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US video artist Bill Viola speaks with journalists during a press preview of the exhibition "Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance" on March 8, 2017 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The exhibition will run from March 10 to July 23, 2017. Tiziana FABI / AFP.
by Angus Mackinnon
FLORENCE (AFP).- He calls it a homecoming. Bill Viola, the acclaimed contemporary artist, is back in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance masters who inspired some of his most famous works, powerful, immersive video installations dealing with the extremes of human emotion and experience. Four decades after he first worked in the Tuscan capital, the New Yorker regarded as one of the pioneers of video art has returned for a major exhibition that explores the links between his 20th-21st century output and paintings completed between 400 and 600 years earlier. "It has been really beautiful being in Florence again," Viola, 66, told AFP. "It has been completely emotional just to feel the whole vibe of everything here. We have come back home and that is what it is all about." "Electronic Renaissance" opened to the public on Friday and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day At 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D, Scholten Japanese Art is presenting a single-artist exhibition celebrates the work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), one of the last great ukiyo-e artists of the 19th century. Included in the show is a huge six-panel woodblock composed as two separate triptychs. Lined up, the triptychs illustrate a dynamic composition of a battlefield. Because the triptychs were issued six months apart, complete sets with six panels (with complementary color palettes and conditions) are rare to come across, to say the least.
| Estate of superstar writer Jackie Collins to be auctioned in two-day sale at Bonhams, Los Angeles | | Exhibition at Jeu de Paume allows visitors to discover the scope of Eli Lotar's work from a new light | | Priceless remains lie in ruins at Mosul museum | 
Jackie Collins portrait. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announced the 1,000-lot sale of the estate of legendary author, Jackie Collins, OBE, estimated at $3m. Jackie Collins: A Life in Chapters will take place on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 May at Bonhams Los Angeles. It will give her admirers the world over the opportunity to own the jewellery and art that Jackie kept in her much-loved Beverly Hills home. As Bonhams Vice-President Leslie Wright said, A Life in Chapters celebrates the phenomenal career and times of this stylish and glamorous woman. Jackie Collins lived the lifestyle about which she wrote, and the sale will provide an exclusive insight into the real woman behind her unforgettable characters. Her books were loved by millions of readers world-wide. This is their chance to own a piece of the magic. As Tracy, Rory and Tiffany, the three daughters of Jackie Collins, commented, Our mother never did anything in small measures! ... More | | 
Eli Lotar, Aux abattoirs de la Villette, 1929. Ãpreuve gélatino-argentique dépoque, 24 x 18 cm. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI. © Eli Lotar.
PARIS.- French photographer and cinematographer of Romanian origin, Eli Lotar (Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu, Paris, 1905 - 1969) arrived in France in 1924 and rapidly became one of the first avant-garde photographers in Paris. Close to Germaine Krull Lotar worked as her apprentice for a time and later to the Surrealists, his work was published in many of the avant-garde publications of the day, and featured in several major international photography exhibitions, including Fotographie der Gegenwart, Film und Foto, Documents de la vie sociale, etc. The Eli Lotar Retrospective (1905 1969) allows visitors to discover the scope of Lotars work from a new light and reveals the role of this important figure in modern photography. The exhibition is organized around key themes ranging from the New Vision Movement to ... More | | 
A member of the Iraqi forces enters the destroyed building of the museum of Mosul on March 11, 2017 after it was recaptured from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
MOSUL (AFP).- It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city via a gaping hole in the basement. In the darkness lies a pile of rubble -- all that remains of two ancient Assyrian statues of winged bulls, smashed to pieces by Islamic State group jihadists. Iraqi forces announced that they retook the building from IS on Tuesday as they pushed into west Mosul as part of a vast offensive to oust the jihadists from the northern city. Taking the museum was a symbolic victory. In a notorious video issued in February 2015, the jihadists were seen attacking items at the museum with sledgehammers and pneumatic drills, destroying priceless pre-Islamic artefacts. Today, the museum is in ruins -- nothing escaped the attackers. ... More |
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| Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge: New series with Giles Coren begins broadcast on 28 March | | Surprising California connections in centuries of Sikh artistry at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a selection works from its collection | 
Sky Arts - Fake 15 - Giles Coren at Lady Lever Art Gallery © Vishal Sharma.
LONDON.- Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge is a new Sky Arts TV series, presented by Giles Coren and art historian Rose Balston, which will change the way that you look at art by replacing priceless masterpieces with fakes. It has been produced by IWC Media and GroupM Entertainment. In summer 2016, Sky Arts switched priceless masterpieces for specially made copies at art galleries and museums around the UK. The British public were invited to see whether they could find the fakes among a group of original paintings hanging on the walls. Over a thousand people from across the country entered the competition, with just ten finalists selected to participate in the nail-biting series finale at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Now Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge will be broadcast on Sky Arts on Tuesdays, 8pm, from 28 March 2017. Each episode explores a different era of British Painting and gives insight into the genius of some ... More | | 
Portrait of Maharaja Mahinder Singh of Patiala, 18701876. India; Punjab state, former kingdom of Patiala. Opaque watercolors and gold on paper. Asian Art Museum, Gift of the Kapany Collection, 1998.106. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A gracious conversation, a scholarly sermon, a lively portrait rendered in jewel-tone watercolors from centuries past: the enduring milestones of learning and tolerance. From March 10 to June 18, 2017, the Asian Art Museum presents Saints and Kings: Arts, Culture, and Legacy of the Sikhs , a treasure box of thirty rare paintings, military artifacts, textiles, photographs and more that together reveal the multi-faceted history and surprising California connections of this vibrant South Asian community. Drawn from the Asian Art Museums Sikh art collection, the largest in the United States, these carefully selected artworks shed light on the religious philosophy and cultural identity of the Sikhs. The spirit of this distinct community derives from the teachings of saint Guru Nanak (14691539) ... More | | 
Collection on Display: Communities, Exhibition view Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: FBM Studio.
ZURICH.- The exhibition format Collection on Display presents selected works from the collections of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in a thematically focused three-part series titled Communities, Rules, and Rituals. The first part showcases artistic positions that scrutinize issues revolving around the question of «communities»social groups defined by shared views, values, and loyalties. «Community» is a characteristic catchword of the modern world. In everyday life, its connotations are virtually always positive; the community is seen as a social entity that offers emotional closeness, familiarity, or a feeling of safety. In modern «society», in which alienation, disorientation, and a loss of meaning are prevalent, «community» often figures as a social utopia. The idea that community and society are clearly distinct phenomena originates in the work of Ferdinand Tönnies, a ... More |
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| French dance star Hilaire fuses tradition, reform as head of Russian troupe | | Barry Underwood's second exhibition with Sous Les Etoiles Gallery on view in New York | | Exhibition highlights the history and evolution of Denver Art Museum's nearly 50-year-old museum landmark | 
French dancer Laurent Hilaire, the new artistic director of Moscow's Stanislavsky Music Theatre ballet troupe, gestures as he speaks during an AFP interview in Moscow on February 23, 2017. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- French dance star Laurent Hilaire, the new artistic director of Moscow's renowned Stanislavsky Music Theatre ballet troupe, has vowed to expand its repertoire while preserving its rich traditions. "This is an opera and ballet house with a certain history, culture and tradition," Hilaire, who took on the position in January, told AFP during a recent interview. "The goal is not to make revolution, to change everything. The goal is to open up the company's repertoire." The 54-year-old Frenchman's appointment represents a rare case of a foreigner picked to head a Russian ballet troupe. Spanish dance legend Nacho Duato's tenure as the director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet in Saint ... More | | 
Barry Underwood, Gros Ventre, 2015.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is presenting This Land is Your Land, Barry Underwoods second exhibition with the gallery. Inspired by the famous folk tune, This Land is Your Land written by Woody Guthrie, Barry Underwoods series affirms his standing as an environmentalist photographer and ecological advocate. Written in 1940, the songs original lyrics introduced a critical perspective to the idealistic view of America as Underwoods images challenge the common bucolic perception of the landscape. Underwood marks the landscape with LED lights, luminescent substances and other physical processes, utilizing lustrous color and working with shapes, lines and light to point to the immutable traces that human interventions leave behind. By staging a visual disruption in an otherwise familiar setting, Underwood seeks to reveal the unseen potential instilled in the ... More | | 
Exterior view of the North Building, 2015. Photograph ©James Florio.
DENVER, CO.- Punctuating the upcoming North Building project announced on December 8, 2016, the Denver Art Museum is presenting Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Iconan exhibition on the iconic modernist building, its history and its future. The exhibition features historical photos, original architectural sketches, building models and project renderings to tell the story of the North Buildings evolution. Then, Now, Next has taken over the Gates Family Gallery on level 2 of the Hamilton Building through Aug. 31, 2017. For nearly 50 years, the North Building has been a significant part of the community, and were excited for the upcoming project that will ensure it continues to play a prominent role, said Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the museum. We want to honor the building, and give our ... More |
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| Piasa's Contemporary African Art sale led by a powerful work by William Kentridge | | Carbon 12 opens Sara Rahbar's fourth solo show | | The Davis Museum presents an installation of seven video portraits by Daphne Wright | 
William Kentridge (1955, Afrique du sud) - Series Heads. Collage, gouache and charcoal on paper - 170 x 120 cm. Est: 80 000 / 120 000 .
PARIS.- This year, the Contemporary African Art Spring can truly be said to start in Paris as the Art Paris Art Fair focuses on works from Africa. A key part of this celebration of African culture is an auction of Contemporary African Art at Piasa, the leading Parisian auction house, on April 20th. PIASA's successful sales in October 2014, June 2016 and November 2016 have shown the market for Contemporary African Art is no passing trend but established on a sound footing. The auction will articulate two main themes: African Faces & the Environment. It takes place in the middle of what could be described as an African Spring in Paris', a busy schedule for African art in Paris which includes the following three events - Art Paris Art Fair, Fondation Louis Vuitton exhibition focusing on the Swiss Pigozzi Collection and South African ... More | | 
Sara Rahbar, Salvation, 2016. Bronze, Arms: 61 x 23 x 8 cm, Helmets: 25 x 25 x 18 cm each.
DUBAI.- Carbon 12 presents Sara Rahbars fourth solo show, Salvation, at Carbon 12. The exhibition opened on the 13th of March and coincides with Art Dubai. Art historians often want to add a veneer of intellectual remove to artists work in order to add an academically acceptable rigor or to make it more palatable to a pearl-clutching audience. However, there is rigor in activism, and this is Sara Rahbars intervention. Rahbars activism is working to expand the individual acts of violence she has experienced into universal ones, to amplify the sufferings of humanity through her chosen materials. The weight of these bronzes is the weight of the world; the marred skin of these bodies is the skin that connects all of us a skin that can be cut and must bleed even as it can regenerate. These sculptures combine heavy materials the heft of the soul, perhaps with intensely precarious ... More | | 
These tranquil films place a variety of faiths on an equal footing in their stripped-down, human form, showing faith as part of daily life.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is presenting Daphne Wright: Prayer Project, an installation of seven video portraits, reflecting the private moment of prayer and meditation. These tranquil films place a variety of faiths on an equal footing in their stripped-down, human form, showing faith as part of daily life. The viewer is invited to explore the notion of communion, both in the sense of its religious connotations (a communion with god) but also in the old sense of the word as communication, community, or dialogue with the self or with an other. Prayer Project, a continuous 50-minute projection, is on view in the Joan Levine Freedman 57 and Richard I. Freedman Gallery until July 9, 2017. Daphne Wrights work is always suggestive and moving, said Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro 37 Director of the Davis. ... More |
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 Following great success in Sydney, The Other Art Fair to launch in Melbourne in May 2017MELBOURNE.- Following two successful editions in Sydney, Australias leading art fair for emerging artists, The Other Art Fair, will launch in Melbourne for a four-day presentation from Thursday 4 May until Sunday 7 May 2017, connecting art lovers directly with unrepresented and emerging artists selling their works. Presented by Saatchi Art, the inaugural Melbourne 2017 edition of The Other Art Fair is set to build momentum following the highly successful events held in Sydney in 2015 and 2016, each of which attracted more than 10,000 visitors over four days. Led by Australian Fair Director Zoe Paulsen, The Other Art Fair will present over 100 of Australias most talented emerging artists, each chosen by a high profile selection committee of contemporary art experts: Patricia Piccinini (Artist), Lisa Fehily (Director of Mossgreen Gallery), Kathy Temin (Artist), Dr Terry ... More Exhibition of work by Louis Cameron on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is presenting work by multidisciplinary artist Louis Cameron, on view through April 16, 2017. Camerons art practice has spanned the media of painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, assemblage, digital, video, and poster art, with the CAM exhibition focusing on two aspects of his recent output. CAM is presenting the premiere of five photographs from Camerons Clouds series, displayed in CAMs Front Room. The Clouds formal elegance is being contrasted by posters on view from the artists online initiative, The Poster Project presents. Whereas Clouds emphasizes Camerons aesthetic choices in the art-making process, The Poster Project presents reflects his concerns for an art that is politically and socially engaged. The Clouds photographs are produced with gallery/museum spaces and audiences ... More Nasher Museum of Art presents 'Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush' DURHAM, NC.- Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, a 10-year survey of approximately 30 of the artists paintings, watercolors and collages, is on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. This marks the first solo exhibition for the Chicago-born artist, who has also create a large, temporary wall drawing specifically for the museum. Abney, born in 1982, is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting. A skillful storyteller, Abney visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. We are so excited to introduce this important young artist to wider audiences, said Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum, and curator of the exhibition. In her monumental paintings, Abney takes on some of the most pressing issues today, ... More Exhibition examines for the first time a series by Fred EversleyWALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents Fred Eversley: Black, White, Gray from February 17 through June 11, 2017. For more than four decades, Fred Eversley (b. 1941) has produced innovative and visually stunning sculptures that consider materials, light, and the optical qualities of shapes and colors as part of a broad investigation of individual perceptual experience. This exhibition examines for the first time a series of black, white, and gray cast-resin sculptures that Eversley began in the early 1970s, works that prompt us to consider the symbolic values of color and how we ascribe meaning to it. Curated by Rose Curator Kim Conaty, the exhibition is a collaboration between Art + Practice in Los Angeles and the Rose. A Brooklyn native and engineer by training, Eversley moved to Los Angeles in 1963 to work in the aerospace ... More First solo show by Dorian Gaudin on view at Palais de TokyoPARIS.- Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first solo show by Dorian Gaudin in an art centre. This artist, whose work has recently been shown at the off site exhibition organised by Palais de Tokyo alongside Manifesta 11, in Zürich, will produce an original immersive installation. Dorian Gaudin appreciates the play of correspondences connecting or separating various elements, from a jet engine to a minimal sculpture, or butchered meat to a mechanical organ. His works are often animated by their own, sometimes chaotic motion, thus bringing together unity and fragmentation, or centrifugal and centripetal forces. The notion of time is present as soon as there is motion. I imagine my installations as moments. I do my utmost to provide my works with a psychological aspect. Objects reveal their temperaments thanks to them, they then work themselves into a trance. They dance ... More This October, Institute for Contemporary Art, designed by Steven Holl, opens in RichmondRICHMOND, VA.- On October 28, 2017, Virginia Commonwealth University will unveil the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), a new, non-collecting contemporary art institution designed by Steven Holl Architects. The ICAs inaugural exhibition, Declaration, will explore contemporary arts power to catalyze change, and will feature painting, sculpture, multimedia works, site-specific installations, and time-based performances by emerging and established artists. Featuring new work by artists from around the globe, including Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Marinella Senatore, Tania Bruguera, and Paul Rucker, the exhibition will also include artists from Richmonds vibrant arts community, such as VCUarts Professor Stephen Vitiello and VCU alum Levester Williams. Examining themes of protest, social justice, connection, and creative community, Declaration will remain on view ... More 'Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha' on view at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ST. LOUIS, MO.- A woman peers down through round opera glasses, scanning the stage or perhaps the audience. A stiff-collared companion glances at her sideways. We the viewers look up to scrutinize them both. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecs La loge au mascaron doré (The Box with the Gilded Mask) (1893) is a witty masterpiece of triangulated gazes, blurring the line between observer and observed. For Parisians at the end of the 19th century, to attend the opera, the ballet or the Moulin Rouge to wander the Tuileries Gardens, or to cheer the horses at Longchamp was to see but also to be seen. This spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha. Featuring a broad selection of prints, posters, photographs and film many of which have rarely ... More Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions to offer the Piet Jonker Collection of architectural and garden ornamentNEWBURY.- On 23rd May 2017, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will host an auction of the Piet Jonker Collection of architectural and garden ornament, providing a superb opportunity for those looking for unusual and impressive garden features and design pieces. The sale, comprising of some 300 lots and with estimates ranging from £250 - £100,000, will take place at Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire (1pm), with the entire sale on view in The Netherlands at Rijksstraatweg 23, 1396 JC Baambrugge from Friday 19th May Monday 22nd May 2017. Piet Jonker has a renowned and deservedly respected eye for high quality garden ornament and architectural pieces, trawling the estates of Continental Europe for exceptional and often unique pieces. His collection covers all areas of estate ornamentation from complete structures like gazebos, ... More Mallett Antiques announces BADA Fair highlightsLONDON.- Mallett Antiques announced that it will be on exhibition at this years BADA Fair with an impressive selection of fine furniture and objets dart. The renowned dealer, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015, will showcase standout, beautiful pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries. A key piece on the Mallett stand will be a magnificent Irish George III white statuary marble and brocatelle marble chimneypiece of Neo-classical design which can be attributed to the Dublin firm of stone masons George Hill and Arthur Darley. Echoing the Neo-classical mood is an impressive George III satinwood and marquetry pagoda-topped cabinet attributed to the leading London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew which retains an exceptional colour. Not only were William Ince and John Mayhew one of the most successful London cabinet-making firms of the 18th century but they ... More Nothing 'lost in translation' at Artemis Gallery's expertly vetted March 15 auctionBOULDER, COLO.- Assessing antiquities may be all Greek to beginners and even some mid-level collectors, but any apprehensions can be set aside when pieces have been vetted by trusted auction-house experts like Bob and Teresa Dodge. Co-owners of internationally respected Artemis Gallery, Bob and Teresa have always placed an emphasis on scrupulous research and uncompromising authentication, and it shows in each and every auction they produce. Their next 100% curated offering of pedigreed ancient antiquities, Russian icons, ethnographic, Pre-Columbian and Asian art will take place on March 15. All items offered in this outstanding auction event are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic, as described in the catalog, and legal to acquire according to federal guidelines. A certificate of authenticity will accompany each purchase, and ... More Iraq Museum loans retrieved artefacts for the first time for the Iraq Pavilion at Venice BiennaleBAGHDAD.- The Ruya Foundation announced further details for the National Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale in May 2017. The exhibition, Archaic, will show the work of eight Modern and contemporary Iraqi artists in dialogue with 40 ancient Iraqi artefacts drawn from the Iraq Museum and spanning six millennia, from the Neolithic Age to the Neo-Babylonian Period. Most of these objects have never left Iraq, excluding a few that were recently recovered after the 2003 lootings of the Museum. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a new commission by internationally acclaimed Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs on the subject of war and the artist. Archaic will be the third occasion on which the Ruya Foundation has commissioned the National Pavilion of Iraq at Venice. The tension in the term Archaic ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky was born March 13, 1864. Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (13 March 1864 - 15 March 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group and later the Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four). In this image: Employees hold Alexej von Jawlensky's "Schokko mit Tellerhut" or "Schokko with Wide-Brimmed Hat", at Sotheby's in London, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The painting is expected to realize 6.5-8.5 million pounds (US $12.8-$16.8 million; euro 8.8-11.5 million) in a Feb. 5 sale.
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