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Paris Bordone, Perseus armed by Mercury and Minerve, circa 1545-1555. Oil on canvas, 103, 5 x 154 cm. Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; gift of the Samuel Kress Collection.
MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is hosting Renaissance Venice. The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting, an exhibition devoted to Venetian art of the sixteenth century its first zenith and featuring nearly 100 works by artists such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bassano, Giorgione and Lotto. It sets out to show how the specific devices of Venetian painting, from the use of chiaroscuro and colour as the bases for representing figures and space to a closer attention to nature than was advocated by the classical tradition, more idealistic in its conception, embodied a fully Renaissance idea of beauty that was on a par with, and sometimes superior to, the art then being produced in Rome, Parma and Florence. Curated by Fernando Checa Cremades, professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, the show examines this hub of art production, which is essential to understanding the history of painting, t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on January 24, 2014 shows a gallery supervisor posing for photographs with two versions of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery in London. Five versions of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece painting "Sunflowers" will be united across three continents for the first time on August 14, 2017 via a consecutive livestream feed, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has said. LEON NEAL / AFP
| Exhibition focuses on that silent yet powerful act of transmission of Buddhist philosophy | | How To Live Together: Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien approaches the subject of coexistence | | New Britain Museum of American Art displays works by Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha | 
Japanese. Amida Buddha (Amida Nyorai), 12th century (detail). Lacquer, gold and pigment on Cypress (Hinoki), crystals, 118.5 x 36.1 cm diameter (overall). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO, 2010 (2010.3).
MELBOURNE.- From the tranquil smile of an enlightened icon to the widely recognisable laughing Buddha, nine iterations and cultural interpretations of Buddha from throughout Asia are being presented in Buddhas Smile, on view in the Asian Art temporary exhibitions gallery at NGV International. The exhibition focuses on that silent yet powerful act of transmission of Buddhist philosophy. Spanning more than 1000 years, the exhibition presents Buddhist principles and Zen philosophy in a fresh context through a display of contemporary art and antiquities, including textiles, paintings, prints, devotional objects, sculptures and scripts from the NGV Collection. Buddhas smile also features new and never-before-seen acquisitions, as well as select works from private collections. Buddhas ... More | | 
August Sander, Proletariermutter, 1926, © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur August Sander Archive, Cologne; BILDRECHT GmbH, Wien, 2017.
VIENNA.- To the Son of Man Who Ate The Scroll, Goshka Macugas android addresses the viewers with a direct appeal for humanity. Speaking as though a prophet from the future, the android derives its words from Paul Austers novels, Martin Luther Kings speeches, and quotes Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Butler, and Charlie Chaplin in its call for humanity as the foundation of coexistence. At the same time, it admonishes against humans potential for destruction in the manner of an antique aphorism according to which mans true enemy is man. Goshka Macugas humanoid machine evokes the beginning and the end of humanity and appeals to the viewers capacity for empathy with its expressions and gestures. To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll sets the scope for the exhibition: it links social analysis with art, connects past utopias to the ... More | | 
Billy Al Bengston, Skinnys 21, 1961, Oil on canvas, 42 x 40 inches, Courtesy of the artist. © Billy Al Bengston.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN.- The New Britain Museum of American Art is presenting California Dreaming: Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha. Curated by Thomas Krens, Director Emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, this exhibition marks the largest show at the NBMAA to date, occupying 11,524 sq. ft. This is the most extensive exploration of these artists collective achievements to be shown at an East Coast museum. California Dreaming offers a retrospective of works by California-based artists Ed Moses (b. 1926), Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934), and Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), including approximately 30 iconic, as well as rarely seen, paintings and works on paper by each artist, spanning the 1950s to today. Moses, Bengston, and Ruscha are among the most influential figures of postwar West Coast art. Part of the first generation to be shown at the renowned Los Angeles Ferus Gallery in the late 1950s and referred to as the Cool School, ... More |
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| 'Gift from God' Elvis is semi-divine, 40 years after death | | Exhibition illustrates how artists use humour as a source of inspiration | | Fondazione Prada presents virtual reality installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 
Fans queue before starting a tour of Elvis Presely's Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on August 12, 2017. MANDEL NGAN / AFP.
MEMPHIS (AFP).- Pilgrims come all day every day, filing past in silence, fighting back tears as they place mementos at Elvis Presley's gravesite, pausing to reflect, take pictures or say a prayer. More than 600,000 fans visit each year, paying tribute to the icon of popular culture, the once rebellious sex symbol turned family entertainer of whom John Lennon said "before Elvis there was nothing." Forty years after his tragic death aged 42, floral tributes from around the world still line the Meditation Garden, where the king of rock 'n' roll is buried at his Graceland home in Memphis. On Tuesday thousands, if not tens of thousands, are expected to attend this year's candle-light vigil to mark the anniversary of Elvis' death. Lisa Bseiso will be one of them. She had what she calls a "very spiritual, deep encounter" with Presley's spirit when she first visited Graceland with her husband in August 2014. ... More | | 
Midas Zwaan, High mighty, 2008. Mixed media. Collection Sociale Verzekeringsbank. Photo: Isolde Woudstra
HAARLEM.- The Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem is staging the major exhibition Humour: 101 Years of Laughing at Art in both venues. It illustrates how artists used humour as a source of inspiration. Since the coming of Dada in 1916, humour has played a major role in art, blowing a fresh new wind through the often serious and pompous art world. De Hallen Haarlem shows examples of humorous Dutch artfrom Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art to Fluxusalong with humorous works from contemporary art. In the Frans Hals Museum the focus is on caricatures and parodies of famous works of art. The summer exhibition Humour: 101 Years of Laughing at Art echoes the theme that the Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem is light-heartedly promoting in its programme this year. The exhibition features a wide range of paintings, prints, photographs, films and spatial works. It is the ... More | | 
Carne y Arena. A user in the experience, 2017. Photo: Emmanuel Lubezki.
MILAN.- Alejandro G. Iñárritus Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible), a virtual reality installation produced by Legendary Entertainment and Fondazione Prada, is being presented in its extensive full version at Fondazione Prada in Milan until 15 January 2018, after its world premiere in the 70th Festival de Cannes. Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees personal journeys. Carne y Arena employs the highest, never-before-used virtual technology to create a large, multi-narrative light space with human characters. The experimental visual installation Carne y Arena is a six and half minute solo experience that reunites frequent collaborators Alejandro G. Iñárritu and three-time Academy Award®-winning cinematographe ... More |
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| Picture book star Eloise visits the New-York Historical Society this summer | | Premier international tribal and Asian art fair Parcours des Mondes to take place in September | | Whistler & Contemporaries featured in Reading Public Museum's Etching Revival exhibition | 
Hilary Knight (b. 1926), Illustration for the Plaza Hotel childrens menu, 1957-8. Paper. Collection of Hilary Knight © by Kay Thompson.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, the New-York Historical Society celebrates the feisty charm and audacious spirit of Eloise, who continues to be a picture book superstar more than 60 years after her debut. On view June 30 October 9, 2017, Eloise at the Museum reveals the creative collaboration between cabaret star Kay Thompson (19091998) and the young illustrator Hilary Knight (b. 1926) that brought the precocious character to life. The exhibition showcases more than 75 objects, ranging from original manuscript pages to sketchbooks, portraits, photographs, and vintage dolls. Organized by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, where it debuted earlier this year, New-York Historicals presentation fully immerses visitors into Eloises world with evocations of the grand lobby of the Plaza Hotel, her bedroom―complete with a storytelling corner―and her bubbly bawthroom, where she often made ... More | | 
Mask Dan, Ivory Coast / Liberia. 19th century. Wood. H: 23 cm © Charles-Wesley Hourdé, photo Vincent Girier Dufournier.
PARIS.- Parcours des Mondes, the premier international tribal and Asian art fair, will be more remarkable than ever this year. Now in its sixteenth year, the show, which takes place in the streets of the Saint-Germaindes-Prés neighborhood of Paris, will feature outstanding programming and events. In addition to the many exhibitions that participating dealers will present, this years honorary president of Parcours, Javier Peres, is both a contemporary art gallerist with an international reputation and an important African art collector. Espace Tribal, a place for tribal art related interactions, will stage an exhibition that expresses his distinctive perspective and unusual approach to melding contemporary and African art. Parcours des Mondes will also place special emphasis on French Polynesia this year in conjunction with the launch of an important new reference book on tapa cloth. This year, as they do e ... More | | 
George Edward Hopkins (American, 1855 1924), Sotto Portico del Traghetto, 1880, etching, sheet: 15 1/16 x 11 1/2 in., Gift, Levi W. Mengel, 1918.119.53.32. Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
READING, PA.- The Reading Public Museum announced its latest art exhibition, Whistler & Company: The Etching Revival, which is on view through September 24, 2017 in The Museums ground floor Works on Paper Gallery. Expatriate American artist, James Abbot McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 1903) played an crucial role in the etching revival of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and is being featured among some of his contemporary printmakers. The show includes more than sixty works, with nearly a dozen by Whistler, whose gritty images of the River Thames, views of Venice and Parisian scenes revived, at least in part, the art of etching in the 19th century. Works from Whistlers Thames Set and French Set are being featured in the exhibition. The etching revival of the second half of the 19th century took hold in France, England and the United States. Artists set out to re-establish etchingthe a ... More |
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| Exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the life, work and talent of Jean Cooke RA | | The Museo del Prado displays the last work by the Iranian artist Farideh Lashai | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam exhibits the work of the young German artist Jana Euler | 
Jean Cooke, Cliff Burling Gap, 1995. © artists estate. Courtesy Piano Nobile, Robert Travers (Works of Art) Ltd.
HASTINGS.- Paintings, photographs and personal items provide the basis of an intimate look at the life and work of one of Modern British arts finest - but all too often overlooked - exponents, Jean Cooke RA. Running throughout the summer (24 May 10 September 2017) at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings Delight in the Thing Seen offers art lovers the chance to see paintings that have rarely, if ever, been seen in public. Along with previously unseen photographs taken by Cooke, this intimate exhibition has drawn pieces from her childrens private collections and reveals not only a truly gifted artist, but also a devoted mother. Cooke is something of an enigmatic figure in the pantheon of British art. She deserves to have a far higher presence in the public consciousness, but a combination of her marriage to fellow artist John Bratby who was the subject of the critically acclaimed ... More | | 
Image of the exhibition galleries © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado and the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado are presenting in Room 66 of the Villanueva Building the work When I count, there are only you
but when I look, there is only a shadow (2013), the last to be created by the Iranian artist Farideh Lashai before her death. This is a video installation which takes up Goyas message and reinterprets it from the viewpoint of the present. It is inspired by his print series The Disasters of War, a universal symbol of suffering caused by human beings, of injustice and of the senseless nature of war. Faridehs work encourages viewers to focus on the harsh, disturbing images in these prints and to feel involved in them. In order to achieve this the artist carefully manipulated each print, extracting the scenes and filling in the gaps left by the figures. The backgrounds thus become empty settings which she arranged in a rectangle comprising eight superim ... More | | 
Jana Euler, Analysemonster, 2014.
AMSTERDAM.- The work of the young German artist Jana Euler (1982) is permeated by energy. Eulers practice focuses on the interplay of painting, sculpture and word & image. Her work explores contemporary identity and the impact and role of cultural, social and technological developments in its formation. The presentation High in Amsterdam, The Sky of Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam brings together work from all of Eulers solo exhibitions so far, combined with new work she has created especially for the Stedelijk Museums IMC Gallery. In her paintings, sculptural works and texts, Euler investigates the possibilities of digital and analogue images, responds to our contemporary conditions, and prompts reflection. Her works range far beyond the confines of style, and alternate between abstraction and figuration, text and form, clear imagery and spatially constructed situations. Actual materiality and the almost ... More |
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Hölle der Vögel (Birds' Hell) by Max Beckmann
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 Famed Pattern & Decoration artist Robert Zakanitch exhibits at the Hudson River Museum YONKERS, NY.- The art of Robert Zakanitch is on view in Robert Zakanitch: Garden of Ornament at the Hudson River Museum through September 17, 2017. The exhibition draws from an array of Zakanitchs works that explore depictions of floral beauty in this artists 50-year career in which he explored color, line, and form. Zakanitchs art has been seen around the world in solo and group exhibitions, and is in the collections of major museums in the United States and Europe. Zakanitch, who began painting in the 1960s, first as an Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist, became, only a decade later, the driving force for a small but dedicated group of Pattern & Decoration (P&D) artists. Inspired by the handiwork with which women had always decorated their homes, these artists believed that the graceful line of ornamentation was art, an art stemming from our domestic ... More Exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the textile design programme at KASK / School of Arts GhentGHENT.- Artists and designers working with textiles have taaken over the Dessign Museum. The exhibition Plain / Purl showcases textile design in a wider context of design, fashion, art and architecture. This exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Textile design course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) of University College Ghent. The courses open-minded vision takes centre stage in this exhibition, which juxtaposes works by international artists and alumni. Works by Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay and Franz West strike up a dialogue with designs by Joanna Reuse, Leda Devoldere and many other alumni. Valérie Mannaerts, Kristof Van Gestel and Henri Jacobs have created brand-new works for this exhibition. The project explores the boundaries of art and design, juxtaposing the two disciplines. Additionally, the works are - literally ... More Brussels Design September to offer more than 100 design eventsBRUSSELS.- Over the years, Brussels Design September has become the annual flagship event for design enthusiasts. For one month, the city hosts an array of over 100 unmissable cultural and commercial events offering a meeting platform between the public and a great number of Belgian and international designers. Brussels Design September will feature exhibitions, conferences, open houses, an Arts & Crafts tour, Commerce Design Brussels and Brussels Design Market. A multitude of dialogues between designers, architects and design lovers as well as the chance to discover urban trails between the many pop-up stores, shops, workshops, galleries and cultural spaces. This years edition will be marked by the latest trends in Belgian and international design and will be highlighted by the multi-disciplinary spirit of different influences, movements, crafts ... More viennacontemporary 2017 announces program of Austria's most important international art fairVIENNA.- From 21 to 24 September 2017 ca. 100 galleries and institutions from 26 countries will present their artists and programs in the Marx Halle. With the special presentations ZONE1, Solo & Sculpture, Focus: Hungary and Nordic Highlights, viennacontemporary underlines its significance not only as a market-place but also as a location for the presentation of young and established artists and for the information on the development of the art scene in the focus countries of the program. The accompanying events such as the film and video program as part of Cinema, the talks and discussions in the Talks and the art-education program with the guided tours on selected subjects provides an enjoyable and uncomplicated access to art for all age groups. With its comprehensive program and balanced list of exhibitors comprising the most significant ... More Daylight publishes "Above the Oil Fields by Ayesha Malik"NEW YORK, NY.- Fine art photographer Ayesha Malik (born 1989) is an American citizen who was raised in a gated community in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia created in the 1930s as a home away from home for American employees of the Arabian American Oil Company, now known as Saudi Aramco. Malik lived on the Dhahran compound for the first 22 years of her life with her father, who worked at Aramco, her mother, and her two siblings. In 2011, when Malik first learned her dad was retiring from the company, she felt a sense of urgency to document the place where she grew up with her camera. Aramco: Above the Oil Fields (Daylight, August 8, 2017) is Malik's fascinating personal account of life in this all inclusive community in the middle of the Arabian desert modeled after a typical California town with palm trees, verdant lawns, and family oriented recreational activities ... More Artists challenge audience to go away in new exhibitionSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Reclaimed Room Gallery is presenting Transport Me, a dynamic two-person exhibition featuring sculptor Kat Geng and figurative painter Jon Levy-Warren. Using the once modernand now extinctphone booth as a central metaphor, Transport Me investigates what it means to travel to another realm, another time or another space without actually moving. Mining found-object canvasses sourced from the streets of San Francisco and the scrapyard, the artists have built a colorful collection of worksGeng with her playful repurposings and Levy-Warren with his portraits of refracted reveriewhich explore objects and the power they have to carry us away. The exhibition is on view July 14 through September 8, 2107. Visual art, music, literature, food, film, books, television, colors, sounds, smells, drugs, and technology all act as ... More INK ASIA 2017: Third edition of the leading platform for contemporary ink art returns in DecemberHONG KONG.- Ink Asia 2017, the only international art fair devoted to contemporary ink art, returns for its 3rd edition to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from Friday, 15 December to Sunday, 17 December, with a Private Preview and Vernissage on Thursday, 14 December. Inaugurated in 2015, over the past two years Ink Asia has successfully established its unique status and growing influence as an international art fair specialising in contemporary ink. The concept of ink art in all its myriad forms has come to the forefront of the Asian art market in the past few years. The first two editions of Ink Asia have offered a variety of perspectives for appreciating ink art, allowing collectors, critics, scholars, the media and art lovers to appreciate the boundless possibilities of contemporary ink art with an open mind. Ink Asia presents a range of ... More PHOTOFAIRS to launch fourth Shanghai editionSHANGHAI.- This September, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai returns to China for the fourth year to celebrate the art of the photographic medium. Taking place at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from 8-10 September 2017, the fair is widely recognised as Asia Pacifics home for cutting-edge photography and a key driver of Chinas maturing photography market. Ambitious, museum-quality presentations throughout the 2017 edition will bring together emerging and established artists who push the boundaries of the photographic medium, and challenge the notion of what photography can be. With this sole focus on photography, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai offers collectors, curators and visitors from across the Asia Pacific region an unparalleled site of discovery. Strong sales and an increasing number of collectors and buying attending PHOTOFAIRS ... More FIAC 2017 announces the list of participating galleriesPARIS.- For its 44th edition from 19 to 22 October 2017 in Paris, FIAC will host a carefully balanced selection of leading international galleries in the iconic Grand Palais. FIAC consolidates the presence of major galleries working in the field of modern and contemporary art and confirms its support of the emerging generation, notably via the Lafayette Sector organized in partnership with our official sponsor, the Galeries Lafayette Group. Fresh, eclectic and edgy, this years selection is sure to attract wide-spread attention from connaisseurs and amateurs alike. Keen interest from exhibitors in all sectors of the market confirms Pariss growing appeal. Increasingly FIAC appears as a must in the autumn calendar. This year, FIAC will bring together exhibitors from 26 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, ... More Ferrari celebrations at Blenheim Palace for Salon Privé Concours MastersWOODSTOCK.- Becoming the UKs only Concours event to singularly celebrate the 70th anniversary of the legendary marque, Salon Privé announces early entries to its Concours Masters Tribute to 70 Years of Ferrari celebration. Over the course of Saturday 2nd September, guests will be dazzled by a timeline of 70 special, and inherently different, models from the Maranello-based marque. With the promise of bringing some of the rarest Ferraris in the world to the lawns of Blenheim Palace, the entry list for Concours Masters includes the UKs oldest-surviving 1949 Ferrari Tipo 166 Inter Coupe Touring, which has competed and finished no less than four Mille Miglias in its lifetime. This particular example, the eighth road car ever made by the marque, is the fourth Tipo 166 Inter with a Touring body of a total of 11 produced. With such an early example of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Willy Ronis was born August 14, 1910. Willy Ronis (August 14, 1910 - September 12, 2009) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence. Ronis' nudes and fashion work (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes) show his appreciation for natural beauty; meanwhile, he remained a principled news photographer, resigning from Rapho for a 25-year period when he objected to the hostile captioning by The New York Times to his photograph of a strike. In this image: Willy Ronis, Ãle Saint-Denis, nord de Paris, 1956. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / Médiathèque de l?architecture et du patrimoine / Dist RMN-GP © Donation Willy Ronis.
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