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Pierre Bonnard (1867 ? 1947), The Fourteenth of July 1918. Oil paint on canvas, 595 x 853 mm. Private collection.
LONDON.- Tate Modern presents the UKs first major Pierre Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, showing the work of this innovative and much-loved French painter in a new light. The exhibition brings together around 100 of his greatest works from museums and private collections around the world. It reveals how Bonnards intense colours and modern compositions transformed painting in the first half of the 20th century, and celebrates his unparalleled ability to capture fleeting moments, memories and emotions on canvas. Spanning four decades from the emergence of Bonnards unique style in 1912 to his death in 1947, this exhibition shows how the artist constructed his vibrant landscapes and intimate domestic scenes from memory. At once sensuous and melancholy, these paintings express moments lost in time the view from a window, a stolen look at a lover, or an empty room at the end of a meal. These motifs can be seen in breakthrou ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows photomechanically reproduced copies of Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel in Rome displayed at the exhibition "A Different View" at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on January 24, 2019. The exhibition runs from January 26 to May 12, 2019. Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP
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| | | The grand dame of light Brigitte Kowanz opens new exhibition at Häusler Contemporary in Zurich | | Tate announces opening of Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational | | 'Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand' opens at the Morris Museum of Art | 
Brigitte Kowanz, Tipping Point, 2018. Neon, mirror, 60 x 60 x 60 cm / 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches. Photo: Studio Kowanz, courtesy of the artist and Häusler Contemporary.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary announces Brigitte Kowanz third solo exhibition in Zurich, introducing two new types of work by the artist. Along with selected recent and earlier works the presentation impressively demonstrates how the Austrian artist continually uses light as a multifaceted tool of awareness in order to reflect on global political phenomena. Ever since her major appearance at the Austrian Pavilion of the Venice Biennial 2017, Brigitte Kowanz (*1957, Vienna, lives in Vienna) is internationally widely known. Her uvre, begun around 1980, combines light and language into memorable pictorial formula, visualizing the potential to submit information of these two basic components as well as the formal aesthetic value of language and the autonomy of the phenomenon of light. The ambiguous title of Kowanz third solo exhibition with the gallery alludes to this interplay: ... More | | 
Led by Dr Sook-Kyung Lee, Senior Curator, International Art (Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational), the work will widen Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives international network of peers.
LONDON.- Tate and Hyundai Motor today announced the launch of a major new research initiative; Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. Over the past two decades Tates collection, displays and programmes have expanded beyond Europe and North America to be more open, inclusive and reflective of its audiences. Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational marks a next decisive step on this journey by placing the exchange of ideas between art and artists from around the world at the very core of Tate. The Centre will transform how Tate grows and shares knowledge about multiple art histories with individuals and organisations around the world. Hyundai Motor will support the Centre from January 2019 to December 2024, in addition to their support of Tate Moderns annual Hyundai Commission which ... More | | 
Anne Marchand, Unity, 2010. Acrylic and Latex. Courtesy of the Artist.
AUGUSTA, GA.- Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand, opens to the public Saturday, January 26, 2019 at the Morris Museum of Art. The exhibition, which features twenty-five bold, colorful, large-scale abstract paintingsby renowned artist Anne Marchand, remains on display through April 14, 2019. Anne Marchand is a remarkable painter, working in the great tradition established by the Washington Color School in the mid-sixties. Shes a true believer, a painter who believes in the power of abstraction and the expressiveness of pure color, said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Anne Marchand says that growing up in such a colorful environment, redolent with Spanish, French, and African influences left a lasting impression on her color sensibility. She traveled widely throughout the South, which had a similarly profound effect on her developing a visual vocabulary of form and color der ... More |
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| | | Hauser & Wirth to represent artist Mika Rottenberg | | $1 Million Declaration of Independence tops Sotheby's biggest Americana Week series since 2007 | | Newseum building, showcase for press, to be sold | 
Portrait of Mika Rottenbeg. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic © Kunsthaus Bregenz. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced exclusive worldwide representation of Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg. Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our hyper-capitalist world. Using traditions of both cinema and sculpture, she seeks out locations internationally where specific systems of production and commerce are in place, such as a pearl factory in China and a Calexico border town. Through the editing process, and with footage from sets built in her studio, Rottenberg connects seemingly disparate places and things to create elaborate and subversive visual narratives. By weaving fact and fiction together, she highlights the inherent beauty and absurdity of our contemporary existence. Each of Rottenbergs video works is situated within ... More | | 
The celebrated William J. Stone Facsimile of The Declaration of Independence sold for $975,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys 2019 Americana Week auctions concluded yesterday in New York with an outstanding total of $21.3 million the highest Americana Week series total since 2007. Led by a printing of the celebrated William J. Stone reproduction of the Declaration of Independence that achieved $975,000, over 1,250 lots spanning more than five centuries of American history were sold over the course of five auctions. The week began last Thursday with the first session of Important Americana, which offered a diverse array of silver, Chinese export ceramics and prints. The following day, on 18 January, more than 280 exquisite pieces of furniture and decorative objects from the collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller realized an impressive $3.3 million, led by a superb ensemble of Chinese export porcelain. Over the weekend, Sothebys presented the Collection of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III one of the finest assemblages of e ... More | | 
This April 01, 2008 file photo shows the Newseum building in Washington, DC. The Newseum, a Washington museum showcasing the news media and promoting a free press, will shut its doors at the end of the year. Tim SLOAN / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The Newseum, a Washington museum showcasing the news media and promoting a free press, will shut its doors at the end of the year with a deal to sell the building housing it, the operators said Friday. The Freedom Forum, the creator and primary funder of the Newseum, agreed to sell the Pennsylvania Avenue building to Johns Hopkins University for $372.5 million. The sale means the Newseum, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, will close its doors and seek a new location in the US capital area. "We stand ready to continue much of the Newseum's important work for decades to come -- through digital outreach, traveling exhibits, and web-based programs in schools around the world, as well as hopefully in a new physical home in the area," said Peter Prichard, chair of the Newseum ... More |
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| | | Orlando Museum of Art introduces Louis Dewis: A Belgian Post-Impressionist | | Optimisation of the exhibition rooms and service facilities on the ground floor of the Alte Pinakothek | | William Turner Gallery presents an overview of Ed Moses's last period | 
Louis Dewis, Dyle Bridge at Mechelen, Belgium, c. 1919-1921. Oil on canvas, 26 ¾ x 21 ¾ in. On loan from The Dewis Collection, LC. Image courtesy of the Orlando Museum of Art.
ORLANDO, FLA.- More than a hundred works of the distinguished Belgian Post-Impressionist Louis Dewis, lost to the world for over 50 years, are being featured in Dewiss first major museum exhibition beginning January 25th at the Orlando Museum of Art. Discovered by chance in the Paris attic of Dewiss daughter by his American great-grandson, Mr. Brad Face, they were among thousands of the artists paintings, studies and sketches that had been stored there since his death in 1946. After this discovery, Mr. Face resolved to return his ancestors work to the public and find a home for the collection. Art critics of the early 20th century European art world noted Dewiss unusual ability to communicate his emotions through his work, commented OMA Director and CEO Glen Gentele. And that certainly has been what weve seen with our Dewis ... More | | 
Alte Pinakothek. Entrance hall with a new font. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
MUNICH.- The recently completed optimisation of the exhibition rooms and service facilities on the ground floor of the Alte Pinakothek was successfully put to the test by the throngs of visitors during the first few days of the New Year. Since the opening of the exhibition Florence and its Painters on 17 October 2018, the Alte Pinakothek has been able to offer its visitors a state-of-the-art welcome. The spacious foyer has been renovated in keeping with its listed building status and refurnished, along with the cloakrooms and locker area. The lounge next to the shop and the newly designed Café Klenze provide spaces to relax and unwind. On top of these, an Art Education room has been established for the first time. The sequence of exhibition rooms has been rearranged and technologically upgraded in part, resulting in a much larger and functionally more flexible temporary exhibition space ... More | | 
Ed Moses, China #5, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 96" x 60". Image Courtesy of William Turner Gallery.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Through the Looking Glass presents an overview of this last period, with a selection of work Moses produced over the last five years of his life. The work is ambitious and adventurous, and is marked by the artists spontaneity and expansive visual vocabulary. The exhibition reveals an artist fully engaged, working in the moment, embracing a careers worth of stylistic approaches, while incorporating new ones, as Moses boldly entered the labyrinths of the creative process. The works are dramatic in scope and exemplify the breadth of his reach. The title of the exhibition is from Lewis Carroll, one of Mosess favorite writers, and refers to one of the artists fundamental beliefs - that art, at its best, is a portal to the unknown, through which one is transported to magical realms. Moses did not paint to express; he painted to discover. Restless curiosity was his driving force - chance and circumstance his guiding principles. Often Moses would ... More |
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| | | Lazinc opens a solo exhibition of new works by contemporary Tunisian-French artist eL Seed | | The Ackland Art Museum opens an exhibition of drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal | | Iraq priest who saved Christian heritage ordained Mosul archbishop | 
Portrait of eL Seed.
LONDON.- Lazinc is presenting Tabula Rasa, a solo exhibition of new works by contemporary Tunisian-French artist, eL Seed. The exhibition sees the launch of Lazincs 2019 programme and celebrates the gallerys first year anniversary at 29 Sackville Street. eL Seeds first UK exhibition showcases a range of acrylic on canvas paintings, which incorporate the artists signature style: an adaptation of traditional Arabic calligraphy. Within the intricate compositions, he emphasises the curves and loops of the script removing a layer of legibility and adding mystery to the meaning behind the words he chooses. From the beginning of his practice, eL Seed has consciously used his art as a tool to build bridges between people, cultures and generations. His work is the result of literary and philosophical research and carries direct significance to the place and community within which they are placed. By ... More | | 
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, glial cells of the cerebral cortex of a child, 1904, ink and pencil on paper. Courtesy of Instituto Cajal (CSIC).
CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents the new exhibition "The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal," on view from Friday, Jan. 25 through Sunday, April 7, 2019. Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawings of the brain are both aesthetically astonishing and scientifically significant, and "The Beautiful Brain" is the first museum exhibition to present these extraordinary works in their historical context. Cajal, (1852-1934), was an artist from rural Spain who became the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern neuroscience. He made the path-breaking discovery that the brain is composed of individual neurons that communicate across minute gaps, or synapses. Cajal saw the brain with an artist's eye; his drawings of the microanatomy ... More | | 
The new Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Najib Michaeel Moussa (C) uses a cell phone to take a "selfie" photograph with a woman, during his ordination ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral. Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP.
MOSUL (AFP).- An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mosul's St. Paul Church attended by Catholic leaders from the region and the US, as well as local officials and residents. "Our message to the whole world, and to Mosul's people, is one of coexistence, love, and peace among all of Mosul's different communities and the end of the ideology that Daesh (IS) brought here," Michaeel told AFP. Michaeel entered religious life at 24 and spent years serving at Al-Saa Church (Our Lady of the Hour) in Mosul. There, he managed the preservation of nearly 850 ancient manuscripts in Aramaic, ... More |
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 Taj Mahal police brandish catapults to scare monkeys awayNEW DELHI (AFP).- Police at the Taj Mahal are being given catapults to scare monkeys away from the UN heritage site after a spate of attacks on tourists, officials said Friday. "We have taken this initiative after many tourists were attacked and injured by monkeys," Hemendra Singh, spokesperson for India's paramilitary police force CISF, told AFP. Rhesus macaques monkeys in the grounds of the white marble global tourist hotspot in the northern city of Agra are renowned for stealing food and other items from visitors. But in recent months several monkeys have attacked and injured several people, including two French tourists last year while they were taking selfies. Another tourist was hurt after she tried to retrieve her purse from a monkey. A Colombian tourist had her purse snatched and returned only after monkeys had torn up her cash. Authorities ... More Perrotin opens the first solo exhibition in South Korea by the artist JR SEOUL.- Perrotin Seoul is presenting the first solo exhibition in South Korea by the artist JR (b. 1983). An autodidact, JRs reputation has grown over the past fifteen years thanks to his monumental photographic collages which have filled urban and natural landscapes around the world. Through his work, the artist has turned the spotlight on places which we customarily ignore, paying attention to everyday people, those who live in the shadows, the ones we never hear or notice. The exhibition presented in Seoul brings together eleven works that bear witness to the artists latest site-specific work. A large number of the works on display photographic prints that permanently record these ephemeral installations or works in progress, lift a veil on the artists creative process recall the installation presented by JR at the Louvre Museum in Paris in May ... More Lyman Allyn Art Museum showcases abstract art by James B MurphyNEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the opening of James B Murphy Abstracts, on view from January 25 through March 24, 2019. James B Murphy Abstracts, the latest exhibit in Lyman Allyns Near :: New contemporary series, presents the pathway Murphy took from the representational to more suggestive but still identifiable images, and then beyond the suggestive to the pure abstract. I became aware of his interest in nonrepresentational work almost by conversational accident but soon urged him on after I saw his compelling initial forays, said Sam Quigley, Director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Beyond painterly aspiration, his confidence and directness has beguiled me and others with increasing urgency in the relatively short time he followed this particular Muse. James B Murphy began as a representational artist, having ... More The Long Beach Museum of Art presents Sandow Birk's Imaginary MonumentsLONG BEACH, CA.- The iconic imageries depicted in the work of Sandow Birk emerge as figments of the past, seemingly forgotten series of historical events, or aspects of American contemporary life that reflect on todays societal concerns. The Long Beach Museum of Art is presenting, Monumental: Sandow Birk, the Los Angeles-based artists institutional debut of the ongoing series, Imaginary Monuments that began in 2007. The thought-provoking body of work humorously mines through some of the historical documents or contracts that have shaped the country we inhabit, often encapsulating the political ironies that have surfaced throughout past and contemporary events. The intrinsic nature of the various texts sourced from historical documents manifests in proposed monumental structures, thoughtfully and meticulously designed to welcome ... More Maija Luutonen's first exhibition in Switzerland opens at Kunsthaus PasquartBIEL/BIENNE.- Maija Luutonens (b. 1978, FI) large-scale, vividly coloured paintings are made primarily on paper, chosen for its suitability for direct experimentation as well as for the immaterial nature of the white negative spaces created on its surface. Considering the material to have a transient quality, she addresses the relation between time and movement, treating the works as an ensemble of slowly moving images rather than complete or final objects. This open-endedness is underlined by the presentation of the work leant against the wall, piled up, folded or placed in front of a door or window. Bringing together colour and light with references to the built environment and nature, Luutonen explores the possibilities for creating the illusion of spatial immersion on a flat surface. She retains in the paintings elements that are awkward or unresolved but nonetheless ... More Exhibition across two venues features solo and newly-commissioned collaborative worksLONDON.- Delfina Foundation and the Korean Cultural Centre UK are presenting Power play, an exhibition across both venues featuring solo and newly-commissioned collaborative works which expose, trace and interrogate power dynamics through humour, subversion and provocation. Curated by Aaron Cezar, Director of Delfina Foundation, Power play takes its cue from Jacques Derridas The Politics of Friendship (1994), in which the philosopher approaches the notion of friendship as a way to rethink the political, drawing connections between friendship, citizenship and democracy. Such ideas are particularly pertinent to the activities of the exhibitions partners: Delfina Foundation, as an international artist residency based in London; KCCUK, which seeks to promote understanding of and relations with Korea in the UK through cultural and educational activitie ... More Bonnefantenmuseum goes the extra mile with three new exhibitionsMAASTRICHT.- The extensive retrospective by David Lynch Someone is in my House is now open and attracts a lot of Dutch and international visitors. This does not withhold the Bonnefantenmuseum from launching three new exhibitions: In a double exhibition and a comprehensive publication, the Bonnefantenmuseum is focusing on the ground-breaking artistry of Ine Schröder (1951 Heerlen Maastricht 2014). Mainly active within the art scene of the Euregion, Schröder won the respect of the local and regional art community during her working life. After her death in 2014, museum curator Paula van den Bosch and artist and curator Joep Vossebeld collaborated with, Maastricht University and Flacc Genk (B) on researching Ine Schröder's artistic legacy, which had largely disappeared through the artist's own doing. Fortunately, each work and each exhibition ... More Art Village Gallery opens exhibition by celebrated Nigerian artist Uchay Joel ChimaMEMPHIS, TENN.- Art Village Gallery, known for presenting extraordinary international artwork, is launching another edition of its Out of Africa exhibition, bringing contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora to the forefront. The exhibition features over 30 recent mixed media artworks by Nigeria-based artist, Uchay Joel Chima. Chima is known for his eclectic use of alluring materials and unique artistic process, often questioning environmental and social issues around the world. Weaving a tapestry of memory, imagination, societal happenings and emotion, Chima combines various found objects including strings, sand, wax, charcoal, old sacks with paint and other mediums in an aesthetic that informs his works. If we look closely enough, we can find a link between all things, says Chima. Whether it is a link from one human to another, or an attachment to the ... More VisionQuesT 4rosso opens exhibition of works by Carla IaconoGENOA.- Unlike previous works by Carla Iacono, based mainly on portraits, this project focuses on the landscape but continues the path undertaken with her previous series and the analysis of the rites of passage, starting from the transition from childhood to adolescence. Melancholia also explores these rites of passage. The images were taken during the trips made by the artist to visit her daughter Flora, who spent a year in Tübingen (Germany) as part of the Erasmus program. It is therefore once again an autobiographical work, in which the journey is understood above all in its archetypal meaning, or process of individuation, and as a mechanism of detachment / return. All this represents, while maintaining a strong autobiographical value, the rite of passage of separation. As in the symbolic-contemplative landscapes of German Romanticism, the landscape ... More Forgotten Cumbrian craft comes alive at Museum of Lakeland LifeKENDAL.- One of only four swill basket makers in the entire world, Lorna Singleton keeps alive an ancient Lake District tradition. From her workshop in the shadow of the Cumbrian fells, Singleton uses long-established methods to create beautiful hand-woven baskets for the modern day. Now her work is on show in a new exhibition. Swilling was popular in 19th century Cumbria. In this instance it is not a term to do with drinking or pigs, but refers to an ancient craft - oak basket making. Swilled baskets can be seen in the illustrations of Beatrix Potter and were common until after World War Two, when plastics became popular. In Singletons work, craft and conservation work together. She cuts and prepares the wood by hand, managing and restoring coppice woodland in a responsible and renewable way, seeing the whole process from tree to finished product. Modern ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Théodore Géricault died January 26, 1824. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this imag: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820 - 21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm.
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