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From Butterflies to Battleships showcases the tremendous diversity of directions taken by photographers in the twentieth century, whether employing the camera in a documentary mode to record insect development and to chronicle historic events, or experimenting with the technology to create abstract or composite images.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum's newest exhibition, From Butterflies to Battleships, displays the work of four singular American photographers: Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Patrick Nagatani, and Brett Weston. From Butterflies to Battleships showcases the tremendous diversity of directions taken by photographers in the twentieth century, whether employing the camera in a documentary mode to record insect development and to chronicle historic events, or experimenting with the technology to create abstract or composite images. Organized by Stephanie Guyet, Zvi Grunberg Resident Fellow 2018-2019, the exhibition consists entirely of photographs from the Bruce Museums permanent collection. Given that the Bruce is a place for both aesthetic and scientific inquiry, I wanted to create an exhibition that tapped into that dual mission. Since photography is a practice that lies at the intersection of art and science, and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 9 Nordic artists have descended upon the landscapes and the art and cultural institutions of the Municipality of Gribskov to participate in the North Coast Art Triennial this summer. Photo: Kim Mätthai Leland.
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| | | The Royal Academy of Arts opens a survey of paintings and prints by the Swiss artist Félix Vallotton | | Major Alexander Calder exhibition opens at Centro BotÃn in Santander | | Museum of Pont-Aven brings to light the importance of Pont-Aven in the artistic journey of the Impressionists |
Félix Vallotton, Self-portrait at the Age of Twenty, 1885. Oil on canvas, 70 x 55.2 cm. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquisition, 1896. Inv. 620. Photo © Nora Rupp, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a survey of paintings and prints by the Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (18651925). This is the first exhibition of the artists work in the UK since 1976. Greatly admired in his native Switzerland, Vallotton remains relatively little known elsewhere. The exhibition serves as a rare opportunity to discover the highly original and innovative work of this often overlooked artist. Comprising around 100 works from public and private collections across Europe and the U.S., the exhibition demonstrates the intensity of Vallottons unique vision by bringing together outstanding examples from every period of the artists career. A sense of disquiet runs through much of Vallottons oeuvre, and as such the legacy of his vision has found echoes in later ... More | |
Alexander Calder. The Helices, 1944. Sculpture in three parts. Bronze, 31 1/2 x 31 1/4 x 24 in. Calder Foundation, New York © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / VEGAP, Santander. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging.
SANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn in Santander, Spain, opened Calder Stories, a major exhibition spanning five decades of Alexander Calders career, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and organised in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, New York. The exhibition runs from 29 June 20 October 2019. The exhibition, comprised of approximately 80 works, largely drawn from the Calder Foundations holdings, as well as from major public and private collections, considers little known stories within Calders oeuvre, from the development of major public commissions to groundbreaking performances. The installation has been designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, architect of Centro BotÃn itself. Calders collaborations with leading architects, choreographers and composers of his time resulted in some of his most ... More | |
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, Bretonnes au bord de la mer. Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm. Collection particulière © François Doury.
PONT-AVEN.- This new exhibition, conceived by the Museum of Pont-Aven, brings to light the importance of Brittany, and in particular Pont-Aven, in the artistic journey of Paul Gauguin and the other painters who joined him on this adventure. Some of them totally adhered to his innovative trials, infused with synthetism and symbolism, whereas others shared their path between this aesthetic revolution and an impressionistic approach. As Gauguin left, and despite the dispersion of the Pont-Aven group, some artists decided to stay in order to develop these « breton printings ». The first part of the exhibition highlights how much of an important milestone the impressionism period was to the artistic thinking of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Impressionism helped him master the variations in outdoor lighting, as well as a more audacious use of sharpness in colour and a freedom of expression in the composition. ... More |
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| | | First survey exhibition of collage ever to take place anywhere in the world opens in Edinburgh | | Mexicans hail Paris designer amid cultural appropriation row | | The National Gallery Prague opens an exhibition of French Impressionism at Kinsky Palace |
Henri Matisse (b.1869), The Clown, 1912. Pochoir print, 42.00 x 65.50 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland © Succession H. Matisse/ DACS 2018.
EDINBURGH.- Consisting of work by anonymous amateurs, famous artists and forgotten figures alike, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage is the first survey exhibition of collage ever to take place anywhere in the world. This wide-ranging exhibition dispels the myth that collage is a 20th-Century invention set in motion by cubist artists such as Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, and points to a richer and much more diverse history. The word Collage comes from the French verb coller, meaning to glue, and it is often associated with cut-and-pasted paper, photographs, newspaper cuttings, string etc. However, with Cut and Paste, curator Patrick Elliott sets out to challenge traditional definitions, and expand our understanding of collage, both in visual art and as a practice that has influenced all forms of creativity in the 20th Century, from literature to punk. Cut and Paste presents a huge range of styles, techniques and ... More | |
A model presents a creation by Maurizio Galante during the Women's Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris, on June 30, 2019. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Italian designer Maurizio Galante gave a lesson Sunday in how to take inspiration from indigenous cultures without being accused of cultural appropriation. With the fashion world shaken this month by the Mexican government threatening legal against New York-based label Carolina Herrera for "ripping off" native designs, Galante gave Mexican artisans top billing in his Paris haute couture show. The courtier worked with Mexico's top fashion institute and makers in 18 parts of the country on a collection which picked up on the ongoing sartorial dance between Aztec, Mayan and other native cultures and Europe. With a Mexican politician and officials in the front row giving their seal of approval, he sent out trousers suits inspired by the Aztec god of learning Quetzalcoatl -- the "feathered serpent" rendered in silk organza scales -- and the jaguar diety ... More | |
Camille Pissarro, Rue Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1897 © Ordupgaard, Copenhagen / Photo Anders Sune Berg.
PRAGUE.- The National Gallery Prague opened an exhibition of French Impressionism at Kinsky Palace, whose extent is quite unique in Czech history. The collection, that is now in the holdings of the Danish state-owned museum at Ordrupgaard and in terms of its quality is on a par with the famous collections in Paris, was created in the 1920s by the businessman and art patron Wilhelm Hansen. I dare say that the opportunity to see such a comprehensive collection of French Impressionism in the Czech Republic may never occur on such a scope again. The fact is that museums are not always willing to lend works by these distinguished artists; arranging a loan of even one canvas can take many months and even years, and some chefs-doeuvre never leave their place at all, notes the exhibitions curator Petr ámal. The exhibition, shown from June 29 at Kinsky Palace, presents selected paintings from Hansens collection whos ... More |
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| | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires works by female artists working in France in the 1880s | | Exhibition features works from Anthony Pearson's Embedments, Etched Plasters, and Tablets series | | 'Studio Photography: 1887-2019' opens at Simon Lee Gallery |
Elisabeth Keyser, A Confirmee in Normandy, 1889, NM 7478.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired four artworks by Elisabeth Keyser, Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz, Jenny Nyström and Gerda Tirén. They were all female Swedish artists who spent time in France in the 1880s, an intense period of change within Swedish art. Inspired by the French, they started to paint scenes from daily life, thus laying the foundation for a contemporary Swedish art that is now among the most beloved parts of our art history, with names such as Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. With this acquisition, several important female artists can be added to that list of names. We are delighted to have made these acquisitions. Three of them were made thanks to a generous donation by Ann Stern. Pieces by female artists are at the top of our wish list, and we have a long-term ambition to be able to present a more complete picture of what the art scene was actually like in the late 1800s. History must never be ... More | |
Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Tablet), 2013. Bronze relief with cobalt patina, 51 x 11 x 9 inches, 129.5 x 27.9 x 22.9 cm. Unique. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Anthony Pearson.
ASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Los Angeles-based artist Anthony Pearsons fifth solo exhibition with the gallery this summer, at its location in Aspen, Colorado. The exhibition features works from Pearsons Embedments, Etched Plasters, and Tablets series, each of which capture his sensitivity to the experience of light, texture, and color. Pearsons work is powerful in its quietude, revealing layers of complexity as one explores the surface, patterning, and material closely and from a range of perspectives and environments. Pearsons work feels particularly at home in Aspen, where set against the rugged landscape and open expanses, his evocations of light and materiality are further amplified and affecting. Anthony Pearson is on view in Aspen from June 28 through ... More | |
Torbjørn Rødland, Crossed Confections, 2015. C-print on aluminium, framed 59 x 47 x 3 cm (23 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.) Edition 3 of 3. Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich/New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery, New York, is presenting Studio Photography: 1887-2019, a wide-ranging survey exhibition featuring work by a diverse group of artists whose studio-based practices span the past 130 years. During this time period, the establishment of photography as an artistic medium, the ensuing major advancements in image capture technology and the resulting evolution of photography from an intensive, specialized art form to an inescape aspect of everyday life, has led to innovative developments in the field of fine art photography. A broad, cross-generational overview, Studio Photography: 18872019 develops multiple long-ranging conversations among artists engaged in specific areas of inquiry. Finding common ground, John Edmonds, Robert Mapplethorpe, ... More |
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| | | Mansell's 'Red Five' on pole for Bonhams sale | | Experience the culture and landscapes of the northern coast of Sjælland through art | | Exhibition at the American Cathedral in Paris addresses today's climate of increasing prejudice and stereotyping |
1992 Williams-Renault FW14B Formula 1 car. Estimate on Request. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Williams-Renault FW14B Formula 1 car, in which legendary British racing driver Nigel Mansell won a record-setting five Grand Prix races (all from pole) at the start of his Championship-winning 1992 season, is to be offered by Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale on 5 July 2019. A number of motor-racing greats will line up alongside the 90s legend to be offered for sale next Friday: Old Mother Gun, the pre-war Le Mans and Brooklands racing Bentley. 1935 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, a road-going version of the Le Mans and Mille Miglia-winning race car. An Edwardian-era pioneer, the ex-Douglas Fitzpatrick Metallurgique-Maybach 21-litre Three-Seater Special. It was just a fantastic year, with a fantastic car!, said 1992 World Champion Mansell about the FW14B in an interview with Bonhams Magazine. Designed by celebrated Formula 1 engineer Adrian Newey, The FW14B is considered one ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Kim Mätthai Leland.
DRONNINGMÃLLE.- 19 Nordic artists have descended upon the landscapes and the art and cultural institutions of the Municipality of Gribskov to participate in the North Coast Art Triennial this summer. What does heritage mean to people today? How does our heritage shape our places, our society and the future towards which we are moving? These questions comprise the basis for the new site-specific art that visitors will be able to discover and experience during the summer in and around Rudolph Tegner Museum & Statue Park, Gribskov Forest, Munkeruphus, Esrum Abbey & Millfarm, the ruins of Søborg Castle, Museum Nordsjælland and many of the numerous natural and cultural locations in the Municipality of Gribskov. Third Ears Tim Hinman, food artist Mette Martinussen, artist Alexander Tovborg, author Adda Djørup, the Icelandic band Amiina, artist Sophia Kalkau and designer and artist Eske Rex are among the 19 artists participating in the North Coast Art Triennial. ... More | |
A timely artistic exploration on living harmoniously, inspired by Abraham; the common ancestor of three celebrated contemporary Middle Eastern artists from Muslim, Christian and Jewish traditions.
PARIS.- CARAVAN, an international peacebuilding arts NGO, has opened its new peacebuilding exhibition titled ABRAHAM: Out of One, Many in Paris France at The American Cathedral in Paris (23, Avenue George V, Paris, IDF, 75008) running from 18 June 28 July 2019. ABRAHAM: Out of One, Many is an artistic response to the recent rise of Anti-Semitism and increasing Anti-Muslim sentiment, and to the general climate of growing prejudice and stereotyping, which is resulting in a new type of tribalism in the West. ABRAHAM: Out of One, Many" (playing off of the popular Latin motto "E pluribus unum" / Out of many, one) focuses on what Jews, Christians and Muslims have in common because of their shared ancestor Abraham, a spiritual figure of distinct significance within the three primary monotheistic faith traditions, ... More |
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The Oklahoma City Museum of Art exhibits more than 70 works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is hosting Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 22 through Sept. 22, 2019. Van Gogh, Monet, Degas includes more than 70 works by European masters such as Edgar Degas, Ãdouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau and Vincent Van Gogh. Featuring more than 70 works by French and European masters such as Degas, Manet, Monet, Rousseau and Van Gogh, this exhibition celebrates Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellons extraordinary gift of 19th and early 20th century French art to the VMFA. After first becoming interested in British sporting art, Paul Mellon began to collect 19th-century French art in the 1940s with his second wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon. While their collection largely consists ... More
Four trustees join board of San Antonio Museum of Art
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today the addition of four new Trustees: Rebecca Cedillo, Kathleen Finck, Aleyda Kniestedt, and Jennifer Lee. They will officially begin their three-year terms of service on October 1, 2019. Each of them comes with significant connections to the citys philanthropic and non-profit community, including support for and work with community foundations and local theater, art, and architectural organizations. All four are also of Hispanic heritage, increasing the Museums connections to the community that so defines San Antonios cultural identity. I am thrilled to welcome Rebecca, Kathleen, Aleyda, and Jennifer to our Board, said Marie Halff, outgoing Chair of the Museums Board of Trustees. They bring welcome points of view to the support of the Museum and ultimately give us a broader ... More
The Ismaili Centre opens a new exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad
LONDON.- The Ismaili Centre, in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, announced Seeing Through Babel, a solo exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad. In the Old Testament story of Babel, mankind is punished for attempting to construct a tower to heaven, an act of hubris that led God to create multiple languages so as to prevent such collusions happening again. For this exhibition, Mourad explores the story of Babel, using visual imagery as a means to connect people across the language divide. Making artworks in public is an integral part of Mourads practice. The work, which uses the artists trademark techniques monotypes and drawing onto the surface of the work is designed to allow visitors to walk in and around it, allowing closer consideration of its themes. Observes Kevork: I have often thought of this story, as ... More
Sculpture, quilts and film explore American history and trauma
MADISON, WIS.- In his diverse practice, Sanford Biggers encourages meaningful dialogue around narratives in American history. On view at the Chazen Museum of Art June 28-Sept. 22, 2019, Sanford Biggers displays eight works from the artists BAM sculpture series, along with several paintings that the artists has created by altering antique quilts. The exhibition also includes a video installation to accompany the BAM sculptures. Sanford Biggers is in a category of his own as an artist, and thats one of the reasons we are so thrilled to have his work here on the UW campus, said Amy Gilman, Ph.D., director of the Chazen. By illuminating and questioning the historical memory of certain traumatic moments in our countrys past, he is seeking a greater understanding of the forces that make such moments possible. His work encourages ... More
The Menil Collection displays graphic works by Dorothea Tanning made between 1950 and 2001
HOUSTON, TX.- American artist and author Dorothea Tanning (19102012) created more than 100 graphic works between 1950 and 2001. Thanks to a recent generous gift to the Menil Collection from Barbara and Jim Metcalf, the Menil now owns the complete set, many of which are being displayed for the first time in The Graphic Work of Dorothea Tanning. These prints and illustrated books feature images that range from representation to near total abstraction, demonstrating the breadth of Tannings formal innovation. Experimenting with lithography, etching, and aquatint, Tanning produced a variety of surface textures, some crystalline, others cloud-like. She often introduces reoccurring motifs into her dreamlike spaces. Her ambiguously erotic embracing figures are the most recognizable. Tannings highly personal work addresses universal human emotions ... More
The Barnes Foundation opens its first exhibition devoted to video art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In its first exhibition devoted to video art, the Barnes Foundation is presenting a survey of works by pioneering American video artist Bill Viola (b. 1951). Organized for the Barnes by distinguished guest curator John G. Hanhardt, I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like: The Art of Bill Viola is the first large-scale exhibition of Violas work to be presented in Philadelphia. This exhibition brings together a selection of the artists major pieces dating from 1976 to 2009, including the rarely seen large-scale installations He Weeps for You (1976), Pneuma (1994/2009), and Ascension (2000), as well as smaller screen-based works. On view in the Barness Roberts Gallery from June 30 through September 15, 2019, the exhibition shows how Viola has redefined the moving image with a compelling and distinctive oeuvre that challenges ... More
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography marks Alexander Ustinov's 110th birthday with exhibition
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography returns to its study of Soviet-era photography with an anniversary exhibition of photographs by Alexander Ustinov to mark his 110th birthday. A legend of the most important newspaper of his eraPravdawhere he worked for more than 50 years, Ustinov became the face of photojournalism of that period. The material gathered allowed the exhibitions curators to focus on significant events in the history of the USSR and to not only display the works published during Ustinovs lifetime, but also use his archive, which has been carefully preserved by his daughter. The exhibition is centered around photographs that were not approved at the time for various different reasons. This novel curatorial approach will help the viewer to find a perspective that, taking into account their experience of and ... More
A public art project in East Harlem by artist Miguel Luciano features the work of Hiram Maristany
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Miguel Luciano, in partnership with El Museo del Barrio, is presenting Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio, a public art project in East Harlem featuring the work of Hiram Maristany, the official photographer of the Young Lords Party, a founding member of its New York chapter, and a former interim director of El Museo. The Young Lords were a Puerto Rican activist organization that mobilized around social justice in their communities in the late 1960s-1970s, with an emphasis on issues of health, food, housing and education. Now on view through September 30, 2019, Maristany's historical photographs of community actions by the Young Lords have been enlarged into billboard-size photo-murals throughout El Barrio (East Harlem), and installed at the same locations where the photos were taken. The individual murals ... More
Major Ben Quilty exhibition opens at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art
BRISBANE.- Interested in the work of a socially engaged contemporary artist committed to arts capacity to raise awareness and instigate change? Then experience Quilty at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art. Curated by Dr Lisa Slade, Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Art Gallery of South Australia, Quilty is the first major survey in a decade of one of Australias most acclaimed contemporary artists, Ben Quilty. Featuring 70 works from the early 2000s to the present, the exhibition includes the artists revisions of the Australian landscape, raw intimate self-portraits, and works inspired by harrowing recent visits to Lebanon, Syria and Greece where he witnessed first-hand the exodus of refugees. In 2011 Quilty visited Afghanistan as an official war artist and on his return to Australia he sought the company of service men and women who had experienced ... More
Palace House displays rarely seen anatomical drawings by George Stubbs
NEW MARKET.- The National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art is displaying a set of unique drawings by Britains most renowned animal painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806). The ten works, on loan from the Yale Center for British Art, have not been seen in the UK for many years. The drawings form the core of an exhibition that illuminates aspects of Stubbss life and interest which have previously been underexplored and highlight the exceptional nature of his painting and drawing techniques. Stubbs was one of the most original and pioneering artists of the 18th century. His prowess as a painter of horses is well known, but his later study of the anatomy of a wide variety of animals to compare with the human figure is less widely documented. His great reputation as an extraordinary painter of horses was forged in a remote Lincolnshire farmhouse. ... More
First time in the UK: Chinese artist Mao Jianhua presents new series works at the Saatchi Gallery
LONDON.- Chinese artist and entrepreneur, Mao Jianhua, is presenting a new series of 48 works on specially commissioned handmade paper at Saatchi Gallery, London from 27 June - 7 July. Interested from a young age by the ancient art of calligraphy - and more recently by the Chinese landscape painting tradition, Shan Shui, from the Song, Yuan and Qing dynasties - Mao Jianhuas greatest inspiration is the Yellow Mountains, an area of outstanding natural beauty in Eastern China, and a place of artistic pilgrimage for thousands of years. The title of the exhibition is derived from a phrase of verse from Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, which draws parallels between the mystery of the creative process and that of nature. Lao Tzu (alongside Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu) is one of the founders of Taoism, the belief that the universe follows an inherent ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Buckminster Fuller died July 01, 1983. Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. In this image: U.S. Pavilion Montreal Expo 67. Buckminster Fuller, 1967. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.
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