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Raphael, Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, ca. 1514 - 1515 © National Gallery of Art, Washington.
VIENNA.- Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Raphael completes the triumvirate of Italian Renaissance artists. Moreover, the world-famous drawings of this prematurely deceased master (14831520) make him one of art historys great draftsmen. The Albertina Museum is now paying tribute to Raphael with a major exhibition of 150 paintings and drawings. Starting from the Albertina Museums own significant holdings and rounded out by the most beautiful and important drawings from prominent museums such as the Uffizi, the Royal Collection of the British Royal Family, the British Museum, the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, and the Ashmolean Museum, this monographic presentation places Raphaels thinking and conceptual process front and center: featured works range from initial spontaneous artists impressions to virtuosic detail studies, compositional studies, and the completed paintings themselves. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 27 September, "NASA. A Human Adventure" is on view in Italy for the first time.
| Exhibition displays over 400 photographs, paintings, and objects from the personal collection of Walker Evans | | Christie's opens a major exhibition that explores the power of the line in the 20th and 21st century | | René Magritte's 'L'empire des lumières' highlights Christie's Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art | 
Walker Evans, Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931; gelatin silver print; private collection, San Francisco; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the exclusive United States venue for the retrospective exhibition Walker Evans, on view September 30, 2017, through February 4, 2018. As one of the preeminent photographers of the 20th century, Walker Evans 50-year body of work documents and distills the essence of life in America, leaving a legacy that continues to influence generations of contemporary photographers and artists. The exhibition encompasses all galleries in the museum's Pritzker Center for Photography, the largest space dedicated to the exhibition, study and interpretation of photography at any art museum in the United States. Conceived as a complete retrospective of Evans work, this exhibition highlights the photographers fascination with American popular culture, or vernacular, explains Clément Chéroux, senior curator ... More | | 
Piet Mondrian, Tableau, with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1923 (detail). Oil on canvas, 21¼ x 21in. (54 x 53.5cm.). Courtesy Museu José Berardo, Lisbon. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- This season Christies will present About the Line, a major exhibition that explores the power of the line in the 20th and 21st century, featuring artists including Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Barbara Hepworth, Jasper Johns, Wassily Kandinsky, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Julie Mehretu, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Park Seo-Bo and Cy Twombly. About the Line demonstrates how the line is central to the development and character of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries able to challenge, blur and break the boundaries between the real and the abstract, the conceptual and the imaginary. The exhibition traces the line from the pioneering moments of Cubism through to Minimalism and Constructivism and culminates with work by some of the most celebrated contemporary artists working today. A highlight ... More | | 
René Magritte (1898-1967), Lempire des lumières, Painted in Brussels, 1949 (detail). Oil on canvas, 19.1/8 x 23.1/8 in. I Estimate: $14-18 million. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 13, Christies will offer René Magrittes Lempire des lumières, 1949 (estimate: $14-18 million) as a highlight of the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale. The present canvas is celebrated as one of the artists most iconic works and is the very first example that Magritte completed from his landmark Lempire des lumières series a theme that he would spend the subsequent fifteen years exploring. Coming from a private collection, Lempire des lumières, was first-owned by Nelson A. Rockefeller. It was acquired by Rockefeller in 1950, then chairman and president of Chase National Bank, while also serving in similar roles at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This marks the first time that this canvas has ever been offered at auction. Lempire des lumières, 1949 will be on public view at Christies Hong Kong from 28 September 3 October. Sharon ... More |
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| Naked artist's performance sparks controversy in Brazil | | Two concurrent and related exhibitions of works by Tom Wesselmann open in London | | Museums give peek into secret world of Yves Saint Laurent | 
Videos on social media showed Schwartz lying still and completely naked on the floor while a woman and her daughter crawled around him and touched his toes.
SAO PAULO (AFP).- An artist whose performance piece invites the public to manipulate his naked body caused controversy in Brazil after a young girl touched him, leading to an investigation. Brazilian choreographer Wagner Schwartz's work, "La Bete," was on exhibition Tuesday at the opening of the 35th Panorama of Brazilian Art at Sao Paulo's Museum of Modern Art (MAM). Videos on social media showed Schwartz lying still and completely naked on the floor while a woman and her daughter crawled around him and touched his toes. News reports say the girl appears to be about four years old. Her participation outraged many viewers, who compared the performance to pornography or pedophilia. After receiving several complaints, Sao Paolo's Public Prosecutor's Office Friday opened an investigation to determine if the MAM "is exposing children and adolescents to inappropriate content," juvenile prosecutor Eduardo Dias de Souza said. ... More | | 
Tom Wesselmann, Bedroom Painting #63, 1983. Oil on canvas, 99 3/4 x 110 1/2 inches 253.4 x 280.7 cm. © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann /Licensed by VAGA, New York. Courtesy Gagosian. Photo: Greg Allen.
LONDON.- Gagosian and Almine Rech Gallery announced two concurrent and related exhibitions of works by Tom Wesselmann in London. Organized in partnership with The Estate of Tom Wesselmann, both exhibitions highlight the bold approach to scale and color, art history and erotic representation that make Wesselmann one of the most inventive Pop artists of his time. Wesselmann first gained critical acclaim in the early 1960s for his Great American Nudeseries. Many of these lounging female subjects, with pouted lips and tan lines, were painted in patriotic red, white, and blue, combining the prototypes of Western figure paintingfrom Titian to Matissewith the high voltage of American advertising. After the Great American Nude paintings, Wesselmann shifted his focus, exploring more intimate, close-up views of the nude in the Bedroom Paintings. At Gagosian, a selection of Bedroom Paintings made between 1968 and 1983 reveals the full bre ... More | | 
Madison Cox poses for photographs at the new Yves Saint Laurent museum. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Yves Saint Laurent was one of greatest yet most private fashion designers of the 20th century. Now only weeks after the death of his partner and lover Pierre Berge, the hard-nosed business brain behind the legend and the keeper of the flame, some of the creator's innermost secrets are coming to light. The first of two new museums dedicated to his memory was inaugurated in Paris on Thursday as a raft of new books and documentaries -- including one on his erotic drawings -- attempt to decode the mysteries of the painfully shy man who revolutionised women's fashion. The Paris mansion where Saint Laurent shook up the dress codes for more than three decades has been turned into a museum for his haute couture creations. A much larger museum, also paid for by the foundation set up by Berge to safeguard his partner's legacy, opens next month in Marrakesh, the Moroccan city the couple loved and where Saint Laurent would often first sketch out his collections. "Coco Chanel liberated women, but Y ... More |
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| Haroon Mirza creates a new installation for Zabludowicz Collection's 2017 Annual Commission | | After 30 years 27 European paintings leave their permanent home to go to Hazelhurst Gallery | | Queensland Art Gallery unveils Australian art collection | 
Haroon Mirza, The System, 2014. Installation view, IMMA-Irish Museum of Modern Art. Courtesy hrm199, IMMA-Irish Museum of Modern Art and Lisson Gallery. Photo: Davey Moor.
LONDON.- Zabludowicz Collection announced its 2017 Annual Commission with British artist Haroon Mirza and his studio, hrm199. This exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of the Collection at its London home of 176 Prince of Wales Road. For this new exhibition, Haroon Mirza delves into our understanding of the relationship between matter and consciousness, truth and belief. He creates unique physical experiences at the intersection of art, architecture, sculpture, sound and music. Each of the works in the exhibition respond to the building, artworks and context of the Collection. For a Partnership Society centres on the notion that coexistence is a vital and positive force in a healthy society. The title is derived from a theory proposed in 1987 by American scholar and activist Riane Eisler. She described opposing social structures: the dominator model, namely matriarchy ... More | | 
Jean-Marc Nattier Madame de la Porte 1754. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gift of William Bowmore OBE 1992. Photo: AGNSW.
SYDNEY.- For the first time in more than 30 years, 27 magnificent works by some of the leading Italian, French and British artists of the High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Romantic periods left the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales for an exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, European Old Masters: 16th 19th Century. Dr Michael Brand, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said while we will miss those 27 works as they have been on the walls of the gallery for more than 3 decades, we are delighted to collaborate with Hazelhurst Regional Gallery to give people an opportunity to see some of the finest works in our European collection. This exhibition is the first occasion these important European paintings have been shown together outside their permanent home said Belinda Hanrahan, Director, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. We are thrilled the Art Gallery of New South Wales has ... More | | 
A.M.E. Bale (Australia VIC 1875-1955), Leisure moments. 1902. Oil on canvas. Purchased 1973. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
BRISBANE.- The Queensland Art Gallery │Gallery of Modern Art has unveiled its newly reconfigured Australian art collection with a display of more than 200 historical and contemporary works, as well as major new commissions by Australian artists Daniel Boyd, Sonja Carmichael, Dale Harding, Helen Johnson and Alick Tipoti. Acting Premier and Treasurer Curtis Pitt said QAGOMAs expansive, reimagined Australian Collection brings the Gallerys significant Australian art holdings together in a new and exciting way. This new presentation of the Australian Collection showcases the states Indigenous and contemporary works with the Gallerys historical Australian art, collected for more than 120 years, the Acting Premier said. The Australian Collection, within Josephine UIrick and Win Schubert Galleries of Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), also features significant new acquisitions and gifts such as Arthur ... More |
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| Exhibition of Brice Marden's new paintings opens at Gagosian | | Christie's announces highlights of three major design sales | | New Museum opens a major exhibition investigating gender's place in contemporary art and culture | 
Brice Marden in his studio, Tivoli, NY, June 2017. Photo by Eric Piasecki.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Brice Marden's new paintings, his first exhibition in London since the Serpentine Gallery in 2000. A singular painter who has extended and refined the traditions of lyrical abstraction, Marden is a master of color and touch, from the subtle, shimmering monochromes of his earlier career to the calligraphic compositions that characterize the last three decades. Recently, Marden has turned his attention to the qualities of monochrome again, turning his gaze to the expansive possibilities of terre verte (green earth), an iron silicate/clay pigment. Terre verte came into use during the Renaissance, its greenish hue and innate transparency serving as a base to balance flesh tones; Marden first used it in connection with the Grove Group paintings of the 1970s (exhibited at Gagosian New York in 1991). Since resuming his engagement with terre verte Marden has begun layering oil paint of this single ... More | | 
Hans Wegner (1914-2007), A Set of Six 'Cowhorn' Chairs, Model JH-505, Designed 1952. Estimate: £30,00050,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- This season, Christies London will be presenting a comprehensive selection of 20th Century Design offered in three major auctions on 18 October 2017: Design; Historical Design and the private collection of world-renowned couturier Wolfgang Joop. The sales will feature some of the most sought after works by British, European and Asian designers, spanning Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau to mid-century Italian and Nordic design, making it the perfect opportunity to explore design at its very best. Additionally, making its inaugural debut in the Design sale are 16 unique creations by contemporary Asian designers. Works on offer will include furniture, lighting, sculpture, ceramics, glass and metalwork by the leading designers of the last 120 years. The Design sale will showcase works from the second half of the ... More | | 
Christina Quarles, We Gunna Live With Water Fer Tha Resta Our Lives, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 50 Ã 40 in (127 Ã 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Castillo Gallery, Miami.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall the New Museum presents Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, a major exhibition investigating genders place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity. Occupying the three main floors of the New Museum, the exhibition is on view from September 27, 2017, to January 21, 2018. The New Museum has been committed to urgent ideas since its inception, devoting many exhibitions and programs over the years to issues of representation with regard to gender and sexuality: Extended Sensibilities (1982), Difference (198485), HOMO VIDEO (1986 87), and Bad Girls ... More |
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 Fiumano Projects opens exhibition of works by British artist Sam BurfordLONDON.- Fiumano Projects is presenting the solo exhibition, Fiat Lucks by British artist Sam Burford. The show opened Friday 29th September and runs until Friday 27th October. The title of the show is a playful juxtaposition that hints at aspects of Burfords artistic practice of imaging with light; Lucky imaging being the modern practice of visualising distant galaxies using highly sophisticated photographic methods and fiat lux - from the ancient latin proclamation let there be light. Burfords latest collection of works on canvas and Diasec represent a culmination of his exploration into the aesthetic qualities of time-lapse photography, a process that translates the transient animus of cinema into the stasis of the photographic image. Fiat Lucks introduces new developments from his studio practice, including work that examines the randomised statistical nature of visual inference, ... More Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017 finalists exhibit at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für GegenwartBERLIN.- This year, Sol Calero (born 1982 in Caracas), Iman Issa (born 1979 in Cairo), Jumana Manna (born 1987 in Princeton) and Agnieszka Polska (born in 1985 in Lublin) have been nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017 by an international jury. The museum prize is awarded every two years and pays tribute to artists under 40 who live and work in Germany. All four artistic positions, which are presented in a joint exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, are not just engaged in a purely artistic discourse. Producing art spanning several media at once, they rather use their work to reflect social processes. Jumana Manna makes films and sculptures that explore the ways in which social, political, and interpersonal forms of power interact with the human body. Her films weave together fact and fiction, autobiographical and archival materials, ... More Camden Arts Centre opens a major exhibition of new work by artist Nathalie Du Pasquier LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre presents a major exhibition of new work by Milan-based artist Nathalie Du Pasquier. Challenging modes of representation, her practice has comprised painting, drawing, sculpture, objects, and patterns for textiles, traversing boundaries between art and design. Du Pasquier became known in the early 1980s as a founding member of the Italian design collective Memphis. Since 1987 she has focused on painting, creating bold, abstract and still life compositions which play with architectural planes and perspective. For her exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Du Pasquier expands beyond the canvas to inhabit the entirety of the gallery spaces as a field of composition. Modular designs and geometric shapes cover the walls, transforming Galleries 1 and 2 into an immersive environment of constructed landscapes. As with her early design ... More Ulterior Gallery opens first U.S. solo exhibition by mixed-media artist Gaku TsutajaNEW YORK, NY.- Ulterior Gallery is presenting The Kingdom of Kitai, the first U.S. solo exhibition by mixed-media artist Gaku Tsutaja. Tsutaja creates narrative-based installations composed of multiple parts. Each aspect of the installation functions as a detail of a greater allegory that is based on historical and current incidents and events, or experiences that Tsutaja has re-lived as a proxy in the story. Tsutajas work is multivalent, combining disparate elements such as visual languages based on manga culture, a colloquial-style text, and sculptures of common objects. In this exhibition, a sound installation comprised of nine segments will be the guide through an intricately interrelated group of drawings and sculptures which cumulatively form a portal to Tsutajas story. Tsutaja draws inspiration from post-World War II Japan, the years in which the country rebuilt its devastated ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals to offer the John Pence Collection of Academic Realists & Abstract ArtSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents The John Pence Collection of Academic Realists & Abstract Art on Sunday, October 22, 2017, at 10:30 am PDT. John Pence, founder and owner of the largest art gallery in San Francisco and one of the premier academic realist galleries in the U.S., recently retired from his eponymous firm after 44 years in business. The online auction features artworks from Mr. Pences personal collection, supplemented with works from his gallery. The focus of Mr. Pences own assemblage and his gallery is on academic realists, abstract works, and significant works from the 19th and early 20th centuries that inspired them. The Pence Collection will be offered for sale in two parts: the first on October 22 and the second in early 2018. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, John Pence attended Wabash College for men, ... More Los Angeles Modern Auctions announces top lots for its 25th Anniversary AuctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions announced the top lots from its fine art and design pieces as a part of its 25th anniversary auction. The October 22, 2017 Modern Art & Design Auction speaks to LAMAs versatility and strength in the global, modern marketplace with its inclusion of a selection of specially curated pieces with wide variety of movements, regions and mediums of modern art and design. The top lot of the auction is an early and iconic work by Ken Price, Astronauts in the Ocean (1960-1961) that was exhibited at LACMA, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. LAMA is thrilled to present such an important work by the acclaimed artist. A total of six works by Price will be offered in the October 22nd auction, a second being McShann (2004), which takes the recognizable form of the artists later work. This ... More 'The Art of Seating' at the Arkansas Arts Center presents a reflection on American design LITTLE ROCK, ARK.- The Arkansas Arts Center, the states leader in international, visual and performing arts, announces its newest featured exhibition, The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design. The exhibition is on view Sept. 29 through Dec. 31, 2017. The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design is the first comprehensive survey of American chair design. The 43 chairs featured in the exhibition hailing from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation in Jacksonville, Fla. document the rich and varied evolution of American design, illustrate the emergence of new technologies and materials, reflect changes in consumer taste, and illustrate social and cultural developments. Designed for function, each of these sculptural works possesses a unique story, revealing as much about its own creation as it does our collective national ... More Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 launches at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtGATESHEAD.- Showcasing new and recent fine art graduates, for the first time New Contemporaries launched at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and BALTICs project space at BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, from 29 September to 26 November 2017. The exhibition will then travel to Block 336, London, from 27 January to 3 March 2018. Selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 are: Raen Barnsley, Calum Bowden, Eleanor Breeze, Christy Burdock, Robbie Campbell, Neil Carroll, Sofia Caselli, Adam Castle & Ed Twaddle, Tereza Červeňová, Sarah Cockings & Harriet Fleuriot, Declan Colquitt, José R. Cordeiro, Jake Elwes, Darek Fortas, Rufus Roma Genn, Matthew Gough, Thomas Greig, Tom Hatton, Caitlin Hazell, Gabriella Hirst, Jack Howell Evans, Hettie James, Jack Killick, Carla Lavin, James Laycock, Gal Leshem, Melissa Magnuson, ... More Ship figureheads, canes highlight Heritage Auctions' Gentleman Collector SessionDALLAS, TX.- Ship figureheads, an assortment of unusual walking sticks and canes, and a collection from the estate of the antiques collector known as the "King of Hershey" (Pennsylvania) headlined the Gentleman Collector session that accounted for close to $1 million or nearly half the total sale value of Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts auction Sept. 22-25 in Dallas. "This was the highest grossing Gentleman Collector session of an estate auction to date, and we hope to do this in the spring and fall going forward," Heritage Auctions Vice President for Special Collections Nick Dawes said. "The items from the estate of Charles Schalebaum fared extremely well, taking in more than $400,000." The top lot among the Gentleman Collector sale was an English Carved and Polychromed Wood Ship's Figurehead: Admiral Lord Nelson, mid-19th century, which ... More Naples fights mafia -- with first bookshop in 50 yearsNAPLES (AFP).- In the hinterlands of Naples a revolution is afoot: locals tired of drug lords are taking the fight to the mafia and their weapon of choice is the humble book. Tucked away between squats and roadside traders of broken toys rises the first bookshop in nearly 50 years. The concrete sprawl of Scampia, a bastion of the ruthless Camorra organised crime group, was immortalised in the 2006 bestselling book "Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano and in a popular spin-off film and television series. Now one of the poorest areas in southern Italy is attempting to cast off the stereotype of Kalashnikov-wielding teens and get its young off the streets by flooding the turf with theatre, cinema and literature associations. The tower blocks, riddled with asbestos and divided by rubbish-strewn no-man's lands, were thrown up in the 1970s. "There has never been a bookshop ... More Jack Shainman Gallery opens exhibition of Andres Serrano's Torture (2015) NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Andres Serranos Torture (2015) at their newly renovated 20th Street gallery. This is Serranos first gallery exhibition in New York City in nine years. Serranos influential and transgressive career continues to push the limits of contemporary photography and ethics, and this most recent series unflinchingly examines the relationship between trauma and memory, violence and representation. Torture unfolded against the political backdrop of Abu Ghraib and the aftermath surrounding the disturbing photographs documenting detainee abuse. Serranos images of hooded men arise from our collective subconscious embedded through the repetitive visual bombardment of mass media. These works demonstrate the depth of human cruelty and indignation, the attestation of how far we can go when ... More Whitechapel Gallery opens the first major London retrospective of German artist Thomas RuffLONDON.- Thomas Ruff (b.1958, Zell am Harmersbach, Germany) began his career in the 1970s as a student at the renowned art school Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Known for taking a critical, conceptual approach to photography, Ruff explores themes as diverse as utopianism, suburbia, advertising culture, pornography and surveillance. From the 1970s to today, Ruff has worked in series, with each body of work making use of different image-making technologies. The exhibition titled Thomas Ruff is curated by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick. It is the artists first major London retrospective, and includes a number of his most recent works. Organised thematically, it begins with Ruffs exploration of questions of scale, the cosmic and the everyday. On show in the ground floor gallery is LEmpereur (1982), a sequence of eight images which depict ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Donna Karan was born October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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