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In the exhibition The Mysteries of Material: Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff, the Städel is uniting 98 woodcuts, 12 sculptures and 5 printing blocks.
FRANKFURT.- In the exhibition The Mysteries of Material: Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff, the Städel Museum explores the reciprocal relationships between woodcut and wooden sculpture in the oeuvres of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938), Erich Heckel (1883 1970) and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (18841976). What the two very different artistic mediums have in common is wood, the material intimately linked with the art of German Expressionism. The three co-founders of the Brücke artists group became involved with this material by way of the woodcut a printmaking method in which a relief is cut into a wooden board or block. What appealed to Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff was the great experimental potential of this printing technique, as well as the work with the material. Engagement with the characteristics of various wood types as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sotheby's New York opened its doors today to Treasures from Chatsworth - a rare, public exhibition in the United States of works from the fabled Devonshire Collection, held at historic Chatsworth House in the United Kingdom. Chatsworth is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
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 | | City of London's Sculpture in the City returns for its ninth edition | | IMMA examines the interconnections between renowned British artist Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats | | Sotheby's unveils 'Treasures from Chatsworth' with Leonardo Da Vinci drawing, Lucian Freud portraits, and more | 
Jyll Bradley, Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block) (2017), copyright the artist, Photo: © Nick Turpin.
LONDON.- Sculpture in the City, the City of Londons annual public art programme set amongst iconic architectural landmarks, launched on 27 June. The exhibition includes works from internationally renowned artists including Nathan Coley, Elisa Artesero, Nina Saunders and Lawrence Weiner. The artworks are being displayed next to some of the Citys most famous buildings, including 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin), The Leadenhall Building (the Cheesegrater), as well as new public spaces opening this year, including 70 St Mary Axe and Aldgate Square. For Sculpture in the Citys ninth edition, the artworks are spread across the Square Mile, and range greatly in form, scale and medium. This years edition also seed works from the 8th edition that remain on show including Do Ho Suhs Bridging Home, London (2018) a co-commission by Art Night and Sculpture in the City, Nancy Rubins Crocodylius Philodendrus ... More | | 
Girl with Roses, 1947-48 (oil on canvas), Freud, Lucian (1922-2011) / British Council, London, UK / © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images.
DUBLIN.- This landmark exhibition, for the first time, examines the interconnections between renowned British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) and one of the most important figures in Irish art Jack B. Yeats (1871 1957). Life above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats is a major exhibition that brings together the work of two acknowledged masters, Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats. Exploring the affinities and interconnections between the two artists, this exhibition draws the work of two stubbornly individual painters into dialogue, placing them side-by-side for the first time in 70 years. While Lucian Freuds work has been exhibited in the past in group exhibitions alongside other artists from the School of London, Life above Everything is the first occasion where Freuds work is being presented with that of a single other artist. Freuds interest in Yeats is little ... More | | 
Leonardo da Vinci, Leda and the Swan. © Devonshire Collection. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York opened its doors today to Treasures from Chatsworth a rare, public exhibition in the United States of works from the fabled Devonshire Collection, held at historic Chatsworth House in the United Kingdom. Chatsworth is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family. The house is renowned for the quality of its art, landscape and hospitality, and has evolved through the centuries to reflect the tastes, passions and interests of succeeding generations, standing today among the most important stately homes in the United Kingdom. Rich with thousands of objects, the Devonshire Collection represents a grand tradition of collecting by the Cavendish family spanning half a millennium, which ranks as one of the most significant collections of art ... More |
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| | | Gemeentemuseum den Haag opens an exhibition of work by the Hague School | | Kate Fowle appointed Director of MoMA PS1 | | 'Mona Lisa' is on the move in great Louvre makeover | 
Jacob Maris, Vegetable Gardens near The Hague, c. 1878, oil on canvas, 64 x 55 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
THE HAGUE.- In the nineteenth century people still lived by the seasons. Whether it was summertime or wintertime did not matter, many people simply had to work outside whatever the weather. Between 1860 and 1900 artists like Jozef Israels, Jacob and Willem Maris, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Anton Mauve recorded with unparalleled skill what they saw in and around The Hague. Each of them masterfully captured the light and atmosphere, creating images that feature extraordinary interactions between light, sky and water. Their subjects were typical of the western Netherlands: barges, cows, river landscapes, scenes of fishing life and the emerging bathing culture. It is partly thanks to these artists that we still have an impression of these times. The Gemeentemuseum houses a large collection of work by the Hague School, and it will be showing the highlights from 29 June. In the mid-nineteenth century ... More | | 
Kate Fowle. Photo: James Hill.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Kate Fowle has been appointed Director of MoMA PS1, it was announced today by Agnes Gund, Chairman of the Board of MoMA PS1, and Glenn D. Lowry, The David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Fowle, until recently the Chief Curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and currently director-atlarge at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, succeeds Klaus Biesenbach, who departed MoMA PS1 in October 2018 to lead The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Ms. Fowle will assume her new role as Director of MoMA PS1 on September 3. Founded in Long Island City, Queens, in 1976 as the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, MoMA PS1 was the first nonprofit arts center in the United States devoted solely to contemporary art, and its merger in 2000 with The Museum of Modern Art created the largest platform for contemporary art in the country and one of the largest in the world. Kate is the perfect ... More | | 
People soak their feet in the water of a fountain in front of the Louvre Pyramid during a heatwave in Paris on June 26, 2019. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The world's most famous painting, the "Mona Lisa", is to be moved so her room in the Louvre can be spruced up, the Paris museum said on Friday. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece will be carried less than "100 paces" to the adjoining Medici gallery during the night of July 16, the museum's director Jean-Luc Martinez told AFP. The fragile 500-year-old painting is very rarely handled, and will remain protected by bulletproof glass in its temporary home. The portrait of a Florentine noble will be returned to her spot in the States Room just before a blockbuster Leonardo exhibition opens at the world's biggest museum in October. The Louvre holds the largest collection of the Italian artist's work. Martinez said the move was part of an immense rolling renovation of the museum, which is struggling to cope with more than 10 million visitors a year. Tens of thousands of people each day pass through the room in wh ... More |
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| | | White Cube an exhibition of new and recent works by Jeff Wall | | Paris Photo launches a new fair in New York | | Questions of intimacy, awkwardness, modesty and desire are explored in exhibition | 
Jeff Wall, Mother of pearl, 2016. Inkjet print, 23 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. (60 x 70.5 cm) 25 1/16 x 29 3/16 x 1 3/8 in. (63.7 x 74.2 x 3.5 cm) (framed) © Jeff Wall. Courtesy White Cube
LONDON.- White Cube Mason's Yard is presenting an exhibition of new and recent works by Jeff Wall, a number of which strike out in new directions for the artist. Parent child (2018) offers a view of a sidewalk in a suburban shopping district on a sunny summer day. A man gazes down at a little girl who has decided - for reasons of her own - to lie down on the presumably warm, clean and inviting sidewalk. Neither she nor her guardian shows any signs of frustration or impatience. Parent child has the relation to street photography that Wall has developed over the past decades; a contemplation of its effects by means of pictorial construction or reconstruction, a mode he calls 'near documentary' Walls most recent black-and-white picture, Weightlifter (2015), can equally be considered near ... More | | 
Richard Moore.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paris Photo, the worlds largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is launching Paris Photo New York to be held 2-5 April 2020. The new fair will be presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), creating a transatlantic hub between two of the most historic epicenters for the photographic medium Paris and New York. Founded in 1997, Paris Photo has established itself in just over 20 years as the leading fair for photography and image-based art by uniting 200 leading galleries and publishers presenting vintage and modern works as well as the latest contemporary trends to a growing audience of more than 68,000 collectors, professionals and enthusiasts. The New York edition will capitalize on the strength of the American photography market by expanding and diversifying the fairs representation of international and cutting-edge galleries and invigorating the ... More | | 
Brent Harris, Borrowed plumage #6 (doubt) 2007. Courtesy the artist. Collection of Dr Terry Wu, Melbourne.
MELBOURNE.- On Vulnerability and Doubt brings together works by Australian and international artists all variously engaging with questions of vulnerability and doubt, modesty and desire, awkwardness and love, and the fragility and humility of the human condition. The role of the Doubting Thomas, and the privileging of feeling over the visual, as well as the role of humour, the minor and otherwise in relation to figures of authority are other subjects explored in a variety of mediums including painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. On Vulnerability and Doubt also explores some of the complexities that come with artists putting themselves and their work on display, and the bringing down of ones guard, said ACCA Artistic Director Max Delany. This ranges from the acclaimed shrouded figures of poverty in Andrea Büttners ... More |
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| | | Arthur Jafa creates an audio-visual experience for Moderna Museet that is both politically reflective and visionary | | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents over 150 outstanding objects connected with the tea ceremony | | Russia's thriving contemporary art scene pays a visit to Brussels | 
Arthur Jafa, Monster, 1988 © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Browns enterprise, New York/Rome.
STOCKHOLM.- After two decades in film, Arthur Jafa has now stepped onto the art scene. In his works, he reveals the history of American racism and explores the historic and contemporary conditions for African-American visual culture. For the exhibition at Moderna Museet, Jafa has invited the photographer Ming Smith and the visual artist Frida Orupabo, and incorporated material from Missylanyus Youtube channel, to create an audio-visual experience that is both politically reflective and visionary. From Spike Lee and Stanley Kubrick to Beyoncé and Solange Arthur Jafa has collaborated with a long list of noteworthy filmmakers, artists and musicians. Since the early 2000s, he has worked mainly as an artist and visionary to create an African-American visual culture. Arthur Jafas narratives go way back in American history, to the imprints left on the people and the culture by the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How can I mak ... More | | 
Teacup (chawan) with decor of Suzuki grasses and full moon, ninsei-style, 19th century, stoneware with enamel colours, gold and silver, H. 8,5 cm, D. 9,6 cm, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Photo: Jörg Arend.
HAMBURG.- Japanese tea ceramics are valued by so-called tea people (chajin) for qualities that go far beyond mere utility. When used in the ritualised traditional tea ceremony (chanoyu, literally hot water for tea), the individual vessels take on a very personal meaning. Outstanding pieces are even given names by their makers, or more often by their owners. For each tea ceremony, the host tries to select just the right vessels and utensils for the particular occasion, the season and the expected guests. In the exhibition Among Friends: Japanese Tea Ceramics, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents over 150 outstanding objects connected with the tea ceremony, including tea bowls (chawan), water jars (mizusashi), vases (hanaire) and tea containers (chaire) representing ... More | | 
Natasha Yudina, Siberian Nightmares, courtesy of the artist.
BRUSSELS.- Russia is the largest nation in the world: it stretches from Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea in the west to Vladivostok and the Pacific Ocean in the east. A person traversing this land mass will go through eleven time zones. The exhibition in the Centre for Fine Arts is an invitation to discover Russias fictitious 12th time zone; that of contemporary art. In the summer of 2018, curators Inke Arns and Dieter Roelstraete took part in an ambitious art expedition together with major figures from the Russian and international art world (artists, curators, directors of cultural institutions etc.) along the Trans-Siberian railway. Rather than visiting major cities like Moscow or Saint Petersburg, they stopped off in 12 lesser-known cities, such as Perm, Ulan-Ude, Tyumen and Irkutsk. At every stop on their journey they explored the local art sector, discovering the contemporary art that is flourishing far from the ... More |
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 Exhibition at Casey Kaplan brings together over 120 drawings on restaurant receipts by Jonathan MonkNEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan is presenting Jonathan Monk: Restaurant Drawings, the artists ninth exhibition with the gallery. This show brings together over 120 drawings on restaurant receipts, produced over the last year. Each receipt portrays a hand rendered artwork, and is priced at the cost of the meal. The series began in 2015 when Monk and his family relocated temporarily from Berlin to Rome. Communal meals became habitual as the family sought to familiarize themselves with the new city. Attracted to the elegant, hand-written paper receipts commonly used in restaurants in Italy, Monk began to collect the bills received at the end of his family meals. Once home, he would draw directly onto the receipts, a recurring practice that has continued to this day. Monk's imagery is culled from both a personal and canonicalized engagement with more recent Western ... More QUAD opens a new exhibition by artist Megan Broadmeadow DERBY.- QUAD has a new exhibition by artist Megan Broadmeadow opening on 29th June. SEEK PRAY ADVANCE: Episode 3 Operation Starlight is based on real-life testimonies from those who have purportedly had encounters with beings from other worlds, dimensions and realms, across multiple periods in history. Broadmeadows exhibition features the new Virtual Reality commission Above the Firmament as part of immersive exhibits in the QUAD Gallery space. A mixture of installations, film works and VR will create an epic, other-worldly dimension in QUAD Gallery. Episode 3 Operation Starlight reveals the beings responsible for calling the Ordinary Person to join a Intergalactic Hierarchy. The viewer is taken on a surreal journey in VR through nebula like spaces, filled with these otherworldly beings who swoop and fly around them. The viewer experiences ... More Historic Civil War-era flag folk art table will headline Woody's Sept. 7 auctionDOUGLASS, KAN.- An Americana 35-Star Flag Folk Art Table, from the James R. and Barbara A. Miller collection, will be sold to the highest bidder (no reserve and no sales tax) on Saturday, September 7th by Woody Auction. It is nearly identical to an unsigned 13-Star Flag table that sold at Sotheby's New York. The auction is both online and at the Douglass, Kansas, auction hall. The event center is located at 130 East Third Street, and bidding starts at 9:30 am Central. The table, circa approximately 1860's, is made of solid wood and measures 31" tall x 35" wide x 25" deep. It features one three-compartment drawer the full width of the table. On the face of the drawer, two carved dueling pistols and a pyramid of ammunition are attached. Inside the drawer is the signature "Made & Designed by F. Wedin, Roxbury," presumably a piano maker from Massachusetts during ... More A colourful bungalow by Richard Woods appeared yesterday at White City PlaceLONDON.- A colourful bungalow by British artist Richard Woods appeared yesterday at White City Place as part of Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend (KCAW19) Public Art trail at the end of June. KCAW19 is back for its second year, twice the size and with a very cool punk inspired rebrand, the weekend will turn the borough into one cultural and artistic museum-turned-walk-through-playground. Im very enthusiastic about showing the house on the White City plot as the scale and contemporary feel of the office buildings around it will make the small house appear even smaller and more traditional in style. Richard Woods. Holiday Home White City is part of a series of identical sculpture houses called Holiday Homes by artist Richard Woods, so-called because they are temporary and like to appear at various locations, one such location was in the middle ... More 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine opens exhibitions of works by Margaret Harrison and Florence JungMETZ.- Margaret Harrison (Yorkshire, *1940) is an influential figure in the feminist art movement in the 1970s in the UK. Over the past 50 years, she has developed a body of thought focusing on the issues of class, gender and more generally the place of women in society. In Harrisons first major exhibition in France, 49 Nord 6 Est FRAC Lorraine highlights the diversity of her practice, which includes installations, paintings, drawings, collages, and writing. The work of this artist and activist challenges the visual canons and codes underlying the representation of women in society, as well as womens self-perception. Her drawings of the superheroes sporting stilettos and her portrait of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, as Bunny Boy, led to the police shutting down her first exhibition in London in 1971. In parallel, Harrison has engaged in a reflection, ... More First ever exhibition of Norman Cornish's portraits goes on display at the Gala GalleryDURHAM.- Portraiture was an important part of Norman Cornishs artistic practice. This exhibition at the Gala Gallery in Durhams Gala Theatre features self-portraits from throughout his career showing his stylistic development as well as insights into the man himself alongside informal images of his family and more formally commissioned portraits and sketches of local characters. This exhibition is the first time that a selection of Norman Cornishs portraits have been brought together to form a distinct collection. Inspired by the unguarded moments of the people around him, it is evident that from a young age Cornish not only had the skill and technicality required of formal and traditional portraiture but also saw the value in painting everyday people going about their normal lives. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and distinguished artists ... More Fairy tales get dark in Dread & Delight at the Akron Art MuseumAKRON, OH.- Classical fairy tales, the kind collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, are filled with disturbing imagery, including dismemberment, parental abandonment and diabolical murder plots. The tales sometimes seem as blood-soaked as the goriest contemporary horror movies. In Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, a new exhibition presented by the Akron Art Museum, contemporary artists use classical fairy tales, and all their emotions and imagery, to address the complexities of life today. The artists embrace the championing of the disenfranchised that occurs in many fairy tales, and also use the darker elements of the stories to explore questions of gender, social roles, sexuality and the ambivalent nuances of daily life. Associate Curator Theresa Bembnister said, Fairy tales take marginalized peoplewomen, children, ... More Mules, tools and old bricks: Rebuilding China's Great WallBEIJING (AFP).- Nature, time, neglect and millions of footsteps have taken their toll on the Great Wall of China leaving much of it crumbling, but repairing it can be painstaking -- and controversial -- work. After public outcry when a 700-year-old section of the monument was 'fixed' by covering it with cement -- authorities insisted on more authentic restoration using traditional methods: so now labourers, aided by mules, use reclaimed stones and mortar. "They are all the bricks that collapsed from the original wall. The bricks are used to mend these places," said Li Jingdong, one of the workers restoring the Jiankou section. Around him, labourers use an electric hoist to put a large stone that had fallen from the wall back in place, while mules traverse the steep mountainside bringing water and lime mortar for workers to mix and bind the stones with. It is physically ... More Richard Saltoun Gallery opens a solo show celebrating Penny Slinger's development of Tantric artLONDON.- The work of Penny Slinger awakens your desires. A self-proclaimed Feminist Surrealist, her work combines the mythical qualities of Surrealism with the radical feminism of the 1970s all underpinned by her long-standing interest in erotica, pleasure and the reclamation of the female body. Her exhibition at Richard Saltoun her first with the gallery celebrates the artists interest and development of Tantric art, featuring collages from the mid-1970s, Xerox body prints, vintage and new photographs created especially for the show. Slinger was first introduced to Tantric art through the exhibition Tantra, the Indian Cult of Ecstasy at Londons Hayward Gallery in 1971. The experience changed her life and forever altered the direction of her work: I ... More Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of works by Rosalind NashashibiVIENNA.- Caring and forms of communal life have been a consistent theme in the oeuvre of Rosalind Nashashibi, who examines them in light of the specific political, social, and historical conditions that shape them. The private meets the political; in interweaving the two, the artist sometimes emphasizes political concerns, as in the film Electrical Gaza, which earned her a nomination for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2017; private aspects are the focus in other works, like the widely acclaimed film Vivians Garden (2017), which was commissioned for documenta 14 (2017): a portrait of the lives and relationship of the artists Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter, a mother and daughter who live largely in seclusion in the Guatemalan rainforest. Born in England to parents of Irish and Palestinian descent, the artist does not rely on abstraction and generalization to shed ... More Exhibition brings together artists to reflect on the role that language plays in defining our cultural identitiesNEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Bodies of Knowledge, on view June 28 October 13, 2019. The exhibition brings together eleven international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in defining our cultural identities, and is the first global contemporary exhibition of its kind at NOMA. Working with materials that range from books and silent film to ink and musical scores, artists Manon Bellet, Wafaa Bilal, Garrett Bradley, Mahmoud Chouki, Adriana Corral, Zhang Huan, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Edward Spots, Donna Crump and Wilmer Wilson IV propose new ways of representing our collective past. Bodies of Knowledge brings a global perspective to current discussions in New Orleans surrounding cultural preservation and historical memory, said Susan Taylor, NOMAs ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Paul Klee died June 29, 1940. Paul Klee (18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. In this image: Paul Klee, Young Moe, 1938. Colored paste on newspaper on burlap, 20 7/8 x 27 5/8 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1948.
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