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DESSAU-ROSSLAU.- The Bauhaus Museum Dessau opened today. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Dr Claudia Perren, Director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel, Dr Reiner Haseloff, Prime Minister of Sachsen-Anhalt, and Peter Kuras, Lord Mayor of the City of Dessau-RoÃlau, the doors to the exhibition Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The Collection officially opened on 8 September 2019 at 12.30 pm. "We are happy to be able to present the Bauhaus Museum Dessau to the public after just under two and a half years of construction," says Dr Claudia Perren, Director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. "Due to the uniqueness of our collection, we want to tell the story of the Bauhaus School in Dessau. There is no single image that can convey the heterogeneous and multi-faceted history of the Bauhaus. In our museum, our goal is to visualize the search movements that show how art and design could attain social releva ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day  The Eastern & Oriental Express departs on its âTiger Expressâ journey from Bangkok to Singapore in association with global charity initiative âSave Wild Tigersâ, to raise awareness of the plight of the worldâs critically endangered wild tigers. Passengers include Kim Jones, global artistic director, Dior Men, Melanie Blatt, singer from All Saints, Jaime Winstone, actress,Victoria Tang-Owen, creative director, Shanghai Tang, UK Master Chef winner Ping Coombes, and renowned British Chinese artist, Jacky Tsai who designed the external livery of two carriages. On arrival in Singapore on September 11, Jacky Tsaiâs original "Tigers in Wonderlandâ acrylic on canvas painting will be auctioned at the newly refurbished Raffles Hotel, to benefit 'Save Wild Tigersâ, whose founder Simon Clinton comments: âIf no action is taken wild tigers could be extinct in just 10 years. The âTiger Expressâ is set to raise awareness of this tiger crisis. Generating support for wild tigers from such high profile personalities reminds us all how special wild tigers are and why itâs essential we collectively all do our best to protect them from extinction.â Photo Philip North-Coombes, courtesy Art Porters Gallery
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 | | Koller offers a wide selection of quality works in its Old Master Paintings auction | | Andrew Jones Auctions' next DTLA Collections and Estates auction to be held on September 15 | | Kengo-Kuma designed Odunpazari Modern Museum opens in Turkey | 
Master of 1537 / Frans Verbeek (?), Portrait of a jester, circa 1550. Oil on panel. 33.9 Ã 24.6 cm. Estimate: CHF 500 000/700 000.
ZURICH.- The Old Master Paintings auction on 27 September features a striking mid-16th century portrait of a jester by the Master of 1537, possibly Frans Verbeeck (before 1530circa 1570). The artist has depicted the jester in a pose which illustrates the old Dutch proverb: iest door de vingers zien (to see something through ones fingers), meaning to turn a blind eye to the wrongdoings of others. This expressive and highly attractive oil on panel is expected to fetch between CHF 500,000 and 700,000 (lot 3012). Among the numerous high-quality works in this auction is a series of Italian gold-ground paintings, such as a crucifixion from the Marche School, 15th century (lot 3005, CHF 40,000/60,000), and a Madonna and Child by the Master of Marradi, circa 1500 (lot 3009, CHF 60,000/100,000). A highly elegant Mannerist work by Pier Francesco di Jacopi Foschi depicts the Madonna with Child and John ... More | | 
Roman marble bust of Emperor Vitellius after the Grimani Vitellius, with an overall height of 19 inches (est. $15,000-$20,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fall is nearly here and so is Andrew Jones Auctions next DTLA Collections and Estates auction, slated for Sunday, September 15th, to be held online and in the gallery at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, starting promptly at 10:30 am Pacific time. Internet bidding will be via LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The Andrew Jones Auctions gallery is the venue where bidders will find different, fun, quirky and out-of-the-ordinary accessories and furnishings, as well as luxe décor and statement pieces for the home, loft, gallery and retail space. The sale will include over 500 lots of Asian works of art, books and manuscripts, fine art, antiques, modern design, antiquities, rugs and vintage finds. We have so many great auctions lined up this fall, said company president Andrew Jones. Some are new themed events, some are popular mixed genre. Im excited for the season and excite ... More | | 
The largest installation to date by Japanese bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, at OMM by Kengo Kuma and Associates. © NAARO.
ESKISEHIR.- OMM Odunpazari Modern Museum, a major new museum and distinctive architectural landmark by Kengo Kuma and Associates celebrated its public opening today (Sunday 8 September). Founded by art collector and businessman Erol Tabanca, the museum is the first of its kind in Eskisehir, a university city in north west Turkey. OMMs innovative design, by the acclaimed Japanese architects behind the new V&A Dundee in the UK, provides a bright and spacious new home for the 1,000-piece collection of modern and contemporary art housed inside the museum. With its stacked timber design, inspired by the surrounding streetscape of Odunpazari and its history as a timber trading market, the 4,500m2 museum stands as a new landmark that reconnects the town with its heritage, and as a progressive cultural development for Eskişehir and the Central Anatolia region at large. ... More |
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| | Danysz Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Marcus Jansen | | Exhibition of works by Samuel Levi Jones opens at Galerie Lelong & Co. | | Metro Pictures exhibits six large photographs from Sara VanDerBeek's new series Women & Museums | 
Marcus Jansen, Blue Blood.
PARIS.- "Marcus is the innovator of Modern Expressionism. What initiated it for him, was the graffiti on the sides of subway trains when he traveled from the Bronx to Manhattan to sell his work on the street. This is somewhat reminiscent of Jackson Pollock learning to kneel with the Hopi Indians and throw sand to make sand pictures. That innovation may have been the beginning of Abstract Expressionism." - Jerome A. Donson, Former Director of The American Vanguard Exhibitions in Europe (Action Paintings), 1961, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, NY) Once upon a time
here is a true fairy tale in the world of contemporary art that we discover through the life of Marcus Jansen. Noticed primarily by the American curator Jérôme Donson who organized exhibitions of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline in the 1960s, Marcus Jansen did not know any path or ease. It is precisely Marcus Jansen's special ... More | | 
Samuel Levi Jones, Extract, 2019. Pulped law books on canvas, 50.5 x 45 inches (128.3 x 114.3 cm). © Samuel Levi Jones. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Samuel Levi Jones: Mass Awakening, an exhibition that examines how the artist has broadened his scope of unmaking and remaking objects to question their moral and ethical implications. For the past decade, Jones has taken materials across varying disciplines to deconstruct and mend their associated, often unjust histories. From pulped outmoded books to stripped-apart sports equipment, the exhibition aggregates a wide-ranging body of work to consider how seemingly different narratives correlate. As Jones says, To what extent do these forms of atrocity, when seen only in isolation, prevent us from understanding how our struggles against them are connected? Jones begins by locating the human stakes within the archives, in both their material and abstract forms. Reconfigured law books, for example, prompt ... More | | 
Sara VanDerBeek, Women & Museums IV, 2019. Dye sublimation print, 96 x 48 inches (image) 243.8 x 121.9 cm. 96 3/4 x 48 3/4 inches (frame) 245.7 x 123.8 cm. Edition 1 of 1, 1 AP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sara VanDerBeek presents six large photographs from her new series Women & Museums in Metro Pictures' upstairs gallery. Exploring the female body as a site of production and reproduction, VanDerBeek worked using existing light in multiple museums across Europe and the United States to capture on film a more sensorial experience of museum objects. The artists selections in this presentation were informed by in-depth research with museum staff at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts during her recent exhibition there, as well as VanDerBeeks intuitive response to objects that resonated with her experiences as an artist, mother and woman. This presentation makes the multifaceted and complex nature of interpreting material cultures evident, while also underscoring the role of ... More |
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| | Interior designer Nicky Haslam's collection to be offered at Bonhams | | Annet Gelink Gallery exhibits photographs from Ed van der Elsken's legendary photo book Sweet Life | | McKenzie Fine Art opens an exhibition of new abstract paintings and drawings by Gary Petersen | 
The Hunting Lodge, home of Nicky Haslam. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Nicky Haslam, one of the worlds most celebrated interior designers, is offering his impressive collection from the Hunting Lodge, in Hampshire, where Haslam has lived since 1978. Nickys collection of paintings, furniture, sculpture, antiques and books are to be offered for sale on Wednesday 20 November at Bonhams New Bond Street. The house is the backdrop to Haslams much-loved possessions, featuring furniture dating from the 19th and 20th century, wonderful French terracotta busts, works of art by well-known artists Leon Kossoff, Graham Sutherland, Cecil Beaton and Eric Gill and books inscribed and signed by figures such as Andy Warhol and more. Bonhams Director of House Sales and Private Collections, Charlie Thomas, said, This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to snap up a piece of design history. We are delighted to be able to offer Nickys substantial collection at Bonhams, from the Gothic Revival ga ... More | | 
Ed van der Elsken, Call and Ruby in front of their museum, Mojave Desert, USA, 1960 (detail).
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting an exhibition with a special selection of photographs from Ed van der Elskens legendary photo book Sweet Life (1966). August 1959, exactly 60 years ago, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) and his wife Gerda van der Veen set off on a fourteen-month journey around the world: to West and South Africa, the Malaysian Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States and Mexico. In order to find funding for their travels, one of the commissions Van der Elsken took on was to report for the Katholieke Illustratie. During their travels Van der Elsken would regularly provide them with a report with photos and texts. But Van der Elskens main goal was making a book. His book Sweet Life was published in 1966 and appeared in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, the United States, France and Japan. Van der Elsken took care of the design of the book himself: after five different drafts and s ... More | | 
Out of Hand, 2019, acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- McKenzie Fine Art commenced the fall season with an exhibition of new abstract paintings and drawings by Gary Petersen. In his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Petersen continues to hone his take on geometric abstraction. While hard-edged, his paintings are not reductive; rather, they are imbued with an over-the-top exuberance. He starts a painting with an arrangement of irregular lines, grids and nesting shapes, followed by a thin wash of transparent white. The wash partially obscures the underpainting, creating a muted substructure onto which he builds vivid polychromatic compositions of geometric shapes and emphatic linear elements. Working in acrylic, and with sections of oil paint in some newer work, Petersen uses tape to mask his geometries as they accumulate. Rather than planning his compositions in advance, he proceeds intuitively, with one decision ... More |
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| | Niccolò Moronato opens an exhibition at Royal College of Art's Dyson Gallery, in London | | Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery opens a solo exhibition of Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese | | The Donum Estate unveils its latest commission: Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) by Doug Aitken | 
The project is grounded on a series of large-scale mark-makings, using 20th-century navigation and bathymetric charts from all over the world, graphite, and ink.
LONDON.- Firmament is an ongoing artistic exploration of an alternative side of the sky. It stems from a collaboration with the Space Visualization Department of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, which enabled artist Niccolò Moronato to shift the point of astronomical observation to a recently discovered second Earth (named Trappist-1e), 40 light-years away from us, and to take a snapshot of the sky above it. The Trappist vault is a sky with no orientation, where the stars we know are in completely different positions, and our own constellations can no longer serve their original purposes. To change perspective on the sky means to relate with it as an object and possibly observe it as public space, re-defined and re- ... More | | 
The Beetles series.
HONG KONG.- Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition of Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese (b.1969), entitled Seven Dimensions, showcasing a total of 35 pieces of sculptures in three series Extra Moenia, The Guardians and The Beetles. Born in Milan in 1969, Matteo Pugliese is one of the few contemporary artists who skillfully synthesizes classical Italian tradition with contemporary, multi-cultural ideas. He received his degree in Modern literature at the University of Milan with a graduation thesis on Art criticism in 1995. Since his first solo exhibition in 2001, he has held over thirty solo exhibitions in Italy and major cities throughout the world in New York, Rome, Hong Kong, London, Antwerp, Lugano, etc. Passing through walls as if traveling between the past, the present and the next life, or traversing between different worldly situations, Matteo Puglieses ... More | | 
Doug Aitken, Sonic Mountain (Sonoma), 2019. Photo: Robert Berg.
SONOMA, CA.- The Donum Estatethe award-winning Pinot Noir producer featuring a monumental sculpture collectionunveiled Sonic Mountain (Sonoma), a commissioned site-specific artwork by artist Doug Aitken. Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) is situated within Donums lush eucalyptus grove. Mimicking a wind chime, the installation responds to changes in the surrounding environment and creates patterns of sound as wind moves through it. As a living and interactive artwork, Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) explores the fluidity of time by creating a continuously evolving experience that is activated by the surrounding landscape. Working across and defying traditional understandings of genre, Aitken has developed a wide-ranging practice that extends from filmmaking to installation and architecture. Major projects include Sleepwalkers ... More |
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 A rare blue diamond ring by Van Cleef & Arpels highlights Bonhams Jewels Sale in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced highlights of its upcoming sale of New York Jewels on September 26, featuring exceptional diamonds and colored stones, an array of both antique and modern jewelry, together with signed pieces by the great houses such as Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, and Tiffany & Co. The sale comprises 144 lots with estimates ranging from $3,000 up to $1.2 million. A highlight exhibition tour will start at Bonhams Los Angeles on September 6-9, then to Bonhams Hong Kong on September 16-18 by appointment only, leading up to the full exhibition at Bonhams New York starting September 21 at noon. Highlighting the sale is a rare and impressive fancy colored diamond and diamond ring by Van Cleef & Arpels from a private collection (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). Graded Fancy Intense Blue, VVS2 and weighing ... More  Spanish singer Camilo Sesto dead at 72MADRID (AFP).- Camilo Sesto, a Spanish singer and composer of romantic ballads who scored a string of number one hits in a career that spanned decades, has died aged 72, his family said Sunday. "Dear friends, We are very sorry to inform you that our great and dear artist Camilo Sesto has just left us. Rest in peace," his family wrote on Sesto's official twitter account. Spanish public television TVE said he died from cardiac arrest at a Madrid hospital. Sesto, real name Camilo Blanes Cortes, sang in two pop bands during the 1960s before recording his first album "Algo De MÃ", or "Something of Me", in 1971. He went on to sell over 70 million albums, making him one of the most famous Spanish singers of all time. His notable hits include "¿Quieres ser mi amante?", or "Do you want to be my lover?", "El Amor de mi Vida", or "The Love of my Life", and "Perdoname" ... More  Pomona College Museum of Art opens an exhibition of works by Todd GrayCLAREMONT, CA.- The exhibition project Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris activates the Pomona College Museum of Arts largest gallery throughout the 2019/2020 academic year and consists of a site-specific wall drawing and an evolving selection of photographs from Grays ongoing artistic examination of the legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe. A series of monthly programs, Longing on a Large Scale, and a publication accompany the exhibition. Los Angeles-based artist Gray is known primarily for photography, performance, and sculptural works that explore contemporary and historical examinations of power in relationship to the African Diaspora. His work consists primarily of photographs from his own archive juxtaposed with one another, then mounted within found frames as a structuring device. In recent installations, he pairs images ... More  New space for contemporary art located in London opens with exhibition of works by Catherine StoryLONDON.- Cooke Latham Gallery, a new space for contemporary art located in Londons Battersea opened its third exhibition Pasquino by Catherine Story on the 6 September. Catherine Storys practice explores the intersections between two and three dimensionality, and the space between sculpture and painting. Informed by one another, her sculptural and painted works are theatrically rendered and influenced by the complex approaches of Cubism, lmpressionism and Art Deco architecture, especially pioneers of the 20th century such as Picasso, Chaplin and Joseph von Sternberg. "While making this show Im thinking again about symbols of connection and looking at sculptures that are often hidden or overlooked. Pasquino is the most famous of Romes talking statues, standing on a corner overlooking Piazza Braschi where it was unearthed ... More  Zimmerli spotlights Douglass alumnae and new photography acquisitionsNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers delves into its permanent collections to explore pivotal developments and trends in art with the exhibitions Women Artists on the Leading Edge: Celebrating Douglass College at 100 and Recent Acquisitions in Photography, which opened on September 3. Respectively, works by ten Douglass alumnae, who graduated between 1958 and 1969, reflect various stages of their careers and 26 photographs gifted to the museum represent a diverse range of subjects and techniques since the early 20th century. Both exhibitions are organized by Hannah Shaw, Graduate Curatorial Assistant, and Austin Losada, Mellon Post-Graduate Intern, with guidance from Donna Gustafson, the museums Curator of American Art and Mellon Director for Academic Programs. These endeavors highlight ... More  Xavier Hufkens announces representation of leading Chinese artist Zhang EnliBRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced the representation of leading Chinese artist Zhang Enli (b. 1965) and his inaugural exhibition with the gallery. In this presentation, the varied facets of the artists erudite and lyrical practice are brought to the fore in a thoughtful and representative selection of works spanning both gallery spaces. Zhang Enli is a painter whose oeuvre has gradually developed from visual interpretations of everyday objects to abstraction. Interested in the morphology of painting and its relationship to space, he works in both two and three dimensions and often creates works directly on the surfaces of walls or cardboard structures. In recent years, he has made a series of immersive, site-specific environments known as space paintings that push the boundaries of his chosen medium. Uniting this diverse yet coherent oeuvre ... More  Contemporary painter Alex Kanevsky's solo show opens at Hollis Taggart in ChelseaNEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart opened its second solo exhibition of works by contemporary painter Alex Kanevsky. The exhibition, titled Liberation and Disorientation, features a selection of Kanevsky's vibrant oil paintings, exploring a wide range of subjects, from land and seascapes to nudes to floral still lifes. Produced between 2018 and 2019-and most on view for the first time-the works highlight Kanevsky's singular ability to capture the fluidity of time, through a blending of figurative and abstract approaches and rich use of color. Kanevsky's paintings are imbued with emotional potency and the possibility of a narrative left untold. The exhibition will remain on view through September 28, 2019. Inspired by the concept of unstable equilibrium in physics, Kanevsky, who studied theoretical mathematics at Vilnius University in Lithuania ... More  The Contemporary Dayton opens exhibition featuring three of the country's most exciting emerging artistsDAYTON, OH.- The Contemporary Dayton is presenting its first exhibition of the 2019-2020 season, And Then Unfold, featuring artists Diana Behl (Cleveland born, living in Brookings, South Dakota), Jack St. John (Cleveland, Ohio), and Nishiki Sugawara-Beda (Dallas, Texas). The exhibition is curated by Eva Buttacavoli, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and is being presented September 6-October 26, 2019. The title, And Then Unfold, is a phrase that describes an action or process that alludes to the undoing or uncovering of something yet to be known. It also refers to process, as if coming from a list of instructions. Both aspects speak to each of the artists workin fact Behl says I love the references in the title, suggesting a slow-paced action; the unfolding of paper, maps, and letters; an ambiguity of not quite knowing what is next; the revealing ... More  Susanin's to offer artworks from the estate of Lt. Gen. Hanford MacNider and his son Jack MacNiderCHICAGO, IL.- An impressive collection of antique furniture and fine art from the estate of Lt. Gen. Hanford MacNider and his son, the industrialist Jack MacNider names synonymous with Mason City, Iowa, where they lived most of their lives will be a major component in Susanins Fall Premiere Auction on Friday, September 20th, online and in Susanins gallery in Chicago. Hanford MacNider (1889-1968), who also went by Jack, was a soldier, businessman, statesman and even a presidential candidate over a long and brilliant career, during which he served with distinction in both World Wars. His son Jack (1927-2000) was the former president and CEO of Northwestern States Portland Cement Company, which the family controlled from 1908-1990. Furniture from the MacNider estate will be led by an early 19th century American Sheraton pine quadruple ... More  A new body of works by British artist Nancy Cadogan on view at the Saatchi GalleryLONDON.- Mind Zero presents a new body of works by British artist Nancy Cadogan and marks her first solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. Nancys paintings reward those who look deeply and with care; they capture the joy of thoughtful observation, of delighting in the things we surround ourselves with. With this exhibition, Nancy goes beyond mere observation to reveal the inner workings of her mind through imagined compositions. Nancys paintings encourage the viewer to engage in mindful contemplation and explore how we inhabit the space, and the way ones mind flits between places, things and memories. There is an emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline, and optical effects are achieved through the balance of colour instead of perspective and shadow. Her works touch on the theme of Japonaiserie (a term coined ... More  Rosalind Nashashibi announced as 2020 National Gallery Artist in ResidenceLONDON.- The National Gallery has announced that Rosalind Nashashibi will be its Artist in Residence for 2020 the first to be chosen since the launch of its new Modern and Contemporary Programme. The residency award is a collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society, while the UK Partner Museum for the inaugural residency will be The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney, which was selected for the exceptional quality of their collections. Nashashibi, a filmmaker and painter, will begin her residency in September. Over the course of the year, she will work in the National Gallerys on-site Artists Studio, benefitting from the close proximity to the Gallerys collection, research and teams. The residency will culminate in a publication and display, featuring Nashashibis work at the National Gallery in summer 2020. The position is aimed ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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