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Both the dynamic and the effect of depth play an important role in Doug Argues art.
VIENNA.- Kovacek Contemporary (Spiegelgasse 12, 1010 Vienna) is the first gallery in Europe to present the New York City-based artist Doug Argue. Both the dynamic and the effect of depth play an important role in Doug Argues art. His style is defined by large formats and intensive colors. Biomorphic shapes are just as much part of his Oeuvres as geometric, moving or seemingly unstable surfaces. Finally, his art is characterized by illusion, abstraction and coloring on the one hand, and the ability to discuss critical topics on the other. Culled from literary classics such as Moby-Dick to sonnets by thirteenth century poet Petrarch, Argues atomized texts are inspired by psycholinguistic and scientific phenomena. Argue has developed an interest in literature at the early stages of his career: The Chicken (1994), a well-known monumental painting which depicts thous ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A piece from the movie "Titanes del Pacifico" is on display during the exhibition "Guillermo del Toro, At Home with My Monsters" -a collection of personal items and some that he used in his movies- in Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico, on May 29, 2019. Ulises Ruiz / AFP
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 | | BFI and Royal Astronomical Society release footage of first ever solar eclipse, captured on film 1900 | | Ellsworth Kelly Foundation gifts 76 works to Austin's Blanton Museum on the artist's birthday | | Block Museum receives major gift of photography by Brett Weston | 
The film was taken by British magician turned pioneering filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne on an expedition by The British Astronomical Association to North Carolina on 28 May, 1900.
LONDON.- The BFI and The Royal Astronomical Society have announced the rediscovery of the earliest moving picture of a total solar eclipse from 1900. The original film fragment held in The Royal Astronomical Societys archive has been painstakingly scanned and restored in 4K by conservation experts at the BFI National Archive, who have reassembled and retimed the film frame by frame. Available now to watch online for free, Solar Eclipse (1900) is part of BFI Players recently released Victorian Film collection, viewers are now able to experience this first film of a solar eclipse since the event was originally captured over a century ago. The film was taken by British magician turned pioneering filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne on an expedition by The British Astronomical Association to North Carolina on 28 May, 1900. This was Maskelynes second attempt to capture a solar eclipse. In 1898 he travelled to ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Romanesque Series, 197376, published 1976, series of twenty-four lithographs with embossing (twelve with intaglio), dimensions vary, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of the artist, 2018, © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
AUSTIN, TX.- Seventy-six works of art by Ellsworth Kelly have been gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. Sixty-seven of the works are gifts from the late artist and Jack Shear, president of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. The remaining works come from the famed television producer and art patron Douglas S. Cramer of Marthas Vineyard; longtime art collectors Jan and Howard Hendler of Scottsdale, Arizona; Austin-based, internationally regarded collectors and Blanton National Leadership Board members Jeanne and Michael Klein; and businessman, philanthropist, and art collector David G. Booth, also of Austin. Not only do these works complement and enhance visitors understanding of Austinnow a cornerstone of the Blantons collectionbut they also help to strengthen the museums role as ... More | | 
Brett Weston, Cactus, ca. 1967, vintage gelatin silver print. Block Museum of Art, gift from the Christian Keesee Collection.
EVANSTON, ILL.- Images ranging from landscapes to botanical studies are among the 50 photographs by celebrated American photographer Brett Weston (1911Â1993) given to Northwestern Universitys Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art by Christian Keesee, who, in 1996, acquired the most complete collection of Westons work directly from the photographers estate. Keesee has given a portion of the collection to several museums over the past decade. Born in Los Angeles, Weston was the second of photographer Edward Westons (1886 - 1958) four sons. Though he learned photography from his father and shared a similar reverence for the natural world, Weston developed his own singular vision. Coincident with the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, he explored the creative possibilities of abstraction through photography. He also experimented with new silver papers that favored sharp focus and high contrast -- m ... More |
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| | | Guggenheim opens first artist-curated exhibition, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection | | Noted photographer/actor/skateboarder Jason Lee debuts first solo museum show | | David LaChapelle presents a selection of previously unseen work at Reflex Amsterdam | 
Joseph Beuys, Virgin (Jungfrau), April 4, 1979. Chalk on blackboard, chalk and soap bar on wood table, wood chair, electrical cable, socket, and lightbulb, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 94.4265 © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, the first artist-curated exhibition ever mounted at the museum. On view from May 24, 2019, through January 12, 2020, this full-rotunda presentation celebrates the Guggenheims extensive collection of twentieth-century modern and contemporary artworks, with an exhibition selected by six contemporary artists, all of whom have contributed to shaping the Guggenheims history with their own pivotal solo shows. Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems, the presentation brings together collection highlights and rarely seen works from the turn of the century to 1980. On view ... More | | 
Commissioned by Philbrook, the exhibition will feature more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs made throughout Oklahoma on various road trips in 2018. © Jason Lee 2019.
TULSA, OKLA.- Philbrook Downtown presents the original exhibition OK: Jason Lee Photographs, opening Saturday, June 1, 2019. Commissioned by Philbrook, the exhibition will feature more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs made throughout Oklahoma on various road trips in 2018. Lees cinematic eye finds beauty in the banal, capturing timeless moments and everyday scenes in both urban and rural settings. In 2002, Lee developed a passion for photography and dedicated himself to pursuing the medium as a creative profession. Since that time, Lee has immersed himself in the art of pre-digital photography. His photos capture the haunting remnants of the past, often starkly juxtaposed against the enduring landscape. Lee says, Since my first photographic outing in 2006 in my native California, where I explored a more rural, perhaps neglected face of ... More | | 
David LaChapelle, Mary Magdalene receives the Holy Spirit, 2019 © David LaChapelle. Courtesy Reflex Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Amsterdam announced a new solo exhibition of the celebrated and accomplished photographer David LaChapelle. Almost ten years since his last show at the gallery, LaChapelle is back to present his most recent work. The exhibition includes highlights from the past decade, as well as a selection of previously unseen work which will debut in Amsterdam. The exhibition will be on view from 1 June until 20 July 2019. The gallery is also working on David LaChapelles latest book, which will be released at the opening on June 1st. The publication Act of Nature contains an essay by author and art writer Katya Tylevich. The artist will be present to sign the new book from 5.30 pm onwards. The opening is by invitation only. Act of Nature sits at the intersection of the earthly and the transcendental, of a utopian fantasy and a dystopian reality, with humanity and nature living both in harmony and in ... More |
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| | | Josef Hoffmann to star at the Art Nouveau auction | | "The most important single work in science' to be offered at Bonhams | | Contemporary artists explore Fragile Earth | 
Josef Hoffmann, a thermometer, Wiener Werkstätte, 1905, silver, glass; provenance: Primavesi family, height 20.7 cm, estimate 50,000 - 100,000.
VIENNA.- Josef Hoffmann is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernism. The words with which his contemporary, the Viennese journalist and salon lady Berta Zuckerkandl, described this universal artist are still valid today: he is the founder and pioneer of the great renaissance of craftsmanship, of its forms, its technique, its quality one might say, its pride (Ãsterreich intim. Erinnerungen 1892-1942). At the Art Nouveau auction on 17 June 2019, the Dorotheum will offer the opportunity to bid for some of his artworks. One of them is, of course, the top lot, a room thermometer produced by the Wiener Werkstätte in 1905, formerly owned by the Primavesi family ( 50,000 100,000). A further highlight is a vase by Johann Lötz Witwe with dark wood support, manufactured for E. Bakalowits Söhne, that has come to the Dorotheum from an American private collection ( 25,000 40,000). Also outstandi ... More | | 
Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species First Edition, Presentation Copy. Estimate: $200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 13, Bonhams sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts will be highlighted by a fine first edition, early presentation copy of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (estimate: $200,000-300,000). Ian Ehling, Director Books and Manuscripts, comments: This extraordinary presentation copy of Charles Darwins Origin of Species has been carefully stored in a private collection for nearly 100 years. It is in pristine condition, an extraordinarily bright and fresh copy, with a wonderful association - a once in a generation opportunity. Upon publication in 1859, a number of presentation copies were sent to family and colleagues, including one to Professor Robert Caspary (1818-1887), a German botanist and a frequent Darwin correspondent. Caspary and his work are discussed in Darwin's 1868 The Variation of Animals and Plants Under ... More | | 
Mark Dion, Nature Morte, 2018. Ceramic penguin, tar, metal bucket, various dime store trinkets and costume jewelry, 38 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
OLD LYME, CONN.- Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, on view June 1 through September 8, 2019, will showcase the diverse approaches taken by ecologically concerned artists today, illustrating the powerful role they play in advocating for environmental causes. The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, has commissioned four leading contemporary artists to create new work that incorporates and responds to the natural world. The exhibition builds on the success of the Museums 2017 exhibition, Flora/Fauna: The Naturalist Impulse in American Art, which surveyed the history of American artist-naturalists from the 19th to mid-20th centuries. Artists Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison, and James Prosek will create striking installations that reflect the vulnerability of the environment. These artists were selected ... More |
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| | | 'Roots of Peace: Carlos Páez Vilaró Works and Writings' opens at The OAS AMA │ Art Museum of the Americas | | Mia to present first major museum exhibition exploring the achievements of Native women artists | | MAGMA gallery opens group exhibition of Spanish and international new contemporary art | 
Carlos Páez Vilaró, CafetÃn, 1991. Acrylic on canvas, 59 x 57. Collection Museo Taller Casapueblo.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the OAS in collaboration with Museo Taller de Casapueblo present Roots of Peace: Carlos Páez Vilaró Works and Writings, a retrospective exhibition of Uruguayan painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and builder Carlos Páez Vilaró (Montevideo, 1 November 1923 Punta Ballena, 24 February 2014). The exhibition includes paintings, books, archival materials, and insights into the history of the Roots of Peace mural, painted in 1960, and restored in 1975, 2001-2002, and 2019 The colorful muralat 530 feet one of the longest murals in the world opened for public tours for the first time since it was painted in 1960, on the occasion of this exhibition. Roots of Peace, which is nearly as long as the nearby Washington Monument is high, ... More | | 
Freda Diesing (Haida), Mask, Old Woman with Labret, 1974. Alderwood, paint, hair, cedar bark, abalone, glass beads, moose hide, bone or plastic. Courtesy of the Royal BC Museum, RBCM15057. Photo: Courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives. ©Canadian Westcoast Art.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- On June 2, 2019, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) will present the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native women. The exhibition, which will travel nationally, includes more than 115 works dating from ancient times to the present and made in a variety of media, including sculpture, video and digital arts, photography, textiles, and decorative arts. Drawn from Mias permanent collection and loans from more than 30 institutions and private collections, the works are from communities representing all regions of Native North America. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, presented by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, is organized by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, PhD, associate ... More | | 
Okuda, Refugee 18 (VI). Synthetic enamel on wood. 100 x 100 cm/
BOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery is presenting the exhibition "IAM Friends", from June 1st to July 13th, with works by Okuda San Miguel, Franco Fasoli, Sawe, Spok Brillor. For the first time these big names of Spanish and international new contemporary art are being exhibited in a group show in Italy. "IAM Friends" is curated and realized in collaboration with Ink and Movement, an artistic project based in Spain that has been promoting contemporary urban artists for over 10 years, creating, developing and managing cultural projects, artistic events and exhibitions at an international level. This curatorial project crosses the Spanish borders for the first time after years of success and chooses Bologna as a European premiere. MAGMA gallery in fact is presenting to the public the most recent works by these important artists, already featured in public collections and museum exhibitions, through a careful selection of works directly ... More |
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 The second edition of JINGART returns to BeijingBEIJING.- The second edition of JINGART returns to Beijing with an extraordinary breadth of artwork on view for collectors and art lovers of all levels. A stellar roster of 41 exhibitors gather under the dome of Beijing Exhibition Center and features museum-quality works of art and design of different eras and genres. 41 exhibitors from 34 cities and regions participate in this years JINGART. Alongside 19 returning galleries, 22 new exhibitors including Artify Gallery (Hong Kong), Asia Art Center (Beijing), Beijing Commune (Beijing), Caissa Besseiche (Asia) Art Centre (Beijing), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano), EGG Gallery (Beijing), Feefan's Art (Beijing), Feng.J Haute Joaillerie (Shanghai), Barry Friedman Ltd.(New York), Gallery Kogure (Tokyo), Ciga Long Jewelry (Beijing), One Way Art Gallery (Beijing), Opera Gallery (Hong Kong), Ota Fine Arts (Tokyo), Pace ... More The Museum for Islamic Art opens 'Jewelry Making: Past & Present' JERUSALEM.- The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, announces the opening of its new exhibition, Jewelry Making: Past & Present which introduces a dialogue between culture, religion and time. The exhibition displays a rich view of jewelry and artefacts from the three monotheistic religions prominent in Jerusalem, as well as a dialogue between the museums permanent Islamic collection and contemporary jewelry making. At the centre of the exhibition are 45 contemporary jewelry works commissioned by the museum for Jewelry Making: Past & Present. These works display a deep connection between the museums rare collection of Islamic jewelry and artefacts dating back from the 7th century, to a present-day interpretation by Israeli artists and jewellers. Expanding on the dialogue between past and present, each artist delved into the history ... More Exhibition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery explores the relationship between art and cinemaLIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition at Liverpools Walker Art Gallery explores the relationship between art and cinema, delving into the fascinating question of what inspires artists. As seen on screen: art and cinema (31 May to 18 August 2019) features work by artists including Fiona Banner, Anthea Hamilton, Hardeep Pandhal and Sam Taylor-Johnson. The exhibition considers the influence of cinema on art across more than 20 artworks. The works represent a broad range of media, including screenprints, photography and film. As seen on screen showcases Merseyside-born artist Fiona Banners The Desert; a five metre-wide screenprint which retells the epic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. The large scale of the artwork brings to mind the experience of gazing up at a cinema screen. Well-known film characters feature, as in Stuart Pearson Wrights Woman Surprised ... More Genre-bending American musician Leon Redbone dies at 69NEW YORK (AFP).- American Musician Leon Redbone, known for reviving pre-World War II musical styles with his own twist, died on Thursday at age 69, according to a statement on his website. "It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127," read the statement written in the sly style of the musician known for his mysterious persona. "He departed our world with his guitar, trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat," it continued. Neither the cause nor place of death were specified. The musician retired in 2015 for health reasons. With a stage presence resembling a mash-up of American guitar maverick Frank Zappa, French jazz legend Marcel Zanini and comedian Groucho Marx, Redbone seemed a creation of the early 20th century Vaudeville style even ... More Judy Chicago's famed Birth Project goes to the Harwood MuseumTAOS, NM.- In Judy Chicago: the Birth Project from New Mexico Collections, the famed artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual, designed and executed dozens of pieces that incorporated painting and needlework to explore and celebrate the various dimensions of the birth process. The Birth Project was created in the 1980s in collaboration with 150 needle workers after Chicago observed the absence of iconography about the subject of birth in Western art. The Birth Project pieces that are in the Harwood's exhibition are drawn from several collections, including the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Through the Flower, (Judy Chicago's non-profit, feminist art organization), the Albuquerque Museum, and the Harwood Museum of Art. This exhibition, opening on June 2, 2019, and on view through November 10, 2019, is especially noteworthy ... More Gagosian opens a special exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian paintingNEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting a special exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian painting from two significant American collections. Spanning three generations, the exhibition includes works by leading painters from the Central and Western Desert regions. Indigenous people have lived in the remote Australian deserts for many thousands of years. In the late 1960s, the Australian government moved several communities from the Western Desert regionprimarily Pintupi, Luritja, Warlpiri, and Arrernte peoplesto the Papunya settlement, about 150 miles south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. This forced displacement inadvertently created a new hub for Indigenous Australian art where members of the community were encouraged to paint first murals, then works on canvas, using the patterns of sand art and ceremonial body decoration. ... More Cecilia Vicuña & Jason Moran exhibitions coming to the Wexner CenterCOLUMBUS, OH.- The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University presents Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/The Precarious. The exhibition of over 50 pieces from a body the Chilean-born artist has been developing since the mid-1960s has been curated by Michael Goodson, the centers Senior Curator of Exhibitions, and assistant curator Lucy Zimmerman. Vicuña first conceived of these ephemeral, intimately scaled sculptures as an ode to the transitory nature of life, creating them of quotidian, cast-off materials such as scraps of cloth, twigs, feathers, leaves, and butterflies. Every element is included for its formal and representational potential, imbuing each precario with astonishing complexity. The artist initially composed her assemblages along the oceans shores, leaving them there to go the way of all things with the rising tide. ... More A private collection of Jared French drawings comes to American Art auction at SwannNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries continues their spring season with a specialized sale of American Art on Thursday, June 13. The 340-lot offering of paintings and works on paper ranges from the late nineteenth century to the late-twentieth century. A single-owner private collection of Jared French drawings ranging from figurative and compositional studies to portraits is set to come across the block. Highlights of the 40-lot section include 16 pen-and-ink studies for That French Island, dated from 1962-64, and estimated at $5,000 to $8,000, and 20 circa-1940 pencil studies of Man are present at $3,000 to $5,000. Also among the collection are portraits of the two other members of the artist collective PaJaMa: a 1932 pen-and-ink drawing of Paul Cadmus with an annotation, Paul reading La Buena Vida de Luis de Góngora, and a 1944 pencil ... More Almine Rech opens an exhibition of photographs by Claudio AbateLONDON.- Almine Rech is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Claudio Abate, the artist's second exhibition with the gallery and his first in the United Kingdom in over 15 years. Claudio Abate was born in Rome in 1943. Abate started his career as a photographer at the age of fifteen, when he opened a photography laboratory in his fathers studio. While still very young, Claudio Abate started collaborating with the Press Service Agency, and from 1961 through to 1963 he became assistant to one of the founders of the Magnum photography agency, together with Eric Lessing. While at Magnum, Abate started collaborating with Life Magazine, becoming a foreign correspondent and sending commissioned photographs to the US. Thanks to the fame he acquired so early, both as a photographer and as a photojournalist, he was able to publish his photographs ... More Exhibition features larger-than-life piñatas depicting a visual feast of Tex-Mex cuisineHOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents All You Can Eat, a solo exhibition by mixed-media artist Justin Favela. Featuring larger-than-life piñatas depicting a visual feast of Tex-Mex cuisine, from nachos supreme to chili con carne, this site-specific installation, which is both playful and challenging, is intended to generate conversation about popular culture, the politics of food, and the Latinx experience in the U.S. HCCC Curator Kathryn Hall explains the central ideas behind Favelas installation: Historically, food has been used as a powerful tool to unite people and to disarm adversaries. Through his work, Favela exposes the complex narratives found within the everyday meals people eat. His boisterously Texas-sized sculptures shed an absurd light on the dominant cultural narrative of Tex-Mex cuisine, and those ... More 14th edition of the Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial opensFELLBACH.- Founded in 1980, the Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial is one of the most longstanding art exhibitions of its kind in Germany and attracts enormous public attention. The curator of the 14th edition is Brigitte Franzen. Her concept connects art that is 40,000 years old with contemporary positions. Since its founding in 1980, the Fellbach Triennial has remained true to its name and traced the current impact and significance of small sculpture in contemporary art. With its 14th edition the Triennial is daring to drill deep into history for the first time and go back 40,000 years: the oldest works of art in human history were found close to Fellbach, in the Swabian Jura, small sculptures from the Ice Age which were possibly created there but similarly could also be relics of early migration. This years curator Brigitte Franzen takes this heritage as the starting ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born June 01, 1936. Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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