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Franz West installation view at Tate Modern 2019. Photo: Luke Walker.
LONDON.- Tate Modern presents a major exhibition of the work of Franz West (1947-2012). Organised by Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou, this is the first posthumous retrospective and the most comprehensive survey of the artists work ever staged in the UK. This ambitious exhibition explores the irreverent sensibility and playful approach to materials, colour and form that characterise Wests punk aesthetic. Almost 200 works including abstract sculptures, furniture, collages and monumental outdoor works, are brought together to show him as one of the most influential artists of the past 50 years. Franz West offers the first opportunity to recognise the artists legacy, celebrating Wests astounding contribution over four decades and uniting key and rarely seen pieces from across his remarkable career. His friend and former collaborator Sarah Lucas has contributed to the exhibition by designing walls and pedestals, bringin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt's death in 2019 with 'Year of Rembrandt'. The year-long celebration opens with 'All the Rembrandts' (15 February to 10 June), in which the Rijksmuseum will present for the first time an exhibition of all 22 paintings, 60 drawings and more than 300 best examples of Rembrandt's prints in its collection.
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 | | VOLTA New York 2019 postponed | | Sotheby's reveals designs for its expanded & reimagined galleries in New York | | Extraordinary collection of Chinese tomb sculpture opens at the Bruce Museum | 
Alan Fontes immersive installation with Emmathomas (Sao Paulo).
NEW YORK, NY.- Due to extraordinary circumstances beyond organizer's control, VOLTA New York has been postponed for 2019. On February 20, the City of New York notified the show's parent company that significant portions of Pier 92 one of The Armory Shows two piers (traditionally housed on 94 and 92) were not structurally sound and would therefore not be accessible for their fair to take place. Following immediate work to identify a safe, alternative location and after considering all feasible options, the majority of Pier 92 exhibitions and activations will relocate to Pier 90. The consensus reached from this intense investigation into alternative venues left VOLTA with the most favorable and realistic solution to postpone its New York operations until next year. All VOLTA New York exhibitors will be fully reimbursed their invoiced payments. The VOLTA Basel fair in June is unaffected by these events. "For the last 36 hours, ... More | | 
Exterior Sketch - Aerial view. Photo: OMA New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys today announced that it will unveil a dramatic expansion and reimagining of its New York City galleries on 3 May 2019. Designed in collaboration with Sothebys by Shohei Shigematsu, of the internationally-acclaimed architecture firm OMA New York, the redesign features vast new exhibition galleries that will distinguish Sothebys as the worlds premier commercial space for viewing and acquiring fine art, precious objects, luxury goods and more. Opening with Sothebys marquee May exhibitions and auctions of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art, the new galleries increase Sothebys exhibition space from 67,000 to more than 90,000 square feet the equivalent of two acres. Comprising 40 galleries of varying sizes spread across four entirely transformed floors, the new space rivals major museums around the world in scope, scale, quality and flexibility. Sothebys galleries were de ... More | | 
Caravan Camel, Tang Dynasty, 618-906. Sancai glazed pottery, 29½ x 19 x 7 in. Gift of Fred and Jane Brooks. Bruce Museum Collection, 2013.15.03 Photo by Paul Mutino.
GREENWICH, CONN.- A new exhibition opened at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, that showcases the extraordinary collection of Chinese tomb sculpture in the Fred and Jane Brooks Collection of the Bruce Museum. Featuring dozens of rare and delicate terra cotta figurines, painted and glazed ceramics, and other antiquities, Buried Treasures of the Silk Road is on view in the Museums Arcade Gallery through June 2, 2019. During the period of peace and prosperity of the Han Dynasty (206BCE 220CE), considered the Golden Age of China, emissaries ventured from China into Eurasia. Merchants soon followed, laden with polychrome, patterned silk a luxury never seen outside of China. In time, these merchants transported other exotic goods, including lapis lazuli and other precious metals, furs, and ivory on the backs of camels, ... More |
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| | | Metropolitan Museum of Art announces new appointments | | Tiny T-rex sheds light on prime dino predators | | Bonhams to hold new African Art Sale in New York | 
Inka Droegemueller. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2015, Photo: Gaby Gerster.
NEW YORK, NY.- Max Hollein, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced three senior staff appointments today: Inka Drögemüller as Deputy Director for Digital, Education, Publications, Imaging, and Libraries; Sean Hemingway as John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Greek and Roman Art; and Sarah E. Lawrence as Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. "It is with great pleasure that I announce these appointments, each of which involved intensive searches," said Mr. Hollein. "These accomplished individuals bring unique strengths and experience to their respective roles, while sharing in their commitment to the Museum's mission. The Met's greatest strength is its staff, and I look forward to working together in our collective effort to serve our audiences; care for the collection; produce innovative displays, programs, and publications; and advance the understanding a ... More | | 
The Moros intrepidus. Image: Jorge Gonzalez.
PARIS (AFP).- A tiny cousin of T-rex discovered in the United States could provide a key missing link in understanding how the apex predators evolved to top the food chain, scientists who unearthed the dinky dinosaur said Thursday. The Moros intrepidus, standing just three feet (one metre) high at the hip and weighing as much as an adult human, roamed the plains of modern-day Utah around 96 million years ago, making it the earliest member of the Tyrannosaur family yet identified on the North American continent. The team behind the discovery believes the new dinosaur -- whose name means "harbinger of doom" -- offers clues as to how its more famous cousin reached its epic size. "Early in their evolution, Tyrannosaurs hunted in the shadows of (dinosaurs) such as Allosaurs that were already established at the top of the food chain," said Lindsay Zanno, paleontologist at North Carolina State University and lead author of the study detailing the findings. By the time of the Cretaceous period -- around 80 ... More | | 
Demas Nwoko, Bicyclists. Estimate: US$70,000-100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced a new Modern and Contemporary African Art sale at Bonhams New York saleroom on Madison Avenue on 2 May. The sale will be Bonhams first Modern and Contemporary African Art sale in the US since 2010, and it will celebrate the outstanding quality and diversity of Contemporary African artworks discovered in recent years. Giles Peppiatt, Director of Modern and Contemporary African Art, commented, The sale will be an excellent addition in the summer calendar, coinciding with Frieze New York and 1-54, the celebrated Contemporary African Art fair. It contains some of the most exciting pieces we have ever brought to auction, with the works of Demas Nwoko and Gerard Sekoto being particularly outstanding. Highlights of the sale include: Demas Nwoko (Nigerian, Born 1935), Bicyclists. Estimate : US$70,000-100,000 Alexander Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopian, 1937-2003), Blue Composition. Estimate US$50 ... More |
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| | | Exhibition revisits abstract works shown in Victor Pasmore's lauded 1965 retrospective at the Tate | | Exhibition presents close to forty models for Isa Genzken's outdoor projects since the 1980s | | Star conductor Barenboim hits back after criticisms | 
Victor Pasmore, 'Grey Symphony', 1968-77. Oil on board. © The Pasmore Estate, Marlborough Fine Art, London.
LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of the work of one of the most prominent figures of post-war British art and architecture, Victor Pasmore (1908-1998). The exhibition revisits abstract works shown in Pasmores lauded 1965 retrospective at the Tate, as well as others created in the years immediately prior to and after the show, illuminating a crucial stage in the artists long career. This is a unique chance to view works unseen by the public since 1965, including a mural painting on linen that Pasmore created on-site especially for the Tate exhibition. While it is listed in the catalogue raisonné, the mural was believed to have been destroyed after the exhibition and was only rediscovered in 2018. Born in Surrey, UK, Pasmores early lyrical landscapes and sensitive approach to figurative painting soon earnt him a reputation as one of the outstanding painters of his generation. However, this tr ... More | | 
Isa Genzken, Kunsthalle Bern, 2019, installation view, © 2019, ProLitteris Zurich. Photo: Gunnar Meier.
BERN.- The range and variety of the work of Isa Genzken (born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig Holstein) continues to surprise. Since the 1970s, the artist has made baffling changes in her work while at the same time developing a consistent oeuvre. Her artistic practice comprises photography, film, painting and works on paper, yet her central interest is in the potential of sculpture, in the sculptural aspects and the architecture of things. How do architecture, design and artworks influence an environment, how do they shape ones perception of oneself? Questions about the relationship between the individual and the world are what she gives expression to, for instance in the many works that take up the image of the window. Genzkens works can be small and model-like or, as in the case of works for public spaces, take on monumental dimensions. Sculptures that work in an interior can often be thought of as enlarged in the viewers imagination. Genzken has moved with the times, ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 29, 2017 Daniel Barenboim, general music director of the Berlin State Opera poses for a photo at the State Opera in Berlin. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- World renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim has hit back at critics after coming under fire in several reports which quoted members of his Berlin orchestra complaining about his "temperamental" directing style. "Why did the accusations not emerge previously, but only now?" he asked. "It's not as if I was always a good person but suddenly became so bad," he told national news agency DPA in an interview on Thursday. "In my view, it's linked to a campaign to prevent me from staying on in Berlin," he said. Although Barenboim has been named chief conductor for life at the Staatskapelle orchestra, he is currently in negotiations with Berlin city authorities to extend his contract as general musical director of the capital's flagship opera house, the Staatsoper. Reports had initially quoted anonymous musicians complaining about Barenboim's directing style. But this week, some ... More |
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| | | mumok opens an exhibition of works by Christian Kosmas Mayer | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens its third solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Nick Oberthaler | | A recently discovered trove of paintings reveals a troubled artist's passion for creative expression | 
Exhibition view. Christian Kosmas Mayer. Aeviternity, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, February 23 to June 16, 2019. Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok / Bildrecht Wien, 2019.
VIENNA.- Christian Kosmas Mayers cross-media works and installations are based on detailed research into history and contemporary society. This is undertaken in order to critically reevaluate history and the present by placing evolutionary and natural phenomena into the framework of cultural history and science. Mayers work focuses on critical exploration of questions of archiving and conserving as deliberate acts that create history, shape the present, and point to the future. A starting point for this exhibition is the architecture of the mumok building, which looks like a dark block of stone or a mine, a theme which recurs several times in the exhibition. This is evident, for example, in the true story of a young miner from Falun in Sweden, which Mayer refers to. The miner was buried alive in an accident in 1670, and his body was recovered years later in 1719, preserved in an almost perfect condition. Through ... More | | 
untitled (witness the change #4), 2017. Gesso und Acryl auf Leinwand, 245 x 100 cm (96,46 x 39,37 in). © Nick Oberthaler. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the third solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Nick Oberthaler. Titled SEQUEL, the exhibition features five large-format, vertically hung canvases painted over the past two years and shown in the gallery Annex. The artist considers the title SEQUEL as a succession: not so much representing a kind of temporality or a specific narrative, but rather as a continuation of painterly concepts and their variation within the visual systems of the canvas' composition. Through this series of works Oberthaler addresses geometric abstraction - its history, vocabulary and reading - which can be understood as painting about painting. A Digital Native technoid look is dominant in these new works, with contemporary reproduction techniques and collaged geometric forms combined with writing, objective motifs or gestural and impasto elements. Highlighting fields within ... More | | 
Mos Show: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Maury Ornest will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24, at 524 N. Elm Dr. in Beverly Hills, where Maury Ornest lived and painted.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- To honor her late brothers legacy, Laura Ornest, a former KNX 1070 radio reporter, is mounting an exhibition featuring more than 200 of his extraordinary paintings. All proceeds from sales will benefit eight prominent charities and cultural institutions with which Laura Ornest and Rick Leslie, her architect husband, are involved. Mos Show: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Maury Ornest will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24, at 524 N. Elm Dr. in Beverly Hills, where Maury Ornest lived and painted. The artwork much of which features whimsical motifs of flying fish, baseball and patriotism paints a portrait of a man who exulted in life even after his descent into severe mental illness. Maury died of heart disease last summer at age 58. In 1977, at age 17 and straight out of Beverly Hills High School, Maury Ornest ... More |
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 Gray's auction includes works by Zdeněk Sklenář, Edris Eckhardt, (after) Margaretha Haverman, othersCLEVELAND, OH.- A mid-week auction featuring nearly 300 lots of fine art, furniture and decorative arts from fine estates across the country highlighted by artwork from the noted Czech collector Jaroslav Mervart will be held Wednesday, March 13th, at 10 am Eastern time by Grays Auctioneers, online and live in Grays gallery at 10717 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. The full catalog is up and pre-bidding is open at GraysAuctioneers.com. Bidding is also available on Liveauctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. In-person previews will be held Thursday thru Wednesday, March 7th thru 13th, from 10-5; and Saturday, March 10th, from noon-4 pm. All previews will be held in Grays gallery. All times quoted here are Eastern. With a pre-sale estimate of $20,000-$40,000, an untitled oil on board painting by the Czech painter, graphic ... More Wadsworth Atheneum brings acclaimed Landline series by Sean Scully to the NortheastHARTFORD, CONN.- The acclaimed Landline series represents a dramatic shift in the work of one of todays most important abstract artists, Sean Scully. In Scullys words, I was always looking at the horizon lineat the way the end of the sea touches the beginning of the sky, the way the sky presses down on the sea and the way that line, that relationship, is painted. The Landline series stems from a group of 1999 seascape photographs taken by Scully in Norfolk, England. He went on to create paintings, sculptures, pastels, drawings, and prints featuring horizontal stripes inspired by the bands of land, water, and sky captured in the photographs. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art brings Sean Scully: Landline to New England February 23 to May 19, 2019. A large-scale, 30-layer Stack sculpture, the first public sculpture by Scully on view at an ... More Major survey of the work of Laurie Simmons opens in ChicagoCHICAGO, IL.- This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, a major survey of the work of Laurie Simmons. This comprehensive exhibition showcases Simmons's career-long exploration of how image culture creates and perpetuates the myths of our society, and upends traditional ideas about photography as a medium. More than four decades of work by Simmons are on display, with her iconic photographs, sculptures, and films highlighting her importance both historically and as an active contemporary artist. Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera is on view from February 23 to May 5, 2019 and is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and curated by Senior Curator Andrea Karnes. The Chicago presentation is coordinated by MCA Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith. ... More Württembergischer Kunstverein opens an exhibition dedicated to the work of Lorenza BöttnerSTUTTGART.- From February 23 until May 5, 2019, the Württembergischer Kunstverein presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Lorenza Böttner (Punta Arenas, Chile, 1959 Munic, Germany, 1994). Curated by philosopher, curator and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado, this project is co-produced with La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona, shown until February 3, 2019. In Stuttgart, the exhibition will be presented in extended form and with a manifold of additional works. The work of Böttner, an artist who painted with her feet and mouth and who used photography, drawing, dance, installation and performance as means of aesthetic expression, defies processes of desubjectivation and desexualisation, internment and invisibilisation to which transgender and functionally diverse bodies are subjected. Born as Ernst Lorenz Böttner ... More MARC STRAUS opens second solo exhibition with New York based Swiss artist Liliane TomaskoNEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting their second solo exhibition with New York based Swiss artist Liliane Tomasko. Tomaskos studious observations of ignored moments in daily domestic life are transformed into grander existential inquiries. As in Kees Boekes seminal text, Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps and Ray and Charles Eames Powers of Ten, Tomasko shows how the greater universe can be reflected and examined by observation of the most common of objects. For Tomasko, this may be the crumpled sheets she sees in her familys home. For this exhibit the gallery includes her drawn studies of these folds. These are a critical first step in transforming the seen world into abstractions. The black lines of the drawings are transferred to canvases to become the scaffolding for jolts of color to be built up. The color palette ... More Nicole Farhi opens her first ever solo museum exhibition at Gainsborough's HouseSUDBURY.- Although better known for her fashion designs, Nicole Farhi is also a sculptor, who was tutored and mentored by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. Farhi has now been sculpting full-time for five years, and in 2019 will have her first ever, solo museum exhibition at Gainsboroughs House in Sudbury Nicole Farhi: Heads and Hands (opens 23 February 2019). The relationship between Nicole Farhi and Gainsboroughs House began in 2015, when the sculptor created a bronze bust of Thomas Gainsborough for the museum in support of their fundraising campaign for a major project to transform the site into a national centre celebrating the life of 18th-century artist. The campaign was successful and building work will be getting underway as Farhis exhibition opens. The exhibition includes busts of some of the greatest artists of the past 100 years - Lucian ... More Chennai Photo Biennale 2019: The second edition of India's largest photography event kicks offCHENNAI.- The second edition of Chennai Photo Biennale, an international biennale of photography, is being held between 22 February - 24 March 2019 with large scale exhibitions in a variety of public spaces, showing works by over 50 artists in print from 13 countries across the city of Chennai. Alongside the exhibitions, the Biennale includes an extensive programme of artist talks, workshops, films, projections, residencies, skill development in photography and much more. The Biennale, co-founded and co-organised by the CPB Foundation and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, has chosen renowned sculptor and photo performance artist, Pushpamala N. as the Artistic Director for the second edition. The philosophy for this edition is Fauna of Mirrors, an old Chinese myth that talks about an alternate universe that exists behind the mirror, ... More Art Gallery of New South Wales welcomes Miranda Carroll to the position of Director of Public EngagementSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales has welcomed Miranda Carroll, a leading art museum communications professional, to the position of Director of Public Engagement. Carroll comes to Sydney from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she was Senior Director of Communications for the past eight years. Of the appointment, director Dr Michael Brand said he was delighted that such an experienced global art museum leader has joined the Art Gallery of NSW at this significant time in its history - as the institutions 150-year anniversary approaches and as it works towards its Sydney Modern expansion vision. At LACMA, Miranda played a pivotal role conceptualising, developing and implementing strategies to raise the museums profile and visibility locally, nationally and internationally and to increase its audiences. With ... More The Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens an exhibition of Hanns Schimansky's recent worksPARIS.- The Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger is presenting an exhibition of Hanns Schimanskys recent works. LEspace de la ligneis the German artists fourth solo exhibition at the gallery since 2008. Drawings in penand India Ink, drawings in graphite pencil on prepared paper, foldings, pastels, and chalk-- these are scriptural drawings, imaginarywriting, landscape variations and adventures, all emblematic of the composer Schimansky revealing the scores of a life captured in the instant, each vibrating with the intensity of the moment. In their spatiality and the incessant play of tension of the line, color and surface of the paper, these works awaken the spectator to a sensory experience provoked by the subtle nuances of their folds. Immediacy as a way of life, is what Hanns tells us. I try to capture and prolong the elusive intensity of the instant in my drawings, in a, shall we say, diffused equivalence. ... More Innovative exhibition celebrates the work and legacy of Georgia O'KeeffeNEW BRITAIN, CONN.- From February 22 to June 2, 2019, the New Britain Museum of American Art presents The Beyond: Georgia OKeeffe and Contemporary Art, an innovative exhibition that celebrates the work and legacy of Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986). The Beyond brings together over three dozen iconic works by the artist, including floral paintings, cityscapes, and desert scenes, as the centerpiece of a unique exploration that highlights her continued force as a touchstone for contemporary art. Drawn from important public and private collections across the country, this exhibition presents paintings and sculpture that span OKeeffes long and prolific career alongside works by twenty emerging artists that evoke and expand upon her artistic language. The NBMAA is the final and only northeast venue for The Beyond, which is organized ... More Exhibition of contemporary Peruvian art opens at Madrid's El Instante FundaciónMADRID.- The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation is presenting SinCrónicas. Horizons of Peruvian Contemporary Art from the Collecting Perspective, an exhibition of contemporary Peruvian art drawn from the collections of Ella FontanalsCisneros and the Peruvian art collectors Armando Andrade de Lucio, Carlos Marsano, Alberto and Ginette Rebaza and Juan Carlos Verme Giannoni, from February 22 March 22, 2019 at El Instante Fundación. The exhibition coincides with ARCOmadrid, and it is a response to the selection of Peru as the guest nation for ARCOmadrid 2019. The exhibit is a CIFO Europe initiative and has been organized by Peruvian curator Max Hernández Calvo. SinCrónicas. Horizons of Peruvian Contemporary Art from the Collecting Perspective features works by contemporary Peruvian artists including Armando Andrade Tudela, Christian ... More Exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum features new work by Oliver LaricST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting new work by Berlin-based artist Oliver Laric in the 116th installment of the museums popular Currents series. The free exhibition is on view in Gallery 249 and 250 from Feb. 22 through May 27. Founded in 1978, the Currents series serves as a laboratory for emerging and mid-career artists to create and exhibit new work. Featured artists have included Matthew Buckingham, Dale Chihuly, Leonardo Drew, Brian Eno, Ellen Gallagher, Frank Gehry, Donald Judd, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman. Working at the intersection between art and technology, Laric explores image creation, circulation and repetition across history. His works are wide-ranging, originally emerging on open-source sharing and online platforms like YouTube, yet he also creates installations, video and more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 - May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling.In this image: Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1908 or 1910-1911. Gouache on paper, 27 x 26.8.
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