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The exhibition Craft becomes Modern. The Bauhaus in the Making tells the story of the workshops from the perspective of craft in the original setting, the weaving workshop in the Bauhaus building in Dessau.
DESSAU.- Hammering, planing, sawing and weaving it was pretty loud and dusty in the workshop wing of the School of Design, the Bauhaus Dessau. Although conceived as laboratories for industry, a great deal was still done by hand in the Dessau workshops. The exhibition Craft becomes Modern. The Bauhaus in the Making tells the story of the workshops from the perspective of craft in the original setting, the weaving workshop in the Bauhaus building in Dessau. At the Bauhaus the relationships between art, applied art, industrial production and craft were discussed in more radical terms than elsewhere. And the backdrop to these domains, the economic and political situation in the Weimar Republic on which the school was dependent and in which it also aimed to actively intervene, had a far greater influence on the fate of this institution than any other. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibitors stand at a stall on the opening day of the 34th edition of the Annual Meeting of France's Muslims at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre, north of Paris, on April 14, 2017. The Annual Meeting of France's Muslims takes place from April 14 to 17, 2017. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP
| La Movida: A major new exhibition inspired by the cultural explosion of 1980s Madrid opens in Manchester | | A selection of images by Larry Sultan, many never before exhibited, on view at Casemore Kirkeby | | Joseph Bellows Gallery presents a key selection of Sage Sohier's black and white photographs | 
Esther Teichmann, Untitled from "Mondschwimmen," 2015.
MANCHESTER.- This pioneering, contemporary group exhibition, takes the artistic and socio-cultural movement La Movida (literally the movement) of post-Franco Spain as its thematic heart. It is not an exhibition about the early 1980s in Madrid, it is an exhibition inspired by it. Using a historical movement as the curatorial basis of a contemporary group art show produces an effect much like a movement itself, contradictory, confusing, eclectic, invigorating and hopefully a little bit out of control. Suddenly, or so it must have felt, the forbidden arenas of politics and sexuality were open season for public debate and creative communities. Excess, clubbing, drugs, artistic freedom, womens rights, gay rights, pornography and more, all collided in an outpouring of freedom from suppression. An irrepressible desire for making up on lost time subsequently played out across the population through television such as La Edad ... More | | 
Larry Sultan, Vivid Entertainment No 2 (detail). Wallpaper issue 59 (June 2003). Archival pigment print, 32 x 40-3/4 in. Edition of 6.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Kirkeby is presenting Larry Sultan: Editorial Works, a selection of images - many never before exhibited - taken from editorial and commercial assignments the late photographer Larry Sultan shot for Interview, W, and Wallpaper magazines, as well as ad campaigns for Bottega Veneta, Kate Spade, and others. The exhibition coincides with the retrospective Larry Sultan: Here and Home at SFMOMA, as well as the exhibitions Fake Newsroom and Billboards, showcasing the collaborative work of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel at Minnesota Street Project. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Larry Sultan increasingly worked on editorial assignments with the intention to both support and inform his own artistic practice. Over several years, he developed strong collaborative relationships with a number of forward-thinking art directors, photo editors, and publications. Sultan's uncanny ... More | | 
Sage Sohier, Dania, FL, 1981, vintage gealtin silver print, 17 x 14 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery announced its solo exhibition, Americans Seen, by Sage Sohier. The exhibition will open on April 15th and continue through May 31st, 2017. This exhibition marks the artists first solo exhibition at gallery. Americans Seen will present a key selection of Sohiers black and white photographs of people in their environments. Taken in the late 1970s to the early 1980s her portraits reveal a particular time and place. Distinctly American, yet collectively grounded in their expression of the human condition, her exceptional photographs show our often-strange expression of the daily rituals that bring meaning to our life. Joseph Bellows Gallery will be exhibiting Sohiers vintage gelatin silver prints from this series. Americans Seen will also be celebrated by a forthcoming monograph by Nazraeli Press. Sohier has received fellowships from the No Strings Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memo ... More |
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| What if you could have conversations with an art piece? | | Irish Museum of Modern Art opens a major international group exhibition | | Carolee Schneemann Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Arte 2017 | 
The exhibition with the IBM Watson technology has been open to the public since April 5th.
SAO PAULO.- IBM and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo Museum, created the project The Voice of Art, that uses cognitive computing to make museum visits way more interactive and personalized by an artificial intelligence assistant powered by IBM Watson that answers voice questions from visitors about specific paintings and sculptures from Pinacoteca's collection. The exhibition with the IBM Watson technology has been open to the public since April 5th. According to a study from the brazilian Institute of Economic Research (Ipea) done in 2010, 70% of brazilians have never been to a museum or cultural institution. The project aims to use Watson's cognitive computing as an important tool to create a different experience for visitors in the museum, where for the first time, any visitor from any cultural or social background will be able, through voice conversations, to interact with the art and have all their questions ... More | | 
Susan Hiller, Homage to Marcel Duchamp: Aura (Blue Boy), 2011. Digital C-type archival colour print on dibond, 187.9 x 126.9cm © Susan Hiller. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
DUBLIN.- Irish Museum of Modern Art presents one of its most ambitious and compelling shows exploring how the spiritual endures in our everyday lives. In particular, As Above, So Below considers the role played by certain spiritualist and alternative doctrines, such as the occult or mysticism, in the creation of abstract painting from its origins to the present digital age. The arc of this exhibition spans a hundred years from the abstract masterworks of Kandinsky, af Klint and Kupka to contemporary work by Steve McQueen and Bruce Nauman and new commissions by Alan Butler and Linder among others. As Above, So Below resists becoming a comprehensive survey that traces the role of art and spirituality however. Instead, it presents perspectives on spirituality from a range of unique viewpoints in over 200 works, many of which ... More | | 
Carolee Schneemann in Salzburg, 2015. Photo: Andy Archer.
VENICE.- Carolee Schneemann is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Viva Arte Viva. The decision was made by La Biennales Board of Directors chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon recommendation of the curator of the 57th International Art Exhibition, Christine Macel, who stated: Carolee Schneemann (born in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, 1939, lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York) has been one of the most important figures in the development of performance and Body Art. She is a pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s. She has used her own body as the prevalent material of her art. In so doing, she situates women as both the creator and an active part of the creation itself. In opposition to traditional representation of women merely as nude object, she has used the naked body as a primal, archaic force which c ... More |
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| Städel Museum offers free online course on Modern art | | Writer Randy Kennedy joins Hauser & Wirth as Director of Special Projects | | Whiff of history: Scientists sniff out the past | 
Actor Sebastian Blomberg as the course's presenter. Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has developed an innovative educational format that seeks to set a new standard in the realm of online education: Art History Online The Städel Course on Modern Art is a comprehensive, free online course, made up of films, texts, interactive tasks and an additional timeline covering more than two hundred years of art history, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The large-scale project has been realized in cooperation with the Art History Chair and the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Based on more than 250 works from the Städel Museums collection, this online course provides users with an enriching learning experience. In contrast to so-called Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Art History Online supports flexible self-study in European art history, accompanied by the noted German ... More | | 
Kennedy was a reporter at The New York Times for 23 years, more than half of those writing about the art world. Photo: Tony Cenicola
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced that writer Randy Kennedy has joined the gallery as Director of Special Projects. Kennedy was a reporter at The New York Times for 23 years, more than half of those writing about the art world. For the Times and its flagship New York Times Magazine, he authored definitive profiles of such artists as Pipilotti Rist, Paul McCarthy, Peter Nadin, and Alec Soth, and covered art institutions and pathbreaking initiatives in cities across the United States, as well as in Europe, Mexico, and South America. Subjects of his articles over the years have included Bruce Nauman, Isa Genzken, Nan Goldin, Kerry James Marshall, Ida Applebroog, Valie Export, John Chamberlain, Rosemarie Trockel, Rashid Johnson, Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler, Carl Andre, Robert Irwin, Pierre Huyghe, Richard Prince, Doug Wheeler, Sally Mann, ... More | | 
Knole House. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
LONDON (AFP).- Inspired by the aroma of ancient paper, scientists are documenting the odours of a stately British home in a bid to preserve historical smells for posterity. The team has been working at Knole House in southeast England, capturing the smell of books, gloves, vinyl records and even the floor waxes. Apart from testing the objects to try to replicate their smell in the laboratory, the scientists have relied on written records about the house, which was the childhood home of novelist Vita Sackville-West. "Smells help us connect to history in a more human way," said Cecilia Bembibre, a doctoral student at University College London who has been working on the project alongside analytical chemist Matija Strlic. The project aims to identify smells that have "cultural value", as well as "ways of documenting them and hopefully preserving them", Bembibre told AFP. Strlic said studying in the historic home was crucial because objects were in their ... More |
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| TEFAF New York Spring offers first look at debut fair focusing on modern and contemporary art & design | | Swann Auction Galleries to offer two classic views by Piranesi at May auction | | Exhibition at Ludwig Museum, Budapest features works by five artists of the Pécs Workshop | 
Lucio Fontana (Rosario 1899-1968 Varese), Concetto Spaziale, Attese. Waterpaint on canvas, 80 x 65 cm. Photo: Courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- TEFAF New York has released a first look at the inaugural TEFAF New York Spring Fair that will take place at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City from May 4-8, 2017, with the Opening VIP Preview on May 3, 2017. The Fair will feature 92 of the worlds most illustrious dealers who specialize in Modern and Contemporary Art and Design. In addition, a small number of dealers will exhibit jewelry, African & Oceanic art, and antiquities. The inclusion of African & Oceanic works and classical antiquities will cement the coherent aesthetic that is popular among contemporary and modern collectors. TEFAF New York Spring follows the successful first edition of TEFAF New York Fall, launched in October 2016 at the Park Avenue Armory, concentrating on fine and decorative art from antiquity to 1920. Both TEFAF New York Fairs are an important expansion of the TEFAF portfolio, providing an additional ... More | | 
Giovanni B. Piranesi, The Well, etching, engraving and burnishing, circa 1749 (detail). At auction with Swann Galleries of New York on May 2, 2017. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two examples of the most celebrated subjects by the 18th century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-88) will appear in the Old Master Through Modern Prints sale at Swann Auction Galleries of New York on May 2. A master of the medium, Piranesis two great muses were views of ancient Rome and fantastical prisons. Veduta del Pantheon dAgrippa, an etching from 1761, fits into the first of these subjects, depicting the majesty of the Pantheon in fine detail, complete with figures wandering its domed roof and marveling at its architecture below. It carries an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000. The Well is Plate 13 in a series of 16 etchings from 1745-50 depicting the dark and cavernous scenes of prisons, and is estimated at $12,000 to $18,000. The series was hugely influential on not just Romanticism and Surrealism, ... More | | 
Sándor Pinczehelyi: Sickle and Hammer, 1973, gelatine silver print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm, courtesy of the Ludwig Museum Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.
BUDAPEST.- The exhibition intends to present the activity and highlight the importance of a neo-avant-garde artist group that operated on the blind spot of the Hungarian arts scene and that has received little attention by art historians so far. Towards the end of the sixties, five members of a loosely organized group of several artists gradually seceded and continued working together in the seventies as a smaller group. Even when taking individual artistic paths, they continued creating art in the shared mentality of the workshop. The five artists of the Pécs Workshop were Ferenc Ficzek (1947-1987), Károly Halász (1946-2016), Károly Kismányoky (1943-), Sándor Pinczehelyi (1946- ) and Kálmán Szijártó (1946-). The official cultural scene being centred in the capital, one of the unique characteristics of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde was that it could ... More |
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 The Specialists of the South, Inc. to hold a major multi-estates auction with over 400 lotsPANAMA CITY, FLA.- A live and internet multi-estates auction packed with more than 400 lots in a rainbow of collecting categories will be held on Saturday, April 22nd, by The Specialists of the South, Inc., online and in the firms gallery at 544 East 6th Street in Panama City, beginning promptly at 8 am Central time. An in-house preview will be held April 17-21 from 9 am to 4 pm. Items will include carnival glass lamps, Chinese carvings, Asian wooden dolls, Cybis and Lladro nude sculptures, artwork (including pieces by Salvador Dali, regional African-American painter Dean Mitchell and Paul Brent), illustrative nudes (by the accomplished artists Leo Jansen and Vincent), Fenton pieces, Ethan Allen furniture and a fine collection of chamber pots and decoys. Also sold will be Royal Vienna, Meissen, sterling silver (goblets, a punch bowl, a tray and cups), Waterford crystal ... More Fate of the "Trinity Root" 9/11 memorial by Steve Tobin to be decided in Federal District CourtNEW YORK, NY.- A Complaint was filed today (12) in Federal District Court on behalf of Pennsylvania artist Steve Tobin (www.stevetobin.com) and his 9.11 memorial called The Trinity Root, which was removed from the site where it had stood at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan for a decade, by officials at Trinity Church. Lawyers representing the artist have cited the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), which was legislation passed in 1990 to protect the rights of artists and their work. The memorial was conceived by Tobin, who was known for his bronze Walking Roots, after a seeing a report in the media in the days following the attack on the World Trade Center describing a miraculous sycamore tree that had saved St. Pauls Chapel. The enormous old tree was spit out of the ground by the impact as the towers came crashing down and its trunk ... More Heritage Auctions delivers world record prices at inaugural CCE World & Ancient Coins eventCHICAGO, IL.- One of the most fancied proof sets in British numismatics starred in Heritage Auctions' CCE World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction. The 11-piece 1826 George IV Proof Set brought $282,000, smashing the previous record price for the set. Over 2,800 lots sold during the four-day, $6.38 million auction, with a 94.5 percent sell-through rate by value. The consigner was thrilled with the sale. "When I bought the set I knew that it was exceptional and thanks to Heritage, when I was ready to sell it, I was able to get the set into the hands of another admirer of rare Great Britain coins. I could never have imagined the astonishing, record price of $282,000 it realized at Heritage's auction in Chicago. A fantastic result all around!" The set sold was the first complete set of the type Heritage had ever offered. It. The set is also amongst the finest in existence. Every piece was NGC- ... More Exhibition of acrylic paintings by Sarah McEneaney opens at The Tibor de Nagy GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is presenting an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Sarah McEneaney which were completed over the last three years. The exhibition marks the artists sixth with the gallery and will showcase works from travels in the U.S., China and Ireland. McEneaneys diaristic subject matter reflects her life experiences in intricate vivid detail rendered in her characteristic straightforward style which she has been developing for years. Underlying themes such as the landscape as defined by bodies of water or recumbent and reflective figures gazing outward from interior spaces link the many journeys conveyed in the exhibited works. They continue to add to the ever expanding autobiography of the artist. A majority of works were completed at the Ballinglen Art Center artist residency in Ireland where the artist lived and worked during the early months ... More MAXXI opens a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Piero GilardiROME.- Piero Gilardi has recreated portions of nature in the form of carpets, reproduced the faces of politicians and industrialists in satirical masks, persuaded protest marchers to push a giant rock together and constructed stones that beat to the rhythm of our heart. He believes in a militant, democratic art free from the market, a positive generator of social transformation. MAXXI is dedicating a major monographic exhibition to Gilardi, Nature Forever, curated by Hou Hanru, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Marco Scotini, from April 13 to October 15, 2017. As the curators explain: With over 60 worksfrom the famous Nature-carpets to the interactive installations and through to the Living Art Park of Turin, along with important pieces exhibited for the first time in years or reconstructed for the occasionthe exhibition reviews the career of a master for whom art and life are identified ... More Canadian artist duo Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens exhibits at Jane Lombard GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation, the third solo exhibition by Canadian artist duo Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens in the United States. The exhibition features a series of recent sculptures, new works on paper and a video which present a continuous engagement with labour and performance and the systems of measurement used to evaluate them. Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016-ongoing) is a series of small sculptures that materialize graphical representations concerning human productivity from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in a wide range of disciplines, including work science, scientific management, economics and psychology. Some of the diagrams characterize early twentieth century attempts to visualize the movement of working bodies ... More Photographer Micky Hoogendijk exhibits in the NetherlandsAMSTELVEEN.- Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam) presents from 14 April until 9 July 2017 a retrospective exhibition of Dutch fine art photographer Micky Hoogendijk. The exhibition 'Through the Eyes of Others' shows portraits reflecting the concealed vulnerability and beauty of people. Simultaneously Micky launches her first photo book and exhibits in the InterContinental Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam. In 2009, Micky Hoogendijk received a last gift from her ailing mother: a professional still camera. This present would change her life forever. In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles and discovered her gift for creating artistic portraits. In Mickys own words: "Through the eyes of others I see me." Micky Hoogendijks work is characterized by sharp iconic images that deeply touch your soul. The starting point of her work is an encounter, dream ... More The Glasgow School of Art unveils designs for conversion of former Stow College buildingGLASGOW.- The Glasgow School of Art has unveiled details of its plans for the conversion of the former Stow College building today. The design, by BDP architects, includes refurbishment of the five floors of the original 1930s building, replacement of the current rooftop extension (added in the 1960s) and glazing over the massive interior light wells to form two atria which will offer flexible spaces. The refurbished ground floor will include a wide range of specialist workshops in spaces that had historically been used for technical education including boilermaking, foundry work and vehicle building, alongside newly created studios. The next four floors will offer fully flexible studio space for undergraduate and post-graduate fine art students and academic offices. The biggest change to the building will be the removal of the current top floor, which was added in the 1960s ... More Fridman Gallery opens first solo exhibition of British artist Navine G. Khan-DossosNEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery is presenting Infoesque, their first solo exhibition of British artist, Navine G. Khan-Dossos. Since 2014, Khan-Dossos has closely followed the media narratives around Daesh: those produced by western news outlets and, more importantly, those manufactured from within the organization. Instead of focusing on the content of this propaganda, Khan-Dossos has looked to the structures and forms that support and mediate the material released. Infoesque features Expanding and Remaining (2016), 36 panel paintings that make up the layout of Issue 5 of Dabiq magazine, a multi-language publication aimed at foreign recruits and a source of news stories for western media outlets. The series explores the identity of the magazine as an object, originally designed to be viewed in spreads but, given its digital nature, only ever read as ... More Fabio Torre's first solo exhibition in the United States opens at ClampArtNEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt announces Fabio Torre: A Contemporary Glancethe artists first solo exhibition in the United States. Fabio Torres work is characterized by a persistent reflection on the relationship between photography and painting. The photographic image has been elaborated over the years using the classic tool of oil painting not only to make a technical reproduction with a trompe loeil effect (as with photo-realism), but also with the purpose of representing the photographic in more conceptual terms. Avoiding any sort of nostalgia, Torres work references analogue photography and classic black-and-white cinema from the 1960s in an attempt to draw a connection to contemporary imagery. By acknowledging photographic sequences, contact sheets, and photographic portraits, while rendering highly accurate representations of analog ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Charles Willson Peale was born April 15, 1741. Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 - February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. In this image: Curator Anne Perplank, talks about "Self-Portrait", by artist Charles Willson Peale, shown Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, part of the "American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, on display at Winterthur, An American Country Estate, from Oct. 11 through Nov. 30, in Winterthur, Del.
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