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An exhibition of French artist Pierre Soulages opened in New York on Thursday just months before his work will be showcased in the Louvre to celebrate his 100th birthday. AFP Photo/Thomas URBAIN.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting Pierre Soulages: A Century, an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of Frances foremost living artist through a presentation of works spanning his career from the 1950s to today. On view from September 5 through October 26, 2019, this focused survey explores the artists enduring role in the dialogue between European and American painting and invites viewers to consider the impact of a practice that has injected profound poetry into radical abstraction through its adherence to a single material: black paint. Filling all three floors of Lévy Gorvys landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue, Pierre Soulages: A Century is a prelude to Homage to Soulages, the artists solo exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, opening in December 2019. Curated by the late Pierre Encrevé, art historian and author of the Soulages catalogue raisonné, and Alfred Pacquement, the Honorary General Curator ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene highlighting the 19th-century photographer's stunning images of ancient Egyptian ruins and archeological sites in his first museum survey show. In this image: John Beasley Greene, Giza. Sphinx, 1853 - 54; Bibliothéque nationale de France
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 | | The truth behind the legend of patriot Paul Revere revealed in a new exhibition at New-York Historical Society | | Fraenkel Gallery and Luhring Augustine to collaborate in the representation of Lee Friedlander | | Verdi treasures from Milan's famed Ricordi Archive make U.S. debut | 
Chester Harding (1792−1866), after Gilbert Stuart (1755−1828), Paul Revere (1735−1818), ca. 1823. Oil on canvas. Massachusetts Historical Society, Gift of Paul Revere Jr., 1973.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the New-York Historical Society explores the life and accomplishments of Paul Revere (17351818), the Revolutionary War patriot immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellows 1861 poem, Paul Reveres Ride. On view September 6, 2019 January 12, 2020, Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere separates fact from fiction, revealing Revere as a complex, multifaceted figure at the intersection of Americas social, economic, artistic, and political life in Revolutionary War-era Boston as it re-examines his life as an artisan, activist, and entrepreneur. The exhibition, featuring more than 140 objects, highlights aspects of Reveres versatile career as an artisan, including engravings, such as his well-known depiction of the Boston Massacre; glimmering silver tea services made for prominent clients; everyday objects such as thimbles, tankards, and teapots; and important public ... More | | 
Lee Friedlander, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1983 / printed ca. 2000. Gelatin silver print 18 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches. © Lee Friedlander; Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Luhring Augustine, New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery announced the collaborative representation with Luhring Augustine of acclaimed photographer Lee Friedlander, whose prolific career capturing the American social landscape spans over five decades. Luhring Augustine will present Friedlanders work in fall 2020; details to be announced later this year. Fraenkel Gallerys long-standing relationship with Friedlander continues unchanged. Friedlanders vast oeuvre is marked by a voracious and nonhierarchical cataloguing of visual information with subjects ranging from self-portraits and intimate family photos to strangers passing on urban streets; dense, sprawling cityscapes to uninhabited desert environs; suburban window displays to signs spotted from car windows; among innumerable others. Through his highly distinguished approach to composition, often ... More | | 
Circolo Fotografico Lombardo (active 1889-99), Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of Giulio Ricordis house in Via Borgonuovo Milan, 1892. Photograph. Archivio Storico Ricordi, Milan.
NEW YORK, NY.- After Aida in 1871, except for occasional projects, Giuseppe Verdi (18131901), Italys pre-eminent composer, retired from opera at the age of 58. This, however, did not prevent constant pleas from his publisher and future librettist for the maestro to return to the operatic stage. Reluctantly coaxed out of retirement, Verdi composed what would become the crowning achievements of his career: Otello and Falstaff. From September 6, 2019 to January 5, 2020, the Morgan Library & Museum presents highlights from the Milan-based, Bertelsmann-owned Ricordi Archive, offering visitors insight into the production of these two operas, as well as the complex enterprise of bringing an opera to life. Based on The Enterprise of Opera: Verdi. Boito. Ricordi, created by Bertelsmann/Ricordi and curated by Gabriele Dotto, Verdi: Creating Otello and FalstaffHighlights from the Ricordi ... More |
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| | National Gallery of Australia exhibits works of art by some of the 20th century's most exceptional artists | | The Rijksmuseum presents Night Watching, a film installation by Rineke Dijkstra | | Dorotheum to offer a painting closely related to works by the young Raphael | 
Helen Frankenthaler, Tales of Genji III 1995. Prints, woodcut, stencil printed in colour inks from 18 woodblocks and two stencils, 118.2 h x 105.6 w cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gift of Kenneth Tyler 2002 © Helen Frankenthaler / Tyler Graphics Ltd.
CANBERRA.- Audiences will be transported back to the heyday of Americas print-making renaissance and experience works of art by some of the 20th centurys most exceptional artists in Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, which opens today at the National Gallery of Australia. Drawing on the National Gallerys extensive collection of post-War American art the most significant outside the United States the exhibition showcases some of the giants of the period, including Anni and Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Nancy Graves and David Hockney. National Gallery of Australia Director Nick Mitzevich said the national collection had benefited from the foresight of inaugural director James Mollison, who made the first acquisition from Tyler in 1973, ... More | | 
Night Watching sees Dijkstra continue on a course she set with her classic 2009 film I See a Woman Crying, which shows a group of English schoolchildren viewing a painting by Picasso.
AMSTERDAM.- Night Watching is Rineke Dijkstras new film installation, on show in the Rijksmuseums Gallery of Honour from 5 September. Presented as a triptych, the film shows 14 groups of people looking at Rembrandts The Night Watch and responding to it in their own way the painting itself never appears. Dijkstra shot Night Watching in the Rijksmuseums Gallery of Honour over the course of six evenings, her subjects positioned directly in front of The Night Watch to offer them the most powerful possible experience of the painting. Rineke Dijkstra: This subtly layered film gradually impresses upon the viewer that it is impossible ever to fully know an artwork even one as famous as The Night Watch and that it is always worth sharpening our gaze, whether on a world-famous painting, on people taking part in a contemporary film, or on those we encounter in everyday life. Night Watching sees Dijkstra conti ... More | | 
Associate of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (14831520) Madonna and Child, oil on panel, 56.5 x 41.5 cm, Estimate 300,000 400,000.
VIENNA.- An intriguing painting of the Madonna and Child is to be offered in Dorotheums Old Master Paintings sale in Vienna on 22nd October 2019. It has never been on the market before and its provenance is impeccable. Its style and subject, its composition and its technical prowess place it very near the centre of the body of religious works produced by the great master of the Renaissance, Raphael. The Madonna and Child (estimate 300,000-400,000) has undergone scientific and scholarly investigation to try to establish its author. Technical studies have revealed under-drawing and preparatory work for the composition very similar to that found in works by Raphael. Images from the infrared reflectogram clearly show under-drawing on the prepared surface of the panel executed with a confidence of draftsmanship and a refinement of technique which can be compared to Raphaels earliest style of drawing. Technical examination and t ... More |
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| | Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum offers a posthumous tribute to Japanese graphic designer Shigeru Watano | | China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2019 to take place from 5 to 8 October | | Berlinische Galerie celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus | 
Shigeo Fukuda, Victory, 1976. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- Colorful Japan is the Stedelijk Museums posthumous tribute to Japanese graphic designer Shigeru Watano (1937-2012) and features 226 Japanese posters on display in the Gallery of Honor. Watano, who lived in the Netherlands, was a vital link between the Stedelijk and numerous Japanese designers. Through his help, the Stedelijk was able to acquire many Japanese posters, and Japanese designers generously donated their work to the museum. In 2018, DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion presented us with a lavish gift of 92 posters, thanks to which the Stedelijk collection of 800 Japanese posters is leading in Europe. The exhibition showcases a cross-section of Japans unique graphic design with work by designers such as amongst others Hiroshi Ochi, Kazumasa Nagai, Ikko Tanaka, Yusaku Kamekura, Mitsuo Katsui, Shigeo Fukuda, U.G. Sato, Ken Miki and Eiko Ishioka. The oldest poster dates from 1937, the ... More | | 
Yoshitomo Nara, Midnight Vampire, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 73 Ã 60.5 cm. Est. HK$ 18 25 m / US$ 2.3 3.2 m.
HONG KONG.- The China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2019 will take place on 5 8 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale series will present remarkable artworks and collectibles from around the world, including Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Ceramics and Works of Art, Classical Chinese Furniture as well as Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Goods. More than 1,800 lots will be offered with a total estimate of approximately HK$ 780 million / US$ 100 million. Selected highlights will be publically exhibited in Hong Kong and Beijing ahead of the auctions. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd, says, China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions this year will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) in October. Every autumn the spacious ... More | | 
Carl (Casca) Schlemmer, Bauhaus Stairway, 1958, oil on hardboard, 162 x 103 cm, true-to-original copy of Oskar Schlemmer's "Bauhaus Stairway", private property, photo: Markus Hawlik.
BERLIN.- The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for 100 years its ideas have now been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Marking the centenary of the Bauhauss founding, the Bauhaus- Archiv / Museum für Gestal tungs exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie is presenting more than 1,000 famous, familiar and forgotten Bauhaus originals and recounting the history behind the objects. original bauhaus features art and design from the holdings of the Bauhaus-Archiv, exceptional loans from international collections and artistic positions which take a new look at the Bauhaus legacy. On the basis of 14 key objects, the exhibition develops 14 case histories: How did the woman sitting on the tubular-steel chair become the most famous anonymous figure from the Bauhaus? Does the Haus ... More |
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| | Earliest known TV footage of Miles Davis found in France | | Exhibition sheds light on the material dimensions of photo and film colors | | Harvard Art Museums present fall 2019 exhibition | 
In this file photo taken on November 3, 1989 US jazz trumpet player Miles Davis performs on the stage of the Zenith in Paris during 10th Paris Jazz Festival. Bertrand GUAY / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A rare 1957 Christmas Day broadcast of Miles Davis, reportedly the earliest surviving televised images of the jazz great, has been unearthed in France, ahead of Friday's release of a posthumous record. France's National Audiovisual Institute (INA) posted the four-minute video on its website this week, saying it had turned up during an inventory of one of its vaults. It shows the 31-year-old virtuoso trumpeter with the French musicians he assembled to record the avant-garde soundtrack to the Louis Malle crime classic "Elevator for the Gallows". The show was recorded on December 7, 1957 -- just a few days after the musicians completed the film soundtrack -- and broadcast on Christmas Day. For the first two and a half minutes Davis is in the background, the musicians playing against an other-worldly black-and-white moonscape. The camera then zooms in on Davis, his body hardly moving in a trim black ... More | | 
Barbara Kasten, Architectural Site 19. Pavilion for Japanese Art LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. July 19, 1989. © Barbara Kasten/Kadel Wilborn, Dusseldorf.
ZURICH.- This autumn Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting the exhibition Color Mania The Material of Color in Photography and Film. The show exhibits film strips, large-format images and original prints, by which the development and history of color as a material in photography and film are illustrated. Works by contemporary photographers and artists Dunja Evers, Raphael Hefti, Barbara Kasten and Alexandra Navratil demonstrate how historical methods are applied today. Color Mania examines the web of connections and processes of exchange between the media of photography and film, shedding light on the material dimensions of photo and film colors and focusing attention on their fascinating abundance. With a variety of original materials and images created with different color processes, the exhibition offers an introduction to the history of color photography and color film, while also giving visitors an aesthetic experience. Such objec ... More | | 
Lili Almog (Israeli, b. Tel Aviv), Muslim Girl #14, 2009. From the series The Other Half of the Sky. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2019.80. © Lili Almog; courtesy of the artist.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This September, the Harvard Art Museums present Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that investigates two parallel ideas: national, political, and cultural conceptions of boundaries and borders; and the evolving hybrid spaces, identities, languages, and beliefs created by the movement of peoples. This collections-based exhibition features over 40 worksa mix of sculpture, photographs, video, and works in other mediaby a global community of 22 contemporary artists who share their varied artistic responses to their own personal experiences of displacement and belonging, as well as the experiences of others. On display September 6, 2019 through January 5, 2020 in the museums Special Exhibitions Gallery, Crossing Lines, Constructing Home is curated by Mary Schneider ... More |
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 Solo exhibition of work by Richard Aldrich opens at Modern ArtLONDON.- Modern Art opened a solo exhibition of work by Richard Aldrich at its Helmet Row gallery. This is Aldrichs first solo exhibition with Modern Art. Richard Aldrichs work - painting, sculpture, and drawing - eludes any easy interpretive category. His constantly evolving formal vocabulary is as much concerned with the depiction of figures and situations in a pictorial sense as it is with the object-hood of the surface itself. In his exhibitions, abstract painting techniques reminiscent of Neo-expressionism sit alongside figurative drawings, mixed media assemblage, painted bronze sculptures and found objects. Other times, Aldrichs paintings comprise sections of the canvas cut away to reveal their timber backing, or fragments of previous works combined with spare, elliptical words. References within his work ... More  Bergen Assembly 2019 begins its autumn programme with 'Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead'BERGEN.- Bergen Assembly 2019, titled Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, encompasses an exhibition and a series of events taking place at various venues in Bergen. At the centre of the project is a preoccupation with life with an understanding of life beyond the binary oppositions of life and death, human and non-human, subject and object, abled and disabled, past and future. Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead examines how to redefine our alliances with those who are not presently living. The project proposes communicating with the spectres of the past and the future and taking responsibility for those who are no longer, or not yet, here. It defies the prevalent politics of death, ranging from the destruction of the material and idealistic basis of life for countless people, or the deadly rejection of refugees, to the destruction of the planet. Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead ... More  Michel Rein opens an exhibition of works by Enrique RamÃrezPARIS.- Michel Rein Paris is presenting Enrique RamÃrezs 4th exhibition at the gallery, following La Gravedad (2016), Los continentes (2016, Bruxelles) and CartografÃas para navegantes de tierra (2014). « Mar mAr maR is a repetition but also an act of resistance. It symbolizes the worlds resilience. Mar mAr maR is not just the sea, in the literal sense, but you, me, the other, the friend, the stranger, the other world which the media are abandoning for lack of interest, its the immigrant, the displaced person, the wrecked ship, its the silent complaint of the earth when it meets the sea. When I imagine a work, I try to project myself into a place Im not acquainted with, a place which I would like to enter and be transported through
A place where darkness would help to better see the light of images, that light which is not only there to get us to travel, but which also invites us to share id ... More  REITER opens an exhibition of works by Sebastian SchraderLEIPZIG.- Sebastian Schrader presents a new body of work that testifies to his continued interest in exploring the possibilities of figuration and abstraction. In keeping with the aesthetic style associated to his name, Schrader challenges the pictorial plane by juxtaposing zones of depth with areas of complete abstraction, which lends to his work a visual vocabulary rich in historical references. In 1979, Joy Division released the album "Unknown Pleasures," which included the song "Disorder". Its unmistakable melancholic sound and the desperate voice of the singer, Ian Curtis, who tragically committed suicide a few years later have contributed to making this band world-famous. Fourty years after the release of "Disorder," Sebastian Schrader who was born one year before the release of the album (1978) titles his latest exhibition after the song. How ... More  Cristina Salmastrelli named fair Director for PULSE Art FairMIAMI, FLA.- Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, PULSE Art Fair announced Cristina Salmastrelli as its new director, leading the fair during Miami Art Week 2019. Cristina will oversee the fairs innovative features and exhibits, including this years overarching theme, The Calm in the Palms. Welcoming an international roster of exhibitors, PULSE presents contemporary art for the engaged buyer in a welcoming and dynamic setting. With a reputation for providing guests with a luxury experience, PULSE boasts a history of success, hosting more than 150,000 patrons over the last 15 years. In honor of our 15th anniversary, were introducing a number of exciting elements with the goal of creating a unique environment for our guests, says Cristina Salmastrelli, director of PULSE Art Fair. PULSE isnt just an art fair anymore. Its a full experience that allows visitors to access and exp ... More  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents two installations by the Mexican-British artist Alinka EcheverrÃaMONTREAL.- MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image presents, in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Alinka EcheverrÃa: Simulacra. A Quebec premiere, this exhibition features two installations by the Mexican-British artist Alinka EcheverrÃa that take a critical look at issues related to the representation of women in the field of photography. An artist and social anthropologist, Alinka EcheverrÃa focuses on the philosophical, psychological and sociocultural relationships between image and belief by exploring the representational codes of our societies. With Simulacra, EcheverrÃa revisits her Nicephora project, developed as part of the BMW research residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum (Chalon-sur-Saône, France) in 2015. Based on the colonial archives of the French museum, Fieldnotes for Nicephora reframes the male ... More  Medieval sculptures from private collection unveiled for the first timeBAKEWELL.- Haddon Hall in Bakewell unveiled a number of medieval sculptures from its private collection as part of its autumnal exhibition Oak Matters. The exhibition, which runs in The Great Chamber surrounded by Haddons magnificent Verdure tapestries, pays homage to Haddons oak trees, showing previously unseen early English Oak carvings from Lord and Lady Edwards private collection. The medieval sculptures, which have never been seen by the public before, date back to between the 15th-17th centuries. Two sculptures are of St James and St Nicholas, one is a very rare, extremely fine carving of a medieval knight in prayer and another is a very rare pew end, depicting a bishop preaching from a barrel to a congregation of fowl, which represented a pre-Reformation critique of the established church. The final two sculptures on display are a ... More  Scottish artist Douglas Gordon opens an exhibition at ARoSAARHUS.- Douglas Gordons highly contrasting universe filters through the entire museum when ARoS presents Northern Europes most extensive exhibition to date featuring this Scottish artist. The exhibition probes all the nooks and crannies of the human psyche, light and dark sides alike, manifesting itself throughout the museum. The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (b.1966) is among the most important video artists to appear in recent times and is a pioneer of modern video art. A significant artist whose extensive and remarkable practice is about to unfold within the unique framework of ARoS. "We havent seen an exhibition of this magnitude and nature from Douglas Gordon for many years, so its a wonderful opportunity for us to be able to present this extensive exhibition here in Aarhus," says Erlend G. Høyersten, museum director, ... More  Sapar Contemporary opens an exhibition by the contemporary Malaysian master, Ahmad Zakii AnwarNEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting Lust for Life, an exhibition by the contemporary Malaysian master, Ahmad Zakii Anwar. This body of work hinges on two series of figures and still lifes -- art historical forms that are both classical and universal, but re-conceived critically and defiantly with innovations that are personal to Zakiis practice. This exhibition, Lust for Life, centers on a group of his finely detailed individual charcoal male nudes abstracted from any background, and fruits and vegetables set in relation to each other on emptied tables. Working initially from live figures, but then from images of those models in his studio, Zakii draws sinewed, singular male nudes, partially disembodying them as thighs dissolve into backgrounds and headless figures float in space. (When heads do appear, faces are turned away from the viewer, retaining ... More  Gold Rush daguerreotypes capture transformation of the West in Nelson-Atkins exhibitionKANSAS CITY, MO.- From the moment the first cry of Gold! was heard at Sutters Mill in 1848, thousands of people made the journey to California to find their fortune. Daguerreotypists also made their way west, not in search of gold, but to capitalize on the readymarket of potential customers. Golden Prospects: California Gold Rush Daguerreotypes opened at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Sept. 6. The California Gold Rush was the first broadly significant event in American history to be documented in depth by photography, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. This revealing exhibition utilizes the Nelson-Atkins deep collection of American daguerreotypes, providing an insightful look at this historic event through the eyes of the earliest photographers ... More  Auction Life announces a two day, two session saleWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- A two-day, two-session auction featuring a warehouse clearance sale on Day 1 and fresh-to-the-market South Florida estate finds on Day 2 will be held on back-to-back days September 18th and 19th by Auction Life, mostly online but with limited live seating available in the gallery (an RSVP is required). Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. Online bidding is facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com All lots can be viewed online now, on the Auction Life website. Visit www.auctionlifeflorida.com. The Wednesday, September 18th session, starting at 3 pm Eastern, is titled Out with the Old, In with the Old. Were cleaning out the warehouse to make room for more estate finds, said Tarek ElJabaly, owner and auctioneer of Auction Life, based in Loxahatchee. Bidders will find great deals on antiques, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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