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Peter Paul Rubens, Selbstbildnis im Kreise der Mantuaner Freunde, 1604, Leinwand, 77,5 x 101 cm. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, WRM, Koeln, WRM Dep. 248.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In 1608, after a period of intense artistic study in Italy, Peter Paul Rubens (1577Â1640) returned to his hometown of Antwerp. He found a city eager to renew its visual culture and ready to support him, a bold artist who worked at a rapid pace and dramatic scale that could satisfy the demand for religious images while also supplying private collectors with works of ancient history and mythology. Early Rubens is the first exhibition dedicated to the pivotal years between 1609 and 1621 when the Northern Baroque master established his career. In approximately 30 paintings and 20 works on paper, the exhibition traces RubensÂs early development as a master painter with a unique gift for depicting seductive and shocking narratives. Rubens was not only a sought-after artist, but also a diplomat, shrewd business man, and a friend to scholars and monarchs. Early Rubens explore the artistÂs meteoric rise to the first rank of European painters through a series of social and artistic choices that ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Restorers work on a sarcophagus part of the Tutankhamun collection at the restoration lab of the newly-built Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on April 7, 2019. Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP
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| | | Henry Moore Studios & Gardens hosts the largest exhibition devoted to Henry Moore's drawings in 40 years | | Andy Warhol pocket watch, JFK rocking chair featured in Fine Autograph and Artifact sale | | Hauser & Wirth now represents American artist Glenn Ligon | 
Henry Moore, Head 1958. Drawing. Photo: Michel Muller.
PERRY GREEN.- Presenting a long-overdue career survey with exclusive focus on drawing, The Art of Seeing includes over 150 works from the collections of the Henry Moore Foundation, Tate, the British Museum and other public and private collections. Although Henry Moore is best known as a sculptor, he was an exceptionally talented and prolific draughtsman, producing a body of nearly 7,500 drawings over seven decades. It was in fact thanks to exhibitions of his Shelter drawings at the National Gallery in 1942 which had been commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee chaired by Kenneth Clark that Moore first received widespread recognition in Britain. Moore believed that drawing, even for people who cannot draw, even for people not trying to produce a good drawing, makes you look more intensely. Its eclecticism and ease of use made it an ideal medium for a wide range of purposes, from a tool to study ... More | | 
Andy Warhol's 14K gold Elgin pocket watch.
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's April Fine Autograph and Artifact sale features an impressive selection of pop culture material with online bidding through April 12, 2019. Highlights include a one-of-a-kind original mixed-media artwork by Peter Max,featuring a color photograph of Princess Diana during a trip to Africa affixed at the center, overpainted around the edges in psychedelic colors by Max (preserving her face), and similarly painted in the borders. Signed at the bottom in paint, "Max." Handsomely double-matted and framed. The consignor notes that he purchased this from a Red Cross benefit auction held shortly after Princess Diana's death; this was one in a series of many portraits Max did of the late princess. Of his famed subject, the artist related: 'There were so many facets of Princess Diana. One portrait was not enough; it took several paintings to capture her many wonderful aspects. It was truly a great honor to paint her. She was a ... More | | 
Mirror, 2002. Coal dust, printing ink, glue, gesso, and graphite on canvas, 82 5/8 x 55 1/8 in. Collection of Melody Hobson. Courtesy of thr artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles ©Glenn Ligon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth now represents celebrated American artist Glenn Ligon. Since the 1980s, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build upon the legacies of modern and conceptual art. His critically acclaimed work, both political and personal, encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installation works. Ligon is perhaps best known for his text-based paintings that draw upon the influential words of leading 20th-century cultural figures, including Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, Gertrude Stein, and Richard Pryor, among others. From the early years of his practice, Ligon has been motivated by Americas charged political landscape. His engagement with ideas about ... More |
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| | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Sylvie Fleury | | Blain│Southern presents small-screen works by Bill Viola in an intimate context | | Exhibition at Heather James Fine Art features works by Japanese-American artists | 
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LONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London is presenting Sylvie Fleury: Hypnotic Poison. Presented in the gallerys historic Ely Room, new works are being shown alongside pieces from three of the artists most significant series her makeup palettes, a new neon sign installation referencing Christian Diors iconic fragrance, Hypnotic Poison, and a new soft Rocket, building on the artists earlier rocket works and defying the taut sleekness typically associated with spaceships. Engaging with the mechanics of materialistic desire, the aesthetics of beauty and the construction of value, Sylvie Fleurys sleek, alluring works provide a lens through which contemporary politics of gender, beauty and consumerism can be re-evaluated. Her artistic practice, which spans sculpture, performance, installation and painting, combines Marcel Duchamps idea of the ready-made with Andy Warhols preoccupation with consumer cul ... More | | 
Bill Viola, Intimate Works, 2019, Installation view, Courtesy the artist and Blain│Southern, Photo: Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- Bill Violas new exhibition at Blain|Southern presents small-screen works in an intimate context to reflect on the complex details of human relations and our attachment to the material world. Known for exploring the artistic potential of video since the seventies, here Viola employs a number of formats and techniques of filming and projection in works made within the last two decades. In a triptych on adjoining flat screen panels, Poem B (The Guest House), 2006; we witness the residue of a life through the objects and structures that surround a solitary older woman. In Small Saints, 2008; six separate OLED screens depict six individuals appearing from the darkness, in footage that transitions between grainy black-and-white images from a surveillance camera, to the extreme clarity of high-definition digital video. Viola ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, Seashore of Rotterdam, 1988. Acrylic on canvas, 20 15/16 x 18 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Boundary-pushing paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by more than 15 artists including Yayoi Kusama, Ruth Asawa, Arakawa, and Masami Teraoka are on view from April 4 to July 15, 2019, at Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, 49 Geary Street. We Were Always Here: Japanese-American Post-War Pioneers of Art provides an insightful chapter within the many cross-cultural narratives that developed and flourished in American art after World War II. While several artists featured in the exhibition were born in the U.S., others chose the U.S. as their home. This convergence of identitiestaking place during both a highly expressive and repressive period in Americaresulted in particularly potent work, which expanded the vocabulary of painting while introducing new forms of sculpture and conceptual art. The artists featured in the show forever ... More |
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| | | MoMA PS1 presents "Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Surviving Active Shooter Custer" | | Power Play: Bundeskunsthalle opens exhibition of works by Anna Uddenberg | | Newfields announces $21.7 million in grants and gifts | 
Installation view of Health of the People is the Highest Law (2019) in Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Surviving Active Shooter Custer (March 31-September 8) at MoMA PS1, New York. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Artist, activist, and educator Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (American, b. 1954) is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations, and these identities have informed his work for more than thirty years. This presentation of large scale print works points to legacies of state violence against native communities while drawing parallels with events in the present day. By employing the contemporary term active shooter to characterize massacres committed by U.S. troops against Native Americans over a century ago, Heap of Birds reanimates the past in the language of the present. In so doing, he points to the violence of history itself: the power of a dominant culture to erase, forget, or otherwise obscure its own acts of oppression. Across his drawings, prints, and ... More | | 
Anna Uddenberg, Cuddle Clamp, 2017. Styrofoam, fiberglass, aqua-resin, plaster, car interior elements, fake fur, mesh, vinyl velvet, vinyl, wall-to-wall carpet, suitcase elements, laminat, vinyl foam strings, spray paint, HDF, 105 x 122 x 158 cm. Leihgabe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst © Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
BONN.- Anna Uddenbergs sculptures and their staging within the exhibition space conceived here as a kind of synthesis of the arts seduce from the start and cajole our senses with their perfection, forms and colourfulness. The visitor nevertheless quickly understands that the artist thinks far beyond the haptic surface and provides in-depth arguments on both a conceptual and visual level. Uddenberg focuses on the social conventions and norms of our often-excessive consumer culture and questions obsolete habits of thought and visual perception, as well as our notion of mental and physical mobility. She analyses social systems as well as, above all, systems of representation ... More | | 
Guests to Newfields will see changes around the campus right away.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Newfields announced a cumulative $21.7 million in grants and gifts from foundations, private donors and public entities. This funding will go towards key infrastructure upgrades for The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres and The Garden to increase capacity for everyday visits and seasonal experiences, like the wildly successful Winterlights and newly announced Harvest festival. The announcement served to update community stakeholders and members on priority projects in the institutions 30 year master plan, which was unveiled in late 2017. The generous gifts include $10 million from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation; $8 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc.; $3 million from Newfields trustee Kent Hawryluk; $500,000 from the Indianapolis Department of Public Works; $100,000 from long-time supporter Edgar Fehnel; and $100,000 from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Newfields ... More |
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| | | Australian government grants Bundanon Trust $22 million to secure Arthur Boyd's vision | | Alice Black presents the debut London exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist, Brian Maguire | | Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu opens Fiona Tann's first exhibition in Belgium | 
The Arthur Boyd Gallery.
BUNDANON.- Bundanon Trust announced it has received a grant of $22 million from the Australian Government representing the final contribution towards $30.6 million required to embark on the dynamic design project for Bundanon Trusts Riversdale site on the South Coast of NSW. The grant follows a commitment in June 2018 from the State Government of $8.592 million the largest grant from the NSW Regional Cultural Fund. Bundanon Trust CEO Deborah Ely said: This funding will see Arthur Boyds vision for Bundanon finally realised. It was Boyds desire for his former residence, art collection and the stunning landscape of Bundanon to be shared with as many people as possible. Bundanon Trust have worked for many years towards securing a home for the nationally significant art collection in their care, and to expand the in-demand creative art education programs for students which is so central to the Trusts work. ... More | | 
Brian Maguire, Phylis Hyman, 2019. Acrylic on Linen, 91 x 61 cm.
LONDON.- Alice Black is presenting the debut London exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist, Brian Maguire. The exhibition spotlights a new body of work which traces Maguires fourdecade arc, with an unsparing focus on the underlying socio-political forces at work around the world today. It is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by gallery Co-founder Matt Symonds and a short film produced by award winning documentary filmmaker Sebastiano dAyala Valva. Maguire has shown extensively in Europe, the US and Asia and his work is included in major private and public collections worldwide. He is represented by Fergus McCaffrey in New York and Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. 2018 saw the publication of a major artist monograph on Maguire. Brian Maguire was born in 1951 in Dublin, Ireland. Over the last 40 years Maguire, who now divides his time between Dublin ... More | | 
Fiona Tan, Circular Ruins Installation, mixed media, 2019.
MONS.- The MACs is presenting Shadow Archive, the first monograph exhibition in Belgium by Fiona Tan, a renowned international artist who for the past 20 years has been exploring the realms of memory through her installations that combine photographs, videos, films, drawings and archive documents. Resulting from her residence at the MAC's, we shall discover here a brand new piece called Archive, produced specially for the exhibition and the outcome of her research into the Paul Otlet archives conserved at the Mundaneum in Mons. The internationally renowned visual artist, Fiona Tan has been exploring the territories of memory and identity in her installations since the end of the 1990s, mixing photographs, videos and films, as she has also done in her artist books. In 2009, she represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennial. ... More |
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Dorothea Tanning  Pushing the Boundaries of Surrealism | TateShots
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 Exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK introduces Minhwa, Korea's traditional paintingsLONDON.- The Korean Cultural Centre UK presents Minhwa: The Beauty of Korean Folk Paintings, in partnership with Keimyung University Korean Minhwa Center, from 5th April 2019 to 18th May 2019. The exhibition introduces Minhwa, Koreas traditional paintings each illustrating peoples hopes and dreams through unconventional but artistic expressions. By definition, Minhwa is the artwork of the common people. Flourishing in the 19th century, Minhwa was widely created by unknown artisans to decorate homes and to celebrate joyful family occasions such as weddings and birthdays. Unlike the traditional court paintings of aristocrats, Minhwa depicted the unique representations of objects and scenery without any formality and disciplines, rather by embracing bold colours and a childish style. For that reason, Minhwa has traditionally been viewed as a secondary art form ... More Exhibition reveals new narratives within Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art's collectionMIDDLESBROUGH.- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Arts year-long Middlesbrough Collection display reveals new narratives within the institutes collection. Through a collaboration with research group Black Artists & Modernism, the collection is audited for all contributions by artists of African, Asian and Middle East and North Africa Region descent in the UK in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In 1987, the Cleveland Gallery acquired a self-portrait by the artist Sonia Boyce (then 25 years old) She Aint Holdin Them Up, Shes Holdin On: Some English Rose (1986). This significant work has become a cornerstone of what is now the Middlesbrough Collection, held at MIMA. 32 years later, MIMA follows up on the conversation with Boyce, now a leading figure in British contemporary art, via the project Black Artists & Modernism. MIMA, the North Easts ... More Ryan Lee opens first exhibition of Donald Sultan's Mimosa paintingsNEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee opened Donald Sultan: Mimosa, Paintings and Drawings, an exhibition of new work by the acclaimed artist. Inspired by a gift of mimosa blossoms he received from a friend in the South of France, Sultan began using the structure of the mimosa plant to continue his interrogation of the space between abstraction and representation, the organic and the industrial, as well as the history of modern art. The exhibition includes large-scale drawings and monumental paintings, ranging from four to eight feet wide, respectively. This is the first exhibition of Sultans Mimosa paintings and the show is accompanied by a catalogue. Sultan executed the paintings and drawings simultaneously, and as a result they inform each other. Working out the density of charcoal and conte in the drawings first led Sultan to the paintings in which he uses roofing ... More Exhibition presents works by Julia Haft-Candell in direct historic conversation with works by Suzan FreconLOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is presenting Julia Haft-Candell / Suzan Frecon an exhibition of new sculpture by the Los Angeles-based artist in direct historic conversation with works on paper by New York-based abstract artist Suzan Frecon. Julia Haft-Candells ceramic sculptures re-imagine essentialist forms building upon the artists previous vocabulary involving rhythm, repetition, and ritual. This latest body of work presents the familiar in a highly focused context through ambiguous shapes and fluid moments. Haft-Candells hand-molded gestures capture the immediate responsiveness of her primary material, as she experiments with subject and scale in relation to the body. The artist often balances the natural with the vitreous in her finishes acknowledging a conscious understanding of her mediums inherent properties. Haft-Candells specific use ... More Hungarian Roma designer fights stereotypes with fashionBUDAPEST (AFP).- Hungarian Roma fashion designer Erika Varga says her label is about stitching together cultural traditions and snipping through stereotypes as much as it's about dressmaking. "Fashion is a branch of art that interests and connects people, non-Roma and Roma," the founder of Romani Design said. Often blamed for petty crime, the Roma, Hungary's largest ethnic minority, face widespread discrimination, poverty and exclusion from mainstream society. "In most cases, Roma appear in a pejorative way in the media. "Many turn away from their own culture... But people need positive role models, not just the majority in society but also Roma people themselves," the 47-year-old designer said. Founded in 2010 by Varga to promote Roma fashion and identity, her Romani Design studio brought out its first collection the same year. Now, her ... More American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center opens new showsWASHINGTON, DC.- Winter shows at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center opened April 6. Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking features 10 innovative print artists from across the United States who employ the finest examples of hand printed and digital techniques. Their works reinterpret centuries-old printmaking techniques in the digital age, exploring themes of culture, identity, religion, environment, memory, and art history. Some work in traditional forms, like lithography, intaglio, relief, and screen printing, while others explore these methods as the basis for large-scale sculpture, collage, and integrating technology into printmaking. Featuring April Flanders, Tom Hück, Carrie Lingscheit, Beauvais Lyons, Dennis McNett, Michael Menchaca, Richard Peterson, Nicole Pietrantoni, Steve Prince, and Sangmi Yoo. Kenneth Victor Young: Continuum ... More PROYECTOSMONCLOVA opens an exhibition of works by Lucinda Urrusti MEXICO CITY.- In the context of the history of contemporary painting in Mexico, the work of Lucinda Urrusti (Melilla, Spanish Morocco, 1929) falls under the shadow of a paradox, and to make a long story short, presents us with a problem of interpretation. It comes as little surprise that most critics who have written about her painting have taken a literary approach, formulating a litany of adjectives to describe either her technical abilities or the two most recognizable genres in her oeuvre, still life and portraiture. Nevertheless, these are just some of the most identifiable facets of this "eccentric" work in the history of painting in Mexico during the twentieth century. I mean "eccentric" in the geometrical sense of the word, namely: work that is off-center in relation to the tendencies of its era, and which thus revolves around a different point. This artist's most relevant ... More Exhibition reconstructs the relationship between visual arts and feminist movement in ItalyMILAN.- FM Center for Contemporary Art presents The Unexpected Subject. 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy, a new exhibition curated by Marco Scotini and Raffaella Perna, proposing for the first time a wide-ranging investigation and a precise reconstruction of the relationship between visual arts and feminist movement in Italy, identifying in 1978 the catalyst year of all energies in play (not only in Italy). The exhibition is realized thanks to the collaboration of MART Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and Frittelli Arte Contemporanea. In 1978, with the exhibition Materialization of Language curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, almost eighty women artists - including Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Maria Lai, Lucia Marcucci, Giulia Niccolai, Anna Oberto, Mira Schendel, Patrizia Vicinelli - make their entrance to the Venice Biennale for the first time, loudly ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals sale presents a wide range of artworksSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will offer a Fine Mélange: Art, Decorative Arts & More on Saturday, April 20, 2019, at 10:30 am PDT. Featuring over 260 items, the sale presents a wide range of artworks, decorative arts and more, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Highlights include a Chinese porcelain Xiangqi game, a 19th-century portrait of a gentleman, a carved gilt wood peacock, an etching of three horsemen by Edward Borein (1873-1945), and a 19th-century silver compact by Donadio. Artworks include oils, watercolors, etchings, lithographs, ink on paper, pastels, prints and photographs of diverse eras and subject matter. Other items going up for bid include sculptures and figures of bronze, copper and porcelain; boxes and compacts of sterling, porcelain or agate; a selection of art ... More Asya Geisberg Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Shane WalshNEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Every Day is Friday", an exhibition of paintings by Shane Walsh. This is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Walsh's paintings instantly seem like specters from the past; possibly configurations reminiscent of Frank Stella sculptures populated by Lichtenstein-esque brushstrokes. Within these works, the fabric of time unravels, and the past seeps in through a painted "collage" of hyperbolic gestures and reticulated squares atop airbrushed grounds. Walsh's vibrant palette and cut-and-paste aesthetic lends itself to 80's and 90's pop-culture references such as MTV, Garbage Pail Kids and skateboard graphics. For these paintings, Walsh utilizes technology to obfuscate painting's archaic form. The artist collects marks and brushstrokes both graphic and digital. The result is the illusion ... More The Approach opens an exhibition of recent paintings by British artist Sam Windett LONDON.- For Remodel, British artist Sam Windett is exhibiting recent paintings in The Annexe produced through his distinctive process of layering paint and paper. Windett works through a system of continuously adding and subtracting materials, modelling and remodelling the canvas surface to create paintings caught somewhere between abstraction, narrative and representation. JH: The show is called Remodel, which you have previously alluded to as being informed by the process of covering and uncovering (perhaps somewhat inspired by Jasper Johns). Can you talk more about the relevance of this title and the way it relates to your practice? SW: The title came from the process by which the paintings are made, through the layering, adding and removing, of paint and paper. I always start with a rough idea of how each painting might look, drawing first in ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 08, 1973. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. In this image: Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), December 1937. Courtesy SothebyÂs.
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