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View of atmosphere at the Annenberg Space for Photography's "Not An Ostrich" Exhibit Opening Party at the Annenberg Space For Photography on April 19, 2018 in Century City, California. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Annenberg Space for Photography/AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Annenberg Space for Photography, a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography, announced its exhibition Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from Americas Library. The exhibition, running from April 21 through September 9, 2018, is a collection of nearly 500 images discovered within a collection of more than 14 million pictures permanently housed in the worlds largest library at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Put together by the distinguished photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, the exhibition features the image entitled Not an Ostrich and a large selection of rare and handpicked works from the vaults of the library, many never widely available to the public. Each picture documents a special moment in Americas culture and history. Tucker, named Americas Best Curator by TIME, was granted special access ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the Palestinian Museum on the day of its inauguration in Woodbridge, Connecticut, April 22, 2018. This is the first museum in the United States dedicated to Palestinian art. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP
| West Coast premiere of Julian Schnabel's monumental, transformative paintings | | Marina Abramović's major European retrospective opens at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn | | Artcurial to offer a large selection of original artwork from the greatest names of Comic art | 
Installation of "Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life" at the Legion of Honor. Photo by Moanalani Jeffrey. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present an important and unusual exhibition by one of the most significant painters of our time. Julian Schnabels first exhibition at a US West Coast institution in over 30 years features new, large-scale paintings, occupying the Legion of Honors open-air courtyard. Inside, the museum's neo-classical galleries play host to three series of paintings from the past three decades, rarely seen before by the public. The exhibition is part of FAMSFs newly formed contemporary art program, which creates dialogues between living artists and the buildings, locations and collections of the Legion of Honor and de Young. Max Hollein, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curator of the exhibition states: "Since 1978, Julian Schnabel has transformed what painting is, what a painting can be, and how paintings can ... More | | 
Marina Abramović, The Cleaner. Black and white photograph © Marina Abramović. Photo: © Marco Anelli 2010. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
BONN.- Radical, controversial and highly respected, Marina Abramović is famous for her ground-breaking performances in which she continues to probe, challenge and transcend her own physical and psychological limits. Personal experience and responsibility are key to the artists striking work, which deals with memory, pain, loss, trust and endurance. Equally central are time, the experience of its passing and the way she uses her own body. The Abramović Method of concentrating and mobilizing ones own strength to achieve maximum tolerance and openness of dialogue is practiced in workshops all over the world. The artist addresses fundamental existential questions that affect and touch the viewer with great immediacy. True to her conviction, "A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room," she questions hierarchies and focuses on individual and collective experience. The artists major European ... More | | 
Albert Uderzo, Astérix et Obélix, Tome 30, La Galère dObélix, Encre de chine et gouache, Publié en 1996 aux éditions Albert René. Estimate: 100 000 130 000 / 125 000 160 000 $ © Artcurial.
PARIS.- On the 4th and 5th May, Artcurials Comic Book Department will host an auction featuring a large selection of original artwork from the greatest names of the 9th Art. On the 4th, the auction will be devoted to the dispersion of 140 lots relating to the universe created by the author of Tintin, while the Comic Book auction will be held on 5th May, presenting 280 lots. Amongst the most important lots of 4th May, a sculpture from Belgian artist Nat Neujean : Tintin et Milou (estimate : 150,000 200,000 / $185,000 245,000). On 5th May, an extremely rare Osamu Tezuka strip for the Astro Boy series will be offered (estimate : 40,000 60,000 / $49,000 74,000. The original Indian ink and aquarelle strip was published in 1956-1957 in Shônen magazine. A particularly illustrative artist from post-war Japan, Osamu Tezuka held considerable influence on the Manga universe of which he was one of the ... More |
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| Three groundbreaking chess exhibitions open at the World Chess Hall of Fame | | Vatican's Sistine Chapel hosts first live online concert | | DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by Bharti Kher | 
World Chess Hall of Fame, 2018 Spring Exhibitions Opening Reception. Photo by Austin Fuller.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- This spring, the World Chess Hall of Fame, the only institution of its kind to present world-class exhibitions that explore the connections between chess and art, culture and history, features three new chess-focused exhibitions created by artists all around the world: Painted Pieces: Art Chess from Purling London, The Staunton Standard: Evolution of the Modern Chess Set, and The Sinquefield Effect: The Resurgence of American Chess. The exhibitions made their debut on April 12, 2018, at the WCHOF in Saint Louis. These exhibitions each highlight the history, art and culture behind the sport of chess. One exhibition features hand-painted chess sets by contemporary artists, while another features some of the oldest Staunton chess sets in the world. The last exhibition highlights the contributions of Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield over the past decade as part of their mission to drive the ... More | | 
British composer Harry Christophers poses in the Sistine Chapel prior to conducts the sir James MacMillians Stabat Mater by British Choir, in a concert live streamed for the first time from the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on April 22, 2018. VINCENZO PINTO / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- The Vatican's Sistine Chapel, an artistic Renaissance jewel, opened up to the digital age on Sunday with the first live concert streamed over the internet from the famous sacred space. It was a performance of Scottish composer James MacMillan's acclaimed version of the "Stabat Mater." A British choir group The Sixteen and chamber orchestra ensemble Britten Sinfonia took to the stage against the backdrop of Michelangelo's masterpiece of The Last Judgement, while lovers of classical music from around the world tuned in to watch on the web. The "Stabat Mater" is a 13th century poem most likely written by Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi (12301306), but sometimes ascribed to Pope Innocent III, which portrays the ... More | | 
Bharti Kher, The night she left, 2011. Wooden staircase, chair, sari, resin, 226 x 91 x 280 cm (74 x 35 ¾ x 92). Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.
MONTREAL.- Bharti Kher is known internationally for her signature use of the bindi in works across painting and sculpture. Derived from the Sanskrit word bindumeaning point, drop, dot or small particleand rooted in ritual and philosophical traditions, the bindi is a dot applied to the centre of the forehead as a representation of a spiritual third eye. Originally applied with natural pigment, bindis have transformed over time to become a popular, mass produced accessory. Kher reclaims this way of seeing by creating intensely layered and lavish paintings that are charged with the bindis conceptual and visual links to ideas such as repetition, the sacred and the ritual, appropriation, and a deliberate sign of the feminine. The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract ... More |
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| Anti-Semitic Wagner letter up for sale in Jerusalem | | Stephenson's to auction interior designer's estate property April 27 | | Simon Lee Gallery opens exhibition of new works by New York-based artist and art dealer Joel Mesler | 
Meron Eren, co-founder and owner of the Kedem auction house, holds a letter by German anti-Semitic composer Richard Wagner in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- A letter penned by Richard Wagner warning of Jewish influence in culture will be auctioned next week in Israel, where public performances of German anti-Semitic composer's works are effectively banned. Wagner, whose grandiose and nationalistic 19th century work is infused with anti-Semitism, misogyny and proto-Nazi ideas of racial purity, was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer. While there is no law in Israel banning his works from being played in Israel, orchestras and venues refrain from doing so because of the public outcry and disturbances accompanying past attempts. Tuesday's sale of the handwritten letter, dated April 25, 1869 and addressed to French philosopher Edouard Schure, could rekindle the debate in Israel on the controversial composer. Wagner wrote in the letter that Jewish assimilation ... More | | 
The first known Black Panthers poster, Move On Over Or Well Move On Over You, circa 1966, historical provenance. Est. $8,000-$12,000. Image provided by Stephensons Auctioneers.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- Philadelphias most trusted estate specialists, Stephensons Auctioneers, will conduct an April 27 auction featuring selected contents from the home, workshop and barn of Gail Pearlman, IIDA, and her business The Loft Interiors. Pearlmans interior design firm was established in 1972 and earned a sterling reputation for creating luxurious, livable environments for discerning clients, not only in its home state of New Jersey but also New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas. Pearlman is now retired from the business. We spent more than a month going through Ms Pearlmans residence and other buildings on her property, and we found many great things. Without exception, every day we spent there produced wonderful surprises, said Cindy Stephenson, owner of Stephensons Auctioneers. ... More | | 
Joel Mesler Untitled (i), 2018 Pigment on linen 121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in.)
LONDON.- As part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is presenting The Alphabet of Creation (for now) an exhibition of new works by New York-based artist and art dealer Joel Mesler. For his first solo presentation in the UK, Mesler exhibits new paintings from his ongoing body of work based on the alphabet, in which each painting is devoted to a single letter, drawing on memories from his childhood and his hometown of Los Angeles. Although Meslers autobiographical paintings evoke illustrations from a childrens alphabet book, his distinctive style imbues them with a dark wit that reveals pivotal moments from his life. The arms of the individual lowercase letters snake in and around a pattern of overlapping green leaves, a recurring motif in his work that is based on the Martinique wallpaper at the Beverly Hills Hotel a place that, for Mesler, evokes powerful childhood memories: ... More |
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| Heather James Fine Art's New York inaugural exhibition features works by Wojciech Fangor | | Museum der Moderne Rupertinum exhibits its collection of 600 original prints of Japanese photography | | "Maddest Hatter" artist Mark Dean Veca to create new installation at Crocker Art Museum | 
Wojciech Fangor, #2, 1963. Oil on canvas, 63 x 50 1/2 in. Courtesy of Heather James Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- A new addition to the Upper East Side gallery scene, Heather James Fine Art New York, located at 42 East 75th Street, presents its inaugural exhibition, Wojciech Fangor: The Early 1960s, April 19 - June 30, 2018. This is the first solo exhibition in the U.S. in more than 15 years of paintings by Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015), one of Polands preeminent Post-War abstract artists. In 1970, Fangor was the first Polish artist to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. The exhibition, curated by Polish art historian Patryk P. Tomaszewski, is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Tomaszewski. Heather James Fine Art also has galleries in Palm Desert, San Francisco, Jackson Hole, and a gallery opening this fall in Santa Barbara. Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the 11 large-scale paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and ... More | | 
Bishin Jumonji (1947 Yokohama, JP), Untitled, 1971. Gelatine silver prints on baryta paper 10 each 8.0 x 8.14 in. (20,4 x 20,7). Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- For the first time in many years, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg puts its collection of ca. 600 original prints of Japanese photography from the 1960s and 1970s, which was purchased in the museums early years, on display. The series of two shows begins with IPhoto. Japanese Photography 19601970 from the Collection, which presents works that focus on the depiction of the human being and the changes in postwar Japanese society. In this exhibition, my vigorous efforts to undertake a thorough review of our collections are bearing fruit, and so I am especially pleased that we are able to present our holdings of Japanese photographya sizable ensemble of outstanding workswhich have not been seen by the public in a long time. The show also spotlights a chapter in the history of the museum, which started collecting and conserving photography early ... More | | 
Artist Mark Dean Veca, creator of Maddest Hatter at the Crocker Art Museum in 2017.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum awarded the John S. Knudsen Prize to Mark Dean Veca, a Los Angeles-based artist known for creating paintings, drawings and installations that incorporate surreal cartoons and pop culture iconography to form psychedelic landscapes. One of those landscapes, Maddest Hatter, was installed by Veca at the Crocker in June 2017 as part of the hit exhibition Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. As the Knudsen award recipient, Veca will return to Sacramento in the summer of 2018 to create a new installation at the Museum. Born in Louisiana to musician parents, Veca received his BFA in 1985 from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (now, Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles. After then spending 17 years in New York City, he returned to L.A., where he continues his work. Veca's art has been shown in galleries and public spaces ... More |
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Video of the exhibition "Dark Matters" by Jean-Michel Othoniel
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 MIT List Visual Arts Center presents exhibition of works by Gordon HallCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- As a sculptor, performer, and writer, Gordon Hall examines the personal, relational, and political effects of the ways we relate to objects and to each other. Using both abstract forms and re-constructed copies of found objects, the artist asks how we might use such things and how they solicit bodily engagements from us. Ultimately, Halls interests lie in the social and political dynamics of these engagements. The intentional, specific, and enigmatic objects Hall creates are both provocations to performance and allegories for an ethics of relationality. The sculptural objects and the performances that occur with and adjacent to them explore possibilities for an engagement with space, time, and objecthood that seek to model alternative futures. The Number of Inches Between Them, a project that includes two sculptural works on view at the List ... More Stone stacking contest brings gravity-defying sculptures to Scottish beachDUNBAR (AFP).- Sculpture artists gathered in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the weighty title of champion stone stacker, in a quirky competition launched last year. More than 30 participants from America, Spain, Italy and from around Britain converged on Dunbar, near Edinburgh, for only the second European Stone Stacking Championships. Competitors must create the most complex and gravity-defying artistic sculptures from rocks and pebbles gathered on the town's Eye Cave Beach. "(It's) the most ancient art form that there is," James Craig Page, the fledgling contest's founder, told AFP. Despite stone stacking's lofty history, he traces the modern-day challenge to the creations of Californian stacker Bill Dan in the early 1990s. Stone stacking however has angered some conservationists who accuse enthusiasts of "rubbing out history" by removing rocks ... More Exhibition celebrates the local talent of Harlem and uptown New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Faction Art Projects announce their second show Harlem Perspectives, an exhibition celebrating the local talent of Harlem and uptown New York. Following a hugely successful inaugural show at the newly opened Gallery 8 on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the Faction team return to Harlem with an eclectic mix of local artists, who live and work above Manhattans 110th Street. Artists include Jamaica-born Renee Cox, Colombian-American artist Lina Puerta, French painter Elizabeth Colomba, Dominican Republic-born Pepe Coronado, Chilean American artist Virginia Inés Vergara, Moscow born Leeza Meksin, Guatemalan photographer Jaime Permuth, African American artist Stan Squirewell, and New York born Elaine Reichek and David Shrobe. Whilst broad in selection of mediums and topics, the theme of the show is predominantly geographical ... More Two emerging artists create large-scale, site-specific sculptures at deCordovaLINCOLN, MASS.- This spring, deCordova presents Sculpting with Air: Ian McMahon and Jong Oh, featuring site-specific installations by two contemporary sculptors who use different methods and materials to engage with the intangible material: air. Ian McMahon creates voluminous, pillow-like forms using an innovative technique of sprayed plaster. Jong Oh fashions almost imperceptible structures with string, wire, and Plexiglas. While McMahon emphasizes materiality, solidity, and containment, Oh focuses on transparency, lightness, and expansiveness. Despite their contrasts, the two sculptors work is complementary. Both reshape space by exploring tension, balance, and force. They challenge our perceptions of gravity and perspective by creating forms that expand in the galleries In Sculpting with Air were bringing two boundary-pushing ... More Intriguing Vatican and Sharjah Museum collections explore Islamic faith and culture CANBERRA.- Fine embroidered textiles, camel and horse saddles, musical instruments and carved amulets, headline a new exhibition on view at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, which showcases intriguing objects from the Anima Mundi Museum, the section of the Vatican Museums devoted to extra-European collections, and the Sharjah Museums Authority, United Arab Emirates. Featuring over 100 precious 18th to 20th century objects from over twenty countries,So That You Might Know Each Other: Faith and Culture in Islam, illustrates the evolution of Islam across the globe and celebrates diverse Muslim societies from the Middle East, through to Africa and India, China and South East Asia. Inspired by a verse from the Holy Quran, the exhibitions title invites visitors to learn more about each others lives, religions and cultures in a spirit of intercultural ... More Exhibition at Foam contains works from Danielle Van Ark's most recent seriesAMSTERDAM.- How does a photograph gain or lose its value and meaning once it has been made? What are the mechanisms at play? And what is the artists role in the process? These are recurrent themes in the work by Daniëlle Van Ark. Her solo exhibition in Foam raises questions about authenticity and the determination of value, especially in photography: the reproducible medium par excellence. For Daniëlle van Ark photography is the most ephemeral of all media. With the development of steadily more advanced reproduction technologies, the expiration date of a photograph seems to diminish exponentially. Where the photograph was a unique and precious item in the nineteenth century, today everyone can record and reproduce memories at just a push of a button. But amidst the deluge of fleeting images produced and consumed every day, ... More Anita Shapolsky Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ernest BriggsNEW YORK, NY.- Ernest Briggs, a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter known for his strong, lyrical, expressive brushstrokes, use of color and sometimes geometric composition, was born in San Diego, CA in 1923. He spent his childhood and youth in California, and then served in the Army during WWII. He studied painting at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco under the faculty assembled by Douglas MacAgy. They included Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Clyfford Still, who had a strong influence on Briggs. He first started painting in a figurative symbolic style, not really knowing where he was headed. Park, one of his first instructors, said, We dont have a model; we dont have still life; we just paint. It was a revelation to Briggs, as he had thought there had to be a subject, as in the Ashcan or Regionalist style. The fact that one ... More Fondation d'entreprise Hermès opens exhibition of works by Marie Cool Fabio BalducciBRUSSELS.- As part of the Poésie balistique (Ballistic Poetry) season instigated at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, curator Guillaume Désanges presents a monograph exhibition by the French-Italian art duo Marie Cool Fabio Balducci. Since meeting in 1995, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci have created a joint uvre characterised by slow, minimalist, often repetitive gestures: actions executed or documented within the exhibition space, using everyday objects (pens, thread, hand-cream) often associated with clerical work (sheets of A4 paper, office desks, Scotch tape, rulers). The calm, pre-determined, repetitive gestures enact a gradual shift into the realm of poetry, creating a space for freedom and silent resistance out of workplace ... More Ludwig Museum in Budapest opens exhibition of works by Péter TürkBUDAPEST.- Péter Türk (19432015) was a key figure of the great generation of Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists, who began to work in the second half of the 1960s, as well as of the contemporary Hungarian scene. He created works of outstanding significance in every period of a consistent and coherent, conceptually inclined career. His work is probably one of the most exciting and inspiring achievements of post-1945 Hungarian art. Péter Türk was born in Pestszenterzsébet in 1943. He attended the Fine Arts Grammar School of Budapest between 19571961, and from 1964, following several unsuccessful entrance exams, he studied art and Hungarian language and literature at the Teachers Training College of Eger. In the intervening period he learned typesetting. Following his graduation in Eger, he almost immediately joined the circuit of Hungarian ... More A Syrian dancer's journey from hell to the Paris stagePARIS (AFP).- Yara al-Hasbani was putting the finishing touches to her make-up for a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" in Damascus when she found out her father had been tortured to death. It was the moment the dancer's world turned upside down. "The little girl in me died at that moment," says the 24-year-old, who had protested alongside her family against Syria's regime in 2011 at the start of the brutal civil war. Six years on, Hasbani may be living a new life in Paris, but her feelings on the war at home spill onto the stage through her poignant contemporary choreography. Her first Parisian performances, in the public squares at Republique and Trocadero, right by the Eiffel Tower, were tributes to the hundreds of Syrian children killed in a chemical weapons attack in 2013. "I took inspiration from the photos," Hasbani says. "I imitated the positions of the ... More Fever Songs with John Morton and Meg Hitchcock opens at ODETTABROOKLYN, NY.- Ecstatic song, meditation, blending, Fever Songs is an evocation for peace and harmony. Artists Meg Hitchcock and John Morton seek order in chaos, creating unity through shared expressions of faith freed from the constraints of organized religion. Fever Songs is an 10-Channel interactive public sound installation project that brings together the vocal traditions of many religions, creating an active sonic experience that explores spiritual commonality & seeks to break down religious divisions. The work is a commingling of ritual and scriptural vocalization, recorded live whenever possible, woven together & sonically altered by ever-changing computer processing and sensor-proximity location. The installation is devoid of doctrine - rather, a bringing together of the commonality of the human ecstatic experience. Material for Fever ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American model and photographer Lee Miller was born April 23, 1907. Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 - July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. In this image: Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris, Rue de Grand Augustins, Paris, France, 1944. Photographer: Lee Miller. Negative Number: NC0002-1. Notes: DF VB>BW © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved. ©Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.
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