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DalÃ: Poetics of the Small, 1929?1936 is the first in-depth exploration of the small-scale paintings by Salvador Dalà (1904?1989).
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, the Meadows Museum, SMU, is presenting a major exhibition of works by Salvador Dalà (19041989), exploring an overlooked or lesser-known aspect of the artists oeuvre. With DalÃ: Poetics of the Small, 19291936, the Meadows is organizing the first in-depth exploration of the artists small-scale paintingssome measuring just over a foot, and others as small as 3 by 2 inches. A major part of the artists output during the early part of his Surrealist period (19291936), these small works reflect DalÃs precise style of painting. Organized by the Meadows as part of its mission to present Spanish art in America, DalÃ: Poetics of the Small is on view at the Meadows Museumthe only venue for this exhibitionfrom September 9 through December 9, 2018. Also at the Meadows this fall, DalÃs Aliyah: A Moment in Jewish History features a rare, complete set of the lithog ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a new work by the award-winning video and installation artist Neïl Beloufa from August 23 to October 28, 2018. For this the artist has created walkable sculptural installations in the Schirn Rotunda, which is freely accessible to the public, as well as in an adjoining exhibition space.
| Bulgarians held in Greece over museum 'miracle' oil daubs | | Roman gold coins discovered in Italian theatre | | National Gallery of Denmark turns selected works of art around to display their reverse | 
In late August, the Benaki Museum -- the foremost collection on Greek culture -- said two people had likewise splashed an "odourless and colourless oily substance" on exhibit bases and cases. Photo: Dimboukas/wikipedia.org.
ATHENS (AFP).- Two Bulgarian Roma women were arrested in Greece on Sunday on suspicion of smearing oil on exhibits at some of Athens' top museums for the past two months, state agency ANA said. The two suspects were arrested at the National Historical Museum, which houses relics from the 19th-century Greek war of independence. The two women allegedly told police that they were daubing the works with oil and myrrh "because the Holy Scripture says it is miraculous", the agency said. They will be taken before a prosecutor on Monday. In July, two middle-aged women left oil marks on dozens of items at the Byzantine and Christian Museum -- home to the country's most extensive collection of religious relics. The incident was revealed by Kathimerini ... More | | 
According to Italian media, the coins could be worth millions of euros.
ROME (AFP).- Hundreds of ancient Roman gold coins have been discovered on the site of an old theatre in Como in northern Italy, the Ministry of Culture said. The coins date back to the end of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and were found in a kind of stone urn in the Cressoni theatre basement, not far from the site of the ancient city of Novum Comum. According to Italian media, the coins could be worth millions of euros. "We do not yet know in detail the historical and cultural significance of this discovery but this area is a real treasure for our archeology," said Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli on Facebook. The theatre, which was inaugurated in 1870 and later became a cinema before closing in 1997, was due to be demolished to allow the construction of a luxury residence. Authorities now plan to suspend work at the site to allow further excavations, according to local media. ... More | | 
Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt, En pige med en papegøje / Girl with a Parrot, , 1640 - 1691.
COPENHAGEN.- SMK shows you an entirely new side to art as the museum turns selected works of art around to display their reverse. Called Flip Sides, this new exhibition is created on the occasion of the Golden Days festival and its theme, The B-sides of History. The National Gallery of Denmark takes the theme of this years Golden Days festival quite literally. The B-sides of History is about all the things that lay hidden; those things you do not see at first glance. In this exhibition, the museum turns selected works of art around, allowing visitors to view their flip sides and explore the unseen stories that lie hidden around their back. Some flip sides reveal an earlier work of art being recycled or perhaps the early beginnings of a painting that was soon abandoned, causing the artist to simply turn the canvas around and start over. There may be coats of arms telling us about previous owners, or ... More |
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| Exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum includes richly-illuminated folios from historic manuscripts | | Retrospective exhibition of Léon Wuidar opens at Rodolphe Janssen | | Exhibition at The New-York Historical Society explores race in America | 
Folio Describing the Grief and Anguish Caused by the Unpredictable Circumstances of Love; Page from a dispersed diwan (collected works) of poetry by Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, ca. 1490, with later additions, colored inks, and gold on blue paper, Cincinnati Art Museum; Gift of JoLynn M. and Byron W. Gustin, 2016.372.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Explore the craftsmanship, skill, beauty and function of calligraphy from the ninth to the twentieth centuries in the special exhibition Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World, on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum September 7, 2018January 27, 2019. The exhibition features 55 works on paper including richly-illuminated folios from historic manuscripts, pages from the Quran, calligraphic practice sheets and political decrees from a myriad of countries, including Spain, Turkey, Syria, Iran and India. This diverse collection of artworks from the museums collection have never before been seen together. Many of these items are on public display for ... More | | 
Léon Wuidar, 18 mars 1983, 1983. Oil on canvas, 118 x 75 cm. 46 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. Courtesy the artist and rodolphe janssen, Brussels. Photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde photography.
BRUSSELS.- Rodolphe Janssen is presenting a retrospective exhibition of Léon Wuidar (born in Liège in August 1938) on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This is the gallery's third project with the artist after an exhibition in its space at 32 rue de Livourne during the winter of 2016 and a solo at Art Brussels in April 2017. This exhibition also comes after the retrospective organized in London at the White Cube gallery in April and June of this year. Regularly exhibited for 60 years in Belgium and Europe, and present in many public collections in Belgium, Léon Wuidar is one of the few Belgian artists who has, throughout his life, persevered in the path of constructive or concrete abstraction. Wuidars work is based on precision, discipline and humor; mixing shapes and colors to create harmonious, precise and meticulously balanced compositions. ... More | | 
Unidentified artist, Dred Scott, after 1857. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society is dedicating gallery space to the topics of freedom, equality, and civil rights in America. The initiative primarily explores the long struggle of African Americans for full rights as citizens, including the right to be accepted and to feel safe, with future exhibitions widening the lens to include other historically marginalized groups. At a time of great urgency for public understanding of the nations founding principles of freedom and equalityand in the context of the long struggle of Americans, in particular African Americans, to ensure that these principles apply to allthe New-York Historical Society aims to educate the public about the roots of contemporary civil and equal rights movements in the Constitution and its Amendments over time, said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical. Establishing these dedicated spaces throughout the mu ... More |
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| Nancy Blomberg: Remembering a museum trailblazer and thought leader | | Exhibition at White Cube features large-scale installation, sculpture and works on paper by Mona Hatoum | | 'Treasures of the British Library' returns for a second series on Sky Arts | 
Nancys research specialties included North American Indian art and culture, specifically classic Navajo textiles.
DENVER, COLO.- Its with the deepest grief that the Denver Art Museum family shares the passing of Nancy Blomberg, the museums Chief Curator and Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Native Arts. Nancy served in her curatorial role at the museum for more than 28 years, overseeing the American Indian, African and Oceanic art collections. She was a wonderful colleague, with her reputation for flawless research and innovative approaches to art display reaching coast to coast. Nancy made it a priority for the DAM to work closely with members of Native American communities, and positioned the museum as a leader in the field of American Indian art with her collaborative implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Her planning of Artists Eye, Artists Hand: American Indian Art, the 2011 reinstallation ... More | | 
Mona Hatoum, Remains of the Day, 2016-2018. White Cube Hong Kong (7 SEP - 17 NOV 2018) © White cube © kitminlee.
HONG KONG.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of works by Mona Hatoum. Her first solo show in Hong Kong, it features large-scale installation, sculpture and works on paper. Drawing upon themes interwoven in everyday life and the larger situation of our inherently unstable world, Hatoums work creates a sense of profound unease through a process of visual and material seduction. By engaging the viewer in a direct phenomenological experience, industrial materials and everyday objects are transformed into potent cyphers, charged with emotive and thematic force. In the poised and disquieting installation Remains of the Day (2016−18), which evolves from work made for the 10th Hiroshima Art Prize exhibition, simple wooden furniture and domestic objects − a kitchen table, group of chairs, rolling pin, stool and vintage toy truck − are ... More | | 
Fiona Bruce at the British Library.
LONDON.- Following the success of its debut series, the second series of Treasures of the British Library, in which five famous faces take their own personal tour of the British Librarys fascinating collections, will be broadcast on Sky Arts from this September. Featuring actor Andrew Scott, violinist Nicola Benedetti, writer Hanif Kureishi, actor Jim Carter and presenter Fiona Bruce, Treasures of the British Library will follow one celebrity per episode as they each discover six items from the British Librarys extraordinary collections. Treasures of the British Library will take viewers on an absorbing, surprising and often poignant journey through history. From a handwritten Beethoven violin concerto score and Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre manuscript, to the seminal 1978 Rock against Racism poster and audio recordings of George Harrison, this series will once again remind the viewer of the important role the British Library plays ... More |
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| Laurent Grasso presents a set of brand-new works at Perrotin Paris | | New works by British artist Terry Haggerty on view at von Bartha, Basel | | Marianne Boesky presents a selection of new wall works from Anthony Pearson's Embedment series | 
Portrait of Laurent Grasso. Photo: Claire Dorn.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris presents the new solo exhibition by Laurent Grasso titled OttO. Structured around a set of brand-new works and around the eponymous film, the exhibition interconnects sacred spaces, animistic beliefs and scientific theories. Each of these works concerns imperceptible and yet active phenomena that have in common the real or supposed effects of electromagnetic waves, vibrations and frequencies. Continuing his exploration of the forms of political and scientific power, Laurent Grasso proposes new research into the power of waves, a matter which, although invisible, has tangible effects. The space of the gallery is bathed in frequencies emitted by hybrid and active sculptures whose electromagnetic activity can potentially act on the visitors body and mind. A Steiner machine, spiral sculptures with hypnotic forms, glass spheres featuring conductive paintings gravitate around the ... More | | 
Terry Haggerty, Untitled, 2018, Acrylic on wood panel, 230 x 106cm, von Bartha, courtesy the artist.
BASEL.- Von Bartha presents an exhibition by British-born, Berlin-based artist Terry Haggerty. Featuring three series of new large-scale works, it runs from 8 September - 27 October 2018 at von Barthas Basel space. Expanding the boundaries of abstraction, Haggerty creates his own distinct visual language through the exploration of form and perception. He translates natural forms, man-made objects, and ambiguous shapes into engaging compositions that oscillate between flat and dimensional space. Using simple colour combinations, he stretches the picture plane beyond view, exploring both visible and invisible space. Through the confines of an outlined shape, multiple angles of seemingly contradictory form are viewed from a single viewpoint. In a departure from his previous works, Haggerty reduces at times completely eliminates any linear composition ... More | | 
Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Embedment), 2018. Canvas-embedded, pigmented hydrocal in enamel-finished aluminum frame, 42 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 inches, 108 x 77.5 x 5.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Anthony Pearson. Photo: Lee Thompson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky is presenting artist Anthony Pearsons fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, which features a selection of new wall works from his Embedment series and highlights his ongoing exploration and mastery of the compositional and textural possibilities of poured gypsum cement. Created through a methodical and physical engagement with the material, the resultant works occupy a liminal space between painting and sculpture. The exhibition is on view from September 6 through October 20, 2018 at the gallerys 507 W. 24th Street location. The Embedment series marks a new shift in Pearsons experimentation with hydrocala gypsum cement that ... More |
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 Albertinum opens exhibition of works of the international Mail Art movement DRESDEN.- "For Ruth, the Sky in Los Angeles" is an aquarelle that consists only of this sentence, which David Horvitz sent to Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt in 2016 from the United States. Today, it sits on her desk in Berlin-Buchholz and has entered her comprehensive archive of Mail Art from around the world. The exhibition "For Ruth, the Sky in Los Angeles, on view at the Albertinum from 8 September 2018 until 6 January 2019, is a living homage to a hitherto overlooked position of Mail Art and visual poetry. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (*1932 in Wurzen, Sachsen) was active as an artist from the beginning of the 1970s until 1990. Using an Erika Typewriter, she developed complex graphic compositions juxtaposing text and image. 62 of her timeless "typewritings" diagrams, patterns, abstract poetry, and collages form the core of this small presentation. Additionally typewriter ... More Thomas Scheibitz develops a site-specific work for KINDL- Centre for Contemporary ArtBERLIN.- Thomas Scheibitz is the fourth artist to develop a site-specific work for the twenty-metre-high Kesselhaus at the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art. Once a year, an artist is invited to realise a single work for this enormous space. After Roman Signer with his nose-diving airplane Kitfox Experimental, David Claerbout with his thousand-year real-time projection Olympia, and Haegue Yang with her installation Silo of Silence Clicked Core hanging in the middle of the space, Thomas Scheibitz is now the first artist to respond to the spatial situation with a free-standing work. Sculpture and painting have an equally important place in Thomas Scheibitzs artistic practice. The basis for his work is his extensive collection of two- and three-dimensional things: handwritten notes, countless reference illustrations from art history, newspaper clippings, illustrated books ... More Bernarducci Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Nathan Walsh and Mario A. RobinsonNEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci Gallery is presenting New York Cityscapes, a solo exhibition by Nathan Walsh. Walsh is best known for his large-scale paintings, often of major cities, which at first seem hyperrealistic, but which upon closer examination involve a careful manipulation of time and place. After taking several trips to New York, Walsh became inspired to take the city where much of his artistic career blossomed as his muse. The exhibition is a celebration of the urban landscape, and the works included in New York Cityscapes feature many of the cities iconic landmarks and busiest intersections from Times Square to Dumbo in Brooklyn, to 59th Street on the Upper East Side. The works draw on European and American art historical painting traditions, including Pointillism, Post Impressionism, and Realism, exploring a myriad the possibilities ... More DC Moore Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Barbara TakenagaNEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Outset, an exhibition of new paintings by Barbara Takenaga, the artists fifth at the gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog with an essay, On Systems of Radiance by art critic Lilly Wei. Takenaga pushes into further realms of meaning in this new body of work, incorporating motifs drawn from earlier paintings with new forms and fluctuations of space. Through a labor-intensive process that begins with the nonspecific pouring of paint onto canvas, Takenaga allows for unexpected happenings and accidents. From these earliest pours, she then coaxes her lyrical and complex vocabulary of marks, methodical patterns blending with the residue of chance. The forms she renders are completely abstracted yet suggest influences as diverse as the natural world, traditional Asian arts, and extraterrestrial ... More Sundaram Tagore Chelsea opens exhibition of new, abstract oil paintings by Judith MurrayNEW YORK, NY.- Sundaram Tagore Chelsea is presenting new, abstract oil paintings from American artist Judith Murray, best known for her lush, deeply expressive compositions. This is Murrays ninth solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in New York since 2012. Murray, who lives and works in New York City and Sugarloaf Key, Florida, began her career with a groundbreaking solo show at the historic Betty Parsons Gallery in 1976. John Perreault of the former Soho News called Murray a true non-conformist artist in a full-page review of that show. Over her nearly five-decadelong career, Murray has produced a wide-ranging oeuvre, while strictly adhering to certain constants within her practice. Working primarily in oil on linen canvases, Murray has consistently demonstrated her abilities as a colorist, skillfully mixing her refined palette of red, yellow, black ... More Waverly's Sept. 13 auction features 15th to 18th-century books and manuscriptsFALLS CHURCH, VA.- A large and significant group of early printed books and other material spanning the 1400s through 1700s is set to headline Waverlys Thursday, Sept. 13 Rare Books & Prints Auction featuring Natural World Fine Prints: Part II. In addition to traditional gallery bidding, absentee, phone and live online bidding will be available to those who cannot attend in person. Start time is 6 p.m. Eastern. Star items in the 381-lot auction include rare and important books by Durandus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus and George Simon Winter, plus prints by Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Lucas van Leyden and others. Many of the books came to Waverly from the personal library of distinguished theologian Dr. Thomas C. Oden, with two other books having noteworthy provenance from the libraries of English poet ... More Writers, chefs and musicians draw inspiration from Islamic artTHE HAGUE.- This autumn Gemeentemuseum Den Haag showcases the stunning ornamental delights of Islamic art in a new exhibition entitled Splendour and Bliss Arts of the Islamic World. Literature and the Arabic script are important in the world of Islam, and so too are music, and eating and drinking together. The museum has therefore challenged eighteen writers, chefs and musicians to create something inspired by objects in the exhibition. The result is a set of stories, poems, recipes and music that wil heighten the senses. Koran texts, prose and poetry, and calligraphy are all prominent features of Islamic art. Six writers with their roots in the countries of origin in the objects on display were therefore asked to write a short story or poem. They include established names like Kader Abdolah and Rodaan Al Galidi, and emerging new talents like seventeen- ... More Galerie Esther Woerdehoff opens Christian Vogt's first solo exhibition in France since 1990 PARIS.- Christian Vogt is one of the most important contemporary Swiss photographers, from a generation of artists who revolutionized photography from the 60s. The longer I look is his first solo exhibition in France since 1990 and presents a selection of his recent works. With a perfect mastery of the photographic technique that he has been practicing for fifty years, Christian Vogt explores all the specificities of the medium and its evolution. The photographer wonders about the changing relationship to reality, the spectators involvement in the aesthetic emotion, the discourse between text and image, the importance of the size and scale of the print. His photography is entirely commited to desire, to the marvelous possibility of freezing time, to the amazement of seeing the moment of shooting becoming an image. But it also allows the photographer to question ... More Unseen works by modern British artist John Virtue displayed in iconic Fortnum & MasonLONDON.- This September, Fortnum & Mason will be continuing their annual artistic collaboration Fortnums X Frank 2018 (FXF18), 10th September 20th October, with eminent art collector, Frank Cohen, presenting a rich body of work by British landscape artist, John Virtue. John Virtue is one of the most distinguished painters working today in the United Kingdom. He was awarded the post of Associate Artist at the National Gallery and this will be the first time since his 2005 National Gallery show that such an extensive oeuvre of works has been seen in London. Fortnums X Frank 2018 (FXF18) will see over 60 large-scale monochromatic works by Virtue placed across the floors of the luxury London store, in the heart of Piccadilly. Having trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and now residing in North Norfolk, Virtues practice is continually informed ... More Kerlin Gallery exhibits semi-figurative paintings on wooden panels by Daniel Rios RodriguezDUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery opened its first solo exhibition with the San Antonio-based artist Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Bite the Tongue . Daniel Rios Rodriguez makes intimate and exuberant semi-figurative paintings on wooden panels. His subject matter is rooted in the natural world, drawing upon traditions of landscape, folk painting and me mento mori to blend images of plants, animals, suns, moons and mountains with powerful and fantastical kaleidoscopic visions. The paintings in Bite the Tongue were produced throughout the summer of 2018, in which temperatures in San Antonio have reached 39°C (and counting). Made in this intense equatorial climate, the paintings harness the heat and energy of the South Texan sun into vivid vignettes of radiant colour and vibrating pattern. Rios Rodriguez works on a modest scale, building coarse layers of impasto ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was born September 10, 1890. Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators Salvador Dalà and Jean Cocteau. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West. Schiaparelli did not adapt to the changes in fashion following World War II and her couture house closed in 1954.
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