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This file photo taken on February 11, 2015 shows French businessman Pierre Berge posing at his office in Paris. French businessman Pierre Berge, former companion of Yves Saint Laurent, died on September 8, 2017 after a "long illness", the Fondation Pierre Berge - Yves Saint Laurent announced. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- The French fashion tycoon Pierre Berge, the business brains behind the Yves Saint Laurent empire, a major philanthropist and a leading figure in the fight against AIDS, died on Friday aged 86. Berge, the longtime partner of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent, died in his sleep at his country home at Saint-Remy-de-Provence in southern France, his foundation said. It added that Berge would be cremated on Tuesday in a private ceremony, and a "public commemoration in his honour" would be held at a later date. The couple -- Berge the hard-headed foil to Saint Laurent's mercurial genius -- turned the fashion world on its head when they set up their own label in 1961 after the fragile designer had fallen foul of Dior. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor views a painting during preparations ahead of the Biennale des Antiquaires event on September 7, 2017 at the Grand Palais venue in Paris. The Biennale des Antiquaires runs through September 11 - 17, 2017. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
| Giuseppe Penone opens exhibition in Château La Coste's recently constructed gallery pavilion | | Shirin Neshat defies Iranian stereotypes and regime in 'Fervor and Turbulent' | | Phillips kicks off fall season with New Now Auction on 19 September in New York | 
Works on paper, large scale bronze and marble works, and the delicate replication of a single grain of sand are included in a context that brings a poignant resonance to Penones interest in questions of nature and identity in todays industrialised society.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Château La Coste announces an exhibition by Giuseppe Penone that opens today in the recently constructed gallery pavilion by Italian architect, Renzo Piano. Considering Pianos design, the approach, and the surrounding landscape, Penone has carefully selected works that will be presented both inside and outside the gallery, creating an overall dialogue between his artwork, architecture and nature. Works on paper, large scale bronze and marble works, and the delicate replication of a single grain of sand are included in a context that brings a poignant resonance to Penones interest in questions of nature and identity in todays industrialised society. A publication accompanies the exhibition, coordinated by Laurent Busine and including ... More | | 
Shirin Neshat, Turbulent, 1998, Production still. Courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Iranian artist Shirin Neshat finds the politics of her country inescapable, a position she both laments and embraces in her work. Throughout her photography and films, Neshat balances a demand for respect from the western world for her culture and her deep criticism of Irans government and treatment of women. The Boca Raton Museum of Art shows two of Neshats films, Fervor and Turbulent in a solo exhibition on view August 8th through October 22nd, 2017. Neshat was born in Iran in 1957. She came to United States in 1975 but chose to remain in New York City after the Iranian Revolution (1978-1979). As an internationally celebrated artist known for her artistic and allegorical interpretations of Iranian culture and history, particularly from the point of view of women, concerns for her safety under the current regime have kept Neshat from visiting her native country since 1996. ... More | | 
Keith Haring, Red-Yellow-Blue #16 (Portrait of Adolpho), 1987 (detail). Estimate: $150,000-200,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the New York New Now sale on 19 September, the first auction of the Fall season. The day will begin with The Katayama Collection at 11am and will be followed by the New Now auction at 2pm. The sale will offer works from both blue-chip artists and those newer to the secondary market, including Keith Haring, Jiro Takamatsu, Nicole Eisenman, and Shara Hughes, among others. Combined, the two sessions will offer over 250 lots and are expected to realize in excess of $3.4 million. At 11am, Phillips will offer 76 works from the collection of Masamichi Katayama, founder of the renowned Japanese interior design firm Wonderwall. Katayama has amassed one of the most significant collections of contemporary art and design in Asia, featuring works by Adrian Ghenie, On Kawara, KAWS, Mark Grotjahn, Jean Prouvé, and Charlotte ... More |
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| Marc Straus opens solo exhibition of Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch | | Christopher Grimes Gallery opens two solo exhibitions in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time LA/LA | | Huis Marseille opens exhibition of works by Jamie Hawkesworth | 
Hermann Nitsch, Schuttbild (75th Painting Aktion), 2017, 59 x 79 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus opened the second solo exhibition of Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch at the gallery. To celebrate the occasion Nitsch concluded a landmark 75th Painting Action, comprising 12 paintings dedicated to Marc and Livia Straus. Co-founder of the Viennese Actionism Movement and the creator of the Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, Hermann Nitsch is one of the most influential artists today having steadfastly devoted his many years to a singular, uncompromising vision. From the outset, Nitschs vision has been anchored in the Wagnerian ideal of a complete work of art, a Gesamtkunstwerk, which indissolubly combines painting, theater, drawing, music, print-making, philosophy and life itself. In reaction to the silence enveloping Austria after the Second World War, Nitsch has been performing his Painting Actions since 1960. Here in his most recent 75th Action he is at his apogee: the resulting 12 large paintings capture his intensi ... More | | 
Lucia Koch, Pão, 2017. Pigment print on cotton paper, UV matte laminate, 86-5/8 x 47-1/4 inches, 220 x 120 cm. Edition of 6, with 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Christopher Grimes Gallery is presenting two solo exhibitions in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In No more things. Koch presents a continuation of her Fundos series: photographs of the interiors of empty boxes, bags, and packages, manipulated to house and reflect light and mimic architectural scales. Koch began photographing for the Fundos series in 2001 while reading Paul Austers dystopian novel, In the Country of Last Things, which tells the story of a collapsed society with no economy or industry, in which the population must resort to selling scavenged, nearly forgotten objects to survive. In this collection of new photographs, Koch explores the feeling of vacuity when objects become obsolete and only their negative space is left behind. The result is a series of disorienting portals that hint at the inevitable downfall of a ... More | | 
Russia, Endless Rhythm, 2015 © Jamie Hawkesworth.
AMSTERDAM.- Landscape with Tree draws the visitor into the world of a young photographer who in just five years has become a favourite of the fashion world, where the originality of his subtle and empathetic style was immediately recognized. Hawkesworths distinctive editorials have appeared in The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue US / UK / Paris, W, WSJ Magazine, and a great many other leading publications. The exhibition Landscape with Tree takes us on a journey through the life, the work, and the mind of a young photographer whose remarkable sensibilities have steadily grown stronger. Hawkesworths seminal Preston Bus Station project of 2013 shows the traits that went on to grow in the travel reportages he made in Congo (2016) and in Colombia (2017), culminating in Hawkesworths recent series of nude portraits of curvy women he made for Print Magazine (2017). The fashion world is a particularly stimulating environment ... More |
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| New exhibition and catalogue examine subjective nature of documentary photography | | Rarely-seen drawings by Lawrence Halprin on view at Edward Cella Art & Architecture | | Exhibition of works by Amy Elkins explores psychological effects of solitary confinement | 
Igor Moukhin (Russian, born 1961), Hipster from the series Young People in the Big City, 1986. Gelatin silver print. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Photo: Peter Jacobs.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- In an era when most people employ their phones as cameras, attempting to document every detail of their daily lives, the phrase social photography may bring to mind countless posts of #avocadotoast and filtered selfies in an effort to garner as many Likes as possible. But outside influences on public images are not a new phenomenon. The exhibition Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography, which opened September 5 at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers and is accompanied by a 368-page catalogue, traces the history of documentary photography, from the late 19th century to the present, and the social aspects behind some of the worlds most recognizable photos. Iconic documentary images ... More | | 
Lawrence Halprin, RSVP Studio Shirt Design, 1979, Colored pencil on paper, 24 x 18 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Lawrence Halprin: Alternative Scores - Drawing from Life, the first exhibition of a collection of rarely-seen drawings by Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), a leading figure in American landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental planning during the second-half of the twentieth century. The exhibition reveals Halprins almost daily practice of drawing as a means to not only record his diverse visual experiences, but also as a tool to engage with the trials and tribulations of war, the ecstasies of life, and the rawness and beauty in nature. The exhibition includes archival video, photography, and ephemera which provide a historical context for Halprins life and work; and highlight the experimental Workshops and happenings that he developed in concert with his wife and influential dancer and choreographer, Anna Halprin. Lawrence Halprin: Alternative ... More | | 
Amy Elkins (American, born 1979), 13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 20092016, pigmented inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art presents Amy Elkins: Black is the Day, Black is the Night (Sept. 9, 2017, through March 4, 2018), an exhibition featuring seven works from a multi-layered photographic project by the Southern California-based artist (American, born 1979) that explores the effects of long-term solitary confinement. The works include six distorted portraits of U.S. prison inmates serving on death row or serving life sentences, along with a constructed landscape. Of the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, as many as 100,000 of them are kept in isolation, often for years on end. Because her subjects were physically inaccessible and hidden from view (prisons generally do not allow photography inside), Elkins drew on correspondence with several men to develop her photography project. She ... More |
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| Von Lintel Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Floris Neusüss and John Zinsser | | Ni Youyu's first exhibition in France opens at Galerie Nathalie Obadia | | Exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz explores architecture and urbanism in Japan since 1945 | 
John Zinsser, Rising Spirit, 2017. Oil and spray enamel on pre-primed canvas, 18 x 12 inches (45.7 x 30.5 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Von Lintel Gallery is presenting an exhibition of photograms by German artist Floris Neusüss. This is the artist's second solo presentation with the gallery. Floris Neusüss began his studies of visual arts as a painter before turning to photography. His series Körperfotogramme (whole-body photograms), started him on a lifelong journey of exploring the conceptual, technical and artistic possibilities of camera-less photography. In 1960, the same year as the anthropometries of Yves Klein, Neusüss created his first nude figure photograms, also known as Nudogramms. Neusüss was not concerned with using the photogram technique to record a nude form for the sake of documentation but rather to push experimental boundaries of the photogram medium. The works in this exhibition are experiments in photochemical action painting, ... More | | 
Ni Youyu, View of History, 2017 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 300 cm (47 1/4 x 118 1/8 in.) Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents Ni Youyus first exhibition in France entitled The Endless Second. Born in 1984 in the province of Jiangxi, he is one of the most representative Chinese artists from the young generation looking to rediscover Chinese traditional aesthetic heritage. Ni Youyu works with a varied range of media and supports. While freely combining traditional and modern, western and eastern artistic concepts, the artist proposes a unique criticism of the systems at work in the art world: «On one hand my work is a tribute; on the other, I also want to be unruly.» The topic of time and space perception also plays a central part in his work. The exhibition entitled The Endless Second features a selection of recent pieces (2016-2017) of various media and techniques such as engraving on wood, acrylic on canvas, photography, chalk dust and stone. With the Water Washed ... More | | 
Toyô Itô, Médiathèque de Sendaï, 2000.
METZ.- According to the architect Arata Isozaki, Japanese architecture sets itself apart by the immutability of certain values and by an identity that architects have constantly reinterpreted over the centuries. He characterises this distinctiveness, the common theme of the exhibition, with the expression Japan-ness. Visitors are immersed in an organic city designed by Sou Fujimoto and move through the cyclical history of Japanese architecture, from the destruction of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, to its most recent expressions. Following a chronological path, from 1945 to the present day, the exhibition is divided into six periods: Destruction and rebirth (1945) Cities and land (1945-1955) The emergence of Japanese architecture (1955-1965) Metabolism, Osaka 1970 and the « new vision » (19651975) The disappearance of architecture (1975 -1995) Overexposed architecture, images and narratives (1995 to the present d ... More |
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 Charges filed over Paris 'Space Invader' mosaic theftsPARIS (AFP).- Prosecutors filed theft charges Thursday against two men believed to have posed as Paris city workers as they stripped the French capital's walls of pixelated works from French urban artist Invader. The suspects, aged 29 and 33, were taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with receiving stolen goods as well as aggravated theft, said a judicial source. Invader, whose real name or identity is unknown, produces pixelated works using bathroom tiles that hark back stylistically to early video games such as the 1978 "Space Invaders". Two years ago, his mosaic of 1970s American cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey sold at auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong for HK$2 million ($256,000). So far authorities have not recovered any of the more than a dozen stolen works, which were pried off city walls during the summer. Authorities were alerted to the thefts ... More Burning in Water presents a arge-scale, immersive installation fashioned from street materialsNEW YORK, NY.- Burning in Water is presenting Borinquen Gallo: Like a Jungle Orchid for a Lovestruck Bee. The exhibition features a series of sculptures and a large-scale, immersive installation fashioned from intricately reconstituted street materials, such as yellow and red caution tape, construction tarps, garbage bags, discarded hub-caps and debris netting. The show is the inaugural solo exhibition of the artists work in New York. Devoid of overt figurative elements, Gallos sculptures nevertheless embody intensely personal and autobiographic qualities. Born in Rome to a Puerto Rican mother and an Italian father, Gallo subsequently spent her formative years living in the Bronx, where she continues to reside and maintains her studio. Despite their genesis in humble, disposable materials, Gallos totemic sculptures entail soaring, flourishing gestures ... More Matteawan Gallery opens exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Ky AndersonBEACON, NY.- Matteawan Gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Ky Anderson. This is Andersons first exhibition at the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, September 9 from 6-9 pm and the show runs through Sunday, October 1. Ky Andersons enigmatic paintings and drawings are abstract, but with subtle references to nature. She has a deft sense of color that alternates between warm yellows, pinks, and browns to cool blues, grays, and greens. Her work features strong compositions that combine solid blocks of color with lines and open space. A key feature of her process is the layering of lines and color in varying degrees of opacity. At times she lets the paint drip or splatter, adding an element of chance to the composition. Some of Andersons paintings are framed with painted wood frames that become ... More Getty Research Institute announces incoming Scholars in Residence LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has announced the incoming scholars in residence for the 2017/2018 Scholar Year, including Tian Wei and James Coleman, who will both be artists in residence. More than 40 scholars will come to the Getty Center to work on a range of topics on the theme Iconoclasm and Vandalism. Research projects will include the visual culture of Paris in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the desecration of sacred sites and objects in colonial Mexico, spectacles of iconoclasm in Putins Russia, and many more. At the Getty Villa, scholars will work on projects under the theme Classical World in Context: Persia, and will research such topics as multilingual centers in the Persian empire, lost Hellenistic sculptures in Mesopotamia and Iran, and the impact of global connections and the formation of the Roman Empire ... More Grimm Gallery exhibits a group of new bronze sculptures by Matthew Day JacksonAMSTERDAM.- Grimm announces the presentation of a group of new bronze sculptures by Matthew Day Jackson (US, 1974). This exhibition marks the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery in Amsterdam. On August 1, 2016, the Texas State Department of Education voted to allow concealed firearms on the very campus that exactly 50 years prior experienced the first popular school shooting. On August 1, 1966 Charles Whitman killed 17 people including an unborn child and injuring 31 at the University of Texas in the infamous Clock Tower Shootings. At the very core of American Identity is the subject of value founded in the idea of property ownership and the ability to defend oneself and said property. The single-family home and the firearm are two great metrics to determine the value of the individual in American culture. It might also be noted that ... More Daylight Books set to publish 'N.O.K.: Next of Kin by Inbal Abergil'NEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning Israeli photographic artist Inbal Abergil has an on-going interest in the visual representation of war. This has led her to look beyond the phenomenon of large scale public monuments that pay tribute to fallen heroes to focus instead on the private displays of mementos and personal shrines maintained by families in memory of loved ones killed in military conflict. As a former soldier in the Israeli Air Force in a country where military service is compulsory for most citizens, she was curious to explore the culture of the American military where there has not been a draft since the Vietnam War, and today less than 0.5% of American citizens serve in the armed forces. From 2014-2017, Abergil traveled across the United States to photograph and interview eighteen American families who lost family members in wars spanning World War II and The Vietnam ... More First solo exhibition by Brian Wills with Praz-Delavallade opens in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade resents the first solo exhibition by Brian Wills with the gallery in Los Angeles, opening Saturday, September 9 and on view through October 28. In his new body of work, Wills continues to use his trademark materials of thread and wood to navigate modes of perception. Like his predecessors in the 1960s Light and Space movement, Wills furthers their explorations, merging formalist concerns with his idiosyncratic use of materiality and color. Adopting a minimalist ethos, Brian Wills has embraced the ideology of the relationship between space and the spectator. His work is characterized by simple and smooth geometric shapes that lend themselves to a physical form of appreciation. His exhibition comprises three series of new works, one of which is focused around his signature use of hovering rayon thread over oak and walnut ... More Paul Insect's Reflective Minds examines the path to authenticityNEW YORK, NY.- Reflective Minds a new show of works by Paul Insect is on view at Allouche Gallery in the Meatpacking District starting September 7th. The title of the exhibition refers to transformation through self-reflection. Within our own minds and reflective qualities, people can create great visions in order to grow, which, according to the artist, is the kind of change that we should strive for. Paul Insect questions genuineness and boldly reaches for his truest self with this body of work. We live in a world that rewards the stability of the uncreative, in turn creating a society of individuals who hide behind disingenuous expressions and insincerity. Those people portray themselves as something that they are not, only showing their social side, or the face that they wish to be. Similarly, some of Paul Insects new works have a hidden part to them, a reflective quality, ... More Freight+Volume exhibits a collaborative body of work by poet Bob Holman and artist Archie RandNEW YORK, NY.- Freight+Volume presents Invisible City, a collaborative body of work by poet Bob Holman and artist Archie Rand. Consisting of 50 canvases inscribed with lines from Holmans eponymous poem, the project defies the typical binary relationship of illustration and text, instead adopting a radical dynamic of unpredictability and suggestion. A self-described call to action and hip-hoppy utopic jaunt through a mash-up of physical and metaphysical landscapes, Holmans poem was the origin point of the collaboration, a sort of narrative nexus that engages and activates Rands canvases. Originally composed for the New Museums 2015 IDEAS CITY community initiative, the poem was cut-up and reformulated during the process of collaboration, with the disembodied fragments of text then paired with Rands canvases. The integration of text and image ... More Crossing Borders: Periphery Space Gallery opens a group focused exhibition PAWTUCKET, RI.- Resonating with the ongoing immigrant crisis internationally, this focused group exhibition features works by 10 contemporary artists producing remarkably expressive work in various forms and formatstaken together, the work concerns personal feelings of loss/gain, separation and hybridity. Whether currently based in New England, New York, California, India or The Netherlands, the talented and multi-generational artists selected for Crossing Borders draw upon specific and diverse cultural origins that they integrate productively in their work. They manifest this integration prominently and distinctively. Appropriately, this globally involved exhibition will take place within the cultural melting pot of Rhode Island, a historic and ongoing site of immigration. Suitably nomadic in nature, the first iteration of the exhibition in Pawtucket will be followed by additional ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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