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Meister von Meßkirch, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1535/38, detail from the middle panel of the former high altar of St. Martin in Meßkirch, Meßkirch, parish church of St. Martin, © Archbishopric Friborg i. Br.
STUTTGART.- The mystery of the Messkirch Master's identity has been capturing imaginations for more than a century. Yet even that fascination is outstripped by the captivating quality of his works. It comes as no surprise that the Swabian painter is considered one of the most prominent artists of the German Renaissance. The Large State Exhibition unites the masters oeuvre for the first time. A reconstruction of the church furnishings of St Martin in Messkirch forms the presentations core. The interior of 15351540, comprising as many as twelve altars amounted to a stronghold of the Counter-Reformation. The golden grandeur of the Master of Messkirchs paintings belie the circumstances of their origins in the Reformation time. Along with broadsheetsand woodcuts that served as mediums of the struggle against the papal church, works by Cranach illustrate ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo shows a view of - Les Pleurants - (The Mourners), the sculptures are part of the tomb of the Second Duke of Normandy Jean sans Peur (1371-1419) and his wife Marguerite de Baviére. A "pleurant" (mourner) sculpture, estimated to be worth more than 2 million euros, is part of a judiciary battle between the Culture Ministry and a family to claim its ownership. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP
| Three celebrated works by Caravaggio on view at the Getty Museum | | Baltimore Museum of Art presents exhibition of Mexican Modernist prints & drawings | | "Arthur Streeton: The Art of War" on show at the National Gallery of Australia | 
Boy with a Basket of Fruit, about 1593-94. Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610). Oil on canvas. Ministero de Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del TurismoGalleria Borghese.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting a rare exhibition of three celebrated works by the great Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), on loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, home to the largest collection of Caravaggios paintings in the world. Caravaggio: Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese is on view at the Getty Center from November 21, 2017 through February 18, 2018. According to Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, These three masterpieces are among Caravaggios best-known paintings, and we are extremely grateful to the Galleria Borghese for sharing them with our public. Caravaggios revolutionary genius made him one of the most important and beloved figures in European art history. The opportunity to see three of his most renowned works alongside ... More | | 
Diego Rivera. Zapata. 1932. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Blanche Adler. BMA 1932.28.5. © 2017 Diego Rivera/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SOMAAP, Mexico.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art explores an unprecedented period of cultural and intellectual exchange between Mexico and the U.S. in Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints, on view through March 11, 2018. The exhibition features 30 prints and drawings created in the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Elizabeth Catlett. Crossing Borders is also the first exhibition to highlight the BMAs outstanding holdings of works by Mexican modernist artists. In Crossing Borders, one sees how the bold and expressive figurative imagery of these prints underscores the political, social, and cultural shifts taking place in the years following the Mexican Revolution, said Rena Hoisington, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs. In the 1930s and 1940s, printmaking played a ... More | | 
Arthur Streeton, Damaged buildings, Peronne 1918. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Max & Nola Tegel Collection. Image courtesy of Deutscher and Hackett.
CANBERRA.- An impressive exhibition of Arthur Streetons paintings and sketches of World War I has opened at the National Gallery of Australia. Arthur Streeton was appointed as an official war artist in 1918, and was dispatched to the Western Front. Streeton focused on modern machines in the Great War which rode on the back of technology, with advancements in shelling, machine guns and aircraft. Whilst one of our most valued Australian Impressionists, Arthur Streeton is also one of the nations foremost war artists, said Gerard Vaughan, NGA Director. His contribution in capturing the historical significance of Australian troops in France was unequalled. Streetons unique perspective, drawn from his Impressionist roots, provides an exhibition that is powerful, engaging and often surprising. Arthur Streeton: The Art of War depicts the dramatic simplicity of the gaping townscapes, dislocated ... More |
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| Bell Gallery hosts Melvin Edwards exhibition | | Major solo exhibition by the American artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph on view at the Bonnefantenmuseum | | Final week to see these exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Breuer | 
Melvin Edwards' "Steel Life (After Winter)," a 2017 piece made from welded steel, will be on view in the Bell Gallery.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University is presenting an exhibition by pioneering contemporary artist Melvin Edwards, who has explored black nationalism and the African diaspora over the course of his career. Melvin Edwards, an artist considered a pioneer in the history of contemporary sculpture, shows historic and rarely exhibited works spanning four decades in Festivals, Funerals and New Life. Including sculptures, prints and installations created over four decades, the exhibition will run through Feb. 11, 2018. Ian Alden Russell, the Bell Gallery curator, described Edwards as an important and consistent presence in American art from the Civil Rights Movement through today whose work is broadly concerned with European neocolonialism, histories of race, labor, violence and African diaspora. Among the works exhibited are installations ... More | | 
Kahlil Joseph, Motion picture still from m.A.A.d., (2014). © Courtesy of Kahlil Joseph.
MAASTRICHT.- The Bonnefantenmuseum is the first European museum to present a major solo exhibition by the American artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. The exhibition NEW SUNS comprises room-sized multidimensional film installations, complemented by the work of artists like Arthur Jafa, Noah Davis and Henry Taylor, to whom Joseph feels closely related. In addition, Joseph is showing his new autonomous film work The Philosopher, which has not been seen before. Kahlil Joseph (1981, Seattle, US) was encouraged from an early age by his parents Keven Davis and Faith Childs-Davis to take an interest in art. At the end of the 90s, Joseph left Seattle for Los Angeles, where he went to Loyola Marymount University, following in his parents footsteps. There, he studied film, and the lessons in Asian cinema and the unconventional contemporary films in this spectrum that he watched revolutionised his approach to the medium of ... More | | 
Circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi), Head of a Man Wearing a Cap, ca. 14951505. Metalpoint, heightened with brush and white, on reddish orange prepared paper. 1975.1.329.
NEW YORK, NY.- Raghubir Singh (19421999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. Born into an aristocratic family in Rajasthan, he lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New Yorkbut his eye was perpetually drawn back to his native India. Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs situates Singh's photographic work at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world. The exhibition features 85 photographs by Singh in counterpoint with works by his contemporariesfriends, collaborators, fellow travelersas well as examples of the Indian court painting styles that inspired him. The exhibition traces the full trajectory of Singh's career from ... More |
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| Exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art features the new women in Korea | | Hilda May Gordon to be the focus of Martyn Gregory's exhibition in Master Drawings New York | | A free tactile installation by We Make Carpets for kids and families at National Gallery of Victoria | 
Na Hyeseok, Self-Portrait, c.1928, oil on canvas, 88x75cm, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art Collection.
SEOUL.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea is staging the exhibition The Arrival of New Women from December 21 through April 1, 2018, throughout its Deoksugung branch. The Arrival of New Women is a three-dimensional exhibition featuring over 500 works in various visual and auditory media representing images of the new woman in Korea within the broader context of modern visual culture from Enlightenment to the Japanese occupation, including works of painting, sculpture, embroidery, photography, printed art (cover paintings, illustrations, and posters), film, popular songs, documents, magazines, and ttakjibon novels. It offers a diverse range of perspectives with its varied approach to and interpretation of the new woman as a new agent or phenomenon seeking to practice modern values. In addition to artworks and archival materials from the time, the exhibition also shares a diachronic experience by including new reinterpre ... More | | 
Hilda May Gordon, Gotiek viaduct, Burma. Gouache 10¾ x 9¾ in. Inscribed on verso: Gotitek National Bridge , Burmah.
NEW YORK, NY.- While women artists traveling the globe are commonplace today, in 1922 it was not only unusual but dangerous for a woman to set off alone for no particular reason, as Hilda May Gordon wrote in her journal at the onset of what became a six-year journey that took her tens of thousands of miles away from her home on the Isle of Wight. Reporting on Miss Gordons final stop and exhibition in New York before she returned home in March 1928, The New York Evening Post said of the intrepid artist that it was the first time that this department ever heard of any one making a circuit of the globe on a paint brush. From January 27 to February 3, 2018, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to rediscover Miss Gordon (1874-1972) and her work in Hilda May Gordon, A Colourist Abroad, an exhibition of approximately 50 works presented by the London-based gallery, Martyn Gregory, in the Leigh Morse ... More | | 
We Make Carpets, Peg carpet 2, 2016. Commissioned for Diagonale, Montreal, Canada © We Make Carpets.
MELBOURNE.- In an Australian premiere, Dutch art collective We Make Carpets has created a spectacular exhibition for children and families, as part of the NGV Triennial. Mural-sized displays and interactive installations turn the NGVs childrens gallery space into a visual feast that encourages young people of all ages to engage with the material world and get hands on with objects such as household kitchen sponges and Velcro. Commissioned specifically for NGV Triennial, Hands On: We Make Carpets for Kids is inspired by the creative possibilities found in everyday items. Working with the power of numbers, thousands of household objects such as foam pool noodles, nylon rope, kitchen sponges and plastic pegs are carefully arranged to create impressive displays for everyone to view and take inspiration. Children are invited to arrange random shapes and turn the floor into a richly patterned surface; make dashes of colour with ropes t ... More |
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| Works by Ghiora Aharoni and Arthur Liou focus on religious journeys for the benefit of one's future self | | Double solo show by Rodrigo Hernández and Rita Ponce de León on view at Galleria P420 | | Works by visionaries El-Salahi, Hammons, Brouwn on view in Amsterdam | 
Aharonis series of sculptures reimagine vintage taxi meters.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the next iteration of its ongoing Sacred Spaces exhibition, the Rubin Museum of Art invites visitors to confront contemporary artists perspectives on pilgrimage to holy sites. Featuring artist Ghiora Aharonis series The Road to Sanchi and two video works by artist Arthur Liou, the exhibition engages time as a medium and challenges viewers to consider the sacred and think about their own experiences with meaningful journeys. These installations continue the exhibitions focus on devotional activities in awe-inspiring places. Sacred Spaces: The Road To
and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room closes October 15, 2018. Aharonis series of sculptures, which are being shown for the first time, reimagines vintage taxi meters, now obsolete, from India. Video screens embedded in the meters capture the artists rickshaw rides in India to sacred sites for Hindus, Jews, Musl ... More | | 
Rita Ponce de León, Caminata 5, caminata por debajo de la mesa. Sol en la sombra, 2017, terracotta, disegni e tessuto, cm.605x82x14.
BOLOGNA.- Galleria P420 is presenting Stelo, the double solo show by Rodrigo Hernández (Mexico City, 1983) and Rita Ponce de León (Lima, 1982). Stelo comes from an idea of the two artists, who after having met during their time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City had long felt the desire to do a project together. The exhibition develops along two parallel paths, representing the individual relationship of each artist with a mentor, a figure of reference and inspiration that influenced their personal and artistic growth. Stelo is germination, development, a slim but solid stem, the starting point for growth, for branching out into new paths and encounters. Rita Ponce de León is influenced by the figure of the Japanese Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, whose practice she experienced directly with Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo. Rodrigo Hernández, on the other hand, ... More | | 
On view at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are black and white works from El-Salahi, including ink and paper drawings from his By His Will series, and the more recent, dramatic The Arab Spring Notebook.
AMSTERDAM.- The Prince Claus Fund, together with the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts are presenting Three Crossings: El-Salahi, Hammons, Brouwn. This three-part exhibition features works by Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan, UK), David Hammons (USA), and Stanley Brouwn (Surinam, Netherlands) at three Amsterdam locations. The works by these three visionary artists are innovative, minimalist, and sharply critical, yet infused with wit and humour. All three artists share a destiny and an identity as diasporic subjects. They have crossed boundaries historically and existentially, and through their innovative artistic practice, they also enriched global contemporary art. What ultimately attracted me to the work of these artists is the ethical position these three artists represent in the face of a hyper art market and highly corporatised art scene. ... More |
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 Reflections of university life in the 1990s wins grand prize at the inaugural UOB Art in Ink AwardHONG KONG.- United Overseas Bank Limited announced the eighteen winners of the inaugural UOB Art in Ink Award. The grand prize, the UOB Ink Art of the Year Award, was presented to Mr Chan Sai-Lok, a Hong Kong-based painter and writer for his artwork titled Sealed, which drew inspiration from a short-story written by the artist about his university days. As part of the UOB Art in Ink Award, Mr Chan will also receive an international artist-in-residency scholarship at Flux Factory in New York City, United States. The judges were unanimous in their selection of Mr Chans piece, citing the artists ability to fuse age-old techniques with the creative use of materials and his approach of coupling text within a visual ink composition, thereby opening up new interpretations of the medium. The first UOB Art in Ink Award was themed Reflections, encouraging participants to present ... More Winner of 2017 Prix de Rome, Rana Hamadeh, exhibits at Kunsthal RotterdamROTTERDAM.- Artist Rana Hamadeh (Beirut/Lebanon, 1983) received the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2017, the oldest and most generous award in the Netherlands for visual artists under the age of 40, from the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven. Hamadeh received this award for a new act as part of her opera project The Ten Murders of Josephine. The award comes with a 40,000 Euros cash prize and a work period at the American Academy in Rome. The international jury unanimously selected Rana Hamadeh, an artist who creates her own language and dissects and re-arranges history and gives it a voice. The theme that lies at the basis of this work is urgent: the need to become aware of the missing voice in testimonies and the ways in which the elimination of voices determines the view of our past. ... More Working for the Future Past: Seoul Museum of Art invites Latin American artists to exhibitSEOUL.- Conceived as the non-western art series of SeMA, this exhibition Working for the Future Past resists against the thesis that the future is a logical and linear result of the past. Instead, it suggests to comprehend and to practice contemporary art within the possibility of synthetic and circular time. Inviting Latin American artists, the exhibition attempts to approach a history of fragments disconnected from the future; a future intervening through the retrieved past; and the present within possibilities to create elements unprecedented in the past. More precisely, the exhibition is a place for considering how this leap to another time could be connected to the actual operation of contemporary art. The narrative of this exhibition starts from the background of global political radicalization in the 1960s. However, this starting point is set to accentuate neither the details ... More Solo exhibition showcasing film, sculpture and photography by Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn on view in VietnamHO CHI MINH CITY .- The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre is presenting Empty Forest by Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn a solo exhibition showcasing film, sculpture and photography revealing a landscape where the industry of ailing spiritual beliefs is feeding the most wretched of human desires, to irreversible effect. For this premiere showcase, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn will transform the ground floor main hall of The Factory into a menagerie of animalistic forms, a kind of large-scale diorama where the voice of the endangered sits on the edge of extinction (or in particular case has already teetered into oblivion). In Empty Forest, Nguyễn explores the impact of traditional medicine in Vietnam on the plight of such wondrous creatures as the pangolin, rhino, turtle and deer, fascinated by the role and shape of human spiritual belief in its once interdependently ... More John Davies' haunting sculptures on view at Turner ContemporaryMARGATE.- Turner Contemporary is presenting an installation by John Davies, whose haunting, figurative sculptures touch on memory, time and the fragility of the body. This exhibition in the Sunley Gallery and balcony brings together the large-scale tableau My Ghosts alongside The Deerson Series, a group of scarecrow-like sculptures, and recent works on paper. Davies interest in the human presence set him apart from many of his contemporaries in British sculpture at the beginning of his career. Of his early figures, often cast from life and clothed, Davies has said, I wanted to make a figure, not like a piece of sculpture, more like a person
. I wanted my sculpture to be more like life in the street. His more recent works are modelled in clay, before being cast in polychrome polyester and fibreglass, or bronze. Davies arranges these figures in carefully ... More Carol Sawyer reconstructs the life and work of a fictional artist in The Natalie Brettschneider ArchiveVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive, on view until February 4, 2018. The exhibition offers a contemporary perspective on Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection. Through photographs, letters, paintings, video and other materials, the exhibition explores the persona of Natalie Brettschneider, a vibrant, fictional artist conceived by Vancouver-based artist Carol Sawyer. The catalyst for Natalie Brettschneider came about through Sawyers research into practices of female artists working in the early decades of the 20th century in Europe and British Columbia, women whose practices were often under-represented in institutional collections and largely excluded from art history. Since the early 1990s, Sawyer has been developing the character of Natalie Brettschneider by assuming ... More Ben Uri Gallery and Museum unveils rediscovered portrait of Lord Arthur BalfourLONDON.- The Trustees of Ben Uri Gallery and Museum recently unveiled, for the first time in over 50 years, this important historical portrait of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour. Attributed to the distinguished Royal Academician Reginald Eves and painted c.1908-1910, the portrait reprises the pose of the famous portrait of Lord Balfour from 1908 by John Singer Sargent which hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery. The painting is being displayed alongside Ben Uris exhibition, A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero, the first UK showing of Chagalls rare suite of 50 illustrations for The Tempest, created in 1975. Both will be on show until 11 February 2018 at Ben Uri, 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, St Johns Wood, NW8 0RH. The gallery is open every day of the week and is free entry for all. The artist, Reginald Eves, was ... More Exhibition features quilts representing Abraham Lincoln's lifeINDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Experience a new look at the life of Abraham Lincoln through the textiles of his time. Lincoln in Quilts: Log Cabins, Flags and Roses is a must-see for any quilt lover or Lincoln enthusiast and connects to four key times in Lincolns life; his early years, his adult political life and White House years, the Civil War, and the mourning period following his assassination in 1865. The exhibition runs through Feb. 19, 2018. One of the jewels of this exhibition is a quilt attributed to Elizabeth Keckley, who served as Mary Todd Lincolns dressmaker. The spectacular silk quilt is made from scraps of the silk dresses she created for her customers, including Lincolns wife. Another highlight is a quilt that has not been seen on public display for at least 25 years. The piece, by Margaret Frentz of New Albany, incorporates campaign ribbons from every presidential and vice presidential ... More PEER commissions site-specific installation by Catherine StoryLONDON.- SHADOW is a new site-specific installation and the most ambitious work to date for Catherine Story in her first solo exhibition for a public gallery. Commissioned by PEER to respond to its distinctive public-facing exhibition space, SHADOW melds the artists long preoccupation with the staging and lighting of 1930s films and Cubism, with a new interest in the dramatic landscape and geometric architecture of North Africa. Constructed across two thirds of PEERs ten-metre wide gallery space, SHADOW converges Storys diverse influences in a precisely illuminated three-dimensional topography of backdrop, painting and sculpture. During the day the installation is open for visitors, but on dark winter evenings it transforms into an enigmatic mise-en-scene with elements of the work creating a playful shape-shift between interior and exterior, film set and streetscape. ... More Vargas Llosa among more than 230 writers opposing Fujimori pardonLIMA (AFP).- Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has joined more than 230 other Peruvian writers in denouncing the pardon issued to former president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving 25 years in prison for rights abuses. The pardon, issued by current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, triggered street protests by thousands and led to the resignations of Culture Minister Salvador del Solar and the manager of the country's public broadcaster. Kuczynski said he made the gesture on humanitarian grounds because of Fujimori's ill health. Fujimori, 79, was transferred from prison to a Lima clinic one week ago after suffering low blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat. But the writers who signed a manifesto said Fujimori "does not suffer from any degenerative or terminal illness." They called the pardon "illegal and ir ... More Dieter Roelstraete appointed curator of Neubauer Collegium CHICAGO, IL.- Dieter Roelstraete, an internationally renowned curator of contemporary art, has been named the next curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. In his new role, Roelstraete will oversee all aspects of the Neubauer Collegium Exhibitions Gallery, working with the University arts community as well as with arts organizations in the city of Chicago and around the world. Roelstraete joins the Neubauer Collegium after serving on the curatorial team that organized documenta 14, the international art exhibition that ran this past spring and summer in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece. Widely hailed as a significant statement about the relevance and aesthetic concerns of the contemporary art world, the show brought together work by 160 artists at more than 80 sites. The move is a return to Chicago for Roelstraete. Prior to his work with ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Boldini was born December 31, 2017. Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 - 11 July 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
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