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Frances Flora Palmer, A Midnight Race on the Mississippi, 1860.Ccolor lithograph with hand-coloring, image: 46 x 71.1 cm (18 1/8 x 28 in.), sheet: 55.9 x 81.3 cm (22 x 32 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new international traveling exhibition will explore major events and movements in American art through some 150 outstanding prints from the Colonial era to the present. On view in Washington from April 3 through July 24, 2016, Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art is the first major museum survey of American prints in more than 30 years. The exhibition will travel to the National Gallery in Prague from October 4, 2016 through January 5, 2017, followed by Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City from February 7 through April 30, 2017. Timed to coincide with the National Gallery of Art's 75th anniversary, the exhibition is drawn from the Gallery's renowned holdings of works on paper, and features more than 100 artists such as Paul Revere, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Romare Bearden, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day LUXOR.- A picture taken on April 1, 2016, shows the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun displayed in his burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kms south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. Egypt's antiquities minister said more tests were needed to determine whether there is a secret chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun that some believe may hide Queen Nefertiti's remains. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
| New museum on Museum Square in Amsterdam opens its doors with exhibitions of Banksy and Warhol | | Sotheby's annual Orientalist Sale to take place as part of Orientalist & Middle Eastern Week: 15-21 April 2016 | | Joyce Pensato's first institutional solo show in Europe opens at Kunstraum Innsbruck | 
Banksy, Beanfield, 2009 (detail). 250 x 350 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- Moco / Modern Contemporary Museum will open its doors to the public the beginning of April. The opening exhibition will combine works of art by Pop Art-protagonist Andy Warhol and Street Art-legend Banksy. The new museum for modern and contemporary art located on the Museum Square in Amsterdam wants to reach out to a wide, international and young audience. During the exhibition there will be more than eighty works of art from both artist, among which the 3 x 4 meters painting Beanfield by Banksy, which was showcased last in 2009. A very important canvas that characterises Banksy as an activist artist. Moco museum is a private initiative by Lionel and Kim Logchies, owners of LionelGallery on the Spiegelstraat in Amsterdam. For more than eighteen years the couple has worked with works of art by renowned names within the international art scene. From Picasso to Koons, from Hirst to Basquiat. The couple ... More | | 
Ludwig Deutschs Morning Prayers, a luminous masterpiece of 1902. Estimated at £500,000-800,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This Spring in London, Sothebys will present Orientalist & Middle Eastern Week, dedicated to over 1000 years of artworks and objects celebrating the culture of the Middle East and the wider Islamic world. Comprising five sales in total and running from 15-21 April 2016, the series of auctions includes Sothebys annual Orientalist Sale, Arts of the Islamic World, the relaunched 20th Century Art / Middle East sale, Alchemy: Objects of Desire, a single-owner sale featuring Iranian and international contemporary art, and The Library of Mohamed and Margaret Makiya. Held annually in London since 2012, The Orientalist Sale on 19 April showcases 40 lots representing the finest and most sought-after examples in this field. Exhibited alongside the Arts of the Islamic World, together the two sales offer an opportunity to unite Orientalist paintings with rare and precious works ... More | | 
Joyce Pensato, This Must Be the Place 6, 2015, Charcoal and pastel on paper, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, Framed: 86,5 x 66 cm, © The artist, courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin, photo: Jason Mandella.
INNSBRUCK.- Kunstraum Innsbruck announces Later is Now, the first institutional solo show in Europe by New York based artist Joyce Pensato. Joyce Pensato paints exuberant, explosive large-scale likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. Her seemingly frenzied technique actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid spattering and frequent erasures results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery. While her prima facie subject matter ranges from Batman, The Simpsons and Mickey Mouse to Felix the Cat and Elmo from Sesame Street, her artistic progenitors include Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Philip Guston. The show is supported by Capitain Petzel Gallery Berlin. ... More |
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| The San Diego Museum of Art opens exhibition of European masterpieces from the Grasset Collection | | Fernando and Humberto Campana unveil new works at Carpenters Workshop Gallery Paris | | MADE TO BE: An exhibition by New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner opens at Regen Projects | 
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (16971768). The Grand Canal, Venice, towards the northwest, 1741. Oil on canvas. On loan from the Grasset Collection, Spain.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art announced the arrival of Brueghel to Canaletto: European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, an exhibition featuring some of the finest still life and landscape paintings from leading Dutch, Flemish, Italian, Spanish and German artists of the 17th & 18th centuries. Made possible by a loan from a European family, of French origin with close connection to Spain, the exhibition features 40 works never before displayed publicly. The collection is on view at the Museum, the sole venue for the exhibition, from April 2 through August 2, 2016. Spanning the years 1600 to 1750, the featured works represent a turning point in history when artwork began to be collected by those other than nobilityand the art market emerged. Grouped thematically, the exhibition begins with still lifes including floral arrangements featuring exquisite flowers imported from around the world ... More | | 
Fernando and Humberto Campana, Bolotas Armchair (Cafe). Courtesy of Estudio Campana. Photo by Fernando Laszlo.
PARIS.- Celebrated Brazilian designer duo, Fernando and Humberto Campana unveiled recent pieces from their new collections Detonado, Bolotas, Ofidia and Animal Center Table. Manufatura manufacture in Portuguese is also intended to be a celebration of the Brazilian crafts. The Brazilian designers have always paid particular attention to the quality of the execution of their pieces, the high level of craftsmanship and the transmission of techniques. This is particularly the case for the Campanas who, for the Manufatura exhibition, renewed their ancestral savoir-faire without forgetting popular Brazilian culture. The creation of the Detonado, Bolotas, Ofidia and Animal Center series have been an opportunity for the duo to emphasize, more than ever, the use of refined materials and to celebrate their heritage. A reinterpretation of their own artistic and creative practices wher ... More | | 
Lawrence Weiner, Situation, 2016. Faber-castel pencil, gouache, acrylic, paint pen on folded archival paper, 41.34 x 33.46 inches (105 x 85 cm). Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announces MADE TO BE, an exhibition by New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner. This marks his ninth solo presentation at the gallery; his first, ASSUMING THE POSITION, was the gallery's inaugural show in 1989. ALL ART IS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS TO SHOW SOMETHING TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, ERGO - MADE TO BE LAWRENCE WEINER, 2016. One of the leading figures of the Conceptual art movement of the 1960s, Lawrence Weiners seminal and singular practice uses language as material, challenging and redefining the limits of what an artwork is and can be. Intrigued by the dialogue in the art world related to the fundamentals of sculpture and of art-making itself, Weiner made the decision to shift his practice from object making to producing text-based work with his 1968 precept: 1. THE ARTIST MAY ... More |
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| Felicja Blumental International Music Festival to be held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art | | Feminist artist enjoys her first museum survey (finally) after a long and productive 50-year career | | Tarrytown, NY artist selected for solo show of oil paintings at the art gallery of the Harrison Public Library | 
Felicja Blumental by Kies Van Dongen.
TEL AVIV.- Since 1999 the annual Felicja Blumental International Music Festival has played an important role in making our musical scene ever interesting and alive. Although Tel Aviv has always been well known for its classical music activities, it never before had a classical music festival that combines, in one intense and exciting week, chamber, orchestral and vocal music, as well as films, plays and folk music. Many of todays Israeli stars made their debut with this Festival, which features the young and unknown as well as established artists, ensembles and orchestras. Starting with intimate concert performances of piano recitals (Louis Lortie, Freddie Kempf, Shay Wozner, Konstantin Lifschitz, Roman Rabinovich, Antony Barishevsky), vocal recitals (Philippe Jaroussky, Karita Mattila, Sarah Walker, Edith Mathis, Michael Chance, Stephanie dOustrac), and chamber music groups (such as St. Petersburg Quartet, Saint Lawrence ... More | | 
Karpas #4, 1988. Oil on linen, 32 1⁄2 x 24 inches, 82.6 x 61 centimeters. Courtesy of the artist and Cheim & Read, New York.
PURCHASE, NY.- At age 77, Louise Fishman, one of Americas most important women artists, will enjoy her first career retrospective, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York. It has been a long time in coming. Ms. Fishman, whose work embraces the Abstract Expressionist tradition but reinvents it, has long fought for the meaningful recognition that Neuberger Museum of Art Chief Curator Helaine Posner believes has eluded many women artists because of sexism and other cultural biases. Ms. Posner curated several exhibitions in recent years featuring the work of contemporary women artists that have received significant critical acclaim. She believes this exhibition reflects Fishmans finest hour: Shes at the top of her game. In the 224-page, fully illustrated catalogue that accompanies ... More | | 
Alan Jacobson, Sky Alive (detail). Oil on MDF Board, 48 inches by 24 inches.
HARRISON, NY.- The Art Gallery of the Harrison Public Library opened solo exhibition featuring artist Dr. Alan M. Jacobson, M.D., on view April 2 April 30, 2016, with an opening reception Saturday, April 9, 2:00 4:00pm. The work includes depictions of imagined people and landscapes. Dr. Alan M. Jacobsons artistic interest has been drawn to representations of imagined people, landscapes, and abstractions rendered in highly expressive ways with wood and paint. The images emerge spontaneously, often without plan, as a synthesis of emotional life, social concerns, and work as a professor, psychiatrist and neuroscientist studying the impact of diabetes on the structure and functioning of the brain. Dr. Jacobsons figurative paintings frequently depict isolated individuals, sometimes trying to make contact and/or comfort one another. The subjects are usually shaped and placed in ... More |
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| Eleven artists representing five of Asia's megacities sculpt urban reality at MFA, Boston | | The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans presents: Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible | | Exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian opens at MoMA PS1 | 
Song Dong (Chinese), Wisdom of the Poor: Living with Pigeons, 20052006. Mixed media installation. Courtesy of Pace Gallery / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Megacities Asia, the largest contemporary exhibition ever organized at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, invites visitors to walk under, through, along, around or inside large-scale sculptures and installations that examine issues of urbanization. Eleven artists offer 19 works created from accumulations of objects found in their home megacitiesthose with populations of 10 million or morein China, India and South Korea, which have seen unprecedented development over the past 50 years. On view from April 3July 17, Megacities Asia extends beyond the MFAs Ann and Graham Gund Gallery into other exhibition and public spaces, onto the Museums front lawn and into the city beyond, with a sculpture presented in Marketplace Center near Faneuil Hall. Megacities Asia features artists Ai Weiwei (born 1957, Beijing), Choi Jeong ... More | | 
Adam Pendleton, Untitled, 2016. Collage on paper. Framed: 18 1/8 Ã 13 Ã 1 5/8 in. ( 46.04 Ã 33.02 Ã 4.13 cm).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- On the heels of the artists presentation at the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, the Contemporary Arts Center is presenting the largest solo museum presentation of Adam Pendletons (b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia) work in the United States. Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artists oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories. At the center of this exhibition are the found images, which have served as the artists source material throughout his practice. Reframed, reconditioned, and perpetually reoccurring, these images have been described by the artist as indistinct. And yet, harvested from the artists personal library, from ... More | | 
Rodney McMillian. There are veins in these lands, I. 2007‑2013. Acrylic and latex on bed sheet, 135 x 80 1/2″ (342.9 x 204.5 cm). Collection Kadist Art Foundation, courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents Rodney McMillian: Landscape Paintings, an exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, South Carolina). The exhibition is comprised of a suite of twelve paintings on bed sheets and an untitled video from 2005. Sourced from thrift stores, the sheets that McMillian uses often bear price tags or traces of former owners, and their size alludes to the intimate encounter of bodies in bed. I like that its a space for more than one person, McMillian has remarked of his sheets, pointing to the pleasures we have in bed like sleep, reading, sex. Already laden with traces of personal and corporeal histories, this found bedding is transformed by the artist into works that engage the history of landscape painting. Using leftover paint from construction ... More |
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 Spring Masters New York announces international galleries participating in third editionNEW YORK, NY.- International art and design fair, Spring Masters New York, announces gallery participants for its third edition, taking place at the historic Park Avenue Armory from Friday, May 6 through Monday, May 9, 2016. The fair will feature leading dealers of fine art, design, furniture and jewelry within a unique hexagonal exhibition layout, fostering a dialogue between the diverse periods, styles and mediums on view. Spring Masters New York has established itself as an important destination on the art world calendar, filling the need for a high-end, secondary market fair during the peak of the spring art season in New York. This year, Spring Masters will continue its focus on connoisseurship, with expertly curated and thoroughly vetted presentations by exhibitors from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The fairs signature Rafael Viñoly-designed hexagonal booth layout ... More Ogden Museum of Southern Art opens "Arthur Kern: The Surreal World of a Reclusive Sculptor"NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art announces its presentation of Arthur Kern: The Surreal World of a Reclusive Sculptor. Arthur Kern, a retired Tulane Professor of Art, all but withdrew from the outside world thirty years ago. Since then, he has spent much of his time working in his basement studio, creating scores of surreal sculptures that disturb as often as they enchant. Kern's subjects are horses and people, distorted in sometimes fanciful, sometimes macabre ways. His inspiration flows from his unconscious and can therefore be somewhat difficult to fathom, even for the artist himself. Kern has never had much interest in exhibiting or selling his sculptures, and as a result they have accumulated on shelves and table tops in the Uptown New Orleans house he shares with his wife of sixty years. The exhibition is guest curated by John Berendt, who divides ... More Royal Shakespeare Company to unveil restored Swan Wing on Shakespeare's birthdayLONDON.- The Royal Shakespeare Company will unveil the newly-restored Grade II listed Swan Wing on 23 April 2016 Shakespeares birthday, and the 400th anniversary of his death. Built in 1879 and the oldest part of the RSCs theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Swan Wing has been the subject of a nine month restoration, made possible by a £2.8 million award from the Heritage Lottery Fund. A highlight of the restored Swan Wing is For all time, a major new artwork commission by Brighton-based artist and designer Steven Follen. For all time is made of 2,000 stainless steel stars suspended from the ceiling by fine wires to make the shape of a 3-metre tall human face. The three-dimensional artwork will have an ethereal quality to it, reflecting light and moving gently in the air. The face will be surrounded by further metal stars, which will loosely reflect the position ... More The Dayton Art Institute's "Year of the Elements" begins with contemporary light artists exhibitionDAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute begins its Year of the Classical Elements with the special exhibition Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists, on view April 2 June 26 at the museum. The Year of the Classical Elements is an innovative, yearlong suite of exhibitions, all organized by The Dayton Art Institute, featuring 21st-century art themed around the classical elementsfire, air, earth, water and ether. Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists highlights fire, air and ether through an investigation of light, a primary aesthetic principle in art. Grounded by the Light and Space Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, so-called because its affiliated artists employed light and dark, fire, smoke, scrim and string, among higher-tech items such as neon and fluorescent lights to create works that challenged concepts of human perception, Into the Ether presents ... More New series of works by Thomas Ruff on view at David ZwirnerNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting press++, a new series of works by Thomas Ruff on view at 533 West 19th Street in New York. Working in distinct series since the late 1970s, Ruff has approached different genres of photography, including portraiture, architecture, astronomy, the nude, surveillance footage, reportage, and photograms. Using a wide range of technological approaches, and often pushing the limits of photographic representation in the process, he has reinvented historical conventions and expectations of the medium. Shown here for the first time, press++ features large-scale photographs of archival media clippings from American newspapers that relate to the theme of space exploration. Ruff scanned the front and back of the original documents, which he has been collecting over several years, and combined the two sides in Adobe ... More Charles Simonds's Mental Earth Comes to Institute of Fine Arts at New York University Great HallNEW YORK, NY.- The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University continues its ongoing Great Hall Exhibition Series by showcasing sculptor Charles Simondss Mental Earth in the Great Hall Gallery. The exhibit was organized by IFA PhD student Julia Pelta Feldman, and is accompanied by a dialogue and day-long symposium featuring the artist. A sculptor with roots in New York Citys downtown scene, Simonds first gained renown as an artist in the 1970s for his Dwellings, miniature villages in unfired clay constructed in the streets of SoHo and the Lower East Side and conceived as homes to an imaginary civilization that Simonds called the Little People. He created over 200 Dwellings, which usually disappeared days or weeks after their meticulous making. He has also exhibited freestanding sculptures and installations at various institutional spaces, including the Whitney ... More The Orange County Museum of Art offers the only West Coast presentation of "Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty"NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- On April 2, 2016, the Orange County Museum of Art opened Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirtythe only West Coast venue for the exhibition. For more than three decades Marilyn Minter has produced lush paintings, photographs, and videos that vividly manifest our cultures complex and contradictory emotions around the female body and beauty. Her unique worksfrom the oversized paintings of makeup-laden lips and eyes to soiled designer shoesbring into sharp, critical focus the power of desire. As an artist Minter has always made seductive visual statements that demand our attention while never shirking her equally crucial roles as provocateur, critic, and humorist. Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty features 40 paintings made between 1976 and 2013, several video works and photographs. The exhibition is on view through July 10, 2016. The power ... More Feather you like it or not: New paintings by Joseph Barbieri at Gallery NAGABOSTON, MASS.- Gallery NAGA presents new paintings by Joseph Barbieri, feather you like it or not. Joseph Barbieri: Feathers and Flora runs from April 1 through April 30 at Gallery NAGA. As he has for the past several years, Barbieri presents both streams of his paintings: gentle landscapes and colorful animal portraits. The landscapes, tender in effect, are really a travelogue of the past two years. When re-visiting, as he often does, Italy, Antigua, and Maine, Barbieri spends most of his time painting his surroundings en plein air. One piece that resulted from a recent trip to the coast of Maine, A Life Worth Living, depicts two houses, a rocky coast, a dappled blue sky and a black and white dog lolling in the shade. Barbieri has long been a fan of Fairfield Porter and his piece is based on a painting with a similar setting done by Porter, entitled Island Farmhouse. Where ... More First italian solo exhibition of Magali Reus' work opens at Fondazione Sandretto Re RebaduengoTURIN.- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaduengo, from March 31 to June 12, 2016, presents Quarters, the first italian solo exhibition of Magali Reus (born 1981 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Based in London, UK). Magali Reus works a whole range of formal influences and art-historical references into her sculptures: she alludes to the domestic as well as the industrial, to the functional and also the decorative. As her formal point of departure, she uses the kind of objects we rely upon daily but which we scarcely notice. All objects in our day-to-day orbit fulfill either a specific role, which the individual objects design is geared towards, or alternatively, they serve an aesthetic purpose. Nevertheless, they invariable have a connection to man, to his actions and to his body. This very relationship is manifestly apparent in Reus sculptures: the way in which the occasionally austere ... More Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the work of artist Shelagh WakelyLONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the work of experimental and influential British artist Shelagh Wakely, an artist whose international artistic connections defined her practice, yet who remains undeservedly neglected in her home country. Curated by artist and close friend Antoni Malinowski, the exhibition follows on from her retrospective at Camden Art Centre, London, in 2014 and highlights Wakelys global relationships and collaboration with other artists, notably the Brazilian artists Lucia Nogueira and Tunga. The exhibition presents, for the first time since its creation in 1986, Spring Snow, a floor installation made of pink tissue paper, which occupies the entirety of one room of the gallery. Shelagh Wakely was awarded several museum shows in the UK during her lifetime, including her solo exhibition, some encounters with reality, at the Serpentine Gallery in 1977. An ... More A newly discovered painting by Elliot Daingerfield found concealed inside a mirror at Clars Auction GalleryOAKLAND, CA.- You always hear about things like this, but seldom actually discover them! said Redge Martin, President of Clars Auction Gallery, after the exciting discovery of a painting by Elliot Daingerfield (American 1859-1932) found hidden inside that backing of mirror right inside the gallery. It was Deric Torres, Vice President of Decorative Arts and Furnishings, who was working with a mirror from a prominent Pebble Beach (CA) estate with a significant Newcomb Macklin frame. As he was moving the mirror into the gallery for the upcoming sale, he noticed part of the backing on the mirror was loose. I peeled away the backing and noticed there was canvas and a stretcher bar behind the mirror suggesting that a painting might be hidden underneath. And indeed there was. He immediately called Rick Unruh, Vice President of Fine Arts for Clars, and together they ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Bartolomé Estéban Murillo died April 03, 1682. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times. In this image: Two workers put up the painting 'Santa Catalina de Alejandria', by Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo, at Fine Arts Museum in Seville, southern Spain, 02 February 2010. The exhibition 'The Young Murillo' features 42 artworks of the artist. The painting Santa Catalina de Alejandria belongs to a Japanese museum.
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