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Eighteen years have passed since the 1998 Maya exhibition in Venice, and Italy once again is able to experience the story of a civilization that never ceases to fascinate us with its understanding of mathematics, its extremely precise calendar systems and its artistic achievements.
VERONA.- The halls of the Palazzo della Gran Guardia are opening to the mystery and allure of one of the most interesting pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas: over 250 works from Mexico's leading museums make up the exhibition Maya. Il linguaggio della bellezza, from 8 October 2016 until 5 March 2017. Maya. Il linguaggio della bellezza is an exhibition of the Government of Mexico, the Mexican Ministry of Culture and the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History), the most important institution of Mexico's Ministry of Culture, and is curated by Karina Romero Blanco. Eighteen years have passed since the 1998 Maya exhibition in Venice, and Italy once again is able to experience the story of a civilization that never ceases to fascinate us with its understanding of mathematics, its extremely precise calendar systems and its artistic achievements. The exhibition - the result of special focus on the specifically artistic themes of the civilization - features sculptures, monumental ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows a part of two busts whose faces were hammered away by Isis members at Palmyra's Museum in Syria, as part of an exhibition called "Rising from Destruction Ebla, Nimrod, Palmyra" presented at the ancient Colosseum, on October 6, 2016 in Rome. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opens landmark exhibition of William Merritt Chase | | Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presents Golden Age artist Hercules Segers retrospective | | Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits works by follower of Caravaggio Valentin de Boulogne |
William Merritt Chase (American, 18491916), Self-Portrait, about 1884. Pastel on laminated paperboard with a sand coating. An MFA Honorary Trustee and Her Spouse. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- William Merritt Chase (18491916) was a brilliant colorist, inventive designer and engaging storyteller. Praised for his observations of contemporary life, he was a leading American Impressionist, influential teacher and prominent international figure at the turn of the 20th century. William Merritt Chase, the first retrospective of the artists career in more than three decades, features approximately 80 of Chases finest works in both oil and pastel, drawn from public and private collections across the US. The show opens with a glimpse into the artists studio, which served as a stage for his imagination and became a colorful backdrop for many of his paintings. Thematic groupings in the galleries explore his range of subjectsfrom jewel-like landscapes and urban park scenes to portraits of modern women and shimmering still lifes. Examining all four decades of his ... More | |
Hercules Segers, View of Rhenen from the North, Oil on panel, c. 1620-1630 (detail). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
AMSTERDAM.- On 7 October 2016 the Rijksmuseum opensed the first full retrospective of the work of Hercules Segers, one of the most mysterious and experimental artists of the Golden Age. His strange and wonderful mountain landscapes and endless vistas bear witness to an unbounded imagination. Segers was a truly pioneering etcher, developing wholly individual, arcane techniques for his colourful etchings. Poets and artists down through the ages have been inspired and fascinated by his poetic and melancholic paintings and prints. Rembrandt owned no fewer than eight of his paintings. From 7 October 2016 to 8 January 2017, a total of eighteen paintings and a hundred and ten impressions of fifty-four prints are on show in the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition then moves to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Hercules Segers (1589/90-1633/40) was an artist, like Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn, who ... More | |
Valentin de Boulogne (French, Coulommiers-en-Brie 15911632 Rome), Samson, 1631. Oil on canvas, 53 3/8 x 40 1/2 in. (135.6 x 102.8 cm). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund (inv. 1972.50)
NEW YORK, NY.- The greatest French follower of Caravaggio (15711610), Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) was also one of the outstanding artists in 17th-century Europe. In the years following Caravaggios death, he emerged as one of the most original protagonists of the new, naturalistic painting. Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio is the first monographic exhibition devoted to this artist who is little known because his career was short-livedhe died at age 41and his works are so rare. Around 60 paintings by Valentin survive, and this exhibition brings together 45 of them, with works coming from Rome, Vienna, Munich, Madrid, London, and Paris. Exceptionally, the Musée du Louvre, which possesses the most important and extensive body of Valentins works, lent all of its paintings by the artist. Not since 1973, when an exhibition of the French followers of ... More |
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| Sotheby's London announces rare and exquisite objects in its Arts of the Islamic World sale | | Exhibition of masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum's acclaimed Egyptian collection opens in Dallas | | Exhibition at Museo del Prado presents different depictions of a single subject: The Immaculate Conception |
A portrait of Sultan Bayezid I, School of Veronese, Italy, circa 1580 (est. £150,000-200,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys Arts of the Islamic World auction on 19 October 2016 will present rare and exquisite objects that tell the story of over a thousand years of artistic exchange and influence in the Islamic world. This Octobers sale will open with a selection of fifty manuscripts and calligraphies from the renowned collection of the late Jafar Ghazi. Each of these works bears witness to the high esteem in which calligraphy was held in Turkey, the Middle East and Persia from the medieval period up until the end of the Ottoman era. Further highlights include a beautiful turquoise-set and enamelled necklace from North India, known as The Palmerston Necklace, exemplifying the high quality craftsmanship of Indian jewellers in the nineteenth century; a silver-inlaid tray stand from Mamluk Egypt typifying the calligraphic monumentality so favoured by high-ranking Mamluk patrons and a rare ... More | |
Figurine of a Standing Lion-Headed Goddess Faience. Overall: 3 1/4 x 13/16 x 7/8 in. (8.3 x 2 x 2.3 cm), back pillar: 5/16 x 1/4 in. (0.8 x 0.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.943E.
DALLAS, TX.- Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt showcases the diverse representations of felines from the world-famous Egyptian holdings of the Brooklyn Museum. From domesticated cats to mythic symbols of divinities, felines played an important role in ancient Egyptian imagery for thousands of years. The exhibition, which explores the roles of cats, lions, and other feline creatures in Egyptian mythology, kingship, and everyday life, is on view October 9, 2016, through January 8, 2017, at the Dallas Museum of Art. We are pleased to be able to share these ancient Egyptian artifacts from the Brooklyn Museums remarkable holdings with the North Texas community, said Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, the Museums Eugene McDermott Director. This exhibition examines the relationship ancient Egyptians had with cats, ... More | |
Inmaculada Concepción. Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Ãleo sobre lienzo, 101,2 x 77,3 cm h. 1635. Donación Plácido Arango Arias, 2015. / The Immaculate Conception. Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Oil on canvas, 101.2 x 77.3 cm. Ca. 1635. Donación Plácido Arango Arias, 2015.
MADRID.- Following the generation donation made last year by Plácido Arango, the Museo del Prado is organising a new special presentation which on this occasion brings together a group of works within the donation that all share the same subject-matter, that of the Immaculate Conception, one of the most frequently depicted themes among Spanish Golden Age artists, which they used to express changing ideals of female beauty. Painted between 1630 and 1680, this specially selected group of works allows for an understanding of how the subject of the Immaculate Conception varied between two types: one that emphasised intimacy, reflection and concentration, and another that made use of Baroque formulas expressed in dynamic, colourful ... More |
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| Portland Art Museum presents the largest Warhol print retrospective ever | | Major architectural pavilion launches in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park | | Through Dennis Hopper's lens: Paddle8 launches immersive sale |
Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger (II.143), 1975. Screenprint, 43 1/2 x 29 in. Courtesy of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. ©2016. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum is presenting Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This major retrospective exhibition of approximately 250 Andy Warhol prints and ephemera from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer is the largest of its kind ever to be presented. It spans two floors of the Museum and includes instantly recognizable images such as Warhols iconic Campbells Soup Can (Tomato) and Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn). Printmaking was a vital artistic practice for Andy Warhol. Prints figure prominently throughout his career from his earliest work as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to the collaborative silkscreens made in the Factory during the 60s and the commissioned portfolios of his ... More | |
Tamayo DWM Project 2016: Museum of Immortality by Nikolaus Hirsch Michel Müller © Alberto Jurtega.
MEXICO CITY.- For its 8th edition, which hosts Germany as Guest Country, Design Week Mexico is presenting in collaboration with Museo Tamayo, a major public architectural pavilion designed by leading German architects Nikolaus Hirsch / Michel Muller. Until Spring 2017, the pavilion will become a significant cultural attraction of Chapultepec Park, Mexico Citys largest public park, for everyone to enjoy. Based on a concept developed by prominent German philosopher Boris Groys, A Museum of Immortality was originally mounted as an exhibition in Beirut, curated by artist and e-flux co-founder Anton Vidokle. The project draws on 19th Century Russian philosopher Nikolai Federovs notion of the Common Task, which considers the creation of the technological, social and political conditions to resurrect all men who have ever lived. The pavilion and its artistic narrative virtually transform Museo Tamayo into a machine for ... More | |
Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol (with flower), 1963. Gelatin silver print, 12 x 18 in (30.48 x 45.72 cm). Estate stamped and authenticated on verso. Printed later.
NEW YORK, NY.- The leading online auction platform for art and luxury collectibles Paddle8 is presenting a selection of photographs and billboards created by Dennis Hopper, acclaimed actor, director, photographer and artist. The sale The Artist: Dennis Hopper, which was curated in collaboration with the Hopper Art Trust, runs from October 4 through October 27 and will offer 18 rare works by the American icon, consisting of special edition prints created exclusively for Paddle8 and three unique billboards. Between 1961 and 1967, before making his directorial debut in 1969 with the landmark counterculture film Easy Rider, Hopper took thousands of pictures, primarily candid shots of bikers, hippies, actors, musicians, and artists. These relaxed and intimate photographs show Hoppers strength as a portrait photographer, including ... More |
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| Design: 1900 to Now; Christie's announces design season of sales in London | | Jacob Lawrence's famous "Migration Series" reunites at the Phillips Collection | | David Zwirner opens exhibition of collaborative works by Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon |
Carlo de Carli chairs. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
LONDON.- This season a strong selection of 20th century Design will be featured across both Design and Historical Design sales in London on 26 October 2016. The auctions will present a varied selection of architect-designed works from around the world, from Brazil to China, with a strong emphasis on Italian and Nordic mid-century design. Works on offer include furniture, lighting, sculpture, ceramics, glass and metalwork by the leading designers of the last 120 years. Estimates range from £2,000 to £200,000. The Design sale is led by Cinderella Table of 2004 by Jeroen Verhoeven (estimate: £70,000 - £100,000). Inspired by 17th and 18th century archetypal shapes of tables and commodes he found in the library of the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, his references to the outline of an 18th century dressing table on cabriole legs, and an 18th century commode, are brought into sharp relief by their juxtaposition in a work of startling 21st century cutting-edge innovation ... More | |
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains., 194041 (detail). Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, all 60 panels of the masterwork The Migration Series by renowned African American 20thcentury artist Jacob Lawrence are on display at The Phillips Collection in People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrences Migration Series. A powerful visual epic, The Migration Series (194041) documents the historic movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North more than a century ago. Reuniting 30 panels owned by the Phillips with 30 panels on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, Lawrences complete series is on display beginning October 8, 2016, and will run until January 8, 2017. This exhibition builds on the museums rich and meaningful ... More | |
It is big big business (or We sport and necessitate one another, thought to brush, word to image hand in hand for the greatest interest of writing thou art) (detail), 2016. Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper, 101 x 392 inches (256.5 x 995.7 cm). Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting Let us compare mythologies, an exhibition of collaborative works by Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, two artists who have both been represented by the gallery since the mid-1990s. On view at THE UPPER ROOM at the gallerys London location, this presentation follows their show earlier this year, titled Forgetting the Hand, at David Zwirner, New York. Dzama and Pettibons collaboration began in the summer of 2015 with the artists swapping the first of a series of drawings to be completed by the other. In a variation of the exquisite corpse methodwherein a partner is only given portions of an otherwise concealed drawing to work onthey developed each others compositions through improvisational illustration, collage, ... More |
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Sotheby's announces auction of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art in London
LONDON.- Sothebys auction of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art in London will be held on 18 October 2016, following a highly successful sale in New York in March. This 78 lot auction includes a truly impressive range of paintings and sculpture by Modern masters, from storied collections with stellar provenances. Leading the sale is a luminescent and meditative painting by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde from 1973. Further highlights include a moving, large-scale painting of The Deposition by Francis Newton Souza and important works from wider South Asia by Ali Imam Raza, one of the founders of Modernism in Pakistan, alongside works by Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Sadequain. This sale opens with a collection of never-before-seen Indian works from the Swiss collection of Herr Dölf Amacker. Herr Amacker lived in India from 1947 to 1961; his 21 lot collection is a ... More
Works by Yu Youren and exceptional Chinese textiles to be offered at Clars Auction Gallery
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery announced they will be offering important calligraphy works by Chinese master Yu Youren as part of their October 15th and16th Asian art and Antiques, Fine Art, Decorative Arts, Furnishings and Jewelry Sale. In addition, this event will also feature a vase designed by Yako Hodo (Japanese, b. 1956) and a number of extraordinary Chinese textiles. Yu Youren, (Chinese, 1879-1964), was both a scholar of calligraphy and is regarded as one of Chinas modern masters. His works are highly desirable by collectors. Clars first offering of Yourens work during their September sale was extremely well received by the market. A set of four Yu Youren calligraphy dedicated to his son Yu Wangde in 1951, came to the sale with an estimate of $30,000-50,000, but sold for 57,475. Two of his seals each realized an impressive ... More
Wadsworth Atheneum opens first U.S. exhibition by artist Dulce Chacón
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art features Mexico City artist Dulce Chacón in her debut exhibition in the United States, and her first solo endeavor outside of Mexico. "Fallen Angels," featuring 70 of the artist's skillfully rendered drawings, is the 175th installation of the museum's groundbreaking MATRIX contemporary art program. The exhibition runs through Jan. 8, 2017. Chacón's distinctive, ink wash drawings have been recognized globally through major group shows in Asia, Central America, Europe and South America. Her work typically addresses memory and the perception of time. In her project for the Wadsworth Atheneum, Chacón studies the ephemeral nature of news imagery while also probing the odd relationship between Earth and the heavens posed by the age of human flight. Beginning with familiar images obtained ... More
MACBA presents its new team and advance programme
BARCELONA.- After open processes of selection, the Museums team has been completed with the appointments of a new Chief Curator, Tanya Barson, previously Curator of International Art at Tate Modern; a new Head of Programming, Pablo MartÃnez, previously responsible for Education and Public Activities at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; and a new Chief Executive Officer, Josep M. Carreté, who will contribute his wide experience in the heritage and museum sector, as well as strategic planning. At the same time, MACBA has appointed a new Assessing Committee formed by Catherine David, Chris Dercon, Estrella de Diego and Cuauhtémoc Medina, internationally recognised professionals who will contribute the experience of their long-established institutional careers and comprehensive knowledge of contemporary art to MACBAs long-term planning. ... More
Exhibition of large-scale color photographs by Andrew Moore opens at Joslyn Art Museum
OMAHA, NE.- Photographer Andrew Moore has worked along the 100th meridian for the past decade, drawn to its mythic past and the people who call the High Plains home. Based out of Rushville, Nebraska, for much of this project, Moore found an unassuming landscape that revealed a long history of challenging weather, repeated drought, and ongoing cycles of economic boom and bust. Set within the context of this demanding legacy, however, he also discovered the vitality of its inhabitants and the elegance of the plains spare topography. Although literally the center of the United States, its sparse population teeters between geographic isolation and its prominent role in national and global markets for agriculture, energy, and natural resources. Moore sets this dynamic against the enduring myths of a quintessentially American landscape, balancing the weight ... More
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia unveils young Australian artists in Primavera
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia unveiled the works by the eight artists included in Primavera 2016: Young Australian Artists, guest curated by Emily Cormack. The artists featured in the 25th edition of Primavera are Steven Cybulka (SA), Pia van Gelder (NSW), Biljana Jancic (NSW), Ruth McConchie (QLD), Adelle Mills (VIC), Mira Oosterweghel (VIC), Emily Parsons-Lord (NSW) and Danae Valenza (VIC). Each artist created new work for the exhibition. In 1992, Primavera was initiated by Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM and their family in memory of their daughter and sister Belinda. Since then, it has showcased the works of artists and curators, many of whom have gone on to exhibit nationally and internationally. MCA Director, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE said: Primavera, an exhibition devoted to promoting artists ... More
Sotheby's announces highlights from its 20th Century Art / Middle East auction
LONDON.- A vibrant and exciting international platform for modern and contemporary arts from North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and Iran in London, Sothebys 20th Century Art / Middle East auction on 20 October will once again star highly-sought after masterpieces. The auction will comprise seminal works by the most celebrated artists from the region, from Monir Farmanfarmaian and Ali Banisadr to Mahmoud Mokhtar and Shakir Hassan Al Said. This follows the successful results for Sothebys Middle Eastern art sales in April in London, with the first-ever single-owner Modern and Contemporary Iranian sale and the relaunched Contemporary sale achieving seven new artist records. The auction will offer 56 lots, with a combined pre-sale estimate of £1,594,5002,068,500. Bringing together a treasure-trove of artworks from across continents and cultures, ... More
The Lehman College Art Gallery presents "Bedazzled"
BRONX, NY.- See works encrusted with sequins and rhinestones, embellished with silver and gold leaf, and mesmerizing in a rainbow of geometric patterns. The exhibition shows us that too much of a good thing . . . is never enough. Bedazzled implies amazement, to be overwhelmed to the point of confusion; going beyond our senses and reason. This lush exhibition of 43 artists includes work that seduces with glitz and glamour, and allures with a sense of magic and mystery. The exhibition presents a broad range of mediapainting, installation, sculpture, printmaking, and digital mediathat entice the viewer, while blurring the boundaries between the aesthetic experience and enchantment. The artists represented in the exhibition are themselves a bedazzling array of famous names, mid-career artists and freshly emerging local talents, whose colorful ... More
Contemporary artist Lorenzo Quinn exhibits new sculptures at Halcyon Gallery
LONDON.- On 4 October 2016, contemporary artist, Lorenzo Quinn, launched his new exhibition at Halcyon Gallery, London. Internationally renowned as one of the most popular sculptors of our times, the exhibition showcases Quinns artistic progression and his experimentation with new mediums and subject matter to transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions. I am inspired everyday by life, books, poems, my encounters with people, my experiences, however brief: sculpture is a part of who I am, it always has been. I am delighted to be working together with Halcyon Gallery and to be given the opportunity to put together a collection of my works to share with the world, Lorenzo Quinn. Echoing the meticulous execution and technique of the Masters of the past, Quinn often employs age-old icons and symbols within his work which he creates employing ... More
Lloyd Hamrol/Joan Perlman: "a sky in the palm of a hand" on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art is presenting Lloyd Hamrol/Joan Perlman: a sky in the palm of a hand. On view in the PMCAs Back Gallery, the exhibition pairs Lloyd Hamrols site-specific, industrial felt sculptures and Joan Perlmans abstract paintings, prints, and video creating an immersive, multimedia environment that provides a platform to consider the related ideas and sharp distinctions between two artists investigations of materials, processes, impermanence, and landscape. Though Hamrol and Perlman have an ongoing, collegial dialogue, the two Los Angeles-based artists have never exhibited together. A sky in the palm of a hand, the title of which is taken from W.S. Merwins poem No Shadow and alludes to the conundrum of reconciling intimacy and distance as well as the ephemerality of observable moments and entities, brings ... More
Sotheby's to offer rare & historical miniatures of outstanding provenance
LONDON.- Formed over four decades, the Khosrovani-Diba collection comprises predominantly Indian miniatures by Mughal masters as well as fine paintings and works of art of the Rajasthani, Pahari and Company Schools. Each work in the prestigious collection was chosen with an eye for quality, rarity and historical importance. The auction will take place in London on 19 October 2016, comprising thirty-five beautifully-preserved pieces with a combined pre-sale estimate of £1,002,000 -1,486,000. Sir Elijah Impey, his wife, Lady Impey, and their family moved to Calcutta in 1774 following his appointment as Chief Justice in Bengal under the East India Company. As their exotic menagerie of pets grew, so did Lady Impeys interest in the natural history of the region. She employed three known artists, all trained in the Mughal tradition, to record their animals and birds on a true- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange died October 10, 1965. Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: A large photo of "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange hangs in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum with the other photos, background, that Lange took while photographing the mother and children, as part of the "This Great Nation Will Endure" exhibit on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, in Hyde Park, N.Y.
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