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John DeAndrea, Lisa, 2016.
COPENHAGEN.- From 4 February hair-raising, hyperrealistic humanoid sculptures invade ARKEN in a major exhibition under the title GOSH! Is it Alive? With technical perfection, disturbances of scale, presence and humour the works raise highly topical issues about what it means to be human right now as robot technology and artificial intelligence gain ground in radical ways. Hyperrealism is one of the really big tendencies in contemporary art at the moment. ARKEN has gathered some of the biggest names in the genre in GOSH! Is it Alive? The exhibition shows works by 31 internationally recognized artists, among others Maurizio Cattelan, Tony Matelli and not least Ron Mueck, who has created one of the exhibitions major works the five-metre-long sculpture A Girl from 2006. In the encounter with the exhibitions human sculptures we get close to what seems to be another human being. It is both stimulating and frightening, for the works dea ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photo taken in Paris on February 4, 2017 shows a copy of "Les caracteres de Theophraste", a prize book received by French poet Arthur Rimbaud in 1870, which later belonged to French poet Paul Eluard. The book is part of a collection, including Rimbaud's first known drawings, to be auctioned at Sotheby's Paris on February 8, 2017. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
| Christie's to offer works from a private Italian collection | | Hauser & Wirth opens "Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 1962" | | Louvre reopens 24 hours after machete attack | 
Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965), (Dark) Harry, oil on board, 36 x 28.2cm. Painted in 2002. Estimate: £80,000-120,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies will offer a selection of works from a private Italian collection of international contemporary art. Demonstrating the open-mindedness and astute taste of its collectors, Next Chapter presents works of art by 123 artists at various price points and will be offered across their Post-War and Contemporary March sales, from Online and First Open to the Evening and Day Auctions. The collection reflects the idea that while one period of collecting is ending, another is beginning. In this sense, the collectors are leaving behind an outstanding survey of the last twenty years of art history in order to pursue the coming generations of artists and their art. This carefully curated collection features a remarkably wide-ranging selection of works, highlights of which include works by Yoshitomo Nara, Wade Guyton, Elisabeth Peyton, Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman, ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Breasted Woman, 1949 1950, cast 1989. Bronze, paint and stainless steel, 137.2 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm / 54 x 3 ½ x 3 ½ in. Art © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York NY. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Christopher Burke.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 1962, an exhibition dedicated to the synergistic relationship that existed between visual artists and composers during the years following World War II. Curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator Emeritus at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the exhibition features works by Louise Bourgeois, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell, and David Smith mavericks who pushed the boundaries of their respective mediums to new realms of abstraction. Paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings will be contextualized by a selection of musical scores and ephemera. On view through 1 April, Nothing and Everything is accompanied by a fully-illustrated ... More | | 
People walk in the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris on February 4, 2017 a day after a machete-wielding attacker lunged at four French soldiers. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre reopened its doors Saturday, a day after soldiers outside the Paris museum shot and wounded a machete-wielding attacker, suspected of being an Egyptian national. The incident on Friday thrust the issue of security back into the limelight three months ahead of elections in France, with authorities saying it was a "terrorist" assault. It also dealt another blow to Paris' lucrative tourism industry which has been badly affected by a string of attacks since 2015. Saturday morning saw a crowd gathered outside the museum's main entrance as it began welcoming visitors at 09:30 am (0830 GMT), just 24 hours after the attack. "I'm quite worried about coming today, but as we weren't able to visit yesterday we decided to come back," 28-year-old Russian visitor Elena Lordugen told AFP. As usual, soldiers with machine guns could ... More |
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| Works from the Wagstaff Collection of Photographs opens at the Portland Museum of Art | | Lévy Gorvy opens exhibition of Kazuo Shiraga's paintings | | Serralves Museum presents "Philippe Parreno: A Time Coloured Space" | 
Baron Adolf de Meyer (United States, born France, 18681946), Rita de Acosta Lydig, 1913, Gelatin silver print, printed 1914, 13 15/16 x 11 inches, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.471.4.
PORTLAND, ME.- From 1973 to 1984, Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. (American, 1921-1987) assembled one of the most important private collections of photographs in the world. Wagstaff promoted photography as an art form by organizing exhibitions, delivering lectures, and publishing material on his collection. In 1984, a few years before his death from AIDS-related complications, Wagstaff sold his collection to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Numbering several thousand, the collection now forms a cornerstone of the Getty Museum's holdings of photographs. Wagstaff served as a curator of paintings and sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum (1961-1968) and curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Art (1969-1971). In addition to being a collector and curator, he was the mentor and lover of photographer Robert ... More | | 
Kazuo Shiraga, Chikisei Sesuisho, 1960 (detail). Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 76 inches (130 x 193 cm). Signed and dated (lower left); signed, titled, and dated in Japanese (on the reverse).
LONDON.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting an exhibition of Kazuo Shiragas paintings in London, marking the artists first solo exhibition in the city in a decade. This marks the inaugural London exhibition under Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvys recently announced partnership; this is the gallerys second exhibition of Shiragas work, following the critically acclaimed 2015 exhibition, Body and Matter: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino in New York. Shiraga emerged as one of the most prominent members of the avant-garde group Gutai with his sensational 1955 performance, Challenging Mud. In a work that has become one of the canonical touchstones of postwar Japanese art, the artist used his entire body to aggressively manipulate a plot of mud, enacting a struggle between human form and material. ... More | | 
Philippe Parreno, Speech Bubbles (Fuschia), 2015 (detail). Photo Andrea Rossetti.
PORTO.- The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents A Time Coloured Space, a major exhibition by French artist Philippe Parreno, his first in Portugal. Curated by the Director of the museum, Suzanne Cotter, the exhibition spans thirteen rooms, across two floors, occupying the museum's entire building. The exhibition is structured on the mathematical model of the fugue, and conceived around the idea of the counterpoint, or ritournelle, a principle, whereby a particular passage is repeated at regular interludes within a musical arrangement to create compositional meaning. Governed by a similar method, A Time Coloured Space is determined not by its objects, but by the regularity and rhythm of their appearance, featuring some of Parrenos most emblematic work dating back to the 1990s. Throughout his practice, Parreno has redefined the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a ... More |
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| Philbrook opens world-premiere of found photographs | | Kunstverein München opens exhibition of works by Karel Martens | | Timothy Taylor 16x34 presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Richard Patterson | 
Katharine Hepburn.
TULSA, OKLA.- A recent acquisition of over 4,000 photographs by 1930s Condé Nast photographer Lusha Nelson has led Philbrook Museum of Art into a 10-year research and exhibition initiative to tell his untold story. This lost archive was purchased from a New York City estate sale in the early 1980s, moved across the country, and disappeared into private hands for over three decades before transferring to Philbrook. With little written on this successful young photographer who died scarcely six years into his career, Chief Curator Catherine Whitney and Curator of European Art Dr. Sarah Lees have embarked on an ambitious multi-year effort to introduce Lusha Nelson and his work to a 21st century audience. The first-ever solo exhibition of his work, debuting in Tulsa on February 5, 2017, focuses on this virtually unknown figure whose diverse portfolio includes subjects like Katharine Hepburn, Jesse Owens, ... More | | 
Karel Martens, Untitled, 2016. Letterpress monoprint on found ledger card, 6 x 4 inches. Courtesy the artist and P!
MUNICH.- Karel Martens has ten hands for every finger. Hes an artist, a typographer, a graphic designer, a bookmaker, and an educator. He co-founded a school. Hes synonymous with overprinting. Hes a method. That said, Motion is appropriately dexterous and tentacular comprising an experiential exhibition of Martens work within a staircase and three rooms, extending outwards through a series of discursive events in Munich, Amsterdam, Paris, Vilnius, and New York, as well as a publication (copublished with Roma Publications, Amsterdam). Altogether, Motion affords a compound view on an expansive practice, and chart a road map. Yet while all of that spans over 50 years of Martens inter-disciplinary activity, Motion remains grounded firmly in the present (and future). Of course, the exhibition includes some ... More | | 
Richard Patterson, That sunny dome! those caves of ice, 2015.
NEW YORK, NY.- Timothy Taylor 16Ã34 is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Richard Patterson. This is Pattersons fifth exhibition with the gallery, and his first in New York since the survey exhibition Im walking here!, at The FLAG Art Foundation in 2014. In a negotiation of two languages, Patterson combines carefully rendered oil portraits with passages of abstract painting as a means of generating a binary and mutual existence between the two contrasting languages of figuration and abstraction. These masks of abstract paint literally anatomize - or frame - the figure beneath, and in doing so also act as a conceptual acknowledgment of the inherent voyeurism of painting. The current of references that runs through this new body of work draws from Pattersons own personal archive as well as cultural examples of mythic self-transcendence. Powell and ... More |
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| Pipo Nguyen-duy's first solo show in New York City on view at ClampArt | | Exhibition of historical work by Andrew Lord on view at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels | | ArtCurious podcast turns art on its head | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt announces the opening of AnOther Expedition: Monets Garden, Pipo Nguyen-duys first solo show in New York City. These cyanotype prints of botanical specimens were made by Vietnamese-born artist Pipo Nguyen-duy in Claude Monets garden. Nguyen-duy was awarded a grant from The Wallace Foundation and The Readers Digest Association to live and work in the garden in Giverny, France. Samples were laid directly on to sheets of paper sensitized with a mixture of Ferric ammonium citrate and Potassium ferricyanide. After the chemistry was allowed to dry, the specimens were exposed by contact with sunlight and then processed there on site. When displayed, AnOther Expedition is a simulated natural history museum installation of a fictitious Vietnamese colonial expedition to France. This installation includes the cyanotype prints of flora specimen as well as water, soil, and other physical eleme ... More | | 
Andrew Lord, Sorrow, a sculpture of thirty pieces and related work. February 3-March 11, 2017. Gladstone Gallery, Brussels. Photo by Vincent Everarts. © Andrew Lord.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of historical work by Andrew Lord. Long known for his sculpture in ceramic, Lords work continually challenges the expectations of the medium as he seeks to mold in clay works that trace the haptic experience of his own senses and experiences. In 1978, Lord created a body of work whose shapes and surfaces were based on the fall of light onto different shaped maquettes. As if drawing from life, or painting a landscape en plein air, this process recorded his observations in three dimensions. By 1979, he began to think of these groups of maquettes as works in themselves and showed them in an exhibition with Art & Project in Amsterdam. With these pieces Lord found ceramics ability to take on the commanding dimensions of painting. Emerging out of this practice, Thirty Pieces. Sorrow. ... More | | 
The show is hosted by contemporary arts expert and curator Jennifer Dasal.
RALEIGH, NC.- Launched in August 2016, the podcast series ArtCurious will air its bakers dozen thirteenth episode in February 2017, simultaneously celebrating Valentines Day and the now 3000-plus fans who have made it a success. The show, hosted by contemporary arts expert and curator Jennifer Dasal, bills itself as unlike any other in the art world. As the ArtCurious tagline proclaims, it is dedicated solely to exploring stories about "the unexpected, the slightly odd and the strangely wonderful in art history. A fresh perspective on art that may often be perceived as too dry or far removed from the average viewer, Dasal dedicates herself to delivering fresh takes on the topic in a listener-friendly narrative style, tackling artists, their known (and sometimes unknown or misunderstood) works and other related subjects in a fashion meant to entertain, engage and educate art lovers and art novices alike. About her insp ... More |
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 Contemporary artists investigate the plurality of identity in 21st century Iran at the Aga Khan Museum TORONTO.- A pioneering and insightful collection of post-revolution Iranian art is being presented for the first time at the Aga Khan Museum. Featuring works by 23 contemporary artists, the world-premiere exhibition Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians showcases the many identities of todays Iranians through 27 works selected from the private collection of Iranian-British financier and art collector Mohammed Afkhami. The works of art featured in the exhibition confront such issues of today as gender, politics, and religion topics familiar to those in the Western world through quiet rebellion, humour, mysticism, and poetry. These paintings, videos, sculptures, and photographs created since 1998 present a different side of Iran, previously unseen by Western audiences, and yet very familiar in its medium and meaning. Despite the sanctions, isolation, ... More Edward Bawden, Ben Nicholson, and Duncan Grant lead the way for Sworders' Modern British Art saleSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Duncan Grant, Ben Nicholson, Edward Bawden, Fred Yates and Mary Fedden are just five of the artists already lined up for Sworders Modern British Art sale on February 14. Sworders launched this dedicated auction in April 2016 to much acclaim, topping the results with the £85,000 taken for the stunning signed and dated watercolour by Eric Ravilious, The James and The Foremost Prince. Sworders managing director Guy Schooling, who has built up close links with the artists of nearby Great Bardfield, including the families of Ravilious and Edward Bawden, had predicted at the beginning of the year that 2016 would see the rise of the lesser known leading Modern British artists, and so it has proved. This sale will also feature works by other Great Bardfield artists, or artists associated with them, such ... More February Midnight Moment in Times Square features Alex Da Corte's Blue MoonNEW YORK, NY.- Times Square Arts presents artist Alex Da Cortes Blue Moon on Times Squares electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight every night in February. Presented in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art on the occasion of their exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 19052016, this project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte splashes a surreal, theatrical portrait across Times Square, featuring a man holding a crescent moon and crooning along to the classic Rodgers and Hart song Blue Moon as the loving and lonely lyrics appear karaoke-style at the bottom of the screen. The work features pop-art colors to brighten the winter sky, and a wry perspective on the dreams in our hear ... More New Art Centre opens exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Peter FrieSALISBURY.- Peter Fries paintings seem, at first sight, to sit conventionally within the long tradition of great landscape painters such as Constable, Dahl, Friedrich and Turner. Certainly Fries animated brushwork captures all the drama and movement of scudding clouds across the sky and of trees rustling in the wind, and he conveys all the emotional impact of the different seasons or a sudden change in the weather. Fries landscapes, however, are not straightforwardly representational. He does not depict particular places, but instead invents a fusion of different scenes he has witnessed at various times and in various places, which he later recollects in his studio. The scene he has painted therefore hovers in a kind of limbo somewhere between the real and unreal, just like the sudden flash of remembrance. It is this rendering of inner or psychological space which ... More David Ireland House opens 'The Disagreeable Object' with SFMOMA loanSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The 500 Capp Street Foundation announces the opening of The Disagreeable Object (February 3 through April 29, 2017) at the David Ireland House. The opening of The Disagreeable Object also marks the launch of The Foundations new Visiting Artist Series, featuring site-specific work in the exhibition by inaugural visiting artist, Virginia Overton, as well as the opening of The Garage, a new permanent free rotating exhibition space located in the homes former carport. The exhibition, The Disagreeable Object, takes its title from Alberto Giacomettis surrealist sculpture, The Disagreeable Object, 1931. A defying sculptural attempt against artistic categorization, poised between movement and rest, between art and non-art, The Disagreeable Object is a rebellious and humorously unappealing object. Its vulgar shape is embodied ... More Under the Deep Blue Sea: Unearthing history with the 'Nanking Cargo'ATLANTA, GA.- When the Geldermalsen ship crashed into a reef and sank in the South China Sea during its return journey to the Netherlands in January of 1752, it claimed the lives of eighty crew members who went down with the vessels precious cargo of tea, textiles, gold, silk, lacquer, and porcelain. As part of the fleet of the powerful Dutch East India Company commissioned for the Zeeland division, the loss of the mighty Geldermalsen hardly went unnoticed. Over two hundred years later, a successful salvage expert named Captain Michael Hatcher would excavate the ship and its contents, giving new understanding of eighteenth century trade demands and the rise of porcelains availability. Great Gatsbys Auction Gallery will offer fourteen lots of blue and white porcelain from this incredible salvage from the personal collection of one of the expeditions private ... More Luhring Augustine opens exhibition in honor of the life and work of Steve WolfeNEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces an exhibition organized in honor of the life and work of Steve Wolfe (1955-2016) titled Remembering Steve, on view in their Chelsea gallery. At the heart of Wolfes practice are iconic twentieth century works of literature, music, and visual art which inspired him and became the subject of his practice. Remembering Steve is comprised of sculptures and works on paper from the mid 1980s onwards; spanning the course of three decades of work. Working in the tradition of trompe loeil, Wolfe re-creates worn books and used records, primarily from the 1960s and 1970s, that influenced his personal and artistic sensibilities. He sought to represent his subjects with complete accuracy, rendering every detail of the original object which bore the signs of age and use. Using lithography, silkscreen, drawing, and other labor intensive ... More "Modern Masters, Contemporary Icons" exhibition opens at The Rockwell MuseumCORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum announces the exhibition Modernist Masters, Contemporary Icons: Highlights from the Old Jail Art Center. Including featured works by John Marin, Grant Wood, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition is on view at The Rockwell Museum from February 3 through April 23, 2017. An intimate collection of American masterworks from the Old Jail Art Center (OJAC) in Albany, TX, Modern Masters, Contemporary Icons includes works by the most highly acclaimed American artists in history. Work by American greats like Grant Wood, Alexander Calder, and Thomas Hart-Benton will be presented for the first time at The Rockwell. Other artists, familiar to The Rockwells collection like Fritz Scholder, John Marin and Arthur Dove, are also included providing a new dialogue with The Rockwells modernist water colors, works on paper and sculpture. ... More First large-scale solo show in France by Taro Izumi opens at Palais de TokyoPARIS.- Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first large-scale solo show in France by Taro Izumi. In Japan, Taro Izumi is a singular artist. He has developed a world which is expressed in installations, sculptures and videos, whose appearance processes are associated with accidents, play or perturbation. The installations that he constructs from ludic hypotheses are a source of forms, sculptures and murals which, often thanks to their absurdity, become extraordinarily unexpected items that humorously thwart our artistic and social customs. For example, the invention of mounts composed of everyday elements chairs, tables, stools, cushions which are rapidly assembled so as to welcome a body imitating the vigour of a sportsman in action, leads to something which is at once astonishing, a parody of the dream bodies of stadium heroes and a fascinating commentary on the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giambattista Moroni, died February 05, 1578. Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 - February 5, 1578) was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. In this image: Portrait of Angelica Agliardi de Nicolini, circa 1560, Chantilly, Musee Condé.
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