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Visitors look at the painting 'Le clocher de Ria' ('The bell tower of Ria') at the musuem dedicated to French painter Etienne Terrus, in Elne (Elna), on Saturday. A sad inauguration on Friday for the musuem dedicated to Etienne Terrus, in Elne, in the Pyrenees-Orientales, which saw its collection amputated by 60 percent as 82 paintings out of 140 were deemed counterfeit. | RAYMOND ROIG / VIA AFP.
ELNA (AFP).- An art museum in the south of France has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of fakes, in what the local mayor on Sunday described as a "catastrophe" for the region. The tiny 8,000-strong community of Elne just outside Perpignan re-opened its Etienne Terrus museum, dedicated to the works of the local artist who was born in 1857 and died in 1922, on Friday after extensive renovation work. But an art historian brought in to reorganise the museum following the recent acquisition of around 80 paintings, found that nearly 60 percent of the entire collection was fake. "Etienne Terrus was Elne's great painter. He was part of the community, he was our painter," said mayor Yves Barniol on Friday. "Knowing that people have visited the museum and seen a collection most of which is fake, that's bad. It's a catastrophe for the municipality." Eric Forcada, the art historian who uncovered the counterfeits, said that he had seen straight away that most of the works were fake. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits at the site of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the outskirts of Cairo, on April 29, 2018. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP
| Exhibition presents a new series of paintings by Takashi Murakami inspired by the work of Francis Bacon | | Exhibition celebrates the intersection between Yupik masks and Surrealism | | Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg opens exhibition featuring six women artists from India |
Portrait of the artist, 2018 ©2018 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Takashi Murakami, the fourteenth in twenty-three years of cooperation with the artist. Spanning three floors, the exhibition presents for the first time in New York recent works, notably from the series Homage to Francis Bacon and the Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind fresco, exhibited this past October at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The exhibition presents a new series of paintings inspired by the work of Francis Bacon. The dense compositions contain the recurring motifs of the artists iconographyeyes, mushrooms, charactersaccentuated by multiple layers of color on platinum leaf. In Murakamis work, the representation of flesh in motion is the pretext for a cosmology of chaotic motifs and colors. The metamorphoses of faces recall the transformations of Mr. DOB, the whimsical charactersometimes cute, sometimes monstrous and fierce ... More | |
Yupik Mask, late 19th century. Kuskokwim River, Alaska Wood, feathers, vegetal fibers, white and red paint, 31.1 by 43.2 by 17.1 cm (12¼ by 17 by 6¾ in.) DDG 57523.
NEW YORK, NY.- Moon Dancers: Yupik Masks and the Surrealists (April 27 - June 29, 2018) celebrates the fertile creative intersection between 19th and early 20th century Yupik masks from the central Alaskan coast, and the Surrealists indefatigable quest for spiritual and artistic connections with premodern societies all over the world. The exhibition is organized by Di Donna Galleries in collaboration with Donald Ellis Gallery, an internationally renowned specialist in North American Indian art, and with major loans from the Calder Foundation, the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, Lucid Art Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and important private collections. Moon Dancers: Yupik Masks and the Surrealists brings together a curated selection of important Surrealist paintings and sculptures alongside 16 rare Yupik masks, many of ... More | |
Installation view of "Facing India at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Photo: Marek Kruszewski.
WOLFSBURG.- How do Indian women artists use their voice today? How do they deal with their social responsibility? What language do they find for that which remains unsaid? The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is presenting the first exhibition in Germany featuring six women artists from India. Aside from a few exceptions, such as the state of Kerala in the south of the country, India is characterized by a patriarchal society. The assumption that women are of less value than men is deeply anchored in Indian mentality. Facing India pursues the question about how the countrys past, present, and future are represented from a female perspective. A fourteen-meter long map of the world made from barbwire-like electric cables, an accessible installation consisting of oppressive black bricks made of glass, a photograph of a refrigerator within which escalators lead to nowhere, a bizarre sculpture with teeth, a film in which a white sheet is subdued like a wild animal in a ... More |
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| Sotheby's to offer a self-portrait of Sir Stanley Spencer as a youth painted in the year before his death | | Lacoste Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Jeff Shapiro | | Thomas Cole's trans-Atlantic inheritance explored in new exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site |
Sir Stanley Spencer, Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta: Punts by the River, oil on canvas, 1958 (detail). Est. £3,000,000 5,000,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Stanley Spencer is an artist for whom the intimate and everyday was inseparable from the eternal and ineffable. His paintings transform ordinary people and familiar places, with his native village of Cookham portrayed as a Holy Land of miracles and divine intervention. Punts by the River belongs to his series Christ Preaching from Cookham Regatta, envisaged as one of six paintings to accompany his 17-foot-long centre piece of the subject that remained unfinished on his death and which now hangs at the Stanley Spencer gallery in Cookham. Having remained in the same private collection since it was acquired in 1959, the painting will go on view to the public for the first time since 1961, as part of Sotheby's Modern British Week exhibitions on Friday 8 Tuesday 12 June 2018. Frances Christie, Sothebys ... More | |
Jeff Shapiro, Spiral Sculpture. Woodfired stoneware, 10x7.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste Gallery announces its exhibition Jeff Shapiro: Departures from Japan from April 28 May 26, 2018 focusing on recent works produced with new ways of glazing and firing marking a departure from traditional Japanese techniques. For some of the works, the artist challenges himself to use new loading, glazing, and firing techniques, sometimes partially burying works in rubble from ash pits or other combustible materials.i Also included are new sculptures made from deconstructed forms for the table and wall. Mr. Shapiro spent many years in Japan and has a long and evolving relationship with Japan. He arrived at Kyoto for the first time at 23 studying pottery at various kiln sites throughout the country. He had the opportunity to build a house, studio and kiln on the Japanese coast financed by a patron of the arts, Kabumoto Nobuo. He lived and worked in Japan for 9 years spending the ... More | |
Thomas Cole, Ruined Tower, 1832-6 (detail). Oil on composition board, 26 ¾ x 34 in. Albany Institute of History & Art , 1965.1
CATSKILL, NY .- The Thomas Cole National Historic Site opened the exhibition Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Coles Trans-Atlantic Inheritance. Created in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and members of the Yale History of Art Department, the exhibition presents masterworks on paper by major British artists, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, in a new exploration of the prints and drawings that were early trans-Atlantic influences on Coles work. The exhibition includes major paintings by Thomas Cole that demonstrate his radical achievement of transforming the well-developed British traditions of landscape representation into a new bold formulation, the American Sublime. Landscape art in the early nineteenth century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and ... More |
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| Tribal art from the renowned collection of Allan Stone to be sold at Rago | | Arlene Shechet's first solo exhibition in Paris on view at Almine Rech Gallery | | The new Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU opens to critical and public acclaim |
Luba-Songye Kifwebe Mask from The Tribal Arts Collection of Allan Stone. Estimate: $100,000-$150,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Auctions announced a sale of Tribal Arts from the Collection of Allan Stone to be held on Friday, October 19, 2018. Vetted and catalogued by John Buxton, the sale encompasses 300+ lots, mostly African in origin, but also Oceanic, Asian, North and South American. Selected property from various other owners is also included. The catalog will be available in print and online in early September. Exhibition begins on October 13. Bidding by phone, left bid, in-room and online. This sale exemplifies Rago's commitment to serving not only dedicated collectors, but also sophisticated buyers of fine art and design. Our international clientele mixes contemporary and classic, ancient and modern in their homes and offices, and values tribal works as both material culture and sculptural objects. "It's always a privilege to offer artworks from the Collection of Allan Stone. Stone was one of the great collectors of the 20th century. Tribal ar ... More | |
Arlene Shechet, Rest Less, 2018. Glazed ceramic, wood, 58,4 x 40,6 x 40,6 cm 23 x 16 x 16 inches © Arlene Shechet. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Gallery Paris is presenting Some Truths, the first solo exhibition in Paris by the American artist Arlene Shechet. Arlene Shechets sculptures capture an uncanny combination of the raw and the refined. By inhabiting the intermediate area between subject and object, figuration and abstraction, color and form, and humor and pathos, she seeks to address both the power and vulnerability of what it is like to be embodied and alive. Extremes of balance and precariousness exist within a single work, in which disparate materials are stacked, inlayed, woven or folded together. Employing a rich constellation of materials, her palpable objects include wild juxtapositions of materials and sensibilities. Shechet is well known as a brilliant ceramicist but in these latest works she uses her ceramic vocabulary to generate forms in companion materials as well. In this, her first solo exhibition in Paris, Shechet feels ... More | |
View of the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU at the corner of Broad Street and Belvidere Street in Richmond. Image: Iwan Baan.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmonds first major arts institution dedicated to contemporary art, opened to the public on April 21 with a celebratory block party welcoming more than 7,000 members of the VCU and Greater Richmond communities. Located at the intersection of Richmonds Belvidere and Broad streets, the ICA anchors one of the citys busiest gateways in a building designed by Steven Holl Architects with dual entrances to the city and campus. The ICA is a significant new cultural resource for Richmond, in addition to offering a vital dimension to the research university. Admission to the ICA is free. Our opening weekend exceeded our expectations in so many ways. More than just numbers, the people who walked through our doors hailed from a diverse set of backgrounds, locales, and perspectives. The cross-section of community present inside and outside of our walls ... More |
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| Exhibition presents an important historical work by Huang Yong Ping for the first time in New York | | The Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design opens an exhibition devoted to the work of the designer Martin Szekely | | Delfina Foundation opens the first solo exhibition in the UK by Alex Mirutziu |
Installation view, Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank (200/2018) at Gladstone Gallery, New York. Photo: David Regen. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Huang Yong Ping, the artists fifth exhibition with the gallery. This show presents Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank, an important historical work by Huang for the first time in New York since its creation nearly two decades ago. Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank derives its structure from the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai, built in 1923 by the British architecture firm Palmer & Turner. During the Chinese Revolution of 1949, this Neoclassical landmark was transformed into the Communist Municipal Peoples Government Building, and later became the headquarters for the Pudong Development Bank in the 1990s. Huangs 20-ton replica of this edifice, comprised of sand and concrete, contemplates the troubling history this building has lived through while questioning the power of ruling institutions. Through the use of unstable materials, this building, which is meant to ... More | |
Martin Szekely, étagère Construction, 2015. Bambou et laiton Ãdition MSZ Fabrication Atelier Hubert Weinzierl Collection particulière © Fabrice Gousset.
BORDEAUX.- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design has invited the designer Martin Szekely to show his work in its new exhibition space, a former jail located behind the hôtel de Lalande. The event offers the public an opportunity to discover some 40 pieces by the designer, united under the theme ofconstruction. Created between 1981 and 2018 (the most recent, The Drawers and I, can be seen at the museum for the first time), these objects and pieces of furniture seem to reinvent their own composition: all are the result of a structural challenge. For Martin Szekely, construction is the very essence of the designers profession: I perceive my activity from the point of view of the builder and the use that will be made of what I build, which by definition involves the users, their bodies and their environment. Involving the user necessarily evokes the history of modes of use. And building which is ... More | |
Alex Mirutziu, Between too soon and too late, 2018. Installation view, Delfina Foundation, London. Photo: Tim Bowditch. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and European ArtEast Foundation.
LONDON.- Delfina Foundation and European ArtEast Foundation collaborate to present Between Too Soon and Too Late, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Alex Mirutziu (b. 1981, Sibiu, Romania). Mirutzius practice interrogates the process of how we create meaning to interpret the world around us. Inspired by philosophy, literature and design, he explores the inadequate use of objects, language and the body as tools of communication. For a few years, Mirutziu has been researching the work of novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the different methodologies she employed to create meaning, both spoken and unspoken. During a short residency at Delfina Foundation, Mirutziu visited Murdochs archives at Kingston University. Instead of focusing on her most prolific writing period, he concentrated on unfinished writings from the latter stages of her career, which was marked by the onset of Alzheimers Disease. In Betwee ... More |
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The Julia Stoschek Collection presents the complete trilogy of Ian Cheng's Emissaries
BERLIN.- The Julia Stoschek Collection is presenting the complete trilogy of the Emissaries (2015 2017) by artist Ian Cheng for the first time in Germany. Ian Cheng creates live simulations that explore the nature of mutation and our capacity to relate to change. Drawing on principles of video game design and cognitive science, the simulations are populated with characters programmed with behavioral drives, but left to self-evolve amidst otherworldly environmental conditions. Emissaries is a trilogy of live simulations about cognitive evolution, past and future, and the ecological conditions that shape it. It is composed of three interconnected episodes, each centered on the life of a narrative agent the Emissary who attempts to achieve a series of narrative goals, only to be disrupted by the underlying simulation and deviate into new directions. ... More
The Bass opens exhibitions by Laure Provost and DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION
MIAMI, FLA.- For her solo exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art, Laure Provoust has created immersive environments that mine family mysteries and secret desires. Narrated by her soft-spoken voice, each work melds fiction and reality, luring the spectator into participation. Disrupting the typical exhibition format, the work is predicated on the notion that it is incomplete without the viewer. The entire exhibition is populated with Laures feminized furniture. Since the artist is European, words are either female or male in her vocabulary. The artist, who plays with both words and meaning, affixes furniture and objects with breasts in order to make the feminine quality of words both physical and manifested. Laure Prouvosts artistic output consistently returns to themes of escape into unfamiliar worlds or imaginings of unexpected alternative environments. A strong narrative ... More
Centre Pompidou exhibits Vincent Meessens work
PARIS.- Vincent Meessens work is woven from a constellation of actors, gestures, and signs that maintain a polemical and sensible relation to the writing of history and the westernization of imaginaries. He decenters and multiplies gazes and perspectives to explore the many ways in which colonial modernity has impacted the fabric of contemporary subjectivities. The filmic, sculptural, and graphic works selected or conceived for Omar in May open up a line of flight from the reification of a Paris-centric May 68 by drawing our attention to the potential contained in two lesser known Mays - one that preceded it, in Kinshasa, and one that followed in Paris wake, in Dakar. In the Congo and in Senegal, Meessen underlines the unexpected and subterranean influence of the Situationist International. In the audiovisual installation One.Two.Three, created for the 2015 ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery unites Emily Carr works with Mattie Gunterman's historic photographs
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition uniting the works of two women artists practicing in British Columbia in the early twentieth century in Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman, on view at the Gallery from April 28 to September 3, 2018. Home to the worlds finest collection of Emily Carr works, the Gallery pairs a selection of paintings by Emily Carr (18711945) from its permanent collection with forty-eight photographs by US-born photographer Mattie Gunterman (18721945). Guntermans photos are on loan from the private collection of Vancouver photographer and writer Henri Robideau. The exhibition is reflective of Emily Carrs great affection for BCs landscape, a place she regarded as a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry. While others perceived the forests of this region as untamed and impenetrable, Carr saw the vitality ... More
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Gail Stoicheff
NEW YORK, NY.- Catinca Tabacaru Gallery announces Little Miss Strange, a show of new paintings by Gail Stoicheff. This marks the artists second solo presentation in the gallery. Taking its title from the 1968 Jimi Hendrix song, Little Miss Strange reimagines antiquitys psychedelic pioneer, the Oracle of Delphi. Stoicheffs work mines her Greek heritage, focusing on mythology and its astronomical complements. Paradoxical to the misogyny typical of the Hellenic canon, the female Oracle was not only a heroic figure, but the locus of power beyond even the purview of the gods. Stoicheff sees the Oracle as allegory for the mysteries and complexities collectively associated with the feminine. Occupying the gallerys main space are two monumental paintings. The Oracle herself, imagined as an eight-foot tie-dyed monolith painted in-the-round, stands in the ... More
On the scent of an Old Master at Essex auction house
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- After the landmark North Mymms sale which totalled a house record of £1.75million last week, Sworders auctioneers in Stansted Mountfitchet had another big hitter on April 25 when a 17th century painting of hunting dogs sold for £61,000 plus buyers premium. The oil on canvas, probably Dutch and a painting of considerable quality, was dated 1648 and appeared to be signed Horn', although the auctioneers were unable to establish who the artist was. Jane Oakley, specialist in charge of the inaugural Sporting Art sale at Sworders said: Dog paintings of this period dont come onto the market very often so it drew a lot of attention from the trade and also private buyers. Coupled with the added ingredients of being fresh to the market from a local private source, we expected it would do well. We had about four telephone bidders at the start ... More
Critics say India heritage scheme means Taj Mahal privatisation
NEW DELHI (AFP).- Heritage activists Sunday accused the Indian government of trying to privatise historic relics such as the Taj Mahal after it launched a controversial scheme allowing companies to "adopt" dozens of monuments. Opposition politicians accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of "leasing out" monuments under the "Adopt a Heritage" plan that will see 95 historic sites taken over by private entities. India's tourism ministry on Saturday announced a five-year contract worth 250 million rupees ($3.7 million) with the Dalmia Bharat conglomerate for the iconic 17th-century Red Fort in Delhi and another fort in the southern Andhra Pradesh state. Other monuments on the list include the Taj Mahal -- which two conglomerates are competing for -- and the 12th-century UNESCO-listed Qutub Minar complex in Delhi. The Red Fort -- built by Mughal emperor ... More
ArtCurious Podcast launches third season exploring 'Art Rivalries'
RALEIGH, NC.- The ArtCurious Podcast, an internationally popular, bi-weekly audio show boasting an audience of more than 20,000 subscribers and hundreds of thousands of downloads, released its third season of episodes. From April through July 2018, ArtCurious will release eight episodes chronicling rivalries in the art world, including the tumultuous relationships between rivals such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse; how artist-spouses can be perceived as opponents, especially in the case of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the inaccurate labeling of artists as rivals like Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Some of the greatest stories in art history have bubbled up from intense friendships and partnerships, but what happens when theres some unhealthy competition involved? says podcast host and producer Jennifer Dasal, ... More
S.M.A.K. creates a space for the permanent presentation of the works of Marcel Broodthaers
GHENT.- The Marcel Broodthaerskabinet is a space that S.M.A.K. has created for the permanent presentation of, among other things, the works of the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) that are held in the museums collection. Broodthaers made his name as one of the most influential figures in 20thcentury art. During his lifetime, the impact of his artistic practice was not only felt in his own country. He soon made his international breakthrough with work that forms a lasting legacy. Broodthaers career as an artist began with the work Le Pense-Bête (1964), which is considered as the pivotal point between his life first as a poet and later as an artist. By fixing a number of unsold copies of one of his books of poetry in a lump of plaster, he made it impossible to read them and thus made their content inaccessible. This signalled the genesis of an object, which, to his ... More
Galerie Richard presents 'The Fabric of Reality' by Sven-Ole Frahm
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Richard, New York, is presenting The Fabric of Reality by Sven-Ole Frahm from April 18 to May 20, 2018. This is the seventh solo show of Sven-Ole Frahm with Galerie Richard and the third solo show in New York City. The title could suggest that the artist emphasizes the physicality aspect of his creations with textures, light and space, at the opposite of virtual images. Frahm began his career by pouring paint on a canvas on the floor, cutting it in geometrical shapes and sewing them together. He continues to develop geometrical compositions mixed with three-dimensional interventions on the canvas. In these newest works, he makes rounded or oval holes in the canvases. In this exhibition the viewer can enjoy a painting with one wall and different variations up to a painting including a large amount of small holes dispersed in the canvas. ... More
Galerie Urs Meile opens exhibition of works by Meng Huang
LUCERNE.- The walls are covered with water. Waves lap at the canvas edges. Sometimes, sunlight and the sky reflect off the swelling water as it crests and shimmers. Sometimes, the surface swirls warmly in pinks, reds and yellows; others its blues reflect back glimpses of undefinable color-flecked scenes. Sometimes, it is morose, the green tone threatening and cold. We know this, this way of reading color and context, because we have learnt it. There is no ship on the horizon though, no horizon at all. There is no land, no ship, no end. For all we know, the sea is infinitely wide, infinitely deep. It will consume us completely. What is below the surface? Whom is she hiding? Constantly in motion, the sea often called she is the immortal subject and impossible metaphor. In Hokusais woodblock print, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, 1829 - 1833, she is a roiling Tsunami ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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