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Jan Matejko, The Maid of Orléans (oil sketch), 1883. Oil on wood. 68 x 105 cm. Krakow, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie © Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie.
BONN.- At the height of their meteoric careers, Frederic Lord Leighton, Hans Makart, Jan Matejko, Mihály von Munkácsy, Franz von Lenbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Franz von Stuck were celebrated as princely painters (Malerfürsten, literally painter-princes) and enjoyed all the privileges of Europes high society. They were wealthy, respected and moved in the same elite circles as the rich and famous. Their homes and studios were notable for their splendour, and people thronged to have their portraits painted and to see their sensational pictures. Very few artists attained the lofty status of princely painters and the public honours this exalted position entailed. This exhibition is the first to shed light on the phenomenon of the princely painter which transcended national borders, reaching its apogee in the 1870s and 80s before fading away with the outbreak of the First World War. The exhibition focuses on the painters carefully crafted, highly stylised publi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on September 25, 2018, shows a technician setting up for display the bronze age "Ommerschans sword" of the Rijksmuseum of Antiquities during the installation of the exhibition "For the Love of Art" at the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo. Piroschka van de Wouw / ANP / AFP
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 | | Pearl Lam Galleries opens sn exhibition of works by Robert Motherwell | | Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel | | Bulgaria's Plovdiv launches capital of culture festivities | 
Robert Motherwell, Untitled (Black and Ochre on Deep Blue, 1988. Acrylic and collage on canvas board, 50.8 x 40.6 cm.
HONG KONG.- Through his transformative paintings, insightful writing, and influential teaching, Robert Motherwells artistic practice formed the foundation of the acclaimed Abstract Expressionist sensibility. His profound contribution to contemporary art history situates Motherwell as a signal, yet under-recognized, figure in the Western canon. It is under this backdrop that Pearl Lam Galleries presents Arriving at Reality, a comprehensive dual-space solo exhibition of works by Robert Motherwell. Exhibiting at both the H Queens and Pedder Building galleries in a chronological manner, Arriving at Reality features both Motherwells seminal Open series of paintings as well as a survey of related collages spanning his five-decade-long career. In addition, the exhibition aims to contextualize Motherwells corpus through various forms of documentation that situates him alongside his peers. Robert Motherwell (1915 ... More | | 
Chicken, 2018. Pencil on cut paper, 74 by 41 in. 188 by 104.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel at the gallerys Chelsea location at 534 West 26th Street. Titled Masses & Mainstream, this is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery and features an installation of works on paper, ranging in scale from the monumental to the intimate. While Karl Haendels newest work covers a wide range of subject matter from a stack of lawnmowers to a portrait of Barbara Walters, the common thread that links these disparate images is a dialogue between memory, both personal and collective, and national identity. Many of the works on view are drawn from overlooked sources in contemporary American lifecultural leftovers the artist combs through and resuscitates in order to represent an alternate picture of American reality. Other works, like the aforementioned stack of lawnmowers, come from the artists person ... More | | 
Projectors light the sky during the European Capital of Culture 2019 opening ceremony in the south-central Bulgarian town of Plovdiv, on January 12, 2019. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP.
PLOVDIV (AFP).- The Bulgarian city of Plovdiv was on Saturday inaugurated as one of two ancient cities to share the honour of being a European capital of culture for 2019. Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, whose origins date back to the 12th century BC, is known for its Thracian, Roman, Medieval, Ottoman and communist heritage. In a nod to this latest period of history, an exhibition featuring fragments of the Berlin Wall painted by international artists opened on Saturday, kicking off a year of cultural events. Thirty years after the fall of the wall "presenting this new collection in Plovdiv makes a lot of sense", in particular against the backdrop of fresh divisions in Europe, curator Sylvestre Verger said. Hundreds of visitors were able to see around 30 fragments of the wall covered in "street art" or portraits of singers such as David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. ... More |
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| | | Bernard Jacobson Gallery opens 'Prints I wish I had published' | | Sotheby's unveils additional highlights from its 2019 Americana Week Sales | | Paul Holberton publishes catalog to accompany exhibition | 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Deposition of Christ from the Large Passion. Woodcut.
LONDON.- In 1969 Bernard Jacobson opened his first London gallery; a fourth-floor walk-up on Mount Street, Mayfair dealing in prints by international stars, including Warhol and Oldenburg, as well as publishing prints by leading British artists including Malcolm Morley and Robyn Denny. Printmaking fitted the radical, pop-sensibility of the time and Jacobson was part of that heady explosion of interest in the medium. While Jacobson would quickly go on to broaden the scope of the gallery, printmaking was its foundation and printmaking and print dealing remain at its heart. The gallery now holds the most comprehensive collection of Matisse prints of any commercial gallery in the world and regularly publishes and stages exhibitions of new print portfolios by artists including William Tillyer and Bruce McLean. ... More | | 
An Important Scott Family Chippendale Carved & Figured Mahogany Dressing Table, Cabinetwork Possibly by Thomas Affleck (1740-1795); Carving Attributed to James Reynolds (c. 1736-1794), Philadelphia, Circa 1770. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled further highlights from their 2019 Americana Week auctions in New York. Led by An Important Scott Family Chippendale Carved & Figured Mahogany Dressing Table, Cabinetwork Possibly by Thomas Affleck (1740-1795); Carving Attributed to James Reynolds (c. 1736-1794), Philadelphia, Circa 1770, the two-session sale of Important Americana on 17 and 20 January is distinguished by many notable works from distinguished American private collections and institutions, as well as fine furniture, decorative arts, folk art, silver, Chinese export ceramics, prints, historic maps, books and manuscripts. On 19 January, Sothebys will present The Collection ... More | | 
This catalogue explores the work of legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.
LONDON.- Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes explores the work of the legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, focusing on a genre called spalliera that Botticelli employed with staggering originality. The catalogue and exhibition, held at the Gardner Museum, Boston, include significant loans from European and American public collections. Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (14 February 19 May 2019), this catalogue explores the work of legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (about 14441510). Today the alluring and enigmatic Primavera forms the cornerstone of his modern fame, but its familiarity belies distant origins in the heady intellectual environment of Laurentian Florence and the residences of its moneyed elite. Part of a genre called spalliera, so named for ... More |
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| | | Memphis Brooks Museum hires two new curators | | Allan Stone Projects opens an exhibition of works by Dennis Clive | | Marc Straus opens an exhibition of new paintings by the Leipzig painter Ulf Puder | 
Jacobs was most recently the assistant curator of performance at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa.
MEMPHIS, TENN.- The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announced the hiring of Rosamund Garrett, Ph.D. as Associate Curator of European and Decorative Arts and the appointment of Kimberly Diana Jacobs as the museums inaugural Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora. The Brooks Museum, the oldest and only encyclopedic arts museum in the Mid-South region, is located in the heart of Memphis. Garrett, who has nine years of experience working in museums, was most recently the Bridget Riley Art Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery in London, where she worked primarily with European Old Master paintings. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art, which is world-renowned for the history of art and conservation. While Garretts ... More | | 
Dennis Clive, Stunliner #3, 1975, ceramic, 15 x 13 x 41 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects is presenting Dennis Clive Ceramic Transport, on view January 10 February 16, 2019. Ranging in sensibility from the playful to the apocalyptic, Clive utilizes his mastery of clay to both satirize and celebrate symbols of American transport in ten elaborate sculptures from the Allan Stone Collection. Inspired by a dream, Clive began experimenting with clay while taking an elective arts course in college. He began creating highly detailed facsimiles of trucks, planes and automobiles. The clays physicality is apparent in these works, whose surfaces fold and undulate like skin or glisten like polished steel. Wheels, bumpers, headlights and tailpipes are modeled in a manner that is both erotic and humorous. Marvels at a distance, the true extent of Clives abilities lie in the close-up view, when the scrutiny paid to details like undercarriages, windshield reflections, ... More | | 
Puders masterful paintings of apocalyptic landscapes depict desolation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announces their fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by the Leipzig painter Ulf Puder. Ulf Puder belonged to the first generation of graduates from the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts and was on the forefront of a new movement known as The Leipzig School, whose visual language is characterized by both a strong narrative quality and a mastery of the brush. Puders work has long been influential to a younger generation of painters across Europe. With turbulent skies and toppling buildings, Puders masterful paintings of apocalyptic landscapes depict desolation; in fact, they unabashedly present the beautiful power of Nature. Seeing relations between natural forces and human society, Puder reflects on this very coexistence-man-made structures and natural foliage stand side-by-side come what may. Yet, theres a disquieting familiarity to it all. Perhaps ... More |
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| | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of recent work by American photographer James Welling | | Galerie Urs Meile opens a solo exhibition of the young emerging Chinese artist Yang Mushi | | Shackleton's 111-year-old beer barrel returns to Antarctic hut | 
James Welling, Julia Mamaea, 2018 © James Welling. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Transform, an exhibition of recent work by American photographer James Welling at the gallerys Upper East Side location in New York. The three bodies of work on viewJulia Mamaea (2018 ongoing), Bodies (2014ongoing), and Chemical (2010ongoing)were created by the artist using unorthodox photographic procedures. Moving between abstraction and representation, these series are emblematic of the breadth of Wellings ongoing experimentation with the conventions and materials of photography. Since the 1970s, when he was a student at the California Institute of the Arts, Welling has become known for a relentlessly evolving body of images that considers both the history and technical specificities of photography. Emerging at a time when the medium focused on its capacity for mimesis, Wellings work signaled a break with traditional ideas of photography ... More | | 
Yang Mushi, Illuminating 5, 2018. White neon tube, iron sheet, stone-like coating, 128.1 Ã 115.3 Ã 18 cm. The artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is pleased to announce Vanishing into Thin Air a solo exhibition of the young emerging Chinese artist Yang Mushi (*1989). In his third solo presentation after Illegitimate Production and Compulsory Execution, during which the artist used various methods to grind found tools into an array of geometric shapes and textures, the artist furthers his meditations on such topics as urban development, evolution, and labor relations. Illuminating (2018, white neon tube, iron sheet, stone-like coating, sizes varying from 87.5 x 161.9 x 18 cm to 163.6 x 114.5 x 18 cm), a series of neon light works, constitutes the main body of this exhibition. The neon light, a popular material once commonly used to convey advertisements and disseminate ideologies but now widely replaced by LED out of energy efficiency considerations, ... More | | 
The barrel of beer was originally donated to Shackleton by New Zealand brewer Speights in 1907. Photo: Antarctic Heritage Trust.
CHRISTCHURCH .- New Zealands Antarctic Heritage Trust has returned a carefully reconstructed beer barrel to the Antarctic hut that was home to Sir Ernest Shackletons historic Nimrod expedition in 1908. Shackletons hut at Cape Royds is also where the Trust found three crates of Mackinlays whisky encased in ice; a discovery that attracted global attention. The barrel of beer was originally donated to Shackleton by New Zealand brewer Speights in 1907. Its iron hoops and staves were pulled out of Pony Lake, alongside the Cape Royds hut, by caretakers in the 1970s. The Trusts Programme Manager-Artefacts Lizzie Meek says the barrel pieces were left near the hut and remained there, embedded in ice, for decades. The Trust spent four years conserving the hut, finishing in 2008. During that project, we saw some of the staves ... More |
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 Freeman's announces highlights from the Books, Maps & Manuscripts auctionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Kicking off Freemans 2019 auction season is the January 31 sale of Books, Maps & Manuscripts. The inaugural auction features over 400 lots of rare and important books, historical documents, photography, prints, posters and ephemera. Anchoring the sale is the Shearit Hapleatah Archive (Lot 163, estimate: $100,000-150,000). Approximately 200 titlesin 240 volumes comprise this collection which were printed for, and relate to, Jewish Displaced Persons living in camps in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1949; they were called the Shearit Hapleatah, or the surviving remnant. After their liberation from the Nazis in the spring of 1945, hundreds of thousands of Jews lived in campsoften former concentration camps or German army campsthat were run by the Allied authorities. The mission of Displaced Persons camps ... More Lois Lambert Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Serena PotterSANTA MONICA, CA.- Serena Potters paintings and drawings draw not only technically and stylistically, but spiritually and subjectively, on several models. Dutch genre painting of the 17th century and all the schools of genre it spawned determine the historical context in which Potter conceives and orders her images. She answers to the bourgeois need to have a picture tell a story ideally about the beholders or people very much like them but does not necessarily honor the group narcissism that powers that need and (thus) infuses so much genre painting. In fact, unafraid to introduce odd, unlikely circumstances into her pictures and often relying on allegorical and psychological depictions in place of the natural, Potter reveals that she is exploiting the genre tradition to more subversive ends. In her adherence to the narrative, Potter employs a confident ... More Francis M. Naumann Fine Art opens exhibition of works by artist Kathy RuttenbergNEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday January 10th in New York City, artist Kathy Ruttenberg's new exhibition Private Myths / Public Dreams opened at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, with a preview attended by collectors, curators, friends & family as well as fellow artists such as Hugo Guinness & Elliott Puckette, Kiki Smith, Adam McEwen, Katrine Boorman and the artist's mother Janet Lee K. Ruttenberg. Known for a singular and fantastical mix of human, nature, and plant forms in her work, Ruttenbergs extraordinary imagination has enabled her to turn her dreams into her reality. Her imageryboth figurative and biographicalis primarily concerned with the tensions of the natural world and human relationships, expressing a distinctly feminine perspective. Thematically, the natural world and our relationship to it underpin the artists work and feature ... More Inaugural exhibition brings together works by Samuel Jablon, Spencer Lewis, and Maysha MohamediLOS ANGELES, CA.- Lowell Ryan Projects opened its inaugural exhibition, Mind Body Soul. The show brings together three artistsSamuel Jablon, Spencer Lewis, and Maysha Mohamedito explore the complex relationship between abstract painting and our everyday surroundings. Everyday surroundings encompasses a full spectrum of definitions, from the poetics of the city (Jablon), to formal notions of spatiality (Lewis), to the aesthetics of language and earth matter as art materials (Mohamedi). Likewise, the tone varies from spiritual to ironic to referential to irreverentsometimes overlapping. Despite all these differences, the three artists share the same foundational approach. They rely on gesture and coloror more specifically the medium of paintingas a tool to probe their surroundings. Maysha Mohamedis gesture is greatly ... More Roman Cochet's first exhibition at Alexander and Bonin opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announced the opening of Roman Cochets first exhibition at the gallery on January 11, 2019. The exhibition takes its title from the animal who first discovered the Lascaux cave paintings: a dog whose name was Robòt. In the Summer of 1940, four children were exploring the woods of Montignac in Southern France when their dog ran ahead, drawn to a hole in the ground that led to the prehistoric cave paintings. Cochet takes a similar temporal leap in his work, albeit into a posthuman future, as he maps a series of contingent realities devoid of the human subject. In the front and main galleries, recent paintings depict scenes in which humanity appears to have disappeared. A sense of desolation is palpable; pieces of furniture, abandoned bottles, untamed vegetation, and somnolent animals coexist as relics of human ... More World-renowned jewellery artist Wallace Chan holds public exhibition in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Internationally renowned jewellery creator and innovator Wallace Chan is presenting Shapeshifter: The Multiverse of Wallace Chan a public exhibition in Hong Kong, showcasing over 80 unique creations from 14th to 25th January 2019 at the Christies Gallery in Central. The exhibition, epitomising a multiverse of culture, craftsmanship and creativity, will take viewers on a journey through time and space with contemporary sculptures, wearable works of art, and pieces composed of the artists innovations over the past 45 years including the much-celebrated Wallace Cut, titanium mastery, patented jade technology, Gemstone-Setting-Gemstone technique, Secret Abyss, and now, The Wallace Chan Porcelain. To me, jewellery is an art form. Ornamentation means little unless it amalgamates with the human body. I want my creations ... More The Murders of the Green River: Sanam Khatibi opens her second solo exhibition at rodolphe janssenBRUSSELS.- Green River, in Washington State, USA, flows south-eastward from Seattle-Tacoma International airport toward Mt. Rainier National Park. Its trajectory snakes the interstitial annals of human industry into edenic nature, an evergreen idyll. 15 years ago, Gary Ridgway, the most prolific serial killer in American history, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the brutal murders of up to 90 women, many of whom were involved in sex work, a profession that Ridgway both abhorred and fetishized. Ridgway strangled his victims then dumped their bodies in forested areas, mostly around Green River, which earned him the moniker the Green River Killer. He often returned to this landscape to have sexual intercourse with the decaying bodies of his victims. For her second solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, Sanam Khatibi takes the name ... More Protest banner exhibition features work by female artists and writersSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Word on the Street, an exhibition of original political and poetic banners created by renowned female artists and writers, opened January 10 at Artpace. Approximately 30 large-scale banners and flags are on view in the Hudson Showroom and Main Space through April 12. An initiative by arts collective House of Trees in collaboration with The Watermill Center in New York, the exhibition features work by Carrie Mae Weems, Tania Bruguera, Anne Carson, Amy Khoshbin, Laurie Anderson, A.M. Homes, Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Holzer, House of Trees, and Naomi Shihab Nye. The banners and flags were created in collaboration with seamstresses with the Center for Refugee Services in San Antonio. Word on the Street represents a return to Artpace by Mutu, a resident alumnus. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate ... More Jay Robinson dies at 103 years oldWILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Jay Robinson (Detroit; 1 August 1915 9 Jan. 2019) graduated from Yale University in 1937, and later attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where he studied painting under Zoltan Sepeshy, sculpture with Marshall Fredericks and metal work with Harry Bertoia. During World War II Robinson worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) with architect Eero Saarinen. Robinson had his first one-man show in 1947 at the Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Painting in NYC. He is represented in the permanent collections of museums, corporations, universities and private collections here and abroad. Overseas travel to make sketches for later paintings in the studio began with a Tiffany fellowship to the old Belgian Congo in 1950. He returned in 1954 to the Congo and countries along the West African coast, ... More Charity auction to help those affected by the refugee crisisLONDON.- Migrate Art announces Multicolour, a new exhibition and auction fundraising to support those affected by the global refugee crisis. Some of the most significant names in contemporary art will create works using pencils and crayons salvaged from the Calais Jungle refugee camp, formerly home to a community of approximately 10,000 refugees, demolished in 2016. These works will be on view in a dedicated exhibition in March 2019 in London prior to their sale in an auction at Phillips in early April and also online via partnerships with Artsy and MyArtBroker.com. A limited edition of prints for some of the works, and artist-designed clothing will also be available during the exhibition. Confirmed artists include: Anish Kapoor / Annie Kevans / Annie Morris / Chantal Joffe / Conor Harrington / Conrad Shawcross / Edmund De Waal / Gary Hume / Idris ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine was born January 13, 1893. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants.
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