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Reconstruction of the studio (simulation) © Succession Giacometti (fondation Giacometti ADAGP) Paris 2018.
PARIS.- The Giacometti Foundation, Paris opened a new permanent space dedicated to exhibitions, as well as art history research and pedagogy. Directed by Catherine Grenier, director of the Giacometti Foundation since 2014, the Giacometti Institute aims to provide new perspectives on the artists work and on the creative period in which it emerged. With nearly 350 sculptures, 90 paintings, over 2 000 drawings and an equally significant collection of etchings, as well as decorative art objects, the Giacometti Foundation possesses the most richly diverse collection of Alberto Giacomettis works in the world: a collection which it is responsible for preserving, restoring, and enhancing. The Foundation also has a remarkable archive and photography collection at its disposal, along with a reference library on modern art. This invaluable heritage has remained partly inaccessible to the public since the artists death ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A boy takes a photo of a poster at the Winter pavilion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Football Park in Moscow on June 21, 2018. Maxim ZMEYEV / AFP
| Nature, art, and glass: A delicate balance at Schantz Galleries | | Banksy needles France with migrant mural blitz in Paris | | War, wine and wonders: hopefuls vie for place on UNESCO heritage list | 
Paul Stankard, Stockbridge Summer Bouquet, 2018. Encased glass, 4 1/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 7/8". Photo: Ron Farina.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries is presenting an exhibition of three renowned glass artists: Paul Stankard, Kelly ODell, and Raven Skyriver. All three are deeply in tune with their environment and demonstrate how growing up surrounded by nature can truly get into ones soul. All three also have a deep appreciation for glassmaking and the unique qualities that make glass a compelling medium for interpreting flora and fauna. More than keen observers of nature, they offer a visceral experience of the sublime but precarious beauty of the Earth. Their glass sculptures immerse us in nature, allowing us to contemplate our mortality and encouraging us to change our way of being in the world. Paul Stankard combined his early career in industrial glass with his love of poetry, wildflowers, and floral paperweights to become a pioneer in the field of flameworking. Stankards processusing a torch with pincers, pliers, and other t ... More | | 
The world's best known graffiti painter apparently "blitzed" the French capital over the last few days, leaving as many as six works on walls across the city.
PARIS (AFP).- The mysterious British street artist Banksy appears to have taken aim at the French government's crackdown on migrants in a series of new murals in Paris. The world's best known graffiti painter apparently "blitzed" the French capital over the last few days, leaving as many as six works on walls across the city. None of the works were signed -- as has been Banksy's wont in recent years -- but experts told AFP that they look genuine. The most political takes issue with France's tough anti-migrant policy, with nearly 40 makeshift camps razed in Paris in the last three years and President Emmanuel Macron determined that the city does not become a magnet for refugees. In the mural a young black girl sprays a pink wallpaper pattern over a swastika on a wall next to her sleeping bag and teddy bear in an attempt to make her patch of pavement more cosy. The image is on a wall in northern Paris next to an official refugee shelter which was controversiall ... More | | 
Sheikha Hala Bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa, Culture and Arts director of Bahrain's Authority for Culture and Antiquities, attends the opening ceremony of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee meeting. STR / AFP.
MANAMA (AFP).- Inuit hunting grounds, World War I cemeteries, Art Deco heritage in Mumbai and Italy's wine-producing Prosecco hills are among 30 hopefuls in the running to join UNESCO's famous list as the World Heritage Committee meets from Sunday in Bahrain. Delegates at the annual gathering will also debate adding locations including Kenya's Lake Turkana and Nepal's Kathmandu Valley to those sites considered "in danger", but could remove the Belize Barrier Reef from the risk list due to an oil activity ban. The roster of contenders for this year's new additions spans the globe from the Aasivissuit and Nipisat hunting grounds in the frozen expanses of Greenland to the sun-scorched Al-Ahsa Oasis in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Eye-catching -- or lip-smacking -- sites among them include the Prosecco Hills in northwest Italy ... More |
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| Sculptor Mark Yale Harris celebrates his 80th year with solo-exhibitions across the country | | Abrams distributes new book 'Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up' | | Joseph Bellows Gallery opens two summer shows | 
Mark Yale Harris traded the security of an extremely successful business for the risky career of an artist.
SANTA FE, NM.- Now turning 80, artist Mark Yale Harris can look back at the gamble he took at age 59 when he traded the security of an extremely successful business for the risky career of an artist, and happily declare it paid off. He is a gifted sculptor, in his stride, who feels he is doing his best work ever. Harris is celebrating his 80th year with three separate solo exhibitions across the country: at the Chloe Gallery in San Francisco, California; Ventana Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Cutter & Cutter Fine Art in St. Augustine, Florida. Mark Yale Harris, co-founder of Red Roof Inns and founder of AmeriSuites Hotels, made a difficult career decision in mid-life. Though a talented child artist, he followed his parents exhortations to seek a reliable business degree. He put himself through Ohio State University and then began 30+ years in the hotel business. In the mid-nineties, Harris grappled with continuing his ... More | | 
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up. Edited by Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa. 250 color illustrations; 256 pages. $50; June 2018. V & A Publishing, distributed by Abrams. ISBN: 978-1-85177-960-4.
LONDON.- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlos death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlos life. It focuses on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewelry, cosmetics and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters, to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting the archived materials in the context of her political and social beliefs. Frida Kahlo: ... More | | 
Stephen A Scheer, The Maples 23 Kiss Between Cars, 1979.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery announces its exhibitions, Dana Montlack: Seeing Through Water, Seeing Through Weather and Summer Selections; a group exhibition featuring work by many of the gallerys artists. The exhibitions are on view through July 27, 2018. Throughout the main gallery, Summer Selections features the photographs of: Charles Johnstone, Betty Hahn, Judy Fiskin, Roger Minick, Grant Mudford, Stephen A. Scheer, John Schott, Sage Sohier, Jack D. Teemer, Jr., Roger Vail, and others whose images express the subtle joys, grand adventures and classical themes of summertime. Running concurrently with Summer Selections, Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting in its Atrium gallery, Dana Montlack: Seeing Through Water, Seeing Through Weather. In this solo exhibition the artist presents her newest body of work, merging artistic and scientific elements ... More |
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| Han Solo's 'Return of the Jedi' blaster sells for $550,000 | | MATRIX 179 at Wadsworth Atheneum marks U.S. premiere for British artist Conrad Shawcross | | Tania Coen-Uzzielli appointed new Director Tel Aviv Museum of Art | 
Star Wars' Han Solo's BlasTech DL-44 blaster (estimated value $300,000 - 500,000) is exhibited by Julien's Auctions at Planet Hollywood, in New York. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- In the wildly popular "Star Wars" films, Han Solo once told a lightsaber-wielding Luke Skywalker: "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." That was the case when one of the blaster pistol props used by Harrison Ford in "Return of the Jedi" (1983) went under the hammer, selling for $550,000 -- topping the $450,000 previously fetched by Skywalker's lightsaber from the first two films. "SOLD for $550,000! An original Han Solo blaster used in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi!" Julien's Auctions announced on Twitter Saturday. The faux weapon, mainly made of wood, had been put on display in New York by Julien's Auctions last month after more than 30 years tucked away in the belongings of James Schoppe, art director of "Return of the Jedi". Martin Nolan, the auction house's executive director, said Schoppe, an Oscar nominee for his work on the film, finally decided ... More | | 
Conrad Shawcross, Paradigm ‒ B (Solid) (detail), 2018. Weathering steel; 55 7/8 x 18 ¾ x 18 ¾ in. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Conrad Shawcross (b. 1977) is the featured artist in the 179th installment of the MATRIX contemporary art series at the Wadsworth Atheneum, his first museum exhibition in the Americas. Well known in the United Kingdom and the youngest member of the Royal Academy (admitted in 2013), Shawcross creates large-scale sculptures that push the boundaries of physics, technology and geometry. MATRIX 179 showcases the artist's recent work, combining the immense outdoor sculpture "Monolith (Optic)" (2016) with two midsize sculptures, several maquettes and project drawings, artist interviews and a new shadow-producing light machine inside the museum. The exhibition is on view June 21-Sept. 9, 2018. MATRIX 179 is a compact study of Shawcross's work from the past five years, in which industrial robotics are "hacked" to create an aesthetic environment through balletic movement; mathematics and sound are mapped in solid ... More | | 
Tania Coen-Uzzielli is a curator and Head of Curatorial Services at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo: Eli Poszner.
TEL AVIV.- Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Search Committee recommended the appointment of Tania Coen-Uzzielli as TAMA Director after the retirement of Suzanne Landau. TAMA's Board of Directors approved the appointment on Thursday, 21 June 2018. The Search Committee included Irith Rappaport, Doron Sebbag and Yaron Klein and was headed by Adv. Haim Samet. Tania Coen-Uzzielli is a curator and Head of Curatorial Services at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. She holds a BA and MA in Art History and Archaeology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Since she began working at the Israel Museum in 2000, she has served as Associate Curator in the Department of Jewish Art and Ethnography. In this role, she curated several exhibitions on Jewish art and participated in exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects. She was curator-in-charge of the Suriname project, in which the Portuguese Synagogue of Suriname was reconstructed and installed in Jerusalem. In addi ... More |
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| Selected Affinities: Christopher Grimes Gallery brings together works by four artists | | Collector Lio Malca exhibits two video works by Bill Viola in Ibiza | | Exhibition at mumok addresses the role of music by fine artists | 
Miles Coolidge, Mattawa #2, 2000.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Christopher Grimes Gallery announces the exhibition Selected Affinities, with works by Allan Sekula, Miles Coolidge, Connie Samaras, Katie Shapiro and Billy Woodberry. From the desert to the docks, farmland to the sea, this exhibition brings together four artists, who, along with Sekula, use photography or video not only as a tool for documentation but also as part of a discourse rooted in social relations. On view for the first time at the gallery is Sekulas Message in a Bottle (from Fish Story Chapter 5) (first version). One of his best-known bodies of work, Fish Story is a sequential piece composed of over one hundred pictures in nine chapters documenting maritime spaces and the effects of globalization. Message in a Bottle specifically addresses the decline of the fishing economy in the small Spanish town of Vigo. Sekula has exhibited extensively both internationally and locally, with solo exhibitions ... More | | 
Bill Viola, Fire Woman.
IBIZA.- New York art collector Lio Malca is presenting two large-scale installations by Bill Viola at La Nave Salinas. The exhibition space, inaugurated in 2015, specializes in international contemporary art and is adjacent to the Ses Salines Natural Park, on the island of Ibiza. Two of the artist's most acclaimed works, Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall), can be enjoyed this summer on the Balearic Island. The exhibition will be on view until September 30th at La Nave Salinas. «Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remains asleep.» - Bill Viola In collaboration with Bill Viola and the Bill Viola Studio, Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension is being presented on a 22-foot high screen inside a space completely closed off from the outside and together with a 4.1 sound system, enveloping ... More | | 
Exhibition view Double Lives. Visual Artists Making Music, June 23 to November 11, 2018, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok.
VIENNA.- It is quite remarkable how many fine artists also made music. This was much more than just an interest in another medium. Public musical performances and the production of recorded music involve different ways of working and different environments, and also the confrontation with a different audience (not to mention different forms of income). This is why art critic Jörg Heiser refers to a contextual shift between the fine arts and music when he writes about this phenomenon beginning in the 1960s. Alluding to the fact that some artists did not make their work in other fields transparent and open, his book is called Double Lives. It is certainly true that there are many different ways in which individuals can either combine these two fields in their lives and workor keep them separate. ... More |
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 Exhibition at MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino presents works of artistic craftsmanshipBELLINZONA.- Enigma and Desire are two concepts that are complementary and opposing sides of the same coin. Two aspects that defy tangibility, they come under the heading of the analytical sphere, however much they may brush against our senses and our thinking, which in themselves also remain incomplete and, to a certain extent, infinite, just as the quest for an informed definition about the utility and the functionality of art as a professional practice remains equally intangible and unsubstantiated now as it was then. The twentieth century was crucial for the research and production of artistic and cultural fields, which attempted and still attempt today to go one step further, to pass over the threshold of object and objectification that they appear to have perceived in beauty, in decoration or in illustration, the ultimate ends of the creative process. There is no shortage ... More Kunsthalle Bern marks its 100th anniversary with exhibitions dedicated to Harald SzeemannBERNE.- To mark the 100th anniversary of the Kunsthalle Bern, the museum draws a line from the past to the present. A view to ones own history is necessary to move on to the future. At the Kunsthalle Bern, path-breaking exhibitions took place that led to substantial changes in the conception of exhibition formats and the development of curatorial programs. The Kunsthalle Bern is the cradle of the model of the auteur-curator who develops a narrative. This development is by far not completed at the Kunsthalle, but continues along changing generations, parameters and value judgements. The Kunsthalle Bern deals with one of the best-known pasts of the Kunsthalle, the time in which it turned fifty. In societal terms, the period around the revolts of 1968 was a moment in history favorable for new models. Against this background, Harald Szeemann (19332005) ... More CANTSTOPGOODBOY explores new mediums for a sparkling solo show at Corey Helford GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Corey Helford Gallery is presenting LA native CANTSTOPGOODBOYs newest solo show, Its Not Glitter, Its Stardust. This is his first time showing at the gallery. The exhibit is a new experiment for the artist, finding ways to implement glitter (or as he calls it, stardust) as a medium in nearly every new pieceas paint, an accent, even a background. In Its Not Glitter, Its Stardust, CANTSTOPGOODBOY is also premiering some never-before seen characters, including a new astronaut, a cowboy, additions to his rockstars series, and some new twists on the popular figures that have appeared in many of his works. Lions will continue to be a recurring theme. Glitter isnt the only new medium CANTSTOPGOODBOY is experimenting with for this exhibition: hes going 16-bit as well. Recently, he acquired a vintage and fully operational arcade ... More World Cup fans soak up history in Russia's Volgograd VOLGOGRAD (AFP).- Iceland and Nigeria fans soaked up the "awe-inspiring" history of Volgograd on Friday as they explored the World Cup city that was annihilated during World War II. Nazi Germany's advance into Russia began exactly 77 years ago, on June 22, 1941, and was halted in the city, then known as Stalingrad, in February 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad is among the bloodiest in history. It raged for almost six months and when it was over the city was in ruins and around two million Nazi and Soviet soldiers and civilians had lost their lives. "It's real history," Iceland fan Heidar Gudjonsson told AFP as he walked up the 200 steps to the "Mamayev Kurgan" monument to the battle -- a giant sculpture of a woman with sword raised. "It's shocking and this monument is something else, it's extremely dramatic. It's awe-inspiring and it really has an influence on you," ... More The eight nominees of the third edition of the Prix Elysée revealed at the Nuit des imagesLAUSANNE.- The Musée de lElysée and Parmigiani Fleurier announced the eight nominees of the Prix Elysée: Laia Abril, Mathieu Asselin, Claude Baechtold, Alexandra Catière, Alinka EcheverrÃa, Gregory Halpern, Nicola Lo Calzo and Luis Carlos Tovar. 325 promising photographers from 49 nationalities from all over the world participated in the third edition of the Prix Elysée. Over 5530 images were reviewed by the Musée de lElysées curators. The nominees have shared their intentions to work on a new project, which they intend to complete with the support of the Prix Elysée: Laia Abrils work focuses on the fragility of womens rights and womens liberation. Here, she addresses hysteria. Identified in ancient times, hysteria, the queen of neurosis at the center of 19th century medical controversies is still, today, associated with women. By comparing ... More BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts marks the fifty-year career of the Belgian artist Leo Copers with exhibitionBRUSSELS.- BOZAR, in partnership with SMAK, M HKA and the Middelheimmuseum, is commemorating the fifty-year career of the Belgian artist Leo Copers. Each museum focuses on a different element from his rich oeuvre. Leo Copers (1947, Ghent) has built up a multifaceted body of work since the late 1960s, consisting primarily of sculptures, installations and performances. The artist uses symbols and metaphors as points of departure to create surreal-looking objects. In doing so he has consciously maintained a distance from the trends within the international art scene. SMAK shows a selection of work from Copers' early working life (1969-1974). In addition to the four natural elements air, earth, water and fire gas and (artificial) light, such as lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes, play an important role in the exhibition. In the works on display, Copers ... More Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas displays works by Evgeny AntufievPALERMO.- The exhibition, curated by Giusi Diana, marks the collaboration between one of the most prestigious archaeological museums in the Mediterranean area and an important Italian private cultural institution devoted to contemporary art which was the first to bring the artist in Italy with a large exhibition in 2013 and continues to support his research. The exhibition has been included in the Collateral Events of Manifesta 12 and represents an ideal link with the last edition of Manifesta 11, held in Zurich in 2016, where Antufiev, invited by curator Christian Jankowski, showed the complex installation, Eternal Garden, in Wasserkirche near Helmhaus and other works in the first floor of Löwenbräukunst. The Archaeological Museum Salinas, the oldest in Sicily, is the most important public museum institution devoted to Greek and Punic art in Sicily. As stated ... 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More Salvador Dali 'Cookbook' art exhibition travels from Niagara University to FinlandMÃNTTÃ.- DalÃs Gala is an installation presenting the master of Surrealism Salvador Dalà and his late output, and is based on the cook book Les dîners de Gala, which he published in 1973. Serlachius Museum Gustafs exhibition is a delightful tribute to an artist whose life and art are inseparable. The Spanish artist Salvador Dalà (19041989) was a controversial figure whose merits as a pioneer of Surrealist art and the avant-garde are indisputably recognised. During his career spanning 70 years, he produced paintings, sculptures, graphics, installations, stage sets, jewellery, dinner plates, postage stamps, wallpapers and logos. Dalà did not guard his output jealously; he often gave permission for commercial products based on his works. The numerous forgeries made of his art did not seem to bother him too much. So the world is flooded with his artworks, copies ... 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More Ultimate dinosaurs exhibition makes its Texas debut at the Perot Museum of Nature and ScienceDALLAS, TX.- Can you dig it? The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is getting all prehistoric this summer as it celebrates the summer of the dinosaur. From the much-anticipated Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibition making its Texas debut, to summer discounts and extended hours, to all-new dinosaur-themed exhibits, programs, events, films, camps and activities, the Perot Museum is sure to be a dino-mite destination for all ages this summer. Funky frills? Check. Crazy claws? Check. Enormous dinosaurs that would have terrified T. rex? Check, check, check. Ultimate Dinosaurs puts guests eye to eye with 20 exotic dinosaur species from the other side of the world, with cutting-edge technology that transports them to prehistoric times. Not the typical T. rex and Triceratops that most know, these unique dinosaurs were fierce with gigantic skulls, crocodile-like faces ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Sam Francis was born June 25, 1923. Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. He later became loosely associated with a second generation of abstract expressionists, including Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, who were increasingly interested in the expressive use of color. In this image: Sam Francis, Untitled [Berkeley], 1948. Watercolor on paper, 19 x 25 3/4 inches. SFF4.61. © 2018 Sam Francis Foundation, California/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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