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Claude Monet. The Beach at Saint-Addresse, 1867. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the exhibition Monet and Chicago, on view September 5, 2020 through January 18, 2021. This exhibition explores the citys unique relationship with this Impressionist artist, showcasing the Art Institutes exemplary holdings alongside works from esteemed Chicago-based collections. Chicago has long admired Monet. In 1891, Bertha and Potter Palmer acquired some 20 paintings by Monet including several from the Stacks of Wheat seriesa fraction of the 90 canvases the Palmers would come to own. That year, Martin A. Ryerson, who served as a trustee and eventual vice-president of the Art Institute, bought his first of many paintings by the artist. As president of the Board of Lady Managers for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition, Bertha Palmer oversaw the creation of the Womans Building, which housed an exhibition of 129 works from American private collections, includ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a solo exhibition of works on paper by Kara Walker, featuring selections from the artistÂs personal archive alongside more recent drawings. The show previews a selection of works that will be included in WalkerÂs first major exhibition in Switzerland at the Kunstmuseum Basel opening in June 2021.
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 | | The Morgan presents a solo exhibition of assemblages and sketches by Betye Saar | | Pace Gallery exhibits recent works by two leading Brazilian artists | | Salvador Dalà surrealist masterpiece leads Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale | 
Betye Saar, Eyes of the Beholder, 1994. Paint on metal and wood serving tray, with painted metal baking pan and metal ornaments. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. Photography by © Museum Associates/LACMA, © Betye Saar.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announces a solo exhibition of work by the Los Angelesbased artist Betye Saar (b. 1926). Best known for incisive collages and assemblages that confront and reclaim racist images, Saar emerged in the 1960s as part of a wave of artists, many of them African American, who embraced the medium of assemblage. She went on to become one of the most significant artists working in this medium today. Opening at the Morgan on September 12, 2020 and running through January 31, 2021, Betye Saar: Call and Response is the first exhibition to focus on Saars sketchbooks and examine the relationship between her found objects, sketches, and finished works. The daughter of a seamstress, and a printmaker by training, Saar brings to her work a remarkable ... More | | 
Sonia Gomes, Untitled (from the series A vida não me assusta [Life Does Not Scare Me]), 2020. Wire, fabric, thread, and stone, 7-1/8" à 9-1/8" à 11-3/4" (18 cm à 23 cm à 30 cm). © Sonia Gomes, courtesy Pace Gallery.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting Sonia Gomes / Marina Perez Simão, an exhibition of recent works by two leading Brazilian artists. The show marks Gomes first exhibition with Pace since joining the gallery in June as well as Perez Simãos first project-based collaboration with Pace. An exploration into the ambiguity of abstraction, the presentation features five recent and historical sculptures by Gomes, nine new paintings by Perez Simão, and the artists first collaborative piece, synthesizing their distinct aesthetics as a singular whole employing oil paint and embroidery. Inspired by the environment and past of their native Brazil, the works on display evoke landscapes poised between the chimerical and historical, as well as the personal and collective, while pointing to the dialogue between literature and the visual arts. The exhibition is taking place at Paces East Hampton venue from September ... More | | 
Salvador Dalà (1904-1989), Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937). 92.5 x 72.5 cm (left figure) 90 x 70.5 cm (right figure). Estimate: £7,000,000 10,000,000. © Bonhams.
LONDON.- A surrealist masterpiece by Salvador DalÃ, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937), will lead Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Sale in London on 15 October. The work, which has never before been offered at auction, comes from the collection of the Italian Modernist composer Giacinto Scelsi. It has an estimate of £7,000,000 10,000,000. Dalà created Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937) during the Spanish Civil War and at the height of his surrealist period (1929-1939). The work depicts Dalà and his wife Gala formed only by the outlines of the frames. Despite being a diptych, the panels feature a desert landscape that appears to merge into a single larger painting. Classic surrealist motifs scattered rocks, a disfigured tree, indistinct human figures, a girl skipping, a giraffe on fire, and clouds that cut across the heads of the panels populate the scene. All of these images relate to certain ... More |
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| | Berlin museum to return Aboriginal remains | | Exhibition of new work by Erik Lindman opens at Peter Blum Gallery | | Return of Saddam-era archive to Iraq opens debate, old wounds | 
Foyer of the Ethnological Museum. Photo: wikipedia.org / Julius1990.
BERLIN (AFP).- A German museum said Friday it would return the ancestral remains of indigenous Aboriginals to Australia, as European institutions face growing calls for a critical re-evaluation of their collections. The Ethnological Museum in Berlin said it would hand back the mummified bodies of two children as well as human bones in a wooden coffin as part of commitments over the handling of human remains. It follows the return last week of the mummified heads of two face-tattooed Maori men to New Zealand from the same museum. The Aboriginal artifacts had been in the museum's holdings since 1880, around the time when remains of Australia's indigenous population were sometimes removed and taken to universities and collections in Australia and around the world. The Berlin institution's action follows a growing trend as museums in Europe and the United States are confronted with the ethical issues of keeping and displaying items that were plundered or removed without ... More | | 
Erik Lindman, Jupiter, 2017-2018. Found surfaces (Plexiglas), acrylic and epoxy resin putties and pastes on two joined panels, 96 x 96 inches (243.8 x 243.8 cm). Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Erik Lindman entitled, Fal/Parsi at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Since the beginning of his artistic practice, Erik Lindmans incorporation of anonymous found surfaces as compositional elements in painting has occupied a central place in his work. Reinterpreting and repurposing cast-aside materials such as shards of steel or canvas webbing, he combines a variation of surfaces in a cascade of decisions with a focus on scale and negative space. Lindman lays down and builds up marks and gestures, ultimately articulating value and attention while asserting the materiality and tactile nature of each painterly composition. His topographical surfaces become the final result of what is buried beneath them, and upon ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 9, 2003, an Iraqi burns a torn picture of late leader Saddam Hussein in the capital Baghdad. Patrick BAZ / AFP.
by Maya Gebeily
BAGHDAD (AFP).- A trove of Saddam-era files secretly returned to Iraq has pried open the country's painful past, prompting hopes some may learn the fate of long-lost relatives along with fears of new bloodshed. The five million pages of internal Baath Party documents were found in 2003, just months after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam, in the party's partly-flooded headquarters in tumultuous Baghdad. Two men were called in by confused American troops to decipher the Arabic files. One was Kanan Makiya, a long-time opposition archivist, the other was Mustafa al-Kadhemi, then a writer and activist, and now Iraq's prime minister. "With flashlights, because the electricity was out, we entered the waterlogged basement," Makiya told AFP by phone from the US. "Mustafa and I were reading through these documents and realised we had stumbled upon something ... More |
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| | Dated 1920, a postcard finally gets delivered | | Showing off Murano glassmaking on Venice's Grand Canal | | Matthew Day Jackson debuts a suite of new drawings and paintings at Hauser & Wirth Zurich | 
A photo by Brittany Keech of the back of a postcard dated Oct. 29, 1920, that was recently delivered to her mailbox in Belding, Mich. Brittany Keech via The New York Times.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The postcard, faded and weathered, has a postmark dated Oct. 29, 1920, and a green stamp of George Washington, priced 1 cent. Its message is written in cursive, its front shows a witch and a goose wearing a pumpkin on its head, and its address is to a Mrs. Roy McQueen in Belding, Michigan. It took almost a century to be delivered. The postcards arrival this week has baffled Brittany Keech, the Belding resident who found it in her mailbox with some bills and junk mail, and set her off on a new mystery how to find the intended recipient or any of the persons living relatives. When I first saw it, I thought, This is old, recalled Keech, 30, in an interview Thursday. I was shocked. Why is this here all of the sudden? She added, I would love to be able to get it to a relative who is alive. The postcard is a personal family letter, providing the kind of quick update one might send in a text message or in a social media post t ... More | | 
Glass master Matteo Tagliapietra shapes a glass vase at the Gambero-Tagliapietra glass art products manufacturer on September 8, 2020 in Murano. Tiziana FABI / AFP.
by Gildas Le Roux
VENICE (AFP).- Standing at a glowing furnace on a boat at the foot of the Rialto Bridge on Venice's Grand Canal, Matteo Tagliapietra blows glass in a mesmerising demonstration of centuries-old Murano glassmaking. The world-famous brand may take pride of place in the souvenir shops that pepper the alleyways in the Italian lagoon city, but 70 percent of the glass objects sold are actually fake and not produced in Venice, explains Luciano Gambaro, head of an association that promotes Murano glassware. So for the fourth consecutive year, authorities have organised "Venice Glass Week", a series of events to raise awareness of "real" Murano glass, one of Italy's most famous exports. A history that began in 1291 when La Serenissima, as the Venetian sovereign state was then known, ordered all glass-makers working in the old town to move to the island of Murano on the lagoon, as they had caused too many fires in the centre. Coinciding ... More | | 
Matthew Day Jackson, Bouquet of Flowers (Strasbourg) [B60], 2020. Formica, silkscreen, oil paint, acrylic, urethane plastic, fiberglass, lead on panel, stainless steel frame, 211.5 x 153 x 5.5 cm / 83 1/4 x 60 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. © Matthew Day Jackson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Zurich.
ZURICH.- Matthew Day Jacksons practice grapples with myriad aspects of human experience, honing in on the capacity for destruction and violence under the guise of invention and discovery. The artist returns to Hauser & Wirth Zürich to debut a suite of new drawings and paintings. Utilising the conventions of still life and landscapes in combination with an idiosyncratic use of material and form, these works critique those traditions, their place in Western culture, and the ways they intersect with Western hegemony. In the first section of the presentation, Jackson presents a new body of paintings shaped like the windows of the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury spacecrafts that first carried Americans into space. The works capture several mythologies about heroism and innovation in the 20th-century, as the compositions recall Abstract ... More |
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| | George Wallace prints exhibited for the first time in Ireland at new exhibition | | Exhibition features four artists from different generations and at different points in their careers | | Exhibition presents never before seen works by Mira Schor | 
George Wallace (19202009), Man in a Helmet #2, 1956 © Estate of George Wallace and CARCC, 2020. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. Sheet: 38 x 28 cm NGI.2016.52.
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland presents George Wallace: Reflections on Life. On view for the first time in Ireland, this selection of over 60 artworks is drawn from the large collection presented to the Gallery by the Wallace family in 2016. The exhibition marks 100 years since the artists birth. Born in Dublin but based in Canada for most of his life, George Wallace (19202009) was a significant artist and influential educator who created powerful prints and sculptures throughout his career. He was a deep thinker who published insightful writings on art. In September 2015, Kit Wallace, the artists son, visited the National Gallery of Ireland bringing a sample selection of George Wallaces prints with him. The following year, the Gallery accepted the Wallace familys generous gift of some 250 etchings, woodcuts, monoprints ... More | | 
Mandy El-Sayegh. Photo: Abtin Eshragi.
LONDON.- This September, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is showing A Focus on Painting, curated by Julia Peyton-Jones. The exhibition features four artists from different generations and at different points in their careers Alvaro Barrington, Mandy El-Sayegh, Rachel Jones and Dona Nelson three of whom have never previously exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. The individual artists presentations throughout the gallery demonstrate some of the wide-ranging possibilities of painting today. They explore themes such as the formation of identity, the communication of meaning and the subjectivity of interpretation, as well as the boundaries between personal expression and collective experience. With materials ranging from yarn to newsprint to poured colour, the processes these artists use and the forms of their final works are compellingly diverse. Mandy El-Sayegh and Rachel Jones explore what appears to be abstraction, ... More | | 
Mira Schor, Thingness Thing, 2015 (detail). 61 x 71.1 cm. Ink and gesso and oil on linen. Reversible painting.
ZURICH.- Fabian Lang is presenting the first solo show of Mira Schors work outside the USA. Titled Here/Then, There/Now, the show charts for the first time the latest phase of Schors fifty-year practice, presenting never before seen works produced between 2008 and 2020. Our minds are linked again said Mira when we both suggested the same title for this exhibition. Linked by mediated language. Meeting in person is now quite a different story than it was not long ago, before this protracted moment of enforced remoteness and intangibility. Looking back on how this show came together, I was lucky to have booked a flight to see Mira in New York in March, just a few days before so much became impossible. She was the last person I hugged for two months, after that we werent and may still not supposed to do so anymore. The title speaks like an omen, a prediction about ... More |
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 Fiera Milano appoints Nicola Ricciardi as miart's new Artistic DirectorMILAN.- Nicola Ricciardi is miart's new Artistic Director for 2021-2023. Born in 1985, Ricciardi is a curator and contemporary art critic with an international background. He leaves the post of Artistic Director of OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni di Torino - to succeed Alessandro Rabottini, who is leaving miart after four years of work at the head of the international modern and contemporary art fair organised by Fiera Milano. The choice made by Fiera Milano reveals a desire to continue along the path traced by the miart team since 2013, first under the artistic direction of Vincenzo de Bellis (2013 - 2016) and then with Alessandro Rabottini (2017 - 2020). I am embracing this new challenge with enthusiasm, says Nicola Ricciardi, and hope to spend the next three years consolidating miart as a point of reference for Italian and international ... More Auction to feature items consigned from the great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy MIDDLETOWN, NY.- The personal World War II flight jacket of Count and Colonel Ilya A. Tolstoy, the grandson of the renowned Russian author and Count Leo (Lev) Tolstoy (War and Peace), plus other items from the estate of Ilya Tolstoy, is an expected top lot in a two-session auction scheduled for Saturday, October 3rd, by EstateOfMind, live and online, at 11 am Eastern. Ilya A. Tolstoy was an officer with the Office of Strategic Services (CIA) from 1942-1946. The size 42, type A-2 Army Air Force Flying Tigers flight jacket has a China-Burma-India theater insignia and retains a Blood Chit American flag with Chinese characters that reads, This foreign person has come to China to help in the war effort. Soldiers and civilians should rescue and protect him. The jacket comes with a notarized document from the estate of Mr. Tolstoy. Included with the flight jacket ... More Kunsthaus Baselland opens Thu Van Tran's first solo show in SwitzerlandBASEL.- Born in Vietnam, Thu Van Tran (*1979, Ho Chi Minh City; lives and works in Paris) fled with her family to France her current home country in 1981. In 2018 she was nominated for Frances prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp. Tran completed her studies at the Glasgow School of Art and the Ãcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. For many years the artist has been creating a body of work that includes photographs, drawings, and videos, as well as sculptures and installations, which are brought together in situ to form a grand narrativea narrative that raises questions about our ability to remember the history, rituals, and legacies of countries or even nations. In her works, the artist addresses Vietnams postcolonial relations with France and the USA. She is interested in how yesterday looms over today, and how historical ... More Brazil slum ballet school taps resilience to survive pandemicSAO PAULO (AFP).- Against a backdrop of jumbled shacks seemingly piled atop each other, the dancers run in place with studied movements, then collapse to the floor in steady succession. This is a rehearsal at the Ballet of Paraisopolis, one of the biggest favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The dance school is just returning from a four-month hiatus for the coronavirus pandemic, which has left Brazil with the second-highest death toll worldwide, after the United States: nearly 130,000 people killed. Covid-19 has hit hard in the favelas -- poor, overcrowded neighborhoods that often lack clean running water, sanitation infrastructure or basic health care. But although the virus is still spreading fast in Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the outbreak in Brazil, students and teachers at the school say they wanted -- needed -- to dance together again. "I was really ... More Singular works by Jean-Luc Mylayne on display at the Van Gogh MuseumAMSTERDAM.- A presentation of artworks by Jean-Luc Mylayne is on display at the Van Gogh Museum. Especially for the presentation Van Gogh Inspires: Jean-Luc Mylayne, the French artist has selected three singular photographic works, two of which have never before been on public display. These two works, N. 331 and N. 332, April - May 2005, are inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh and are now being exhibited alongside his paintings, selected by Mylayne himself for this presentation. The presentation coincides with the travelling retrospective of Mylaynes work, The Autumn of Paradise, on display at Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography (from 10 September). The Van Gogh Museum displays work by Jean-Luc Mylayne, including two singular pieces that have never before been on public display, on the third floor in the final gallery of the permanent ... More Contemporary Japanese ceramics on view at The Georgia Museum of Art ATHENS, GA.- Pottery is one of the oldest crafts and art forms in Japan. Ceramic culture has thrived there for more than 15,000 years, with a focus on practical objects, especially pots that are used during the tea ceremony. In 1948, the group Sodeisha began the movement toward modern ceramics, challenging the tradition of functional pottery. Many of the works produced by Sodeisha artists omitted holes so that their pieces would not be viewed as vases or pots. These artists emphasized form over function. The vision of the Sodeisha artists shaped the future of Japanese art. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the show Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection from September 5, 2020, to September 26, 2021. The show represents three generations of artists, some of whom were part ... More Arrivals + Departures: An interactive installation by YARA + DAVINA installed in Somerset House's courtyard LONDON.- Arrivals + Departures is an interactive installation exploring birth, death and the journey in between by artist duo YARA + DAVINA. Taking the recognisable form of a station or airport arrivals and departures board, the artwork invites visitors to share the names of people who have arrived and departed as a way to celebrate a birth or commemorate a death. As the effects of Covid-19, racial injustice and the environmental crisis continue to disrupt communities across the world, this artwork offers a timely platform to engage with birth, life, death, loss and collective grief, through the act of naming. Capturing the joy and sadness of any arrival or departure lounge, these nostalgic analogue display boards reflect the magnitude of sharing a name. By recording birth and death, the work marks the ebb and flow of life offering moments to welcome new life, honour ... More On the anniversary of 9/11, Lincoln Center awakens with hopeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Friday morning, as the call of conch shells summoned dancers to the fountain of Lincoln Centers plaza, the suns softly circular glow broke through clouds that lingered from a passing storm. The dancers 28 of them, in costumes of draping white fabric processed onto the plaza as violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain played a distortion of the national anthem on his electric instrument. This was the premiere of Prologue, an adaptation of Buglisi Dance Theaters Table of Silence, which has been presented at Lincoln Center every Sept. 11 morning since the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. It was a more subdued edition of Table of Silence, a solemn, ritualistic call for peace through choreography. In earlier years, the plaza was flooded by more than 150 dancers and filled by audience ... More Ronald Khalis Bell of Kool & the Gang dies at 68NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ronald Khalis Bell, who with his brother and some neighborhood friends formed the jazz-funk-R&B band that became Kool & the Gang, and who was the lead writer on its biggest hit, the omnipresent feel-good song Celebration, died Wednesday at his home in the Virgin Islands. He was 68. His wife, Tia Sinclair Bell, announced his death through a spokeswoman. The cause was not given. Khalis Bell, who was also a producer and was often credited under his Muslim name, Khalis Bayyan, began dabbling in music as a child, mastering saxophone and keyboards and playing with his brother Robert, a bassist who picked up the nickname Kool in elementary school. The Bell household in Jersey City, New Jersey, was steeped in jazz influence; the boys father, Bobby, was a professional boxer whose friends included ... More Solo exhibition by Terri Friedman on view at CUE Art FoundationNEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting Rewire, a solo exhibition by Terri Friedman, curated by Kathy Butterly. Friedman creates large, painterly weavings that ooze, sag, pinch, and dangle in vibrant shades of magenta, vermilion, fluorescent yellow, and cobalt blue. Her compositions, full of seemingly dissonant yet pleasurable colors and patterns, draw upon viewers feelings of discordance to provoke a visceral response. Originally trained as a painter and sculptor, Friedman began weaving in 2014 and found that the repetitive, tactile process was meditative and allowed her to merge formal aspects of both practices. Working on a loom, the artist assembles undulating abstract shapes accentuated with cotton piping, colored glass, and applied paint, evoking bodily textures and psychedelic patterns. In some cases, she builds ... More QUAD in Derby has new exhibitions exploring Artificial IntelligenceDERBY.- In QUAD Galleries, How We Make Meaning links two solo exhibitions by artists Memo Akten and Mimi Ọnụọha. The exhibitions explore aspects and meanings of Artificial Intelligence including; the gathering and use of data, machine learning also how humans and machines input and interpret data to view the world in scientific, spiritual and deeply personal ways. How We Make Meaning incorporates Deep Meditations: A brief history of almost everything in 60 minutes by Memo Akten and Us, Aggregated 3.0 by Mimi Ọnụọha. Deep Meditations: A brief history of almost everything in 60 minutes by Memo Akten (QUAD Gallery 1) is a monument that celebrates life, nature, the universe and our subjective experience of it. The work invites us on a spiritual journey through the slow, meditative, continuously evolving images and sounds, told ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Anselm Feuerbach was born September 12, 1829. Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 - 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. His works are housed at leading public galleries in Germany. Stuttgart has the second version of Iphigenia; Karlsruhe, the Dante at Ravenna; Munich, the Medea; and Berlin, The Concert, his last important painting. In this image: Francesca da Rimini und Paolo Malatesta c. 1864.
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