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Under the watchful eye of curators Helewise Berger and Sjraar van Heugten, the last painting for 'Van Gogh's Inner Circle' is installed at the Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands. © photo: Jan-Kees Steenman.
DEN BOSCH.- With the exhibition of Van Goghs Inner Circle. Friends, Family, Models Het Noordbrabants Museum counters the persistent notion that Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a lonely, tormented soul who received little credit, respect or recognition for his work in his own age. In actual fact, this is beyond the facts. Vincent van Gogh was by no means an easy person and his abruptness, almost obsessive commitment and critical eye could ward off those around him. Yet, many also greatly appreciated him. All his life he kept in close and often long-lasting contact with his friends, family, models, fellow artists and lovers. Van Goghs Inner Circle offers a host of information about Vincents friends and family by presenting 99 well-known and lesser-known paintings, sketchbooks, works on paper, photos and letters. The exhibition has been curated by guest curator and Van Gogh expert Sjraar van Heugten, in close collaboration ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sean Kelly Asia is presenting the first solo exhibition of Ilse D'Hollander (1968-1997) in the region. This comprehensive overview, featuring both paintings and works on paper, spans the entirety of D'Hollander's career, with many works being exhibited for the first time. Installation view of Ilse D'Hollander at Sean Kelly, New York. September 10 - November 17, 2019. Photography: Chu Chi-an. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
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 | | Dresses worn by Hollywood star make $85,000 at Hindman Auction and return to Dior in Paris | | The Cleveland Museum of Art features more than 50 drawings by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo | | Audain Art Museum presents a fresh look at Emily Carr | 
All of the 37 lots sold, exceeding estimates and realizing a total of $85,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans September 17 Haute Couture and Luxury Fall Fashion was highlighted by a collection of 37 Parisian haute couture and Hollywood designs worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland from 1954 to 1989. Dame Olivia is 103. All of the 37 lots sold, exceeding estimates and realizing a total of $85,000. The collection was popular with private collectors and museums alike with Dior Heritage, the archive of the fashion house of Christian Dior in Paris taking home nearly all of the lots. The top selling highlight from the sale, a Christian Dior by Marc Bohan haute couture dress, inner bodice and shoes, Spring-Summer 1964 worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland in the 1964 movie 'Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, surpassed its presale estimate of $2,000- $3,000, selling for $8,125. Another highlight from the auction was a Christian Dior by Marc Bohan haute couture ensemble, Spring-Summer 1961 worn by de Havilland in the photograph on the co ... More | | 
Seated male nude, separate study of his right arm (recto), 1511. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 14751564). Red chalk, heightened with white; 27.9 x 21.4 cm. Teylers Museum, Haarlem, purchased in 1790. © Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art displays a selection of some of the finest and most celebrated drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) in the extraordinary exhibition, Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in conjunction with the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, Michelangelo: Mind of the Master is on view first at the Cleveland Museum of Art from September 22, 2019, to January 5, 2020, before traveling to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of drawings with an illustrious provenance from Queen Christina of Sweden (16261689), on loan from the Teylers Museum. The museum is the oldest in the Netherlands, having opened in ... More | | 
Emily Carr, Le Paysage (Brittany Landscape), 1911. Oil on board, 45.7 x 64.8 cm. Audain Art Museum Collection. Purchased with funds provided by the Audain Foundation 2017.012
WHISTLER, BC.- Opening to the public on September 21, Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing French Modernism and the West Coast reveals compelling new details about Carrs early French period and its profound influence on her extraordinary career. As the most ambitious exhibition in its three-and-a-half-year history, the Audain Art Museum has gathered over 50 works by Canadas most influential female artist. Added to many gems from the Museums collection, important historical works from across Canada and rare paintings by Carrs French instructors provide a captivating new look at Carrs evolution. In 1911, Carr returned from a 16-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style. This sojourn was the catalyst, pulling Carr away from conformity, and resulting ... More |
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| | Avant-garde rocker John Cale revisits his classics | | Disabled Poles take their struggles to the stage | | Hauser & Wirth exhibits drawings by Eva Hesse from the Allen Memorial Art Museum | 
Welsh musician John Cale poses during a photo session in Los Angeles on September 15, 2019. VALERIE MACON / AFP.
LOS ANGELES.- A maestro of avant-garde rock who co-founded the famed Velvet Underground with Lou Reed and hobnobbed with Andy Warhol, Welsh musician John Cale is not one for a traveled path. "No matter where I go, I was more interested in how I get there," he says. "I wanted to take part in the natural evolution of music." Cale is still at it as a 77-year-old with an imposing stature -- set to play three shows at the Philharmonie de Paris next week -- and met with AFP at his rehearsal studio hidden in a labyrinthian building in downtown Los Angeles. Surrounded by his instruments -- piano, guitar and violin -- Cale describes the high-octane New York of his youthful career in the early 1960s. "It was a cultural revolution going on," he says. "Everybody was doing something, everybody's making films, or making concerts or whatever, on the street, you know, in homes, in lofts." "It was the heart of the artistic reactor." A fan of French composer Erik Satie ... More | | 
Actress of Teatr 21 Maja Kowalczyk presents her costume for "The Revolution That Never Was", a play about the protest of disabled people and their families in the Polish Parliament, at the Soho Theater in Warsaw. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP PHOTO / AFP.
(AFP).- A troupe of actors with Down Syndrome in Poland is taking the fight for disabled rights to the stage in a new play that lashes out at politicians, accusing them of neglecting the welfare of citizens with disabilities. Titled "The Revolution That Never Was", the play recounts how a group of young Poles with disabilities staged an unprecedented sit-in protest in the Polish parliament last year. They slept on the floor of a corridor for 40 nights in a bid to persuade the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government to boost their meagre living allowance and benefits for their caregivers. Known for generous social spending on child allowances and retirement pensions, the government has moved to improve benefits for Poland's estimated 272,000 citizens with disabilities ahead of October's general election. Down Syndrome is the most common genetic form ... More | | 
Eva Hesse, No title, 1958. Photogram (gelatin silver print), 35.1 x 27.9 cm / 13 7/8 x 11 in. Allen Memorial Art Museum. Gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1981.40.1.
NEW YORK, NY.- An icon of American art, Eva Hesse produced a prodigious body of work that collapsed disciplinary boundaries and forged innovative approaches to materials, forms, and processes. Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, on view 5 September 19 October 2019 at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street, illuminates the important role that drawing played throughout Hesses career. The works on view range from early figurative sketches to experimental geometric compositions and studies for the sculptural works for which she is best known. Organized by Barry Rosen and Allen Memorial Art Museum Assistant Curator, Andrea Gyorody, the two-part exhibition will travel from Hauser & Wirth to mumok, Vienna in November 2019 and from Museum Wiesbaden to the Allen Memorial Art Museum in September 2020. Forms Larger and Bolder encompasses approximately 70 work ... More |
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| | Rago announces highlights included in its 'Outsider and Fine Art. Curious Objects' sale | | Timothy Taylor to represent Richard Forster | | Exhibition features 197 works celebrating the achievements and contributions of black Americans | 
Lester Johnson, Street Scene: A Group. Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago announced the auction "Outsider and Fine Art. Curious Objects." on October 20, 2019 at 11am. "Outsider and Fine Art. Curious Objects." is Rago's best sale of outsider art to date, with 207 total lots on offer. The auction features stunning examples by masters in the category from Bartlett to Zinelli, many with provenance directly to the artists and/or celebrated collectors. The auction also features some exceptional works of fine art including paintings, works on paper, and sculpture. As in years past, trade figures, articulated artist mannequins, and devotional figures are among the offerings, as is a winning selection of vernacular photography, carnival knock downs and vaudeville dummies, signage, canes, and erotica. "Outsider & Fine Art. Curious Objects." Sunday, October 20 at 11:00 a.m., 207 lots Among the "who's who" of artists in this sale are Butch Anthony, Morton ... More | | 
Richard Forster, Notes on Architecture: The Times Business Pages, June 18 2018, 2018.
LONDON.- Timothy Taylor announced representation of British artist Richard Forster (b.1970, UK). The gallery will present Forsters first solo show, Notes on Architecture in London this November, which was first shown earlier this year at FLAG Art Foundation in New York. Forsters meticulously detailed drawings appear as trompe loeil newspaper clippings and photographs, referencing diverse themes of nostalgia, the socio-political climate and architecture. Although almost photo-realistic upon first inspection, on closer viewing, the compulsively rendered works break down into abstract mark-making, combining collaged elements such as masking tape, gouache and watercolour with found surfaces to create subtle tonal shifts and textures. Presented both chronologically and within grid sequences, Forsters small-scale works reflect his own personal experience of the world, carefully documenting the nature of time ... More | | 
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape, Autumn, ca 1865. Oil on board.
DALLAS, TX.- The African American Museum, Dallas in Fair Park will present the widely acclaimed exhibition, The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, celebrating the achievements and contributions of black Americans from 1595 to present times. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African-American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibition will feature 197 of the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during their five decades of marriage. The collection includes masterful paintings and sculpture, photos, rare books, letters, manuscripts and more. Presented by Toyota Motor North America, the exhibition will run Sept. 21, 2019-March 1, 2020. The Museum is located at 3536 Grand Ave. in Dallas historic Fair Park. Garnering national media attention and experienced by more than 15 million people, the groundbreaking ... More |
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| | Yorkshire Sculpture Park unveils Alfredo Jaar for UN International Day of Peace | | Maurice Car Collection of Arts and Sciences, Featuring Rare Books & Manuscripts, soars above $1.2 million | | 'Mudlarks' unearth the past on London's riverbanks | 
Alfredo Jaar, The Garden of Good and Evil, 2017. Courtesy the artist, New York, a political and YSP. Photo © Jonty Wilde.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents The Garden of Good and Evil, a new permanent installation by pioneering Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, which will be unveiled in the open air on 21 September 2019 United Nations International Day of Peace. The unveiling coincides with the launch of a publication of the same name, which features essays that explore Jaars artistic practice, positioning the work at YSP as a critical element of his ongoing investigation into the power of imagery. The Garden, a work that Jaar wanted to realise for some years and that YSP is uniquely placed to house, is a significant permanent commission for the Park and for the UK. It features ten elegantly fabricated steel cells, which reference black sites, the secret detention facilities operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) around the world. The cells, which have been sited within the woodland and partially submerged in ... More | | 
Sir Isaac Newtons Autograph Manuscript, Notes on Physics and Solid Geometry, with Two Diagrams soared to nearly eight times its pre-auction estimate when it sold for $399,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A collection of exceptionally rare documents from renowned scientists and artists led the results for Heritage Auctions The Maurice Car Collection of Arts and Sciences, Featuring Rare Books & Manuscripts to climb to $1,261,070 Sept. 4 in New York. Car was an engineer and former scientist who was a dedicated collector of the arts, sciences and humanities. The lots offered in the sale included works by some of the most famous names in science, including Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Sir Isaac Newton and Louie Pasteur; and artists like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Radiguet and Tristan Tzara. Maurice Car was a serious collector with an appreciation for excellence in each of the three disciplines, Heritage Auctions Rare Books Director James Gannon said. He moved his family from Paris to Washington, D.C., but even moving to a new country did not dissuade him from ... More | | 
Lara Maiklem, a mudlark searches for treasure at low tide along the river Thames in central London on May 29, 2019. TOLGA AKMEN / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Treading her way along the muddy banks of the River Thames, Lara Maiklem spots a 16th-century clothespin which she wipes and adds to a row of others puncturing her coat pocket. She treasures these handcrafted metal pins and other discoveries along the shore for the insight they give into those who walked there before her. "Mudlarks" have scoured the foreshores of London's rivers for centuries, searching out lost or discarded items to sell, and the tradition lives on today in a small band of devotees. Over the past two decades, 48-year-old Maiklem has found pottery, a silver coin from the 1600s from the era of king Charles I, ivory combs and 18th-century clay pipes, some still bearing the makers' fingerprints. "These little snapshots of everyday London life, that you find coming out of the mud, every tide -- it's like a giant history book," said Maiklem, who works in the publishing industry. Many of the rivers, streams and brooks that cut through London ... More |
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Artist Dóra Maurer at Tate Modern | TateShots
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 Giant construction project takes shape in remote North KoreaSAMJIYON (AFP).- Like a scene from an epic film, thousands of workers swarm over the building sites of Samjiyon, a monumental construction project in the far reaches of North Korea ordered by leader Kim Jong Un. They clamber over wooden scaffolding and dangle from window frames, and whether they are carrying loads, sifting sand or mixing concrete, most of the work is carried out by hand. The plan involves nothing less than the rebuilding of the entire town of Samjiyon, the seat of a county that includes the supposed birthplace of Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il, and Mount Paektu, the spiritual birthplace of the Korean nation. It encompasses a museum of revolutionary activities, a winter sports training complex, processing plants for blueberries and potatoes -- two of the area's most important crops -- a new railway line to Hyesan, ... More Peter Saul's most comprehensive exhibition to date opens at Les AbattoirsTOULOUSE.- This retrospective, the most comprehensive exhibition to date, by American artist Peter Saul (born in 1934), spans the career of one of the very last contemporaries of Pop Art, from the late 1950s to the present day. Peter Saul: Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More brings together a collection of unprecedented scope, featuring more than a hundred works (paintings, works on paper, etc.), some of which will be shown for the first time, as well as a collection of archives. Who is Peter Saul? For many, this American painter is one of Pop Arts founding fathers. For others, he is one of the creators, in the late 1960s, of Funk art, but also a pioneer of Bad Painting in the 1980s. Today he is still a major influence on several generations of artists. Surprisingly, his career began in Paris in the early 1960s. It was there that the artist created his first collages ... More Exhibition of recent sculptures and drawings by Richard Serra on view at GagosianNEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting recent sculptures and drawings by Richard Serra. At 980 Madison Avenue, a series of new diptych and triptych drawings are on view. Four new works from Serras Rounds series fill the entire West 24th Street gallery. Each forged-steel sculpture is composed of multiple 50-ton elements of differing diameters and heights. Bisecting the West 21st Street gallery space is Reverse Curve (2005/19), a sculpture measuring 99 feet long and 13 feet high. Originally conceived in 2005 for a public project in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Reverse Curve is finally being realized for the first time. In conjunction with these exhibitions, Gagosian and Anthology Film Archives will present a three-day retrospective of Serras films and videos from October 17 through 19, drawn from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology ... More Matthew Raw's newest ceramic pieces talk landscape, Brexit and morePLYMOUTH.- This September, the Gallery at Plymouth College of Art plays host to Matthew Raws second solo show. Tactile Change is a display of contemporary ceramics inspired by the themes of migration and progress, a meditation on borders in the post-Brexit landscape and a response to the history of Plymouth Zoo. Raws work uses tile and clay to explore how human landscapes evolve with communities that inhabit them. His first solo exhibition in 2017, Clad, looked at the social evolution of East London. Now the artist turns his eyes and his hands to Plymouth, where he will be interpreting the story of the city and its short-lived zoo in clay. Plymouth is a hub for contemporary arts within the southwest. It has been a privilege to commission an artist as accomplished as Matthew to develop his personal response to the history of the city, as his second national solo ... More George Eastman Museum receives $340,615 grant from the National Endowment for the HumanitiesROCHESTER, NY.- The George Eastman Museum has received a grant award of $340,615 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Division of Preservation and Access, Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program for its Protecting Nitrate Film Heritage project. Grant funding will support the creation of a reliable, safe, and sustainable environment for the museums renowned and extremely fragile collection of 35mm nitrate-based film materials housed at the Louis B. Mayer Conservation Center in Chili, New York. The George Eastman Museum is committed to the stewardship and preservation of our world-class collections of cinema and photography, said Bruce Barnes, PhD, Ron and Donna Fielding Director, George Eastman Museum. The substantial grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities will allow us to continue ... More The Orlando Museum of Art acquires two new works by leading contemporary artistsORLANDO, FLA.- The Orlando Museum of Art announces the acquisition of two new works, one by internationally renowned artist Shirin Neshat, and one by celebrated mid-career artist Deborah Roberts. Shirin Neshat (Iranian, b. 1957), who is acclaimed for her work exploring the complexities of gender, religion, cultural values and democracy in the Middle East, has lived in exile in New York since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979. She gained prominence in 1995 with her iconic series of black and white, calligraphy-overlaid photographs. Neshats Nida (Patriots), from The Book of Kings series (2012) is inspired by the 60,000-verse poem "Shahnameh" written in the 11th century by the Persian poet Ferdowsi, and which narrates Persian history up to the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century. Shirin Neshat relates this ancient book to the Arab ... More Posthumous Leonard Cohen album set for November releaseNEW YORK (AFP).- A posthumous album entitled "Thanks for the Dance" from Leonard Cohen is set for release this fall, Sony announced Friday. To tease the November 22 record his label released "The Goal," a brief, quasi-spoken word track that features piano and acoustic guitar and is based on the Canadian icon's poem of the same name. "I can't leave my house," Cohen recites in his signature smoky deep voice. "Or answer the phone / I'm going down again / But I'm not alone." Cohen died in November 2016 at age 82, just weeks after he released his last album, "You Want It Darker," whose lyrics reflect heavily on death, spirituality and his place in the universe. His son Adam masterminded the posthumous release, which features contributions from artists including Beck, Damien Rice and Feist. "In composing and arranging the music for his words, we ... More Major group exhibition explores desire in visual artDUBLIN.- Irish Museum of Modern Art presents one of its most ambitious and compelling exhibitions exploring desire in our everyday lives. In particular, Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age considers desires relationship to structures of power, individualism and emerging collective actions. Spanning over a hundred years, the exhibition follows the development of desire through the lens of the Eurocentric male gaze and its influence in shaping artistic depictions of desire in contemporary culture, across the world. A selection of masterworks of the 20th century, from artists such as Duchamp, Ernst and Magritte, sit alongside new commissions and contemporary work, by artists including Matthew Barney, Tracey Emin, Genieve Figgis and Yayoi Kusama, tracing desire from the historical canon to present-day digital transformations. ... More Peter Beard's Elephants and Baboons under Kilimanjaro among top draws in auctionNEW YORK, NY.- A dramatic image of African elephants and baboons could bring $70,000 or more when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions Photographs Auction Oct. 4 in New York. Peter Beard Untitled (Elephants and Baboons under Kilimanjaro), 1984 (estimate: $30,000-50,000) is a spectacular and massive (80 inches wide by 29 inches high) black and white image by the American photographer whose photographs of Africa and African animals have been widely exhibited and admired for more than half a century. While working at Tsavo National Park in Kenya after he graduated from Yale University, Beard photographed and documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, which became the inspiration for and subject of his first book, The End of the Game. He became so invested in the journey of African wildlife that he ended up acquiring ... More Exhibition showcases five of Fred Wilson's Murano glass chandeliersNEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting a monographic exhibition showcasing five of Fred Wilsons Murano glass chandeliers. Installed hanging from the 7th floor gallerys 19-foot ceiling, these works span fifteen years and are being shown as a group for the first time. Speak of Me as I Am: Chandelier Mori, Wilsons first chandelier, was made in 2003 when he represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale. Since then, Wilson has continued to experiment with Murano glass design elements as his chandeliers have evolved over the years as vehicles for the artists meditations on blackness, beauty, and death. A catalogue illustrating all of Wilsons chandeliers to date has been published in conjunction with the exhibition. An essay by American novelist, playwright, and essayist Darryl Pinckney has been included in the publication. As juxtaposition ... More PAD London returns to Berkeley Square with a refined combination of contemporary and modern designLONDON.- The rich narratives and craftsmanship of South African design make their mark at PAD London for the first time with the arrival of Southern Guild (Cape Town), Africas foremost gallery for collectible design. The gallery unveils a new body of work by celebrated ceramicist Andile Dyalvane, created as part of his 2019 artist residency in St. Ives, as well as debuting new designs by Justine Mahoney, Stanislaw Trzebinski, Conrad Hicks, Porky Hefer and Zizipho Poswa. This presentation shines with the Nwa - Mulamu la s chaise, the very first furniture piece created by Rich Mnisi, one of South Africas rising fashion talents. Todd Merrill Studio (New York) curates an immersive environment composed of new console tables by British designer Marc Fish, from his nature-inspired Ethereal Series , a dramatic metal textured cabinet by Jean-Luc Le Mounier, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was born September 21, 1960. Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960, Padua, Italy) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997). In this image: The sculpture middle finger by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the inauguration in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan, Italy.
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