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Paul Gauguin (French, 1848?1903) "Reclining Tahitian Women," 1894 Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 19 1/4 in. (60 x 49 cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1832 Photograph by Ole Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will open Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey, debuting at the de Young museum on November 17. The first exhibition at FAMSF dedicated to the work of Paul Gauguin (1848?1903) will explore two themes central to his career: the relationships that shaped his life and work, and his quest to understand spirituality, both his own and that of other cultures he encountered. Through an exceptional partnership with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, more than sixty Gauguin works will be on view?ranging from oil paintings and works on paper to wood carvings and ceramics?alongside art of the Pacific Islands from the FAMSF collection. Combined, these works encompass distinctive phases of Gauguin?s career to show the development of his ideas, the scope of his oeuvre, and the inspiration he found in New Zealand, the Marquesas Islands, and Tahiti. "The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have the largest reposito ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at a carpet displayed at the Dubai Design Week in the Gulf emirate on November 13, 2018. Local and international designers, architects and artists are convening in Dubai for the Emirate's Design Week. GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP
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 | | National Gallery Singapore opens the first Minimalism exhibition in Southeast Asia | | 'Obscene' books in Bodleian Libraries' restricted collection on display for first time | | Christie's Amsterdam announces Post-War and Contemporary Art Auctions at De Westergasfabriek | 
Peter Kennedy, Neon Light Installations, 1970-2002. Neon, composition board and synthetic polymer paint , 235 x 1192.2 x 8.6 cm. Purchased 2004. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney © Peter Kennedy.
SINGAPORE.- Singapores two leading cultural institutions, National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum are collaborating for the first time to present the regions first exhibition focusing on Minimalism. Led by the Gallery and set across these two sites, over 130 works explore the history and legacy of this groundbreaking art movement, which continues to influence a wide range of art forms and practitioners across the world today. Dr. Eugene Tan, Director of National Gallery Singapore said, This institutional collaboration will enable us to extend the scale of the exhibition, to further examine the many rich and complex dimensions of this significant artistic tendency, which has had such an enormous influence on contemporary art and design but has been little seen in Southeast Asia. Its profound impact will become evident through the exhibition set across both venues, each of which will have a distinct focus in our ... More | | 
The title page of The Love Books of Ovid (London, The Bodley Head, 1925), translated from Latin to English by James Lewis May and illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford/ Reproduced with the kind permission of Alain Bilot.
OXFORD.- The Bodleian Libraries is lifting the lid on its collection of obscene and improper books in the first ever display of items from the Libraries restricted Phi category. Story of Phi: Restricted Books explores changing ideas about sexuality and censorship and runs from 15 November 2018 13 January 2019 at the Bodleians Weston Library. In the Victorian age, the Bodleian created a restricted library within the Library, a special category for books that were deemed by librarians to be too sexually explicit. These books were given the shelfmark Φ the Greek letter Phi. Students had to submit a college tutor's letter of support in order to read Phi materials. The Phi shelfmark was established in 1882 and remained in use until recently. It was designed to protect young minds from material that was considered immoral while also protecting the books themselves from unwanted ... More | | 
Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Myr og Mo (Myra and Mo ), 1951. oil on plywood, 122 x 122cm. Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
AMSTERDAM.- On 22 November 2018, coinciding with the start of Amsterdam Art Weekend, Christies biannual Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions will go on public view at De Westgasfabriek until the auctions on 26 & 27 November. The auction boasts a superb array of German and Dutch art including highlights from artists such as Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke. As the sales also coincide with the 70th anniversary of the European avant-garde group Cobra a selection of work by artists such as Karel Appel, Corneille, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinksy will be offered in a special section of the 26 November evening auction titled: Cobra 70 Years: Creation before theory. The Cobra section will be highlighted by two major Karel Appel works from the same distinguished American collector: Tête Bleue (Blue Head, estimate 250,000 - 350,000) from 1953, an expressionistic composition, and La fleur et les oiseaux (The Flower and the Birds, estimate 250,000 - 350,000) painted ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth features recent large-scale works by Phyllida Barlow | | Exhibition marks the public debut of a new series of linguistic paintings by Ed Ruscha | | Marian Goodman Gallery New York exhibits Amar Kanwar's Such a Morning | 
untitled: folded hoarding; 2018, 2018. Concrete, cement, filler, PVA, paint, plywood, sand, spray paint, steel, timber. 93 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. © Phyllida Barlow. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alex Delfanne.
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than fifty years, British artist Phyllida Barlow has created sculptures and large-scale installations using a direct and intuitive process of making. She transforms humble, readily available materials through layering, accumulation, and juxtaposition, often drawing inspiration from her urban surroundings to reference construction debris, architecture, signs, fences, and discarded objects. Following Barlows critically acclaimed presentation at the British Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale, Hauser & Wirth is presenting tilt, an exhibition featuring recent large-scale works installed for the first time alongside more than a dozen smaller sculptures. Together, the works on view encourage an intimate encounter between object and viewer, continuing a ... More | | 
Ed Ruscha, Mothers Boys (reverse), 2018, exhibition view Secession 2018, photo: Sophie Thun, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
VIENNA.- In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artists books, prints, and films that chronicle the development of the American West and of Los Angeles in particular in a singular artistic idiom. Widely acclaimed as a sober-minded and dispassionate witness and historian, outspoken and enigmatic at once, Ruscha is gifted with a keen sense for linguistic humor and the comedy of everyday life. The conception of his most recent exhibition reveals him to be not only an alert observer, but also a master of the well-placed allusion and spellbinding and witty storyteller. Although most of the works on view are recent, Double Americanisms undertakes an unexpected revision of his own oeuvre. The exhibition showcases altogether fifty-seven worksconceptual digital prints and an extended series of painted language ... More | | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York is presenting Amar Kanwars Such a Morning (2017), following its original premiere at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. The exhibition is on view through Friday, December 21st. The 85-min. single channel film installation Such a Morning is a modern parable about two peoples quiet engagement with truth through phantom visions from within the depths of darkness. Searching for a way to re-comprehend the difficult times we are living in, Kanwar asks What is it that lies beyond, when all arguments are done with? How to reconfigure and respond again? Such a Morning unlocks a metaphysical response to our contemporary reality as it navigates multiple hallucinations between speech and silence, fear and freedom, democracy and fascism. In the feature length film, a famous mathematician at the peak of his career unexpectedly withdraws from his life and retreats to the wilderness to l ... More |
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| | | Steven Kasher Gallery opens a major solo exhibition of pioneering feminist artist Joan Lyons | | Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction hits $100 million mark again in New York | | Winslow Homer exhibition examines the relationship of his art to photography | 
Joan Lyons, Untitled (from the Womens' Portrait series), 1974. Haloid Xerox transfer and drawing, 26h x 19w in. Unique, Signed by artist verso. Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of pioneering feminist artist Joan Lyons. Lyons (American, b. 1937) is one of the great unsung artists of her generation. The exhibition features nine of Lyons pivotal photographic projects. This is the first gallery solo exhibition of the artists work since 2013. Lyons groundbreaking work freely combines feminist theory and personal experience. Her work is intimate and introspective, questioning the indexical quality of photography. Over the past six decades, Lyons has employed a variety of difficult and obscure image-making processes. Her work spans a broad range of media including archaic photographic processes, pinhole photography, offset lithography, Xerography, screen-printing, and photo-quilt making. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lyons was ... More | | 
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970. Estimate $1.2/1.8 million. Sold for $3.1 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys marquee November auctions continued yesterday in New York, with the Contemporary Art Day Auction achieving $100.1 million with 83.2% of lots sold. Sothebys worldwide sales of Contemporary Art have reached $1.6 billion year-to-date in 2018 up 22% over the same period in 2017. Courtney Kremers, Head of Sothebys Day Auctions of Contemporary Art in New York, commented: Todays sale marks our third-consecutive Day Auction to reach the $100 million benchmark in New York, demonstrating demand across the Contemporary art market. We saw continued success for distinguished private collections from Judith Neisser to Michael Asher and Betty Asher and of course the incredible David Teiger, whose collection inspired continued competition for works by Elizabeth Peyton and set a new auction record for Ugo Rondinone. From an ... More | | 
Winslow Homer (18361910), The Fisher Girl, 1894, oil on canvas, 28 ¼ x 28 ¼ in. Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College. Gift of George D. Platt, Class of 1893.
CHADDS FORD, PA.- This fall the Brandywine River Museum of Art will present Winslow Homer: Photography and the Art of Painting, exploring the surprising role photography played in the evolving practice of one of Americas most iconic artists. On view November 17, 2018 through February 17, 2019, the exhibition will feature approximately 50 paintings, prints, watercolors and drawings from all major periods of the artists career, as well as a comparable number of photographs collected by Homer. Winslow Homer: Photography and the Art of Painting examines the role the relatively new medium of photography played in the evolving practice of one of Americas most iconic artists. The exhibition presents a full picture of the artists working methods and includes noteworthy archival objects, such as two ... More |
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| | | Armenian Museum of America opens new gallery | | Exhibition traces how artists with ties to the Midwest helped shape art and culture on the West Coast | | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens an exhibition that focuses on strong women in fashion | 
Kütahya vessel, 18th Century. Polychrome fritware. Collection of the Armenian Museum of America.
WATERTOWN, MASS.- The Armenian Museum of America shares its vision for the future. Founded in 1971, the Museum serves as the largest repository of Armenian artifacts in the diaspora, as well as the largest ethnic museum in Massachusetts. As the Museum builds towards the future, it strives to create a stronger, more connected community through shared exploration of Armenian art and history, both for Armenians and those who are new to Armenian culture. The Museums new gallery Armenia: art, culture, eternity provides an overview of Armenian culture from antiquity to present-day Armenian experience here in the United States. Over fifty objects are on display, illustrating Armenias origins in the Asian continent, the invention of a unique Indo-European language and alphabet, the early adoption of Christianity, Armenian medieval illuminated manuscripts, interconnected trade routes, and the tragedy of the Genocide. Armenia: art, culture, e ... More | | 
Installation view, West by Midwest, MCA Chicago November 17, 2018January 27, 2019 Work shown: Amanda Ross-Ho, Cradle of Filth, 2013. © Amanda Ross-Ho Courtesy of the artist; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents West by Midwest, an exhibition tracing how artists with ties to the Midwest helped shape art and culture on the West Coast where they migrated to find career opportunities, art schools, and warmer weather. Spanning the early 1960s to 2010s, works by artists such as Billy Al Bengston, Andrea Bowers, Judy Chicago, Anna Halprin, David Hammons, Mike Kelley, Senga Nengudi, Laura Owens, Sterling Ruby, and Ed Ruscha among many others, demonstrate the ways that contemporary art practices spread and developed across social and geographic lines. West by Midwest presents more than 80 artworks drawn primarily from the MCA Collection and is on view from November 17, 2018 to January 27, 2019. The ... More | | 
Iris van Herpen, couture collection Ludi Naturae, 2018. Photo: Jean Baptiste Mondino. Iris van Herpen / Jean Baptiste Mondino / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Collaborating artist Peter Gentenaar / Dress made in collaboration with TU Delft.
THE HAGUE.- The first female fashion designers had to hold their own in a mans world. How different things are today. Never before have so many fashion houses been run by a female designer, some of whom are very vocal about their views on womens rights and politics. The time is therefore ripe for the first ever fashion exhibition in history devoted exclusively to female designers. Femmes Fatales Strong Women in Fashion will feature the work of a range of famous Dutch and international names, including Coco Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, Miuccia Prada, Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior), Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Clare Waight Keller (Givenchy), Stella McCartney, Iris van Herpen and Fong Leng. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has also opted for sensational photography and a striking model Eveline ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Bronzino was born November 17, 1503. Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 - November 23, 1572), usually known as Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter, born in Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, in all probability refers to his relatively dark skin. In this image: A woman reads the catalogue of the exhibition 'Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici' as she look at the art works displayed at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, 22 September 2010.
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