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Surasi Kusolwong, Golden Ghost (The Future Belongs To Ghosts), 2011, Goldketttchen versteckt in industriellen Fadenresten, Bänke, Titel auf Spiegel, Ausstellungsansicht MoMA PS1, New York, Photo: Matthew Septimus. Courtesy of the Artist and MoMA PS1.
FRANKFURT.- Doves, rainbow colors, and rifles adorned with flowers: depictions of peace are usually limited to familiar symbols. From 1 July to 24 September 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt takes a different approach with the discursive group exhibition PEACE addressing the question: How does peace actually work? The exhibition presents positions by 12 international artists. Jan De Cock, Minerva Cuevas, Ed Fornieles, Michel Houellebecq, Surasi Kusolwong, Isabel Lewis, Lee Mingwei, Katja Novitskova, Heather Phillipson, Agnieszka Polska, Timur Si-Qin, and Ulay consider the subject PEACE from a contemporary perspective. Peace does not present itself as an object, rather as a process of interaction and communication not only between people, but also between all involved in the ecosystem. This approach differs fundamentally from the humanist worldview, which places man at the center. The focus is now on the environment: on water, plants, a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Photographs are displayed during an outdoor photography exhibition for the 3rd edition of the "Journees du reportage" (photo-reportage days) in Bourisp, on July 2, 2017. The event presents 300 pictures by 16 professional and non-professional photojournalists, and runs from June 30 to July 9, 2017. Eric CABANIS / AFP
| First-ever exhibition on the historic salons that brought late 19th-century radical artists together opens in New York | | Bird-like dinosaurs hatched eggs like chickens: Study | | First ever exhibition to explore the realist tradition in British painting opens in Edinburgh | 
Henri Martin, Young Saint (Jeune sainte), 1891. Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 49.3 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France. Photo: © Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France.
NEW YORK, NY.- From June 30 through October 4, 2017, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 18921897, the first museum exhibition on this revelatory and significant yet frequently overlooked series of Salons. Mysterious, mythical, and visionary themes, often drawn from literature, prevailed in the art of the six exhibitions, which were held annually in Paris from 1892 to 1897. Images of femmes fragiles and fatales, androgynous creatures, chimeras, and incubi were the norm, as were sinuous lines, attenuated figures, and anti-naturalistic forms. Featuring highlights from the Salons, the Guggenheim exhibition includes approximately forty works by a cross section of artistssome familiar, others less soand invite a fresh look at and new scholarship on the legacies of late nineteenth-century Symbolist art. Mystical ... More | | 
Oviraptorosaur clutch from the Upper Cretaceous, recovered from Jiangxi (China). Scale 1cm. Photo: Romain Amiot.
PARIS.- Feathered dinosaurs that walked on two legs and had parrot-like beaks shared another characteristic with modern birds -- they brooded clutches of eggs at a temperature similar to chickens, a study showed Wednesday. Ostrich-sized oviraptors, ancestors to birds, sat on their eggs to incubate them at 35 to 40 degrees Celsius (95 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a range comparable with modern hens (37.5 C), researchers reported in the journal Palaeontology. A team from China and France measured oxygen atoms from the shells and embryo bones of seven oviraptor eggs from the Upper Cretaceous period some 100 to 66 million years ago. The analysis revealed the temperature at which the embryo was forming during its incubation, explained study co-author Romain Amiot, a paleontologist at France's CNRS research institute. Amiot ... More | | 
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (18901978), By the Hills, 1939. Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5cm. © Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull, purchased 1939.
EDINBURGH.- The untold story of a forgotten generation of outstandingly talented British artists is the subject of this summers Festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. True to Life is the first ever exhibition to explore the realist tradition in British painting of the 1920s and 1930s, bringing to light the work of dozens of once-celebrated artists whose paintings are now largely hidden away in private collections or in the storerooms of Britains museums and galleries. These paintings fuse influences from the past with contemporary subjects to create a vivid reflection of Britain in the 20s and 30s, and have a distinctive look that is unmistakably of the time. Not since the 1930s have so many of these realist masterpieces over 90 works by nearly 60 artists - been brought together in one exhibition, giving audiences a unique chance to make some remarkable ... More |
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| Major exhibition features previously unseen and new work by Howard Hodgkin | | MoMA and WNYC announce "A Piece of Work," a podcast hosted by Abbi Jacobson | | Darwin's 'strangest animal ever' finds a family | 
Howard Hodgkin. © Howard Hodgkin Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
WAKEFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield presents the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the enduring influence of India on Hodgkins work, a place he returned to almost annually, since his first trip to the country in 1964. Approximately 35 works from the last 50 years are being exhibited, from Hodgkins earliest Indiainspired paintings of the 1960s through to new work completed in India earlier this year, before his death in March. Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) is widely regarded as one of the worlds greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century. Following a visit to The Hepworth Wakefield in 2016, Howard Hodgkin, said: I fell in love with Indian art when I was at school, thanks to the enterprising art master, Wilfrid Blunt. I longed to visit India, but only managed to do so in my early thirties. It proved a revelation. It changed my way ... More | | 
Abbi Jacobson at The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Ryan Muir.
NEW YORK, NY.- WNYC Studios and MoMA will explore works of modern and contemporary art from The Museum of Modern Arts collection with A Piece of Work, a new 10-part podcast series hosted by Broad City star (and art school graduate) Abbi Jacobson, launching on July 10. Episodes will be released every Monday and Wednesday through August 9 and will be available for download on WNYCs website, MoMAs website, Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be downloaded. Inspired by frequently asked questions and responses from visitors to the Museum, each episode will explore works of art through different themes as Abbi leads a journey through MoMA. Along the way, she is joined by a roster of voices from both inside and outside the art world, including MoMA curators, conservators, and educators; Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio ... More | | 
Photograph of Charles Darwin; the frontispiece of Francis Darwin's The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887). Photo: wikipedia.org.
PARIS (AFP).- Charles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen was stumped too. Little wonder. "The bones looked different from anything he knew," said Michael Hofreiter, senior author of a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications that finally situates in the tree of life what Darwin called the "strangest animal ever discovered". "Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope," Hofreiter, a professor at the University of Potsdam, told AFP. Macrauchenia patachonica -- literally, "long-necked llama" -- also had a long rubbery snout and with its nostrils high on the skull just above its eyes. For nearly two centuries, biologists and taxonomists argued ... More |
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| artnet focuses on art in the Middle East: 1950s to the present | | Jeu de Paume opens exhibition devoted to the work of Willy Ronis at the Château de Tours | | Hitler house expropriation stands: Austria court | 
Amin Montazeri, Hell, 2016. Mixed media on canvas, 51.97 x 39.37 x 1.57 in. Estimate: 6,0008,000 USD.
NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions announces their 5th auction dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art: Art in the Middle East: 1950s to the Present. This sale is live for bidding now through July 10. Since its inaugural sale in February, artnet Auctions Middle Eastern department has devoted itself to promoting art from Arab countries and engaged in an important dialogue about the increasing, international prominence of Middle Eastern art. This sale continues that effort while also including a majority of artists who live and work in the West, thus both highlighting contemporary Middle Eastern art and questioning the East/West duality of artists working in a globalized world. One highlight of the sale is Pouya Afshars Tehran. This drawing is part of the artists series Romance With The Crow I Killed and collapses personal and socio-political perspectives of Tehran ... More | | 
Willy Ronis, Vincent, sur la route des vacances, 1946. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / Médiathèque de larchitecture et du patrimoine / Dist RMN-GP © Donation Willy Ronis.
PARIS.- The Jeu de Paume continues its off-site programming at the Château de Tours and presents an exhibition devoted to the work of Willy Ronis from 27 June to 29 October 2017. In collaboration with the Rencontres dArles, the Jeu de Paume had initially programmed the exhibition Paz Errázuriz, organized by the Fundación MAPFRE, for the Château de Tours, for summer 2017. However, planning difficulties around the donation of a private collection to the Château at the same time, resulted in the transfer of the Errázuriz exhibition to Arles as part of the festivals Latina focus. When the donation did not go ahead, the Ville de Tours, keen to continue its collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, was quick to propose a new exhibition at the Château de Tours focusing on the work of French photographer Willy Ronis (1910-2009). This exhibition makes ... More | | 
This file photo taken on April 17, 2015 shows a memorial stone outside the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- Austria's highest court ruled Friday in favour of last year's controversial expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born, ending a long-running bitter saga between the state and the former owner. The government took control of the dilapidated building in the northern town of Braunau in December after MPs approved an expropriation law specifically aimed at the property. The move came after years of wrangling with owner Gerlinde Pommer who had been renting the house to the interior ministry since the 1970s and refused to sell it or carry out essential renovation works. The government said it had been necessary to force a decision on the issue to stop the premises from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. A lawyer for the notoriously reclusive Pommer accused the move of being excessive and launched an appeal ... More |
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| TEFAF Art Market Report: Online focus provides backdrop for new digital initiative | | "Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History" at the Hirshhorn presents rarely shown paintings | | First Los Angeles solo exhibition for Takesada Matsutani on view at Hauser & Wirth | 
Pablo Picasso, Mans head [Tête d'homme]. Oil paint on canvas, 92 x 73 cm / 36.3 x 28.8 in. [H x W]. Photo: Galerie Bastian.
HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Art Market Report: Online Focus was launched today, June 29th, at a packed breakfast in London for the TEFAF dealer community. Written by Professor Rachel Pownall, the trend report looks at the extent to which the art world is embracing digital opportunities and the impact new technology is having on the art market. Well-established international auction houses are leading the field in e-commerce and online engagement, leveraging their brands to advantage in the online space. Auction houses are using e-commerce, either through developing their own platforms or using third-party platforms, to reach new buyers and collectors, a trend that is only likely to accelerate. Dealers have been slow to adapt to new technology, with a third operating off-line only, and 20% of galleries and dealers surveyed saying they have no intention to move online. Although the dealer market for online sales of art and antiques is currently small, the g ... More | | 
Markus Lüpertz, Babylondithyrambisch II (BabylonDithyrambic II) , 1975. Distemper on canvas, 63 ¾ x 51 ¼ in. (162 x 130 cm) Private collection © The Artist. Courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne, London & New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is showing an exhibition of influential German artist Markus Lüpertz. Offering unparalleled insight into the artists pioneering early practice, Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History (May 24Sept. 10) showcases more than 30 paintings from Lüpertzs formative years in the 1960s and 70s, as he challenged the limits of painting and forged his own style amidst the unrest of postwar Germany. One of Europes most prolific postwar painters, Lüpertz rose to international prominence in the 1980s as a leading figure of neo-expressionism, and he has worked across a wide range of media for more than 50 years. This exhibition offers visitors the first in-depth insight into a groundbreaking but lesser-known time in his career, and it provides critical context to what was often viewed as a provocative ... More | | 
Takesada Matsutani, A Visual Point-A, 1965. Acrylic, oil and vinyl adhesive on canvas, 65 x 53 cm / 25 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. © Takesada Matsutani. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting Takesada Matsutani, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani. Takesada Matsutani is an illuminating survey that spans the artists career, which began with his participation in the Gutai Art Association and evolved to express the complexities of a life lived between Japan and France. The exhibition features 23 works from three distinct periods: 1960s Gutai-era pieces never before shown outside of Japan, one of the artists largest installations from 1983, and a new pre-figuration of his 2017 Venice Biennale project amongst the geometric and colorful works from the 1970s. Organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, this exhibition offers an expansive look at Matsutanis unique visual language of form and materials. His paintings, drawings, and sculptures engage themes of the eternal and echo ... More |
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 Matthias Bruggmann awarded the Prix ElyséeLAUSANNE.- The Musée de lElysée announced the winner of the second edition of the Prix Elysée: the Swiss photographer Matthias Bruggmann. Chosen by an international jury of experts among eight nominees, his identity was revealed to the public at the Nuit des images, Saturday, June 24, 2017. Building on the framework of his prior work on contemporary conflicts, Matthias Bruggmann proposed, for the Prix Elysée, to continue a long-term photographic project launched in 2012 documenting the conflict in Syria. He receives the sum of CHF 80,000, to be divided between the completion of the proposed project and the publication of the accompanying book in June 2018. Formally, my previous work put viewers in a position where they were asked to decide the nature of the work itself. A scientifically questionable analogy of this mechanism would be the observer ... More Vleeshal presents Lili Reynaud Dewars Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, SocietyMIDDELBURG.- Vleeshal is presenting Lili Reynaud Dewars Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society (TGMFS). After Hamburg and Bolzano, this film, performance and exhibition now travels to Middelburg, where it takes on a new form in response to the late-Gothic architecture of Vleeshal Markt and in dialogue with Middelburgs history of colonialism and slave trading. TGMFS has been programmed at Vleeshal Markt from June 24 onwards to coincide with the 8th Middelburg Decolonial Summer School, organized by the University College Roosevelt (UCR) from June 27 till July 13. This years Summer School will take place in Vleeshal Markt (a former meat market back in the days when the building was still the town hall). It will explore decolonial horizons of living in harmony and conviviality. To do so it is necessary to unlearn dominant structures of knowledge and assumptions ... More Nancy Margolis Gallery's summer exhibition introduces works by Drea Cofield and Ping ZhengNEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Margolis Gallery announces the exhibition, SUMMER 2017, on view through July 29, 2017 introducing two artists, Drea Cofield, and Ping Zheng who are exhibiting their small works on paper; Cofield, watercolors, and Zheng, oil stick paintings. Drea Cofield is exhibiting a series of watercolor paintings that are appropriations selected from old master etchings. The etchings, satiric commentaries on society of a certain period, range from allegory, pictorial metaphors, to pure fantasy. Taking themes from the etchings the artist illuminates figures acting out scenes of vice, war, hypocrisy, violence, and love. It is an interaction of the human narrative, the inherent frailties that drives the world regardless of the century. These thoughts are paradoxically timely, drawing parallels to the aberrant behavior found currently in American politics. ... More Exhibition revisits the film by Fischli and Weiss titled 'The Way Things Go'BARCELONA.- The Way Things Go (1985-87) is a film by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss that documents a long chain reaction in which objects and substances interact with each other inside a warehouse. It is also one of the most striking and influential works of art to have been produced in the late twentieth century. Highly appreciated by the general public and praised within the art world, the piece was one of the most popular works at Documenta 8, held in Kassel in 1987. Appearing as chaotic but meticulously choreographed, the video constitutes an ironic response to the artistic context and the pictorial practices of the eighties, while also proposing reflections about the dualities of mechanism and art or of determinism and freedom, among others. To celebrate the films thirtieth anniversary, the Fundació Joan Miró revisits this landmark of contemporary ... More Bortolami opens a two-person exhibition by Tom Burr and Andrea ZittelNEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami is presenting concrete realities, a two-person exhibition by Tom Burr and Andrea Zittel. Since the 1990s, Burr and Zittel have trained their attention on the built environment, addressing questions of site-specificity, subjectivity, and the body. This exhibition focuses on their ongoing projects in sites outside of art world centers, which find the artists developing distinct, but congruent methods of tackling their overlapping spatial concerns. Andrea Zittel founded A-Z West in the California High Desert near Joshua Tree National Park in 2000 as a life project in which all aspects of day to day living become the site of investigation into human nature and the social construction of need. Included in the exhibition are Tellus Interdum ... More Therianthropy: Laura Bartlett Gallery opens group exhibitionLONDON.- Laura Bartlett Gallery is presenting Therianthropy which brings together works by Tom Allen, Eliza Douglas, EWao Kagoshima, Koak, Mel Odom & Seth Pick. Derived from the Greek meaning wild animal and human being, Therianthropy refers to the mythological ability of humans to metamorphose into other beings. Depicted through early cave paintings and European folklore, this shapeshifting phenomenon is something that has been explored by artists throughout history. Los Angeles based painter Tom Allen, presents here three intimately sized portrait paintings of exotic flora. Angels Trumpet , 2016-17 portrays the eponymous flower native to the tropical regions of South America. This enticing pendulous flower, despite innocent appearance, contains a toxin which, when ingested induces hallucinations and euphoria. When exceeded recreationally, ... More Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers a comprehensive overview of Bill Viola's oeuvreBILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Bill Viola: A Retrospective , a thematic and chronological survey of the career of Viola, one of the leading artists of our time and a pioneer in the development of video art. Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and sponsored by Iberdrola, this ambitious exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Violas oeuvre and the evolution of media art as an art form. Bill Viola (b. 1951, New York) began to experiment with video art in the early 1970s through his participation in the Experimental Studios program at Syracuse University (New York) directed by professor Jack Nelson. In Syracuse he met David Ross (curator of video art), and assisted such iconic figures in media art like Peter Campus and Nam June Paik at the Everson Museum of Art. With his interest in Eastern ... More First UK solo exhibition by the celebrated German painter Daniel Richter opens at Camden Arts CentreLONDON.- Camden Arts Centre presents the first UK solo exhibition of German artist Daniel Richter, regarded as one of the most influential and provocative painters of his generation. The question of how painting can react to the political, social, and media realities of today serves as a starting point for Richters artistic work. Through the intersection of art historical, mass media and popular culture clichés, Richter creates idiosyncratic worlds and images of unstable realities. Lonely Old Slogans traces Richters early, colour-intensive abstract improvisations through to his later figurative works, which are described by the artist as a new form of history painting. Featured are expressive works from the 1990s, such as Havanna (1997), which reflect his occupation as a designer of album covers for various punk rock bands, as well as key theatrical narrative scenes ... More Solo show of British artist Sue Dunkley opens at Alison Jacques GalleryLONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery presents a solo show of British artist Sue Dunkley (b.1942, Leicester). This exhibition follows the 2016 solo show curated by Sue Dunkley's daughter, playwright Jane Bodie, and her brother Jim Dunkley, in the artist's Islington home and studio where she had lived and worked for over 50 years. Sue Dunkley now sadly suffers from dementia and has recently moved to a local care home. The current exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery focuses on a series of large-scale paintings from the 70s and works on paper from the 60s through to 1980. This is the artist's first major gallery show in over a decade. Sue Dunkley was close to many key figures of the 60s, 70s and 80s in London. In 1968 she interviewed Barbara Hepworth and was friends with British artist Phyllida Barlow and Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Dunkley was the subject ... More Opening of the inaugural BALTIC Artists' Award exhibition reveals new work by four winnersGATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead is presenting new works created by the recipients of the inaugural BALTIC Artists Award 2017, a major international prize for emerging contemporary artists. The four recipients, Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale and Shen Xin, have each been awarded £25,000 to create new work for a 13-week exhibition and a £5,000 artist fee. The exhibition, presented across BALTICs Level 3 and Level 4 galleries, provides a vital opportunity for the artists to have their work seen by tens of thousands of visitors. Public visitors to the exhibition will be able to vote for the artists presentation they have the greatest connection to. This will inform an additional legacy commission project enabling a deeper engagement between one of the artists and local communities in Gateshead, to be announced in ... More Luhring Augustine opens exhibition of works by German artist Ferdinand KriwetNEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting MEDIAWAKE, an exhibition of works by German artist Ferdinand Kriwet on view at Luhring Augustine from June 29 August 11, 2017. At its core, Kriwets work embraces principles of Concrete Poetry, in which visual strategies such as typographical composition and repetition of text are employed to create meaning in a poem. Expanding on these concepts he took a uniquely political and avant-garde approach to art making. Though not formally trained as a writer or artist, he infused his work with a varied body of influences, such as Constructivism, Beat Poetry, Pop Art, as well as the writings of Walter Benjamin. Kriwet was far ahead of his time in many respects, particularly in his appropriation of mass media to analyze the languages and cultural influences of television, advertising, and commercial photography. Kriwets ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives. In this image: Teri Hensick, conservator of the paintings at Harvard University's Straus Center for Conservation, points to a painting entitled, "Monmouth Before James II" at the exhibit "Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley" at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass., May 10, 2004.
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