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A woman looks at a self-portrait by French painter Joseph Vivien, during the opening day of the exhibition "Autoportraits" (Self-portraits) at the Fine Arts Museum of Lyon, central-eastern France, on March 25, 2016. ROMAIN LAFABREGUE / AFP.
LYON.- The Staatliche Kunsthalle of Karlsruhe, the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh and the Fine Arts Museum of Lyon established a partnership in 2011. The first exhibition to be created within this frame is on the theme of self portraits and it will open in Lyon in spring of 2016. A specific genre in itself, self portraits contain much information about their creators as well as their historical and social environment. At a time when selfie photographs have become a true societal phenomenon, one that characterizes the digital era, the study of the traditions and usage of self portraits is more pertinent than it has ever been. In Lyon, the exhibition will contain over 230 works from the Renaissance period up to the 21st century, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs and videos. It will offer a major chance to study the practice of self ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day FRANKFURT.- Joan Miró (1893-1983) once famously declared that he wanted to "assassinate" painting. Today he is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. From February 26 through to June 12, 2016 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents an until now little discussed aspect of his oeuvre in a focused solo exhibition: Miró's preference for large-scale formats and his fascination with the wall. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
| Exhibition aims to show how much Henri Rousseau's work belongs within a western art movement | | Richard Gilder donates beloved Childe Hassam flag painting to the New-York Historical Society | | Exhibition at MUDEC, Museo delle Culture, Milan brings together a total of 114 works by Joan Miró | 
Henri Rousseau, known as The Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910) Le Rêve [The Dream], 1910, oil on canvas, 204.5 x 298.5 cm New York, The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 252.1954 © 2016. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence.
PARIS.- An extremely unusual painter, Henri Rousseau is a unique figure in the history of European art. His work is, however, in keeping with his time, the dawn of the 20th century. Far from being yet another celebration of the Douanier Rousseaus naïve style, the exhibition aims to show how much his work belongs within a western art movement which, in both America and Europe, from the 16th century until the first decades of the 20th, adopted a stylistic model that was archaic, by setting consciously or otherwise an anticlassical painting against the official painting of the various epochs. By comparing this artists painting with several of his sources of inspiration: academic painting, new painting and the avant-garde artists who enthroned him as the father of ... More | | 
Childe Hassam. The Fourth of July, 1916 (The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the Preparedness Parade in May), 1916. Oil on canvas, 36 x 26 1/8 in. Photography, Glenn Castellano. Courtesy of New-York Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, announced today that Chairman Emeritus Richard Gilder has donated to New-York Historical a monumental flag painting by the acclaimed American Impressionist painter Childe Hassamone of the last of the beloved series of Hassam flag canvases still in private hands. The Fourth of July, 1916 (The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the Preparedness Parade in May) depicts Fifth Avenue bedecked with dozens of American flags in celebration of Independence Day exactly 100 years ago, when New Yorkers rallied with patriotic fervor to support the Preparedness Movement in anticipation of the nations inevitable entry into the Great War in Europe. The bravura ... More | | 
Joan Miró, Personnage, oiseaux, 1975.
MILAN.- Joan Miró. La forza della materia includes a broad representation of this experimentation with matter, through 114 works of their funds and private collections, presented in four rooms. In the first one, paintings and drawings from 1931 and 1944 are exhibited, most of which produced under the influence of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Thus, these works synthesize the tragedy of this period and show the new symbolic language that Miró configured. The move of Joan Miró in 1956 to Palma de Mallorca, where his friend, the architect Josep LluÃs Sert, had designed a studio, is the starting point of the exhibits in the second room. The paintings of this space show how Miró, with the desire to reach an increasingly anonymous artistic expression, releases his gesture. At maturity of his career, a continuing interest in matter and its possibilities lead him to work with profusion bronze sculpture, also represented in this room. Miró uses the lost-wax process ... More |
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| New wing and entrance to American art galleries to open at the Huntington in October | | The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU to present exhibition of works by Brazilian artists in 2018 | | James McNeill Whistler's 'Portrait of the artist's mother, 1871' travels to National Galley of Victoria | 
Artist Unknown, Early Portrait of a Woman with a Bowl of Cherries, ca. 17701780, oil on panel, 28 Ã 23 Ã 2 1/2 in. Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that its new 8,600 square-foot addition to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art will open on Oct. 22. Named after the lead donors for the $10.3 million building project, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing includes 5,000 square feet of gallery space with an inaugural exhibition of more than 200 works from the Fieldings esteemed collection of 18th- and early19th-century American worksincluding paintings, furniture, and related decorative artsome of which are promised gifts to The Huntington. The exhibition will offer important insights into the world of American art practice and culture of the time. The collection, display, and contextualization of historical American art is among our chief priorities, said Laura ... More | | 
Jordana Pomeroy (director of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU) with Akio Aoki, (Director, Galeria Vermelho in Sao Paulo).
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU is partnering with the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University to present in 2018 an exhibition. This groundbreaking exhibition will feature works by Brazilian artists that address the origins and development of biomorphic and environmentally-informed art, architecture, and industrial design in Brazil, from the 1950s to today. The project will for the first time in the U.S. feature Brazilian artists whose works are rooted in the distinctive ecological and topographical environment of Brazil. Brazil is a major player in top international museums, the art market, and histories of modern and contemporary art. Brazil has also been a powerhouse in the fields of architecture, design and art for over a century, although many of these artists are still relatively new to the public in the United States. This exhibition (planned for 2018 in ... More | | 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American 18341903, Arrangement in grey and black no. 1: Portrait of the artists mother, 1871 (detail), oil on canvas, 144.3 x 162.5 cm, Musée dOrsay, Paris (RF 699) © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée dOrsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi.
MELBOURNE.- One of the worlds most iconic paintings, James McNeill Whistlers Portrait of the artists mother, 1871, has been unveiled at the National Gallery of Victoria in its Australian debut. On loan from the Musée dOrsay, Paris, and exhibited exclusively at the NGV in association with Art Exhibitions Australia, Whistlers Mother explores the complex work from multiple perspectives to reveal the artist, the sitter, and the works immense artistic, social and historical impact. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV, said, Alongside da Vincis Mona Lisa and Munchs The Scream sits Whistlers Portrait of the artists mother as one of a handful of artworks which enjoy universal recognition and admiration. We are grateful to the Musée dOrsay for loaning us this most treasured item as part of ... More |
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| Omar Fest's first exhibition at James Cohan features the New York premiere of three recent films | | Legendary sculpture found after 50 years; To be auctioned off at DESA Unicums Sculpture Auction | | Other Criteria sells out of British artist Damien Hirst's works at Art Central Hong Kong | 
Omer Fast, Five Thousand Feet is the Best (film still), 2011. Single channel, HD Video, Color, Sound, English spoken. Duration: 30 minutes. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist and gb agency, Paris; Arratia Beer, Berlin; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv; and James Cohan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announces an exhibition by Omer Fast featuring the New York premiere of three recent films, 5,000 Feet is the Best (2011), Continuity (2012), and Spring (2016). The exhibition, the artists first at James Cohan, is on view from March 25 through May 7 at the gallerys Chelsea location. In his work as a filmmaker, Omer Fast defines a new relationship between reality and fiction. He is interested in exploring the construction of narratives, in particular how stories change when told from different perspectives. The works in the exhibition each examine the shifting boundaries of modern conflict through the personal stories of those involved. Fast borrows from ... More | | 
The work will be auctioned off at DESA Unicums Sculpture Auction on 7 April.
WARSAW.- Thought lost for over half a century, Alina Szapocznikows famous sculpture, Bird, has just been found. Since the late artists sensational retrospective, Sculpture Undone 1955-1972, at the MoMA New York in 2013, Szapocznikow has been one of the most sought-after Polish artists on the international art market. The unique work will be auctioned off at DESA Unicums Sculpture Auction on 7 April. New York state. A small provincial town. A warm July afternoon. A colonial-style house with a porch facing a sunlit garden. A middle-aged man, a distinguished collector, is presenting paintings from his collection to a Polish expert. He uses the opportunity to ask him to identify a sculpture piece; a surname written in the Czech language means that he doesnt know who its author is. Private ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, Minnie (pink glitter).
NEW YORK, NY.- Other Criteria announced strong sales following its presence at Art Central Hong Kong, the companys second showing at the Hong Kong- based art fair. The company confirms that it had sold out of its entire editions of large and small scale Mickey and Minnie silkscreen prints with glitter by Damien Hirst. Printed in editions of 50 (large) and 150 (small) of each character, the release of the edition was timed to coincide with the companys presence at the art fair. Other Criteria further stated that the portions of the editions allotted to Art Central Hong Kong sold out during the fairs VIP opening on March 21st, with the London and New York allotments following the same path two days later. These prints see Hirst playfully reimagining Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse as part of his iconic series of spot paintings. In offering his own interpretation of Disneys best- loved ... More |
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| 27 Porsche 911s fill the grid for Last Chance by LiveAuctioneers' April 14 sale | | First major retrospective in the U.K. of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson opens at Camden Arts Centre | | Argentine cleaner Enrique Ferrari 's double life as prize-winning writer | 
With only 13,742 miles on the odometer, this 2009 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe, powered by a 3.6-liter H6 DOHC 24v turbo engine, awaits a serious driving enthusiast. Estimate: $116,587$122,086. Last Chance by LiveAuctioneers image.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1970 tune titled Mercedes Benz, Janis Joplin sang, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. In real life Joplin, too, drove a Porsche, a 1964 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet. Her classic sports car with a psychedelic paint job sold for $1.76 million at an auction last December. Now a newer collection of 27 Porsches with the same rock-star appeal will be sold in an online auction conducted by Last Chance by LiveAuctioneers. Absentee bidding has begun, and the live online auction will be held on Thursday, April 14, starting at noon Pacific time, 3 p.m. Eastern. The entire collection was assembled by a Porsche enthusiast who like his father has collected the luxury sports car marque for years. The owner learned the ropes from his father and, for years, has ... More | | 
Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, photograms forCalling Mr Smith, 1943.
LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre is presenting a major exhibition of works from the oeuvres of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. Partners and life-long collaborators from 1929 until their deaths in 1988, their work encompassed painting, photography, film, theatre, literature, poetry, book design and satirical drawing. They are acclaimed as the most important experimental filmmakers in pre-war Poland. Examples of their work can be seen in the public collections of the British Film Institute, British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Arts Council. Their exhibition at Camden Arts Centre focuses on three main areas: their influential experimental film work; their books and independent publishing house, Gaberbocchus Press; and Franciszkas stage design, puppets and a comic strip, all based on Alfred Jarrys anarchic play, Ubu Roi. Improvising with photograms, photo- ... More | | 
Argentine writer Enrique "Kike" Ferrari poses in a subway station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 14, 2016. Ferrari is an award-winning writer who makes his living cleaning a metro station in Argentina. His noir novels were translated into four languages in six countries, and received awards in Spain and Cuba. AFP PHOTO/EITAN.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- When the Buenos Aires subway closes at night, Enrique Ferrari goes underground to mop the platforms -- and to polish his next thriller. The Argentine station cleaner, 44, with bags under his eyes, is also a prize-winning crime novelist. He has been published in several countries, but it is the nighttime cleaning job which puts food on the table for his three children. "Live off writing? The money isn't good enough," he tells AFP. A representative for cleaning and other unskilled staff in the subway workers' union, he is seen as a curiosity: a decorated writer who has never been to university. The author -- and his gritty, succinct prose -- has caught the media's eye, appearing on television, radio ... More |
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 Norway and Scotland honour 'silent' heroes of the air with art and poetryEDINBURGH.- Easter sees the opening of an exhibition to honour the sacrifice of World War II airmen focusing on the experience of one young Norwegian whose plane was brought down over Hamburg. Leith School of Art is hosting Prisoner of War: Paintings and Poems which features paintings by visual artist Bodil Friele alongside translations of poems written by her father, Odd (Olly) Grønfur Olsen, during his years in a PoW camp. An RAF navigator on his third mission, Olly only survived because the pilot gave his own life to try to save his comrades ordering them to the back of the crippled Halifax bomber while he remained at the controls for a crash landing. Bodil is in Edinburgh with her long term partner, the Scots-born philanthropist and former leading businessman, Trond Mohn. Bodil said: Stories about a few of our airmen are well known, but most are not. I wanted ... More Performa announces curator Adrienne Edwards appointed as Walker Art Center Curator at LargeNEW YORK, NY.- Performa, the internationally acclaimed organization dedicated to live performance across disciplines, announced the appointment of Performa curator Adrienne Edwards as Curator at Large, Visual Arts, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The news was made public today in a press release from the Walker. Based in New York, Adrienne will continue to occupy her senior role at Performa as curator and the head of programming at the Performa Institute, contributing to the year round programming and research initiatives of the organization. Please join us in congratulating Adrienne on her new role. We are delighted for this new opportunity to share expertise across our two institutions and explore new partnership models. Adrienne has been with Performa for six of its ten years, acquiring the unique expertise in curating that Performa has pioneered, ... More Carel van Hees photographs education in RotterdamAMSTERDAM.- Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum, Carel Van Hees, as embedded photographer for Document Nederland, spent months following all types of education in search of the human aspect in Rotterdams schools. Young people on the brink of adulthood, full of expectation, fearlessness and vitality. He photographed various age groups, the relationship between teacher and student and the process of frustration and euphoria. The photographs can be seen in the Rijksmuseum from 25 March to 12 June 2016. Carel van Hees: Education is development and growth. The transfer of knowledge and understanding, but also the teaching of skills. Visualising a freely abstract episode. It is in the language and in the mind of teacher and student. I tried to translate that process into images. I immersed myself in the subject as an urban explorer and hunter: observe, strike and capture. ... More 'The Future of Fashion is Now' adds five new Chinese works of art in ShenzhenSHENZHEN.- The Future of Fashion is Now opens in the OCT Art and Design Gallery in Shenzhen on Saturday 26 March. Five works of art by talented and innovative Chinese fashion designers are being added to this successful exhibition, which was staged in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 2014 and has been running in the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shanghai for the last four months. The five designers selected, Deepmoss, Fang Ye, Ffixxed Studios, Percy Lau and ZAZ, constantly explore such questions as the way fashion is changing under the influence of technology and how materials and products can be recycled. These are questions at the heart of The Future of Fashion is Now. The chosen venue is an ideal setting for the subject; the area around Shenzhen is home to a great many manufacturers who experiment with new technologies. The five new ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale 2016 to take place on 6 April HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale 2016 will take place on 6 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Leading the sale is a complete set of 12 Vacheron Constantin wristwatches from the Métiers dArt Les Masques Collection making its debut on auction floor, each featuring an engraved tribal mask from the Barbier Muller Museum in Geneva. They will be complemented by a complicated minute repeating tourbillon watch Ref. 3939H and a diamond-set sports watch Ref. 5724R offered with a matching dress set, both from Patek Philippe, as well as original timepieces by independent watchmakers. The sale will offer more than 340 lots with a total estimate of HK$64 - 95 million / US$8.2 - 12 million. Sharon Chan, Head of Watches, Sothebys Asia, said, To stay on top of the competitive global watch market, Sothebys ... More M+ acquires new work by Tiffany Chung with the Brown Family Annual Acquisition FundHONG KONG.- M+, the new museum of visual culture of the West Kowloon Cultural District, announces the acquisition of two works by Tiffany Chung from her series, the unwanted population, The Vietnam Exodus Hong Kong chapter (1975-2000). HKSAR statistics on yearly arrivals and departures of V-refugees from 1975-1997, 2016. Acrylic, ink, and oil on vellum and paper, 79 x 100 cm (31 x 39 ½ in. flotsam and jetsam, 2015-2016. Watercolor, ink, acrylic, vinyl, plexiglass, video and text28 works on paper, 40 text pieces on plexiglass panels, videos and text on electronic tablets. Dimension of 28 paintings: 30 x 42 cm (11 ¾ x 16 ½ in.); dimensions of 40 text pieces variable; dimensions of tablets: 15 x 26 cm (6 x 10 ¼ in.) [painting Illustrations by Ho Hung, Le Nam Dy, Nguyen Van Du, Nguyen Kim To Lan] These purchases were made possible by ... More Seventies hit song about Brussels becomes post-attacks anthem PARIS (AFP).- A 1974 love song to the Belgian capital entitled "Bruxelles" has swept social media, becoming an anthem of resistance and support in the wake of this week's bombings, which killed 31 people. The song by Dutch musician Dick Annegarn, representing an expat's anguish, has become a rallying call after the attacks with its lyrics: "Brussels, my lovely, I will be with you soon." In the song, the cities are presented as lovers: he is hoping to flee "neurotic" Paris where he was living at the time, to "Mademoiselle Bruxelles". The crooner this week praised the Belgian capital for its open and multi-cultural atmosphere. Has it moved you to see your song played in homage to the victims? Of course. I'm not Belgian, but I lived there from the age of six to 20. It's because this town welcomed me as a foreigner that I am so affected. I'm sensitive to the pain of the victims ... More Extrastruggles first exhibition at Galeri Zilberman opens in IstanbulISTANBUL.- Galeri Zilberman announces Extrastruggles first exhibition for the gallery titled I Only Did What I Was Told To Do . The exhibition can be visited between 26 March and 7 May at the main exhibition space of the gallery. Started off in 1997 as a project that worked on imaginary orders, Extrastruggle sharply but subtly takes on the criticism of the culture of everyday life through direct references to the political and popular. The exhibition consists of the artists most recent sculptures and installations and takes a journey towards subservience setting off from the inseparable relationship between women and punishment, to the archaic books in which the first laws of cruelty were written, and to the notion of debt that enslaves people. The artist comments on the global issues as well as the local ones with his idiosyncratic artistic language. He turns the conventional sacreds ... More Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art names Anne Butler Rice new Director of EducationHARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announced today that Anne Butler Rice has been appointed the next Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education. "Anne Rice has long been an integral driver of the innovative programming we offer at the Wadsworth Atheneum," said Thomas J. Loughman, Director and C.E.O. "As the Koopman Director of Education we expect Anne's experience and skills to flourish as she leads the team in their vital work linking people to exceptional works of art, while strengthening ties to our educational communities and bringing to Hartford innovation from the fields of art museum interpretation and visitor experience." In her new post Rice will oversee public and community programs, school and teacher programs, the docent and tour program and visitor services. In addition to ... More Georgia Museum of Art highlights Southern Printmakers Society ATHENS, GA.- In 1935, Frank Hartley Anderson founded the Southern Printmakers Society, the only major graphic arts society in the South at the time. For 10 years, the group circulated dozens of print exhibitions throughout the South, a region with few venues for viewing art, but its work was cut short by World War II. In celebration of the society, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition Frank Hartley Anderson: Forging the Southern Printmakers Society from March 26 to June 19, 2016. Organized by guest curator Lynn Barstis Williams Katz, librarian emeritus, Auburn University, and a noted scholar on southern prints, the exhibition will display works made by a wide variety of artists who were members of the society. In 1994, one of Andersons daughters placed 73 prints in different media created by the society on longterm loan at the museum, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born March 27, 1886. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 - August 19, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. He served as the last director of the Bauhaus. Along with Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. In this image: German-American architect, pioneering master of Modern architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on March 27, 1886 in Aachen and last director of the avant-garde Bauhaus design school is portraited during a press conference of the Berliner Bauwochen held from August 25 until September 22, 1968 in West Berlin, Germany.
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