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Art handlers are hanging Sunflowers in such a way that for the first time in history the back of the painting will also be on view.
AMSTERDAM.- Sunflowers (1889), one of Vincent van Goghs best-known paintings, is the centrepiece of the summer exhibition Van Gogh and the Sunflowers. A great deal of study has been devoted to this masterpiece from the Van Gogh Museums collection in recent years. How did the painting come about, what significance did this flower have for Van Gogh and what did he hope to achieve with his Sunflowers? The exhibition presents the results of the recent technical research carried out on the painting, which Van Gogh himself considered to be among the best things he ever did. How did he approach the work, how has it been affected by the discolouration of certain pigments, and what do we now know about the paintings restoration history and current condition? Painted reconstructions have been created for the exhibition to give an impression of the colours as they originally looked. The public will also have a first opportunity to se ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Opera Gallery mark their 25th anniversary with a new exhibition American Icons - a vibrant and uplifting recreation of the 1980s New York street culture, with works by world-renowned artists of the 20th century including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Alexander Calder. Photo: Guy Bell.
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 | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Alex Katz | | Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum centered on painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat | | Lost version of Delacroix masterpiece discovered in Paris | 
Alex Katz, Red Dancer 6, 2018. Oil on linen, 91,4 x 243,8 cm. (36 x 96 in). Photo: Paul Takeuchi © Alex Katz / Adagp, Paris.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opened an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Alex Katz, all pertaining to the medium of dance. Since 1960, the American painter has continually drawn inspiration from dance, influenced by his longstanding collaboration with modern dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor (1930-2018). While working on sets and costumes for Taylors performances, Katz developed an original body of work, using dancers as models to explore the immediacy of gesture and movement through the medium of painting. In this new series of dancers portraits, Katz magnifies movement through the radical cropping that characterises his unique style, focusing on isolated parts of the body shown in arrested motion. This original format, which crops single body parts frozen in movement, is inspired by the imagery of television and Hollywood cinema, a technique used by the artist to convey the most arresting effect. Katz was in ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Charles the First, 1982. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, three panels, 198.1 x 165.1 cm. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- From June 21 to November 6, 2019, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Basquiats Defacement: The Untold Story. This focused, thematic exhibition of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 19601988), supplemented with work by others of his generation, explores a formative chapter in the artists career through the lens of his identity and the role of cultural activism in New York City during the early 1980s. Basquiats Defacement: The Untold Story is organized by guest curator Chaédria LaBouvier. The exhibition takes as its starting point the painting The Death of Michael Stewart, informally known as Defacement, created by Basquiat in 1983 to commemorate the fate of the young, black artist Michael Stewart at the hands of New York City transit police after allegedly tagging a wall in an East Village subway station. Originally painted on the wall of Keith Harings ... More | | 
The Mendes Gallery in Paris, where the "Women of Algiers" study is now on show, said there had been huge interest already in the painting from museums and collectors.
PARIS.- A newly discovered version of Eugene Delacroix's Orientalist masterpiece, "Women of Algiers" went on display for the first time in Paris on Thursday. The lost study for the painting by the French Romantic painter which inspired generations of artists including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne was discovered in a Paris apartment 18 months ago. Since then experts have been retracing its history and carrying out X-ray and infra-red tests on the picture. Like the much larger version in the Louvre, it shows a reclining wealthy woman and a black servant. The canvas disappeared after it was sold in 1850 by the French diplomat Charles-Edgar de Mornay, with whom the painter went to North Africa in 1831, shortly after the French conquest of Algeria. Delacroix, who was brought up by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, known as Talleyrand -- one of the most famous diplomats in European history -- ... More |
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| | | The Morgan presents the satirical drawings of celebrated British artist William Hogarth | | Acropolis Museum marks 10-year anniversary with new extension | | Decades-spanning survey of one of the most original artists of our time opens at National Galleries of Scotland | 
William Hogarth (16971764), Self-Portrait, ca. 1735, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.360.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum opened a new exhibition of satirical drawings and prints by renowned artist William Hogarth (16971764). Best known for his humorous political commentary, Hogarths work engaged a broad audience and agitated for legislative and social change. His intricate drawings and richly anecdotal scenes depict the ills and injustices of eighteenth-century urban life, exploring the connections between violence, crime, alcohol abuse, and cruelty to animals. He hoped his graphic work would amuse, shock, and ultimately edify his audience. Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor tells the story of Hogarths iconic images and the social realities of life in Georgian London that inspired him to advocate for reform through popular works of art. It is the first show at the Morgan devoted to this artist, whose style was so influential in British art that the word Hogarthian remains a recognizable ... More | | 
People visit a new section housing the remains of an ancient Athens neighbourhood beneath the Acropolis museum in Athens, on its opening day on June 21, 2019, marking the museum's 10-year-anniversary. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- Greece's Acropolis Museum has opened to the public a new section housing the remains of an ancient Athens neighbourhood to mark its 10-year-anniversary, organisers said Friday. The new 4,000-square-metre (43,000-square-feet) extension displays the remains of ancient baths and hot water pipes, public latrines, homes, wells and workshops, organisers said. Most of the remains are Roman and Byzantine but "some date back to Classical Athens," said museum director Dimitris Pantermalis. According to Classical-era historian Thucydides, this particular part of Athens was first inhabited some 5,000 years ago, Pantermalis said. The remains were first unearthed during the museum's construction between 1997 and 2004, but were previously only partially visible through the ... More | | 
Bridget Riley, Ra, 1981. Oil on canvas, 240.7 x 205.1 cm. Collection: Iwaki City Art Museum Japan © Bridget Riley 2019. All rights reserved.
EDINBURGH.- The work of one of the most original artists of our time is being celebrated at the National Galleries of Scotland this summer with a decades-spanning survey of the stunning paintings of Bridget Riley (b. 1931), in what is the Galleries major summer and Festival blockbuster. Over the course of a remarkable career, which has spanned seven decades, Bridget Riley has developed a unique visual language, making dazzling and compelling abstract paintings which explore the fundamental nature of our perception. Her earliest abstract works were closely associated with the emergence of Op Art, one of the last modern movements in art, which appeared in the mid- 1960s. In the following 50 years she forged a singular path, extending her means in new and ground-breaking ways, and her work has been exhibited and collected across the world. She is one of the most distinguished and internationally renowned artists ... More |
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| | | The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens summer exhibition Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform | | Iconic KAWS bus stop painting to lead Heritage Urban Art Auction | | Exhibition examines artists' responses to Wonder Woman and Superman | 
John Thompson, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888. Platinum print, 24.5 x 20 cm. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform, an exhibition examining how landscape architects and photographers in the late 1800s and early 1900s advocated for social reform in Boston, New York, and Chicago, opened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Using city plans, archival materials, historical maps, and photographs, the exhibition invites visitors to see how photographers and landscape architects of the past advocated for social reform, and explore how their work speaks to the urban challenges of our time. The exhibition runs from June 20 to Sept. 15. Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of landscape architecture, sought to edify and improve life circumstances through public parks, such as Central Park in New York and The Back Bay Fens in Boston. Similar to Olmsted, Isabella Stewart Gardner built her Museum with a public purpose, believing that access to art would have a powerful and positive ... More | | 
KAWS (American, b. 1974), Companion-Bus Stop, 2001. Acrylic on Arches paper, 70-1/4 x 48-1/4 inches. Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A historic early painting by KAWS, which transformed a New York bus stop into an iconic piece of street art, will lead an important sale of Urban Art held by Heritage Auctions July 22-23 in Chicago. On the heels of the record-setting presentation of The Toy Collection of Ronnie K. Pirovino, Heritage Auctions invited Pirovino to curate a special session during its summer Urban Art Auction, which coincides with the inaugural ComplexCon in Chicago. Pirovino has carefully selected items from his collection and those of friends. "I truly relish the occasion to harness my vision in this forum," Pirovino said, "interacting globally with fellow collectors who recognize the vital elements of our time." Companion Bus Stop, 2001 (estimate: $300,000-500,000) is from the artist's early and sought after ad disruption series, in which he augmented or replaced large advertisements with his art. It is one of the artist's earliest known portrayals ... More | | 
Mel Ramos, Wonder Woman, 1962. Oil on canvas , 50 x 44 in. Rochelle and Darren Leininger Family Collection.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art is presenting the special exhibition Men of Steel, Women of Wonder (MOSWOW) on June 21. Organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the exhibition examines artists' responses to Wonder Woman and Superman, ranging from their Depression-era origins to todays contemporary interpretations. MOSWOW features more than seventy works including paintings, photographs, installations, and videos and will be on view until September 1, 2019. "Superheroes personify our collective hopes and dreams," said Katie Luber, the Museum's Kelso Director. From their earliest incarnations in 1930s comic books to the most recent megahit Avengers: Endgame, its no wonder that so many artists have found inspiration in these cultural icons, exploring the relationship of Superman and Wonder Woman to national identity, American values, social ... More |
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| | | Centre Pompidou-Metz opens an exhibition devoted to the artist Rebecca Horn | | Traveling exhibition of work by the Cuban-born painter Rafael Soriano opens in Washington | | Most in-depth presentation of N. C. Wyeth's work to date opens at the Brandywine River Museum of Art | 
Rebecca Horn, Fingerhandschuhe, 1972.
METZ.- The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Museum Tinguely in Basel present two parallel exhibitions devoted to the artist Rebecca Horn, offering complementary insights into the work of an artist who is among the most extraordinary of her generation . The exhibition Theatre of Metamorphoses explores in Metz the diverse theme of transformation from animist, surrealist and mechanistic perspectives, placing special emphasis on the role of film as a matrix within Horns work. In the Body Fantasies show in Basel, which combines early performative works and later kinetic sculpture to highlight lines of development within her oeuvre, the focus is on transformation processes of body and machine. The exhibition Theatre of Metamorphoses at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the rich range of forms of expression used by the artist. Following a lung illness, Rebecca Horn used the body as her preferred material ... More | | 
Rafael Soriano, Homenaje a Nicolás de Cusa (Homage to Nicholas of Cusa), 1994. Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches (152.4 x 127 cm). Rafael Soriano Family Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas presents Rafael Soriano: Cabezas (Heads), a traveling exhibition of work by the Cuban-born painter, organized by The William Paterson University Galleries, organized and curated by Alejandro Anreus (Professor of Art History and Latin American/Latinx Studies, William Paterson University) and Kristen Evangelista (Director of the William Paterson University Galleries). This exhibition features more than 20 significant artworks by Cuban-born painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015), one of the major Latin American artists of his generation. Soriano stands apart from his peers who largely focused on formalism and gestural abstraction because he developed his own visual vocabulary ... More | | 
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Ridge Church, 1936, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 1/8 in. Collection of Linda L. Bean.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- This summer the Brandywine River Museum of Art will present N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, the first exhibition in almost 50 years to examine in depth the entirety of Wyeths multifaceted oeuvre. A formidable yet often overlooked figure in the history of American art, N. C. Wyeth was the foremost illustrator of his generation, and the patriarch of an extraordinary family of artists. By repositioning Wyeth as a distinguished painter who worked across the perceived divisions of visual culture in painting, illustration, murals and advertising, the exhibition offers new insights on Wyeths place within the broad spectrum of early 20th-century visual arts. Co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), this landmark exhibition, which will include approximately 70 paintings ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-American painter Ed Paschke was born June 22, 1939. Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 - November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. In this image: Ed Paschke (1939-2004), Bag Boots, 1972. Oil on canvas, 132 x 132 cm. Hall Collection, courtesy of Hall Art Foundation © Ed Paschke.
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