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People look at a model of the sun while visiting the recently-opened Shanghai Planetarium in Shanghai on July 30, 2021. Hector RETAMAL / AFP.
SHANGHAI (AFP).- China has opened the doors on what it bills as the world's largest planetarium, a slick new Shanghai facility showcasing the nation's recent extra-terrestrial exploits while notably downplaying those of space pioneers like the United States. Beijing has spent much of this year bombarding the public with news of the country's rising space prowess, part of a larger propaganda blitz highlighting Chinese achievements under the ruling Communists to mark the party's 100th anniversary. In recent months, China has landed a spacecraft on Mars, set loose a rover to explore it, and sent the first astronauts to a Chinese space station. Scale-model replicas of spaceships from these and other missions figure prominently at the new Shanghai Planetarium, along with paeons to China's rapid scientific advancement, and clips of President Xi Jinping addressing the nation's taikonauts. "This year we had several astronauts go to space, which is a source of pride for China," said a woman surnamed Zhou, who b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from June - 3 October 2021 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross.
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| Fire destroys Brazil film archive | | mumok exhibits recent groups of works by Heimo Zobernig | | On-demand video platform is launched with a trilogy of documentaries about Salvador Dalà |
Filmmakers, artists and employees have accused far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government of "dismantling" the cinematheque. EVARISTO SA / AFP.
SAO PAULO (AFP).- A film warehouse in Sao Paulo was partially destroyed by a fire Thursday just months after employees of the Cinemateca Brasileira had warned of such a disaster, accusing the government of deliberately neglecting the cultural institution. Fifteen fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters battled the flames for over two hours, but were unable to save all of the cinematheque's warehouse, according to local television footage. The fire started around 6 pm during maintenance work on the air conditioning system, the fire department said, adding that at least two rooms containing films and other files had been destroyed. Fueled by the highly flammable acetate film material, the fire spread rapidly through the building housing over 2,000 film copies, according to local reports. The warehouse that went up in flames ... More | |
Installation view.
VIENNA.- Painting, along with sculpture, film, performance, and design, is a central component of the intermedia art of Heimo Zobernig. Since the beginning of his artistic practice in the early 1980s, the artist has built up a comprehensive painterly oeuvre, always based on his attempt to explore color like a scientist. Thus, in Zobernigs work, painting has become a machine for the creation of insight. Characteristics of the artists method in this context are strategies of simplification, standardization, and systematization using predefined rules and the artistic appropriation of industrial norms and widespread samples (such as TV test patterns). After mumoks presentation of the consistent and yet utter multifaceted development of the probably internationally most famous living Austrian artist in a big exhibition in winter 2002/2003, the new show places its emphasis on Zobernigs paintings, with select recent ... More | |
This trilogy is a journey into Salvador DalÃ's career and life.
FIGUERES.- A platform has been launched with the aim of offering global audience the trilogy of documentaries produced by the Gala-Salvador Dalà Foundation, directed by David Pujol, from DocDoc Films, and distributed by Versión Digital. With the title of Salvador DalÃ, in search of immortality this is, to this day, the most exhaustive portrait of his life and work in audiovisual format. After being screened at festivals and cinemas in Europe, the United States, Canada, China, Australia and Latin America, these documentaries will finally be available online in 4 languages. www.salvadordalidocumentary.com is an on-demand video platform, i. e. a website of audiovisual content that can be viewed upon payment. It offers three hours of documentaries about Salvador Dalà in Catalan, Spanish, French and English. This trilogy is a journey into his career and life starting ... More |
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| In Michigan, a park made of water | | Maitreyi Ramakrishnan of 'Never Have I Ever' loves Van Gogh | | Art Fund launches Art Pass Unbooked |
Rocks and fossils on the beach near a former quarry site at Rockport State Recreation Area in Alpena, Mich., July 20, 2021. Kevin Miyazaki/The New York Times.
by Peter Kujawinski
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A buoy floats in an otherwise empty Lake Huron bay, a little button in the water only a 10-minute paddle from the beach. Below it, resting on the bottom in 18 feet of water, lie the remains of the L.M. Mason, a 125-foot wooden schooner caught by a vicious storm on Oct. 22, 1861. Carrying a load of grain, the schooner huddled in this bay off northeast Michigans Presque Isle peninsula with 13 other ships to escape the winds, waves and snow. The other ships survived, but the L.M. Mason was too badly damaged and sank. Because of its shallow resting place and exposure to the wild storms that buffet this section of Lake Huron called Shipwreck Alley only the hull and some supporting beams are left. But the fact that it is 160 years old and still relatively ... More | |
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, the star of the Netflix teen comedy, Never Have I Ever, while visiting the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Lower Manhattan on July 19, 2021. Sabrina Santiago/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Cobalt and ultramarine blue swirled on the floors and walls. A moon appeared. Then stars. And the tangled branches of cypress trees. Starry Night, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan murmured on a sultry July morning. This is like the headliner act. Ramakrishnan, 19, star of the celebrated Netflix teen comedy Never Have I Ever, had arrived in New York City a few days earlier. Between downpours (This amount of thunderstorm is not normal, right? she said), she and her castmates had appeared at meet-and-greets for thousands of young fans. Because the first season premiered in April 2020, in the first flush of lockdown, and the second had landed only this July, Ramakrishnan had never really met her fans in person. I was like, oh, this show is really popular, she said. As this was ... More | |
Aberdeen Art Gallery © Marc Atkins / Art Fund 2020.
LONDON.- Art Fund the national charity for art has today launched its innovative new platform Art Pass Unbooked. The new online tool brings together hundreds of museums and galleries from across the UK in one place for the first time, providing a one stop shop for culture. It uses the users location to show them museums and galleries near to them, provides ticket availability, and allows visitors to book there and then. The smart new tool will help local museums and galleries attract visitors at a time when they need to most, and also allow culture seekers to get an art fix without the crowds. Due to social distancing measures and pent up demand, tickets to higher-profile museums are selling fast with many expected to be booked out ahead of time this summer. But there is expected to be a lot of capacity for visitors at smaller museums and galleries across the UK. Indeed, new research* by Art Fund shows that people are planning 66m trips to museums and galleries this summer. ... More |
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| American Impressionism transforms the Polk Museum of Art's galleries this summer and fall | | Nevada Museum of Art opens comprehensive Gianfranco Gorgoni exhibition | | Berlin Photo Week: Experience the fascination of photography |
Edward Willis Redfield, Road and River, 1926 (detail), oil on canvas. Huntington Museum of Art, Photo: John Spurlock.
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art announced its headlining Summer and Fall exhibition, American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection, on view from July 31 to October 24, 2021. The works in the exhibition, from the late 19th through early 20th centuries, represent a transitional time in the world of American art. Influenced by the rise of Impressionism in France, American artists began to expand their own repertoires by using non-academic techniques, employing less rigid styles and selecting less traditional subject matter than that typically found in painting in the preceding centuries. Instead, American artists of this new Impressionist bent shifted toward painting scenes from daily life landscapes or urban scenes or portraits of everyday people with loose brush strokes and vivid colors. Painting frequently en plein air, they turned to nature and townscapes, depicted scenes of rolling hills, sn ... More | |
Gianfranco Gorgoni, Christo and Jeanne-Claudes Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 197276, 1976, Chromogenic print. Photograph from the Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection, with additional support from the Estate of Nancy L. Peppin; Photograph © Estate of Gianfranco Gorgoni; Artwork © Christo.
RENO, NV.- Daring, outsized, and literally groundbreaking, artworks such as Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty, Michael Heizers City, Walter De Marias Desert Cross, Christo and Jeanne-Claudes Running Fence, and Nancy Holts Sun Tunnels have captured the imaginations of people around the world. They have done so, in large part, through the photographs of Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941-2019), who was in the field with the artists while their works were in progress. Now the Nevada Museum of Art is drawing on its uniquely deep and extensive holdings of Gorgonis work to present the exhibition Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs, featuring more than fifty of his ... More | |
Greta Garbo, 1955. © George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives.
BERLIN.- Berlin Photo Week, in collaboration with leading companies in the imaging industry and numerous other partners passionate about photography, has developed an innovative event concept. The joy of taking pictures, the fascination for technology and life with photos, will be made tangible for many thousands of visitors on site and for many millions of people worldwide. Berlin Photo Week offers photo enthusiasts creative incentive to photograph themselves and others, to try out new cameras and accessories, to talk to other photo enthusiasts, to discover new ideas in lectures and workshops, and to enjoy legendary masterpieces of photography in top-class exhibitions. This and more is possible from 26 August to 3 September 2021 at the R.A.W.-Gelände (Haubentaucher, Cassiopeia) as well as at other satellite locations across the city. With the L-Mount Alliance, Leica Camera, Panasonic, and Sigma three strong brands in the photo ... More |
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| Pre-Raphaelite art galleries reopen in stunning new display at the Delaware Art Museum | | FIAC, Paris announces exhibitor list 2021 | | Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art announces Chief Curator and dates for third edition |
Reimagined galleries celebrate collection highlights and diversify stories told with art.
WILMINGTON, DE.- On Saturday, July 31, the Delaware Art Museum unveiled its reimagined galleries of British Pre-Raphaelite art, continuing a series of gallery reopenings throughout the summer. Shaped by feedback from over 100 Delawareans, Radical Beauty explores the artists who rebelled against the Victorian art world to forge new ways of artmaking. DelArts Pre-Raphaelite art collection is one of the largest outside of Great Britain, an attraction that draws art lovers far and wide to Wilmington. The reinstallation moves the collection to prominent main floor galleries at the Museums entrance. The Museums collection of Pre-Raphaelite art was developed through the gift of Wilmington mill owner Samuel Bancroft. In recent years, the collection has been expanded with new acquisitions and interpretation. The reimagined galleries celebrate not only the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but also the women artists in their circle and the diverse ... More | |
Photo: M/M Paris.
PARIS.- From October 21 to 24, for its 47th edition, FIAC will bring together over 160 galleries from 26 countries at the Grand Palais Ephémère and the Galerie Eiffel, which has been specifically installed for FIAC as an extension of the structure on the Champ-de-Mars. The selection will include modern art, contemporary art, and design galleries, as well as editions, from France and other European countries, Great Britain, North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. FIAC pursues its engagement towards emerging galleries, notably through the Young Galleries Sector. The ten galleries selectedBel Ami (Los Angeles), Chris Sharp Gallery (Los Angeles), Noah Klink (Berlin), Ãktem Aykut (Istanbul), Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw), Sans titre (2016) (Paris), Martina Simeti (Milano), Soft Opening (London), Sweetwater (Berlin), Weiss Falk (Basel)will receive financial support of 50% of booth costs to contribute to their participation. The physical fair will be enriched by the retur ... More | |
René Block and Nico Anklam, photo by Kristine Madjare, courtesy RIBOCA3.
RIGA.- Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art announced the appointment of René Block as chief curator for the third edition, RIBOCA3, running from 15 July - 2 October 2022 in Riga, Latvia. One of Germany's leading art world figures, Block has worked as an independent curator for over fifty years. His established career includes holding the positions of director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, and curator for numerous international biennials, including Belgrade October Salon (2006), Gwangju (2000), Istanbul (1995) and Sydney (1990). In 2008 he co-founded the Kunsthalle 44 Møen in Denmark and continues to operate as its artistic director. RIBOCA3 will be his most ambitious project of the last fifteen years. Block emphasizes the significance of the city of Riga where the biennial will take place: I simply could not resist the call to Riga. The area around the Andrejsala exhibition venue is an invitation to turn the Bi ... More |
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Six new exhibitions open at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
HERZLIYA.- The exhibitions focus on familiar elements from our immediate environment and on household objects that have undergone dynamic transformations of disruption, dismantling and anthropomorphizing, reflecting a Zeitgeist informed by uncertainty, absurdity, and threat. Yael Franks exhibition combines moving image and installation of sculptural elements, spilling over from the gallery space into the entrance hall of the Museum. Frank offers an amusing and touching metaphor for the cynicism of Israeli politics, through an immersive environment that includes distorted and fragmented forms. The grid referred to in the project's title is a central integrating structure both in the site-specific installation and in the film Salami, which was shot in it. The film features a large sculptural object in the form of an elaborate, fantastical cat house ... More
Kunstmuseum Basel releases 'Charmion von Wiegand: Expanding Modernism'
BASEL.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery announced the release of the publication Charmion von Wiegand: Expanding Modernism, produced by the Kunstmuseum Basel (Hardcover/160 pages/ISBN: 978-3-7913-5975-5). Published by Prestel Publishing, this beautifully illustrated monograph accompanies the first major retrospective of Charmion von Wiegand (18961983) in Europe, which will open at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2023. Curated by Maja Wismer, Head of Contemporary Art, the exhibition will feature an extensive selection of von Wiegands paintings and collages dating from 1930 to 1960. Charmion von Wiegand: Expanding Modernism includes scholarly contributions by Wismer, Martin Brauen, Lori Cole, Haema Sivanesan, Nancy J. Troy and Felix Vogel, which are illustrated by a generous selection of letters, archival photos and other ephemera ... More
The Donum Collection installs 'Reaching Out' by Thomas J Price and 'Nuns + monks' by Ugo Rondinone
SONOMA, CA.- Donum, one of the leading California Pinot Noir producers, has installed two monumental sculptures that recently joined The Donum Collection. These works join a growing collection of monumental, open-air sculptures that live harmoniously across Donums 200-acre estate, nestled between Napa and Sonoma wine regions. The Donum Estate has one of the largest accessible, privately-owned outdoor sculpture experiences in the world that has made it an international destination. Founded in 2011, The Donum Collection is one of the largest accessible private sculpture collections in the world. More than 50 monumental works, including open-air sculptures are placed on The Donum Estate, a leader in single-vineyard, single-appellation Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Sonoma in Northern California. Dotted throughout, each piece plays ... More
Smashing debut: Heritage Auctions' first Trading Card Games event tops $3.4 million
DALLAS, TX.- A Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (Wizards of the Coast, 1999) drew 115 bids before it sold for $384,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Auction to $3,473,102 in total sales July 24-25. The event was the first of its kind, and exceeded pre-auction expectations, with perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and by lots sold, and with 1,445 bidders from around the globe. We are thrilled with the results of this auction," Heritage Auctions Trading Card Games Consignment Director Jesus Garcia said. The popularity and demand for these items dictated a standalone auction, and it more than lived up to the hype. There was more bidding in this auction than in any other, and we welcomed a lot of new bidders at this event." The result for the top lot was the second-highest price ever for a Pokémon ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition by Erwin Kneihsl
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting Sun, its tenth solo exhibition of works by Viennese photographer, filmmaker and performance artist Erwin Kneihsl. In recent times, Kneihsl has come to the fore primarily with hand prints of analogue photographs of landscapes and architecture in classic black and white. In the current show, too, he remains true to the medium and his preferred subjects. His works, mounted with staples on grey board, captivate with precise photographic craftsmanship and pictorial expressiveness. Kneihsl's practice reveals traits of alchemy, both materially and ideally. The darkroom is his place of substantial experimentation. The individual components of the developing bath, the proportions, but also the respective tempering are well-kept trade secrets, on the basis of which Kneihsl transforms certain of the ... More
Mire Lee joins Tina Kim Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery announced the representation of Mire Lee (b. 1988), a multi-disciplinary artist based in Amsterdam and Seoul. Lee is a nominee for the Future Generation Prize 2021, and her work is currently on view at Het HEM in Zaandam. Lee's work will be presented in a two-person exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin in the fall of this year. In 2022, Lee will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands. Lee is an installation-based artist, whose biomorphic structures push the boundaries of materiality and mechanization. Her work circumvents traditional notions of sculpture with dynamic, entropic and kinetic elements, conceptually challenging societal norms on sexuality and desire, embracing paradoxical ontologies, and critiquing traditional paradigms. Tina Kim Gallery will present ... More
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2021 announces programme
SHANGHAI.- PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai announced its gallery and exhibitor line-up for its upcoming 7th edition, returning to the Shanghai Exhibition Center this September with Porsche as Presenting Partner. Over 40 exhibitors are taking part across different sections, including the newly launched Publishing, Not for Profit and SOLO. International galleries unable to travel due to ongoing restrictions are represented through new film and digital programs Screen and On View. PHOTOFAIRS is Asia Pacifics leading destination for discovering and collecting photo-based works. This years edition seeks to support and uplift artists and galleries from across China by showcasing the breadth and diversity of the local scene. Galleries from Beijing to Chengdu and Shanghai to Changsha come together at the fair to highlight the work of influential artists, such ... More
Art Sonje Center opens a solo exhibition of works by Yeesookyung
SEOUL.- Art Sonje Center is presenting Yeesookyungs solo exhibition Moonlight Crowns from July 29 to September 26, 2021. Moonlight Crowns is a new series by Yeesookyung, an artist who adopts crowns as a motif of her artwork. The series began in 2017, with five of the works shown for the first time at the Museo Madre and Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. Adding six more works made after her solo exhibitions in 2019, the exhibition features eleven works of sculpture in total. The works are structured in a way that they expand upward from the crown shape at the very bottom. Upon a small, crown-shaped base, they have a bulging middle section reminiscent of an urn, and a thin, sharp upper section resembling a spire tip. The sculptures range in height from 100 to 225 centimeters, creating a landscape that appears as if there is a crowd ... More
Quilt exhibition commemorates 20th anniversary of September 11th attacks
PADUCAH, KY.- In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY is displaying an exclusive exhibition of quilts from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in NY. The quilts were created to help people all over the world mourn the tragedies and losses that occurred in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The collection of quilts by artists from around the world reflect some aspect of the September 11 tragedies. Each piece is unforgettable, moving, heartbreaking and inspiring. The quiltmakers ranged from world-class quilt artists to women creating their first quilt. The exhibition includes: 9/11 by Bonnie Peterson - This quilt is made of photo transfers of the portraits of victims and memorials/obituaries that appeared in the newspapers following 9/11. There are also maps and written accounts ... More
The Royal Scottish Academy opens an exhibition of historical and recent works by Frances Walker RSA
EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy presents an exhibition of paintings and prints by Frances Walker RSA. Awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours for Services to Scottish art in 2020, Walker is one of the most celebrated artists currently working in Scotland. Based in Aberdeen, Walker has travelled extensively throughout her career and the exhibition includes works inspired by the Western Isles, Orkney, Iceland, Finland, Slovenia, South Georgia and Antarctica. Several significant, large-scale works such as Crossing to Finlaggan (2001) and Glacial Lagoon (2001) will be on view as well as important early pieces from her years after graduating from Edinburgh College of Art. Other exhibition highlights include her artists book, Crossing to Finlaggan (2003), and rare etchings from the Finnish Suite and her South Georgia series. Walker ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and the couple became the parents of two daughters. In this image: A self-portrait of British painter Thomas Gainsborough, painted about 1787, is seen to the right as a security guard watches over paintings in the Thomas Gainsborough exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, June 9, 2003, in Boston.
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