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The collection has a patrimony of more than 3000 pieces that address the history of art in Brazil and its relationship with the modern and contemporary international scene.
MEXICO CITY.- The SecretarÃa de Cultura, through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo Nacional de Arte, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), present the exhibition Antropofagia y Modernidad. Arte Brasileño en la Colección Fadel (1908- 1981). (Antropophagy and Modernity. Brazilian Art in the Fadel Collection (1908-1981) with a large selection of works which come from the Collection Heclida y Sérgio Fadel, one of the most complete and important collections of Brazilian art ranging from the end of the XIX century to the present. The collection has a patrimony of more than 3000 pieces that address the history of art in Brazil and its relationship with the modern and contemporary international scene. Thanks to the generosity of the Fadel family, the pieces of the collection have been exhibited in important museums around the world. Victoria Giraudo (Curatorship Executive Coordina ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kumo, a mechanical spider made of wood and steel by "Les Machines de L'Ile" ("Machines of the Isle of Nantes") factory is presented to the public for the first time in the streets of Nantes, western France, on July 8, 2016. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
| Eric Shiner to join Sotheby's from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh | | Auction records for two of England's most important watchmakers set at Sotheby's London | | Spectacular 'Lady Jane Franklin' Egyptian mummy mask sold at Bonhams |
Eric Shiner. Photo: Abby Warhola.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys today announced that Eric Shiner, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will join Sothebys this September. Based in New York, Shiner will enter Sothebys Fine Art Division as a Senior Vice President focused on private sales of 20th- and 21st-century art. Eric Shiners new role follows eight years at The Andy Warhol Museum, where he has served as Director since 2011. During his tenure there, Eric oversaw notable successes for the institution including: played a lead role in bringing together Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal, the largest traveling exhibition of Andy Warhol artwork in Asia; oversaw the museums current show, Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, developed in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria and with participation from the artist himself; and filled an important gap in the museums collection with the acquisition of Do It Yourself (Sailboats) from 19 ... More | |
World auction record for a watch by Thomas Earnshaw. The only example of a watch made strictly to spring detent escapements patent details fetches £305,000 ($395,524). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Yesterday, at Sothebys London, auction records for watches made by two of Englands most famous and important watchmakers were set when a silver pocket chronometer by John Arnold sold for £557,000 ($722,318) and a gold pocket chronometer by Thomas Earnshow fetched £305,000 ($395,524). Made in 1781 and estimated at £130,000-150,000, the large silver consular cased pocket chronometer by John Arnold is remarkable in that it has survived in its completely original state. Arnold introduced the double S balance in 1780. The S sections of the balance were shaped bi-metallic bars that were designed to overcome the changing elasticity of the balance spring and expansion of the balances rim. The watch sold yesterday is the only example of a watch by Arnold which survives without restoration and with ... More | |
A stunning Egyptian wood mummy mask dated 1550-1295 B.C, sold for £116,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A stunning Egyptian wood mummy mask dated 1550-1295 B.C which was once in the collection of the renowned Victorian traveller, Jane, Lady Franklin sold for £116,500 at Bonhams Antiquities Sale in London on 7 July. It had been estimated at £100,000-150,000. In total, the sale made £1,101,825. Lady Franklin (1791-1875) is best known for her exploration of Tasmania in the 1830s and for her ceaseless, and ultimately fruitless, efforts to discover what had befallen her husband, Sir John Franklin, who, with his men, disappeared on an ill-fated Arctic expedition to chart the Northwest Passage in 1845. It is thought that Lady Franklin acquired the mask in Egypt in 1834 when she travelled down the Nile with her friend, the Rev. Rudolf Lieder. The mask was of a person of high status indicated by the fact that the eyes are separately made and inlaid into the wood. In the 1830s, when Lady Franklin ... More |
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| "David Bomberg: A Sense of Place" opens at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne | | National Gallery exhibits Norwegian process art and conceptual art in the 1970s and 80s | | SAM's first large-scale exhibition devoted to the graphic arts features more than 400 works |
David Bomberg, The Broken Aqueduct, Wadi Kelt near Jericho, 1926. Courtesy of Ben Uri Gallery and Museum. © The Estate of David Bomberg. All Rights Reserved, DACS, 2016.
EASTBOURNE.- Towner presents David Bomberg: A Sense of Place, an exhibition of nearly forty landscape paintings made throughout the career of an artist now recognised as one of the most exceptional and original of his generation. David Bomberg (1890-1957) was the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who moved to the East End of London when he was five. After a brief period training as a lithographer, Bomberg studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Sickert and later at the Slade School of Fine Art. He was a pioneer of early modernism who created a striking body of expressionistic landscape paintings and drawings following his experiences during World War I. He was disregarded by the British art establishment until after his death in 1957 when his work dramatically increased in value. It ... More | |
BÃ¥rd Breivik, My First Own Room, (1970). Installasjonsfoto, Museet for samtidskunst, 2016.
OSLO.- Conceptual art has gained a central position in the international art canon, but has been conspicuously absent in Norwegian art history. With Silent Revolt the National museum aims to reassess the view of conceptual art as a vacuum in our recent history. Norwegian Art History Revised Towards the end of the 1960s, conceptual art emerged as a new radical art movement on the international art scene. With a critical approach to the art object, and the institutions, conventions and theories of art, this new movement challenged the prevailing notions of what a work of art could be. In the writing of Norwegian art history, conceptual art has been conspicuously missing, however, and the movement has never been presented in exhibitions of any great scope. With Silent Revolt the museum aims to reassess the view of conceptual art as a vacuum in our recent history. The exhibition sheds light ... More | |
Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513-1514, Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471- 1528, engraving, 9 5/8 à 7 1/2 in. Private Collection.
SEATTLE, WA.- In its first large-scale exhibition devoted exclusively to the graphic arts, the Seattle Art Museum presents Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb (June 9August 28, 2016). Featuring over 400 works by some of historys greatest printmakers, the exhibition offers an in-depth exploration of the more than 500-year history and process of printmaking. Requiring less costly materials than painting or sculpture, printmaking gave artists the freedom to experiment, push boundaries, and express their own views with a much larger audience. The reproductive medium also gave rise to the popularity of the serial form; the several print series presented in this exhibition represent milestones of that form. From underground comic legend R. Crumbs masterwork The Book of Genesis to Francisco Goyas entire influential Los Caprichos print series ... More |
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| Exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film features 20 works by Erika Yoshino | | Exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Arts in San Francisco celebrates Ed Moses' 90th birthday | | Expansive group exhibition at FLAG Art Foundation highlights artists who ignite the imagination |
Erika Yoshino, Untitled, 2013/2015. C-print Image size: 20 x 30 cm. Paper size: 27.9 x 35.6 cm. © Erika Yoshino © Erika Yoshino / Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film.
TOKYO.- Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film presents Erika Yoshinos solo exhibition NEROLI from July 9 to August 6. This will be Yoshinos second solo exhibition with the gallery and it will feature approximately 20 works shot between 2011 and 2014. Yoshino sees the photography, which she has kept facing, in relation to the complex scents that are extracted from certain moments and environments and evoke something specific inside ourselves through their diffusions. Based on this concept, she has organized the exhibitions works under the keyword NEROLI. Neroli is an oil made from the flowers of a bitter orange tree. Sometimes, it is also referred to as Neroli Bigarade. Bigarade means bitter orange in French. Its scientific name is Citrus aurantium. Extracted from flowers of trees over 20 years old ... More | |
Ed Moses, Grid 1 Mil, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In celebration of his 90th birthday, Brian Gross Fine Art announces the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by internationally renowned artist, Ed Moses. ED MOSES: LA SAN FRANCISCO opens July 9, 2016, with a reception from 4:00 6:00 pm. On view will be a selection of recent diagonal and rectilinear grid paintings, motifs he has explored since the 1970s. The exhibition will be on view through August 27, 2016. Ed Moses is one of the original artists affiliated with the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, where he had his first show of abstract paintings in 1958. The driving force behind the creation of his work is the intuitive process of painting, in which Moses emphasizes gesture, mark making, and exploration of the painted surface. In the mid-1970s, Moses began employing the use of diagonal grids in his paintings as a vehicle to further explore spatial depth and pattern. He has returned to this moti ... More | |
Jennifer Dalton, Decision Analysis, 2014, Double gumball machine custom printed, © Jennifer Dalton.
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Summer School, on its 9th floor gallery from June 9 August 12, 2016. This expansive group exhibition highlights artist who ignite the imagination through fantasy, humor, and play. The diverse range of artworks in Summer School resonate across generational lines. Creative Thinker, John Baldessaris dual-tone proclamation, and Alex Israels dreamy, Disneyland-inspired self-portrait, set the tone for the exhibition in which everyday ideas are transformed into extraordinary objects of wonder: Robert Therriens wonky tower of giant plates; Awol Erizkus stacked basketball hoops slyly nodding to minimalist sculpture; Tara Donovans dizzying and seemingly endless wall-mounted Slinky® maze; Gina Beaverss thick, impasto painting of psychedelic soft serve ice cream; and Ugo Rondinones monumental suspended lightbulb, colored to represent the li ... More |
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| First British art star's self-portrait smashes world reord at Bonhams Old Masters Sale | | LiveAuctioneers.com named 2016 Red Herring Top 100 North America winner | | Select survey exhibition of resin works by Los Angeles artist Peter Alexander opens at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery |
The earliest known self-portrait by William Dobson (1611-1656) sold for £1,106,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The earliest known self-portrait by William Dobson (1611-1656) sold for £1,106,500 at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London today, 6 July. This is a new world record price for a work by the artist at auction easily surpassing the previous best of £362,500. The painting was bought by a private English collector. Bonhams Director of Old Master Painting, Andrew McKenzie said, It is difficult to overestimate the rarity and importance of this work in the history of British art and I am not surprised that it has sold for a such a very high record price. Portrait of the Artist is one of the earliest known works that can confidently be attributed to Dobson who was court painter to Charles I during the English Civil War. His early death in 1646 at the age of 45 cut short a dazzling career and not until Hogarth more than seventy years later did Britain produce such a distinctive and important artist. The antiquarian and aut ... More | |
LiveAuctioneers VP Product and Marketing Phil Michaelson, left, with Red Herring Publisher/CEO Alex Vieux. Red Herring image.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF.- At the annual Red Herring award ceremony this year in Newport Beach LiveAuctioneers.com was named a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 North America award winner. Red Herring is a respected digital-media company focused on innovation and cutting-edge technology. The annual awards event honors private companies that excel within their sectors of the economy. As a Top 100 winner, LiveAuctioneers.com is recognized as being among the very best of 25 million small businesses in the US and Canada that would be eligible to compete for the award. Since 1996, Red Herring has identified many up-and-coming superstars. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, Palo Alto Networks and eBay would change the way we live and work. LiveAuctioneers ... More | |
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery announces Peter Alexander Sculpture 1966 - 2016: A Career Survey, a select survey exhibition of resin works by Los Angeles artist Peter Alexander. This show includes both the artist's early and recent forays into his pioneering use of industrial resin as a sculptural medium, providing an unprecedented opportunity to chart the development of the most celebrated genre of Alexander's five-decade practice. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Alexander studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania; the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London; and the University of California, Berkeley before switching to studio art at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his BA in 1965 and his MFA in 1968. He happened upon the sculptural potential of polyester resin while repairing his surfboard, immediately responding to the liquid material's transparency and water-like q ... More |
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Illustrator and painter Valerio Adami exhibits at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- The illustrator and painter Valerio Adami is widely regarded as an eminent representative of Italian Pop art. His exhibition in the Secessions Grafisches Kabinett is the artists first solo show in Austria and showcases a series of paintings from his less well-known early oeuvre. Created before 1964, these works stand out for the particularly dynamic interplay between expressive abstraction and stylized figuration. Explosive discharges of energy are the dominant motif in the selected starkly simplified depictions. Adamis pictorial spaces teem with bodies wrestling with each other and objects being blown to a thousand pieces, with energy fields, cosmic rays, fire, and dense clouds of smoke. Interspersed between them like quotations lifted from a cartoon are speech bubbles and onomatopoetic words signaling the pictures pop and bang. The characteristic ... More
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education announces purchase of permanent facilities
PORTLAND, ORE.- Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Executive Director Judy Margles and Board Chair Elaine Coughlin announced today the signing of a purchase agreement for the facilities at 724 NW Davis in Portlandformerly the home of the Museum of Contemporary Craft. It is due to the hard work of our Board, in particular out going Board Chair David Newman, and the visionary leadership of a small group of key donors that I am extremely proud to announce today that, in 2017, OJMCHE will be moving into a new home. Through the galvanizing of our community, we were able to act quickly and, within a few months, a group of just over 30 donors helped us raise the $5 million to purchase a top tier museum space. OJMCHE also announced a community capital campaign that will begin this summer to support long-term ... More
Items aboard Apollo & Soyuz missions standout at Bonhams Space History Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces the Space History auction, to take place in New York on July 20, the 47th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. The sale features close to 300 items documenting events ranging from the dawn of the space race to the end of the Cold War era, including the flown artifacts from the Apollo 11 and several Soyuz missions. An original Gemini 133P Control Trainer is on offer, with an estimate of U.S. $60,000-90,000. Gemini was an early NASA human spaceflight program from 196166 that heavily contributed to pushing NASA forward in the field, especially in advance of the Apollo missions. This remarkable system, consisting of five massive training panels, is essentially a duplicate of those found inside the Gemini spacecraft. It was used to train the Gemini astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. Another ... More
The Robert Koch Gallery opens exhibition of works by French artist Lauren Marsolier
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Robert Koch Gallery presents Dislocation, the second installment of the Transition series by French artist Lauren Marsolier. Marsoliers photo-montages are assembled from imagery compiled by the artist at assorted geographical locations over spans of time and manifest surreal non-places where evidence of human activity is simultaneously present yet are devoid of inhabitants. Her crisply composed images of buildings and man-made landscapes bathed in otherworldly light suggest time has seemingly been paused. Months or years often separate the capture of elements juxtaposed in my landscapes, Marsolier explains. This approach is not unlike that of the many painters who would make sketches at different locations to use as reference for their future paintings. Marsolier uses her data bank of collected imagery ... More
Son of Frankenstein, Dracula's Daughter, Classic Silents, Film Noir, and more in Heritage July auction
DALLAS, TX.- More than 1000 lots of rare and desirable posters are being offered in Heritage Auction's July 30-31, 2016 Movie Posters Signature® Auction. Such scarce horror titles as Son of Frankenstein (1939) Style A one sheet, (est. $50,000) and Dracula's Daughter (1936) one sheet (est. $25,000) as well as Casablanca (1942, est. $30,000) insert and Morocco (1930, est. $15,000) one sheet Style B. Other highlights in July's stellar selection include a wide-ranging selection of important posters from the early days of Hollywood's Silent Film era that have never come up for auction before. "Rarely do we get a collection of such early and significant film posters in such quantity as this wonderful group of 100-year-old posters, many of which are unrestored and in an unused state," said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Posters at Heritage Auctions. "It's not going too ... More
Nationalmuseum Sweden announces new acquisition: Ovalia Egg Chair by Henrik Thor-Larsen
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired an example of the egg-shaped easy chair Ovalia designed by Henrik Thor-Larsen. The chair was a huge hit when it was launched at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair in 1968. The acquired chair is an early example, dating from the late 1960s. Nationalmuseum has recently acquired a plastic easy chair by Danish designer Henrik Thor-Larsen (b. 1932), who worked in Sweden. The black egg-shaped chair was launched at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair in 1968 under the name Ovalia and became an instant hit. It was also manufactured in other colours. The chair was made by Torlan in Staffanstorp, Sweden, and sold internationally up until 1978. The design was then revived in 2005. The chair that Nationalmuseum has now acquired is amongst the early examples, having been purchased by leading furniture store Silverbergs ... More
Fruitmarket Gallery exhibits the work of Mexican artist Damián Ortega
EDINBURGH.- Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Damián Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. His work prioritises action over object, seeking to call attention to the dynamism of the world around us, and the hidden poetry in the everyday. For The Fruitmarket Gallery's summer exhibition, Ortega is making new sculptures focusing on how the forces of naturewind, water, earth and fireact on the earth both independently of and in relationship to humankind. The works in the exhibition are predominantly made from clay, the most elemental of materials. Ortega uses clay to form waves, sculpt icebergs and to track the eroding power of a river on a sequence of plains made from brick. He shows us the sculptural agency of nature and also of mankind, looking at how the landscape has shaped itself but also at how mankind's attempts to harness ... More
Parrish Art Museum presents "Platform: Jonah Bokaer", an installation of site responsive works
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum has selected Jonah Bokaer for Platform: the exhibition series that invites a single artist to respond to the art, architecture, and environmental conditions of the Museum, presented this year from July 9 through October 16. Bokaer is the first choreographer to be featured in the Platform series, an open-ended invitation to a single artist per year to present a project within the building and grounds of the Parrish Art Museum. Platform invites artists to consider the entire Museum as a potential site for new works. Bokaer, recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, is an interdisciplinary artist who merges choreography, visual art, film, and artistic research. The artist has cultivated a new form of choreography with a structure that relies on visual art and design, with the aim to transform notions of how ... More
Group show curated by British abstract photographer Richard Caldicott on view at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is presenting big nothing, a group show curated by British abstract photographer Richard Caldicott featuring the work of photographers Nina Brauhauser, Ellen Carey, Luuk de Haan, Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Gottfried Jäger and Erin O Keefe. The exhibition is the first US show since 1990 to feature the work of Holzhäuser alongside German compatriot Jäger, both longtime correspondents and collaborators, and the first-ever exhibition of Ellen Careys Zerogram photograms and paper negatives. Titled from a series of works by Luuk de Haan, this exhibition explores the area of alternative abstract photographic practices, writes Richard Caldicott. Highlighting in turns the creative use of the movement of light, as well as the mathematical lyricism and vast pictorial possibilities of generative and concrete photography, this assembly ... More
Weather Forecast: Guan Xiao exhibits at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- Guan Xiao was born in 1983 in Chongqing province in China. In a Chinese contemporary art scene long dominated by political pop or by art that tries to define a unique Chinese identity, she belongs to a new generation of artists who distance themselves from this heritage. She is a selftaught artist who has created her own world and her own set of references in an idiosyncratic way. As well as being hard to situate in a Chinese context, her work is also difficult to link to any existing trend or movement on the international scene. It is often wrongly identified as belonging to the wave of post-internet art that recently took root in New York, Berlin and London, because of similar aesthetic features. While post internet art is a type of art created with awareness of the internet, prepared with a view to dissemination online, Guan Xiao works on the opposite ... More
Tony Bennett returns to Youngstown's Butler Institute for exhibition with painter Charles Reid
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art welcomes the return of Tony Bennett to Americas museum with his colleague, watercolor specialist Charles Reid for their exhibition: Tony Bennett and Charles Reid: Two Painters on view at the Youngstown museum July 9 through September 11, 2016. The exhibition Tony Bennett and Charles Reid: Two Painters consists of approximately 25 Water color specialist, Charles Reid Photo courtesy of Sarah Reidworks between the two artists and includes a variety of subjects, from Bennetts Tuscan landscapes, portraits and still lifes, to the classic landscapes and still lifes of Reid. A piece from the Butlers permanent collection, Homage to Hockney is included in the exhibition. It is one of Bennetts very favorite paintings, and was inspired by his friend and fellow famed artist, David Hockney. Butler Director, Louis ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades was born July 09, 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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