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Frederic Church painting installation at PAFA. Photo: Maria Tessa Sciarrino / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts invites you to explore the idea of space and unique spaces in Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFAs Permanent Collection, on view June 30 September 9, 2018, and occupying both the Fisher Brooks Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building and the Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery in the Historic Landmark Building. Infinite Spaces brings together a range of objects, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, video, and installation to explore the ways in which artists have navigated their surroundings from the eighteenth century to the present day. Placing historic works in conversation with modern and contemporary works, Infinite Spaces highlights more than 100 new acquisitions and rarely seen gems from PAFAs historic collection of American art. One of the new acquisitions on view, Frederic Edwin Churchs masterful oil painting, Valley ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look at a painting by Flemish painter Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669) during an exhibition at the Flandre museum in Cassel, northern France, on June 26, 2018. PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP
| Glasgow art school to be partially demolished after blaze | | Rarely displayed pastels by Degas, Millet and their contemporaries on view at MFA Boston | | Art dynasty heir Wildenstein cleared at Paris fraud trial | 
In this file photo taken on June 16, 2018, smoke billows from the scene of a fire at the Glasgow school of art in Glasgow. One of the world's top art schools is to be partially demolished after it was gutted by a second devastating fire, Glasgow City Council said June 30, 2018. ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP.
EDINBURGH (AFP).- One of the world's top art schools is to be partially demolished after it was gutted by a second devastating fire, Glasgow City Council said Friday. Flames tore through the Glasgow School of Art's famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh building on June 15, destroying four years of restoration work after a previous blaze. Glasgow City Council confirmed parts of the building need to be brought down after surveys found that a sudden collapse "is likely, rather than possible". Demolition work is expected to start in the coming days. Raymond Barlow, the council's head of building control, said: "This building has undergone substantial stress in recent days. "With each passing day a sudden collapse becomes more likely. It has become urgent that we take down the ... More | | 
Edgar Degas (French, 18341917), Dancers in Rose, about 1900. Pastel on paper. Seth K. Sweetser Fund. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The fragility of powdery pigment and the light sensitivity of the paper on which it rests mean pastels can rarely be exhibitedtypically for only a few months per decade. French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), provides an opportunity to see nearly 40 masterworks by 10 avant-garde artists who reinvigorated the challenging medium in the 19th century, from depictions of rural life by Jean-François Millet to portrayals of ballerinas by Edgar Degas. Drawn primarily from the MFAs holdings and supplemented by key loans from a private collection, the exhibition is organized thematically, showcasing artists use of the colorful sticks of ground pigment to capture the ephemeralfleeting expressions of the face, the movement of fabric or atmospheric effectsand beauty in the mundane. Pastel, which required none of the drying time of oil paint, was ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 22, 2016 French American art dealer Guy Wildenstein arrives for his trial over tax fraud at the courthouse in Paris. A Paris court will rule on June 29, 2018 on the Wildenstein case appeal trial. Eric FEFERBERG / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Guy Wildenstein, the Franco-American patriarch of an art-dealing dynasty, was cleared Friday of tax fraud after being accused of hiding hundreds of millions of euros from French authorities. A first trial for him and other family members collapsed in January 2017, but French prosecutors successfully appealed for a re-trial, only to suffer a second setback on Friday when the Wildensteins were acquitted again. The appeal court "finds that the crime of tax fraud is outside the statute of limitations... and confirms the judgement" of the first trial, the presiding judge told a packed courtroom in Paris during a five-minute judgement. Prosecutors had called for a four-year prison sentence and a fine of 250 million euros for Wildenstein during the trial, which stems from a multi-generational inheritance squabble worthy of a soap opera. ... More |
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| Clark Art Institute opens video exhibition of works by Jennifer Steinkamp | | Julien's Auctions to offer property from the collection of Bob Mackie | | Galerie Lelong & Co. exhibits a selection of historical and recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper | 
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958). Premature, 6, 2010. Video installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Greengrassi, London. Image © James Ewing.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute will present the work of Los Angeles-based media and installation artist Jennifer Steinkamp as the subject of its first video exhibition. The exhibition, Jennifer Steinkamp: Blind Eye, consists of six pieces including a new projection, Blind Eye, conceived by the artist to interact with the Clarks 140-acre setting and the architecture of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. The exhibition is on view June 30October 8, 2018. This exhibition is particularly exciting for the Clark. Jennifer Steinkamps work will intrigue and surprise our visitors, said Olivier Meslay, the Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark. The Lunder Center galleries were created to give the Clark spaces that are well-suited for contemporary art. As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill, we are energized to present ... More | | 
Cher 1974 Academy Awards ensemble. Estimate: $4.000-6.000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions will celebrate the timeless glamour and inimitable style and genius of the legendary fashion and costume designer, Bob Mackie in Property from the Collection of Bob Mackie, the worldrecord breaking auction houses fashion auction event of the season taking place on Saturday, November 17, 2018 live in Los Angeles and online at julienslive.com (left to right: gown worn by Carol Burnett, Chers show worn ensemble and Raquel Welchs "Im a Woman" performance gown) Cher. Carol Burnett. Diana Ross. Raquel Welch. These are just some of the entertainment icons and muses Bob Mackie has designed for and whose legendary creations have captured the public imagination and made headlines around the world. From his unforgettable award winning wardrobe as the show costume designer for the first Carol Burnett Show during its entire eleven year run to his longtime collaboration with ... More | | 
Carolee Schneemann, Early Landscape, 1959. Oil on canvas, 49.75 x 34 inches © Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy PPOW Gallery and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Of the Self and of the Other, the first exhibition to bring together the works of Etel Adnan, Ione Saldanha, and Carolee Schneemann, featuring a selection of historical and recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Of the Self and of the Other is titled after one of Adnans poems, There: In the Light and in the Darkness of the Self and of the Other (1997). Contemplating the encounters between two entities which may influence and be influenced by the self and the other, the exhibition considers how these three artists focused on the relationship between body and landscape. The career of Lebanese-born Etel Adnan (b. 1925) spans several decades, encompassing a wide range of traditions, locations, and media, including painting, drawing, tapestry, film, ceramics, and prints. Renowned for her poetry and prose before also gaining international recognition ... More |
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| Tripoli Gallery opens exhibition of 40 new drawings and related sculptures by Keith Sonnier | | French nudists get cheeky with theme park and museum outings | | New publication celebrates 25 years of Tomasso Brothers Fine Art | 
Keith Sonnier, Monsieur Pierre (Flocked Series), 2010. Hand flocked found African mask, 10.5 x 7.5 x 5 in. Photo: Caterina Verde, Courtesy of the Artist and Tripoli Gallery Southampton © Keith Sonnier.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Tripoli Gallery opened its second solo exhibition with Keith Sonnier, Tragedy and Comedy. Curated around 40 new drawings and accompanied by related sculptures, Tragedy and Comedy is on view from June 29th through July 29th, 2018. Tragedy and Comedy illustrates the artists continued creative process during a period of personal health challenges. During this past year, Sonnier produced six new series of drawings, Pope Joan, Long Horn, Corrugated Twist, Floating Grid, Electrical Charge and lastly, inspiring the title of this exhibition, Tragedy and Comedy. Always a prolific draftsman, Sonniers works on paper provide a look into his process and the relationship between the two and three-dimensional aspects of his work. The act of drawing is essential to Sonniers ability to maintain his creative momentum. Sonnier ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on May 05, 2018 People take part in a nudist visit of the 'Discorde, Fille de la Nuit' season exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- After a nude yoga class in a Paris park and a "no clothes day" at the city's trendiest art museum, hundreds of naturists are due to descend on a theme park near the French capital Sunday for a spot of trampolining. France may be the world's top destination for naturist tourism -- with up to four million people holidaying "au naturel" every year -- but up until recently, French nudists have been rather more coy about shedding their clothes in the city. "We used to think it better not to show ourselves too much," said Cedric Amato, of the Paris naturism group ANP, which claims that the capital and its suburbs are home to as many as 88,000 nudists. But all that is changing now. Naturists are actively promoting a summer nudist zone, opened last year, in Paris' biggest park, the Bois de Vincennes. And there is no hiding their naked ambition to make further inroads. ... More | | 
Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), Pensiero of Eve Bewailing the Death of Abel, Terracotta, 25.4 cm (10 in.) high.
LONDON.- For the Summer edition of London Art Week 2018, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art is proud to present a new publication, TOMASSO XXV, a celebratory catalogue marking the many notable sales made in 25 years of activity. London Art Week runs from 29 June to 6 July 2018, and copies of TOMASSO XXV will be available at Marquis House, 67 Jermyn Street, St. Jamess, the London gallery of Tomasso Brothers. The catalogue features more than 50 works ranging from bronze sculptures to oil paintings, and dating from antiquity to the late Neoclassical periods, demonstrating the breadth and quality of works sold by Tomasso Brothers to museums and private collectors the world over. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art is recognised internationally for specializing in important European sculpture, thus works in wood, terracotta, marble and bronze feature prominently; however, Dino and Raffaello Tomasso are also passionate ... More |
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| City of San Antonio celebrates new nature-inspired public art installation at Elmendorf Lake Park | | HRH The Earl of Wessex opens transformed RAF Museum London | | Exhibition focuses on mystery of possible masterwork discovery | 
The artist team of RDG Dahlquist Art Studio collaborated with inaugural San Antonio Poet Laureate and former Texas State Poet Laureate, Carmen Tafolla, Ph.D., to incorporate text from her poems into the rippling water pattern. Photo: Michael Cirlos, III.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The City of San Antonio is celebrating the completion of Aguas Onduladas (Rippling Waters), a public art installation at Elmendorf Lake Park inspired by the natural beauty of the nearby lake. The artwork, comprised of three cut stainless steel waves, honors the natural elements with a pattern cut into the metal that resembles rippling water. The finish of the stainless steel provides a reflection of the viewer and light as if he or she was looking into water. The largest wave, located on the north end of the triangle, stands 12 feet at its tallest point. The smallest wave on the south end stands three feet at the shortest point. The artist team of RDG Dahlquist Art Studio collaborated with inaugural San Antonio Poet Laureate and former Texas State Poet Laureate, Carmen Tafolla, Ph.D., to incorporate text from her poems ... More | | 
Left to right: RAF Museum Chairman Sir Glenn Torpy_HRH The Earl of Wessex_RAF Museum Director of Content and Programmes karen Whitting and RAF Museum CEO Maggie Appleton.
LONDON.- His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex today attended the opening ceremony of the transformed RAF Museum London as part of the centenary celebrations of the Royal Air Force. After arriving in a 32 Sqn RAF helicopter, His Royal Highness met members of Museum staff, volunteers and partners who worked on and supported the transformation. Other VIPs at the ceremony included Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier (RAF Chief of Air Staff), HE Mr Khaled Al-Duwaisan (Ambassador of Kuwait) and Viscount Trenchard (grandson of the founding father of the RAF). Maggie Appleton, RAF Museum CEO said It was a pleasure and an honour to have The Earl of Wessex open our transformed London site in the RAFs Centenary year. Our new exhibitions not only explore the Royal Air Forces extraordinary history and people, but also give visitors the opportunity to look ... More | | 
The rediscovered painting appears to be an early, lost version of Hungarian artist Alexander von Wagners acclaimed masterpiece, The Chariot Race of 1882.
LAKELAND, FLA.- A large-scale painting of a Roman chariot race found in a closet on the Florida Southern College campus unearthed a mystery and became the impetus for a home-grown exhibition on view at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College. The Von Wagner Code is a curated exhibition centered on the rediscovered painting that appears to be an early, lost version of Hungarian artist Alexander von Wagners acclaimed masterpiece, The Chariot Race of 1882, now in the Manchester Art Gallery. Several early versions are known to have been painted originally in the 1870s but have vanished. This exhibition is also believed to be the first-ever museum show focused on von Wagner and his work, said Dr. Alex Rich, PMA curator and director of galleries and exhibitions. The fragile but newly-conserved painting measures 52 inches by 72 inches and was gifted to Florida Southern in 1953 as a 17th ... More |
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 Tunirrusiangit reflects the legacy of Inuit artists Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak TORONTO.- This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak, a unique celebration of two iconic Inuit artists as seen through the eyes of four contemporary Inuit curators. On view in Toronto the exhibition showcases over 100 works on paper by the grandmother of Inuit art Kenojuak Ashevak (19272013), and her nephew Tim Pitsiulak (19672016), one of the most sought-after contemporary Inuit artists in his lifetime. Brought vividly to life by a team of Inuit artists and curators including sculptor Koomuatuk Curley (based in Ottawa), writer and storyteller Taqralik Partridge (based in Kautokeino, Norway), curator Jocelyn Piirainen (based in Ottawa) and performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (based in Iqaluit) this exhibition marks a new type of curatorial ... More New Art Dealers Alliance opens first off-site group exhibition on Governors IslandNEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance, the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, announced the organizations first off-site exhibition, Close Quarters, featuring eight NADA Member galleries on Governors Island. Open July 129, artwork will be displayed across two floors of a historic turn-of-the-century Colonial Revival house on Governors Island, and will be on view every weekend in July, Friday through Sunday, 11am-5pm. The exhibition will feature artists Michael Mahalchick of CANADA, Asif Mian of False Flag, Rainer Ganahl of Kai Matsumiya, Fabienne Lasserre of Safe Gallery, Jerry the Marble Faun of SITUATIONS, Hayley Martell and Devin Morris of Signal, Johanna Unzueta of Proyectos Ultravioleta, and Jeff Williams of Jack Hanley Gallery. Partnerships ... More Saudi Arabia, Oman sites added to UNESCO World Heritage ListMANAMA (AFP).- UNESCO added Saudi Arabia's Al-Ahsa Oasis and Oman's ancient city of Qalhat to its World Heritage List on Friday, the world cultural body said. Authorities in Riyadh, as well as Muscat, have put tourism high on their economic agendas as Gulf states look to diversify their oil-dependent economies. Saudi Arabia's lush Al-Ahsa oasis is dotted with yet-to-be-excavated archeological sites, and carries traces of human occupation dating back to Neolithic times. Al-Ahsa "was a commercial centre for the Hajar territory of Bahrain," reads the Saudi submission to UNESCO. "Archaeological evidence shows that it exchanged products from southern Arabia and Persia as well as throughout the Arabian Peninsula." Riyadh's tourism drive, backed by reformist young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has not shied from highlighting pre-Islamic heritage ... More What made eight film directors choose a 1934 Rolls Royce 20/25 like this one for their movies?LONDON.- John Pye Luxury Assets is offering a 1934 Rolls Royce 20/25 for sale at an estimate of £25,000 to £35,000, giving some lucky bidder the chance to own a stunning piece of automotive history. The same model Rolls Royce was chosen again and again to play a key role in many films and TV shows here in the UK and the US. Something about this Rolls Royce model just appealed to film Directors. You could say it was To the Manor Born to be a film star!. Versions of this car made innumerable film appearances which include; The League of Gentlemen (1959), Father Came Too! (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), To Be or Not To Be (1983), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). The 1934 Muliner bodied car, chassis number (grc33), registration BMG443 was also used many times by the BBC and some Hollywood and UK ... More Exhibition explores the contributions of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis to American modern danceWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Dance We Must: Treasures from Jacobs Pillow, 1906-1940 explores the contributions of Jacobs Pillow founder Ted Shawn and the iconic Ruth St. Denis to American modern dance. Gathering over 350 materials, including more than 30 costumes and accessories, over 200 photographs, five original antique costume trunks, and a dozen original artworks from both the Jacobs Pillow Archives and Williams College Special Collections, the exhibition contextualizes the pioneering work of Shawn and St. Denis within the scope of American art history through artifacts that have never been seen before. Dance We Must is on view at Williams College Museum of Art from June 29 through November 11, 2018. The opening celebration will take place on July 2, featuring performances by Adam H. Weinert and Williams College Artist-in- ... More James Cohan opens Grids: A group exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery is presenting Grids, a group exhibition which considers how contemporary artists work within and against the Modernist notion of the grid. As Rosalind Krauss wrote in her seminal 1979 essay of the same name, the grid announces, among other things, modern arts will to silence, its hostility to literature, to narrative, to discourse. The works in this exhibition challenge such absolutism and play with the grid as an organizing principal, a structure, and a pattern. The exhibition brings together artists who work using a diverse range of materials and processes including Michelle Grabner, Elias Sime, Federico Herrero, Spencer Finch, Josiah McElheny, Simon Evans, Scott Olson, Beatriz Milhazes, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Sol LeWitt, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Fred Tomaselli. Grids is on view from June 28 through July 27. Central ... More First major exhibition dedicated to the iconic work of Grant and Mary Featherston opens in MelbourneMELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the first major exhibition dedicated to the iconic work of two of Australias most important and influential designers. Design for Life explores the career of Grant Featherston, arguably Australias most significant modernist designer, and his partnership with Mary Featherston, who is renowned for her design of learning environments for children. The Australian equivalents of Charles and Ray Eames, the Featherstons brought modernist ideas into everyday lives in the 1950s and beyond with their iconic furniturenow in high demand from a new generation of mid-century design enthusiasts. The exhibition charts Grant Featherstons rise to celebrity status in the 1950s and how his work captured the imaginations of ordinary Australians in their quest to be modern. Tracing his explorations of new materials and technologies ... More The Latvian National Museum of Art opens "Ciao! Niklāvs Strunke in Italy. The 1920s"RIGA.- The exhibition Ciao! Niklāvs Strunke in Italy. The 1920s is on view in the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga from 30 June to 9 September 2018. Poet Aleksandrs Čaks and other contemporaries credit artist Niklāvs Strunke (18941966) with the introduction of the Italian salutation ciao in Riga. While his peers were rushing to Paris, the most famous Latvian Italian from 1923 to 1927 lived in Rome, the Island of Capri and Florence, also travelling to Venice, Tuscany, the coast of the Gulf of Naples and Amalfi. In the Eternal City, the pittore lettone, who was captivated by Italy, rented a studio near the Vatican, in Florence in the old town of Oltrarno, while in Capri he settled on the side of the Marina Grande. The interwar years spent in Italy considerably stimulated the original artistic expression of the versatile ... More Generous gifts from a patron: The full extent revealed in new Art Gallery of Greater Victoria exhibitionVICTORIA, BC.- The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has been the grateful recipient, for almost four decades, of Asian art treasures from long-time patron, Dr. Judith Patt. These generous gifts have now coalesced into a new exhibition Remembering a Patron: Asian Art Donations from Dr. Judith Patt put together by her friend and AGGV Curator Emeritus Barry Till. The exhibition opens in the Graham Gallery on June 30. Dr. Patt was originally from Kansas City, Missouri, and found her way to Canada after completing a degree in architecture at Stanford University and a graduate degree in the history of art at UC Berkeley. Specializing in Asian art, she received her PhD in 1979 and joined University of Victoria in 1980 as an assistant professor of art history. She continued to develop expertise in Asian art; teaching the subject at UVic through the 1980s and ... More Dazzling immersive chromatic commission by Liz West installed at Paddington CentralLONDON.- British Artist, Liz West has been awarded her first permanent London commission at Paddington Central. You can experience the intense impact of colour in this new radiant site-specific sculpture, Colour Transfer, a dazzling immersive chromatic commission spanning the underside of Paddington Centrals Westway Bridge. The artwork comprises multiple angled coloured mirrors, vertically spanning the height of the brickwork to create an optically vibrant and kaleidoscopic installation. The prismatic shapes mirror the tunnels architecture. The colours apparent in the work change depending on where you are within the underpass. The work appears different from one direction to the other. The coloured mirrors are positioned in a spectral arrangement running from dark red to pale pink when entering the underpass from the left ... More Compton Verney opens an exhibition devoted to kinetic art and the history of automataCOMPTON VERNEY.- Roll up, roll up for Compton Verneys Marvellous Mechanical Museum! A rare opportunity to see an exhibition devoted to kinetic art and the history of automata. The Marvellous Mechanical Museum reimagines the spectacular automata exhibitions of the 18th century and invites us to step into a world which explores the boundaries of what is lifelike and what is alive and where artists, inventors and engineers collide. The exhibition traces the history of the early automata shows and androids alongside work by contemporary artists much of which has never been exhibited publicly before or has been created especially for the show all of which questions mankinds fascination with mimicking life forms both human and animal. Appropriately, The Marvellous Mechanical Museum coincides with the 200th anniversary of ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Stanley Spencer was born June 30, 1891. Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. In this image: Sarah Tubb and the Heavenly Visitors, 1933 by Stanley Spencer © Estate of Stanley Spencer, Bridgeman Images, London.
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