| The First Art Newspaper on the Net |   | Established in 1996 | Monday, May 8, 2017 |
 |
| | First comprehensive retrospective of Mark Tobey's work in Italy opens in Venice | |
|
|
One of the foremost American artists to emerge from the 1940s, a decade that saw the rise of abstract expressionism, Mark Tobey (18901976) is recognized as a vanguard figure whose white-writing anticipated the formal innovations of New York School artists such as Jackson Pollock.
VENICE.- Mark Tobey: Threading Light is the first comprehensive retrospective of the American artists work in twenty years in Europe, and the first in Italy. On view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the exhibition traces the evolution of the artists groundbreaking style and his significant yet under-recognized contributions to abstraction and mid-century American modernism. With 66 paintings spanning the 1920s through 1970, Mark Tobey: Threading Light surveys the breadth of Tobeys oeuvre and reveals the extraordinarily nuanced yet radical beauty of his work. Mark Tobey: Threading Light, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and guest curated by the independent curator Debra Bricker Balken, will be on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection through September 11, 2017. Following its run in Venice, the exhibition will travel to the Addison Gallery, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A Sotheby's specialist speaks about an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat during a media preview May 5, 2017 at Sotheby's in New York. The piece is one of the creations to be auctioned during the Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale May 16, 2017 in New York. Don Emmert / AFP
| Max Hetzler opens solo exhibition with works by Günther Förg | | Artcurial announces highlights from its Oriental Arts & Archaeology sale | | Sotheby's to offer the collection of Lord Ballyedmond | 
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2003. Acrylic on canvas, 201,5 x 179,3 cm. Courtesy Günther Förg Estate and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin I Paris.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting the solo exhibition with works by Günther Förg in Bleibtreustrasse 45. The centre of the exhibition is formed by a six-part series of paintings by Günther Förg from 2003. The canvases show vertical stripes and structures in various hues of grey, repeatedly interrupted by light traces as well as red and pink dashes. Every brushstroke is visible and changes from dense, opaque colour fields to nearly transparent areas. Although the brushwork appears expressive and the paint is seemingly applied intuitively, it immediately becomes apparent that the paintings underlie a precise composition and elaborated balance. The six paintings appear like repetitions, offering variations of the same structure on each canvas and are, as if in rhythmic motion, constantly developing. Alongside this series the exhibition presents a selection ... More | | 
A 5th century Sassanid art silver dish depicting a hunting scene (estimate: 200,000 250,000 / $220,000 275,000).
PARIS.- On 23rd May, 2017, Artcurial will hold an auction dedicated to Oriental Arts. With more than 160 pieces, the sale will be divided in two parts. The first, dedicated to archaeology, will include an impressive ensemble of classic and Oriental antiquities, including a 5th century Sassanid art silver dish depicting a hunting scene (estimate: 200,000 250,000 / $220,000 275,000). The second part will be dedicated to Islamic and Indian arts with several Islamic ceramic and bronze collections, and some remarkable Iznik pieces, several manuscripts and a series of Indian miniatures. « Oriental arts in all their diversity will be represented throughout various periods and expertise: bronze, wood, ceramic or manuscripts. Pre-Islamic civilisations will be honoured in the section dedicated to archaeology. » --Mathilde Neuve-Eglise, specialist Oriental Arts department, ... More | | 
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A, Portrait of Mrs Richard Pennant, 1816. Est. £20,000-30,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys in London is to offer the collection of Lord Ballyedmond, whose extraordinary London home formed the backdrop to life at the highest level of British society. The collection stands as testament to Lord Ballyedmonds unerring eye as a collector, displaying a lifelong passion for the finest art and antiques, with a rare attention to detail. Around 700 objects, spanning over 400 years, will be offered at Sothebys London on 23 and 24 May, with the majority drawn from a magnificent townhouse on Londons Belgrave Square, described as the Downton Abbey of our times. Born in Kilcurry, County Louth, Ireland, Lord Ballyedmond rose from humble beginnings to make his fortune founding and steering to extraordinary success the Norbrook Group, a pharmaceutical company based in Newry, Northern Ireland. Equally influential in the world of politics as he was in business, Lord Ballyedmond is renowned as only ... More |
|
| MAXXI Museum transforms and reconfigures its gallery spaces | | Barnebys is the fastest growing rising online sales platform in the art market says insurance giant Hiscox | | Sotheby's London to offer works formerly in the collection of Alexander Iolas | 
West 8, Stolen Paradise, 2010. Installazione, dettaglio. Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI.
ROME.- MAXXI has transformed and reconfigured its spaces, reinforcing its identity and its public mission, starting with The Place to Be, the new hang of the permanent collection around which rotate all the changes and innovations. MAXXI is becoming ever more welcoming, more accessible and more open to the city, with the whole of the ground floor free of charge and new services for the public, a project that has been enthusiastically pushed through by the President of the Fondazione MAXXI Giovanna Melandri, the Board of Directors, the Artistic Director Hou Hanru and the directors of MAXXI Architettura and MAXXI Arte, Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, curators of The Place to Be. With this project we are crossing the finishing line of the marathon we started years ago, says Giovanna Melandri. We want to continuously enrich the museums free cultural offer and we are doing so by ... More | | 
Christopher Barnekow (right) co-founded Barnebys in 2011 with Pontus Silfverstolpe.
LONDON.- The respected annual art market analysis by insurance giant Hiscox says that Barnebys, the Swedish owned art market aggregator, is the fastest rising online sales platform in the art market. Barnebys, the worlds fastest growing and largest art auction search engine, allows you to browse 2,000 auction house sites on its user-friendly website. Its one-stop-shopping at its best with one million objects listed each day. Whatever you are looking for in the fields of art, antiques and collectables, Barnebys offers you information immediately about who is selling what, where and for how much. The Hiscox Report 2017 shows that when it comes to the platforms and search sites used by respondents in the survey, several of the largest platforms have lost ground significantly from the previous year while Barnebys is ranked as the fastest growing player in the industry. Pontus Silfverstolpe, one of Barnebys founders, says: We a ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Alexander the Great. Signed Andy Warhol in pencil; numbered 14/25. Screenprint in colours. Executed in 1982. Estimate £35,000-50,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 25 May 2017, Sothebys London will offer at auction a selection of paintings, sculpture, furniture, prints and jewellery formerly in the collection of Alexander Iolas, the twentieth-century art dealer whose legacy is credited with defining the careers of the leading artists he championed. From mounting Andy Warhols first and last gallery exhibitions and introducing an American audience to Surrealism, to shaping the careers and movements of those with whom he forged personal and lasting friendships, Iolas played a vital role in the post-war art world. Over 150 lots will be offered for sale, with estimates ranging from £100 to £150,000. Georgina Gold, Senior Director, Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department, London: In many ways, Alexander Iolas lived a surreal life, and in constantly looking to the future ... More |
|
| New exhibition at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum celebrates American Folk portraits | | Thirty collages spanning nearly three decades by Ray Johnson on view at Matthew Marks | | First solo exhibition in New York by Nairy Baghramian on view at Marian Goodman Gallery | 
Boy in Plaid, New England , ca. 1845. Oil on canvas. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1936.100.14
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Before there were photographs, people in the late 18th-century to the middle 19th-century who wanted images of themselves and their family members commissioned portraits from a broad range of artists, many of whom had little or no academic training. Today, we characterize these types of paintings that fall outside of academic tradition as folk portraiture. These often naïve depictions of individuals, children, families and couples are beloved for their charming characterizations. The world-class assemblage of these portrayals in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is among the most popular with visitors. The museum celebrates its diamond anniversary in 2017 with We the People: American Folk Portraits, a long-term exhibition of more than 30 portraits which opened on May 6, 2017. The show highlights new accessions on ... More | | 
Ray Johnson, Untitled (Dear Jacques Derrida), 1981-92. Ink, graphite, and collage on board. 13 1/2 x 11 inches; 34 x 28 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announces Ray Johnson, now on view in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. Included are over thirty collages spanning nearly three decades. Johnson is one of the more eccentric figures in contemporary art. Born in Detroit in 1929, he attended the legendary Black Mountain College, where he met and befriended many of the leading avant-garde figures of the day. He moved to New York in 1949 and began exhibiting abstract paintings. Within a few years, however, he had rejected painting in favor of collage. That mediums combinatory principles became central to his art, which grew to encompass performance, conceptual art, and sculpture. By the late 1950s his practice of mailing collages to friends and acquaintances had become a primary artistic focus, directly giving rise to the Mail Art movement. Johnsons collage works, which often incorporate ... More | | 
Nairy Baghramian, Gorge, 2017. Polished and sanded aluminum, glass, epoxy resin, polyurethane foam, silicone, 50 1/2 x 46 x 15 in. (128.3 x 116.8 x 38.1 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York announces its first solo exhibition in New York by Nairy Baghramian, which opened on Thursday, May 4th, and runs through Saturday, June 10th. Nairy Baghramians work comprises sculpture and installation often in reference to architecture and the fragmented human body. Her work addresses temporal, spatial and social relationships to language, history, and the present, with forms which materialize in response to contextual conditions or the premises of a given medium. These structures offer the possibility of an open and discursive dialogue in response to a site, or a freeing of the assigned relationship between an object and its meaning. In this exhibition the idea that one thing might not so obviously lead to another could be a fittingly transitional place to start. A series of fragmented floor to ceiling glass pipes held together with zinc ... More |
|
| James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime | | New Museum features exhibitions by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kaari Upson, Elaine Cameron-Weir and RAGGA NYC | | Roy Newell returns to the spotlight at Sotheby's S/2 | 
Elias Sime, Tightrope: Against the Wave, 2017 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of new work by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime. This second solo exhibition at the gallery features large-scale, wall-mounted artworks constructed from a grid-like arrangement of panels encrusted with electronic parts. The show is on view from April 28 through June 17 at James Cohans Chelsea location. Elias Simes work is a meditation on connectivity and transformation. His unorthodox materials include reclaimed cell phone bodies, Soviet-era transistors, computer motherboards, brightly colored electrical wires, sections of plastic keyboards with other e-waste that has been discarded and sent to trash heaps across the African continent. This technological flotsam eventually washes up in the open-air markets of Addis Ababa, where Sime repurposes it into artworks. The works on view are part of an ongoing series entitled Tightrope, which refers to the ... More | | 
Kaari Upson, Who Is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue, 2014. Urethane, pigment, and aluminum. 85 1/2 x 78 x 30 3/4 in (217 x 198 x 78 cm). © Kaari Upson. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Megan Bartley-Matthews.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum opened a series of solo exhibitions devoted to the extraordinary work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Kaari Upson, each of which occupies one floor of the Museum, alongside exhibitions by Elaine Cameron-Weir in the Museums Lobby Gallery and RAGGA NYC in the Museums Fifth Floor Gallery. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song For A Cipher (May 3September 3, 2017), on view on the Museums Fourth Floor, brings together a new series of paintings specifically realized for the exhibition by the 2013 Turner Prize finalist, one of the most renowned painters of her generation. Kaari Upson: Good thing you are not alone (May 3September 10, 2017), on view on the Museums Third Floor, marks the first New York museum solo by the Los ... More | | 
Roy Newell, Untitled. Signed and dated Roy Newell / 1986 (1968) on the reverse. Oil on board, 8 by 9 inches. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York unveiled its exhibition, Roy Newell: Works from the Archives. Featuring works of art from the Estate of Anne Newell wife and unwavering advocate of Abstract artist Roy Newell the gallery showcases eighteen paintings spanning over half a century of the artists career. On view in New York from 5 May to 9 June, Roy Newells name once again stands alongside his contemporaries when exhibitions for Sothebys marquee auctions of Contemporary, and Impressionist & Modern art now open to the public. Liz Sterling, Head of American Art at Sothebys New York, noted: We are honored to be working with the Estate of Anne Newell, to shine the spotlight on this brilliant artist and his extraordinary artistic vision. A friend to many artists and muses in the New York art scene in the mid-to-late 20th century, Roy ... More |
|
href=' href='
| More News |
 Yearlong show features Daniel Clayman's cast glass boulders, new series of workHAMILTON, NJ.- In celebration of its 25th year as one of Americas premiere sculpture parks, Grounds For Sculpture has mounted a spectacular installation and solo exhibition of the work of Providence sculptor Daniel Clayman. Titled Radiant Landscape, the show opened in GFS Museum Building May 5th. The exhibition is composed of two site-specific interior glass installations that mark the first time the Museum itself has been essential to the invention of an artists concept. Drawing on his background as a theater designer, Clayman has created a stage for filtered light, stringing thousands of panels of glass cut from antique-style stained glass sheets, transforming the space into transparent three-dimensional color fields. These glass curtains act as a lens projecting and bending light, while the color of the glass acts as a filter, changing the ... More Clars to present works by Bo Bartlett, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Alexej Jawlensky OAKLAND, CA.- On May 20 & 21, 2017, Clars Auction Gallery will host a very important sale that will be highlighted by works from prominent Contemporary and American Post-War artists and property from major museums, collections and estates. After the record breaking success of Lifeboat that sold for $296,500 in their November 2016 sale, Clars will be offering another monumental work by Contemporary, American realist painter, Bo Bartlett (American, b. 1955). Titled Damascus Road (1988), this work is estimated to achieve $125,000-$175,000. This 120 x 168 inch, oil on linen is a dark, mysterious scene featuring a bearded, young black man walking erratically on a remote highway as well as a mother desperately trying to leave with her young son while all are facing an ominous, armed figure in uniform. As Catherine Liu wrote in her review ... More Becky Beasley's major new installation on view at Towner Art GalleryEASTBOURNE.- Towner Art Gallery announces Ous, a major new commission by international contemporary artist Becky Beasley responding to the gallerys major collection of works by Eric Ravilious and its forthcoming exhibition, Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship, English Artist Designers: 1922 to 1942. In her first work on this scale, Beasley takes Ravilious watercolour, The Bedstead (1939) as her starting point in a digressive, spatial deconstruction of the painting that melds the domestic with the pastoral across the six rooms of Towners first floor gallery. The Bedstead depicts a room in a guesthouse in Le Havre in which Ravilious was confined during inclement weather prior to the outbreak of World War II, and which was later destroyed in a bombing raid. Beasley transforms the structures, colours, motifs and surfaces of the rooms interior into distinctive ... More Moderna Museet announces the curatorial team for the Moderna Exhibition 2018STOCKHOLM.- In 2018, it is once again time for the Moderna Exhibition - Moderna Museets quadrennial survey of the Swedish art scene. This time, the mission goes to Joa Ljungberg, Santiago Mostyn and Lawen Mohtadi, who will research Swedish contemporary art and present their findings in an exhibition that opens at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in autumn 2018. We are looking forward to the 2018 edition of the Moderna Exhibition, which will give us new perspectives on Swedish art today. Every four years, Moderna Museet highlights the most interesting and characteristic oeuvres on the contemporary art scene. It is with great expectations that we now hand over this assignment to the Museums curator Joa Ljungberg, in association with the editor and author Lawen Mohtadi and the artist Santiago Mostyn. What is essential to Swedish art today, and how ... More Shanghai Tower: The fabric and faces behind China's tallest building in new photo book by Noah SheldonNEW YORK, NY.- Photographer Noah Sheldons Shanghai Tower project shines a light on the construction of Chinas tallest skyscraper and some of the hidden people who made it happen. Noahs images have now been beautifully brought together in Shanghai Tower, a photo book jointly produced with Tea & Water Pictures. Hired to produce architectural photos of Shanghai Tower, at 632m one of the tallest buildings in the world, Mr. Sheldon also started to capture the migrant workers behind the project, taking a different approach on how other people photographed construction sites and architecture in China. The countrys labour force is a topic close to Mr. Sheldon's heart and he feels that too often the individuals, who come in big packs from villages to work, are reduced to mere masses. Mr. Sheldon's photographs shine a light on the construction of Chinas tallest ... More Exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery prsents new work by Sherié FranssenLOS ANGELES, CA.- Von Lintel Gallery is presenting new work by Sherié Franssen. The exhibition marks the artists first with the gallery. Sherié Franssen's tumultuous paintings transmute lurid color and intimate forms into cinematic orchestrations. Her all-over compositions defy and dissolve boundaries between figure and ground; instead cultivating impassioned scenes that are felt before they are read. Initially captivated at a young age by the Baroque images printed on holy cards, Franssen continues to reference creative output from that era (specifically citing the appealing chaos observed in Matthias Grünewalds Isenheim Altarpiece as a point of origin for this new body of work) but filtered though gutsy abstractions and blurred, near-psychic visions. [Her] massive, vigorous paintings revel in the depth and saturation that are hallmarks of oil paint. In reproduction, ... More Oil paintings by H. O. Tanner and Rex Goreleigh will headline Nadeau's May 20th auctionWINDSOR, CONN.- Original oil paintings by noted African-American artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) and Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986), plus a late 19th century table by the renowned Philadelphia furniture company A. & H. Lejambre, are just a few of the expected top lots in Nadeaus Auction Gallerys upcoming Outdoor Furnishings, Antiques, Custom Mahogany, and Decorative Accessories Auction, slated for Saturday, May 20th, beginning at 10 am Eastern time. The auction will be held online and in Nadeaus gallery, at 25 Meadow Road in Windsor, and will feature just over 500 lots of outdoor furnishings, antiques, custom mahogany and decorative accessories. For those unable to attend, online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Bidsquare.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee (or left) bids will also be ... More Christian Science Monitor photographer Gordon Converse prints part of Heritage Auctions saleDALLAS, TX.- For over 40 years, photojournalist Gordon Converse travelled to more than 120 countries, shooting photos for the Christian Science Monitor. The award-winning photographer will have a number of prints available during Heritage Auctions' Photographs Signature Auction in New York City on May 18. Prior to the auction Converse's work which he shot exclusively with his Leica M camera - will be celebrated at the Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston on Tuesday May 16, 2017 during the world premiere of the documentary "Illumine All Mankind" by Bob Pokress, producer and director of the documentary. "As Gordon said, 'The purpose of photojournalism at its best is to help mankind see...still photographs give us time to pause and to see...they provide a universal method of communication that breaks through all barriers of ... More Leading soprano brings new life to lost MeyerbeerNEW YORK (AFP).- In the first half of the 19th century, Giacomo Meyerbeer was perhaps the world's most successful opera composer, pioneering on-stage theatrics as he worked comfortably across European cultures. Meyerbeer's fame faded after his death in 1864. But as part of a revival, German soprano Diana Damrau has released a new album devoted entirely to arias, some obscure, by Meyerbeer. Damrau, whose bursting yet lush and agile coloratura voice has increasingly made her a top attraction at opera houses around the world, said that a Meyerbeer album had long been a career goal. "This idea was a dream," said the 45-year-old, whose nonchalant smile and giggly laugh belie the grim stock image of a diva. "Meyerbeer: Grand Opera," her album which came out on Friday, runs from selections from the composer's best-known operas, "Les Huguenots" ... More Sworders reveal set of six pictures by WE Johns to be offered at June 27 saleSTANSTED.- A set of watercolours by WE Johns (1893-1968) coming up for auction shows that the author of the Biggles books was a keen artist as well as a writer. To be offered by Sworders Fine Art auctioneers on June 27, the six detailed watercolours of individual biplanes and WWI dogfights are among the earliest depictions of aerial warfare or, indeed, of the ground from the air, and have not been on the market for over 30 years. Glorying in titles such as Good Shooting Sir!!, Tripehounds and Close Work!, the images convey all the speed and daring of the Boys Own style that Johns took to its apogee with his later Biggles books. Intriguingly, one picture is dated 1916, a year before he was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps. If it was indeed painted then, it is likely that the dogfight scene comes from Johns imagination rather than first-hand experience. ... More Honor Fraser Gallery opens its fourth show with Rosson CrowLOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting Rosson Crow's fourth exhibition with the gallery, The Happiest People on Earth. Rosson Crow's new paintings depict the search for off-the-grid freedom in the American West. Building from her explorations of the psychology of nationalism and conspiracy in American history, Crow has moved away from the surreal interiors she's known for to a new terrain and a new timeframe: desert landscapes set in a future overwhelmed by the refuse of the paranoid present. Littered among giant, brightly hued cacti, objects from the worlds of fringe cults and right wing conspiracy grapple for our attention. Without depicting any people associated with these groups, they are felt as a presence through what they've left behind. Copies of The National Enquirer; a handmade sign declaring, "This Community is Protected ... More |
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, American graphic designer Saul Bass was born May 08, 1920. NEW YORK.- During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho (1960). In this image: Love in the Afternoon poster designed by Bass.
|
|
|
