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Vincent van Gogh, The sower, 1888. Coll. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
ISHÃJ.- From 1 September 39 works by Vincent van Gogh are on view at ARKEN. The special exhibition VAN GOGH focuses on the famous artists work, spirituality and view of nature, and is the first major exhibition dedicated to Van Goghs paintings and drawings in Denmark for more than 50 years. On 23 December 1888, when Vincent van Gogh cut off most of his left ear during a psychotic episode, he was still entirely unknown as an artist. He had no idea that this violent action would help define the framework for the mythmaking and world fame that would later surround his life and art and which today flourish unabated. A less well known but quite crucial dimension in Van Goghs life, however, is his religiosity. Early in life Vincent van Gogh lost his faith in the church as an institution. But he did not lose his faith in God, and he was convinced that he could do good deeds by creating beautiful paintings. Through 28 paintings ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors view a retrospective exibition of photographs and other material on the history of the Venice film festival, on August 31, 2018 at the Grand Hotel des Bains during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. The exhibition, with materials from the Historical Archives of the Biennale, includes photos, films, documents and mostly original unpublished materials on the entire history of the Venice International Film Festival. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP
| Sotheby's to offer collection of art-world luminary David Teiger | | First exhibition in LA devoted to Jack Whitten's work in nearly 30 years on view at Hauser & Wirth | | Theseus Temple exhibits 'Untitled' (Lovers - Paris) from 1993 by Felix Gonzalez-Torres | 
Elizabeth Peyton, Heathrow (Keith), Dec. 1969, 2004, oil on board (est. £150,000-200,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- For visionary collector, patron and museum trustee David Teiger, art took precedence over all else. Redefining the meaning of connoisseurship and great collecting, Teiger considered himself a custodian of the work as opposed to its owner. A consummate collector who maintained clarity of vision and purpose over so many styles and decades in a way few collectors could, he built a kaleidoscopic collection, superlative in its diversity and depth and daringly ahead of its time. Through a series of global sales set to launch with a dedicated evening auction in London this October, The History of Now will present Teigers esteemed private collection. Following Teigers exceptionally generous lifelong support of museums, curators and institutions, proceeds from the series of sales will benefit Teiger Foundation soon to be one of the worlds largest and most significant contemporary art foundations ... More | | 
Jack Whitten, Mother's Day 1979 For Mom, 1979 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 55.9 x 55.9 cm / 22 x 22 in. © The Estate of Jack Whitten. Courtesy The Estate of Jack Whitten and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: John Berens.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting Jack Whitten. Self Portrait With Satellites. This commemorative survey celebrates Jack Whittens (1939 2018) unique ability to convey the power of philosophical, scientific, and mathematical concepts through an exquisite abstraction. Self Portrait With Satellites takes viewers on a journey through the various permutations of abstraction that span the artists entire career. The exhibition brings together self-portraits and other paintings from Whittens own personal collection, many of which the artist studied on a daily basis, and offers an intimate glimpse into the artists core beliefs about art, his deep philosophical concerns, and the people that inspired him. As Whitten wrote in a studio note from 2012, all of my memorial paintings are gifts to the people that inspired them
they are not mere dedications
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, »Untitled« (Lovers Paris), 1993. Light bulbs, porcelain light sockets and extension cords. Two parts: Overall dimensions vary with installation. Collection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York © Photo: KHM-Museumsverband.
VIENNA.- Continuing the series of contemporary art exhibitions at the Theseus Temple, this year the Kunsthistorisches Museum presents a single, major work by the Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996). The exhibition is curated by Jasper Sharp, and generously supported by the Contemporary Patrons of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Two strings of light bulbs tumble from the ceiling, collecting in a pool of light on the floor. While the meaning of the work is left open, its title Untitled (Lovers Paris) suggests a pair of lovers who bring light and joy into each others lives. And yet this reading is accompanied by an inescapable melancholy. Despite their warm, affirming glow, each bulb will one day burn out and ... More |
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| Parcours des Mondes 2018: The world's leading tribal art show opens in September | | Smithsonian traveling exhibition gives voice to Americans' experience of war | | George Condo presents a new suite of self-portraits at the Museum of Cycladic Art | 
Sculpture Feminine Rituelle. Baoulé (influences Guro) ou Guro, république de Côte d'Ivoire, XIXe siècle. Bois sculpté, patine d'usage brune brillante, fines craquelures, dépôts, 51,5 x 13,5 x 13 cm © Hughes Dubois, Paris.
PARIS.- In its sixteen years of existence, Parcours des Mondes has established itself as the worlds most important international tribal art show. This multiple-venue, open-air art fair is always enjoyable and often benefits from Indian summer weather. It affords visitors the opportunity to visit galleries from around the world specializing in the arts of Africa, Oceania, the Americas, as well as the arts of Asia. For its seventeenth edition, held from September 11 through September 16, 2018, in the heart of Paris Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, collectors, aficionados, and the merely curious will, as has become customary, embark on a voyage through the customs and rituals of the worlds traditional cultures, expressed through representations that are sometimes human, sometimes animal, sometimes ... More | | 
Jeffrey Michael Lucey. Marine, Lance Corporal. Convoy Driver. © 20052014, Matt Mitchell. All rights reserved.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.- The American military in the 21st century is diverse and reflects the complexities of the country and the current times. 100 Faces of War, an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), presents the stories of those who served the U.S. in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The exhibition launches its national tour at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida, Sept. 1 and will remain on view through Nov. 25. 100 Faces of War, organized in collaboration with artist Matt Mitchell, features 100 oil portraits of Americans representing a cross-section of home states, military branches, jobs and backgrounds. Each painting includes a candid, unedited, firsthand account of war. The statements take many different forms, including emails and letters to loved ones and poems and words written specifically for this exhibition. The portraits symbolize 100 differe ... More | | 
George Condo, The Laughing Priest, 2004. Οil on canvas, 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Private Collection © George Condo, 2018. Courtesy of the artist, Skarstedt Gallery and Sprüth Magers.
ATHENS.- The Museum of Cycladic Art hosts the exhibition George Condo at Cycladic, George Condos first large personal museum exhibition in Greece, until October 14 in the Stathatos Mansion. The exhibition presents a total of 30 works -including paintings, sculptures and drawings - which span the past 20 years of the artists career. Exhibited for the first time at the exhibition George Condo at Cycladic is a series of paintings and drawings created in 2017, including a new suite of self-portraits titled Self portrait in Paris 1-3 (2017) and Me, Myself and Him (2017). Rather than a chronological display of the artists oeuvre in the form of a retrospective, George Condos exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art is a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that implore us to explore the human figure, a principal theme of the Museum ... More |
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| MOHAI is the only West Coast venue for this comprehensive and powerful exhibit of the Great War | | Powerful Christine Borland sculptures on organ donation acquired by National Galleries | | Exhibition at Bildmuseet presents alternative approaches to environmental, social and mental ecologies | 
Boots. Image courtesy of Minnesota History Center.
SEATTLE, WA.- It was the War to End All Wars. Now Seattles Museum of History & Industry presents WW1 America, featuring how this tumultuous conflict transformed the country and the world. Making its West Coast debut at MOHAI, the exhibit opens on Sept. 1, 2018 and tells the extraordinary stories of Americansboth the legendary and the unsungduring this turbulent time. The exhibit will coincide with the centennial of Armistice Day on November 11, the day the war ended and a day of international observance in 2018 (known in the US as Veterans Day). MOHAI will honor veterans and active duty military with free admission on First Thursdays to the WW1 America exhibit from September 2018 through February 2019 as well as every day during the Veterans Day weekend of 2018. Developed by the Minnesota History Center in partnership with the National Constitution Center, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, the Oakland Museum of California a ... More | | 
Positive Pattern, 2016 by Christine Borland (b.1965). National Galleries of Scotland, purchased with the Iain Paul Fund 2017. Commissioned by the Institute of Transplantation, Newcastle. © Christine Borland.
EDINBURGH.- A poignant and powerful sculptural work which marks the contributions of organ donors and honours their families, created by one of the UKs most celebrated artists, has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland, it is announced today, in the days before Organ Donation Week 2018 commences. Positive Pattern (2016) is the latest artwork by leading contemporary artist and Turner Prize-nominee Christine Borland (b. 1965) to enter Scotlands national art collection. The artwork originally commissioned by the Institute of Transplantation in Newcastle is currently on display as part of NOW, a major three-year series of exhibitions launched at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in 2017 to showcase the work of some of the most compelling and influential artists ... More | | 
Eco-Visionaries. Exhibition view, 2018.
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.- The works in Eco-Visionaries present alternative approaches to, and ideas about the relationship between human beings and the environmental, social and mental ecologies systems that are intrinsically linked and interactive. The participating artists propose more sustainable attitudes towards the place of human beings on this earth. The exhibition includes video works, drawings, sound elements, books and installations by Ursula Biemann (b. 1955, Switzerland) and Paulo Tavares (b. 1980, Brazil), Carolina Caycedo (b. 1978, United Kingdom), the international group Futurefarmers, Marjetica Potrč (b. 1953, Slovenia), Samuel Roturier (b. 1982, France), Erik Sjödin (b. 1979, Sweden), Leena Valkeapää (b. 1964, Finland) and Oula-Antti Valkeapää (b. 1970, Finland) and Elin Már Ãyen Vister (b. 1976, Norway). Eco-Visionaries are people who, in spite of a seemingly hopeless situation with the worlds collected ecological problems, still manage ... More |
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| Glenn Brown returns to his North East roots with exhibition at Laing Art Gallery | | Exhibition on Japanese woodblock prints on view at Lyman Allyn Art Museum | | Fine Arts Paris to bring fresh excitement to drawing, painting and sculpture | 
Glenn Brown, Reproduction 2014
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- Returning to his North East roots, internationally acclaimed artist Glenn Brown has reimagined the Laing permanent collection alongside his own work. Brown is one of the foremost exponents of oil painting today, citing the medium itself as one of the main subjects of his work. Brown appropriates images changing their shape, form, colour, and dimension. He traverses artistic time zones from Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo through to Impressionism, Expressionism and Surrealism, referencing artists such as Jean Louis Fragonard, Salvador Dalà and John Martin - who was also born in the North East, and whose work features in the exhibition. John Martin and Edwin Landseer (1802 1973) lead Browns new display at the Laing. These 19th century painters have had a tremendous influence on his practice, and these three artists now are being displayed together for the first time. Brown has also chosen works by other artis ... More | | 
Detail of Miidera (Mii-dera Temple), 1899 from Nogaku Zue (Pictures of Noh), woodblock print, 10 x 14 1/2 in. Collection of Richard J. and Mae J. Smethurst.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- Noh Theatre in the Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869 1927) explores the art of woodblock prints and the history, stories, and costumes of Japanese Noh Theatre at the turn of the 20th century. This special exhibition brings to the Lyman Allyn Art Museum over 50 Japanese color woodblock prints and features several Japanese Noh masks from the museums own collection. The exhibition is on view through October 14, 2018. Organized by independent curators Annemarie Sawkins, PhD and Martha Chaiklin, PhD, this traveling exhibition features prints from the private collection of Professors Richard J. and Mae J. Smethurst of the University of Pittsburgh, who have spent much of their academic careers teaching and writing about the classical theatre and history of Japan. Noh is a Japanese performing art based on traditional court dances known ... More | | 
Created in 2017 by the organizers of the Salon du dessin in association with Paris Tableau, the second edition of Fine Arts Paris will take place at the Carrousel du Louvre from November 7 to 11, 2018.
PARIS.- If art is your passion youd better plan a trip to Paris this November or browse the second time round of a new fair Fine Arts Paris for a refresher course in all that is exciting and creative and new in painting, drawing and sculpture in the City of Light with all the greatest museums joining in the fun. Created in 2017 by the organizers of the Salon du dessin in association with Paris Tableau, the second edition of Fine Arts Paris will take place at the Carrousel du Louvre from November 7 to 11, 2018. Dedicated to drawing, painting and sculpture from antiquity to today, Fine Arts Paris promises to create huge excitement and interest in the fine arts through a fine selection of international dealers, a museum exhibition in the heart of the Salon, a scientific conference and a very rich off-site cultural program dedicated to sculpture, produced ... More |
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 designjunction announces first exhibitor line-up and product launchesLONDON.- designjunction, now in its eighth year, returns this September (20 23) as part of the annual London Design Festival (15 23 September). Moving to an exciting new location, the critically-acclaimed design show will transport to the South Bank, the citys most iconic cultural and creative hub, and deliver a specially curated programme of exhibitions, installations, retail experiences, talks and workshops. designjunction will present a stellar line-up of UK and international brands both established and emerging showcased across three key venues including the Doon Street site (furniture, lighting and retail), Riverside Walkway (outdoor installations) and Oxo Tower Wharf (exhibitions and experiential events), all of which are owned and managed by Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB). The Doon Street site will feature the best in contemporary ... More 21st edition of Art Paris to offer a gaze at women artists in FrancePARIS.- Art Paris is the place to be in Paris in spring. Favouring a thematic approach and open to all mediums, from 4th -7th April 2019 the 21st edition of the fair will bring together 145 modern and contemporary art galleries under the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais. Art Paris has an identity all of its own. It is an international art fair that focuses on a regional exploration of european art from the post-war years to the present day, whilst placing special emphasis on the new horizons of international creation, whether from Asia, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America. Curated by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, the 2019 edition presents a critical and subjective overview of the work of women artists in France, from the post-war period to the present day. 20 specific projects by women artists will be selected from amongst ... More Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens exhibition of new work by Elizabeth FoxSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting My Darling Clouds, an exhibition of new work by Elizabeth Fox. Foxs paintings are siren songs that live in a sphere somewhere between the subconscious and the magical. Her figures are often pale, ghostly, smoke & mirror, more shape than body. The world they move through is one thats at once mundanean office, a bus stop, a street with trash cansand surreal: its as if Fox is squeezing the real out of reality, and whats left is an etherealized version of strange, dream-like beauty. Each of her paintings tells us a story. Religious themes like annunciation or resurrection are next to images of beauty and sexuality, power dynamics and vulnerability, Botticelli and Beyonce. There is something puzzling about the narratives though, as if they were unfinished, unresolved, dots in need of connecting, and ... More Frye Art Museum exhibition is an exploration of architecture through space, function, and purposeSEATTLE, WA.- Bench Mark, a Partnership for Youth exhibition, is an exploration of architecture through space, function, and purpose. Created during sixteen after-school sessions MarchMay 2018, this collection of works traces the design thinking process students applied while considering Seattles urban environment and humans interaction with it. Identifying the bench as focal point and unifying element of the urban environment, the ten contributing artists reveal their understanding of the many ways people use benches to interact with their surroundings. Benches offer spaces for conversation, rest, and reflection. The exhibition chronicles an experiential investigation into placemaking and how benches become the site of some of lifes most mundane as well as precious moments. Bench Mark is co-curated by Lynn Chou, Manager of Youth and School Programs, and ... More Exhibition spotlighting cartoonist Alison Bechdel travels to Zimmerli Art MuseumNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On September 1, the exhibition Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel, which encompasses the decades-long career of the illustrious cartoonist and graphic memoirist, opens at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. It explores Bechdels work as a writer, an artist, and an archivist of the self, someone who constantly mines and shares her own experiences as a way to communicate something vitally human: the quest for love, acceptance, community, and social justice. The bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) holds a long and proud place in world literature from Goethe to Philip Roth. Alison Bechdel joins this coterie with her wry and poignant graphic novels, said Thomas Sokolowski, the Zimmerlis director. Conjoining her talents as a writer and an illustrator, she adroitly provides a guidebook for ... More Fine Art Asia 2018 to host Ink Asia 2018 in a major new eventHONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2018, Asias leading international fine art fair, returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in September. This year Ink Asia 2018, the worlds first art fair dedicated to art in ink, will be staged alongside Fine Art Asia in the same venue. Both fairs will be held from Saturday 29 September to Tuesday 2 October 2018, with a VIP Preview and Vernissage on Friday 28 September. Founded in 2006, Fine Art Asia 2018 is recognised by the international art world as Asias original and foremost fair dedicated to antiques and art from both the Asian and Western traditions. Featuring major Hong Kong and international galleries, Fine Art Asia is unrivalled in the region, and offers museum‐quality Asian and Western works spanning 5,000 years of cultural history: antiques; jewellery; silver; timepieces; traditional, Impressionist, ... 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More Taiwan graffiti artist swaps spray for ink in epic tattoosTAIPEI (AFP).- In a small workshop down a narrow alleyway in Taipei's Ximending district, tattoo artist Bobo Chen is refreshing a scene from a Japanese epic with new ink on a client's back. The vivid image depicts a fictional Japanese hero fighting a tiger and dragon, symbolic of strength and protection. A former graffiti artist, Chen, 35, switched to tattooing five years ago after learning the craft in Thailand. On the walls of his studio are pictures of historical Japanese drawings, which he takes as inspiration for his body art. Taiwan was ruled by Japan for 50 years until 1945 and the islands design aesthetic often still reflects Japanese style. "I like Japanese culture and traditions," says Chen. I take inspiration from them for my work because I'd like to play a small part in handing them down. ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Marvin Lipofsky was born September 01, 1938. Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 - January 15, 2016) was an American sculptor who worked primarily in glass. As one of the first students to graduate under the tutelage of Harvey Littleton (UW, Madison, 1964), Lipofsky went on to establish glass programs at UC Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts. As a collaborator, educator, inveterate traveler, respected sculptor, and passionate supporter of the arts, he is credited with bringing together communities of artists, and overcoming ideological barriers to aid in the development of an international glass community. In this image: Creative Glass by Marvin Lipovsky.
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