| The First Art Newspaper on the Net |   | Established in 1996 | Saturday, November 12, 2016 |
 |
| | Exhibition sheds new light on Jasper Johns's embrace of the art of Edvard Munch | |
|
|
Installation view. Photo: © David Stover Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- At a crossroads in the middle of his career, Jasper Johns (1930) found his way forward in part by looking to the work of Edvard Munch (18631944). Now a ground-breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of Americas preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade of abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss and death. Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with the Munch Museum, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch opens in Richmond on Saturday, November 12, 2016 and remains on view through February 20, 2017. The showing at VMFA is the sole U.S. venue, following the presentation at the Munch Museum, the sole venue abroad. The depth of the relationship between Johns and Munch has never been explored as systematically, no ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on January 16, 2012 shows Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen takes off his hat to salute in Paris. Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of the most visionary artists of his generation, has died at age 82, his publicist announced on November 10, 2016. JOEL SAGET / AFP
| Exhibition of recent photographs by Andreas Gursky opens at Gagosian | | American Impressionist collection leads Christie's November auction | | Legendary poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at 82 | 
Andreas Gursky, Ohne Titel XVIII/Untitled XVIII, 2015 (detail). Inkjet print. Framed, 120 7/8 à 87 3/16 à 2 7/16 inches © Andreas Gursky / 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian presents Not Abstract II, an exhibition of recent photographs by the renowned German artist Andreas Gursky, accompanied by an electronic sound installation created by Canadian DJ and producer Richie Hawtin. From images of nature to cities, crowds, and products, Gursky seems to create what already exists. In his photographs variations in distance serve to emphasize contemporary truths, whereby subject matter is presented in a detailed uniformity that privileges neither foreground nor background. In Les Meés (2016), solar panels, rolling hills, and a gray-blue sky become bold areas of color, as opposed to elements in a landscape. Hawtins minimalist techno soundscape, composed in response to Gurskys art, breathes with the photographs, inspiring longer pauses that allow each image to expand beyond its frame. In several ... More | | 
Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Sunset: Ironbound, Mt. Desert, Maine, oil on canvas. Painted in 1896. Estimate: $1,500,000 - 2,500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the fall sale of American Art on November 22 will offer 101 lots encompassing a range of styles and artists of 19th century, Impressionism, Modernism, Regionalism, Western and Illustration art. The sale features one of the strongest selections of American Impressionist paintings to appear on the auction market, including pioneers of the genre such as Childe Hassam, Frank Weston Benson, Frederick Carl Frieseke and John Leslie Breck, among others. Other sale highlights include works by Georgia OKeeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth and Stuart Davis. The sale is led by Frank Weston Bentons dazzling work, The Reader, which depicts an iconic Impressionist subject; the artists eldest daughter is enjoying a beautiful summer day reading outside while perched under a parasol (estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000). The Reader is a prime example of the Maine summer ... More | | 
Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen taking off his hat to salute in Paris. JOEL SAGET / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of the most visionary artists of his generation, has died at age 82, his publicist announced on Thursday. "It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away. We have lost one of music's most revered and prolific visionaries," read a statement on Cohen's Facebook page. Cohen, who was brought up in Montreal but lived in California late in his life, will have a private memorial service at a later date, the statement said. "Leonard Cohen was an unparalleled artist whose stunning body of original work has been embraced by generations of fans and artists alike," his label Sony Music said in a statement. Cohen began as a poet before branching out into music -- reluctantly at first -- writing some of his generation's most reflective songs, including the oft-covered spiritual "Hallelujah." He released his final album, "You Want It Darker," just last month, ... More |
|
| Exhibition examines work of radical sculptor Medardo Rosso | | The best of the art & luxury markets offered at Koller | | Dutch Old Masters from Budapest on view at the Frans Hals Museum | 
Medardo Rosso, Bambino ebreo (Jewish Boy), 1892-1894. Wax with plaster interior, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in (24.2 x 19 x 16 cm). Amedeo Porro Fine Arts SA. Lugano/London.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Pulitzer Arts Foundations fall exhibition examines the work of Medardo Rosso, a critically important, if under-recognized, artist who played a crucial role in the development of modern sculpture. Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form explores Rossos radical efforts to render sculpture ephemeral and seemingly insubstantial through changing effects of light. It is the largest and most comprehensive Rosso exhibition to be presented in a U.S. museum, with some 30 sculpturesthe majority of which have never been seen in this countryas well as about 40 photographs and 30 drawings. On view at the Pulitzer from November 11, 2016, through May 13, 2017, Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form has been curated by independent Rosso expert Sharon Hecker and Pulitzer Arts Foundation Associate Curator Tamara H. Schenkenberg. The exhibition ... More | | 
Cuno Amiet. View of the Stockhorn. 1931. Oil on canvas. CHF 350 000 - 450 000.
GENEVA.- The November December auction series at Koller features a large sculpture by Chinese conceptual artist and dissident Ai Weiwei; important works by Gabriele Münter, one of the founders of the Blaue Reiter movement; an oil on canvas by Keith Haring from his European travels in the mid-80s, and a large painting by Swiss artist Albert Anker estimated at approximately $1 million. Kollers first stand-alone Photographs auction in almost a decade features portraits of personalities such as Muhammed Ali, Desmond Tutu and Marilyn Monroe by master photographers like Richard Avedon and Thomas Hoepker. Rare works by Tiffany can be found in the Art Deco & Art Nouveau auction, and innovations and complications by Patek Philippe are featured in the auction of Watches. The Jewellery auction will offer some world-class rubies and diamonds, as well as highly attractive signed pieces by David Webb, Van Cleef & Arpels and René Kern. ... More | | 
Frans Pietersz de Grebber, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1632. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.
HAARLEM.- This winter the Frans Hals Museum entertains distinguished visitors from the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest. For three months from 12 November 2016 more than eighty works by Netherlandish masters from one of the finest museum collections in the world will be our guests. Unlike leading museums with comparable collections, such as the Louvre and the National Gallery, the Hungarian museums collection is an undiscovered gem. The radical renovation of the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum has given the Frans Hals Museum the opportunity to bring exceptional seventeenth-century paintings to Haarlem. The exhibition, showcasing Haarlem artists alongside well-known Dutch and Flemish painters like Hendrick Avercamp, an Lievens and Anthony van Dyck, runs until 12 February 2017. This year, to mark the 350th anniversary of Frans Halss death, two magnificent portraits are coming from Budapest to be reunited with his paintings in the Frans ... More |
|
| Hauser & Wirth presents three projects at Shanghai Contemporary Art Week | | Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibits works by Isamu Noguchi | | Nationalmuseum acquires works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | 
Jenny Holzer, XX 8, 2015. Oil on linen, 203.2 x 157.5 x 3.8 cm / 80 x 62 x 1 1/2 in © Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Ken Adlard.
SHANGHAI.- As part of the gallerys ongoing commitment to developing its activities in Asia, Hauser & Wirth is staging three presentations at Shanghai Contemporary Art Week in November participating in ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair for the first time, returning to West Bund Art & Design Fair, and co-organising a Martin Creed solo exhibition at Qiao Space, with Qiao Zhibing. With its increased presence this year, Hauser & Wirth looks forward to engaging with the increasingly diverse and influential audiences that are visiting the city. Hauser & Wirth has been steadily building a presence in Asia through longstanding participation in the regions major art fairs and through strong relationships with collectors, public institutions and private museums. In May 2016, Vanessa Guo was appointed as a Director to lead ... More | | 
Isamu Noguchi, Black and Blue, 1958-59, fabricated 1979-80, aluminum, electostatic paint and polyurethane paint. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Photo by Kevin Noble. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Isamu Noguchi (19041988) was among the most innovative American sculptors of the 20th century. His design for Sculpture to Be Seen from Mars (1947) anticipates the space age by several decades. Even as he created works that were far ahead of his time, Noguchi frequently found inspiration in ancient art and architecturefrom Egyptian pyramids and Buddhist temples to Zen gardens and American Indian burial mounds. Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern explores how the ancient world shaped this artists vision for the future. Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern is on view in the museums main building from Nov. 11 through March 19, 2017. Dakin Hart, senior curator at The Noguchi Museum, ... More | | 
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Una Ciociara, 1816. Photo: Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish art collection. Each of the works represents a different segment of Eckersbergs artistic career: from his student years in Paris, via his artistic rebirth in Paris and Rome, to his firmly established but never stagnant later life in Copenhagen. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (17831853) held a travel scholarship from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1812 to 1816, having already left Copenhagen for Paris in 1810. In Paris, he studied under Jacques-Louis David for about a year. Eckersbergs art is often viewed in relation to that of his teacher, but in fact he had been in Paris for over a year before beginning his studies with David. Oedipus and Antigone (1812) is an interesting work in this connection. Encountering the artistic treasures of Paris proved an overwhelming experience for Eckersberg, who wrote i ... More |
|
| Benrubi Gallery's second solo exhibition by Richard Renaldi on view in New York | | Exhibition of Alice in Wonderland presents illustrations, memorabilia and the looking glass | | Major exhibition of the work of Jill Furmanovsky opens at Lucy Bell Gallery | 
Richard Renaldi, 06:27 (detail), 20 x 24 inch archival pigment print. Edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrubi Gallery is presenting Manhattan Sunday, the gallerys second solo exhibition by Richard Renaldi. Manhattan Sunday is a photographic diary from 2010 to the present. As the name suggests, the pictures were all taken in Manhattan, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, usually after a night out on the town. If hedonism informs these images, from the bare skin and muscled bodies in many of its portraits, to the disco balls and bottles of poppers in its still lifes, its a sensuality tempered by reflection. The faces are blissed out, maybe even a bit wan after eight or ten hours of clubbing. Black and white lends a coolness to the scenes, merging day with night, while several long exposures capture the euphoria of the club experience, but also its transience. It was in these serene moments, Renaldi writes, leaving the clubs, totally spent, that a new city revealed itself to me. Renaldi is reno ... More | | 
Title page of the 1910 edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland pictured by Mabel Lucie Attwell © Lucie Attwell Ltd.
BASINGSTOKE.- An acclaimed exhibition about Alice in Wonderland opens in Basingstoke this month, and uniquely features a very special object her real life looking glass coming home to Hampshire. From Salvador Dali and Tim Burton to Walt Disney, Lewis Carrols Adventures of Alice in Wonderland have appealed to successive generations and continue to do so, as this exciting new exhibition reveals. Opening in the Sainsbury Gallery at Basingstokes Willis Museum, which is operated by Hampshire Cultural Trust, on 12 November (until 14 January 2017) Alice in Wonderland follows a chronological path from the first time that Carroll told his story to Alice Liddell and her sisters during a boat trip on the Thames in 1862, through to the different ways in which generations of illustrators, artists, musicians, filmmakers and designers have ... More | | 
Bob Marley ©Jill Furmanovsky.
ST LEONARDS ON SEA.- Lucy Bell Gallery is presenting 30/30/30 a major exhibition of the work of Jill Furmanovsky. Jill Furmanovsky is one of the UKs best known and respected music photographers, artists photographed in her 40+ year career include many of the biggest names in rock music: Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Blondie, The Police, Led Zeppelin, The Pretenders, Bob Dylan, and Oasis are but a few. She has also directed videos for Oasis and The Pretenders. Furmanovsky emigrated from Zimbabwe (known then as Rhodesia) to London in 1965, and when she was 11 years old she became a member of the Beatles fan-club and an 'Apple scruff' one of the teenagers that hung around outside Abbey Road hoping to catch sight of the Fab Four. Her first rock shot was of Paul McCartney standing outside his house with two of her school friends taken on a Kodak Instamatic. Furmanovsky graduated from Central School of Art and Design ... More |
|
href=' href='
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana
| More News |
 Corning Museum of Glass unveils 2016 Rakow Commission by Thaddeus WolfeCORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass unveiled Stacked Grid Structure, this years Rakow Commission by Brooklyn-based American artist Thaddeus Wolfe. Wolfe creates multi-layered, highly-textured, angular mold-blown vessels, sculptures, and lighting fixtures. Stacked Grid Structure, like Wolfes other objects, was made by blowing glass into a one-time-use plaster silica mold cast over a carved Styrofoam positive. Creating his molds in this way enables Wolfe to force the material into structures that are at odds with the fluid nature of molten glass. Stacked Grid Structure is the perfect artifact of its time, said Susie Silbert, curator of modern and contemporary glass. A bold and inventively made object, it bridges craft, design, and art in its production, conception, and ambition, exemplifying the blurred boundaries that make contemporary glass ... More Thei Triantafyllidis opens exhibition at Sargent's DaughtersNEW YORK, NY.- Look in the bottom right corner of this painting. If youve never seen a watermelon like this before, youre not alone. A blob, a rock, a smartphone, a tiny dinosaur, a hand, a watermelon, a noodle, a plant, a knife are put into a painting. You wont believe what happens next! Welcome to a mountain made to look like a person holding a knife, an exhibition of live simulation, sculpture and fabric renderings by Theo Triantafyllidis. In How to Everything, computers will teach you about life through continually augmented space. Triantafyllidis co-opts the term vanitas to describe art that meditates on the ephemeral character of earthly pleasures and worldly accomplishments, highlighting the fragility of our desires in the face of mortality. They are a playful nod to the tradition of still life paintings as self-contained narratives frozen in time, driven by the symbolism imbued ... More Exhibitions, lectures and performances celebrate the early work of Michael GibbsAMSTERDAM.- Michael Gibbs was a pioneer in the field of visual poetry, deploying language as a visual means. Starting out as an English Literature student in England, he was active in the Fluxus movement from 1968 on. While still a student, he launched his art magazine 'Kontexts', which included interviews with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, among others. He lived and worked in Amsterdam from 1974 until his untimely death. His works on paper, installations and performances all give evidence of a love-hate relationship with language. His obsession with language is particularly evident in his works on paper, through cut-ups, typewriter, mail and stamp art. In his performances, he pushed things beyond all conceivable limits by, for instance, burning and cursing the alphabet, writing with his own blood, or cutting words out and then eating them. His dry humour was a discreet ... More 'Man from U.N.C.L.E' star Robert Vaughn dies aged 83LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Robert Vaughn, best known for his role as Napoleon Solo on the hit US television spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" died Friday of acute leukemia aged 83, his manager said. "Mr. Vaughn passed away (in New York) with his family around him," Matthew Sullivan told entertainment magazine Deadline Hollywood. The actor is survived by his wife Linda, son Cassidy and daughter Caitlin. Born in New York to show business parents, Vaughn first gained attention for his Oscar-nominated role in the 1959 movie "The Young Philadelphians." A year later, he starred as an on-the-run gunman in the popular Western movie "The Magnificent Seven." But though the actor acquired a lengthy list of credits in movies, he gained real star power for his roles on television, notably as the suave and cool Napoleon Solo -- the television version of James Bond -- in "The ... More German concert hall ready to dazzle world after cost explosionHAMBURG (AFP).- Years overdue and tens of millions over budget, a spectacular new concert house is poised to put Germany's venerable port city of Hamburg on the map as a global attraction. The dazzling building will have its gala opening in January but at a recent public preview, visitors were already electrified by the grand design. "Nothing quite like the Elbphilharmonie has ever been built," culture critic Peter von Becker said. "This old Hanseatic League city is now home to something that belongs to the culture of the world." National daily Die Welt said the "gorgeous" new landmark had the potential to rival the iconic Sydney Opera House as a destination. "A new epoch will begin, an age in which the old merchant city, which has called itself Germany's gateway to the world, truly becomes an international metropolis." The imminent completion also marks a rare urban development ... More Warsaw gets new church after 225 years of waitingWARSAW.- Worshippers in the capital of ultra-Catholic Poland finally celebrated the consecration of the city's highest church on Friday -- after a mere 225 years of waiting. The cornerstone of the enormous Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw was laid in 1792 but its halting progress since has mirrored turbulent Polish history. Just a few days after construction started, Russian troops invaded Poland and Polish independence was soon a distant memory. The project was enthusiastically resurrected after World War I but Hitler's invading army put a stop to it in 1939. Once again, Catholic Church bosses tried to revamp the project after Hitler's defeat but this time it was blocked by the Communist authorities. Only when the Berlin Wall fell could Poland's religious authorities seek to celebrate their new-found freedom by starting again. The perseverance paid off on Friday with ... More Ayyam Gallery Dubai opens solo show of Sharjah-based painter Mouteea MuradDUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery Dubai announces the opening reception of Thresholds, the solo show of Sharjah-based painter Mouteea Murad, on Sunday, 13 November at 7.00 pm. Organised by critic and curator Murtaza Vali, Thresholds highlights the artists latest body of work as he further experiments with the use of mathematics in geometric abstraction, an approach to non-objective art that he developed over the course of a decade. In the three years since his last exhibition in the United Arab Emirates, Murad has placed a greater emphasis on space and dimension in his paintings, drawing on the formalism of Op art. He returns to Dubai with large-scale works that use the Fibonacci number sequence as a starting point for large-scale compositions. Murads recent canvases explore the growth patterns that result from the numerical series as he uses it to create a sense ... More Matthew Porter's third exhibition with Invisible-Exports opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Invisible-Exports presents Matthew Porters Sunclipse," the artists third exhibition with the gallery. Designed jointly by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, the UN building is a looming monolith. The structure was captured by Porter at sunset in what feels like the twilight of the midcentury optimism that gave rise to the eponymous organization and its home. Sunclipse, the title of the show, takes its name from a neologism for "sunset," and is meant to remind us that the earth is not the center of the universe but merely a lucky satellite, and was coined by the visionary Buckminster Fullera quixotic futurist whose utopian projects and schemes are often regarded as historical curiosities if not abject failures. Fuller himself embraced failurecelebrated it, even, as a sign of creativity and free-thinking. "There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only an experiment ... More Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art celebrates impact of first five years BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened its doors five years ago on November 11, 2011 after years of planning and construction. Since then, the museum has welcomed over 2.7 million people from all around the world. When Crystal Bridges was proposed, annual attendance was estimated at some 150,000 to 250,000 guests. Attendance exceeded expectations from the onset, with more than 650,000 visitors in the first year and 500-600,000 in the years since. Approximately 50 percent of the visitors are new to the museum, while 50 percent are returning. Visitors hail from all 50 states and six out of the seven continents, including places like Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe. Thanks to a $20 million grant from Walmart in 2011, visitors have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy admission to Crystal ... More First ever survey of British artist Gee Vaucher's work to be mounted in the UK opens at FirstsiteCOLCHESTER.- Firstsite presents Gee Vaucher: Introspective, the first ever survey of the renowned British artists work to be mounted in the UK. The exhibition, which brings together more than 200 works, many of which have never been shown in public before, offers a complete overview of her fifty-year career, revealing the multifarious forces that have inspired and shaped her artistic practice. Vauchers work is characterised by its political engagement. Her activism was forged in the 1960s and 1970s, but is rooted in an older tradition of dissent arguably dating to the 14th century, to John Ball and the Peasants Revolt. However, she abhors any form of classification, rejecting any isms that seek to pigeonhole either her or her art. It is this ardent non-conformism that imbues her art with its power and originality. The assembled works have been drawn from Vauchers ... More Withoos meets Withoos: Photographs by Hans Withoos opens at Eduard Planting Gallery AMSTERDAM.- From 12 November 2016 until 7 January 2017 Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents an exhibition of Dutch photographer Hans Withoos. For his latest series of photographs 'Withoos meets Withoos' he combined still lifes and landscapes of the 17th century painter Matthias Withoos with his own contemporary images. Eduard Planting Gallery also presents the new work of Hans Withoos at PAN Amsterdam. The contemporary fair for art, antiques and design takes place from 20 27 November in RAI Amsterdam. By combining paintings with photography Hans Withoos brings still lifes alive again. Images are built up layer upon layer. With adding flowers, fishes, birds and models the original works are given a new and colorful story. Dutch painter Matthias Withoos (16271703), born in Amersfoort and also known as 'Calzetta Bianca', was a distant ... More |
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" set a world auction record November 12, 2013. Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" at Christie's in New York. The mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating was part of Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale held on November 12, 2013. The sculpture sold for $58,405,000. The sum is the highest ever paid for a work by a living artist. AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert
|
|
|
