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In an undated image provided via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Katsushika Hokusais famed print of a tsunami appears in this gallery of wave-themed art, including, in the foreground, a large replica of the Great Wave made from Legos, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The works in the rear are by (from left) Lynda Benglis, Christiane Baumgartner, John Cederquist and, at right, Roy Lichtenstein. (via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via The New York Times)
by Jason Farago
BOSTON, MASS.- One of the most influential figures in European modern culture never set foot in Europe. Katsushika Hokusai, like all subjects in self-isolated Edo Japan, could not have left the archipelago if he wanted to, and his publishers could not export his prints of Kabuki actors, flowers and Mount Fuji. But a few years after his death in 1849, when the black ships of Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into whats now Tokyo Bay, Japans markets were forcibly opened, and Hokusais woodblocks started to flutter over the ocean. In France, in Britain, and soon in America, a whole new kind of art would emerge: born in Tokyo, spanning the whole world. In Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, an exhibition of Japanese woodblocks and global contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the greatest of all printmakers appears at the nucleus of a worldwide cultural transformation, in which art became more urbane and more fleeting, and the observed world got ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Fondation Cartier pour lâart contemporain invited Australian artist Ron Mueck to exhibit an ensemble of sculptures previously unseen in France, along with iconic pieces from his career.
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| The Art and Majesty of the Tudor Dynasty to be exhibited at the Legion of Honor | | Rarely seen works from a formative series by Robert Rauschenberg are being exhibited at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris | | Accused art trafficker's estate forfeits $12 million to end case | 
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497-1543), Portrait of Henry VIII, 1540. Oil on wood, 88.5 x 74.5 cm, Palazzo Barberini. Courtesy of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Anti ca, Rome (MIC). Biblioteca Hertziana, Isti tuto Max Planck per la storia dellarte/Enrico Fontolan.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (The Museums) are opening today The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, the first major exhibition in the United States of portraiture and decorative arts of the Tudor courts. From King Henry VIIs usurpation of the English throne in 1485, to the death of his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, the Tudor monarchs used art to establish power and legitimize their reigns. The Legion of Honors presentation, the sole West Coast venue for the exhibition, will showcase a new exhibition design and chronological visual narrative, tracing the development of art across the reigns of the five Tudor monarchs and their individual styles. "Thanks to Hollywood movies and TV dramas like The Tudors, many Americans have heard of King Henry VIII and his six wives, as well as the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth ... More | | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Port-Trait II #1, 1989. Transfer and glaze on high-fired ceramic, 90 x 60 x 0,8 cm (35 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 3/8 in) © The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / ARS, New York 2023. Photo: Ron Amstutz.
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents a selection of key works on ceramic by Robert Rauschenberg from the 1980s. Spanning works from the artists Japanese Clayworks series (1982/1985), as well as a further group of ceramics made in 1989 as a continuation of this earlier series, the exhibition highlights a formative period in the artists career. Over the course of 15 years, Rauschenberg made several trips to Japan, where he collaborated with the Otsuka Ohmi Ceramics Company (OOCC) in Shigaraki to create ceramic artworks using a newly developed technique that combined ancient Japanese pottery traditions with modern innovations. He worked with local chemists to produce glazes that allowed him to silkscreen his own photographs onto transfer sheets, which were then removed from their backing, affixed to the surface of ceramic panels, and fired in the kiln. Japanese ... More | | 
A seventh-century statue of the Hindu deity Durga.
by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Federal officials announced Thursday that the daughter of an accused antiquities trafficker had agreed to forfeit $12 million from his estate as part of a settlement of a civil case that accused her father of profiting from the sale of stolen Cambodian artifacts. The daughter of Douglas A.J. Latchford, a scholar and dealer of ancient Khmer artifacts who died in 2020, also agreed to turn over a seventh-century bronze statue from Vietnam that federal authorities said Latchford had bought with illegally obtained funds. Latchfords daughter, identified in court papers as Julia Copleston, inherited more than 125 statues and gold relics that authorities contend were looted from Cambodia, as well as an undetermined amount of money from her father. In 2021 she reached an agreement with the Cambodian government to ship back those items. Negotiations have been ongoing since then over Latchfords financial accounts. The late Douglas Latchford was a prolific dealer of stolen antiqu ... More |
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| Modern Time: Masterpieces from the Collection of Museum Berggruen and Nationalgalerie Berlin on view at UCCA | | Items from the estate of Lord Eden amongst highlights of Bonhams Collections Sale | | Carlos Amorales: Words of mouth and hands now open at kurimanzutto | 
Henri Matisse, Interior, Ãtretat, 1920. Oil on canvas on wood, 42.5 Ã 33.7 cm. Museum Berggruen, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, on loan from the Berggruen family. Photograph by bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB, Museum Berggruen / Jens Ziehe.
SHANGHAI.- Now on view until October 8, 2023, UCCA is presenting Modern Time: Masterpieces from the Collection of Museum Berggruen / Nationalgalerie Berlin at UCCA Edge in Shanghai. Organized in collaboration with Museum Berggruen, Berlin, the exhibition features nearly 100 pieces by modern masters Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Paul Klee (1879-1940), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), and Georges Braque (1882-1963), each carefully selected from Museum Berggruens unparalleled collection. Shown in China for the first time, these works by the six artists span painting, sculpture, paper cut-outs, and other media, allowing viewers to experience the development of modern art through styles such as Cubism, Surrealism, and various strands of abstraction. One ... More | | 
John Smart (British, 1742-1811), A portrait miniature of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Sir John Eden. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The name Eden is amongst the few synonymous with 20th century British politics. Bonhams Collections sale on Wednesday 28 June will offer highlights from the estate of a notable member of this political family, the late John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton. Lord Eden was the nephew of Anthony Eden, Prime Minister between 1955-1957, and after serving in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in the Second World War he too forged a career in politics. When first elected as Conservative MP for Bournemouth West in 1954 he was the youngest member of the House of Commons, known as the Baby of the House. Following the death of his father Sir Timothy Eden in 1963, John Eden inherited the titles of 9th Baronet of West Auckland and the 7th Baronet of Maryland. One of his distinguished predecessors was Robert Eden, Governor of Maryland, who, as one of the last surviving British colonial governors, left America days before the signing ... More | | 
Carlos Amorales (1970). 2023. Acrylic on paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carlos Amorales is presenting Words of Mouth and Hands, his first solo exhibition in New York at kurimanzutto. It comprises a video installation with a set of original music scores and works on paper that take as their point of departure a creation myth the artist imagined in which a serpent created the underworld by burrowing through the earth with its voice. Together, the artworks follow the transformation of the written word into choral music and the subsequent translation of music into graphic symbols. Amorales six-channel video installation evokes ideas of the sublime through chants. This major work portrays musician, composer, and performer Sarmen Almond singing two poems and the myth of the serpent. As a counterpoint, percussionist Diego Espinosa performs a series of dancefloor rhythms with his hands and body. In another video the hands of the artist are shown browsing through a notebook in which he developed an idiosyn ... More |
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| High Museum of Art presents more than 200 masterworks of ancient Nubian art | | Cory Arcangel opens his first solo exhibition in South Korea at Thaddaeus Ropac | | Astrup Fearnley Museet celebrates 30 year anniversary with 'Before Tomorrow' | 
Ram's head pendant, Nubian, Sudan, 542538 BCE, gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 x 13/16 inches, Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 20.269. Photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ATLANTA, GA.- For more than 3,000 years, a series of kingdoms flourished along the Nile Valley south of ancient Egypt in the Nubian Desert of modern-day Sudan. The Highs exhibition Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (June 2-Sept. 3, 2023) features more than 200 masterworks drawn from MFA Bostons vast holdings, now the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Nubian art and material culture outside of Africa. The works highlight the skill, artistry and innovation of Nubian makers and reflect the wealth and power of their kings and queens, who once controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Not only are the objects in this exhibition beautiful examples of artistic achievement, but they also underscore the incredible power and influence of kingdoms that were for many years ... More | | 
Cory Arcangel, ~3.2022.057~2x1.2~E6, 2022. Gold anodized aluminium plate (BWB-Bausilber 2 E6). 200 x 120 cm (78.74 x 47.24 in). Photo: Stefan Alternburgher.
SEOUL.- For his first solo exhibition in South Korea, now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac, American-born artist Cory Arcangel assembles a group of works that embodies his enduring interest in technological developments, the digital realm and how images and commodities circulate in a global context. Presenting video, performance, wallpaper and wall-mounted works, the exhibition encapsulates the breadth of Arcangels practice, and asserts his position as a pioneer of digital technology-based art. In 2020, using a machine learning technology, Arcangel programmed a bot to scrape clickbait gossip websites. The artist explains that by toggling between two different articles, as if weaving sites together, this bot would identify key themes in the articles, passing them through Google Images to create a series of slideshows. These slideshows were accompanied by an automated voice that reads a nonsensical text generated by the bot using materia ... More | | 
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor, 2006. Exhibition view, Before Tomorrow, 2023. © Astrup Fearnley Museet. Photo: Christian Ãen.
OSLO.- Astrup Fearnley Museet just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this 2023. To mark this significant milestone, the museum opened an extensive exhibition titled Before Tomorrow featuring works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which fill the museums two buildings designed by Renzo Piano. With more than 100 works on display, Before Tomorrow signals the character of the collection. Alongside recent acquisitions from the past three years, the exhibition will include both iconic and lesser-known worksreflective of the collections breadth and scope as well as its evolving identity. The past and the future of the Astrup Fearnley Museet is represented by the collections multiple thematic focuses, its surprising and often innovative inclusions, and the sense of curiosity that pervades it. And while several works have dominated the collections public perception, Before Tomorrow will encourage new readings of these ... More |
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| Harvard Art Museums announce new free admission policy for all visitors | | V&A to celebrate the power of the DIVA presenting spectacular costumes worn by various famous showpeople | | The Photographers' Gallery now presenting photography works by Evelyn Hofer | 
Harvard Art Museums, visitors with Corrado Giaquintos painting The Presentation in the Temple (c. 176465) in a gallery of 17th- to 19th-century. European and American art. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography; courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums today announce a new free admission policy for all visitors, effective immediately. The new policy represents a significant expansion of free access to the museums collections, exhibitions, and research for public audiences. The museums are open to visitors Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm (except major holidays), and during monthly Harvard Art Museums at Night programs on the last Thursday evening of each month. This new initiative is made possible by a generous contribution from the Estate of David Rockefeller and support from the Office of the President at Harvard University. Art is for everyone, and the Harvard Art Museums will now be free to all visitors, said Lawrence S. Bacow, President of Harvard University. This initiative ensures that ... More | | 
Accepting the Fashion Icon Award from Anna Wintour at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards in New York, 2014.
LONDON.- Coinciding with tickets going on sale, the V&A has announced details on the major new exhibition, DIVA. Opening on June 24th, DIVA will be the first exhibition of its kind to celebrate the extraordinary power and creativity of iconic performers who have made their voices heard from the 19th century to today. The exhibition will showcase over 250 objects drawn from the V&A collection and loans from across the world, spanning fashion, photography, design, costumes, music, and live performance. Through theatrical staging and a sonic headset experience, DIVA will celebrate the powerful and personal stories of creativity, ambition, and resilience of some the best- known divas, from opera goddesses and silent movie stars to sirens of the big screen and todays global megastars. The exhibition also looks at how the performer has intersected with society and driven change through their platform and profile for social good and ... More | | 
Harlem Church, New York, 1964. © Estate of Evelyn Hofer. Courtesy Galerie m, Bochum, Germany.
LONDON.- Evelyn Hofer at The Photographers Gallery is the first UK solo exhibition of the German- American photographer. Featuring over 110 black and white and colour images, as well as ephemera and books, the major retrospective spans 45 years of image-making. New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer described Hofer as the most famous unknown photographer in America. A description that still rings true today. Hofer said of her way of working I dont like to spy on people
I respect them and I want them to respect what we are doing together. With a keen sense of class structure, her sympathetic portraits give equal measure to her subjects; from a waitress at the Garrick Club in London and gravediggers in Dublin, to the uniformed Joint Chiefs in Washingtons corridors of power. Hofers work imbued with a sense of timelessness and a contemplative approach contrasted with the shoot-f ... More |
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 Intesa Sanpaolo presents 'Mimmo Jodice. Senza Tempo' at Gallerie d'ItaliaTURIN.- Intesa Sanpaolo will soon be opening the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. Senza Tempo, on view from 29 June 2023 to 7 January 2024 at Gallerie dItalia, Turin. Masterpieces by one of the most important contemporary Italian photographers are presented with a new documentary on Jodices life, directed by the award-winning Mario Martone, which will premiere at the exhibition. Curated by Roberto Koch, founder of the Italian book publisher and photography agency Contrasto, Mimmo Jodice. Senza Tempo offers an evocative opportunity to take a journey across Mediterranean landscapes and histories; to become mesmerised by the play of light of Jodices black and white photographs. In the stunning Palazzo Turinetti di Pertengo in Turin, Jodices famous series Vedute di Napoli, his photographs of coastlines in France, Spain and Greece, his series of portraits ... More  'Ian McKeever: Gerlinde' on view at Hackelbury until August 5thLONDON.- HackelBury is currently presenting Gerlinde, a solo exhibition of new work by Royal Academician Ian McKeever. This new body of work, his most personal to date, is the portrait of a woman, a love letter to his wife. Drawing on abandoned drawings and his archive of photographs which capture everyday objects in a domestic setting, his black and white photographs are filled with light and shadow, providing evocative glimpses of the human presence which merge with silhouetted objects and structures from their home. McKeevers emphasis on an abstract language fosters ambiguity. His interest is in pushing the conventional notion of photography as a literal, figurative representative of reality away and establishing a visual language providing only transitory glimpses of reality. This invites the viewer to focus on the compositional elements ... More  Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents exhibition exploring how people observe each otherBRUNSWICK, ME.- Exploring how humans witness each other, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and host an expansive selection of photographs in a new exhibition titled People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965. The show examines how people look at each other: as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. The idea for the exhibition came together in the wake of the global pandemic of 2020, when social distancing and shelter in place orders transformed the understanding of ones relationship to others, as well as the recent social and racial justice movements, when people were demanding to be seen, heard, and respected. The exhibition brings together a group of images from 1965 to the present that investigate the ways in which ... More  More than a Tarrang (Tree): Memory Material and Cultural Agency Renews Connectedness at Melbourne MuseumMELBOURNE.- Named after the Boon Wurrung word for tree, More Than a Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency shares the significance of trees in south-eastern First People's cultures and the continued practices of mark making and design. A collaboration between Museums Victoria and Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab at Monash University, this new exhibition coming to Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum shows that by connecting to the memory, material practice and cultural agency of First Peoples and their cultural belongings, we can understand how trees are so much more than an object. “With much of the early First People's collections, the Country ... More  Jennifer Francis appointed Director of External Affairs at Museum of LondonLONDON.- The Museum of London has today announced the appointment of Jennifer Francis as its new Director of External Affairs. A pivotal member of the Executive Team, the new role will see Jennifer head up the External Affairs Directorate including the museums Communications, Digital Innovation and Development teams. She will work closely with Museum of London Director Sharon Ament to build income and partnerships, as well as driving brand awareness, public support and audience engagement. An internationally-recognised, entrepreneurial leader in the culture and heritage sector, Jennifers appointment follows a role at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, USA, where she served as Director of Brand and Marketing from 2020 to 2023. Before this, Jennifer held executive and senior leadership roles at a range of organisations ... More  Bookforum is returning, months after its closure was mourned in the literary worldNEW YORK, NY.- Bookforum, a literary criticism magazine that closed in December to great uproar in the literary world, will be back in print in August with a new publishing partner: The Nation. Bookforums relaunch, announced Thursday, marks a return to form, said Bhaskar Sunkara, president of The Nation, who initiated talks in the spring. Bookforum will remain a quarterly print publication with the same branding and aesthetic, helmed by the staff at the time of its closure, he added. Longtime contributors have signed on to write for the relaunch issue. I always knew that it was a fairly unique outlet, and one that paid attention to a lot of contemporary trends and competing publications in a way that older literary publications didnt, said Sunkara, who said he started reading Bookforum in college, around the time he founded Jacobin magazine. The economics ... More  Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain opens an exhibition of works by Ron MueckPARIS.- From June 8 to November 5, 2023, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain invites Australian artist Ron Mueck to exhibit an ensemble of sculptures previously unseen in France, along with iconic pieces from his career. Visitors will discover his monumental installation Mass (2017), presented for the first time outside Australia, as well as new work created especially for the occasion which illustrates recent evolution in Muecks practice. The artists third exhibition at the Fondation Cartier continues a dialogue which first introduced French audiences to his rare and highly anticipated work in 2005. Born in Melbourne in 1958 and living in the UK since 1986, Ron Mueck has developed a body of work which touches on the universal, and has profoundly renewed contemporary figurative sculpture. His uncanny and convincing characters, ... More  Collection of French icon Alain Delon achieves €8M at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, ParisPARIS.- Alain Delon, 60 Years of Passion sale was 98% sold on Thursday 22 June at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris. The top lot was La baie de Sainte-Adresse, 1906 by Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), which sold for 1,016,400. The painting had a pre-sale estimate of 600,000-800,000. The 83-lot sale made a total of 8M, against a pre-sale estimate of 4M. In a packed room relayed to a second room where the sale was being broadcasted, buyers in the room or on the telephone competed for the great names collected with passion by Alain Delon. Arnaud Cornette de Saint Cyr, President, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, said: "Alain Delon's collection, which was admired from Hong Kong to New York to Paris, was an unprecedented success, fetching 8 million, more than twice its low estimate. Alain Delon is a living legend of the cinema. His ... More  Prince's legendary demo tape that launched his career sold for $67,259 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- The original demo tape that landed Prince his first record contract sold for an astounding $67,259, according to Boston-based RR Auction. This remarkable artifact, acquired from the estate of the late Warner Bros. Records executive Russ Thyret, stands as a testament to the visionary talent of the enigmatic musician and marks the inception of one of the most legendary careers in popular music. The demo tape, meticulously recorded on a 1/4 reel-to-reel tape in 1976, contains unreleased versions of three Prince originals: "Just As Long as We're Together," "My Love is Forever," and the never-released gem, "Jelly Jam." At the tender age of 18, Prince single-handedly wrote, arranged, sang, and played all the instruments for these tracks at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis. Enclosed in its original custom-mad ... More  14th century scientific manuscript soars past estimate at BonhamsNEW YORK, NY.- On June 22, a 14th century scientific manuscript achieved more than 22 times its estimate when it sold for $89,000 at Bonhams' Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in New York. The 56-page illustrated manuscript on vellum written in Latin describes the construction and uses for the quadrant, a mathematical or astronomical instrument with a graduated arc of 90°. The sale overall achieved $1.4 million with 80% sold by lot and 97% sold by value. Additional highlights of the sale include: A first edition, first issue of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) in an unrestored dust jacket sold for $83,000, more than 4 times its estimate. A typed letter signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) congratulating Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) on completing the first transpacific flight by a woman and the first transpacific solo ... More  The Albertina opens a comprehensive exhibition devoted to VALIE EXPORT'S careerVIENNA.- The Albertina presents VALIE EXPORT. Retrospective, a comprehensive exhibition devoted to the trailblazing media and performance artist VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940). EXPORT became known from the late 1960s onward through her provocative performances and her critical approach to the mass medias processes of reproduction and representation. A feminist artist, EXPORT looks fearlessly and radically into womans role in society and the arts, pointing out patriarchal structures that have painfully inscribed themselves in the female body. With its thematic focal points, the exhibition offers an overview of EXPORTs output between 1966 and 1998. The show comprises revolutionary early Expanded Cinema actions, symbol- laden performances, conceptual photographs, analytic language works, installations, and such urban interventions as the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Stuart Davis died June 24, 1964. Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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