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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was the first abstractionist to demonstrate the centrality of emotions with his intense colour areas. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.
SCHIEDAM.- The American artist Mark Rothko made huge abstract paintings that touch peoples souls. Some are even moved to tears. About this the artist said:[The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. It is kind of special that an abstract work of art can evoke that sort of emotion, even though it may come across as fairly aloof. What is the power in this work? Usually, people show up in droves in museums to see his paintings. What would it be like to be the only one? Well, find out at the exhibition Rothko & me. You are welcome to enjoy one of his top pieces, the painting Grey, Orange on Maroon, No 8 of 1960, all on your own and without your mobile phone. Nothing will stand in the way of your intimate moment with the painting: this really is Rothko and me. Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was the first abstractionist to demonstrate the centrality of emotions with his intense colour areas. If you are moved ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kakunen Tsuruoka (1892-1977). Untitled (three mesquite trees under a soft pink and grey morning sky). Watercolor on paper; signed in kanji, Kakunen, with artist's seal, ca. 1942-44. The work is an outstanding element of Captive Artist: Watercolors by Kakunen Tsuruoka (1892-1977), which Scholten Japanese Art has organized as a tribute to the Japanese-American artist. 145 West 58thStreet, Suite 6D.
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 | | Van Gogh survey opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | | Exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD explores Tomimoto Kenkichi's enduring legacy | | Exhibition focuses on Robert Mapplethorpe's study of still lifes, landscapes, classical sculpture and composition | 
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Man, end of Octobermid-December 1888, oil on canvas, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands. © Kröller-Müller Museum.
HOUSTON, TX.- Few artists have left behind as complete an account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh (18531890). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art, an exhibition showcasing key passages in the artists life, from his early sketches to his final paintings, and chronicling his pursuit of becoming an artist. The Museum is the only venue for His Life in Art, presenting more than 50 portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), from March 10 to June 27, 2019. This exhibition will offer visitors a vivid portrait of Van Goghs evolution as an artist, commented MFAH Director Gary Tinterow. We are grateful to the Van Gogh and Kröller-Müller museums for lending so many of these rarely ... More | | 
Yanagihara Mutso (b. 1934), Yellow Oribe Leaning Backwards Vase, 1994-1996. Glazed stoneware, 38 3/4 x 15 x 8 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- This groundbreaking exhibition and its accompanying publication, Vessel Explored / Vessel Transformed: Tomimoto Kenkichi and his Enduring Legacy, the first of its type outside Japan, opened during Asia Week New York at Joan B Mirviss LTD. Presented in conjunction with Japans leading modern ceramic dealer, SHIBUYA KURODATOEN CO., LTD., the exhibition focuses on the remarkable artist and teacher, Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963). While, a relative unknown in the west, Tomimoto is revered as the father of this field. He was the most significant figure in the world of twentieth-century Japanese ceramics and his impact continues through his gifted and inspired former pupils and their talented students, many of whom are now professors of ceramics. Together they have transformed ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Alberto Novelli.
ROME.- The Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica at Galleria Corsini in Rome is hosting Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens, curated by Flaminia Gennari Santori, Director of the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini. By interweaving the past and the present, the show continues the dialogue that began with the exhibition Parade by Picasso in 2017 and Eco e Narciso in 2018; this dialogue became one of the key features of the strategy of the museum. Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens, displays forty-five works and focuses on some of the themes distinguishing the work of Robert Mapplethorpe (19461989): his study of still lifes, landscapes, classical sculpture and Renaissance composition. Flaminia Gennaris decision to organise an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpes work was inspired by the artists habit of collecting: he was an avid collector of historical photographs, a passion he shared with his partner, ... More |
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| | | The Musée Jacquemart-André opens retrospective devoted to Vilhelm Hammershøi | | kamel mennour opens an exhibition of works by Zao Wou-Ki | | MoMA celebrates Lincoln Kirstein and his influence at MoMA and beyond | 
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Intérieur avec un jeune homme lisant (Svend Hammershøi), 1898, huile sur toile, 64,4 x 51,8 cm Copenhague, Den Hirschsprungske Samling. Photo: The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen.
PARIS.- The Musée Jacquemart-André and Culturespaces are holding an exhibition devoted to the great master of Danish painting, Vilhelm Hammershøi (18641916). For the first time in twenty years, the painters mysterious and poetic works will be exhibited in Paris. An article on Vilhelm Hammershøi (18641916) written in 1911 stated that Visiting the artist at his home is like stepping inside one of his paintings. The painter chose to represent his daily environment and the members of his inner circle in most of his works. Taciturn in temperament, he depicted in his canvases a world in his own image, imbued with a disquieting silence. The exhibition invites visitors to discover this mysterious world: by showing the artists links with his family and friends, who were also artists, it will shed new light on Hammershøis oeuvre. ... More | | 
Zao Wou-Ki, Sans titre, 1974. Watercolour on paper, 76 x 57 cm © ADAGP Zao Wou-Ki. Photo. DR. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
PARIS.- The exhibitions devoted to Zao Wou-Ki at kamel mennour in Paris and London revolve around inks and watercolours produced between 1948 and 2009: a panorama of fifty works with the ultimate spotlight on the creative liveliness of the artist's final working decade. The choice of 1948 was not random: this was the year of Zao's migration from China to Paris. Educated in the privileged, scholarly environment of a family whose origins could be traced back to the Song dynasty (9601279), the budding artist who began his studies at the art school in Hangzhou in 1935 first came into contact with European painting as a teenager. His situation, then, was nothing if not paradoxical. Exposed to two age-old but diametrically opposed cultures Chinese and European he was nonetheless out of phase during the 1930s and 1940s: the little information that reached him regarding the kind of Western art that would now be ... More | | 
Raquel Forner (Argentine, 19021988). Desolation (Desolación). 1942. Oil on canvas, 36 7/8 à 28 7/8 in. (93.7 à 72.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Inter-American Fund © 2019 Fundación Forner-Bigatti.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art opened Lincoln Kirsteins Modern, an exhibition exploring Lincoln Kirsteins sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and 40s, on view from March 17 through June 15, 2019. Best known for cofounding New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet with George Balanchine, Kirstein (19071996), a polymathic writer, curator, editor, impresario, tastemaker, and patron, was also a key figure in MoMAs early history. With his prescient belief in the role of dance within the museum, his championing of figuration in the face of prevailing abstraction, and his position at the center of a New York network of queer artists, intimates, and collaborators, the impact of this extraordinary individual remains profoundly resonant today. Seen through the lens of Kirstein, ... More |
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| | | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens an exhibition of works by Allora & Calzadilla | | Perrotin New York exhibits works by Gabriel de la Mora | | Elizabeth Glassman, President & CEO of Terra Foundation for American Art, announces she will step down | 
Allora & Calzadilla, Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands, 2006. Digital color video, with sound, 2 min., 21 sec. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund, 2014 © Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.
BILBAO.- From March 15 to June 23, 2019, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Allora & Calzadilla: The Tropical Pharmacy as part of the 2019 programming of the Film & Video gallery, a space where the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents referential works of video art, video installations, and explores moving images as a key artistic language of our time. This show features several works by the artists Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971), who have been working together for over 20 years and are a major reference for contemporary art practices. Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Allora & Calzadilla situate their work at the intersection of sculpture, performance, and video, a multiplicity that exemplifies the complexity of their approach. The Tropical Pharmacy articulates three ... More | | 
1,652 (detail), 2018 (detail). Feathers and pigment on museum cardboard. Unframed : 34 x 34 cm | 13 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Framed : 60 x 60 x 4 cm | 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 1 9/16 in
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is hosting Gabriel de la Moras first exhibition with the gallery. The unique methods and materials de la Mora usesfeathers, egg shells, and human hair, in this casestem from the artists decision to quit painting in 2004. The result has been an exploration of alternative modes of image-making, wherein seemingly minimal and often monochrome-looking surfaces belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor, and embedded information. The title of any work by de la Mora offers the first indication of a meticulousness that borders on obsession. With numbers for titles, the works reveal their constituent parts. 578 (2018) enumerates the 578 colored feathers that comprise the image, a high-octane pink and blue herringbone pattern a-la-Bridget Riley. Not unlike Riley and the Op-Artists, de la Mora is interested in a kind of optical illusion: that of crafting what appears to be a unitary ... More | | 
When Glassman first joined the Terra Foundation in 2001, the organization was principally focused on running its museums in Chicago and Giverny, France.
CHICAGO, IL.- Elizabeth Glassman, who has served as President & CEO of the Terra Foundation for American Art for nearly two decades, announced today that she will step down, effective upon the Foundations appointment of her successor. During her tenure, Glassman led a revisioning of the Foundations operational model, which resulted in the global circulation of important works of American art from the Foundations 800-object collection and the establishment of a grants program that has to-date awarded more than $100 million for the creation of approximately 1,000 exhibitions and programs in 31 countries. The Foundations approach leverages both its extensive collection and granting capacity to bring the art of the United States to a wide range of audiences, spurring important dialogues on visual culture, national identity, and the importance of building connections across places and peoples. The Terra Foundation is ... More |
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| | | Dayton Art Institute installs Hearing Loop system in Rose Auditorium | | Hindman auction house expands team, grows fine art department | | Paddle8 announces partnership with Highsnobiety | 
Hearing Loop systems (Audio Frequency Induction Loop SystemsAFILS) have been widely used in Northern Europe for decades to extend the performance of hearing aids, but because few people realize that it is an option, it has been slower to advance in the United States.
DAYTON, OH.- As part of its ongoing efforts to make the museum accessible to everyone, The Dayton Art Institute has partnered with Hillcrest Hearing, the audiology division of Southwest Ohio ENT, to install a hearing loop system in its recently renovated Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium. Many recent renovations at the museum have focused on making our historic building more accessible, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, said Dayton Art Institute Director & CEO Michael R. Roediger. With the recent renovations and improvements to our Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium, we also wanted to make that space more accessible to those with hearing loss. We thank Hillcrest Hearing and Southwest Ohio ENT for helping ... More | | 
As Vice President of the Midwest Region at Hindman, Joan Wagner will lead the business development teams in Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee. Image Courtesy of Hindman LLC.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman LLC today announced an expansion to the auction houses growing team, including the appointment of finance industry veteran Joan Wagner as Vice President for its Midwest region and two new additions to the fine art department. Joe Stanfield has been appointed Director of Fine Art and will be based in the Chicago headquarters. Monica Brown will join the Denver location as Senior Specialist for Prints and Multiples. This growth follows Hindmans previously announced acquisition of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowans Auctions (est.1995), which together operate more salerooms than any other auction house in the country. Since the acquisition of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowans Auctions, Hindman has been poised to expand upon the capabilities ... More | | 
KAWS, Pinocchio & Jiminy Cricket, 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8, the global leader in cultural e-commerce and benefit auctions announces a partnership with the leading new-media platform Highsnobiety. Together, Paddle8 x Highsnobiety will offer a series of online auctions of curated street art, artist designed collectibles, street wear and collectible urban fashion. The inaugural Highsnobiety x Paddle8 Street Auction sale of the partnership will kick off in June of this year. Powered by Highsnobietys trend-setting content and Paddle8s best in class e-commerce prowess, Paddle8 x Highsnobiety will offer a unique destination for street art and other collectibles for the next generation of tastemakers, trendsetters and style-conscious consumers. We are proud to be the ambassadors of the new cultural trends of our times, states Izabela Depczyk, CEO of Paddle8. Street Art is the highest performing category for Paddle8, and we have honed a tailored business model ... More |
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The Most Important Collection of Color Field Paintings Ever to Appear at Auction
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 Horta Museum celebrates its triple anniversary with three new exhibitionsBRUSSELS.- For its triple anniversary - 100 years since the sale of the Horta House by Horta himself, 50 years of the opening of the museum, 30 years of its restauration the Horta Museum (Saint-Gilles) reveals three extraordinary exhibitions that focus on a rather unknown aspect of the architect: Victor Horta as a collector. The three exhibitions happen simultaneously from March 15 until June 30, 2019 in the three buildings of the museum, which has never been done before: the Horta house, the studio and the extension. The exhibition, which deals with the notion of the collection, sheds a different light on each of the three museum spaces. In the extension (which has been recently added to the museum) one can discover art works from private collections in a mise en abyme by the artist Elisabeth Horth. In Victor Hortas studio, a particular collection is united ... More Bronzes, fine silver, rare Louis Vuitton miniature trunk grace Sterling Associates' March 20 auction NORWOOD, NJ.- Sterling Associates is known for its eclectic auctions of fine art, furniture, lighting and other quality collectibles sourced from tri-state-area estates. An integral part of Bergen County, New Jerseys arts community for two generations, Sterlings online-only sales are unique in that all goods may be previewed ahead of time at the companys physical premises in Norwood. Continuing that tradition, on March 20 the Sterling team will conduct its first spring 2019 event, a diverse 212-lot auction of fine art, jewelry and estate goods. Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com. Several outstanding European bronzes will be offered, including a Pierre Marius Montagne (1828-1879) work titled Rastender Merkur. Standing 19 inches high, it is estimated at $1,200-$1,500. Of larger size, a Henri Godet Art Nouveau bronze titled Le ... More $1.6 million Rare Books Auction driven by Federalist Papers and Otto Penzler CollectionDALLAS, TX.- Led by The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction and a copy of The Federalist Papers in its original boards, Heritage Auctions Rare Books Auction realized $1,684,038 against $993,900 in pre-auction estimates, the departments third consecutive sale to realize more than 160 percent the estimated total. Penzler won an Edgar Award as co-author of the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, founded The Mysterious Press and owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York. His collection of mystery fiction, the first 231 lots of which were offered in this sale, is considered one of the most extensive in the world. This sale featured mostly American authors, with a focus on hard-boiled writers. The total realized for the Otto Penzler Collection was $627,213. Among the top lots from his collection in the sale: A rare first edition in the ... More An exhibition on Cuban Revolutionary photography opens at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of ArtEUGENE, ORE.- Korda y el espÃritu de la Revolución Cubana (Korda and the Spirit of the Cuban Revolution), a new exhibition by internationally renowned photographer Alberto Fernando DÃaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda, or simply Korda (1928-2001) is on view at the University of Oregons Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Featuring a selection of some of the most iconic images that symbolize the ideals of the Cuban Revolution, the exhibition is on view through Sunday, July 21, 2019. This group of vintage photographs includes one of the most reproduced images in the worldKordas portrait of Ernesto Che Guevara, titled Guerillero heroico, from 1960. Originally part of the photographers personal collection, these works are on loan to the JSMA from the Collection of Dr. Steve Pieczenik and Dr. Roberta Rovner Pieczenik and Family, Chevy ... More 'Ganga Ma' by Giulio Di Sturco to be published by GOST BooksLONDON.- Ganga Ma is the result of a ten-year photographic journey along the Ganges by Giulio Di Sturco, documenting the effects of pollution, industrialisation and climate change. The project follows the river for over 2500 miles, from its source in the Himalayas in India through to its delta in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. The main character of my story is a non-human entity: a river. I decided to treat it as a human being and create a flow that would document the river as if I was documenting the life of a person. I thought it was significant then, that in 2017 Mother Ganga was recognised as a living entity by the High Court of the state of Uttarakhand. --Giulio Di Sturco Di Sturco began documenting the Ganges in 2007 and became witness to the devastating effects of climate change, industrialisation and urbanisation. The river is on the edge of a humanitarian ... More NewArtProjects opens solo exhibitions of works by Fergus Hare and Sarah SparkesLONDON.- For his third major project for NewArtProjects Fergus Hare has made a major departure. Working for the first time in pastel, he has expanded his language and working practice to create an astonishing new body of work. Living and working in Sussex his focus remains the landscape at twilight, however in this new pieces the evocation of light, atmosphere and haze across the horizon has been extended. He has created a series of six large and one landscape diptych impressive pastels, where the delicacy of their surface and powdery quality represents the dying light. Catching the exact moment of the end of day this group of works speaks of the romance of the English countryside. In gallery two, he has made new canvases and in particular one moon light painting. Leading on from the twilight pastels it shows the landscape bathed in clear blue ... More Chemould Prescott Road opens "Signs Taken for Wonders" An exhibition of works by Lavanya ManiMUMBAI.- Lavanya Mani harnesses traditional domestic craft techniques to explore histories, trade, social dynamics. Having researched textile techniques through her college days, her chosen medium has remained to be Kalamkari. The Kalamkari technique itself is replete with its own history and Lavanya continues to layer the fabric with her manifestations of historic and miniature references combined with contemporaneity, providing her audience with an optic of both the past and the present. Signs taken for Wonders is often regarded as the root of the quest for knowledge. Wonders can be extraordinary phenomena, an emotional state or a curious experience. The best-known manifestation of early modern wonder was the curiosity cabinet, often called Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer, or wonder-rooms". In the new body of work, Manis ... More The Museum of Russian Icons features works by painter and printmaker Jacques HnizdovskyCLINTON, MASS.- The Museum of Russian Icons is presenting Jacques Menagerie: Hnizdovsky Prints from the Christina and George Gamota Collection, March 16 July 7, 2019, featuring works by acclaimed Ukrainian-American painter and printmaker Jacques Hnizdovsky. Curated by Anna Winestein, director of the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative, the exhibition includes 40 of the artists iconic prints depicting animals, plants, cityscapes, and narrative scenes, alongside an early oil painting and several rarely seen early works. Born in Ukraine, trained in Poland and Croatia, Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915-1985) was a refugee to the US who traveled a difficult road through life. Embraced by American viewers and collectors, his art expressed his capacity for joy, humor, and hope, most often in black and white. His boldly graphic and playful ... More Galerie Lelong & Co. opens Barthélémy Toguo's first solo exhibition in New York in a decadeNEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Urban Requiem, Barthélémy Toguos first exhibition at the gallery and first solo exhibition in New York in a decade. A Cameroonian artist based in France, Toguo focuses his multimedia practice on notions of exile and belonging. Urban Requiem (2015) presents an arrangement of ladders weighed down with wooden portrait busts. Carved into their flat bases are slogans sourced from recent protests and national movements, from #MeToo to #BlackLivesMatter, allowing each sculpture to function as a stamp. The process of utilizing each stamp parodies administrative gestures, as they require significant effort to lift and coat with black ink before making a thickly crusted mark on paper. Toguo first conceived of the idea in the 1990s, after noticing that his passport was filled with stamps from various customs ... More Italian contemporary artist Francesca Pasquali opens exhibition at Tornabuoni Art in LondonLONDON.- Following the great success of Tornabuoni Art's 2016 Summer show Francesca Pasquali: Metamorphoses, the gallery now brings once again the Italian contemporary artist to its London gallery this Spring. The exhibition presents works selected from Pasquali's most iconic series, including the Straws, Frappa and Spiderballs. A keen observer of the materiality and transience of objects, Francesca Pasquali is influenced by the heritage of the Arte Povera movement to repurpose mundane objects such as drinking straws and elastic bands, cobweb dusters and broom bristles. Her labour-intensive creative process confers to these humble materials a new value and a second life as artworks, providing new ways of experiencing familiar objects. Starting with a basic structure a net, a metal cage or a plank of wood each piece develops organically, ... More The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh opens solo exhibitions of works by Victoria Orr Ewing and Emma AlcockEDINBURGH.- The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Victoria Orr Ewing (b.1962). Her pictures depict remote crofts and unsullied vistas of Galloway, the Highlands and the west coast of Scotland all dwarfed by churning, luminescent skies. Galloway-born Orr Ewing lived and painted in Andalucia for sixteen years, drawn to its wild landscapes and changing light. On her return to Britain this emphasis remained in her art, emboldened by the dark, complex hues of Scotlands weather. Orr Ewing paints primarily in oil on large-scale canvas, mostly from sketches done in front of the subject and often finished from memory. She joins a long tradition of Scottish landscape painters that began with Alexander Nasmyth in the late 18th century. By capturing natures overwhelming power and Scotlands underpopulated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Cornelis Ketel was born March 18, 2019. Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 - 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well. In this image: Woman Aged 56 painted in 1594.
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