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In this file photo "Number One" belonging to Jimmy Page is displayed during a media preview for an exhibit called "Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on April 1, 2019. The art of rock and roll is getting its due at an upcoming show at New York's Met museum, which is decking its halls with instruments from the genre's greats. Don Emmert / AFP.
by Maggy Donaldson
NEW YORK (AFP).- The art of rock and roll is getting its due at an upcoming show at New York's Met museum, which is decking its halls with instruments from the genre's greats. The storied Manhattan institution has amassed a staggering collection of rock memorabilia and instruments from superstars including Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Prince, Joan Jett, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley for the show "Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll," set to open Monday. The exhibit put on in partnership with the Cleveland-based Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebrates "tools of innovation and outstanding artistic innovation," Max Hollein, the Metropolitan Museum's director, told journalists at a preview. The more than 130 instruments from 1939-2017 in the show are organized to depict how musicians used and advanced emerging technologies throughout the 20th century to create new sounds and styles. In addition to instruments, the Met is displaying flamboyant costumes of rocke ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 15 March to 30 June 2019 the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica at Galleria Corsini in Rome will be hosting Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens. The exhibition displays forty-five works and focuses on some of the themes distinguishing the work of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989): his study of still lifes, landscapes, classical sculpture and Renaissance composition.
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| | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by American artist Donald Judd | | Exhibition presents new sculpture, installation, tar paintings, and neon work by Theaster Gates | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens first great survey of Maria Lassnig in the Netherlands | 
Installation view of Donald Judd curated by Flavin Judd. Photo: Thomas Lannes Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg © Judd Foundation / Adagp, Paris, 2019.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an exhibition of works by American artist Donald Judd (19281994), the first solo exhibition of his work in three dimensions in France for 18 years. Curated by the artists son Flavin Judd, Artistic Director of Judd Foundation, this exhibition marks the gallerys first collaboration with the Judd Foundation, represented in Europe since November 2018. One of the most influential artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd developed a unique visual vocabulary that broke with the conventions of modern sculpture, a non-representational art that exists purely in terms of its own physical presence. The exhibition brings together key works selected by Flavin Judd, spanning three decades from 1963 to 1993. With a focus on freestanding floor works and wall-based works, the show constitutes a diverse overview of Judds distinctive ... More | | 
Theaster Gates (b. 1973), Mama's Milk, 2018. Metal and light, 114 x 116 x 25 3/4 inches 289.6 x 294.6 x 65.4 cm. 1,100 pounds.
CHICAGO, IL.- Richard Gray Gallery opened Every Square Needs a Circle, a solo exhibition presenting new sculpture, installation, tar paintings, and neon work by Theaster Gates. Every Square Needs a Circle marks a continuation of Gatess long engagement with the work of American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, whose examination of genius and progress in Black America from Emancipation to the mid-20th century has been a source of inspiration for the artist. Placing his interest in poetics and the history of objects, Gates debuts a multi-faceted installation that bridges the work of Du Bois with architectural excerpts from Chicago, expounding on the archives that hold and preserve records of Black intelligence. Relating moments from art history to stories of quotidian labor, Every Square Needs a Circle is a rumination on materials, time and repetition. Gates elects a 1962 artwork by Agnes Martin titled Little Sister as a foundational mom ... More | | 
Maria Lassnig, Dame mit Hirn, ca. 1990-1999. © Maria Lassnig Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The retrospective Maria Lassnig - Ways of Being is on view in the Stedelijk Museum from 6 April until 11 August 2019. The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (19192014) is internationally regarded as one of the leading artists of the twentieth century. She made her name with her 'Körperbewusstseinsbilder', or 'body awareness' paintings, in which she depicts the sensations experienced by her body, by means of which she defined her relationship to the world. When writing about this, she observed: "I searched for a reality that was more fully in my possession than the exterior world, and I found it waiting for me in the body house in which I dwell, the realest and clearest reality. In addition to her paintings and drawings, the survey is remarkable for presenting a large selection of her films and sculptures, including works that have never been shown before. Maria Lassnig - Ways of Being features more than 200 loaned artworks, w ... More |
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| | | Historic jewels and exceptional gemstones highlight Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels Auction | | Major new show by Martin Creed opens at Centro BotÃn | | Van Eaton Galleries presents a pop culture auction of massive proportions | 
A Rare Aquamarine and Diamond Tiara, Fabergé, 1904, Estimate: CHF/USD 230,000340,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
GENEVA.- On 15 May 2019, Geneva Magnificent Jewels auction will be highlighted by superb jewels of exceptional craftsmanship, historical provenance and pieces by the most sought-after jewellery houses including Cartier, Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels and Harry Winston. The jewels will be on view at Christies London from 9 to 11 April and at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, Geneva from 10 to 15 May during Christies Luxury Sales. An early 19th century emerald and diamond fringe necklace with royal provenance will be offered (estimate: CHF/USD 1,500,000 2,500,000). Owned by Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822-1897), the jewel was gifted to his goddaughter Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951) on her marriage on 25 June 1895 to the Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Italy (1869-1931), Duke of Aosta. During the 20th century, the necklace became part ... More | | 
Martin Creed's AMIGOS at Centro BotÃn. Photo: Belen de Benito.
SANTANDER.- A new show by Turner Prize-winning artist, Martin Creed, opened this weekend at Centro BotÃn in Santander. AMIGOS runs from 6 April until 9 June 2019. Stretching from the surrounding Pereda Gardens all the way into the second-floor galleries of Centro BotÃn, by way of the lift and lobbies, Martin Creed breaks down the physical and institutional boundaries between the galleries and the rest of the building, including live performances of a new work by roving musicians; the creation of monumental wall paintings that will cover every inch of the walls of the galleries and the surrounding spaces on the second floor, and with gallery staff wearing uniforms painted by Creed. At each end of the gallery, the views from the large bay windows over the Santander Bay and the gardens have been incorporated in to this unique show. The project is curated by Benjamin Weil, Artistic Director of Centro BotÃn. Speaking ... More | | 
A League of Their Own Madonna Dress Prop.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pop culture is everywhere. It reflects the ideas, attitudes, and perspectives of the era, and has done so for decades. Van Eaton Galleries has announced its first joint popular culture and Disneyland auction: The Art of Entertainment, to take place at Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, California on May 4th, 2019 beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT. On offer are 700 rare and extraordinary items, many of which are at auction for the first time. From original artwork to the memorabilia that defined our youth and shaped our world, The Art of Entertainment auction will celebrate important moments from television, film, Disney theme parks, and more. The vast array of art and memorabilia to be offered will surprise even the most avid collectors, with iconic moments immortalized by famous artists, designers, and artisans spanning from the early 1930s to today. Pop culture has defined our world. Its that blend of ideas and obje ... More |
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| | | Blain│Southern opens Joan Snyder's first solo exhibition in the UK | | Throckmorton Fine Art opens an exhibition of photographs by Graciela Iturbide | | Exhibition of new paintings and drawings by artist Christina Quarles opens at Regen Projects | 
Joan Snyder, Rosebuds and Rivers, Installation View, 2019, Blain│Southern London, Photo: Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- Blain|Southern is presenting Rosebuds & Rivers, Joan Snyders (b. 1940, New Jersey, US) first solo exhibition in the UK. Comprising new and recent paintings, the exhibition will include a group of monumental triptychs and diptychs alongside smaller-scale works. It offers an insight into the experimentation and visual language for which Snyder is celebrated. One of the pre-eminent artists of her generation, Joan Snyder made her breakthrough in the late 1960s with her stroke paintings a body of abstractions developed from her experiments regarding the anatomy of a painting. She painted paint strokes and other dissected parts gestures, drips and marks and laid them over pencilled grids, using the structures as a basis from which to compose narratives. At the time my idea was to study the anatomy of a stroke, isolating them and using them much like creating a symphony or a piece ... More | | 
Graciela Iturbide, Magnolia with Hat Juchitan Mexico, 1986. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16.
NEW YORK, NY.- Throckmorton Fine Art is presenting an important exhibition of photographs created over the past half century by the world renowned Mexican photographic artist, Graciela Iturbide. Fifty Years of Photographic Treasures celebrates Iturbides many achievements and influence extending the development of documentary photography. The show is on view at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York from March 28 through May 18, 2019. Poignant images taken by Iturbide over the last fifty years in Mexico highlight the exhibition, as well as a powerful collection of gelatin silver prints shot by Iturbide during long stays in India, Italy, the United States, Madagascar and Spain. It is the empathy expressed by Iturbide and the deft juxtaposition of locations and subjects that makes Iturbides work so fascinating to view. The eldest of 13 children born in 1942 in Mexico City to a traditional Mexican family, Graciela ... More | | 
Installation view of Christina Quarles But I Woke Jus Tha Same at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, April 6 - May 9, 2019. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announces But I Woke Jus Tha Same, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles. This marks her first solo presentation at the gallery. Quarles seductive paintings feature polymorphous figures arranged in contorted positions in space, rendered through expressive and gestural strokes that teeter on the edge of abstraction and representation. Referencing the history and techniques of painting, her work propels forward the limits of her chosen medium, and is informed by her multiply situated identity as a queer woman of mixed race. Dynamic compositions feature bold patterns and decorative motifs such as flowers, latticework, and plaid tablecloths feminine tropes that reference domestic space. Yet the subjects in Quarles paintings ... More |
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| | | Brussels boy to pee-cycle after landmark leak inquiry | | Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum, a group exhibition curated by Mira Dayal and Simon Wu opens at CUE Art Foundation | | Exhibition explores how King Louis XVI's officers understood the American Revolution | 
Brussels' energy technician Regis Callens points at the Manneken-pis landmark fountain in Brussels on April 2, 2019. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- Brussels' famous landmark, the Manneken-Pis, is an insouciant celebration of going with the flow -- but even carefree little boys can go too far. City authorities recently discovered that a fault in the 400-year-old statue's plumbing was causing him to pee away 2.5 tonnes of water a day. In 2019, such waste is an environmental no-no. A missing part in the guttering under the diminutive statue's fountain sent his public urination directly down the drain. It may not be the most overwhelming torrent, but it was building up over time -- to the equivalent daily water use of five Belgian households. No-one is quite sure how long Brussels' celebrity has been suffering the leak. "We prefer to look to the future," says city engineer Regis Callens. And the future is recycling. Henceforth, the Manneken's pee will loop through a recuperation tank to be pumped back through his bronze bladder. "So it's really ... More | | 
Nikita Gale, HALF REST, 2019. Guitar stand, TS audio cable, concrete, terrycloth, polyurethane foam, 20 x 8 x 8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum, a group exhibition featuring Nikita Gale, Laurie Kang, and Amanda Turner Pohan, organized by Mira Dayal and Simon Wu. Formula 1 is an expanded exhibition project exploring alternative potentials for data-collection. What does it mean to make a formula? Is a formula a guarantee, a container, an act of capturing the means of producing something? Probing the networked nature of formula- and exhibition-making processes, the curatorial premise began with a public invitation to submit formulas for successful works of contemporary art. For Formula 1, each artist produced new work partially in response to selected formulas from the call and partially as continuations of their past investigations. #2: Goopy material + detritus + render-y still-life arrangement = new-agey post-capitalist commentary on waste/ecology ... More | | 
Claude-Anne de Rouvroy, marquis de Saint-Simon-Montbléru, Vicente López y Portaña, ca. 1815-1818. Oil on canvas.
WASHINGTON, DC.- King Louis XVI sent thousands of French soldiers and sailors across the Atlantic to support the American War of Independence. It was an adventure none of them would forget. The special exhibition, Revolutionary Reflections: French Memories of the War for America, on view at the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, D.C., from April 5 through October 27, 2019, explores how the kings officers understood the American Revolution and their role in the achievement of American independence, and how they remembered the war in the years that followedyears of revolutionary upheaval in France that included the execution of the king and many of their brothers-in-arms. Drawn from the Institutes collections, along with loans from private collections, Revolutionary Reflections pairs the written recollections of French officers with life portraits of the writers, includin ... More |
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 Fondazione Prada opens the exhibition "Whether Line" by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan TrecartinMILAN.- Commissioned by Fondazione Prada for its Milan venue, Whether Line, the large-scale multimedia installation conceived by Lizzie Fitch (USA, 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (USA, 1981), represents the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016, aimed at realizing a new movie that investigates the perpetual promise of new terrain and the inherent instability of territory. Taking the idealized rurality endemic to back-to-the-land ideologies as a conceptual starting point, the project blurs the boundaries between different forms of storytelling and experiences, such as films, video exhibitions and art installations, board games and videogames, mass entertainment and theme parks, public and sports events, kiddie parks and skate parks, merry-go-rounds, labyrinths and obstacle courses, and even the audio and video content encountered in waiting- ... More Marc Jancou presents works by two contemporary artists inspired by BalthusROSSINIERE.- Marc Jancou Contemporary presents an exhibition of works by Michael Cline and Max Maslansky in Rossinière, Switzerland as part of Offsite: Chalet. This exhibition brings together works by two contemporary artists inspired by Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola (1908-2001), known as Balthus, who is viewed as one of the greatest masters of the twentieth-century art. It is the first of the series of exhibitions inspired by Balthus organized by Marc Jancou Contemporary in Rossiniere. Michael Cline explains how Balthus has inspired him: I began with Balthus on my mind. As is my way, I opted for a plain face, no beauty, nor grotesque, an average person. I began with an ambiguous situation, a partially clothed figure in an interior setting. The figure nagged at me in this vulnerable state, and so I began to dress them, and wrap them, and pile ... More Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens the first solo exhibition of works by Rodrigo MatheusPARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting City of Stars, the first solo exhibition of Rodrigo Matheus (born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1974) at the Paris gallery. Following a successful collaboration with the Brussels gallery in 2016, this new exhibition confirms the importance of the Brazilian artist on the European scene. The exhibition City of Stars marks a major turning point in the artistic and conceptual practice of Rodrigo Matheus, who has been based in France for the last four years. The title comes from a brutalist architectonic complex called La cité des Etoiles, realized between 1976 and 1982 by Jean Renaudie (1925-1981), within the scope of revitalizing the city of Givors. Drawing inspiration from the French architects work, Rodrigo Matheus presents us with an immersive exhibition. Rodrigo Matheus, imbued by Brazilian brutalist architecture, wished ... More Exhibition features new works from Hassan Hajjaj's celebrated My Rock Stars series NOTTINGHAM.- New Art Exchange presents The Path (6 April 23 June), a new solo exhibition by acclaimed Moroccan-British photographer Hassan Hajjaj. The Path features new works from the celebrated My Rock Stars series; a new collection of previously unseen travel photographs, In Between; new works from the Dakka Marrakchia series and a site-specific installation called Le Salon. This exciting showcase exhibits Hassan Hajjajs diverse wealth of work, curated by Ekow Eshun. Hajjajs work is characterised by an exuberant melee of colours, patterns, appropriated brand logos and everyday objects, such as the Sprite cans and tomato tins he works into his picture frames. Taking a view through an international lens, Hajjaj uses photography to present a unique and timely consideration of culture and identity in the modern, globalised world. In the photography ... More New exhibit takes center stage at Money MuseumCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The British Empire, more than any other, set the stage for the modern world in which we live. From small origins during the late 16th century, the British Empire expanded to become the largest empire in history and the most powerful global economic and military power for over a century. To celebrate the history of the British Empire, the Money Museum, operated by the American Numismatic Association (ANA), is revealing its newest exhibit, "Money of Empire: Elizabeth to Elizabeth." "The Money of Empire exhibit will take visitors on a numismatic tour of the British Empire and explore the history of the Kings and Queens of the UK from the time of Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II through their money and medals," said Museum Curator Doug Mudd. "Please join us at the Money Museum to view some of the beautiful and rare objects and learn ... More Beck & Eggeling celebrates 25 years in the art market with special exhibitionDUSSELDORF.- Beck & Eggeling looks back on 25 years in the art market and is celebrating its jubilee with a special show »25 Years of Passion«, comprising a special selection of works representing the sophisticated and differentiated gallery programme. The exhibition includes works by renowned German Expressionist artists and significant protagonists of the ZERO-movement, selected works by individual important positions of 20th century German art as well as German and international contemporary art. For a quarter of a century the gallery has been committed to dealing with Impressionism, Expressionism, Classic Modern as well as Post-war Modernism and contemporary art and is recognized as one of the leading international galleries. In addition to diverse exhibitions, the continuous participation in international art fairs and the realization of large-scale ... More deCordova New England Biennial 2019 opensLINCOLN, MASS.- Beginning today, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents works of art and newly commissioned installations by 23 New England-based artists in the deCordova New England Biennial 2019. The selected artists are from all six northeastern statesConnecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Featuring work across diverse mediums including painting, sculpture, video, photography, fiber art, and ceramics, the Biennial occupies all galleries of the Museum and extends into the Sculpture Park with new site-specific commissions. It will be on view through September 15, 2019. Every two years the deCordova Biennial renews our excitement and appreciation for the ways in which New England is a vital and diverse region for contemporary art making today. This major survey presents some of the ... More Janet Borden, Inc. opens a new exhibition of vintage Kitchen Still Lifes by Jan GrooverBROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. announces a new exhibition of vintage Kitchen Still Lifes by Jan Groover. Jan Groover created her famous Kitchen Still Lifes in 1978 and 1979. Using a large-format camera, she transformed colanders, knives, spatulas and baking pans into objects of beauty that still hold a visual interest that transcends their common use. Her seductively modern color palette of greens, pewter, bronze and brown tonalities permeates the space dissected by kitchen paraphernalia. These take on a new visual meaning as a result of Groovers juxtaposition of the elements. Although never unrecognizable as everyday objects, these utensils float into an abstract amalgam of planes and shapes. This famous series of 16 x 20 inch color photographs have integrity and an elegance that is as fresh as it was when it was first shown in the 1970s. ... More Meriem Bennani wins the Eye Art & Film Prize 2019AMSTERDAM.- On Thursday 4 April, during the annual Gala at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Meriem Bennani was announced the winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize 2019 by the Dutch Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven. The award comes with a GBP 25,000 cash prize to be used to create new work. According to Sandra den Hamer, director of Eye Filmmuseum and chair of the jury, the artist receives the prize for her Inventive way of making films and the way she succeeds in challenging the documentary genre and disrupting it in a surrealist manner. The aim of the Eye Prize, an initiative from Eye Filmmuseum and the Paddy & Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, is each year to support an artist or filmmaker whose work has made an exceptional contribution to new developments at the intersection of visual art and film. Based in New York, Meriem Bennani ... More Dutch artists Zuijderwijk/Vergouwe present 'Mapping' in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- On April 4 Dutch photographic duo Zuijderwijk/Vergouwe has presented their first book at the NewWerktheater in Amsterdam. The abstract black and white images of their Mapping series are captured in a stylish book. Central to their work is the relationship between man and nature. The artists research this theme by human intervention in nature and working with artificial light in landscapes. The NewWerktheater presents an exhibition with a selection of the intriguing images until 31 May 2019. In 2018 the Mapping series has been photographed in Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Using a laser pen Zuijderwijk/Vergouwe projected lines on different rock formations. The scans created by projecting the lines, visualize a part of the endless possibilities to experience the world around us, without digital image manipulation. In addition to subjectivism, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French painter Gino Severini was born April 07, 1883. Gino Severini (7 April 1883 - 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. In this image: A visitor looks at paintings, 'Femme a la Mandoline' (L) and 'Les joueurs de Cartes' (R) by Italian futurist and neo-classic artist Gino Severini,1883-1966, at the Orangerie Museum in Paris.
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