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Manhattan Bridge, Downtown New York, 20152016. Watercolour on paper, 89.2 x 121.3 cm.
by Edouard Guihaire
LONDON (AFP).- Bob Dylan, music legend and Nobel laureate, is also a prolific painter whose works depicting the landscapes and culture of the United States are now the focus of a major London exhibition. Around 200 paintings by the US singer-songwriter, produced by the 75-year-old in the last two years, are on show from Saturday at the Halcyon Gallery in the British capital's plush Mayfair district. The collection of oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings reveals a different side to Robert Allen Zimmerman, an icon of 20th century US popular music, whose poetic lyrics earned him the Nobel Prize for literature last month, to much surprise. Dylan announced last week that he would travel to Stockholm to receive the prize, making the timing of this exhibition all the more apt. "It's a great honour for us hosting the exhibition and for him to have received that honour at the same time," Paul Green, president of the Halcyon Gallery, told AFP. Dylan began exploring the visual arts in the early 1960s. He desi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day King Willem-Alexander (R) and Queen Maxima (C) of the Netherlands are shown through Sir Peter Jacksons Great War Exhibition by Lieutenant General Rhys Jones at Sir Peter Jacksons Great War Exhibition at the Old Buckle Street Museum in Wellington on November 7, 2016. Marty Melville / POOL / AFP
| Exhibition of recent works by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei opens at Mary Boone Gallery | | Harvard Art Museums open exhibition examining the materiality of recent sculpture by Doris Salcedo | | The Hispanic Society of America and the Museo del Prado sign two collaborative agreements | 
Ai Weiwei, Treasure Box, 2014. 39 ½ by 39 ½ by 39 ½, huali wood. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 5 November 2016, Mary Boone Gallery opened at both its Fifth Avenue and Chelsea locations Ai Weiwei 2016: Roots and Branches, an exhibition of recent works by eminent international artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei. The show includes works in a variety of mediums from ancient wood and porcelain, to modern LEGO bricks, and wallpaper of the Artists design. At the Gallery/Uptown (745 Fifth Avenue), a circular field of 40,000 spouts broken from antique Chinese porcelain teapots fills the main room. Wallpaper with a complex design of an arm with extended middle finger, referencing Ais well-known Study of Perspective series of photographs, serves as the backdrop for this installation. Seen in this context, the individual spouts mimic the form of the bent finger, excised and rendered ineffectual. The Gallery/Downtown (541 West 24 Street), houses the monumental (25 foot high) Tree. Constructed from ... More | | 
Doris Salcedo, A Flor de Piel (detail), 2013. Rose petals and thread. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. © Doris Salcedo. Photo: Joerg Lohse; courtesy of the artist and Alexander and Bonin, New York, and White Cube, London.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This fall, the Harvard Art Museums present Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, a new special exhibition featuring recent works by Salcedo, an internationally acclaimed artist whose sculpture and installations transform familiar, everyday objects into moving and powerful testimonies of loss and remembrance. An examination of both mourning and materiality, the exhibition focuses on the last 15 years of Salcedos career and the artists use of unexpected materials in startling, seemingly impossible ways. Each of Salcedos sculptures is a response to political violence and social injustice, and is constructed in such a way that it absorbs the viewer without offering explicit explanation, even for those who have no direct experience of the subject matter. The exhibition was curated by Mary Schneider Enriquez, the Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the ... More | | 
From left to right: Rafael Pardo, Director of the Fundación BBVA; Mitchell A. Codding, Director of the Hispanic Society of America; Miguel Zugaza, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado; José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Head of the Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado; and Philippe de Montebello, Board Chairman of the Hispanic Society.
MADRID.- Mitchell A. Codding, director of the Hispanic Society of America, and Rafael Pardo, director of Fundación BBVA, formalised two collaborative agreements with the Museo del Prado for the organisation of a major exhibition to be displayed in Rooms A, B and C of the Jerónimos Building from 4 April to 10 September next year, entitled Visions of the Hispanic World. Treasures from the Hispanic Society, Museum and Library. It will include around 200 works from the collection of the Hispanic Society, an institution founded in 1904 by Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), which houses the most important collections of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American art outside the Iberian Peninsula. The exhibition will include the New York-based Societys most important treasures, including ... More |
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| Guggenheim Museum presents new art from greater China that explores the concept of place through storytelling | | New and previously unseen work by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans on view at Regen Projects | | Six projects awarded Aga Khan architecture prize | 
Sun Yuan (b. 1972, Beijing) & Peng Yu (b. 1974, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province), Cant Help Myself, 2016. Industrial robot, stainless steel and rubber, cellulose ether in colored water, lighting grid with visual-recognition sensors, and acrylic wall with aluminum frame. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collection © Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. Photo: Courtesy the artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Tales of Our Time, an exhibition featuring nine newly commissioned works by artists born in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. This is the second exhibition of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, a long-term research, curatorial, and collections-building program at the Guggenheim Museum. Though diverse in subjects and strategies, the works are united by the artists use of storytelling to propose alternative ways of looking at place. Working in drawing, animation, video, photography, sculpture, installation, and participatory intervention, the artists in the exhibition address the concept of geography and territory in ways ... More | | 
Installation view of Wolfgang Tillmans at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. November 5 - December 23, 2016. Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of photographs by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. For his seventh solo show at the gallery Tillmans brings together a broad selection of new and previously unseen work that spans the various themes, visual motifs, and processes developed over the course of his career. For nearly three decades Tillmans has challenged and expanded the field of contemporary photography. His distinct multi-faceted visual aesthetic comprises complex installations filled with evocative pictures that capture places and the pulse of its youth culture, experimentations with abstraction and scale, and methods of image making that abandon the camera, all of which have helped push forward the limits and possibilities of the medium. The exhibition revisits long-standing interests present in the artists oeuvre. A recent picture depicting a pair of black shorts draped on a banister references an early motif express ... More | | 
View of the IFI at dusk.The fair-faced concrete used in the building is constructed to the highest standards and is a well-suited material for this building and the local climate. Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Cemal Emden.
AL-AIN (AFP).- A dome-less mosque designed by a Bangladeshi woman architect and a Beirut institute by the late Zaha Hadid were among six projects awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Sunday. The prestigious prize was awarded at a ceremony in Al-Ain oasis city, in the United Arab Emirates, to the projects chosen from a list of 348 works. They will share a prize of $1 million. "Gone are the dome and the ever-prevalent minarets, the decorative panels of designed relief and calligraphy. In their place stand intricately structured brick walls that imbue the structure within a unique aura of spirituality," said the jury describing Dhaka's Bait ur Rouf mosque designed by Marina Tabassum. As well as Hadid's Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut, the winning projects included Tehran's Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge and Copenhagen's Superkilen kilometre-long urban park. They also included the ... More |
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| Exhibition of new sculptures and paintings by Urs Fischer on view at Gagosian San Francisco | | Museo Espacio presents eight international artists in Wirikuta (Mexican Time-Slip) | | Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia shows work from the Georgia Review | 
Installation view, Urs Fischer, Mind Moves, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, 2016. 1 © Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Photo by Johnna Arnold.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gagosian San Francisco is presenting Mind Moves, an exhibition of new sculptures and paintings by Urs Fischer. Resisting any single mode of representation, Fischer pushes the limits of line, color, and shape through surprising and provocative materials and subjects. Mind Moves brings together various formal experiments in which space is divided, sliced, opened, and closed. In Fischers linear sculptures, gestural scribbles seem described in the air with the spontaneity of a drawing on page or screen. The three linesin black and white, red-brown, and a color gradientare activated by ones movement around them. Depending on the vantage point, they are either deceptively two-dimensional or nearly disappear, thin and blade-like. Meanwhile, the walls of this unpredictable, oddly ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Beto Gutierrez.
AGUASCALIENTES.- Museo Espacio, a new contemporary art museum located in central Mexico, presents Wirikuta (Mexican-Time Slip), on view from November 3, 2016April 30, 2017. Guest curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, the exhibition brings together the work of eight international artists: Peter Buggenhout, Carsten Höller, Marlie Mul, Philippe Parreno, Laure Prouvost, Pamela Rosenkranz, Bosco Sodi and Pascale Marthine Tayou. The museums first group show, Wirikuta features existing works in addition to site-specific installations. Nearly all of the featured artists, with the exception of Mexico City-based Sodi, are exhibiting work in Mexico for the first time. Featuring approximately 50 works in varying scale and mediums, Wirikuta (Mexican Time-Slip) assembles installations, paintings, sculptures, and videos in Museo Espacios expansive gallery spaces. Taking inspiration from cultural and literary sources, the exhibitions title references ... More | | 
Vanessa German (American), 2 ships passing in the night, or i take my soul with me everywhere i go, thank you, 2014. Mixed-media assemblage. Approx. 47 x 27 x 12 inches. Courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
ATHENS, GA.- In collaboration with the Georgia Review, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition Storytelling: The Georgia Reviews 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective from November 5, 2016, to January 29, 2017. The Georgia Review, founded at the University of Georgia in 1947, is a quarterly journal of arts and letters that publishes short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews and visual art. A celebration of the wide-ranging roster of visual artists whose work the Review has reproduced, the works in this retrospective reflect the powerful storytelling ability of visual art. Storytelling includes 25 works by 12 artists whose work the Review has published. Photographers such as Tamas Dezso, Kael Alford and Carl Bower, all committed to documenting social and political ... More |
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| Ragnar Kjartansson's recent work on view at Luhring Augustine | | Photographer Edward Burtynsky opens two exhibitions in New York | | New collection of photographs by Maryam Eisler on view at Tristan Hoare | 
Ragnar Kjartansson, Architecture and Morality, 2016 (detail). Oil on canvas, 47 3/16 x 59 inches (120 x 150 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces concurrent exhibitions of Ragnar Kjartanssons recent work in their Chelsea and Bushwick galleries. Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. The artist blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings, and his performances to sculpture. Throughout, Kjartansson conveys an interest in beauty and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a form of exploration. Scenes from Western Culture (2015), which is on view in Chelsea, ... More | | 
Silver Lake Operations #16, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007. © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Greenberg Gallery and Wolkowitz Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two exhibitions of work by renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky are on view from November 3 December 23, 2016, at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and from November 4 December 31, 2016, at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Burtynsky, whose incisive work explores the dilemmas at the heart of our globalized world, is known for portraying the visible outcomes of humankinds impact on the environment. The exhibitions coincide with the publication of two new books: Salt Pans (Steidl, September 2016) and Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements (Thames & Hudson, November 2016). New large-scale photographs from Burtynskys 2016 Salt Pans series are being shown at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The work was made in India at a barren, salt-producing area in ... More | | 
Kachina (Sacred Dancer), 2015, giclee print, 98 x 65cm © of the artist, by courtesy of Tristan Hoare
LONDON.- Tristan Hoare is presenting Searching for Eve in the American West, a new collection of photographs by Maryam Eisler. Whilst working on a major book on American artists in their studios in 2012*, Eisler visited Ghost Ranch in Abiquiú, New Mexico, the estate in which the renowned American Modernist Georgia OKeefe lived, worked, and produced her iconic paintings. The experience of arriving at the house surrounded by rugged cliffs and craggy pinnacles, and starkly delineated by the brilliant desert light was a revelatory, haunting moment. Echoing OKeefes own words: Such a beautiful untouched lonely feeling place, such a new part of what I call the Faraway
It is a place I have painted before
even now I must do it again, Eisler was captivated by the brutal vastness and primal history of the New Mexico desert, and vowed to return, this time ... More |
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 l'étrangère exhibits works by a seminal figure in the Polish pre-war avant-garde LONDON.- létrangère is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and calligrammes by Franciszka Themerson - a seminal figure in the Polish pre-war avant-garde. She developed her unique pictorial language during the shifting years of pre- and post-war Europe, having settled in Britain in 1943. Together with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker, Stefan Themerson, she was involved with experimental film and avant-garde publishing. Her personal domain, however, focused on painting, drawing, theatre sets and costume design. This exhibition brings together Franciszkas three paintings completed in 1972 and a selection of drawings, dated from 1955 to 1986, which demonstrate the breadth of her work. The paintings: Piétons Apocalypse, A Person I Know and Coil Totem, act as anchors in the exhibition, while the drawings demonstrate the variety of motifs ... More The Rockwell Museum names new Executive DirectorCORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum in Corning New York has named Brian Lee Whisenhunt as its new executive director. Whisenhunt will begin in early January 2017 as director of The Rockwell, succeeding Kristin A. Swain who announced her retirement earlier this year, after serving in this capacity for some 14 years. After a national search, we are so pleased that Brian Lee Whisenhunt has accepted the appointment of Executive Director to The Rockwell Museum. Brians museum experience and eagerness around arts in education, community collaboration and high quality American art experiences make him a great fit for The Rockwell and our region. Im certain hell be overwhelmingly welcomed by our vibrant arts community and the people that make it happen, said Deb Naylor, President of the Board of Trustees, The Rockwell Museum. With nearly ... More Electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey dies aged 87PARIS (AFP).- Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, who pioneered electronic music and whose scores were used by Disney and in the hit children's TV series "Sesame Street", died on Friday aged 87. Perrey died in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne after a battle with lung cancer, his daughter Patricia Leroy said. The self-taught Perrey quit medical school in 1952 when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline - a new type of electronic keyboard instrument that was a forerunner to the commercial synthesiser and launched a career in music. He was an early user of the Moog synthesiser which revolutionised electronic music in the 1960s. Perrey experimented with several musical genres, producing two albums aimed at helping sleep. His music featured on a Beatles 1968 Christmas record and has been used by hip-hop artists and rappers such as Gang Starr, Ice ... More Hungarian piano virtuoso Zoltan Kocsis dies aged 64BUDAPEST (AFP).- Virtuoso Hungarian pianist and conductor Zoltan Kocsis, celebrated for his versatile technique, died on Sunday at the age of 64, his orchestra, the National Philharmonic, said. "The (orchestra) informs with deep sorrow that Zoltan Kocsis after a long illness borne with dignity died this afternoon," it said in a statement quoted by the MTI news agency. "Kocsis was a giant of music," said the acclaimed conductor Ivan Fischer, who co-founded the world-renowned Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) with the pianist in 1983. "He was one of the rare geniuses...his influence on his generation is immeasurable," said Fischer on his Facebook page. Kocsis had served as musical director of the National Philharmonic Orchestra since 1997 and became a household name among music fans from the United States to Japan as he took the ensemble on tour. He ... More The Jewish Museum opens first U.S. exhibition devoted to visionary designer and architect Pierre ChareauNEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum is presenting the first U.S. exhibition focused on French designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) from November 4, 2016 through March 26, 2017. Showcasing rare furniture, lighting fixtures, and interiors, as well as designs for the extraordinary Maison de Verre, the glass house completed in Paris in 1932, Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design brings together over 180 rarely-seen works from major public and private collections in Europe and the United States. It also addresses Chareaus life and work in the New York area, after he left Paris during the German occupation of the city, including the house he designed for Robert Motherwell in 1947 in East Hampton, Long Island. In his day Chareau was celebrated as a designer of exquisite furniture and stylish interiors, which he displayed ... More Natalia Fabia's newest body of work on view at Corey Helford GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Corey Helford Gallery presents Rainbeau Samsara," the newest body of work from Los Angeles-based figurative painter Natalia Fabia and her first solo show in four years. Natalia Fabia has been painting the female form in environments for years. After the birth of her daughter, Peribeau, and the sudden loss of her brother, her painting exploration has progressed. Fabia was drawn to the absolute truth of what remains of the physical body after one transitions; a tangible ash of our carbon frame, our stardust. It is this stardust that links us to the planets and cosmos, to the sand and dirt of the earth, and to each other. While so much of our existence and human experience is a mystery, Fabia found comfort through meditation, and in the knowingness she felt holding and even painting with human stardust, a tangible truth. In viewing this body ... More Guthrie Lonergan's debut solo exhibition at Honor Fraser Fallery opens in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery announces 2006, Guthrie Lonergan's debut solo exhibition. The exhibition will be on view through December 16, 2016. The videos and websites on view in 2006, most of which were produced in that year, are among Guthrie Lonergan's earliest artworks. They demonstrate an interest in what has become one of his central themes: the traces of humanity existing in the impersonal structures and aesthetics of the internet. The works in 2006 also exemplify Lonergan's ongoing exploration into the concept of the default as both an easy-to-use software preset and, more generally, a template for how we use language, pose for the camera, or perform other everyday interactions with technology. For Lonergan, choosing to exhibit these works a decade after their production also functions as a portrait of the years around 2006 as a transitional ... More Galerie Daniel Templon exhibits works by Anju DodiyaPARIS.- With How to be Brave (in pictures), Indian artist Anju Dodiya continues to explore the creative process. With this plea for bravery in an era marked by violence and political uncertainty, Anju Dodiya is questioning the challenges artist have to face. She uses the self-portrait to assume different roles, now an explorer, now a mythical hero. With her large-scale water colours teeming with detail and brightly coloured, meticulously executed miniatures based on Bible reproductions, Anju Dodiya elegantly and subtly constructs images of fear that become powerful ex-votos designed to keep it at arms length. Born in Mumbai in 1964 and a graduate of the Sir J.J. School of Art (Mumbai), Anju Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai. She is one of the best known contemporary artists on the Indian art scene. For the last fifteen years, her paintings have used the self-portrait form ... More Leonardo Da Vinci in Popular CultureNEW YORK, NY.- Leonardo Da Vinci has had a massive impact on popular culture to this day and is perhaps the painter that has remained in the conscience of even those with no particular interest in art more so than anyone else. Much of this is down to the fact that he was much more than an artist a polymath to be precise and that allows him to adapt to the interests of many individuals. He is of course the man behind the Mona Lisa, perhaps the most famous painting of all time, but his other works have served as the basis for many derivatives. Today, we are going to take a closer look at just how Da Vinci remains at the forefront of our thoughts through his prominence in games, movies and more with some being a little more tongue in cheek than others. The Da Vinci Code and its sequels are some of the best performing novel and movie series of all-time and while ... 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More Lennon Weinberg exhibits works by Carl PalazzoloNEW YORK, NY.- Carl Palazzolo has described the central themes of his work as memory and the passage of time, impermanence and loss, longing and desire. He has employed many different images and motifs to express his sensibility, sometimes mediated through references to other artists, from Monet to Sargent to Johns, as well as Italian filmmakers of the 1960s. The Hours, 2014, is composed of twenty-four canvasses arranged in a grid of four rows of six. Each canvas is a satisfyingly complete painting, but the composition in its entirety broadly summarizes key aspects of his recent work. Clouds, numbers, rose petals and an ensemble of evocative objects a yardstick, a light bulb, a clock, an unfolded cloth, a folded pink shirt are all caught in the embrace of minimalist yet painterly abstract fields. The painting furthers the dialogue between ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán was born November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598; died August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: A visitor looks at Pablo Picasso's 1911-1912 oil on canvas "Homme a la guitare", left, next to Francisco de Zurbaran's 1630-1634 oil on canvas "Saint-Francois d'Assise dans sa tombe" exhibited at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
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