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A woman walks through an installation during a media tour ahead of the "Jerusalem Lives" exhibition at the Palestinian Museum on August 26, 2017, in the West Bank town of Birzeit, near Ramallah. The exhibition is scheduled to open on August 27 until December 15. ABBAS MOMANI / AFP.
by Joe Dyke
BIRZEIT (AFP).- The Palestinian Museum launched its inaugural exhibition Saturday with a highly political art show focusing on Israel's occupation of east Jerusalem. "Jerusalem Lives" opens to the public on Sunday in the university town of Birzeit near Ramallah, the Palestinian political capital in the occupied West Bank. The museum opened last May to great fanfare -- but without any exhibits, sparking both bemusement and some criticism. Officials insisted at the time that they were merely inaugurating the building itself. A press preview on Saturday of "Jerusalem Lives" displayed works ranging from the abstract to the overtly political. In one room, a four-wall photographic panorama surrounds visitors with images of the ring of Israeli settlements around Jerusalem. In the garden, a green staircase climbs skywards from inside a mesh cage, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at a collection of rifles at the Tula State Museum of Weapons in the town of Tula, some 180 kms outside of Moscow, on August 26, 2017. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP
| Visionary gift creates school of art, transforms access to art in Arkansas | | Metropolitan Museum of Art opens 'Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China' | | "Picasso/Rivera: Still Life and the Precedence of Form" explored in exhibition at the Meadows Museum |
An unprecedented gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation has established the new School of Art at University of Arkansas, where students will benefit from expanded graduate program and degree offerings in art history, art education and graphic design. Courtesy of the University of Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.- The University of Arkansas announced an unprecedented gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation to establish the School of Art. The foundation has made a $120 million gift, which is the largest ever given to a U.S. university in support of or to establish a school of art. This gift creates the first and only school of art in the state of Arkansas, and will propel art education and research in the state forward while also providing unparalleled access and opportunity to students. The gift will also help position the School of Art as a center of excellence in art education, art history, graphic design and studio art curriculum. Former U.S. Sen. Kaneaster Hodges Jr., president and board member of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation and University of Arkansas Law School alumnus, said establishing the school underscores the importance ... More | |
Unidentified Artist Chinese, active late 17thearly 18th century Ten Thousand Miles along the Yellow River (detail). Two handscrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk Image: 30 11/16 x 505 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- About a thousand years ago, the legendary Chinese landscape painter Guo Xi posed the question, In what does a gentlemans love of landscape consist? This question is at the heart of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China. Showcasing more than 120 Chinese landscape paintings in three rotations, Streams and Mountains without End explores the many uses of landscape in the Chinese visual arts. The focus is on paintings, but textiles, ceramics, bamboo carvings, and objects in other materials are also included. Arranged in thematic groupings, the works in the exhibition have been selected to provide gateways into the tradition, drawing out distinctions between types of landscape that may not be obvious at first glance. What appears to be a simple mountain dwelling is revealed to be the villa of the painters friend, which encodes ... More | |
Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957), Still Life with Gray Bowl, 1915. Oil on canvas. LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, Texas. © 2017 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
DALLAS, TX.- During the run of his first solo exhibition at the Paris gallery of Berthe Weill in spring 1914, Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) had an opportunity to visit Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in his Paris studio. Rivera recounts this solemn rite of passage: I went to Picassos studio intensely keyed up to meet Our Lord, Jesus Christ. As for the man a luminous atmosphere seemed to surround him. Picasso asked me to stay and have lunch with him, after which he went back with me to my studio. There he asked to see everything I had done from beginning to end. [W]e had dinner together and stayed up practically the whole night talking. Our thesis was Cubism what it was trying to accomplish, what it had already done, and what future it had as a new art form. from D. Rivera, My Art, My Life By late summer of 1915, much had changed within the Parisian artistic landscape from just the year before. Many ... More |
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| SFMOMA opens first large-scale group exhibition centered on the role of sound in contemporary art | | Robilant+Voena St. Moritz presents a small show of drawings by British artist David Hockney | | Taschen to publish 'Steve McCurry: Afghanistan' |
Chris Kallmyer and Mark Allen, Live Personal Soundtrack, 2010/2017; exhibition walkthrough with guitarist, headphones, and signage; courtesy the artists; photo: Katherine Du Tiel.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Soundtracks is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts first large-scale group exhibition centered on the role of sound in contemporary art. Focusing on the perceptual experience of space, the exhibition offers opportunities for discovering public architectural features and galleries throughout the newly expanded building. Spanning sculpture, audio and video installation and performance pieces made since 2000, the show takes its point of departure from key works in the media arts collection. The presentation highlights past SFMOMA commissions by such artists as Brian Eno and Bill Fontana, as well as new and diverse work from over 20 contemporary artists, including Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Camille Norment, O Grivo and Amalia Pica, among others. Soundtracks is accompanied by a map and an online catalogue. ... More | |
David Hockney (b. 1937), Maurice Payne, 1967. Inscribed and dated For Maurice with love from David / 12th October 1967. Ink on paper, 31.7 x 25.4 cm.
ST. MORITZ.- On the occasion of the release of the Taschen book celebrating David Hockney, Robilant+Voena St. Moritz is presenting a small show of drawings by the British artist. David Hockney A Bigger Book is a large-scale monograph limited to 10000 signed copies. Each page unfurls in a blaze of blues, pinks, greens, and oranges, showcasing both by the artists vibrancy as a colourist and his extraordinary sense of the conditions of the world that surrounds us. A spectacular overview of more than 60 years of Hockneys work, the books portfolio is supplemented by an illustrated chronology of more than 600 pages, contextualising his art with drawings, graphic work, portrait photos, texts and contemporary reviews. David Hockney was born in 1937, the fourth of five children, to creative, politically radical working class parents. His interest in art made itself known early on and was encouraged by ... More | |
His most striking 1984 portrait Afghan Girl has graced the covers of magazines the world over.
NEW YORK, NY.- Afghanistan is a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans have always called their mountains the land of rebellion. In spite of this, born of chaos and entrenched conflict are these most breathtaking of images. American photographer Steve McCurry has traveled to Afghanistan regularly for almost four decades to document its people with a rare and disarming humanity. His most striking 1984 portrait Afghan Girl has graced the covers of magazines the world over, in equal parts haunting and evoking remarkable grace and dignity. In common with so much of McCurrys work, it has a timeless, painterly qualityentirely at odds with the battle-torn backdrop of the region in which it was taken. Steve McCurry has always been subjected to dangers that are an inevitable part of life on the road for photographers. He often ventured behind the lines, usually at great risk; ... More |
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| The Fralin showcases the impact of the dealer on American art in 'Dealer's Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966' | | American Museum of Ceramic Art opens 'We the People: Serving Notice' | | Grand reopening of First Division Museum developed, designed and produced by Luci Creative |
Samuel Kootz in exhibition, Kootz Gallery records, 1923-1966. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The first exhibition to examine the critical role of art dealer Samuel Kootz (1898-1982) in the establishment of modern American art as an international force debuted Aug. 25 at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Dealers Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966 provides a new perspective on a seminal moment in American art and features the work of Abstract Expressionists including Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb and William Baziotes. Through archival research and consideration of works originally handled by the Kootz gallery, Dealers Choice highlights Kootzs efforts to promote a group of American artists who created a radically new visual language that transformed established ideas about art. It was through dealers such as Kootz that ... More | |
Roberto Lugo, A Century of Black Lives Mattering. Courtesy of Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Image: Kenek Photography.
POMONA, CA.- The American Museum of Ceramic Art announces a new exhibition, We the People: Serving Notice. Our current political and social climate is arguably one of the more divisive and turbulent periods in the past 50 years. There are feelings of anger, sadness, and fear ― but also of hope, compassion, and unity. Throughout history, artists have reflected and documented what is happening in their communities and in society. Similarly, museums have been charged with communicating and preserving cultural values through exhibitions and collections. Together we can encourage contemplation, conversation, and action on some of the most important issues of our lifetime. Our current political and social climate is arguably one of the most divisive in the past 50 years, making now an opportune time to stand up, speak out, and serve ... More | |
First Division Museum visitors. Photo: Cantigny Park.
WHEATON, ILL.- On this specific day in May, our post was hit with mortars. We were given the coordinates. We sent two trucks to the area. Shortly after the trucks left the bridge there was a large explosion and frantic yelling over the radio, said Joe Naylor, Specialist with the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq from 2003-2004. For the first time, this and other evocative soldier stories are captured for visitors as part of the First Division Museums new exhibits. Saturday, August 26 marked both the reopening of the First Division Museum and the 1st Infantry Divisions centennial anniversary of World War I. Luci Creative, a museum master planning and exhibit design firm, led this first ever redesign. We were hired to redevelop the holistic museum experience with a contemporary design approach that inspires a deeper connection between visitors and the individuals who serve our country, said A.J. Goehle, Director o ... More |
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| Installation by Xuewu Zheng on view at Vassar's Palmer Gallery | | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents 'Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped' | | Tomasso Brothers Fine Art announces TEFAF Fall New York 2017 highlights |
Meditation No. 2, 2008-present, paper. Palmer Gallery.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY .- More than 120,000 international and Chinese newspapers and four years of labor went into the creation of the latest work from Xuewu Zheng: Century Text: Meditations, on display from August 21 September 7 at the James W. Palmer Gallery at the College Center, at Vassar College. As Zheng explains, the idea for Century text started 12 years ago. I experimented with various materials, and after many failed attempts discovered that my favorite media, paper, was the best for executing this work. Century Text, took four years to make and was an exhausting process, says Zheng. The newspapers were used to make 120,000 rolls which were knitted into1500 slips. Each slip is made of 80 rolls and the form is based on bamboo slips which are important text carriers used in Chinese history. The newspaper slips were dubbed Century Text. Every sheet of newspaper becomes a sculptural unit by hand rolling and rubbing, gluing with late ... More | |
Annabeth Rosen, Bul, 2015. Fired ceramic and steel baling wire, 20 x 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco; and P.P.O.W, New York. Photo: Lee Fatherree.
HOUSTON, TX.- Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped is the first major survey of the artist's work and covers over more than two decades of her practice. The exhibition features the arc of Rosen's ceramic sculptures as well as drawings that mirror the trajectory of these works. For over 20 years, Annabeth Rosen has interrogated the place of craft in the contemporary art landscape. Formally trained in ceramics yet heavily influenced by painting, Rosen has molded her practice around conceptually-driven sculptural forms. While Rosens earlier works engaged first traditional ceramic forms conjuring landscape and nature, her more recent works push past ideas of representations of the physical realm and into dialogues around material performance and endurance. Exploring the temporal nature ... More | |
Roman, 1st-2nd century AD, Head of Juno. Marble, 38 cm high.
LONDON.- Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, renowned specialist in important European sculpture, is pleased to once again be participating at TEFAF Fall New York, 28 October - 1 November 2017, at the Park Avenue Armory. The gallery exhibits in the historic and recently restored rooms of the second floor. Amongst highlights on their stand will be a fine marble carved Head of Juno, dating to circa 1st - 2nd century AD. The very high quality of the carving, visible in the subtle rendering of the curls, the crisp outline of the eyes, the elegantly parted lips and in the regular arch of the brows, indicates that the head was executed by a skilled artist trained in the heart of the Empire, most likely Rome, between the first and second centuries AD, at the height of the citys power. Another special work to feature on their stand at TEFAF Fall New York is View of the bay of Naples with Vesuvius from Posillipo, a ... More |
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Thomas Dane Gallery opens 'Naming Rights'
LONDON.- To produce the exhibition Naming Rights at Thomas Dane Gallery, the arcane rules of an artists run project space are displaced into the context of a West End commercial gallery. The exhibition processes these seemingly conflicting material systems, resolving into a presentation of works by artists including: Juliette Blightman, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs, Liz Craft, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Charles Gaines, Jennifer Moon, Jeff Ono, Simon Popper, Lari Pittman, Mike Rogers, Dean Sameshima, Paul Thek (b.1933, d.1988), and Milly Thompson. For the first three weeks of the exhibition, each artist's works will be shown as a solo presentation in the main exhibition space for a little more than one day each in turn. Then on the 12th of September, all the works will return together, re-placed to their original position. Naming Rights office ... More
Showcase of contemporary Irish design and craft receives top accolade at leading US trade show
NEW YORK, NY.- The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland announced that the Design Island booth has won Best Curation in the prestigious Accent on Design® Awards at NY NOW® 2017. The booth, which features a curated collection of the work of seven leading Irish designers and makers, has been wowing visitors from all 50 states and more than 80 countries worldwide since the show opened in New York on Sunday, 20th August. Winning this award is a significant achievement for Design Ireland, a premium brand created by the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland to showcase the breadth and quality of Irish design and craft to both a global and an Irish audience. NY NOW® is a renowned US trade fair and has presented a unique opportunity for these Irish brands to meet with existing customers and establish further relationships with discerning trade buyers and press ... More
For one night only: Gaza's first proper cinema in three decades
GAZA CITY (AFP).- Several hundred Gazans went to the cinema on Saturday for the first time in more than 30 years, albeit for one night only. The long-abandoned Samer Cinema in Gaza City, the oldest in the strip but closed for decades, hosted a special screening of a film about Palestinians in Israeli prisons. About 300 people of both sexes attended, with men and women not segregated by gender and despite the lack of air conditioning on a hot and humid evening. The Islamist Hamas group has ruled Gaza for 10 years and there are currently no functioning cinemas in the Palestinian territory where two million people live in cramped conditions under an Israeli blockade. Ghada Salmi, an organiser, told AFP the one-night showing was "symbolic" of wider efforts "to bring back the idea of cinema to Gaza". Jawdat abu Ramadan, a member of the audience, said ... More
Notting Hill Carnival turns green for tower fire tragedy
LONDON (AFP).- In the shadow of charred Grenfell Tower, Londoners are preparing decorations for this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival to commemorate the victims of the fire that killed at least 80 people. Volunteers are busy cutting out paper hearts, painting banners and inflating balloons ahead of Europe's biggest street festival on Sunday and Monday in the same streets where the tragedy unfolded in June. "Green is a beautiful colour, of healing, of growth, and strength in adversity," said Toby Laurent Belson, who works at a donation centre filled with piles of clothes for victims of the fire. "The plan is to turn the carnival green for Grenfell," he said. The decorations "remind people of what's happened and show solidarity". The colour was chosen by local schoolchildren as a way of paying homage to their friends lost in the blaze. Hundreds were left homeless by the fire, ... More
First Caravan Award goes to Elif Shafak, award-winning Turkish novelist for 'Peacebuilding and the Arts'
LONDON.- The first Caravan Award, presented by Caravan Arts, an international East-West peacebuilding arts NGO, was awarded to Elif Shafak, the award-winning novelist and most widely read female writer in Turkey, on 14 August 2017 at the historic St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Londons Trafalgar Square in front of an audience of 500 people. The Caravan Award goes to an individual of artistic, literary, academic or religious distinction who has used the arts in exceptional ways for peacebuilding purposes. Behind the award is the belief that the arts can serve as one of the most effective mediums to enhance understanding, bring about respect, enable sharing and deepen friendship between those of different faiths and cultures. In the profound words of Elif Shafak, In art, there is no them. The other is me. The Caravan award was presented to Elif Shafak because ... More
Kunstbibliothek awarded approximately €40,000 grant for the preservation of its textual art holdings
BERLIN.- The Staatliche Museens Kunstbibliothek is receiving approximately 40,000 for the restoration and conservation of a collection of Schriftkunst (textual art), as part of a model project of the Koordinierungsstelle für den Erhalt des schriftlichen Kulturguts (KEK). The fund will be supplemented by the museums own resources. The Schriftkunst holdings of the Kunstbibliothek were compiled between 1880 and 1930. An exemplary collection of typography, calligraphy, and script typeface, the collection comprises examples of writing as a form of artistic expression. Due to conservation efforts, study of the objects is in most cases no longer permitted; notwithstanding, the collection is still intended for research and teaching today, in particular for the visual-communication studies programme. Joachim Brand, director of the Kunstbibliothek, explains: The ... More
Eduardo Paolozzi's study of the mosaic in Tottenham Court Road Tube Station is coming home to Edinburgh
EDINBURGH.- The study, drawn on a 6x 3 panel, has been sold to the Dunsmore family, brewers of Paolozzi Lager at their multi-award-winning Edinburgh Beer Factory. The oil on paper study was sold for £23,750. The purchase coincides with a competition, already being run by the Edinburgh Beer Factory, to design a colourful and eye-catching mosaic for a 6ft x 3ft panel to be attached to the back wall of the brewerys new taproom. The winner, who will receive a cheque for £1,000, is due to be announced soon, with installation due in September. The design remit very fittingly - was to take inspiration from Eduardo Paolozzis mosaics at Tottenham Court Road Tube. The competition reflects the growing interest in the works of the Paolozzi, following his highly successful exhibition in Spring 2017 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Paolozzi was the father ... More
Exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern features artists engaging with writing as an artistic activity.
BERN.- Many artists consider writing part of their work, they engage with various text formats, such as the novel, the short story, poetry, or art criticism. Section Littéraire presents a selection of artworks containing or connected to texts, as well as artists literature. The exhibition brings together works by artists who regard writing and visual representation to be equal practices that enrich or even depend upon each other. Though not a new phenomenon, artists writing has received increased visibility in the art world in recent years, entailing many a debate: Time and again notions of the role of the artist are opposed to that of the writer, the word to the image, the discursive to the intuitive-personal. No doubt such definitions are required when dealing with these texts, but the fact that many artists treat conventions of genre and style loosely adopting them as deceptive ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Titian died August 27, 1576. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 - 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. In this image: A woman looks at Titian's painting "Mary Magdalene in Penitence" during a press preview of an exhibition of 16th and 17th century Italian painting at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, on Monday Sept. 22, 2008. The exhibition "From Titian to Pietro da Cortona: Myth Poetry and the Sacred," ran until Dec. 20. On display were 24 works by Titian and other Italian masters, on loan from a score of Italian galleries and collections.
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