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Two visitors look at Marten and Oopjen, two Rembrandt portraits of a wedding couple jointly bought by the Netherlands and France, and that are displayed at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, on July 01 2016. Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- Early this year the two Rembrandt portraits were bought together by the Netherlands and France, a unique event. From 2 July to 2 October 2016 Marten & Oopjen will have a place of honour alongside The Night Watch. The paintings will then be restored at the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt painted the marriage portraits of the newly-weds Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in Amsterdam in 1634, when he was twenty-eight. The portraits, more than two metres high, remained in private hands for almost four centuries. Wim Pijbes, General Director Rijksmuseum: What no one thought possible is now reality: the most wanted and least exhibited Rembrandts in the world, in the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum in turn, in the public domain and within everyones reach. Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education, Culture and Science: Im delighted because the paintings are now finally in public hands. They belong to us all, and everyone, young and old, can enj ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge (R), and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, speak with children as they visit the World War I Thiepval monument northern France, on July 1, 2016, during the Somme battle's centenary commemorations. One week after Britain's vote to leave the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron and royal family members will stand side-by-side with France's President to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I. Francois Mori / POOL / AFP
| Intimate exhibition of recent portraits by David Hockney opens at the Royal Academy of Arts | | The Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg welcomes works of famed photographer Horst P. Horst | | Large-scale retrospective of the world-famous Colombian artist Fernando Botero opens in Rotterdam |
David Hockney, Dagny Corcoran, 15th, 16th, 17th January 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4 cm. © David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt.
LONDON.- In July 2016, the Royal Academy of Arts presents an intimate exhibition of recent portraits by the Royal Academician David Hockney, revisiting the genre that has played such a major part across his long career. Vibrant, observant and full of life, these 82 portraits and 1 still life, which Hockney considers as one body of work, have all been executed over the last two and a half years in the artists Los Angeles studio. David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life will offer an insight into the artists life in Los Angeles, his connections to the art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last few years. Hockneys subjects all of whom have been invited by the artist to sit for him include friends, family, acquaintances and staff. John Baldessari, Celia Birtwell, Dagny Corcoran, Larry Gagosian, Frank Gehry, Barry Humphries, David Juda and Lord ... More | |
Horst P. Horst, Salvador Dali, 1943. Conde Nast/Horst Estate.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Opening this Saturday, July 2, and on display through September 6, 2016, Horst: Photographs Fashion and Surrealism is an illuminating special exhibition at The Dalà Museum, St. Petersburg, FL. The exhibit features 180 works of famed fashion and surrealism photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-1999), who ranked alongside Irving Penn and Richard Avedon as one of the 20th centurys most iconic photographers. In the early 1930s Horst moved to Paris the heart of the creative avant-garde and befriended designers like Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli and artists including Salvador DalÃ. Horsts career spanned the opulence of Parisian prewar haute couture and the rise of ready-to-wear fashions in postwar America. Not confined to fashion, Horst excelled at portraiture, nude studies, interiors and still life photography, drawing from a wide range of sources from ancient Greek and ... More | |
Fernando Botero, First Lady, 1989. Oil paint on canvas, 203 x 165 cm.
ROTTERDAM.- This summer Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a large-scale retrospective of the world-famous Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932). This selection from Boteros own collection provides a panorama of the artists personal favourites from his considerable oeuvre. Botero: Celebrate Life! will exhibit almost a hundred paintings, sketches and pastels as well as a few sculptures, including the enormous eye-catcher Caballo, Boteros famous sculpture of a horse. The exhibition will last from 2 July to 11 September 2016. Visitors will be able to see paintings of life in Latin America based on reminiscences from his youth, and reproductions of classical masters in the recognisable Botero style. The bull-fight and the circus are also featured in these works. Boteros art is full of Latin American life. The gigantic, inflated bodies and objects appear weightless in spite of their volume, ... More |
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| Major exhibition at Turner Contemporary explores the centrality of the circle in art | | Major exhibition on the life and art of British artist Christopher Wood opens at Pallant House Gallery | | First exhibition highlighting Yayoi Kusama's interest in fashion and design on view in Stockholm |
Barry Flanagan, Seeing round corners, 1967. Felt pen & ink on paper. Private collection © The Estate of Barry Flanagan courtesy Bridgeman Art Library.
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary is presenting the first major exhibition to explore the centrality of the circle in art. Featuring more than 100 works from 3000BC to the present day Seeing Round Corners: The Art of the Circle brings together artworks and artefacts that reflect a vast range of themes and ideas from roundness, rotation and visual perception to wonderment and cycles of time. The exhibition encompasses sculpture, film, painting, design, installation, performance and photography, with works by leading historical and contemporary artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, JMW Turner, Theaster Gates, Rebecca Horn, David Shrigley and Bridget Riley. The exhibition considers the ways in which artists have gravitated to this universal and recurring form. From the globe of the earth and the ... More | |
Christopher Wood, Cumberland Landscape, 1928, Kettles Yard
CHICHESTER.- This summer Pallant House Gallery presents a major exhibition on the life and art of British artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930). An important and influential figure in the British art world during the 1920s, Wood developed a faux-naïve style as he navigated a path between the representational painting of the Edwardian era and the new style of abstraction of the 1930s. A celebration of the magnitude of the artists achievement in the ten years before his premature death, aged just 29, this comprehensive review explores the enduring paradox between the primitive and the sophisticated in Woods oeuvre. Based on research into 10 years of letters between Wood and those close to him - his mother, Winifred Nicholson, and the gallerist Lucy Wertheim the exhibition considers the factors at play in the development of this conflicted character, whose quest it was to ... More | |
Yayoi Kusama, Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees, 2016 Installation View at Moderna Museet/ArkDes, Stockholm, as a part of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama In Infinity, 2016. © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, David Zwirner, New York. Foto: à sa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
STOCKHOLM.- Yayoi Kusama is one of the most acclaimed artists working today. Since the 1950s, she has created art that is as personal as it is universal. Like few other artists she moves freely between painting, sculpture and installations, between art and design, and between East and West. In summer 2016, Moderna Museet and ArkDes are featuring Yayoi Kusamas oeuvre in the first major presentation in Sweden. In 1957 Yayoi Kusama left Japan for New York. Here, at the heart of the vibrant 1960s art scene, she created many of her seminal works, characterised by the impulse to allow one shape or pattern take over and repeat itself infinitely. In the ... More |
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| "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris" opens in Toronto | | Reinstallation of the collection at the Renwick Gallery opens | | German dies trying to take photo atop Machu Picchu |
Lawren Harris, Mt. Lefroy, 1930 (detail). Oil on canvas. 52.5 x 60.4 in. (133.5 x 153.5 cm), McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Purchase 1975. ©Family of Lawren S. Harris. Image courtesy of McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
TORONTO.- As the leader of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris first rose to national prominence while living and painting in Toronto. This summer the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes his paintings homefollowing a critically acclaimed trip across the United Stateswith an exhibition that explores the relationship of Harris work to Toronto, in addition to a specially commissioned performance in partnership with The National Ballet of Canada and a public talk by Steve Martin at Roy Thomson Hall. Curated by comedian, musician, actor and writer Steve Martin along with Andrew Hunter, the AGOs Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, and Cynthia Burlingham, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Idea of North: ... More | |
Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2009, mixed media. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the James Renwick Alliance and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment. © 2009, Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo by James Prinz Photography.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Renwick Gallery, home to the Smithsonian American Art Museums craft and decorative arts program, presents a dynamic new installation of more than 80 objects from the permanent collection. Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery includes iconic favorites alongside new acquisitions that are being displayed at the museum for the first time. The galleries opened to the public July 1 and will be on view indefinitely. Nora Atkinson, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, selected the objects and conceived the innovative presentation. The opening of the permanent collection galleries at the Renwick marks the perfect moment to rededicate ourselves ... More | |
The citadel of Machu Picchu is seen.
LIMA (AFP).- A German tourist plunged 200 meters (650 feet) to his death while posing for a photo at the summit of Machu Picchu, police said Friday. Oliver Paps had asked another tourist to take his picture as he stood at the mountain's peak overlooking the ancient Incan citadel in the Peruvian Andes on Wednesday. "As another German photographed him, he fell into a deep abyss and died," Santos Mamani, an official at the Macchu Picchu commissary in Cusco, told AFP. Before the fall, the 51-year-old had dodged security barriers and entered a restricted area, according to Cusco's regional culture authority. "'I'm going to jump in the air -- take a photo for me as a memory,'" said Paps before he died, according to an official witness who participated in the rescue mission. Rescuers recovered the corpse from a deep ravine and sent it Thursday afternoon by train to a morgue in Cusco, from where it will likely be repatriated. The Incas built the famous sacred site Machu Picchu in the ... More |
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| Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions hosts a sale of Fine Paintings on 13th July | | Norway's National Museum of Architecture exhibits the work of Lars Backer | | Thames & Hudson publishes "The Anatomical Venus" in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy |
Jean-Michel Picart, Still life with Spring flowers on a ledge, Oil on panel, 63 x 47 cm. (24 3/4 x 18 1/2 in). Estimate: £50,000-£70,000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will host a sale of Fine Paintings on Wednesday 13th July 2016 (10am) at Donnington Priory, nr. Newbury. Estimates range from £1,000-£70,000 with an estimated total sale value of £600,000. Highlighting the auction is E 44 by Polish artist, Wojciech Fangor, estimated at £50,000-70,000. This painting forms part of a group of works from The Collection of the late Clifford and Rosemary Ellis which also includes an interesting group of drawings by Walter Sickert. Both artists taught at one time at the Bath Academy of Art, based at Corsham Court, which was founded by Clifford Ellis in 1946. The sale also includes a collection of ten works by the artist Fred Hall who is perhaps best known as a member of the Newlyn School of painters having settled in Cornwall in 1888. However, later in life, in 1911 he came to live in Speen, near Newbury where he remained until his death in 1948, aged 88. It was ... More | |
Lars Backer. Harriet Backer, Thorvald Boecks bibliotek, 1902.
OSLO.- With his designs for Skansen Restaurant, Ekeberg Restaurant and the Horn Building, the architect Lars Backer brought the International Style in architecture to Norway. Many people had felt that a new era was imminent, and now it had arrived. The exhibition Lars Backer architect. A pioneer of Norwegian Modernism tells the story of Lars Backers life, explains his contribution to Norwegian architecture, and sheds light on the era he lived in. The mid-1920s were a time of transition in Norway. Neoclassicism was still the predominant architectural style: power stations, banks, housing developments, sports facilities, museums and cinemas all bore the hallmarks of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Lars Backer contributed to this movement with his Frogner Cinema, the beautiful Villa Larsen, and a university project executed in the neoclassical style. At the same time Backer, along with his contemporaries, was writing about the need for a new kind of architecture. I ... More | |
A disquieting volume of deftly crafted dissectible wax Venuses and slashed beauties conceived in the 18th and 19th centuries that demonstrated female anatomy in the worlds museums & fairgrounds.
LONDON.- Published in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy, The Anatomical Venus explores the strange and fascinating history of eroticized female anatomical wax models, which peaked in fashion in the 19th century. Packed with sublime examples from around the world, and documented in intricate detail, the book is the result of the authors global, ten-year photographic quest. Accompanying the captivating imagery, Ebensteins incisive commentary reveals the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny. Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susinis Anatomical Venus (c. 1780), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It or better, she was conceived as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant ... More |
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Now open in the Irish Museum of Modern Art's East Ground Galleries: Simon Fujiwara, The Humanizer
DUBLIN.- An imagined biopic of the life of Irish nationalist figure Roger Casement, The Humanizer is an exciting new work by Berlin based, British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara. It is one of three major new works commissioned by IMMA to reflect on the legacy of the commemoration of the Irish State as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Composed almost uniquely of sound this new work has been created with contemporary Hollywood movie professionals including renowned screenplay writer Michael Lesslie (Macbeth, 2015; Assassins Creed, 2016) and Oscar winning designer Annie Atkins (The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014), and was recorded in Ireland with an Irish cast. The sound element, which includes Hollywood style music and foley, was produced in Berlin in collaboration with artist and sound designer Moritz Fehr. Through fragments of sound, a minimum of objects and ... More
Major new commission from Indonesian multi-disciplinary artist Jompet Kuswidananto opens in Sydney
SYDNEY.- Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents a major new commission from Indonesian multi-disciplinary artist Jompet Kuswidananto, titled After Voices. Jompet Kuswidananto (born 1976) is based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and for SCAFs 32nd project he created an immersive, multi-disciplinary installation within the SCAF gallery. Jompet's personal experience of social hysteria and trauma following the 1998 fall of Suharto's New Order frames After Voices. After a long period of repression, political demonstrations became frequent, and long suppressed voices were finally heard. This dramatic work presents a carnivalesque procession of life-size 'ghost figures' constructed from helmets, uniforms, mechanical hands, musical instruments and motorcycle headlights that parade through the gallery. The figures are surrounded by loudspeakers, flags, ... More
Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf: New exhibition in QUAD
DERBY.- This summer Doug Fishbone will transform QUAD Gallery in Derby into a playful environment, taking visitors on an amusing and thought-provoking journey with an artist-designed mini-golf course. The artists include: Turner Prize nominee, Yinka Shonibare MBE, John Akomfrah OBE, Hetain Patel, Yara El-Sherbini, Ellie Harrison, Candice Jacobs, Lindsay Seers, Eyal Weizman, Reactor and Doug Fishbone himself. The Gallery installation uses the fun and accessible game of mini-golf as a powerful tool for questioning the leisure industry and society's compulsion for consumption whilst also addressing other important cultural topics from migration to global warming and globalisation. The artwork was commissioned for the 56th Venice Biennale by EM15, a collective of arts organisations from the East Midlands, including QUAD, New Art Exchange, One Thoresby Street and ... More
Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin's 'I belong to the ship' on view at musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
BORDEAUX.- Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin have worked together since 1999, experimenting with forms as varied as films, performances, photographs and sound pieces, on a number of different projects, often in collaboration with professionals from other fields: like lawyers, storytellers and auctioneers. They call their creations monsters, works where, through imprecision, hesitations and surprises, we become aware of the stratagems people willingly adopt to subvert their own language and form. The questioning of the individuals relationship to a territory of their own, a country, region or professional activity, is the focus of their two films, Manmuswak (2005) and La Nouvelle Kahnawaké (2010). In 2012, they created LÃchiqueté [Chequered Chess], a variant on the game of chess, which highlights the paradoxical situation of the half-caste in colonial history, ... More
Exhibition celebrates the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's inspirational book Utopia
LONDON.- Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Thomas Mores inspirational book Utopia, Paths to Utopia is a collection of new art works resulting from collaborations between artists, performers, architects, technologists and Kings College London academics. In this unique cultural hub, audiences have the chance to encounter whales, ascend to a community on the clouds and witness the ubiquitous, transcendental pursuit of creativity. This wide-ranging exhibition features new works from Le Gun Collective, author Philip Hoare and artist Caitlin Shepherd amongst others. On show are films, immersive installations, durational performance, a national scratch choir and loans from The Courtauld Gallery, that allow audiences to create a figurative map of what Utopia means in todays society. Paths to Utopia seeks to question what Utopia is and to examine Thomas Mores vision. ... More
The Phillips's Summer 2016 Intersections project reimagines architecture as media of remembrance
WASHINGTON, DC.- This summer, The Phillips Collection presents the work of German artist Bettina Pousttchi, which addresses the history and memory of architecture. Double Monuments is part of the Phillipss ongoing Intersections series that highlights contemporary art and artists in conversation with the museums permanent collection, history, and architecture. Through photography and sculpture, Pousttchi is interested in altering architectural buildings and monuments as indicators of the past and media of remembrance. In her series Double Monuments for Flavin and Tatlin (20102016), Pousttchi transforms the constraining materials of rails, street barricades, and metal crowd barriers into sculptural forms with spiraling vertical towers and neon light tubes. These double monuments reference the work of Russian Constructivist sculptor-architect Vladimir Tatlin ... More
Garment District Space for Public Art showcases oil paintings by New York City artist Karen Tompkins
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance unveiled Window to Infinity, the latest in its ongoing series of public art installations. Created by New York City-based artist Karen Tompkins, the exhibit showcases two oil paintings titled, Infinity Diptych and Infinity. Located in a street-level window on 28 West 38th Street, the G-System space at the Wheeler Building, the free exhibit will be available to the public through July 29th. Tompkins installation is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and has produced more than 175 installations, exhibits and performances. Window to Infinity is a fascinating installation that combines scientific knowledge with art, and offers viewers an interesting look at the structures of the infinite Universe, said Barbara Blair Randall, president of the Garment ... More
Timken Museum of Art exhibits works by American masters
SAN DIEGO, CA .- This July the Timken Museum of Art kicks off its new partnership with the University of San Diego with a joint exhibition of more than 20 works of art from a private collection, none of which have ever been seen in San Diego. The exhibition, Collections in Context: American Art from a Pacific Northwest Collection, 1860 1915, features the extraordinary works by American painters, sculptors and printmakers including Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, John Frederick Kensett and Frederic Remington, to name a few. This particular private collection is renowned within the curatorial community in the United States and features singular works by some of the greatest American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, said Derrick Cartwright, Curatorial Director, Timken Museum of Art and Director of University Galleries, University of San Diego. For ... More
Exhibition addresses the multiple ways contemporary artists explore figuration, abstraction and nature
LONDON.- Unit London is presenting Radical Presence, a new exhibition addressing the multiple ways contemporary artists explore figuration, abstraction and nature. Featuring over 30 works from the past two decades by 24 leading international artists, Radical Presence delivers an arresting global perspective on how the digital age has profoundly altered the way we perceive and interact with our environment. The exhibition is the first major independent curatorial project from emerging curator Kate Linfoot. Contemporary society is relentlessly confronted with a multitude of new technologies, theories, products and information, and yet artists continue to return to the traditional themes of figuration, abstraction and nature. Radical Presence demonstrates the novel responses artists have to their rapidly changing environments, from work that re-imagines Pop for the 21st ... More
Kim Jones connects nature, culture, and memory at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Artist Kim Jones connects nature, culture, and memory through a material- and labor-intensive intervention into the galleries and surrounding landscape of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. His exhibition, White Crow, part of the presentation Site Lines: Four Solo Exhibitions Engaging Place, will be on view at the Museum until February 5, 2017. Jones (born 1944, San Bernardino, California) has created a singular and subjective body of work based on extreme experiences that deeply affected his life and art making. He identifies himself as an outsider, and this estrangement has been played out through an interrelated series of performances, sculptures, drawings, and writings that exhibit a range of elemental and expressionistic impulses. White Crow refers to the extremely rare occurrence where a crow is born without any pigment in its ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Welsh garden designer Ralph Hancock was born July 02, 1893. Ralph Hancock (2 July 1893 - 30 August 1950) was a Welsh landscape gardener and author. Hancock built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known - the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the Rockefeller Center in New York, the garden at Twyn-yr-Hydd House in Margam and the rock and water garden he built for Princess Victoria at Coppins, Iver, England. In this image: Rockefeller Center English Roof gardens - circa 1935.
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