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These two luminaries are the subject of the exhibition Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna at National Gallery Singapore.
SINGAPORE.- During the height of colonial rule in Southeast Asia in the 19th century, two young men from Indonesia and the Philippines sailed across the ocean to Europe, to train under great painters of their time. They steadily earned their place within European art worlds, and their successes there made them national heroes in their respective homelands. These two luminaries are the subject of the exhibition Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna at National Gallery Singapore. The exhibition unites, for the first time, an array of their masterpieces loaned from private and public collections around the world that traces their artistic journey from Southeast Asia to Europe and back again. It also tells of their struggle to reconcile their love of homeland with their ambitions in Europe, where they established their careers. Despite hailing from different countries and being active at different times of the 19th century, the artists sh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cambodia's Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeurng Sackona (2nd L) speaks to British Ambassador to Cambodia Bill Longhurst (L) as they look at a statue with a set of ancient Angkor-era gold jewellery during a special exhibition at the National Museum in Phnom Penh on January 4, 2018. The piece was part of a set of ancient Angkorian gold jewellery which was returned from Britain to Cambodia last month on December 2 with an elaborate procession through the capital, decades after the precious pieces were looted from a famed jungle temple during the kingdom's civil war. TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP
| Sotheby's Master Paintings Evening Sale to offer paintings spanning from the 14th - 19th century | | Ryan Lee opens an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculpture by Paul Henry Ramirez | | Exhibition at Sean Kelly features gallery artists who have addressed architectural themes in their work | 
Sir Anthony van Dyck, Portrait Of Prince Willem II Of Orange As A Young Boy, With A Dog. Oil on canvas, 50 1/2 by 39 1/2 in.; 128.3 by 100.4 cm. Estimate $2/3 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exceptional selection of European paintings, spanning from the 14th to the 19th centuries will be offered in Sothebys Evening Sale of Master Paintings on 1 February 2018 in New York. Highlighting the annual Masters Week sale series, the Evening Sale exhibition will be on public view in Sothebys New York galleries beginning 26 January. The February sale features a rare and striking portrait of Cristoforo Segni, Maggiordomo to Pope Innocent X, painted and signed by Velazquez and Cremonese painter Pietro Martire Neri Martire (estimate $3/4 million). Painted around 1650, during Velazquezs second trip to Rome, the work is one of a series of portraits painted for the Court of Pope Innocent X on the occasion of his Jubilee, the most famous being Portrait of Innocent X (1650, Galleria Doria Pamphilij). Having remained hidden in the ... More | | 
Paul Henry Ramirez, PaintPour Painting, 2017. © Paul Henry Ramirez; Courtesy of the artist and Ryaan Lee Gallery, New York. Photo by Charlotte Raymond
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee presents Fun in the Color, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculpture by Paul Henry Ramirez. Fun in the Color continues Ramirezs exploration of corporeal forms and processes via biogeomorphic abstractiona term he coined to describe his particular mix of hard-edged and figurative abstraction. Ramirez composes his immersive installations as he would a painting, using architecture and color to guide the viewer through space. The exhibition begins with an explosion of color produced by Ramirezs ebullient clusters of nearly 100 PaintPour paintings. Ranging in size from 8 to 40 inches in diameter, these convex round canvases present slick rings of saturated color that appear to be poured one into the next. While each is a discrete object, recalling the cellular, ocular or mammary, together they form radiating constellations that suggest the full range of infinitude from the ... More | | 
Joseph Kosuth, '1,2,3,4', 1993. Neon, transformers, certificate of authenticity, 141 3/4 x 103 3/4 inches (360 x 263.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly presents Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Structure, a group exhibition featuring gallery artists who have addressed architectural themes in their work, either explicitly or indirectly, as reference and inspiration. Architecture is both a concrete word and an intangible construct. An expression used to describe physical structures, reference the design of organic and man-made systems, and explain plastic concepts; it is at once flexible and immutable. We use the term literally to describe the random edifices that comprise our built environment and metaphorically to embody ideals and aspirations. For instance, Candida Höfer and Alec Soth capture images of opulence and its opposite in their photographs of prestigious and functional architecture. Los Carpinteros, James Casebere and Laurent Grasso envision fantastic and artificial worlds that exist in their imaginations. Jose Dávila and Iran do EspÃrito Santo use ... More |
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| Neil MacCormack's first solo exhibition with Bernarducci Gallery opens in New York | | Doyle to auction the Noel and Harriette Levine Collection on January 17 | | Pussy Riot activist sentenced to community work after FSB protest | 
Untitled 13 (6:48pm), 2013, acrylic on board, 8 x 5.5 in. Copyright Neil MacCormack, Courtesy Bernarducci Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci Gallery presents One Day at Rest, Neil MacCormacks first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a series of small-scale paintings and drawings based on video stills taken from a surveillance camera mounted in the artists own home, which recorded 7,200 images over the course of a single day. The works depict MacCormack and his wife as they go about their daily activities on July 2, 2011: sleeping, showering, eating dinner, having sex, working, and lounging. The works subvert the traditional notion of surveillance, creating an intimate and seemingly invasive portrait of a life together out of footage that was intentionally captured. The works capture the beauty of an insignificant day in an everyday life, offering an unusual entrée into the life of two people, through portraits that capture the deeply personal and utterly mundane moments that ultimately make up a life. ... More | | 
Pair of George II Walnut Library Armchairs, Circa 1755. Est. $250,000-350,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will begin the New Year with the auction of The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection on Wednesday, January 17 at 10am. This remarkable collection comprises important English furniture and decorations from the Levines elegant home on Park Avenue and their country house in Bedford, New York. Furniture highlights include a handsome pair of George II walnut armchairs that once formed part of a larger suite at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England. Wimpole Hall was altered by the Palladian architect Henry Flitcroft, who created a sixty-foot long gallery in the west wing in 1742, about the same time that the chairs would have been created (est. $250,000-350,000). An important George III cabinet is another highlight of Collection. The form is described as a 'China Cabinet' by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director of 1754, which illustrates several examples (est. $100,000-200,000). Certain to attract a ... More | | 
Maria Alyokhina from the feminist rock band Pussy Riot poses for a photo with a fan a rally at Westlake Center on March 8, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Karen Ducey/Getty Images/AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A Russian court sentenced a member of the Pussy Riot punk band and activist group to 40 hours of community work after she unfurled a protest sign near the Moscow headquarters of the FSB security services. Maria Alyokhina, 29, staged her protest on the steps in front of the FSB headquarters, holding a poster saying "Happy Birthday, executioners." Her protest came as Russia marked 100 years since the establishment of the Cheka, the Soviet Union's first secret police service, created to stamp out opposition to the Bolshevik Revolution. A judge with Moscow's Meshchansky district court sentenced Alyokhina, who has a child, to 40 hours of community work, an AFP journalist said. Alyokhina and other Pussy Riot members were arrested in 2012 on charges of hooliganism after a "punk prayer" performance targeting President Vladimir Putin ... More |
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| Postmasters dedicates both gallery spaces to Canyon Castator's debut solo show | | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to host art auction 2018 | | Mary Boone Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based artist Stefanie Heinze | 
Canyon Castator, SOS, 2017. Oil on canvas, 96 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters will begin the New Year with Canyon Castators debut solo show, Pissing Match . Both gallery spaces on Franklin Street are dedicated to the exhibition. Castators large-scale oil paintings bring us into a twisted version of todays social reality. Each is a gruesome, cartoon-like collage with graphically distorted figures, packed into vivid scenes of debauchery. By heightening what is already grotesque and salacious about party culture, substance abuse, harassment, and violence override the casual vice. The more disturbing the scenario, the more macabre its actors. This is a world of extremes, from the overloaded content to the work's strong narrative impulse to the bright and bold aesthetic that Castator never shies from. Digital processes give the work its copy-paste quality. Preparatory drawings are executed on an iPad, where compositional elements can be readily resized, moved, deleted, or restored ... More | | 
Liza Lou, Untitled, Pink/Gold, 2013, woven glass beads, 69.9 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin New York and Hong Kong.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will host the 11th biennial Art Auction at its downtown location at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, March 28. The highly anticipated event will feature live and silent auctions of approximately 100 works by early career and internationally recognized artists, including John Baldessari, Liza Lou, Wangechi Mutu, and Ed Ruscha. The biennial event is the Museum's largest fundraiser, providing vital support for educational programs, exhibitions, and art acquisitions. All works are carefully considered by MCASD's Director and Curators. "MCASD's Art Auction allows visitors to switch from being mere observers of art to being active collectors of it," said Kathryn Kanjo, The David C. Copley Director & CEO. "MCASD's curatorial team invites exhibiting artists, whose works reflect the dynamism of today's art world. The objects range in style, scale, ... More | | 
Stefanie Heinze, Cephalopod (Silken Touch), 2017. 77 by 59, acrylic, oil/canvas. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 6 January 2018, Mary Boone Gallery, in cooperation with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, will open at its Chelsea location Food for the Young (Oozing Out) , an exhibition curated by Piper Marshall of new paintings by Berlin-based artist Stefanie Heinze. Food for the Young (Oozing Out) is so termed for the way in which the abject may both provide sustenance and compel us to turn away from it. With this exhibition, Heinze invites us into a dialogue with fictional scenes, showing us bodies opening up. Heinze offers wry portrayals of overabundance to point toward how surplus may define our interior dialogues and inflect our external landscape. An emerging artist, Heinze engaged a multipart process to create the work for this exhibition. To begin, she makes intuitive drawings of ink on paper which are left as they ... More |
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| Schantz Galleries now representing James Carpenter | | Exhibition of work by historic American Abstract Expressionist Fritz Bultman opens in New Orleans | | Jane Birkin to publish her diaries - in French | 
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STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries is now representing commissioned architectural installations and gallery scale works by artist and designer James Carpenter. Carpenter brings over 40 years of experience and a rare synthesis of skills at the intersection of art, engineering, and the built environment. Through this partnership with Schantz Galleries, Carpenter will bring his design concepts (known for large-scale projects such as the exterior envelope and lobby of 7 World Trade Center Tower, the renewed campus of the Israel Museum, and the Gucci Asia Headquarters in Tokyo), to smaller scale residencies and spaces. In a private home, gallery, or small-scale public pavilion, Carpenters work allows for the play of light with the gathered image of the view out the windows, creating a unique awareness of the sites surroundings. Carpenter says they offer a playfulness and optical concentration of the view beyond. Essentially they of ... More | | 
Fritz Bultman, Torso II, 1970. Collage of painted papers, 47 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Octavia Art Gallery presents an exhibition of work by historic American Abstract Expressionist Fritz Bultman (1919-1985). Exploring a body of work that spanned four decades, the exhibition includes Bultmans paintings and large-scale collages. Originally from New Orleans, Fritz Bultman was a member of the New York School artists. Bultman set himself apart from the other Abstract Expressionists with his scrupulously organized compositions, practice of sculpture on a regular basis, and innovative assemblage of collage. His inspiration drew from years of psychotherapy, exploring myth, eroticism, and sexual symbolism. Robert Motherwell stated that Bultman was, one of the most splendid, radiant, and inspired painters of my generation. In 1950, Fritz Bultman and 27 other distinguished artists signed a letter protesting the conservative nature of the Abstract Expressionist work ... More | | 
English actress and singer Jane Birkin at the American film festival in Deauville, Normandie, France. Photo: By Roland Godefroy/wikipedia.org.
BORDEAUX (AFP).- British actress and singer Jane Birkin, whose voice accompanied French crooner Serge Gainsbourg on some of his biggest hits, will publish in September the diaries she has kept since she was 12, she said in an interview published Friday. "It will certainly not be an autobiography. I'm in the process of translating them myself," Birkin told the French daily Le Populaire du Centre. She said he had written the diaries until 2013 and the death at 46 years old of Kate, her daughter with English composer and then husband John Barry. "In these notebooks I don't mention my professional life, my films or my songs at all," said Birkin, 71. "When Kate died, I lost all my self-confidence as a mother. I didn't know what to do afterwards." She said that while most of the anecdotes she relates have already been related to journalists over the past 50 years. "In re-reading them I realised a lack ... More |
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 A creative outlet for Casablanca's deprived youthCASABLANCA (AFP).- "Teaching young people to dream again" is the vision of a Moroccan cultural centre in a rundown Casablanca district, once home to a group of suicide bombers who killed 33 people in 2003. Based in a white building next to a tramline and opposite a mosque, the Stars Cultural Centre in Sidi Moumen regularly hosts more than 300 young people for classes in music and music theory, classical dance, hip-hop, English and French. "When we tell young people that violence is not a means to express themselves, we must find them other means," said filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, who co-founded the centre with artist Mahi Binebine. Ayouch's connection with the district began with his film "Horses of God", which looked at how young people in the neighbourhood were becoming radicalised. When he organised a screening of the film in Sidi Moumen, ... More Exhibition of seven photo-based artists opens at Durden and RayLOS ANGELES, CA.- Durden and Ray presents, Disappear Here, an exhibition of seven photo-based artists whose work explores themes of searching and disappearing. The artists in Disappear Here employ an intense act of looking at their subjects in a formalist manner, diving into subtle nuance that may shed new light on the seemingly ordinary or overlooked corners of our lives. Some have investigated the familiar in the cluttered city around us, noticing and locating negotiations of a fragmented world where an interplay occurs over time. Others have explored the intimacy of the human figure and its relationship with everyday objects and architecture. The works in Disappear Here offer an evocative and sometimes surreal reflection of our reality, giving viewers the potential to get lost in the physical presence of the photographic moment. Their explorations allow ... More Exhibition focuses on large-scale human interventions in oceanic ecospheresSINGAPORE.- NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is presenting The Oceanic, an exhibition focusing on large-scale human interventions in oceanic ecospheres with contributions by 12 artists, filmmakers, composers, and researchers who engage with both the long cultural histories of Pacific Ocean archipelagos and their current conditions. As part of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academys (TBA21Academy) The Current, an ongoing research initiative into pressing environmental, economic, and socio-political concerns, NTU CCA Singapores Founding Director Professor Ute Meta Bauer was invited to lead the projects first cycle of expeditions from 201517. The featured contributors in The Oceanic are The Current Fellows who joined the expeditions on TBA21 Academys vessel Dardanella to Papua New Guinea (2015), French ... More Exhibition of new paintings and collage by Josh Jefferson opens at Zevitas MarcusLOS ANGELES, CA.- Zevitas Marcus presents Jabberwocky, an exhibition of new paintings and collage by Josh Jefferson. The exhibition runs from January 6 to February 24, 2018. The title of Jeffersons exhibition, Jabberwocky, references one of the great works of nonsense verse whose playful, whimsical rhyme gave birth to countless nonsense words and neologisms. Jabberwocky continues Jeffersons exploration of collage as a way to build a visual language. His newest works are more assembled than painted. Jefferson begins by accumulating a disparate group of cut and drawn fragments that are then used as the building blocks for each completed painting. There is a feverish quality to the making of the work, as though Jefferson needs to flush out elements repeatedly to unveil their meaning. In Picking a Crown, the arranged four rows of six symbols are systematically ... More Solo exhibition of new and recent works by the Iranian artist Taha Heydari on view at Haines GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery is presenting Running Rabbits, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by the Iranian artist Taha Heydari (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran; lives and works in Baltimore, MD). The exhibition follows Heydaris first museum solo exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in June 2017, and features a number of paintings from the show, exhibited here for the first time on the West Coast. A distinctly post-Internet painter, Heydari adopts the visual style of new media and digital art to explore of the power of imagery in constructing contemporary consciousness. Drawing from online news and historical references to create his work, Heydari manipulates his source images until they resemble corrupted image files, using exacting painterly techniques that approximate pixilation and glitch-like repetitions. Each painting ... More Brian Gross Fine Art opens an exhibition of paintings by the late Bay Area artist, Leo Valledor SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announces A New Slant, an exhibition of paintings by the late Bay Area artist, Leo Valledor (19361989), opening January 6, 2018 with a reception from 46pm. On view will be paintings that explore Valledors creation of perceptual space within hard-edged painting through his use of geometric forms and dynamic color combinations. The exhibition also presents a group of works in which the artist explores reductive painting through gestural mark-making. A New Slant will be on view through February 24, 2018. A pioneer in the field of hard-edged painting during the 1960s, Valledors primary concern was color, especially the viewers experience of it over time. Valledor also viewed color in relation to music and sought harmonic color, or the perfect structural kinship between music and color. It is the synthesis of these ... More Winter group exhibition introduces Jan Cunningham, Gloria Ortiz-Hernández and Rob SzotNEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery announces its 2018 Winter Group Exhibition, a collection of work by three artists new to the gallery: Jan Cunningham, Gloria Ortiz-Hernández and Robert Szot. The exhibition is on view January 3 February 3, 2018 at the gallerys new location at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor in SoHo, New York. Cunningham was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1956. She received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979, and her MFA in Painting from the Yale University School of Art in 1985. On the work in this exhibition, Cunningham states: The Arabesque Paintings of 2016 and 2017 evolved in response to the Arabesque Drawings of 2015 2016. The paintings invite the lines of the circle and the ellipse to join with a language of painting that celebrates the materiality of color and light, the juxtaposition of the ... More China mall erects giant Trump dog statueBEIJING (AFP).- A mall in northern China has installed a larger-than-life canine statue with more than a passing resemblance to US President Donald Trump to welcome the coming Year of the Dog. The giant pooch towers above shoppers in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, sporting a slick golden pompadour, angled brows and a red scarf with one index finger raised in a distinctly Trumpian manner. As he was born in 1946, Trump, who has been accused of having more bark than bite, is a dog under the Chinese zodiac -- a trait which he shares with his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Those born in the Year of the Dog, according to Chinese astrology, are forthright and extremely loyal, in addition to having a strong sense of justice. But they can also be stubborn, irritable and easily angered. Last year the mall erected a large Trump-like rooster, which ... More Solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Chicago artist Alice Tippit opens at Paris London Hong KongCHICAGO, IL.- Paris London Hong Kong presents Bad Form the second solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Chicago artist Alice Tippit. The manufacturing of meaning is at the root of Alice Tippits practice. Her emblematic and simply rendered images can be taken as signs or symbols, but they circumvent literal interpretation and allude to something other. Reduced to the essential, her compositions shift between positive and negative space, figure and ground, and surface and depth, avoiding immediate legibility. Tippits idiosyncratic use of semiotics brings out potentially metaphoric references while allowing associations to exist within and between individual works. In previous exhibitions, Tippit has used specific objects in her installations to set an overall tone for the work. In Bad Form, a set of decorative door pulls is attached to one wall. The pullsdevoid ... More John Zinsser's first solo exhibition at Minus Space opens in New York BROOKLYN, NY.- Minus Space presents the solo exhibition John Zinsser: Oil Paintings. This is the Brooklyn-based artists first solo exhibition at the gallery. For three decades, John Zinsser has produced thoroughly innovative and informed, process-based paintings. A native New Yorker, he came of age as an artist during the late 1980s and early 1990s alongside other now established abstract painters, including Richmond Burton, Gail Fitzgerald, Daniel Levine, Carl Ostendarp, Kate Shepherd, Cary Smith, Dan Walsh, Mary Weatherford, and Stephen Westfall, among others. Zinssers material paintings and conceptual drawings often pay homage to, expand upon, and subvert earlier precedents in NYCs painting history, from Abstraction Expressionism to Radical Painting to Post-Modernism. For his exhibition at the gallery, Zinsser presents a new set of oil and ... More Arts+Leisure opens an immersive installation of work by interdisciplinary artist George JenneNEW YORK, NY.- Arts+Leisure presents ASS, BACKWARDSS, an immersive installation of work by interdisciplinary artist George Jenne. Fusing his experience as a prop maker with his obsession for films, Jenne's work interrogates cinematic structure and the process of storytelling within an open-ended, experimental framework. For ASS, BACKWARDSS, Jenne has created an office setting which envelopes the front half of the gallery, transforming the space into a physical analog of his filmic environments. The body of work also includes three single channel videos along with a group of photographic prints depicting props of mutilated and severed body parts. Shown in cheap, random frames, the prints capture the narrative of the installation and reflect Jenne's attraction to DIY aspects of cinema. In Jenne's videos, particular films have a symbolic, totemic ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 à 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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