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Installation view of The Long Run. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 11, 2017November 4, 2018. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck.
NEW YORK, NY.- Innovation in art is often characterized as a singular eventa bolt of lightning that strikes once and forever changes the course of what follows. This installation provides an alternative view: by chronicling the continual experimentation of artists long after their breakthrough moments, it suggests that invention results from sustained critical thinking, persistent observation, and countless hours in the studio. The artists presented here, broad-ranging in background and approach, are united in their ability to produce rigorous and inspiring work, year after year, across decades. These galleries feature works from the second half of the twentieth century. Rather than showing artists early efforts, we visit them later in their careers. Familiar namesLouise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Georgia OKeeffe, and Andy Warhol, among others are represented through less familiar works. Also present are key works by figures who may be less well-known. Al ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors pose for photos in front of an ice sculpture on the opening day of the annual Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province on January 5, 2018. The festival, featuring dozens of huge ice sculptures lit up by coloured lights, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. GREG BAKER / AFP
| Sotheby's to offer Saint Margaret by Titian and Workshop | | Moscow militants arrested after vandalising US photographer's show | | New York authorities, seeking stolen art, search billionaire's flat | 
Titian and Workshop, Saint Margaret. Oil on canvas. Estimate $2/3 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York Evening auction of Master Paintings on 1 February 2018 will offer a monumental and striking painting by Titian and his workshop. One of only two known versions of the subject by the artist, Saint Margaret (estimate $2/3 million) was first recorded in the English royal collection of King Charles I (1600 1649), where it was displayed alongside the King's most highly prized works at Whitehall Palace. The present work is being offered at a particularly poignant time, as the Royal Academy of Arts upcoming exhibition Charles I: King and Collector (27 January 15 April 2018) seeks to reunite the Kings treasures that were dispersed following his execution. The painting will be on public view in our New York galleries beginning 26 January, during Sothebys annual Masters Week exhibitions. During his reign, Charles I competed ferociously with the great powers ... More | | 
The latest attack came when the three members of a small militant cell visited the exhibition.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Three members of a Russian militant group were arrested Saturday after hurling liquid at exhibits in a Moscow show by controversial US photographer Jock Sturges. It was the second time the exhibition has been vandalised. In September Kremlin activist threw urine at some of the pictures, forcing the show's closure, after a government advisor condemned the images as "child pornography". The exhibition, at the established Lumiere Brothers Gallery close to the Kremlin is the first to show Sturges' work in Russia and is titled "Jock Sturges: Absence of Shame." Sturges is a well-known photographer whose nude images of children have regularly prompted accusations of paedophilia, which he denies. The Moscow exhibition was reopened at the end of 2017. The latest attack came when the three members of a small militant cell visited the exhibition and decided that an image of a naked woman with a baby ... More | | 
Steinhardt is a well-known collector of Greek antiquities and even has a gallery named after him and wife Judy in the Metropolitan Museum.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Authorities seeking illegally acquired antique artworks have searched the apartment and office of a prominent New York billionaire and philanthropist, prosecutors said. As many as nine pieces were reportedly seized. The target of the inquiry, 77-year-old Michael Steinhardt, made his fortune as a hedge-fund manager. A spokesman for Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. would neither confirm nor deny the seizures Friday but did confirm the searches. Vance has been active for years in trying to repatriate stolen artworks. Steinhardt is a well-known collector of Greek antiquities and even has a gallery named after him and wife Judy in the Metropolitan Museum, not far from their Fifth Avenue apartment. Steinhardt told The New York Times he had no comment on the matter "for now." Copies of search warrants provided to AFP, and ... More |
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| The mysterious, ancient Nine Domes Mosque of northern Afghanistan | | Arts minister steps in to prevent Venetian masterpiece from export | | Freeman's announces highlights from the European Art & Old Masters Auction | 
This photograph shows Afghan labourers working amidst scaffolding for the ongoing conservation work at the ninth-century mosque Masjid-e Haji Piyada. FARSHAD USYAN / AFP.
BALKH.- In the white dusty plains of northern Afghanistan, archaeologists are seeking to unravel the secrets of one of the oldest mosques in the world, whose structure is still standing after a thousand years of solitude. The Nine Domes Mosque, named for the cupolas that once crowned its intricately decorated columns, glimmers with remnants of the blue lapis lazuli stones that encrusted it. Carbon dating in early 2017 suggests the ancient structure in Balkh province was built in the eighth century, soon after Islam swept into Central Asia -- but exactly when, and who by, remains a mystery. The very survival of this modest square of just 20 by 20 metres (65 foot by 65 feet) has beguiled experts. "It's a miracle it's still standing despite time and erosion," said Italian architect Ugo Tonietti, from the University of Florence, who specialises in heritage conservation. The mosque, which ... More | | 
Detail of The Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, by Francesco Guardi.
LONDON.- Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi by Francesco Guardi to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The extraordinary painting is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £26,796,000 (including VAT of £591,000). With its masterful colouring and dynamic composition in which a series of gondolas bisect the Grand Canal, The Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi showcases Guardis atmospheric style and the elegant depiction of light that would come to dominate his later works. Arguably Guardis masterpiece, the painting is considered to be one of the ultimate expressions of Venetian vedute, or view painting. Alongside Canaletto and his nephew Bellotto, Guardi was one of the great Venetian view painters of the 18th century. He was much admired in the 19th century for his impressionistic ... More | | 
Ghirlandaio Workshop (Italian 16th century) Madonna and Child.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On January 23, Freemans will hold its auction of European Art & Old Masters. The sale will appeal to a wide range of collectors and features a broad selection of works dating from the 16th through the 20th centuries including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Some notable artists featured in the sale include Edouard Leon Cortes, Jean Dufy, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Henry Moret, Vasili Ivanovich Shukhaev, Ilia Zankovski, Fikret Mualla, Celso Lagar, William Henry Morgetson, Montague Dawson, William Clark, Hugo Kauffmann, Alexander Max Koester and Hugues Merle. Artworks of note include Lot 41, a Madonna and Child oil on panel painted by the Ghirlandaio workshop under the direction of Michele Tosini (Italian 1503-1577), the Renaissance painter who worked primarily in Florence. The workshop was established by Domenico Ghirlandaio along with his two brothers and welcomed many apprentices over the years including, most ... More |
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| Louvre lays cornerstone of new conservation and storage facility | | Marc Straus opens inaugural solo exhibition by British artist Clive Smith | | ZKM exhibits feminist Avant-Garde works of the 1970s from the Sammlung Verbund Collection | 
The Louvres new conservation and storage facility was created to protect the museums collections.
PARIS.- The cornerstone of the new conservation and storage facility to house the reserves of the Louvre was laid in Liévin (northen France) in December by Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Culture; Xavier Bertrand, President of Région Hauts-de-France; Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Musée du Louvre; Sylvain Robert, President of the Lens-Liévin urban area; and Laurent Duporge, mayor of Liévin. The event kicked off a project that will reach completion in the summer 2019, under the aegis of the architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The Louvres new conservation and storage facility was created to protect the museums collections from the risk of centennial flooding and improve conditions for conservation and research. Approximately 250,000 works, currently stored in over 60 locations both inside and outside the Louvre palace, will be brought together here. The new research and study facilityone ... More | | 
Clive Smith, A Little Life, 2017. Oil on canvas, 45 in 114.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting the gallerys inaugural solo exhibition by British artist Clive Smith. The opening reception will be on Sunday, January 7 from 5 7pm, and the exhibition will remain on view through February 9, 2018. In a series of new paintings, Clive Smith, a celebrated conceptual portraitist, eschews the human figure and yet captures the intensity seen in the best of portraits. Here Smith places an intricate bird-nest on an exquisite ceramic plate. In this incongruous juxtaposition, Smith tacitly comments on an inconvenient issue: species extinction by unintentional human consumption of the natural world. Beak, Claw, Hand, Brush (1.9.1914) refers to the demise of the Passenger Pigeon, once the most numerous of birds in North America. At 1pm on 1st September 1914, the last of the species, named Martha, died in the Cincinnati zoo; the first time the exact moment a ... More | | 
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Lucy), (1975/2001). B/W gelatin silver print © Cindy Sherman / Courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York / SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Wien.
KARLSRUHE.- The ZKM is showing an extensive exhibition with over 400 art works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, put together by founding director Gabriele Schor. In the 1970s, female artists began to subvert cultural constructions of the female, and in doing so, use their bodies as a projection surface for social codes and their criticism. Using new media such as photography, film and video, and in performances and events, the artists deconstructed the existing restrictive cultural and social conditioning, the mechanisms and automations to suppress women. For the first time in the history of art, female artists took the representation of women in visual arts in hand, together, by developing a multitude of self-determined female identities: provocative and radical, poetic and ironic. The claim of the ... More |
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| Smithsonian marks 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 | | Jason Jacques Gallery presents Pop paintings and contemporary ceramic sculpture at FOG Design + Art Fair | | Pace Gallery exhibits works by Yin Xiuzhen | 
The two objects on display are a pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Fair Housing Act April 11, 1968 and a handout promoting fair housing in the Belair development in Bowie, Md., in 1963.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History has opened a new display case to share the story of the signing of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 with visitors to its Within These Walls exhibition. This landmark civil rights legislation was the result of years of individual and collective struggle against discrimination in sales, financing, rental and other housing-related transactions. The act protects the buyer or renter of a dwelling from discrimination based on race, color, religion and national origin; later amendments expanded protections. The two objects on display are a pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Fair Housing Act April 11, 1968, which is on loan from the Lyndon B. Johnson ... More | | 
Rick Owens, Stag Bench Left, 2016. Plywood, moose antler, 50h x 23w x 38d.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery will present rare pop paintings with contemporary ceramic sculpture at the FOG Design + Art Fair, which opens with a gala preview on Wednesday January 10 and continues through January 14, 2018 at The Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Says Jason Jacques: We are very excited to present this major collection of pop paintings by Belgian artist Pol Mara, who was critical to the movement that included Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, and Roy Lichtenstein and was instrumental in advancing the genre of pop art during the sexual revolution. According to gallery director Jason T. Busch, a curated selection of ceramic sculptures by Aneta Regel and Eric Serritella will be offered. The work of these artists respond to human interaction with nature, says Busch. Rounding out the presentation is Rick Owens signature concrete minimalist ... More | | 
Installation view.
BEIJING.- Pace Beijing is presenting Yin Xiuzhen's solo exhibition Back to the end. As the eighth installment in Pace Beijing's annual program Beijing Voice, this exhibition marks Yins return to Beijing after four years, and sifts through the spiritual threads behind the artist's recent works. As one of the most influential and active Chinese contemporary artists in recent decades, Yin has been included in many landmark exhibitions and events since the 1990s, and represented China as one of four artists at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Her gaze on social reality has always unfolded along a fine concrete thread of the individual condition, and captured, with keen, poetic creative intuition, the disorientation and unease that lies behind the mainstream atmosphere of this rapidly developing society. Using a series of sculptural installations made from everyday materials to visualize subtle individual perceptions and the oft-overlooked i ... More |
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 New Virtual Reality piece by Chinese painter Yu Hong on view at Faurschou Foundation BeijingBEIJING.- The fifth and final Virtual Reality artwork of the exhibition, Virtual Reality Art, is a new piece by Chinese painter, Yu Hong, premiered at Faurschou Foundation Beijing. In the piece, Shes already Gone, the viewer is invited to follow the life of a female character from birth to old age. As the characters life moves forward, the viewer will notice that history itself moves backwards. Yu Hong has hand-painted every detail within each scene, bringing her artistic language into the Virtual Reality world. When compared to the previous Virtual Reality works shown at Faurschou Beijing, Yu Hongs piece is yet another example of the broad spectrum that Virtual Reality Art works with. The overall exhibition, Virtual Reality Art, is exhibited in Beijing from August 27, 2017 to February 3, 2018, and consists of five consecutive sub-exhibitions for each participating ... More In broadest view yet of world's low oxygen, scientists reveal dangers and solutionsWASHINGTON, DC.- In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as Earth warms. To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrient pollution, an international team of scientists asserted in a new paper published Jan. 4 in Science. Oxygen is fundamental to life in the oceans, said Denise Breitburg, lead author and marine ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The decline in ocean oxygen ranks among the most serious effects of human activities on the Earths environment. The study came from a team of scientists from GO2NE (Global ... More Artpace & Contemporary Art Month announce partnership & artists for 2018 PerennialSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace & Contemporary Art Month announced their partnership for the 2018 CAM Perennial Exhibition. Every March San Antonio artists, performers and curators present the best the community has to offer at art institutions around the city. At the core of Contemporary Art Months 2018 Perennial Exhibition is San Antonios deep-rooted connection with The Canary Islands, whose settlers arrived in San Antonio in the 18th century. Artpace is an organization with a global scope but a local heart, said Artpace Executive Director Veronique Le Melle. We are thrilled to partner with CAM to exhibit work that exemplifies the historical ties between San Antonio and The Canary Islands and brings together such a talented roster of local and international artists. The 2018 CAM Perennial pairs artists in a cross-cultural exchange between San Antonio ... More January's winter stillness is mirrored by the quietude and restraint of Esther Solondz's work BOSTON, MASS.- The continuing evolution of Esther Solondzs fascination with and experimentation with transformative materials is expressed in her new work. For the past ten years, shes worked with substances that, over time, turn themselves into something else: dripping salt water that forms stalagmites, iron filings that rust to leave a suggestive image. This installation is comprised of materials one might assume would go unnoticed, but in fact these are exactly the things Solondz is most interested in. In her home in New Hampshire, where Solondz spends the summers, she started noticing more closely the remnants and traces of animals and insects. Ants would invade her mudroom and crows were eating her berries. Instead of working to extinguish their existence, she used them to create art. She placed paper on the ground onto which she placed ... More Items from past U.S. Presidents and First Ladies will headline University Archives' Jan. 17 auctionWESTPORT, CONN.- Former United States presidents and their wives will take center stage in University Archives online-only auction of autographs, books and relics slated for Wednesday, January 17th, at 10:30 am Eastern time. Bidders can view all lots now, at the University Archives website, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Online bidding is being facilitated by Invaluable.com. The sale is packed with 218 lots of important, scarce and collectible signed documents and other items relating to some of the most important names in all of history. The top lot could well end up being from First Lady Martha Washington, whose handwritten and signed letter from 1794, regarding a meeting of The President and James Madison, should finish at $25,000-$30,000. This letter was previously auctioned at Christies in 1989, in the prestigious Doheny collection. Speaking of the ... More The sculptural traditions of Africa and Europe come together in exhibitionBERLIN.- For the first time the sculptural traditions of Africa and Europe have come together in a conversation of the continents on the Museumsinsel Berlin. Over 70 major works of African sculpture from the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) are on display in the Bode-Museum. Art from western and central Africa meets masterpieces from Byzantium, Italy, and central Europe. Never before have the sculptural traditions of these two continents been compared so extensively. The preparations for the move to the Humboldt Forum offer us a unique opportunity to place the non-European holdings of the Staatliche Museen in dialogue with other works, reaching across the boundaries that traditionally divide the collections, says Michael Eissenhauer, Director-General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Director of the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische ... More Photobookfest 2018: The dates of the festival's second season have been revealedMOSCOW.- The second Moscow emerging photography and photobook festival PHOTOBOOKFEST kicks off April 19 and will be open until June 17 2018. While the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography will remain the main venue for the event, this years visitors also are in for a varied programme in museums, libraries, educational and creative spaces in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other Russian cities. PHOTOBOOKFEST will begin accepting applications for Photobook Dummy Contest as soon as January 15. The contest is open to photographers and artists from Russia, CIS countries, Ukraine and Georgia. The deadline for submission of applications is early May. Detailed information about conditions and deadlines for application will be soon available on the website of the festival. The 2017 contest winner was a project by a photographer Ikuru Kuwajima ... More Exhibition at Shoot the Lobster brings together new work by Rafael Delacruz and Harsh PatelLOS ANGELES, CA.- The title, which is meant to make reference to the format of a 7" record, pits the construct of a "duo" show against itself with a "side A and side B". Developing the work for this show individually over a period of months, both R. and H. delve into personal and cultural history to synthesize a distinctive view on their early influences. In R. Tunnel, Delacruz revisits personally significant storefront spaces from Berkeley, California. These works pay tribute to the changing landscape of the Bay Area while inserting fictional narratives and self portraits that play with the hippie/ counter-cultural tropes customarily attributed to the region. Some of underground landmarks might only be recognizable to Berkeley locals. There is a duality in Delacruz's process that mirrors the dual nature of the spaces depicted. Like Patel, Delacruz's paintings begin as digital renders. ... More Shulamit Nazarian presents Fever Pitch, a series of new paintings by Wendell GladstoneLOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian is presenting Fever Pitch, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Wendell Gladstone. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past decade, Gladstone has produced figurative paintings that evoke dream-like spaces, free from the logic that typically governs traditional representation. He uses allegory and metaphor to examine a wide swath of cultural referencesfrom art history to contemporary politics and personal experienceand allows his subconscious to guide the narratives. The new paintings in Fever Pitch continue the artists interest in surreal states. Each piece carefully balances figuration and abstraction, as if stuck between reality and a feverish hallucination, so that the scenes feel both familiar and strange. The nonlinear spaces and bright, acidic colors portray ominous ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Erik Jones on view at Jonathan LeVine ProjectsJERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting Armor, a solo exhibition of new work by Erik Jones. In conjunction with the show, the gallery will release a limited edition print by the artist in mid-January more details to follow. Indeed, Jones subjects appear to be wandering about in a dream kingdom, and the clouds of color permit both reality and abstraction to coexist in a sea of fashion-like see-throughs. He depicts glamorous, divine Adonises and Venuses, their beauty pushing beyond their painted skin, asking whether they are mind or body à la Descartes. - Deianira Tolema, Author. Jones returns to the gallery for his second solo exhibition comprised of mixed-media works that masterly blend hyperrealism and geometric expressionism. Nude female subjects are the calming foreground in a hurricane of vibrant colors and shapes, creating non- ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter and educator Thomas Lawrence died January 07, 2018. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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