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The sculptor worked largely from models, always seeking the perfect balance for each work between figuration and abstraction.
ESSEN.- Museum Folkwang is presenting a retrospective on Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn (19202012), featuring 120 of his works. Josephsohn is one of the major sculptors of European Modernism, and throughout his life grappled almost exclusively with the human figure and its sculptural composition. This will be the largest Josephsohn exhibition ever held in Germany. In his work, Josephsohn concentrated on a few fundamental forms of the human physique: the head, the half figure, the standing figure, and the reclining figure. Sculpture cannot do much, he once said. Nevertheless, he strove throughout his life to capture human existence through the means of sculpture. The search for the correct form defined his work. The sculptor worked largely from models, always seeking the perfect balance for each work between figuration and abstraction. Some of his early works are like slender stelae, while others deliver more accu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Charnita Cole and Timothy Jallah (R) visit the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered, and is now part of the complex of the National Civil Rights Museum as they prepare for the 50th anniversary of his assassination on April 1, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. Over the next few days, the city will commemorate his legacy before his death on the balcony outside room 306 on April 4, 1968. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
| Asia Week New York rings up $169,819,900 in total sales | | Exhibition at the Pompidou Centre explores the Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk 1918 - 1922 | | Musée national Picasso-Paris dedicates an exhibition to the story of Guernica |
The Vasudhara Mandala. Dated 1365. Signed: JASARAJA JIRILA. Nepal. Ground mineral pigment on cloth, 41 by 34 in. (104 by 86.4cm.). Photo: Kapoor Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New Yorkthe ten-day Asian art extravaganzawhich concluded on March 24, 2018, reports that combined sales totaled $169,819,000. At press time, this figure includes 41 out of 45 galleries and the four auction houses: Bonhams, Christies, Doyle, and Sothebys. The annual event was celebrated with a gala reception on March 19, co-hosted with the Asian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mike Hearn, Chair of the Asian Art Department and Christina Prescott-Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York welcomed over 600 collectors, curators and Asian art specialists. Says Christina Prescott-Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York. From the minute Asia Week New York commenced, the whirlwind of non-stop activities including 45 gallery exhibitions spanning five centuries combined with the unusually large number of auction sales, kept everyone on the go. Asia Week ... More | |
Nikolaï Souiétine, Komposition, 1920. Huile sur toile, 45 à 32,5 cm. Museum Ludwig, Cologne © Adagp, Paris 2018.
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is offering audiences a chance to explore a chapter in the history of modernity and the Russian avant-garde: the period of the peoples art school (1918 - 1922) founded by Marc Chagall in his native city of Vitebsk, which now lies in Belorussia. 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of Chagalls appointment as Fine Arts Commissioner for the Vitebsk region: a position that enabled him to carry out his project for an art institute open to everyone. El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevitch, leading exponents of the Russian and Soviet avantgarde, were two of the artists Chagall invited to teach at the school. A period of feverish artistic activity followed, turning the school into a revolutionary laboratory. The exhibition retraces these fascinating post-revolutionary years when the history of art was shaped in Vitebsk, far from Russias main cities. Through 250 works and documents loaned by the Tret ... More | |
Dora Maar, Picasso crouching while working on Guernica, Paris, 1937, Silver gelatin print, 20,7 x 20,2 cm, Musée national Picasso-Paris, MP1998-282 © RMN-Grand Palais / Franck Raux ©Sucession Picasso 2018.
PARIS.- Following the 80th anniversary of the works creation, the Musée national Picasso-Paris in partnership with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa is dedicating an exhibition to the story of Guernica an exceptional painting by Pablo Picasso and probably one of the most famous artworks in the world. The masterpiece can be seen in its permanent location in Madrid since 1992. Painted in 1937, this monumental artwork is both a synthesis of the plastic research conducted by Picasso for 40 years and a popular icon. Exhibited, replicated all over the world, it has been at the same time an anti-franco, an anti-fascist and a pacific symbol. It is also an abundantly quoted, commented and taken up artwork, theorized by art historians and artists. Thanks to the exceptional loan of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa of numerous sketches and post- ... More |
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| Iconic paintings leave North America for the first time for Ashmolean exhibition | | Influence of Renaissance prints on Maiolica and bronze explored at the National Gallery of Art | | Exquisite jewels dazzle in historic Cartier exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia |
Charles Demuth (18831935), I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928. Oil, graphite, ink and gold leaf on paperboard, 90.2 x 76.2 cm © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
OXFORD.- The Ashmolean is presenting a major exhibition of works by American artists that have never before travelled outside the USA (23 March22 July 2018). America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper shows over eighty paintings, photographs and prints, and the first American avant-garde film, Manhatta, from international collections. Eighteen key loans come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and a further twenty-seven pieces are being loaned by the Terra Foundation for American Art with whom the exhibition is organised. Thirty-five paintings have never been to the UK and seventeen of these have never left the USA at all. Cool Modernism examines famous painters and photographers of the 1920s and 30s with early works by Georgia OKeeffe; photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston; and cityscapes by Edward Hopper. It also displays the pioneers of modern American art whose work is less well-k ... More | |
Cristofano Robetta, after Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Hercules and Antaeus, c. 1500. Engraving on laid paper, sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Arcana Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition of its kind in the United States, Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, brings together some 90 objects to highlight the impact of Renaissance prints on maiolica and bronze plaquettes. Accompanied by a publication that provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of the phenomenonfrom the role of 15th-century prints and the rediscovery of classical art to the importance of illustrated books and the artistic exchanges between Italy and northern EuropeSharing Images is on view on the ground floor of the West Building from April 1 through August 5, 2018. "This exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the extent and depth of prints, plaquettes, and maiolica in the Gallery's collection," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "The visual links between these objects vividly demonstrate that Renaissance ... More | |
Cartier Paris, Necklace 1951, altered 1953. Platinum, gold, diamonds, Burmese rubies, 37.5 cm (length). Cartier Collection, © Cartier. Photo: Vincent Wulveryck. Provenance: Elizabeth Taylor.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australias extraordinary exhibitionfeaturing many of the worlds greatest jewelsopened in Canberra on 30 March. Cartier: The Exhibition includes the tiara loaned to Catherine Middleton on her wedding day by Her Majesty The Queen, Grace Kellys engagement ring and Elizabeth Taylors ruby and diamond necklace, along with some of the most exquisite pieces from the stunning Cartier Collection. Featuring more than 300 works of art, the exhibition showcases outstanding necklaces, brooches, tiaras, watches and ornaments, alongside rarely seen archival drawings, photographs and ephemera. Co-curated by Margaret Young-Sánchez, formerly Chief Curator of Denver Art Museum and the NGA, the exhibition showcases pieces from the Cartier Collection, museums, institutions and private collectors. This exhibition is the most outstanding collection of important jewels Australia has ever seen, ... More |
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| Exhibition presents new works on paper by South African artist William Kentridge | | Speed Art Museum acquires Bob Thompson painting | | The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv celebrates its 20th anniversary with exhibition |
Ref 32, 2012. From Universal Archive series. Linocut printed on non-archival pages from Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 13 3/4 x 10 5/8. Image courtesy of Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, and David Krut Projects, Johannesburg/New York.
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- The Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting William Kentridge: Universal Archive, on view through Saturday, May 19, 2018, in the museums Walsh Gallery in the Quick Center for Arts, on the campus of Fairfield University. The exhibition presents new works on paper by renowned South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955), inspired during the writing of his Norton Lectures, which he delivered at Harvard University in 2012. In more than 75 linocut prints based on ink sketches and printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, Kentridge revisits a familiar personal iconography, including coffee pots, typewriters, cats, trees, nudes and other imagery, exploring a thematic repertoire that has appeared in art and stage productions throughout his long career. The ... More | |
Renowned Louisville natives Self Portrait in the Studio a rare reflection of the artist at work.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced the acquisition of its first oil painting by Bob Thompson, Self Portrait in the Studio, a Louisville native who took the art world by storm during the 1950s and 1960s and became one of the most respected African-American artists of the late 20th Century. The painting is currently on view in the Speeds North Building second floor contemporary gallery. The acquisition of a major Bob Thompson painting has been a goal of the Speed Art Museum for years, said Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum. Thompson, along with the great Sam Gilliam, is one of Louisvilles most important artists. Both artists emerged out of segregated Louisville in the late 1950s and early 1960s and went on to transform our understanding of contemporary painting in different ways. Thompsons Self Portrait provides a unique glimpse into the identity of an ... More | |
Powder coated aluminum and rock, 80X28X120. Courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery,Tel Aviv / Brussels.
TEL AVIV.- The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv announces its exhibition, KEDEMKODEMKADIMA, which includes contributions by Diti Almog, Arahmaiani, Yochai Avrahami, Ilit Azoulay, Guy Ben-Ner, Monica Bonvicini, Born from Rock, Rafram Chaddad, Latifa Echakhch, Ceal Floyer, Shilpa Gupta, Peter Halley, Michal Helfman, Chourouk Hriech, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Eti Jacobi, Christian Jankowski, Kitty Kraus, Jannis Kounellis, Agnieszka Kurant, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Benoît Maire, Alex Mirutziu & TAH29, Jonathan Monk, Laurent Montaron, Natan Tarfe, Joshua Neustein, Adrian Paci, Eli Petel, Pratchaya Phinthong, Wilfredo Prieto, Public Movement, Tomer Rosenthal, Miri Segal, Ariel Schlesinger, Shiri Tarko, Jan Tichy, Naama Tsabar, Alice Tomaselli, Lihi Turjeman, Günther Uecker, Johannes VanDerBeek, Lawrence Weiner, and Nevet Yitzhak. Presented at the CCA together with three additional ... More |
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| The Jean-Paul Najar Foundation opens exhibition showcasing Jene Highstein's seminal sculptures | | Works by Abelardo Morell, Didier William and Nick Cave latest additions to PAFA's permanent collection | | Hungarian artist Ilona Keserü's first solo exhibition in London on view at Stephen Friedman Gallery |
Multiple Distortions, black cement on steel armature, 1978. Untitled, black bone pigment and graphite on paper, 1976. JPNF Collection Jene Highstein: Space and Place. Installation Shot, March 2018. Copyright 2018, JPNF. Photo: Musthafa Aboobacker.
DUBAI.- The Jean-Paul Najar Foundation is presenting Jene Highstein: Space and Place a solo exhibition showcasing the artists seminal sculptures as well as works on paper from the 1970s through the 1990s. A key figure of sculptural abstraction, Highstein used bronze, concrete, steel and wood to create primal and organic forms. Highsteins sculptural forms experienced constant shifts in size. He was adept at creating artworks of immense and yet intimate scale. Both his expansive site-specific works and more traditional sculptures remain idiosyncratic. The irregularities, curves and discolorations of Highsteins sculptures are a by-product of the process and passing of time, both of which are fully embraced by the artist. Thus, the sculptures retain a biomorphic feel: they are not abstracted from ... More | |
Nick Cave: Rescue is on view in the Morris Gallery of the Historic Landmark Building through May 13, 2018.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the addition of 18 historic, modern, and contemporary works to its permanent collection of American art. The new acquisitions include works on paper, sculpture and photography, half of which are works by women, artists of color, and underrepresented artists. "PAFA continues to build a permanent collection devoted to the American experience, and we are currently particularly interested in women artists and artists of color, so we are utilizing our resources to tell an expansive story about the art of America," notes Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. Highlights in the latest group of purchases include a wood carving, ink and collage panel, Marassa Jumeaux (2017), by Didier William, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of PAFA's MFA program, and two archival pigment prints by Boston-based ... More | |
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LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting Hungarian artist Ilona Keserüs first solo exhibition in London. Following her inclusion in the gallery's Frieze Masters presentation in October 2017, this exhibition includes drawings, objects and paintings from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Keserü was born in 1933 in Pécs, Hungary and created a diverse body of work that has rarely been seen outside Eastern Europe. She is one of Hungarys leading post-war abstract artists. Her career spans over seventy years and her work expresses power and strength in the face of political and cultural adversity. Pioneering a visual language that explores material, colour and the body, Keserüs use of colour and recognisable soft forms draw comparison to Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois and Judy Chicago. In 1962 Keserü lived in Italy. She learnt about new shades of paint and approaches to material and form. The trip altered her approach to p ... More |
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In Times of Perseus: Sargent's Daughters opens a group exhibition curated by Sophie Landres
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting In Times of Perseus, a group exhibition curated by Sophie Landres. The exhibition will be on view through April 22nd, 2018. In Times of Perseus explores parallels between contemporary art practices and the myth of Perseus and Medusa. Whether finding analogies for art making in the story line or transvaluing its familiar symbolism, the featured artists tap into a zeitgeist full of venom, petrification, dazzling illusions, and weaponized reflections. Hair weaves through the exhibition as filaments of expressivity. The aesthetic is electrified, fetishized, or symptomatic of social poison. Where Perseus shield became Medusas self-defeating mirror, here reflections obliterate the subject while eyes glisten and avoid contact. Transmutations into stone or into spectra suggest ways to escape the body, mind, or myth. Zarouhie ... More
James Tapscott, rising star of international land art, completes a new project in Shenzhen, China
SHENZHEN.- James Tapscott, the Melbourne-based Land & Light artist, announced completion of a new project in Shenzhen, China, in association with Art Front Gallery and United Art Projects. Diaphanous Bloom is an abstracted tree, almost nine meters high, constructed in polished stainless steel, which is softened and buffeted by a hazy canopy of illuminated mist. Completed early in 2018, Tapscott uses the mist as a medium to delineate between man-made and natural elements. The city of Shenzhen has sprung from a fishing village to a metropolis of over 12 million people in a few short decades. Almost all the vegetation has been placed there artificially. Diaphanous Bloom was commissioned for the new MixC development, which is likewise carefully landscaped with greenery. I wanted to produce a work that shows the stark contrast between ... More
Colorless diamonds, JAR earrings lift Heritage Auctions' Fine Jewelry Auction beyond $3.4 million
DALLAS, TX.- Large colorless diamonds and a collection of earrings by Joel Arthur Rosenthal were in high demand at Heritage Auctions' Spring Fine Jewelry Auction, and helped the final total sold in the event climb to $3,417,204. All of the top 10 lots in the auction included white diamonds, while three sets of earrings by Rosenthal recognized by his "JAR" initials exceeded their pre-auction estimates by significant margins. "Colorless diamonds are enjoying tremendous popularity, and that was evident by the way they were pursued by our clients," Heritage Auctions Senior Director of Fine Jewelry Jill Burgum said, "and the JAR lots achieved highly successful results following spirited bidding." The event's top lot, a Diamond, Platinum Ring pursued by multiple bidders, attained a final sale price of $112,500. It boasts an emerald-cut diamond accented by tapered ... More
Jim Kempner Fine Art opens exhibition with works by contemporary figurative painter Carole Freeman
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Kempner Fine Art is presenting Unsung, its first exhibition with the contemporary figurative painter Carole Freeman. The exhibition features twenty-four 12 x 9 portraits of little known or not-known-enough American heroes who represent a range of social and political issues including sexual harassment, fake news and the post-truth moment, racism, the environment, terrorism, Islamophobia, and civil, LGBTQ and womens rights. Unsung runs from March 17th- April 22nd, 2018. Carole Freeman subversively takes on topical issues through her depictions of controversial and courageous figures. Consideration of historical and present day events and statistical details led to a roster of subjects who reflect the diversity of the US population. Subjects are as varied as a physician, intellectuals, a mother, pilots, a miner, a sex educator, and politicians. ... More
Pérez Art Museum Miami presents a newly-commissioned video work by Meiro Koizumi
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting a newly-commissioned video work by Meiro Koizumi (b. 1976, Gunma, Japan; lives in Tokyo). Working primarily in video and performance, Koizumis works investigate the boundaries between the private and the public, between authentic and staged emotions. They often present everyday situations transformed into sites of tension, involving conflicts between duty and desire. In this new work, Koizumi is working for the first time with non-Japanese subjects, engaging United States veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Five veterans recount traumatic experiences during these past military conflicts, while wearing body-cams that record images of their current domestic spaces and everyday landscapes in the US. The video poetically articulates how these difficult memories of war continually mix with daily life for these ... More
John Surtees' one-owner 1957 BMW 507 to be offered for the first time at Bonhams Festival of Speed sale
LONDON.- Bonhams announced that it will offer the rare, one-owner 1957 BMW 507 Roadster (£2,000,000 2,200,000) directly from the estate of the late John Surtees CBE, at the Festival of Speed Sale on 13 July at Goodwood. At the time that he acquired the car as new in 1957, John was the reigning 500cc Motorcycle World Champion, having won the title in 1956 riding for Count Domenico Agusta's MV Agusta factory team. A few months later, at Hockenheim, Il Grande John as the Italian racing fans had nicknamed him spotted the elegantly understated 507 being used by BMW engineering director Alexander von Falkenhausen. He instantly fell in love with it. "He saw me looking at it, and said to try it, Surtees recalled. "I came back thinking 'thats rather nice'. Back in Italy, when Count Agusta told John Surtees that he would like to buy him a present ... More
PIASA to offer an important French photographic collection
PARIS.- PIASA announced the sale of an important French Photographic Collection on Wednesday 30 May 2018. The collection assembled over a period of more than 30 years features 47 photographic masterpieces by Brassaï, Nan Goldin, Louise Lawler, Robert Mapplethorpe, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Andres Serrano and others, each with a remarkable international provenance. Every photographer is represented by an emblematic work, with meticulous attention paid to choice of print. Among the highlights of the collection is a series of four portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), also owned by the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York. They feature Ajitto, his celebrated model, photographed in the same pose from four different angles. Mapplethorpe sought perfection in form in all his portraits, from nudes to flowers. This four-part nude study ... More
Galerie Ora-Ora opens new gallery space with exhibition of works by Xiao Xu
HONG KONG.- Graduating from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a Bachelors degree and Masters degree in Chinese Painting in 2007 and 2010, Xiao Xu has become one of the leading forces in contemporary ink in China. An artist who acknowledges his own love of the dark dreams and myths imbued in his paintings: It might be that I see too many dark sides of the world. Galerie Ora-Ora welcomes Xiao Xu to its first solo show in its new space on 17F of H Queens. Xiao Xus solo show at Galerie Ora-Ora invites you to enter the gateway that leads from reality to abstraction, beginning a psychological expedition of conflictual forces, past angular icebergs and labyrinthine towers. In these artworks, the artist has broken free, and runs into wide landscapes of his own creation. There are artists that choose not to place themselves at the fulcrum of creation, but ... More
Los Angeles museum celebrates the art of the selfie
GLENDALE (AFP).- There's an art to taking the perfect selfie -- from the angle, to the focus, cropping out that pesky outstretched arm and above all, the smile. In a celebration of self-portraits in the social media age Tommy Honton and Tair Mamedov are set to open the Museum of Selfies in Los Angeles this Sunday -- an interactive exhibition exploring the history and cultural phenomenon of snapping a photo of yourself. And for those who think if a moment wasn't photographed, it might as well have not happened -- the good news is that at the Museum of Selfies, selfies are compulsory. Event planner Lori Nguyen, 45, said she doesn't take selfies very often because "I'm not, like, super young." But another visitor, Nina Crowe, said she takes "one a day." Neither missed the chance to snap several at the Museum of Se ... More
QUAD presents a project aiming to address the stigma of mental health problems in the military
DERBY.- QUAD in Derby presents a new exhibition by Mark Neville, entitled Battle Against Stigma which aims to address the stigma of mental health problems in the military. The exhibition is part of FORMAT International Photography Festival Off Year Programme. This, the first UK exhibition of Mark Nevilles Battle Against Stigma project aims to address issues of mental health problems in the military. Also included is the UK premiere of Displaced Ukrainians, focussing on the plight of children in a zone of dispute and conflict. The exhibition is also part of QUADs year-long season of Wellbeing. Mark Neville works at the intersection of art and documentary, investigating the social function of photography Often working with closely knit communities, in a collaborative process intended to be of practical benefit to the subject, his photographic projects to date have ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren (Netherlands)
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