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A worker stands in front of a painting in a room of the Hermitage museum in Amsterdam on May 29, 2020 where signs on the floor have been installed to mark circulation direction and specific spaces between displayed pieces ahead of the museum re-opening on June 1 after weeks of closure due to the measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Jeroen JUMELET / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- The Hermitage Amsterdam reopened its doors to the public in a corona-safe way on Monday 1 June. Three large exhibitions are on display: Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court (extended until autumn 2020), Portrait Gallery of the 17th Century and WOEST Willem van Genk. Extensive corona measures have been implemented throughout the entire building of the Hermitage Amsterdam so that visitors can enjoy a safe, peaceful, 1-on-1 experience with the artworks. By means of a one way viewing route, marked viewing areas and passing bays, they can maintain an optimal 1.5 m distance from one another. To ensure as little contact as possible with staff and to regulate visits effectively, tickets are available exclusively online and with time slots. The audio tour is available via a special app and there are numerous pillars with disinfectant dispensers. An agreement has been made with the Hermitage in St Petersburg to extend ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor wearing face mask looks at historic cars at the Cite de l'automobile (Automobile museum) in Mulhouse, eastern France, on June 2 , 2020, as the country eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus). After weeks of forced closure due to the measures adopted to curb the spread of the COVID-19, bars, cafes and restaurants in green areas of France are authorized to reopen on June 2, 2020. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
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 | | Foam presents an exhibition of color photographs by Vivian Maier | | Kunsthalle Bremen announces a new presentation of the museum collection | | Sotheby's to offer the collection of Sir Michael Smurfit - headlined by exceptional group of Irish artworks | 
Location unknown, 1956 © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
AMSTERDAM.- Following the successful exhibition at Foam in 2014 of Vivian Maier - Street Photographer, Foam presents the exhibition Vivian Maier - Works in Color. Vivian Maier (New York, 1926-2009) worked as a childrens nanny but took photographs all her life, without anyone in her vicinity ever seeing the results. Her work was only discovered after her death, when a box containing negatives was offered to a local auctioneering house and immediately went on to become a worldwide sensation. Maiers astonishing oeuvre is easily on a par with famous contemporaries. Vivian Maiers fame is mainly based on her black & white photography. This exhibition will concentrate on a lesser known part of her oeuvre: some 60 color photographs made between 1956 and 1986. Maier mostly focused on portraying everyday life. Many photographs show the streets of Chicago (the city where Maier spent a large part of her life) with its people, objects, billboar ... More | | 
Henri Biva, Ein Teich im Wald, Anfang 20. Jh. Ãl auf Leinwand, 163,8 x 135,3 cm. Geschenk Claus H. Wencke 2019. Kunsthalle Bremen Der Kunstverein in Bremen.
BREMEN.- With the title 20/20 Vision: The Collection Remixed (opened 6 June 2020), the Kunsthalle Bremen presents a radical new look at its collection for the first time in nearly ten years. Using bold colours on the walls, an elaborate staging and an entirely new arrangement of the works on display, the exhibition allows surprising new aesthetic experiences. Descriptions of all works on display provide in-depth information, some of which are findings from the very latest research. Several works have not been seen in public in decades. The installation also presents for the first time a number of recent acquisitions, donations, and permanent loans. Works of art created after 1945 are also being given a greater presence. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Kunsthalle Bremen is launching a major new presentation of its collection. The museum has carried out a creative remix of its existing ... More | | 
Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), Travelling Woman with Newspaper, oil on board, 1947-48, est. £700,000-1,000,000 / 786,000-1,123,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys annual Irish Art sale will be led by an exceptional group of works from the collection of Sir Michael Smurfit. Over thirty years, Sir Michael assembled an array of Irish artworks to furnish his K Club luxury golf and hotel resort, and private residence, in Co Kildare. From the very beginning, he sought out the best examples available on the market, to the extent that his collection features not only many of Irelands most famous artists, but also some of their finest paintings. His passion for Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery and William Orpen is reflected in the number of significant works by these artists, and several of the pictures by Yeats have become well known through The Yeats Room at The K Club, where they took pride of place. The collection is distinguished further by Louis le Brocquys Travelling Woman with Newspaper, one of the artists most significant works, and singular representati ... More |
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| | On tribal lands, a time to make art for solace and survival | | Property from the Estate of June D. Winkler will be offered at Andrew Jones Auctions | | Veronica Gonzalez Peña Directs New Pat Steir Documentary | 
Artist Marvin Martinez in Santa Fe, N.M., May 27, 2020. Ramsay de Give/The New York Times.
by Patricia Leigh Brown
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For over 30 years, Marvin and Frances Martinez have risen with the sun to drive from their home at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico to the centuries-old Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. They arrive early to snag a prime spot beneath the rough-hewed wooden beams of the portal, a colonnade where they sell pottery blackened by blue smoke that recalls the legacy of Maria Martinez, the grande dame of Native American pottery and Marvin Martinezs great-grandmother. They are among the 70 or so Native American artisans gathering here to earn a living, artfully arranging their silver and turquoise jewelry, polychrome pots, ubiquitous feathered dreamcatchers and other items on Pendleton blankets. This living museum of ... More | | 
Daum pâte de verre amber model of an elephant designed by Jean-François Leroy, incised Daum France and Leroy, 13 inches tall by 14 inches long (est. $1,500-$2,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions will present the single owner auction of property from the estate of June D. Winkler of Beverly Hills and Rancho Mirage, California and Acapulco, Mexico on Tuesday, June 16th, starting promptly at 11 am Pacific time. The online-only auction comprises over 200 lots of art, art glass, luxury accessories and accents. June Dale Winkler was the loving wife of self-made millionaire and philanthropist Myron (Mike) Winkler, the founder of Shareholder's Management Company, who predeceased her in death. Together, they traveled the world and collected treasures for their many estate homes. June was known for her passion for collecting the finest things, the art of perfecting interior design and celebrating life with the grandest of parties. She was ... More | | 
Pat Steir in her studio. Photo: Molly Davies.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pat Steir: Artist, a documentary film directed by Veronica Gonzalez Peña about the life of legendary artist Pat Steir, will be released on Apple TV, Prime Video, and other digital platforms as well as DVD on June 9, 2020. The film is distributed by Giant Pictures, a digital distributor for independent filmmakers. The impetus for this project stemmed from a series of conversations between Steir and Gonzalez Peña about family, psychoanalysis, poetry and books, Steirs art practice, feminism, and politics. Because of Gonzalez Peñas background as a novelist, she has structured the film like a first-person novel; it is character-driven, broken down into chapters, with a circular narrative and a slow reveal of self. Shot over the course of three years, primarily in Stiers home and studio, Pat Steir: Artist is a poetic visual exploration of creativity and process, on what it is to live an artistically engaged life. Gon ... More |
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| | Masks designed by Ai Weiwei to raise funds for COVID-19 humanitarian causes | | The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art opens first exhibition dedicated to Yoko Ono's art in Portugal | | Tornabuoni Art Paris reopens gallery with exhibition of works by Mario Ceroli and Renato Mambor | 
The masks are available until June 27 on www.ebay.com/aiweiweimask.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ai Weiwei MASK is a project devised to raise funds for COVID-19 humanitarian causes. The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian crisis. It challenges our understanding of the 21st century and warns of dangers ahead. It requires each individual to act, both alone and collectively. Ai Weiwei These face coverings are hand printed with iconic images of Ai Weiweis work. Produced during the period of quarantine, the masks are the canvas onto which Ai Weiwei prints his message. They are a call to action, a symbol of the citizen-led response to the humanitarian crisis that we are now facing and that contests our understanding of our contemporary reality and forewarns what is to come. The face mask is a representation of an individual action, that when executed collectively has the power to change the course of something larger than ourselves, in this case a pandemic. All proceeds benefit ... More | | 
Yoko Ono, CUT PIECE, 1964/1965. Performed by the artist, as part of NEW WORKS OF YOKO ONO, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City (March 21, 1965). Photo: Minoru Niizuma © Yoko Ono.
PORTO.- Yoko Ono | The Learning Garden of Freedom, a major retrospective exhibition of the artists work, is the first exhibition ever held in Portugal entirely dedicated to her oeuvre. Between Serralves Museum and Park and the city of Porto, visitors can discover a body of work that occupies an unquestionable place in the history of contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries. During her career spanning more than 60 years, Yoko Ono has remained faithful to her art and convictions, without ever abandoning urgent aesthetic, political and social issues. As the curator, Christophe Cherix, wrote in his book Yoko Ono's lightning years (2015), what makes Ono's art so essential in our time is its ability to always be in the present and never make us want to look back. The exhibition covers Yoko Onos work, through objects, works on paper, ... More | | 
Mario Ceroli, Untitled, 1971, wood, assembled woods, 145 x 105 x 21 cm.
PARIS.- Tornabuoni Art presents the exhibition Ceroli and Mambor: Profiles and shadows in Roma Pop. Sculptor Mario Ceroli and painter Renato Mambor, are both members of the group of the Piazza del Popolo, which influenced the Roman art scene for numerous decades. These two artists are representative of the particularity of Italian Pop art, as much in the choice of the use of humble materials like Ceroli, directly influenced by the teachings of Arte Povera, as in the anchoring of this movement in the Italian millenniums cultural and historical heritage, to which popular culture remains intrinsically linked. The exhibition is constructed as a dialogue, focusing on the visual research undertaken by Ceroli and Mambor around silhouettes, shadows and profiles. Mario Ceroli is an Italian sculptor, educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He began his career realising ceramic sculptures, but his interest ... More |
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| | Exhibition traces the precariousness of life since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis | | Rikkert Paauw's 'The aesthetics of local garbage' opens at at valerie_traan gallery | | Sworder's to offer items belonging to the German émigré who set up the design store Oscar Woollens | 
Unprecedented Times Installation view ground floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2020: Annette Messager, Certitudes Incertitudes, 20192020. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, London/New York/Paris. Photo: Markus Tretter. © Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ.- This is art created in the heat of current times. Insights into the existential circumstances of the present await KUB visitors. During the summer weeks, Kunsthaus Bregenz is showing a special exhibition that traces the precariousness of life since the beginning of the corona crisis. It is the sciences that are attempting to offer solutions, but it is the arts that portray the predicaments of the crisis. Contemporary artists in particular are able to develop a feeling for changing moods, for fear and doubt. They create worlds in the face of radical disorientation and loss (according to the US-American philosopher Judith Butler in an interview). Kunsthaus Bregenz is an institution for ... More | | 
Installation view.
ANTWERP.- For Dutch designer Rikkert Paauw, the ground materials for building design simply lay in the streets. One of his favorite occupations consists of creating design on location, made out of thrown away materials he finds on the spot. In Toulon for instance, he constructed a table out of tiles found in the neighborhood, in Milan garbage wood resulted in a lamp poste and in Vienna old littered shelves metamorphosed into a small public building. Using garbage is pure logics, the designer says. If I were to live in the woods, Id use branches of trees. By transforming the citys waste into installations within that same city, Rikkert keeps the circle of his circular design very short and builds a story that goes far beyond sustainability or reuse. He creates artful concrescences of the environment, termite mounds so to speak within the city that describes its inhabitants. For instance, I noticed that the chipboards ... More | | 
Bernard Buffet (French, 1928-1999), Les Champs Elysees (detail). Screenprint printed in colours on cotton, 113 x 157cm, unframed. Estimate: £400-600.
LONDON.- Sworders Mid Century Design sale on June 23 includes items from the family of Kurt Heide (1919-85), the German émigré who set up the influential London design store Oscar Woollens in the 1960s. The sale includes original Scandinavian furnishings bought for the North London flat he shared with his wife Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005), a Danish furniture and jewellery designer. The interiors of the property including Danish teak furniture France & Søn appeared in an Ideal Home Magazine article in 1962. A trained cabinetmaker, Heide and business partner Walter Collins had first moved into interior decoration around the time of the Festival of Britain. Their first shop in Hampstead selling modern furniture and accessories had been owned by a textiles merchant who had already registered the company name ... More |
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 More than 70 artists to sell over 100 artworks in support of the city of Milan MILAN.- More than seventy designers and artisans from all over the world, with over one hundred products, have joined the international online fundraising for the city of Milan, promoted by Delisart, in partnership with Monomio Research. From the 10th of June until the 30th of June, the proceeds from the sale of designer objects, artworks and furniture collected through the Delisart platform will be donated to the #MilanoAiuta charity fund, supported by the Fondazione di Comunità Milano Onlus. This foundation supports 56 Municipalities in Milan City and in adjacent areas. Dealing with strengthening services for the elderly by providing them with home care. On delisart.com it will be possible to view the online catalogue and purchase the designer products directly. These products can be shipped to your address (shipping costs included). Further information ... More Villa Paloma reopens with "Variations. Eugène Frey's Light Sets presented by João Maria Gusmão"MONACO.- The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco welcomes you again at Villa Paloma. All the measures will be taken to ensure the best sanitary conditions: all visitors and staff should wear masks, hydroalcoholic gel will be available, the number of visitors inside the museum will be limited, the entrance and exit flows will be separated. Cloakroom will not be available. The exhibition Variations. Eugène Freys Light Set Projections presented by João Maria Gusmão has been extended until August 30th, 2020. Eugène Frey (Brussels 1864 Courbevoie 1942) was a painter and an artist whose work has been forgotten by the history of art and stage. In 1900 he invented the technique for Décors Lumineux à transformations, a complex system of light projections mixing pictorial, photographic and cinematographic techniques to bring diverse ... More Kensington + Chelsea Art Week announces exciting new collaboration with Yinka IloriLONDON.- Kensington + Chelsea Art Week celebrates the uniquely abundant cultural heritage and creative future of the royal borough. Every year, KCAW connects hundreds of galleries, creative spaces, museums and cultural institutions, to promote public engagement in the local culture and introduce audiences to its rich history as a leading creative hub. Developed with community consultation, the annual festival prides itself on being run by a volunteer steering group that supports its organisers in carrying out their defining objective: to connect creative organisations regardless of their size or prominence using art as a platform for all to come together as one transformative unit. Shining a spotlight on this years theme, Transformation, the KCAW team is collaborating with CW+, the official charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital ... More Art on a Postcard summer auction online with Dreweatts and Bloomsbury LONDON.- Art on a Postcard returns this June with a strong line-up of beautiful mini masterpieces for its annual Summer Auction. 120 artists have produced unique original works for the auction which will raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust. Art on a Postcard is hoping its Summer Auction is Corona proof as their auctions have always taken place online, says founder Gemma Peppe. The Summer Auction will miss out on having a private view but with Julian Opies blend of pop art and minimalism, Jake and Dinos Chapmans distinctive iconoclasm and Oh da Lavals erotic expressionism the auction is set to be as big a success as always. Boy George will make his Art on a Postcard debut this summer. George has turned his hand to art in recent years with a sell-out show in Monaco last November. Other confirmed names include Lothar Geotz, Molly Brocklehurst, ... More Intesa Sanpaolo announces the reopening of Gallerie s'Italia in Milan, Vicenza and NaplesMILAN.- Intesa Sanpaolo announced the reopening of Gallerie dItalia in Milan, Naples and Vicenza. At Milan's hub in Piazza Scala visitors get another chance to view the exhibition 'Canova | Thorvaldsen. La nascita della scultura moderna', exceptionally extended until 28 June. The exhibition, which remained at the top of the charts of the most visited exhibitions in Italy for many weeks, had reached almost 200,000 national and international visitors before the closing. Conceived and organised by Intesa Sanpaolo in partnership with the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg and the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen and curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Stefano Grandesso, the exhibition made it possible to compare - for the first time - two great neoclassical artists, with major works loaned by Italian and foreign museums and exclusive private ... More Can ballet come alive online?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Sara Mearns wavered for a millisecond during a supported pirouette in George Balanchines Diamonds, my breath caught in my throat. I forgot where I was: in the kitchen drinking coffee on a rainy Saturday morning. I cherish performances by Mearns and Russell Janzen, her partner, but I didnt think Diamonds, which New York City Ballet streamed in May, would be the ballet to sweep me into the sensation of liveness losing track of time, the chills, the whole nine yards. Up to that point, little that I had seen online affected me so palpably. And while I admire Diamonds, it can feel distant, with a thin performative line between poise and anguish. That it felt authentic was a relief because, like it or not, video is our reality now. As spring seasons are lost and debuts and premieres erased, ballet companies ... More Lockdown fuels record art sales of the coast, birds and the great British seasideLONDON.- Lockdown has spurred Brits into collecting prints of coastal scenes, birds and nature, reports Affordable Art Fair. The online marketplace witnessed record breaking art sales in March through to May, providing vital income to the army of small businesses and independent artists that produce and sell original work. Record art sales through the online marketplace since lockdown have been driven by popular search terms including spring, sea, beach, Norfolk and Cornwall. Kate Heiss Oystercatschers Over Holkham in Norfolk has proven to be a bestseller with prints of Brancaster, Sandringham and Cambridge in East Anglia also popular with collectors. The allure of limited edition prints continues following a focus on this fascinating medium at the spring edition of Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, with online sales spiking ... More The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region will celebrate photography for the fourth time in the summer of 2021FRANKFURT.- The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region is home to an outstanding potential through the abundance and quality of contemporary photography and its related media in its collections and institutions. In order to highlight this, the international Triennial RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain was created in 2010 as a unique cooperation which will return after the first three successful editions from 3 June to 12 September, 2021 and is dedicated to the topic of IDEOLOGIES. Six institutions and eight curators are collaboratively planning and developing a kaleidoscope of exhibitions and a variety of other activities. The international Triennial RAY 2021 is also expanding. Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum Angewandte Kunst and Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst will ... More Espoo Museum of Modern Art reopens with a show of works by Tacita DeanESPOO.- The main exhibition at EMMA showcases key works from the career of Tacita Dean, one of the internationally most prestigious contemporary artists of today. Some of the works in Deans first-ever solo exhibition in Finland receive their debut at EMMA, including Deans latest film, A Cloud makes itself. EMMA is now reopened and the show is extended until August 2, 2020. Tacita Dean (b. 1965) is one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary artists of our day. She is known best for films shot on 16mm and 35mm and her work for the preservation of analogue film. She also creates large, spatially engaging chalkboard drawings as well as works on slate, photographs, print images and works made with found materials. The exhibition, curated by EMMA's director Pilvi Kalhama, borrows from Deans existing body of work, in addition to which ... More Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Edwige FouvrySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The paintings and drawings in this exhibition both continue and expand upon the visual and conceptual explorations that Fouvry has engaged in recent years. Working in an abstract style, she deftly combines line, gesture, texture, and color to create compositions that glint and fracture, vibrate and coalesce, with an almost mystical energy. Il y eu un murmure translates to There was a whispera multivalent title that underscores how the works operate through suggestion, hinting at and alluding to landscapes and people. These visual whispers unlock connections to other sensual experiences, including those of sound, scent, and texture, as well as to emotions. Fouvrys art is inspired by her memories, the events she has lived, the people she had met, and the places she has visited. These experiences and encounters form ... More Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney opens an exhibition of works by Darren Sylvester SYDNEY.- In his first major showing since last years critically acclaimed survey for the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbournes Darren Sylvester creates a dream-like installation, hovering intriguingly between prop house, violence and desire. Using a series of large-scale hyper-real images, the artist draws us into his staged environments: a street scene where clichéd invitations lit up in neon offer windows to another realm and new opportunities; the interior of a home with an oversized prop staircase, where a model in stilettos perches armed with a shard of ripped balustrade. Scattered throughout the gallery, three Cartier-influenced rose-gold patinated carved wooden sculptures simulate self-defence weapons against an enemy unseen. Inspired by his late-night wanderings through New York city, and his all-too-real experience of an aggravated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Everett Millais was born June 08, 1829. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 - 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). In this image: Afternoon Tea (or The Gossips). The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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