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Peacock barge inkstand, a gift from the Maharaja of Benares, on display in 'Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India 18756' at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
EDINBURGH.- Dazzling works of art that brought the wonders of India to Britain at the end of the 19th century have gone on display in Scotland for the first time in over 130 years, in a new exhibition on view at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. Exploring the historic visit made by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India 18756 brings together some of the finest examples of Indian design and craftsmanship, presented to the Prince as part of the traditional exchange of gifts. Encouraged by his mother, Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales undertook a four-month tour of the Subcontinent in October 1875, travelling nearly 10,000 miles by land and sea. By the end of the trip, Sir William Howard Russell, writer of the official tour diary, noted that the Prince had 'seen more of the country in the time than any living man'. The royal tour was an opportunity to establish personal and diplomatic links with local Indi ... More |
| Albertinum in Dresden opens exhibition of works by Carl Lohse | | Exhibition surveys over four decades of Nicholas Nixon's prolific career | | Vatican returns shrunken 'warrior' head to Ecuador | 
Carl Lohse, Empfindungsleben, 1919/21. Ãl auf Pappe, Kunstsammlung Lausitz © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
DRESDEN.- Between 1919 and 1921, when art was exploding after the First World War, Carl Lohse (18951965) created stunning Expressionist work. But it is all too seldom that the artist and his work received the attention they deserved. The exhibition Carl Lohse: Expressionist, curated in cooperation with the Ernst Barlach Haus, brings together loans from important public and private collections in east and west Germany, creating the largest show on Lohse to date. Seventy-seven paintings, drawings and sculptures by the artist are on view at the Albertinum. The special exhibition previously held in Hamburg was expanded for Dresden and shows groups of works from the Albertinum and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresdens Kupferstich-Kabinett as well as from the Carl-Lohse-Galerie in Bischofswerda, the Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus/Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, the Kunsthalle Rostock and the Museum Bautzen. Further contributor ... More | | 
Nicholas Nixon, Bebe and I, Brookline, 2011. Gelatin silver print, 14 à 11 inches (35.6 à 27.9 cm). Courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. © Nicholas Nixon.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Nicholas Nixon: Persistence of Vision, a survey of the Boston-based artists prolific career. Including 113 works, the exhibition is organized around Nixons remarkable ongoing project The Brown Sisters, a series of group portraits of his wife and her three sisters taken annually since 1975. The Brown Sisters is being presented in its entiretyincluding a new portrait from 2017 making its U.S. debutand each portrait has been paired with other photographs made by Nixon in the same year, drawn from various bodies of work. Together these pictures allow viewers to both take in the visual sweep of passing time through The Brown Sisters series, and delve more deeply into each year through close looking. Accompanying the exhibition is an extensive audio guide narrated by the artist, giving audiences insights into the various bodies of work completed by Nixon ... More | | 
Pope Francis (R) exchanges gifts with the President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno (C) and his wife Rocio Gonzalez Navas during a private audience on December 16, 2017 in Vatican. Andreas SOLARO / POOL / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- The Vatican museum has returned a shrunken head to Ecuador, relinquishing the wizened cranium of an Amazon warrior nearly 100 years after it was taken by a missionary. The grisly body part -- which belonged to the Shuar indigenous people -- was handed over during Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno's visit to Pope Francis on Saturday after months of negotiations, the Vatican said. It is very rare for a historical artifact to be returned by the Vatican museums, which boast one of the largest collections of art and archaeology in the world. The fist-sized capitulum, which never went on show, is believed to have been a war trophy for the Shuar, who mummified and kept the heads of their warrior enemies, as well as their heroes. The Shuar are still one of the most important ethnic groups in the Amazon region. In recent years they have hit the headlines ... More |
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| Exhibition at Huis Marseille focuses on life in a closed country that is currently front-page news | | The Estate of Robert Colescott joins Blum & Poe | | Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth features an entirely new body of work by Monika Sosnowska | 
Guard in Blue, Kimjongilia Flower Exhibition Hall, Pyongyang, 2015 © Eddo Hartmann.
AMSTERDAM.- Between 2014 and 2017 the Dutch photographer Eddo Hartmann visited North Korea four times. His fascination for this closed country was prompted, in part, by the one-sided image that the West has of it. We are all familiar with the propaganda photographs of the current leader Kim Jong-un, and with images of North Korean newsreaders making menacing announcements about the countrys nuclear programme. These images invariably have a political hue because of their news or propaganda value; we see next to nothing of the countrys day-to-day life. After long and intensive preparations, in 2014 Hartmann received his first visa and official permission under strict rules, and with relentless accompaniment to photograph in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. After the city was utterly destroyed during the Korean War (19501953), the government had it rebuilt as a utopian model ... More | | 
Robert Colescott, Kitchen Assassination, 1971.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe announced the worldwide representation of the Estate of Robert Colescott. An exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles is scheduled for March 2018 and will coincide with Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas at the Seattle Art Museum, and will precede a traveling retrospective curated by Lowery Stokes Sims beginning at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in late 2019. Over a nearly sixty-year painting career, Robert Colescott was a proud instigator who fearlessly tackled subjects of social and racial inequality, class structure, and the human condition through his uniquely rhythmic and often manic style of figuration. Colescott's distinctive works, while not easily placed within any one specific school of painting, share elements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, "Bad" Painting, Renaissance Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and Surrealism. Compositions that at first glance seem to til ... More | | 
Monika Sosnowska, Rebar 16, 2017. Metal and paint, 300 x 130 x 100 cm / 118 1/8 x 51 1/8 x 39 3/8 in. ©Monika Sosnowska. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alex Delfanne.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth London is presenting a solo exhibition by Monika Sosnowska. The exhibition features an entirely new body of work and is the artists inaugural exhibition in the gallerys London space. In recent times Sosnowska has further developed her dynamic approach to materiality in which architectural and sculptural elements are hewn together in disorienting new configurations. Entitled Structural Exercises, the presentation comprises seven distinct sculptural works that together form an immersive exhibition which takes over the North Gallery; it is also the first major project she has staged in London since reconfigured at The Serpentine Gallery in 2005. Sosnowskas sculptural language emerges from a process of experimentation and the deft appropriation of core materials that are closely associated with ... More |
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| The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibits works from collection of Dr. Sean B. Murphy | | Van Gogh Museum welcomes record number of visitors and becomes most visited museum in the Netherlands | | Exhibition at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger celebrates the 120th anniversary of Ãrpád Szenes' birth | 
Henry Moore (1898-1986), Two Draped Reclining Figures, 1961, watercolour (or ink), ink, wax crayon, coloured pencil. MMFA, gift of Dr. Sean B. Murphy. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts salutes a man of great generosity, Dr. Sean B. Murphy (1924-2017), who passed away this year. To pay tribute to this true gentleman, whose commitment and generosity marked the history of the MMFA, the Museum is exhibiting some fifty drawings and prints from the 16th to the 20th century, from among the 123 works by European masters, both early and modern, as well as by North-American artists, which were donated by this avid collector. Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA, expressed her affection for Sean Murphy: Sean was a gentleman collector. Following a remarkable career in medicine, he was dedicated, as he himself said, to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he enjoyed a second decades-long ... More | | 
The museum welcomed 2.260.000 visitors. Photo: Jan Kees Steenman.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum will close the year having welcomed a new record of circa 2.260.000 visitors, making it the most visited museum in the Netherlands in 2017. Axel Rüger (Director of the Van Gogh Museum): This milestone demonstrates how Vincent van Gogh still inspires innumerable people all around the world. That is fantastic. And even more importantly, nearly 90 per cent of our visitors rate their visit as very good or excellent. This high level of appreciation was also reflected in extensive research published by the Erasmus University Rotterdam earlier this year into the reputation of the 18 most famous art museums in the world.European respondents placed the Van Gogh Museum in first place in this reputation ranking, closely followed by the Louvre. That is something that the museum is very proud of, as thats ultimately what it all comes down to: the quality of the museum visit. The m ... More | | 
Ãrpád Szenes, Carrousel, 1937. Huile sur carton, 13.78 x 10.63 in. Private collection. Photo: Jean-Louis Losi.
PARIS.- In 2017, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Ãrpád Szenes birth, the gallery Jeanne Bucher Jaeger presents the exhibition Plénitude aux confins de lexistant. It is a new tribute to the artist, whom the gallery has represented for almost 80 years, since 1939, in innumerable solo and group shows both inside and outside the gallery. The painter of many acclaimed series, such as the series of the Banquets or the Portraits, which include portraits of his spouse Vieira da Silva, Ãrpád Szenes stands out in particular for his magnificent series of Landscapes. They are poetic spaces, memories of a happy world on the verge of being born: beaches, hills, skies with no human presence and yet throbbing with humanity. To unite the invisible and the visible, to make them merge together through an exterior light interiorized in the act of creation: such were the aspirations of the ... More |
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| Women House: Monnaie de Paris presents a group exhibition of women artists | | Exhibition at White Cube includes a new series of shelf works by Haim Steinbach | | Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 launched | 
Laurie Simmons, Walking House, 1989. Impression numérique, 163 x 117 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York Private collection, NYC.
PARIS.- Women House is the meeting of two ideas: gender the femaleand spacethe domestic. Architecture and public space have long been considered masculine, while the domestic space has been the prison or refuge of women; however, this historical evidence is not destiny, as the exhibition Women House shows. In over 1000 square metres of gallery space and in some of Monnaie de Paris courtyards, it brings together 39 women artists of the 20th and 21st centuries who take up this complex subject and place women at the centre of a history from which they were excluded. After its stop in Paris, Women House will travel to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. beginning 8 March 2018. The challenge of finding a space to work in her own home was theorised by Virginia Woolf in 1929 in her essay «A Room of Ones Own», as she encouraged women to find a room that they could lock themselves in without ... More | | 
Haim Steinbach, Display #15 - Design for a Yogurt Bar 1981 / 2017. Galvanised steel frame; aluminium studs; plasterboard; latex paint; spray paint; screenprinted PVC curtain; metal shower curtain rings; Shelf with Moroccan coffee pot, chair and potted flower Dimensions variable © Haim Steinbach. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell).
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of works by Haim Steinbach at Mason's Yard. This exhibition includes a new series of shelf works as well as the major installation Display #15 Design for a Yogurt Bar, first made in 1981, which has been reconfigured for the gallery space. Drawing on cultural models from the 1970s and 80s in particular changing ideas of leisure and health the works in this exhibition cultivate new and unexpected meanings through their juxtaposition. Steinbach often re-contextualises his earlier displays to adapt them to new sets of spatial and social conditions. In his practice, objects are ciphers, each with their own particular identity, story or history, whose meanings and associations rely ... More | | 
Bernardo Bellotto, The Fortress of Königstein from the North, 1756 (detail). National Gallery
LONDON.- This week, the search for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 was launched with prize money of £140,000 at stake. The biggest museum prize in the world, Art Fund Museum of the Year seeks out and celebrates innovation and exceptional achievement in museums and galleries across the UK. £100,000 is awarded to one outstanding winner and £10,000 to each other finalist. The 2018 judges are also announced today: Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum Group; Rebecca Jones, BBC arts correspondent; Melanie Manchot, artist; and Monisha Shah, independent media consultant and Art Fund trustee. The judging panel will be chaired by Stephen Deuchar, director, Art Fund. The winning museum will be announced before an invited audience of leading figures from the fields of culture and museums on Thursday 5 July 2018 at the V&A Museum in London, itself a winner of the prize ... More |
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More Exhibition features Latvian ballet legend Arvīds Ozoliņš in the works of Aleksandra BeļcovaRIGA.- The third and artists 125th anniversary year closing exhibition Latvian Ballet Legend Arvīds Ozoliņ in the Paintings and Drawings of Aleksandra Beļcova is on view at the Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova Museum in Riga (Elizabetes iela 57a, Apt. 26) from 12 December 2017 to 7 April 2018. Arvīds Ozoliņ (19081996) was an outstanding Latvian ballet dancer who studied under Alexandra Fyodorova (Александра Фёдорова, 18841972) and Lev Fokin (Лев Фокин, 19061974). During the 1930s, he was part of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo company, which was the brainchild of Colonel Wassily de Basil (18881951), a continuer of the impresario Sergey Diaghilevs (Сергей Дягилев, 18721929) Russi ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Paul Cadmus was born December 17, 1904. Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an American artist. He is best known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty social interactions in urban settings. He also produced many highly finished drawings of single nude male figures. His paintings combine elements of eroticism and social critique in a style often called magic realism. In this image: The Fleet's In!, 1934 (cropped view).
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