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Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words, presents works that highlight the range of mediums with which this U.S. artist works: from architectural installations, sculptures and neons, to videos, drawings, silk-screening and photography, amongst others. Photo: Pablo Asenjo © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- Museo Picasso Málaga presents Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words, an exhibition on an artist whose innovative work centers on his understanding of art as an activity or process, rather than as the production of objects. This is his first major exhibition in Spain for 25 years. With abundant references to music, dance, literature and philosophy, Bruce Naumans work generates in viewers the kind of responses that are associated with provocation, conflict, tension, disorientation, and anxiety, via a relentless repetition of language and form. Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words, brings together almost one hundred works that highlight the range of mediums with which this U.S. artist works: from architectural installations, sculptures and neons, to videos, drawings, silk-screening and photography, amongst others. Bruce Nauman (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1941) has spent more than 50 years inventing ways to convey both the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An archaeologist uses a brush to uncover the remains of two skulls at a site in Sidon in southern Lebanon on July 4, 2019. An expedition affiliated with the British Museum in London reported the discovery at College site in Sidon of a well-preserved grave for two male adult warriors dating to the 19th century BC, buried with weapons and a bronze belt, in addition to other remains of animals. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
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 | | UK debut of Linda McCartney retrospective at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | | Water system of medieval German city gets world heritage status | | Statue on Slovenia's Melania tourist trail divides opinion | 
Linda by Paul. Scotland, 1970. © Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney.
GLASGOW.- A major retrospective of photography by Linda McCartney has opened in the UK for the first time at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It runs from 5 July 2019 until 12 January 2020. The Linda McCartney Retrospective, which is curated by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, features iconic names and moments in music from the 1960s, along with more intimate and emotional later work by this acclaimed and prolific photographer. The retrospective also includes one of Linda McCartneys diaries from the 1960s, which is displayed in public for the first time. It brings new insight into the contemporary music scene of the era and the beginnings of her photographic career. The exhibition also features ephemera and archive material, including Lindas cameras, photographic equipment and a vintage magazine, that have been uncovered from her expansive archive. Sir Paul McCartney said ... More | | 
A picture taken on July 3, 2019, shows a view of the small power plant at the Wolfzahnau near the city of Augsburg, southern Germany. Christof STACHE / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- The German city of Augsburg was Saturday granted World Heritage status by UNESCO for its over 800-year-old water management system boasting an aquaduct, water towers, ornate fountains, canals and hundreds of bridges. The 2,000-year-old city in Bavaria state calls the system which has since the Middle Ages provided clean drinking water and sanitation an "intricate interplay between the innovative spirit and a technical tour de force". The old town centre of Augsburg, located on Germany's Romantic Road, is criss-crossed with canals and boasts over 500 bridges, "more than in Venice", according to the city. "The history of water in Augsburg is linked to the cultural and artistic wealth of this city," Thomas Weitzel, the city's cultural affairs director, told AFP. "Augsburg considered water such a precious asset that it has always sought to protect ... More | | 
The life-size statue on the outskirts of Sevnica was carved into a tree using a chainsaw. AFP Photo/Jure Makovec.
SEVNICA (AFP).- After Melania cake, Melania honey, and even Melania slippers, the Slovenian hometown of the US first lady will now boast a statue of its most famous daughter -- albeit one that has faced decidedly mixed reviews. The life-size statue on the outskirts of Sevnica was inaugurated on Friday and is the brainchild of 39-year-old American conceptual artist Brad Downey, who says it's the first monument anywhere dedicated to the wife of US President Donald Trump. The sculpture was carved into a tree using a chainsaw and depicts Melania in a blue dress raising her left hand in a waving gesture, emulating a pose she struck at her husband's 2017 inauguration. Its somewhat naive style has led some critics on social media to brand it a "scarecrow". "I can understand why people might think that this falls short as a description of her physical appearance," Downey told ... More |
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| | | Clark Art Institute explores the Venice Biennale through unique collection of materials | | Special three-day auction event celebrates Elizabeth Taylor | | Thrilling yarn: tapestry depicts 'Game of Thrones' saga | 
Maria Papadimitriou (Greek, b. 1957), cowbell from Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÃ, Greek Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015. 3 Ã 2 5/8 in.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Venice Biennale is the largest and longest-running recurring art exhibition in the world, attracting global interest and participation. In addition to a themed exhibition curated by an artistic director, more than eighty national pavilions and dozens of officially sanctioned collateral events occur during the six-month event. There is a long history of special publications and related materials that are produced in support of these exhibitions. Since 2007, the Clark Art Institutes library has built an unparalleled collection of these editioned artworks, books, posters, publicity materials, and other, more unusual objects. This summer, visitors to the Clark have the opportunity to experience the Biennale through the lens of these items. Arts Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale, 20072019 presents ... More | | 
Taylor's Edith Head Academy Award gown.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions has partnered with House of Taylor, the entity that preserves and sustains Elizabeth Taylor's legacy, to announce its highly anticipated event Property from the Lifestyle of Elizabeth Taylor to take place from Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 8, 2019 at The Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. This special, three-day event celebrates the luxurious lifestyle and singular career of one of the greatest Hollywood legends of all time, Elizabeth Taylor. On offer is a spectacular collection of her iconic fashions, film costumes and accessories, by designers Christian Dior, Edith Head, Gucci, Nolan Miller, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and more, all worn by the three-time Academy Award-winning actress and humanitarian who dazzled the world with her ravishing beauty, larger than life celebrity persona, and fearless ... More | | 
Embroiderers work on the final section of a tapestry depicting the hit television series Game of Thrones at the Ulster Museum in Belfast on July 5, 2019. Paul Faith / AFP.
BELFAST (AFP).- In a Belfast museum, seamstresses are at work depicting gory battles and warring kings in shimmering threads of red and gold -- an epic homage to the TV phenomenon "Game of Thrones". The team of volunteers at the Ulster Museum are putting the final touches to a 90-metre (300-foot) tapestry depicting all eight seasons of the fantasy saga, which reached its dramatic conclusion in May. "Game of Thrones", which first hit screens in 2011, was produced and chiefly filmed in studios in Belfast and in the Northern Irish countryside. The Northern Irish public have taken the series to their hearts. "A tapestry is, more than anything else, a great storytelling device," explained Valerie Wilson, costume and textiles curator at National Museums Northern Ireland. ... More |
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| | | Christie's announces a sale comprising sixty outstanding animal and figurative bronze sculptures by Dylan Lewis | | Yoko Ono opens Manchester International Festival 2019 with mass bell ringing for peace | | Brazilian bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto dead at 88 | 
Sitting Cheetah Pair. Edition AP3. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. © Kent Andreason
LONDON.- Christies will present Dylan Lewis: Shapeshifting on 10 September, a sale comprising sixty outstanding animal and figurative bronze sculptures by the renowned South African sculptor. Over the past decade, Dylan Lewis has been creating a unique seven-hectare sculpture garden in South Africa located in the foothills of the Stellenbosch mountains situated outside Cape Town. To facilitate further expansion of the garden he has decided to release works from his personal collection to be auctioned. Created by the artist over the past two decades, these sculptures are the last remaining commercially available examples of each edition. Acquired by both collectors and royalty, many of Dylan Lewis sculptures are also in public collections. The top lots of the sale are Running Cheetah Pair II (estimate: £60,000-100,000) and Leopard Lying on Rocks (estimate: £60,000-100,000). Estimates range from £2,000 to £100,000. Andy Waters, Cu ... More | | 
Bells for Peace at MIF19. Photo: Danny Lawson.
MANCHESTER.- Yoko Ono invited members of the public to gather in Cathedral Gardens on 4 July 2019 to open Manchester International Festival 2019 with Bells for Peace, a mass gathering to send a message of peace to the world. Thousands of celebratory voices and a peoples orchestra of bells from the UK and abroad rung and sung out for peace and welcomed the world to Manchester. Yoko Ono has been among the worlds leading artists for more than 50 years. From her early Bed-in collaborations with John Lennon in 1969, to her ongoing WAR IS OVER! campaign, Ono has boldly communicated her commitment to social justice throughout her career, creating works that blur the boundaries between art, politics and society. This new commission is the first major work she has created for the city of Manchester. In the lead-up to the event, participants were invited to take part in bell-making workshops and choral groups prepared responses to Onos message of peace. Bells were provided for participants ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on August 24, 2008, Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto, 77, walks on stage before his presentation at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Ari Versiani / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Joao Gilberto, the legendary Brazilian musician and songwriter who was a pioneer of the lilting, melodious music known as bossa nova, has died, his son Joao Marcelo announced Saturday. He was 88. The cause of death was not immediately known. "My father has passed," the son, who lives in the US, wrote on Facebook. "His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity in light of losing his sovereignty." Gilberto, whose soft voice singing "The Girl From Ipanema" in the 1960s made him world famous, was living alone in a borrowed house at the end, deeply in debt in Rio de Janeiro. Known both for his smooth singing voice and his guitar playing, Gilberto brought the sounds of bossa nova -- meaning "new trend" or "new wave" -- to jazz festivals and concert halls around the world, putting Brazilian music on the map. Bernardo Araujo, a music critic for the daily O Globo ... More |
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| | | Kunsthalle Mannheim opens exhibition of works by Hector Prize 2019 winner Hiwa K | | Major exhibitions of Tal R and Roy Oxlade launch Hastings Contemporary | | Legendary film director David Lynch takes over HOME in Manchester | 
Hiwa K, Alchemy of Love © Daniels.
MANNHEIM.- The winner of the Hector Prize 2019 is Hiwa K. The artist comes from the Kurdish part of Iraq and has been living in Germany for more than 20 years. With his conceptually and narratively convincing artworks, Hiwa K raises questions dealing with homeland, identity, social and geopolitical power relations. His stories are closely associated with his own biographywith the armed conflicts in his homeland Kurdistan, the experiences of migration, globalization, nationalism, and propaganda. One of the stories that Hiwa K tells is dedicated to the insight gained through radio and television that a world beyond ones own horizon exists. For example, in the antenna sculpture Qatees (2009) or the video installation My Fathers Colour Period (2013) that brings together 16 old black-and-white TVs whose screens are covered with colour foils. The idea goes back to his father who in 1979 brought ... More | | 
Installation view.
HASTINGS.- Hastings Contemporary, a new, independent art gallery opened 6 July 2019. Set on the historic Stade on the seafront in Hastings, the gallery will champion international modern and contemporary art exploring all art forms commencing with a particular focus on the medium of painting. To celebrate its launch, Hastings Contemporary opened with two major exhibitions: Tal R: eventually all museums will be ships and Roy Oxlade: Shine Out Fair Sun. Tal R: eventually all museums will be ships explores the work of international contemporary artist Tal R and reveal new works. Tal R works with a wide range of media from painting to textile design, sculpture to video art, and he constantly renews and enriches his artistic practice and way of working. Known for his unique ability to experiment, reinterpret and create afresh, Tal R is a versatile artist whose work explores and takes inspiration from his surroundings. The exhibition ti ... More | | 
David Lynch, Woman With Small Dead Bird, 2018. Courtesy of the Artist and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles.
MANCHESTER.- Manchester International Festival and HOME, Manchester, present David Lynch at HOME - a special season of art, film, live concerts and talks offering a rare and fascinating insight into the mind and work of the legendary film director. The season includes My Head is Disconnected (6 July - 29 September) - the first major UK exhibition of visual art by David Lynch, featuring large-scale paintings, drawings and sculptures. David Lynch has been developing his visual artistic practice for over four decades. Before becoming an internationally renowned filmmaker, he trained as a painter at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has gone on to produce a prolific body of work across painting, sculpture, photography and drawing. While the visual quality of Lynchs film work has widely influenced other ... More |
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 An ambitious new exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of Wysing Arts CentreCAMBRIDGE.- Wysing Arts Centre announced an ambitious new exhibition to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Staged across Wysings 11-acre rural site, All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding considers art as magic, artists as magicians, and the studio as a magical site.* The exhibition features new commissions from artists Jill McKnight, Tessa Norton, Pallavi Paul, Imran Perretta and Morgan Quaintance alongside works from Jonathan Baldock, Anna Bunting-Branch, Olivier Castel, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Shana Moulton, Harold Offeh, Heather Phillipson, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Phil Root and Tai Shani. The exhibition begins as an idealistic retelling of The Sorcerers Apprentice, the tale in which an apprentice uses the masters magic to cause chaos in the unattended studio, before being caught and punished. In a deliberate act of misreading, ... More Gray's auction will feature fine jewelry and coins from across the United StatesCLEVELAND, OH.- A summer auction featuring more than 200 lots of mostly fine jewelry and coins is slated for Wednesday, July 24th, by Grays Auctioneers, online and in the Cleveland gallery at 10717 Detroit Avenue, starting at 11 am Eastern. The full catalog is up now and pre-bidding is open at www.GraysAuctioneers.com. Bidding is also available on LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Previews will be held at Grays gallery, Monday thru Friday, July 18th to 24th, from 10 am to 5 pm; and on Saturday, July 20th, from 12 noon to 4 pm. All times quoted here are Eastern. All lots will be available for in-person examination during the previews. This is a delightful summer auction, featuring a fine collection of jewelry and 19th and 20th century coins from across the United States, said Serena Harragin ... More Koen Vanmechelen's 'homage to the mix of life' opens in the city of GenkGENK.- On 6 July 2019, LABIOMISTA officially opened its gates to the public. This unique, evolving work of art by Koen Vanmechelen is a vigorous hybrid of art, science and society. LABIOMISTA is a homage to the mix of life itself, says the artist, who realised this project in close partnership with the city of Genk. LABIOMISTA is the embodiment of Koen Vanmechelens art and philosophy. Internationally acclaimed for its exploration of the intersections between art, science and community, his oeuvre spans 20 years and ranges from painting and sculpture to video art, mixed-media installations and living art projects. Vanmechelen is motivated by his belief in art as a catalyst for mutual understanding and as a guiding light in our search for answers to the great challenges of the 21st century in particular - the relationship between nature and ... More Decoders-Recorders: De Appel opens a dual solo show with Steffani Jemison and Samson YoungAMSTERDAM.- De Appel, in its first collaboration with Looiersgracht 60, announces Decoders-Recorders a double solo exhibition by New York based Steffani Jemison and Hong Kong based Samson Young. Each artist investigates distinct forms of notation, gesture, and alternative languages to articulate suppressed social histories and contemporary predicaments. Samson Young, a classical composer by training, makes works on paper, videos, performances, and complex installations that explore the geopolitical underpinnings of sound and linguistics. Born and based in Hong Kong, Young takes a particular interest in borders and binaries and the remaining dichotomies between east and west in places like his home, where post-colonialism defines every part of everyday life. This exhibition includes Muted Chorus, the fifth iteration of Youngs ... More Camden Arts Centre opens Wong Ping's first solo exhibition in a UK institutionLONDON.- Camden Arts Centre opened the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Hong Kong-born artist Wong Ping. Wong is the inaugural recipient of Camden Art Centres new Emerging Artist Prize (2018) and presents an ambitious exhibition installed across the gallerys iconic spaces. The exhibition showcases a group of the artists most recent animated films, installed within his bespoke installation environments. Described as sino-futurism, Wongs digital and sculptural works combine a contemporary aesthetic with more archetypal content often employing absurd narratives that reveal very human, and often universal, pathologies and fantasies lurking within the collective unconscious. Drawing anecdotally from his own personal social encounters, he elaborates his stories into darkly humorous tales that touch on political and cultural ... More Police pursuit vehicle for sale with H&H Classics at BuxtonLONDON.- This white Triumph TR4 police chase car was the stuff of nightmares to Essex drivers in the 1960s - for anyone driving recklessly or speeding. The British police often used sports cars as pursuit vehicles in past decades, Daimler Darts and cars like this Triumph. Today, sadly for the police, it is more usually a high performance BMW estate with strengthened suspension and beefed up brakes. Italy of course, where things are done differently, you will still see cars gifted by Lamborghini in police livery. Almost worth it to have a speed chase with the Italian Carabinieri for the story it would provide. The H&H Classics TR4 has been the subject of a comprehensive restoration by Marque experts Revington TR. It comes complete with working signs, Winkworth bell, air horns and spot lamps, a VHF Pye Vanguard radio in the boot, extended wing mirrors, Dunlop ... More Artist Tania Bruguera opens school led by migrants in Manchester Art GalleryMANCHESTER.- School of Integration is a new commission by leading Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera for Manchester International Festival 2019. Local people and those who have migrated from countries around the world will give free classes on a curriculum that includes languages, culture, ethics, politics, economics and many other forms of knowledge. Open and free to all the school will run classes daily until Saturday 20 July. Every teacher will pass on their experiences to anyone interested in developing new skills, resulting in a new kind of shared learning experience. Shifting the responsibility of integration from the immigrant to the wider community, this new work draws Manchester closer to those who have made the city their home. Most recently shown in Tate Moderns Turbine Hall, Tania Bruguera's work pivots around issues of power and control, ... More Galerie Bene Taschen opens a major European retrospective of work by Arlene GottfriedCOLOGNE.- Galerie Bene Taschen is presenting a major European retrospective of work by the New York photographer Arlene Gottfried, following her death in 2017. The exhibition brings together photographs from the early days of her career in the 70s to her later works in the 2000s. The show includes both Cibachrome and Vintage Silver gelatin prints, some of which Arlene Gottfried printed herself prior to her death. Arlene Gottfried took her first photos as a teenager at Woodstock in 1969. After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she worked for various advertising agencies and later as a freelance photographer for various newspapers such as The New York Times Magazine and The Independent. However, she continued to return to the New York districts of Coney Island and Crown Heights, where she grew up. Arlene Gottfried ... More Kopeikin Gallery opens a group exhibition of mixed media artworks LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery presenting The Vision Board a group exhibition of mixed media artworks curated by Elizabeth Valdez. Artists participating are: Rebecca Bird, Nancy Buchanan, Alejandro Cartagena, Jamison Carter, Carolyn Castaño, JooYoung Choi, Kevin Cooley, Joseph Cultice, Jen DeNike, Fabian Debora, Michael Dee, Margaret Griffith, Chris Finley, Carla Jay Harris, Pearl C Hsiung, Bettina Hubby, Salomon Huerta, Elizabeth Huey, Nina Katchadourian, Kiel Johnson, Kysa Johnson, Laura Krifka, Mark Licari, Jordie Oetken, Amy Park, William Powhida, Monique Prieto, Osceola Refetoff, Fawn Rogers, Gretchen Rollins, Erika Rothenberg, Katie Shapiro, Guy Richards Smit, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Elizabeth Valdez, Marnie Weber, Sarah Ann Weber, Christopher Williams and Melanie Wilhide. The exhibition opened on Saturday, June ... More Gazelli Art House opens group exhibition 'bahith'LONDON.- Gazelli Art House is presenting bahith (seeker in Arabic), the first exhibition of a series that will look at the historic identities of countries undergoing significant socio-political and economic change. The show opens with Ouroboros, a film developed by Basma Alsharif around the concept of the 'eternal return' and that life is a cycle of recurrences. Influenced by the artist's experience of what is happening to the Gaza Strip, Alsharif forces what it means to witness atrocities against mankind into conversation with other sites and people. Ouroboros will be on display alongside photographic work from her film, High Series. In a perceived departure from notions of war and strife, the exhibition includes works in stone, wood and brass by the Naqsh Collective inspired by embroidery, a quintessential symbol of Palestine. In an effort to ... More Estonians celebrate 150 years of traditional song festivalTALLINN (AFP).- Thousands of Estonians sang together in a massive choir on Saturday as the small Baltic nation marked 150 years since the creation of a song festival credited with protecting national identity even through decades of Soviet occupation. "A song makes an Estonian happy. A song makes an Estonian brave. A song makes an Estonian free," Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid said, kicking off the evening festivities before she also sang in the choir. This year's event in Tallinn includes over 35,000 singers and 11,500 dancers plus musicians, all dressed in colourful regional folk costumes. Tens of thousands of Estonians from hundreds of choirs competed this past winter to join the giant choir which has been the highlight of the traditional event held regularly since 1869. Attracting audiences also numbering in the tens of thousands and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Bruce Conner died July 07, 2008. Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 - July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. In this image: Bruce Conner, A MOVIE, 1958, 16mm to 35mm blow-up, b&w/sound, 12min. Digitally Restored, 2016. Courtesy Kohn Gallery. Courtesy Conner Family Trust ©Conner Family Trust.
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