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With its enormous innovative energy, Cubism influenced the course of twentieth-century art history in ways that are hard to overstate and is an adventure for the eyes even today, challenging our habits of seeing.
BASEL.- Developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early years of the twentieth century, Cubism revolutionized visual art. The exhibition The Cubist Cosmos. From Picasso to Léger at the Kunstmuseum Basel now unfurls an expansive panorama of the era and invites visitors to rediscover some of its greatest masterpieces. Produced in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the chronologically organized show brings together numerous eminent Cubist works from both collections to create a setting in which the famous paintings gifted to the Kunstmuseum by Raoul La Roche shine like never before. Rounded out by treasures on loan from international collections, the presentation in Basel showcases ca. 130 works for a comprehensive survey of this seminal chapter in the history of modernism. With its enormous innovative energy, Cubism influenced the course of twentieth-century art history in ways that are hard to overstate and is an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent sculptures by renowned artist Frank Stella. Ranging from the monumental to the intimately-scaled, the featured sculptures capture StellaÂs ongoing exploration of the spatial relationships between abstract and geometric forms and the ways in which they behave in and engage with physical space. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © 2019 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Photo Credit: Object Studies.
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| | | Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo presents most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the work of Tarsila do Amaral | | Arts Minister Michael Ellis steps in to save four works by Francis Bacon worth £3 million | | A rare skeleton of a Dodo bird leads the Science and Natural History Auction at Christie's |
Tarsila do Amaral, Autorretrato (Le manteau rouge), 1923. Ãleo sobre tela, 73 x 60,5 cm Coleção Museu Nacional de Belas Artes/IBRAM. Photo: Jaime Acioli.
SÃO PAULO.- This is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the work of Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (18861973), a pioneering figure in early 20th century Latin American art and who is currently being reassessed in the context of global modernisms. After studying with Fernand Léger (18811955) and André Lhote (18851962) in Paris, Tarsila, as she is widely known in Brazil, cannibalized modern European references to create a unique style of her own, true to her origins both in form and content, through the use of caipira [Brazilian countryside] colors, as well as representations of typical and local characters, scenes, and narratives. Much of her work was made in dialogue with two leading modernist intellectuals of her time: Mário de Andrade (18931945) and Oswald de Andrade (18901954). Tarsilas work parallels the development of Oswald de Andrades antropofagia, a key concept in 20th-century Latin American thought. Antropofagia ... More | |
Case 32: £166,842.90 + VAT of £6,500 Hand-knotted rug in wool with linen weft, designed by Francis Bacon, produced by Royal Wilton carpets as part of their Wessex range, 1929- 1930. Measurements: 206 h x 127 w cm. Approx. 7 h x 4 w.
LONDON.- Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed temporary export bars on four works by Francis Bacon worth a combined total of more than £3 million in a bid to keep them in the country. Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) was one of the most important British artists of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, Ireland, to British parents, Bacon did not take up painting until he was in his 20s but went on to become a world renowned artist, ranking alongside Turner and Constable in importance. The four items under an export bar include a painted screen valued at £2.5 million. It was Bacons first work in triptych, in which a picture or relief is carved on three panels, attached together and usually presented as an altarpiece. Completed at the beginning of Bacons career around 1930, the screen is thought to be his earliest surviving large-scale work and his earliest surviving figure painting. It showcases many ... More | |
A Dodo skeleton, Mauritius, before 1690, 64 x 55 x 35cm. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies announced the sale of a near-complete Dodo skeleton from Mauritius, dated before 1690 (estimate: £400,000-£600,000) during Christies Science and Natural History auction on 24 May 2019. Rare and in great condition, this skeleton is composed of fossillised bones from various dodo remains found in the Mauritian marshland Mare-aux-Songes, combined with rare unfossilised bones found by Etienne Thirioux, a Mauritian naturalist active around the turn of the 19th century. This specimen is the only near-complete skeleton to have been assembled in the 19th century still in private hands. Further highlights of the auction include an important and fully adult ichthyosaur, the largest swimming dinosaur fossil ever offered at auction (estimate: £300,000 - £500,000), alongside a T-Rex tooth, an elephant bird egg, as well as an important array of meteorites and science instruments. The sale is expected to realise in excess of ... More |
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| | | The Brooklyn Museum announces new acquisitions across collections and mediums | | National Treasures worth £3 million saved from export in 2017-18 | | Longtime Nelson-Atkins patron Morton Sosland dies |
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Czernin, 1793. Oil on canvas, 54 x 39 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband John W. Brown, Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman, A. Augustus Healy, Helen Babbott MacDonald, Charles H. Schieren, and L.L. Themal, by exchange, 2018.53.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announced significant new acquisitions which emphasize the institution's dedication to presenting diverse narratives through its collection. The artists represented by these acquisitions span a wide range of aesthetic styles, mediums, eras, and nationalities. Highlights include over 3,000 vernacular photographs documenting a century of women's history from the Kaplan-Henes Collection; a work by eighteenth-century French portrait painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; a portrait gifted by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; a significant gift of over fifty photographs by ... More | |
Roman Figurine of a Man Wearing a Hooded Cloak © DCMS.
LONDON.- The 64th annual report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (the Committee) has been published today. At the Committees recommendation the Secretary of State put in place temporary export-deferrals for a wide range of national treasures, seven of which were subsequently purchased by UK institutions. Items saved for the nation include two important Surrealist works by Salvador DalÃ, made in collaboration with Edward James; a rare marble bust of Queen Victoria that accurately captures the ageing monarch, by Alfred Gilbert; an annotated volume of works by Ben Jonson, offering scholars unique insight into the performance of pre-Restoration plays; and an unusual Roman figurine, purchased by the Chelmsford Museum (less than five miles from where it was originally discovered) for £550, highlighting that outstand ... More | |
The Soslands gave one of the nations finest private collections of American Indian art to the Nelson-Atkins.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art joins the Kansas City community in mourning the loss of Morton I. Sosland, who died yesterday. The 93-year-old Sosland, with his wife Estelle, was a generous and steadfast supporter of the museum for more than five decades. We are deeply saddened by the news of Mortons passing, and I will miss him very much, said Richard C. Green, Chair of the Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees. Morton and Estelle made an enormous impact on the museum as well as the entire community. The Soslands and other museum leaders inspired the generosity of the Kansas City community 20 years ago in extensive fundraising efforts that made the Generations Capital Campaign a stellar success, enabling the Nelson-Atkins to bolster the museums endowment campaign and complete the acclaimed Bloch Building and parking garage, as well as ... More |
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| | | Lesley Vance wins SOLO Prize at Art Brussels | | Exhibition of new work by Anicka Yi opens at Gladstone Gallery | | Delaware Art Museum purchases work by Hank Willis Thomas and Chakaia Booker |
Lesley Vance, Untitled, 2019. Oil on linen 48,3 x 58,4 x 2,8 cm (19 x 23 x 1 in.) Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo-credit: Fredrik Nilsen, Los Angeles.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens' solo presentation of Lesley Vance won the SOLO Prize 2019 at Art Brussels yesterday. An international jury with members Raf Simons, Chris Dercon, Iwona Blazwick, Vanessa Joan Müller and Monika Szewczyk unanimously chose the presentation of Lesley Vance as the best solo presentation of the fair. They especially praised the artistic qualities of the work of the American artist and the simplicity of the presentation. The SOLO exhibitions present work by established and upcoming artists and are spread throughout the fair. Art Brussels wishes to encourage galleries to make a distinctive statement by presenting one specific project by an individual artist. This allows the visitor to discover the work of an artist at greater depth. The SOLO proposals are pre-selected by the International Selection Committee. The best SOLO artist ... More | |
Installation View: Anicka Yi, We Have Never Been Individual, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2019. Photo: David Regen.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Anicka Yi entitled We Have Never Been Individual, her first with the gallery. Through her work, Anicka Yi directs us to the dissolving boundaries between the human, animal, and vegetable and emphasizes that the question of who and what we are what animals and bacteria and plants and machines are is an open and urgent question. By way of her technosensual explorations of hybridization and contamination, Yi repositions the human in terms of vulnerable co-subjectivity, interdependency, and agitated symbiosis with other lively entities. As discoveries are made in the fields of microbiome research, artificial intelligence, and animal and plant cognition, traditional ideas of individual autonomy and human exceptionalism appear wholly inadequate. Fluid entanglements between lively and intelligent entities at both the micro and macro scale reveal ... More | |
Parade de Paysans (Peasants on Parade), 1961. Loïs Mailou Jones (19051998). Oil on canvas, 40 à 20 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Acquisition Fund, 2018. © Estate of Loïs Mailou Jones.
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum announced recent purchases of art by women artists and artists of color. This spring, the Museum purchased a series of prints by Hank Willis Thomas, an 1871 oil painting by Robert Duncanson, and a 1940 poster by Robert Pious. These three recent purchases reflect the Museum's continued effort to collect more art by women artists and artists of color. In 2018, the Museum purchased 24 works of art, of which one-third were created by women and one-third were created by African American artists. In total, 74 percent of acquisition funds spent in 2018 went toward acquiring works by women artists and artists of color. "It is particularly exciting to acquire as we plan for the reinstallation of several permanent collection galleries in 2020," explains Heather Campbell Coyle, Chief Curator and Curator of American Art. "These works will ... More |
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| | | First major U.S. solo exhibition of work by Cecilia Vicuña opens at The Henry Art Gallery | | Glenstone Museum opens Environmental Center | | Relaxing with wax: Meet the Slovak 'Monsieur Tussaud' |
Cecilia Vicuña. Wool satellite, from the Precario series, 1966-present. Found-object sculpture. [Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, 2017. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.] Photo: Alex Marks.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Henry Art Gallery is presenting Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, the first major United States solo exhibition of work by this influential Chilean-born artist. It traces the artists career-long commitment to exploring discarded and displaced materials, peoples, and landscapes in a time of global climate change. Working within the overlapping discourses of conceptual art, land art, poetry, and feminist art practices, Vicuña has long refused categorical distinctions, operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile. The exhibition includes sculpture, installation, drawing, video, and text-based work from Vicuñas practice since the late 1960s, weaving together the artists many artistic disciplines as well as communities with shared relationships to the land and sea. The works evoke the ephemeral ... More | |
The Environmental Center at Glenstone Museum. Photo: Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum opened its Environmental Center, including a 7,200-square-foot building that embodies the latest thinking in sustainability, with an opening ceremony. The Center advances the environmental stewardship that is central to the mission of Glenstone, where the landscape has been designed to complement and frame the architecture and artworks, and the architecture has been designed in response to the natural landscape. The ceremony featured remarks by Emily Rales, Director and Co-Founder, Glenstone Museum; Ben Grumbles, Secretary, Maryland Department of Environmental Protection; Marc Elrich, Montgomery County Executive; and Paul Tukey, Chief Sustainability Officer, Glenstone Museum. At Glenstone, we have committed ourselves to protect and nurture the landscape just as we care for our buildings and works of art, said Emily Rales. We feel that everyone has an interest in environmental stewardship. Everyone ... More | |
Roman Bajzik (48) fixes a head of wax figurine of Emperor Franz Joseph in Bajzikov mlyn (Bajzik's mill) in Zavada Slovakia on March 24, 2019. VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP.
ZAVADA (AFP).- The bald head of Slovak general Milan Rastislav Stefanik is pierced before hairs are inserted into his skull. Stefanik's face remains motionless, his blue eyes do not even blink. The late founder of the former Czechoslovakia is the latest figure to get the wax treatment from Roman Bajzik, a 48-year-old opera teacher who moonlights as Slovakia's very own Monsieur Tussaud. "I began creating wax sculptures back in 2002 as I wanted to see what my great-grandfather looked like," Bajzik said, at his two-room gallery in what was once the family mill. "I only had an old photo of him and was curious if I could turn him into something three-dimensional," he told AFP in Zavada, a central village of 600 residents, about 150 kilometres (around 90 miles) from the capital, Bratislava. Two decades later, there are now 23 motionless family members, royalty, folklore characters ... More |
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Swedish Academy names literature professor as new head
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, said Friday it had named a literature professor as its new permanent secretary, after a #MeToo scandal in late 2017 threw the institution into turmoil. Mats Malm is a professor of literary theory at the University of Gothenburg. "I am very happy to be given this trust and look forward to the honourable commission as permanent secretary," he said. Malm, 54, only joined the Academy four months ago. He takes over from Anders Olsson, who has been serving as head of the Academy since June 2018 after the previous secretary, Sara Danius, was forced to step down amid a scandal sparked by Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault, an influential figure on Stockholm's cultural scene. Arnault, who is married to a then-member of the Academy who later resigned, was accused ... More
Galeria Jaqueline Martins presents works by Robert Barry developed specially for the gallery
SÃO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins is presenting Robert Barry, the first solo exhibition by the renowned North-American conceptual artist to be ever organized by a Brazilian gallery. The show presents installations composed by paintings, 8mm films, texts and works on paper, all never shown before and developed specially for the gallery. After beginning his career with works that presented groups of monochromatic paintings in such a way that they could enhance the exhibition spaces characteristics, Robert Barry completely abandoned conventional painting by 1967 and started a brief series of installations made of transparent nylon cords, inert gases, radiation and electromagnetic energy. All invisible materials through which the artist aligned himself with the quest for the dematerialization of the art object, one of the main ideas that drove the ... More
Art Papers hires new Editor and Artistic Director
ATLANTA, GA.- Art Papers announced the hiring of Sarah Higgins as editor + artistic director. Higgins was most recently curator at the Zuckerman Museum of Art and has served as interim editor of ART PAPERS magazine since June of 2018. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Sarah over the past ten months, stated Saskia Benjamin, executive director of Art Papers. We delayed hiring a full-time editor while undertaking a strategic planning process, as the outcome of the plan would inform our new hire. Sarah graciously stepped in to fulfill the editorial needs of the organization during this time. With the plan concluded, we recognized that Sarahs background as an artist and curator, along with her experience developing educational and public programming made her the perfect fit for this position and for Art Papers. Im delighted ... More
Mississippi Museum of Art opens first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles
JACKSON, MISS.- Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now, an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institutes National Portrait Gallery (NPG), is the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in terms of their rich historical roots and powerful contemporary presence. Black Out will be complemented by the Museum-curated exhibition, A Closer Look: Silhouette Artists in Antebellum Mississippi. Well before the advent of photography in the mid-19th century, silhouettes were a popular way to capture a likeness quickly and in multiples to hang in parlors and paste into scrapbooks. While commissioning painted portraits was available to people of wealth, paper silhouettes were inexpensive and democratized the genre, offering virtually instantaneous depictions of everyone from presidents to citizens and visitors from afar to those who were ... More
Musée de Grenoble opens an exhibition of works from the collection of Antoine de Galbert
GRENOBLE.- Although the Maison Rouge closed its doors at the end of 2018, the Musée de Grenoble is holding an exhibition of the personal collection of its founder, Antoine de Galbert. He was born in the city which gave rise to his passion for art when he became a gallery owner, an activity he then swiftly abandoned to devote himself to forming his collection. Put together during the last 30 years of his life, it comes across today as one of the most unusual of private French collections. It is an implicit self-portrait of its author, for whom the art arena is above all one of freedom. The exhibitions held in LyonAinsi soit-il/So be it, GrenobleVoyage dans ma tête/Journey in my Head, and ParisLe mur/The Wall, gave people a chance to discover part of Antoine de Galberts collection, but the broad scope of Souvenirs de voyage/Travel Memories further ... More
The Black Image Corporation: An exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates opens in Berlin
BERLIN.- The Gropius Bau presents The Black Image Corporation, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, from 25 April to 28 July 2019. Theaster Gates has conceived a participatory exhibition highlighting the works of two photographers, Moneta Sleet Jr. and Isaac Sutton, which is on display on the first floor of the Gropius Bau. The project explores the fundamental legacy of Johnson Publishing Company archives, which feature more than 4 million images and have contributed to shape the aesthetic and cultural languages of the contemporary African American identity. For this show, I hope to tease out the creation of female iconic moments by Sleet and Sutton and also offer small forays into the lives of everyday people through never-before-seen images from the Johnson Collection, stated Gates. The archives speak about beauty and black female ... More
Exhibition of works both new and newly conceived by Art & Language opens at Galerie Michael Janssen
BERLIN.- Spring 2019 ushers in another season for Galerie Michael Janssen, who presents Devinera qui Pourra (Figure it out who can), an exhibition of works both new and newly conceived by Art & Language and curated by Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts. Collaborators at heart, Art & Language has been described as not quite an art movement, not quite a research institute, not quite an activist group, and not quite a rock-and-roll band, but understood to be all of these things and more1. Operating for over fifty years in a variety of configurations and manifestationsfrom an artistic duo to a fully-fledged international network and back again, Art & Language were and remain leaders in the sphere of a critical artistic practice reacting to, as art historian Robert Bailey explains, the legacy of modernism, specifically as it was formulated in the United States after ... More
Exhibition at Moncrieff - Bray Gallery looks at the work of Jilly Sutton and Helen Denerley
EGDEAN.- Opening on 27 April at Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Sussex, this exhibition looks at the work of two artists and explores the relationship between drawing and sculpture. Bringing together exquisite wood carvings, relief prints and paintings on wood by Jilly Sutton with stunning sculptures, charcoal drawings and monoprints by Helen Denerley, the exhibition will illustrate how, for both artists, drawing and sculpture are integral to each other. This is the first time that both artists from opposite ends of the country (Devon and Aberdeenshire) have exhibited together. It is also the first time they have both agreed to exhibit drawings alongside their sculpture giving key insights into their working process. Jilly Sutton is renowned for her remarkable skills as a carver and her work is in the National Portrait Gallery. Starting with an often massive piece of fallen timber ... More
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès launches a new series of themed exhibitions at La Verrière
BRUSSELS.- The group exhibition Matters of Concern | Matières à panser launches a new, eponymous season of exhibitions devised by curator Guillaume Désanges at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès. After Des gestes de la pensée (Gestures, and thought, 2013 to 2016), the second series of themed exhibitions at La Verrière (entitled Poésie balistique/Ballistic Poetry, 2016 to 2019) set out to explore the disconnect between the artistic protocol and its outcome or, more precisely, between intention and intuition or reception in certain forms of radical abstraction. The season Matters of Concern | Matières à panser proposes a return to materiality, nourished by symbolism, animism, ethnography, fetichism and the therapeutic or magical uses of art, as a critical alternative to the dominant contemporary economy of de- ... More
Quinn's to offer two prized netsuke collections in May 4 Japanese Artworks sale
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Uniquely Japanese, netsuke have been revered for hundreds of years as miniature artworks fastidiously carved to replicate animals, plants, humans, mythical creatures and other subjects. Traditionally worn at waist level to secure a silk cord around a kimono, early netsuke represent a form of fine art that bears little resemblance to the mass-produced trinkets seen in the marketplace today. So when a collection of beautifully carved antique netsuke becomes available, its a cause for celebration amongst collectors. Quinns Auction Galleries will double collectors pleasure on Saturday, May 4, with a 310-lot auction of antique and vintage netsuke from two premier sources: a family collection offered by the grandchildren of Asian art collector Nina Louise McCulloch, and the collection of Harry Glass of Long Island, New York. The auction features ... More
SculptureCenter commissions new work by Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor remakes overlooked everyday objects, including bulletin boards, park benches, community noticeboards, doors of closed down clubs, real estate signs, municipal water fountains, and so on. She is interested in where these objects come from, what they are made out of, who makes them and for whom, as well as the relationships that the artist initiates and maintains in order to reproduce and re-present the objects as works of art. For her new commission at SculptureCenter, Connor is producing a set of intersecting works that bring together the artists investment in the various operations of sculpture in an expansive field of production, maintenance, and display. In the gallery, she shows a number of bronze pieces that replicate tools required to install an exhibition, such as a measuring ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and illustrator Jan van Goyen died April 27, 1656. Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596 - 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known. In this image: River Scene, 1652.
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