| The First Art Newspaper on the Net |   | Established in 1996 | Saturday, January 27, 2018 |
 |
| | Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts reunites Charles I's collection | |
|
|
Anthony van Dyck, Charles I, 1635-6. Oil on canvas, 84.4 x 99.4 cm. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts, in partnership with Royal Collection Trust, presents Charles I: King and Collector, a landmark exhibition that reunites one of the most extraordinary and influential art collections ever assembled. During his reign, Charles I (1600-1649) acquired and commissioned exceptional masterpieces from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, including works by Van Dyck, Rubens, Holbein, Titian and Mantegna, amongst others. Charles I was executed in 1649 and just months later the collection was offered for sale and dispersed across Europe. Although many works were retrieved by Charles II during the Restoration, others now form the core of collections such as the Musée du Louvre and the Museo Nacional del Prado. Charles I: King and Collector reunites around 150 of the most important works for the first time since the seventeenth century, providing an unprecedented opportunity to experience the collection th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A curator holds an original negative shot in Romania during the holocaust as she arranges the display of a new photography exhibition "Flashes of Memory: Photography during the Holocaust" at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem commemorating the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during WWII, on January 9, 2018. The new exhibition presents a critical account of visual documentation -- photographs and films -- created during the Holocaust by German and Jewish photographers, as well as by members of the Allied forces during liberation. GALI TIBBON / AFP
| New 508-million-year-old bristle worm species wiggles into evolutionary history | | Matthew Marks opens Vija Celmins's first exhibition of new work in Los Angeles in over forty years | | Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin opens exhibition celebrating Georg Baselitz's 80th anniversary | 
Life reconstruction of Kootenayscolex barbarensis. Image: Danielle Dufault, 2018 © Royal Ontario Museum.
TORONTO.- Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have described an exceptionally well-preserved new fossil species of bristle worm called Kootenayscolex barbarensis. Discovered from the 508-million-year-old Marble Canyon fossil site in the Burgess Shale in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, the new species helps rewrite our understanding of the origin of the head in annelids, a highly diverse group of animals which includes todays leeches and earthworms. This research was published today in the journal Current Biology in the article A New Burgess Shale Polychaete and the Origin of the Annelid Head Revisited. Annelids are a hugely diverse group of animals in both their anatomies and lifestyles, said Karma Nanglu, a University of Toronto PhD candidate, and a researcher at the Royal Ontario Museum, as well as the studys lead author. While this diversity makes ... More | | 
Vija Celmins, Night Sky #24, 2016. Oil on canva, 33 3/4 x 32 inches. ©Vija Celmins, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Matthew Marks announces Vija Celmins, the next exhibition in his galleries at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard. Including more than twenty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper made between 2014 and 2018, this will be Celminss first exhibition of new work in Los Angeles in over forty years. The largest work in the exhibition, an oil painting more than five feet wide, depicts the night sky in reverse, an array of dark stars floating on a light-gray field. Its seemingly monochromatic palette includes vibrant colors applied in numerous layers to create a sense of depth. At the other end of the scale, just eighteen by thirteen inches, Celmins has painted a close-up of a glazed ceramic plate, depicting it as an allover pattern of white cracks on greenish-gray field. Since the 1960s Celmins has been rendering nature imagery from black and white photographic sources, exploring the same ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Ein moderner Maler, 1966. Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur.
BERLIN.- In Berlin, at that time still a divided city, everything began. In 1963 Baselitz had a show at Galerie Werner & Katz. A scandal resulted; two paintings were confiscated for their allegedly lewd motifs. Since then, Baselitzs work has remained provocative. He painted Heroes that were not heroes, but rather those that found themselves again helpless in the no mans land of the two Germanys after dictatorship and war. He left Berlin, fragmented and destroyed the motifs until he could stand them on their heads. This process enabled him to return to landscape, the nude, and portraits after his personal nightmare of the sixties. Gradually his painting earned recognition in museums and with collectors. In 1975 his new home became Derneburg near Hildesheim. After years of intensive graphic production, crowned by the large linocuts, Baselitz created ... More |
|
| Exhibition of new paintings by Michaël Borremans inaugurates David Zwirner's space in Hong Kong | | Exhibition at Luhring Augustine presents Late Medieval painting, sculpture, and stained glass | | Bruce Museum opens "Hot Art in a Cold War: Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era" | 
Michaël Borremans, Fire from the Sun, 2017 © Michaël Borremans. Courtesy David Zwirner.
HONG KONG.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Michaël Borremans, inaugurating the gallerys space in Hong Kong. This will be the artists first solo show in Hong Kong and his sixth overall with David Zwirner. Fire from the Sun includes small and large scale works that feature toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. The children are presented alone or in groups against a studio-like backdrop that negates time and space, while underlining the theatrical atmosphere and artifice that exists throughout Borremanss recent work. Reminiscent of cherubs in Renaissance paintings, the toddlers appear as allegories of the human condition, their archetypal innocence contrasted with their suggested deviousness. Other paintings in the exhibition depict obscure machines, whose enigmatic presence appears foreboding in the context of the toddlers and sugg ... More | | 
A life-sized polychromed corpus of Christ, Aragón, North-eastern Spain, 13th century. Polychromy and gilding on softwood, 61 3/4 x 61 x 10 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages, an exhibition of Late Medieval painting, sculpture, stained glass, and goldsmiths work in association with Sam Fogg, the worlds leading dealer in the art of the Middle Ages. The exhibition will highlight Europes artistic flowering between the 12th and 16th centuries, bringing together many of the finest masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance art still in private hands. A fully illustrated catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be three monumental sections of carved stonework from the south transept window of Canterbury Cathedral, one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Europe. The window was designed by Thomas Mapilton (d. 1438), a master mason who worked on Westminster Abbey ... More | | 
Salyut Space Station TV Camera Space Station Museum 2013.001.073. Photo by Paul Mutino.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Opening on January 27, 2018, the Bruce Museums provocative new exhibition Hot Art in a Cold War: Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era examines one of the dominant concerns of Soviet unofficial artistsand citizens everywhereduring the Cold War: the consequences of innovation in science, technology, mathematics, communications, and design. Juxtaposing art made in opposition to state-sanctioned Socialist Realism with artifacts from the Soviet nuclear and space programs, Hot Art in a Cold War touches upon the triumphs and tragedies unleashed as humankind gained the power to both leave the Earth and to destroy it. Produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, the works on view address themes of international significance during a turbulent period marked by the ever-escalating competition for nuclear supremacy and the space race. Creative interpretations of these key ... More |
|
| TEFAF Board of Trustees announces new appointments | | Kayne Griffin Corcoran opens Noboru Takayama's first solo show in Los Angeles | | Washington Museum by Sir David Adjaye named best design of 2017 | 
Dino Tomasso, Partner, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art.
HELVOIRT.- Following a period of re-structuring, TEFAF, the organisation behind TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF New York Fall and TEFAF New York Spring, today announced the final five appointments to its Board of Trustees. In addition, the size and structure of both the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee have been reviewed to ensure clear governance for the organisation moving forward. It was agreed that the ideal number of members for the Board of Trustees is between 20-25, of which fewer than 50% are non-dealers. In addition, the Executive Committee should be composed of seven people four dealers and three non-dealers. The dealers should be Chairman Antiquairs, Chairman Modern and Chairman Pictura plus one other dealer. It is with great pleasure that TEFAF makes the final additions to its Board of Trustees following two years of change and development for the organisation. The new Board of Trustees is comprised ... More | | 
Indoor installation view of Noboru Takayama at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles. Photo: Flying Studio.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran is presenting the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and with the gallery by Noboru Takayama. For his exhibition, the artist constructed two monumental sculptures from his signature material, railroad ties. The sculptures are both indoors and within the galleries outdoor courtyard space. Noboru Takayama is an artist who creates works that appropriate materials of firm substantiality including old and worn-out railway sleepers, iron, and wax. The single recurrent medium in Takayamas practice is railroad ties, which he has used since 1968. During his second year of college, he traveled to Hokkaido, visiting coal mines and spending several days with miners. Takayama discovered the potential of railroad ties, significant not only as an underground support structure for tunnels, but as human pillars similar in size and weight. ... More | | 
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. is crowned the Beazley Design of the Year 2017.
LONDON.- The National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by Adjaye Associates, The Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond, and SmithGroupJJR for the Smithsonian Institution, has been named the winner of the Beazley Design of the Year award. The annual prize and exhibition curated and hosted by the Design Museum in London has included previous winners such as IKEA and UNHCRs Better Shelter, the London 2012 Olympic Torch and the Barack Obama Hope poster. Now in its tenth year, the award was presented at an exclusive dinner held inside the stunning central atrium of the Design Museum in Kensington. Selected as the winner of the Architecture category, the landmark project designed by the recently knighted Sir David Adjaye overcame the other five category winners to claim the overall award. 2017 saw Adjaye knighted by Her Majesty ... More |
|
| Painter Alexis Rockman celebrates global importance of the Great Lakes | | Important George Washington inaugural button highlights Frent Collection Part II at Heritage Auctions | | Met Opera's 'Tosca' rises after backstage chaos | 
Alexis Rockman (American, b. 1962), Chimera, 2017. Watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper, 73 3/8 x 52 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Sperone Westwater, New York.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- A multi-faceted exhibition by New York-based artist Alexis Rockman will examine the forces past, present and future shaping the Great Lakes, one of the most emblematic and ecologically significant environments in the world. Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum and on view Jan. 27-April 29, 2018. The project features all new work by the artist: five mural-sized paintings; six vibrant, large-scale watercolors; and a selection of monochrome field drawings based on his travel, interviews and extensive research in the Great Lakes region. The Great Lakes Cycle will inform and inspire viewers regarding the history of the Great Lakes, current challenges and threats to the region, and opportunities to positively shape its future, said GRAM Director and CEO Dana Friis-Hansen, who curated the exhibition. ... More | | 
George Washington: Pater Patriæ... the Holy Grail of GW Inaugural Buttons.
DALLAS, TX.- The only inaugural button referring to George Washington as the "Father of His Country" (perhaps the earliest instance of the use of the phrase) will open for bidding at $20,000 when Heritage Auctions presents Part II of the David and Janice Frent Collection of Political & Presidential Memorabilia Feb. 24. The auction offers 658 lots of extraordinary pin backs, banners, campaign flags and assorted campaign paraphernalia. "The record-setting debut of the Frent Collection realized a stunning $911,538 last October," said Tom Slater, Director of Americana Auctions at Heritage, "and Part II is every bit as exciting." The landmark Frent collection widely regarded as the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled will span eight dedicated auctions with everything from buttons to banners dating from the founding of the republic up through recent elections. The collection's extraordinary Washington ... More | | 
French orchestra conductor Emmanuel Villaume poses before conducting Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on January 23, 2018. Jewel SAMAD / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- After enduring unprecedented cast upheaval, the Metropolitan Opera's new "Tosca" is winning standing ovations for its opulent reboot of Puccini's shadowy tale of love, politics, power and deception. The New York opera house's revamped take on the repertory favorite, which premiered on New Year's Eve, will go global Saturday when it is beamed to cinemas worldwide as part of the Met's "Live in HD" series. Building an unusual buzz within the audience before each performance, the new production stars two leads who had never before performed in the opera -- Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo and Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Yoncheva says she was eager to put her imprint on the title role, being herself a diva who is often portrayed as haughty and temperamental. "I always thought Tosca is a different person. She's not this ... More |
|
href=' href='
| More News |
 Exhibition of prints, photographs, and films by Andy Warhol opens at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art CenterPOUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- People are Beautiful, a new exhibition of close to 100 rarely seen works by Andy Warhol, are on view January 26 April 15, 2018 at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. The exhibition, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, explores shifting notions of beauty in the artists portraits from 1964 to 1985. The exhibition takes its title from a comment by Warhol about the production of his film portraits: The lighting is bad, the camerawork is bad, the projection is bad, but the people are beautiful. Warhol was initially an outsider among his subjects, longing to become liked and accepted by the famous and beautiful people he admired. Obsessed with glamor and beauty, an avid collector of celebrity tabloid photos, and plagued by insecurities about his own appearance since childhood, Warhol helped to redefine the term ... More Frye Art Museum brings works by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan to Seattle for the first timeSEATTLE, WA.- Always, Sometimes, Never brings the work of New York-based conceptual artist Tavares Strachan to Seattle for the first time. Strachan incorporates science, art, and the environment to create works that are ambitious in scale and scope. Many of his projects investigate the nature of invisibility, calling into question the conditions that frame and legitimize certain information and histories while obscuring and erasing others. This exhibition places his sculptures, collages, and neon works within and alongside pools of water, echoing the ways Seattle has been shaped geographically and culturally by its rainfall and waterways. By symbolically flooding the museum, Strachan brings submerged histories to the surface and transforms the gallery into a space of actual and conceptual reflection. Strachan aims to build and connect communities through his work ... More Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces a 353-lot Antiques & Fine Art AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- Fresh off a highly successful Winter Antiques & Fine Arts Auction held on January 6th that featured 379 lots of fine items from prominent New England homes, Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will soldier on with another big live and internet sale, this one a 353-lot affair its calling an Antiques & Fine Art Auction, slated for Saturday, February 3rd, at 11 am Eastern. The auction will be held online, as well as in Bruneau & Co.s spacious gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Kicking off the festivities will be 43 paintings, followed by an eclectic mix of merchandise ranging from 36 lots of guns and antique ammunition to 47 lots of antiquarian books and chapbooks from a fine estate out of Coventry, Rhode Island. Shoe-horned in will be part of the collection of the philanthropist and dedicated collector Alan Shawn Feinstein. The proceeds from his items will ... More Casino Luxembourg exhibits project by Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni LUXEMBOURG.- Initiated in 2014, The Unmanned is a long-term project by Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni in the form of a series composed of three seasons. This vast epic, while mimicking the classic form of a great narrative, offers a history of technique that is not one of instruments and tools to serve human production, but a history of man himself as a technological production. From this reversal - and ourselves as artifacts - gradually emerges, throughout the series, an image of history as the unlimited form of our own uprooting. In January 2018, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni return to Casino Luxembourg to present the entire first season of The Unmanned. Made up of eight films, this first season retraces a history of computation through an exploration of the invention of modern computation and the consequences of its automation in machines. Going backwards ... More Kestner Gesellschaft opens "The Art of Behaving Badly by the Guerrilla Girls"HANNOVER.- With the exhibition The Art of Behaving Badly by the Guerrilla Girls, the Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting one of the most important international positions of the feminist Institutional Critique. Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have operated as an anonymous group of female activists in the United States who draw attention to the underrepresentation of women and people of color in galleries, museums, and other art institutions. With posters in public spaces, videos, events, performances, and publications, they reveal the widespread exclusion mechanisms in the art world, which even today contribute to a one-sided, white-male-dominated art and cultural landscape. They use statistical methods, which they implement with humor and caricature-like exaggeration in various formats. The Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting the first institutional solo ... More Witte de With turned into a contemporary space for the live exhibition of musical worksROTTERDAM.- From 25 January 2018 till 3 March 2018, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art has been turned into the Kunsthalle for Music, a contemporary space for the live exhibition of musical works. Music is not necessarily what you think it is. Can we imagine a space for music that exists outside of any media and beyond the stage? A space for un-recordable music, music of undefined duration, existing even when no audience is present? A dissolution of performer and audience, of rehearsal and performance? How can we imagine contemporary music, composition, and music performance as contemporary art today? from Ari Benjamin Meyers manifesto for the Kunsthalle for Music. Kunsthalle for Music is a project by Ari Benjamin Meyers investigating what it means to create a new institution for ... More History of the UK's first school for blind people revealed in new exhibition at the Museum of LiverpoolLIVERPOOL.- Personal stories and objects reveal the history of the UKs first school for blind people, in a new exhibition being staged at the Museum of Liverpool. Founded in 1791, Liverpools Royal School for the Blind, in particular its buildings and the everyday lives of students, is central to The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places, running at the Museum of Liverpool from 26 January until 15 April 2018. The exhibition features unique objects from the Museums own collection alongside loans, personal stories and a film made in partnership with visually impaired and blind students from St Vincents School for Sensory Impairment, West Derby. The exhibition is curated in partnership with Accentuates History of Place project, which explores 800 years in the lives of deaf and disabled people, and highlights accessible interpretation including audio description, ... More Qiu Anxiong's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Boers-Li GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Boers-Li Gallery announces Qiu Anxiongs first solo exhibition in New York, opening on January 27th, 2018 at the gallery's recently-launched space on Manhattans Upper East Side. This exhibition features the U.S. premiere of the third and final installment of Qius widely-acclaimed video animation trilogy, New Classics of Mountains and Seas (2006-2017). Its first episode was shown in 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition: Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. Later that year, the second episode was presented in Copenhagen at the Arken Museum of Modern Art. New Classics of Mountains and Seas III was completed in 2017 and made its debut last March at our Beijing location. Projected onto a large-scale screen, the 30-minute video depicts an apocalyptic future in the post-information age, where the deteriorating environment ... More Always Trust The Artist: Tim Van Laere Gallery opens a group showANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery is presenting Always Trust The Artist, a group show featuring works by Gelatin, Marcel Dzama, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Ryan Mosley and Aaron van Erp. The title of the exhibition refers to a work by Kati Heck and perfectly sums up the philosophy of the gallery. Gelatin (live and work in Vienna) is comprised of four artists. They first met in 1978, when they all attended a summer camp. They have been playing and working together since then. Their universe could be defined as a stupendous extravagant jumble. Their work originates out of performances and is translated mostly into sculpture. From 1993 they began exhibiting internationally. They have exhibited globally with museums and leading art galleries including solo shows at Fondazione Prada, Milan; Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf; Musée ... More China scolds Japan over museum for disputed islandsBEIJING (AFP).- China on Friday said it was "strongly dissatisfied" with the opening of a museum in Tokyo devoted to disputed islands, as the Japanese foreign minister prepares to visit Beijing this weekend. The museum, which opened Thursday and is run by the Japanese government, displays documents and photographs defending Japan's claims over two sets of islands that China and South Korea also see as their own. Japan has a longstanding dispute with China over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. They are administered by Japan, where they are known as "Senkaku", but also claimed by China, which calls them "Diaoyu". Tokyo also claims islands in the Sea of Japan that are controlled by South Korea. They are known as "Dokdo" in Korean and "Takeshima" in Japanese. South Korea immediately demanded the closure of the museum as it denounced Japan's ... More A new series of paintings from Brian Maguire at IMMA depicts the destruction of AleppoDUBLIN.- IMMA presents War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings, a new series of work by Irish artist Brian Maguire. The paintings are a result of Maguires observations and photographs of the destruction caused by the struggle for control of the eastern and central areas of Aleppo, Syria. An earlier exhibition, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, (Kerlin, 2016), examined the refugee crisis then hitting Europes shores. As reflected in the both exhibitions, Maguire sees the war in Syria and the refugee crisis as being intricately linked. Taken collectively then, these exhibitions bear stark witness to the destruction of a city, and the human displacement caused by such destruction; manifested in the waves of Syrian refugees crossing into Europe. As with all Maguires work, this exhibition emerges from a considered engagement with the political and social ... More |
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp was born January 27, 1585. Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) - May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen). In this image: Hendrick Avercamp, IJsgezicht met jager die een otter toont. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
|
|
|
