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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), Reverend Johannes Elison, 1634. Oil on canvas, 174 x 124.5 cm. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. William K. Richardson Fund.
EDINBURGH.- Britains love affair with one of historys greatest artists is being explored in the major Festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer. Rembrandt: Britains Discovery of the Master is the first exhibition to tell the exceptionally rich story of how Rembrandts work in Britain has enraptured and inspired collectors, artists and writers over the past 400 years. This major new exhibition, which is only being shown in Edinburgh, brings together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, as well as treasures that have left the country. Some of the exhibits have never been on public display before, while others return to Britain for the first time in decades, some after even a century or more. Speaking of the exhibition, Christopher Baker, Director, European and Scottish Art and Portraiture (National Galleries of Scotland), said: This exhibition ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lacoste/Keane Gallery announces its exhibition Fornell + Helke: Traditional / Modern from July 7 - 28, 2018, featuring two different perspectives on vessels by ceramic artists, Robert Fornell and Mike Helke.
| Omer Tiroche Gallery opens exhibition of seminal works from the Art Informel movement | | Race to restore Myanmar's film classics for a second screening | | Splendor and sophistication of Casanova's Europe on display in exhibition of more than 250 works from the 18th century | 
Emerging in France after World War II, Art Informel became a counter-part to the popular growing American Abstract Expressionism movement which surfaced at the same time in the US.
LONDON.- Omer Tiroche Gallery is presenting the exhibition of Un Art Autre, featuring seminal works by artists who were instrumental in forming the radical avant-garde movement that sprung out of Paris in the late 1940s. Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) is also known as Art Informel which is often used as an umbrella term that encompasses the development of various European Post-War movements, such as Lyrical Abstraction, Nouvelle Ãcole de Paris, Tachisme and the CoBrA Movement. Emerging in France after World War II, Art Informel became a counter-part to the popular growing American Abstract Expressionism movement which surfaced at the same time in the US. The Americans and their European contemporaries shared similar values in the aftermath of the War, as art shifted towards separating itself from past traditions and restrictions. Representation and realism were no longer paramount after the atrocities that had taken place. ... More | | 
This picture taken on May 15, 2018 shows former actress Grace Swe Zin Htaik viewing storage of old films at the state archive building in Yangon. Phyo Hein KYAW / AFP.
YANGON (AFP).- The restoration of a 1934 black-and-white action movie, famed for high-octane stunts including a hot-air balloon escape and a jungle shootout against teakwood thieves, has energised efforts to salvage more of Myanmar's decaying cinematic heritage. The survival of Myanmar's earliest film still in existence, "Mya Ga Naing" (The Emerald Jungle), and its rise to international acclaim is perhaps as unlikely a feat as its lead role's triumph over pythons and bandits with his bare hands. The Southeast Asian country's once flourishing film scene hit a major setback with the arrival of a military junta in 1962 that enforced stringent censorship and gutted the economy during a 50-year reign. As the creative climate withered, Myanmar's merciless heat, torrential rains and stifling humidity took its toll on delicate film reels in a country that had neither the resources nor know-how to store them properly. Some reels were recycled to save money and now only a ... More | | 
Jean Marc Nattier (French, 16851766), Manon Balletti, 1757. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London. Bequeathed by Emilie Yznaga. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- In the dynamic world of mid-18th-century Europe, people, ideas and artistic styles crossed national boundaries. Interiors filled with masterful, opulent and at times playful paintings and furnishings also brimmed with intellectual exchange, flirtation and gossip. Casanovas Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), brings this world to life through an immersive display of more than 250 paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, textiles, works on paper and musical instruments from museums and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. The exhibition is structured by the chronology and geography of the life of Giacomo Casanova (17251798), whose 12-volume autobiography, The Story of My Life, is unrivaled as a chronicle of 18th-century European society. Stretching the bounds of social mobility, Casanova mingled with royalty such as Catherine the Great and ... More |
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| Energy-related renovation work completed at Alte Pinakothek; Rooms are open to the public once again | | Exhibition at Lacoste/Keane Gallery features two different perspectives on vessels by ceramic artists | | Hirshhorn opens exhibition devoted to next generation of performance artists | 
Energy-related renovation work overseen by the Municipal Building Dept. München 1 covered all the buildings external windows, the blinds, the insulation and the optimisation of the lighting in general. © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Photo: Johannes Haslinger.
MUNICH.- The energy-related renovation work in the Alte Pinakothek that was started four-and-a-half years ago has now been completed. All 13 rooms on the upper level will be fully accessible. Cordoned off areas have been opened up and a tour of the whole building are now possible once again. The protective roof structures, fences and scaffolding outside the building will be removed in the course of the month. Rooms on the ground floor at the eastern end of the building, where Early German paintings are shown, were already re-opened to the public at Whitsun. The temporary exhibition space that has been at the Klenzeportal since 2005, has been moved to the west end of the ... More | | 
Mike Helke, Basket.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste/Keane Gallery announces its exhibition Fornell + Helke: Traditional / Modern from July 7 28, 2018, featuring two different perspectives on vessels by ceramic artists, Robert Fornell and Mike Helke. Growing up in Minnesota, Robert Fornell was strongly influenced by the prevalent ceramic environment around him, specifically Japanese influenced folk pottery. Fornell practiced ceramic art from a young age, working in a sculptural, non-functional style. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota, then received his MFA from the University of Washington. In 1988, he traveled to Japan to complete his residency, where he found inspiration in the Japanese tea ceremony and its accompanying vessels. Many of Fornells works demonstrate the influence of Japanese culture and the Mingei movement ideals on his artistic style. In this show, instead of focusing on the decorative ... More | | 
Morgan Bassichis, Me But Also Everybody (Part IV), 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Andrew Kist, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, March 9, 2018.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has opened Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body?, the first exhibition in the museums history to focus on live performance art, on view June 21Aug. 12. Curated by Mark Beasley, the museums curator of media and performance art, Does the body presents new and recent works by leading performance artists who mix avant-garde gesture with popular culture, expressed through the rigor and dynamism of contemporary dance. This film and live performance series brings together five performers who work with dance, music and spoken wordMoriah Evans, Morgan Bassichis, Will Rawls, Jen Rosenblit and Mariana Valenciato explore ideas of the body and identity. The works are being presented as a series of intimate ... More |
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| Galerie Karsten Greve exhibits Yuri Dojc's Last Folio - a photographic memory | | Phoenix Art Museum presents nearly 50 works exclusively by women artists to be seen in a new light | | The Mosaic Rooms opens a retrospective of the renowned Townhouse Gallery in Cairo | 
Yuri Dojc, Book Shelf 1, 2006 (detail). Pigment print on paper (fine art archival rag paper) Ed. 4/8 80 x 120 cm / 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. Verso titled, dated and signed on the certificate of authenticity © Yuri Dojc Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz Paris Köln.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting the exhibition in Cologne of Last Folio a photographic memory. The project is a reflexion on universal loss as a component of European memory. For the Canadian-based artist Yuri Dojc it began after a meeting at his fathers funeral with a woman who had survived the Shoah. This encounter led him to undertake a number of journeys to his native Slovakia, where he met other survivors and made more than a hundred and fifty portraits of them. The trail of the lost Jewish congregation also led him to forgotten synagogues in Sastin and Kosice. In his photographs, he documents what were once splendid cultural buildings but are now either no longer accessible or else have been used for decades as cowsheds or warehouses. At the same time he opens up a view of a past whose effect continues into the present. The books, phylacteries ... More | | 
Marguerite Zorach, Deer in the Forest, 1914. Gouache on paperboard. Purchased with funds from the James K. Ballinger American Art and Education Fund.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum presents In the Company of Women: Women Artists from the Collection, an exhibition of nearly 50 twentieth- and 21st-century artworks from the Museums holdings. In an era of such contemporary phenomena as the #MeToo movement, this exhibition showcases an array of styles and media, with works on view by Frida Kahlo, Georgia OKeeffe, Faith Ringgold, Erica Deeman, Daniela Rossell, and many others, as an engagement with feminist scholarship that, for decades, has aimed to provide a more complete history of artistic production. In the Company of Women creates a new context for some of the Museums most iconic pieces, prompting conversations about gender inequality, the systematic exclusion of women from mainstream art circles, and the idea that artistic production must be understood in the context of society at large. In the Company of Women also aims to encourage conversation about ... More | | 
Lara Baladi, Al Fanous el Sehry (Arabic, The Magic Lantern), 2002. X-rays, acetate prints, Iron, digital montage. 29 meter circumference islamic star shaped light box, Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art. Photo courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- To celebrate the organisations 10th anniversary this year, The Mosaic Rooms present an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events running from spring 2018 to autumn 2019. Opening its doors to artists, writers and thinkers from the Arab world and Iran and showcasing artworks unseen in the UK, this season offers audiences an exceptional insight into overlooked aspects of the regions rich art and culture. What do you mean, here we are? (6 July 15 September 2018) is a retrospective of the renowned Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1998, Townhouse emerged onto a scene dominated by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and its private affiliates. As one of the first independent art spaces in Cairo, Townhouse has borne witness to an unusual and intriguing trajectory. Through a series of visual, video material and sound art as well as ... More |
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| Auckland Art Gallery opens a major retrospective of the works of Gordon Walters | | Allan Stone Projects presents concrete busts and a life-size steel figure by Diana Moore | | Hampshire Cultural Trust brings one of America's greatest Abstract Expressionists to Winchester | 
Marti Friedlander, Gordon Walters in his studio, 1978. Marti Friedlander Archive E H McCormick Research Library. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on loan from The Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust.
AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki presents Gordon Walters: New Vision, a major retrospective of one of New Zealands foremost modern artists. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of Walters sophisticated abstraction. It includes more than 130 artworks: from the early surrealist drawings of the mid-1940s and colourful gouache paintings of the 1950s, through to the visually complex koru series of the 1970s, and the later, refined geometric works. Gordon Walters: New Vision begins with the surviving paintings first seen in Walters milestone 1966 exhibition at Aucklands New Vision Gallery, when Walters chose after many years of working in isolation to make his abstract artworks public. With ... More | | 
Diana Moore, Full Figure No. II (Athlete), 1995. Carbon steel on aluminum base. Overall: 90 x 22 x 16 in. (228.6 x 55.9 x 40.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects is presenting Diana Moore: Classical Continuum on view from June 23 August 10, 2018. Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, concrete busts and a life-size steel figure demonstrate the artists refined aesthetic that transcends time and place. Diana Moores figurative sculpture is influenced by classical antiquity yet also embraces a contemporary sensibility. In Full Figure No. II (Athlete), 1995, the life-sized figure embodies classical beauty and human strength while being dressed in contemporary sportswear. Moore uses concrete in many of her works, paying homage to the ancient Romans who used concrete for its strengthening properties in their architecture, as well as acknowledging its use in modern architecture. Moore ... More | | 
Agnes Martin © Dorothy Alexander.
WINCHESTER.- ARTIST ROOMS: Agnes Martin at The Gallery, Winchesters Discovery Centre presents a selection of six key paintings, characterised by subtle pencil lines and pale washes of colour, which demonstrate her exquisite handling of paint. Colours appear to project beyond the picture plane to engage all the senses. Happy Holiday (left) and Faraway Love come from a sequence of paintings from the late 1990s, the titles of which reference states of euphoria, contentment and memories of past happiness. This exhibition draws from ARTIST ROOMS, a collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art by more than 40 major international artists. The collection is jointly owned and managed by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, and is displayed across the UK through a touring programme of solo exhibitions, supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund ... More |
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 Vhils presents two solo shows in ParisPARIS.- Vhils announced the opening of two solo exhibitions by in Paris: Fragments Urbains at Le Centquatre-Paris, and Décombres at Magda Danysz Gallery. The two exhibitions in Paris fall in line with the body of work I've been developing over the years, which has been mainly focused on raising issues in connection with and reflecting on the dominant model of globalised development and the nature of contemporary urban societies. The exhibition at Le Centquatre-Paris features a variety of unique installations occupying the rooms and central patio of the cultural institution. Comprising a blend of new media and some of the artists signature bodies of work, each room showcases a different installation exploring a different medium, including: video, carved wooden doors, Styrofoam sculptures, layers of carved posters, and others. The exhibition at Galerie ... More VisionQuesT 4rosso contemporary photography opens exhibition of photographs by Valentina Vannicola GENOA.- Made during an artist's residence on the Adriatic coast in 2014, this work was commissioned by the Bellaria Film Festival and tells of family memories. Valentina Vannicola narrates that one morning in September 1991, her paternal grandparents took wenrt on a boat trip off the coast of Rimini, directed where twenty-two years before the Italian State had bombed a platform in the middle of the sea, designed and declared independent by a Bolognese engineer and called Isola delle Rose (island of the roses). It is during that journey that Valentina's grandfather sees something offshore and, convinced that it is a small island, communicates it to the men on board, who totally deny it. The images of Riviere tell of the Isola delle Rose, of the photographer's grandfather belief in its existence and of that thin line between reality and fantasy, that can turn into obsession. Valentina's ... More Jane Birkin recalls memories as she brings back GainsbourgQUEBEC CITY (AFP).- With her distinctly breathy, coquettish voice, Jane Birkin 50 years ago emerged as the muse to her late partner Serge Gainsbourg. Birkin has revived the legendary French songwriter's music by singing accompanied by a full orchestra -- a format that would have pleased Gainsbourg, who frequently brought in classical motifs. Birkin, who took her "Gainsbourg Symphonique" Saturday night to Quebec City's giant summer festival, the Festival d'ete de Quebec, explained to AFP some of the memories behind the songs: When Birkin first met Gainsbourg in 1968, the songwriter was heartbroken from a failed romance with film icon Brigitte Bardot. Birkin, a fledging actress from England, had just arrived in France after divorcing composer John Barry. "Je t'aime... moi non plus" -- which means, awkwardly, "I love you... neither do I" -- became infamous ... More Team Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Ryan McGinleyNEW YORK, NY.- Team (gallery, inc.) is presenting a show of new work by Ryan McGinley. Entitled Mirror, Mirror, the exhibition runs from 29 June through 29 September 2018. Ryan McGinley has been working on an untitled project involving mirrors for the past three years. Inspired originally by instructional artworks by such divergent practitioners as Miranda July, Sol Lewitt, Rob Pruitt and Yoko Ono, McGinley soon realized that his proposed project would also allow viewers access to the kinds of private spaces that had figured so prominently in his work from the early aughts, namely the living spaces of New Yorks stalwart population of bohemians. For this project, McGinley chose the subjects. Each of them was provided with a camera, a set of instructions, three rolls of film and twenty mirrors. The rolls of film were delivered back to McGinley who sorted through ... More Camden Arts Centre opens a new installation by the acclaimed Japanese artist LONDON.- This summer, Camden Arts Centre is presenting the first solo institutional exhibition of Japanese artist Yuko Mohri in the United Kingdom. Following her residency in 2016, Yuko Mohri returns with a new installation developed responsively to the architecture and surrounding environment of Camden Arts Centre. Mohri orchestrates relations between electromagnetic force-fields, patterns of light moving through water and a reconfigured Yamaha reed organ from 1934, as part of a complex audio-spatial composition in which non-human agents and chance factors determine the score. Music and sound are central to Mohris practice, her involvement with the experimental music scene in Japan has included collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Otomo Yoshihide. In this new commission, error, improvisation and feedback figure in an acoustic ... More Latvian National Museum of Art opens a major exhibition of works by Imants TillersRIGA.- Journey to Nowhere, a major exhibition of works by Imants Tillers dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Latvia is on view at the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 7 July to 30 September 2018. Imants Tillers (1950) is one of Australias leading contemporary artists. Born in a Latvian émigré family in Sydney, he was awarded a Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Sydney (1972). His interest in contemporary art emerged during his study years, when as a volunteer he became involved in the Christo and Jeanne-Claude project Wrapped Coast, the shrouding of Little Bay in Sydney (1969). Imants Tillers represented Australia at the São Paulo Art Biennial (1975), Documenta 7 (1982) and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). Author has held solo shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London ... More The Other Art Fair returns to Melbourne from 2-5 AugustMELBOURNE.- The Other Art Fair Melbourne will return from 2-5 August 2018 at The Facility in Kensington as part of Melbourne Art Week, after the success of the inaugural Melbourne fair in 2017. Presented by Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair is one of the worlds leading artist-led fairs and provides visitors with the unique opportunity to discover and buy contemporary art direct from emerging artists. The Other Art Fair Australias Fair Director Zoe Paulsen said: The Other Art Fair is designed to provide emerging and unrepresented artists with an accessible platform to showcase and sell work direct to the public. It provides the opportunity for immediate sales, enabling artists to fund and further develop their practice, all while forming direct and meaningful relationships with new buyers. I feel The Other Art Fair fills a gap in the market; were giving people who are genuinely ... More Installation by Manuel Burgener spans five rooms of Art Centre PasquartBIEL/BIENNE.- Manuel Burgeners (* 1978, CH) installations, objects and images appear unfinished and precarious. For his new installation spanning five rooms the winner of the 2018 Manor Art Award combines video, sound and space. Armed with two mobile cameras in a remote seaside house, the artist captured the temporality and fleetingness of the present moment over a period of twenty-four hours. The duration of the project corresponds exactly with that of the video, which runs continuously throughout the exhibition. Various positions and reflections produce a multitude of perspectives and thus elevate the medium itself to the subject matter. Held in a sober interchange, the artist thus reveals the cameras movements that are normally kept hidden. Subtle shifts in the reception are also characteristic of the framed, large format photograms. The glass and ... More Vajiko Chachkhiani develops an installation for Bundeskunsthalle BONN.- For the exhibition Heavy Metal Honey, Vajiko Chachkhiani developed an installation, which, through films and sculptures, reflects the cycle of life and the parallelism of histories that are only vaguely visible. Much remains hidden, ultimately comes to light, and flows together when the unexpected happens: The internal now also becomes externally visible. At times, global and individual history is inseparably linked, and only the moment of action and cognition make history (or histories) a turning point which influences narration and perception. The individual works of the 1985 in Tiflis, Georgia born artist films, sculptures, performances, photographs, and large-scale installations are characterized in their overall compositions by a dense narration that suggests various tracks and interweaves everything in dramaturgical density. On the balanced interface ... More Cosmic Traffic Jam: Zevitas Marcus opens a group exhibition featuring the work of twenty artists LOS ANGELES, CA.- Zevitas Marcus announced the opening of Cosmic Traffic Jam, a group exhibition featuring the work of twenty artists of color for whom painting is a potent language of examination, resistance and change. The exhibition was organized by Alex Jackson, Umar Rashid and Steven Zevitas. If the divisive policies of the current administration have moved anything forward, its the active causes of damage that essentialism and individuation bring. Historic and deep-seated issues are addressed in the reductive, binary, and fearful vocabulary of profitable versus unprofitable, black versus white, us versus them. This language forces us into an eternal vicious cycle, where we continue to produce and reify the same ideas, structures, and answers repeatedly in the name of progress. Painting offers a detour through and/or around language, where the picture ... More A fascinating suffragette archive of a Welsh lady to be sold at Catherine Southon Auctioneers & ValuersLONDON.- In the Centenerary year of Women over 30 getting the Vote in Britain, Catherine Southon Auctioneer & Valuers sale will be offering a wonderful archive of one ladys fight to support the cause. On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon in Surrey, the archive of Kate Evans, who was born in Wales, will be offered for sale and is expected to fetch £8,000 - £10,000. Kate Williams Evans was born in 1866 in Llansantffraid, Mongomeryshire. Growing up, she was interested in Politics and spent a considerable time in Paris. While there she met with people interested in the Womens Social and Political Union and in her early thirties she joined the Union and was an active member. She became a suffragette to the dismay of her parents who thought the behaviour of these women was quite shocking. On 4th March 1912 she was arrested and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist David Hockney was born July 09, 1937. David Hockney, OM, CH, RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. In this image: David Hockney, "Walk Around the Alcazar", 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72" (hexagonal). No. 17A20 © David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt.
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