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Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1943, Watercolor, graphite and tape on paper, no. 449, Collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
EASTON, MD .- Audiences today generally know the career of Richard Diebenkorn (19221993) in three periods: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and early Berkeley periods of Abstract Expressionism; the Berkeley figurative/representational period; and lastly the famous Ocean Park and Healdsburg series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorns earliest work remains very little known. The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 19421955, is on view at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD from April 26 to July 10, 2019 the only venue on the East Coast. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue aim to present a comprehensive view of Diebenkorns evolution to maturity, focusing solely on the paintings and drawings that precede his 1955 shift to figuration at age 33. Included in the exhibition are 100 paintings and drawings from the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, offering a full picture of the young artist ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors get a tour of Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent at the North Carolina Museum of Art from curator Jennifer Dasal. The exhibition is a collaboration with 21c Museum Hotels Durham and the NCMA, with BothaÂs work on view at each location. Foreground: Untitled (Witness Series 26), 2016; background (black statue): Prism 13 [Dead Pieta], 2015; background (white statue): site-specific installation at the NCMA, Solipsis 9, 2019. Photo courtesy of the NCMA.
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 | | The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum showcases three portraits by Goya after being studied and restored | | Andrew Jones Auctions' Design for the Home & Garden Sale set for May 18-19 | | Mystery of 'Salvator Mundi', the world's most costly painting | 
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), Bernarda Tavira, c. 1787-1788. Oil on canvas. 76,6 x 59,3 cm. Private collection.
BILBAO.- The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is showcasing the three portraits of the Adán de Yarza family painted by Francisco de Goya in the late 1780s which are being presented to the public and the scholarly community for the first time after being studied and restored. They will remain on display until September. The paintings, which until now were only known through scholarly bibliographic references, the press and period photographs, are being shown for the first time along with the original crate in which they were transported to France in 1937 since they were evacuated by the Basque government during the Spanish Civil War thanks to the generosity of the family that owns them. The technical study and restoration carried out by the museum's restorer José Luis Merino Gorospe show the outstanding state of conservation of all three works; particularly noteworthy is the fact that they are conserved on their original canvases and nailed to ... More | | 
Oil on canvas by Achille Laugé (French, 1861-1944), titled Nature Morte au Bouquet de Roses, signed and dated A. Laugé lower right (est. $7,000-$9,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions upcoming Design for the Home and Garden auction scheduled for the weekend of May 18th and 19th will feature property from the collection of Kate Edelman Johnson, with proceeds benefiting Alzheimers Research. The Kate Edelman Johnson collection comprises 57 lots of fine art and antiques in the auction. The event will be held in Andrew Jones Auctions downtown Los Angeles gallery, at 2221 Main Street. Previews will be held Wednesday thru Saturday, May 15th-18th, from 10 am-5 pm, and Sunday, May 19th at 10 am. Times quoted are Pacific. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Bidsquare.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids accepted. Kate Edelman Johnson is the daughter of film and TV producer Louis F. Edelman and the widow of Deane F. Johnson, an entertainment attorney and Managing Partner of OMelveny & Meyers, ... More | | 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Salvator Mundi, c. 1500 Oil on walnut panel, 25 13/16 X 17 7/8 inches (65.6 X 45.4 cm) © 2011 Salvator Mundi llc. Photo: Robert Simon, Tim Nighswander.
PARIS (AFP).- Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France. But the work that in recent months has been the intense focus of scrutiny by the media and da Vinci specialists, may not be on show. In 2017, "Salvator Mundi" was sold at auction by Christie's as a work by da Vinci for a record $450 million. But it has not been displayed in public since, triggering doubts about its ownership, its whereabouts and its authenticity. The painting, a portrait of Jesus, was to go on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in September last year. But its unveiling was postponed by the museum without any explanation. The Louvre Abu Dhabi has kept tight-lipped about the identity of the buyer, saying only that the emirate's Department of Culture and Tourism had "acquired" it. And the mystery ... More |
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| | | Tuscan paradise where da Vinci's genius bloomed | | Museum opens exhibition of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism ever to be assembled from its collection | | Exhibition pays tribute to a remarkable Monegasque collection and its owner Fabrizio Moretti | 
A general view taken on April 9, 2019 shows people walking past the Santa Croce church in Vinci, the Tuscan village where Leonardo Da Vinci was born. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP.
VINCI (AFP).- Butterflies flutter around centuries-old olive groves in Vinci, the Tuscan village where Leonardo da Vinci was born and honed his inventor skills as a child by studying the local flora and fauna. Locals preparing to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death say little has changed among the vineyards, lush fields and brooks that appeared in his art. The Renaissance polymath, whose most famous works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper but whose vast range of talents is legendary, drew lifelong inspiration from his humble rural upbringing, according to experts. "The landscapes, impressions and interests that influenced Leonardo throughout his life remain almost intact," Roberta Barsanti, director of the Leonardian Museum of Vinci, told AFP. "From his native house, set away from the village, we can still see the view he reproduced in 'Landscape', his earliest-known drawing, which he dated August 5, 1473," she said. Born on April 15, 1452, from ... More | | 
"Sunflowers," 1889, by Vincent Willem van Gogh. Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 Ã 28 inches. The Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr., Collection, 1963. Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting a broad survey of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Drawn almost entirely from its renowned collection, this exhibition brings together more than 80 works in a variety of mediapainting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and pastelsto illuminate the achievements of some of historys most beloved artists. The Impressionists Eye features many celebrated paintingsamong them Claude Monets Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny, Mary Cassatts In the Loge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecs At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, and Vincent van Goghs Sunflowersoffering fresh insights into these works and placing them in conversation with other major examples by these artists and their contemporaries. For example, Renoirs ambitious Great Bathers, newly conserved on the centenary of the artists death, is displayed alongside tr ... More | | 
Jan Lievens (Leyde, 1607 Amsterdam, 1674), Portrait de gentilhomme coiffé dun béret, c. 1629-30. Oil on oak board. Initial bottom towards left: L. 63 x 49 cm.
MONACO.- The exhibition Step by Step. Visions of an Art Dealer's Collection, which opened on Thursday 25 April at the Villa Sauber, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, pays tribute to a remarkable Monegasque collection and its owner Fabrizio Moretti. The collection is being shown to the public for the first time in a selection of thirty-eight works, ranging from old masters to contemporary artists. The exhibition project explores what might be considered the private cosmogony of the collector, who has the eye of an art dealer working with paintings and sculptures on a daily basis. This personal, erudite journey takes us through six centuries of art history in an interpretation formulated by the curator Cristiano Raimondi. This vast and highly diverse collection offers the Museum an opportunity to show very rare works, which constitute an exceptional compendium of Western artistic culture. Ranging from the Gothic period to the earl ... More |
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| | | Exhibition highlights two of the country's preeminent museum collections of Himalayan art | | Understanding Jewellery: The definitive jewellery app | | Christie's to offer a rock crystal deer from the former collection of Coco Chanel | 
Flaming Trident.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors to power down, unplug and join a voyage into the visionary art of Tibetan Buddhism in Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment, on view Apr. 27Aug. 18, 2019. The journey from clamor to contemplation unfolds as audiences progress through the experiential exhibition to engage with nearly 100 spectacular objects, both historical and contemporary. The exhibition is curated by Dr. John Henry Rice, VMFAs E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, and Dr. Jeffrey Durham, Associate Curator of Himalayan Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, each representing one of the countrys most extraordinary museum collections of Himalayan art. Drawn largely from the permanent collections of these two museums, the exhibition features additional works from private collections and institutions including the Rubin Museum of Art, the Newark Museum ... More | | 
The first app covering all you need to know about jewels and gemstones from the 18th century to the present Day. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Thirty years after the first edition of Understanding Jewellery*, the book by Sothebys specialists David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti remains the ultimate resource for professionals, collectors and enthusiasts alike. Today at its third revised edition and translated into five languages, this 500-page Bible has formed the basis of a ground-breaking new App which makes the content available in a new dynamic and interactive way, featuring the full content of the book as well as brand new images, news, events and auction highlights. With a visual library of around 1,000 pieces of jewellery dating from the 18th century to the present, the app provides a new and unique way to look at the history, style and craft of jewellery. Its interactive features include high-resolution imagery and search filters to allow the best experience for the user. It is a fantastic resource to identify gemstones, discover the evolution of jew ... More | | 
A rock crystal deer. Previously in the personal collection of Coco Chanel (1883-1971), thence by descent to the present owner. Estimate: 2,000-3,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- The Asian Art department will present, in its next sale, a rock crystal deer from the former personal collection of Coco Chanel. Executed during the Qing dynasty, the statuette which will be sold on 12 June at Christies Paris represents a seating deer with its head turned to the right, holding a branch of lingzhi in its mouth (estimate: 2,000-3,000). Presented under a glass protection, the auspicious animal symbolizing longevity has adorned the coffee table of Coco Chanels suite at the Ritz Hotel for years. In June 2018, Christies Paris sold a white and brown-glazed biscuit figure of a monkey with the same provenance. This statuette also dating from the Qing dynasty was acquired for 112,500, after a long bidding battle between 12 international collectors, way above its initial estimate of 4,000-6,000. Nicoul and Camille de Foresta, Specialists of the Asian Art ... More |
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| | | P·P·O·W presents new work in several media by Carlos Motta | | "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" takes over Cincinnati Art Museum | | Exhibition features 10 new works by Aldo Bakker that have never been exhibited before | 
SPIT! (Sodomite, Inverts, Perverts Together!) (Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta, and John Arthur Peetz) Still from We The Enemy , 2019 HD video, 16:9, color, sound Performer: Despina Zacharopoulou 3 min 49 sec.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Carlos Motta: Conatus, the artists second solo show with the gallery. Comprising new work in several media, the exhibition is grouped in three sections: a trio of related videos, a series of photographs, and a cycle of framed objects that traffic in appropriation and assemblage. Latin for striving, endeavor, inclination, conatus means the desire of each person or thing to persist in itself. In Mottas new work, subjects persist and even thrive amid the legacy of historical trauma. Mottas multilayered 24-minute video Corpo Fechado: The Devils Work (2018) screens in the first room. It relates the true story of Francisco José Pereira, an 18th century man who was kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery in Brazil. As a means of survival, Pereira along ... More | | 
HYBYCOZO, Deep Thought (detail), 2018. Photo by Ron Blunt.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Burning Man. Its been called an experience in collective dreaming. Its a cultural movement and a thriving temporary city of more than 70,000 active participants from all over the globe who gather in the dust of the Black Rock Desert outside Reno, Nevada, for seven days. And now visitors are able to experience the visual art and artists of Burning Man in Cincinnati, Ohio. From giant mutant art vehicles and creative costuming to immersive gallery-sized installations, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man landed at the Cincinnati Art Museum in two phases. The first phase opens on April 26, 2019, and the second, which will unveil additional art throughout the museum, opens on June 7, 2019. Both phases of the exhibition will close September 2, 2019. The exhibition has taken over much of the museum, exploring the maker culture, ethos, principles and creative spirit of Burning Man. ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York opened Slow Motion a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Aldo Bakker. Slow Motion features 10 new works that have never been exhibited before. The pieces include stools, tables, and vessels; their materiality spanning stone, metal and Urushi a Japanese lacquer process. Slow Motion is Bakkers first exhibition with Carpenters Workshop Gallery since joining the gallerys roster in 2018. Says gallery cofounder Loic Le Gaillard, Powerful, elegant and filled with personality, Aldos furniture brings a new perspective, not seen before in the design space. These qualities coupled with his impact on the design world make it impossible to not want to represent him. Despite their singular appearance, Aldo Bakkers works never seem to reveal themselves easily. Even the suggestion of similarity between the pieces is only the result of a superficial ... More |
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Walkthrough of "Alice Neel: Freedom" led by Helen Molesworth
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 Michel Rein Paris opens Armand Jalut's 7th exhibition at the galleryPARIS.- Michel Rein Paris is presenting Armand Jaluts 7th exhibition at the gallery, following Palagonia POV (2016) ; Just say hello and leave it behind (Brussels, 2015); A piece of lace (2014); Armand Jalut (2011); Doigts, cannelés, chaton (2008) and Armand Jalut (2006). «Shop the Most Beautiful Things on Earth » reads the homepage of the website that artist Armand Jalut has been browsing, gathering ideas and motifs for his newest series of artworks by zooming and cropping images, studying their descriptions, taking note of their characteristics and their defects: small rub mark, hidden side zip up the side, button closure at waistband, pencil silhouette, incredible dramatic pleated curved
As he navigates his way through the website, the algorithms build an underlying thread, which will haunt all future connections with images of skirts and boots. Popping ... More British Arctic expedition bottle of ale comes to auction 144 years onLONDON.- Thirty seven years before Scott came to a tragic end in the Antarctic, his mentor, Clements Markham, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, revived British Polar exploration after the disaster of the Franklin expedition in 1847 saw it mothballed for decades. Now a bottle of ale brewed especially for that British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 will be offered at auction at Ewbanks in Surrey on May 8. Consigned by the descendants of a brewery employee, the bottle of Allsopp & Sons Burton Ale, embossed BREWED FOR THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, recalls the moment that pride and confidence surfaced once more for a new generation of pioneers. That confidence had been broken when 129 officers and men, along with their two ships, vanished during the Franklin Expedition of 1847 while searching for the north-west passage. By 1874, two of those who had ... More Grant secures archive of Surrey's forgotten artist whose talents were compared with William BlakeLONDON.- A £42,000 National Lottery Heritage Fund will help secure the future of a unique archive of more than 800 works of art that have lain quietly in a Surrey village hall for more than 60 years. The award, the result of a highly competitive campaign by the Sidney Sime trustees, will bring the talents of this extraordinary Victorian/Edwardian artist back into the limelight as they create a sustainable programme of funding and management to ensure that his legacy is preserved for the enjoyment and fascination of future generations. Appropriately entitled A Gallery Resurrected, the campaign finally met success just before Easter. Built in 1956 from the proceeds of the sale of the nearby family home, the Worplesdon Memorial Hall (www.sidneysimegallery.org.uk) houses all 800 of Sidney H Simes (1865-1941) artworks, as well as letters, books and personal ... More SculptureCenter opens major new monumental work by French artist Jean-Luc Moulène LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter premieres More or Less Bone (Formal Topological Optimization) (Paris - NY, 2018 - 19), a monumental new work in fiberglass and epoxy paint by Jean-Luc Moulène. The exhibition marks the artists first institutional exhibition in North America since 2011. Moulène insists that no work of art exists without conditions and constraints...without material, economic, historic, and bodily conditions. For More or Less Bone , Moulène pragmatically centers the production of his work on these conditions, generating form through the exploitation of advanced engineering procedures, or, as the artist describes, making a piece that is nothing but its own condition of existence. Moulène has collaborated closely with engineers from Aerospace Valley (Frances Silicon Valley) with advanced expertise in formal optimization, wherein ... More Netwerk Aalst brings together seven installations by Imogen StidworthyAALST.- How do we experience and shape an understanding of ourselves and our social relationships when words are not a given? What other forms of meaning and communication emerge at the borders of language? Imogen Stidworthys works share a preoccupation with different forms of language, whether shaped by cultural practices or conditions such as aphasia and non-verbal autism. Her films, sound works and installations involve people whose language is in some sense detached from linguistic meaning, opening the way to new channels of voicing and communication. These voices engage us in different modes of listening and reflect our relationship with our own tongue in new and surprising ways. At Netwerk Aalst, Imogen Stidworthy brings together seven installations produced over the last 20 years involving people such as the photographer ... More Moojin Brothers win the Han Nefkens Foundation - Buk SeMA Korean Video Art Production Award 2019SEOUL.- Moojin Brothers have unanimously been chosen as the winners of the Han Nefkens Foundation Buk SeMA Korean Video Art Production Award 2019 for their distinctively innovative and organic visual language, which is at once contingent and intrepid. Moojin Brothers multi-layered, aesthetically exceptional work comprises diverse, experimental compositions, with an interest in the constellation of collective image, and demonstrates potential for a fulfilling long-term practice. The Han Nefkens Foundation and the Buk-SeMA have established this award with the aim of supporting the artistic video production in Korea and encouraging the contemporary artistic creation.The award is aimed at emerging artists who have made a significant contribution to contemporary Korean art. Moojin Brothers receive $15.000 funding for the production of a new ... More Waverly Rare Books to conduct May 2 Judaica auctionFALLS CHURCH, VA.- Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinns Auction Galleries, will present a special Collectors Series Judaica auction on May 2 featuring historically important books, art, scrolls and artifacts. A prized selection of items comes from the estate of Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman (1919-2017), who had strong ties to the Washington, D.C., area. Born in Austria, Rabbi Haberman was attending a Jewish rabbinical seminary in Europe when World War II broke out. He left for the United States and went on to spend 18 rewarding years as rabbi for the Washington Hebrew Congregation. His collection includes a fascinating variety of books on Judaism, Jewish history, literature, theology and 19th-century German philosophy. Other featured items in the Rabbi Haberman collection include Hebrew prayer books, two 17th-century bibles printed ... More Petzel Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Ross BlecknerNEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting Pharmaceutria, a presentation of paintings by Ross Bleckner. On view through June 15, this exhibition of recent works marks the artists first solo show in New York City in five years and his debut at Petzels Chelsea location. For Pharmaceutria (sorceress in Latin), Bleckner, as if an alchemist, conjures a painterly, prescient response to current moods and times. Much as the artists Cell Paintings were a political, conscious-raising call-to-action during the 1990s AIDS epidemic, the works included in Pharmaceutria are an antagonistic, visual retort to the divisive 2016 elections. Each of Pharmaceutrias large-scale paintings, bearing brooding titles such as Burn Painting (Out of Head), 2015; When You Think You Have Nothing, 2019; Your Map of This Place, 2019; Flag, 2019; and Burn Painting ... More Fourteen contemporary artists tackle the Task of Remembrance 30 yrs after TiananmenSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Chinese Culture Center presents its fifth Present Tense series with a group art exhibition that reflects on the complexity, gravity, and responsibility of remembering. Marking the thirtieth year of the global, cultural, and political upheavals of 1989, including the protests in Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Present Tense 2019: Task of Remembrance looks broadly at struggles for freedom, the weight of history, and ways in which artists and their communities build and engage with memory. Working in a variety of media from sculptural installation to experimental film, the participating artists and art collectives, based in the Bay Area and beyond, include SofÃa Córdova, Yan Jun, Hung Liu, Ming Mur-ray, Lam Tung-pang, Related Tactics, Xu Tan, Tina Takemoto, Jenifer Wofford, Gao Xia, Li Xiaofei, Wu Yuren, and Stella Zhang. Together, ... More PinchukArtCentre opens "Ain't nobody's business" group exhibitionKIEV.- PinchukArtCentre presents the international group show Aint nobodys business. Referring to a hit by the Swedish emigrant singer Ardis from 1994, it unmutes voices clamoring for the freedom of self-expression. The exhibition features Fabiana Faleiros (Brasil), Nikolay Karabinovych (Ukraine), Ignas Krunglevicius (Lithuania), Angelina Merenkova (Russia), Zamir Suleymanov (Azerbaijan), Luba Tokareva (Ukraine), and Sergey Shabohin (Belarus). Many of the artists are being shown for the first time in Ukraine. This international cast of Aint nobodys business aims at contributing to the further development of the dialogue and cooperation between Ukrainian and international artists, which is an integral part of the vivid development of the countrys cultural landscape. The title of the exhibition is meant to provoke public discussion on the contradictive relations between regula ... More Exhibition examines the ways artists employ humor in thinking critically about the art worldNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Inside Baseball, a group exhibition examining the ways artists employ humor in thinking critically about the art world. Participating artists include Melanie Baker, Joe Fig, Neil Goldberg, MK Guth, Malia Jensen, and Wood and Harrison. Inside Baseball closes on Saturday, June 1st. This is the second exhibition in the gallerys Lower East Side location. The term inside baseball is commonly used in the United States to refer to specialized knowledge appreciated by a small group of insiders. Inside baseball within the artistic community might include a highly-specific vocabulary such as artspeak, or a set of somewhat obscure, embedded meanings such as the symbolic value of a still life. This exhibition, featuring video, sculpture, and painting, closely examines these customs, asking why and how they are ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born April 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.
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