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Unmounted youths preparing for the cavalcade, block from the north frieze of the Parthenon, about 438?432 BC, Marble, © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Auguste Rodin (1840 1917) was one of the greatest and most innovative sculptors of the modern era. However, it is little known that Rodin took his inspiration, in large part, from the works of the fifth-century BC sculptor Pheidias who is known as the artist who conceived the Parthenon sculptures. The British Museum is presenting works by Rodin in a new light and explore how he admired the art of antiquity, particularly that of ancient Greece. Supported by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, this exhibition reveals how Rodin regularly travelled to London and visited the British Museum to sketch and seek inspiration. For the very first time, visitors are able to appreciate Rodins extraordinary talent as a sculptor by showing his work alongside the very Parthenon sculptures that inspired him. This comparison provides unique insight into the full breadth and depth of Rodins vision, and provide new insight into the sc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Elisabeth Perie (R) director of the Fesch municipal library of Ajaccio, and Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, curator commissioned by the Ajaccio city hall, stand in the library on April 18, 2018, pose at the Ajaccio library, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. A rare book on Egyptology, unpublished letters signed by Napoleon, a book signed by Gustave Eiffel on the "300-meter tower": it is in the modest Fesch library of Ajaccio that these forgotten treasures were discovered by chance in the last few months. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
| Exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz focuses on modern couples 1900-1950 | | Exhibition explores the ways in which artists use photography as a catalyst for other art forms | | Phillips announces highlights from the May auctions of 20th century & contemporary art |
Varvara Stepanova, Autoportrait, 1920 . Huile sur contreplaqué 71 x 52,5 cm. Musée d'Etat des Beaux-Arts A.S Pouchkine, Moscou.
METZ.- ENCOUNTERS What was the most significant encounter of your life? To what extent did you have - do you have - the impression that this was a chance encounter? Or one of necessity?1 The Modern Couples (couples modernes) exhibition explores more than forty essential or incidental encounters between artist couples, from 1900 to 1950. In his essay/manifesto Beaubourg, un musée où explosera la vie (Beaubourg [the Pompidou Centre], a gallery where life ignites), from 1974 onwards, Pontus Hulten saw art as a catalyst and a transfer of the energy of love and galleries as places of great sensual concentration. He paved the way for exhibitions proposing to reinterpret the history of art from the perspective of eroticism or gender, such as féminin-masculin. Le sexe de lart (FeminineMasculine, Gender in Art) in 1995, showing that, beyond a simple ... More | |
Duane Hanson, Man with Camera, 1991-1992. Bronze, polychromed in oil, mixed media, with accessories, 49 x 38 x 34 in. One of 3 unique versions. Art © Estate of Duane Hanson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photography by Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gagosian is presenting About Photography, an exhibition by artists, modern and contemporary, who have exhibited with the gallery over the past four decades. About Photography explores the ways in which artists use photography as a medium, a means to an end, and a catalyst for other art forms. From Andy Warhol to Richard Prince, these artists open up the question of what it means to utilize the photographic medium for representation, as well as in the creation of form. As intellectual challenges continue to unfold, photography pervades not only all other artistic genres, but our every moment as well, a phenomenon that has irrevocably changed the nature of art itself. The exhibitions only sculpture, Duane Hansons Man with Camera ... More | |
Sigmar Polke, Stadtbild II (City Painting II), 1968. Estimate: $12-18 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming auctions of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in New York. With the Day Sale on 16 May and the Evening Sale on 17 May, Phillips will offer over 280 lots that span nearly nine decades, presenting the very best of the last centurys artistic output. Comprised of 38 lots, the Evening Sale is expected to realize in excess of $117 million and will be led by Jean-Michel Basquiats Flexible. Phillips Day Sale will offer over 240 lots with a presale estimate in excess of $18 million, featuring works by John Chamberlain, Keith Haring, George Condo, and Stanley Whitney, among others. Jean-Paul Engelen and Robert Manley, Worldwide Co-Heads of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, Following Phillips most successful auction ever in March, we are delighted to bring such a strong group of works to the public again this May in New York. With such a ... More |
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| Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin opens first exhibition with Huma Bhabha | | San Jose Museum of Art acquires works by Diana Al-Hadid and The Propeller Group | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new work by Marlene Dumas |
Huma Bhabha, Untitled, 2018. Tusche, Acryl Farbe, Oil Stick, Collage auf Papier, 77,2 x 57,8 cm | 30 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. Photo: Daniel Pérez.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Revengers, Huma Bhabhas first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition opened a week after the unveiling of Bhabhas commissioned site-specific installation for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Roof Garden. On view in the gallerys bel étage, the exhibition is comprised of three cork busts, a leaning figurative sculpture made of wood, clay, wire, metal, acrylic paint among other materials and a series of ink, pastel and collage portraits on paper and also drawings with ink, acrylic, oil stick and collage on colour photographs taken by the artist. Known for her post-apocalyptic figures made from unusual materials, the works in this exhibition mark Bhabhas first dedicated exploration of the head or bust. Bhabhas material and historical bricolage is often located in a pre and post-history, simultaneously invoking ... More | |
The Propeller Group, Antique Earth Satellite, 2016; Tracwood and jackfruit wood; 207 x 50 x 40 inches; Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee.
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San José Museum of Art announces the acquisition of three works by major international artists. Two works by Brooklyn-based artist Diana Al-Hadid, whose solo-exhibition Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City was featured at SJMA in 2017, will join the permanent collection, made possible by a gift from The Lipman Family Foundation. The two works by Al-Hadid are the 117-inch tall free-standing sculpture The Candle Clock in the Citadel (2017) and the two paneled South East North West (2017). The Museum also purchased the sculpture Antique Earth Satellite (2016) by the Vietnam based art collective The Propeller Group. The work, purchased with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee, was on view at SJMA in The Propeller Groups self-titled exhibition that concluded last month. As SJMA ... More | |
Marlene Dumas, Teeth, 2018 © Marlene Dumas. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Myths & Mortals, an exhibition of new work by Marlene Dumas that is on view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location. In this exhibition, the artists second with the gallery and her first solo presentation in New York since 2010, Dumas will debut an expansive series of works on paper originally created for a recent Dutch translation of William Shakespeares narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza.1 Tender and erotic with hints of violence, these drawings depict the story of Venus, the goddess of love, and her tragic passion for the handsome youth Adonis in the artists singularly expressive ink wash. Alongside these works, the exhibition will feature a selection of new paintings that range from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Dumas is widely regarded as one of the most influential ... More |
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| Audubon's Birds of America set to fly at Christie's New York | | Ketterer Kunst announces highlights from its Rare Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, Decorative Prints sale | | All-star line up of Op Art at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale |
John James Audubon (1785-1851). The Birds of America; from Original Drawings. London: Published by the Author, 1827-1838. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 14, 2018, collectors will have a rare chance to own one of the most sought-after books of natural history ever created: a full-size, complete first edition of John James Audubons The Birds of America (1827-1838). Christies New York will offer in a special sale the exceptional Duke of Portland set of these 435 lushly hand-colored engravings (estimate: $8,000,000 12,000,000), among the most superlative copies in private hands of the finest colorplate book ever produced. Prior to the dedicated sale, the book will tour to Christies Los Angeles (April 26-28) and to Christies London (May 19-24), where it will be presented for public exhibition. Proceeds from this sale will benefit the Knobloch Family Foundation and its mission to preserve plants, animals and natural habitats through the protection and ... More | |
Latin Book of Hours, Workshop Vrelant, Bruges, ca.1460. Estimate: 30,000.
HAMBURG.- In the auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg four of splendid manuscripts will be called up on 28 May. Estimated at 40,000, the array is led by a very typical Book of Hours from the workshop of the Maître de lÃchevinage de Rouen, the leading French miniaturist in the second half of the 15th century. With its neatly executed grotesque ornamentation and mythical creatures as border decoration, the high-class manuscript in Latin and French counts among the most luxurious products from this workshop. Next to another manuscript from Flanders (estimate: 20,000) and a copy of a Northern Italian work (estimate: 8,000), a Latin Book of Hours, made in Bruges around 1460-70, provides another highlight. It includes finest miniatures executed with great mastery and is particularly notable for its reduced colors and forms. The estimate price for this exceptionally illuminated pocket-size parchment man ... More | |
Wojciech Fangor (Polish/American, 1922-2015) M77, 1968 (estimate: $200,000-300,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale will be led by a compelling range of Op Art with leading names including Wojciech Fangor, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Victor Vasarely. Op Art, short for Optical Art, was a radical and global movement that embodied the culture of the 1960s and highlighting the selection is M77, an extraordinary painting by Wojciech Fangor (estimate: $200,000-300,000). Appearing on the market for the first time, Fangor's M77, 1968 is a striking, complex vortex which overwhelms the senses, and an example of his mastery of conceptual representation. Oliva Sobre Oliva, 2002, a masterwork by Jesús Rafael Soto, presents a mastery of both space and color as well as utilizes stillness and shadows (estimate: $300,000-500,000). Also fresh-to-the market is Sean Scully's early monumental Green Light from 1972-73 (estimate: $120,000-180,000), ... More |
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| Installation comprising new wall reliefs and portable plastic toilets by Andreas Slominski on view at Metro Pictures | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach exhibits works by Thomas Zipp during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 | | Thessaloniki subway dig unearths secrets of 'city under the city' |
Andreas Slominski. Installation view, 2018. Metro Pictures, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andreas Slominski presents an installation comprising new wall reliefs and portable plastic toilets in his fourth exhibition at Metro Pictures. Well known for his subversive approach to art and exhibition making, Slominski creates works that evoke a compelling reticence at once charming and provocative. On view for the first time in the United States, Slominskis wall reliefs are constructed from the colorful side paneling of a specific model of German portable plastic toilet. Taking over the factorys production line, the artist vacuum-formed maternal-themed found sculptures and symbolic natural and utilitarian objects, like rope and wood, into the high-density polyethylene panels. In one work the profile of a veiled young woman emerges from a single red panel surrounded by wood and pinecones in an asymmetrical composition. This group of symbols, with their religious and naturalist overtones, alludes ... More | |
Thomas Zipp, Tetra-Hyper-Cube, 2018. Acrylic, oil, lacquer on canvas, artist's frame, 205 x 175 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Guido W. Baudach Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting the eighth solo exhibition by Thomas Zipp. Under the title Moon Gas , the Berlin-based artist (*1966) shows a large-scale installation where elements from different media complement each another in a multisensorial way. Apart from paintings with different materiality and an extensive and varied series of paper works, the visitor also awaits a commercial vehicle that is mutated into a mobile sculpture - all embedded in an partly sound installation. The contextual centerpiece of the exhibition builds a seventy-part series of drawings in which the artist lustfully declines the characteristic examination of his oeuvre: the provocation of creative forces by destructive moments in nature and technology. The starting point of this series was an advising brochure for prevention and proper behavior in case of emergencies ... More | |
Polyxene Adam-Veleni, head of the Thessaloniki antiquities ephorate, poses in front of
the remains of a crossroads of the Decumanus Maximus, an ancient site under the city centre of modern Thessaloniki. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
THESSALONIKI (AFP).- Shovels and brooms in hand, some two dozen workmen trudge around the remains of an ancient villa, deep beneath the bustle of modern-day Thessaloniki. Suddenly, one of them breaks away to deliver the latest find -- a small clay head of a hook-nosed, bearded man with an ugly grin. "Probably a votive offering," notes the junior archaeologist on duty. A 15-year subway project in Greece's northern metropolis, scheduled to be completed in 2020, has shed light on unknown facets of daily life in the 2,300-year-old city's history. The excavation has brought to light Thessaloniki's central 6th-century highway and other urban works, filling in gaps in the city's long history for archaeologists. "We did not know such important urban changes had been carried out in this era, probably under (Byzantine ... More |
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CHART Art Fair names Nanna Hjortenberg Director
COPENHAGEN.- CHART Art Fair announces Nanna Hjortenberg as the new Director. Currently the Business Development Director at Golden Days, Hjortenberg will begin her new role on 1 May 2018. The new director is pleased to share the fairs additional location for the 2018 edition, expanding the layout and focus for the exhibitors and fair guests. CHART 2018 will take place from 31 August to 2 September at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and expands with a dedicated design section at Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, among one of the most influential Danish art nouveau buildings. "On behalf of the board I am very excited to welcome Nanna Hjortenberg as the new Director of CHART. With her strategic capabilities and great understanding of the cultural sector we strongly believe Hjortenberg is the right person to cement CHARTs position as the leading ... More
Jenkins Johnson Projects opens an exhibition featuring works by the Inkanyiso collective
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects presents Pride & Loss, a group exhibition curated by South African visual activist, Zanele Muholi, featuring works by the Inkanyiso collective including Muholi, Thembela Dick, Lerato Dumse, Boitumelo Nkopane, Collen Mfazwe, Thembi Mthembu, Lindeka Qampi, Velisa Jara and Lebogang Mashifane. The collective consists of South African visual activists and photographers who produce, educate, and disseminate information for the LGBTI community and marginalized people. This non-profit organization was conceptualized in 2006 and founded in 2009 by Muholi, who has dedicated her work and life to increasing the visibility of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), whose lives are in constant danger due to their sexual orientation. Photographers, artists and activists of the Inkanyiso ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery appoints Rochelle Steiner as Associate Director & Chief Curator
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the appointment of Rochelle Steiner as the Gallerys new Associate Director & Chief Curator. Steiner was selected after an extensive search and consultation process with local and international members of the visual art, museum and academic sectors. She will assume her position with the Gallery as of June 1, 2018. A leader in the visual arts, Steiners career surpasses twenty years, over which time she has amassed significant expertise in the realms of modern and contemporary art, public art, architecture and urbanism as well as non-profit management and education. In her past roles, Steiner has served as a senior curator and director in major museums and arts organizations; project manager for complex exhibitions and public art projects; and professor and dean in a major research university. ... More
Exceptionally rare 18th century Chinese screen comes to auction at Sworders in Essex
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Painted during the Qing period, this impressive four-fold screen, beautifully decorated in fine gilt against dark blue silk, was originally an elaborate gift to the mother of Grand Preceptor Li on her 80th Birthday, from his student Tian Xiuli. The screen tells the story of Eight Daoist Immortals and other deities celebrating the birthday of Queen Mother of the West, a Goddess in Chinese religion and mythology, who sits in her throne with a phoenix flying above. The screen was last purchased in Tokyo in 1978 by a high flying British Marketing Executive, who had been living and working in the Far East since the 1950s. It was during his time in Hong Kong, Kobe and Tokyo, that he had developed a passion for Chinese history and works of art. The screen had been proudly displayed in his home in Kobe, Japan, for 30 years. So cherished ... More
Swann to offer science fiction collection of Stanley Simon
NEW YORK, NY.- Cornerstones of science fiction from the Estate of Stanley Simon form the backbone of Swann Galleries May 15 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. Stanley Simon was a passionate, dedicated, life-long collector of sci-fi, thriller and fantasy first editions as well as photography from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Offered at Swann are almost 100 first editions, nearly all of them signed. Of particular note is a signed first edition of Philip K. Dicks Ubik, 1969, with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000, and the galley proof of Valis, 1987 ($4,000 to $6,000), neither of which are known to have appeared at auction before. Also from Simons collection comes a significant run of Stephen Kings masterpieces, including the deluxe limited edition of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 1982, signed by King and illustrator Michael Whelan, and a signed and ... More
Huntington exhibition focuses on rare 19th-century astronomical prints
SAN MARINO, CA.- A rare set of exquisite lithographs, depicting the pastel drawings of planets, comets, eclipses and other celestial wonders by artist/astronomer Ãtienne Léopold Trouvelot (18271895), takes center stage in late April when The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical mounts the new exhibition Radiant Beauty: E.L. Trouvelots Astronomical Drawings in the Librarys West Hall. The exhibition is on view April 28July 30. The set of 15 chromolithographs was the crowning achievement of Trouvelots career, said curator Krystle Satrum, assistant curator of the Jay T. Last Collection at The Huntington. He was both an extraordinarily talented artist and a scientist, producing more than 7,000 astronomical illustrations and some 50 scientific articles during his working life. In vivid color and meticulous detail, the works depict ... More
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. opens exhibition of drawings from 1993-1995 by Jill Moser
NEW YORK, NY.- The drawings in this exhibition, seen now nearly twenty-five years since they were made, capture Jill Moser in the act of gradually, stubbornly, and in a most unpredictable fashion, defining the parameters that have guided her development ever since. We see in them the emerging track of her distinctive touch and the beginning of a dialogue not just between figure and ground, but one in which the ground has a dimensional space that rivals that of the overlaid graphic figure. We see the nascent emergence of the psychology of her expressive line and the way it melded abstraction and reference, figurative to some extent but also embodying an ancestry of artists and deeply absorbed influences. Moser cites those as including, at this time, Judith Bernstein, Susan Rothenberg, Elizabeth Murray, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, and Lynda Benglis, but ... More
The Civil War to Warhol: Diverse discoveries at Michaan's in May
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans May Gallery Auction offers an exceptional array of unique finds. A leading attraction is the opportunity to acquire a one-of-a-kind pencil sketch by Andy Warhol. Signed and dated 1982, the sketch of a running shoe is an American classic on a number of levels. The artist is one of an elite handful who truly define American art for the world and for the ages. This work, known as Sneaker, has an excellent provenance, its history documented in detail by Warhol specialist Richard Polsky, whose authentication accompanies the piece. The subject, a running shoe, is a powerful emblem of American culture. In the early 1980s when Warhol created this, and other works, as a nod to his well-known roots as a commercial illustrator the running shoe had recently emerged as a motif of modern life. Today, like Andy Warhol himself, it is nothing less ... More
A new exhibition at the National Museum Architecture asks: What characterizes good housing?
OSLO.- Do Oslos first-time homebuyers and other house hunters get the quality they pay for as they try to find a home of their own? Have houses and flats gone from being a home to being an investment? Do current housing policies make good housing affordable for people with normal incomes? These are some of the questions the House Viewing exhibition, which opened on 27 April, discusses and tries to answer. Oslo has recently been among the fastest growing cities in Europe, and housing has been built ever quicker, higher, and denser. The exhibition takes a look at over twenty housing projects in the Norwegian capital from the past ten to fifteen years. How are factors such as urban living, greenspaces, neighbourhoods, daylighting, and adequate floor plans seen to in new housing projects in Oslo? The exhibition also shows a handful of housing projects from ... More
World class diamonds, from centuries past to the present day, to lead Sotheby's Jewellery sale in Geneva
GENEVA.- Three world class diamonds, cut 300 years apart, will lead Sothebys spring sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels in Geneva. All three diamonds are extremely rare and extraordinarily beautiful. The first is The Farnese Blue, a highly important 6.16-carat historic blue diamond given to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain in 1715, before being passed down through four of Europes most important royal families (Estimate CHF 3.5 5 million / $3.6 5.2 million). Alongside it will be two highly impressive white diamonds, each one weighing over 50 carats, with a combined estimate of over $15 million. The white diamonds are both perfect according to all the critical criteria by which diamonds are measured, and each of them is also the second largest of its shape ever to have come to auction. Alongside these highlights, our flagship sale on ... More
Cherokee Nation debuts new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington
TAHLEQUAH, OKLA.- Cherokee Nation recently opened a new exhibit at the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the annual Cherokee Days festival. A Story of Cherokee Removal shares the story of removal on the infamous Trail of Tears from the Cherokee perspective and addresses the devastating costs of greed and oppression. It also shows how the tribe persevered, adapted and learned to thrive. This new installation shares the unique Cherokee perspective of federal removal policies and focuses on the early history of our tribe in Indian Territory, said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker. It educates viewers about the circumstances surrounding the Trail of Tears and shows how our tribal government rebuilt itself by re-establishing schools and courts in modern-day Oklahoma. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born April 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.
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