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Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Skull, c. 1885. Oil on canvas, overall: 32.2 x 44.5 cm (12 11/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The White House Collection.
by Olivia Hampton
WASHINGTON (AFP).- What happens when an artist who devoted most of his career to painting landscapes and still lifes turns to the people he knows best? That is the central premise of an international show of 59 portraits by France's Paul Cezanne on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the first ever dedicated to this aspect of his oeuvre. Of the 1,000 paintings the 19th century Provencal painter created during his lifetime, only about 160 are portraits, mostly of his close friends, family and domestic servants. But it is perhaps in that collection that the evolution of Cezanne's individualistic, revolutionary vision is clearest, as he deconstructs space by boldly painting his wife with vanishing lips or applying layer upon layer of thick paint with a palette knife. He may have studied Old Master works, but Cezanne "exploded" traditional ways of representing space and volume on a picture plane, said Mary Morton, co-curator of the show and head of the National Gallery's department of French p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A creation by Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela is displayed as part of the exhibition "Margiela: The Hermes Years" at the Paris decorative arts museum on March 20, 2018. The exhibition will run from 22 March to 2 September 2018. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
| Exhibition of new works by Damien Hirst opens at Houghton Hall | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens 'City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan' | | Major photography exhibition celebrates Britain's love affair with the seaside |
Damien Hirst, Temple, in the Pleasure Grounds at Houghton Hall. ©Damien Hirstand Science Ltd. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018. Photo by Pete Huggins.
HOUGHTON.- A series of new paintings by Damien Hirst, which have never been shown in public before, have gone on display in the State Rooms at Houghton Hall for the exhibition Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall: Colour Space Paintings and Outdoor Sculptures. The 46 new paintings, from a series entitled Colour Space, are a development of the iconic Spot Paintings, which are among the artist's most recognised works. The Colour Space series sees a return to his first Spot Painting made in 1986. The new paintings are much looser in form than the minimal grid style with which he is now synonymous. As Hirst has explained: My first ever Spot Painting [1986] was loose and painted with drippy paint, not minimal at all. In that first painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought of as the coldness of Minimalism and the more emotional, abstract expressionist painting style Id grown ... More | |
Tripod Vessel with Goggle-Eyed Figure, 450550, Teotihuacan, Ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigments, 5 5/8 à 5 7/8 in. (14.3 à 14.9 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing (AC1993.217.16), photo © Museum Associates / LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries from the ancient citys three main pyramids and major residential compounds. City and Cosmos includes nearly 200 works in various media, such as monumental sculpture made of volcanic stones; polychrome mural paintings; and smaller-scale objects made out of precious greenstones, obsidian, and ceramic. Organized in collaboration with Mexicos Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia (INAH) and the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, City and Cosmos provides an extraordinary opportunity to see ... More | |
England. Kent. Margate. 1986. ® Martin Parr / Magnum Photos/
GREENWICH.- The National Maritime Museum opened a major photography exhibition celebrating the nations love affair with the seaside. Featuring over 100 works by four of Britains most celebrated photographers Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn and Simon Roberts the exhibition explores our changing relationship with the seaside over the last six decades. The Great British Seaside documents a quintessentially British experience. It covers the countrys beaches from Brighton to Blackpool, and captures the traditions, customs and eccentricities associated with them. Through the work of some of Britains most celebrated photographers, each sharing a mutual love and fascination of the seaside, the exhibition will showcase photography from their archive collections, as well as negative contact sheets and video footage. The exhibition features 20 new works by Martin Parr, arguably ... More |
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| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens the most comprehensive presentation to date of Antony Gormley's polyhedral sculptures | | Sotheby's sale includes lots from the Cretaceous Period 70 million years ago to the present | | 'Sunken Cities' takes visitors on deep dive into Egyptian art |
Antony Gormley, CONTRACT, 2016. Cast iron 172,4 x 52,5 x 46,3 cm (67,87 x 20,67 x 18,23 in) Ed. 1 of 5 (AG 1588.1. © the artist. Photos: Stephen White, London Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London·Paris·Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Earth Body, an exhibition of works by British sculptor Antony Gormley. This exhibition is the most comprehensive presentation to date of Gormleys polyhedral sculptures. The series, which began in 2008, replaces an anatomically described body with one made of tightly nested and sharp edged polygonal cells. This sculptural language derives from natural structures: the polycrystalline aggregation of basalt or quartz and the bubble matrices in foams and bone. The works BRIDGE and FIX (2017) recall in their condensed forms an earlier series, Insiders (1997- 2005), which isolates the bodys core and concentrates internal sensation. Other sculptures in the exhibition, like CONTRACT (2016) and COMPACT (2017) use similar bodily postures but provide ... More | |
A fine and rare elephant bird egg, 17th century or earlier, 30.5 cm, 12 IN. Est. HK$350,000-550,000 / US$44,800-70,500. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong will present Curiosity IV on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The fourth instalment of a very successful sale series, our enthralling cabinet of curiosities encompasses material from the Cretaceous period 70 million years ago to the present, from civilisations and cultures that once flourished and have now vanished, from the Okvik civilisation in the Bering Sea to Egypts new Kingdom, from the Olmec in Mexico to Kamakura Japan. The sale offers a total of 114 lots estimated in excess of HK$62 million / US$7.9 million. Nicolas Chow, Chairman, Sothebys Asia, International Head and Chairman, Chinese Works of Art, says, The Curiosity sale, in its fourth instalment, has become a fixture of our yearly sale calendar and it remains the principal platform where we introduce new fields of collecting to our Asian audience from natural history and ... More | |
Bust of the black stone queen set up underwater on site, Heracleion, Egypt; Ptolemaic Period; granodiorite; height: 86 5/8 inches; National Museum, Alexandria (SCA 283), IEASM Excavations Photo: Christoph Gerigk © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting Sunken Cities: Egypts Lost Worlds, an exhibition showcasing antiquities from one of the greatest finds in the history of underwater archaeology. The North American premiere of Sunken Cities is the most significant exhibition of ancient Egyptian art undertaken in St. Louis in more than 50 years. Featuring colossal, 16-foot-tall sculptures and precious artifacts from the long-lost cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, Sunken Cities focuses on discoveries made during the last seven years of underwater excavation lead by Franck Goddio, president of the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology. Sunken Cities opened March 25 and will be on view for an extended, six-month run. It recently was shown at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the British ... More |
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| Exhibition presents aspects of the documentary in the MMK's photography collection | | The Dallas Museum of Art opens a mid-career survey of the American artist Laura Owens | | The work of Raphael displayed for the first time in Latvia |
Douglas Gordon, August, 12, 1999, 2011, © Studio lost but found/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- Whether on a smartphone, in the newspaper or on a computer every day we experience our world through a flood of photographs. The exhibition Image Profile: Aspects of the Documentary in MMK's Photography Collection shows how artists represented in the collection of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main have explored and reflected on media images. The presentation covers a broad spectrum of contemporary modes of expression ranging from sociopolitical photojournalism to aspects of subjective, conceptual or staged photography. Given its technical implications, pictorial capabilities and documentary character, photography has always been one of the most significant mediums in modern times. Since the MMK opened in 1991, it has accorded photography the same ... More | |
Laura Owens, Untitled, 2014, crylic, oil, vinyl paint, silkscreen ink, charcoal, and paper on linen, Collection of Catie and Donald Marron © Laura Owens.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting the most comprehensive survey to-date of work by the Los Angelesbased painter Laura Owens, one of the foremost artists of her generation. Laura Owens, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), not only presents Owenss early work but highlights her significant evolution over the past few years, stressing how the work produced at the beginning of her career serves as a prelude to her gripping new paintings and installations. On view March 25 through July 29, 2018, the exhibition features approximately 60 paintings, with the Dallas presentation including significant loans from local collections. Laura Owens is an influential and innovative artist and we are eager to share her fascinating and intriguing work with all of North Texas, especially as many in our community ... More | |
Detail of Santa Caterina dAlessandria by Raphael .
RIGA.- Thanks to the Marche Region, Embassy of Italy in Latvia and the National Gallery of the Marche, the painting Santa Caterina dAlessandria by Raphael, an outstanding artist of Italian Renaissance, is on display from 21 March to 22 April 2018 at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6). This is the first time when Raphaels art is exhibited in Latvia. Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 14831520) is one of the greatest artists of the 15th16th centuries. He was born in central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region. Throughout his lifetime Raphael created countless masterpieces and his work always has been admired for its clarity of forms, lightness of composition, sense of harmony, as well as artists fascinating mastery of painting female portraits and the poetic, artistically perfect portrayal of Madonnas. The visitors of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE ... More |
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| Jose Antonio Abreu, noted Venezuelan musician, dies aged 78 | | For the frst time at the DAM Gallery Berlin: A solo exhibition of the artist Peter Vogel | | Exhibition explores the conceptual affinities between Sol LeWitt, Louise Nevelson, and Adam Pendleton |
Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu. Robyn BECK / AFP.
CARACAS (AFP).- Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician, politician and economist who created a network of more than 1,500 orchestras and choirs for young people in Venezuela, died on Saturday at age 78. Known as "El Maestro" in his home country, Abreu started the project in 1975, and his internationally-acclaimed "El Sistema" ("The System") has grown to include more than 900,000 children, taught by 10,000 teachers throughout Venezuela. The project began with just 11 musicians in a basement in downtown Caracas -- and flourished to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids, 75 percent of them poor and many from rural areas, according to the institution. "They are boys that we are taking away from drugs and violence. Just sitting a boy in a rehearsal to play, when he could be on the corner smoking marijuana, is already a very important achievement," he told AFP several years ago. The organization's goal is now ... More | |
Hommage à Panamarenko, weisse Fluegel, 2010.
BERLIN.- The transience of earthly things and everything mortal, especially in western poetry and fne arts is referred to as Vanitas. Time has always fascinated man. Therefore, it is not surprising that artists have tried to capture transience in many diferent ways as through painting extinguished candles or depicting fowers as despite and besides their beauty there is still their inability of escaping the fate of fading. There are a whole variety of symbols meaning Vanitas and among the ones already mentioned above, interestingly, fne art includes the echo and the shadow. As early as the sixties, Peter Vogel tried to depict time and time sequences in his work. He created paintings with dynamic lines which actually were dance notations movements captured through a system similar to musical notation. For trained eyes, these paintings show choreologies, sequences of motion with a clear beginning and ending. But Peter Vogel quickly realised that this wasn't the most ... More | |
Installation view.
GENEVA.- Following the recent announcement to open a major gallery in Geneva, Pace is presenting its inaugural exhibition LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton at Quai des Bergues 15-17, from 21 March to 4 May 2018. The exhibition explores the conceptual affinities between the multidisciplinary luminaries, working across different decades and media. LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton establishes parallels between intergenerational artists revealing three different artistic approaches that arrive at similar conclusions on colour, shape, materials and meaning. Prompting a trialogue between artists, the presentation explores themes of language, abstraction, geometry and appropriation. Pendletons conceptual practice engages with abstraction and identity through a wide range of media. Often referencing artistic and political movements, including Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton appropriates and reconfigures images and texts ... More |
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Dynamic Phenomena: Magda Danysz Gallery opens exhibition of works by Felipe Pantone
PARIS.- Felipe Pantone, born in Buenos Aires, is Argentinian-Spanish and lives today in Valencia, Spain. He studied art in Leeds and gained an international reputation in the graffiti world under the name of Pantone, multiplying actions and collaborations. Being a prolific artist, his creations are visible on the walls of the whole world: from the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center to the Long Beach Museum of Art (USA) and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), via cities as Mexico City, Osaka, Lisbon, Palestine, Italy or Australia. Invited to the 2016 edition of the Maus Festival in Malaga, the artist has completely repainted a bridge overlooking the river Guadalmedina. Felipe Pantone is the spearhead of a renewed street-art scene, which is not confined to outdoor spaces and enchains projects: majestic. frescoes, paintings, sculptures or monumental installations. Pantone is building up a new ... More
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens exhibition of works by the multifaceted artist Michael Snow
BILBAO.- From March 22 through July 1, 2018, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Closed Circuit , featuring works by the renowned Canadian artist Michael Snow (Toronto, 1928), a major figure in the development of experimental cinema, moving image installation, and conceptual photography since the 1960s. With this new exhibition, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao launches the 2018 program for its Film & Video gallery, a space that is entirely devoted to the presentation of key works of video art, film, and contemporary practices addressing the moving image. Besides video art and experimental film, Michael Snows oeuvre also embraces painting, photography, sculpture, and music. A multifaceted artist, Snow critically blends his knowledge of different techniques and media in the creation of his works. As he has explained, my paintings are made ... More
Christopher Grimes Gallery exhibits works by Veronika Kellndorfer and Antonio Ballester Moreno
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Christopher Grimes Gallery is presenting an exhibition with Veronika Kellndorfer and Antonio Ballester Moreno. While divergent in materiality, Kellndorfer and Ballester Moreno share a sensibility in their approach to the subject of Modernism as a theme in their work. Kellndorfers practice is centered on photographing some of the most recognized and renowned Modernist architectural spaces around the world, while Ballester Morenos paintings embody the Modernist emphasis on line, form, symbolism, color and process, bringing to mind early champions of the avant-garde such as Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Josef Albers. For this exhibition, Kellndorfer presents photographs of Modernist structures by Albert Frey and Oscar Niemeyer printed on highly reflective glass panels. She primarily focuses her lens on the transparent façades ... More
Sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui opens exhibition at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
SINGAPORE.- NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is presenting the first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia by sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui, conceived as a composition that unfolds in space with its unique sound library and instruments. It is the first large-scale exhibition that Atoui has created through interweaving objects, instruments, and recordings, some borrowed from pre-existing projects, others newly collected and produced. The Ground: From the Land to the Sea comprises two layers of auditory experiences that interact with each other as well as with the spatial and sonic qualities of NTU CCA Singapores exhibition hall, merging them into a single composition. Enveloping the main exhibition space are a set of speakers that play the sounds of underwater environments as well as human and industrial activities in the harbours of Athens ... More
Stellar line up of jewels and gemstones feature in Bonhams New York first Fine Jewelry Sale of 2018
NEW YORK, NY.- Burmese rubies, Kashmir sapphires, Colombian emeralds, an impressive selection of magnificent diamonds together with a large collection of David Webb jewelry will be offered by Bonhams New York in its first jewelry auction of 2018. Leading the 17 April sale is A Diamond Solitaire Ring estimated at $500,000 - 700,000. The round brilliant-cut diamond weighs 10.01 carats and is F color, VVS2 clarity and is from a private collection in the US. The sale, which consists of 133 lots, will also include a selection of impressive colored stones including the king of gems, rubies. Highlights include: An Art Deco Ruby and Diamond Bracelet by Cartier, circa 1935, estimated at $80,000 - 120,000. Art Deco jewelry by Cartier continues to be highly sought after due to its exceptional craftsmanship, impressive design and rarity. This bracelet follows the bold ... More
Nick Hornby shows work at the Frestonian Gallery alongside that of Eduardo Paolozzi and Douglas White
LONDON.- The exhibition Magic & Method is something of a confluence of three artists practices that are intrinsically linked to both the artistic and technological contexts of their time. Artistic enquiry, much like any other vital human endeavour, does not exist in isolation and in the development of each new moment in art countless shoulders are stood upon. In the cases of Hornby, Paolozzi and White however it is not only the sediment of art history that provides the platform for their expression, but the new tools some industrial and generic, some improvised and unique, at their disposal at the point of making. For both Paolozzi and Hornby the tools concerned are both the ephemeral produce of Western civilisation and the material processes at hand with which to manipulate and reimagine them. Paolozzi, born in 1924, was material witness to the post-war ... More
Faurschou Foundation Beijing exhibits Ragnar Kjartansson's video 'A Lot of Sorrow'
BEIJING.- Faurschou Foundation Beijing has the pleasure of presenting A Lot of Sorrow a video performance by the Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National. The work, A Lot of Sorrow, is a single channel video, showing a six-hour long concert by the American band, The National. The band performs their song, Sorrow, repeatedly, in an uninterrupted loop. Having been first performed at MoMA PS1 in 2013 as a live concert, the piece is an impressive demonstration of perseverance and strengthboth physically and mentally. As a reproduction in the form of a video installation, the visitors are able to experience the struggles and emotions the band members undergo throughout the performance. Depending on what stage of the performance the band is in, the audience will notice different states of energy, emotion, exhaustion, rejuvenation and relief. Each ... More
Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong opens the first solo exhibition by the Belgian artist Renato Nicolodi
HONG KONG.- Axel Vervoordt Gallery announces the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by the Belgian artist Renato Nicolodi (Brussels, b. 1980). The exhibitions title, IBANT OBSCURI, is a quote from Virgils The Aeneid, which also shares its name with a black marble sculpture featured in the installation. The rear of this sculpture is placed closed to the entrance, encouraging visitors to be physically engaged with the artwork from their very first impression, symbolically and literally embracing the guiding concept of the exhibition: the subterranean. One of three new paintings included in the exhibition is titled, Hades, as an explicit reference to the underworld as well as an implicit sign for a passage to unseen spaces. Through the new works, Nicolodi reflects on the concept of invisibility and how its various readings may assist humanity in getting closer to our own individual ... More
A film exhibition with a focus on democracy opens at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space in Vienna
VIENNA.- 100 years, 8 topics, 24 short films: the audiovisual exhibition shaping democracy the republic in 24 frames per century takes visitors on a participative tour through the history of the Austrian Republic based on its guiding principles and paradoxes. How the country sees itself and how it is seen from outside, its political and cultural self-image, and the Republics individual and collective memory are illuminated from a contemporary perspective. The exhibition, which marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the First Republic and is on show at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space until June 3, has been curated by Doris Bauer and Daniel Ebner from the short film festival VIS Vienna Shorts. The eight topics of the exhibition cover a range of different aspects such as the question of the culture of remembrance, the role of the media, ... More
'The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930' on view at the Americas Society
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society is presenting The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930, an exhibition that explores the impact that a century of accelerated urbanization as well as political and social transformations had on the architectural landscapes of six Latin American capitals: Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile. Curated by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 is on view at the Societys Art Gallery from March 22 through June 30, 2018. The exhibition features rare maps, engravings, drawings, photographs, books, and videos that range from Hernán Cortés map of Tenochtitlán (1524) to Le Corbusiers sketches made during his visit to Buenos Aires (1929). Previously on view at The Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles, as part of the Getty Foundations region- ... More
Here - Or Rather There, Is Over There: Kunsthaus Hamburg opens exhibition of work by Flaka Haliti
HAMBURG.- There is a sense of longing in the works by Flaka Haliti. They have a subtle humour, which not seldom shifts into something tragic. Flaka Haliti uses this humour as a strategy for acquainting herself with the world. Her poetic objects, photographs and drawings testify to how she gives form to the intangible, or literally gives it a face, familiarising herself with the world in this way. Haliti also uses Joe, a fictional character and the artists alter ego, to venture into the confusion of the present. Joe is a genderless character, who appears in Halitis artistic work in a multitude of forms: Whether as a sponge with self-adhesive wiggle eyes or a two-legged sculpture in curved steelJoe spooks through Halitis exhibitions, embodying an (artist-) individual under the pressure of neoliberal living and working conditions, constant self-renewal, (re-)presentation and productivity. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat was born March 26, 1957. Shirin Neshat (born 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. In this image: Shirin Neshat, From "Looking For Oum Kulthum" series (2017) © Shirin Neshat.
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