| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Saturday, October 7, 2017 |
| | | 63 Dutch Masters return home to Holland for an exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam | |
|
|
Curators look on as a painting Flora of Rembrandt van Rijn arrives at The Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam on September 29, 2017, where it is part of an exhibition of Dutch Masters. Lex van LIESHOUT / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- For the first time in its existence, the Hermitage Amsterdam is holding an exhibition devoted to one of the most spectacular treasures of the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg: its collection of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. The selection of works in the Dutch Masters from the Hermitage: Treasures of the Tsars exhibition totals sixty-three paintings by no fewer than fifty different artists, including six by Rembrandt. Virtually all the great Dutch Masters are represented. The State Hermitages collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings contains 1500 works, making it the biggest anywhere outside the Netherlands. The exhibition promises to be a feast of old favourites and new discoveries, with six works by Rembrandt plus works by Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde, Ferdinand Bol, Gerard ter Borch, Gerard Dou, Govert Flinck, Jan van Goyen, Frans Hals, Pieter Lastman, Gabriël Metsu, Paulus Potter, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Stee ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Items: Is Fashion Modern? The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 2017-January 28, 2018. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck
| Hatton Gallery reopens with landmark exhibition | | Rare Netherlandish drawings unveiled at National Gallery of Art | | New commission by British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah opens at Barbican Art Gallery |
Joe Tilson (b.1928), Nine Elements, 1963. Painting, mixed media on wood relief, 259 x 182.8 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, purchased 1983 © Joe Tilson. All rights reserved, DACS 2016. Photo: Antonia Reeve.
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- The Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University will re-open on 7 October 2017, following a 20-month, £3.8million redevelopment made possible by National Lottery players through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), with a ground-breaking exhibition that will firmly position Newcastle as one of the birth places of Pop Art. The gallery has played a unique role in the development of British Art, with its history intimately entwined with some of the most influential artists and movements of the 20th century. The exhibition Pioneers of Pop (until 20 January 2018) revolves around the numerous artists, writers, activities, projects and ideas which had artist Richard Hamilton at their centre during his time teaching at Newcastle University. Hamilton arrived at Newcastle in 1953, with an initial brief to teach the fundamentals of design to first year students. When Victor Pasmore ... More | |
Hendrick Goltzius, The Sense of Sight from the series The Five Senses, c. 1595/1596. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and red chalk, heightened with white and indented, partially overdrawn in graphite, overall: 15.9 12.4 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Rotterdam's historic Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen holds one of the finest collections of Netherlandish master drawings. In a special presentation of this collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, some 100 works explore the many functions of drawings, from preparatory studies for paintings and designs for prints to finished works of art. On view from October 8, 2017, through January 7, 2018, Bosch to Bloemaert: Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam includes landscapes, portraits, biblical scenes, and historical and mythological scenes that will be exhibited in the United States only in Washington. "This exhibition presents a stunning selection of Netherlandish drawings," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, Washington. "The National ... More | |
John Akomfrah: Purple Installation View The Curve, Barbican Centre, 06 October 2017 07 January 2018 Photo by Anthony Harvey / Getty Images.
LONDON.- Barbican Art Gallery presents a new commission by British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah for the Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an immersive, six-channel video installation which charts the incremental shifts in climate change across the planet and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness. As the follow up to Vertigo Sea (2015), Akomfrahs standout work at the 56th Venice Biennale, Purple forms the second chapter in a planned quartet of films addressing the aesthetics and politics of matter. Symphonic in scale and divided into six interwoven movements, Akomfrah has combined hundreds of hours of archival footage with newly shot film and a hypnotic sound score to produce the video installation. John Akomfrah: Purple opened in the Curve on Friday 6 October 2017. Staged across a variety of disappearing ecological landscapes, from the hinterlands of Alaska to desolate, icy Arcti ... More |
|
| Anne Breckenridge Barrett appointed Director of the Center for Creative Photography | | Exhibition of prints by Helen Frankenthaler makes its only northeast stop at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | | Jorrit Britschgi appointed Rubin Museum Executive Director |
She is currently the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
TUCSON, ARIZ.- The University of Arizonas Center for Creative Photography announced the appointment of Anne Breckenridge Barrett as Director. Breckenridge Barrett has over 20 years of experience in museums, non-profit management, and law. She is currently the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), a position she has held since 2013. Among her many accomplishments, she helped shepherd and produce landmark exhibitions including David Bowie Is, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, and the recent Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg. Breckenridge Barrett was selected through an international search that included input from CCPs diverse constituents and supporters. She begins her appointment in January 2018. I couldnt be more delighted, said R. Brooks Jeffery, Associate Vice President for Research who oversees the Universitys three cultural ... More | |
Sanguine Mood, 1971. Pochoir and screenprint. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, 2016.237© 2017 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Widely known for her iconic soak-stain canvases, acclaimed artist Helen Frankenthaler (19282011) was an equally inventive printmaker who took risks in a medium not frequently explored by abstract expressionists. Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation highlights Frankenthalers often-overlooked, yet highly original print production. The exhibition is making its only northeast stop at Vassar Colleges Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center October 6-December 10, 2017. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Frankenthaler became well known through her large, almost 10-feet-wide oil painting, Mountains and Sea, made in 1952. In a breakthrough development, she poured thinned oil paints onto raw ... More | |
Prior to the appointment, Britschgi served as Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Research at the Rubin. Photo: Bob Krasner.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art announced that it has appointed Jorrit Britschgi as Executive Director. Prior to the appointment, Britschgi served as Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Research at the Rubin, driving strategies for exhibition development, greater and deeper audience engagement, and collections-based research. The news was announced at the Museums annual gala, where Britschgi also unveiled plans for the institutions 2018 exploration of The Future, which will be the yearlong connecting theme for exhibitions and programs. Britschgi replaces Patrick Sears, who is retiring after having led the Museum for the past five years. We are very pleased that Jorrit will be leading the Rubin Museum into the future. Himalayan art has a lot to say about the issues of our time, and Jorrit will help the Rubin leverage the arts voice in new, dynamic and engaging ways, said Bob Baylis, Board Pr ... More |
|
| Exhibition of Tiffany Favrile glass vases opens at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens | | Special exhibition of lithographs by Fitz Henry Lane opens this fall at the Cape Ann Museum | | Journey through NASA's history with more than 100 images on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art |
Tiffany Studios, Yellow Cameo Vase, Favrile glass, 8 3/4 à 4 7/8 in. Collection of Stanley and Dolores Sirott, © David Schlegel, courtesy of Paul Doros. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- Thirty-two exquisite glass vases designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, on loan from a private collection, will feature in an exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Tiffany Favrile Glass: Masterworks from the Collection of Stanley and Dolores Sirott will survey the full range of Tiffanys Favrile glass vase production, from experimental pieces made in the 1890s to the widely-admired peacock vases produced in the early years of the 20th century. The exhibition opens Oct. 7, 2017, and continues through Feb. 26, 2018, in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. The Sirott Collection is one of the most significant private collections of Tiffany Favrile glass in the United States, comprising almost 300 objectsa small but select sampling of which will be included in the exhibition. While Tiffany is famous for many types of glass work, including stain ... More | |
Castine, from Hospital Island 1855. Colored lithograph on paper. Drawn by F. H. Lane; lithograph by L. H. Bradford Lithography, Boston Published by Joseph L. Stevens, Jr. Collection of Roswitha and William Trayes.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Drawn from Nature & on Stone, the first-ever comprehensive exhibition focusing on 19th century American artist Fitz Henry Lane (18041865) as a printmaker, will be on display at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, from October 7, 2017 through March 4, 2018. Georgia Barnhill, Curator Emerita of the America Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, is serving as guest curator and worked closely with the Cape Ann Museum in organizing this special show. The exhibition, exhibition catalog and related programming are being organized in connection with Fitz Henry Lane Online, a catalogue raisonné and resource tool created by the Cape Ann Museum. Fitz Henry Lane has long been recognized as one of Americas most important artists of the mid-19th century. Born in Gloucester, trained in lithography in Boston and, during the same time, exposed to the art world, by the late ... More | |
This multiple exposure shows a simulated Moon landing of the Lunar Excursion Module simulator/trainer at Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility, now a National Historic Landmark. Courtesy NASA Langley Research Center.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art will celebrate NASA Langley Research Centers centennial with Picturing Innovation: The First 100 Years at NASA Langley. The photography exhibit opens Oct. 7 and will be on view in the Frank Photography Galleries and Focus Gallery through March 11, 2018. Admission is free. Since its founding 100 years ago, NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., has been changing how we fly, explore space and see our planet. With more than 100 images, the exhibition depicts many of Langleys pioneering innovations, including pilots testing experimental planes, engineers operating the facilitys famous wind tunnels and astronauts preparing to take the first steps on the moon. The photographic archive at Langley includes millions of images that document the history of aeronautics research, space exploration and atmospheric analysis, says Seth Feman, the Chrysler ... More |
|
| Lyon & Turnbull to sell a cheque paid to D.H Lawrence for the purchase of his banned book, Lady Chatterly's Lover | | Postcards from America: Celaya Brothers Gallery opens group exhibition | | All that glitters: This fall Akron Art Museum presents "Alchemy: Transformations in Gold" |
The cheque, valued at £800-1200, is believed to have been used to purchase 3 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover in August 1928.
EDINBURGH.- Lyon & Turnbull will sell a cheque for £5.2.0 (five pounds and two shillings) from the Midland Bank Limited, signed to D.H. Lawrence by H.K. Beazley & Co., dated August 10th 1928. The cheque, which has Lawrence's signature on the reverse, will be sold on the 11th October 2018 at their Rare Book & Manuscripts Sale in Edinburgh. The cheque, valued at £800-1200, is believed to have been used to purchase 3 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover in August 1928. The provenance can be traced in a series of letters written by D.H. Lawrence. The novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence, was first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia.. The book was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books. Penguin won the case, and quickly sold 3 million ... More | |
Mathew Zefeldt, Donkey Kong Country.
MEXICO CITY.- Postcards from America: X-rays from Hell, a 1989 text written by the American artist David Wojnarowicz, presents to its reader a sense that the words and stories being shared, those of the early days of HIV/AIDS in the New York queer community, carry with them a narrative of bravery and homage for those who laid everything bare in the face of adversity. In this exhibition, the works also bear witness to heinous, senseless acts of institutionalized violence and racism in a cross-toxic mess that as of yet, has no end in site. The messages shared in the works of Lee Lozano, Josh Reames, Nina Chanel Abney, Mathew Zefeldt, Dave Mckenzie and Sofi Brazzeal are more important now than ever in the face of rising fascist tendencies that have led America into a democratic and societal crisis. Paintings, signs, drawings, the written word, they are all used for the same purpose: to depict an image of contemporary American life. Through language and semiotics, figurative repetition ... More | |
Charles Lindsay, Sputterer (detail of Field Station), 2016, salvaged laboratory sputterer from Taiwan University with mixed media, Courtesy of the artist.
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum opened Alchemy: Transformations in Gold. The exhibition, which originated at the Des Moines Art Center, features sixteen international artists who incorporate gold or other metals disguised as gold into their work. The artists use gold not only to impart a sense of luxury but to examine the historic and cultural value societies have placed on the rare element. Its precious, its brilliant, its glamorous. Gold is valued in different ways by cultures around the globe. Alchemys international roster of artists, many of whose work has never before been seen in Akron, explore how those values are expressed, Associate Curator Theresa Bembnister said. Gold is the perfect medium to raise questions about what a society treasures and why. Artists featured in Alchemy utilize gold in diverse ways in their artwork, ranging from exploring the intersection of art and science ... More |
|
href=' href='
ConservationSpace
| More News |
IMT Gallery opens first showing of selected works from a new ongoing project by Suzanne Treister
LONDON.- IMT Gallery is presenting Works from SURVIVOR (F), the first showing of selected works from a new ongoing project by Suzanne Treister. SURVIVOR (F) is an hallucinogenic exploration of a post-apocalyptic reality in undetermined time and space. Whether manifestations of a sole survivor of the human race, on earth, in space, on a new planet or parallel universe, or of an artificial superintelligence (ASI), SURVIVOR (F) presents visions of a post-futuristic sublime, charting an existential imaginary of potential human/non-human agency/non-agency and beyond, of the psychedelic consciousness of SURVIVOR (F). A new performance by artist Linda Stupart will take place during Works from SURVIVOR (F) in relation to the exhibition. Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea ... More
Two-session design auction offers important ceramics, visionary artworks
DALLAS, TX.- More than 100 years of vision and innovation highlights Heritage Auctions' Oct. 24 Design Auction, presenting a compelling selection of modern and contemporary design. Compiled by Brent Lewis, the firm's Director of Design, the auction offers notable studio glass, decorative arts, modern furniture and textiles. "This auction features works rich in history and style," Lewis said. "The vast majority of the lots come from private collections and have not appeared at auction before. There are opportunities to acquire rare and important works, as well as those icons of modern design." The first session of the design auction is an important single-owner collection of ceramics: European art pottery from the collection of Jason Jacques. The collection includes a selection of approximately 200 works by many of the masters of the period, including rare ... More
Minneapolis Institute of Art opens first complete retrospective of Japanese painter Minol Araki
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art will present the first complete retrospective of Japanese painter Minol Araki (19282010). Best known as an industrial designer, Araki was also a prolific amateur ink painter active in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and New York. Straddling notions of Chinese and Japanese art, East and West, design and art, and amateur and professional, Arakis immense body of work reflects his deep engagement with traditional East Asian ink painting and an innovative reimagining of that tradition. Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki will be on view October 7, 2017, through June 24, 2018. The exhibition centers on five monumental paintings created by Araki in the 1980s and early 90s. These multi-panel, modular paintings each stretch more than 70 feet in length and depict monochrome and polychrome landscapes ... More
Tyler Museum of Art casts spotlight on Pop Art icon Andy Warhol with 'Screen Prints & Snapshots'
TYLER, TX.- One of the most highly anticipated exhibitions in recent years is on view at the Tyler Museum of Art with Andy Warhol: Screen Prints & Snapshots, open to the public Sunday, Oct. 1 through Jan. 7, 2018 at the TMA, 1300 S. Mahon Ave. on the Tyler Junior College main campus. The exhibition, organized by the TMA and curated by Caleb Bell, features close to 40 works by the late Pop Art icon, including a series of Warhols signature silkscreen prints drawn from the Cochran Collection of LaGrange, Ga., and a collection of his celebrity-centric Polaroid photographs from the Meadows Museum of American Art at Centenary College of Louisiana. Screen Prints & Snapshots showcases several distinct bodies of work from the later career of Warhol, widely recognized as the father of the Pop Art movement and known for his renderings of Campbells ... More
Free Form Five: Elga Wimmer opens group exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Curator D. Dominick Lombardis premise for the exhibit Free Form Five is that while the five artists selections of subject matter, process, media and aesthetic, are very different from each other they all make art that reveals a new and compelling depth of perception. Fixed ideas and familiar notions are eclipsed by free form innovation, as these artists leave behind just enough information to ground their content in the known. Sandra Gottliebs fantastical photographs of monumental cloud formations possess surprising color and weight, much different than what we might expect at sunset. Gottlieb takes these photographs from a unique perspective, once familiar forms become more tactile and intense, a parallel view that has just the right mix of dizzying detail and frightening proximity. Sharon Kagan finds and expresses the ... More
Mining and minerals, Native Americana, antique bottles, more at Holabird's Oct. 19-23 auction
RENO, NEV.- A massive, five-day auction featuring nearly 3,000 lots spanning many collecting categories to include minerals, mining, Native Americana, bottles and glass, gaming, cowboy, tokens, numismatics (coins), railroad and Express items, postal history and philatelic history, firearms, weaponry, military collectibles, political, general Americana and ephemera will be held October 19-23 by Holabird Western Americana, LLC, online and in the firms Reno gallery. Internet bidding will be facilitated by several platforms: iCollector.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs gallery is located at 3555 Airway Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Start times all five days will be 8 am Pacific time. The catalog in its entirety may be seen at www.fhwac.com. Day 1, Thursday ... More
Exhibition turns the table on contemporary artists
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents the exhibition Face Value: Artists Portraits by Alphonse van Woerkom, featuring the titular artists outsized drawings of New York contemporary art luminaries, on view Friday, October 6, through Sunday, November 26, 2017. Consisting of 11 works on paper that stand at nearly eight feet tall, Face Value showcases the artists fascination with other artists, his impressive draftsmanship, the exploration of identity, and the relationship between scale and meaning. The relationship between artist and subject is an interesting one. What happens when the subject is an artist as well? says Will South, CMA chief curator. Beyond that, what can a faceand the interpretation of that facereveal? Alphonse explores these questions in a manner that is both bold and nuanced. Seven of the nine artists ... More
Angola's 'kizomba' dance mesmerises the world
LUANDA.- In Mabor, a dusty and neglected corner of Luanda, the sound of a catchy beat rising means only one thing to the area's youngsters: time to dance the kizomba. The Angolan dance is gaining worldwide popularity and has a committed contingent of students in Mabor who are drawn to class by its romantic rhythms. "Stop! Boys stay still, only the girls move now. Like that, that's good!" said instructor Vitor Especao, wearing a bright purple shirt as he guided his pupils. The dancers followed his instructions closely, their bodies twisting in ever more suggestive ways, watched intently by a group of mesmerised small children. "It's what I really like about this dance -- the joy, the enthusiasm and the harmony," said Especao. Kizomba's origins are hotly debated. It has Angolan roots and draws on influences from the Caribbean and Cape Verde, but it was secured ... More
|
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared at the Vogue magazine' cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
|
|
|
