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Installation view. © Tate photography, Andrew Dunkley.
LONDON.- Andy Warhol (192887) was one of the most recognisable artists of the late 20th century, yet his life and work continue to fascinate and be interpreted anew. A shy, and gay man from a religious, migrant, low income household, he forged his own distinct path to emerge as the epitome of the pop art movement. This major new exhibition at Tate Modern the first at the gallery for almost 20 years offers visitors a rare personal insight into how Warhol and his work marked a period of cultural transformation. Drawing upon recent scholarship, it provides a new lens through which to view this American icon. Featuring over 100 works from across his remarkable career, the show sheds light on how Warhols experiences shaped his unique take on 20th century culture, positioning him within the shifting creative and political landscape in which ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In their exhibition during Asia Week New York 2020 Court Paintings from India and Iran, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd. shine a spotlight on Krishna courting Radha with his skillful fluting, an opaque watercolor with gold on paper, circa 1780. The painting illustrates a scene from the Bhagavata Purana, an ancient Hindu epic, comprised of 18,000 verses and 12,000 cantos, which narrates scenes from the lives of Vishnu and Krishna. It was executed for a royal patron at the Court of Kangra in the lower Himalayan range south of Kashmir and would have been part of a large series of paintings. 67 East 80th Street, Suite 2.
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 | | France's Louvre and Palace of Versailles shut by coronavirus | | Coronavirus shuts down museums, sites in Greece | | Rijksmuseum purchases two Asian scroll paintings at the European Fine Art Fair | 
A picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows the entrance of the Musee du Louvre in Paris, undefinitely closed to the public amid concerns on the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus. Thomas SAMSON / AFP.
by Rana Moussaoui / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, said Friday that it was closing "until further notice" because of the coronavirus. The closure of the museum, which had 9.6 million visitors last year, came after the French government banned all gatherings of over 100 people to limit the spread of the virus. The Palace of Versailles -- France's other big tourist attraction with nearly 10 million tourists a year -- swiftly followed suit. The Louvre had restricted entry to 1,000 people at a time on Monday as the number of cases in France began to rise. In a sign that the shutdown could be relatively long-lasting, the museum said it was also postponing two upcoming exhibitions, including a show on Italian ... More | | 
A tourist takes a selfie in front of the Acropolis archaeological site on March 13, 2020. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- Greece on Friday shut down its museums and archaeological sites until March 30 because of a shortage of guards amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the culture ministry said. The ministry said the decision had been taken "in the interests of safeguarding staff, but also museums and monuments". "Guard shortages have emerged at archaeological sites and museums because of (emergency) conditions," it said in a statement. Greece has so far declared 117 cases of the coronavirus, one of whom died on Thursday after 10 days in hospital. Three people are in intensive care and the government has shut down schools and universities, courts, cinemas, gyms and other indoor public gathering areas for two weeks in an effort to curb the outbreak. The Greek health ministry has also put out an urgent call for an additional 2,000 medical staff. ... More | | 
Antoon Henricus Johannes Molkenboer, Self-Portrait in the Studio, 1896. Gift of Helen and Lorenz van der Meij.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has acquired a pair of Asian scroll paintings of the very highest quality at the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). One is an 18th-century Chinese scroll painting showing one hundred children playing, making music, reading and writing, and the other is a 19th-century Japanese copy. The one hundred children theme is well-known in Asian art it symbolises fertility and the flourishing of the family. This acquisition was made possible by Rituals, sponsor of Asian art at the Rijksmuseum. Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum: What makes these twin paintings exceptional is that they illustrate the transfer of artistic knowledge from China to Japan in a manner that could scarcely be bettered. The two works demonstrate the importance of copying to East Asian painting, while also testifying to the Chinese influence on the Japanese painting, as a source of inspiration. The Chinese original ... More |
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| | Sotheby's Photographs Auction to feature rare Moholy-Nagy, Roger Fenton, Cindy Sherman & more | | Almine Rech opens the first solo exhibition of Allen Jones with the gallery | | Exhibition offers a comprehensive look at the evolution of William N. Copley's painting during three pivotal decades | 
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #81, estimate $200/300,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys spring auction of Photographs on 3 April in New York will offer a varied range of historical, modern, and contemporary photographs spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries from an early print of Roger Fentons Crimean War series in 1855 to contemporary works by Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn, Thomas Struth, and Helmut Newton among others. Nearly 230 lots with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $600,000 will be on public view in Sotheby's New York galleries beginning 28 March. Leading the sale is an early photogram by László Moholy-Nagy (estimate $400/600,000), created in 1922 shortly after the artist began exploring cameraless photography. Moholy-Nagy, a painter, sculptor, theorist, and instructor at the Bauhaus, believed that the photogram was one of the purest and most expressive types of photography. He originally conceived this unique work as a possible cover illustration for the March 1923 issue of Broom: A ... More | | 
Allen Jones, Waiting on Table II (with wedge heels), 1987. Fibreglass painted aluminium base, 216 x 61 x 65 cm © Allen Jones. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting the first solo exhibition of Allen Jones with the gallery. The gallery is accessible by appointment only until further notice as it continues to monitor the guidelines released by the World Health Organization and local government over the weekend and into next week. Allen Jones is part of an extraordinary generation of artists from North America and across Western Europe born in the 1930s who, children during the horrors of World War II, were art students in the shift from the austerity of the recovering fifties into a decade of the prosperous swinging sixties with its celebration of a newfound sense of consumerism and sexual liberation. There had not been a comparable decade in Europe since the twenties. In the world of painting, artists who typified this generation included, in the States, James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselmann, Martial Raysse ... More | | 
William N. Copley, Untitled, 1970. Acrylic on linen, 40 x 32 inches 101.6 x 81.3 cm © 2020 William N. Copley Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting William N. Copley The New York Years, a comprehensive look at the evolution of the artists painting during three pivotal decades in New York City. The exhibition, on view at 509 West 27th Street from March 11, 2020, traces this central period through key paintings from multiple series and a corresponding presentation of photographic, publishing, and research materials drawn from the archives of the William N. Copley Estate. This is Kasmins sixth solo exhibition of the artists work since the gallery began representing the Estate in 2010. The gallery is accessible by appointment only until further notice as it continues to monitor the guidelines released by the World Health Organization and local government over the weekend and into next week. Id been born in that town but didnt remember it, Copley said of New York in his memoir ... More |
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| | 12-year-old bookworm launches favela library in Brazil | | Family archives lead Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale at Swann Galleries | | The 22nd Biennale of Sydney: Nirin presents 101 artists, 700 works and 600 events over 87 days | 
Brazilian Lua Oliveira, 12, poses for a portrait during an interview with AFP at the public library Mundo da Lua (Lua's World), founded by her five months ago, at the Tabajaras favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP.
by Louis Genot
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Lua has a hungry look on her face as she holds her new book on Nelson Mandela, one of thousands the precocious 12-year-old has amassed for her new library in a poor Brazilian favela. "I don't read books. I devour them," she says in Rio de Janeiro's Tabajaras neighborhood, a shantytown perched in the hills overlooking the chic districts of Copacabana and Botafogo. In a small tin-roof room at a local community center, she has amassed a collection of 18,000 books, hoping to help other residents access a world that can be all too remote from Brazil's impoverished favelas. "Lua's World," she calls the library, a cozy space lined ... More | | 
Family papers of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family of Portland, Main, 18531961. Estimate: $3,000 to $4,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, March 26, Swann Galleries will offer a sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana featuring material from the last three centuries with a strong showing of family papers and archives. Archives include family papers of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family of Portland, Maine. The collection includes material from five generations dating from 1853 to 1961, with items from an Underground Railroad conductor, a Tuskegee Airman, as well as a state senator in Reconstruction Texas. The archive is expected to bring $3,000 to $4,000. Further family papers include those of Dora Stephens and her family who were enslaved in the household of Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens in Crawfordsville, Georgia, and who continued working there after abolition. The small archive ... More | | 
Installation view.
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney the third oldest biennial in the world after Venice and São Paulo and largest exhibition of its kind in Australia has launched its 22nd edition, taking place from 14 March 8 June 2020. Titled NIRIN, the 2020 edition presents a diverse range of contemporary artworks spanning from video and photography to installations and performances, across six different venues in Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Art School. Under the artistic direction of acclaimed Indigenous Australian artist Brook Andrew, this expansive exhibition of contemporary art and events brings together 700 works by 101 international artists and collectives including 39 Australian artists many of which have been specifically commissioned for the occasion. ... More |
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| | The unparalleled record-breaking Polish auction market | | Keith Olsen, rock hitmaker with a broad résumé, dies at 74 | | The oldest Macallan and Karuizawa ever bottled, and legendary Bordeaux, lead Sotheby's Wines & Spirits sales | 
2019 was the year of records on the Polish art market.
WARSAW.- The art market in Poland is one of the major segments of alternative investments. Only in the last three years it has grown by more than 80%. It is these recent years that have been crucial for the development of the Polish art market. In 2014, the turnover of the Polish auction market was only over USD 21 million (PLN 77 million). The year 2015 saw a breakthrough. The turnover increased to nearly USD 30 million (PLN 115 million), which was almost 35% more than in the preceding year. The most expensive object at that time a painting by Wojciech Fangor did not exceed the limit of PLN 1 million. Only four years later, in October 2019, the most expensive piece of art ever sold in Poland was bought for USD 2 million (PLN 8 million). In 2016, the turnover increased by 35% and reached the amount of USD 40 million (more than PLN 167 million). That year, nine transactions of over PLN 1 million were completed. In 2017, the turnover already exceeded the amount ... More | | 
Whitesnake's "Slide it In".
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Keith Olsen, a record producer whose slew of hits included the first Fleetwood Mac album with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, whom he helped bring into the band, died Monday at his home in Genoa, Nevada. He was 74. His daughter Kelly Castady said the cause was cardiac arrest. Olsen worked with a roster of successful artists that ran rocks gamut, including the Grateful Dead, Santana, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake and Scorpions. Early in his career he produced Buckingham Nicks (1973), a folk-rock album by the then little-known Nicks and Buckingham. The album, on which Nicks sang and Buckingham sang and played guitar, flopped but, as many accounts have it, Olsen played one of the songs for Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Macs drummer. Fleetwood Mac, which began in the late 1960s in England as a psychedelic blues-rock combo, had undergone many lineup changes in the years since their guitarist and ... More | | 
Karuizawa 52 Year Old Zodiac Rat. Cask #5627 1960. Est. £160,000-220,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys Finest & Rarest Spirits features the oldest Macallan and Karuizawa ever bottled alongside landmarks of luxury in the world of whisky. Jonny Fowle, Sothebys Spirits Specialist, commented: We are delighted to present such a strong selection of bottles consigned directly from producers as well as from private collections to begin our 2020 sales in London. Among the most exciting bottles in this sale are the Gordon & MacPhail Private Decanters, all of which are numbered 1 of their respective outturn. This is the first time that any number 1 decanter from G&M has been offered for sale rather than kept within the Urquhart Family archives. Offering these alongside such iconic bottles as Karuizawa 52 Year old from Cask #5627 and so many Macallan in Lalique decanters showcases the strength of current demand for the very best in the world of whisky. Finest & Rarest Spirits features the highly sought ... More |
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 National Gallery of Victoria launches publication with 34 perspectives on works in the NGV collectionMELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria has launched She Persists, a publication featuring 34 perspectives exploring the intersections of art, gender and protest, focusing on artists whose influential works are housed in the NGV Collection. Featuring essays and intervieÂws by local and international scholars and cultural commentators, She Persists takes on five themes ambition, perseverance, activism, feminism and identity in a cross-cultural exploration of womens contribution to art and design history from the 17th to the 21st century. With over 140 works of art and design reproduced throughout the publication, She Persists includes NGV Collection works by Maree Clarke (Australia), Sonia Delaunay (Ukraine/France), Guerrilla Girls (USA), Agnes Goodsir (Australia), Alexandra Kehayoglou (Argentina), and Fumie Taniguchi (Japan). Inspired ... More Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art opens a solo exhibition by Otobong NkangaMIDDLESBROUGH .- Otobong Nkanga prompts us to think about our relationships to land and the extraction of the worlds natural resources. Her multi-disciplinary practice spans tapestries, drawings, photographs, installations, videos and performances. The exhibition, From Where I Stand on show at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art from 14 March to 28 June 2020, explores the politics of land and its relationship to the body, histories of land acquisition and exploitation. Otobong Nkanga (born 1974 Kano, Nigeria) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and has over two decades experience of creating works that reflect on the processes and consequences of the extraction of natural resources from ethical, human and material perspectives. Nkanga received a Special Mention at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale ... More March in Montana auction presents fine western art COEUR DALENE, ID.- Western art lovers looking for a fast-paced, high-energy auction wont want to miss the 33rd annual March in Montana auction scheduled for March 20-21, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. Collectors will have an opportunity to acquire outstanding artworks by Assiniboine (Native American) artist William Standing. The works have been in the same family for more than 50 years. The highlight, a buffalo hunt scene painted in 1925, was displayed in a bar in Eastern Montana for many years. The auctioneers are also excited to offer several great pieces from Charlies (C.M. Russell) Friends, including Joe De Yong, Philip Goodwin, and Edgar Paxson. The De Yong pieces comprise the most desirable grouping to come to the marketplace in a long time, organizers said. The Goodwin is dated 1904 ... More SOCO Gallery presents "Into the Woods", an exhibition of new works by artist Douglas Melini CHARLOTTE, NC.- SOCO Gallery presents Into the Woods, an exhibition of new works by artist Douglas Melini. This is the artists first solo exhibition with SOCO Gallery. Influenced by an unlikely combination of Minimalism, pattern, and decoration, Melini investigates color, space, and the abstract and pictorial nature of making an image. He challenges how the audience views his works by opening up the visual space and distorting horizon lines. Adhering to the Bauhaus maxim form follows function, his artwork creates a pause for the viewer, allowing and encouraging a moment of contemplation. For his exhibition, Into the Woods, Melini has created six paintings and twelve collage pieces. Inspired by the history of the lush tree and mushrooms grown in New Jersey Pine Barrens, the collages celebrate the cyclical and symbiotic relationships ... More It's Angélique Kidjo's birthday, and her country's tooNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Beninese vocalist Angélique Kidjo was born into one of the most hopeful moments of the 20th century. Just two weeks after her birth in 1960 in Ouidah, Dahomey her country finally gained independence from France. It was one of 17 African nations to declare independence that year. As she grew up, breathing the air of new freedom, Kidjo came to see that by ridding itself of colonialism, Africa had not shut itself off from the rest of the world. African people were already spread across the globe, and so were elements of their music and culture. Listening to black music from all over on her familys stereo, she felt as if she was receiving a report from afar. Music that comes from Africa and that went somewhere, it eventually comes back to Africa, she said recently in a phone interview. Its that back- ... More Innovative and diverse use of colour exhibition opens at Design Museum Gent GHENT.- The starting premise of Kleureyck. Van Eycks colours in design is the Flemish Master Jan van Eycks skilful use of colour, which was revealed in all its superb glory after the restoration of The Ghent Altarpiece. Van Eyck used oils and transparent, coloured glazes to achieve an innovative variety of colour nuances, clarity and saturation in his paintings. Curator Siegrid Demyttenaere started from this idea for her selection of Flemish designers and international names who have an affinity with colour. The three-part exhibition features a Pigment Walk, Research Projects and Experience Rooms. Bram Vanderbeke has created a modular poplar chipboard design for the exhibition. After Ghent, the exhibition will travel to lille3000s Le Tripostal, where it will be the closing event of Lille World Design Capital 2020. The exhibition will run from 9. ... More New fashion exhibition explores the history of India's enduring influence on Western FashionPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum is presenting India: Fashions Muse, an exhibition examining the ways in which Indian dress, aesthetic, and artwork have inspired Western fashion designs from streetwear to couture. Spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries, the exhibition showcases nearly 40 garments and more than 20 accessories drawn from the collection of Phoenix Art Museum and on loan from private collectors and museums. Featured designs include the paisley shawl, the sari, and the Nehru jacket, with traditional Indian garments exhibited alongside modern works by Indian fashion designer Anamika Khanna and Western designers such as McQueen, Givenchy, and Versace. Curated by Helen Jean, the interim curator of fashion design of Phoenix Art Museum, the exhibition also presents complementary artworks from the Museums Asian art collection and a four- ... More Morphy's to auction "ultimate collection" of coin-op mechanical music machinesDENVER, PA.- A lively atmosphere punctuated by the exhilarating sounds of pipe organs, violins and a multitude of percussion instruments welcomes visitors to Morphy Auctions gallery in the countdown to a sensational Coin-Op & Antique Advertising sale slated for March 28-29. The main attraction is a private collection that Morphy Auctions founder and president Dan Morphy describes as the best and most significant offering of mechanical and coin-operated music, vending and gambling machines ever to pass through our doors. Additionally, the two-day event boasts an impressive lineup of antique advertising items whose quality and rarity are second to none. If there had been Grammy Awards in 1905-06, the top prize surely would have gone to the Mills Novelty Companys Violano-Virtuoso. An incredible entertainer, its rich and stirring ... More Hirschl & Adler Modern opens "Every Lie to Truth"NEW YORK, NY.- Trompe loeil, at its best, subverts our expectations. When pushed beyond pure verisimilitude, it forces us to shift our perspective both intellectually and physically. Every Lie to Truth brings together four artists whose work has this rare ability. For them, trompe loeil is a strategy to engage the viewer in the deeper discussions with which they are concerned. Truth, futility, loss, and fallibility are the subjects here, operating beneath the illusory surfaces so skillfully composed. Rachel Granofsky, Kirk Hayes, Colin Hunt, and Meredith James urge us to question what it is that we are looking at and why. In doing so, we accept every lie in order to arrive at the truth behind it. Rachel Granofsky (b. 1980) uses materials such as paint, charcoal, and tape directly on surfaces of architecture, furniture, and household objects to reshape domestic environments ... More Norval Foundation brings rising Venice Biennale star Michael Armitage to South AfricaCAPE TOWN.- At just 35, Kenyan artist Michael Armitage is swiftly emerging as one of the most exciting young voices of contemporary art, heralded as a stand-out artist at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Norval Foundation presents Accomplice, a series of paintings representing the complex social and political dynamics exploring multiple facets of the human condition, taking place in Gallery 1 until 15 June 2020. We are truly honoured to host Michael Armitage and his incredible work at Norval Foundation, says Elana Brundyn, Director of Norval Foundation. Particularly, we are proud that this is his first major solo exhibition in a public institution on his home continent, Africa. Having his work in Cape Town so very soon after his global success at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and his New York MOMA exhibition, further illustrates that Cape ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich.
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