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A black-and-white replica of the horizontal oil painting, a double self-portrait with Kahlo represented both as herself and a wounded table dripping with blood, can be seen until January 21 at "Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Polish Context".
by Anna Maria Jakubek
POZNAN (AFP).- After taking an overnight bus to Poznan in Poland for an exhibition on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two Portuguese sisters are now standing in front of a curious blue suggestion box. "Who can tell us what happened to the missing painting or where we can find it?" reads a sign next to a photo of Kahlo's largest work, "The Wounded Table", a mysterious surrealist masterpiece that vanished without a trace in Warsaw more than half a century ago. "I wrote that the painting was probably destroyed. Or it could have been stolen and sold on the black market," says 21-year-old Ines Cavaco, currently studying in the Polish city of Krakow. "For sure. It's sitting in someone's living room," adds her sister Joana, a 23-year-old megafan who did her hair up with flowers in homage to Kahlo's trademark look. A black-and-white replica of the horizontal oil painting, a double self-portrait with Kahlo represented both as herself and a wounded table dripping with blood, can be seen until Ja ... More |
| The Warhol announces Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls book | | Pterosaur hatchlings needed their parents, trove of eggs reveals | | ICA Miami opens new permanent home | 
Andy Warhols The Chelsea Girls book cover.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhols The Chelsea Girls, an in depth look at Warhols most famous film The Chelsea Girls including numerous stills from the newly digitized film, never-before-published transcripts, unpublished archival materials, and expanded information about each of the individual films that comprise Warhols most well-known film. The hardcover, 328 page, 9 in. x 12 in. illustrated book, published by Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., retails for $65.00 and will be released in April 2018. Andy Warhols seminal 1966 film The Chelsea Girls is an iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the Chelsea Hotel with Factory Superstars like Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov, The Chelsea Girls was Warhols first commercially successful film, as well as the first underground movie by any director to screen in first-run theaters, playing ... More | | 
This photo taken on November 30, 2017 shows a fossilised pterosaur bone (top) and an egg displayed at a museum in Hami. AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- The largest collection of fossilized pterosaur eggs ever found has shown that pterosaurs, the airborne cousins of dinosaurs, could not fly right away and needed care from their parents, researchers said Thursday. Pterosaurs were reptiles, and the first creatures -- after insects -- to evolve powered flight, meaning they flapped their wings to stay aloft instead of simply jumping and gliding. First known to exist as many as 225 million years ago, they went extinct along with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. Until now, scientists had found some pterosaur eggs with remains inside, including three in Argentina and five in China. But the latest report in the peer-reviewed US journal Science is based on the biggest collection to date -- 215 fossilized eggs that were found in a 10-foot (three-meter) long sandstone block in northwestern ... More | | 
Exterior of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Photo by Iwan Baan.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami opened the doors to its new permanent home in the Miami Design District on December 1, 2017. Marking the first U.S. project designed by Spanish firm Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos, the new 37,500-square-foot building launched with a bold inaugural program that reflects the museums mission of championing new narratives in contemporary art and providing a platform for the exchange of art and ideas. With more than double the gallery space and a new outdoor sculpture garden, ICA Miamis new home enables the museum to present ambitious thematic surveys for the first time in its history, as well as to expand its commitment to mounting monographic presentations of emerging talent, commissioning site-specific and boundary-pushing works of art, and fostering new scholarship. We are thrilled to unveil ICA Miamis new permanent home ... More |
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| New film explores the work of street artist Richard Hambleton | | Schantz Galleries to show works by Bertil Vallien at the FORM Miami Exhibition | | Met Opera suspends Levine after sex abuse allegations | 
34 East 12th Street. Photographer: Hank ONeal. Courtesy of Film Movement, Storyville Films and Motto Pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, the Shadowman appears to get a second chance...but will he take it? Shadowman plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world. Before Banksy, there was Hambleton. Richard Hambleton first made a name for himself with the conceptual shadow paintings that haunted New Yorks streets. By the mid-'80s, the world had ... More | | 
Mini Janus, 2017, cast glass, 7 x 9 x 4 Photo: Jim Schantz.
MIAMI, FLA.- From the Crystal Kingdom in Sweden to the FORM Miami Exhibition, comes this collection of Valliens signature sand-cast glass works reflecting the artists thoughtful exploration of the multi-faceted relationship of the human journey. Bertil Valliens focus on looking inward is achieved in myriad ways, one of which is his unique glassmaking technique. A leader in the Swedish glass industry for more than 40 years, Vallien formulated his own method for casting glass in sand that creates depth and radiance in the material. Artworks are driven not by their final appearancealthough their visual impact is stunningbut rather by their content. Valliens preparatory sketches are carefully considered blueprints of both the external form and the inner details. Layersboth physical and psychologicalare created through a multistep process. Surface textures result from the imprint of objects placed on the walls of the mold, which are also dusted with powder ... More | | 
This file photo taken on September 04, 2007 shows US conductor James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Miguel MEDINA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Metropolitan Opera said Sunday it was suspending its famed longtime music director James Levine after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. The premier US opera house said Levine would no longer appear at the Met this season and that it had hired a former US prosecutor to investigate the accusations. "Based on these new reports, the Met has made the decision to act now, while we await the results of the investigation," Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met, said in a statement. "This is a tragedy for anyone whose life has been affected," he said. Gelb said that Robert J. Cleary, the former US attorney for New Jersey best known for prosecuting the anti-technology mail-bomb assailant dubbed as the Unabomber in the 1990s, would lead the Met's probe. The suspension marks a spectacular fall from grace for Levine, who had guided the Met's orchestra for 40 years before retiring at the end of the ... More |
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| The 2017 visitor's guide to Art Basel Miami Beach and beyond | | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens "A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950" | | Exhibition reflects on Ai Weiwei's use of art as a social engagement tool | 
Erwin Wurm, Short Bag, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.
MIAMI, FLA.- Art Basel Miami Beach and 2017 Miami Art Week are fast approaching. Before you start your art adventure, here are some suggestions and information to help get a little more from your Miami Art Week experience. As someone who was born & raised on Miami Beach and who has attended Art Basel events since the early days, I often end up fielding questions & offering tips that include the following: The main event. Art Basel Miami Beach is one of the worlds most prestigious art events bringing modern and contemporary art to South Florida from 30+ countries, 200+ galleries, and 4,000+ artists. Held inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, the art fair attracts a diverse and international group of collectors, gallerists, artists, celebrities and spectators to the sub-tropical paradise. Miami Art Week. Art Basel Miami Beach is part of Miami Art Week which has helped transform the region into a year round home for modern art. There are more satellite art fairs popping up ... More | | 
William Crosbie (1915-99), Womb from Womb, 1941. Oil on canvas, 213.5 x 152.5cm. Collection: The Scottish Gallery © Estate of the Artist, courtesy The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH.- A major new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this winter reveals the remarkable yet relatively unknown response of Scottish artists to the development of modern art in the first half of the 20th Century. A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950 examines the most progressive work made by Scottish artists as they absorbed and responded to the great movements of European modern art, including Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstraction. The exhibition charts Scottish modernism from its beginnings in the first decade of the century, when JD Fergusson (1874-1961) and SJ Peploe (1871-1935) experienced at first-hand the radical new work produced in Paris by artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), to the turn of the Fifties, when emerging Scottish artists like Alan Davie (1920-2014), William Gear (19151997), Stephen Gilbert (1910-2007) ... More | | 
Garbage Container, 2014. Madera de Huang Hua Li (Huali) 240 x 160 x 100 cm. © Ai Weiwei Studio, BerlÃn, 2017.
BUENOS AIRES.- Fundación Proa presents Inoculation, a remarkable exhibition dedicated to public work and social interventions by one of the most famous and influential contemporary artists in the world, Ai Weiwei. Curated by Marcello Dantas, the exhibition gathers monumental installations, objects, photographs and videos with strong political and symbolic impact, which provide a broad panorama of his most iconic work and displays the prolific and intense career of the artist. Recognized for documenting and reflecting on the political and social arbitrariness of the Western Word as well as his own country of origin, his artistic practice is developed around freedom of expression, human rights and economic & environmental exploitation. Inoculation reflects on Ai Weiweis use of art as a social engagement tool, activating communities through the production of his work and transforming exclusion into empowerment. The exhibition explores his personal ... More |
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| Exhibition at Mart, Rovereto reviews the features of Magic Realism in Italy | | Marisa Takal recreates emotions, memories & places as abstract landscapes in second solo exhibit at Night Gallery | | Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn Auction achieves $28.39 million | 
Mario Lannes, Autoritratto, 1930-1935 ERPAC - Musei Provinciali di Gorizia.
ROVERETO.- After Umberto Boccioni and An Eternal Beauty, the season of great exhibitions dedicated to early 20th century Italian art continues at Mart, Rovereto. Constituting the first stage of the exhibition, that in 2018 will be at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki and at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Marts great winter season exhibition reviews the features of Magic Realism in Italy through a selection of painterly works of art from important public and private collections. Coined by critic Franz Roh in a famous essay (1925), the definition Magic Realism describes an international artistic season that reached its heights of creativity and originality between the 1920s and 1930s of the last century. This in a period that followed on from that of the historic avante-gardes, featuring a return to the pictorial and sculptural tradition. The objective representation emphasised by the term realism is accompanied, in this expression, ... More | | 
Something I-N-G Crossing the Street up the Hill On Repeat, oil on canvas, 55x50 inches, 2017.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Night Gallery is presenting Beyond Oy Too Scared to Ha-Ha, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Marisa Takal. This is her second solo exhibition at Night Gallery. Takal creates landscapes of places, times, interiors, intestines, disillusions, and emotions. Keys, legends, scales and languages guide us through disquieting planes. Quivering colors carve inconsistent foregrounds and backgrounds. Scenes seen through the eyes, bootlegged in the brain, and then painted and painted and painted with both hands until its reached its conclusion. Takals inconsistent hands mix modes of representation as she works against rules of color and design. She endeavors to work as unselfconsciously as possibleimpulsively and without inhibitions as a means of finding the picture. The paintings become Rashomon narratives of meals eaten, car trips taken and neuroses ... More | | 
Bidding was also particularly fierce between three telephone bidders for a pair of 14.54 and 13.12-Carat Natural Unheated Mozambican Pigeons Blood Ruby, Pink Diamond and Diamond Earrings.
HONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn Auction 2017 achieved remarkable results today, totalling over HK$221.47 million／US$28.39 million, with seven lots sold over HK$10 million. The sale concluded with 77 % sold. In particular, jadeite achieved an impressive sold rate of nearly 90%. All timepieces on offer were sold, and nearly 90% of spinels were sold. A new world auction record was also set for Mozambican ruby jewellery. The top lot belongs to The Red Romance, a Magnificent 139.14-Carat Natural Unheated Burmese Mogok Ruby and Diamond Necklace. Bidding opened at HK$40 million, after a total of 15 intense bids, the necklace was sold to a phone bidder at HK$ 67,800,000／US$ 8,692,308. Featuring 84 Burmese rubies totalling nearly 140 carats, including a centre stone exceeding ... More |
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 Jenkins Johnson Projects opens "Homeostasis: Leonardo Benzant & Vaughn Spann"BROOKLYN, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects is presenting Homeostasis, two simultaneous exhibitions curated by Dexter Wimberly. Homeostasis includes new bodies of work by Galveston, Texas-based artist, Leonardo Benzant, and New Haven, Connecticut-based artist, Vaughn Spann. Both present work that reflect a keen interest in balance and the natural interconnectivity of the seen and unseen world. Born in New York City to Dominican parents, with Haitian heritage, Leonardo Benzant's practice includes painting, performance, sculpture, sound, and installation as he investigates deeply personal experiences of identity, ancestry, family, community and spirituality. Leonardo, at times, metaphorically refers to his practice as Urban Shamanism inspired by a character he created called Kamarioka: The Chameleon. Information is drawn from the uniquely shared history ... More James Cohan presents new works by Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth TaylorNEW YORK, NY.- The Backwards Forward is a show of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at James Cohan, Lower East Side. In the artists fifth solo gallery show, Taylors new work reveals an evolution in media and technique that demonstrates her restless creativity and originality. Here, Taylor assembles small parts cut from diverse materials to create a disjointed whole. Well-known for her use of the technique of marquetry, recently, Taylor has been reinventing the form by adding paint and photographic imagery such as desert floors, rusting neon signs and rotting wood. In these new works, Taylor examines the pursuit of pleasure in contemporary American public life, inspired by scenes in and around Taylors hometown of Las Vegas. The mania found in the maximalist casinos and bars of her hometown is contrasted with works that explore ... More Bidsquare's Holiday Gift Guide: The solution for those hard to shop for this holiday seasonNEW YORK, NY.- Bidsquare is kicking off holiday shopping with a gift guide that will impress anyone who is hard to buy for. There's one in every family - the person who has (almost) everything! The impossible, particular and eccentric personalities are the most exciting to surprise. Impress those on your list with not only a creative gift, but something you had to roll up your sleeves and bid on! Help someone start their fine print, poster or vintage sign collection. Book worms will crunch through the pages of first and limited edition options, while those with the need for speed can cruise happily through catalogs featuring vintage toys, luxury collectibles and blinking oddities. Satisfy the ultimate nest maker, the person who simply cannot turn away a special object. With a massive group of Picasso ceramics and an extraordinary lamp auction coming up, you won't want ... More Freeman's explores the art of gift giving with the Holiday SalePHILADELPHIA, PA.- On December 13 Freemans will host its annual Holiday Sale, a favorite among collectors looking for the perfect gift for their loved onesor themselves. Featuring an exciting selection of jewelry, watches, luxury accessories and decorative arts, the sale is sure to accommodate a wide array of interests and budgets. For those interested in all that glitters, the generous assortment of diamonds will highlight the sale. Lot 1 (estimate $2,500-3,500), a gorgeous diamond heart pendant-brooch, boasts an estimated total diamond weight of 6.0 carats and is suspended from a 14-karat white gold chain. Lot 13, a brilliant-cut diamond solitaire ring is sure to be a showstopper at 2.95 carats, flanked by tapered baguettes (estimate $10,000-15,000). An equally impressive diamond solitaire, Lot 24 (estimate $15,000-20,000) features an old European- ... More Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens a group exhibitionNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art opened Color Separation, a group exhibition featuring works by James Nares, Raymond Saá and Peter Monaghan. Widely recognized for expanding the boundaries of different media, James Nares has had an illustrious artistic career spanning five decades. The show features some of Nares most emblematic work, large-scale brushstrokes that swirl and twist across a long surface. These are typically created by the artist harnessing himself horizontally from the ceiling, brush in hand, allowing for the swinging movement of his body to create the painterly gestures. With the use of bespoke oversized paint brushes, Nares calligraphy-style strokes come in bright colors in a singular palette. The subject of many solo exhibitions including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... More Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran opens exhibition of works by Martin GollandMONTREAL.- Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran is presenting Martin Gollands third solo exhibition at the gallery, titled Now, as before. Martin Gollands paintings present a fictional meeting point between a built environment and the natural world, resulting in imaginary architectural spaces. His work is created from a broad range of painting techniques that respond to the contradicting history of representational painting. Using these subjects gives the artist a way to question the act of looking. This blurs the transition between imagination and reality, the bizarre and reverie. Themes of the human and nonhuman, biological and cultural entropy exist throughout the exhibition. As strategies for undermining chronologies of history, the medieval and the modern coexist within an unfixed time and space. Originally seen as oppositions - representation and abstraction, ... More Exhibition in Avignon presents works by Djamel Tatah in dialogue with works from the Collection LambertAVIGNON.- Buoyed up by the new momentum of 2017 with the winter exhibitions dedicated to Robert Combas and the art school graduates in the south of France and further attested by the summer programme with four major exhibitions: the agnès b., Anselm Kiefer, Keith Haring and Leila Alaoui Collection the Collection Lambert continues to mix popular and niche works in a programme which confirms the institutes prominent place in the local, national and international arts and culture scene. Starting in December, the Lambert Collection offers a unique exhibition built in the form of a sensitive dialogue between the works of Djamel Tatah and those of the minimalist artists of the Lambert Collection. After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne, Djamel Tatah took up painting and, since the late 1980s, has opted for large-format polyptychs with monochrome ... More The third Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival opens in XiamenXIAMEN.- Co-created by Sam Stourdzé, the director of famous international photo festival Rencontres dArles, and Chinese photographer RongRong (also the founder of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, first professional art center in China dedicated to photography), Jimei x Arles features international artists selected from Rencontres dArles alongside Chinese and Asian photography talents. The festival has attracted more than 100,000 visitors since its inception in 2015. In 2017, the two founders of the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival appointed Bérénice Angremy as festival director, co-founder of art festivals DIAF (2004-2007) and Caochangdi Photospring Arles in Beijing (2010-2012), and former cultural attaché at the French embassy in China (2012-2017). The 2017 festival boasts the works of more than 150 artists from the UK, ... More Carter Burden Gallery opens exhibitions by re-emerging New York City artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Carter Burden Gallery presents two new exhibitions: I TOOK THAT?!, in the East and West Galleries featuring Margaret Smith, and On the Wall featuring Cassandra Jennings Hall. The exhibitions run from November 30th through December 21st at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. In I TOOK THAT?!, a benefit in which all proceeds will be donated to the Carter Burden Network, photographer and philanthropist Margaret Smith presents beautiful images of architecture and nature from her travels. Smiths first camera was a simple viewfinder with which she quickly went through many rolls of film learning that every shot was not a "keeper. In the beginning she used only black and white film, which she began developing and printing in the attic of her house in Toronto. By the time she moved to New York, film developing and printing had become so ... More London Art Fair 2018 announces list of exhibitors and curated projectsLONDON.- From 17 - 21 January 2018, London Art Fair will return for its 30th anniversary edition. Launching the international art calendar, the Fair offers exceptional modern and contemporary art from leading galleries around the world. Alongside this, it continues to provide insight into the evolving international market through specially curated spaces Art Projects and Photo50, presenting innovative developments in contemporary art and photographic practice. London Art Fair 2018 invites collectors and visitors to discover work by artists from the 20th century to today, ranging from Modern British masters to exciting new talent. In celebration of their landmark 30th year, London Art Fair will feature a unique exhibition in partnership with Art UK. Bringing together thirty artworks from the nations public art collections, Art of the Nation: Five Artists Choose will ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko died December 4, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889 - 1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) and Liubov Popova (1889 - 1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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