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His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands opened the new exhibition Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck Inventing a new art at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag on Saturday 11 February.
THE HAGUE.- In 2017 it will be exactly 100 years since the launch of the Dutch art and design movement known as De Stijl. The Netherlands is set to mark the centenary with a year-long programme of events under the title Mondrian to Dutch Design. 100 years of De Stijl. As home both of the worlds greatest Mondrian collection and of one of its major De Stijl collections, the Gemeentemuseum will be at the heart of the celebrations in 2017. No fewer than three separate exhibitions will be held at the museum to pay appropriate tribute to the groups revolutionary achievements. The event kicked off on 11 February with an exhibition about the genesis of a new kind of art that has forever changed the world we live in. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at engravings on war and oppression by Francisco de Goya, at the exhibition 'Temoignages' at the MSK Museum in Ghent on February 9, 2017. The exhibition "Testimonies", organized in collaboration with the Spanish Prado Museum and the British Museum, "shows there is cycles in History, which we must know in order to better understand the present", said the director of the Ghent's Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), Catherine de Zegher. JOHN THYS / AFP
| "Beyond Caravaggio" exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Ireland | | Exhibition features diverse representations of life outside America's urban centers | | Hockney at 80: Retrospective a 'joyous adventure' in art | 
Francesco Buoneri (or Boneri) called Cecco del Caravaggio (c.1589after 1620), A Musician, c.1615. The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London (English Heritage). Photo: Apsley House, London © Historic England.
DUBLIN.- The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opened this Saturday 11 February in the National Gallery of Ireland. Out of a total of 42 major works from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, four are master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). Many of the works in the show are on loan from private collections, and regional galleries, and is, therefore, be a rare opportunity for visitors to see works not easily available to the public. Adrian Le Harivel, co-curator of Beyond Caravaggio says: This exhibition will bring together, for the first time in Dublin, thirty major artists who knew or were inspired by Caravaggio. It underlies the incredible impact that he had on painting at the time, whose ripples are still felt today. Caravaggio is widely acknowledged as bringing a revolution to painting during the ... More | | 
Dale Nichols (1904-1995), Spring Turning, 1946, oil on canvas, 25 x 18 in. Private Collection. © Joan Nichols Lenhart.
ATLANTA, GA.- Shedding light on a rarely examined topic in the history of modernism, the major exhibition Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950 (Feb. 12 through May 7, 2017) at the High Museum of Art uncovers how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American art. Organized in collaboration with the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the exhibition features nearly 200 artworks, including more than 70 from the Highs permanent collection, which encompass a wide range of media and makersfrom paintings and photographs to murals and sculpture, by trained and self-taught artists, modernists and regionalists. The Highs American art, photography, and folk and self-taught art departments partnered to select works for Cross Country that reflect the range of creative expression and remarkable diversity of American art in the period surrounding ... More | | 
David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1971 (detail). Private Collection © David Hockney
LONDON (AFP).- David Hockney is marking his 80th birthday this year with a major retrospective of his work in London, which attempts to explore what turns an artist into a popular star. More than 200 of the celebrated British painter's works are on show at the Tate Britain gallery from Thursday until May 29, covering his early drawings right through to his latest works created on an iPad. They include his 1960s Californian swimming pool series, his 1970s double portraits and more recent works in the bright landscapes of his native Yorkshire in northern England. Tate Britain said it was the world's most extensive retrospective of Hockney's work. "It will shed a new light on his relationship to the development of his art; how to picture the world, represent the experience of being alive," said the gallery's director Alex Farquharson. "He always questioned what a picture is." The exhibition was put together in collaboration with the ... More |
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| Tate offers new app to visitors | | Babe Ruth contract expected to shine at Heritage Platinum Night Sports Auction | | 32 M€ for 2017 Retromobile by Artcurial Motorcars | 
Conceived with design agency Fabrique, the Tate app brings together everything visitors need to explore the galleries and learn more about the art they encounter.
LONDON.- Tate has launched a new app, designed to enable visitors to lead their own journey around the galleries on their smartphones. With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the app is the latest development of the Bloomberg Connects offering at Tate and provides a more bespoke, behind-the-scenes and personalised experience than a traditional museum audio-guide. A trial version of the app was released for iOS mobile devices last year, with 13,000 downloads so far, and the full version is now available for free on both iOS and Android via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. It can be downloaded in advance of a visit or in the gallery on Tates free Wi-Fi. Conceived with design agency Fabrique, the Tate app brings together everything visitors need to explore the galleries and learn more about the art they encounter at Tate Britain, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, with Tate St ... More | | 
1930-31 Babe Ruth Signed New York Yankees Player's Contract--The Richest of His Career.
DALLAS, TX.- There are items that are associated so closely with people or places or events that the mere sight of them immediately can bring famous quotes to mind. Collectors will have an opportunity to bid on one such iconic item when baseball legend Babe Ruth 's Signed 1930-31 Contract with the New York Yankees goes on the block Feb. 25-26 in Heritage Auctions ' Platinum Night Sports Catalog Auction in Dallas. The contract was notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the annual salary $80,000 which at the time was an enormous wage, especially for a player who would be 35 years old at the start of the season. Ruth was well known for his playful spirit and supreme confidence, but that bravado stemmed from unmatched production despite his age. When he signed the contract, he had led Major League Baseball in home runs in four consecutive seasons; at the time, he had claimed the home runs crown 10 times (and he added two ... More | | 
People walk around an 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 during the "Retromobile" old cars fair in Paris February 10, 2017. Eric FEFERBERG / AFP.
PARIS.- On Friday 10 February, collectors and visitors to the Salon Retromobile who attended this years sale by Artcurial Motorcars enjoyed a remarkable event. The auction, taken by the acclaimed trio of Hervé Poulain, Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff realised 31 944 484 / 33 861 153 $, with 73 % of all lots sold. The overall sale total was up 33% on last years event, (excluding the exceptional 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scaglietti that fetched 32.1M, the highest ever auction price for a car in Europe). This result confirms the continued strong development of the Artcurial Motorcars team. The largest annual collectors car sale in continental Europe once again drew large crowds. Over 500 people registered to bid in the room, and some 18 nationalities were represented. Over 3,000 packed into the saleroom and another 15,000 people followed the sale live on the internet, as the 154 lots came under the hammer in t ... More |
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| Monumental Constable painting to return to Scotland to be shown alongside McTaggart masterpiece | | Japanese manga legend Jiro Taniguchi dies at 69 | | Exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love | 
John Constable (1776 1837), Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 (detail). © Tate, London 2013. Purchased with assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Manton Foundation, Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and Tate Members.
EDINBURGH.- One of the greatest masterpieces of British art will go on display in Scotland for the first time in over 15 years this spring. The monumental oil painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, painted in 1831 by the great English Romantic painter John Constable (1776-1837), will be shown alongside one of the most powerful and celebrated of all Scottish landscape paintings: The Storm (1890), by William McTaggart (1835-1910). This display is part of Aspire, a partnership programme touring Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831, across the UK. Constables Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, was secured for the British public through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Manton Foundation, Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson ... More | | 
This file photo taken on January 26, 2015 shows Japanese cartoonist Jiro Taniguchi. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Jiro Taniguchi, a legend in Japan's comic art of manga, died in Tokyo on Saturday at the age of 69, leaving behind an international following for his exquisite line drawing of scenes from everyday life. The artist's French publisher Casterman announced his death on its website, adding that he had been seriously ill, as it expressed its deep condolences to his family. Taniguchi first shot to fame in Japan at the end of the 1980s with the first volume of "The Times of Botchan". which centres around Natsume Soseki, one of Japans greatest writers. Just over a decade later, he hit the international manga scene with "A Distant Neighbourhood", about a Japanese salaryman who travels back to his childhood -- widely seen to this day as his masterpiece. Taniguchi's work is hailed for its delicate line drawing and intricately-constructed landscapes. Critics have also praised his gentle ... More | | 
Clay Geerdes: Cockettes Go Shopping, 1972; digital print; 42 x 28 in.; courtesy David Miller, from the estate of Clay Geerdes.
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive launched the region-wide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia. This major exhibition explores the intersection of the radical art, architecture, and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s and the resonance of these innovations today. A traveling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center and assembled with the assistance of BAMPFA, Hippie Modernism is on view in Berkeley from February 8 through May 21, 2017. The exhibition coincides with the first anniversary of BAMPFAs new Diller Scofidio + Renfrodesigned building in downtown Berkeley. The curators of the Berkeley presentation, BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder and UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Architecture ... More |
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| Speech: An ensemble of photographs by a group of artists on view at Pace/MacGill Gallery | | Creative Time announces Nato Thompson as Artistic Director; Elvira Dyangani Ose as Senior Curator | | Exhibition provides a comprehensive examination of Honoré Sharrer's place in American art | 
JoAnn Verburg. Terrorized, 2006. Chromogenic color print. Image, 48 1/2 x 33 inches © JoAnn Verburg; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace/MacGill Gallery is presenting Speech, an ensemble of photographs by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Hal Fischer, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, David Goldblatt, Hai Bo, Gregory Halpern, Peter Hujar, Josef Koudelka, Danny Lyon, Duane Michals, Irving Penn, Lucas Samaras, Larry Sultan, JoAnn Verburg, Garry Winogrand, Zhang Huan, and others. The exhibition is on view from February 9 through April 29, 2017 on the 9th floor of 32 East 57th Street. To speak freely is a creative act. Without our bodies or instruments, we have only our voices to express invention. The protection of free speech, written into the DNA of our country, enshrines perhaps the most basic and cherished creative outlet we have. In celebration of a long, proud history of making our voices heard, Speech explores ... More | | 
Elvira Dyangani Ose. Photo: Hendrik Zeitler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Creative Time announced Nato Thompson as Artistic Director. The announcement follows a succession of politically powerful works, from Trevor Paglens The Last Pictures to Kara Walkers A Subtlety to, most recently, Pedro Reyess sold-out political house of horrors, Doomocracy, and the annual Creative Time Summit, held for the first time in Washington, DC, last October, which have underscored Creative Times commitment to presenting important art for its times and engaging broad audiences that that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers. The possibilities, and the need, for engaged public art have never been so great and so urgent, says Nato Thompson, Creative Time Artistic Director. Creative Time has long engaged with social and political issues on a global scale, and I look forward to continuing those efforts with our amazing team. Creative Time also welcomed Elvi ... More | | 
Young Man Standing on the Foundation, 1988. Oil on canvas, 20 x 17 inches. Collection of Adam Zagorin and the late Perez Zagorin.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Columbus Museum of Art presents A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, the first comprehensive assessment of the artist since mid-century, on view February 10 May 21, 2017 in the Margaret M. Walter Wing. Organized in partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the exhibition provides a comprehensive examination of Sharrers place in American art and reveals the full scope of her significant achievements. A Dangerous Woman includes some 45 paintings, plus associated sketches, prints, photographs, and ephemera from the artists extensive archive. This exhibition shows the Columbus Museum of Arts continued commitment to those artists whose works engage the profound social issues facing their day, said Executive Director ... More |
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 New exhibition project by Antoni Muntadas on view at De AppelAMSTERDAM.- Activating Artifacts: About Academia is a new exhibition project by Antoni Muntadas. Its aim is to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue about higher education: its many limitations as well as new possibilities. The exhibition presents an opportunity to critically engage with the structure and function of the US university system. It does so by exploring topics of privatisation, corporatisation, gentrification and globalisation, as well as the complex relationship between the production of knowledge and the economic interests it generates. Although Activating Artifacts: About Academia was initiated and produced in a US context, it can simultaneously be "activated" as a tool to engage the issues from within a variety of geocultural educational frameworks in which these processes resonate. The exhibition completes Muntadass About Academia ... More Amy Feldman's first solo exhibition in Germany opens at Blain/SouthernBERLIN.- Blain|Southern presents Amy Feldmans first solo exhibition in Germany. Breath Myth comprises a group of entirely new paintings by the New York-based artist. Starting with a preparatory sketch in marker pen, Feldman makes each painting in a single performative take. Giving herself just one chance to get it right, the associated risk and anxiety play an important part in her aim to communicate urgency in her painting. Feldmans work offers the viewer a vivid conversation between the physical and formal language of abstract painting. This is evidenced in the interactions she creates between the figure and ground, questioning the hierarchy of the two. Drips of wayward paint are unplanned yet embraced by the artist as they break the boundary from the figure of the painting into the ground of a pristine, almost-white canvas, a surface always modulated with hints ... More Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents two distinct yet related projects by Uta BarthNEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting the newest exhibition by MacArthur Fellow Uta Barth, on view from February 9th through March 11th, 2017. Her tenth exhibition with the gallery consists of two distinct yet related projects: In the Light and Shadow of Morandi and Untitled 2017. Both projects are continuations of a career long engagement with and exploration of visual perception. While her influences span the history of painting, sculpture and installation art, particularly that of Minimalism and the Light and Space movement native to her adopted home of Los Angeles, she has primarily employed the medium of photography, as she continues to be fascinated by the strong similarities and differences between camera vision and that of human eye and mind. The first floor gallery shows her latest project, In the light and shadow of Morandi." Inspired ... More The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center showcases the ceramic sculpture of Misty GambleKANSAS CITY, MO.- Spanning a decade, this collection was brought together to showcase the ceramic sculpture of Misty Gamble. The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center hosts this three-month retrospective. The exhibition highlights several bodies of work and their development. Sculptures from Sweet Terror, Explorations in Multiplicity, Abject Reverie, and Studio Nong over the years are presented in this exhibition of specifically selected works. Recent works, Blue Sunday and Forevermore also are included in the exhibition. Issues surrounding femininity and set standards of normalcy, propriety and the abject inform my work. Through my ceramic sculptures, I confront and challenge conventional standards of womanhood, beauty, and power. My work is meant to upset the status quo so that one may re-examine their own notions of womanhood. I am interested in examining ... More The Dukan Gallery exhibits works by Kimiko YoshidaPARIS.- The Dukan Gallery gives carte blanche to Jean-Alexis Pougatch offering the first exhibition of paintings by photographer Kimiko Yoshida (1963, Tokyo). Since 2001 Kimiko Yoshidas self-portraits have adhered to an unvarying conceptual protocol: always the same subject (herself), the same point of view (frontal), the same lighting (indirect), the same chromatic principle (the subject is painted the same colour as the ground) and the same format (square). Thus the same figure is repeated, but never identically: the more it is repeated, the more it differs. The more it is the same, the more it changes. No Photoshop, no retouching: painting, maquillage and straightforward photography. Kimiko Yoshida is seeking an image that tries to ponder in images the very preconditions of representation; an image conceived out of the necessity to ponder ones own presuppositions ... More Quinn's to host Feb. 18 African-American Artists Auction featuring Merton D. Simpson collectionFALLS CHURCH, VA.- Quinns Auction Galleries will offer fine art from the inventory and personal collection of Merton D. Simpson (1928-2013) as the highlight of their Feb. 18 African-American Artists Auction. Not only a visionary collector and dealer of African and tribal arts, Simpson was also a prolific and celebrated abstract expressionist, creating thousands of artworks in his lifetime. A native of South Carolina, Simpson overcame both childhood illness and segregation on the path to becoming a respected, widely collected artist. At the age of 13, Simpson was brought under the tutelage of fellow Charleston artist William Melton Halsey. Halsey helped develop the youngsters skills and introduced him to the world of abstract art, even providing the financial backing for Simpsons first solo art show. This close bond lasted for the remainder of Halseys life. ... More Spectacular water show opens Venice CarnivalVENICE (AFP).- The Carnival of Venice, which each year draws thousands of revellers dressed in masks and period costume, got under way in the iconic Italian city on Saturday with a stunning show staged on its famous canals. The show, celebrating "the beauty, the sea and the vanity," according to organisers, provided the grand opening for one of the world's most celebrated carnivals which will run this year until February 28. Some of the performers, sporting blue butterfly wings, appeared to be suspended in the air as gondoliers carried torches below. "It's fabulous," enthused Monica, a young American from Tennessee, who came to the event, complete with mask and cape. The second part of the festival on the water will take place on Sunday with a flotilla of unique carnival boats. The Venice carnival is thought to have started in 1162. Abandoned ... More Tucci warns Trump could have 'devastating' impact on artsBERLIN (AFP).- Hollywood actor-director Stanley Tucci said Donald Trump's administration could have a "devastating" impact on the arts and "civilised society", as he unveiled his new biopic at the Berlin film festival Saturday. Tucci ("The Devil Wears Prada") presented "Final Portrait", a depiction of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti's twilight months in Paris, when he painted American writer James Lord in 1964. The movie stars Australian Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush as the temperamental sculptor and painter, swearing up a storm in French, English and Italian, and Armie Hammer ("The Social Network") as his muse of the moment Lord. Asked ahead of the film's red-carpet premiere about the state of the arts at home under Trump, Tucci painted a bleak picture. "I can only imagine with this administration that if they have their way they will eviscerate the National Endowment for the Arts ... More Exhibition with recent photographs and a video work by Rineke Dijkstra on view at Galerie Max HetzlerBERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting an exhibition with recent photographs and a video work by Rineke Dijkstra in Goethestrasse 2/3. For the series Emma, Lucy, Cécile (Three Sisters, 20082014) Rineke Dijkstra made photographic portraits of three sisters in Amsterdam, once a year for seven years. She had a special reason for this choice: the sisters are almost exactly seven years in age apart. In 2008, when Dijkstra took the first photographs, Emma was eighteen years old, Lucy ten, and Cécile four. The series of twenty-one portraits now on display at Galerie Max Hetzler thus has a range of intriguing implications. For one thing, Emma, Lucy, Cécile represent all ages from four to twenty-fouronly seventeen is missing. More importantly, the differences in age between the sisters make them representative of each stage of youth: Cécile is the bashful, ... More Rare and limited Hermès handbags dominate for Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- An Hermès 30 cm Matte White Himalayan Nilo Crocodile Birkin sold for $93,750 in Heritage Auctions' Winter Luxury Accessories Signature Auction Feb. 2-3 in Dallas, Texas. Hermès handbags dominated the highest sale price positions once again dominating the top spots with four handbags each breaking the $40,000 barrier and the top eight handbags, all Hermès, totaling $340,000. The Winter Luxury Accessories Signature Auction total sales realized $1,172,065. We are known for offering rare and limited edition handbags and this auction included a magnificent Hermès 30cm Matte White Himalayan Nilo Crocodile Birkin, one the most desirable handbags in the world, selling for $93,750,"said Diane D'Amato, Heritage Auctions Director of Luxury Accessories. The handbag on the cover of our Winter Luxury Accessories catalog featured a truly stunning Hermès ... More Cross-cultural works of art from China and Japan to be exhibited by Jorge Welsh at TEFAF Maastricht 2017LONDON.- For the 30th anniversary of TEFAF Maastricht, the gallery Jorge Welsh Works of Art will unveil an important collection of Chinese export porcelain and Japanese export lacquer. Some of the highlights include: A rare and large cistern, from the Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795), measuring 40 by 43cm, and decorated with a view of Westgate, Canterbury, England. This cistern was probably meant to be used as the centrepiece in social gatherings, where a shared drink was served. In Europe hot water vessels were used by the host for refilling tea and coffee pots or to serve hot punch and contained an outer compartment filled with hot water to keep the contents of the cistern warm. This exquisite piece was originally owned by William FitzHugh (1757-1803), a supercargo at Canton between 1776 and 1791. It is suggested that the four lions ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Max Beckmann, was born February 12, 1884. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: A visitor looks at the painting "Descant" of Max Beckmann in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, western Germany, Thursday, June 30, 2005.
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