was first commissioned to create the Hong Kong space in 2012, as well as the Tokyo outpost which opened in summer 2017. Nestled opposite Shanghais Rock Bund Museum, the new space occupies the top floor of a historical threestorey brick building known as the Amber Building, a former warehouse used by the Central Bank of China during the Republican period. To this day the building occupies a prominent location in Shanghais thriving art landscape, with its proximity to the citys major museums and auction ... More | |
Jenny Saville, Propped. Estimate: £3,000,000 4,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of the most important paintings by a British artist of the last thirty years, Propped a superlative self-portrait that shatters canonised representations of female beauty propelled a young Jenny Saville to renown. The remarkable painting will be offered at auction for the first time during Frieze Week, from the collection of visionary collector, patron and museum trustee, the late David Teiger. With an estimate of £3,000,000 4,000,000, proceeds from the sale of the painting will benefit Teiger Foundation soon to be one of the worlds largest and most significant contemporary art foundations. [I] made a body that was too big for the frame, literally too big for the frame of art history I wanted them to confront you and exist --Jenny Saville Propped compelled collector Charles Saatchi to acquire every work by the artist that he possibly could, and subsequently included it in ... More |
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| Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of sculptural works by Joyce J. Scott | | Golden-age glitterati return on canvas to old Lebanon hotel | | Uncannily Real: A major special exhibition on Italian painting of the 1920s on display at Museum Folkwang |
War Woman II, 2014. African sculpture, fused and painted mosaic glass, glass/plastic beads, wire, thread, metal keys and cast glass guns, 25 x 18 x 18 inches(63.5 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery opened an exhibition of sculptural works by Joyce J. Scott entitled What Next and Why Not at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition runs through November 10, 2018. This exhibition focuses on works made since the year 2000, that bridge the gap between craft aesthetics and contemporary sculpture. The group of approximately 20 sculptures incorporates Scotts trademark beadwork with, blown glass, found objects, and mixed-media. Scotts visual lexicon integrates elements from a wide variety of cultures and spiritual traditions, including influences from her post graduate studies in Mexico, West African Yoruba weaving techniques, Native American and transcendent Buddhist belief systems, and perhaps most importantly, American ... More | |
This picture taken on September 21, 2018 shows a view of the exterior of the Sofar Grand Hotel in the Lebanese village of Sofar. ANWAR AMRO / AFP.
SOFAR.- Inside an abandoned century-old hotel near Lebanon's capital, paintings of the Arab world's once powerful and famous hang around a worn poker table, testimony to its glamourous past before the civil war. Arab diplomats, French and British officers, but also Egyptian film stars all flocked to the Sofar Grand Hotel before the 1975-1990 conflict forced it to close down. This month, the hotel opened its doors to the public for the first time in decades to exhibit dozens of works celebrating the hotel's past by British artist Tom Young. "This place is just full of history," says the 45-year-old painter, who researched the building's past for the project. "It was once one of the greatest hotels in the Middle East," explains the blond artist, who has been living in Lebanon for 10 years. "It was where kings and princesses and emirs and generals used to meet -- also the most famous singers of the day." Built in 1892 under Ottoman ... More | |
Antonio Donghi, Il Giocoliere, 1936. Der Jongleur. Ãl auf Leinwand, 116 x 86,5 x 3 cm. Privatsammlung.
ESSEN.- The exhibition Uncannily Real: Italian Painting of the 1920s presents more than 80 paintings from Realismo Magico. This artistic movement emerged in Italy in the wake of the First World War, parallel to Neue Sachlichkeit in Germany. Outstanding works by key protagonists such as Felice Casorati, Antonio Donghi and Ubaldo Oppi are featured alongside influential paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà . This represents the first comprehensive presentation of these works in Germany, allowing visitors to rediscover this strand of Modernism. After the experiences of the First World War, in Europe and beyond, many artists returned to a realistic form of representation, definitively abandoning Expressionism. Picking up on the metaphysical painting of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà and the rappel à lordre (call for a return to order) issued by Parisian Neo-Classicism, the artists cause time to stand still in their paintings. They imbue their realistic ... More |
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| White Cube opens a major exhibition of work by Doris Salcedo | | Much-anticipated museum begins previews of long-hidden paintings, sculptures | | Phillips to offer early French masterworks from The Hyman Collection |
Doris Salcedo, Tabula Rasa, 2018. Photo by Oscar Monsalve. © Doris Salecdo. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting a major exhibition of work by Doris Salcedo at Bermondsey. Featuring the large-scale installation Palimpsest (2013−17) and a new series of sculptures entitled Tabula Rasa (2018), the exhibition reflects Salcedos continued focus on the experience of mourning and the connection between violence, anonymity and public space. In her work Salcedo questions and exposes trauma by exploring its capacity to reveal and connect with grief, carving out a space for mourning that is both poignant and insistent. My work is about the memory of experience, which is always vanishing, not about experiences taken from life, she has said. In Palimpsest, presented in the South Galleries, she deals with the subject of Europes migrant crisis and the many who have fled from Africa or the Middle East over the past 20 years and drowned in the Mediterranean or Adriatic attempting ... More | |
Lee Mullican, Oblique of Agawam, 1950. Oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 40 in. The Buck Collection at the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art.
IRVINE, CA.- After months of media buzz, UCIs Institute and Museum for California Art begins taking shape this fall with special exhibits of never publicly seen masterpieces, lectures and other events. We are creating a world-class museum and research oasis to study and enjoy the rich expanse of California art, said Stephen Barker, dean of UCIs Claire Trevor School of the Arts and executive director of IMCA. California artists use light and space in ways unheard of in Europe, New York or anywhere else. Were thrilled to get underway. Kicking things off is a First Glimpse exhibit of 50 long-hidden paintings and sculptures from The Buck Collection, donated to UCI in 2017. Southern California developer Gerald Buck quietly bought and stockpiled the most comprehensive private trove of California modern art in the world, according to dealers and curators, ... More | |
Charles Nègre (1820-1880), Model reclining in the artists studio, likely 1849-early 1850 (detail). Untrimmed salt print from a waxed paper negative. Estimate: £100,000 - 150,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips will offer Early French Masterworks from the Hyman Collection, the private collection of Claire and James Hyman, showcasing rare, important works from the 1840s to the 1850s by the first practitioners of negative-positive photography in France. The 13 featured pioneer-photographers Ãdouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Louis De Clerq, Alphonse Delaunay, John Beasley Greene, Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard, Firmin-Eugène Le Dien and Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, Pierre-Ãmile-Joseph Pécarrère, Henri-Victor Regnault, Louis-Rémy Robert and Félix Teynard all adopted the new medium of photography in France and contributed towards its technical and artistic advancement. With estimates ranging from £15,000 to £150,000, this exceptional selection of 12 ... More |
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Forests and Spirits: figurative art from the Khartoum school on view at the Saatchi Gallery
LONDON.- SALON, in collaboration with Roubi LRoubi, presents Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School, an exhibition of recent works by Sudanese artists Salah Elmur, Kamala Ishaq and Ibrahim El-Salahi. Opening on 28 September, the show is comprised of 14 medium and large-scale paintings 9 by Elmur and 5 by Ishaq and a single sculpture, Meditation Tree (2018), by El-Salahi . Conceived by Roubi LRoubi, curator of the Foundation Gallery, and Philippa Adams, Saatchi Gallerys Director, Forests and Spirits seeks to bring wider attention to contemporary African art, and in particular the enduring influence of the Khartoum School. Formed in the 1960s, the Khartoum School was an art movement centred around the citys College of Fine and Applied Arts, the institution which has itself been pivotal in the development of contemporary ... More
Freelands Foundation opens an exhibition of emerging painters from UK art schools
LONDON.- This September Freelands Foundation opened a group exhibition of emerging painters from UK art schools. The exhibition provides a vital platform for eight upcoming artists to present their work in a central London location to coincide with Frieze London. Look showcases artists who are pushing the boundaries of paint and celebrates the diversity of approaches to the medium in contemporary practice. Look presents the work of eight recent UK art school graduates, who have been nominated by their BA and MA Fine Art and Painting courses, at the institutions of Bath School of Art & Design, University of Brighton, Kingston School of Art, Manchester School of Art, Plymouth College of Art, and Wolverhampton School of Art, alongside graduates from a selection of alternative art schools, comprising of The Essential School of Painting and Turps ... More
Hicks Gallery opens exhibition of works by Marco and Jacob Crivello
LONDON.- Continuum sees Marco and Jacob Crivello come together for the first time as father and son, presenting individual works alongside collaborative pieces to showcase their shared affinity for the creation of immersive, atmospheric worlds. The show acts as a part-retrospective for Marco, exhibiting his final seascape paintings, alongside exciting new works, including sculpture and photography that continue to explore themes of improvisation, materiality and process. For Jacob, this will be his first major show as an increasingly sought-after, emerging artist as he examines the possibility that beauty can be found within the reinvention of the previously used. A well-established artist Marco Crivellos works sit between representation and abstraction as he creates atmospheric worlds with his signature use of Dutch gold leaf buried within the geology of the glazed ... More
A solo exhibition by Jwan Yosef entitled Come September premieres at The Goss-Michael Foundation
DALLAS, TX.- The Goss-Michael Foundation exhibition is presenting a newly curated selection of Jwan Yosefs work that focuses on material and our relationship to them. Working with holy mediums such as oil paint and unholy material such as acrylic glass, the combination becomes a substitute for portraiture. Together with works on canvas presented in an almost performative manner, Ive chosen to focus on three separate figures: the legendary Hollywood actor Rock Hudson, the Syrian dictator Hafez Al Assad and my own father, Ahmad Yosef. Throughout my upbringing, each has brought a deeper understanding of my own personal heritage and search for identity said Jwan Yosef. Coming from a contradicting and somehow distant background of Syria and brought up in Sweden, along with a mixture of different religions and cultures, the works become extremely ... More
Apple-1 computer fetches $375,000 at auction
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- An Apple-1, a rare model of the first computer produced by the now-iconic tech firm, fetched $375,000 in an auction this week, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The computer was among 175 of those sold by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak from their production in a garage in Silicon Valley in the early days of Apple in 1976 and 1977. The model originally went for $666.66 when it was sold by the Byte Shop computer store in Mountain View, California in the 1970s. Jobs and Wozniak initially designed the Apple-1 as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists, but Byte Shop owned Paul Terrell agreed to buy 50 if they were fully assembled and did not require soldering by the buyer. According to RR, the computer sold this week was restored to original ... More
Firstsite, Colchester opens a major commission by Raqs Media Collective
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, opens Not Yet At Ease, a major commission by the internationally renowned Delhi-based artists Raqs Media Collective. The work is part of 14- 18 NOW, the UKs arts programme for the First World War centenary. The centrepiece of the show is a video and sound installation that unfolds within a labyrinthine architectural form, which has been inspired by the artists investigations into materials and structures used in institutions that housed injured and distressed soldiers while they awaited remission, recovery and release during and immediately after the First World War. Within this space, the artists have conceived an immersive environment that features a 12-track soundscape and an array of video screens and projections. Sounds and images explore and extend the testimonies of Indian soldiers in the First World ... More
Poly Gallery opens He Duoling's first exhibition in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Poly Gallery Hong Kong is presenting an exhibition by Chengdu-based artist He Duoling from 27th Sep to 11th Oct 2018. Installed in Poly Gallery Hong Kong, The Art of Determination is the artists first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. As a pioneer of the Contemporary Chinese Lyrical Realist painters, poetic realism and mystic aesthetics have endued He Duolings artworks with elegant melancholy, making him an exceptional talent in the Chinese contemporary art world. His paintings are collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Fukuoka Art Museum, the Long Museum, the Song Art Museum, and international institutions and collectors around the world. Inspired by traditional Chinese Ink Painting and praising the perspicuity of formal languages, He Duoling values the polysemous brevity that allows him to work liberally, ... More
The Mosaic Rooms opens the first UK exhibition dedicated to Behjat Sadr
LONDON.- This autumn The Mosaic Rooms opens the first UK exhibition dedicated to Behjat Sadr (1924-2009), now regarded as one of Irans most influential and radical visual artists. The exhibition will bring together a selection of masterpieces by the artist never seen before in the UK. The display will reveal Sadrs dramatic artistic journey against the backdrop of bitter political events, taking into consideration the lack of acknowledgment of her work during her lifetime and even after her death. Revealing her inner struggles as a woman who had to fight a male dominated art scene the exhibition is also a testament to how she paved the way for the emancipation of future generations of Iranian women artists. Each of the three gallery spaces at The Mosaic Rooms will be dedicated to a city that was instrumental in shaping Sadrs practice. Sadrs own career path ... More
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein opens an exhibition of works by Geta Brătescu
BERLIN.- Geta Brătescu (b. 1926 in Ploiești / Romania, 2018 in Bucharest) is considered one of the most important conceptual artists in Eastern Europe and beyond. The intellectual complexity and the vastness of references, as well as the diversity of means of expression and themes that manifest in her practice transcend preexisting boundaries and discourses. Under the socialist rule, Geta Brătescu carved out autonomous spaces and affirmed her independence vis-Ã -vis a stifling, conformist and repressive social system. However, she did not act underground or in isolation from other artistic circles but with reference to contemporary developments in culture. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein now presents Geta Brătescus first solo exhibition in a Berlin institution. It encompasses historical and new works by Geta Brătescu as well as a film about her creative ... More
Delfina Foundation opens a fiction film installation by Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler
LONDON.- Delfina Foundation announces the London premiere of The Scar, a fiction film installation by London and Istanbul based artists Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler. The Scar is a film in three chapters (The State of the State, The Mouth of the Shark and The Gossip), inspired by a true event with names, scenes and locations having been fictionalised through the use of Magical Realism. In chapter one, we see four passengers on a journey in a black Mercedes, unaware of their significance as state archetypes: the Chief of Police, a politician and a rightwing assassin. The fourth passenger is Yenge, the only female traveller, silenced by the genre conventions of her role in the film. In chapter two, Yenges noir voiceover begins to interrupt the male characters forced bravado as they are haunted by the Resistant Dead - the residual movements ... More
Smithsonian American Art Museum opens first major retrospective of an artist born into slavery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Bill Traylor (ca. 18531949) is among the most important American artists of the 20th century. Born in antebellum Alabama, Traylor was an eyewitness to historythe Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. In the late 1930s, a decade after leaving plantation life and moving to the city of Montgomery, Alabama, Traylor took up pencil and paintbrush and created a visual autobiography, images on discarded cardboard extracted from his memories and experiences. When he died in 1949, Traylor left behind more than 1,000 works of art, the only known person born enslaved, and entirely self-taught, to create an extensive body of graphic artworks. Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor brings together 155 drawings and paintings ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American director Elia Kazan died September 28, 2003. Elia Kazan ( September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". In this image: Elia Kazan (back row, right) with other members of the Group Theatre in 1938.
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