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Henri Matisse, Studio, Quai Saint-Michel, 1916 (detail); oil on canvas; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces the first major exhibition to explore the profound inspiration California artist Richard Diebenkorn (19221993) discovered in the work of French modernist Henri Matisse (18691954). Coorganized with The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and on view at SFMOMA from March 11 through May 29, 2017, this exhibition features approximately 100 objects40 paintings and drawings by Matisse and 60 paintings and drawings by Diebenkornfrom museums and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. After its presentation at The BMA from October 23, 2016 through January 29, 2017, SFMOMA will be the only West Coast venue for the exhibition. Matisse/Diebenkorn is an incredible story of artistic inspiration, revealing how Diebenkorns enduring fascination with Matisse informed his own body of work in substantive and often surprising ways, said Janet Bishop, Thomas ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Carved from nephrite jade, inlaid with gold and silver and set with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, this 18th-century cup is a show-stopping feature of The Jewelled Arts of India at Arader Galleries, 29 East 72nd Street. The superb quality of carving of the translucent white nephrite of this small vessel, decorated with fine kundan inlay, illustrates an extraordinary level of craftsmanship associated only with the royal workshops. It was crafted in Mughal or Deccan, India.
| Timeless elegance in Japanese art: Joan B. Mirviss LTD celebrates its 40th anniversary | | The Phillips presents major survey of works by George Condo | | Patrick Moore named Director of The Andy Warhol Museum | 
Kamoda Shoji, Unglazed columnar vessel, 1976. Glazed stoneware, 10 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- In March, Joan B. Mirviss LTD celebrates its 40th anniversary! To mark the occasion, the gallery presents the important exhibition, Timeless Elegance in Japanese Art: A Celebration of Forty Years accompanied by a fully illustrated publication. This celebratory show includes forty plus works of art carefully chosen over several years in anticipation of this milestone. Twenty of these works, by living artists working in clay and long represented by the gallery, were created or specifically selected by each artist for this event. The balance of this exhibition consists of major, innovative paintings and famous ukiyo-e prints by important eighteenth and nineteenth-century artists, together with masterworks by eminent ceramists of the twentieth century. Highlights include major vessels by pioneers in the art of clay, such as Kitaôji Rosanjin, Yagi Kazuo, Okabe Mineo and Kamoda Shôji, as well as works by contemporary ... More | | 
George Condo, Untitled, 2008. Pastel on board, 25 x 22 in. Private collection. Image courtesy Skarstedt Gallery and Sprüth Magers.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In an exhibition opening March 11, The Phillips Collection presents a major survey of drawings and drawing paintings by George Condo (b. 1957). An extraordinarily prolific painter, Condo is best known for his existential humor and unhinged pictorial inventions. His works synthesize disparate stylistic elements ranging from 17thcentury Venetian and Dutch painting through 20th-century Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art into singular works of art. Condo coined the phrases Artificial Realism and Psychological Cubism to describe this process. A collaboration with the artist, George Condo: The Way I Think features approximately 200 drawings, sketches, and sketchbooks along with several drawing paintings, which allow visitors to glean unprecedented insights into the mind and creative process ... More | | 
Patrick Moore Director The Andy Warhol Museum. Photo: Abby Warhola.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Patrick Moore has been named director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Moore joined the museum in 2011 as director of development, and went on to serve as deputy director and managing director before being named interim director in 2016. A seasoned arts leader, Moore spent 10 years with the Alliance for the Arts in New York City, where he was the creator and project director of The Estate Project, a program that addressed the impact of the AIDS crisis on the national arts community through advocacy, preservation, and fundraising. While with The Estate Project, Moore produced a range of special fundraising projects with leading artists including Ed Ruscha, Catherine Opie, and a tribute portfolio to the curator Henry Geldzahler. Moore is also a member of the Producers Guild of America and served as executive producer for Yahoo! on its Wolfgang Puck ... More |
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| Toulouse-Lautrec and Japanese prints on view at the Chrysler Museum | | Remarkable Discovery: Painting signed by the artist's cat! | | Onassis Cultural Center brings to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece | 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 18641901), La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge (The Clowness at the Moulin Rouge), 1897. Lithograph, sheet: 15 7/8 x 12 11/16 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1946 © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photograph courtesy of MoMA.
NORFOLK, VA.- Meet the legends of 19th-century Parisian nightlife in The Chrysler Museum of Arts spring keynote exhibition, The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is on view from March 10 to June 18, 2017. Admission is free. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is synonymous with the Belle Ãpoque, or Beautiful Era, in Paris. He created iconic works of the hedonistic nightlife that still define the ideal of bohemian urban life today. His brief 10-year career, from 1891 until his death in 1901, was a manic celebration of the freedom Paris offered and his work gave enduring renown to many of its star performers. The electric color, bold shapes and restless ... More | | 
The cat left its footprint just after the painter had finished and left the painting unattended for a moment.
MUNICH.- The restorer of Gallery Daxer & Marschall in Munich made a remarkable discovery while cleaning a painting to be shown at TEFAF. The mark of a cats paw in the wet paint appeared in the sky of La Strada di Brindisi (1872) by the Italian impressionist Giuseppe de Nittis. The cat left its footprint just after the painter had finished and left the painting unattended for a moment. De Nittis is well known to have been a cat lover commented the expert on the painter, Prof. Sperken, Bari. The painting will be on view at stand 337 Daxer & Marschall. It is a preliminary study for the well known larger version La Strada di Brindisi in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It is one of a group of exquisite plein air sketches by de Nittis all originating from the Dieterle collection, Paris. Giuseppe De Nittis is one of the most important Italian painters of the nineteenth century. He took up his ... More | | 
Head of Penthesilea. Marble, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, inv. no. BS 214 © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Onassis Cultural Center New York brings to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompt questions about how we express, control, manipulate, or simulate feelings in our own society, by presenting its groundbreaking exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC 200 AD. On view through June 24, 2017 exclusively at the Onassis Cultural Center New York, where admission is always free, the exhibition brings together more than 130 masterpieces from some of the worlds leading museumsincluding the Acropolis Museum, Athens; National Archaeological Museum, Athens; Musée du Louvre (Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities), Paris; British Museum, London; and Musei Vaticani, Vatican ... More |
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| Julian Schnabel's Shiva Paintings on view in France for the first time | | White Cube exhibits works by Ibrahim Mahama | | Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles opens retrospective of the work of Alice Neel | 
Eddie Stern (Shiva), 2007. Mixed media, 160 x 119,5 cm. 63 x 47 in. © Julian Schnabel.
PARIS.- Following on from exhibitions of Julian Schnabels work in 1980, 1983 and 1995 in Paris, in spring 2017 Galerie Templon will be presenting a series of work by the American painter previously unseen in France: Shiva Paintings. Julian Schnabel uses the figure of the Hindu god, Shiva, to build a dialogue between Western culture and Eastern traditions. By applying his words, gestures and abstract forms in oil and resin to pre-existing images of Shiva printed on polyester, Julian Schnabel is embarking on a representational palimpsest'1 with an a posteriori modification of existing and well-known imagery. The photographed painting of Shiva is placed in the background, yet seems to emerge as a subject in the foreground thanks to the powerful effect of the artists actions: in the image of the god, both dissembling and enlightening, the painting that covers him serves as a force for revelation. Julian Schnabel adopts an ... More | | 
Ibrahim Mahama, Crop Estate (detail), 2016. Scrap metal tarpaulin and metal tags on charcoal sacks, 196 7/16 x 312 5/8 in. (499 x 794 cm) © the artist. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell).
LONDON.- White Cube presents Fragments, an exhibition by Ibrahim Mahama. One of the most prominent artists to emerge from Ghana in recent years, Mahama is known for large-scale installations incorporating jute sacks previously used to transport cocoa beans and charcoal, which are stitched together and draped over architectural structures. For this exhibition, his first solo presentation in the UK, Mahama has created a new series of works including Non-Orientable Nkansa (2016), a monumental sculpture formed from stained wooden fragments. The title of the exhibition is taken from the book of the same name by the renowned Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah. Published in 1970, the novel explores the relationship between the individual and society within the newly independent Ghana, set against a backdrop ... More | | 
Alice Neel, José, 1936. Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 46 cm. Estate of Alice Neel. Photo: Malcolm Varon, New York.
ARLES.- This retrospective of paintings by Alice Neel (19001984) one of North Americas most important female artists, although largely unappreciated during her own lifetime is the fruit of a collaboration between several European institutions. The exhibition at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles places the US painter and her realist brush firmly in the spotlight. Imbued with a powerful psychological dimension, Neels portraits bear witness to almost a century of evolution in attitudes towards gender and ethnicity, and to radical changes in fashion at the heart of American society. Working in an epoch that declared abstraction the new modernism, Neel would always remain a painter of modern life as imagined by Charles Baudelaire, with whom she shared the same vision of modernity and the artists role in relation to it. Hallmarked at once by expressionism and realism, Alice Neels uvre translates the ... More |
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| Salvador Dalà charms the Columbia Museum of Art with fantastical fairy tales | | "In Egypt: Travellers and Photographers 1850-1900" opens at Huis Marseille | | Exhibition examines the different ways youth are portrayed | 
The Toad, 1966. Heliogravure on Japon nacré. Collection of the Salvador Dalà Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces the major spring exhibition Salvador DalÃs Fantastical Fairy Tales, on view March 11 through May 21, 2017, that explores the connections between art and literature through the artists signature playfulness, inventiveness, and fine draftsmanship. Featuring 36 colorful prints from The Dalà Museum, this whimsical exhibition showcases his illustrations for literary classics including Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Don Quixote, and the tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Clever, quirky, and cutting-edge, Dalà is one of the great artists of the 20th century. He was the most famous and infamous proponent of surrealism, a literary and artistic movement that strove to liberate the subconscious mind from the oppression of rational thought. Championing the power of personal imagination, surrealists believed that dreams were as real as reality ... More | | 
Bonfils, Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza, ca. 1870 - ca. 1898. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-FF00992-A.
AMSTERDAM.- This spring, Huis Marseille will host a major exhibition about 19th century photography in Egypt. Join us for a trip along the Nile in the footsteps of the many travellers and photographers who rediscovered the country in the 19th century. The exhibition consists entirely of objects from Dutch collections and offers a diverse portrayal of both the country and photography. From the lively streets and monumental mosques of Cairo to the impressive monuments in faroff Nubia, long before they were evacuated by UNESCO during the building of the Aswan dam (1958-1970). From the serene early photos taken by Maxime Du Camp during his trip through the Orient with Gustave Flaubert, to the spontaneous, unembellished amateur photos that Jan Herman Insinger took during his travels in the land of the Nile cataracts, in what is now the far south of Egypt and northern Sudan. Egypt has a unique place ... More | | 
Melanie Schiff, Spit Rainbow, 2006. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of Kay and Malcolm Kamin and Kay Torshen in honor of the MCAs 40th anniversary. © 2006 Melanie Schiff. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Eternal Youth, a survey of works drawn mostly from the MCAs collection that explores the concept of coming-of-age as a crossroads in art history. This exhibition examines the different ways youth are portrayedas simultaneously innocent and desirousrevealing the treatment of young bodies as sexualized, radical, and medicated objects. In particular, since the 1990s, images of youth in the western world have elicited both desire and fear, responding to social, cultural, and political shifts such as HIV awareness and gender bending transition. On view from March 11 to July 23, 2017, Eternal Youth is curated by Omar Kholeif, MCA Manilow Senior Curator, with Grace Deveney, MCA Curatorial Assistant. At the beginning of the exhibition, audiences are ... More |
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 Alexander and Bonin opens three new exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announces the opening of three exhibitions of works by Carlos Bunga, Matthew Benedict, and Jorge Macchi and Edgardo Rudnitzky on Saturday, March 11, 2017. Central to Carlos Bungas exhibition is a site-specific installation that emerges from a dialogue with the gallery space. A nearly invisible structure, the installation derives its monumentality from what is not there, encouraging viewers to rethink their experience of space. A series of sculptural works similarly explore concepts of fragmentation and spatial reconstruction. The exhibition also includes works that make use of mass-produced materials such as cardboard, tissue, and house paint. Bringing to mind colorful interior walls or pointing to the space surrounding them, they seemingly escape the traditional boundaries of painting, sculpture, and architecture. On the ... More Royal Ontario Museum opens spectacular Blue Whale exhibition TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum will open a new exhibition, Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story, on Saturday, March 11, 2017. The exhibition explores the story of the nine blue whales from the endangered North Atlantic population that became stranded in thick ice and died. Two of these specimens came ashore in Trout River and Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland in May 2014. In cooperation with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the ROM and Research Casting International travelled to the site and recovered the skeletons, their DNA and other important biological information. This Canadian recovery story was followed closely by millions of people around the world. The exhibition is a collaborative project led by the ROMs Dr. Mark Engstrom, Senior Curator and Deputy Director of Collections and Research, with colleagues Burton Lim, Assistant Curator of ... More Edward Cella Art & Architecture opens exhibition of works by Kendell CarterLOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Kendell Carter: Marvel, an exhibition of cast paintings, sculpture, installation, and guided meditation by Kendell Carter. Carter's sustained commitment to observing and exploring race, gender, history, and consumer culture manifests in a studio practice that pushes beyond that of a black artist making art about politics, and towards one that acknowledges the rapidly integrating nature of today's visual culture. Marvel will present site-specific installations of new works. One installation, entitled Cranes for Solange includes an authentic restroom sign from the "Jim Crow era" of American history. Pairs of used white jeans are suspended from inverted shelf brackets, each pair locked with the simple combination lock code "sick," and a lightbox mirrors the restroom sign. Another installation will include a gold-plated sewing ... More Chee Wang Ng makes solo debut at Eskenazi Museum of ArtBLOOMINGTON, IN.- This spring, The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University will present A Step in Time Across the Line: Recent Work by Chee Wang Ng, the artist's first solo museum presentation. Featuring large-scale conceptual photography, video, and installation work, including two new series of works that have never before been shown, the exhibition will shed light on traditional Chinese culture and the immigrant experience. Through the use of iconic Chinese symbols, artifacts, and Western memorabilia-such as porcelain figures, rice bowls, Chinese postal stamps, and chopsticks-juxtaposed with distinctly American imagery, such as Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's soup cans, the exhibition explores what it means to be Chinese in an increasingly multicultural and trans-national world, through the lens of diaspora identity. On view ... More MILL6 Foundation opens spring exhibition "Line of Times"HONG KONG.- MILL6 Foundation announces its Spring exhibition, Line of Times, featuring Brooklyn-based artist-duo Aziz + Cucher, Taiwan artist Yin-Ju Chen and Hong Kong artist Morgan Wong. Presenting a series of tapestries, sculpture, installation, and video works, the exhibition intends to interweave the macro- and micro-perspectives of viewing the concept of time. Reflecting the multi-dimensional nature of contemporary society, the artists representations spanning on the metaphysical and physical environment are centered. The exhibition will run from 11 March to 2 April at the MILL6 Pop-up Space at The Annex. We are excited to present Aziz + Cuchers first exhibition in Hong Kong, alongside the engaging works of Yin-Ju Chen and Morgan Wong, says Mizuki Takahashi, Senior Curator of MILL6 Foundation. Line of Times explores the abstract ... More Siri Kaur's first solo presentation with Kopeikin Gallery opens in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery presents Crows Field by Siri Kaur. This exhibition marks Kaurs first solo presentation with Kopeikin Gallery. On Saturday, March 11th a reception with the artist will take place from 6:00 8:00 PM and is open to the public. Crows Field is the name Kaur and her childhood friends gave an unclaimed strip of farmland where she grew up in rural New England. Between the forest and the road, this acreage became a magical no-mans-land where fantasy and reality blurred. Since it now exists only in memory, Crows Field is impossible to document, yet Kaur accesses it by subverting the traditional photographic genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Through the process Crows Field serves as a metaphor for creating a new type of photograph, one that partially embodies both the real and the surreal. As they subtly dislocate time and ... More Die Neue Sammlung marks Tone Vigeland's 80th birthday with exhibitionMUNICH.- Scandinavian studio jewelry is inconceivable without her and her works. As early as the beginning of the 1960s Tone Vigelands jewelry objects were routinely included in what are today legendary publications and exhibitions, such as the International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery held 1961 in the Goldsmiths Hall London, which first familiarized the public with the emerging art style of studio jewelry. Now, to mark her 80th birthday, Die Neue Sammlung is devoting its first solo exhibition in Europe outside Scandinavia to the grand dame of Scandinavian studio jewelry 50 years after Vigelands first solo exhibition in 1967 in the Kunstnerneshus in Oslo. With their flowing shapes Tone Vigelands pieces generally fit snugly despite being made of metal. Vigeland oxidizes the light shiny silver until it is as black as iron. Through contact with the skin the silver regains ... More 'Salvatore Meo and the Poetics of Assemblage' on view at Boca Raton Museum of ArtBOCA RATON, FLA.- Salvatore Meo (1914-2004) was a native of Philadelphia but made Rome his home since the 1950s. He saw this iconic city in its poverty stricken post-war years and witnessed the 1960s world of the glitterati portrayed in Fellinis La Dolce Vita. Meo might even have watched the weeklong filming of Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolicking in the Trevi Fountain on the street just in front of his studio. That studio is now home to the Fondazione Salvatore Meo, devoted to the preservation and study of his work and directed by Mary Angela Schroth, who also founded Sala Uno, a space dedicated to contemporary art. She is the curator of Salvatore Meo and the Poetics of Assemblage, on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art through July 2, 2017. Meo exhibited widely in the 1950s through the mid 1970s and was an important ... More Bendigo Art Gallery celebrates its 130 year anniversary with exhibitionBENDIGO.- Bendigo Art Gallery celebrates its 130 year anniversary with a dynamic new exhibition of historic, contemporary, curious, significant, and much-loved favorites from the Gallerys renowned collection. The exhibition explores the gallerys vast collection in the context of social, artistic and community change as well as the evolution of the Gallery itself. Works that have subject matter, theme, style or medium in common will be brought together, offering a fresh approach to the gallerys immense collection. New acquisitions by leading contemporary Australian artists including Hany Armanious, Michael Cook and Polixeni Papapetrou are being shown alongside some of the first ever works acquired by the founders of the Gallery in 1887. These have been joined by long-time favourites and lesser-known gems from the collection. Highlights and themes ... More Exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm features five video works by Loulou CherinetSTOCKHOLM.- The premise of the Loulou Cherinet exhibition is an understanding of the world based on difference, as in stranger/confidante, here/there, modern/historic, sense/sensibility, inside/outside. The description of one draws the outlines of the other. The exhibition features five video works made in 2002-2017, of which one is shown here for the first time. A central concern in the exhibition is how we create meaning in our existence. Simplifications and generalisations are tools that are crucial to understanding and order. But they also set limits to what is possible and establish conventions and social patterns. The capacity to affect which thought-patterns and language are used gives influence over how people organise, interpret, act and live together. Loulou Cherinets exhibition is important in a time when the question of what is real is more than ... More David Zwirner presents a selection of canvases created between 1971 and 1980 by Al TaylorNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Al Taylor: Early Paintings, the artist's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view Taylor's paintings exhibited together for the first time. Featuring a selection of canvases created between 1971 and 1980, the presentation of this relatively unknown body of work reveals a connection with the underlying painterly concerns found in the artist's overall practice and provides a broader understanding of his oeuvre as a whole. Taylor began his studio practice as a painter and continued to paint on canvas through 1984. Although he is more widely known for the three-dimensional works he started making in 1985, the artist insisted that he was a painternot a sculptorand maintained that his constructions did not "come from any sculptural concerns. [They come] from a flatter set of traditions ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, the founder of the Tate Gallery, Henry Tate was born March 11, 1819. Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (11 March 1819 White Coppice near Chorley Lancashire - 5 December 1899) was an English sugar merchant and philanthropist, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery, London. Tate Photography
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