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X-ray fluorescence instrument set up for the scan of La Miséreuse accroupie, with Emeline Pouyet of Northwestern University (left) and Sandra WebsterCook of the Art Gallery of Ontario. © Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
TORONTO.- Today in Houston, Texas, at the American Institute for Conservation conference, Sandra Webster-Cook, Senior Painting Conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, presented new research findings on a masterwork by Pablo Picasso from the AGO collection: La Soupe (1902-3). The findings stem from a three-year technical art history study, co-led by Webster-Cook and the AGOs Assistant Curator of Modern Art, Kenneth Brummel. Shedding light on decades-old questions, the cross-disciplinary research uncovered significant compositional changes to the painting and deepens knowledge about Picassos Blue Period from 1901-1904. Gifted to the AGO in 1983 by Margaret Dunlap Crang, the visible surface of La Soupe depicts a child reaching toward a bowl that is held by a solemnly posed woman. This composition is painted predominantly in shades of blue, white and earth tones. Cross-disciplinary research has revealed that Picasso made significant cha ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Todd Eckert and Marina Abramovic attend MOMA's Party In the Garden 2018 at The Museum of Modern Art on May 31, 2018 in New York City. Andrew Toth/Getty Images for The Museum of Modern Art/AFP
| Exhibition explores the omnipresence of light and colour in Marc Chagall's work | | Middle Eastern and Mediterranean landscapes by Hartford artist Frederic Church on view at Wadsworth Atheneum | | Hauser & Wirth to represent the Estate of Günther Förg and publish catalogue raisonné |
Marc Chagall, The Red Flowers, 1950. Gouache on paper. H: 65 cm, W: 50 cm. Private collection © ADAGP, Paris - SACK, Seoul, 2018, Chagall ®
HONG KONG.- Le French May Arts Festival opened this years highlighted exhibition Marc Chagall, Light And Colour In Southern France. This first exhibition in Macao dedicated to Marc Chagall features a selection of works (paintings, gouaches, lithographs, costumes and tapestries) which highlight the pre-eminence of light and colour in his creations. One of the major artists of the 20th century, Marc Chagall (18871985), born in White Russia (present-day Belarus), settled in the South of France in the 1950s. His world is unique, nurtured by the many cultural influences encountered during his life and marked by war and exile. In tune with his time, his art embodies a universal message of peace. Borrowing from many 20th century art movements but never aligning with one, his oeuvre is distinct and instantly ... More | |
Frederic Edwin Church, Standing Bedouin, probably February 1868, brush and oil, graphite on paper. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Gift of Louis P. Church, 1917-4-752-a.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present Frederic Church: A Painters Pilgrimage, bringing together approximately 50 of the celebrated Hudson River School painters compositions of sacred terrain in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Frederic Edwin Church (18261900) was born in Hartford and had deep ties to the Wadsworth Atheneum, which maintains significant holdings of his early landscapes. Organized by Kenneth J. Myers, curator of American art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Frederic Church: A Painters Pilgrimage explores the enduring appeal of pilgrimage through a lesser-known body of work resulting from the artists journey to powerful sites of spiritual and historical significance in the late 1860s. ... More | |
Günther Förg. © Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced its worldwide exclusive representation of the Estate Günther Förg (1952 2013), whose retrospective Gunther Förg: A Fragile Beauty is currently on view at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam through 14 October 2018 and will travel to Dallas Museum of Art in the fall. Born in Füssen, Germany, Förg was a prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer, and photographer whose daring conceptual works incorporate and critique tropes of the sprawling movement known as Modernism. His multidisciplinary oeuvre comprises a series of ambitious, sustained investigations into new materials and philosophies. Förg tirelessly engaged the intellectual context of 20th-century art-making, creating deft and witty reactions to the Minimalism of Kazimir Malevich, the figuration of Paul Klee, the formal abstraction of Blinky Palermo, and the Expressionism ... More |
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| The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art showcases 10 years of gifts | | The Fondation Carmignac opens its Porquerolles island site | | Towner Art Gallery opens the first exhibition in forty years of late Victorian artist Edward Stott |
Detail of Landline Tappan, 2015. Sean Scully, American (born Ireland, 1945). Oil on aluminum, 118 x 74 3/4 inches (300 x 190 cm). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of Sean Scully, Dr. Luther Brady in honor of Lee Lyon and the William T. Kemper FoundationCommerce Bank, Trustee, 2017.46. © Sean Scully.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- This summer, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will present Unexpected Encounters (June 2 August 12, 2018), an interactive exhibition showcasing the museums significant gifts over the past decade. The exhibition will provide rare insight into the museums inner workings and will offer new ways to engage with the collection. Featuring 250 works spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries, five continents and a broad range of disciplinesincluding painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, and jewelryUnexpected Encounters will challenge audiences to seek connections between a multitude of disciplines ... More | |
Roy Lichtenstein, Collage for Nude with red Shirt. Collection Carmignac. The estate of Roy Lichtenstein New York, Adgap Paris 2017,
PORQUEROLLES ISLAND.- The Fondation Carmignac announced the opening of its Porquerolles island site on June 2, 2018. The Fondation, created in 2000 under the initiative of Ãdouard Carmignac, will open to the public in Porquerolles, a Mediterranean island often compared to a floating forest on the sea. Visitors will discover contemporary artworks of the Carmignac Collection in the beautiful surroundings of a national park, along with temporary exhibitions, a sculpture garden, and a rich programme of cultural events. The island is not the result of a random decision: As in all legends or initiatory journeys, the voyage to the island is always a dual crossing both physical and psychological. It is about crossing over to the other side, states the Director of the foundation, Charles Carmignac. Once on the island, the visitor will discover a Provençal farmhouse blended into the ... More | |
Edward Stott, Self Portrait, undated. © Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service.
EASTBOURNE.- Edward Stott: A Master of Colour and Atmosphere explores the work of the significant but largely neglected late Victorian artist Edward Stott (1855-1918). Much celebrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the poet-painter of the twilight, was known for his atmospheric and delicate depictions of rural, domestic and biblical life. Marking the centenary of Stotts death, the exhibition brings together for the first time in over forty years, a large body of paintings spanning the artists life, including a number of rarely seen works. The book Edward Stott: A Master of Colour and Atmosphere by Dr Valerie Webb, has been published by Sansom & Co. Webb is also co-curator the exhibition with Sara Cooper, Head of Collections at Towner. Trained in Paris and initially influenced by French Impressionism and rustic naturalism, Stott did not paint in true plein air fashion, but sketched in pen ... More |
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| Enid Marx celebrated with the first monograph on her work and a major exhibition at House of Illustration | | Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art opens in Latvia | | Charles "Teenie" Harris seemed to be everywhere; New exhibition offers a glimpse into his tireless practice |
Enid Marx working on a textile design post-1945.
LONDON.- The work of important British artist-designer Enid Marx (19021998) is celebrated with the first monograph on her work, written by Alan Powers, to coincide with a major exhibition he has co-curated at House of Illustration. Enid Marx (19021998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid twentieth century. Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the outbreak of talent at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, she excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme. After making a significant contribution to book illustration, she went on to design postage stamps and patterns for laminates, becoming a Royal Designer for Industry and an advocate for better design training and industrial patronage. In parallel, with her friend the historian ... More | |
Maarten Vanden Eynde, Pinpointing Progress, 2018, Installation, New commission for the 1st Riga Biennial, Courtesy of the artist and Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Photo Andrejs Strokins.
RIGA.- Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, a major new biennial in Riga, Latvia, opened the first edition of the biennial. Entitled Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, the chief curator of RIBOCA1 is Kate Gregos, who has been instrumental in setting up the biennial alongside founder and Commissioner Agniya Mirgorodskaya. The total number of artists showing work in Riga is 104, including 10 collectives. The list includes well-known names, among them: Jonas Mekas, Mark Dion, Erik Kessels, Robert Kuśmirowski, Trevor Paglen, Lynn Hershmann Leeson, Adrián Villar Rojas and Nedko Solakov; as well as a large number of young, emerging and relatively undiscovered artists from the Baltic region and beyond. Many artists will show multiple pieces across more than one venue, allowing visitors to gain a more ... More | |
Charles Teenie Harris, Barbers at work in the Crystal Barber Shop with view of Crawford Grill No. 1 through front door, c. 1949, black and white: Agfa safety film, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Charles Teenie Harris worked around the clock. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, as a freelancer at nightclubs, at his portrait studio, as an artist, he was seemingly everywhere. Carnegie Museum of Arts Teenie Harris Archive contains nearly 80,000 examples of Harriss tireless practice. Teenie Harris Photographs: Around The Clock collects 25 images that reveal how one individual managed to document the experiences of an entire community. At the Courier, one of the nations most important black newspapers, he was out on the beat, covering the days newsfrom civil rights struggles to local politics, from celebrations to tragedies. He was an insider, heading backstage to shoot jazz musicians and sharing candid moments with sports legends. Harris also ran his own portrait studio ... More |
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| Bellevue Arts Museum opens an exhibition of prints by iconic artist Alex Katz | | Doyle's June 14 auction traces the history of photography | | Luc Tuymans curates exhibition for Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp |
Alex Katz, Ada and Alex, 1984 (detail). Color screenprint, 30 x 36 1/8 in. Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
BELLEVUE, WA.- Alex Katz: A Life in Print, Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, opened June 1 at Bellevue Arts Museum, featuring a series of prints by Alex Katz dating from the late 1960s to the present day, many of which have never before been exhibited. Katz is a major figure in the world of American figurative art, known for his large scale paintings, sculptures, and prints. His work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions internationally since 1951. A Life in Print is organized around themes of lightness/airiness, portraiture, and variations around the same images and subjects, all presented with a penetrating graphic clarity and keen sense of the history of image-making. Katzs work, like his New York contemporary Andy Warhol, is always different, yet, in some ways always the same. He has called his prints the final synthesis of pain ... More | |
Imogen Cunningham, Magnolia Blossom, 1925 (detail). Est. $10,000-15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, June 14 at 10am, Doyle will hold an auction of Photographs. The sale will offer 19th century photography, including a collection of daguerreotypes, as well as photographs by Curtis, Negré. Durandelle and others. 20th century examples feature work by many major figures, among them Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Stieglitz, Aaron Siskind, Ellen Auerbach, Paul Caponigro and Harry Callahan. Contemporary photography offers work by such artists as Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Bert Stern, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Peter Beard. Just the mention of the name Ansel Adams (1902-1984) brings to mind expansive vistas of the American west, the meeting of dramatic skies, sheer mountains and glistening rivers. An acknowledged darkroom master, his spellbinding images are best viewed as intended by the artist, in the large format gelatin silver photographs that ... More | |
Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Five Car Stud, 1969-1972, Collezione Prada, Milano. Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
ANTWERP.- During the cultural city festival Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires, Luc Tuymans confronts the genius of Baroque masters with the vision of top contemporary artists. The exhibition Sanguine/Bloedrood, conceived by the artist for the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and Fondazione Prada, wants to overwhelm the visitor by placing key works from the baroque of, among others, Francisco de Zurbarán, Caravaggio and Anthony van Dyck, in dialogue with works by classical contemporary masters, such as On Kawara and Edward & Nancy Kienholz, as well as new works by contemporary stars such as Zhang Enli, Takashi Murakami, Michaël Borremans, Sigmar Polke and Tobias Rehberger. Through a number of exceptional loans, curator Luc Tuymans brings national and international masterpieces to Antwerp, including a splendid selection from the KMSKA, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Sanguine/Bloedrood is a visually ... More |
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'Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America' opens at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
HOUSTON, TX.- This summer, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, an exhibition chronicling the history of American basketry, from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its presence within the contemporary fine-art world. Visitors will delight in the variety of colors, patterns, shapes, and textures of the baskets on view, which range from traditional to highly unconventional and explore diverse cultural histories. Historical baskets were rooted in local landscapes and shaped by cultural traditions. The rise of the industrial revolution and mass production at the end of the 19th century led basket makers to create works for new audiences and markets, including tourists, collectors, and fine-art museums. Today the story continues. Some contemporary artists seek ... More
1930s Watling three-reel 5-cent slot machine hits the jackpot at Holabird Western Americana Collections sale
RENO, NEV.- A mid-1930s Watling three-reel 5-cent slot machine sold for $3,250 and an 1871 general and business directory for the residents of four counties in Nevada realized $2,875 at an Americana, Railroad, Mining & More Auction held across four days, May 7th-10th, by Holabird Western Americana Collections, online and in the firms gallery at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. The Watling slot machine was the auctions top-selling lot, not surprising considering the Rol-a-Top is one of the most attractive three-reel slots ever made and a favorite among collectors. This one was in original condition, with the original paint and original lock and key. The replacement reels even had the old fortunes over the symbols, to try and skirt the gaming laws of the 30s. The 1871 Nevada directory was the sales runner-up top lot, a book containing the names and addresses of all ... More
Kopeikin Gallery opens exhibition with the collaborative team of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery announces their sixth exhibition with the collaborative team of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick titled Madame Lulus Book of Fate. The exhibition will open on Saturday, June 2nd and continues through July 7th. When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? Distant clouds? A lone iceberg? When you stand on the deck and look through a telescope, what do you see? The future? The past? An undiscovered shoreline? A drowning man? The truppe fledermaus invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of men and women trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. Nichola Kahn and Richard Selesnick Kahn & Selesnicks latest project Madame Lulus c ... More
National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition opens at the Bruce Museum
GREENWICH, CONN.- The traveling National Geographic exhibition, National Geographic Photo Ark, opens at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, on June 2, 2018. Featuring the work of National Geographic photographer and Fellow Joel Sartore, the exhibition will be on display until September 2, 2018. The National Geographic Photo Ark is an ambitious project committed to documenting every species in the worlds zoos and wildlife sanctuariesinspiring people not just to care, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. In addition to creating an archival record for generations to come, this project is a hopeful platform for conservation and shines a light on individuals and organizations working to preserve species around the world. National Geographic is showcasing this important project through multiple platforms, including the traveling ... More
Hudson River Museum opens three exhibitions exploring Abstraction
YONKERS, NY.- The Hudson River Museum announces its summer exhibitions, with works by contemporary artists who explore the landscape and the river to create evocative works of art that are keenly attuned to the environment around them. In addition, a selection of prints from the permanent collection by Minimal artist Donald Judd further explore the iterative process and creative possibilities of abstraction. The Museum also features a rotation of works in blown glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany, drawn from the permanent collection. The exhibitions are on view from June 1 September 9, 2018 at the Hudson River Museum. Christine Hiebert, (American, born Switzerland, 1960) a Brooklyn-based artist, investigates the nature and language of line and how different types of marks relate to one another and energize a blank field. Over the past three decades she has embraced ... More
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia opens Larry Walker retrospective
ATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is presenting a significant retrospective exhibition of Walkers work in two consecutive parts over the course of 20+ weeks: The Early Years and The Later Years. Both exhibitions will feature works from MOCA GAs collection and archives as well as works provided by numerous other institutions and individual collectors. In conjunction with this major retrospective highlighting the development of a lifelong career, MOCA GA will honor this great artist with a scholarly book, publishing his impact and adding it to the literary canon of art in America. From his development as an art student and initial foray into the field of arts education in New York and Detroit to his appointments as Chair and Professor of University Arts programs both in California and Georgia, Larry Walker persisted as a successful and prolific ... More
Horniman's new Chief Executive Nick Merriman reveals vision for the future of the Museum
LONDON.- Nick Merriman, new Chief Executive of the Horniman Museum and Gardens, today announced his strategic vision for the future of the historic south London attraction. Speaking a month before the opening of the World Gallery, a new 600 sq m display showcasing over 3,000 objects from around the world, Merriman set out clear objectives to put the Horniman on the map as London's flagship for a holistic approach to diversity, understanding between world cultures and environmental issues. He said: Im delighted to have joined the Horniman at such a major moment in its history, as we look forward to the opening of the new World Gallery on 29 June and The Studio later in the year. In addition to two contemporary spaces, we are launching a range of new initiatives at the Horniman, underpinned by a central vision of relevance and inclusion: The ... More
Laguna Art Museum opens special exhibition of paintings by Oskar Fischinger
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum opened Oskar Fischinger: Paintings from the Permanent Collection. The special installation of the museums holdings in the work of this innovative German-born artist and filmmaker, who was based in Los Angeles from 1936 until his death in 1967, is on view through June 17, 2018. The German-born Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) was an abstract artist working in both painting and film. Based in Berlin from 1927, he was acclaimed for his technically innovative art films, in which he animated forms and colors and synchronized them with music. The addition of motion and sound brought new dimensions to the abstract art pioneered by Wassily Kandinsky and other avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. In 1936, his career in Germany curtailed by the rise of the Nazis, Fischinger moved to Hollywood ... More
Modernism & PaJaMa at Swann Galleries' American Art Sale in June
NEW YORK, NY.- American Art comes to Swann Galleries on June 14 with a highly curated offering of original works by artists living or working in the United States. The nearly 300 paintings, drawings and sculptures, encompassing the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, are expected to exceed $1.6M. Many have never before appeared at auction. The auction will feature a strong section of works by PaJaMa, the artist collective consisting of Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret Hoening French. Many of these works, from the collection of Jon Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, are portraits by the members of one another and their partners and friends. For example, Cadmus drew Jon Anderson #1, 1965, and Portrait of Margaret French, 1944 ($15,000 to $20,000 and $8,000 to $12,000, respectively), and Jared French drew him ... More
Charles Rennie Mackintosh project funding boost
DUNDEE.- The project to conserve, restore and redisplay a complete Charles Rennie Mackintosh tearoom interior in V&A Dundee has received a major funding boost, thanks to Art Fund and the Scottish Government. V&A Dundee and Dundee City Council are working in partnership with Glasgow Museums, which rescued the Oak Room interior from destruction in 1971 and took the disassembled interior into Glasgow City Councils museum collections. The project will preserve this historic lost interior for generations to come, having last been used as a tearoom in the early 1950s. Support of £200,000 from the Art Fund and £100,000 from the Scottish Government has contributed to the fundraising for the £1.3 million project which has also been generously supported by the National Lottery in its first research phase and through a range of other ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra was born June 02, 1959. Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award. In this image: Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying 2009 (videostill, detail), collection De Pont Museum. Photo: Peter Cox.
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