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The 120 drawings on display are taken from across Raphaels brief but brilliant career. Photo: Ian Wallman @ The Ashmolean.
OXFORD.- 120 works by Raphael from international collections are on show at the Ashmolean this summer in the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, Raphael: The Drawings. Fifty works come from the Ashmoleans own collection, the largest and most important group of Raphael drawings in the world. They arrived in 1845 following a public appeal to acquire them after the dispersal of the collection of the portrait painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (17691830), who had amassed an unrivalled collection of Old Master drawings. A further twenty-five works are on loan from the Albertina Museum, Vienna, which will show the exhibition in autumn 2017. The remaining drawings come from international collections and include The Head of a Muse (private collection) which broke the records when auctioned at Christies in 2009. Dr Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, says: Not since 1983, when an exhibition of drawings from British collections was ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Turner Prize winning artist, Jeremy Deller poses for a photograph during the launch of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' album, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', in Liverpool, northern England on June 1, 2017. The Beatles' home city is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic band's era-defining "Sgt. Pepper" album with a cultural festival bringing each of its songs to life again through art. Oli SCARFF / AFP
| J. Paul Getty Museum publishes more than 30,000 images using IIIF | | Largest Andy Warhol exhibition in Mexico opens at Museo Jumex | | Dutch teacher wins 'night at the museum' dream prize |
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, 1818, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty today made available more than 30,000 images of objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), which allows researchers to bring together images from different institutional websites for comparison, manipulation and annotation. By clicking on the IIIF logo next to an image, users can pull together images from different collections, dragging and dropping millions of images and associated metadata from institutions across the world for side-by-side analysis. As a result, for the first time, users can digitally examine works of art held in separate collections worldwide and easily share their findings. With IIIF, scholars can move images ... More | |
Installation view Andy Warhol. Dark Star. Museo Jumex. Photo: Moritz Bernoully © 2017 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
MEXICO CITY.- From June 2 to September 17, 2017, Museo Jumex is presenting the exhibition Andy Warhol. Dark Star. The first survey of its size to be organized in Mexico, the exhibition examines the first decade of Warhols artistic production moving from his fascination with mass consumer products to his obsession with the phenomenon of celebrity and tragic disasters. Curated by Douglas Fogle, the survey sets Warhols work against the backdrop of what magazine publisher Henry Luce proclaimed in 1941 to be the American Century, marking a period of more aggressive US intervention in global politics and the world economy. Seen in this context, Warhols art reflects the bright utopian promises and dark undercurrents of US consumerism ... More | |
10-millionth visitor. Photo: Rijksmuseum.
AMSTERDAM (AFP).- Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum this week welcomed its 10-millionth visitor, handing the winner a one-time dream prize: spending a night alone in the company of Rembrandt's masterpiece the "Night Watch". "I've slept two metres (6.5 feet) from the Night Watch. It's magic, I still can't believe it," said Stefan Kasper on Friday, a Dutch school teacher and artist who bought the lucky ticket. Museum director Taco Dibbits said he was delighted at the high visitor numbers, following a decade-long renovation that saw its doors reopened in 2013. But it was the first time anyone was allowed to spend the night guarded only by the company of 17th century Dutch militia watchmen depicted in Rembrandt's best-known painting. Kasper won his golden ticket Thursday while on an outing with students from the Montessori College in Aerdenhout just outside the ... More |
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| Sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore lead Christie's Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale | | $1 million Han carved jade jar on view now at Gianguan Auctions | | Akron Art Museum presents rarely seen artworks with Serial Intent |
Henry Moore, Family Group, 1946. Estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale on 26 June will launch 20th Century at Christies, a season of sales that take place in London from 17 to 30 June 2017. Fifty-five works in the evening auction represent British and Irish art across the 20th Century. The auction will be led by Henry Moores Family Group (1946, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000) and Barbara Hepworths Curved Form (Bryher II) (1961, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000), which is being offered from the Tuttleman Collection. Further sculptures from the collection include London (1966, estimate: £500,000-700,000) by Sir Anthony Caro, and Henry Moores Seated Woman (1975, estimate: £600,000-900,000). A group of seven Lowry paintings from five decades of the artists output include a self-portrait of the artist titled Boy in a Yellow Jacket (1935, estimate: £400,000-600,000) and a cityscape depicting the first ... More | |
Han Dynasty carved jade jar. Lot 120, Gianguan Auctions. June 10 sale.
NEW YORK, NY.- In anticipation of the fifteenth running of Gianguan Auctions annual summer sale on June 10, the gallery opened its preview on June 2, with a viewing of all properties including the star lot, a massive carved jade jar valued at $1M or more. The albaster-white vessel is worked in deep relief with eighteen mythical qilin, fire breathing beasts with hooves and bi-forcated tails said to appear in the presence of a sage or illustrious leader. They coil, slither, and weave amongst one another above a base relief of upright leaves and a fret band. The vase is 11" tall and wighs more than 20 lbs. Created during the Han Dynasty (206-220AD), the craftsmanship is remarkably sophisticated. (At the time, jade carvings were made by wearing away the hard-as-steel stone with carborundum sand and a soft tool.) According to Kwong Lum, President of Gianguan Auctions, the spectacular offering was likely a very special commission. It will so ... More | |
Robert Indiana, Numbers, 1968, screenprints on paper, 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. each Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Museum Acquisition Fund, 1969.10 a-j.
AKRON, OH.- Artists sometimes create works of art that are meant to be viewed on their own as individual masterpieces. However, they sometimes create with Serial Intent, using multiple related artworks to address a bigger idea. With Pop Art prints, dramatic photographic series, evocative narratives, and more, the Akron Art Museums new exhibition Serial Intent offers visitors the rare opportunity to experience multi-part artwork within the serial contexts intended by the artists who created them. Assistant Curator Elizabeth Carney said, Serial Intent highlights major serial artworks in the Akron Art Museum collection that can usually only be shown with one or two examples at a time. By focusing the exhibition on the serial format as an artists tool, we invite viewers to delve deeper into central ideas developed over multiple different but related images. There are many types of stories to be explored in the 26 series on di ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by artists who draw from the visual vocabulary of Minimalism on view at Lehmann Maupin | | Groundbreaking 20th-century artists illuminate the subject of tools with wit and wonder | | Erwin Wurm presents his series of Performative Sculptures at the 21er Haus |
From a whisper to a scream Installation view, Lehmann Maupin, New York May 25September 1, 2017. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting From a whisper to a scream, a group exhibition featuring work by Teresita Fernández, Jeffrey Gibson, and Shirazeh Houshiary. The artists in this exhibition all draw from the visual vocabulary of Minimalism in their use of industrial materials, deliberate restriction of form, and engagement of physical space, but do so in order to communicate social, political, and cultural meaning in a way that the 1960s movement always resisted. Through painting and sculpture, each artist transforms this typically self-referential genre into one that speaks as loudly as narrative imagery. Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, FL; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) creates vast abstracted landscapes of minimal color and form that attempt to capture how we experience our surroundings, ... More | |
Lucas Samaras, Brush, 1968, silk screen relief. Photo courtesy of Joel Breger.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces the summer exhibition ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection, an engaging and thought-provoking look at the unexpected subject of tools, on view from June 2 through August 27, 2017. From the collection of American hardware-store tycoon John Hechinger, ReTooled features more than 40 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and photographs that provide a dynamic entry point into the rich themes, materials, and processes of 20th-century art. John Hechinger was both witty and brave as a collector, and he believed we should be surrounded by art in our everyday lives, says Catherine Walworth, CMA curator. Thanks to his particular compulsion for tools, ReTooled is a fun and relatable experience with art. For diehard contemporary art fans, its an opportunity to see some of the most important postwar artists tackling a subject close to their hearts as ... More | |
Exhibition View "Erwin Wurm - Performative Sculptures" © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017. Photo: Johannes Stoll.
VIENNA.- With Erwin Wurm, the 21er Haus presents one of the most important protagonists of Austrian contemporary art. The internationally renowned artist will participate in several major exhibitions around the world throughout 2017 and, alongside Brigitte Kowanz, occupies the Austrian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. At the 21er Haus, he presents his series of Performative Sculptures. For more than 35 years, Erwin Wurm has been exploring the basic conditions of sculpture in terms of mass, volume, weight, statics and proportion. He exaggerates these categories that are intrinsic to art and confronts them with our socio-political norms and values. The radicalism of his venture to expand on conventional categorizations is reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp, who declared experimental, visual thinking as an artistic programme that enables new avenues for art to ... More |
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| New exhibition showcases recent acquisition of 62 works by 22 contemporary African American artists | | Hamburger Kunsthalle opens exhibition of works by Jose Dávila | | 7th edition of the Art History Festival opens at Fontainebleau castle |
Mary T. Smith (1904-1955), "Untitled," 1987. Paint on wood, 32 x 24 in.Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection. Artwork: © Estate of Mary T. Smith. Photo: Gamma One Conversions. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present Revelations: Art from the African American South, an original exhibition celebrating the historic acquisition of 62 works of art by 22 contemporary African American artists. Works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by acclaimed artists such as Thornton Dial (1928-2016), Ralph Griffin (1925-1992), Bessie Harvey (1929-1994), Lonnie Holley (b. 1950), Joe Light (1934-2005), Ronald Lockett (1965-1998), Joe Minter (b. 1943), Jessie T. Pettway (b. 1929), Mary T. Smith (1904-1995), Mose Tolliver (1919-2006), Annie Mae Young (1928-2012), and Purvis Young (1943-2010). These pieces join the Fine ... More | |
Jose Dávila (*1974), Joint effort, 2017. Marmorzylinder, Floatglas und Spanngurte, 270 x 200 x 120 cm © Courtesy of the artist. Photo: AgustÃn Arce.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition format Uncharted Territory features each year in the eponymous project space a different international artist whose work engages with global processes of change and issues of migration, identity, and place. Jose Dávila (b. 1974 in Guadalajara) from Mexico is the second artist to be invited by the Hamburger Kunsthalle to conceive new works specifically for this space. For Uncharted Territory, Dávila developed some of his signature fragile yet imposing space-filling installations. His sculptures play with the tensions inherent in physical forces, balance, and mass. Experimenting with the mutually supporting and opposing forces of various combinations of materials and forms, the artist creates constellations that are only stable as a coherent whole. An image of sensitive and elegant harmony is generated, which always resonates with a sense of vulnerability. ... More | |
Jeff Koons is the guest of honor Photo: © Thibault Chapotot.
PARIS.- The 7th edition of the Art History Festival is being held from June 2 to 4, 2017 at Fontainebleau castle and city. Nature is the festivals main theme in 2017 while The United States is invited as guest country and Jeff Koons as the guest of honor. The Art History Festival, unique event in Europe, gathers worldwide art history specialists every year. Conceived as a crossroad between publics and knowledge, the event is open to everyone and is completely free of charge. This three day festival offers lectures, discussions, concerts, exhibitions, screenings, and tours about art history. The event welcomed more than 27 000 visitors in 2016. This years programme proposes more than 300 events, and is structured around three main themes: the annual theme, the guest country and the Forum de lactualité (forum on current events in the world of art history). The 7th edition of the Art History Festival invites y ... More |
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Gorgeous antique advertising signs, '30s-era magicians' posters, more at Weiss Auctions
LYNBROOK, NY.- Ocean liner memorabilia will take center stage at Weiss Auctions June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard the RMS Titanic on April 13, 1912, an original life ring from the SS Andrea Doria, and a glass clock given to first class passengers on the maiden voyage of the SS Normandie in 1935 will all come up for bid in the firms gallery at 74 Merrick Road. The Thursday auction has a 10 am (Eastern) start time and is packed with hundreds of lots of antique advertising, rare books, historical memorabilia, autographs and more. Along with the ocean liner items is the lifetime coffee advertising collection of Lowell and Barbara Schindler, featuring not just coffee items but also syrup dispensers, talcum tins, signs and other rare pieces. The Schindler collection is so massive it will be spread out over several sales. For those unable to attend in person, ... More
Liverpool salutes 'Sgt. Pepper' as Beatles opus hits 50
LIVERPOOL (AFP).- With fireworks, murals and new Beatles memorabilia, the home city of the Fab Four is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's landmark "Sgt. Pepper" album with an artistic feast. The "Sgt. Pepper at 50: Heading for Home" festival pays tribute to the era-defining record in the English northwestern port city of Liverpool that still attracts hundreds of thousands of the group's fans every year. "It's truly amazing to see our home town come together to celebrate this album in such style," Paul McCartney said in a statement to mark the anniversary. It was McCartney, along with bandmate John Lennon, who wrote most of The Beatles' songs. "It's touching to see, after all this time, what 'Sgt. Pepper' means to so many people," he said. Lennon and McCartney, guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr broke the mold with "Sgt. Pepper's ... More
The art of everyday objects growing like mushrooms
AMSTERDAM (AFP).- What is nicer after a long day than sinking your feet into comfortable slippers? But one Italian designer is hoping to show that shoes made from mushrooms can be just as cosy. A pair of light brown slippers, bowls, lampshades and even a chair are also among the everyday objects that artist Maurizio Montalti has been fashioning from various fungi, such as the "mushrooms that you find in the forest when you take a walk." Montalti, 36, hopes one day his new, sustainable material could even replace plastic, made from diminishing fossil fuels and difficult to recycle. "I started working with fungi as part of my design practice a few years ago," he told AFP, saying he was seeking a "different vision" on the benefits of humans engaging "with species, which are usually disregarded, such as fungal organisms." His prime material is mycelium, the white, organic and ... More
Reena Spaulings's first solo exhibition in a museum opens in Cologne
COLOGNE.- Whoor whatis Reena Spaulings? Since 2004 the name has stood for various collective artistic activities. Initially Reena Spaulings was the title of a novel written by an undisclosed number of anonymous authors from the circle of the artist collective Bernadette Corporation. Around the same time, a commercial gallery with an exhibition space in New York was founded, which since then has represented artists such as Merlin Carpenter, Jutta Koether, Claire Fontaine, and Klara Lidén. Also in 2004, an artist collective was formed that operates under the name of the fictional artist Reena Spaulings, creating collective paintings that are both reflective of the system and self-deprecating. Her And No is Reena Spaulingss first solo exhibition in a museum. The presentation focuses on the collectives artistic work. Created especially for this exhibition and including ... More
Early 19th century ship's log reveals artistic wonder as it comes up for auction at Swann Galleries
NEW YORK, NY.- An early 19th century ships log book transformed into an extraordinary artistic endeavour by its author will appear for sale at Swann Auction Galleries in New York on June 7. The Astraea, a Royal Navy Apollo-class frigate launched in 1810 that served during the Napoleonic Wars, spent seven years in ordinary as a merchant vessel before conversion to a hospital ship in 1823. It was during this period that its captain, William Hodgson, undertook at least two voyages, recording their routine daily events under the titles Journal of a Voyage, from Bristol to the Mediterranean, Anno Domini 1819 and Log-Book Kept on board the Astraea On a Voyage from London to the Mediterranean, Anno-Domini 1821. Content-wise they summarise matter-of-fact information such as direction, speed, weather and crew chores. However, Hodgson turned them into ... More
Global bidders drive interest at Heritage's 20th Century Design Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Bidders from Europe and Asia drove high interest during Heritage Auctions' May 25 20th Century Design featuring Tiffany, Lalique and Art Glass Auction in Dallas. With bids coming in steadily across all Heritage bidding platforms, 95 percent by value of the lots sold. "Overall, we saw a lot of interest in the design and studio glass objects. Bidders from around the world bid on the nearly 500 pieces available, and there was considerable activity from bidders in Europe and Asia. An impressive number of Lalique pieces sold, and I think that is a testament to the diversity and quality of the lots offered," said Nick Dawes, Vice President of Special Collections The next Tiffany and Art Glass auction will be held November 14 in Dallas. Among the runaway bidding for Modernist studio glass offerings, a gorgeous multi-hued 21st-century piece by Toots Zynsky, Glass ... More
Marlborough Contemporary opens Susan Te Kahurangi King's first solo gallery show in Europe
LONDON.- Marlborough Contemporary announced an exhibition of works on paper by the self-taught New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King. Marking her first solo gallery show in Europe, the exhibition brings into to focus 32 drawings from throughout the artists career, offering an overview of Kings surreal and psychedelic landscapes, populated by her idiosyncratic characters. Born in 1951 in Te Aroha, New Zealand, King was raised with eleven siblings on the North Island. Sometime between the ages of four and nine years, King gradually stopped speaking, over a period when she would still occasionally hum or sing while she drew. King then ceased drawing for a 20 year period, until with the encouragement of her mother and siblings she resumed again in 2008. The artist's extended family - beginning at an early age with her maternal grandmother - have dedicated ... More
Kunsthalle Basel opens exhibition of works by Yan Xing
BASEL.- In truth, I dont quite know how to begin the story I am about to tell. Let me start with this: I am real, flesh and bones, the director of Kunsthalle Basel and curator of its program. I invited Chinese artist Yan Xing to create a new body of work for his first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland. He conceived an exhibition that includes, as one of its many elements, a displaced, unremarkable object: the ceiling lamp from above my office desk. This decision impacts my daily work for the duration of the show. You might not have noticed the lamps curved, frosted glass cover and metal hardware, but now you know that their being in the show means they are not in my office, not lighting my way. These are facts, irrefutable and simple. But here the story becomes complicated. Yan Xing, also of flesh and bones, has invented a fictive artist in whose exhibition, Dangerous ... More
Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens a retrospective of the art of Terry St. John
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting a retrospective of the art of Terry St. John. St. John is among the most celebrated artists working in the style of Bay Area Figuration. This exhibition features paintings created over the course of sixty years, from the mid-1950s to today. St. John was born in Sacramento, California, in 1934. By the time he entered the University of California, Berkeley, in 1954, artists such as David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and James Weeks were experimenting with a style of figurative painting heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Although St. John earned an undergraduate degree in the social sciences, he became immersed in the fine arts scene during his senior year and, in 1960, went on to study at the California School of Fine Arts under Weeks, who would have a lasting impact on his process. Several years later, he enrolled ... More
Garment District Space for Public Art presents 'Body Language' by artist Lesia Sochor
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance unveiled the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing a series of paintings titled Body Language, created by artist Lesia Sochor. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 132 West 36th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through July 28th. Body Language is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year, and has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. Lesia Sochors artwork truly portrays the beauty and art of fashion, and its power to represent an individuals unique character, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Body Language embodies the spirit of this neighborhood, and we are thrilled to showcase Lesias wonderful work through the Garment ... More
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts appoints new Modern and Contemporary Art Curator
RICHMOND, VA.- Valerie Cassel Oliver has been named the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A curator with a proven eye for emerging artists and the integration of new disciplines with traditional art forms, Cassel Oliver was selected after a comprehensive national search. She will join VMFA on July 7, 2017. Cassel Oliver comes to the museum from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she rose to the position of senior curator during her 16-year tenure. Her experience includes co-curating the Whitney Museum of American Arts Biennial Exhibition in 2000; directing the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and administering grants as a program specialist with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Valerie is one of the most ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy was born June 03, 1877. June 3.- Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 - 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, Scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. In this image: Raoul Dufy, 1914, Le Cavalier arabe (Le Cavalier blanc), oil on canvas, 66 x 81 cm, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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