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The Singh Twins photo at Slaves of Fashion exhibition entrance Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
WOLVERHAMPTON.- A new exhibition Slaves of Fashion: New Works by The Singh Twins, highlights current debates around ethical trade and consumerism through an exploration of the history of trade in Indian textiles as a global story of Empire, conflict, enslavement and luxury lifestyle that has modern day parallels. This latest body of 20 works by Contemporary British artists The Singh Twins, which was featured recently on the BBCs Civilisations stories: The Empire, represents a fascinating new direction in the artists creative practice - combining the traditional hand-painted techniques for which they are known with digitally created imagery. Eleven of these, featuring life-sized portraits of historical figures on backgrounds packed with symbolic detail, are digital fabric artworks displayed on lightboxes. Each one highlights a different theme relating to the global story of trade in Indian textiles. Collectively they reveal not onl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ahead of the exhibition, Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, opening on October 28, 2018, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is activating several of its gallery spaces with Banerjee's work, including a huge model of the Taj Mahal made of hot pink saran wrap (see attached). The exhibition will be the first mid-career retrospective on the contemporary practice of Bengali-born, New York based artist Rina Banerjee.
| California's physical beauty takes center stage in "Nature's Gifts" exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum | | MoMA opens focused exhibition of Constantin Brancusi's sculpture | | Art Gallery of New South Wales opens first survey of John Russell's work in forty years | 
John Marshall Gamble, A Spring Morning, Poppies and Bush Lupine, circa 1915 (detail). Oil on canvas, 25 x 40 in. Crocker Art Museum, Wendy Willrich Collection, 2017.52.1
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced an ongoing exhibition of 41 landscape and still-life paintings created by California artists from the 1870s to the 1940s. The exhibition, titled Nature's Gifts: Early California Paintings from the Wendy Willrich Collection , includes detailed depictions of Californias majestic Sierra Nevada scenery, quieter Barbizon-inspired and Tonalist landscapes in both watercolor and oil, and plein-air Impressionist and Post-Impressionist scenes of mountains, desert, and sea. All of the works in this exhibition are gifted by art collector Wendy Willrich to the Museums renowned permanent collection of California art, the core of which was assembled by E. B. Crocker and his family in the early 1870s. I selected the Crocker because it is important to have my collection in Sacramento, the capital of California, said Willrich. ... More | | 
Installation view of Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 22, 2018February 18, 2019. © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art charts Constantin Brancusis achievements and innovations in sculpture through the focused presentation Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, on view from July 22, 2018, through February 18, 2019. This concentrated survey largely comprises MoMAs holdings of Brancusis work, which demonstrate the artists singular approach to materials, among them bronze, stone, and wood. In this exhibition, 11 sculptures by the artist are being shown together for the first time, alongside drawings, photographs, and filmsextensions of his sculptural endeavors. Also on view is a selection of archival materials that sheds light on the artists working process and his relationships with friends, sitters, and patrons, including this Museum. Constantin Brancusi Sculpture is organized by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator, with Mia Matthias, ... More | | 
John Russell, Vincent van Gogh, 1886. Oil on canvas, 60.1 x 45.6 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands). Photo: Maurice Tromp.
SYDNEY.- Australian impressionism is arguably the first Australian art movement, and yet the most impressionist of Australias artists lived and worked in Europe for forty years. John Russells unique engagement with French art in the 1880s and 90s led to his painting in a pure French impressionist style before he explored new directions at the turn of the century. While artists such as Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton were engaging with ideas of place and identity in their work in Australia, and shaping a nationalist genre of art in the 1890s, Sydney-born Russell was painting and forming close friendships with the leading artists in Paris, including Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin. He dined with Claude Monet and taught colour theory to Henri Matisse. Exhibition curator, Art Gallery of New South Wales head of Australian art Wayne Tunnicliffe, says Russells capacity for friendship during a time when camaraderie was ... More |
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| Hyde Collection exhibition examines relationship of man, horse | | Neuberger Museum's exhibition focuses on the complexity behind Warhol's technique of repeating images | | SFMOMA opens exclusive retrospective of photographer Susan Meiselas | 
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Four Studies of a Jockey for Racehorses before the Stands from the portfolio Vingt Dessins, 1861-1896, 1897, heliotype, 10 1/2 x 8 in., The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 2008.9.3.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Coinciding with the 2018 Saratoga Racing Meet, The Hyde Collection presents Horse and Rider in its Rotunda Gallery from July 20 through September 9. Americans have long romanticized their relationship with horses: the majesty of wild mustangs galloping through the plains, the allure of cowboys on horseback driving a herd, the utility of farmers tending their fields with horse-drawn plough, and the grace of racehorses. Horse and Rider explores the relationship between man and beast in the contexts of sport, pleasure, and work. The exhibition comprises ten works from the permanent collection by artists such as Edgar Degas, Frederick Remington, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Wilke, James Brooks, and Danny Lyon. Highlights include Degas Four Studies of a Jockey for Racehorses before the Stands ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Portraits of the Artists, 1967 from the portfolio Ten from Leo Castelli, 1967, scrrenprint in ten colors on 100 polystyrene boxes, 115 from an edition of 200; each box 2 x 2 x 3/4 inches; Printed by Fine Creations, Inc., New York. Published by Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of Sarah Anne and Werner H. Kramarsky, photo: Jim Frank c. 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PURCHASE, NY.- Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most iconic artists of his time. Mention his name and soup cans, Coke bottles, Mao and Marilyn immediately come to mind. By making the production of art inseparable from its marketing, Warhol helped transform popular culture into an art movement. Yet, because his work is so accessible and recognizable, its complexity and sophistication often elude. To bring that complexity into focus, the Neuberger Museum of Art has organized Andy Warhol: Subject and Seriality, a new exhibition, in which Warhols method of repeating images of his subjects in various and multiple ways concurrently and across time, and ... More | | 
Susan Meiselas, Widow at mass grave found in Koreme, Northern Iraq, 1992 (detail); © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From war and human rights to cultural identity and domestic violence, American photographer Susan Meiselass work covers a wide range of themes and countries. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 21 through October 21, 2018, Susan Meiselas: Mediations brings together projects from the beginning of the artists career in the 1970s to the present day, including her iconic portraits of carnival strippers, vivid color images of the conflicts in Central America in the 1980s and an ongoing investigation into the history and aftermath of the Kurdish genocide. A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Meiselas creates work that raises provocative questions about documentary practice and the relationship between photographer and subject. This retrospectiveMeiselass first on the West Coasthighlights her unique working method, combining photography, video, sound and installation to explore different sc ... More |
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| Tracey Moffatt's critically acclaimed series displayed at Art Gallery of South Australia in an Australian-first | | Sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld OBE's major solo exhibition on view at Ely Cathedral | | Kunsthaus Hamburg exhibits works by Shirana Shahbazi | 
Tracey Moffatt, Touch, from the series Body Remembers, 2017 (detail), Sydney, digital pigment print on paper, 162.0 x 244.0 cm (image); Collection of Neil Balnaves AO, Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia is presenting the first Australian display of Tracey Moffatts photographic series Body Remembers and video work Vigil, from her critically acclaimed 57th Venice Biennale exhibition, My Horizon. Acclaimed as a roaring success by art critic John McDonald, Body Remembers continues the artists poetic investigation of self and identity. The series of ten sepia toned black and white photographs revisit Moffatts earlier works, whereby the artist herself is cast as protagonist. Set in an arid landscape, Moffatt presents a sense of nowhere space and time and recalls her personal and matrilineal history of domestic servitude. Moffatt describes the series as a play with time, backwards and ... More | | 
Taking Risks (terracotta), 2016 © Henryk Hetflaisz
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CAMBRIDGE.- A major solo exhibition of large-scale sculptures by internationally-acclaimed artist Helaine Blumenfeld OBE, is being presented in the magnificent setting of the 900-year old Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, from 13 July - 28 October 2018. Bringing together 17 bronze and marble sculptures, including seven new works, the exhibition is being displayed throughout the cathedral and in the surrounding grounds. The title of the exhibition, Tree of Life, takes its name from one of the most important and enduring themes in Blumenfelds fifty-year career - despite atrocities and widespread destruction, life finds a way to renew itself. Featuring five sculptures from the Tree of Life series, presented together for the the first time, the exhibition explores the spiritual and cultural symbolism of these works and the other sculptures on display, projecting ... More | | 
Shirana Shahbazi, Installation view, Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2018, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, photo: Hayo Heye.
HAMBURG.- In her work, Shirana Shahbazi embraces two fundamental attributes that make the photographic image so fascinating up to the present day: its precision in the representation of reality as well as its capacity of capturing the ephemeral moment. First and foremost, her work elucidates that perception is an elaborate construction process that never depicts reality, but rather stages it. The view of life, nature, and space is reflected in Shahbazis works as an experience that is already culturally and socially predetermined per se. How close by or far away the world appears to us is above all a question of how we depict it. Shirana Shahabazi composes abstract pictorial spaces with photographic means that are distinguished by vibrant colors, on the one hand, and by sharp black and white contrasts, on the ... More |
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| Contemporary art from China and Portuguese-speaking countries on view in Macau | | Cerveceria Cru Cru opens group exhibition curated by Kim Córdova and Fabiola Iza | | How Many Miles to Babylon? Miyako Yoshinaga opens summer group show | 
Abdel Queta Tavares, The Aesthetic of The Diversity #5. Courtsey of the Artist.
MACAU.- As part of the Annual Arts Exhibition between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, 27 artists unveiled new works in Macao. Curated by Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils and Pauline Foessel, the works are being shown across six individual exhibitions, all of which are inspired by and explore the central theme of Alter Ego. On the conceptual theme of Alter Ego, the curators comment: working as a sort of analytical mirror, these works take the viewer on a visually striking journey that also acts as a catalyst for internal introspection and evaluation, resulting in an experience that is as aesthetically rich as it is internally moving. While each of the of six exhibitions within Alter Ego will work as an independent concept, with its own unique character, including works and perspectives by different artists, together they will form one symbiotic collection, entwined by a common premise. The first exhibition, The Self, begins with an exploration of self-awarene ... More | | 
Jimmie Durham (Houston, 1940),
Stoning the refrigerator, 1996.
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Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY.- Cuando el sol emana más energÃa de la que nuestros ojos pueden absorber. Glaring Sights springs from the anxiety provoked by the fundamentally contradictory nature of political ideology how it camouflages itself, pretending to disappear while it actually consolidates and perpetuates itself. The works here presented explore a variety of geographical and historical scenarios that consider the function of political ideology as a crucial element for the social construction of national identities. Enacting a conscious effort to distance from conceptions of politics as a matter of parties or alignment with any specific agenda, this group of works addresses politics as a form of lived experience. Collectively they suggest an interest in the performative strategies through which political systems are shaped and give birth to control devices be they visual, narrative, soundbased, etc. Thus, obsessive ... More | | 
Graciela Iturbide, Casa de Frida Kahlo (E), 2005. Dye transfer print. Ed. 5 of 6 + 2 AP 12 x 12 in. (30.48 x 30.48 cm) ©. ROSEGALLERY.
NEW YORK, NY.- From July 12 to August 4, 2018, Miyako Yoshinaga is presenting a summer group show entitled How Many Miles to Babylon? Although far from perfect, humans possess the immense ability to adapt physically and psychologically when confronted with injury, illness, dysfunction, and trauma. This exhibition features eight photographers who ponder such adverse fate and find inspiration in the fundamental desire for recovery and survival that is often accompanied by irreversible wounds - both visible and invisible. How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You may get there by candle-light. Taking its title from an old English nursery rhyme, the exhibition alludes to the arduous journey of daily survival in which pain and fear are often not immediately visible but neither secretive or denied. The ... More |
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 DeCordova installs outdoor sculptures by Nancy Winship Milliken, Cat Mazza, and Andy GraydonLINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova announced three new outdoor works by artists Nancy Winship Milliken, Cat Mazza, and Andy Graydon in the Sculpture Park. All sculptures have been created specifically for deCordova and have never been on view to the public. The works are being installed in July and August 2018 and will remain on view for the coming year. Millikens Pasture Song is made of reclaimed cello bow strings, which create melodic sounds when activated by the wind. Inspired by nineteenth-century cure cottages, Mazzas Taking the Cure is an open architectural structure that promotes the healing powers of nature. For City Lights Orchestra, Graydon has created a group of sculptural instruments constructed from discarded city street lamp covers, intended for collaborative performance. Were thrilled to display three new commissions by talented New England- ... More Indigenous public art selection committee formed to commission Native artist to create new workMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- In cooperation with a group of Native curators, knowledge keepers, artists, and arts professionals including individuals of Dakota descent and enrollment, the Walker Art Center announced the establishment of an Indigenous Public Art Selection Committee. The committee is currently working with the Walker to shape a process and ultimately select a Native artist who will be commissioned to create a new work to be located in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden or on the Walker campus. The selection committee and upcoming project grew out of commitments made by the Walker and artist Sam Durant to a group of Dakota elders during last summers mediation regarding Scaffold, a controversial outdoor sculpture by Durant. Under the agreement, Scaffold was removed from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and the artist transferred intellectual ... More Forest Lawn Museum extends GOOOOL! The World Cup's Greatest Moments exhibitionGLENDALE, CA.- This summer, while the worlds attention turned to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, where 32 teams competed for soccers ultimate prize, Forest Lawn Museum is presenting GOOOOL! The World Cups Greatest Moments, an original art exhibition that marks the premiere traveling exhibition of objects from the collection the FIFA World Football Museum in Zürich, Switzerland. Images, jerseys, soccer balls, medals, tickets and other soccer objects that reveal the greatest and most controversial moments in soccer historyspanning from a pennant awarded to Garrincha, the hero of Brazils second World Cup victory in 1962, to the 1998 FIFA World Cup France jersey belonging to Zinédine Zidane, one of only three players since 1966 to score twice in a finalare on display in GOOOOL! The World Cups Greatest Moments at Forest ... More Robert Grunenberg Berlin opens group exhibition 'Losing My Virginity'BERLIN.- The end of art school represents the beginning of a transformation. This pivotal moment when an artist either applies their acquired academic knowledge in practice or discards it to attain a feeling of self-imparted authority, is the focus of Losing My Virginity, the second exhibition at Robert Grunenberg Berlin. Berlin-based sculptor Stefan Knauf questions Western symbols, mythological rhetoric and material values in his artistic practice. His work Piazza del Cuore Sviato I-V, on show at the exhibition, depicts two lambs that werent destined to live. Knaufs masterfully crafted, technically proficient sculptures combine forms and materials that achieve a delicate equilibrium while at the same time connecting questions of art history and aesthetics. Thus, Knauf interweaves notions of eternity and transcience, and simultaneously subverts the fetishization ... More British artist Richard Stone exhibits two bronze works at the Royal Society of Sculptors summer exhibitionLONDON.- Richard Stone, an established sculptor and painter who practices between London, United Kingdom and Pietrasanta, Italy, is to exhibit two bronze works in the upcoming Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition. The exhibition has been independently curated by Jo Baring, Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art. Stones bronze works will be shown alongside 23 artists including Clare Burnett, Nick Hornby and Merete Rasmussen. A work by Eduardo Chillida will be on display to coincide with the exhibition, on loan from Hauser & Wirth. Sandy Nairne will officially open the exhibition. Founded over a century ago, the Royal Society of Sculptors champions sculpture and the artists who create it. The Society royal patronage was awarded in 1911 and many of the last centurys leading sculptors have an association: from Dame Elisabeth Frink ... More Freud Museum London displays works by young refugeesLONDON.- The work is on display as part of the wider exhibition Leaving Today: the Freuds in Exile 1938, which charts the journey of Sigmund Freud and his familys flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Through the experiences of Freud and his family threads a universal story of flight and exile. Britain remains a refuge for many fleeing persecution, torture, enslavement and murder. At the center of the exhibition are the voices of young people who attend the Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile through work they have created in collaboration with the artist Barnaby Barford. Each young person has come to Britain, unaccompanied, to seek refuge and safety. Artist Barnaby Barford on the Contemporary Voice project: I was introduced to the great work the Baobab Centre does through The Freud Museum. I was heartbroken yet inspired to hear the devastating ... More Neo Futurist collective presents 'Make Futurism Great Again' LONDON.- This summer, the Estorick Collection continues its series of interventions by contemporary artists with its most ambitious project to date : Make Futurism Great Again (#MFGA). It presents the full repertoire of the radical Neo Futurist Collective (AKA Joseph Young) which celebrates urban noise in all its visual and aural forms. Inspired by the Milan Futurists and the Art of Noises manifesto (1913), as well the poetics of the Dada movement, this 10-year art experiment culminates and ends this year. Make Futurism Great Again runs from 18 July until 21 October 2018. Using sound art, installation, archive material and performances, Neo Futurist Collective is occupying the four permanent collection rooms at the Estorick, alongside its world class collection of modern Italian art. Visitors will be able to access illuminating background information ... More Exhibition focuses on materials from four plants deeply rooted in AsiaSINGAPORE.- NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is embarking on an inquiry into natural materials, exploring the knowledge they embody as biological forms as well as within social, geopolitical, and historical contexts. Trees of Life Knowledge in Material is part of the Centres long-term research cluster Climates. Habitats. Environments. This exhibition focuses on materials from four plants deeply rooted in Asia: indigo (Indigofera tinctoria), lacquer (Rhus succedanea and Melanorrhoea usitata), rattan (Calamoideae), and mulberry (Morus). The works trace the ongoing involvement with these plants in the artistic practices of Manish Nai (India) with indigo, Phi Phi Oanh (United States/Vietnam) with lacquer, Sopheap Pich (Cambodia) with rattan, and Liang Shaoji (China) and Vivian Xu (China) with mulberry silk. While the featured installations serve as ... More Jack Shainman Gallery opens exhibition in conjunction with The Racial Imaginary Institute NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Orientation, in conjunction with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) as part of their inaugural TRII Biennial. Expanding upon the Institutes first year of research on Whiteness, what Claudia Rankine has described as a source of unquestioned power [that], as a bloc, feels itself to be endangered even as it retains its hold on power, the exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery includes work by Sam Durant, Ken Gonzales-Day, Anton Kannemeyer, Byron Kim, Sol LeWitt, Kerry James Marshall, Meleko Mokgosi, Yasumasa Morimura, Gordon Parks, Emily Nelms Perez, Jackie Nickerson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Claudette Schreuders, Richard Serra, Andres Serrano, Becky Suss, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., and Carrie Mae Weems. The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial seeks to disorient bodies habituated to spaces of white ... 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More Jhaveri Contemporary moving to new space in Mumbai in SeptemberMUMBAI.- Jhaveri Contemporary has announced that after eight successful years in Malabar Hill, Mumbai, the gallery will move to a new home in Colaba, the citys historic and art district. The new gallery space in Devidas Mansion on Mereweather Road will open on 1 September 2018 with an inaugural group exhibition that explores the gallerys journey thus far and investigates the site of its new location. Jhaveri Contemporarys new gallery space, situated on the third floor of a 19th century heritage building, allows the gallery to grow its footprint by a third. Comprising two exhibition spaces, the new gallery also benefits from four-metre-high ceilings. The design aesthetic breaks from the conventions of the white cube, harmoniously balancing a contemporary feel with original features including raw concrete walls and exposed beams. Large windows, with frames made ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-English architect Richard Rogers was born July 23, 1933. Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH FRIBA FCSD FREng RA (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. In this image: Terminal 4 Madrid Barajas Airport. Photo by: Manuel Renau. AENA
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