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Installation view. Image © Josephsohn Estate. Photo: Kesselhaus Josephsohn.
ST. MORITZ.- This seasonal exhibition features a selection of sculptures by Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012), known for his deeply personal explorations of the human form in works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Throughout his career, the Swiss artist developed a unique visual language that conveys a profound sense of presence and timelessness. His sculptures effortlessly command the space around them, yet are elusive, reclusive, withdrawn, writes Jackie Wullschläger in the catalogue accompanying Josephsohns current exhibition at the Musée dArt Moderne de Paris, they all have a reserve so deep as to be confrontational. Ranging from 1969 to 1998, the works on view comprise his distinctive half-figures, recumbent sculptures and reliefs, allowing the viewer to trace Josephsohns stylistic progression towards the abstract. While his works from the 1960s and 1970s are still rooted in figuration, bearing distinguishable facial features and body shape ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Anne Dangar, installation view, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2024.
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| Barbican announces a series of new exhibitions in collaboration with Fondation Giacometti | | Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa honored with Collab's 2024 Design Excellence Award | | Elliott Erwitt: A celebration of iconic black-and-white photography in Karlsruhe |
Alberto Giacometti in the studio. Photo: Michel Sima. Before June 1951. Silver print on paper, 6.1 x 5 cm. Archives Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2024.
LONDON.- From May 2025, the Barbican Centre, London, will partner with Fondation Giacometti, Paris, for a series of three groundbreaking exhibitions taking place over the course of a year. The exhibitions bring together the practices of three contemporary artists known for their originality and ingenuity, alongside historic works by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Staged in a newly established, intimate exhibition space within the Barbican, the series launches on 8 May 2025 with an exhibition by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum on 4 September 2025 and Lynda Benglis in February 2026. Each artist will present a mix of pre-existing and new artworks which resonate with and at times respond directly to Giacomettis sculptures, opening up new intergenerational ... More | |
Bunch / B&B Italia. Image courtesy of B&B Italia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting works by Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa, one of todays most influential designers. The exhibition celebrates Fukasawas career over the past 25 years. Presenting fully-realized production designs alongside the studios working sketches and models for select projects, Things in Themselves offers a rare opportunity to explore both Fukasawas design ethosprizing an essential fit between objects, users, and their environmentsand his creative process. The exhibition features a thematic arrangement of works in the PMAs collectiondisplayed for the first timeas well as loans from manufacturers and the influential designers studio. Things in Themselves touches on Fukasawas unique language of form and his impactful philosophies of design, known as super normal, outline, emergence, and without thought, a principle he coined to tap peop ... More | |
Elliott Erwitt, USA, NYC, 1946 © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
KARLSRUHE.- The Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK) pays tribute to Elliott Erwitt (19282023), a legendary photographer whose iconic black-and-white images have etched themselves into the collective memory. The exhibition, titled Elliott Erwitt. Vintages, features over 180 vintage prints from the renowned Magnum photographer, spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. This kaleidoscope of serendipitous moments, visual icons, and whimsical snapshots provides a unique glimpse into Erwitts world. Adding a participatory twist, one wall in the exhibition is left blank, inviting visitors to showcase their own photography. The SGK organizes the exhibition into five chapters, highlighting Erwitts extensive and humor-filled body of work. The starting point is a rare collection of photographs taken in Karlsruhe during the 1950s. These images, captured during Erwitts military service ... More |
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| Ugo Rondinone's third exhibition at Mennour on view in Paris | | 19th century needlework of celebrated Menai Bridge at risk of leaving the UK | | Thiago Barbalho's first solo exhibition in Sao Paulo on view at Nara Roesler |
Installation view.
PARIS.- Mennour is presenting Ugo Rondinones third exhibition at the gallery: still, on view at 5 & 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris from 10 October to 18 January, 2025. The basalt sculptures of nuns + monks continue to address the dual a between the inner self and the natural world. Just as the external world ones sees is inseparable from the internal structure of oneself, nuns + monks allows such layers of significance to come in and out of focus, prompting the viewer revel in the pure sensory experience of color, form and mass, while simultaneously engender in an altogether contemporary version of the sublime. Ugo Rondinone Ugo Rondinone is one of the great innovators in contemporary painting and sculpture. Each stage of his three-decade career is characterized by a quest for reinvention, formal and material experimentation and a desire to renew his audiences and his own and understanding of what sculptures and paintings ... More | |
A needlework picture of Thomas Telfords suspension bridge across the Menai Straits, with a steamship and seven other marine craft, and figures walking in the foreground. Coloured silks on linen, 44 x 66 cm (framed).
LONDON.- An export bar has been placed on a needlework sampler showing the Menai Bridge, Anglesey, by 11 year old 19th century school girl, Mary Anne Hughes. Designed by renowned engineer Thomas Telford, the Menai Bridge connects Anglesey to mainland Wales. Opening in 1826, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time and cut the journey time to Holyhead, boosting travel and tourism to the area while benefiting local industries. The needlework, which has been valued at £14,564, depicts the new bridge and boats crossing the Menai strait. It was stitched by local school girl Mary Anne Hughes in the 1800s to mark the opening of the suspension bridge. Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant said: The opening of the Menai suspension bridge was a true feat of British engineering, ... More | |
Thiago Barbalho, Banana tree in the mud, 2024. Oil paint, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, colored pencil, ballpoint pen and permanent marker on canvas, 40 x 30cm. 15.7 x 11.8 in.
SAO PAULO.- Nara Roesler São Paulo is presenting Thiago Barbalho: Secrets and Spells, the artists first solo exhibition in the city. With drawing as the main axis of his poetic expression, Barbalho began his professional journey as a writer, and, according to him, drawing emerged from the process of dissatisfaction with writing, from the fraying of that relationship. Gradually, Barbalho realized that through graphic forms and signs often created accidentallyit was possible to elaborate on the vast majority of images and visual stimuli we encounter daily. For him, the visual stimuli of various natures that surround us, from religious symbols to advertising, provoke fascination and enchantment in those who observe them, as if enchanting us. In his works, a profusion of organic, religious, and ancestral elements in vibrant ... More |
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| Museum marks 150 years since the birth of Winston Churchill with exhibition of his life in cartoons | | Exhibition at York Art Gallery showcases the archive of Morris & Co. | | Philip Vermeulen's first solo museum exhibition debuts at Rijksmuseum Twente |
'Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman', a new, free exhibition on how cartoons influenced public perception during Churchills lifetime, on view at IWM London.
LONDON.- Imperial War Museums (IWM) is marking 150 years since the birth of Sir Winston Churchill with a new exhibition at IWM London. Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman offers a unique and fascinating insight into the changing nature of how Churchill was represented in political cartoons throughout his life and beyond. IWM will also be marking the anniversary with a series of events at IWM London and Churchill War Rooms. Featuring 24 original artworks dating from 1909 to 2003, Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman illustrates how Churchill was perceived and portrayed by satirical cartoonists. Visitors will discover how these portrayals influenced public perception during his lifetime and shaped our understanding of his role in 20th century history. The exhibition features cartoons from throughout Churchills long career in the public ... More | |
Chrysanthemum, 1877, William Morris. Courtesy the Sanderson Design Group.
YORK.- York Art Gallery showcases the archive of Morris & Co., the original home of the Arts & Crafts textile designer, William Morris, to celebrate the designer, his work, influence and legacy in UK wallpaper innovation. York is the first location to host this touring exhibition, presented by Dovecot Studios, the world-renowned tapestry studio in Edinburgh, in partnership with Morris & Co. This major exhibition includes a new interpretation of William Morriss wallpaper designs and highlights why Morris is regarded as one of the most successful pattern designers of all time and why his designs continue to play a part in our homes to this day. The exhibition offers a fresh perspective on Morriss iconic wallpaper designs, showcasing why he is hailed as one of the most influential pattern designers in history and how his work continues to inspire home interiors today. A British craftsman and pioneer of modern design, William Morris ... More | |
Philip Vermeulen. Photo: Eric Brinkhorst.
TWENTE.- The Rijksmuseum Twenthe is showcasing the first-ever solo museum exhibition by emerging artist Philip Vermeulen. Titled "Philip Vermeulen. Chasing The Dot," the exhibition runs until January 5, 2025, featuring six of Vermeulen's captivating works, each presented in its own dedicated space. Adding to the excitement, two brand-new pieces have been developed exclusively for this event. Vermeulens works delve into the foundations of human perception through a combination of motion, light, vibrations, and sound. His installations challenge how we perceive light, movement, and sound, questioning whether we truly see what we believe we see. These immersive, space-filling creationscoined "hypersculptures" by Vermeulen himselftransform before viewers' eyes, offering a unique and mesmerizing experience. A highlight of the exhibition is the installation Chasing The Dot, where visitors are enveloped in shifting shades of light, only to notice a large, dark dot in their vision. Th ... More |
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| A major new exhibition on women & Freud on view at the Freud Museum London | | Rare archive of first-person Revolutionary War accounts donated to the Museum of the American Revolution | | Group show reflects on the complexities of identity and self-determination through ceramics |
Lou Andreas-Salomé, c.1900.
LONDON.- From the early hysterics, who Freud called his teachers, to later patients, many of whom like Princesse Marie Bonaparte became analysts, to his daughter Anna Freud and her partner Dorothy Burlingham, to artists such as Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Alice Anderson and Tracey Emin, the exhibition draws on manuscripts, images, objects, visuals, and film footage to bring to life the many women who featured in Freuds history, as well as those affected by his considerable body of thinking, rethinking and practice. 2024 also marks the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Sigmunds Freuds work by the legendary Hogarth Press, founded and owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and a key feature in Bloomsbury life. The exhibition celebrates the establishment of the Press alongside Bloomsbury Freud. Virginia and Leonard Woolf met Freud in his last year in London. Several of Freuds British women ... More | |
Samuel Gerocks pocket-sized almanac for the year 1777 which was printed and likely purchased in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The wartime papers and drumhead wallet of an officer in the German Regiment of the Continental Army once stored on the porch of a descendants home and later featured on PBSs Antiques Roadshow have been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution. Samuel Gerock lived in Baltimore, Maryland during the war but settled in New Bern, North Carolina following his service. His wartime papers include letters Gerock received from fellow officers and a pocket almanac in which he wrote down notes about his military experiences. These first-hand accounts now serve as a window into the politics of the Continental Army in its early days as it grew into a professional fighting force. Gerocks papers also provide valuable information about little-known battles that took place in New Jersey in 1777 as part ... More | |
Rachel Kneebone, Souvenir 2021 © Rachel Kneebone. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick).
LONDON.- What is our true identity? Or do we have many? How do we make a sense of self? The Foundling Museums autumn exhibition, Self-Made, is a group show reflecting on the complexities of identity and self-determination through the medium of ceramics. The creation of self-identity can be a challenging yet profoundly empowering process. Our unique identities are influenced by layers of history, memory and experience. Throughout our lives, we continuously strive to take control of the narratives that shape us as we attempt to understand how we fit into the world. Encompassing lost, hidden, re-made or re-claimed identities, Self-Made reveals fresh connections with the enduring stories of identity, care and belonging at the heart of the Foundling Museum. Featuring Rachel Kneebone, Matt J Smith, Renee So and a new commission by Phoebe Collings-James, this exhibition brings together ... More |
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Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery celebrates tenth anniversary with the opening of a second london spaceLONDON.- Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery will mark its tenth anniversary with the opening of a second gallery space in Londons vibrant Exmouth Market. Expanding from its original home in Deptford, this new location will further the gallerys mission to foster cutting-edge contemporary art and support both emerging and established artists on a global stage. Founded in 2015, Elizabeth Xi Bauer began as an innovative online platform accompanied by pop-up exhibitions. In 2021, as the UK was exiting lockdown restrictions, Artistic Director Edward Sheldrick and Directors Callum Welch and Matthew Grochowski took on the challenge to open a permanent space in South-East London. With its roots in Deptford, a burgeoning creative hub, the gallery has established itself as a dynamic player in the contemporary art scene. In 2021, Elizabeth ... More Gladstone Gallery now representing Karen Kilimnik NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announced the representation of American artist Karen Kilimnik, in collaboration with Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Sprüth Magers. Recognized for her enchanting figurative paintings, Kilimnik and her practice align with Gladstones history of working with artists who have made pivotal contributions to the trajectory of contemporary art. Gladstone mounts its first exhibition with Kilimnik in January 2025. Influenced by Romantic painting traditions in portraiture and landscape, Kilimnik explores a diverse range of subjects in her workfrom contemporary culture to Old Master paintings, as well as television shows, movies, books, magazines, music, ballet, theatre, animal portraits, and fairytalesrooted in her childhood and studies in art and architecture in Philadelphia. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, beginning ... More ARKO Art Center presents Koo Jeong A: Odorama CitiesSEOUL.- Koo Jeong AOdorama Cities at the Korean Pavilion, the 60th Venice Biennale opens its homecoming exhibition at ARKO Art Center in Seoul, South Korea. Curated by Seolhui Lee & Jacob Fabricius. Koo Jeong A (they/them) is constantly in orbit, living and working everywhere. In their practice, architectural elements, texts, drawings, paintings, sculptures, animations, sound, film, words, and scents play a significant role. Throughout the years, Koo has investigated and blurred the lines between their artwork and the space it occupies. The artwork adds new layers to any given space, and Koo manages to merge small intimate experiences and large-scale immersive pieces. Among the artists many approaches, one of the recurring themes is scent. Scents and odors have been vital to their practice since 1996, when Koo, as a very young ... More Discover the new Galerie du temps at Louvre-LensLENS.- The Gallery of Time is a unique space in the museum world. It allows visitors to take in 5,000 years of the history of art and humanity in a single pass, and has been a key component of the drive to innovate since the Louvre-Lens opened. In an open-plan space of some 3,000m2, the Gallery of Time brings artistic forms, technologies and civilisations together. It is an aesthetic and contemplative experience, a sensorial journey through the centuries and through creation. The exhibition has always been accessible to all and free of charge, and is a major marker of the Louvre-Lens's commitment to opening up and sharing art and culture with as many people as possible. As the year draws to a close, the Gallery of Time is honouring its original promise: to completely revamp the works on display in order to share the wealth of French ... More First major institutional solo exhibition in Europe of the work of Nicola L. on view at Camden Art CentreLONDON.- Camden Art Centre is presenting the first major institutional solo exhibition in Europe of the work of celebrated French artist Nicola L. (1932-2018). Encompassing sculpture, performance, painting, collage and filmall of which carry an air of wit, playfulness, and radical subversionthe exhibition is an unprecedented opportunity to experience the full breadth of her multidisciplinary practice. Often celebrated in the context of Pop Art, Nouveau Realism, Feminism and design, Nicola L.s expansive practice ranged into cosmology, environmental concerns, spirituality, sexuality, soft sculpture, activism and political resistance. A group of the artists extraordinary Pénétrables will be shown alongside archival performance documentation. These life-size textile sculptures were originally intended as participatory works with apertures ... More Six-figure restoration project at Yorkshire Sculpture Park has begun on one of Yorkshire's last remaining cast iroWAKEFIELD.- Work has begun on a historic cast iron bridge in the heart of YSP thanks to a six-figure grant from Arts Council England (ACE). The Grade II listed Cut Bridge in the 500-acre park is one of only five cast iron bridges left in Yorkshire and the project will help to support traditional crafts that are under threat. The vital work to preserve the 200-year-old bridge at YSP is being made possible from a £251,000 grant secured from the UK Governments Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) which is administered by ACE. The funding has been bolstered by a further £28,000 from the Historic Houses Foundation, and with YSP (a registered charity and accredited museum) supporting project development ... More Trương Công Tùng's The Disoriented Garden: A Breath of DreamBOLZANO.- Museion has joined five partner-institutions in Southeast Asia as part of the selection committee of the Han Nefkens Foundation Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant, an initiative launched by the private collector Han Nefkens to increase contemporary artistic production in the video art field. The committee annually provides a Southeast Asian artist with 15,000 US dollars to fund the production of a new video work, which will be screened at all the participating institutions. In 2024 the winning video The Disoriented Garden
A Breath of Dream by Trương Công Tùng will be screened at Museion -1 and donated to the collection of the museum. As a result of a public-private partnership, this acquisition expands the video art section and enhances the international artistic dialogue with the southeastern territory ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 â 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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