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Sculptures of "The Roof Garden Commission: Adrian Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance" are seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) on April 14, 2017 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- An Argentinian sculptor has transformed the roof garden at New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art into a fantasy banquet scene overlooking the glittering Manhattan skyline for the summer season. The installation, which opened Friday, is centered around nine white tables set for dinner with sculptures replicating objects from the museum's vast collections, including ancient Egypt, African and medieval art. Added to the mix are white human figures -- real-life models scanned, enlarged or reduced, then formatted by 3-D printer -- the same technique used to produce replicas from the museum's collection. Created by Adrian Villar Rojas and called "The Theater of Disappearance," the installation fuses different eras, civilizations, the animate and inanimate to reflect on what the purpose of a museum means today and what an artifact means ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit "Venenum", an exhibition about the history, uses of poison and in what form it exists in nature, on April 15, 2017 at the Confluences Museum in Lyon. ROMAIN LAFABREGUE / AFP
| Major exhibition on Henry Moore launches new studios & gardens | | Kunsthaus Zurich presents 'Vibrant Metropolis/Idyllic Nature. Kirchner: The Berlin Years' | | Marmottan Monet Museum presents monographic exhibition of Camille Pissarro | 
Henry Moore, Three-Quarter Figure, 1928. Photo: Michel Muller © The Henry Moore Foundation 2017.
PERRY GREEN.- The redeveloped Henry Moore Studios & Gardens launched on Friday 14 April with a new visitor centre and archive, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects, and a major new exhibition Becoming Henry Moore. The opening marks the 40th anniversary of the Henry Moore Foundation, one of the worlds leading artist foundations. The Henry Moore Studios & Gardens has a spacious new visitor centre, with a shop and café that open onto the artists seventy-acre estate of sculpture gardens and studios. The centre also has an interpretation space for education and events. For the first time, the entire Henry Moore Archive has been brought together under one roof in a state-of-the-art new building, which includes an oak reading room, six climate controlled rooms, and a further project space for the digitisation and conservation of materials. The exhibition Becoming Henry Moore gives an insight into the influences on one of Britains l ... More | | 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Lighthouse of Fehmarn, 1912. Oil on canvas, 119.5 x 91 cm. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Patrons Art Fund. Photo © 2017 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
ZURICH.- Switzerland is seeing its first major exhibition devoted to the Berlin years of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938). The Kunsthaus Zürich has gathered together some 160 paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and a selection of textiles, sculptures and photographs for a survey of Kirchners work in Germanys bustling capital city and on the idyllic Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn. Between 1912 and 1914, these two contrasting places of inspiration marked the high point of Kirchners Expressionist oeuvre. The co-founder of the artists association Brücke, who is best known in Switzerland for his images of the unspoilt mountain scenery around Davos, appears here in what, for Swiss audiences, is a less familiar, edgier guise. The Kunsthaus Zürich has teamed up with the renowned Brücke-Museum in Berlin to bring together works on loan from many ... More | | 
Camille Pissarro, La Charcutière, 1883. Huile sur toile, 65, 1 x 54, 3 cm. Londres, Tate, legs de Lucien Pissarro, fils de lartiste, 1944. Photo © Tate, Londres, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Tate Photography.
PARIS.- The Marmottan Monet Museum is presenting the first monographic exhibition of Camille Pissarro organized in Paris in nearly 40 years. Meticulously selected, 60 of his most stunning masterpieces eight of which are being shown in France for the first time hail from the greatest museums of the world and the most prestigious private collections. This remarkable ensemble of works tracks the trajectory of Pissarros life, from his youth in the Danish Antilles through his large series of urban tableaux featuring Paris, Rouen and Le Havre, all of which culminate to create a little-known portrait of the first of the Impressionists. At the start of the exhibition, a self-portrait of Camille Pissarro welcomes the visitor. Seven sections retrace his career and bring to light the originality of his oeuvre, demonstrating that, even as a young artist, Pissarro always distinguished ... More |
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| The fantastic and wonderful world of Bosch, Brueghel, Arcimboldo on view at the Carrières de Lumières | | Château La Coste presents Ai WeiWei's 'Mountains and Seas' | | Carl Spitzweg encounters Erwin Wurm: Leopold Museum shows first Spitzweg exhibition in Austria | 
Installation view. Photo: Erik Venturelli.
LES BAUX-DE-PROVENCE.- The Carrières de Lumières are holding their sixth exhibition of immersive art: Bosch, Brueghel, Arcimboldo: fantastique and merveilleux (The fantastic and wonderful world of Bosch, Bruegel, and Arcimboldo), from 4 March 2017 to 7 January 2018. Produced by Culturespaces and created by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto, and Massimiliano Siccardi, with the musical collaboration of Luca Longobardi, this new show invites the spectators to explore the unbridled imagination of the animated paintings of these great sixteenth-century masters. From Hieronymus Boschs most emblematic triptychs, such as The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and The Hay Wagon, to Giuseppe Arcimboldos remarkable compositions of flowers and fruit, and the village festivities depicted by the Bruegel dynasty, the Carrières de Lumières embraces the fascinating worlds of the great ... More | | 
The works exhibited are made using traditional kite-making techniques and employ a wide range of references to Chinese mythology and Ai Weiweis own life experiences.
LE PUY-SAINTE-RÃPARADE.- Château La Coste, in partnership with Luise Faurschou, announced an exhibition with Ai Weiwei to celebrate the artists new permanent work on the vineyard. Over the past two years, Ai Weiwei has been developing a new permanent project for Château La Coste, entitled Ruyi Path after the ceremonial scepter that symbolizes power and good fortune in Chinese history. The organic form of the scepter has provided the plan for a new pathway that weaves between the trees of the forest at Château La Coste and connects two ancient routes on the property. Using cobbles salvaged from the recently renovated ports of Marseille, Ruyi Path has given a new life to these stones that so many have passed over on arrival in Europe. Defying categorization, this ... More | | 
Carl Spitzweg, The Flycatcher, 1848 © Privatbesitz | Private collection Foto | Photo: Richard Borek Stiftung, Braunschweig.
VIENNA.- The Leopold Museums exhibition Carl Spitzweg Erwin Wurm. Hilarious! Hilarious? (25th March to 19th June 2017) is the first presentation of Carl Spitzwegs profoundly timeless and strikingly current oeuvre in Austria. In the exhibition curated by the Leopold Museums Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the ironic-humorist German painter commonly associated with the Biedermeier period Carl Spitzweg (18081885) encounters the master of an extended concept of sculpture Erwin Wurm (born in 1954). The exhibition at the Leopold Museum is the first presentation of Carl Spitzwegs oeuvre in Austria. Featuring approximately 100 paintings and graphic works as well as book illustrations, it is also the first presentation that focuses explicitly on those aspects of the artists oeuvre which contrary to the ideas of tranquility and petit ... More |
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| Children of the Light's first solo exhibition at Galerie Gabriel Rolt opens in Amsterdam | | Group show of contemporary women artists on view at Jenkins Johnson Gallery | | A Washington museum puts faces on America's wars | 
Children of the Light is the collaboration of Amsterdam-based visual artists Christopher Gabriel (1980 Oslo) and Arnout Hulskamp (1978 Amsterdam).
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Gabriel Rolt is presenting 'Light as Matter', Children of the Light's first solo exhibition at the gallery. As the title of the exhibition already discloses, light is treated by the artist duo as true, tactile matter. Instead of merely illuminating the surroundings, decorating the space or alluding to other transcendental dimensions, light is here a concrete presence on itself. The phenomenological materialization of shapes and forms happens through light, which instead of being perceived solely as an instrument, is now the only, main protagonist. The concrete presence of the installations in the space is what gives meaning to it, transforming the surrounding and the way of perceiving it in something completely new. This specific approach towards light results in a certain tangibility: Children of the lights installations seem to invite the viewer to explore them physically, touching them and ... More | | 
Donna Dennis, Inauguration Day 2017, 2017. Gouache and watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.48 x 22.86 cm).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting Dialogues in Drawing, a group show of contemporary women artists, in honor of Womens History Month, curated by Natasha Becker. The exhibition features Damali Abrams, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Amy Cutler, Donna Dennis, Torkwase Dyson, Anna Gudmundsdottir, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Rosemary Mayer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ebony G. Patterson, Adrian Piper, Tracey Rose, Alison Saar, Simone Shubuck, Shinique Smith, Samantha Vernon, and Saya Woolfalk. These artists represent diverse backgrounds and generations, and each makes her art in a different way. What connects them is the centrality of drawing to their creative practices and as a means of exploring aesthetic, social, cultural, and political concerns. Drawing in Dialogues was conceived of as a dynamic and relational dialogue among contemporary women artists who are actively ... More | | 
U.S. Army Spc. Larry Bowen age 26, sits shell shocked in a ditch next to his machine gun after a frontal assault on an insurgent position. Siah Choy, Zhari District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Fighting Season series. Louie Palu (born 1968) 2009, Pigment print. Collection of the artist | © Louie Palu.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- One of them looks at you directly: frank, clear-eyed and unblinking. Another, his helmet a bit askew, wears a grim, dazed expression. These and other faces of the American wars fought since September 11, 2001 are now on display in a Washington museum, lending a human dimension to faraway conflicts. By an accident of the calendar, the exhibit "The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now," at the National Portrait Gallery until January 28, 2018, opened Friday -- hours after the United States launched its first military strike against the Syrian government, potentially opening a new battle front for the United States. If the period covered by the exhibit begins with the United States opening its "war on terror" following the terror attacks of 2001, it has more ... More |
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| Almine Rech Gallery, Grosvenor Hill opens a solo exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda | | New series of monotypes by Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger on view at Galerie Peter Kilchmann | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires Onkel Adam armchair by Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist | 
Ryoji Ikeda, the transcendental (e) [nº2-d], 2017 (detail). Pigment print on paper, aluminium support, 100 x 100 x 10 cm. 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches. Ed 1/5. Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
LONDON.- Almine Rech Gallery, Grosvenor Hill is presenting π, e, ø, a solo exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda, organised with Olivier Renaud-Clement. Japans leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as a unique artist working across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visual materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. Ryoji Ikedas exhibition title π, e, ø stands for three important mathematical constants; π (pi, the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter) e (the base of the natural logarithm) ø (phi, golden ratio: a+b/a = a/b), all of which are ... More | | 
The spaces themselves are the protagonists of Leuteneggers monotypes.
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann is presenting a new series of monotypes by Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger in the gallery's project space. Zilla Leutenegger was born in 1968 in Switzerland and is known for her distinct drawings and her video installations. With a new series of monotypes the artist entered a surprisingly unusual territory in the fall of 2016: invited by the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur and specially developed for the opening of the museums new extension, the exhibition entitled Tintarella di luna allowed us an insight into a poetic group of large-sized dark-colored interiors, which she has now developed further for the gallery. On view in the project space is a selection of 14 large-size works hand printed on cotton paper, which once again lead us to a silent world of nocturnal interiors. Lights out is the moment when everything goes to sleep, when the twilight hour has passed and night wraps itself around our percep ... More | | 
Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, Onkel Adam, 1965. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired an Onkel Adam armchair, a classic design by Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, who made her name as a furniture and textile designer for Nordiska Kompaniet and other brands in the 1950s and 60s. Nationalmuseum did not acquire any of her works until 2000, but now another of her more significant creations has joined the museums collection. New materials revolutionised furniture design in the 1950s, when it became possible to create organic forms at relatively low cost in moulded plastic and soft foam rubber. The designer Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist (19251997) took advantage of this new technique in her Paradiset series of furniture for Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), launched in 1958. Hörlin-Holmquist graduated in 1952 from Konstfack in Stockholm with a degree in furniture design. After finishing her studies she set up her own business. While still a student, she had designed the ... More |
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 BP Portrait Award comes to Colchester's FirstsiteCOLCHESTER.- Firstsite announced it is exhibiting the finalists and winners of the BP Portrait Award 2016. Now in its thirty-seventh year, the competition is truly international, attracting 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world, and offering a £30,000 prize to the winner. From parents to poseurs, figurative nudes to famous faces and expressive sketches to piercing photo-realism, the variety and vitality in the exhibition continues to make it an unmissable highlight of the annual art calendar. The 2016 Award was won by 38-year-old Cambridgeshire-based artist Clara Drummond, for Girl in a Liberty Dress, a striking portrait of her friend and fellow artist Kirsty Buchanan. Drummond was selected for the BP Portrait Award in 2013 and 2014 for portraits of the same sitter, having previously been selected with different sitters in 2006 and 2009. When ... More Queens Museum opens Anna K.E.'s first museum exhibition in the USQUEENS, NY.- The Queens Museum is presenting Anna K.E: Profound Approach and Easy Outcome, the artists first museum exhibition in the US. The exhibition features a dramatic remix of works from the artists series of the same name (2006-ongoing), where the artist photographs herself in front of renowned figurative paintings while posing in mimicry of their subjects. K.E.s work appears on the Queens Museums monumental 3,700 square feet Large Wall, one of the largest art spaces in New York City. Measuring 140 feet wide by 45 feet high, this architectural highlight forms a magnificent diagonal and is highly visible from outside in Flushing Meadows Corona Park through floor-to-ceiling windows, visually drawing parkgoers inside and impacting their experience once they arrive. The series started in 2006 in New York on a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art when ... More Pierogi opens exhibition of recent works on paper by Dawn ClementsNEW YORK, NY.- Pierogi is presenting an exhibition of recent works on paper by Dawn Clements. This is Clements seventh one-person exhibition at Pierogi. Clements captures alternately quotidian and filmic scenes of fragmented tableaus and narratives, perspectival disruptions, and the passage of time by painting her immediate surroundings and architectural interiors from films. Objects around her become landscapes to traverse: In Three Tables In Rome (248 inches long) a series of three contiguous tabletops are covered with objects ranging from plants, fruits, empty pill blister packs, to a computer screen opening up onto a scene from a black and white film. Clements embraces the physicality of paper. Her process of gluing, folding, and cutting ultimately distresses the paper, giving the works a sculptural quality. This, along with her use of scale, endows each ... More The Lost Films of the Kursaal and rediscovered Laurel and Hardy film top the bill at Southend Film Festival SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.- Southend Film Festival, one of the major independent events in UK cinema, will screen over fifty films and welcome directors, producers and actors from across the globe to the 9th year of the annual event (25-29 May). Films from France, Brazil, Turkey and Japan reflect the eclectic nature of the festivals slate, while much-loved Hollywood and Ealing classics make welcome returns to the big screen. However, rather than screening a big budget, blockbuster filmed using the latest hi-tech gadgetry, the festivals opening Gala Night (Thursday 25th May) will showcase previously unseen home movie footage. In 2006, builders renovating a house in Southend-on-Sea discovered a collection of 16mm film reels shot by the late Jay Morehouse, the owner of the property and the last owner of the iconic, original ... 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More Group exhibition showcases the breadth of printmaking by Icelandic artistsNEW YORK, NY.- International Print Center New York is presenting Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking, a group exhibition showcasing the breadth of printmaking by Icelandic artists. Featuring screenprints, etchings, digital work, artists books, and 3D prints, among other works, by over twenty intergenerational Icelandic artists, the exhibition also includes prints by select international artists who have spent enough time in Iceland to have absorbed the ethos of the country. The work includes underlying themes of storytelling, mythmaking, portraiture, landscape and mapping, and the interrogation of materials. The exhibitions title Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking has two meanings: first, printmaking is often a practice done in parallel with other media and disciplines, and second, Icelands uniquely small population often prompts people to hold two or more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish artist Francisco Goya died April 16, 1828. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive and imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso. In this image: A view of Francisco de Goya's painting 'The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence' prior to its auction at Ansorena auction house in Madrid, Spain, 18 December 2008. The oil painting, an early work of Goya, has a starting price of 90,000 euros.
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