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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, A Peasant Boy leaning on a Sill, about 1675 (detail). Oil on canvas, 52 x 38.5 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Marking the 400th anniversary of the birth of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617?1682), the National Gallery exhibition, Murillo: The Self Portraits reunites the artist?s only two known self-portraits for the first time in over three hundred years. Portraits by Murillo are relatively rare ? only around sixteen have been identified so far ? including these two self-portraits made at very different points in his life. They are being shown together with six additional portraits, including Murillo?s first known portrait of 'Juan Arias de Saavedra', 1650 (Collection Duchess of Cardona), which has been restored especially for the exhibition and is being shown in public for the first time. The exhibition also includes the portrait of 'Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga', ca. 1655 (Private collection) which has recently been re-attributed as the lost original by Murillo following its rediscovery in Penrhyn Castle, Wales. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The two paintings "Marten" and "Oopjen" by Rembrandt are back at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, on March 2, 2018. The paintings were acquired jointly by the Netherlands and France in 2015. David van Dam / ANP / AFP
| Jill Newhouse Gallery presents a selection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Pierre Bonnard | | The Vancouver Art Gallery explores the impact of the nuclear age through the lens of art | | Carnegie Museum of Art opens its first major exhibition of its 1750-1850 holdings |
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947), The Little Street or Boulevard des Batignolles, c. 1903. Oil on canvas, 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (30.7 x 21.6 cm). Image: 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches. Signed lower right.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Newhouse Gallery is presenting a selection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Pierre Bonnard together with works by contemporary artists who have absorbed his influence, including Graham Nickson, Larry Poons, Cecily Kahn, Julian Hatton, Rachel Rickert and Jackie Saccoccio. On view are 23 works by Bonnard of all periods: a small early painting of Marthe (1905) walking down a Paris street, 2 fully colored landscapes in watercolor and gouache from the 1920s, numerous pencil drawings of figures, still lifes and landscapes of France and Italy, culminating in 2 iconic depictions of Marthe in the bathtub- a large complete pencil drawing of 1936 and a richly colored large scale gouache done in 1942. Also the inspiration for a show by Damien Hirst at Gagosian Galleries, the artwork of Pierre Bonnard has influenced generations of painters who admire his devotion ... More | |
Bruce Conner, Bombhead, 1989/2002. Pigment on RC photo paper, acrylic. Private Collection © Estate of Bruce Conner/SODRAC (2018).
VAMCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents BOMBHEAD (March 3 June 17, 2018), a thematic exhibition that explores the emergence and ongoing impact of the nuclear age through the work of artists, designers, filmmakers, photojournalists and physicists. Guest curated by John OBrian, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, BOMBHEAD combines atomic ephemera with artworks drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallerys collection. Encompassing the pre- and postwar period from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, the exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photographs, film and video that deal with this often dark subject matter, strongly associated with obliteration and destruction. We are very pleased to present BOMBHEAD, which explores the profound cultural and ecological i ... More | |
Ary Scheffer, Faust in His Study, c. 1831. Watercolor and gouache on paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Fishkoff.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces its first major exhibition of its 17501850 holdings, Visions of Order and Chaos: The Enlightened Eye. The exhibition packs CMOAs Heinz Galleries with over 200 popular and never-before-seen works. It shares artists visions of a world rapidly becoming modern, and shaped by explosive debates: Does religion have a role in public life? Should we redistribute wealth to the poor? Can women fully participate in democracy? Can public education produce good citizens? All remain hot-button issues today. Between 17501850, the world changed dramatically. Revolutions toppled monarchies, and constitutional democracy took root in the US and France. This was a time of accelerating ideas on liberty and equality challenging social norms. People began to behave in ways wed recognize today. Portraits depict their subjects in classical costume, just as we would carefully ... More |
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| Lou Reed poems after leaving Velvet Underground set for book | | Korean screen breaks record achieving $562,500 at Lark Mason Associates | | Top Spanish conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos dies |
US singer Lou Reed performs during a concert in the garden of Viveros in Valencia. AFP PHOTO / JOSE JORDAN / FILES.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Rock legend Lou Reed rarely spoke of the year after he left The Velvet Underground to live with his parents. But he was writing poetry, which will soon be published as a book. On what would have been the rocker's 76th birthday on Friday, the Lou Reed Archive announced the publication of its first book, "Do Angels Need Haircuts?", compiling his unpublished poems from 1970-71. The book, to come out in April, offers "a window to a little-known chapter in the life of one of the most uncompromising voices in American popular culture," publishing house Anthology said in its announcement. The poetry collection will come with a seven-inch record of Reed reciting his verse at St. Mark's Church in New York's East Village. Starting with its 1967 debut album produced by Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground shook up the music scene by bringing a new artistic sensibility to rock and lyrically exploring topics then unthinkable for pop songs such as drug highs and deviant sex. But Reed left as The Velv ... More | |
The subject, depicting a scene from Buddhist paradise, was exquisitely painted and mounted on a wood frame similar in style to other Chinese 18th century examples.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- When Lark Mason Associates offered what seemed to be a Chinese painted paper ten-fold screen dating from the Kangxi period with an estimate of $30,000-50,000, imagine the surprise and excitement that ensued when the final price reached a record-breaking $562,500, twenty times more than the original price. The subject, depicting a scene from Buddhist paradise, was exquisitely painted and mounted on a wood frame similar in style to other Chinese 18th century examples. The screen had been brought in by the owner to PBS Antiques Roadshow in Bismarck, North Dakota in 2006 in an effort to discover the age and value. The owner had no expectations of value but was curious if it was wallpaper affixed to a wood frame or something more. It had been the legacy of a distant relative and nothing much was known about it. For years the screen had been stored in a damp basement and the backing was damaged by moisture ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 22, 2013 Spanish Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducts during the dress rehearsal of the Rossini opera "La Cenerentola". DIETER NAGL / AFP.
MADRID (AFP).- Top Spanish conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos, who wielded the baton at a clutch of top ensembles including the Spanish National Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), has died of cancer aged 78, his entourage said Friday in Madrid. Lopez Cobos, born in the small town of Toro in northwestern Spain, died in Berlin where he had notably been general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin through the 1980s before following up a decade with the CSO with a seven-year spell at Madrid's Teatro Real. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy expressed sadness over the death of a man he said "demonstrated musical greatness only geniuses can achieve." "Lopez Cobos leaves the great musical legacy of someone who was one of the best conductors in our history," he said in a statement. On its Facebook page, Toro town hall declared three days of mourning after the loss of "one of its most illustrious sons". Lopez ... More |
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| ADAA appoints new President, Menconi + Schoelkopf co-founder and partner Andrew Schoelkopf | | Steven Kasher Gallery opens a survey of Michael Spano's recent photographic works | | Blain/Southern opens exhibition of new work by Marius Bercea |
Schoelkopf succeeds Adam Sheffer, Partner and Sales Director at Cheim & Read, who has served as ADAAs president since 2015.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced the appointment of Andrew L. Schoelkopf, co-founder and partner at the New York City gallery Menconi + Schoelkopf, as the organizations new president. Having served a total of seven years on the ADAA Board of Directors, the ADAA Foundation Board, and The Art Show Committee, Schoelkopf will oversee the nations leading nonprofit organization of art dealers, encompassing nearly 180 members from 29 cities across the U.S. Founded in 1962, the ADAA is a leader in establishing best practices for the field and advancing scholarship and connoisseurship. Schoelkopf was officially recognized at the organizations semi-annual meeting this morning, and his appointment is effective today. Schoelkopf succeeds Adam Sheffer, Partner and Sales Director at Cheim ... More | |
Michael Spano, Urban Spaces, Cut & Paste, 2017. Archival pigment print, printed 2017, 24h x 19 1/2w in. Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting Michael Spano: Urban Report, a survey of the artists recent photographic works. Urban Report extends Spanos previous concerns, this time using color and computer processing to fuse visual incidents into large-scale compositions. Spano takes hundreds of photographs a day and combines selected exposures into a complex composite forms. Buildings, street signs, and pedestrians are arranged into a maze of interactions. All of the imagery in Urban Report was taken between 2014 and 2017 in New York City where Spano lives and works. Spanos compositions are utopian at times and quaint at others, but always multilayered and engaging. Much like the surveillance cameras that abound in these images, Spanos eye spies on the public/private spaces of the city. The mundane and the magical are combined into ... More | |
Marius Bercea, Subject released, 2017. Courtesy the artist and BlainSouthern. Photo Peter Mallet.
BERLIN.- Time Can Space is Marius Berceas (b.1979, Cluj, Romania) first exhibition at Blain|Southern Berlin, in which he presents new work and demonstrates recent changes in his approach to painting. Within his interior and landscape paintings, largely influenced by the architecture and nature of California, Bercea portrays a sensorial reality through a hybrid of both real and imagined hidden places. Evidenced in the subject, aspect and scale of his new work, which range from large panoramas to small square details, Bercea has moved from the narrative-orientated travelogue of his earlier Transylfornia works and his view of California is now more deeply entrenched. With a behind-the-scenes perspective, he paints from the position of a curtain twitching resident. Seemingly private moments are caught through a window or across a back garden, from a view point that wouldnt be out of place in a Hitchcock film. But th ... More |
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| Exhibition of cut paper drawing constructions by New York artist Adam Fowler opens at Brian Gross Fine Art | | Pakistan aims to revive glory of ancient Mughal city Lahore | | Mary Boone Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings by Erik Parker |
Adam Fowler, Untitled, Spectral Resolution #1, 2017 (detail). Graphite and ink on paper, 14 x 9 inches, 24 x 19 inches framed.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announces Spectral Resolution, an exhibition of cut paper drawing constructions by New York artist Adam Fowler, opening Saturday, March 3, with a reception for the artist from 4-6pm. In his latest body of work, Fowler has introduced color into his drawings, combining multiple tonalities to create complex visual rhythms. Spectral Resolution will be on view through April 28, 2018. Created through an exacting and meditative process, Fowlers drawings combine gestural improvisation with meticulous precision. Fowler begins each work by creating networks of graphite gestural lines on multiple sheets of paper. In Spectral Resolution, Fowler introduces color into his work through the use of colored papers, onto which the graphite lines have been drawn. The negative spaces between the lines are carefully cut away and are then combined to form his signature multi-dimensional, layered compositions. In Spectral Re ... More | |
Tourists visit historic Badshahi Mosque in the Lahore. AAMIR QURESHI / AFP.
LAHORE (AFP).- Perched on scaffolding, restoration experts chip away at decades of grime and repair broken mosaic tiles in a bid to save the colossal murals depicting historic battles and regal ceremonies on the walls of Lahore fort. The painstaking work is part of efforts to preserve Lahore's crumbling architectural history as officials juggle conserving its diverse heritage with building modern infrastructure in Pakistan's chaotic second city. The metropolis, which once served as the capital of the Mughal empire that stretched across much of the subcontinent, has been subsumed into a myriad of civilisations across the centuries. This rich past is most visible in the milieu of architecture salted across the Walled City of Lahore -- from Hindu temples and Mughal forts to Sikh gurdwaras and administrative office built during the Raj. "You get a history of a thousand years, 500 year-old houses and monuments and mosques, shrines and a very peaceful atmosphere," says Kamran Lashari, director general ... More | |
Erik Parker, Power Shift, 2017. Acrylic, collage/canvas, 45 by 40 (114 cm by 102 cm). © Erik Parker. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 3 March 2018, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea location New Mood, an exhibition of new paintings by Erik Parker. With intricate patterning and kaleidoscopic color, Erik Parkers distinctive paintings are a mash-up of the styles and iconography of Pop, graffiti, psychedelia, Kustom Kulture, outsider art, and comics. They capture the modern condition of being subjected to a constant feed of disparate visual information. A focal point of the current exhibition, the Artists first at the Gallery, is three large pyramid-shaped canvases arranged on one wall a hallucinatory postcard view of Giza. The conspicuous stone courses are rendered as bands of interspersed painted and collaged elements. Tanks, aliens, Rasta men, clouds, Shirley MacLaine, hi-fi stereos, vines, waves, Miss Piggy, and Mr. Potato Head, all make an appearance in these captivating sub-narratives. Each pyramid too is emblazoned wi ... More |
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Joslyn Art Museum completes capital improvements
OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum has completed a multi-year capital improvements project addressing needed repairs and upgrades to the building and its safety systems. The $6.2 million project began with a comprehensive assessment of the facility by the Kiewit Building Group in 2010. Work on the critical projects identified in that report began in fall 2012 and continued through 2017 in three phases: Life Safety, Building Envelope, and Building Systems. Work on these phases was coordinated with weather conditions, Museum events, public hours, and the requirements of art movement. This significant project was funded by grants from Hawks Foundation, Iowa West Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation, Bill and Ruth Scott, Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation, Sunderland Foundation, and an anonymous donor. According to Jack Becker, Joslyns executive director ... More
Peabody Essex Museum celebrates Native American painter, poet and musician, T.C. Cannon
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents an exhibition celebrating one of the most influential and inventive Native American artists of the 20th-century, T.C. Cannon (1946-1978, Caddo/Kiowa). T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America ౼ on view at PEM from March 3 through June 10, 2018 ౼ explores the dynamic creative range and legacy of an artist whose life was cut short at age 31. Through nearly 90 works, including 30 major paintings, works on paper, poetry and musical recordings, Cannons distinctive and affecting worldview shines through in this groundbreaking exhibition that is organized by PEM and will tour the country through 2019. This is the first major traveling exhibition of his work since 1990. Deeply personal yet undeniably political, Cannons artwork adeptly channels his cultural heritage, experience ... More
Ten-year survey exhibition of artist John Moore opens at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art
ROCKLAND, ME.- John Moore: Resonance, the first solo exhibition in a Maine museum of artist John Moore's work will open at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland on Saturday, March 3. A public reception honoring the artist will be held on Saturday, March 17, from 4 to 6pm. The exhibition will remain on view at CMCA through Sunday, June 17. John Moore: Resonance presents a ten-year survey of the artist's work completed primarily in his Belfast, Maine, studio, where he has lived for more than a decade, first seasonally and more recently full-time, since retiring from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Chair of the Department of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2009. A highly esteemed teacher and painter, with more than forty-two solo exhibitions to his credit, Moore is widely admired for his evocative, beautifully rendered composite images that range ... More
Museum Ludwig presents recently unearthed film by Günter Peter Straschek
COLOGNE.- Filmed, confiscated, lost: Günter Peter Strascheks short film A Western for the SDS is a key work of the 1968 protest movement that is legendary for never having been shown. Now the Museum Ludwig will be presenting the premiere of this Western. The film was unearthed during the preparations for the exhibition Günter Peter Straschek: Emigration Film Politics. The focus of this first exhibition on Strascheks film oeuvre is his central work Film Emigration from Nazi Germany: the five-hour television series broadcast by WDR features interviews with fifty members of the film industry who were driven into exile by the Nazis. It was produced in 1975 and lay dormant for over four decades in the WDR archives. The Austrian Günter Peter Straschek (19422009), along with Hartmut Bitomsky, Harun Farocki, and Helke Sander, was part of the first class to begin studying ... More
Gerald McMaster appointed as adjunct curator at Remai Modern
SASKATOON.- Remai Modern announced the appointment of celebrated curator, artist, professor and author Gerald McMaster as adjunct curator at Remai Modern. McMaster has spent more than 30 years developing an international reputation as an expert on Indigenous contemporary art. Gerald McMaster has a wealth of experience working with modern and contemporary art, both in Canada and internationally, said Gregory Burke, Executive Director and CEO of Remai Modern. His expertise in Canadian and global Indigenous art practices, as indicated by his Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice, is a valuable resource for the museum. Our association with McMaster is important to the vision of Remai Modern. As adjunct curator, McMaster will share his knowledge and advice with Remai Moderns program team and contribute ... More
Multi-media exhibition spotlights the women who work the land
KENDAL.- Women who make their mark in the male-dominated world of farming are the focus of a new exhibition. Tracing the Landscape: Cumbrian Farm Women, runs from 2 March to 9 June 2018 at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. The multi-media exhibition by artist Patricia MacKinnon-Day has been commissioned by Lakeland Arts. Patricia spent a year with five farm women from across Cumbria. Aged between 30 and 80, some have managed farms for generations, others are newer to the sector. During the exhibition visitors will immerse themselves in the stories of these five farm women by entering specially created sheds in the Gallery to watch individual films about their lives. A play on all the senses, each shed will feature historic agricultural objects from the Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, part of Lakeland Arts' collection, ... More
Gladstone Gallery presents the United States premiere of Cyprien Gaillard's film Nightlife
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting Cyprien Gaillard's second exhibition with the gallery in New York and the United States premiere of his film, Nightlife. Shot entirely at night over the course of two years, this three-dimensional film connects a series of divergent natural and cultural phenomena throughout Cleveland, Los Angeles and Berlin. Organized into distinct chapters, Nightlife optically, audibly and conceptually brings together an obscure yet significant mix of historical monuments and occurrences, forming a hyper psychedelic experience. This ambitious production ties together several key themes that recur throughout the artist's oeuvre, such as cultural relics, preservation and entropy, and speaks to the multidisciplinary nature of his practice. Nightlife chronicles four interconnected subjects: Auguste Rodin's The Thinker installed ... More
Gommaar Gilliams' first solo exhibition in New York opens at De Buck Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery is presenting Jenny Kissed Me, Gommaar Gilliams first solo exhibition in New York, marking the artists representation by De Buck Gallery in America. The exhibition is on view from March 1st, 2018 through April 7th, 2018. Gilliams solo exhibition sets forth a painting process in eleven parts, demonstrating a commitment to painting as a method and as a language. Each of the eleven works presented constitute a new chapter that builds on a central narrative. With the title, Jenny Kissed Me, the artist allows the viewer to plunge into an elusive memory, an allegorical world, captured in an ideal space in time with no beginning or end. Rather than evoking a concrete image, the artist wants to call up a thought process. He explores our inner child, uncompromised by the complex realities of life. In this immersive tribute to the inner child, ... More
Jenkins Johnson Projects opens exhibition of works by Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela
BROOKLYN, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects presents, Disobedience: Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela, which takes protest as a flash-point to explore current social and political unrest. Through new large-scale paintings, photographs, and a collaborative site-specific installation, Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela create a dialogue between their very different styles and mediums. Munroe, from the Bahamas, creates bright and colorful mixed media paintings that integrate found materials, while Valenzuela, from Chile, creates black and white photographs that capture temporary installations. Yet, both artists find a close correlation on how they think about and research their subject matter. Looking at historical figures and current gestures of dissidence against colonialism and capitalism, the artists point to the aesthetics of protest to discuss their own socio-political ... More
Pamela Joyner to become Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation
LONDON.- Tate announced today that Pamela Joyner will succeed Jeanne Donovan Fisher as Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation for a five year term starting on 1 April 2018. Pamela Joyner, who has been a Trustee of the Tate Americas Foundation since November 2015, is one of the United States pre-eminent collectors of abstract work by postwar and contemporary African American artists. Her first involvement with Tate was when she joined the Tate American Foundations North American Acquisitions Committee in 2011. She was Co-Chair of the Artists Dinner in 2013 and 2016 which together raised over $3.6 million. Maria Balshaw, Director Tate, said: We are delighted that Pamela Joyner has agreed to take on a leadership role as Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation. Pamela has been a close friend and supporter of Tate, contributing significantly ... More
Strong sales and ambitious presentations at PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco second edition
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco closed its second edition with strong sales, pointing to the keen market in the Bay Area for collectable cutting-edge photography and moving image. The Fair ran February 23-25 at the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, and the First Look opening night event on February 22 benefited the photography program at SFMOMA. Adding to the rich photographic legacy of the city, PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco was noted by its audience of leading collectors, curators and visitors for its polished and highly curated approach, and ambitious public programming. PHOTOFAIRS 40 leading galleries covered 15 countries and 26 cities. Many has a strong international focus and works by Pan-Asian artists featured heavily, uniquely drawing upon the content of the Fairs sister edition in Shanghai. PHOTOFAIRS concentration ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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