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Installation view of WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection © Leopold Museum, Vienna. Photo: Lisa Rastl.
VIENNA.- The exhibition WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection is the first public unveiling of one of Europes most sensational private art collections. Its presentation at the Leopold Museum fulfills the collectors long-cherished wish to make the masterpieces she has carefully assembled since the 1990s, spanning from Gustav Klimt to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, available to a broad audience. The collectors philanthropic dedication is further underscored by her support of educational programs to benefit children and adolescents, as well as weekly free admission to the museum for the general public. The exhibition, curated by Agnes Husslein-Arco, showcases 170 works by seventy five artists and follows a chronological sequence of twentieth-century Western art. It also offers a unique view into the broad spectrum of art the collector has gathered over the past thirty-five years. The mid-1990s were an excepti ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An employee does some last minute touch ups on imformation about a Joy for All Companion Pet, Dog which is part of the Access+Ability exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum February 8, 2018 in New York. The robotic pet can be therapeutic for people with conditions such as dementia and autism. From now until September an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt design museum in New York is showcasing some of these new products, from the low- to the high-tech. Don EMMERT / AFP
| The Hepworth Wakefield opens a major survey of work by Anthony McCall | | Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo to offer Elvis Presley's Omega wristwatch | | Sotheby's to offer major painting by Peter Doig, Britain's most vaulable living artist |
Artist Anthony McCall in his exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield. Photo by Darren O'Brien/Guzelian.
WAKEFIELD.- The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting a major survey of work by British born artist Anthony McCall (b.1946). Solid Light Works is the first UK exhibition of McCalls work in over a decade and includes the UK premiere of three new solid light installations. McCall describes his practice as existing in the space where cinema, sculpture and drawing overlap. He is best known for his large-scale, immersive sculptural light installations that incorporate the visitor and invite them to become active participants in the work. Anthony McCall said I am thrilled to be showing in the UK and particularly in the David Chipperfield designed galleries at The Hepworth Wakefield. These carefully proportioned and gently angled spaces are unusually sympathetic to the work on display. The exhibition has been shaped closely with McCall and explores all facets of his work. It highlights how drawing ... More | |
The Omega Elvis Presley Watch, Retailed by Tiffany & Co. Estimate: CHF 50,000 to 100,000.
GENEVA.- Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo announced the sale of a historically important Omega wristwatch, once belonging to Elvis Presley. A highlight of Geneva Watch Auction: SEVEN taking place on 12 and 13 May, this exceptional timepiece, which was owned and worn by the rock and roll icon, was gifted to him in 1961 by RCA Records to commemorate his remarkable achievement of having sold 75 million records. Elvis Presley signed with RCA Records in 1955, launching him into a career as a music phenomenon who electrified millions of attendees at his live performances and sold an unprecedented number of records. Over the course of his lifetime, Elvis had an active role in creating the modern American musical landscape and the development of a unique youth culture. His importance to the inception of rock and roll, and contemporary music as a whole, cannot be overstated. His image has ... More | |
Peter Doig, The Architects Home in the Ravine, 1991 (detail), 200 x 250 cm. Estimate: £14-18 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Peter Doigs landmark The Architects Home in the Ravine returns to auction on 7 March to lead Sothebys Evening Sale of Contemporary art. Estimated at £14-18 million, the painting dates from 1991, an important milestone in the artists career, when, just a year after graduating from his Masters degree at Chelsea, he was awarded the highly prestigious Whitechapel Artists award. The Architects Home in the Ravine was one of only four works the artist chose to be included in the subsequent show at the Whitechapel Gallery. Others include Iron Hill (1991) which became the first work by the artist to sell for over £1 million at Sothebys auction in 2006, and Rosedale (1991) which established a new $28.8 million auction record for any living British artist last year. The Architects Home in the Ravine was further selected for Doigs first major institutional show - his ... More |
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| Paris Grand Palais to get half-billion-euro facelift | | Twelve monochrome paintings donated to Moderna Museet | | 'Discover your inner spy' at New York's latest museum |
In this file photo taken on May 15, 2017 shows the Grand Palais in Paris. FRANCK FIFE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- France unveiled a spectacular near half-billion-euro ($613-million-dollar) overhaul of one of its beloved buildings Monday, driving a new pedestrian boulevard through the Grand Palais in Paris to link the Champs Elysees with the River Seine. Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen said the huge project will completely open up the enormous complex of galleries and exhibition spaces which also houses the city's Palace of Discoveries science museum. First built for the Exposition Universelle world fair in 1900, which helped cement the rise of the Art Nouveau movement, the giant glass vault of its main building has become a landmark of the city. The new light-filled pedestrian street driven through the complex will allow visitors to enter it through a central concourse uniting the museum, the Grand Palais galleries which host blockbuster exhibitions and the main exhibition building, Nyssen said. She said the French state will fork out 288 million euros of the 466-million-euro $572 million) budge ... More | |
Marcia Hafif, Transparent Painting: Ultramarine Blue, 1982 (detail) © Marcia Hafif Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet.
STOCKHOLM.- Claes Nordenhake, who has been a gallerist since 1976 in Malmö, followed by Stockholm and Berlin, is also an art collector. He is now donating twelve abstract paintings from his collection to Moderna Museet. All works are monochromes, or in other words, they concentrate on one colour. The chosen works reflect Claes Nordenhakes personal fascination with monochromes. Olle Bærtlings painting Dynamique Noir Bleu from 1954 had a seminal impact on his own understanding of art. Early in his career, Nordenhake took an interest in concrete art and examined how modern painting could be developed. When geometric abstraction seemed to him to have reached a dead end, he began studying contemporary painters who explored their own medium and colour as a flow. Here, he found new approaches that convinced him both conceptually and visually. Claes Nordenhake is an unusual collector. He noted that visitors stopped coming ... More | |
The "bombe", a code breaking machine developed by a group of British mathematicians, is pictured at the Spyscape Museum on Februay 8, 2018. Thomas URBAIN / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York may already be crammed to breaking point with culture and tourist attractions, but on Friday the city added another feather to its cap: Spyscape -- a new museum giving visitors a taste of life as a secret agent. Part museum, part interactive installation, visitors can undergo a lie detector test, creep past laser beams and decode secret messages at a spanking new premises -- four years in the making -- close to Central Park. A former British intelligence officer was recruited to help design the installation, says Spyscape chief of staff Shelby Prichard. Rooms are devoted to major periods of espionage history, such as the British cracking of the Nazi Enigma code during World War II -- and the museum displays an original model of the so-called "bombe" designed by Alan Turing to help do so. It also features documents related to US double agent Robert Hanssen, who passed secrets to the Soviets from 1979 ... More |
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| Exhibition of paintings by Hans Meyer-Kassel opens at the Nevada Museum of Art | | "Charles Atlas: Scary, Scary, Community Fun, Death" opens at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst | | "Faith Ringgold: An American Artist" to open at the Crocker Art Museum |
Hans Meyer-Kassel, Untitled, (Lake Tahoe), 1948. Pastel on board, 20 x 16 inches. Nevada Historical Society, Gift of H. William Brooks.
RENO, NEV.- The paintings of Hans Meyer-Kassel (1872-1952) have hung in the castles of kings and the homes of presidents. Still today, decades after his death, his artwork can be found in state capitols, university campuses, historical societies, court houses, government buildings and museums across the United States and Europe. His artwork lives in archives, books, magazines and even on a United States postage stampas well as in the homes of scores of Nevada families. Classically trained as a painter at the University of Munich in his native Germany, Meyer-Kassel immigrated to the United States at the end of World War I to escape the post-war tumult. He endured the Great Depression in New York City, but after being invited to exhibit in Pasadena, California in 1935, he became enamored with the American West. Within a year, he and his wife, Maria, moved to Reno, later relocating to Carson City, before settling in Genoa, where he worked from ... More | |
Charles Atlas, 2003, 2003/2018, Video still, Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
ZURICH.- The American artist Charles Atlas (b. St. Louis, Missouri, 1949) has been a leading figure in the domain of film and video art for almost fifty years, creating complex video installations and seminal films documenting dance and performance art. Atlas rose to renown with collaborative projects involving choreographers like Merce Cunningham (19192009) and Michael Clark (b. 1962) as well as the fashion designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery (19611994). His network of creative collaborators and associates largely coincides with his circle of friends: many of his works from the 1980s and 1990s are portraits of fellow protagonists of the New York underground scene and the contemporary milieu, employing a sub- and pop-cultural idiom to scrutinize aspects of biopower and the politics of bodies and identity. To this day, younger generations of filmmakers regard Atlass visual language as a key reference; a prominent example is his cinematography in the fictionalized docum ... More | |
Faith Ringgold, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow #1: Somebody Stole My Broken Heart, 2004 (detail). Acrylic on canvas with pieced border, 80 1/2 x 67 inches © 2018 Faith Ringgold, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- On February 18, 2018, the Crocker Art Museum will bring to Sacramento Faith Ringgold: An American Artist, an exhibition of Ringgolds famous story quilts, tankas (inspired by thangkas, Tibetan textile paintings), oil paintings, prints, drawings, masks, sculptures, and original illustrations from the artists award-winning book Tar Beach. While Ringgold's work has been featured in a Sacramento gallery show before, the Crocker's exhibition brings together more than 40 examples of Ringgolds varied production spanning several decades, from the 1960s through the first years of the current century. The works on view highlight themes of family life, relationships, and jazz music, as well as race and the history of slavery in America. Faith Ringgold has long been an important voice about the discrimination felt by many artists of color, women, and other ... More |
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| Chrysler Museum of Art announces Carolyn Swann Needell as Barry Curator of Glass | | Allora & Calzadilla open exhibition at MAXXI in Rome | | Exhibition explores the work of three American artists redefining contemporary history painting |
Swan Needell recently completed a fellowship at University College London, Qatar on glass in the medieval Middle East, which was also the topic of her dissertation at Brown University.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art welcomes Carolyn Swan Needell, Ph.D., as the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass. Swan Needell is an expert in ancient and modern glass and also holds valuable glassblowing and casting experience that pairs well with the Chrysler Museums Perry Glass Studio. Carolyn brings remarkable breadth to the Chrysler. Her international perspective will enhance our wonderful curatorial team. Her deep knowledge of ancient, Islamic and modern glass will allow the Museum to continue to connect with audiences in innovative and insightful ways, said Chrysler Museum Director Erik Neil. Swan Needell notes that her practical experience with glassblowing and casting has given her valuable understanding of the possibilities of glass. As she reflects on her own studio experience, she looks forward to working with the Perry Glass Studio and values the demonstrations and classes ... More | |
Allora & Calzadilla, Blackout, 2017 Electrical transformer core coil, ceramic insulators, steel, iron, oscillator, speaker, vocal performance mains hum (2017) composition written by David Lang 139 x 262 x 129 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection Courtesy Lisson Gallery . Photo: Dave Morgan.
ROME.- An exploded electrical transformer that becomes a sculpture, a petrol pump sculpted in fossil calcareous stone, a motorcycle with a trumpet welded to the exhaust, an overturned table that becomes a motorboat, great pictures composed of fragments of photovoltaic panels and a chorus singing a composition featuring the words of Benjamin Franklin how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obligd to destroy! If there is no other Use discoverd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble. The provocative works of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, one of the most thoughtful and innovative artists on the contemporary international artistic scene, are ... More | |
Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012 (detail). Acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas, 108 x 158 in., Birmingham Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth (Bibby) Smith, the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, Jane Comer, the Sankofa Society, and general acquisition funds, 2012.57, © Kerry James Marshall.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas (February 15May 13, 2018), a new exhibition organized by SAM featuring three leading American artists from three generations whose work redefines history painting in a contemporary context. The large-scale paintings on view are distinctive in style, subject matter, and in the historic moments they reference, but collectively they critique and redefine mainstream narratives of history and representation. In their portrayals, these artists provide testimony centered on Black experience. The genre of history painting occupies a privileged place in the history of European art. Beginning in the Renaissance with representations of mythological, ... More |
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Martina Nehrling opens exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
NEW YORK, NY.- Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is presenting Saudade, Martina Nehrlings second solo show with the gallery. Saudade is a Portuguese term that defies direct translation, but Martina Nehrling thinks the elusiveness of the word is best wrangled by Jasmine Garsd. She describes it as a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not even happened. It often carries an assurance that this thing you feel nostalgic for will never happen again. Its an unexpected concept to associate with Nehrlings unabashedly optimistic work characterized by highly saturated color, but in her latest work on view in Saudade she concentrates on the presence of absence. Nehrlings paintings are built with individual staccato brushstrokes of lush, bright colors in a palette that feels simultaneously logical and discordant. She creates a rhythm to her work with this palette that ... More
Freeman's second-ever Collector's Sale reaches new buyers
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On February 7, Freemans held The Collectors Sale, an auction introduced by the house in August of 2017. Aimed primarily at emerging, young collectors, Wednesdays auction brought together more than 450 items curated with new art enthusiasts in mind. With the majority of the lots carrying pre-sale estimates below $1,000, the sale offered the millennial and modern consumer an interesting buying experience and a more cost-effective alternative to high-end retail. The Collectors Sale had an 82% sell-through rate, and totaled more than $355,000. The sale saw an increase in online bidding, with many interested buyers opting to use Freemans own bidding platform, Freemans Live, to participate in the days events. There were more than 500 registered bidders, with new, first time bidders representing 12% of those. At the auctions conclusion, ... More
Exhibition of paintings dating from the 1930s and '40s by Jean Brusselmans on view in The Hague
THE HAGUE.- In the face of every movement that swept the art world during the first half of the twentieth century, Jean Brusselmans (1884 - 1953) constructed an obstinately idiosyncratic oeuvre starring the rolling landscape and village life of Belgian Brabant. Terraced houses, small patches of farmland, simple interiors and robust working folk; Brusselmans depicts his subjects almost two-dimensionally, placing a clear emphasis on colour and form. This spring, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents his best works, mainly dating from the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition comprises around forty oil paintings, including a number of previously undiscovered gems from private collections, now for the first time on show in a museum setting. While his immediate contemporaries artists like Rik Wouters, Constant ... More
Francis Sultana announced as an Ambassador of Culture for Malta
LONDON.- Francis Sultana has been announced as an ambassador of culture for Malta. Raised in Gozo and now London based, Francis Sultana set up his eponymous studio in 2009 to create interiors for many of his major art collector clients. The atelier and showroom are based in St James's, London, in the same building as the international design and art gallery, David Gill, of which Sultana is also Artistic Director. Francis says: "To be honoured by my home country in this way is a very proud moment for me, something I could only have dreamt of as a child growing up in Gozo. I have worked hard to establish my career over the past twenty five years and I am delighted that I am able to continue supporting Malta to establish herself on the global map as a new hub for contemporary art and design. I will work tirelessly to ensure that Malta attracts the best artists, ... More
MPavilion announces 2018 architect: Carme Pinós from Barcelona
MELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced the commission for the fifth annual MPavilion has been awarded to internationally renowned Spanish-based architect and educator Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós. MPavilion 2018 will be the first public commission by a Spanish female architect in Australia. The announcement comes as MPavilion 2017, designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten, closed on Sunday 11 February, having received an overwhelming public response with more than 117,000+ visitors and 477 free events over 133 days. Naomi Milgrom AO, founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, who commissioned Carme Pinós to design MPavilion 2018, commented: Carmes remarkable work honours the responsibility of architecture to serve a community, by creating spaces that place human experience and environment ... More
Met Opera changes face as young director starts early
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Metropolitan Opera announced Thursday that young Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin would take charge this fall, two years ahead of schedule, making a fresh break after abuse allegations against his predecessor. Announcing its new season, the New York opera house said the 42-year-old Montreal native would become music director in September after freeing up his schedule from guest conducting commitments. "The orchestra loves him, the chorus loves him, everyone in the building loves him. He is a truly great artist under whom the Met will only thrive," the opera house's general manager Peter Gelb said in a statement. The boyish-looking conductor with a shoulder tattoo and youthful flair will offer a quick change in image for the Met, which has come under heat over abuse allegations surrounding Nezet- ... More
A lawless Mexican region's explosively colorful carnival
TLAXCALA (AFP).- As two armored military vehicles patrol the streets of Tlaxcala, workers unload a pick-up truck full of enormous traditional masks for this lawless Mexican region's explosively colorful carnival. Tlaxcala, which sits a two-hour's drive east of Mexico City, is in the middle of a region that has become one of the Mexican authorities' biggest security headaches, controlled by criminal gangs that thrive on sex trafficking and stealing gasoline. But it is also home to a thrillingly photogenic carnival, where revelers famously sport towering traditional headdresses as they party through the night. "The carnival was introduced by the Spanish in the 17th century," said the head of cultural programs at Tlaxcala town hall, Dario Lemus Tlapale. "But the authorities back then insisted we couldn't make fun of public figures." Blending indigenous Mexican and Spanish ... More
Back on track: Trains to return to historic Istanbul station
ISTANBUL (AFP).- Built in the first decade of the 20th century as Europe's gateway to the east, Istanbul Haydarpasa railway station stands proudly on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, its gothic towers looming over the waters. The imposing facade has witnessed and survived more than a century of turbulent and sometimes tragic history; the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, World War I, the deportation of Armenians, military coups and a devastating November 2010 fire that destroyed the roof. But this most historic of railway stations now lacks its most fundamental component -- trains. Since 2013, the celebrated terminus has not seen any train traffic after being shut for restoration work and a major upgrade of Turkey's railway network. With the refurbishment stalling, top local officials openly spoke of plans to sell off the station, possibly turning it into a hotel, ... More
Exhibition at Malmö Konsthall transgresses the fixed dualities between subject and object
MALMO.- In his short story The Cares of a Family Man, published in 1919, Franz Kafka introduces Odradek as a deliberately undefined protagonist. It is simultaneously a thing, an object, which he describes as an informal entanglement of threads, and a being, a living organism able to move, talk, and even laugh. It is also, and primarily, a word, seemingly uprooted from any language. Odradek suggests an open field for interpretation, but in the first place, it emphasizes the potential of the caring gaze and of closely paid attention to animate the inanimate, which blur the boundaries between object and subject. Odradek, an exhibition at Malmö Konsthall, invites eight artists whose works similarly transgress the fixed dualities between subject and object, and who tend to include the viewers in processes characterized by attention, care, and participation. The exhibition ... More
NewArtCentre opens exhibition of works by Ian Stephenson
SALISBURY.- Ian Stephenson, alongside Hodgkin and Hockney, was one of the most important British painters of his generation. His works were regularly described as the most beautiful being made in this country when they were first seen in London in the 1960s (as quoted in Joanna Drews introduction to the catalogue for Stephensons exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1977). Mesmerising and immersive, they are made up of thousands of tiny dots of paint, each individual and distinct, yet together forming constellations that float over their surfaces, whether canvas or paper. Stephenson was born and brought up in Northumberland, and something of that countys big skies and uncertain boundaries seems to underlie his work. As a young man, he had painted topographical watercolours of the North-East coast with his father, an amateur painter and journeyman. ... More
"Virtually Rudy: New Dimensions in Sculpture" opens at the James A. Michener Art Museum
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- Beginning February 17, 2018, the James A. Michener Art Museum will present Virtually Rudy: New Dimensions in Sculpture, an innovative sculpture exhibition that joins 20th century art with 21st century technology. Nine sculptures by artist Charles Rudy (1904-1986) will be on display alongside three-dimensional representations made possible through a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute. Through Google Cardboard viewers, visitors will be able to explore the sculptures in virtual-reality mode. The exhibition will be on view through April 8, 2018. "This is a first-of-a-kind show--not only for the Michener, but for many art museums in the United States," said Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano, director of interpretation and innovation, who co-curated the exhibition with assistant curator Louise Feder. "We are very proud that our museum, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Ãl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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