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Among the works showed off to the media Friday were pieces by important German painters Otto Dix, and Franz Marc and Otto Mueller.
BERN.- A Swiss museum on Friday showed off pieces from a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard it inherited from a German recluse, in the run-up to the first exhibit of the controversial collection. The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern unveiled a selection of the nearly 200 pieces set to go on display on November 2 for its exhibit "Degenerate Art, Confiscated and Sold". Among the works showed off to the media Friday were pieces by important German painters Otto Dix, and Franz Marc and Otto Mueller. The works are part of a vast trove of works left behind by art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who died in 2014 at the age of 81. When Gurlitt died, he named the Bern museum as the sole heir to hundreds of works found in his cluttered Munich apartment, including pieces by the likes of Cezanne, Beckmann, Holbein, Delacroix and Munch. Gurlitt, described in media reports as an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A replica of the 4x4 Toyota used during the La Rochela Massacre, on January 18, 1989, perpetrated by a paramilitary group, in which 12 out of 15 judicial officials who were investigating various crimes in the area were murdered, in on display during the opening of Colombia's General Prosecutor's Office museum in Bogota, on July 7, 2017. The museum was inaugurated within the framework of the 25th anniversary of the General Prosecutor's Office and aims to bring to the public to objects seized in judicial processes in the country. Raul Arboleda / AFP
| Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art announces new expansion to incorporate the Cerruti Collection | | A cache of Jane Austen's charming hand-written correspondence to be offered at Sotheby's | | Pollock/Motherwell exhibition opens at Nelson-Atkins | 
Francis Bacon Study for a Portrait IX, 1957. Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 118 cm. Collezione Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerrui per l'Arte on long-term loan Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino.
TURIN.- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum, announces that Castello di Rivoli will enter into a special partnership with the legendary Cerruti Collection to become the worlds first contemporary art museum to incorporate an encyclopaedic collection of the art of the past. Castello di Rivoli Museum, a renowned museum of contemporary art and the first in Italy, is entering into an important agreement with the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per lArte to safeguard, research, enhance, and display the extraordinary, yet virtually unknown, Cerruti Collection. For the first time, it will be possible for the public to discover the priceless legacy of Francesco Federico Cerruti (Genoa, 1922 Turin, 2015), a secretive ... More | | 
Jane Austen fragment of an autograph letter, to her niece Anna Lefroy (nee Austen). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Almost exactly 200 years to the day of Jane Austens death in 1817, a masterly comic letter written by the author to her favourite niece will come to sale for the very first time at Sothebys London on 11th July with an estimate of £80,000-100,000. The celebrated novelist, whose own literature has remained the subject of critique for over two centuries, is here seen exercising her own critical opinion of another writers work in a light-hearted jeu despirit which exudes not only Austens supreme intellect, but also her comic charm. Dating from 29-30 October 1812, a critical time in Austens career - immediately after the publication of Sense and Sensibility and around the time that the manuscript of Pride and Prejudice was sent for publication - this unique correspondence provides a rare insight into how Austen thought about fiction. The object of her censure is a ... More | | 
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 126, 1965-1975 (detail), acrylic on canvas, 77 ¾ x 200 ¼ in., Purchased with the aid of funds from The National Endowment for the Arts with matching funds and partial gift of Robert Motherwell, 1973.289. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA. ©Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Two famed American artists are featured in the focus exhibition Pollock and Motherwell: Legends of Abstract Expressionism, which opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City July 8. The exhibition includes two monumental paintings, Jackson Pollocks Mural and Robert Motherwells Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 126. Pollocks work is freewheeling and frenzied while Motherwells painting presents a rhythmic, consistent structure. Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell were vital figures of mid-20th-century American painting, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee ... More |
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| US architect Jeanne Gang creates paper 'forest' inside museum | | Group exhibition at Perrotin joins emerging and leading artists from across the globe | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam exhibits the entire group of Dubuffet works in its collection | 
Hive at the National Building Museum. Photo: Tim Schenck.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Jeanne Gang has dedicated her life to using architecture and design to connect people of various backgrounds who otherwise would not interact. So when the architect noticed how difficult it was to hear someone standing just 10 feet (three meters) away in the Great Hall of Washington's cavernous National Building Museum, she set about tackling how to change this feeling of "being out in the open in a giant agricultural field." Her answer: building three tall, interconnected domed structures using more than 2,500 interlocking wound paper tubes that are lightweight, recyclable and renewable. Simultaneously monumental and intimate, the domes transform light and sound while also encouraging social interaction. Inside the two smaller domes, visitors are invited to play instruments made of commonplace construction materials like copper pipes, wrenches and drainage pipes. "This would be similar to standing in a clearing in a forest where you can have a conversation, make music, and you would ... More | | 
Kathryn Andrews June 21, 2017. Chrome-plated steel and balloons, 167.6 x 60.3 x 26.4 cm / 66 x 23 3/4 x 10 3/8 in © 2017 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is pleased to present Fond Illusions, a group exhibition which joins emerging and leading artists from across the globe. In separate contexts, the participating artists have been recognized for their command of unconventional materials that bridge the fundamental qualities of 2D and 3D artworks. The results are abstract and cohesive, physical and psychological, sculptural and, occasionally, otherworldly. Fond Illusions supplants familiar conceptual pathways that impress vision to the body. To catalog what these impressions might be, consider a summary of recent work: how photo-montage has often adopted both mnemonic and sculptural qualities in Leslie Hewitt; or how entangled missives became crystalline curios in Sophie Calle; how ancient fossils denoted futuristic colloquia unintelligible to the uninitiated in Gala Poras-Kim; how infra-thin traces of human touch have become data points on networks of ... More | | 
Jean Dubuffet: Personnage hilare (Portrait de Francis Ponge), 1947, oil on plaster on cardboard, 60.5 x 45.5 cm, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, donation of the artist.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer, the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are programming work by the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985). The Rijksmuseum is presenting sculptures by the artist in the museum gardens and, for the first time, the Stedelijk is exhibiting the entire group of Dubuffet works in its collection. How can you capture thoughts that shoot off in all directions, in a painting? And how can you represent a world that is beyond objective reality in a work of art? From the 1940s onwards, these were the questions that constantly preoccupied Jean Dubuffet. The first gallery of the exhibition presents paintings and lithographs made in the 1950s, when the artist experimented with materials not usually used in painting, such as asphalt and glass. Dubuffets compositions were also deliberately confusing: he worked with two overlapping perspectives the scene seen from a frontal elevation, and the panoramic perspectiv ... More |
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| Urban Realism exhibition opening at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum | | Exhibition of works from Thomas Ruff's latest press++ series opens at Sprüth Magers Berlin | | Exhibition joins the dots between Seurat's pointillist paintings and the psychedelic genius of Bridget Riley | 
Edward Middleton Manigault, Fifth Avenue, Snow, 1914 (detail), watercolor and pencil on paper. Collection of Barbara Belgrade. Photo courtesy of Debra Force Fine Art, Inc.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is presenting Urban Realism in American Art (1890-1940), an exhibition of paintings and works on paper exploring the vitality and vision of American art at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition features the impressive collection of Barbara Belgrade alongside objects from the Lyman Allyns collection, offering a selection of art that visualizes an era of sweeping change. Urban Realism in American Art (1890-1940) opens on July 8 and runs through September 10, 2017. A group of realist artists known as the Ashcan school redefined the New York art world in the first decade of the 20th century, rebelling against existing artistic and academic conventions to create an unsentimental vision of modern life. They embraced gritty, working class subjects over the genteel ... More | | 
Thomas Ruff, press++32.58, 2016. C-Print, 231 x 185 cm (framed) 91 x 72 7/8 inches (framed) © Thomas Ruff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2017. Courtesy Sprüth Magers.
BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers is presenting Thomas Ruffs first exhibition at the gallery with works from his latest press++ series, all of which are exhibited here for the first time. In a multi-faceted practice that examines the ever-changing possibilities of photography, Ruffs investigations into visual and cultural phenomena are indebted to an interest in how technology makes us see. This is evident in his vast array of subjects and methods, from portraiture and astronomical documentation to photograms and digital abstractions created by algorithms. Images that have been published in American newspapers and magazines from the 1920s to 1970s are Ruffs source material for his press++ series, images that in themselves have even more diverse archival origins; the police, NASA, press agencies and press departments of institutions, to ... More | | 
Liz West, Our Spectral Vision, 2016. Photo: Hannah Devereux.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verneys summer season opens with one of the first exhibitions of its kind in the UK. From the Impressionists onwards, artists have been inspired by historical and contemporary colour theories -most famously seen in the pointillist work of Georges Seurat and his associates, where colours other than those actually painted on the canvas are generated in the eye of the beholder. Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception explores one of the most exciting threads running through the art history of the past 150 years: the ways in which the viewers visual perceptions, themselves dependent on the close interaction of eye and brain, are used in art. The exhibition includes ninety works ranging from painting, sculpture, light-based, prints and drawings from public and private collections across the UK, plus exciting new commissions created especially for the exhibition. "This exhibition has ... More |
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| Summer group show at DEPART Foundation presents works by 46 artists | | Exhibition of recent work by Andrea Zittel opens at New Art Centre in Salisbury | | Non-Objectif Sud opens exhibition featuring nine international artists working in various media | 
Barry McGee, Untitled, 2017. Surfboards. Dimensions Variable. Photo: Danny Fuller.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- DEPART Foundation will present Sea Sick in Paradise, a group exhibition curated by Amy Yao, featuring works in a variety of media by 46 established and emerging artists, many of whom are surfers themselves or inspired by surfing, the ocean, and coastal culture. Alongside these artists are also works presented by professional surfers, inspired by their sport whether documenting their subculture or creating abstract and symbolic imagery. In keeping with the theme of summer surf, the large-scale exhibition will occupy a new, 4,000 square foot pop-up venue in Malibu Village. Organized in collaboration with the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA (LENS) and the Surfrider Foundation, Sea Sick in Paradise explores the longstanding relationship between surfing and art making, particularly highlighting ... More | | 
Andrea Zittel, The Flat Field Works, installation view.
SALISBURY.- Andrea Zittels first exhibition at the New Art Centre comprises a body of recent work encompassing sculpture, painting and textile. Her combination of art, craft, design and architecture references a series of historical precedents and movements from Bauhaus to Minimalism, and explores the boundaries between art and function. The starting point, however, is always Zittels own life - her immediate surroundings and her daily routines for objects which relate to shelter, furniture, and clothing in an ongoing endeavour to better understand human nature and the social construction of need. Zittels woven, painted or sculptural surfaces therefore evoke different types of physical field and the sites of wider human experience. Through her combined interest in art and life, Andrea Zittels works reflect a desire for beautifully designed objects for good craft and ar ... More | | 
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TULETTE .- Non-Objectif Sud presents GNOMONS, the 2017 summer exhibition curated by the principle artist-in-residence Julie Ryan. As an artist and curator Ryan is interested in transitions between depicted scenes and abstraction. How we live with art and art lives with itself in situ, serves as foundations for each exhibition. Featuring nine international artists working in various media GNOMONS arranges itself around depicted scenes of riparian habitats and domestic life. Aspects of art making and daily living with art are scattered throughout the exhibtion: sometimes literally and often times obliquely. The late Georgian artist Tamuna SIRBILADZE created the work gnomon, 2004, Padula, Italy and informs the exhibitions title. This work will be re-created in Tulette with video by the artist from the original exhibition (which also featured Franz West and Sol LeWitt and ... More |
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 Whitney presents solo exhibitions of two emerging artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Two new exhibitions by emerging artists are being presented by the Whitney this summer. Following close on the heels of the Biennial, the Whitneys summer season builds on the strong energy of our emerging artists program, remarked Scott Rothkopf, Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. Both born in 1990, Bunny Rogers and Willa Nasatir offer a pair of distinct but complementary visions. Each explores mysterious, often dark, narratives within stagey, lapidary tableaus, Rogers through sculpture and video, Nasatir in photography. For her first solo museum exhibition, Rogers created a new body of work installed in the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gallery on the Museum's first floor, which is free and open to the public. The exhibition went on view on July 7. In her work, Bunny Rogers (b. 1990, Houston, ... More $300,000 6.26-carat diamond ring tops Heritage Fine Jewelry AuctionCHICAGO, IL.- Heritage Auctions' inaugural Summer Fine Jewelry Auction realized almost $3 million in sales as 992 lots sold for $2,877,873, with spirited bidding for spectacular diamond rings and earrings leading the way. A breathtaking, pear-shaped, Diamond, Platinum Ring took top lot honors at $300,000, as the 6.26-carat stunner, set in platinum, closed out the first session with unmatched elegance. Two other gorgeous diamond pieces rounded out the top three as an amazing radiant-cut Diamond, Platinum Ring realized $93,750 and an eye-catching pair of Diamond, White Gold Earrings sold for $50,000. "We were very pleased by the turnout and support of our inaugural Chicago jewelry auction," said Jill Burgum, Heritage Auctions' Senior Director of Fine Jewelry. "Active interest across the broad spectrum of diamonds, colored gemstones, and rare antique pieces ... More Hannah Fitz, Ãine McBride, Daniel Rios Rodriguez and Marcel Vidal exhibit at Kerlin GalleryDUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Hannah Fitz, Ãine McBride, Daniel Rios Rodriguez and Marcel Vidal. Hannah Fitz (b. 1989, Dublin) works predominantly with sculpture and video, making groups of objects that collectively build and break down basic formal identities. Her sculptures often represent familiar or domestic objects, rendered in such a way that reveals their artifice rejecting sleekness or finish, they are instead articulated by curling lines and uncertain wobbles. Painted in different shades of the same murky yellow, as if bathed in the same light, the objects in this exhibition are given a uniformity that unsettles and excludes the viewer. They appear to co-exist in a universe that omits us, reflecting back a familiar yet uneasy version of the world: cigarette smoke curls upwards from an ashtray, suspended in space; a small horse either springs ... More Taka Ishii Gallery New York opens summer group showNEW YORK, NY.- Taka Ishii Gallery New York presents its summer group exhibition celebrating the rich diversity of artistic expression in its most reduced and elemental form hand drawn lines or marks in graphite on paper and canvas. The works on view illuminate our understanding of the infinite range of human creativity and imagination. Postwar Japanese art, whether created in Japan or abroad, is distinguished by its elegant articulation and spare gesture. Curated by Alison Bradley, the exhibition showcases graphite works by seven artists that range from depictions of the natural to the conceptual; a circle composed of broken lines by Lee Ufan to a drawing of a relationship between wood and stone by Tatsuo Kawaguchi. Also included are three recent works on paper by the Paris based artist Takesada Matsutani; minimal and meditative graphite works ... More High demand continues for Hermès at Heritage AuctionsCHICAGO, IL.- Continuing a trend that does not appear to be losing momentum interest in the rare and beautiful Hermès luxury handbags remained high at Heritage Auctions' Summer Luxury Accessories Signature Auction which closed June 28. Over $2 million was spent on 657 lots with all top ten lots adorned with the exquisite Hermès branding and made of either crocodile or alligator. The handbag featured on the back cover of the Summer Luxury Accessories catalog, an Hermès 35cm Matte Cactus Alligator Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware achieved a final sales price of $50,000, along with the front cover feature, a one-of-a-kind Hermès Shiny Cactus Alligator & Feather Stromboli Bag with Sterling Silver Hardware, $38,750. "Whether in person, on the phone or virtually, we were thrilled to bring our bidders from around the globe to the world-class city of Chicago," said Diane ... More Ivorian rural hamlet marks role in slave tradeKANGA-GNIANZE.- The hamlet of Kanga Gnianze is absent from many maps of Ivory Coast, but the rural community attracted stars and scholars this week to mark its place in the sorry memory of slavery. Clad all in white, France's most capped former football hero Lilian Thuram marched between two rows of men in red scarves and warrior garb, armed with clubs. At the end of the line, a medicine man waited. The 1998 World Cup winner, who has been an ardent anti-racist militant since hanging up his boots, gave the witch doctor an egg by way of an offering. After chanting for a while and a symbolic washing of hands, the Ivorian medicine man gave his visitor a small pebble and a branch of peace, then daubed a circle of fine white clay on his forehead. In a small village whose very name derives from the purification of slaves, folk request such rituals by the sacred stream ... More UNESCO puts Hebron on endangered heritage list, outraging IsraelWARSAW.- UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron a Palestinian world heritage site in danger, sparking outrage from Israel which said the decision denied a Jewish claim to an ancient burial cave that is also sacred to Muslims. The Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Muslims as the Ibrahami Mosque, is venerated by members of both faiths as the gravesite of the biblical patriarch Abraham, his son Isaac and grandson Jacob. The UN's cultural arm voted 12 to three -- with six abstentions -- to grant heritage status to the core of the ancient city in the occupied West Bank, which is home to more than 200,000 Palestinians and a few hundred Jewish settlers who live under heavy Israeli military protection. "Just inscribed on @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List & World Heritage in Danger List: Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town," the organisation said on its official Twitter ... More Ocean liner memorabilia earn top lot honors at Weiss Auctions' June 22nd saleLYNBROOK, NY.- Ocean liner memorabilia took top lot honors at Weiss Auctions June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic on April 13, 1912 sold for $22,600, an original life ring from the SS Andrea Doria brought $8,050 and a glass clock presented to first class passengers on the maiden voyage of the SS Normandie in 1935 changed hands for $4,560. Those three items were top achievers in an auction that was packed with hundreds of lots of antique advertising, rare books, historical memorabilia, autographs and more. Along with the ocean liner items was the lifetime coffee advertising collection of Lowell and Barbara Schindler, featuring not just coffee items but also syrup dispensers, talcum tins, signs and other rare pieces. It was a great auction across all categories, with internet and floor bidding very strong, said Philip Weiss of Weiss ... More ADAA announces four new member galleries NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced that its Board of Directors has confirmed four new member galleries: Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), Di Donna Galleries (New York), Luxembourg & Dayan (New York and London), and McClain Gallery (Houston). They join the nations leading non-profit organization of fine art dealers, which encompasses 176 members from 25 cities in the U.S., representing thousands of established and emerging artists internationally. We are delighted and proud to welcome these four renowned galleries as new members of the ADAA, said Adam Sheffer, President of the ADAA and Cheim & Read Partner and Sales Director. Through the wide range of artists and estates with which they collaborate, their diverse specialties, and vital contributions to art historical scholarship, each of these galleries will make ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades was born July 08, 1965. Jason Rhoades (July 9, 1965 - August 1, 2006) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation. In this image: US artist Jason Rhoades poses in his exhibition "My Madinah, in pursuit of my ermitage...", June 10, 2004 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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