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Installation view © Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
WEIL AM RHEIN.- With the exhibition »Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design«, running from 29 September 2018 to 10 March 2019, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first large retrospective focusing on the designer, author, and activist Victor J. Papanek (19231998). Papanek was one of the twentieth centurys most influential pioneers of a socially and ecologically oriented approach to design beginning in the 1960s. His key work, »Design for the Real World« (1971), remains the most widely read book about design ever published. In it, Papanek makes a plea for inclusion, social justice, and sustainability themes of greater relevance for todays design than ever before. The exhibition includes high-value exhibits such as drawings, objects, films, manuscripts, and prints, some of which have never before been presented. These are complemented by works of Papaneks contemporaries from the 1960s to 1980s, including Geo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale is on display at the exhibition "PS: Ich liebe Dich" (CARS - Driven by Design - Sports Cars from the 1950s to the 1970s) at the Museum Kunstpalast in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on September 26, 2018. According to the museum, the "exhibition is the first of its kind directing the focus on the car as a work of art combining form, technology, design and emotion". The show runs from September 27, 2018 to February 10, 2019. Christophe Gateau / dpa / AFP
| Christie's to offer Property from the Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio | | Four works charting Basquiat's career on offer this November at Sotheby's New York | | Ending decades of doubt, 'biggest bird' dispute put to nest | 
With determination, verve, and an exceptional creative spark, Jerrold Jerry Perenchio became one of the worlds most successful media figures. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present Property from the Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio, which will be sold across its November auctions of Impressionist and Modern Art, Design and Latin American Art. The grouping encompasses 44 lots from Mr. Perenchios renowned collection, and is highlighted by seminal sculptures by Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin, significant work on paper by Diego Rivera, and consummate Diego Giacometti design. The collection also encompasses important examples from artists including Camille Pissarro, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and George Grosz. Sharon Kim, International Director, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies, remarked: We are deeply honored to have been entrusted with Property from the Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio. Mr. Perenchio was a beloved figure within the art world and a giant ... More | | 
Jean‐Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Pollo Frito), 1982. Acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, in two parts, 152.4 by 306.1 cm | 60 by 120½ in. Estimate in excess of $25 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- As the international art world looks forward to the October opening of the Fondation Louis Vuittons exhibition spanning the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sothebys announced that their marquee evening auction of Contemporary Art in New York on 14 November 2018 will feature a group of four works by the artist emerging from the same distinguished private collection that similarly charts his rapid rise to international acclaim throughout the 1980s. Together, the collection affords a remarkably comprehensive overview of Basquiats celebrated career. The group is led by his Untitled (Pollo Frito) from the critical year of 1982, when he fully arrived on the international art scene. Comprising two panels that together span 12 feet (3.05 meters) across, Untitled (Pollo Frito) is estimated to sell for in excess of $25 million this November. The collection also offers: Taxi, ... More | | 
Elephant bird mock-up image. © Jaime Chirinos 2009.
PARIS (AFP).- After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the world's largest bird. For 60 million years the colossal, flightless elephant bird -- Aepyornis maximus -- stalked the savannah and rainforests of Madagascar until it was hunted to extinction around 1,000 years ago. In the 19th century, a new breed of buccaneering European zoologist obsessed over the creature, pillaging skeletons and fossilised eggs to prove they had discovered the biggest bird on Earth. But a study released Wednesday by British scientists suggests that one species of elephant bird was even larger than previously thought, with a specimen weighing an estimated 860 kilogrammes (1,895 pounds) -- about the same as a fully grown giraffe. "They would have towered over people," James Hansford, lead author at the Zoological Society of London, told AFP. "They definitely couldn't fly as ... More |
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| Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center announces fall exhibition in new permanent home | | Sotheby's opens extensive European Old Master paintings and drawings selling exhibition | | Lévy Gorvy opens an exhibition inspired by the legacy of Joseph Duveen | 
Willem de Kooning, 1948 by Hazel Larsen Archer.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announced its fall 2018 season of exhibitions and cultural events in Asheville. BMCM+AC now has a permanent place to call home for the first time in their 25-year history. This new home at 120 College Street is a relocation and expansion to a newly renovated building on Pack Square Park in the heart of downtown Asheville, NC. The new 6,000sf space includes: 2,500sf of flexible exhibition/event space with a 200+ seating capacity a permanent Black Mountain College history and research center an expanded library and education center with over 1,500 BMC-related texts on-site storage for BMCM+ACs permanent collection and research center This project helps solidify the museum as the preeminent Black Mountain College resource and a vital international art center, preserving the history of Black Mountain College and continuing its far ... More | | 
Carlo Dolci, , Holy Family with the Trinity, circa 1630. Oil on copper. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys is presenting A Brush with Nature - the most extensive selling exhibition ever staged in Asia dedicated entirely to European Old Master paintings and drawings. Showcasing 46 works, representing all the major fields of this great Western canon from the Renaissance to the 19th century, the exhibition brings together works by some of the most influential artists of all time, such as Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn, along with high quality works by lesser-known artists who strove to emulate their forebears. The exhibition examines the key genres of the Western Old Master category, beginning with the devotional and spiritual language of Renaissance art, circa 1500, through to the advent of landscape and still-life painting in the following years and its full flowering in the 17th and 18th centuries. Examples of works exploring representations of the human form, both formal portraiture and scenes ... More | | 
Gunther Uecker, Spirale III, 2002. Latex paint, pigment, and nails on wood, 78 ¾ x 78 ¾ inches (200 x 200 cm). © 2018 Günther Uecker / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany.
LONDON.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting an exhibition inspired by the legacy of Joseph Duveen, whose former premises at 22 Old Bond Street is now the location of Lévy Gorvys London gallery. Renowned for his refined eye and exhibition style, the influential gallerist mounted salon-style presentations, complementing masterpieces of painting and sculpture with decorative arts. Celebrating the spirit of this esteemed tastemaker, Lévy Gorvy presents a modern interpretation of a Duveeninspired hang. Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here will feature prominent modern and contemporary artists such as Terry Adkins, Diane Arbus, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, Gego, Yves Klein, Seung-taek Lee, Roman Opalka, Kazuo Shiraga, Pierre Soulages, Pat Steir, and ... More |
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| Bronx Museum of the Arts announces new space downtown | | Exhibition at the Bruce Museum celebrates the prevalence of tools in our lives | | Sotheby's Hong Kong opens a major selling exhibition of western masterworks | 
Starting in 2019, the second-floor space at 80 White Street will host an ongoing series of programs including exhibitions, performances, artist talks, and workshops.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced it will soon open an artist workspace and exhibition venue located at 80 White Street in Lower Manhattan, furthering the museums mission to support underrepresented artists in New York. Designed to support AIM, the museums career development program for emerging New York City artists, the space will serve as a community resource hub featuring private workspaces, exhibition facilities, meeting rooms, and career management resources for the creative and professional development of AIM alumni. Room for artists to work, think, and experiment is vital, and this new program at 80 White Street will afford exactly this opportunity, said Deborah Cullen, Executive Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. We are committed in our advocacy for artists and ... More | | 
Phyllis Yes, Paint Can with Brush, 1981, mixed media with paint, 9 x 11 x 8 inches. Photo courtesy of Joel Breger.
GREENWICH, CONN.- ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection, an engaging and thought-provoking look at the unexpected subject of tools, is on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, from September 22 through December 30, 2018. Featuring more than 40 richly imaginative, quirky, and thought-provoking paintings, sculptures, photographs, and sketches, ReTooled celebrates the prevalence of tools in our lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into fanciful works that speak of beauty, insight, and wit. The Museums signature fall exhibition, ReTooled profiles 28 visionary artists from the Hechinger Collection and includes major artists such as Arman, Richard Estes, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand Léger and H.C. Westermann; photographers Berenice Abbott and Walker Evans; as well as pop artists ... More | | 
Edgar Degas, La Conversation, 1895. Pastel on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys is presenting its second season of Panorama: A New Perspective, a major selling exhibition of over 40 paintings and sculpture from some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring seminal works spanning 150 years of art history, the exhibition traces the aesthetic development of Modern art throughout Europe and into the United States, and towards the Contemporary abstract art informed by its predecessors. The show offers major works by established masters such as Andy Warhol, Claude Monet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell, all available for immediate private sale. Together, the works are valued in excess of US$100 million, with a range of estimates starting at US$50,000. The show is open to the public from 28 September to 3 October at Hall 1 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, presented alongside Sothebys ... More |
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| Dallas Museum of Art announces $3 million endowment of Deputy Director position | | The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens exhibition of works by Enrico David | | Martin Gropius Bau opens a comprehensive survey of Lee Bul's work | 
Tamara Wootton Forsyth is now the DMAs first Marcus-Rose Family Deputy Director. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today the endowment of the Museums Deputy Director position. With an extraordinary new $3 million gift from Catherine Marcus and Will Rose, Tamara Wootton Forsyth is now the DMAs first Marcus-Rose Family Deputy Director. Longtime patrons of the Museum, Catherine Marcus Rose currently serves as President of the DMAs Board of Trustees and Will Rose serves on the DMAs Investment Committee. Strong leadership is critical to the vigor and growth of our citys Museum. We are thrilled to support the Museums endowment and this crucial leadership position, said Catherine Marcus and Will Rose. We are especially delighted to support Tamara Wootton Forsyth in this role. She is a wonderful complement to AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director, and we know she will continue to distinguish the DMA with her ... More | | 
Enrico David, Tools and Toys III, 2014. © Enrico David. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Italian-born, London-based Enrico David, who has distinguished himself as one of the most original and fascinating artists working today. Using a wide range of media, David's imagery revolves around the human figure and its many states of being, creating an encyclopaedic yet extremely personal accounting for the human form, from fragile and vulnerable to grotesque, tortured, and ecstatic. Named after his sculpture of the same name, Gradations of Slow Release characterizes the circular process of his work where imagery and ideas slowly morph and evolve over time into different but related forms. Exploring the connections between privacy, introspection, interiority, and disembodiment, this survey traces David's work over almost 20 years starting with Untitled (1999). Organized by MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling, Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release runs from September ... More | | 
Lee Bul, "Untitled (Cravings Red)", 2011 (reconstruction of 1988 work). Fabric, fibre filling, wooden frame, stainless steel carabiner, stainless-steel chain, acrylic paint, 180 x 158 x 130 cm. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol, photo courtesy: Studio Lee Bul.
BERLIN.- Lee Bul is one of the most important Korean artists of her generation, having received significant international recognition for her formally inventive and intellectually provocative work. From 29 September 2018 to 13 January 2019, the Gropius Bau presents Crash, her first solo exhibition in Germany. This comprehensive survey is the first exhibition Stephanie Rosenthal has curated as the new director of the Gropius Bau. Lee Buls diverse body of work comprises of performance and installation art that explores dreams, ideals and utopias influenced by futurist theories and science fiction, bioengineering and visionary architecture. Crash seeks to enthral and spark the imagination of many as a multi-sensory experience composed of several experimental elements. The works on display are characterised not only by sensual expressiveness and humour, but ... More |
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 Artist Leo Fitzmaurice creates an assembly of portraits as part of a new exhibitionLIVERPOOL.- Artist Leo Fitzmaurice created an assembly of portraits at Liverpools Walker Art Gallery as part of a new exhibition, which asks visitors to look twice at what might, at first, seem familiar. Leo Fitzmaurice: Between You and Me and Everything Else (29 September 2018 to 17 March 2019) includes artworks from the Arts Council Collection and National Museums Liverpools own collection. More than 30 portraits by artists including Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Milena Dragicevic, Ken Kiff, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Philip Sutton feature in the exhibition, which takes place in Room 9 at the Gallery. A painting from the Lady Lever Art Gallery features as an important work in the display; Psamathe (1879-80) by Frederic, Lord Leighton, depicts a female nude from behind. The subject appears to be looking out to the sea in front of her. It is this tone ... More Wide-ranging exhibition explores the found object in modern and contemporary artEASTBOURNE.- Towner Art Gallery is presenting The Everyday and Extraordinary, a wide-ranging exhibition exploring the found object in modern and contemporary art. With work by over fifty international artists, the exhibition is a rich, playful and immersive celebration of the physicality of the object in our digital age, a cabinet of curiosities that spills out of Towners first floor gallery and into the public areas beyond. Selected from the Arts Council Collection with works from the New Art Gallery Walsall and Towners own collection, The Everyday and Extraordinary looks at the object as material, inspiration and subject in sculpture, painting, print, photography and animation from the last seven decades. The exhibition draws on a lineage that begins with the nineteenth century poet Comte de Lautréamont whose descriptions of extraordinary juxtapositions of unrelated ... More Arkansas Arts Center opens exhibition of modern and contemporary art from the Martin Muller Collection LITTLE ROCK, ARK.- The Arkansas Arts Center presents the striking vision of a master collector in Independent Vision: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection, on view September 28 through December 30, 2018. San Francisco-based gallerist and collector Martin Muller curated the exhibition from his personal collection as a tribute to Little Rock the city where he spent his formative early years in America. During those years, Muller discovered an affinity for post-war American painting in the quiet library of the Arkansas Arts Center. It was the beginning of a lifelong, relentless pursuit of new artistic treasures. This was the beginning of a rich, colorful, challenging and rewarding journey, started in Little Rock, where I made many lifelong friends, Muller said. Independent Vision: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Martin Muller Collection ... More Exhibition marks anniversary of Louise Nevelson's unforgettable one-person showcase at the GibbesCHARLESTON, SC.- Celebrating the achievements of women artists, the Gibbes Musuem of Art presents A Dark Place of Dreams: Louise Nevelson with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore. On view from September 28, 2018 through January 6, 2019, the exhibition features the monochromatic assemblages of Louise Nevelson (18991988), a pioneering American sculptor of the twentieth century, and her impact on the next generation of highly-acclaimed women sculptors represented by Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), Lauren Fensterstock (b. 1975), and Kate Gilmore (b. 1975). Born in Kiev, Russia (present-day Ukraine), of Jewish descent, Nevelson and her family immigrated to the United States to escape religious persecution. In the 1930s, she broke into the male-dominated New York art scene, and with ... More The Chrysler Museum of Art commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with exhibition NORFOLK, VA.- On view Sept. 28, 2018Jan. 27, 2019, Henri Farré and the Birth of Combat Aviation includes more than 20 paintings by the French combat artist as well as related materials that will educate audiences about the training, combat and equipment used during the early days of combat aviation. The Military Aviation Museums scale model of a Nieuport 11, the most important French fighter plane of the war, will be on display in Chrysler Museums Huber Court from Nov. 610. The Chrysler presents the exhibition in partnership with the Military Aviation Museum of Virginia Beach, whose astonishing and world-famous collection traces the first 50 years of military aviation. Besides its extraordinary collection of vintage aircraft, the Military Aviation Museum holds one of the largest collections of war paintings by this pioneer artist. We ... More Collection of Warhol's photography at Stanford University includes images never exhibited beforeSTANFORD, CA.- Photographs by Andy Warhol that have never publicly been displayed are the heart of the new exhibition, Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, on view Sept. 29, 2018, through Jan. 6, 2019, at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. The show traces Warhols artistic process from the most fundamental level of a photo negative to its transformation into his signature silkscreen paintings. Andy Warhols work continues to be some of the most recognizable in the world. However, his photographic work has been much less explored, said Susan Dackerman, John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor. This exhibition allows viewers to see the direct links between the contact sheets and Warhols finished works and to understand the importance of photography in the artists ... More 1947 Joe DiMaggio World Series jersey, 1937 Heisman Trophy highlight Heritage Sports Oct. 18-19 auctionDALLAS, TX.- An early example of the most prestigious and recognizable trophy in American sports the 1937 Heisman Memorial Trophy Presented to Yale University Halfback Clint Frank is expected to sell for more than $400,000 when it reappears 81 years after its Touchdown Club debut in Heritage Auctions Sports Memorabilia Auction Oct. 18-19. The fall event features a one-of-a-kind a jersey worn by the iconic Joe DiMaggio at Ebbets Field in Game Five of the 1947 World Series, which is also estimated to sell for $400,000. For football and baseball collectors respectively, it doesnt get much bigger than this, said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports auctions at Heritage. Each of these pieces may very well set a new world record. Elite football material emerges as a strong theme throughout the online auction event, with a wide array of battle-scarred game worn jerseys ... More Petersen Automotive Museum opens exhibit featuring artists from Juxtapoz MagazineLOS ANGELES, CA.- On Saturday, September 29, 2018, the Petersen Automotive Museum will debut the first in a series of California-themed exhibititions to kick off its 25th anniversary in 2019. Titled Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School, the display will examine a mix of art pieces and automobiles from the artists of Juxtapoz Magazine, who have helped redefine the role and imagery of automobiles in contemporary art. Replacing The High Art of Riding Low: Ranflas, Corazón e Inspiración exhibit in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery, Auto-Didactic will feature more than 50 artists. Artists on display will include skateboarder, designer and OBEY Clothing Founder Shepard Fairey; famous pinstriper of the Kustom Kulture movement Von Dutch; and painter, cartoonist and ... More San Jose Museum of Art appoints Holly Shen Deputy DirectorSAN JOSE, CA.- After a national search, the San José Museum of Art has appointed Holly Shen as deputy director. Shen comes from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she produced exhibitions, public programming, and performances, and oversaw all visual arts activity. During her 5-year tenure as director and curator of visual arts at BAM, she helped launch a new public art initiative, funded by a major grant from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust, and organized successful interdisciplinary programs, including Do What I Want, the first-ever archival exhibition on the life and work of musical luminary Arthur Russell. In 2018, Shen was named a Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow, as part of 92nd Street Y's Women in Power Fellowship program. In the newly defined role of deputy director, Shen will be a part of the senior management team directing ... More Florence Griswold Museum opens exhibition of American prints, drawings, and watercolors OLD LYME, CONN.- Works on paper have represented a key component of the Florence Griswold Museums collection since the Lyme Art Colonys heyday when artists gathered in the parlor of Florence Griswolds boardinghouse to play the Wiggle Game, drawing spirited caricatures that became the founding documents of the future Museums holdings. Paper Trail: American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, organized by Assistant Curator Jennifer Stettler Parsons, Ph.D., follows the paper trail of acquisitions and gifts of works on paper made to the institution over its history. The exhibition is on view September 29, 2018 through January 27, 2019. The collection has grown in scope to include works created with ink, graphite, watercolor, and pastel on paper from the 18th century to the present. The exhibition features several of the Museums capsule ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Tintoretto was born September 29, 1518. Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. In this image: A man looks at 'The Coronation of the Virgin, The Paradise' a painting by 16th century Venetian artist Tintoretto, on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
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