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Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain explores the introduction of the movement in the British scene during the years preceding the Second World War and up to the early 1950s.
BARCELONA.- The Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain exhibition reconstructs one of the most important hubs in the complex surrealist network. Through the privileged lens of the American photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977) ambassador for the movement in London jointly with her partner, the artist Roland Penrose the show reveals the creative connections and productive collisions that emerged between British artists in the 1930s and 40s and the international surrealist network as a whole. The project is produced by The Hepworth Wakefield in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, and curated by Eleanor Clayton, from the British institution. The version presented in Barcelona has been expanded with contributions from Martina Millà , Teresa Montaner and Sònia Villegas, the Fundació's Programming Director, Collections Director and Conservator, respectively. Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain explores the introduction of the m ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Mickey: The True Original Exhibition celebrates 90 years of Mickey Mouse's influence on art and pop culture. Opening November 8, 2018 through February 10, 2019, this immersive experience is inspired by Mickey's status as a 'true original' and his consistent impact on the arts and creativity in all its forms. Guests will have the chance to explore the 16,000 square-foot exhibition featuring both historic and contemporary work from renowned artists. The exclusive pop-up retail shop carries special merchandise and offers customization. Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Disney/AFP
| Rare pink diamond aims to make $50 million | | Hockney, Hopper chase headlines at NY art sales | | Christie's announces highlights of its Modern British Art Evening and Day Sales | 
The Pink Legacy, a 18.96 carat fancy vivid pink diamond once owned by Oppenheimer family is displayed on November 8, 2018 during a press preview ahead of sales by Christie's auction house in Geneva. The auction will take place in Geneva on November 13, 2018. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- The Pink Legacy, an exceptionally large pink diamond, is set to go under the hammer at Christie's in Geneva next week, when it is expected to bring in up to $50 million. At nearly 19 carats, the vividly coloured gem is extraordinary, Jean-Marc Lunel, an international jewellery specialist at Christie's, told AFP. "If you consider that most pink diamonds weigh less than a carat, it is really something," he said. The gem, which on November 13 will be offered at auction for the first time, has been estimated at between $30 million and $50 million (26.5-44.1 million euros), and Lunel suggested it could hit the high end of that range. "It is probably the most beautiful (specimen) ever presented at public auction," he said, insisting there was good reason to expect the rock to ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock, Composition with Red Strokes. Oil, enamel and aluminum paint on canvas 36 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. Painted in 1950. Estimate in the region of $50 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A year after the art market was changed forever by the eye-watering $450.3 million sale of a Leonardo da Vinci, fall auction season is back, looking to crack new records for artists, albeit from less illustrious heights. The headliners next week in New York, the capital of the international art market, are an Edward Hopper, America's most popular modernist, valued at $100 million, and British living legend David Hockney, whose iconic swimming pool picture painted after a break-up is estimated to fetch $80 million. In the spring, Christie's sale of the iconic Rockefeller art collection for $832 million set a new benchmark for billionaires and millionaires who might be looking to offload their own collections. This fall, several other collections will go under the hammer, as the wealthy who amassed art in the mid-20th century either die off or look to pass the baton to ... More | | 
Patrick Heron, Rumbold: 10 December 1968 - 5 October 1970. Oil on canvas, unframed, 84 x 66 in. Painted in 1968-1970. Estimate: £150,000250,000.
LONDON.- Christies Modern British Art Evening Sale will be held on 19 November 2018. The sale comprises major works by British painters and the Scottish Colourists, as well as equestrian and figurative sculptures. Icons of British painting of the century will be led by Stanley Spencers Caulking (1940, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000), being offered for the first time, together with L. S. Lowrys A Northern Race Meeting (1956, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000), which has remained in the same family for over half a century, having been purchased the year the work was completed. We have outstanding examples of great work by Stanley Spencer, L. S. Lowry and Samuel John Peploe, all of which we bring to auction for the first time, something that we expect will spark a strong response from our international clients. Alongside these are major examples from the 1950s and 60s by the leading artists of the day, including ... More |
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| Parrish Art Museum acquires three large-scale paintings by David Salle | | The Louvre Abu Dhabi opens exhibition of archaeological treasures of Saudi Arabia | | Hawking auction raises astronomical sum | 
David Salle, After Michelangelo, The Creation, 20052006 (detail). Oil and acrylic on linen, 90 x 180. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Margaret S. Bilotti, 2018.10.1 © David Salle/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum has acquired three monumental works by David Salle based on the Sistine Chapel paintings by Michelangelo, titled After Michelangelo, The Creation; After Michelangelo, The Flood; and After Michelangelo, The Last Judgment. Never-before seen in the United States, the paintings will be unveiled as part of the Museums new permanent collection exhibition Every Picture Tells a Story, on view November 11, 2018 through October 3, 2019. The cycle was commissioned in 2004 for Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, and created by Salle between 2005 and 2006 in East Hampton, New York. Recognizing Salles decades-long ties to the East End of Long Island, Carlo Bilottis widow Margaret S. Bilotti gifted the works to the Parrish. We are extremely grateful to the Margaret Bilotti for this extraordinary gift, said Terrie Sultan, Director of the Parrish Art Museum. These ... More | | 
Funerary stele with male figure, 4000-3000 BCE. Saudi Arabia, El-Maakir, Qaryat al-Kaafa, near Hail. Sandstone. Riyadh, National Museum.
ABU DHABI.- The Louvre Abu Dhabi opened Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia, the second international exhibition of the museums cultural season. The exhibition explores the rich history of the Arabian Peninsula through archaeological and cultural artefacts, including a selection of rare pieces from the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition explores five chapters in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, spanning early prehistoric settlements; maritime exploration; caravan trading routes that linked the region with Asia, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean; routes of holy pilgrimage emerging in the 7th century CE; and the social and economic developments between the 14th and 16th centuries that set the stage for the modern day region. Fourteen acclaimed editions of the show have toured throughout Europe, the USA and Asia before now coming back to the region at Louvre Abu Dhabi, where it is enriched by selected pieces ... More | | 
A gallery assistant poses with a motorised wheelchair, c.1988, that belonged to late British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A copy of Stephen Hawking's doctorate thesis signed in a shaky hand was the highlight of an auction of the British physicist's personal items in London, which raised nearly £1.4 million ($1.8 million, 1.6 million euros). The copy, one of only five originals of the thesis entitled "Properties of expanding universes", smashed pre-sale expectations four times over to sell for £584,750 at the Christie's sale, which ended on Thursday. A red leather wheelchair that Hawking used from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, driving himself using a joystick, sold for £296,750 while an early edition of his bestselling book "A Brief History of Time" marked with a thumbprint, fetched £68,750. A script from one of his appearances on the television series "The Simpsons" was one of the 22 lots under the hammer, selling for £6,250. The collection highlighted the brilliance, determination and sense of humour of Hawking, who died in March ... More |
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| Residential hillside 79&Park by BIG completes in Stockholm | | The Kunsthalle Bremen opens a comprehensive exhibition of works by Rosa Barba | | Major expansion of Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art completed at Utah State University | 
BIG was hired to create unique contemporary homes with generous views and outdoor space. Photo: Laurian Ghinitoiu.
STOCKHOLM.- The 25,000m2 wooden hillside at the edge of Stockholms treasured national park Gärdet celebrates its official opening together with the citys tallest new structure, OMAs Norra Tornen. Both buildings were inaugurated today by BIG Founding Partner Bjarke Ingels, Mayor of Stockholm Anna König Jerlmyr, City Architect Torleif Falk, CEO of Oscar Properties Oscar Engelbert and OMA Partner Reinier De Graaf. As far as I know a city has never inaugurated two buildings by two world-famous architects on the same day. Norra Tornen and 79&Park are proof that it is possible to change and improve the cityscape of Stockholm, said Oscar Engelbert, CEO and Founder of Oscar Properties. Commissioned in the Spring of 2011 by Oscar Properties, BIG was hired to create unique contemporary homes with generous views and outdoor space, while remaining respectful to the national park, neighboring buildings and nearby royal harbor Frihamn ... More | | 
Rosa Barba, Only Revolutions (
that get accomplished
), 2012/2017. 16mm film, glass case, motor. Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2017. Photo: Agostino Osio © Rosa Barba, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
BREMEN.- The Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting a comprehensive exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, supported by the Supporters Circle for Contemporary Art in the Kunstverein Bremen. Works from 2009 to 2018 will be on display, including projections and installations such as Drawn by the Pulse (2018), From Source to Poem (2016), and The Color Out of Space (2015), as well as new prints on canvas. The work of Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba (*1972) is distinguished by her conceptual engagement with film. The exhibition will focus on her interest in the relationship between film, space and audience. Composition, physicality and plasticity play an important role in the perception of her work. Barbas treatment of film is sculptural: By deconstructing elements of film, she creates fascinating kinetic objects and atmospheric spatial installations. Her work occupies ... More | | 
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. 2018 building renovation and expansion. Night time exterior. Photo: Jeremy Bittermann.
LOGAN, UT.- The newly expanded Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture opened in September 2018 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. NEHMA has completed a comprehensive $5-million renovation and expansion that has transformed the visitor experience of both the Museum and its significant collection with an emphasis on art of the American West. The project began in 2017 with the renovation of NEHMAs 1982 Edward Larrabee Barnes-designed building, followed by a 9,000-square-foot addition bringing the Museums total building enclosure to 29,000 square feet. The projectwhich includes a new building entrance and lobby addition; a new gallery; an Object Study Center; a video/film/lecture space; additional and renovated collection storage and officeshas enabled the Museum to better organize its existing facilities, increase its exhibition space, offer new amenities, and further develop it ... More |
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| Some of Australia's most important artists respond to themes of protecting country in new exhibition | | Pangolin opens exhibition of works by abstract sculptor Bryan Kneale | | Twentieth-century prototypes are compared with the latest innovations in new exhibition | 
Vincent Namatjira, Unknown soldier 2018. Acrylic on army surplus material, 91 x 122 cm, courtesy Iwantja Arts.
SYDNEY.- Hazelhurst Arts Centre will hold a major and ambitious exhibition, Weapons for the soldier, which will bring together 41 important Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in Australia who have made new work to examine complex and varied responses to weaponry, warfare, and their connection to protecting land and country. Weapons for the soldier is the first Anangu-curated exhibition involving non-Indigenous artists. Twenty seven of the artists are from the art centres of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara (APY) Lands. The 14 invited artists are some of Australias most important Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. Weapons for the soldier will foster dialogue around multi-geographical and multigenerational fights for land, Country and freedom experienced by Australians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as well as the Indigenous experience in Australian military history. This ground-breaking ... More | | 
NIKKESSEN, 1964, Welded Steel, Unique.
LONDON.- The first abstract sculptor to be elected Royal Academician in 1974, this exhibition celebrates the importance of Bryan Kneale in the development of 20th Century British sculpture. An indepth monograph will coincide with the show as hommage to his extraordianary life and works. Born in the Isle of Man in 1930, Kneale left for London to attend the Royal Academy Schools. His spiky, palette-knife paintings gained a strong following, winning the Rome Prize in 1948, and painting the portraits of Michael Redgrave, Richard Attenborough and Norman Parkinson, but other means of creative expression soon pulled him away from painting. Coupled with an innate fear of repetition of form, Kneale turned to sculpture, learning to forge and weld, working in brass, steel, aluminium, and bronze, yet not in the traditional method. Kneales immediate, spontaneous approach to sculpture brings about an unconventional design process, not least through his method of exploding old bombs and melding the fra ... More | | 
The exhibition explores the radical domestic visions of the 20th century and asks: what happened to the future?
LONDON.- The home of the future has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Bringing together avant-garde speculations with contemporary objects and new commissions, Home Futures explores todays home through the prism of yesterdays imagination. The exhibition asks: are we living in the way that pioneering architects and designers once predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change? Through more than 150 objects and experiences, historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy. Rare works on display include original furniture from the Smithsons House of the Future (1956), original footage from the General Motors Kitchen of tomorrow (1956), Home Environment by Ettore Sottsass (1972) and an original model of Total ... More |
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 State museum opens exhibition featuring artwork of the historic Woodstock Art ColonyALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum will open The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: The Arthur A. Anderson Collection on November 10. On display through December 31, 2019, the exhibition features over 100 artworks including paintings, lithographs, sculpture and works on paper from the major collection of artwork of the historic Woodstock Art Colony that collector Arthur A. Anderson donated to the State Museum in 2017. This exhibition introduces to the public for the first time just a sample of the highlights of this extraordinary collection, which represents a body of work that together shaped art and culture in New York and forms a history of national and international significance. Long before the famous music festival in 1969, Woodstock, New York, was home to what is considered Americas first intentionally created, year-round arts colonyfounded ... More Winnipeg Art Gallery introduces Winnipeg Indigenous BiennialWINNIPEG.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery announced the establishment of the Winnipeg Indigenous Biennial to launch the opening year of the WAG Inuit Art Centre in 2020. Building on the recent success of INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE, the WAGs largest-ever exhibition of Indigenous art, the new series will celebrate contemporary Indigenous art and artists for years to come. The Winnipeg Indigenous Biennial is the first international Indigenous biennial organized by a public art museum in Canada. The Biennial will add to the international circuit and feature content from North America (Turtle Island). The inaugural Winnipeg Indigenous Biennial will be curated by Jaimie Isaac, WAG Curator of Indigenous & Contemporary Art; and Dr. Julie Nagam, Chair in the History of Indigenous Art in North America, University of Winnipeg/WAG. BMO Financial Group has come on board ... More National Museum of Women in the Arts opens exhibition of designs by the fashion house RodarteWASHINGTON, DC.- The celebrated American luxury fashion house Rodarte, founded by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, is being featured this fall in the first fashion exhibition organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. On view November 10, 2018February 10, 2019, Rodarte showcases the designers visionary concepts, impeccable craftsmanship and profound impact on the fashion industry. The exhibition explores the distinctive design principles, material concerns and reoccurring themes that position the Mulleavys work within the landscape of contemporary art and fashion. Spanning the first 13 years of Rodarte, nearly 100 complete looks, presented as they were shown on the runway, are on view, highlighting selections from their most pivotal collections. Through a conceptual blend of high fashion and modern femininity ... More Pioneering new art space opens to the public this weekendLONDON.- An innovative new creative project space, called Elephant West will open this weekend with a mission to showcase the very best in emerging artistic talent through an ambitious and exciting programme of immersive cultural experiences. Elephant West is a physical manifestation of the print and online visual-culture publication Elephant and will bring together exciting makers of all stripes to carry out environmental takeovers that break down the traditional barriers of the typical white-cube gallery and transform the space to embody a chosen theme. Designed by the multi-award-winning architecture studio Liddicoat & Goldhill, Elephant West will occupy a disused petrol station adjacent to the iconic Television Centre, the BBCs former Headquarters. The space has undergone a transformation from abandoned ubiquitous facility into thriving cultural environment. The result ... More The making of the Millicent Fawcett Statue for Parliament Square by Gillian WearingCOLCHESTER.- Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere documents the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearings recently-unveiled statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, situated in Parliament Square, London. Exhibiting at Firstsite, Colchester, the show also features a number of works drawn from Wearings celebrated photographic series, Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say. The title of the exhibition, Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, comes from Fawcetts response to the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, knocked down by the Kings horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913. It is comprised of the original small-scale maquette of the statue, Wearings notes, designs and development research that chart its making, as well as 3D prints from the mould- ... More Site-specific garden installation and exhibition by Ebony G. Patterson opens at Pérez Art Museum Miami MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting ...while the dew is still on the roses
, an immersive exhibition from mixed media artist Ebony G. Patterson. A survey of the artists recent work is situated within a visually dense environment designed to recall an overgrown, decadent night garden. This site-specific installationreplete with twilight-colored cloth wallpaper, vegetal growths sprouting from the walls and silk leaves, flowers, and vines falling from the ceiling and framing paintingsaugments thirteen of the artists large-scale works that include videos, drawings, and tapestries, six of which were created for the show. For almost five years Ive been exploring the idea of the garden as both real as imagined, acknowledging its relationship to post-colonial spaces. I am interested in how gardens operate as sites of social demarcation. I investigate their ... More Major solo exhibition by John Walter opens at HOMEMANCHESTER.- HOME presents CAPSID, a major solo exhibition by John Walter. CAPSID is the latest multi-media maximalist installation by London-based British artist John Walter. Presenting a compelling, sometimes riotous and often surreal world, CAPSID is the result of collaboration between Walter and molecular virologist Professor Greg Towers of University College London. Taking the HIV capsid as the starting point of his research, Walter expanded his examination within a broader context of virology. Capsids are the protein shells of a virus, which act to protect, cloak and deliver the virus to its host. CAPSID addresses a crisis of representation surrounding viruses, and presents a new way of viewing and understanding HIV based on the best current scientific knowledge. This major exhibition develops Walters ongoing fascination with the representation ... More Exhibition offers expansive look at adventure illustrator's creative and geographic journeySTOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- This fall and winter, the Norman Rockwell Museum explores the art of adventure through the work of celebrated illustrator Frank E. Schoonover (18771972). With more than 80 original works, Frank E. Schoonover: American Visions will trace the creative journey and eventful life of this influential Golden Age illustrator, one whose vivid, dynamic work was deeply informed by his own numerous wilderness voyages, undertaken to fulfill his belief that artists should live what they paintan adage often repeated by his noted teacher, acclaimed illustrator Howard Pyle (18531911). Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum and curated by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, the Museums Deputy Director and Chief Curator, the exhibition will include works on loan from the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Schoonover family, and other public and ... More Arebyte opens a solo exhibition of new work by Leeds based artist Karanjit PanesarLONDON.- What is the place of the alienated individual in the globalised world system, and why are alternatives to it so hard to imagine? How can we envision a better future when we are told that this is the way things are, and that this is the way things have to be? THE WAY THINGS ARE is a solo exhibition of new work by Leeds based artist Karanjit Panesar, the selected artist of the hotel generation programme for 2018. Comprising sculpture, film, CGI animation, and text, the exhibition is an attempt to affectively map a world system that is so vast and unrepresentable a totality as to factor into almost every aspect of life and relationships in some way. What does this mean for us - the perennial consumer - and our view of the world at large? The show borrows from the language of advertising and political rhetoric in an effort to ridicule the pervasive nature ... More Jenkins Johnson Projects opens first installment of an exhibition series curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects presents the first installment of On The Road, an exhibition series curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah highlighting the works of artists he encounters while traveling. Loosely inspired by Jack Kerouacs 1957 Beat Generation novel about the travels of young men across postwar America, the title and historical context provide a space for Ossei-Mensah to interrogate contemporary issues of mobility, freedom and identity at a time marked by political and societal unease. For the inaugural exhibition, Ossei-Mensah focuses on three visual artists based in the Midwest: Caroline Kent, Basil Kincaid and Esau McGhee, all of whom he met in 2017 during his travels across the United States. Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent utilizes the visual language of abstraction to construct imagined spaces in her paintings that question ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter William Hogarth was born November 10, 1697. William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. In this image: William Hogarth, The Beggar's Opera II, 1728. Oil on canvas, signed, 47 x 54.6 cm, courtesy of The Fine Art Society.
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