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An artist in his workshop, shows a painting assumed to be made by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in the village of Fakaha, on January 24, 2019. Whether in tourist brochures or online, it is not unusual to find references to Picasso's reputed visit to Fakaha, a remote village in northern Ivory Coast, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) from Abidjan, the economic capital. A whole mythology has grown up around the question of Africa and Picasso, who never spoke of having been to Fakaha. SIA KAMBOU / AFP.
by Patrick Fort
FAKAHA (AFP).- "I'm sure! I tell you, he came. I saw him!" insists Soro Navaghi, keen to extinguish any doubts about Picasso's visit to a small Ivorian village famed for its painted textiles. Whether in tourist brochures or online, it is not unusual to find references to Picasso's reputed visit to Fakaha, a remote village in northern Ivory Coast, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) from Abidjan, the economic capital. French travel guide Petit Fute describes Fakaha as "internationally renowned" for its hand-spun cotton cloth which is painted by the Senufo people and that once "charmed a certain Picasso as he paid a discreet visit to the region at the turn of the century." A whole mythology has grown up around the question of Africa and Picasso, who never spoke of having been to Fakaha. For the artist who once provocatively brushed off the subject ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Last week Apple released their new iPhone cases and AppleWatch band. Apple named one of their blue iPhone case and the AppleWatch bands in their Spring 2019 collection 'Delft Blue.' Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Amsterdam in June of last year and tweeted about it himself though. He even stated "Love the rich history and creative energy of this city. Fijn om terug te zijn!" (Happy to be back). In this image: Historian Koen Kleijn and photographer Annet de Graaf with Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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 | | Exhibition is first to take a new look at Vincent van Gogh through his relationship with Britain | | Apple releases Spring 2019 iPhone cases and watch bands with 'Delft Blue' color in the lead | | One of the most ambitious exhibitions ever devoted to Homer opens in Lens | 
Installation view © Tate photography / Joe Humphrys.
LONDON.- Tate Britain opened a major exhibition about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain is the first exhibition to take a new look at the artist through his relationship with Britain. It explores how Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture throughout his career and how he in turn inspired British artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon. Bringing together the largest group of Van Gogh paintings shown in the UK for nearly a decade, The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain includes over 45 works by the artist from public and private collections around the world. They include Self-Portrait 1889 from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, L'Arlésienne 1890 from Museu de Arte de São Paolo, Starry Night on the Rhône 1888 from the Musée dOrsay, Paris, Shoes from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the rarely loaned Sunflowers 1888 from the National Gallery, London. The exhibition a ... More | | 
"We have long been great fans of Apple products, it is now nice to see that Apple draws inspiration from us too."
AMSTERDAM.- Last week Apple released their new iPhone cases and AppleWatch band simultaneously with the second generation AirPods. Although their product color names are generally very a-specific, like Pacific Green, Mellow Yellow, Spearmint or Midnight Blue, one color in the Spring 2019 line-up stands out. Antiques and fine art dealers are usually very discrete about their (potential) clientele. The stories of Adele or Mick Jagger showing up at Amsterdam's antiques district the 'Spiegelkwartier' and visiting with Aronson Antiquairs are made public through other visitors photographing these celebrities in public. Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Amsterdam in June of last year and tweeted about it himself though. He even stated "Love the rich history and creative energy of this city. Fijn om terug te zijn!" (Happy to be back). Aronson, specialists in 17th and 18th century Delftware, ... More | | 
A woman takes pictures of statues displayed at the Louvre Lens museum during the press visit of the exhibition about Greek poet Homer, in Lens northen France on March 26, 2019. The exhibition will run from March 27, 2019 and July 22, 2019. DENIS CHARLET / AFP.
LENS.- The Musée du Louvre-Lens is organising one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever devoted to Homer, the prince of poets, author of two celebrated epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, that have been an integral part of Western societies since antiquity. It will explore the origins of Homers fascinating influence on Western artists and culture down the centuries, and shed light on its many mysteries. Achilles, Hector, Ulysses: these names continue to resonate in peoples minds today. From antiquity to the Renaissance, artists borrowed from Homers stories a multitude of fundamental subjects that have shaped the history of art. What is the reason for this uninterrupted success? This exhibition of international scope ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern Art Evening Sale totals US$101 million | | The Whitney opens 'Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s' | | Art Basel Hong Kong closes amid reports of strong sales and collector attendance | 
Wu Guanzhong, Lotus Flowers (I), oil on canvas, 120.5 x 90.5 cm, 1974. Sold for: HK$130.8 million / US$16.7 million (est. HK$15/25 million). Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Tonight in Hong Kong, bidders from across Asia and beyond battled enthusiastically, driving Sothebys Modern Art Evening Sale total to an outstanding HK$793 million / US$101 million, well above pre-sale expectations (estimate: HK$385-574 million / US$49-73 million), and with an impressive sell-through rate of 92.3%. Vinci Chang, Sothebys Head of Modern Asian Art, commented, Tonights sale thoughtfully brought together works from both East and West and we were thrilled at how the global marketplace responded, with new records set and intense competition felt across the entire spectrum of tonights offering. Wu Guanzhongs Lotus Flowers (I) was a special highlight for all of us, which was received with huge excitement both during the auction preview and in the room tonight. We were also delighted this season to present six outstanding works by Zao Wu-Ki, whose market we are proud to continue ... More | | 
Alvin Loving (1935-2005), Septehedron 34, 1970. Acrylic on shaped canvas, 88 5/8 Ã 102 1/2 in. (225.1 Ã 260.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of William Zierler, Inc. in honor of John I. H. Baur 74.65. Courtesy the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s focuses on paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that engage with bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception. Drawn entirely from the Whitneys collection, Spilling Over includes important recent acquisitions by Emma Amos and Kay WalkingStick, as well as works by Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Alvin Loving, Miriam Schapiro, Frank Stella, and others. Half of the included paintings have not been shown at the Whitney for over twenty-five years. Color as a formal, social, and political matter feels particularly urgent today, but the artists in Spilling Over already saw it as a means to bridge the seen and the felt, the conscious and unconscious, the ... More | | 
Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler KTZ © Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- The highly anticipated seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong closed on Sunday, March 31, 2019, having brought together collectors from over 70 countries and territories, notably from Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, resulting in strong sales for galleries from all market sectors. During the five show days, private collectors as well as representatives from over 130 leading international museums and institutions attended the show, including: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; M+, Hong Kong; National Gallery of Zimbabwe; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Serpentine Galleries, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; and Vancouver Art Gallery. Wi ... More |
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| | | Tran-scend-ent Wines smashes record for private collection sold at auction | | Pace opens the first exhibition in Asia dedicated to renowned artist Mary Corse | | Perrotin Tokyo and Kaikai Kiki Gallery open concurrent exhibitions of works by Bernard Frize | 
Top prices led by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Mouton Rothschild. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- A new record for a private wine collection sold at auction was set in Hong Kong today, when a three-day sale of Tran-scend-ent Wines concluded with a grand total of HK$233,582,518 / US$29,756,077, far surpassing its pre-sale low estimate of HK$147 million / US$19 million, and with 98% of lots sold. Jamie Ritchie, Worldwide Head of Sothebys Wine, commented: Transcendent Wines was aptly named, setting the record for the highest value private wine collection ever sold at auction at US$30 million, beating the total achieved at Sothebys in 2016 for the William I Koch sale. This result continues our record-setting trend and marks a significant moment in the history of wine auctions, presenting a new benchmark in the wine industry. The scale, quality and value of this collection is totally unprecedented, and the superb result is a fitting outcome, as collectors continue to compete for the worlds ... More | | 
Installation view, "Mary Corse," 25th March - 11 May, 2019, Pace Gallery Hong Kong, photo by Boogi Wang © Mary Corse, courtesy Pace Gallery.
HONG KONG.- Pace is presenting the first exhibition in Asia dedicated to renowned artist Mary Corse. Over the last five decades, Corses practice has investigated perception, properties of light and ideas of abstractionall through an innovative approach to the medium of painting, in which light serves as both the subject and object of art. For Corses first exhibition in Asia, Pace is exhibiting a selection of eight new paintings by the artist, which continue her use of glass microspheres and a limited palette of white, black, and red acrylic paint to create simple geometric configurations, giving structure to the luminescent internal space of her works. The exhibition is on view at Paces gallery in the H Queens building March 26 May 11, 2019. Corses paintings embody rather than merely represent light, and explore subjective experience in innovative ways. Her works open themselves up to their ... More | | 
Lupa, 2018 (detail). Acrylic and resin on canvas. 140 x 140 cm | 55 1/8 x 55 1/8 in © Bernard Frize / ADAGP, Paris, 2019
TOKYO.- Perrotin Tokyo and Kaikai Kiki Gallery are presenting two concurrent solo shows of French painter Bernard Frize, in advance of his retrospective at the Centre Pompidou - Musée National dArt Moderne in Paris (29 May - 26 August 2019, curator Angela Lampe). Featuring a wide range of paintings, including new productions, these exhibitions mark the return of the artist in Japan, 13 years after the group show « Essential painting » at the National Museum of Osaka. «While regularly revisiting various moments of his past practice, Frize has never stopped exploring new concepts, inventing novel ways to paint (starting with the development, 10 years ago, of processes based on the creation of one painting by multiple people simultaneously), but he has also, since the mid-1990s, abandoned all recourse to what we summarize ... More |
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| | | Fondazione Carriero opens the first solo exhibition ever held in an Italian institution of the work of Lygia Pape | | MoMA PS1 opens first U.S. solo museum exhibition of Simone Fattal | | Solo exhibition of work by revered artist Gladys Nilsson on view at Hales Gallery | 
Lygia Pape, Book of Time (Large sculpture), 1965. Automotive paint, tempera, acrylic, and latex on wood, 100 x 100 x 24 cm. © Projeto Lygia Pape.
MILAN.- From 28 March to 21 July 2019, Fondazione Carriero presents Lygia Pape, curated by Francesco Stocchi, the first solo exhibition ever held in an Italian institution on one of the leading figures of Neoconcretism in Brazil, organized in close collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape. Fifteen years after the death of Lygia Pape (Rio de Janeiro, 1927-2004), Fondazione Carriero sets out to narrate and explore the career of the Brazilian artist, emphasizing her eclectic, versatile approach. Across a career span of 45 years, Pape came to grips with multiple languagesfrom drawing to sculpture, video to dance, ranging into installation and photography absorbing the lessons of European modernism and blending them with the cultural tenets of her country, generating a very personal synthesis of artistic practices. Inserted in the architecture of the Foundation, the exhibition represents a true voyage in ... More | | 
Simone Fattal. Man in the Desert. 2000. Glazed stoneware. 58 x 29 x 10 cm ( 22 7/8 x 11 3/8 x 3 7/8 inch). Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York; Balice Hertling, Paris; Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Simone Fattal (Lebanese and American, b.1942). On view from March 31 through September 2, 2019, the retrospective brings together over 200 works created over the last 50 years, featuring abstract and figurative ceramic sculptures, paintings, watercolors, and collages that draw from a range of sources including ancient history, mythology, Sufi poetry, geopolitical conflicts, and landscape painting. Simone Fattal: Works and Days explores the impact of displacement, as well as the politics of archeology and excavation, as these themes resonate across the artists multifaceted practice. Fattals work constructs a world that has emerged from history and memory, and its replications and repetitions grapple ... More | | 
Gladys Nilsson, Unencumbered, Hales London, 16 March 27 April 2019. Images courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery. © the Artist. Photo by Anna Arca.
LONDON.- Hales is presenting Unencumbered, a solo exhibition of work by revered artist Gladys Nilsson. Nilssons first exhibition with the gallery features recent watercolours and collages, united by the artists distinctive style and a good-humoured view of the human condition. Gladys Nilsson (b.1940, Chicago) studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958-62. In 1973, the artist was among the first women to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, USA). She lives and works in Chicago. Gladys Nilsson first came to prominence in 1966, as a member of a group of graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, Karl Wirsum, Art Green and Jim Falconer) who exhibited under the moniker Hairy Who at Chicagos Hyde Park Art Center. Despite only showing works together for three years between 1966 69, these exhibitions are now c ... More |
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 Spring antiques, fine & decorative arts auction to include diverse offeringsMT. CRAWFORD, VA.- The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Spring Antiques, Fine & Decorative Arts Auction contains a wide selection of material and will include everything from fine art and rare timepieces to miniature lighting and estate jewelry. The large auction will take place over two days, Friday, April 26, 2019 and Saturday, April 27, 2019, with absentee, phone, internet, and in-house bidding available. Fridays session, beginning at 9:30 am, will start the weekend off with a bang and features the second half of the Barbara and Moe Tourison miniature lamp collection, and 18th-20th century American and European glass from the estate collection of Eugene and Charlene Sussel, Rockville, MD; plus others. Highlights include a rare Andrew Jackson/Franklin Pierce pattern White House spoon glass and wine rinser; an important Thomas Webb Chien Lung ... More Edinburgh Science Festival presents an eclectic programme of theatre and art EDINBURGH.- Combining the best of science and theatre, Science in the Spotlight returns with an exciting show recommended for ages 58, Melody and Sam: Record Breakers. The show follows the journey of ambitious friends desperate to break a world record as they swim through challenges, over waves and underwater. Melody and Sam: Record Breakers is a story of determination that will inspire all ages. A hilarious and tender story of determination, friendship and record-breaking success. Directed by Caitlin Skinner, developed with support from Creative Scotland through the Scottish Governments Festivals Expo Fund and presented at The Pleasance. Families looking for a day at the theatre will also enjoy a range of shows at various venues across Edinburgh. Fix the future in the virtual reality world of The Space in FutureQuest, experience a multi-sensory ... More Henie Onstad Kunstsenter announces a new bi-annual art programme and prizeHÃVIKODDEN.- The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme is the result of a partnership between the Arne Wilhelmsen family and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and marks the continuation of a long-lasting friendship and engagement in the arts. Paulina Rider Wilhelmsen, on behalf of the Wilhelmsen family, has - together with the Director of the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Tone Hansen - developed and created the framework for this award and its accompanying programme. Whilst the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme will be international, it will remain rooted in Norway. It will include the prize and correspondingexhibition at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, accompanied by a catalogue, audience engagement programmes and an acquisition budget allowing for the award winners work to be included in the HenieOnstad Kunstsenters collection. The award ... More Kamrooz Aram opens third solo exhibition with Green Art GalleryDUBAI.- Green Art Gallery is presenting Arabesque, Kamrooz Arams third solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the years, Aram has developed a rich painterly language through which he has explored the fraught position of ornament and the decorative in the history and discourse of modern art. In Arabesque, the artist continues this trajectory in new works that explore the term Arabesque as it has been used in art history, as well as the multiple meanings the term might have for the artist personally. These paintings range from those bound closely to the logic of the grid, to those painted completely free-form, without any underlying structure. The result is a diverse group of works that exemplify Arams versatility and deep engagement with the medium of painting. Certainly the arabesque (in the sense of this artistically arranged confusion, this charming symmetry ... More University of California, Santa Barbara opens two exhibitions of works by Mary ConoverSANTA BARBARA, CA.- Mary Conover is the subject of two exhibitions currently on display at UCSB, and is a central figure in a third. They are relevant to anyone interested in the power of art to explore contemporary issues of the natural environment and the human unconscious. Her art explores the power of limitless lightthe light of horizons over water or desert. Most of her painting is done in the West Indies or on the shore of Lake Michigan, but much of her working life is spent on her ranch in Colorado. Mountain Island Ranch is an organic cattle ranch that operates under a conservation easement and is a dedicated steward of a fragile landscape, one that is now under great stress due to climate change. Her background as an artist has been influenced by her grandmother who was a student of the analyst Carl Jung, and was the founder of Bollingen ... More Works by Anthea Hamilton occupy both of Thomas Dane Gallery's London locations LONDON.- The arrangement of objects, sculpture, and images into immersive installation has become a constant for Anthea Hamilton, whose work frequently mines heterogeneous image sources. This includes The Prude, her first exhibition at both London locations of Thomas Dane Gallery. For the prude, modesty becomes extreme. The prude will not permit themselves, or others, sensuous enjoyment in life. Hamilton's interest in the literary figure of "the prude" in part, references Cecil Vyse the aloof character of E.M Forster's A Room with a View (1908). Perceiving himself a sensitive intellectual, Vyse in reality, remains detached from lived experience. This obstinate self-awareness is matched by a cultivated, exaggerated style. This skewed mode of being, the prude-as-persona, serves a framework for the exhibition, where the prude is put to use as ... More Annet Gelink Gallery opens its fifth solo exhibition of works by Meiro Koizumi AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the fifth solo exhibition by Meiro Koizumi (1976, Gunma, Japan) with the gallery. Last year, Meiro Koizumi collaborated with Theater Commons Tokyo to create a performance together with twenty young adults. This resulted in a video installation entitled We Mourn The Dead Of The Future. In the performance Koizumi addressed themes of heroism and self-sacrifice that seem to reoccur throughout his career. Set in the freezing rain at the site of a former US army base, he asked the youngsters to conduct a ritual in mourning the dead of the future. Are people willing to sacrifice their lives for a nation, a state or for other ideals? By forcing the youths to face this proposition and the surrounding onlookers, emanating sanctity and pain, Koizumi confronts his viewers with the same ultimate question; Would you be ... More Hemingway legacy writes unifying chapter for US, Cuba: lawmakerHAVANA.- Ernest Hemingway's legacy helps to bring Americans and Cubans together, an American congressman said as he opened an archive at the legendary writer's onetime home in Havana, despite tensions between the two nations. "Hemingway is once again serving to unite Americans and Cubans," Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern said at the ceremony on Saturday at the facility, already a museum chronicling the some 20 years the author spent in Cuba. The inauguration came against the backdrop of a sharp pivot by the administration of US President Donald Trump following his predecessor Barack Obama's policy of normalization with Havana. "There is no good and rational reason" why the United States and Cuba cannot have normal relations, said McGovern, a Democrat, as flags of the two countries stood behind him. McGovern, ... More The Fabric Workshop and Museum announces Karen Patterson as CuratorPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fabric Workshop and Museum announced the appointment of Karen Patterson as its new Curator. She will be the first to hold the title in FWMs 42-year history and joins the museum after seven years at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC), where she currently serves as Senior Curator. Karen Patterson is an ideal fit for this position, coming from another process-oriented institution focused on both the creation and exhibition of contemporary works, says Executive Director Susan Lubowsky Talbott. She has championed the work of a diverse group of artists and we are thrilled to welcome her to further the creative and cultural impact of FWM. During her tenure at JMKAC, Ms. Patterson curated over forty exhibitions and site-specific installations, bridging a multifaceted program featuring unique collections, an ambitious ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst died April 01, 1976. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. In this image: People look at the exhibition Beyond Painting: Max Ernst in the Würth Collection.
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