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A woman looks at Max Pechstein's Self Portrait with Pipe and Hat from 1918. © 2017 Pechstein Hamburg / Tökendorf.
HAMBURG.- The Bucerius Kunst Forum is presenting Max Pechstein: A Modern Artist, the first solo exhibition in Hamburg to showcase the accomplishments of the German Expressionist, on display until 3 September 2017. This exhibition celebrates the artist Max Pechstein (18811955) as a pioneer of Modernism, and illuminates his multifaceted work through the lens of key biographical and geographical highlights. Divided into five chronological sections, the exhibition reveals how Pechsteins style changed and developed with each of the places he lived in, including Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; Nida on the Curonian Spit; Monterosso in Italy; Palau in the western Pacific Ocean; and Łeba and Rowy in eastern Pomerania. Beyond exploring how each location influenced the motifs present in Pechsteins work, the exhibition investigates the artists identification of pivotal trends and reforms in painting, and how he absorbed ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (L) and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on July 19, 2017. The British royal couple is on a three-day visit in Germany. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP
| Exhibition explores the competitive spirit that was a powerful element in Greek society | | Exhibition at Grimaldi Forum Monaco celebrates the splendour of the last Chinese imperial dynasty | | A world of emotions opens at Acropolis Museum | 
The Ancient Greeks believed that the competitive spirit was inherent to human nature.
MADRID.- In its cultural programme, la Caixa Foundation pays particular attention to the great cultures of the past. Accordingly, the institution regularly presents exhibitions aimed at enabling audiences to discover the ways in which men and women from different places and times have sought to answer the great universal questions, and at increasing our understanding of the world through recent historical and archaeological research. This exhibition, jointly organised by la Caixa Foundation and the British Museum within the terms established in the strategic agreement established by the two institutions, offers a unique opportunity to discover an extraordinary collection of works related to games, sports and competition in Ancient Greece. The objects on show range from marbles and dice used by children 2,200 years ago to a fragment of the frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Ancient Greeks believed that the compe ... More | | 
Plate decorated with mallow flowers in painted enamel, bearing the mark of the Kangxi Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722) Beijing, Palace Museum, inv. 116758.
MONACO.- Each summer, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco produces a major thematic exhibition devoted to an important artistic movement, a subject of heritage or civilisation, a public or private collection, or any subject in which the renewal of creativity is expressed. It offers an opportunity to highlight its strengths and specificities, with a space of 3,200 square metres to create in complete freedom, placing the best technological tools at the service of the scenography, making use of the best specialists in each field to ensure the scientific quality of its exhibitions. In 2001, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco honoured China of the First Emperor with an exhibition that has remained in everyones memory... For the summer of 2017, the exhibition moves to the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644 - 1911), to celebrate its splendour, its tastes and its greatness. The Forbidden City in Monaco. The court life of Chi ... More | | 
Head of Penthesilea. Marble, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 214 © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig.
ATHENS.- Τhe Acropolis Museum joins forces with the Onassis Foundation, an organization which has been contributing to Culture and Education for 42 years, in a rare and significant partnership. The end result is co-staging in Athens the εmotions exhibition, which scored such a huge success at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York. "Emotions" is a narrative exhibition which sheds light on the unseen world of emotions in the personal, social and political life of antiquity. To view the exhibition is to embark on a tumultuous voyage into the soul of Man, whose passions are here expressed through the filter of ancient art. Exhibits from the world's greatest museums tell stories of emotions in ancient Greek art through the gaze of the Acropolis Museum. Many of the exhibits are unique art-works which are on display in Greece for the first time. Many more from Greek museums are basking in the light of internationa ... More |
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| The complex interrelation of script and image in contemporary art explored in new exhibition | | The Butler Institute of American Art presents a selection of pieces from David Hockney's The Yosemite Suite | | Christie's art sales total $3 billion in first half of 2017 | 
Paulina Olowska (*1976), Alphabet, 2005. 1 von 26 farbigen Karten (eine für jeden Buchstaben des Alphabets) © Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York.
HAMBURG.- The complex interrelation of script and image in contemporary art is the focus of the large-scale exhibition Art and Alphabet, taking place across two floors of the Hamburger Kunsthalles Gallery of Contemporary Art. On view are works in a variety of media by 22 international artists from 15 different countries that deal with elements of a broad range of languages and writing systems, exploring their impact as visual signs, expanding on them, and transforming them artistically. Whether in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, photography, installations, or performative works: we observe here how artists manipulate various alphabets (Armenian, Arabic, Latin, etc.) and challenge their potency for lending a cultural identity. Text is overlaid to the point of being illegible, or is atomised into its constituent elements; handwritten passages take on ... More | | 
David Hockney, Untitled No. 19, 2010. iPad Drawing Printed on Paper, 37 x 28 in.
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art in cooperation with L.A. Louver of Venice, CA presents an exhibition from one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. David Hockney: Yosemite which includes 8 iPad drawings depicting one of Americas most famous national parks, opened July 23, 2017 and on view in the museum at 524 Wick Avenue in Youngstown through September 24, 2017. David Hockney: Yosemite is a selection of pieces from The Yosemite Suite, a collection of over two dozen prints in which the artist sought to capture the magnificent landscape during his 2010 and 2011 visits to Californias Yosemite Valley while embracing technology using a drawing application on his iPad. Working with immediacy to capture the moment, Hockney layered strokes of color on the touch screen canvas to express the light and texture he was experiencing in the presence of nature. The artists command of color inspires ... More | | 
A bronze sold for $57.37 million in New York setting a new auction record for Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi and fetching more than twice its lowest pre-sale estimate.
NEW YORK, NY.- Continued global demand and creative sale planning helped to drive a rise in Christies auction sales to £2.2bn ($2.8bn, up 14%), a 29% increase from the same period in 2016. Overall sales were £2.35bn ($3bn, up 1%), an increase of 14% compared to £2.1bn in the first half of 2016. There was an increase in the number of works sold over £10 million, with 38 lots sold compared to 14 from the same period last year and a 29% increase in the number of new buyers over £1 million. Collectors continue to seek diverse works of art across price levels and categories with demand for masterpieces continuing, with 7 of 10 top lots from the first half of 2017 sold at Christies. Auction sell-through rates across all lots bands increased to 81%. Private sales totalled £122.2m ($155.4m) for the first half of 2017, with a strong pipeline of consignments ... More |
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| David Kordansky Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Anthony Pearson | | Mayor gives green light for Lumiere to return to London in 2018 | | Retro trend lights up London's labyrinth of neon | 
Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Embedment), 2017. Interlock-cotton-embedded, pigmented hydrocal in enamel-finished frame, 32 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 2 inches (82.6 x 66.7 x 5.1 cm). Unique. Photo: Lee Thompson Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Anthony Pearson. The show opened on July 15 and remains on view through August 26, 2017. The exhibition consists entirely of wall-based objects, including a new series of works the artist calls Embedments. Anthony Pearson occupies a quietly antithetical position in a contemporary visual landscape often dominated by speed and bombast. By methodically exploring the possibilities inherent in a small group of materials, his work fosters slow, concentrated modes of perception. In recent years he has focused on hydrocal, a gypsum cement that he has poured, pigmented, and/or etched to create objects of great minimalist beauty. Characterized by subtlety of composition and color, they register otherwise imperceptible changes ... More | | 
The Light of the Spirit, Patrice Warrener, Lumiere London 2016. Produced by Artichoke. Supported by the Mayor of London. Photo by Matthew Andrews.
LONDON.- The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has revealed the dates for Lumiere London 2018 the capitals largest night-time festival. More than 40 UK and international artists will transform the city and offer new perspectives on the capitals iconic architecture, streets and landmarks. Lumiere London 2018 will take place over four nights between 18 and 21 January 2018. Building on the phenomenal success of Lumiere London 2016, festival destinations will include Kings Cross, Londons West End (including Carnaby, Regent Street, Oxford Circus, Leicester Square, Mayfair, Piccadilly, St Jamess, Fitzrovia and Westminster). Works will be exhibited both north and south of the River Thames, with Covent Garden, Victoria, South Bank and Waterloo added as new destinations for 2018. Communities from across the capital will be able to take part in the festival. Residents of outer London ... More | | 
Owner of God's Own Junkyard gallery, cafe and workshop, Marcus Bracey poses inside the cafe in Walthamstow, east London on July 8, 2017. NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Whether in search of a glowing skull or a bright red heart, God's Own Junkyard in London is a maze of multicoloured neon of all shapes and sizes which is thriving on its retro reputation. In a vast warehouse in the east of the British capital sits Europe's biggest collection of neon signs. "In here we've got 1,400 pieces," said the creative director of God's Own Junkyard, Marcus Bracey, walking through the treasure trove of brightly-illuminated tubes. Most are for sale -- a heart with the British flag emblazoned with "God Save the Queen" across it, for instance, or an enormous pair of bright red lips with a tongue reaching out to the top of an ice cream cone. "We've got a mixture of sex, contemporary art, everything," said Bracey. "From love through lust, everything's here." Some of the signs date back to the 1950s, while others can cost thousands of pounds, such as ... More |
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| Tabitha Soren's Fantasy Life looks behind the scenes and through the hype of professional baseball | | Alfred Eisenstaedt's personal collection of photographs and books to be auctioned | | A landscape on the ground builds itself around ceramics works realized by 20 artists | 
Jonathan Joseph Foul Ball, Stockton, CA, 2014. Unique tintype.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In 2002, Tabitha Soren (fine art photographer and former reporter for MTV News, ABC News and NBC News), started photographing the new draft picks for the Oakland A's. She followed many of those players throughout their careers, and additional players from other teams, photographing their lives in the game as well as their personal milestones. Presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries Art at City Hall program, Fantasy Life features an exhibition of 180 photographs on the ground floor, and nine large-scale banners in the North Light Court featuring tintype images of the SF Giants in action. The SFAC Galleries Director, Meg Shiffler says, "We couldn't be more excited to present the Bay Area premiere of Fantasy Life, which is a complex and epic portrait of a game we think we know, but Soren takes us into intimate and thoughtful territory that subverts general notions/assumptions of heroism, power and fame. Soren's images are ... More | | 
John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy. Signed photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Alfred Eisenstaedts signed photographs of some of his most memorable subjects including the Kennedys, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill and Katherine Hepburn will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on July 27, 2017. Eisenstaedt was one of Americas most treasured photographers. As a photojournalist for Life Magazine, Eisenstaedt took some of the most memorable images of the 20th century including V-J Day in Times Square, the unforgettable photo of a GI kissing a nurse during a parade in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II. Eisenstaedt traveled around the world to shoot captivating and important subjects from world leaders to famous show business performers. President John F. Kennedy gifted Eisenstaedt with two of his signed books, Profiles in Courage and To Turn the Tide, as a token of gratitude for photographing Kennedy and his family on numerous occasions for Life. ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Loïc Thebaud / Villa Arson Nice.
NICE.- Point Quartz (Quartz Inversion) Flower of Kent testifies to the interest that contemporary artists have been manifesting for ceramics, seen as a media to be explored without being dependent on specific skills, without becoming precious, sometimes irreverently, and certainly without the use of stands. The exhibition is an in situ installation occupying the 300 square meters of the Villa Arson's Galerie Carrée, conceived as a garden with flowerbeds that have turned into a landscape. A landscape made of various strata, with the raw material of ceramics in all shapes and forms, from arable soil to terra cotta. Though the fundamental aspects of sculpture are present here, from verticality to its opposite horizontality, the uniqueness of the project stems from the pull of the law of gravitation. The horizontal works on the floor by Bertrand Lavier, Dave Ball, Gladys Clover and others, compose a landscape that one can walk through, punc ... More |
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 Actor John Heard, the 'Home Alone' dad, dead at 72LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Actor John Heard, best known for playing the father in the hit 90s-era "Home Alone" films, has died, according to US media. He was 72. Entertainment website TMZ said the actor was found dead in a Palo Alto, California hotel where he was recuperating following back surgery. Heard's representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The veteran actor rose to fame after playing Peter McCallister -- the father of mischievous Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin -- in the family comedy "Home Alone" and its sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." Born in Washington DC on March 7, 1945, Heard worked in theater prior to transitioning to the silver screen. Though most people knew him as the "Home Alone Dad," Heard also acted in films including "Between the Lines," " Heart Beat," "Cutter's Way" and "Big." In 1999 he scored ... More Greenwich House Pottery presents new bodies of work in ceramics by four artistsNEW YORK, NY.- The Jane Hartsook Gallery presents work by Ghada Amer, Judy Hoffman, Alice Mackler and Ellen Robinson exhibiting their research as Artist-in-Residence at Greenwich House Pottery. The residency at GHP is a distinguished program offering artists an environment to explore and generate new bodies of work in ceramics. Ghada Amer returned this year to complete her second residency at GHP, spending rigorous hours in the studio and developing a tactile expertise with clay. Using this knowledge, she generated a body of ceramic sculptures, both largescale paintings and miniatures, thoroughly investigating the marriage between the sensual nature of clay and her message of female empowerment. She continues to cultivate this theme further, bridging the span between her painting and ceramic work. Ghada Amer is an American artist, ... More Group exhibition of female identifying artists explores figurative works of nudes and erotic artNEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space gallery is presenting Secret Garden a group exhibition of female identifying artists exploring figurative works of nudes and erotic art. Curated by Indira Cesarine, the exhibit is on view through July 30th and includes works of painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, collage, mixed media and video. The exhibit title is inspired by the book, My Secret Garden, published in 1973 by sex positive feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s and an important figure of the feminist sexual liberation movement. Through historical works of pioneering feminist artists such as Betty Tompkins and Joan Semmel, to that of emerging contemporary female artists such as Andrea Mary Marshall, India Munuez, Myla Dalbesio, Katie ... More See the city through new eyes: Hermes presents Contact Lens by Haruka KojinSINGAPORE.- Contemporary Japanese artist, Haruka Kojin looked out of the window of an express bus, watching the landscape fly past. Staring at the roads surface, the journey made the artist question the scenes that her eyes conveyed to her: If we had triangular eyes, the world that we saw would be completely different, but it would be our reality. Drawing from this singular experience, Kojin explores themes of perception and the distortionof reality in her poetic window installation at Hermès Liat Towers, Contact Lens. The work is an optical illusion where colours and patterns of objects suspended in mid-air are mirrored and magnified, reflecting Singapores urbanscape. By peering through both macro and micro lenses, visitors discover Hermès objects featuring the illustrated work of prominent architect and cartographer, Nigel Peake. Titled On ... More Colossal new exhibitions open in western SydneySYDNEY.- Made from 800 square metres of exquisite handmade silk paper, Blood on Silk: Last Seen (22 July 17 Sept.) is Casula Powerhouse Arts Centres inaugural Turbine Hall Commission, and is the largest indoor artwork in Western Sydney to date. The exhibition premiered as part of five stand out visual art exhibitions launching in July and August. Other exhibitions include: a dog-lovers exhibition Every Dog Will Have Its Day (22 July 7 Sept.), Bravery Unmasked: Art Therapy (25 Aug. 17 Sept.), created by local cancer patients, and two exhibitions inspired by Western Sydneys unique landscapes: Near x Far (17 July 17 Sept.) and Inland Drive (22 July 10 Aug.). We are thrilled to begin our series of Turbine Hall Commissions with the truly epic Blood On Silk: On Screen. The Turbine Hall is an astounding 13.8 metres ... More Contemporary Arts Center opens exhibitions of works by Jane Benson and Njideka Akunyili CINCINNATI, OH.- The story of two Iraqi brothers who escaped from Baghdad in early 2002 becomes a vehicle for British-born, NY-based artist Jane Benson to explore the social reverberations caused by geo-cultural separation. The artist uses music to tell the story in a dual-channel video entitled Finding Baghdad (Part A) which serves as the shows centerpiece. The video begins with two instruments as they are perfectly split in two, then proceeds to a virtual duet played by the brothers on these half instruments, each on their own screen, from their respective new homes in Germany and Bahrain. In the process the brothers momentarily bridge the distance through an emotional ballad that marries technology and tradition. Half-Truths also includes sculpture, drawing and weaving to expand upon the themes of division and connection. Precariously balanced on tables ... More New three-year project invites the public to nominate locations for ten site-specific art worksLONDON.- The East Contemporary Visual Arts Network announced the launch of New Geographies, a three-year Arts Council England-funded project that invites members of the public to nominate locations for 10 major site-specific visual arts commissions across the East of England. ECVAN is seeking overlooked or unexpected places in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Nominations submitted thus far include the Petrified Forest of Mundon, Essex; the Concrete Pyramid off Great Yarmouths coast; The Chapel of St Peter-On-The-Wall in Bradwell-on-Sea; the abandoned Tesco site in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire; and Pontins Holiday Park, Hemsby. New Geographies officially starts on 18th July 2017, with nominations submitted via a dedicated website (www.newgeographies.uk) until 22nd October 2017. Following ... More Artists and public take over major wall space in London LONDON.- Time for Outrage! is a global poster campaign that gives acclaimed artists and members of the public a platform to voice what they are outraged about in the world today. The first edition is taking place 18 July 1 September 2017 on the prominent billboards of the Great Eastern Gallery Wall, London, with traffic of approximately of 2.1 million passers-by per month. Participating artists include Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Cooper Clarke, Laure Prouvost, Linder Sterling, Robert Montgomery and more. The project is a response to the eponymous book Indignez-Vous! (Time for Outrage!), in which author and French Resistance member Stéphane Hessel (1917-2013) tells the youth of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for. Remembering the ideals for which he risked his life, while never forgetting the evils against which he struggled, the writer and diplomat ... More Latvian National Museum of Art opens 'Paula Zariņa-Zēmane: The Still Point of the Turning World'RIGA.- Paula Zariņa-Zēmanes personal exhibition The Still Point of the Turning World is on view in the Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 21 July to 20 August 2017. Young Latvian painter Paula Zariņa-Zēmane got the impulse for such a poetic exhibition title from American-English author and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliots (18881965) set of poems Four Quartets (1943). It contains a phrase about a still point where all the contradictions of the world come together in harmony. In Paula Zariņa-Zēmanes case, the still point of the turning world is to be found in each of the works which show a search for an intermediate state between the spiritual and earthly lives. Excessive movement makes us anxious, while lack of forward progress induces boredom. The artist paints places that give one the opportunity ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Czech artist Alfons Mucha was born July 24, 2017. Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 - 14 July 1939), known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. In this image: The "Slav Epic", a cycle of 20 allegories tracing the history of the Slavic people and inspired in part by mythology, by Art Nouveau Czech artist Alfons Mucha, at the National Gallery in Prague."The Slav Epic" by Alfons Mucha, a Czech Art Nouveau gem, went on display in Prague, fulfilling the wish of the artist who spent 18 years on the series of paintings from 1910 to 1928.
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