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Calder: Hypermobility focuses on the extraordinary breadth of movement and sound in the work of Alexander Calder.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1930s, Alexander Calder (1898?1976) invented an entirely new mode of art, the mobile?a kinetic form of sculpture in which carefully balanced components manifest their own unique systems of movement. These sculptures operate in highly sophisticated ways, ranging from gentle rotations to uncanny gestures, and at times trigger unpredictable percussive sounds. Calder: Hypermobility, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, focuses on the extraordinary breadth of motion achieved by Calder from the moment he turned to radical abstraction in 1930 and continuing throughout the subsequent decades of his career. This exhibition brings together a rich constellation of key works, some of which will be activated regularly in the gallery to more fully elucidate their inherent motion and their relationship to performance as well as the theatrical stage. In addition to the gallery display, a central component of the exhibition is ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at 'Bion', a piece by US artists Adam Brown and Andrew H. Fagg presented at the Itau Cultural center in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 9, 2017 during the 'Cybernetic Awareness' exhibit. The exhibition reflects on the evolution of machines, increasingly complex and fast, capable of performing functions such as those performed by biological brains. NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP
| The Morgan explores Henry James's lifelong fascination with the visual arts | | Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of the Fondazione Piero Manzoni | | Museum De Reede in Antwerp opens its doors |
John Singer Sargent (18561925), Henry James, 1913, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London; Bequeathed by Henry James, 1916. NPG 1767.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1884, Henry James (1843 1916) wrote in The Art of Fiction: The analogy between the art of the painter and the art of the novelist is, so far as I am able to see, complete. Their inspiration is the same, their process (allowing for the different quality of the vehicle), is the same, their success is the same. They may learn from each other, they may explain and sustain each other. Their cause is the same, and the honour of one is the honour of another. Henry James and American Painting, on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, is the first exhibition to explore the authors deep and lasting interest in the visual arts and their profound impact on the literature he produced. Offering a fresh perspective on the master novelist, the show reveals the importance of Jamess friendships with American artists such as John La Farge, John Singer Sargent, and James ... More | |
Piero Manzoni, Merda dartista (Artists shit) n. 20, 53, 68, 78, 80, 1961. Tin can and printed paper, 4.8 x 0.6 cm. Photo: Agostino Osio, Milan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milan, and Hauser & Wirth jointly announced today the gallerys exclusive worldwide representation of renowned late Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933 1963). Manzoni emerged as a powerful voice for the avant garde in the 1950s, during a moment of social upheaval in Europe caused by the rapid growth of postwar industry and technology. During a brief but influential career that ended with his untimely death from a heart attack in 1963 at the age of 29, Manzoni evolved from a self-taught abstract painter into a change agent and engineer of new ideas about artistic practice. Together with Enrico Castellani he founded Azimut gallery and Azimuth magazine (1959 1960), intended to forge an international dialogue and unite artistic movements across Italy and the rest of Europe. Among those published in Azimuth ... More | |
Museum De Reede. © MDR, Anvers.
ANTWERP.- An initiative by Dutchman Harry Rutten, who donated his art collection containing mainly prints by Goya, Rops and Munch to a Belgian foundation, Museum De Reede in Antwerp is dedicated exclusively to graphic art. Antwerp as a location for the new museum was a deliberate decision, not only because the city is an important centre of culture, it has also cherished an age-long tradition of graphic art, with worldfamous printers, such as Christoffel Plantin and Jan Moretus. MDRs unique and ever-increasing collection does not only cover work by three masters of graphic art, Francisco Goya, Félicien Rops and Edvard Munch as the core of the collection, also Jacob Toornvliet, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Käthe Kollwitz are represented, next to some fifteen Belgian artists, among whom Rik Wouters, Henri Evenepoel, Edgard Tytgat, Eugeen Van Mieghem, Walter Sauer, Gustave Van de Woestijne, Hugo Claus and well- ... More |
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| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac to represent the Estate of James Rosenquist | | Exhibition presents an overview of the architecture and interiors of the De Stijl movement | | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens comprehensive exhibition on the GORGONA Group |
James Rosenquist working on Flash Life Aripeka, Florida, 1989, Photo: Russ Blaise.
PARIS.- The James Rosenquist Estate (New York), and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Paris, Salzburg) announced that Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac will represent the Estate of James Rosenquist worldwide. The James Rosenquist Estate is very pleased to be represented by Thaddaeus Ropac. We have long appreciated Thaddaeus' enthusiastic commitment to Jim's work. Their friendship was a strong one and we are happy to see it continue in this way. Jim's work and legacy are in great hands. (Mimi Thompson Rosenquist, Board Director) Ropacs longstanding experience with Rosenquists artwork has contributed to an enduring partnership, first with the artists studio and now with the estate. states Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the major restrospective of James Rosenquists works at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003 and subsequently Vice President ... More | |
Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren, 1923. Archive of Theo and Nelly van Doesburg, RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History.
THE HAGUE.- The architecture and interiors of De Stijl are famous around the world. Dutch architects and designers like Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud blazed the trail for generations of progressive thinkers who came after them. The historical roots of De Stijl are less well-known. This summer, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Het Nieuwe Instituut (which holds the greatest architecture collection in the world) present an overview of drawings, architectural models and furniture by members of the influential art movement. Exhibited side by side for the first time ever, the works offer surprising insights: what seems simple and straightforward at first sight proves to be ambiguous and complex. And what appears brand-new may turn out not to have been. A new universal style ... More | |
Ivan Koarić, Inner eyes, 1959/1960, courtesy MSU Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
VADUZ.- In 1959, a number of painters, sculptors, an architect, art critics and art theorists came together in the capital of Croatia Zagreb to found the GORGONA Group. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is mounting the first comprehensive exhibition in the German-speaking world for forty years to deal with GORGONA. The shared aim of Miljenko Horvat, Marijan Jevovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Koarić, Mangelos, Matko Metrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder and Josip Vanita was to establish a new aesthetic practice that differed from practices in socialist Yugoslavia, at the same time engaging in a dialogue with international avant-gardes. The group did not present themselves to the public with programmatic proclamations, nor did they develop a common vocabulary of form. Instead, the groups activities in exhibitions, in the Anti-Magazine GORGONA, in discussions, ... More |
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| Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery exhibits works by pioneering electronic artist Jim Campbell | | The Serpentine opens major exhibition of new work by Grayson Perry | | Sotheby's Spring Sales of Important Design bring $10.4 million in New York |
Jim Campbell, Data Transformation, 2017. Custom electronics, LEDs, treated Plexiglas, 33 x 65 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Edition of 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is presenting Abstract Document, its fourth exhibition with pioneering electronic artist Jim Campbell. For over twenty years, Campbell has been exploring the medium of light and LED technology in relation to video and sculpture. His career personifies the metamorphosis of film and form into an immersive experience reflective of our digital culture. The ten works in Abstract Document depict one day at a recent political rally, rendered across multiple formats. Born in 1956, Campbell earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. He has exhibited internationally for over twenty years. Major public commissions have been completed at Madison Square Park, New York, the San Diego International Airport and Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Widely considered one of the pioneering electronic artists of the twenty-first century, Campbell ... More | |
Grayson Perry, King of Nowhere, 2015, Cast iron and mixed media, Photography: Stephen White © Grayson Perry.
LONDON.- The Serpentine has invited British artist Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, to present a major exhibition of new work. The works in the show touches on many themes including popularity and art, masculinity and the current cultural landscape. Perrys abiding interest in his audience informs his choice of universally human subjects. Working in a variety of traditional media such as ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry, Perry is best known for his ability to combine delicately crafted objects with scenes of contemporary life. His subject matter is drawn from his own childhood and life as a transvestite, as well as wider social issues ranging from class and politics to sex and religion. Taking place during the Serpentines popular summer season, when the parks enjoy hugely increased local and international audiences, The Most Popular Art ... More | |
Jean-Théodore Dupas, Eight Panels from The Birth of Aphrodite Mural from the Grand Salon of the S.S. Normandie circa 1934, verre églomisé, 98. x 121⅝ in. Estimate in the region of $1 million. Sold for $1,392,500. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys trilogy of Important Design sales concluded yesterday in New York, with a market-leading total of $10.4 million. More than 275 works were sold over the course of the day, representing a strong overall sell-through rate of 83%. Below is an overview of some of the highlights that drove outstanding results this season: Emerging from the celebrated Forbes Family Collection, an exceedingly rare group of eight panels by Jean Dupas from the S.S. Normandie led the Important Design sale, achieving $1.4 million a new auction record for Dupass coveted Art Deco panels and the top price of this weeks Design auctions in New York. The stunning reverse-glass panels are part of the monumental History of Navigation mural, designed by French artist Jean Dupas for the luxury voyageurs Grand Salon. ... More |
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| American masterpieces highlight national identity, wildlife, and the environment at Shelburne Museum | | Galerie Peter Kilchmann opens its third solo exhibition with Hernan Bas | | Ndidi Emefiele's first solo show in London opens at rosenfeld porcini |
Charles Deas, The Death Struggle, 1840-1845. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, museum purchase, acquired from Maxim Karolik, 1959-265.16. Photography by Bruce Schwarz.
SHELBURNE, VT.- This summer, Shelburne Museum presents Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art, the first major exhibition to explore the visual culture of hunting and fishing in both painting and sculpture from the early 19th century to World War II. The aesthetically rich and culturally important works on view play an influential role in the history of American art. This exhibition encompasses a wide variety of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes, including iconic works by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent, as well as key pictures by specialist sporting artists such as Charles Deas, Alfred Jacob Miller, Carl Rungius, and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. In addition, it sheds new light on modernist interpretations of these subjects by George Bellows and Marsden ... More | |
Hernan Bas, A Bloomsbury group, 2017. Acrylic on linen, 54.5 x 44.5 cm (21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.), framed.
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann is presenting its third solo exhibition with Hernan Bas. Hernan Bas was born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, where he still lives and works. His paintings and works on paper are influenced both in narrative as pictorically by his fantasies with the aesthetic and decadent writers of the 19th century, such as Oscar Wilde or Joris-Karl Huysman. He often displays protagonists that seem to be lost as if in a game of their own making. Within the framework of the exhibition, Hernan Bas presents a newly created group of works consisting of large and small-scale paintings of acrylic on linen as well as works on paper. A catalog with a text by Storm Janse van Rensburg will be published on occasion of the exhibition. Under the title Bloomsbury revisited, Hernan Bas embarks on an expedition to the bohemian world of the Bloomsbury Group, the members of which include writers, painters and philosophers such as Dunc ... More | |
Ndidi Emefiele, Play 1, 2017. Acrylic, printed paper-cut-outs, textile embellishment, clock bezel and fabric on canvas, 140 x 120 cm.
LONDON.- rosenfeld porcini is presenting Ndidi Emefieles (*1987 - Abuja, Nigeria) first solo show in London. Over the last nine months, the artist worked on a new compelling body of mixed media works on canvas that have been unveiled across the gallery's two-floors. The exhibition also features two large-scale paintings that testify to her increasing ambition. Drawing on cultural, gendered and personal references, Ndidi Emefiele creates layered figurative compositions that obsessively address female identity within contemporary Nigerian society. Yet her narrative has a far wider relevance. Emefieles vivid canvases embrace a vision of women as strong, self-reliant characters who exist in relation to each other in a universe where the male is only noticed by his total absence. The women who inhabit her works are in total command of whatever ... More |
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Two works by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist transform the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, continues its ongoing series of grand-scale, immersive presentations with Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish. This special exhibition brings together two mesmerizing works newly acquired by the MFAH: Pixel Forest (2016), an installation of thousands of hanging LED lights, and Worry Will Vanish (2014), a two-channel video projection that takes viewers on a dream-like journey through the natural landscape, the human body, and the heavens above. Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish will transform the Museums central Cullinan Hall from June 11 to September 17, 2017. Pipilotti Rist has been among contemporary arts chief innovators since the mid-1980s. Over the past 30 years, she has pushed the boundaries between video and the built environment, exploiting new technologies to create ... More
Exhibition asks What characterizes Norwegian architecture 2011-16?
OSLO.- A floating rental cabin along the harbourside in Oslo, co-living units with a social and sustainable profile, a memorial centre at Utøya, some of the largest urban transformations in Norwegian history, and a visitor centre for prehistoric cave paintings that gently burrows into the landscape in Lascaux, France, designed by Snøhetta. These are some of the projects that visitors will see at A Place to Be: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 20112016. The exhibition focuses on five thematic categories: Dwelling, Shelter, Transformation, Recreation, and The heart of the city. The various projects presented under these banners differ greatly in scope, nature, and approach, but have in common that they have been selected as the most characteristic results of contemporary Norwegian architecture over the past five years. A distinctly Norwegian architecture? What ... More
The Ringling opens 'Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art'
SARASOTA, FLA.- Demonstrating a continuing interest and commitment to the study of Asian Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art presents Eternal Offerings, which showcases nearly 100 Chinese bronze objects from the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). Mias Asian art collection is considered one of the most important in the United States, and this exhibition at The Ringling is the first time these significant objects will have toured. When The Ringling opened the Center for Asian Art in the Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Gallery of Asian Art in May 2016, it was with the goal to continue to cultivate partnerships with individuals and institutions around the globe, creating a site for scholars and enthusiasts of Asian art and culture. Bringing this significant collection to our galleries from the Minneapolis Institute of Art reaffirms this commitment, said Steven High, executive director. ... More
Sebastiano Navara's latest series of work on view at Miaja Gallery
SINGAPORE.- Miaja Gallery is presenting Sebastiano Navara's latest series of work titled Silent Cities following his first and exhibition in Singapore last year featuring his Renascimental Series. Metaphysical Art arose in Italy during a periodically historic movement where Avant-garde met Futuristic Art and imposed itself in a conceptual opposition. Where the futurism motion is velocity and dynamism, the metaphysical is all motionless, static, without time, where spaces and things turn to stone in absolute silence. What eventually became known as Metaphysical Art transmitted totally new messages, loaded with proposals of intense interest which suggested simplistic, magical atmospheres. The reality of Metaphysical Art resembles the one we already know and see but when we look with more attention the light and colours become unreal. The geometry of perspective seems ... More
Kunstmuseum Luzern opens exhibition of works by Gilles Rotzetter
LUCERNE.- Did you know that small, neutral Switzerland once wanted to become an atomic power? And that in 1945 it was not even so badly positioned for this? Under the leadership of the renowned physicist Paul Scherrer and his successors, a commission dealt with the civilian and military use of nuclear power 19461988. What we see and perceive in history is determined by numerous filters: medial, political, contemporary, social, personal. Gilles Rotzetter is interested in the blind spots and the forgotten storerooms of history. His latest work cycle and the exhibition Swiss Atomic Love are dedicated to this piece of forgotten Swiss history. Over a period of two years Gilles Rotzetter undertook research in different archives on this little known aspect of Swiss history. His artistic research meanders through the history of the Swiss atomic bomb, digresses, takes up on people and facts, ... More
Exhibition at Georgia Museum of Art explores how architect Gio Ponti changed the Italian aesthetic
ATHENS, GA.- Who needs sleep when you have a drawing board in your bedroom to work all hours of the night? Italian architect and designer Giò Ponti may have been prolific because he brought his work into his bedroom. Over a long career, Ponti fused traditional Italian technique with modern material, design and industry. A collection of his work can be seen at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia beginning June 10 in the exhibition Modern Living: Giò Ponti and the 20th-Century Aesthetics of Design. Organized by guest curator Perri Lee Roberts, professor of art history at the University of Miami, the exhibition focuses on Pontis outstanding career from the 1920s through the 1950s. Born in Milan, Italy, in 1891, Ponti originally wanted to be a painter but turned to a more practical career when his family objected. He began his studies in architecture at ... More
Cooper Hewitt opens exhibition guest-curated by Esperanza Spalding
NEW YORK, NY.- As guest curator of the next exhibition in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museums Selects series, musician and four-time Grammy Awardwinner Esperanza Spalding has lent her creative vision to shed light on the museums collection. On view June 9 through Jan. 7, 2018, in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery, Esperanza Spalding Selects is the 15th installation in the series in which designers, artists, architects and public figures are invited to examine and interpret the museums collection of more than 210,000 objects. For her presentation, Spalding has created thought-provoking juxtapositions among objects to show how material evolves into different forms as new designers adapt it for their own locales and cultural functions. Esperanza thinks boldly and deeply about design, music and culture, said Caroline Baumann ... More
Huis Marseille opens exhibition of works by Andres Serrano
AMSTERDAM.- The oeuvre of the prominent artist Andres Serrano (New York, 1950) is both provocative and fascinating. In terms of scale, composition and subject matter his works of art show strong similarities to the work of the Old Masters, but unlike these old paintings Serranos work confronts us powerfully and directly with contemporary reality. Serrano has a deep interest in the condition humaine, which he photographs in ways that are both moving and unsettling, but he passes no judgements. Revealing Reality is the first large Dutch exhibition of Andres Serranos work in twenty years. The exhibition includes a collection of works from Serranos newest series Torture, Denizens of Brussels and the Residents of New York, together with photographs drawn from the earlier series Bodily Fluids, Cuba, The Church, Nomads and Holy Works, among others. Serrano has a masters hand ... More
James Cohan exhibits works by Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, and Alan Saret
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of works by Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, and Alan Saret. The works in the exhibition are united by their physicality and adept spatial integration. Known primarily for their sculptures, these artists appropriate the floors and walls of the gallery as compositional elements. The interplay between the sculptures and exhibition space creates new tensions and changes the viewers experience of both the art and architecture by obstructing pathways and emphasizing the artists unexpected materials. The exhibition is on view at the gallerys Lower East Side location from June 9 through July 28, 2017. Nahum Tevet (b. 1947, Kibbutz Mesilot, Israel) builds complex, planar sculptures from wooden boards, sheets of metal and glass. The variation of Tevets materials and textures emphasize the geometric dissonance ... More
Rare 1936 Berlin Olympics US basketball team gold medal headlines auction
DAVENPORT, WASH.- Weve all heard the one about how Mom threw out baseball cards that are now worth a fortune. Grant Zahajkos June 24 Sports Cards & Memorabilia Auction tells a refreshingly different version of the story through a trove of 1950s/60s baseball cards that were left untouched and beautifully preserved by one lucky collectors mom. This is a great story, said Zahajko, who is the Spokane-area companys owner and auctioneer. Around 20 years ago the consignor went to help him mom move and, in the process, discovered his boyhood collection of cards produced primarily by Topps from 1953 to 1962. He had always been fastidious about putting them in sleeves and keeping them in a climate-controlled environment. They were in such fantastic condition that when we sent them off for grading, many of them came back a condition nine. ... More
The historic Trotter-Byrd antebellum home in Quitman, Miss., and its contents will be sold June 24th
QUITMAN, MISS.- The only antebellum home in Quitman spared by General Sherman during the Civil War (but only because of a connection to George Washington), plus its outstanding contents of fine antiques, will be sold on-site Saturday, June 24th, on the grounds of the home itself, at 419 East Franklin Street. The real estate will come up for bid at 12 noon Central time. The 5,500-square-foot Greek Revival home known as the Trotter-Byrd house is a beautiful and historic gem, built in 1852 and situated on manicured grounds. Its most recent owners were Harry H. Wheat and the late Sarah Jane Wheat. The original occupant was the man who built the magnificent structure: William B. Trotter, originally from Tennessee and an attorney in Quitman. In 1845 Trotter was a candidate for 4th District Attorney while serving as a colonel in the 31st Regiment of the Mississippi ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Gustave Courbet was born June 10, 1819. ORNANS.- Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work. In this image: Self-portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843 - 1845 (Private collection).
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