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The exhibition is organized as a retrospective, presenting the groups of works that illustrate the main stages in Kleeʼs development as a painter.
BASEL.- From October 1, 2017, to January 21, 2018, the Fondation Beyeler will be presenting a major exhibition of the work of Paul Klee, one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. The exhibition undertakes the first-ever detailed exploration of Kleeʼs relationship to abstraction, one of the central achievements of modern art. Paul Klee was one of the many European artists who took up the challenge of abstraction. Throughout his oeuvre, from his early beginnings to his late period, we find examples of the renunciation of the figurative and the emergence of abstract pictorial worlds. Nature, architecture, music and written signs are the main recurring themes. The exhibition, comprising 110 works from twelve countries, brings this hitherto neglected aspect of Kleeʼs work into focus. The exhibition is organized as a retrospective, presenting the groups of works that illustrate the main stages in Klee ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An Indian artisan puts a nose ring as he gives finishing touches on a clay idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga at his workshop in Chennai on September 20, 2017. Durga Puja, the annual Hindu festival that involves worship of the goddess Durga who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in hindu mythology, culminates in the immersion of idols in water bodies. ARUN SANKAR / AFP
| Sotheby's to offer Basquiat painting from the collection of Yoko Ono | | Spruth Magers opens exhibition of photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher | | National Gallery and the British public are rightful owners of Portrait of Greta Moll |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cabra Signed, titled, and dated 81-82 on the reverse. Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 60 1/4 by 60 1/4 inches. Estimate $9/12 million. © 2017 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announced that Jean-Michel Basquiat's Cabra will make its auction debut in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction, taking place in New York on 16 November. Emerging from the collection of Yoko Ono, this vibrant acrylic and oilstick painting from 1981-82, measuring 60 1/4 by 60 1/4 inches, is estimated to bring $9/12 million. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will benefit the Spirit Foundations, founded by Ms. Ono and her late husband, John Lennon, in the 1970s. Now on view in Hong Kong alongside works from Sotheby's Autumn Sales Week, the painting will travel to London in early October before returning to New York for the pre-sale exhibition of Contemporary Art in our York Avenue galleries, opening 3 November. Prior to its unveiling in Hong Kong, Ms. Ono commented: I have had the pleasure of owning and living with this masterwork ... More | |
Installation view, Bernd + Hilla Becher, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, September 17 - October 21, 2017. Photography by Robert Wedemeyer.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon-to-be-forgotten architectural forms of industry Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks, Grain Elevators, to name but a few. Systematically photographing each structure, the artists examined their shared qualities and categorized the images into grid typologies or displayed them individually. Their first show at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, and their first in the city in almost ten years, features three typologies and twenty-five individual works, presenting in total six different types of structure. The three sets of individual works on display in the exhibition were all taken in the United States: Coal Mine Tipples in Pennsylvania, Water Towers on New York rooftops, and Grain Elevators in the Midwest. The skeletal wooden Coal Mine Tipples look precarious in their constr ... More | |
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), Portrait of Greta Moll, 1908. Oil on canvas, 93 x 73.5 cm. NG 6450. Location: National Gallery London © Succession H. Matisse 2016 / DACS, London 2016.
LONDON.- The National Gallery welcomed the decision of 21 September 2017 of the US District Court of the Southern District of New York dismissing the claim made by heirs to Greta Moll in respect of the Gallerys Portrait of Greta Moll by Matisse. The National Gallery acquired 'Portrait of Greta Moll' by Matisse on behalf of the British public in 1979. The Gallery purchased the work from a commercial gallery in London in good faith and is its rightful owner. Prior to the 1979 purchase, the painting was exhibited and published on a number of occasions. Since then this much loved painting has been on display free of charge for millions of visitors to enjoy each year, and it can be appreciated today in Room 41 of the gallery's Trafalgar Square building. The gallery understands that both Greta Moll and her husband were living in Germany during the Second World War. Some years after the war ended, and following the death of her h ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens exhibition of new works by Rita Ackermann | | Solo exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer opens at Blenheim Palace | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition on 'Reformation' |
Rita Ackermann, Coronation and Massacre of Love I, 2017. Acrylic, spray paint, pigment and chalk on canvas, 360.7 x 271.8 cm / 142 x 107 in.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset presents Turning Air Blue, an exhibition of new works by Hungarian born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann. Turning Air Blue extends through two galleries and doubles as an organic continuation of Somersets rural setting. The exhibition starts in the Rhoades gallery, which features a body of work titled The Coronation and Massacre of Love. The paintings here are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with chalkboard paint, on which washes of white chalk and green and blue pigments have been applied. These Abstract Expressionist-like works are reminiscent of actual chalkboards in a classroom, covered with unintentional erasures and marks, yet they have been conceptually executed by multiple deletions of figurative drawings and landscapes. By way of these gestures, the revenant outline of the erased drawings often emerges into the foreground. The final picture is a record ... More | |
ON WAR, 2017 Text: Untitled 4 (unpublished) by Omid Shams, © 2017 by the author. Used with permission of the author. © 2017. Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Samuel Keyte.
LONDON.- Blenheim Art Foundation announces Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, a solo exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer running 28 September 31 December 2017. Holzer is the fourth artist to take on the challenge to fill the Palaces sumptuous eighteenth-century interiors and grounds with contemporary art. She will be creating new, site-specific work, directly addressing the Palaces military and political history in relation to themes which have figured prominently in her practice since the 1980s: power, conflict and activism. As one of Americas most loved living artists, Holzer is provocative and outspoken, working with language to question what is presented as truth in everyday life. For nearly four decades, her work has sought out different ways of infiltrating public space and public consciousness, starting with ... More | |
El Greco, Portrait of Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, 1572 (detail). Oil on canvas, 178,5 x 94,5 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, The Betty and David Koetser Foundation, 1986.
XURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich is staging an exhibition on aspects of the Reformation in the visual arts. Reflecting the central theme of transformation and renewal, it brings together a crosssection of works from the 16th to the 20th centuries: late medieval religious imagery, Counter-Reformation Baroque paintings, history pictures from the 19th century and the subliminally religious art of the Zurich Concretists. At its centre is Ferdinand Hodlers Unanimity, his monumental history painting of an event from the religious schism. The historical Reformation sparked by Luther 500 years ago had far-reaching consequences for art. From now on, the faithful were supposed to carry the image of Christ in their hearts rather than gaze upon it. This view, influenced by the teachings of Zwingli and Calvin, can be seen to this day in Reformed regions of Switzerland. Churches are empty, and religious ... More |
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| Jenkins Johnson Projects opens its inaugural exhibitions | | Baltimore Museum of Art opens new exhibition by Tomás Saraceno | | Qatar Museums announces new Director of Museum of Islamic Art |
Arjan Zazueta, Fizzle Splat, 2017. Acrylic and mixed media on paper. 26 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jenkins Johnson Projects.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects announces its inaugural exhibitions curated by Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, Derrick Adams. The first gallery of its kind in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Jenkins Johnson Projects plans to engage the local community and celebrate the vibrancy of the neighborhood and greater Brooklyn. Derrick Adams curation will include a solo exhibition of Brooklyn based artist, Arjan Zazueta: Beautification, as well as a group exhibition, Hidden in Plain Sight: Carris Adams, Stephen Gurtowski, Harlan Mack, Devin N. Morris, Mary A. Valverde, and Kennedy Yanko. Arjan Zazueta is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, with previous exhibitions at Rush Arts, The Lux Center for the Arts, and Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, among others. Zazuetas floral collages transform the Projects parlor level into a colorful garden reflective of the adjacent Prospect Park and B ... More | |
Tomás Saraceno. Many suns and worlds. 2016. Solo exhbition at The Vanhaerents Art Collection. Courtesy the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer contemporary art, Genoa; Esther Schipper, Berlin. © Photography by The Vanhaerents Art Collection, 2017.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art has commissioned a major new work by internationally acclaimed artist Tomás Saraceno for an exhibition that will dramatically change the East Lobby and several galleries. Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits, on view October 1, 2017 through June 2018, brings together a group of fascinating sculptural works by the Argentinian artist and trained architect who is also a pioneer in scanning, reconstructing, and reimagining spider webs and possesses the only threedimensional spider web collection in existence. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Entangled Orbits, which combines clusters of iridescent-paneled modules suspended within a net of strings reminiscent of a spider web. It will be woven on-site across a two-story ... More | |
Julia Gonnella joins the Museum from her previous post as Curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.
DOHA.- Qatar Museums has announced the appointment of Dr Julia Gonnella as Director of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Qatar. She joins the Museum from her previous post as Curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. Julia Gonnella studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where she gained her BA in Islamic Art and Archaeology (1986) and MA in Social Anthropology (1987), before being awarded her PhD in Islamic Studies and Social Anthropology at Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tubingen in 1994. She began her career as a student intern at the V&A Museum in London before joining the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin in 1994 as Assistant to the Chief Curator. She was appointed Curator of the Museum in 2009, where she has worked until her present appointment as Director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. Among the exhibitions she curated for the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin are ... More |
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| Costs soar for renovating London's Big Ben | | Concord Museum opens the most comprehensive exhibition created about Henry D. Thoreau | | Record price for an item of jewellery at Piguet Auction House |
Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) is seen through scaffolding at the Houses of Parliament in London. BEN STANSALL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- The cost of renovating the British parliament's clock tower, which houses Big Ben, has more than doubled to £61 million (69 million euros, $82 million), authorities said Friday. Works on the Elizabeth Tower, one of the world's most famous landmarks, are "more complex" than previously thought, the House of Commons and House of Lords commissions announced. The Big Ben bell, whose famous bongs have rung out across London since 1859, fell silent in August as scaffolding began going up the side of the 96-metre tower. When it reaches the top, work will begin on the clock, the roof, the interiors and the brick and stonework. The entire Houses of Parliament -- a UNESCO World Heritage site -- needs renovating, but the tower requires urgent attention. In a statement, the commissions expressed their "disappointment" that the costs had spiralled from the £29 million estimated only last year. Works will start with the renovation of the Ayrton Light ... More | |
Henry D. Thoreau, Courtesy of the Thoreau Society Collections at the Walden Woods Projects Thoreau Institute.
CONCORD, MASS.- The bicentennial of Henry David Thoreaus birth culminates with the opening of the most comprehensive exhibition ever created about one of the worlds most original writers and thinkers This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal, running through January 21, 2018 at the Concord Museum. This Ever New Self brings together remarkable holdings from the worlds two most significant Thoreau collections: journals, manuscripts, letters, books, and field notes from the Morgan Library & Museum; and, from the Concord Museum, unique personal items including the simple green desk on which Thoreau wrote Walden and Civil Disobedience. Margaret Burke, Executive Director of the Concord Museum, explained, Fresh from its extraordinary success at New Yorks Morgan Library & Museum, This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal is one of the most important exhibits the Concord Museum has had the privilege ... More | |
When the hammer finally fell, the winning bid assured a sale of CHF 632,300 for the necklace, multiplying the estimate by 7.5.
GENEVA.- Piguet Auction House ended its September sale yesterday evening with an overall result of CHF 5.2 million. The Fine Jewellery, Contemporary Art and Antiquarian Books sessions drew in passionate collectors and enthusiasts with a high concentration of rare works and impressive pieces. An Art Deco necklace (circa 1930) set with emeralds crushed its estimate by reaching CHF 632,300 (lot 1698 from the Molly de Balkany Collection, estimated at CHF 80,000-120,000). Bernard Piguet, Director of Piguet Auction House and Chief Auctioneer, stated: In this sale, our auction house has beaten its own record for a Jewellery sale which now stands at over CHF 2.5 million. We are also very proud to have sold the piece of jewellery from the Molly de Balkany collection for CHF 632,300. This stands as the most expensive item of jewellery ever sold by Piguet Auction House. Piguet Auction House also held its annual Modern and Antiquarian Books sa ... More |
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Thomas Dane Gallery announces details of new Naples space opening January 2018
NAPLES.- Part residency, part project space, part exhibition space, the restored first floor of the 19th century Casa Ruffo, in the Chiaia district of Naples, will be, above all, a place for artists: a unique physical and mental space for them to alight, work and show. The space has undergone a significant renovation process, repairing and restoring the original features of the building, including the veranda that looks over the bay and Capri beyond. Built by Beniamino Ruffo of Calabria in the late 19th century, Casa Ruffo has since been the home to a succession of inspired inhabitants including the liberal idealist philosopher Benedetto Croce (18661952) and the Polish writer Gustav Herling-Grudzinski (19192000). It was almost certainly Virgil who exclaimed that one should see the Bay of Naples and die, and ever since writers and artists have found inspiration ... More
Fine jewelry surpasses $5.1 million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Colored diamonds excelled in Heritage Auctions' $5.1 million Fine Jewelry offering as a breathtaking 3.23 carat Fancy Blue Diamond, Diamond, Platinum Ring commanded $675,000 Sept. 25 in Beverly Hills. "The collector demand for colored diamonds has never been higher," said Jill Burgum, Senior Director of Jewelry at Heritage Auctions. "We didn't see just one or two bidders pursue these special gemstones. We saw several bidders competing for the best of the best." A 5.04-carat Fancy Intense Purplish-Pink Diamond, Diamond, Platinum Ring reached $372,500 and an oval modified brilliant-cut Fancy Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring a ray of sunshine sold for $93,750. Captivating large-carat lots exceeded pre-action estimates. A Rolex Lady's Diamond, White Gold Pearlmaster Watch with a total weight of 5.80 carats sold for ... More
Neave Brown wins Royal Gold Medal for architecture
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects announced Neave Brown will receive the 2018 Royal Gold Medal, the UKs highest honour for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetimes work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence 'either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture'. Neave Brown, the revered Modernist architect, is perhaps best known for his visionary 1970s Alexandra Road estate near Swiss Cottage built by Camden Council. With its striking stepped concrete terraces and spacious flats, not only does it provide 500 homes but in Neaves own words, its "a piece of city", containing shops, workshops, a community centre, special needs school, childrens centre, a care home for young people with learning difficulties ... More
Malmö Konsthall exhibits works by three artists from different generations
MALMO.- Malmö Konsthall is showing works by three artists from different generations, who have all employed graphic and technological printing processes within an experimental and expanded field. Using various materials, and analogue as well as digital creative processes, Charlotte Johannesson, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, and Ester Fleckner have found expressions for their own characteristic, and intensely personal, imageries. Works by Johannesson (born in Sweden in 1943, living in Skanör), Wolf-Rehfeldt (born in Germany in 1932, living in Berlin), and Fleckner (born in Denmark in 1983, living in Berlin) are shown in three separate exhibitions with a shared title. These presentations have been compiled to emphasise their shared willingness to experiment with technique and material, their agile and informed work with ideas, which is in constant development, ... More
Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery presents Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings
CHICHESTER.- Pallant House Gallery presents a rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas. The exhibition, drawn from her own studio collection and organised in association with the artist and Marlborough Fine Art, features drawings from the 1980s and 90s including studies for some of her most famous works. The exhibition will include previously unseen studies and drawings and provide a new understanding of the work of one of Britain and Portugals most loved figurative artists. It coincides with an exhibition of Rego's recent paintings at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1935, Rego has a career that spans over half a century and since her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, has ... More
Emily Liebert appointed Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Emily Liebert as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. Liebert will be tasked with further developing the museums contemporary art program with Reto Thüring, Chair of Modern, Contemporary, and Decorative Art, and Curator of Contemporary Art, including planning exhibitions at CMA and the Transformer Station as well as displays of the permanent collection in the museums contemporary art galleries, and acquiring works of contemporary art for the collection. Liebert will assume her responsibilities at the CMA in late November. I am thrilled that Emily is joining the museum at such a dynamic moment for our contemporary art program, particularly with such upcoming exhibitions as Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors and the Front Festival. Emily is a terrific curator with a creative ... More
Knight Foundation announces major gift to Akron Art Museum to engage more people in art
AKRON, OH.- Advancing its mission to enrich lives through modern and contemporary art, the Akron Art Museum today announced an $8 million gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support will enable the museum to break down barriers and bring more art into peoples lives, by establishing the Bud and Susie Rogers garden as an iconic public gathering space, augmenting its collection of known and emerging contemporary artists and engaging visitors through technology. Great art has the power to connect us, and a great museum can amplify that power across a community, said Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president. The Akron Art Museum has a nearly 100-year history of innovation and connection to community. We want them to continue to build community, bringing together public spaces, great art, and digital technology ... More
Art Deco images abound in Travel Poster Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- An auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters at Swann Galleries on Thursday, October 26 promises vicarious thrills and worldwide destinations, teeming with the work of renowned graphic artists such as Roger Broders, Adolpe Mouron Cassandre and Jean Dupas. The sale is especially remarkable for its dazzling selection of Art Deco works, embodying the Golden Age of luxury travel. The style is epitomized by Jean Dupass commission for the newly-formed London Passenger Transport Board, in which he envisions the city as an elysian wonderland; two landscape works from 1930Thence to Hyde Park and Where is this bower beside the silver Thames?are each valued at $15,000 to $20,000. All of the six posters Dupas designed for the Underground are present in the sale, with the four 1933 works carrying an estimate of $4,000 ... More
First major solo presentation by British artist Emily Mulenga opens at Firstsite, Colchester,
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, is presenting Taking Up Space, the first major solo presentation by British artist Emily Mulenga. The exhibition features a selection of dynamic moving image works alongside animated GIFs and personalised emojis, showcasing Mulengas use of digital language to investigate identity in the Internet age. Using video, digital technology and online spaces, Mulenga explores how these platforms promote ideas of self through the body, race and sexuality. She questions the perceived democratic nature of these channels, particularly in relation to how the black feminine experience is presented online. Mulenga uses her own image within her work. She asserts ownership over the different ways she is viewed by positioning her filmed self or animated avatar in virtual environments. In Orange Bikini (2015) Mulengas avatar is shown ... More
Whatcom Museum showcases Western American art from Tacoma Art Museum's Haub Family Collection
BELLINGHAM, WA.- This fall, the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Wash., will present 75 artworks on loan from the Tacoma Art Museum, featuring works of western American art, including bronze sculptures and paintings. "Art of the American West: Highlights of the Haub Family Collection from the Tacoma Art Museum" will be on exhibit at the Lightcatcher building September 30, 2017 January 7, 2018. This collection of western American art is unrivaled in its scope in the Pacific Northwest. "Western American Art is enjoying a huge resurgence in the country," said Patricia Leach, Executive Director of the Whatcom Museum. "This is the first time the Haub Family Collection is on loan from the Tacoma Art Museum, and we believe this exhibition is going to 'wow' our visitors." "Art of the American West" includes prominent nineteenth-century artists who influenced views ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery explores the story of Canadian painting in a major exhibition
VANCOUVER.- On September 30, 2017, the Vancouver Art Gallery will open Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, on view until January 1, 2018, featuring artists and painting practices from across the country. The story of contemporary painting in Canada is constantly changing, and for good reasondynamic and influential art practices, wildly differing opinions and strongly held beliefs make for a charged atmosphere in art schools, studios and public and private galleries. Within the community of painters, strong ideas give shape to new modes of painting and new techniques that are in turn shared, debated, tested and critiqued in studios across Canada. Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting offers insight into two distinctly different approaches that have come to dominate contemporary painting in this country. The origins ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24 September 30, 1955. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. In this image: Actor James Dean is seen in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Years after the making of the movie, teenagers are still trying for the cool that was James Dean, the poster boy for the tortured netherworld between child and adult.
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