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Jan Sluijters, Portrait of the singer Dina Diependaal, 1914 (detail). Museum de Fundatie (Province of Overijssel collection), Zwolle and Heino/Wijhe.
AMSTERDAM.- Following the publication of the book Tussen figuratie en abstractie. De geschiedenis van Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer (Between the figurative and the abstract). The history of Art Dealership M.L. de Boer) by Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd, the Rijksmuseum presents a selection of various masterpieces from Art Dealership M.L. de Boer from 30 June through to 16 September 2018. The exhibition Eye-opener Art Dealership M.L. de Boer features 27 paintings and 9 sculptures by, among others, Jan Sluijters, Jan Toorop, Fernand Léger and Marino Marini. The Rijksmuseum has already held exhibitions about the art dealerships of E.J. Wisselingh (1993) and J.H. de Bois (1999). Eye-opener Art Dealership M.L. de Boer can be seen from 30 June through to 16 September 2018 at the Rijksmuseum. Just after the Second World War, Martien de Boer (1907-1991) established his Art Dealership M.L. de Boer on the Keizersgracht. Until 2006, the art dealersh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on August 3, 2018, shows a mosaic of the Eshmun Azar Temple in the southern Lebanon port of Sidon, that was restored after being damaged during the (1975-1990) Lebanese civil war. Eshmun is one of the most important historical and archaeological sites in Lebanon, and is considered the God of cure to the Phoenicians. Some of the mosaic was looted during the war and some others were successfully returned back to Lebanon from New York. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
| MoMA invites Peter Fischli to organize exhibition drawn from museum's collection | | Exhibition at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery features major works by some of the leading artists of the 1960s | | Frick acquires rare vase by Luigi Valadier, eighteenth-century Roman silversmith | 
Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Snowman. 1987/2016. Copper, aluminum, glass, water, and coolant system, 85 7/8 x 50 3/8 x 65″ (218 x 128 x 165 cm). Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. © Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, Snowman, a sculpture composed of an actual snowman encased in a glass-door freezer, by Peter Fischli (Swiss, b. 1952) and his longtime collaborator David Weiss (Swiss, 19462012), is on view at the Museum of Modern Arts Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden as part of Fischlis Artists Choice presentation. Here, Fischli borrows a question inscribed on a painting presented outdoors by artist Ben Vautier (French, b. 1935): If everything is sculpture why make sculpture? Along with Snowman, nearly 20 objects selected by Fischli offer answers to this question. Initiated in 1989, the Artists Choice series invites contemporary artists to organize exhibitions drawn from MoMAs collection. Fischli is the 13th artist to participate in the series, and the first to do so in the Sculpture Garden. Snowman (2016) is an updated version of a 1987 site-specific work by Fischli and Weiss that w ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015). Blue, Yellow and Red, 1968. Oil on canvas, support: 101 x 30 inches (256.54 x 76.2 cm); framed: 102 3/8 x 30 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches (260.03 x 77.79 x 3.81 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1969 (K1969:3). © Estate of Ellsworth Kelly.
BUFFALO, NY.- The Albright-Knox Art Gallery opened a new exhibition titled Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s. The exhibition is on view in the North Galleries of the museums 1905 Building, and will remain on view through Sunday, January 6, 2019. As one of the most culturally and politically significant periods of the twentieth century, the 1960s also gave rise to numerous aesthetic innovations. Fueled by creativity and technological euphoria, artists began exploring new mediums and incorporating popular themes, motifs, and subjects into their practices. In time, movements such as Pop art, Op art, and Minimalismand later Conceptual, Performance, and video artradically reshaped the boundaries of the art world. During the 1960s, under the leadership of Director Gordon M. Smith and ... More | | 
Luigi Valadier (17261785), Vase, ca. 1770s, Rosso, Appennino marble and gilt silver, 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 x 3 13/16, inches, The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luigi Valadier was the preeminent silversmith in Rome during the second half of the eighteenth century. His work was admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats throughout Europe. His oeuvre will be the subject of an upcoming monographic exhibition and publication at The Frick Collection, Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome (October 31, 2018, through January 20, 2019). Inspired by this project the second in a series of much-needed exhibitions to focus on decorative artists who deserve fresh scholarship the museum has purchased a unique vase by the artist. The vase, believed to be a special commission, is the only known marble example attributed to Valadier that was executed with giltsilver mounts, rather than his more typical gilt bronze. The marble used for the vase is also unusual, a rarely used blood-red variety identified as Rosso Appennino. The vase is currently on view in the ... More |
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| National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art opens retrospective of the work of Yun Hyong-keun | | Magnificent Hopewell culture cache of prehistoric artifacts soars past estimate selling for $162,000 on Bidsquare | | Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires reopens refurbished and expanded galleries | 
Yun Hyong-keun, Umber-Blue, 1976, oil on cotton, 31 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches.
SEOUL.- Born in 1928 in Cheongju, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship. Yun was incarcerated four times, and once faced with near-certain death. Only after surviving harrowing incidents did Yun fully commit himself to making art, in 1973 when he was 45 years old. From the moment he dedicated himself to painting, Yun clearly established his own distinct artistic world, which he called the gate of heaven and earth. In the quintessential series of works, Yun used a wide brush to apply thick blocks of black paint to canvasses of plain cotton or linen. To be precise, the paint was not actually black, but slightly variant mixtures of the same two colors: blue (representing heaven) and umber (representing earth). From their production method to their final appearance, ... More | | 
A Magnificent Hopewell Cache in Cowan's Auctions' Ancient Art of the Eastern Woodlands - The Art Gerber Collection Auction sold on Bidsquare for $162,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most significant assemblages of Hopewell Culture prehistoric art ever collected more than doubled its high estimate selling for $162,000 on bidsquare.com during Cowan's Auctions' Part I of the Collection of Art Gerber: Ancient Art of the Eastern Woodlands auction. The cache was one of 382 lots offered in the July 28, 2018 auction from the estate of famed collector Art Gerber. Gerber was a giant in the prehistoric artifact world and collectors gathered to get a glimpse at a portion of the legendary collection and vie for the chance to take home a piece of history. Art would have loved today, said Danica Farnand, Cowans Director of American Indian & Prehistoric Art. Yes, he would have been pleased with the hammer prices, but I think what he would have really loved was seeing all these collectors marveling at his lifes work and sharing stories about ... More | | 
Francis Bacon, Nude, 1960.
BUENOS AIRES.- In one of its largest exhibitions ever the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires in collaboration with the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is presenting A Tale of Two Worlds, comprising over 500 artworks from private and public collections, by 100 artists and collectives from Latin America, the United States and Europe. The exhibition marks the grand re-opening of the refurbished Moderno and occupies all the galleries of the newly-expanded institution, which has doubled in size. Jointly curated by Moderno Director Victoria Noorthoorn and Senior Curator Javier Villa, and by MMK Curator Klaus Görner, A Tale of Two Worlds breaks new ground for Latin American art: conceived from a Southern perspective, it sets out to establish a dialogue between canonical works of European and North American art from 1955 to 1986 in the MMKs collection and the history of experimental Latin American art from 1944the year Concr ... More |
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| Hales Gallery now represents British artist Mary Webb | | Crocker Art Museum exhibits 60 contemporary works by 30 acclaimed ceramic artists | | MoMA PS 1 presents Rockaway! 2018 featuring site specific installation by Yayoi Kusama | 
Mary Webb, UTAH VI (Third Version), 2017.
LONDON.- Hales announced representation of British artist Mary Webb, along with Webb's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Reverie, opening at Hales London on 13th September 2018. Webb has dedicated her art practice, spanning almost six decades to date, to the exploration of the abstract form through painting, printmaking and collage. At the core of it lies the considered relationship between colour and form, through which the artist renders the world around her as a timeless abstraction. Mary Webb (b. London, 1939), studied Fine Art at Newcastle University (1958-63), under the supervision of Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, before completing her postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art in 1964. Webb lives and works in Suffolk, UK. Whilst studying at Newcastle University, Webb and her fellow students visited London to see the New American Painting show at the Tate Gallery in 1959. The monumental scale and ... More | | 
Rudy Autio (19262007), Animal Fair, 1984. Glazed porcelain, 14 ½ x 13 x 13 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Elaine and Sidney Cohen.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announces the August 5, 2018 opening of an extensive exhibition of contemporary ceramics that affords the public a remarkable opportunity to view dozens of works by many of America's best known artists working in clay. Titled The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection of Contemporary Ceramics features approximately 60 works by more than two dozen artists, many of whom extend the traditional boundaries of clay. All of the works in this exhibition have been donated by Elaine and Sidney Cohen of Phoenix, Arizona to the Crocker's permanent collection. In terms of decoration, examples in the collection range from the bold minimalism of Jun Kaneko and Claude Conover to the figurative exuberance of Rudy Autio and husband-and-wife potters Edwin and Mary Scheier. Some works are expressively raw, like those by Don ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama with Narcissus Garden (1966) installed in Venice Biennale, Italy, 1966 ©YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This summer, MoMA PS1 is presening Yayoi Kusamas (Japan, b. 1929) site-specific installation of Narcissus Garden (1966present) as the third iteration of Rockaway!, a free public art festival presented with Rockaway Artists Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Narcissus Garden is on view from July 1 through September 3, 2018 at the Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden. Comprised of 1,500 mirrored stainless steel spheres, Narcissus Garden is on view in a former train garage from the time when Fort Tilden was an active U.S. military base. The mirrored metal surfaces reflect the industrial surroundings of the now-abandoned building, drawing attention to Fort Tildens ... More |
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| Creative Time 2018 Gala to honor artist Pedro Reyes | | Science Gallery London to open at London Bridge this autumn | | Barthélémy Toguo's multi-disciplinary work on view at the Parrish Art Museum | 
Pedro Reyes. Doomocracy, 2016. Photo courtesy of Creative Time.
NEW YORK, NY.- Creative Time, the New York-based public art organization, announced artist Pedro Reyes as its honoree for the 2018 Creative Time Gala, the annual fête that brings together the worlds of art, fashion, and philanthropy. The event will take place on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 99 Scott, an industrial warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The fundraising event supports Creative Time in its mission to realize art that challenges the status quo, catalyzes civic engagement, and creates moments of wonder and awe. Longtime Creative Time collaborator and honoree Pedro Reyes is internationally acclaimed for challenging artworks that address urgent social and political issues such as gun violence, and is truly exemplary of the organizations mission. I am honored to be a part of Creative Time history. My experience with the organization has been one of the wildest, ... More | | 
Another Day on Earth (Pincushion) 2012 © Olivia Locher.
LONDON.- Art and science collide in the heart of the capital, as Kings College London opens a new permanent cultural venue Science Gallery London this September in London Bridge, just moments from the iconic Shard building. The first of its kind in the UK, Science Gallery London will be a vibrant, creative hub where rigorous scientific research is made accessible to visitors young and old through innovative installations and a diverse programme of exhibitions and events. Visitors to the free-to-visit Science Gallery will be asked to examine urgent global issues through the creative responses of artists working in collaboration with Kings researchers and scientists. Open to all and with 15-25 year olds the primary target audience, Science Gallery London aims to capture the imagination of young adults and inspire them to consider their world in a new way. Science ... More | | 
Stupid African PresidentForest Destruction, 2006. Colored photograph mounted on aluminum and framed with plexiglass, 65 5/8 x 50 5/8. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents Barthélémy Toguo: The Beauty of Our Voice, the 2018 Platform exhibition featuring the internationally renowned artist whose multi-disciplinary work addresses issues of migration, mobility, colonialism, race, and the relationship between the global north and south. On view at the Museum from August 5 October 14, 2018, the exhibition features new watercolor paintings, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and a community art project. The Beauty of Our Voice is the first solo exhibition in an American museum by Toguo (Cameroon, b. 1967), following tours-de-force at international biennials including Venice, Havana, and Sydney, as well as this year's Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan. Barthélémy Toguo is very much an artist of his time ... More |
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 A new work by artists Deyson Gilbert and Leopoldo Ponce on view at Galeria Jaqueline MartinsSAO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins presents the second edition of the project 1:1, featuring a new work by artists Deyson Gilbert and Leopoldo Ponce, curated by Bruno de Almeida. For this edition of the project, which explores the relationship between the gallery and its urban context through works that take place in the exhibition space and, simultaneously, in other places in the neighborhood, artists Deyson Gilbert and Leopoldo Ponce present a work that correlates the gallery to the Museum Santa Casa de São Paulo located in the Central Hospital of the Brotherhood of Santa Casa de Misericórdia (Holy House of Mercy). Santa Casa is an acknowledged institution for its important activity in the area of health and its vast trajectory is strongly related to the development of the city of São Paulo. The Museum Santa Casa de São Paulo seeks to preserve ... More Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair to feature photobooth images in a special talk and exhibitionBROOKLYN, NY.- Before the i-phone and selfies, there was the photobooththe forerunner of instant photography. Baby Boomers will remember sitting in the photobooth , primping, making faces, squeezing in friends. But, surprisingly, it is Millennial who are rediscovering the fun of the Photobooth Invented by Siberian émigré, Anatol Josepho and first introduced in 1925, the photobooth is enjoying renewed popularity. Today, theyre a must for wedding receptions and would you believe even made an appearance at the Academy Awards and the Emmys! At the upcoming Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, Sept. 8 & 9 at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, the fascination of the photobooth will be explored in both a one-of-a-kind exhibit and talk by film and dark room photographer Nakki Goranin. The author of the American Photobooth, published ... More The Contemporary Jewish Museum opens exhibition of works by Oxossi Ayofemi and Risa WechslerSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Based on the Talmudic study principle of havrutathe study of religious texts by people in pairsIn That Case at The CJM encourages learning through fellowship for Bay Area artists, established professionals, museum staff, and the entire CJM community. Capitalizing on the unique Jewish perspective inherent to The Museum, this program takes the practice of havruta and repurposes it for the contemporary art community. Each local artist invited to participate in In That Case is given the opportunity to work with an established writer, scientist, thinker, or academic in a field of their choosing. The resulting collaborations are presented in the Sala Webb Education Center. Visual artist Oxossi Ayofemi and her chosen havruta partner, groundbreaking Stanford physicist Risa Wechsler, present Black Matter, discussing the nature of the elusive dark ... More In southern Mexico, dancing to forget the earthquakesOAXACA (AFP).- After the earthquake that devastated Juchitan in southern Mexico in September last year, Jorge Jimenez and his dance troupe sprang into action. The 8.2-magnitude quake -- the most powerful ever recorded in the country -- killed at least 96 people in the area. Entire families were buried, and the town hall was split in two. Streets were left strewn with debris, and residents had no water or electricity. "We helped to find survivors and distributed food," recalls Jimenez, the director of Juchitan de Zaragoza, a traditional dance troupe. "Then after a while, we decided to dance because the population needed some distraction to overcome the shock." But the many festivities that are a usual part of life in the community were all cancelled in the wake of the earthquake. "We are still in mourning," says the 33-year-old Jimenez. The dancers nevertheless decided to go to Oaxaca, the capital ... More Exiled Syrian actress who took on Assad buried in FranceDOURDAN (AFP).- May Skaf, a prominent Syrian actress and activist who emerged as a fiercely outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad's regime after the uprising began in 2011, was buried Friday in France, where she had fled after being freed from prison. The 49-year-old actress was found dead at her home earlier this week in Dourdan, a town southwest of Paris, where she had been living with her son. Relatives said she had died of a ruptured aneurysm. Skaf was a well-known television and theatre actress when demonstrations broke out against Assad in the wake of the Arab Spring protests of 2011. The uprising later became a bloody civil war which has killed 350,000 people and forced millions from their homes. Skaf was arrested in 2012 and held for three days after taking part in a Damascus protest that became referred to as the "intellectuals' demonstration". She was briefly ... More El Museo del Barrio welcomes Susanna V. Temkin as CuratorNEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio announced that Susanna V. Temkin has joined the institution as Curator. Prior to this, Temkin was Assistant Curator at the Americas Society, where she co-curated an exhibition of Brazilian artist José Leonilson. In addition, under Deborah Cullen, then Chief Curator of El Museo del Barrio, she supported the department with the exhibitions Nexus New York, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement and Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer. In her new role, Temkin will be responsible for all aspects of the production and implementation of temporary, Permanent Collection, and travelling museum exhibitions , as well as related programming and printed matter. Moreover, Temkin will interface with a broad public, including artists, community members, colleagues and students, regarding the art, artists, ... More Performance-based portrait photography by Anouk Kruithof on view at Casemore KirkebySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Kirkeby is presenting Becoming Blue, a unique installation of performance-based portrait photography from Anouk Kruithof, a project spanning 2006-2009. Kruithofs series Becoming Blue comprises 21 portraits and three spatial stills. They are presented in different formats and reveal Kruithofs highly exceptional approach to the topic of portrait photography. During extended sessions, which Anouk Kruithof called one-to-one performances, she did not usually work behind the camera but in the rest of the room, frequently pressing the trigger by remote control. At the same time, she made constant but minor physical interventions to influence the person being portrayed, so that her photos capture the subjects gestures and facial expressions interaction to the unknown, irritation or stress. Reactions out of the blue. Blue is a colour ... More Art Toronto announces exhibitor list 2018TORONTO.- Art Toronto, Canadas international fair for modern and contemporary art, returns for its nineteenth annual edition presenting 102 exhibitors from 7 countries and 28 cities. Launching with Opening Night, a benefit gala for the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), on October 25, Art Toronto runs from October 2629, 2018 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The fair will be organized in following sections: Main, Solo, Verge, Focus and Arts & Cultural Institutions. This year, Art Toronto welcomes new galleries including Chimento Contemporary (Los Angeles), DNA Gallery (London), GOLESTANI (Dusseldorf), Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco), Casemore Kirkeby (San Francisco), Axel Pairon Gallery (Knokke), Project Gallery (Toronto), Projet Pangée (Montreal) and VIVIANEART (Calgary). Premier modern and contemporary galleries from Canada, the United ... More Winner of the 2018 Young Architects Program provides setting for Warm Up Summer Music Series LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Hide & Seek by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream The Combine, in collaboration with Clayton Binkley of Arup, is on view in MoMA PS1s courtyard from June 28 through September 3, 2018. Winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1s annual Young Architects Program, this years construction is a responsive, kinetic environment that features eight intersecting elements arrayed across the entirety of the MoMA PS1 courtyard. Hide & Seek serves as a temporary urban landscape for the 21st season of Warm Up, MoMA PS1s pioneering outdoor music series. Now in its 19th edition, the Young Architects Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has offered emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each years winners to develop creative designs for a temporary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Canadian painter Tom Thomson was born August 05, 1877. Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 - July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He was inextricably linked with the Group of Seven, a group of Canadian painters. In this image: this recently unknown Tom Thomson painting was found at a Vancouver garage sale.
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