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Alexander Calder, Untitled (snake and apple forms) n.d. Lithograph on paper. 8 from an edition of 20. 29 ½ x 42 ¼ inches. Numbered lower left: 8/20. Signed lower right: Calder. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art. Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of Stephen Singer.
PURCHASE, NY.- American Modernist Alexander Calder s kinetic mobiles are brilliantly engineered, three-dimensional works that rely on careful weighting to achieve balance, movement, and suspension. They revolutionized the concept of sculpture. At the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, his mobile The Red Ear is suspended over the staircase to the second-floor galleries, and Snake on Arch, a bronze sculpture, is installed in the museums modern and contemporary galleries. Yet, it was in his lesser-known early drawings, prints, and paintings where Calder first explored color, space, and movement. Fifteen of those works are on view at the Neuberger Museum from January 29-May 17, 2020 in Calder from the Collection, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Calder that are housed in the museums extraordinary collection ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Academy Museum Director Bill Kramer speaks at the media tour of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on February 07, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images/AFP
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 | | Sales take a dive at Sotheby's post-Brexit London auction | | Sledge and flag from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition at risk of being lost abroad | | Man charged as two stolen Banksy works found in Paris | 
Helena Newman, Sothebys European Chairman auctioneering Pissarros Gelée blanche, jeune paysanne faisant du feu at Sotheby's London, 4 Feb 2020. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In the first serious test of the top end of the auction market since Brexit, Sothebys relied heavily on three works that had been looted by the Nazis and restored to the owners heirs in an underpowered sale Tuesday of impressionist, modern and surrealist art that raised 49.9 million pounds ($64.9 million). That total was 43% lower than the 87.7 million pounds at the sale last February. All three of the works had recently been returned to the heirs of the French property developer and art collector Gaston Lévy. The painting that led the sale, with a price of 13.3 million pounds, was Camille Pissarros 1888 pointillist-style masterwork, Gelée Blanche, Jeune Paysanne Faisant du Feu showing two figures in a field on a sunlit winter morning. It had been on display at the Musée dOrsay in Paris from 2000 to 2018 after having been seized by the French ... More | | 
Sledge carried supplies for the four men who undertook the famous failed march to the Pole in 1909.
LONDON.- Arts Minister Helen Whately has stopped the export of a sledge and flag that was taken on Ernest Shackletons 1907 - 1909 British Antarctic Expedition following their sale to an overseas buyer. The items are valued at £227,500 plus £8,750 VAT and are at risk of export unless a UK buyer can be found to add the items to the national collection so they can be enjoyed by the public. The expedition, known as Nimrod, was the first led by famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922). He led three expeditions to the Antarctic in the early twentieth century, this one with the intention of being the first to the South Pole. During Nimrod, Shackleton, chose three other men from the group - Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams - to make the attempt on the Pole. The sledge and the flag were hauled, first by pony and then by the men, to within 97.5 miles of their objective, the South Pole before famously turning back to Discovery Point in 1909. This sledge was ... More | | 
A picture taken on September 3, 2019,in Paris shows an empty wall where a recent artwork by British street-artist Banksy was stolen. Works by the mysterious British street-artist are regularly stolen. Aurélie MAYEMBO / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A man was charged Friday after two stolen Banksy artworks were recovered in Paris. An image of a masked rat wielding a box cutter -- the alter ego the elusive British artist often uses -- disappeared from outside the Pompidou Centre in September, a year after Bansky "blitzed" the French capital with murals. The museum, which houses Europe's biggest collection of modern art but does not have a Bansky, had filed a police complaint for destruction of property. The man charged with "stealing a cultural asset" is one of three men arrested in and around Paris earlier this week. Two works by Banksy were recovered in follow-up searches by the police but the stencilled work on the back of a sign for the Pompidou's car park is still missing. Thieves used a saw to cut it out of the sign. The Pompidou theft came seven ... More |
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| | Hamburger Kunsthalle opens an exhibition dealing with the theme of loss | | Almine Rech-Brussels oprnd a museum-quality selection of 22 paintings, created by Antoni Tàpies | | Art Central cancelled amidst public health concerns | 
Andy Warhol (19281987), Jackie, 1964. Siebdrucktinte auf Leinen, 51 x 41 cm. Wolverhampton Art Gallery © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
HAMBURG.- The large-scale exhibition Mourning at the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents works by some 30 contemporary artists from around the world dealing with the theme of loss. Experiences of loss, grief and change harbour a disruptive potential that is difficult to put into words or capture visually. The varied artworks on view illustrate the kinds of images artists are finding today to convey this phenomenon, revealing the significance that is still attached to traditional pathos formulas and showing that how we mourn can tell us a great deal about our present day. Some of the works were created especially for the exhibition while others are on loan from artists studios or international museums and private collections. Extending across two floors of the Gallery of Contemporary ... More | | 
Antoni Tà pies, Diamant, 2000. Painting and scratch on wood, 65 x 81 cm; 25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. Courtesy of the Estate of the Artist and Almine Rech © SABAM Belgium 2020.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech-Brussels presents Antoni Tà pies, a museum-quality selection of 22 paintings, created by Antoni Tà pies (1923-2012) during his last two decades. Indeed, over half of the works on view have been featured in museum and gallery exhibitions, and most are documented in related publications. This is his first solo exhibition in Belgium since 1985, when the Musée dArt Moderne, Bruxelles (now Musée Modern Museum) organized a survey. This exhibition marks the co-representation of the Estate of Antoni Tà pies. In 1955, Tà pies started working in a 15th Century farmhouse in the Montseny Mountains, 50km north of Barcelona. This buildings thick, deteriorating walls likely inspired him to rough up his canvases, treating them more like walls to be graffitied, stained, scarred, ... More | | 
The uncertainty has made it increasingly untenable to guarantee the safety and well-being of the public.
HONG KONG.- Following an in-depth review of market conditions related to the risk to public health from the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) outbreak, Art Central, upon careful consideration and thorough evaluation, has made the decision to cancel its upcoming edition, which was scheduled to be held from 18 to 22 March 2020. The uncertainty has made it increasingly untenable to guarantee the safety and well-being of the public. Acting on its obligation to deliver a successful event which is ever dependent on a strong audience, the Fairs organisers today concede to the simultaneous myriad challenges. At the time of this release, Art Central 2020 had confirmed the participation of over 80 regional and international galleries including a record number of Hong Kong-based exhibitors showing alongside an acclaimed programme of public art, conversations and performance. A spokesperson for Art Central ... More |
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| | Vitra Design Museum opens "Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors" | | Banksy is a control freak. But he can't control his legacy | | Noah Davis is gone; His paintings continue to hypnotize | 
Installation view »Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors« © Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Ludger Paffrath.
WEIL AM RHEIN.- Our homes are an expression of the way we live, they shape our everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. With the major exhibition »Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors« the Vitra Design Museum aims to reopen the conversation about the contemporary private interior and its evolution. In a captivating narrative leading visitors backwards in time, the exhibition will highlight important societal, political, urban, and technical shifts that have shaped the design and the use of the Western interior over the last 100 years. From current issues facing the domestic domain such as the efficient use of dwindling urban space to the blurring of work-life boundaries the journey includes our fascination with loft-living in the 1970s, the shift from formal to informal dwelling in the 1960s, the rise of household appliances in the 1950s, and the introduction of open-space planning in ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Steve Lazarides, a Banksy mural in London circa 2002. Steve Lazarides via The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The contrast between the 17th-century old master and 21st-century disrupter couldnt have been more extreme. To the left, Rembrandts broodingly introspective Self-Portrait With a Red Beret. To the right, behind a protective glass screen, Banksys Girl With Balloon, the painting that had made global headlines when it sensationally self-destructed at an auction. Its frayed canvas now dangles limply below its elaborate gold frame. Retitled Love Is in the Bin, the end result of what many regard as the most spectacular of all Banksy stunts has just spent almost a year on loan at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany. The damaged exhibit freeze-frames the moment at the end of a 2018 contemporary art auction when, to loud gasps, a painting that had just sold for $1.4 million slid ... More | | 
Noah Davis, Single Mother with Father Out of the Picture, 2007-2008 © The Estate of Noah Davis. Courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Art history is full of artists whose careers, cut short by early death, haunt us with their unfulfilled promise. The 20th century is pocked with many such examples, a mere handful of which include Paula Modersohn-Becker (who died at 31); Egon Schiele (28); Bob Thompson (28); Eva Hesse (34); and Jean-Michel Basquiat (27). The 21st century has painter Noah Davis, now the subject of a big, beautiful exhibition at David Zwirner in Manhattan. He died of a rare cancer in Ojai, California, in August 2015, just three months after turning 32. Talented and charismatic, with a knack for rallying people, Davis was inclusive in his art and his life. He gathered his family and friends around him and refused to commit to a single figurative style or to use photographic images in a formulaic way. Nearly every canvas here is ... More |
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| | The Courtauld announces the appointment of its first Managing Director, Dr. Tzo Zen Ang | | Charbel-joseph H. Boutros' first solo exhibition in a Belgian museum opens at S.M.A.K. | | Art in General appoints Irene Mei Zhi Shum as Executive Director | 
Dr. Tzo Zen Ang is currently Chief Operating Officer at the Royal Academy of Arts. Photo: Cat Garcia.
LONDON.- The Courtauld announced that Dr. Tzo Zen Ang, currently Chief Operating Officer at the Royal Academy of Arts, has been appointed as its first Managing Director. This newly created role, focusing on the operational management of The Courtauld as it delivers an ambitious transformation programme, will see Tzo Zen joining the Senior Management Team and reporting to the Märit Rausing Director, Professor Deborah Swallow. The appointment comes at a key moment in the institutions history, as it undergoes a major, multi-million-pound redevelopment, the biggest project of its kind since The Courtauld moved to Somerset House in 1989. Courtauld Connects, supported by £9.4m from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and donations from generous philanthropic foundations and individual supporters, will make The Courtaulds world-class artworks, research and teaching accessible to even more people, and includes the current extensive resto ... More | | 
Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, If close to the sun a drop may fall 2019, 2019, albumss tape, wax. Courtesy of the artist, Grey Noise and Jaqueline Martins Gallery.
GHENT.- The Sun is My Only Ally is Charbel-joseph H. Boutros first solo exhibition in a Belgian museum. Born in Lebanon in 1981, the artist was raised in a country marked by civil war, an event that is not visualised in his work but has an indirect presence. The title of the exhibition, which is taken from one of the artists works, is an indicator of his fascination with the intangible and the invisible. Elements such as light, time, breath and sleep, for example, determine all our lives, yet are difficult to record. Charbel-joseph H. Boutros artworks are objects, as it were, that capture, register or indicate these and other invisible sensations. A title such as Night Cartography reveals that the artist is attempting to make a poetic registration of the night or a period of sleep. The artists oeuvre, as a whole, can indirectly be called biographical. Just as an amulet or a photograph can be laden with memories, the objects that Boutros makes are ... More | | 
Shum joins Art in General from the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas where she served as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art since 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art in General announced the appointment of Irene Mei Zhi Shum as Executive Director. Shum will oversee artist engagement and the curatorial direction of Art in Generals New Commissions and International Collaborations programs, as well as the organizations operations and fundraising initiatives. She will start in spring 2020. Shum states, It is an honor to lead Art in General and to build upon its reputation as an innovative and inclusive artists space that has debuted and launched the careers of many who have gone on to shape the discourse of contemporary art. I am very excited by the opportunity to plan the organizations 40th anniversary in 2021, to support emerging talent, to produce new art, and to once again contribute to the cultural life of New York City. Shum joins Art in General from the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas where she served as the Associate Curator ... More |
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Water Stone, 1987--Installing Isamu Noguchi's Iconic Sculpture
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 Janet Rady Fine Art opens Fire of Love, Amin Roshan's first solo exhibition in LondonLONDON.- Rossi & Rossi and Janet Rady Fine Art announces: Fire of Love, Amin Roshans first solo exhibition in London. It is not easy to say why I have chosen oil as a theme
The main reason may be its excessive impact and influence not only on my life and family but also on the geography of Iran - Amin Roshan. Amin Roshan is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist whose output is deeply informed by his Bahktiari tribal heritage and his familys involvement for many generations in the countrys oil industry. Roshan was born in the Naftoon district of Masjid-i-Sulamain in the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran, where the first oil well in the Middle East was discovered. His formative years were shaped by the physical presence of oil in and around the streets where he grew up. The family re-located to Ahwaz, a city in the South West of Iran near the border with ... More The Gujral Foundation opens its first exhibition of the year with Remen Chopra W. Van Der VaartNEW DELHI.- The Gujral Foundation in association with Outset India, opened its first exhibition of the year last week with multi-disciplinary artist Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart titled Memorys Cut: Its Deep Embrace at 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, an experimental space that offers artists the opportunity to create site-specific projects and a unique environment for the public to experience art. Supported by Kings Court by DLF, the exhibition showcases new works by the artist. In this exhibition, the artist transforms 24 Jor Bagh into a series of personal spaces that encapsulate her memories of home. She creates site-specific works using varied media such as photography, drawing, sculpture, textiles and sound, to reflect upon personal and familial histories of migration. Her work is a unique assemblage of intimate moments, p ... More Nottingham Contemporary opens a solo exhibition of works by Denzil ForresterNOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary presents a selection of paintings and works on paper by Denzil Forrester, in his largest institutional exhibition to date. Titled Itchin & Scratchin, the show will span Forresters engagement with the dimly lit dancehalls of 1980s East London to the present-day open-air clubs of Jamaica. Focusing on large-scale paintings made by the Grenada-born, Cornwall-based artist from the last two decades, the exhibition comprises vivid, colourful works that capture the dynamic energy of the London reggae and dub nightclub scene during the early 1980s, a subject that has endured throughout 40 years of the artist's practice. Forresters paintings typically begin as quick sketches, often made during the length of a single track and drawn quasi-blind on dark, bustling dancefloors. Having visited Kingston for ... More Beyond architecture, a builder of lusty fantasiesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, architecture found itself back at the drafting table. Clients got spooked (or went broke), construction rates plummeted in the United States and Europe, and young architects in particular had to find new ways to work. And so this past decade has greeted a welter of digital projects, performances, pop-up designs and paper architecture, by practitioners born too late for big budgets. These young architects are heirs to a deep tradition of architecture beyond building and right now they can discover one of the greatest paper architects of a time before AutoCAD. Jean-Jacques Lequeu, more than two centuries ago, also saw his career upended by political shifts and economic crises: in his case, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He, too, had to settle for a career ... More Els Dietvorst's first retrospcetive exhibition opens at Museum of Contemporary Art AntwerpANTWERP.- With *Dooltocht/A desperate quest to find a base for hope, the M HKA presents the first retrospective exhibition of the Antwerp artist Els Dietvorst. The exhibition presents a coherent overview of her large and complex oeuvre, which includes social actions, documentaries, films and videos, clay sculptures, theatre texts, ink drawings and installations. Els Dietvorst is a socially engaged artist who uses her visual work as a means to create social involvement. She finds highly personal forms of expression in the various media she utilises. Her work focuses on the many forms of social communication and interpersonal relationships and conflicts. This is evidenced in impressive socio-artistic projects, such as De terugkeer van de zwaluwen (The Return of Swallows) (1999-2004) in the Brussels Anneessens district or Koningskinderen (Royal Children) ... More Cambodia: War and Beauty photographic exhibition opens at FCC Angkor by Avani SIEM REAP.- FCC Angkor by Avani presents a photo exhibition entitled Cambodia: War and Beauty by award winning documentary filmmaker, Dr. David A. Feingold. The exhibition draws on Feingolds rich experience documenting Cambodias history through the lens of culture, politics and war. Divided into four themes covering war, culture, transition to pace and the impact of landmines, visitors will have a chance to experience the contrasts, continuities, and changes in Cambodia over the span of 30 years, as experienced by Feingold. Feingold first visited Cambodia as an undergraduate in 1961 and returned in 1964, prior to the start of the civil war. This visit resulted in his ongoing interest in Cambodia. In 1986, after two-decades, he returned to Cambodia to conduct field research and film in the refugee camps along the Thai border. The exhibit ... More Latifa Echakhch presents a new installation designed especially for BPS22CHARLEROI.- For her first major museum exhibition in Belgium, Latifa Echakhch presents a new installation designed especially for the BPS22, as well as a selection of ancient works, exhibited together for the first time, around the notions of loss, abandonment and traces. Documenting contemporary ruin as an object of culture, Latifa Echakhch seizes it at the threshold of its destruction, just before its collapses and summons the imaginary in the face of what is more trivial. For several years now, Latifa Echakhch renews the tradition of the romantic landscape and its associated motive: ruin. The artist goes beyond a literal interpretation of the word "ruin," which no longer refers only to a degrading building, but to the traces of its occupation: a photo album, a scarf, tea cups, a miniature perfume bottle, a little lead soldier, etc. Through the minimalist pictorial language, ... More Modern Art Oxford opens the first ever UK solo exhibition of Johanna UnzuetaOXFORD.- Tools for Life is the first ever UK solo exhibition of New York-based Chilean artist Johanna Unzueta (b. 1974). Shaped in close dialogue with the artist, the exhibition presents four new commissions for Modern Art Oxford, in addition to a selection of her abstract drawings. Unzuetas work explores labours technological, historical and social impact on the human condition, and its relationship to nature. Combining elements from Chilean craft techniques, natural tinting processes and repetitive mechanised movement, Unzueta considers how materials and structures can be manipulated to explore the physicality of a daily practice or trade, in relation to the history of industrial production. The new works on show in Oxford are a large-scale felt installation; a collection of garments; a film shot at a textiles factory in Chile; and a site-specific wall mural. ... More Spring 2020 exhibition programme opens at Salzburger KunstvereinSALZBURG.- Storytelling across personal and grander narratives are a key focus of Salzburger Kunstverein's spring exhibitions. Salzburger Kunstverein presents variations on an irreverent self that resists authority and hegemony, and counters narratives of genius. Exhibitions also confront fading democracy as evident globally in counterpoint with failing memoryboth historical memory and individual memory. In correlation, the topic of migration emerges, combined with ideas of writing and rewriting history. And finally, a ghost has appeared in our hallway, and is not expected to leave any time soon. Gernot Wieland makes films, drawings, performances and playful installations that examine conditions of fact and fiction, often existing between dreamscapes, storytelling, reality and neuroses of recollection. Gernot Wielands work unravels the stasis of ... More Exhibition surveys the artistic innovations and impact of several generations of women artists in TexasSAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art opened the exhibition Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, which breaks new ground in identifying contributions from women artists to the history of American abstraction. While Texas is well known for its representational and figurative art, during the mid-twentieth century a number of artists began to explore the possibilities of abstraction instead. Yet despite decades of artistic production, the contributions of women artists in Texas have not been fully examined. Texas Women, the first large-scale exhibition to focus on women abstract artists living and working in Texas, both expands the narrative of American abstraction and celebrates Texas as a vital art scene where womens unique artistic visions continue to thrive. Organized and presented by SAMA, the exhibition will be on ... More 'Pornographic' French writer Pierre Guyotat dies aged 80PARIS (AFP).- Controversial French writer Pierre Guyotat, whose book "Eden, Eden, Eden" was judged "pornographic" by the authorities and banned from publicity, public display or sale to minors for over a decade, has died aged 80, his family said Friday. The book, which details graphic sex acts, was banned in France for 11 years from 1970 to 1981. Long plagued by scandal, Guyotat was finally awarded France's Medicis literature prize -- which "Eden, Eden, Eden" missed out on by one vote in 1970, in 2018 for his book "Idiotie" ("Idiocy"). He is probably best known for his 1967 book "Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats" (Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers), inspired by the time he spent as a soldier in the Algerian war. Born in Lyon in eastern France in 1940, Guyotat left for Paris at the age of 18 to become a poet. His father, a doctor, hired a private detective ... More UOVO Art Storage announces new CEO Daniel SchmerinNEW YORK, NY.- UOVO, New Yorks number one art storage and services company, announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Schmerin. Mr. Schmerin brings to UOVO over 15 years of experience in business operations, finance and investing, and public policy, with expertise in capital allocation, corporate strategy, and organizational dynamics. Prior to working in the private sector, Mr. Schmerin served in senior roles at the White House, State Department, and United States Treasury supporting Cabinet officials and other executive branch leaders on economic policy and national security affairs. Mr. Schmerin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently earned a Master of Science degree with distinction from the London School of Economics, and a Master ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guercino was born February 08, 1591. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 - December 22, 1666), best known as Guercino, or il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner is in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. In this image: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, A Study for Hercules, in three-quarter-length, 1640s. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum
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