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New York City Shanty reflects a moment in time when the New York City landscape was shifting from poor abodes to towering high-rises. It was painted upon Hassams return from Paris in 1889 where he studied the works of French Impressionists.
ALEXANDRIA, VA.- A recently discovered work of American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) comes to the auction market for the first time Feb. 2 at The Potomack Company in Alexandria, Va. Hassam depicts a squatters shanty with old brownstones to the left, a new high rise to the right and goats in front of the shanty. The shanty could possibly be the home of Blind Tom Foley, whose shanty at Madison and 77th Street was documented by turn-of-the-century photographers such as Jacob Riis. New York City Shanty reflects a moment in time when the New York City landscape was shifting from poor abodes to towering high-rises. It was painted upon Hassams return from Paris in 1889 where he studied the works of French Impressionists. The work will be included in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of Hassams work in preparation ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Remedy by the Recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One' is displayed at the "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" exhibit at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University on January 25, 2019 in Evanston, north of Chicago, Illinois. A first-of-its kind exhibition opening Saturday January 25, 2019 at a Chicago museum is challenging long-held views of the Middle Ages, exhibiting African artifacts that place the continent at the center of global trade and culture. The traveling exhibition "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time" debuts at the Block Museum on the suburban Chicago campus of Northwestern University, before traveling to other museums in North America. Joshua Lott / AFP
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| | | Denver Art Museum acquisitions in 2018 include a collection of British art, paintings and photographs | | Exhibition at pavlov's dog shows masterpieces of photography taken in the 20th century | | Exhibition provides the largest collection of Tolkien material ever assembled in the United States | 
Charles Eames and Ray Eames, Eames Storage Unit (ESU), about 1949. Birch plywood, laminated plywood, enameled Masonite, fiberglass, and enameled steel; 59 Ã 27 Ã 17 in.
DENVER, CO.- During 2018, the Denver Art Museum strategically enhanced the breadth and depth of its collection through a variety of major acquisitions, both purchases and gifts from generous museum supporters including artists. This ongoing refinement and expansion of the museums collection exemplifies the DAMs enduring commitment to maintain a diverse collection that reflects the community and provides invaluable ways for audiences to learn about cultures from around the world. Following are some selected acquisition highlights from 2018. The Eames Storage Unit (ESU), which entered the architecture, design and graphics collection in 2018, will be included in Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America, which will be on view at the DAM May 5Aug. 25, 2019. Following World War II, the American home emerged as a site for architectural discourse, as architects and designers explored new ways of living. ... More | | 
Reinhart Wolf, Flatiron Building NY, Dye-Transfer Master Print, printed in 1994, 50 x 50 cm.
BERLIN.- Evelyn Hofer and Reinhart Wolf both famous photographers of their time united by the technique of dye transfer printing made by Nino Mondhe. There is a lot about this special printing procedure one can tell about. The fascinating brilliance, density of color and real presence affect the viewers deeply whilst looking at the exhibits. It is incomparable to other printing technology. Dye Transfer Prints are made in an elaborate procedure within an art workshop creating color separations in each layer. Every print is made with manual craftsmanship and is a unique piece of artistic creation. Thus every print is a unicate itself. The Studio Mondhe is one of the few global specialists who master this technique. Nino Mondhe has printed the images of the most important international photographers in the second half of the 20th Century. Whilst doing that he became legend himself. William Eggleston and Irving Penn owe their appreciation not least to his method of printing. Architecture & Interior ... More | | 
Studio of H.J. Whitlock & Sons Ltd., Birmingham, J.R.R. Tolkien, January 1911, black and white photograph. Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 4, fol.16 © The Tolkien Trust 1977.
NEW YORK, NY.- This winter, the Morgan Library & Museum offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see a remarkable collection of materials related to one of the worlds most beloved authors, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (18921973). Tolkiens adventurous tales ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers. From the childrens classic The Hobbit to the epic The Lord of the Rings, Tolkiens stories of hobbits and elves, dwarves and wizards have introduced millions to the rich history of Middle-earth. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-eartha new exhibition at the Morgan organized in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxfordcelebrates the man and his creation. This exhibition provides the largest collection of Tolkien material ever assembled in the United States. First presented at the Bodleian Libraries in 2018, the 117 objects on view include family photographs and ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus takes a look at "Art Brut" | | The Menil Collection opens 'Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock' | | Exhibition at Kunsthal KAdE introduces the work of Caspar Adriaensz van Wittel to the Netherlands | 
Angelo Meani, Ohne Titel, um 19501977. Assemblage aus Keramik, Porzellan, Glass, Geschirr und gefundenem Material, 45 x 22 cm. Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne. Photo: Christian Bérard, Atelier de numérisation Ville de Lausanne.
AARAU.- "Art Brut" is receiving more attention internationally now than ever before. An exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus is taking a look at this art, described by painter and collector Jean Dubuffet as "raw diamonds", and its close connection to Switzerland. The exhibition is produced by the Collection de l'Art Brut and realised in cooperation with the Aargauer Kunsthaus. It assembles roughly 200 paintings, drawings and assemblages by twenty-two Swiss artists from the Collection de l'Art Brut, complemented by works from the Aargauer Kunsthaus. Sometimes wildly and freely gestural, sometimes meticulous and detailed, the works focus on man, nature, architecture and emblematic imagery. Art Brut has long taken on intercontinental scope: Nowadays, there is a global search for new discoveries in the field, and ... More | | 
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Epidemic! Presents: Step and Screw! (detail), 2014. The Menil Collection, Houston. © Trenton Doyle Hancock.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection is presenting Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock, the second installment of the Menils Contemporary Focus exhibition series highlighting the museums recent acquisitions of works by living artists. The presentation is curated by Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Irene Shum. Acquired by the Menil in 2015, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancocks Epidemic Presents: Step and Screw! consists of a series of 30 works on paper that combine illustrations and text in a comic strip-like format. Black-and-white drawings mounted on the top half of each panel depict Torpedoboy, one of Hancocks alter egos. Answering a call for help, Torpedoboy finds himself inside a dark shed. A hooded figure asks him to step on a stool and screw in a lightbulb, thus revealing to Torpedoboy that he is dangerously surrounded by Ku Klux Klansmen. On the bottom half of each panel, Hancock includes ... More | | 
Luigi Vanvitelli, Portrait of Caspar van Wittel, ca. 1725, oil on canvas, 66.6 x 49.8 cm, 455, Courtesy Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome.
AMERSFOORT.- Kunsthal KAdE and Museum Flehite introduce the Netherlands to a world-renowned Dutch master who remained largely unknown in his country of birth, the Netherlands. Caspar Adriaensz. van Wittel (1653-1736), also known as Gaspare Vanvitelli, became famous and revered in his adopted homeland of Italy. During the 17th and 18th century, he painted Rome, Naples and Venice in minute detail, influencing famous Italian cityscape painters such as Canaletto and Bellotto. Van Wittel was born in Amersfoort, left around 1673 for Italy, earned a good reputation for himself there and never returned to the Netherlands. Today, the vast majority of his works are in collections in Italy, England and Spain. In the Netherlands, there are only a few drawings and a single gouache: View of Amersfoort in Museum Flehite. With the exhibition MAESTRO VAN WITTEL Dutch master of the Italian cityscape, ... More |
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| | | Andy Goldsworthy to create Walking Wall on Nelson-Atkins campus | | Exhibition of new works by the Chilean artist Felipe Mujica opens at Von Bartha, Basel | | Composers draw out peace from Beethoven in new works | 
Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire, England, in 1956, and is now based in Scotland. Photo: Chris George.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy, who works with nature and time to create site-specific installations, will build Walking Wall in five successive sections at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 2019. Over a period of five installments, the wall will literally move from the east part of the museum to its final resting place inside and outside the Bloch Building lenses. The stone wall will fulfill Goldsworthys long-held vision of creating a wall that inches its way through a place. Walking Wall will move from a five-acre piece of land east of the museum, onto the museum campus, and ultimately into the museum, drawing its way through the museums campus. Walking Wall would connect the inside of the Museum to the outside, but just as importantly it would enact on its own terms the literal and figurative journey that almost every object in the museum will have made before entering the ... More | | 
Felipe Mujica, Installation view at von Bartha, Basel, 24 January - 9 March 2019, courtesy von Bartha, photo by Ben Koechlin.
BASEL.- Von Bartha, Basel announces an exhibition of new works from the Chilean artist Felipe Mujica, running from 25 January to 9 March 2019. Appropriating its title from a 1967 Velvet Underground song, the exhibition presents three projects which intertwine and complement each other, conceptually, spatially and historically: a selection of recently commissioned curtain-works, a collection of studies made by the artist since 1995, and an artist-book in the form of homage to the Argentinean concrete artist Claudio Girola. The show marks the artists second exhibition with the gallery. There Are No More Exotic Countries in Latin America (2018) unites a series of 20 curtains made collectively by a group of volunteers for the exhibition Shout Fire!, curated by Mariangela Mendez-Prenke at Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, Sweden last Summer. Created as part of an ... More | | 
Filipino composer Sidney Marquez Boquiren poses during an AFP interview at The Mansion at Strathmore on January 23, 2019, in North Bethesda, Maryland. OLIVIA HAMPTON / AFP.
NORTH BETHESDA (AFP).- When Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss asked Sidney Marquez Boquiren to write a piece inspired by a Beethoven piano sonata, the composer highlighted the "unheard" victims of extrajudicial killings in his native Philippines. The work, part of an ambitious project commissioning 32 composers from countries plagued by conflict to create pieces responding to each of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, premiered on Thursday at the Mansion at Strathmore outside Washington. "The title 'Unheard Voices' refers to how the voices of the innocent are not heard, even the voices of those who are expressing anger, expressing desire for change or just going against what's happening... and are fearful for their own lives," Boquiren told AFP. For many in the Philippines, those voices are the victims of President Rodrigo ... More |
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| | | In wartime Yemen, children find solace in music | | The Newberry Library completes renovations to enhance its public spaces | | Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins Artes Mundi 8 prize | 
Children attend a music class at the Al-Nawras school in Taez, Yemen's third city, in the country's southwest, on January 23, 2019. AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP.
TAEZ (AFP).- The sound of music fills the halls at a school in the Yemeni city of Taez, where little Nazira al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a teacher takes her through the notes. "I love music," said Jaafari, a pupil at the Al-Nawares school where tutors are trying to help students temporarily forget the ongoing war. "Whenever I feel sad or uncomfortable, I play music." She has built up an eclectic repertoire, including happy birthday and cult songs by Arab icons Fairuz and Umm Kalthoum. "I just hope that Yemen will win this war," she said before exhaling deeply, then smiling and adding: "And that we can live a new life." Taez, a city in the southwestern Yemeni highlands, was once known for its coffee beans, grown at high elevation and exported through the famed port of Mokha. Today, the city is home to some of the most intense fighting in a war between Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels and rival government forces allied with a regional military coalition led by powerhouse ... More | | 
A world-renowned research library, the Newberry offers an extensive collection of rare books, maps, and manuscripts, with material spanning six centuries.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Newberry Library, one of Chicagos treasured landmarks, has completed renovations to enhance its public spaces and welcome visitors in new ways. As architect, Ann Beha Architects work balances historic preservation with clear and memorable contemporary design. A world-renowned research library, the Newberry offers an extensive collection of rare books, maps, and manuscripts, with material spanning six centuries. The building was designed by notable Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb in Romanesque Revival style, and completed in 1893. By renovating its entrance level, the Newberry sought to make the impressive building more accessible and inviting, and to renew historic interior spaces, introducing visitor services and settings for exhibitions and programs. ABAs design transforms public spaces and showcases the Librarys collections through its new exhibition galleries. Changes begin at the street, where new l ... More | | 
Apichatpong Weerasethakuls practice exists within a space between cinema and contemporary art which has garnered him praise across the world, including winning a Palme dOr for his 2011 film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
LONDON.- Palme dOr award winning artist and film maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand has been named as the winner of Artes Mundi 8, the UKs leading prize for international contemporary art. Weerasethakul has been chosen from a shortlist of five of the worlds most important artists to win the UKs biggest art prize, and is awarded a sum of £40,000. Judges Statement: When times are tough it is sometimes not safe to talk about politics explicitly and Apichatpong Weerasethakul provides us with some subtle tools of resistance: the methodology of camouflage demonstrated in Invisibility is a powerful weapon in these turbulent times. While in the west Weerasethakul is better known as a feature film director, the jury wished to pay homage to the vigorous interrogation in his gallery work of filmmaking, storytelling and the political and social position ... More |
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 Miller Prize winners and university fellows present design concepts for 2019 Exhibit Columbus exhibition COLUMBUS, IN.- In a lead up to its second exhibition, Exhibit Columbus hosted a free and public program, the 2019 Design Presentations, on Saturday, January 19 in downtown Columbus to an audience of more than 350 people. All five of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients presented their design concepts for the 2019 exhibition, which opens August 24 and runs through December 1. The University Design Research Fellows also presented how they will translate their research into installations and experiences. This was one of the most exciting days in the history of Exhibit Columbus, said Anne Surak, Director of Exhibitions. The narratives that the designers are exploring place our unique community in the context of global concerns being addressed through architecture and design today. Individualized themes in the 2019 exhibition are beginning ... More Cornell Fine Arts Museum opens De La Torre Brothers' first solo museum exhibition in FloridaWINTER PARK, FLA.- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College announced the opening of De La Torre Brothers: Rococolab, on view to the public from January 17 May 12, 2019. Rococolab features a selection of works that bring together art historical imagery, religious symbolism, and pop culture in unexpected dialogue. This grouping of intricate images and objects articulates social commentary through humor and unlikely juxtapositions. Collaborating artists-brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre born in Guadalajara, Méxicolive and work in Ensenada, México and San Diego, California. Their dynamic, complex, and baroque-inspired sculptures and lenticulars are a product of a bi-cultural existence, reflecting their collaborative and hybrid approach to art-making. Both artists studied glass formally and owned and operated a ... More Awoiska van der Molen's first solo show at Annet Gelink Gallery on view in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Awoiska van der Molens (Groningen, 1972) first solo show at the gallery. There is a certain amount of silence in Awoiska van der Molens large-scale silver gelatin photographs. The silence of an image that, able to escape this ages ongoing fast stream of images, stands still. Without any references to a specific time and location, Van der Molens sceneries reach a level of abstraction that goes beyond the photographed subject: it looks for the unspoilt core of things, as the artist says herself. Working with analogue photography, Van der Molen is experiencing and investigating her surroundings in a deeply intimate way. Shown in important international institutions and known for her publications, her presentation at the gallery includes a selection of landscapes alongside her first film. This latest production ... More Zabludowicz Collection announces 11th annual Testing Ground for Art and Education seasonLONDON.- The year is 2001, and the world is shrouded in distrust and antipathy. The catastrophic events of 9/11 demonstrated the susceptibility of perceived superpower nations, generating political tension worldwide and culminating in unnecessary conflict and dissention, affecting millions globally. These tears in the civic fabric resulted in a state of extreme vulnerability. However, if we look to other examples in recent history, we see that this sense of unease and anxiety existed previously, although perhaps less writ large, hidden in marginal communities and in the depths of our psyches. By presenting artworks predating 2001, In the Shadow of Forward Motion poses a question: Do these works act to forebode this rupture and the resulting sense of vulnerability, or do they reveal it as universal to the human experience? The artists included all delve, in some way, ... More New work by PolakVanBekkum screened in the Oude KerkAMSTERDAM.- The short film The Ride is on view in the St Sebastian Chapel in the Oude Kerk. This latest work by Amsterdam artist duo PolakVanBekkum is being screened between 25 January and 2 March 2019. The screenings will start after sunset on Friday and Saturday evenings. In a personal, 11-minute video, Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum take the audience to an island. Together, two people commemorate a life-changing event that once deeply touched them. The backdrop created by the Oude Kerks stunning architecture adds an extra dimension to the screenings. Afterwards, visitors get to wander through the dark church for a moment of reflection and a cup of hot tea. The Ride is a novelty in the oeuvre of artist duo PolakVanBekkum. For the cinematic expression of their personally coloured story, the artists used a sound recording in combination ... More Photography and film exhibition examines issues of race and youth identityMADISON, WI.- In 2002, photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub traveled to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to document the lives of teenagers in the American South. Laub photographed surrounding Montgomery County over the following decade, returning even in the face of growing and eventually violent resistance on the part of some community members. Southern Rites, on view at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinMadison from Jan. 25-May 18, 2019, is a powerful and moving visual portrait of individuals struggling to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. Laub, who graduated from UWMadison with a degree in comparative literature before studying at the International Center of Photography, was first sent to Georgia to explore Mount Vernons practice of hosting two proms: one for white students, where no black students were ... More Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart opens a comprehensive solo exhibition of works by Florian GrafBIEL/BIENNE.- Florian Graf (b. 1980, CH) examines in his work themes connected with architecture and landscape architecture and thus investigates the psychological and emotional impact of spaces. Via sculpture, installation, drawing, video or photography he creates moments of poetic density, in which the borders between reality and imagination are dissolved. In the garden of the Kunsthaus Pasquart Florian Graf has installed three concrete sculptures, each constructed from three very different basic forms. A circle, an L-form and a jagged figure also function as the building blocks of ceramic models, a photographic work and a series of drawings. Applied in a variety of ways, these structures differ from each other in terms of their composition, size and placement and make reference to the artists considerations of new modular social structures. Finally, ... More Miller & Miller announces highlights from the Canadiana and Historic Objects saleNEW HAMBURG, ON.- A significant Morton & Company water cooler from the early 1850s, a practice mask said to have been worn by hockey legend Jacques Plante and a circa 1890 sample model canoe attributed to John Stephenson are just a few of the items up for bid in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s 499-lot Canadiana & Historic Objects Auction now online. The live auction begins Saturday, February 9th, at 10 am Eastern time, in the Miller & Miller Auctions gallery located at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario. Online bidding is open now, on LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com, as well as the Miller & Miller website, at www.millerandmillerauctions.com. Phone (519-662-4800) and absentee bids will be accepted. The auction is a treasure trove of Canadian history and includes signs and advertising, historical photographs and ephemera, ... More Exhibition at Tufts University Art Galleries features works by Suara WelitoffBOSTON, MASS.- Suara Welitoffs appropriations of the past are a strategy for summoning an awareness of time as we are living it now. The exhibition surveys 12 videos spanning 2013 to 2018 (including the premiere of three works) and chronicles Welitoffs practice of reworking footage from historic films, television, and the internet. Welitoff investigates how disrupting traditional structures of filmic time and narrative can alter our expectations of moving images. Repetition is key to our experience of Welitoffs image and language fragments. Through her use of continuous loop and slowed motion, she achieves a temporality in which duration is the dominant experience rather than time moving forward, effectively resulting in an endless present. In contrast to technical methods of control and standards of digital perfection, Welitoff embraces the formal ... More Part one of the historic Spenger Maritime Collection soars to over $100,000 at Clars OAKLAND, CA.- On January 19th and 20th, San Francisco Bay Area patrons and Maritime collectors alike, came out on in droves to own a piece of the historic Spenger Maritime Collection which, for over 125 years, graced the walls, showcases, dining rooms and bars of Spengers Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley, CA. Bidders packed the gallery, bid online and by phone, to own a piece of this famous restaurant. Just 70 lots of the collection were offered and bidders competed heavily driving the total for this first installment to over $100,000. Deric Torres, Vice President of Decorative Arts for Clars, commented after the sale, The strong buyers in the room, on the phones and online, confirmed the importance of this collection. The demand was evident in both the sell-through (only 1 lot did not sell) and the strong prices realized. The impressive results ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Alice Neel was born January 28, 1900. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. In this image: Ballet Dancer, 1950. Hall Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London.
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