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An almanac from Worcestershire in c.1389, on sheets folded in different arrangements. There are many ways of telling time and predicting the future: the churchÂs liturgy, the farming year, the omens in thunder, astrology. The maker of this almanac shows them all, experimenting with words and pictures in various arrangements. And he stitches the shapes and folds the edges of sheets into varied designs for this varied information  a long strip of zodiac signs or the saints days in one giant calendar, for instance. MS. Rawl. D. 939. Anonymous almanac; copied probably 1389; Worcestershire. Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The origins of early English graphic design are explored in a new exhibition on view at the Bodleian Libraries Weston Library. Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page, open from 1 December 2017, brings together a stunning selection of manuscripts and other objects to uncover the craft and artistry of Anglo-Saxon and medieval scribes, painters and engravers. Designing English looks at the skills and innovations of these very early specialists who worked to preserve, clarify, adorn, authorize and interpret writing in English. For almost a thousand years most texts had been written in Latin, the common European language. Beyond the traditions established for Latin, books in English were often improvisatory, even homespun, but they were just as inventive and creative. In an age when each book was made uniquely by hand, each book was an opportunity for redesigning. The introduction of the English text posed questions: ... More |
| V&A Gallery opens today at Design Society in Shekou, Shenzhen, as part of a unique international collaboration | | Iconic paintings leave North America for the first time for Ashmolean exhibition | | Exhibition at the Bruce Museum examines the print revival of the 1960s and '70s | 
Court Coat, UK, 1800. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
SHENZHEN.- A unique partnership between a major UK national museum and a Chinese stateowned company has come to fruition, with the opening of Design Society, including the V&A Gallery, in the vibrant and fast-moving design city of Shenzhen, China. Design Society in Shekou, Shenzhen, is a new cultural hub dedicated to design that features the V&As first international gallery, alongside several other exhibitions and cultural spaces. Its launch marks a major milestone for the pioneering international collaboration between China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The V&A Gallery opens with the site-specific exhibition, Values of Design, designed by the Sam Jacob Studio, featuring over 250 objects from the V&As collections. It is located inside the Sea World Culture and Arts Center (SWCAC), a new purpose-built cultural destination operated by Design ... More | | 
Charles Demuth (18831935), I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928. Oil, graphite, ink and gold leaf on paperboard, 90.2 x 76.2 cm © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
OXFORD.- The Ashmolean will present a major exhibition of works by American artists that have never before travelled outside the USA (23 March22 July 2018). America's Cool Modernism: OKeeffe To Hopper will show over eighty paintings, photographs and prints, and the first American avant-garde film, Manhatta, from international collections. Eighteen key loans will come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and a further twenty-seven pieces are being loaned by the Terra Foundation for American Art with whom the exhibition is organised. Thirty-five paintings have never been to the UK and seventeen of these have never left the USA at all. Cool Modernism examines famous painters and photographers of the 1920s and 30s with early works by Georgia OKeeffe; photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and ... More | | 
Stanley William Hayter (English, 1901 - 1988), Eros, 1970. Colored etching. Printed by The Collectors Press Lithography Workshop, San Francisco. Gift of Judith and Stephen Wertheimer, Bruce Museum Collection 2011.11.05.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The early 1960s marked a significant turning point in American printmaking: the rise of communal studios provided new avenues for creative and technical exchanges between artists. Many of the artists included in the Bruce Museums exhibition, American Abstraction: The Print Revival of the 1960s and '70s, which opens on December 2, 2017 and continues through March 1, 2018, pushed the printmaking media in new and exciting directions. From vibrant biomorphic forms and primitive marks to lively calligraphic gestures and bold color-field patterning, the works in American Abstraction highlight the evolution of abstract art in printmaking during two exciting decades. These new-style printmakers began to take on some of the responsibilities of publishers ... More |
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| Albert Einstein's letters are highlight of Christie's December online Auctions | | Work by Morris Louis and photographic album by Ringl + Pit enter the collection of the National Gallery of Art | | Phillips' Hong Kong Fall Auctions achieve US$41 million | 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Albert') to Michele Besso, n.d. [Zurich, c. 10 March 1914]. In German, 3½ pages, 216 x 135mm, on a bifolium; postscript by Mileva Einstein, half page. Estimate: USD 20,000 - 30,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Einstein's letters to his lifelong friend and collaborator Michele Besso (1873-1955) contain discussions on special and general relativity, the cosmological constant, quantum theory and unified field theory. Part II comprises some previously unpublished material, including letters to Bessos family and to their close friend, the toxicologist Heinrich Zangger. Estimates range from $600-20,000. Jewels Online includes over 340 lots with a broad selection of vintage and contemporary jewelry, pieces formerly from the Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower Collection and designs by Buccellati, Cartier, Arthur King, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and David Webb. Estimates range from $200-18,000. Collected by a private couple over four decades, this online sale ... More | | 
Stuart Davis, Torso and Head of Two Figures, 1928. Brush and black ink and graphite on wove paper. Sheet: 55.88 x 43.34 cm (22 17 1/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington. Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Addie Burr Clark Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- At its October 2017 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired works including a rare early painting by Morris Louis (19121962), two complete bound volumes by Giovanni Francesco Costa (17111773), a 1928 drawing by Stuart Davis (18921964), and a handcrafted album by ringl + pit (active 19301933). "We are delighted with the acquisition of these important works by Morris Louis, Giovanni Francesco Costa, Stuart Davis, and ringl + pit, among others," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "We are grateful as well to our many donors whose generosity continues to strengthen the Gallery's collection." Morris Louis's Sub-Marine (1948) is one of his few existing early paintings. After developing his signature technique of staining in 1953, Louis destroyed ... More | | 
Artist record for George Condo in Asia. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design in Hong Kong achieved strong results, selling 90% by lot and 72% by value. The strength of the result demonstrated the success of Phillips pioneering and innovative strategy of offering the very best works by international artists at auction in Asia, with eight of the top ten lots selling to Asian buyers. Online bidding was extremely active throughout the auction with 15% of the lots going to mobile and online bidders, showcasing the strength of Phillips' market-leading digital platform. New auction records were set including those for George Condo, Henry Moore, Wolfgang Tillmans and Georg Baselitz at auction in Asia. Leading the sale was George Condos Girl with Blue Dress, bought by a private Asian collector for HK$12,100,000. teamLabs Universe of Water Particles marked the first time a digital work by the artist collective was offered at auction and saw widespread international ... More |
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| Meadows Museum mourns the loss of curator Nicole Atzbach | | Lévy Gorvy announces representation of François Morellet | | 'Two Decades: British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s' on view at Marlborough Fine Art | 
Atzbach joined the museum as assistant curator in March 2010.
DALLAS, TX.- Meadows Museum Curator Nicole Atzbach died of ovarian cancer in Houston on Saturday, November 4, at the age of 42, just one day before the closing of her final exhibition Picasso/Rivera: Still Life and the Precedence of Form. Services were held one week later in her hometown of Arvada, Colorado. A memorial service in celebration of her life will be held at the Museum on Saturday, December 9, at 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations to a scholarship fund set up by them for her children may be sent to Geoff Atzbach, 3020 Hollycrest Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920. Atzbach achieved notoriety for her 2016 discovery of missing provenance for a pair of paintings in the Museums collection by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The paintings had been identified as Nazi-era looted property in 2006. Although it was documented that they were recovered by the Allies ... More | | 
François Morellet in front of Sens Dessus Dessous, a mural that was commissioned by the French Government and Public Art Fund in honor of the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty. The mural was on view at Reade Street in New York City, June 1, 1986 June 30, 1991. Photo courtesy the Estate of François Morellet.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, co-founders of Lévy Gorvy, announced that the gallery will exclusively represent the estate of French artist François Morellet (19262016) in the United States. Morellet, who spent his life and career in Cholet, France, was among the earliest postwar artists to embrace geometric abstraction. Never formally trained, he relied on a reduced vocabulary of lines, grids, and simple shapes such as circles, triangles, and squares. Insisting that art is frivolous even when it takes itself seriously, his work infused rigorous abstraction with a sense of playful irreverence and unpretentious humor. Balancing structure and spontaneity, he adopted mathematical systems ... More | | 
Henry Moore, Three Standing Figures, 1966, lithograph, 36.7 x 31 cm, edition of 75. Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art.
LONDON.- Marlborough is presenting Two Decades British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s featuring work by Barbara Hepworth, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Joe Tilson. In the 1950s printmaking in the UK experienced a revival, and over three decades British artists across two generations sought to expand their practice by working in print. Developments in etching, lithography and screenprint flourished with the development of dedicated print studios such as Curwen Press, one of the first where artists had freedom to really explore printmaking. At the start of the 1960s critics began to devote articles to the rebirth of the artists print and to the annual print exhibition Graven Image held at Whitechapel Gallery. The boom allowed a wider audience to acquire the work of contemporary artists. Marlborough Fine Art entered ... More |
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| Artists and scientists' creative thinking challenged by the great questions posed by the Cosmos | | Exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery highlights the continuing influence of the past on the present | | Belgian artist freed after 19 days chained to marble block | 
Tomás Saraceno, Aeroke, 2017. Installations view at Gravity. Imaging the Universe after Einstein, MAXXI, Rome, 2017. Courtesy the Aerocene Foundation. Photography © Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2017.
ROME.- It travelled in space for 20 years, crossing asteroid belts, going past Venus and Jupiter, flying over seas of liquefied gas on Titan and a hexagon-shaped storm on Saturn. Before its destruction in Saturns atmosphere, it performed a series of 22 dives between the planet and its rings. The model of the Cassini spacecraft, charged with the evocative power of its journey into space, hangs in the MAXXIs hall together with Aeroke, an installation by Tomás Saraceno made of two mirrored aerostatic balloons, catching the imperceptible sounds dispersed in the atmosphere, and welcoming visitors to the Gravity. Imaging the Universe after Einstein exhibition. The exhibition, curated by Luigia Lonardelli (MAXXI), Vincenzo Napolano (INFN) e Andrea Zanini (ASI) with the scientific advice of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, is the result ... More | | 
Alejandra Laviada, Blue, Yellow Intersection, 2014. Pigment print, 37 x 30 inches. Edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Julie Saul Gallery announces the exhibition New Vision/ New Generation. Pairing well-known masters of photography with two young gallery artists who have inspired them, this exhibition highlights the continuing influence of the past on the present. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was the first instructor to introduce experimental photography to the Bauhaus, and later in Chicago at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His New Vision spread widely throughout the post World War II pedagogical network and continues to the present. Moholys photograms were created by placing diverse materials directly on photographic paper, which was then exposed and fixed to create unique, mysterious and evocative compositions. Several rare photograms from the 1920s will be included in our show. Alejandra Laviada (b.1980), is based in Mexico. In her Geometry of Space series she creates deep dark spaces that ... More | | 
When the exhausted artist, whose performance entitled De Profondis was livestreamed, was unable to free himself, the curator had to cut the chain with a blowtorch.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- A Belgian artist who chained himself to a marble block to demonstrate the weight of history had to be rescued after 19 days trying and failing to chisel himself free. Mikes Poppe slept, ate and worked with his leg attached to a heavy metal chain which was buried in the three-tone lump of stone at the court house in the port of Ostend. When the exhausted artist, whose performance entitled De Profondis was livestreamed, was unable to free himself, the curator had to cut the chain with a blowtorch. Poppe, 34, said on Thursday night that he had no regrets. "I don't see the fact that I was freed as a failure. On the contrary," he was quoted as saying by the Flemish-language Het Laatste Nieuws daily. "I was able to communicate with the public, a message of hope and despair has been expressed. The act of getting ... More |
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 Brazilian galleries bring over 140 artists to Miami's art fairs in DecemberMIAMI, FLA.- Latitude, the Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad, announced the participation of 20 associated galleries in Art Basel Miami Beach, Untitled Art Fair and Pinta Miami. Through a partnership between the Associação Brasileira de Arte Contemporânea - ABACT (Brazilian Association of Contemporary Art) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), Latitude - Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad supports the participation of 20 Brazilian galleries associated to ABACT in Miami this December to take part in the 16th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Untitled and Pinta Miami. The participating galleries will show works by over 140 emerging and established artists, including works by Anna Maria Maiolino, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Fernanda Gomes, Geraldo de Barros, Hélio Oiticica, Henrique Oliveira, Leonilson, Lygia ... More The Ringling works toward $5 million goal to preserve historic Ca' d'ZanSARASOTA, FLA.- The Ringling has raised $1.97 million toward its $5 million goal to preserve and maintain Ca dZan, the palatial 36,000-square-foot winter residence of John and Mable Ringling completed in 1926. Inspired by the couples trips to Venice and sited on Sarasota Bay, Ca dZan was the embodiment of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties. Preserving and enhancing Ca dZan is one of the key funding initiatives of The Ringling Inspires, the institutions current capital campaign. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and welcoming more than 250,000 visitors annually from around the world, the five-story, 56-room Ca dZan is known for its enormous size, exuberant interpretation of the Venetian Gothic architectural style and sumptuous interior decorations and furnishings. Its architect, Dwight James Baum (1886-1939), was a major ... More GAK Society for Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by Than Hussein Clark BREMEN.- The work of Than Hussein Clark draws from theatre, fashion, crafts, literature, or architecture, and pushes the boundaries between the genres of performing and visual arts. Prop-like objects, set-design installations, and performances locates themselves both in the exhibition and theatre context and initially yield an exuberant abundance of associations. However, examined more closely, it becomes evident that even the smallest detail plays a clearly defined role, and all the parts in their opulent totality interact with each other in a meaningful and precise manner. For The Directors Theatre Writers Theatre, Clark has created a multi-part, interdisciplinary project that simultaneously manifests in various formats (exhibition, novel and performance) in different locations (art institution and theatre). Genre boundaries are blurred, expressions of fine art are ... More Parafin opens new show 'Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty' curated by Coline MilliardLONDON.- At a time when the notion of belief is particularly fraught, Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty examines contemporary takes on some of the objects we turn to for meaning or solace. Pictures, screens, movies, and commodities are filtered here through formally abstract conceptual propositions, linked by a sense of indeterminacy. Taking its title from Nathan Coleys eponymous grids of fairground lights, the exhibition brings together forms of image-making which while redolent of an art history spanning from Byzantine icon painting to 20th-century avant-gardes decidedly engage with the now. Which now they specifically address, though, remains open to interpretation: is it the lure of gore, of entertainment, of luxury? The grisly spectacle of terrorism or the untapped riches of technological obsolescence? More than the objects themselves, ... More Artist Heimo Zobernig's fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel opens in ParisPARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel announces Vienna-based artist Heimo Zobernigs fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Heimo Zobernig has been working in sculpture, painting, video, and performance since the 1980s, constantly questioning two fundamentals of the XXth century painting: the grid and the monochrome. Zobernigs works offer a great variety of approaches with precision and details. In 2013, while preparing his retrospective exhibition in the Palacio de Velázquez of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, he said: Initially I painted wildly, in all imaginable styles, but later on I settled on radical geometric abstraction as my preferred technique. My sources back then often had nothing to do with art, which led to clear deviations from convention. Only gradually did I come to the monochrome, and from that point onward certain ... More Enrique MartÃnez Celaya solo exhibition features new large-scale outdoor installationMIAMI, FLA.- In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Fredric Snitzer Gallery presents Nothing That Is Ours, an exhibition of new works by Enrique MartÃnez Celaya, featuring a series of paintings and sculptures including one large-scale outdoor installation that consider the sea as a metaphor of both possibility and destruction. The title of the exhibition suggests estrangement, distance and indifference, and invites thoughts of possession and desire. The exhibition, on view through January 14, 2018, is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. On Thursday, December 7, 2017, the gallery will host a book signing of the artists most recent monograph, MartÃnez Celaya, Work and Documents 1990-2015. MartÃnez Celayas practice is both influenced by and in dialogue with literature and philosophy. The new body of works featured in the exhibition continues ... More Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents 'Celebrating Harvest'AMSTERDAM.- Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents from 2 December 2017 until 3 February 2018 a solo exhibition of Frank van Driel. With 'Celebrating Harvest' the Dutch fine art photographer shows contemporary still lifes with a stylized reality. His latest work also refers to Dutch 17th century paintings, with a great passion for purity. Frank van Driel (Leiden, The Netherlands 1966) works mainly from his studio in s-Hertogenbosch, which dates from the year 1424. He only uses daylight for his photography, also when he works on other locations. Nature is a great source of inspiration for the traditional looking still lifes. Hidden visual messages reflect his view of the world. With an eye for durability and special details, the serene pictures combine the past, present and future with each other. According to the concept 'harvest-shoot-eat', antique objects made ... More US actor Jim Nabors, TV's lovable Gomer Pyle, dies at 87LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Jim Nabors, who created the beloved comic TV character Gomer Pyle and used his surprisingly rich baritone voice on several hit records, died Thursday at the age of 87, his assistant Charisse Gines told AFP. "He passed away this morning at his home in Hawaii" of multiple causes, she said, speaking from the actor's Honolulu-based entertainment company Naborly Productions. "He'd been ill for a while." Nabors' husband, Stan Cadwallader, told news media the actor's immune system had been suppressed since a liver transplant in 1994. Nabors' roles -- first as the gullible but endearing auto mechanic Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and then as a good-hearted if inept Marine on a spinoff, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." -- made him one of the more beloved television actors of the 1960s. His patented phrases like "Gawww-leee," "Surprise, surprise, ... More Exhibition presents Irving Penn's and Andy Warhol's perspectives side by sideLONDON.- Ever since antiquity, signs have served as messengers for the promotion of a businesss wares or services. These physical traces of human activity have become imbued with a range of cultural connotations and associations throughout the course of civilisations evolution. Whether drawn on the storefronts of Pompeii, carved out of wood and hung over shop entrances in Edo Japan, painted on panels and displayed in windows in Europe or America, or created and displayed in myriad other ways, these manifestations of commerce are a touchstone of quotidian activity. In some of his earliest forays with a camera, Irving Penn took careful notice of these signs. He saw personal expressions of a merchants hope for more business, a preachers wish for a congregation, some way to catch the eyes of passers-by. The variety and combination of words ... More Sotheby's announces highlights from the inaugural History of Science & Technology auctionNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced its inaugural History of Science & Technology auction. Taking place on 12 December in our New York headquarters, the sale examines advancements beginning with the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century and continuing through to the Computing Revolution of the 20th century, and taking a close look at innovations in subjects ranging from physics, mathematics, cryptography, and technology, to medicine, astronomy, and space exploration. Visitors are invited to witness firsthand the development of scientific knowledge in variety of forms from books & manuscripts, to scientific instruments and technological artifacts, to photography and original artwork through the pre-sale exhibition, which opens to the public on 7 December. A magnificent example of Hermann von Helmholtzs sound synthesizer, an electronically ... More Exhibition of works by Lee Bul on view at Galerie Thaddaeus RopacLONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces After Bruno Taut, an exhibition of works by Lee Bul running from 23 November 2017 to 10 February 2018 in the London gallery. One of the foremost contemporary artists in Korea today, Lee Bul creates works that reflect her philosophical exploration of the 20th century cultural history. Exploring issues ranging from societal gender roles and the perceived failure of idealism to the relationship between humans and technology, she produces genre-crossing works rooted in critical theory, art history and themes from science fiction. In this presentation, Buls suspended sculptures are inspired by the futuristic spirit of prominent German architect Bruno Taut, who designed the Glass Pavilion, a prismatic glass dome structure, for the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition in 1914. The sculptures presented in the exhibition After Bruno ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Seurat was born December 2, 1859. Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), Seurat's most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. In this image: A staff member holds the artwork titled 'La Tour Eiffel' (The Eiffel Tower) by French painter Georges Seurat at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 01 February 2010.
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