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The Museo del Prado presents "Rubens, Painter of Sketches," an exhibition which delves into the study of Rubens as the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art.
MADRID.- In addition to focusing on the importance of Rubens within the history of the oil sketch and facilitating an appreciation of the unique qualities of his works of this type, the exhibition Rubens. Painter of Sketches presents the results of an exhaustive research project directed by the exhibition?s two curators: Friso Lammertse, curator of Old Master Painting at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, and Alejandro Vergara, chief curator of Flemish and Northern schools painting at the Museo del Prado. The conclusions of their study are presented in the exhibition and also form the basis of the accompanying publication. The practice of producing oil sketches within the process of creating a painting began in 16th-century Italy. Artists such as Polidoro da Caravaggio, Beccafumi, Federico Barrocci, Tintoretto and Veronese were the first to make use of painted oil sketches as vehicles to try out their ideas when devising a painting. Ho ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows a view of the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth (Markgraefliches Opernhaus) which is expected to reopen on April 12, 2018 after 6 years of renovation work. The Margravial Opera House, a Baroque opera house built between 1744 and 1748, is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012. Daniel Karmann / dpa / AFP
| Richard Tuttle's first exhibition in South Korea on view at Pace Gallery | | Andy Warhol's Most Wanted Men, No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr. to highlight Christie's sale | | Trump Tower fire kills art dealer Todd Brassner, injures four |
Richard Tuttle, Thoughts of Trees, 14, 2016.
SEOUL.- Pace Gallery is presenting a new body of work by Richard Tuttle in the artists first exhibition in South Korea. On view March 9 May 12, 2018 at Itaewon-ro 262, Yongsan-gu, the works in Richard Tuttle: Thoughts of Trees continue the renowned American artists ongoing investigation of line, volume, color, texture, shape, and form. As with Tuttles practice as a whole, the 23 works in Thoughts of Trees occupy a space between painting, drawing, sculpture, and assemblage and draw beauty out of traditionally humble materials. In this series, Tuttle brings a quietly deliberate approach to art-making, in which every seemingly incidental shadow or line is judiciously intended. As demonstrated in this exhibition, spatial relationships and scale are central concerns for the artist and the works materials and presentation are always interrelated, with Tuttle consistently maintaining an acute awareness for the viewer ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Most Wanted Men, No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr., 1964 (detail). Estimate in the region of $30 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- This Spring, Christies will offer Andy Warhols Most Wanted Men, No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr., 1964 (estimate in the range of $30 million) as a highlight of its May 17th Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. This diptych belongs to one of the artists controversial Most Wanted Men series, which was originally conceived as a monumental mural to celebrate the 1964 New York Worlds Fair, and famously destroyed just a few days before the fairs official opening. Later that year, Warhol made a series of nearly two dozen larger than life size canvases featuring thirteen of these most wanted men, among them was the present work. On May 17, Most Wanted Men No. 11, will be offered alongside Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963 (click here for dedicated release), uniting two exceptional canvases that share ... More | |
Broken and burned windows are seen after a fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower on April 7, 2018 in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- An elderly man died late Saturday and four firefighters were injured after a blaze erupted on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York, officials said. The New York Police Department said 67-year-old Todd Brassner was found "unconscious and unresponsive" when officers arrived at the scene. Brassner -- a Trump Tower resident identified by US media as an art dealer -- was pronounced dead after being taken to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, according to police, which said the medical examiner's office would determine the cause of death as part of an ongoing investigation. "This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke," the New York City Fire Department ... More |
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| Sotheby's New York announces highlights from the Prints & Multiples sale | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of recent drawings by Richard Serra | | Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room reopen with fresh new architectural design and features |
Richard Diebenkorn, Blue Surround. Aquatint printed in colors with etching and drypoint, 1982, initialed in pencil, dated and inscribed TP, a trial proof aside from the numbered edition of 35, on Rives BFK paper, framed. Sheet: 888 by 670 mm., 35 by 26 3/8 in. Estimate $80/120,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced its New York auction of Important Prints & Multiples will take place on 26 & 27 April. Featuring exemplary works by Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol the sale is a beautiful representation of the diversity of this field. The New York exhibition opens to the public 22 April. The auction is led by Jasper Johnss Flags I (ULAE 128), carrying an estimate of $1/1.5 million. An ambitious project that required the production of 31 screens, the screenprint has an intricate and heavily-layered surface of red, white and blue impastos, underlaid with flatter areas of greens, oranges and blacks. One of Johnss ... More | |
Installation view of Richard Serras Rifts exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. April 6 - May 25, 2018. All artworks © Richard Serra/DACS, London, 2018. Photo: Mike Bruce. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Rifts, an exhibition of recent drawings by Richard Serra. The Rifts get their name from the distinctive white shapeselongated trianglesthat punctuate their otherwise unrelenting tarmac blackness, and perhaps from the geological term for a rent in the earths surface caused by moving tectonic plates. These sharp-edged triangular rifts are negative shapes, the white of the blank paper. An invention in drawing but one demanding their own rigor, they happen at the junction of two sheets of paper. The stringent intelligible structures of the Rift Drawings obstruct us from seeing their white divisions expressively as other kinds of rupturepsychological, historical, ontological. Yet minimal metaphors of drawing remain: tension, balance, presence, space. The ... More | |
Detail of Queen Elizabeth Hall. Photo: Morley Von Sternberg.
LONDON.- Southbank Centres iconic Brutalist venues, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, will reopen on Monday 9 April, following over two years extensive redesign and refurbishment. They open with a programme of events that pays tribute to the historic legacy of the venues, and the many legendary artists who have performed there over the past fifty years. A dynamic blend of contemporary and classical work sees vibrant performances, events, installations and a free programme for all ages across the venues. A new era for Southbank Centres venues sees an even greater focus on the best live music, bold programing, new artists, new commissions and artist residencies and an expanded 1000 capacity gigs space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer. The cultural landmarks open with world class, environmentally-improved n ew facilities for audiences and artists that highlight the unique heritage features of the building ... More |
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| Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens announces new acquisition: 18th c. French painting from estate of Eleanor Post Close | | Exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by Ghada Amer on view at Cheim & Read | | The Pulitzer Arts Foundation opens the first major U.S. exhibition of Mona Hatoum's work in over 20 years |
Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris, 1656-1746), Portrait of Monsieur de Puysegur, likely Jacques-François de Chastenet, Marquis de Puysegur, 53 ½ x 41 ½ inches, oil on canvas.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens announces the acquisition of the painting Portrait of Monsieur de Puysegur, likely Jacques-François de Chastenet, Marquis de Puysegur, by Nicolas de Largillierre (Paris, 1656-1746) from Sothebys sale of the collection of Eleanor Post Close (1909-2006), Marjorie Merriweather Posts daughter, and her son Antal Post de Bekessy (1943-2015) in December 2017. The 53 ½ x 41 ½ inch oil on canvas painting, lot 609 of the auction, is a three-quarter length portrait of Monsieur de Puysegur, likely Jacques-François de Chastenet, Marquis de Puysegur. Like her mother, Eleanor Post Close was a discerning collector of remarkable objects, said Hillwood executive director Kate Markert. The sale of her collection, and this work in particular, presented a rare opportunity for Hillwood to acquire an excellent example of French portraiture, particularly because ... More | |
Ghada Amer, LANDSCAPE WITH BLACK MOUNTAINS-RFGA, 2017 (detail). Acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas, 45 x 45 inches, 114.3 x 114.3 centimeters. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting an exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by Ghada Amer. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, with an essay by Jenni Sorkin. This is Amers fourth solo show with the gallery. Many of Amers paintings make art historical references in subversive and humorous ways. White Girls and White-RFGA subtly makes racial commentary, critiquing whiteness as a convention while addressing Robert Ryman. Landscape with Black Mountains-RFGA conflates the female form as a pastoral setting. The cascading and pooling thread, omnipresent in Amers work, recalls Jackson Pollock. Sorkin writes in the catalogue essay, Ghada Amer has utilized the lush landscape of the art historical past from which to plunderre-casting the role of women as subject, versus object. The last few years have been a very fertile time for Amer. This exhibition will present, for the first ... More | |
Mona Hatoum, 3-D Cities, 2008-10 (detail). Printed maps and wood, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander and Bonin, New York © Mona Hatoum. Image courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Photo: Florian Kleinefenn.
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma, the first major U.S. exhibition of Hatoum's work in over 20 years. Organized by the Menil Collection, in Houston, Texas, where it was on view earlier this year, Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma includes more than 30 sculptures and installations by the London-based Hatoum (b. 1952), installed throughout the Pulitzer galleries. Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma is on view from April 6 through August 11, 2018, at the Pulitzer, the exhibitions final venue. The exhibition was curated by Michelle White, Senior Curator at the Menil Collection; the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presentation is organized by Curator Tamara H. Schenkenberg. Hatoum creates work that evokes the growing unease of a world that seems ever-expanding and as technologically networked as it is politically fractured ... More |
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| Paul Pfeiffer's multi-channel audio and video installation, Three Figures In A Room on view at Perrotin Paris | | Bertoia's April 27-28 Spring Signature Sale abounds with rare European and American toys | | First career-spanning exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Cy Twombly on view at Gagosian |
Paul Pfeiffer. ©Photo: Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting a solo exhibition of Paul Pfeiffer. Known for his innovative manipulation of digital media, Pfeiffer recasts the visual language of popular spectacle to examine how images shape our perception of ourselves and the world. This exhibition presents works created between 2015 and 2018 from several ongoing series, illustrating the breadth of the artists practice. On view is Pfeiffers 48-minute multi-channel audio and video installation, Three Figures In A Room (2015-2017). The work features the televised footage of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiaos highly publicized and most lucrative boxing match at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, in May 2015, billed as The Fight of the Century. Removing the fights original audio, Pfeiffer replaces it with an eerily quiet Foley1 soundtrack that isolates the physical exertion of the boxers and the movements of the stadium audience: the rhythmi ... More | |
Large Steiff cinnamon mohair teddy bear with original felt pads, German, 20in., est. $2,500-$3,500. Image courtesy of Bertoia Auctions.
VINELAND, NJ.- More than 1,000 lots of wonderful high-quality toys, banks, trains and dolls have been selected for Bertoia Auctions April 27-28 Spring Signature Sale. Most of the items are from prestigious, long-held collections that, up until this point, could only be admired from afar. Now the coveted antiques are coming to the auction marketplace where they are destined to make many collectors dreams come true. The Friday, April 27 session starts with fabulous European toys, autos, motorcycles and airplanes, and also features German lithographed-tin wind-up Lehmanns, and Part II of a superlative collection of French-made Martin clockwork toys. All rate very highly for rarity and condition. Highlighting the Friday session is a superb 11-inch Marklin limousine. Marklin didnt make very many automotive ... More | |
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2001. Acrylic, wax crayon, and cut-and-pasted paper on paper, 48 1/8 à 38 3/4 inches / (123.2 à 98.4 cm). Private Collection © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting the first career-spanning exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Cy Twombly, organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation. The exhibition marks the completion of the Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings, with the eighth and final volume. Edited by Nicola Del Roscio, president of the Cy Twombly Foundation, the catalogue raisonné is published by Schirmer/Mosel with the support of the Cy Twombly Foundation. The catalogues first volume was published in 2011. Throughout his career, Twombly sustained an active engagement with drawing, gesture, and making marks on paper. His urgent, meandering lines embody the intimate energies that carry over into his paintings, sculptures, and photography. Despite their ... More |
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Matthew Day Jackson. Still Life and the Reclining Nude, Hauser & Wirth London
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The collection of legendary Disney imagineer Rolly Crump goes to auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Van Eaton Galleries, one of the worlds premier animation artwork and collectibles galleries, has announced The Life and Career of Disney Legend Rolly Crump an Exhibition and Auction to be held Saturday, April 28, 2018 beginning at 11:00 a.m. PDT at Van Eaton Galleries located at 13613 Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks, California. One of Walt Disneys early Imagineers, Rolly Crump is known as a true original. He joined The Walt Disney Studios in 1952 where he quickly became one of the most multi-talented artists on Walts team. In 1959, he joined show design at WED Enterprises, later known as Walt Disney Imagineering. It was there that he became one of Walts key designers for some of Disneys groundbreaking new attractions and entertainment, including the Haunted Mansion, the Enchanted Tiki Room and ... More
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens Jérôme Zonder's first exhibition at the Paris gallery
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Des Homo Sapiens (Some Home Sapiens), Jérôme Zonders first exhibition at the Paris gallery. Following a fruitful collaboration with the Brussels gallery in 2016, Des Homo Sapiens signals Jérôme Zonders entrance into Galerie Nathalie Obadias program, via an immersive exhibition, which is a follow-up to his notable projects at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (The Dancing Room, 2017), at the Maison Rouge (Fatum, 2015) and at the Lieu Unique (Au Village (In the Village), 2014). Born in 1974, in Paris, Jérôme Zonder has spent the last twenty or so years developing a consummate body of work cente- red on the constantly reinvented practice of drawing. The artists unique mastery of his medium, of which he mobilizes the resources in order to establish a true polygraphy, along with the singularity of his historical ... More
Tate, MCA and Qantas announce eight new Australian artwork acquisitions
LONDON.- Tate and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announced the acquisition of eight new artworks in their International Joint Acquisition Programme for contemporary Australian art, supported by Qantas. Now in its third year, the partnership between Tate, MCA and Qantas continues to enrich both museums holdings of Australian art, helping Australian artists reach global audiences. Ranging from an early moment in the history of Australian contemporary art through to recent work, the depth and diversity of Australian art practice is represented in this third round of acquisitions. It includes works by artists who forged new ground in Australian contemporary art, paving the way for others, through to that of younger artists. Early works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso (Corn Cob Coil 1989, Corn Drawings 1985-89 and On the Origins of Art ... More
Borzo Gallery opens exhibition of works by Rakuko Naito & Tadaaki Kuwayama
AMSTERDAM.- New Shapes of Color / Vormen van de Kleur, (1966, Stedelijk Museum) first introduced the radical work of the American artist Tadaaki Kuwayama to the Dutch public. The exhibition was put together by two legendary curators: Edy de Wilde and Wim Beeren, who - in 1966! - thereby even further validated the Stedelijk Museum's position as avant-garde. De Wilde and Beeren showed minimalist, monochrome painting in New Shapes of Color. In addition to that of Kuwayama, the exhibition included works by other Americans such as Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Robert Indiana and Donald Judd. The Dutch artists Bob Bonies, Peter Struycken and Mark Brusse also took part in the exhibition. I first encountered Kuwayama's work when we participated in Expo Chicago, September 2015. Hill Gallery from ... More
Gallery NAGA opens 'Joseph Barbieri: Avian Antics, Languid Landscapes, and Some Fishes'
BOSTON, MASS.- Joseph Barbieri: Avian Antics, Languid Landscapes, and Some Fishes runs from April 6 through April 28 at Gallery NAGA. As he has for the past several years, Barbieri presents both streams of his paintings: gentle landscapes and colorful animal portraits. The landscapes, done en plein air, in Italy, Antigua, and Maine, are soft and muted and are suffused with the warm air and sun of their settings. Ledges Mid-tide depicts the surf at a distance, presumably in Maine. The waves, breaking at a distance, unfolding at neither the high nor low water mark. There is very little sense of depth and illusion in this painting--the lines of waves almost indistinguishable from the horizon line, sea-smoke rising up to create a dense haze. One senses that this is a distant memory and not something that is being recorded in front of Barbieri. Barbieris animals resemble ... More
Even immigrants get their hearts broken: Testimony opens at the Asian Art Museum
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- American immigration policy can be read as a history of anti-Asian bias from the Chinese Exclusion Act that closed borders more than a century ago to the current administrations Muslim Ban. On view until June 10, Testimony provides an intimate, years-in-the-making account of the impact of these policies. An installation of photographs and text by San Francisco-based artist Eliza Gregory, Testimony foregrounds the lived experiences of ten documented and undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area. The men and women chronicled in Testimony DREAMers, refugees, entrepreneurs, from Asia, Latin America, and Europe share their coming-to-San-Francisco stories through largescale portraits, ephemera, and long-form interviews. Like the affidavits, family photos, and personal documents that support an official visa ... More
Connecticut College hosts in-depth look at artistic work of Barkley Hendricks
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Connecticut College Department of Art announces the upcoming event, The Memorable Barkley L. Hendricks, on Saturday April 14, 2018, at 3 p.m., in Oliva Hall, Cummings Arts Center. Hendricks, an acclaimed artist who had taught at Connecticut College for 38 years, was best known for his celebratory and uncompromising portrait paintings, often of African American subjects. He passed away April 18, 2017, at the age of 72. Hendricks' exhibitions included the widely traveled "Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool," "Hearts Hands Eyes Mind" and "Barkley L. Hendricks," the latter of which debuted in 2016 at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan. "His work paved the way for a new generation of figurative painters, and his absence in the art world will sure be felt, said Shainman. The program, an educational tribute, will start with ... More
Exhibition presents three new sculptures and a series of drawings by David Herbert
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters presents Quarantine the Past, an exhibition of three new sculptures and a series of drawings by David Herbert. The artist, who is best known for his fantastically-scaled, imaginative sculptures, weaves together a tale of American apocalypse, post-industrial reinvention, entropy, and magic. It is his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The skeletons in the closet of American democracy may have been reinvigorated in the lead up to the election of President Trump, but its foundations were laid from our countrys outset, and shrouded in mythology since. Herbert conjures our ideological beginnings in a series of drawings dominated by the character Great Again, a giant skeleton donning a powdered colonial wig. This generalized forefather figure, interacts with smaller skeletal figures, possibly his subjects. Each scene is ambiguous: Is the giant ... More
Mahnaz Collection presents a new exhibition "London Originals: The Jeweler's Art in Radical Times"
NEW YORK, NY.- Mahnaz Collection presents a new jewelry exhibition: London Originals: The Jewelers Art in Radical Times. Featuring 150 pieces of jewelry from the 1960s and 70s, the exhibition opens on April 11, 2018 at Wright, 980 Madison Avenue in New York City. It showcases jewelers working in London during a period of seismic change in the arts, architecture, technology, design, fashion, music, womens rights and youth culture. The London Originals' free and forceful design sensibility fostered a renaissance in jewelry, resuscitated the moribund British jewelry world and made London relevant once more as a hub of innovation in this field. This exhibition (which includes jewelry for sale) aims to provide new visibility in the United States for the London Originals, many of whom once had enthusiastic collectors here. Their influential and timeless modern ... More
Site-specific project created by artist Jimmie Durham opens at Adolfo Pini Foundation
MILAN.- From 10 April to 29 June 2018, during the Milan Art Week and miart fair, Adolfo Pini Foundation presents Labyrinth, a site-specific project created by artist Jimmie Durham and curated by Gabi Scardi. Jimmie Durham is one of the main artists of our time. He is an intellectual, essayist and poet, as well as a visual artist. Since the 1960s, his work has highlighted the system of conventions in which we live, in relation to our ideas, behaviours, history and its interpretations. Questioning these conventions means opening oneself to doubt, highlighting the multi-faceted nature of reality, allowing a multiplicity of possible visions to come to light. Many of his works consist of arrangements of natural or industrial materials, grafted one onto the other. Such materials usually escape our attention or are too far below any of our value to be taken into account; therefore, ... More
Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College opens "Tino Sehgal: This Situation"
MIAMI, FLA.- Miami Dade Colleges Museum of Art and Design is presenting This Situation, a work by the acclaimed British-German artist Tino Sehgal. This Situation offers visitors a unique and constantly evolving live experience that radically expands ideas of what art can be. This Situation is on view in the MOAD galleries from April 7 to April 29. This Situation is part of MOADs Living Together, an exciting cross-disciplinary series of programs that will galvanize Miami audiences with thoughtful and challenging performances and exhibitions that draw from art, music, theater, politics, and poetry. Spread across the city at a wide array of venues, the series features performances, exhibitions, film and video screenings, readings, talks, and workshops that reflect the cultural, social, and political realities of how we live now. Living Together seeks to find new ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born April 09, 1830. Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be similarly archaic. In this image: Eadweard Muybridge, Contemplation Rock, Glacier Point (1385) 1872. Collection of California Historical Society
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