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Jawlenskys work was often exhibited and he got to know Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy. Later, he made an in-depth study of yoga. Jawlensky was also closely in touch with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who were working on publications and exhibitions under the banner of Der Blaue Reiter.
THE HAGUE.- Long before spiritual and esoteric movements like new age and mindfulness became popular in the West, the open-minded Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) combined the best of different religious movements. A Russian by birth, he moved to Munich where he evolved into one of the foremost German Expressionists. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is presenting Jawlenskys rich landscape, still-life and portrait work in a major retrospective that emphasises the influence of his modern spiritualism. In collaboration with the Alexej von Jawlensky archive in Switzerland, the museum also explores his love of music and how it inspired him. After graduating from the art academy in 1896 Jawlensky left St. Petersburg to travel through Europe with his patron Marianne von Werefkin herself a successful painter. Their trip included a visit to the Netherlands. That same year, they settled in Munich, which at the time was the foremost northern ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An extraordinary show devoted to Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599 - London, 1641) opened to the public, in the Sale Palatine of the Galleria Sabauda at the Musei Reali in Turin.
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 | | The Winter Show's loan exhibition to celebrate 125 years of collecting by the Nantucket Historical Association | | Tate Liverpool to present first UK Keith Haring show | | Sister Wendy Beckett, nun who became TV star, dies at 88 | 
Gilbert Stuart (17551828), Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, ca. 1810. Oil on scored panel; 33 x 26 1/2 in. Nantucket Historical Association Collection, gift of the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association in memory of Tucker Gosnell with partial gift of Catherine C. Lastavica, M.D. (2005.4.1)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced the 2019 loan exhibition Collecting Nantucket, Connecting the World, celebrating 125 years of collecting by the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA). The Winter Shows annual loan exhibition offers visitors a focused look at exceptional collections of art, antiques, and design from leading historic institutions, reflecting the quality, range, and expertise of the fairs exhibitors. Collecting Nantucket, Connecting the World explores Nantuckets extraordinary history through the Associations renowned collection of paintings, craft, and folk art. For more than 150 years, the island of Nantucket, located off the coast of Cape Cod, has been well known for its whaling heritage, New England seaport atmosphere, and as a famous summer holiday ... More | | 
Keith Haring, Crack Down! 1986. Poster, 608 x 481 mm. Collection Emmanuelle and Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool will present the first major exhibition in the UK of American artist Keith Haring (19581990). Keith Haring, 14 June 10 November 2019, brings together more than 85 works exploring a broad range of the artists practice including large-scale drawings and paintings, most of which have never been seen in the UK. Haring was a unique presence in 1980s New York, playing a key role in his generations counterculture and creating an immediately recognisable style. Best known for his iconic motifs, such as barking dogs, crawling babies and flying saucers, Harings work was politically charged and motivated by activism. As an openly gay man, Harings work as an AIDS activist and educator remains his most essential legacy. Elsewhere, he responded to equally critical and relevant issues, contributing to nuclear disarmament campaigns, creating a famed Crack is Wack mural, and ... More | | 
Beckett, who soared to international fame presenting a series of popular and unscripted art programmes for the BBC in the 1990s, died at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham in Norfolk on Wednesday.
LONDON.- Sister Wendy Beckett, the Roman Catholic nun who left her cloistered convent life to launch a television career in later life and became an unlikely small screen star, has died aged 88. Beckett, who soared to international fame presenting a series of popular and unscripted art programmes for the BBC in the 1990s, died at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham in Norfolk on Wednesday. "Sister Wendy had a unique presentation style, a deep knowledge of and passion for the arts," said Jonty Claypole, the BBC's director of arts. "She was a hugely popular BBC presenter and will be fondly remembered by us all. We're thinking of her loved ones at this time." Her popular shows included "Sister Wendy's Odyssey" (1992) and "Sister Wendy's Grand Tour" (1994). Born in South Africa in 1930, Beckett was still a child when her family moved to Edinburgh, where her father ... More |
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| | | Newly commissioned solo exhibition by Petrit Halilaj on view at Fondazione Merz | | Comprehensive exhibition of works by Cady Noland on view at the MMK Frankfurt | | Exhibition at Laing Art Gallery features iconic images of famous celebrities | 
Exhibition view: Petrit Halilaj. Shkrepëtima, 29 October 2018 3 February 2019, Fondazione Merz. Photo by Renato Ghiazza.
TURIN.- Fondazione Merz is presenting Shkrepëtima, a newly commissioned solo exhibition by Petrit Halilaj (Kostërrc, Skenderaj-Kosovo 1986). Halilaj is the winner of the art category of the Mario Merz Prize second edition, the biannual international award for art and music, inaugurated by the Fondazione Merz. The exhibition in Turin is the culmination of an ambitious three-part project, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi. The first iteration was a major performance production the largest public art project ever implemented by Petrit Halilaj that took place on 7 July 2018 at the ruins of the Cultural Centre of Runik (Kosovo), the town where the artist grew up. This was followed by an exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland (20 July - 19 August 2018). The third and final, culminating exhibition takes place at the Fondazione Merz, Turin. The exhibition is centered ... More | | 
Cady Noland, Untitled, 1997-1998. Editio 1/30. Loan from the artist. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- In modernity, violence finds expression not only in social action, but also in omnipresent objects, facilities and urban structures. The severity of the aggression is condensed in both form and material. The geometric austerity suggests functionality; the reflected light of the metallic surfaces creates distance. The shape, shine and hardness of the resistant materials testify to their strength and power, endowing the objects with immediate brutality. In her works, Cady Noland (b. 1956) uncovers the violence we encounter every day in scenarios of spatial and ideological demarcation. She thus exposes the alleged neutrality of material and form. The supposedly clear distinction between objects and subjects becomes blurred, the unceasing interaction between them evident. The US American flag, charcoal grills, bridles, cowboy saddles and weapons are all symbols of American identity. Yet the myth ... More | | 
Duncan Grant, George Leigh Mallory, 1912. Oil on panel. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
NEWCASTLE.- An exhibition featuring iconic images of some of the Twentieth Centurys most famous celebrities, thinkers and artists is on view at Newcastles Laing Art Gallery. Exposed: The Naked Portrait reveals over eighty people - from the world of rock and pop, sport, fashion, art, TV, film and theatre, plus writers, philosophers and those involved in infamous liaisons - portrayed either completely nude, partially clothed or where nakedness is implied. This fascinating exhibition of photographs, paintings, drawings, prints and film from the National Portrait Gallery Collection invites the viewer to contemplate a multitude of questions and philosophical concepts; is being seen naked a harmful or a welcome experience? Does it reveal a shameful secret or achieve longed-for publicity for the sitter or a chosen cause? Many of the images convey either a sense of vulnerability, or self-assurance. The exhibition is a ... More |
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| | | Exhibition in Latvia presents a selection of the finest portraits in a whole century | | Major exhibition of Native American Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Art on view in Colorado Springs | | Vitality, energy, precision celebrated in photographs | 
Janis Rozentāls (18661916). Self-Portrait. 1900. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Photo: Normunds Brasliņ.
RIGA.- Marking the centenary of the Latvian State, until 24 February 2019, the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga offers the exhibition Portrait in Latvia. 20th Century. Facial Expressions which takes place in three venues simultaneously the Great Hall of the LNMA main building (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1), the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall (Torņa iela 1) and Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum (Elizabetes iela 57a, Apt. 26). The exhibition Portrait in Latvia. 20th Century. Facial Expressions produced by the Latvian National Museum of Art offers an encounter with a selection of the finest portraits from a whole century. The wide-ranging display and the accompanying catalogue continue the research done by the Rundāle Palace Museum with great respect for the genre. The project can be regarded as one exhibition in three different spaces that should be perceived and explored as a unified whole. A ... More | | 
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, King of the Mountain. Diptych, 72 x 96 in.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- A major exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smiths paintings and works on paper will be on view at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Oct. 27, 2018-Feb. 10, 2019. This exhibition was organized by the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is one of the U.S.s finest Indigenous talents. Smith is a mature, late-career artist with extraordinary aesthetic, intellectual, and curatorial achievements to her credit. She mines her cross-cultural experience and Salish-Kootenai identity, and spans cultures with powerful, idiosyncratic results of high aesthetic caliber. Few Native artists have worked with such grace, inventiveness, and aesthetic success between cultures and art worlds. Smith has an international reputation with a strong, clear body of work; she has earned her leading standing among women artists and Native American artists while simultaneously aligning both ... More | | 
Ralston Crawford, American (19061978). Dancer and Meyer Kennedy at the Caravan Club, New Orleans, 1953. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 Ã 7 9/16 inches. Gift of Neelon Crawford, 2015.49.123.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Ralston Crawford, who celebrated the modern American industrial landscape in a precisionist style and captured the vitality of New Orleans jazz culture, is the subject of a photography exhibition on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City through April 7, 2019. Structured Vision: The Photographs of Ralston Crawford, showcases the museums deep holdings of his work. Ralston Crawfords photographs have a profound energy, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. Throughout his career he juxtaposed creation and destruction, form and chaos. His body of work is wonderfully varied and reflects how complicated and rich one artistic sensibility can be. George Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was born in Canada but grew up in Buffalo, New York, where his interest in docks, shipyards, bridges, ... More |
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| | | La Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Centre for arts exhibits works by Béatrice Balcou | | Exhibition shows how combining (bio)plastic with fibres yields materials we have never seen before | | The 64th edition of BRAFA joined by 133 Belgian and international galleries | 
Béatrice Balcou, Walls for K. Miyamoto, 2016, LIselp © photo Gilles Ribero.
NOISIEL.- For her first major exhibition in France Béatrice Balcou takes a personal look at the importance of discretion, care-giving and mediation. In performances, sculptures, drawings and installations she offers innovative exhibition rituals in the form of artistic experiences at once sensory and emotional. Her orchestration of new and different relationships between art, work and rest blurs the conventional distinctions between production, distribution and consumption. Her artistic stance is atypical: addressing creations that are not her own, replicating them and playing the role of technician or artworks registrar, she radically challenges our relationship with the work involved in making art and its value. For her the artwork is not an ephemeral image to be rapidly identified or consumed, but rather a physical entity to be cared for and to spend time with ... More | | 
Michael Young en Coalesse Design Group, LessThanFive Chair (2016). Picture by Steelcase.
GHENT.- The ever-growing mountain of waste, polluting commercial vehicles, the ageing population: we have more than enough problems to tackle in the years ahead. However, one solution has appeared from an unexpected source: new materials. The exhibition Fibre-Fixed. Composites in Design runs until 21 April 2019 at Design Museum Gent. This exhibition shows how combining (bio)plastic with fibres yields materials we have never seen before. Synthetic materials like epoxy, polyester or polypropylene are reinforced with carbon, glass, flex, hemp or wood fibres: a marriage between composites that combines the strength and rigidity of fibres with the lightness of plastics. Carbon fibres are, for example, just as rigid as steel, but weigh five times less. And that inspires designers. If the Eames were alive today, they would be playing with carbon fibre --John ... More | | 
BRAFA 2018: Klaas Muller © Fabrice Debatty.
BRUSSELS.- In January, the combined art world turn their focus and attention towards Brussels and the annual edition of BRAFA, whose sixty-fourth edition will be held between Saturday, 26 January and Sunday, 3 February 2019 at the Tour & Taxis exhibition site. The 133 participating galleries and art dealers from sixteen countries have selected their most important, rarest and valuable works from their respective art specialities in order to meet the great variety of expectations from a large audience with high levels of connoisseurship and specialist knowledge. In this manner BRAFA plays host to a ten day exhibition of artworks that traces many millennia of art history and archaeology down to present day, criss-crossing various periods, styles and continents to pay homage to artistic creation in all its forms. When I get older losing my hair, many years from now...Will you still need me, will you still need me, when ... More |
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Sister Wendy Beckett Interview on Charlie Rose
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 Les Enluminures announces highlights it will bring to the Winter ShowNEW YORK, NY.- In the Middle Ages, as today, public areas in civic centers often mounted Christmas tableau of the Nativity story. The statues have fully delineated faces and doll-like bodies, because they were dressed up each year in period costume. Les Enluminures is bringing two such sculpture from Lombardy. The first is a mannequin of St. Joseph by the De Donati brothers, sculptors active for the princely Sforza family. The second is a polychromed giraffe from the same group; the exotic animal is often included in Nativity scenes accompanying the Magi, who came from foreign regions to adore the Christ Child. Les Enluminures has published a series of important jewelry books since 2007. It brings to the Winter Show a few examples of rings from its most recent publication The Fashioned Hand that features some twenty rings from antiquity to the present ... More Strong reception of Chicago outsider art exhibit warrants extensionCHICAGO, IL.- Intuit announces that Chicago Calling will now be on view through Sunday, February 10, 2019. 2018 has been a year of remarkable transformation in the world of outsider art, with blockbuster exhibitions at big mainstream museums all over the world capturing art appreciators' attention with this under recognized genre more robustly than ever before. In turn, Intuit's Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow exhibit has garnered a strong reception, prompting the museum to extend the exhibition another month. As the exhibition makes the case that Chicago is the United States epicenter for self-taught art acceptance and recognition, it's only fitting that the city's residents and visitors alike have championed it to stay at Intuit longer, before traveling overseas to European museums. The exhibition tours to La Halle Saint Pierre (Paris, March 23- ... More First Italian solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zheng Bo on view at Parco Arte ViventeTURIN.- PAV Parco Arte Vivente is presenting the first Italian solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zheng Bo (Beijing, 1974) that will open on Saturday, November 3, 2018, within the framework of Artissima. The exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini inaugurates the new exhibition season dedicated, in particular, to the relationship between ecology and art from the Asian continent. A careful investigator of the relationship between plants, society and politics, Zheng Bo is one of the most interesting Chinese artists of the younger generation. He was among the participating artists at Manifesta 12 in Palermo and, has recently exhibited at the second Yinchuan Biennale. He is also involved in the next Taipei Biennale that opens in November. In his series of works Propaganda Botanica, Zheng Bo makes use of historic Marxist slogans recreating them by using plants ... More KAI 10 │ Arthena Foundation celebrates its tenth anniversary with three exhibitionsDUSSELDORF.- With three exhibitions in one year, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The kickoff is an exhibition with this years awardees of the ars viva prize for visual art, Niko Abramidis & NE, Cana Bilir-Meier and Keto Logua. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. Entrepreneur Monika Schnetkamp founded the non-profit art institution in 2008 as an independent platform for the presentation of contemporary art. KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION is located in a former 1950s warehouse on Kaistrasse 10 in Dusseldorf and works outside the constraints of a collection or focusing on a specific artistic medium. In addition to other exhibition venues in the region, KAI 10 is accessible free of charge during regular daily opening hours and represents an innovative model of entrepreneurial ... More Artists announced for Photo50, curated by Tim Clark, at London Art Fair 2019LONDON.- Fourteen artists have been announced for the 2019 edition of Photo50 at London Art Fair 2019 16-20 January (Preview 15 January). The annual guest-curated exhibition provides a critical forum for examining some of the most distinctive elements of current photographic practice. Whos looking at the family, now? is an exhibition curated by Tim Clark that will engage with some fundamental questions about family life, its dynamics and complexity, as represented by a group of contemporary photographers and artists working in the UK and internationally. 2019 will also mark twenty-five years since British curator Val Williams seminal exhibition, Whos looking at the family? which opened at the Barbican in 1994, offering the opportunity to consider the multifarious changes, both to notions of the family and photography, that have taken place ... More Villa Medici opens exhibition on the transversal and radical practices of great personalities of all timesROME.- Le Violon d'Ingres is an exhibition curated by Chiara Parisi that was developed through a dialogue between the curator and the artist Christian Boltanski, an exceptional exhibition on the transversal and radical practices of great personalities of all times. Centered on the figure of Victor Hugo with a rigorous and dazzling selection of his drawingswhose importance and inspiration for many contemporary artists become more and more significantthe exhibition presents in the same time the passions and the obsessions, less known by the public, of extraordinary figures such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean Genet, Sacha Guitry, Franz Kafka, Pierre Klossowski, Carlo Levi, René Magritte, Nelson Mandela, Louise Michel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, ... More Isabelle Cornaro's first solo exhibition in a French museum on view at MRAC OccitanieSERIGNAN.- For her first solo exhibition in a French museum, Isabelle Cornaro has taken over both floors of the MRAC Occitanie (Regional Museum of Contemporary Art) with Blue Spill, a project that has been specifically conceived for the venue. This invitation offers her the occasion to develop the organic links between her filming method and her pictorial and sculptural techniques. Over the past fifteen years, Isabelle Cornaro has explored the relationship between an object and its image, the original and its copy, in her quest for the deconstruction of visual archetypes. An art historian by training, specialised in 16th century European Mannerism, Isabelle Cornaro draws inspiration from a vast field of artistic references, from the Baroque to the abstract, as well as minimalism. Her work is based on a mastery of collage which uses images and objects stemming from ... More New exhibition of Native American art now open at Toledo Museum of ArtTOLEDO, OH.- Expanded Views: Native American Art in Focus is now open at the Toledo Museum of Art in the recently renovated Gallery 29A, which is adjacent to the other galleries of American art. While the collection of outstanding examples of American art has been an important focus of the Toledo Museum of Arts curatorial strategy since soon after its founding in 1901, in recent years TMA has increased its efforts to broaden the scope of its acquisitions of singular works of art from cultures that have traditionally been underrepresented in the classical art museum tradition. Over the past several years the Museum has been working to build its collection of Native American works of art, both historical and contemporary, said Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, director of curatorial affairs. This exhibition will feature the new acquisitions in this area and present ... More Taro Amano and Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka appointed Curatorial Directors of SIAF2020SAPPORO.- The Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of the team of directors of the Sapporo International Art Festival 2020 (SIAF2020), which is scheduled for the 2020/2021 winter season. Sapporo is the central city of Hokkaido, and Japan's fifth largest city with a population of approximately 1.96 million. The city has four distinct seasons with an annual snowfall of 6 meters in winter. The Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) is an artistic event held in Sapporo, Japan once every three years, and SIAF2020 will be its third edition. Launched in 2014, this triennial event has previously been held from summer to autumn, but we have decided to hold SIAF2020 in winter to leverage more of the features and appeal of Sapporoa city with snowy winters. Through SIAF2020, we will continue to promote local ... More Auckland Art Gallery presents 'Dane Mitchell: Iris, Iris, Iris'AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is presenting Iris, Iris, Iris, a solo exhibition by Dane Mitchell. Mitchell has a long-standing interest in invisible forces. Over his career this has seen him develop processes, strategies and a scientific-like enquiry into subjects ranging from the hidden workings of the gallery system to spirit forces and more recently, weather, scent and speech. For Iris, Iris, Iris, co-commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Mitchell conducted research into the encompassing world of traditional Japanese incense and Japans highly advanced perfume industry. Starting with the iris, a flower whose history dates back to ancient Greece, Mitchell conducts an experiment that stages a live perfume extraction process. He draws the mechanics of perfume production, which literally entrap the spirited emanations rising ... More Artists reflect on importance of financial and programmatic support in new bookNEW YORK, NY.- Over the last 25 years, the Joan Mitchell Foundation has awarded grants to more than 1,000 artists, totaling over $15 million in direct, unrestricted funding. Hundreds more artists have been supported through $8 million in grants given to arts organizations nationwide, as well as through the Foundations education programming, free online services, and residency opportunities at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. To celebrate the work and achievements of its artist community and to examine the impact of its initiatives, the Foundation released a book and opened a companion exhibition, both titled Widening Circles: Portraits from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Community at 25 Years, this December. Featuring anecdotes and testimonials by 25 artists, the book captures the reallife experiences of ... More Exhibition offers an immersive experience inspired by some of history's greatest manifestosMONTREAL.- The Musée dart contemporain de Montréal is presenting Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto. Through this expansive, thirteen-channel video installation, the German artist pays tribute to the eloquence and literary beauty of artist manifestos. Renowned Australian actress Cate Blanchett brought her exceptional talent to bear in this tour de force, which draws inspiration from architecture, film, performance art and the visual arts to present a modern take on and meaning to texts that shaped art history throughout the 20th century. According to John Zeppetelli, Director and Chief Curator at the MAC, this exhibition is nothing less than a Manifesto of manifestos. Along with Françoise Sullivan and Scores, Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto is part of the final series of exhibitions to be presented at the MAC before its transformation ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was born December 29, 1896. David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua - January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." In this image: Unfinished 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros, in Escuela de Bellas Artes, a cultural center in San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
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