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Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867?1959). Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Mill Run, Pennsylvania. 1934?37. Perspective from the south. Pencil and colored pencil on paper, 15 3/8 Ã 25 1/4″ (39.1 Ã 64.1 cm). The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).
by Catherine Triomphe
NEW YORK (AFP).- From a skyscraper twice the height of today's tallest building to self-sufficient farms designed to offset the Great Depression, a New York exhibition is spotlighting the hidden projects and dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright. "Unpacking the Archive" is the product of painstaking research from thousands of documents that lay dormant in the personal archive of Wright, that most famous and revered of US architects, 150 years after his birth. Opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday and running until October 1, it offers a new glimpse into Wright, five years after the institution, together with Columbia University, acquired the legend's archives. "He has been the most exhibited and lionized architect in the museum's history," says curator Barry Bergdoll. "Probably the only architect that is almost more popular with the general public than with the architect community." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Latin Pop superstar, Miguel Bose (left) poses with McNay Art Museum Director Richard Aste as he visits the museum in San Antonio, Texas. Photos by Jennifer Pochat.
| Two portraits newly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard on public view for the first time | | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag displays its entire 300-strong collection of Mondrians | | Sotheby's to offer the ring that unlocks the story of Picasso's love affair with Dora Maar | 
Conservator working on Nicholas Hilliards portrait of Queen Elizabeth I at the Hamilton Kerr Institute. Rothschild Family. Photo Tristan Fewings, 2017 © Getty Images.
WADDESDON.- Waddesdon Manors special display Power and Portraiture: painting at the court of Elizabeth I is centred on two portraits attributed to Nicholas Hilliard with unprecedented confidence. Hilliard is famous for his miniatures, painted in watercolour on vellum. Archival documents suggest that he also made paintings in greate full-scale portraits in oil paint. Scholars have suggested various oil paintings that might have been painted by, or under the direction of Hilliard (including the Pelican and Phoenix portraits, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and National Portrait Gallery, London, respectively) but these attributions rely heavily on stylistic comparison with his miniatures and it is hard to make conclusive comparisons between works of such different scale, type and medium. The Rothschild portraits also share many similarities of style and technique with Hilliards ... More | | 
Piet Mondrian, 1872 - 1944, Composition with red, yellow, black, blue and grey, 1921, oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, longterm loan of The Rembrandt Society.
THE HAGUE.- During the summer of 2017, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is taking visitors on an extensive tour of the life and work of Piet Mondrian. The journey leads them to Amsterdam, Paris, London and New York the great world cities where Mondrian could give free rein to his genius and make the discoveries that enabled him to revolutionize art. With the biggest and best collection of Mondrians anywhere in the world, the Gemeentemuseum is in a position to illustrate every stage of the artists amazing career in spectacular fashion. This grand tribute to the pioneering artist opened on 3 June and is part of the year-long Mondrian to Dutch design. 100 years of De Stijl event. In the course of 2017 the Gemeentemuseum will hold no fewer than four exhibitions in honour of the revolutionary spirits of the De Stijl movement. In its great The Discovery of Mondrian exhibition, ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Bague de forme ovale. Portrait de Dora Maar, ink and coloured pencil on paper in a yellow-metal composite ring, executed circa 1936-39. Est. £300,000-500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Of Picasso's many muses, few had as much influence on his artistic career or personal life as the mesmerising and intelligent raven-haired French photographer, painter and poet Dora Maar. Their relationship, though intensely passionate, was far from perfect and went through shifting tides of anguish and callousness. During one promenade along the Pont Neuf, Maar and Picasso had a bitter altercation as the artist reproached his mistress for having prevailed on him to give a work of art in exchange for a cabochon ruby ring. In the heat of the moment, Maar silenced her lover by taking the ring from her finger and hurling it into the River Seine. Later regretting her rash actions, Maar haunted the spot where the riverbed was dredged for several days in hopes of recovering her ring but it was lost for good. Picasso, ultimately regretting having upset his impulsive paramour so deeply, ... More |
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| The Hyde Collection opens the Feibes & Schmitt Gallery | | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen displays more than 500 artworks in a new configuration | | The Frick Collection exhibits masterpieces of Du Paquier porcelain from the Sullivan Collection | 
Grace Hartigan, American, 1922-2008, White, 1951 (detail), Oil on canvas, 38 x 44 3/4 in., © of the Grace Hartigan Estate.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Hyde Collection founder Charlotte Hyde (1867-1963) had the foresight to know that to stay relevant, the Museum would have to evolve. On Saturday, June 10, the Museum opened its doors to the future as it unveiled its latest transformation, the newly constructed Feibes & Schmitt Gallery. The Feibes & Schmitt Gallery is the result of a donation made last year from Werner Feibes and his late partner, James Schmitt, who gave the Museum their Modern and Contemporary art collection valued at more than $10 million, and a $1 million leadership donation to build the 1,500-square-foot exhibition space. The collection establishes the Museum as a regional hub for Modern and Contemporary art, and greatly increases its educational and programming opportunities. I have visited The Hyde Collection many times and know how important it is to our communitys culture, as well as to our local economy," said Congresswoman Elise Stefanik ... More | | 
Anthony van Dyck, Saint Jerome, 1618-1620. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Loan: Willem van der Vorm Foundation. Photo: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam.
ROTTERDAM.- From 10 June Museum Boijmans Van Beuningens permanent collection is being shown in a totally new series of displays. Carel Blotkamp, artist and emeritus professor of the history of art at the VU University in Amsterdam, has conceived a new display that he hopes will seduce visitors into spending more time with the works of art. I want to encourage slow looking. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a collection of more than 145,000 objects dating from c.1300 to the present day, including numerous works by world-renowned artists. However, only 8 per cent of the collection is on display and the displays have remained the same for the past five years. That all changed on 10 June when the museum unveiled its new displays selected by guest curator Carel Blotkamp, featuring more than 500 artworks in a new configuration that will excite both regular visitors and tourists alike. The idea behind the new ... More | | 
Du Paquier manufactory, Ewer, 172530. Hard-paste porcelain. H: 8 5/8 inches. The Frick Collection, gift from the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection, 2016. Photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection opened a new year-long installation in the Portico Gallery, Fired by Passion, inspired by the generous gift of fourteen pieces of Du Paquier porcelain made to the Frick in 2016 by Paul Sullivan and Trustee Melinda Martin Sullivan. The Sullivans are considered to have assembled the best collection of Du Paquier in private hands. The Du Paquier manufactory was established in Vienna in 1718 by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, an entrepreneur and official at the Viennese Court, and was only the second manufactory in Europe to produce true porcelain, after the Royal Meissen Manufactory, outside Dresden. Although in operation for only twenty-five years, Du Paquier left an impressive body of inventive and often whimsical work, forging a distinct identity in the history of European porcelain production. Fired by Passion presents forty tureens, drinking vessels, platters, ... More |
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| Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa opens first UK exhibition | | The Norman Rockwell Museum opens first exhibition to pair Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol | | Exhibition at Ippodo Gallery demonstrates the evolution of bamboo artistry | 
Arthur Jafa, Installation view 'A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions', Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (08 June 2017 10 September 2017). Image © Mike Din.
LONDON.- How do we imagine things that are lost? What kind of legacy can we imagine despite that loss and despite the absence of things that never were? Arthur Jafa The Serpentine is presenting the work of the acclaimed US filmmaker, cinematographer and artist Arthur Jafa in his first UK exhibition, featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo, and Missylanyus. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. Jafas work is driven by a recurrent question: how might one identify and develop a specifically Black visual aesthetics equal to the power, beauty and alienation of Black ... More | | 
Photo of Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, and Philip Fagan, New York, NY, 1964. Photo by Ugo Mulas. Courtesy and ©Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved. Andy Warhol Artwork © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / ARS, NY.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- This summer, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents the first exhibition to pair Rockwell (18941978) and Andy Warhol (19281987), examining their artistic and cultural influence during their lifetimes and their ongoing legacies. With 100 works of art, a selection of archival materials, and objects relating to their work and lives, Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol shows how both of these internationally celebrated image-makersamong Americas most important visual communicatorscreated enduring icons, and opened new ways of seeing. Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, the exhibition is on view from June 10 through October 29, 2017. It is curated by the Museums Chief Curator and Deputy ... More | | 
Hafu Matsumoto, Fuhaku (God of Wind).
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery is presenting a solo show of Hafu Matsumoto (b. 1952), the last disciple of Shokansai Iizuka (1919-2004), dedicated to the tradition and innovation of Japanese craftsmanship. 20 works are on view, demonstrating the evolution of bamboo artistry through the solo showcase of Matsumotos unique skill. The exhibition coincides with Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, which reunites the works of both his teacher Shokansai and his father, the master Rokansai, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this June. Although bamboo has been prized for thousands of years as a functional material, the Iizuka family led the life of modern bamboo. The legendary Take (bamboo)-Kôgei (craft) master Rokansai Iizukas (1890-1958) lifes ambition was to bring flattened bamboo art to the forefront. He was among the earliest pioneers striving to showcase bamboo as a significant art. His strong will and ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of works by Colombian artist Beatriz González opens at Galerie Peter Kilchmann | | Exhibition at Huis Matseille shines a spotlight on the fascinating work of Lionel Wendt | | REX selected to design new performing arts center at Brown University | 
Beatriz Gonzalez, Enea de Baranoa (Enea from Baranoa), 2016 (detail). Oil on canvas, 135.5 x 60 cm (53 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.).
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann is presenting a solo exhibition of Colombian artist Beatriz González (b. 1938) in collaboration with the gallery Casas Riegner, Bogotá. Beatriz González lives and works in Bogotá and is considered one of the most influential artists of her generation in Latin America. With her participation at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Beatriz González' work is now receiving a long past due recognition also in Europe. Within the framework of our exhibition the artist presents a new group of works consisting of 10 canvases, 8 works on paper, a wall-filling serigraphy and a free-standing object. From the beginning of her artistic career in the early 1960s, the works of Beatriz González explore the sociopolitical turmoils of the violence-stricken history in postmodern Colombia. In the role of an active witness to history, the artist chooses photographic images ... More | | 
© Lionel Wendt. Courtesy Ton Peek (Utrecht).
AMSTERDAM.- There is something special going on with regard to the oeuvre of Ceylonese photographer Lionel Wendt (19001944). After a period of relative obscurity, Wendt was rediscovered or discovered, in fact worldwide as a unique, individualistic photographer who availed himself of experimental techniques and modern compositions. Wendts choice of subjects was eclectic: from sensual and homo-erotic portraits to tropical images of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and from picturesque scenes to compositions for which he used modernist stylistic devices and experimental techniques. After Wendts premature death in 1944 his negatives were destroyed, but the work he left behind lives on. This consists of a collection of beautiful experimental prints, of which several are included in the renowned collections of such museums as Tate Modern in London and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This year, Wendts work is being exhibited at Docu- ... More | | 
AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Dallas, TX, 2009. Photo: Tim Hursley. Courtesy of REX.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- REX, the award-winning firm based in New York City, has been selected by the Corporation of Brown University as the architect for Browns new performing arts center (PAC) to be located in the heart of the College Hill campus. Administered and programmed by the Brown Arts Initiative (BAI)a consortium of six departments and two programs enhancing arts offerings at Brownto serve students, faculty, staff, the greater Providence community, and beyond, the highly flexible facility is targeted for completion in the late fall of 2020. The new PAC will be a leading-edge venue for music, dance, theater, creative collaboration, and innovation featuring the latest advances in acoustics, staging, lighting, and multi-media technology. The Universitys strategic plan, Building on Distinction, was launched in 2014, under the leadership of President ... More |
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 Kunsthalle Bern opens exhibition of works by Verena DenglerBERN.- Jackie took Jacks claim that he can do everything away from him. The Jackie of all Trades is Verena Dengler (*1981 in Vienna, lives in Vienna). Verena Dengler is aware of how little future-oriented and extremely apolitical it would be to continue adhering to patriarchal notions of skill in the dawning matriarchy. But what are you supposed to do if you can do everything? When women still found the thinking of poststructuralist theorists relevant and wore themselves out working on the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, she might have spoken of deconstruction. But Dengler doesnt. She prefers Sigmund Freud, who was specialized in psychic life, and his concept of the woman who presumes to want a lot and hides her fantasies of omnipotence behind the mask of a universal amateur, which she divides and proliferates. Denglers works and anti-works are mostly ... More Special display of portrait miniatures celebrates the 200 anniversary of Jane Austen's deathCOMPTON VERNEY.- 18 July marks the 200 the anniversary of Jane Austens death and provides a timely opportunity to reflect on her life, times and work. Compton Verney thought by many to be the real-life setting for the fictional Thornton Lacey in Austens Mansfield Park is marking the bicentenary with a special display drawn from its remarkable collection of portrait miniatures. The Warwickshire Art Gallery and Park is home to one of the most important collections of this art form held anywhere in the world. The Dumas Collection consists of 842 works in total, and has been generously loaned on a long term basis to Compton Verney by Simon Dumas. Jane Austen was an enthusiastic miniaturist who used the medium to capture her friends and family. She famously compared her novels to her own miniatures, declaring that they were little bits (two Inches ... More Galleria d'Arte Maggiore exhibits works by Tong Yanrunan and Giorgio MorandiBOLOGNA.- The exhibition "Forms of Time: Tong Yanrunan and Giorgio Morandi, on view at Galleria d'Arte Maggiore in Bologna represents a new and important stage in the project that the Chinese artist has been dedicating to the tradition of portrait for 19 years. Already famous in China and present in some of the most important international museums, Tong Yanrunan travels in different countries realizing a maximum number of paintings for each exhibition. The slowness of execution is in fact an integral part of his work, as well as an experience of dialogue between the artist and the subject, turning almost into a performance, in opposition to the numerical titles of the paintings that recall the progressive codes of the pictures taken by a digital camera. Born in 1977 in Jiujiang and working in Hangzhou, the artist realizes a series of portraits for each exhibition of some ... More Galeria Jaqueline Martins opens exhibition of works by Ricardo BasbaumSAO PAULO.- If displaying numerous, mostly unseen works created between 1981 and 1996 by Ricardo Basbaum is the primary goal of this exhibit, the second one is to expand upon questions raised in his text Pintura dos anos 80: algumas observações crÃticas [1], in which he reviews that decade's visual art dynamics. These are two landmarks that not only define important axes for the construction of Brazilian contemporary art whose structure evolved from the yet-little historicized 80s [2] - but also delimit Basbaums working pace: at once plastic and discoursive. In keeping with this (breathinglike) rhythm, this exhibition proposes to come closer to a specific segment of the artists work, and from there extract the counter-discourses needed for revising the historical narratives of that period. One of the established consensuses about the 80s in Brazil, ... More Ai Weiwei's 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads' installed on grounds of The RinglingSARASOTA, FLA.- Chinese artist Ai Weiwei continues to gain attention for the upcoming release of both his memoir and his latest documentary on the global refugee crisis, as well as his four simultaneous gallery shows upon his return to New York last fall. Coinciding with this moment, The Ringling announces the presentation of his 12 monumental bronze sculptures, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, beginning this June through May 2018. A sculptor, photographer, installation artist, architect, and social activist, Ai is one of the most renowned artists working today. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads was inspired by the fabled fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, an 18th-century imperial retreat just outside Beijing. Designed in the 18th century by two European Jesuits at the behest of the Manchu Emperor Qianlong, the fountain-clock of the ... More Spink to sell The "Lionheart" Collection - Part VII LONDON.- Spink will be selling the seventh part of the Lionheart Collection of Great Britain and British Empire on the 22nd June in London. Previous sales of this vast holding have contained some impressive prices realised and we are confident that the high-quality material in this sale will achieve similar results. One of the many items of interest from this sale is lot 36, a Bahamas 1963 Freedom from hunger 8d. sepia with country name and value omitted, used on parcel piece. But what makes this piece so interesting is that it is only identifiable as Bahamas by the postmark. This is a major QEII rarity as it is the only recorded used example. This lot is offered with provenance and newspaper cuttings detailing the history of this elusive and most unusual error. Lot 36, estimated: £1,000 1,200 Lot 121 is also very interesting for collectors of Cook Islands. It contains ... More "Painting on the Edge: A Historical Survey" on view at Stephen Friedman GalleryLONDON.- Painting on the Edge: A Historical Survey brings together works by sixteen renowned masters and lesser-known artists from around the world and explores the radical approaches taken to painting in the post-war period. The exhibition focuses on artists who veered away from the traditional methods of painting by knotting or completely removing the canvas, using shaped stretchers, and testing alternative materials. Many have never been shown together before and this presentation aims to draw new and pertinent parallels between their practices. This is the first time that Harmony Hammond, Sadaharu Horio, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Kimiyo Mishima and Ted Stamm have been shown in England. This exhibition includes work made from the 1950s to the 1980s. The aftermath of war was felt worldwide, and art produced during this time embodied the post-war sentiment. ... More Whitechapel Gallery opens "A Handful of Dust"LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery is presenting A Handful of Dust. Bringing together artworks and documents, the exhibition traces a visual journey through the motif of dust from aerial reconnaissance, wartime destruction and natural disasters to domestic dirt and forensics. Conceived by curator and writer David Campany as a speculative history of the 20th century, the exhibition features works by over 30 artists and photographers including Robert Filliou, Mona Kuhn, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Ristelhueber, Jeff Wall and Nick Waplington alongside magazine spreads, press photos, postcards and film clips. The starting point of the exhibition is a 1920 photograph taken by American artist Man Ray of Marcel Duchamps work in progress The Large Glass (191523) deliberately left to gather dust in his New York studio. First published in the seminal Surrealist journal, Littérature ... More Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and architecture collective Open City of Ritoque participate in documenta 14 KASSEL.- The National Council of Culture and Arts Chile announced that artist Cecilia Vicuña is participating in documenta 14. Documenta, now in its 14th edition, consists of two venues: Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany where it originated sixty years ago. The poet and visual artist Cecilia Vicuña and the project Open City of Ritoque were selected by the curator of the exhibition, Dieter Roelstraete, to be part of this edition. Vicuña, who started her career in the 1960s, was co-founder of the Tribu No group and has lived in New York since 1980. Throughout her career she has developed a body of work in which she addresses political, environmental and various issues of modern life through poetry, visuals and performance, in order to generate a connection between art and life, the ancestral and the vanguard. In Athens, Vicuña presented one of her traditional ... More First-of-its-kind collaborative exhibition spotlights 11 projects at or near 20 Parks Canada sitesTORONTO.- Partners in Art nnounced the exhibition period for their Canada 150 Signature Project LandMarks2017/Repères2017, running June 10 to 25 located in communities near or at Canadas National Parks and Historic Sites. LandMarks2017/Repères2017 is a year-long multidisciplinary contemporary arts initiative created to inspire Canada-wide conversation about the people, places and perspectives that have shaped our past, and are vital to our futures. A collaborative effort from acclaimed Canadian curators, celebrated contemporary artists such as Michael Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Maureen Gruben, Jin-me Yoon and Ursula Johnson, as well as art students from 16 universities and colleges participating in emerging artist projects, LandMarks2017/Repères2017 is an invitation to all Canadians to creatively explore and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and graphic artist Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890. TULLN.- Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism, although still strongly associated with the art nouveau movement (Jugendstil). The most important collection of Schiele's work is housed in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. In this image: House with Shingles, 1915.
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