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NEW YORK, NY.- In January this year we began our Recent Acquisitions series of videos, each accompanied by a digital catalogue. We will continue creating these videos and catalogues every month in order to keep you abreast of our continued buying addiction! In our February video we discuss two major works by John Stephan and Karel Appel, both monumental in size and completely opposite is style. In addition, we are presenting a large 1958 work by Byron Browne, an early 1951 Grid painting by John Grillo, one of Roger Browns large disaster earthquake canvases and a sculpture by Ibram Lassaw. Behind me is Disc #1 1971 by John Stephan from the 1960s Hard Edge movement. Stephan along with Josef Albers both created concepts of color theory, Albers with his Homage to the Square and Stephan with his Disc Series from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Stephans Discs Series were unique without ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man checks the alignment of a cello at "Gliga" musical instruments factory in Reghin city, January 22, 2021. For Romania's renowned luthiers -- the craftsmen who specialise in making stringed instruments -- face a twin challenge: cheaper competition from abroad and finding the next generation of craftsmen to carry on their tradition. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP
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| Venice still magical as tourist-free carnival kicks off | | In beleaguered Babylon, doing battle against time, water and modern civilization | | Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of paintings, furniture, and ceramics by Mary Heilmann | 
A closed restaurant is pictured at Rio de l'Alboro in Venice on February 7, 2021, as the carnival is being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Marco Bertorello / AFP.
by Brigitte Hagemann
VENICE (AFP).- Sumptuously-dressed couples promenaded around St Mark's Square in the swirling fog as Venice kicked off its celebrated carnival this weekend -- without the usual crowds of tourists, absent due to the pandemic. "It's totally surreal," said 47-year-old carnival-goer Chiara Ragazzon, an office worker. "What hits me most is the silence. You've always been able to hear music during the carnival, people having fun. But Venice in the fog -- it's still a magical place." Ragazzon and her husband had ventured into Venice from their home around 50 kilometres (30 miles) away. Italy relaxed its coronavirus restrictions on Monday, allowing greater freedoms in most regions. Venice is among the areas now under a lower-risk "yellow" category -- but residents are still not allowed to travel outside the region. A short walk from St Mark's Square, Hamid Seddighi, dressed ... More | | 
Iraqi university students photograph themselves at a gate to the historic city of Babylon in Iraq, Jan. 9, 2021. Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen/The New York Times.
by Jane Arraf
BABYLON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon. Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than 2,000 years ago obscure part of the cuneiform inscription a reminder that these ruins were once a living city. This is the heritage of Iraq, and we need to save it, said al-Taee, 29. As part of a new generation of archaeologists, al-Taee works for the Iraqi government on a World Monuments Fund project aimed at stemming the damage to one of the worlds best known yet least understood archaeological sites. After years of Iraqi effort, Babylon was inscribed two years ago as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognizing the exceptional universal cultural value of what was considered the most dazzling metropolis in the ancient world. But you have to use your imagination. A century ago, German archaeologists ... More | | 
Mary Heilmann, Clubchair 59, 2008. Painted wood, polypropylene webbing, 86.4 x 64.1 x 67.3 cm / 34 x 25 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches. © Mary Heilmann. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery, New York.
ZURICH.- Launching online first, Hauser & Wirth presents Past Present Future, an exhibition of paintings, furniture, and ceramics, by preeminent American artist Mary Heilmann. Along with earlier work dating back to the 1970s, the exhibition features a new body of paintings made during the global pandemic at her Long Island studio in Bridgehampton, New York. It also includes a digital slide projection, titled Her Life (2006), which is accompanied by a musical soundtrack, resonating the same energy and vibrancy of the works. Heilmanns career has been spent melding abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions. Her works often draw from her own personal experiences, and subtly reference Heilmanns favourite landscapes, songs and movies, resulting in a wholly original and pioneering oeuvre. She has said, Each of my paintings can be seen as an autobiographical marker, a cue, ... More |
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| Margin Alexander and his New York Music exhibitions | | Radical exhibition at Galerie Templon defies the codes of painting, volume and space | | Parrasch Heijnen opens an exhibition of new works by Xylor Jane | 
Margin realized from an early age that creating music was one of his strongest passions.
NEW YORK, NY.- A New York City metropolitan area based composer & pianist with a soul full of energy and fantasy in his original work. From his beginnings Margin Alexander discovered that his ultimate mission as a composer / performer was to touch as many hearts as possible with his music. His strong commitment and his unique creativity led him to develop some unorthodox composition techniques that would intertwine the traditional with the new style in order to develop a unique genre of music that would be embraced by everyone. Margin realized from an early age that creating music was one of his strongest passions; therefore, he commenced his musical training in Europe by studying accordion and piano at the age of fourteen. A graduate of Montclair State University , he holds a B. A. in Music Composition as well a Master's from the same school. During his studies at Montclair State University& Rowan ... More | | 
Claude Viallat, Sans titre n°243, 2020. Acrylic on upholstery, fabric tape stitches, 134 à 127 cm 52 6/8 à 50 in. Unique. © Courtesy Templon, Paris Brussels.
PARIS.- Represented for twenty years by Galerie Templon, Claude Viallat, an iconic figure of French contemporary art, is taking over the vast space on Rue du Grenier Saint Lazare for the first time with a radical exhibition that defies the codes of painting, volume and space. A member and founding-member of the avant-garde Supports/Surfaces movement in the 1970s, Claude Viallat has established himself as a leading figure in French painting. For nearly half a century, he has spurned stretchers and canvases, instead painting on unstructured or juxtaposed textiles, endlessly repeating the same motif in a palette of shimmering colours. Sutures and Varia offers a selection of works painted in the last two years. The new Sutures series, elaborated during the recent lockdowns, is anchored for the first time in a reflection on the notion of ... More | | 
Xylor Jane, Moon Dragon, 2020. Ink and oil on panel, 20-5/8 x 16-3/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting Back Rub / Foot Rub, an exhibition of new works by American artist Xylor Jane (b.1963, Long Beach, CA). This is the gallerys second solo exhibition with the artist. Janes exploration of unique phenomena found in numbers and patterns produces delicately layered tessellations that achieve mesmerizingly intricate precision. The artists paintings on panel reflect a controlled form of chaos utilizing ideas similar to that of pointillismweight is added in the density of marks, culminating in a complexly resolved image. The labyrinthine forms are highly evolved constructions utilizing numerical systems sectioned within each panel. Jane either methodically plans out each panel beforehand or begins with problematic compositions that resolve through her experimental process. These otherworldly works are conceptual in nature, focusing on structures ... More |
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| The National Gallery, London reaches worldwide audience following successful digital drive | | Brian Rochefort's first solo exhibition in Milan opens at Massimo De Carlo | | Knoxville Museum of Art receives major gift of Catherine Wiley paintings from Edwin Packard Wiley family | 
After Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665), The Triumph of Silenus, probably about 1637. Oil on canvas, 142.9 x 120.5 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Despite one of the most difficult years for cultural institutions worldwide, the National Gallerys digital drive has proven a success by bringing the collection and temporary exhibitions into peoples homes across six continents. As the pandemic continues to disrupt lives, the National Gallery will keep showcasing great art to the public - both domestically and internationally - throughout these difficult times. Due to Covid-19 the National Gallery has postponed two exhibitions that will open as soon as possible depending on the latest UK government advice. The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys - Travels of a Renaissance Artist will be the first significant UK exhibition of the artists work for nearly twenty years and will focus on the artist through his travels, bringing visitors closer to not just his works but the people and places he visited throughout Europe. While ... More | | 
Brian Rochefort, Paint Can 3, 2020. Ceramica, smalto / Ceramic, glaze, 30.5 Ã 28 Ã 28 cm / 12 Ã 11 Ã 11 inches. All Images by Marten Elder. Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo is presenting Perhaps An Asteroid Hit, Brian Rocheforts first solo exhibition in Milan and the artists second show with the gallery. Brian Rochefort is a mixed media sculptor based in Los Angeles, who masters the art of glazed and layered ceramic works with vibrant encrusted surfaces. Perhaps An Asteroid Hit is an ideal extension of Jaguar Jaguar, the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery, held in London between November 2019 and January 2020. Perhaps An Asteroid Hit comprises of a new series of twenty sculptures that resemble craters, oozing with vibrant colours mimicking the explosiveness of natural surroundings, nine vessel-like sculptures made of glazed stoneware and earthenware, and a maple wood cabinet consisting of thirty-five cups. Rocheforts work is often inspired by earths natural beauty, such as volcanic ... More | | 
Catherine Wiley (Coal Creek [now Rocky Top], Tennessee 1879-1958 Norristown, Pennsylvania) Young Woman with Parasol Reading, circa 1915, Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2020 gift of Edwin Packard Wiley family.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art announced the gift of three paintings by famed Knoxville Impressionist Catherine Wiley from the family of the artists grand-nephew, the late Edwin P. Wiley of Milwaukee. This extraordinary gift immensely enriches the KMAs holdings of this indispensable East Tennessee artist, according to KMA Executive Director David Butler. We are grateful to the Wiley family for entrusting these treasures to the artists hometown art museum. After training in New York and New England, Anna Catherine Wiley (1879-1958) returned to Knoxville and soon began to energize the artistic community in a variety of capacities. She taught art at the University of Tennessee, helped organize large-scale national art exhibitions and was a driving force in the Nicholson Art League, an ... More |
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| Fears for future of Romania's master violin makers | | National Gallery of Australia unveils a new hot air balloon sculpture | | Christie's announces highlights of an online sale comprising 124 lots of furniture and works of art | 
A man glues violin's body parts alltogether at "Gliga" musical instruments factory in Reghin city, January 22, 2021. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP.
by Mihaela Rodina
REGHIN (AFP).- Surrounded by violins hung from the ceiling and lined up on shelves, Vasile Gliga looks proudly on the fruits of his labours. From his factory in the central Romanian city of Reghin, Gliga has been one of the city's world-famous instrument makers for more than 30 years. His business is one of the city's large-scale producers in a city that also hosts master craftsmen turning out just a handful of instruments a year. The secret to his success, he says, is simple: "Putting a little of your soul into it." Gliga turned out his first two violins in a box room in his flat in 1988 when was 29. Last year however his business sold 50,000 instruments -- from violins to double basses -- only two percent of them going to Romanian customers. Romania is the EU country that exports the most violins outside the bloc, according to Eurostat's 2018 ... More | | 
Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2019 purchased 2020 © Patricia Piccinini.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery and artist Patricia Piccinini today unveiled Skywhalepapa, a new hot air balloon sculpture by the renowned artist and the most ambitious commission by an Australian woman to enter the national collection. Skywhalepapa is the companion to Piccininis iconic Skywhale, commissioned for the Centenary of Canberra in 2013 and together they fly as Piccininis Skywhales: Every heart sings. The wind and weather need to be just right to spot these magical creatures it is up to nature to allow them to soar and that is something beyond control. A flight was not part of mother natures plans this morning, so the balloons were instead tethered near the National Gallery. The $1.3 million performative exhibition project will have the skywhales take to the skies of Australias national capital three times if possible before heading ... More | | 
A selection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics offered in the sale including left to right lot 122, lot 12, lot 33, lot 43 and lot 13. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies is presenting Patrick Moorhead: Hidden Treasures an online sale comprising 124 lots of furniture and works of art from the respected Brighton based antiques dealer. Patrick has curated this sale working closely with Christies experts, presenting an eclectic mix of objects and styles representing his distinctive global collecting approach, encompassing works of art from Regency furniture to Chinese ceramics, French clocks to lighting. Patrick grew up surrounded by antiques from a very early age, working with his parents at a time when the narrow streets at the heart of the old town of Brighton, known as The Lanes, were home to many family owned antique shops. Patrick built his business from one shop to three, and now operates from a vast warehouse converted from a Victorian army drill hall. Whilst selling exclusively to the trade for a number of years, Patrick has more recently opened the doors to ... More |
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 AD Leb, a new initiative to support the creative community in Beirut to launch this MarchLONDON.- This March, AD Leb will launch as a new platform which showcases the best of the arts and culture scene in Lebanon. The new online gallery, in conjunction with an exhibition presented on the historic Sursock street, will allow visitors to access the wealth of contemporary art and design from this region, as way to support this creative community in the aftermath of the 2020 Beirut explosion. AD Leb was originally conceived of by Gaïa Fodoulian, a young Beirut-based creative, who was tragically killed by the 4th of August explosion in Beirut. This year, to continue her legacy, her mother, Annie Vartivarian, is bringing AD Leb to life, fulfilling the vital work that Gaïa started. As an established gallerist and patron of the arts, Annie brings her wealth of experience and passion to this new initiative. All proceeds from AD Leb will go to support the Gaïa ... More  New Junior Curator for Boijmans thanks to Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds AwardROTTERDAM.- This month Marthe Kes will start work at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam as a junior curator of applied art and design. Her post was made possible by a Curators Grant from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. The Curators Grant that the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds is awarding this year ensures that an incumbent museum curator is given greater scope to conduct research on their museums collection. It also gives recent art history graduates like Marthe Kes (born in Rotterdam in 1993), the opportunity to gain experience. The Curators Grant, which the Cultuurfonds initiated in 2013, enabled Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to employ a curator twice before in 2014 and 2015. Marthe Kes, who worked at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen as a trainee curator and later as an assistant curator on the renowned Bauhaus ... More  Museum of the Invisible Woman, an ongoing project with artist Adam Milner, culminates in publicationDENVER, CO.- Artist Adam Milner recently completed a unique, two-year project with the Clyfford Still Museum (CSM), concluding with the forthcoming publication, Museum of the Invisible Woman. During the project, Milner combined archival research with in-situ interventions at the Museum to center explorations around Patricia Still, Clyfford Stills second wife, who dedicated her life to his painting career and eventually to fulfilling Stills vision for the Museum. The book repositions Clyfford Still as an artist dependent on community and the labor of loved ones, rather than the usual narrative of outsider, rebel, or loner genius. In the publication, themes surrounding love, labor, gender, ego, and legacy ultimately shift attention from the abstract expressionist master to his wife and to museum staff. Designed and edited by Milner, Museum of the Invisible Woman ... More  Raymond Pettibon painting leads Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- A double-sided acrylic painting on Plexiglas by Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957) will be offered in Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Sale taking place February 19, 2021 in Los Angeles. Among the most highly sought-after artists of today, Pettibon initially came into the art world through music, creating cover art for his brothers rock band Black Flag in the 1970s and later iconic groups Sonic Youth and the Foo Fighters. He has since become a highly coveted name in the world of visual art and leading figure in contemporary culture. Currently living and working in New York City, Pettibon produces thoughtful and engaging artwork imbued with layers of wit, humor, and sociopolitical commentary; he has been collected by leading institutions globally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Centre Georges ... More  De Buck launches new exhibition space in Saint-Paul de Vence NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery announced the opening of a new exhibition space and artist residency in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. The space will open in March 2021 with a solo exhibition of new works by Raelis Vasquez and will later feature artists including Ardeshir Tabrizi, Stephen Towns, Devan Shimoyama and Hiba Schahbaz. The first Artist in Residence of 2021 will be Devan Shimoyama followed by Stephen Towns. Founded in 2011 by David De Buck, De Buck Gallery focuses on contemporary artists, from emerging to mid-career, and is deeply committed to supporting artists growth through special projects and exhibitions. The gallery supports a vibrant contemporary program of narrative, identity-based art, primarily focused on figurative painting and innovative fiber work. De Buck presents artists who are art scene leaders across ... More  Exhibition brings together a group of 27 olfactory sculptures by Antoine RenardPARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Antoine Renards work for the very first time. The artist made his debut at the Palais de Tokyo in Futur, Ancien, Fugitif. Une scène française in 2019. A graduate of the ENSA in Dijon, winner of the Occitanie - Medici Prize and of a scholarship from CNAP and the doctoral program SACRe 2020 from the PSL University and from the Beaux Arts de Paris, the artist, in parallel to his practice, has also been dedicating himself to a thesis on olfaction in the broader sculptural field. He will, furthermore, be the subject of a solo exhibition at the CRAC in Sète, in 2021. Essentially sculptural in nature, Antoine Renards work is situated at a juncture where culture, science and politics can overlap and generate a dialogue. By creating narrative environments nourished by extensive research, Antoine Renard discusses ... More  Group exhibition focused on the act of painting in the 21st century opens at Almine RechPARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting Un Hiver à Gstaad Paris, a group exhibition focused on the act of painting in the 21st century. Un Hiver à Gstaad Paris brings together 22 artists from diverse generations and geographies, who demonstrate varying practices within painting. However, the presented works all embody the notion that this medium at the beginning of the 21st Century continues to be both permanent and vital. It is also a blossoming field of practice and researchcatalyzed through engaging new ideologies, new contributors and new forms. Madelynn Green utilizes an imaginative balance between abstraction and representation, often referencing the visual language of film photography through the use of blurred lines and light. Greens recent subjects have included family and social dynamics primarily those found in nightclubs ... More  The Drawing Center opens Ebecho Muslimova's first solo museum exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- For Ebecho Muslimovas first solo museum exhibition, the artist presents Scenes in the Sublevel, a site-specific installation that includes ten large-scale mixed-media drawings. Muslimova (b. 1984, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia) is known for her pen and-ink drawings and large-scale paintings that feature her bold and uninhibited cartoon alter ego, Fatebe. Her latest body of work takes up The Drawing Centers downstairs gallery as the stage for Fatebes intrepid misadventures. In each of Scenes in the Sublevels eight-by-four-foot drawing panels (five are connected as a diptych and triptych), the viewer encounters the architecture of the space opposite the panel rendered as a line drawing, as if, in regarding the panel, one is looking into a mirror. Executed over each linear view are inventive scenes that incorporate references ... More  Ballet isn't as psycho as 'Tiny Pretty Things' say French dancersPARIS (AFP).- Sadistic teachers and murderous levels of competition: from "Black Swan" to "Tiny Pretty Things" the world of ballet seems a place fit only for psychopaths if its screen incarnations are to be believed. Real-world dancers in France take some exception to this, however. "Yes, I've seen boys and girls take anti-inflammatories to dance and push the pain to the limit, but that isn't our daily lives," said Allister Madin, a dancer at the Paris Opera. "And yes, there's competition because it's hard to get signed by a company, but we aren't killing each other. Peddling these cliches tarnishes the reputation of dance." He said he couldn't make it past the first episode of Netflix hit "Tiny Pretty Things", whose wannabe ballet stars are forever on the point of a nervous breakdown, facing eating disorders, brutal rivalries and ultimately even murder. ... More  Sabrina Amrani opens 'FloodZone', Anastasia Samoylova's first exhibition in SpainMADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting FloodZone, Anastasia Samoylovas first exhibition in Spain. The title of the show is borrowed from her eponymous project started in 2016, a photographic series in which the artist seeks to respond to the environmental changes on coastal cities of South Florida. The project is built upon a set of interrelated paradoxes: the seductive and destructive dissonance between the official iconography of the region, comprised by tourist and real estate advertising, and the stark daily realities of climate change; the ways of landscape and the sense of place are at once natural and constructed; and the way photography both records and crafts perception. Although the project was prompted by the effects of a major hurricane, FloodZone avoids the over-familiar media imagery of ruin and disaster. Instead, ... More  Fine Arts Paris will take place on November 17-21, 2021 in the courtyard of Paris's Dôme des InvalidesPARIS.- The 2021 trade-fair calendar has already been disrupted by the Covid-19 crisis, but the fifth edition of Fine Arts Paris will still take place on November 17-21, 2021, in the courtyard of Pariss Dôme des Invalides, the venue chosen for the 2020 edition (cancelled because of lockdown rules). This years Fine Arts Paris will bring together some 60 galleries specializing in all aspects of the fine arts in a temporary structure in this prestigious location. An online version of the fair will also be held. "While it is difficult to predict what the health situation will be at the end of November, we want to continue to move our projects forward and send a positive message to the art market, says Louis de Bayser, President of Fine Arts Paris. The high-level art fair Fine Arts Paris was founded in 2017 by the creators of the Salon du dessin. Following the first ... More |
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz 
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY 
Madelynn Green 
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guercino was born February 08, 1591. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 - December 22, 1666), best known as Guercino, or il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner is in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. In this image: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, A Study for Hercules, in three-quarter-length, 1640s. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.
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