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Exhibition view Between Definite and Dubious. Sculptures and Their Histories Photo: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.
FRANKFURT.- This spring, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung is taking a look back at a chapter in its history that has rarely been a focus of attention to date: the Nazi period and the acquisitions made during those years. From 4 May to 27 August 2017, with the aid of twelve selected objects, the exhibition Between Definite and Dubious. Sculptures and Their Histories (Acquired 19331945) offers insights into the history of the museum in the years 1933 to 1945 and tell the stories of the people intimately linked with the twelve works. Since 2001, the Städel Museum has been examining its collections with regard to artworks whose owners were deprived of them in connection with Nazi persecution. It was thus one of the first museums in Germany to embark on this task. In the spring of 2015, its provenance research activities were expanded through the addition of a comprehensive project supported by the German Lost Art Foundatio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A paleontologist shows the teeth of a unique fossil mandible belonging to a 90 million-year-old large marine reptile found recently in a troglodyte private cave, on May 4, 2017 at the natural sciences museum in Angers, western France. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
| Albertina opens Maria Lassnig retrospective that brings together around 80 works | | TEFAF New York Spring opens with buoyant atmosphere and significant sales | | MFA Boston reaches agreement with estate to retain 18th century porcelain | 
Maria Lassnig, Remembering - That Is Love, 1997. Pencil, acrylic. Albertina, Vienna © 2017 Maria Lassnig Foundation.
VIENNA.- Maria Lassnig (19192014) numbers among the most outstanding and important artists of the recent past. In the oeuvre that she built, Lassnig strove consistently to put her very own perception of her body and emotions to paper. The pictures she created revolve around deepreaching sentiments and sensations. Three years after Maria Lassnigs death, the Albertina is paying homage to Lassnigs drawn work with a retrospective showing that brings together around 80 of the artists most evocative drawings and watercolors. In this presentation, heretofore entirely unknown works on paper reveal themselves to be key statements that, together with more familiar output, shed new light on her concept of body awareness and afford new insights into the Austrian artists diverse oeuvre. It was long before body consciousness and relations between women and men became central themes ... More | | 
TEFAF New York Spring - Preview - Tambaran. Photography: Kirsten Chilstrom.
NEW YORK, NY.- TEFAF New York Spring, the second TEFAF New York fair, TEFAF's debut outside of Europe, focusing on Modern and Contemporary Art & Design opened to vigorous sales and interest from around the world. Nearly 4,000 collectors and institutional representatives visited the Fair during preview day, Wednesday, May 3, acquiring works for both private and public collections. The Fair continues at the Park Avenue Armory through Monday, May 8. The Fair features 93 of the worlds most illustrious dealers in museum caliber art and design, and a small number devoted to jewelry, African & Oceanic art and antiquities. The exceptional pieces presented by the 93 international exhibitors drew sales from the first minutes of the Fair. Appetite for top quality blue chip Modern and Contemporary Art & Design was evident from the scope of sales reported by the exhibitors. Collectors found the dynamic, highly curated mix of art and design together under on ... More | | 
Figure of Scaramouche, Fürstenberg Manufactory (Germany), about 1754. Hard-paste porcelain. Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M.
Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has reached an agreement with the Estate of Emma Budge, allowing the Museum to retain seven pieces of rare 18th-century German porcelain that were sold in Berlin in 1937. As the direct result of Nazi persecution, the proceeds from the sale were never realized by Budges heirs. The Italian comedy figures (commedia dellarte), made by the porcelain manufactories Höchst, Fürstenburg and Fulda, all belonged to Emma Lazarus Budge (18521937), who built a large collection of decorative arts in her home in Hamburg. These seven objects combine with works from the MFA collection to represent the only complete sets of these figures known to exist. Upon Budges death in 1937, she left the disposition of her art collection to her estate executors. Emma Budge, who was Jewish, had specified ... More |
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| Internationally renowned artists highlight Heffel's spring 2017 live auction | | Alexander Kader & Margaret Schwartz appointed Co-Worldwide Heads of European Sculpture & Works of Art | | LiveAuctioneers reports booming Q1 results with significant spike in new bidders and items sold | 
Lawren Harris, LSH 89B, oil on canvas, circa 1937, 39 7/8 x 32 in. Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000.
TORONTO.- Art market leader Heffel Fine Art Auction House will offer more than 120 museum-quality masterpieces at its highly anticipated spring live auction. The sale will take place at the historic Design Exchange in Toronto on May 24, 2017, and will be presented in two sessions: Post-War & Contemporary Art and Fine Canadian Art. Expected to achieve between $10 million and $14 million, the auction will continue the momentum of Heffels record-breaking sales and demonstrate the strength of the art market. (All prices are in Canadian dollars and according to conservative estimates.) Increased appreciation among international buyers for important Canadian works of art can largely be credited to recent exhibitions travelling to world-renowned art institutions. Works by both Lawren Harris and Emily Carr received glowing reviews associated with recent exhibitions outside of Canada, and David Milne and Jean Paul Riopelle too have major forthcomi ... More | | 
Alex joined Sothebys in 1996 from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Trained as a medievalist at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Alex has published on Baroque and 19th century sculpture and was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2016. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced today that Alexander Kader and Margaret Schwartz have been appointed Co-Worldwide Heads of European Sculpture & Works of Art. The appointments come as Sothebys further strengthens its global Sculpture department, an area of great strength and importance. Alex joined Sothebys in 1996 from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Trained as a medievalist at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Alex has published on Baroque and 19th century sculpture and was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2016. He has been head of the London department since 2000, working closely with the other European selling locations, most notably, in recent years, with Paris and Milan. Alex has been behind many notable sculpture sales, having ... More | | 
LiveAuctioneers CEO Jason Finger speaks at a company employees meeting. LiveAuctioneers image.
NEW YORK, NY.- Manhattan-based LiveAuctioneers, the online marketplace of choice for the most knowledgeable art, jewelry and collectibles buyers throughout 47 countries, has released Q1 results confirming a strong, continued leadership position in the global marketplace. More than 31,000 new bidders joined the LiveAuctioneers community during the first quarter. Importantly, new-bidder purchases were up 36% over last years Q1 numbers, and items sold reflected double-digit growth over the comparable quarter of 2016. Senior Vice President of Product and Marketing, Phil Michaelson, said, With the highest average order size and the highest sell-through in the industry, LiveAuctioneers proved again that auction houses that are not online with LiveAuctioneers are doing a disservice to their consignors. A recognized technology pioneer, LiveAuctioneers was the first company in its sector to develop mobile apps, employ video streami ... More |
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| Sean Kelly presents film by Laurent Grasso for the first time in the U.S. | | Exhibition at Sotheby's S/2 New York revisits Abstract Expressionism | | Martin Clark appointed as new Director of Camden Arts Centre | 
Laurent Grasso, Still from Ãlysée, 2016 (detail), 35 mm film (transferred), 16 minutes 29 seconds, looped. © Laurent Grasso / ADAGP, Paris, 2017, Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly presents Ãlysée, a new film by Laurent Grasso. This is the first time the work is being shown in the US. In Ãlysée, Grasso creates an intimate and profoundly elegant portrait of power through a sweeping visual exploration of the Salon Doré (or Golden Room), the office of the President of the French Republic at the Ãlysée Palace in Paris. Grasso was invited to create the work by the Archives Nationales for the exhibition Le Secret de lEtat (The Secret of the State) at the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris and was the first artist to receive special authorization to film inside this historic and enigmatic room, where the future of the nation is decided. In this immersive and spellbinding film, the camera slowly and methodically pans over the sumptuous surfaces of the ... More | | 
Alfonso Ossorio, Mother and Child. Mixed media on wood. Executed in 1972. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys S|2 is presenting Alfonso Ossorio: Works from the Foundation from 1 May 9 June 2017. Organized in close collaboration with the Ossorio Foundation, the exhibition surveys over thirty years of works on paper, paintings and sculptures by this seminal figure of post-war American art. The works in this exhibition range from Ossorios abstract canvases and wax resist watercolors of the 1950s to his mixed media assemblages from the 1970s. Allan Schwartzman, Chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, commented: As our S|2 gallery refocuses towards artists who have been celebrated art historically but are under-recognized by the market, we are thrilled to present shows dedicated to Alfonso Ossorio and Roy Newell. While these artists have many differences, both are distinguished for a creative output that stands alongside ... More | | 
Clark to be the Centres first new director in 27 years.
LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre announced that Martin Clark, currently Director of Bergen Kunsthall, has been appointed the new Director of Camden Arts Centre. The appointment by the Centres Board of Trustees follows the decision by its current director, Jenni Lomax, to step down in August 2017 after 27 years at the helm. Martin Clark will take up his new post in September 2017. Martin Clark has been Director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, since 2013 during which time he has championed an ambitious programme of international contemporary art. Previously he was Artistic Director of Tate St Ives (200713), Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol (20047) and Curator and Exhibitions Tutor at Kent Institute of Art and Design (now University College of the Creative Arts) (20025). Jenni Lomax said: "I am delighted that Martin has been appointed as my successor. It is evident from his impressive track record at Tate St Iv ... More |
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| New six-channel video and sound installation by Dara Birnbaum on view at Marian Goodman Gallery | | Haus der Kunst opens major of exhibition of works by the pioneering German photographer Thomas Struth | | Mark Leckey creates new sound work and a giant motorway bridge for the National Gallery of Denmark | 
Dara Birnbaum, Psalm 29(30), 2016. Six-channel video and sound installation, color, 8 min., loop. Still from one of six-video channels. Courtesy: the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery © Dara Birnbaum, 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York is presenting Psalm 29(30), a new six-channel video and sound installation by Dara Birnbaum created in 2016. Upon entering the Third Floor, visitors encounter serene and solemn images of the foothills of the Italian Alps, footage shot by the artist in 2011. Viewers then encounter an interior chamber housing a video projection, which portrays aspects of the Syrian Civil War in 2014. Birnbaum places the landscape imagery that she made during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in opposition to the ensuing interiorized images based on Syrian war footage sourced from the Internet. This juxtaposition of alternate realities offers a line of historical traces and a meditative space in which to reflect upon them with a ... More | | 
Detail of Crosby Street, Soho, New York 1978. Silver gelatin print, 66,0 x 84,0 cm. © Thomas Struth.
MUNICH.- This major exhibition by the pioneering German photographer Thomas Struth (born 1954) presents the most comprehensive survey of his genre-defining oeuvre. Covering four decades of work and every phase of his illustrious artistic career, the exhibition focuses especially on the aspect of Struths social interests which represent the important forces of his internationally influential artistic development. Starting with his first series Unbewusste Orte (Unconscious Places) published in 1987 through his current works that deal with the field of research and technology in the globalized world, Struths work develops its own specific analytical nature through his choice of subject matter, the manner of its photographic realization and its modes of presentation. These aspirations are manifested in questioning the relevance of public space and transformation ... More | | 
Mark Leckey. Photo: Heine Pedersen.
COPENHAGEN.- Inspired by recollections of a motorway bridge from his own childhood, internationally acclaimed artist Mark Leckey takes over the x-room venue with a total installation produced especially for the National Gallery of Denmark. British artist Mark Leckey (b. 1964) grew up outside Liverpool in England. With the exhibition He Thrusts his Fists against the Posts but Still Insists he Sees the Ghosts he invites audiences to join him in returning to a very distinctive place from his own childhood: the ramps underneath the M53 motorway bridge in Ellesmere Port. For the x-room venue at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), he has recreated from memory the bridge and ramps where he and his friends hung out in the early 1970s. Many of my works have their wellspring in things and experiences from my childhood and youth that still haunt me. The motorway bridge is one of those things that have settled in my memory. That ... More |
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 SculptureCenter debuts first U.S. solo exhibition by Sam AndersonLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter is presenting the first U.S. solo museum exhibition by Sam Anderson, on view May 1 July 31, 2017. Sam Anderson has created a series of newly commissioned sculptures and a video work for SculptureCenters lower level galleries. Anderson creates compositions with figures and objects that inhabit oddly familiar relationships to the site and viewer. Often depicting intimate and internal dynamics, the arrangements are formal as well as psychological, effects expressed through repetition and mutations in scale and style. Using a range of found and made materials to construct her scenes, each work borrows from language as well as personal history to question how memory and emotion is indexed. For her exhibition, Anderson abstracts and isolates the town square. Casting particular characters in mid-gesture, Anderson ... More mumok opens a one-person exhibition on the work of New York-and Vienna-based artist Martin BeckVIENNA.- From May 6, 2017 mumok presenting a one-person exhibition on the work of New York-and Vienna-based artist Martin Beck. Focusing on themes central to Becks oeuvre such as display, memory, collectivity, and imaging, the exhibition will bring together selected works from the past ten years with a new body of work produced for the occasion. As strategies of installation and display are central to his practice, Beck will actively engage with the exhibitions format and layout. The show will be composed of sculptures, photographs, video works, drawings, books as well as spatial interventions into the exhibition space. One of Becks key bodies of work references modern exhibiting systems, specifically taking up the relationships between emancipation and control that they incorporate. Another work engaging questions of historicity and display is Becks rumors and ... More Installation of early Abstract paintings by Ellsworth Kelly hang in museum's foyer in dialogue with exhibitionHOUSTON, TX.- Chryssa (1993- 2013), Robert Indiana (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), Agnes Martin (1912- 2004), Lenore Tawney (1907-2007), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926) were among a group of artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets who lived, worked, or spent time on the Coenties Slip. The small, funnel-shaped street led to the East River in the old seaport on the lower tip of Manhattan, and it offered views of the Brooklyn Bridge, cheap rents, and distance from the bustle of the city center. The artists studios were the defunct eighteenth-century sail-making lofts and industrial spaces facing the water. Known as the Slip, the streets remove and its proximity to nature proved formative for its inhabitants, as did their influence on each other. The paintings, sculptures, and drawings they produced constitute an important but overlooked facet of abstraction ... More Maiken Bent takes over Gl. Holtegaard in a radical mise-en-scène that transforms the exhibition spaceCOPENHAGEN.- With multi-coloured fragments of stitched leather, painted silk, prints on wallpaper, bundles of glinting chains and contorted ropes, the artist Maiken Bent takes over Gl. Holtegaard in a radical mise-en-scène that transforms the historical interiors of the exhibition space. To complete the three-year exhibition trilogy BAROQUE+Contemporary Art, the artist Maiken Bent has moved into Gl. Holtegaard, where she has taken the court architect Lauritz de Thurahs furnishing of the country home he built in the mid 1700s as her point of departure. Maiken Bent reinstates the central axis of the building, allowing light to pour through its windows so the symmetry of the baroque garden once again interacts with the architecture. As a tribute to Lauritz de Thurah, she intensifies and dramatizes the baroque spirit and architecture of the space with individual works of art that ... More Pirelli HangarBicocca opens solo exhibition of works by Rosa BarbaMILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Rosa Barbas solo exhibition From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, curated by Roberta Tenconi: a project that brings together fourteen works made since 2009, including 35mm and 16mm films, kinetic sculptures, and site-specific pieces. Barbas exhibition From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, hosted in the Shed space at Pirelli HangarBicocca, weaves an intense dialogue between the works on view and the industrial setting that houses them. The five films in the show, seen here for the first time in Italy, include The Empirical Effect (2009), an exploration of the landscape around Vesuvius as a web of natural, mental, and cultural forces, and the artist's two most recent works: Enigmatic Whisper (2017), shot in the studio of artist Alexander Calder, and From Source to Poem (2016), a densely layered audio-visual ... More Cartoonists 'first victims' of crackdowns on pressPARIS (AFP).- Ten countries including Russia, Turkey and India have been condemned for censoring, locking up or threatening cartoonists in a new report published Friday. The Cartooning for Peace group said cartoonists were increasingly becoming the victims of repressive crackdowns on free speech. The watchdog's first annual global report also documents attacks on freedom of expression in Kenya, Venezuela, Egypt, Malaysia, Jordan, Ecuador and Burkina Faso. Its founder, the French cartoonist Plantu -- who set up the group a decade ago with former United Nations chief Kofi Annan -- told AFP that his peers were in danger across the globe. Cartoonists were the canary in the mineshaft, he said, "often the first to be threatened" by authoritarian governments. "Finally for the last few days we in Europe are worrying about what has been happening in Venezuela," ... More Original artworks by de Kooning, Boldini and Slonem will headline Philip Weiss' May auctionLYNBROOK, NY.- An original charcoal drawing by Willem de Kooning, oil paintings by Giovanni Boldini and Hunt Slonem, a fabulous collection of bronze sculptures, dazzling estate jewelry, rare sheet music from the early 20th century and a trove of Hollywood memorabilia from the Cinemabilia store in Greenwich Village, New York will all come up for bid May 24th-25th. Theyre just some of the highlights in a two-day blockbuster sale planned by Weiss Auctions, online and in the firms gallery at 74 Merrick Road in Lynbrook. The Wednesday, May 24th auction will be an estate sale, featuring paintings, bronzes, jewelry, stoneware and more. The May 25th session will have Hollywood and rock n roll memorabilia, sheet music and more. Start times both days will be 10 am Eastern time. For those unable to attend in person, internet bidding will be provided by ... More Apollo flown and historic Soviet items featured in Heritage Space AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Rare items accompanying astronauts in outer space and on the moon highlight Heritage Auctions' Space Exploration sale May 19 when an Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard is expected to sell for $60,000 and an Apollo 12 Lunar Module Flown Waist Tether is expected to bring $35,000. "This auction offers a number of rare and seldom-offered items from both the American and Soviet Space programs," said Michael Riley, Director of Space Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. "The fact that many pieces came originally from the personal collections of the astronauts and cosmonauts themselves makes this a perfect opportunity for collectors." Being offered are personally owned items from the collections of numerous astronauts, including James Lovell, Edward Gibson, Michael Collins, John Young, Alan Bean, Buzz Aldrin, Ed White, Jack Lousma, ... More Pérez Art Museum Miami launches mobile app MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) today launched a mobile app, powered by Cuseum, to enhance the museum-going experience for its visitors. The PAMM app gives users an opportunity to experience, learn and engage with the art on view at PAMM by providing contextual multi-media content, including audio tours and videos of the interior and exterior galleries, an interactive map, and a calendar of museum events and programs. The app also offers unique content related to PAMMs special exhibitions. For PAMMs current exhibition, Toba Khedoori, the app offers exclusive audio interviews with PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, the exhibitions curator, that address the artists silent, slow and exacting process of working by hand. Art and technology have always been intertwined, said Sirmans. With technology always rapidly changing, we are looking ... More Exhibition of new works by Sebastiaan Bremer on view at Edwynn Houk GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by Sebastiaan Bremer (Dutch, b. 1970). The show opened on Wednesday, 3 May and runs through Saturday, 24 June 2017. In 1998, during a residency at Skowhegan, in Maine, Sebastiaan Bremer both took a risk and made a breathtaking discovery; he upended ingrained methodologies and jettisoned just about everything that had constituted a painting for him so far, including paintbrush, brush strokes, figures and scenes rendered in paint, canvas, stretcher bars and to a certain degree, paint itself. Instead, using Milky Pens and Pentel paint pens, Bremer began to apply white pointillist dotes and small blobs in rippling and swirling patterns to enlarged copies of photographs - either found family photographs or those taken by him - essentially to draw directly ... More Kerlin Gallery announces the death of artist Stephen McKennaDUBLIN.- It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our friend and colleague
Stephen McKenna. Stephen passed away at his home in County Carlow on 4 May 2017. Born in London in 1939, McKenna studied at the Slade School of Art during the 1960s. Rather than conforming to the eras dominant trends of pop art and conceptualism, he defied expectation by turning instead to figurative painting unfashionable in London at that time and began to develop a unique painterly practice informed by diverse art historical precedents. McKenna moved to Germany in 1971, where he found a more complex attitude to painting, and went on to live and work in numerous European countries throughout his life, before settling in County Carlow, Ireland in the late 1990s. The impact of this extensive continental travel is evident in McKennas ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public May 06, 1889. PARIS.- The co-architects of the Eiffel Tower were Emile Nouguier, Maurice Koechlin and Stephen Sauvestre. The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took safety precautions, including the use of movable stagings, guard-rails and screens, only one man died. The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May. OLIVIER MORIN / AFP
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