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Cloisonné jar. Ming dynasty, Xuande period (AD 1426-35) Height: 17,06 inches (without lid). Diameter: 55,9 cm, Height: 62 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia opened on 14 December after a full renovation and refurbishment (some sections of the gallery have been accessible from the 10 November 2017). The display includes a new narrative for China and South Asia which brings the story up to the present day. This renovation means the British Museum can include and rotate different types of objects such as paintings, prints and textiles which need regulated conditions for display. The gallery introduces new research that will enable visitors to engage with these extraordinarily important parts of the world. With new lighting and design, the display takes visitors through the fascinating histories of a large part of the globe. The gallery presents the histories of China from 5000 BC to the present with the space divided into bays that explore Chinese history through its material culture. Chinas unique and highly unusual culture ... More |
| Seven hundred highlights from the Stedelijk's collection are presented in a landscape of freestanding, ultra-thin walls | | Exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich presents Rob Pruitt's multifaceted works | | TEFAF supports restoration and conservation projects at museums in Lisbon and Boston | 
Installation view STEDELIJK BASE, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo Gert-Jan Van Rooij.
AMSTERDAM.- STEDELIJK BASE opened on 16 December. AMO architects Rem Koolhaas and Federico Martelli developed a playful, lightweight exhibition concept specifically for this new collection presentation at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Seven hundred highlights from the collection are presented in a landscape of freestanding, ultra-thin walls created especially for this installation. This unique architectural feature was made possible through the innovative application of steel. STEDELIJK BASE is a fresh, accessible way to discover art and design from 1880 to the present. Spotlighting masterpieces by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Charley Toorop, Gerrit Rietveld, Ed van der Elsken, Jeff Koons, and Marlene Dumas, the display invites visitors to embark on a journey through art history. Engaging and unorthodox, the display epitomizes the Stedelijks tradition of bold, experimental presentations. The exhibition display for ST ... More | | 
Rob Pruitt, People Feeder: 6, 2010. Courtesy Rob Pruitt, Gavin Browns Enterprise (New York City) and Galleria Massimo de Carlo (Mailand).
ZURICH.- «Rob Pruitt makes art easy» as the New York fashion photographer Cris Moor once put it. Exactly this is the challenge of Rob Pruitts art as it explores the fertile and shallow grounds both separating and unifying art and easy. What may seem easy, is in reality a risky and virtuous balancing act with one foot potentially stuck in the mud. Pruitt masters it to perfection, his is a performance in style, and ultimately an exercise in comedy and tragedy. It has produced a large and multiform body of work, which is light, enchanting and always something else too. It started in the early 1990s in collaboration with fellow artist Jack Early for what became the infamous duo Pruitt & Early. They dissected the culture of white teenage boys and male privilege creating a portrait of the enemy. What now looks like a prescient analysis, became a sensation and led to a show at Leo Castelli. The show shifted the subject to African American cu ... More | | 
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 16061669), Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain, 1634. Oil on panel. Gift of Mrs. Frederick L. Ames, in the name of Frederick L. Ames. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
HELVOIRT.- The Executive Committee of The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has awarded a total of 50,000 to the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA), Portugal and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), USA, to support their distinct restoration and conservation projects. The funds will support the conservation of Capela das Albertas, an integral part pf the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga and a striking example of a Portuguese gold church. In the USA it will support the restoration of Portrait of a Woman with the Gold Chain, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, one half of a pair of oval paintings gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in the late 19th century. The portrait has been on near constant view and has not been treated for 50 years. Each project aims to present to visitors the original beauty of each work, ... More |
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| Cooper Hewitt exhibition features more than 70 inclusive designs | | Sotheby's leads the global auction market for jewellery in 2017 | | Exhibition of selected works by the constructivist Günter Fruhtrunk on view at Galerie Berinson | 
Los Angeles County Voting Booth (Prototype; to be produced for 2020 election), 2015; Designed by IDEO (Palo Alto, California, USA, founded 1991), Digital Foundry (Tiburon, California, USA, founded 1992), Cambridge Consultants (Cambridge, England, UK, founded 1960); Lent by IDEO. Photo courtesy of IDEO. © Cooper Hewitt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Providing a major platform for the growing movement toward accessibility and inclusive design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents products, projects and services developed by and with people with disabilitiesphysical, cognitive and sensorythat expand their ability to lead independent lives and engage more fully in the world. On view Dec. 15 through Sept. 3, 2018, the Access+Ability exhibition features more than 70 works, from adaptive clothing and eating implements that assist with daily routines to apps and smart technologies that aid in social interactions and navigating the environment. Cooper Hewitt is committed to accessibility in its broadest sense, with exhibitions and programs that ... More | | 
THE CTF PINK STAR A Fancy Vivid Pink diamond 59.60 carats Internally Flawless Sold on 4 April at Sothebys Hong Kong $ 71,175,926 ($1,194,226 per carat). Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- With worldwide sales for the year totalling $551,300,000, Sothebys Jewellery division leads the global auction market in this category. As well as strong results for coloured gemstones and signed jewels, major highlights from 2017 include a world auction record for any diamond or gemstone, with The CTF Pink Star ($71.2m, Hong Kong, 4 April) and a world auction record for earrings, with The Memory of Autumn Leaves and The Dream of Autumn Leaves ($57.4m, Geneva, 15 May). 2017 has been an exceptionally successful year for Jewellery at Sothebys, with all four selling centres Geneva, New York, Hong Kong and London - performing very well. Innovations this year have included the scaling up of our online-only sales, as well as our very successful new Fine Jewels auctions in Geneva, which totalled $8.9 million. We ... More | | 
Günter Fruhtrunk (1923-1982), Agitation Et. II, 1973. Acryl auf Leinwand, 92 x 100 cm.
BERLIN.- Galerie Berinson is presenting selected works from constructivist Günter Fruhtrunk, whose large-scale paintings are now shown in Berlin for the third time only since his retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie in 1993. His works of colorful stripes, diagonals and lines are part of numerous collections and museums, such as the Paris Centre Pompidou, the Kunstsammlung NRW, the Munich Lenbachhaus or the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. After his high school degree Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Munich, but gave up after two semesters to join the army as a volunteer during World War Second. He suffered severe injuries, and could only alleviate his lifelong pain with severe drugs. Already during the war, Fruhtrunk began to draw, especially landscape motifs. From 1945 to 1950, he studied privately under the painter and printmaker William Straube, who was a student of Adolf Hölzel and Henri Matisse. Fruhtrun ... More |
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| New book 'American Fair' by Pamela Littky to be published by Kehrer Verlag in March 2018 | | James Cohan announces the representation of Kathy Butterly and Grace Weaver | | The Royal Institute of British Architects announces the RIBA International List 2018 | 
Del Mar, California.
NEW YORK, NY.- For over 170 years, the fair has been the bedrock of American communities across the country. Generally held in the late summer or early fall on the outskirts of town, the fair was originally a meeting place for farmers to promote local agriculture. In the 20th century, as America shifted from an agrarian to an urban society, the fair expanded dramatically to include a wealth of family focused fun and entertainment, from carnival amusement rides, games, and side shows to car racing, concession stands, and musical concerts. During the summer of 2015, American photographer Pamela Littky traveled across the U.S. to capture the sites of these important seasonal markers in America's heartland. What she discovered is that the essence of the American fair has not changed very much over the past century. While the social and cultural fabric of the United States has evolved considerably, the fairs continue to draw millions of people yearly ... More | | 
Kathy Butterly, Solid Stand, 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kathy Butterly has created distinct, evocative sculptures for more than two decades, contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics. Through her practice, Butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel. She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point, referring to these historical templates as her canvas; however, Butterly contorts and misshapes these forms in ways that veer toward the iconoclastic. She then adds layer upon layer of glaze sometimes to the point of creating additional volume and fires the works repeatedly. The colors and textures Butterly chooses and their relationship with each other are simultaneously seductive and jarring. Her strange forms and surprising palette decisions often generate an uncanny awareness in the viewer and produce a visceral impact. Each of Butterlys sculptures is unique and detailed. She eschews large-scale work, preferring instead to make c ... More | | 
8 Chifley Square, Sydney, Australia. Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners with Lippmann Partnership, Arup (Australia), 2014 © Brett Boardman.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the RIBA International List 2018, a new biennial selection of the worlds best new buildings. The list of projects has been selected from entries to the worlds most prestigious award for architecture, the 2018 RIBA International Prize, the winner of which will be announced in December 2018. From a tranquil chapel wrapped within a forest canopy (Sayama Forest Chapel, Japan) to the bold re-imagining of a grain factory into a new contemporary art museum (Zeitz MOCAA, Africa), from a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Wadden Sea Centre, Denmark) to a post-earthquake reconstruction project (Guangming Village, China), the RIBA International List 2018 features 62 exceptional buildings from more than 28 countries. Speaking about the RIBA International List 2018, RIBA President, Ben Derbyshire said: The RIBA ... More |
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| Exhibition accompanied by monograph 'Brooklyn's Sweet Ruin: Relics and Stories of the Domino Sugar Refinery' | | Tomasso Brothers Fine Art joins Master Drawings New York 2018 | | Seattle Art Museum opens prize-winner Sondra Perry's solo exhibition | 
Top of Filter House, by blowup tanks.
NEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery, once the largest in the world, shut down in 2004 after a long struggle. Most New Yorkers know this 135-year-old industrial relic only as an icon on the skyline, multiplied on T-shirts and skateboard graphics. In 2013, Paul Raphaelson, known for his formally intricate urban landscape photographs, looked past the facade. He received permission from the developers of the Domino site to explore every square foot of the refinery just weeks before its gutting and demolition. Raphaelson is the last photographer given access to the factory. Large scale prints of Raphaelson's stunning photographs are currently on view at the Front Room Gallery (48 Hester Street, New York, NY 10002) through January 14, 2018. Brooklyn's Sweet Ruin includes an essay by the photographer on living and photographing in post-industrial America, and a historical text compiled by Raphaelson in ... More | | 
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Character Head, circa 1780. Terracotta, 8 cm (3 ¼ in.) high.
LONDON.- Tomasso Brothers Fine Art of Leeds and London is participating in Master Drawings New York (MDNY) for the first time this coming winter when they hold their annual catalogued exhibition at Carlton Hobbs LLC on the Upper East Side from 25 January to 2 February 2018. Tomasso Brothers has for a number of years held a highly-regarded exhibition in New York in January. The decision this year by MDNY to additionally encompass painting and sculpture at its next edition (Saturday 27 January to Saturday 3 February 2018, Preview Friday 26 January 2018) offered a golden opportunity for the gallery to take part in this pre-eminent event. This year Tomasso Brothers will present a selection of important European terracotta sculptures from the Neolithic to the Neoclassical periods. The exhibition traces the history of fired clay starting with the Vinca civilisation ... More | | 
Installation view of Sondra Perry: Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY at the Seattle Art Museum. © Seattle Art Museum, Photo: Natali Wiseman.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum is presenting Sondra Perry: Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY (December 8, 2017July 1, 2018), the solo exhibition of Sondra Perry, winner of the 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize. The second in a series, the mixed-media installation presents a visual eclogueor short pastoral poemabout real and virtual landscapes, investigating ideas of race, class, abstraction, and representation. Perry has already made a mark in Seattle; her video Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera opened SAMs exhibition Disguise: Masks and Global African Art (June 18September 7, 2015). With Eclogue for [in]HABITABILITY, Perry creates an immersive mixed-media installation. A refurbished backhoe sits in the center of the gallery, surrounded on three sides by video projections using ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and painter Mimmo Paladino was born December 18, 1948. Paladino was born in Paduli, Campania, on December 18, 1948, but grew up and trained in Benevento. He now lives in Rome and Milan, but still has a studio in the little town near Benevento. In this image: Mimmo Paladino, Mattinate (Puglia Suite) No. 7, 2011. Watercolour with collage. Paper and image 58.0 x 77.0 cm.
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