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The Singh Twins, Jallianwala: Repression and Retribution.
MANCHESTER.- The large scale mixed media artworks are the final two panels of a 3 piece (triptych) artwork titled 'Jallianwala:Repression and Retribution' created by contemporary British artists, The Singh Twins, in response to the Centenary this year of the Jallianwala Bagh or Amritsar massacre: an atrocity perpetrated on 13th April 1919 during British rule in India, under orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, in which hundreds of Indian civilians who had gathered in a park (known as Jallianwala) to protest the introduction of draconian racist laws, were left dead and dying after being fired upon, without warning by British troops. Whilst the central panel of the Twin's triptych (launched earlier this year at Manchester Museum) focused on the massacre itself which took place in the city of Amritsar in the North-West province of Punjab, the two new works (representing the left and right side panels of the triptych) largely explore the historical context, aftermath and legacies of this event w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this picture taken on July 10, 2019, various models of Sony Walkman audio players are displayed at an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the iconic device, in Tokyo. Must-have 80s gadget and one-time icon of Japan electronics cool, Sony's Walkman turned 40 this year and like its now middle-aged fans, is clinging to its youth with high-tech updates. Behrouz MEHRI / AFP
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 | | National Gallery of Ireland presents first ever Irish exhibition of Spain's Impressionist, Sorolla | | Vibrant exhibition from San Antonio-native, Aaron Curry, takes over McNay Art Museum lobby | | Rare rediscovered portfolio could make £1 million at Sotheby's | 
JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923), Self-Portrait, 1904. Nº inv. 00687, Museo Sorolla.
DUBLIN.- Visitors to the National Gallery of Ireland can discover the work of one of Spains most popular artists in its latest exhibition Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light. JoaquÃn Sorolla (1863-1923) is often referred to as Spains Impressionist, and the exhibition of his work that toured Spain in 2008 remains the countrys most popular exhibition ever. Sorolla is particularly well-regarded for his technically accomplished depictions of water and light. His approach involved painting quickly from observation, often outdoors and directly onto his canvases, many of which are monumental in size. Comprising a total of 52 paintings, the exhibition presents a wide range of quintessentially Spanish scenes, spanning gardens and landscapes, seascapes, costume and fashion, portraiture, and snapshots of daily life and culture. This is the first exhibition of Sorollas work in Ireland, organised ... More | | 
Detail from HEADROOM on view at McNay Art Museum.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums AT&T Lobby is experiencing a vibrant transformation with the opening of a new exhibition, HEADROOM, by San Antonio-native Aaron Curry. The artist grew up visiting the McNay, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over a decade. In this homecoming exhibition, HEADROOM is Currys first-ever presentation in San Antonio. He is the eighth artist to present work in the AT&T Lobby in the last 10 years. HEADROOM consists of newly created surface coverings, a painting, and two sculptures selected specifically to activate the Museums lobby window area and surrounding walls. The repeated design pattern references the early days of image digitization as seen in video games and through copy machines. The work also nods to modern art and science fiction, which have been constant sources of inspiration throughout Currys career. From the moment visitors step foot into ... More | | 
Edvard Munch, Le Soir (Angst) (J. 84; Woll 63; Schiefler 61). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The complete, ground-breaking multi-artist album Les Peintres-Graveurs will be offered at auction in London this September, with an estimate of £500,000 to £1,000,000. One of the most important art dealers and publishers of the 20th century, Ambroise Vollard was largely responsible for the validation of lithography as an art form, as well as the propagation of the greatest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Issued in Paris in 1896, his first ever multi-artist portfolio Les Peintres-Graveurs comprises 22 prints by the likes of Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Théo van Rysselberghe, Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Vuillard. A champion of unrecognised artists, Vollard took chances on international and young talent. At the heart of his portfolio is an exceptional impression of one of Edvard Munchs most famous motifs, Angst (or Le Soir). Produced in collaboration ... More |
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| | Taschen publishes updated edition of Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste | | Sheila Hicks displays more than fifty artworks at Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino | | The Art Institute of Chicago acquires collection of nineteenth-century American photography | 
This updated edition celebrates the schools centennial, gathering 550 illustrations across 400 pages.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, sculpture to ceramics. This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the worlds largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 550 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group ... More | | 
Sheila Hicks, Lianas Rojas, 2019. © Sheila Hicks.
SANTIAGO.- Sheila Hicks returns to Chile after fifty years with the exhibition Reencuentro, curated by Carolina Arévalo and presented by the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino and Escondida | BHP. With more than fifty artworks on display along with a selection of pieces from the Museo Precolombino, some of which have never been exhibited publicly, Reencuentro presents a broad scope of work from the artist, through a thematic tour that puts contemporary art and the heritage of indigenous American art in dialogue. As a disciple of Josef Albers and with artistic training based on the Bauhaus philosophy, Sheila Hicks undertook a trip throughout South America in 1957, from Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego, a fundamental experience in her training. It was on this journey through the Andes that she learned of the textile techniques and ancestral cosmovision that would change her life forever and where, inspired by the ... More | | 
Unknown Maker. American, active 1850s. Untitled (Surveyor), 1854. Daguerreotype, 10.7 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, plate). The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, 2019.528.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced the acquisition of the W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection of nineteenth-century American photographs. Assembled over five decades, the Lundberg Collection comprises nearly 500 photographs, with the majority being daguerreotypes. Made on a copper plate coated in silver, each daguerreotype is a unique, brilliantly sharp image, which gained the nickname mirror with a memory. The collection includes a broad range from large plates made by acclaimed studios of the day to small, intimate images from itinerant operators. The subjects are just as varied: famous Americans like President Zachary Taylor alongside anonymous ... More |
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| | Refugee boats given new life as bags in Berlin | | The Kunstmuseum Basel offers a focused retrospective of works by Leiko Ikemura | | Modern cave man offers 'Neanderthal' survival courses in Italy | 
Syrian taylor Khaldoun al-Hussain poses on July 12, 2019 at the workshop of the small Berlin-based company "Mimycri", where the material, from rubber dinghies initially abandoned by migrants on beaches of Greek islands, finds a second life. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Leaning over his sewing machine in the workshop of the small Berlin-based company called mimycri, Khaldoun Alhussain concentrates as he stitches a piece of grey rubber. A border of yellow thread takes shape on the material that he works with an expert hand. The grey material from rubber dinghies, abandoned by migrants on the beaches of Greek islands, is finding a second life in Berlin. It is transformed by refugees into different sorts of bags, sold on the internet. Alhussain, a 34-year-old Syrian, is familiar with the robust and weather-resistant rubber that he now works with after being recovered in Greece. Four years ago, he climbed into a makeshift boat made of the very ... More | | 
Leiko Ikemura, May 2019. Photo: Julian Salinas
BASEL.- The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura is internationally renowned today for fairy-tale-like scenarios populated by chimerical creatures and dream worlds in which female figures appear to fuse with landscape formations. Japanese audiences celebrate her as an artist who wholeheartedly embraced Western art only to grow aware of her cultural roots and eventually forged a singular synthesis of both cultures. The Kunstmuseum Basel now presents Leiko Ikemura. Toward New Seas, an exhibition in its new gallery building that offers a focused retrospective of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from all periods in the artists oeuvre. The show was designed in close consultation with Ikemura and in cooperation with the National Art Center, Tokyo, one of Japans five largest national art institutions. It is the first presentation to make use of the small courtyard on the new buildings basement level: the artist had a ne ... More | | 
Guido Camia dressed as a Neanderthal Cave man holds a frog than he just caught in a river in Chianale, in the Italian Alps, near the French border, on August 7, 2019. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP.
CHIANALE.- Guido Camia can show you how to light fires using just a flintstone, survive on a diet of insects and build a forest shelter. The 37-year-old, who originally trained to be a patisserie chef, now makes a living offering "Neanderthal" survival courses in the Italian Alps. On one of his weekend trips, you can watch him climb rocks and fish from streams barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear and looking like something out of "The Flintstones". But Camia's outdoor survival courses also come with an official stamp of approval. "For the past five years, my courses have been supervised by Italy's International Survival Federation (FISSS)," he told AFP. Camia says he also gives courses in more traditional attire, but his "passion for the paleolithic" gave him the idea ... More |
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| | Hit rewind: Sony Walkman triggers nostalgia on 40th birthday | | New all-female focused gallery Boogie Wall launches in the heart of Mayfair during Frieze | | More than £90,000 of funding awarded for innovative arts and well-being projects | 
In this picture taken on July 10, 2019, a woman walks past an oversized replica of a WM-F5 Sony Walkman outside the venue for an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the portable music player, in Tokyo. Behrouz MEHRI / AFP.
TOKYO (AFP).- Must-have 80s gadget and one-time icon of Japan electronics cool, Sony's Walkman turned 40 this year and like its now middle-aged fans, is clinging to its youth with high-tech updates. On July 1, 1979, as the global economy suffered through the second oil shock, Sony unleashed on the world a dark-blue brick of a machine with chunky silver buttons, the Walkman TPS-L2. Priced at a hefty 33,000 yen --$300 in today's money -- the first generation Walkman could not record but its stereo music playback function quickly captured hearts in Japan and then the world. It had two headset jacks -- labelled "guys" and "dolls" -- to allow two people to listen simultaneously. A bright orange "hotline" button could be pressed to lower the volume while the couple chatted. After a disappointing first month when only 3,000 units were ... More | | 
Namsa Leuba is a Swiss-Guinean photographer and art director whose work mainly focuses on the African identity seen through Western eyes.
LONDON.- Boogie Wall gallery announced the dates for their inaugural all-female exhibition Notre Dame/Our Lady opening in Mayfair this October (4 October 27 October). The international group show featuring Peter Beard mentored French-Senegalese artist Delphine Diallo, Swiss-Guinean photographer Namsa Leuba who recently collaborated with Nike and shot the official photographs of the teams jersey kit for football World Cup 2018 and Swedish artist and model Alice Herbst will mark the launch of Boogie Wall gallery concept which will solely focus on representing international female artists. With an aim to fight the misrepresentation of women in the art world, Boogie Wall will provide a platform for activism and provoke discussion by showcasing art with an impact. The inaugural show brings together three artists from around the world whose practices explore gender and identity in a global scale. Boogie Wall is current ... More | | 
Wallis and Steevens Road Roller, Simplicity, at Milestones Museum, built in 1928.
WINCHESTER.- Funding of more than £90,000 has been secured by Hampshire Cultural Trust to allow the charity to undertake two new projects one using heritage to support people whove experienced mental health issues, and the other to grow engagement in arts. The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, managed by the Museums Association, has given £61,799 to On the Move!, with Arts Council England granting £28,220 to make Connecting Conversations happen. On the Move! will provide supported volunteering opportunities for around 70 men aged 18-75 who have recently received crisis support for mental health issues. Volunteers (from Solent Mind and other mental health organisations) will help transform HCTs heritage and transport collection to reinvigorate the story of 19th and 20th century engineering in Hampshire, told at Milestones, Hampshires Living History Museum in Basingstoke. The aim is to trace the history of ... More |
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More National Museum of African American History and Culture announces early childhood education initiativeWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture has announced the expansion of its Early Childhood Education Initiative (ECEI) with a $1.5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Structured to be joyous and fun, this museum-based curriculum is designed to help young children of all backgrounds develop healthy racial identities and other social skills. Bridging the fields of early childhood education, human development, museum education and developmental psychology, ECEI programming encourages young children to be comfortable with human diversity, recognize unfairness and develop the capacity to stand against prejudice. In addition to the on-site programming, the grant funds national outreach efforts and digital instructions and resources for research-based publications, adults, ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died August 12, 1988. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. In this image: A gallery assistant poses with US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Warrior" at Sotheby's auction house in central London on June 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL.
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