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Roy Lichtenstein, River Scene, 1987. Oil, acrylic on canvas, 198,1 x 304,8 cm (78 x 120 in). © The Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / Bildrecht Wien, 2019. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London Paris Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- A leading pioneer of the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtensteins innovative use of the brushstroke, reducing the form of the painted stroke to its simplest expression, led to a new visual language which he elaborated to reach new heights in the 1980s. Engaging with a new subject matter, the brushstroke-form, Lichtenstein refined and reinterpreted the techniques and palette of his iconic Pop style. The Loaded Brush at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, an in-depth exhibition focusing on this seminal period of Roy Lichtensteins career which follows numerous historic and institutional shows in the United States, brings together rarely seen works that span major figurative and abstract paintings, sculptures, collages and drawings. Together, the brushstroke sculptures and paintings constitute a significant portion of the artists oeuvre and demonstrate some of the guiding interests of Lichtensteins ongoing artistic develop ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors light petroglyphs with electric torches during a night visit to the Archaelogical Park in Campo Lameiro, northwestern Spain, on July 26, 2019. The Galicia region hosts one of the most important open air collections of rock carvings in Europe and the Archaelogical Park has an outstanding collection of Bronze Age petroglyphs. MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
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| | | Gagosian Beverly Hills displays work by Indigenous Australian artists | | Exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne comprises more than 100 original photographs by Aenne Biermann | | World's largest concert piano strikes chord in Latvia | 
George Ward Tjungurrayi, Untitled - Kirrimalunya, 2007. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 96 1/8 x 72 1/8 in. 244 x 183 cm. George Ward Tjungurrayi, © Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian is presenting a sequel to the critically acclaimed Desert Painters of Australia, again drawing from the distinguished collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield. This is the first time that the work of Indigenous Australian artists is being shown in Los Angeles since Icons of the Desert at UCLAs Fowler Museum in 2009. Evolving out of ancestral rituals of mark making practiced for many thousands of years, such as tree carving, body painting, and sand drawing, painting on canvas is a fairly recent phenomenon for remotely based Indigenous Australians, linked to the forced displacement in the late 1960s of communities such as the Pintupi, Luritja, Warlpiri, and Arrernte peoples to the Papunya settlement in the Northern Territory. This social upheaval inadvertently created a resilient hub of artistic production: out of communal work on canvas, wall, and ground emerged the ... More | | 
Aenne Biermann, View from my Studio Window, 1929. Silver gelatine print, 23.6 x 17.3 cm. Photo: Sibylle Forster. Ann und Jürgen Wilde Foundation, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
MUNICH.- Today, Aenne Biermann (18981933) is considered one of the major proponents of New Photography. Although she was only active as a photographer for a few years and, unlike her female colleagues Florence Henri, Germaine Krull and Lucia Moholy, for example, had neither an artistic training nor moved within the avant-garde circles of major urban centres, Aenne Biermann developed her own markedly modern pictorial style that established her position as a representative of contemporary avant-garde photography within a very short time. Clear structures, precise compositions with light and shadow, as well as cropped images focussing on specific details are characteristic of Aenne Biermanns photography. They elicit a unique poetry from the people and objects in her everyday surroundings and establish an intimacy with things, as Aenne Biermann wrote in 1930. Growing up in a Jewish factory owners family on the Lower Rhine, Aenne Biermann did not move on to ... More | | 
Piano constructor and builder David Klavins stands next to his new creation, the M470i vertical concert grand piano, with a height of 4,70 meters, at the new "Lativa" concert hall in Ventspils, Latvia, on July 23, 2019. Ilmars ZNOTINS / afp.
VENTSPILS (AFP).- Soaring to new musical heights, a German-born innovator has crafted what is believed to be the world's largest grand piano. It is without question one of a kind: attached high on the wall of a concert hall in Latvia, the steel-framed vertical grand piano hangs as if in mid-air some three storeys above the audience. To play it, pianists must climb a steep flight of steel stairs to a balcony. Although the Guinness Book of World Records has not yet measured the new instrument, it was made by David Klavins whose Model 370 piano unveiled in 1987 is currently regarded as being among the world's largest. Klavins' standard new model, the 470i Vertical Concert Grand piano, has strings that are 4.7 metres long. The custom-built 470i piano installed at a new concert hall in the Baltic seaside port and resort town of Ventspils is even larger; its imposing navy blue-painted steel frame is six metres high. With some strings measuring almost ... More |
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| | | Budapest 'selfie museum' a hit with Instagram generation | | Sotheby's leads the watch auction markets in 2019 (YTD) | | RIBA reveals Stephen Lawrence Prize 2019 shortlist | 
Young visitors make photos at the 'Selfie Museum' in Budapest downtown on July 17, 2019. The newest attraction in the Hungarian capital opened this year in a two-level 400m2 area. ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP
BUDAPEST (AFP).- A new so-called 'selfie museum' in Budapest that lets visitors pose by pink palm trees and frolic in multicoloured sprinkle baths has proved a hit with social-media savvy locals and tourists alike. With almost 30,000 visitors since it opened last December, the "Selfie Museum", billed as the first of its kind in Europe, is already one of the Hungarian capital's most popular attractions. Its creators say their idea, inspired by a similar venue in the US, is targeted at the younger generation looking for an edge to their status updates or profile pictures. "We play with shapes and colours, and try to push people's borders and let their creativity bloom," Lilla Gangel, who co-founded the museum with her partner Balazs Koltai, told AFP. Visitors entering the first of 11 exhibition rooms are met with palm trees growing from the walls and pink-coloured ceilings and surroundings. "Here you can stand out from the ... More | | 
George Daniels Space Traveller I, from the Masterworks of Time collection, rocketed to a sky-high £3.6m ($4.6m) in London in July. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's international watch auctions achieved $12 million this July, led by exceptional results for Masterworks of Time: George Daniels ($10.1 million); Watches Online ($705,965); and Omega Speedmaster: To the Moon and Back ($1.2 million). These sales capped off one of the most successful seasons in the history of Sotheby's Watch department, placing it ahead of the competition this year. Since the beginning of 2019, the company's watch auctions have brought a combined total of $59 million a 54% increase over the same period in 2018 ($38.2 million). In addition to that, private sales have enjoyed a significant increase. These results were driven by record prices, highly curated live auctions, the growth of innovative online sales and the continued influx of new participants. Furthermore, earlier this month we saw historic benchmarks set with the first wave of sales dedicated to Masterworks of Time - one of the mo ... More | | 
The-Green-House, Tiverton, by David Sheppard Architects. Photo: Joakim Boren.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2019. The prize was set up in memory of the teenager who was on the road to becoming an architect when he was tragically murdered in 1993. Supported and founded by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, it is intended to encourage new architectural talent and award the best projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million. The six shortlisted projects are: A black timbered house located within a rocky depression with spectacular views across the water, An ingenious, experimental, carbon-neutral private house made almost entirely from cork, An original tall tower house standing amongst trees and moulded into its surrounding environment, A derelict horticultural glasshouse transformed into a community garden and versatile event space A family home with warm welcoming interiors, created using a material palette of brick, ... More |
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| | | Aperture opens Delirious Cities, the 2019 summer open exhibition featuring international talent in photography | | Duane Allman, Graham Nash Collection push Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Auction above $1.9 million | | New California art destination launches with world-famed light installation | 
Sara Abbaspour, Untitled, 2019. Courtesy of the artist © Sara Abbaspour.
NEW YORK, NY.- This Thursday night, Aperture reveals Delirious Cities, the sixth annual Summer Open exhibition at Aperture Gallery, featuring twenty-three artists from fourteen countries working in photography, video, and other lens-based media. Inspired by Rem Koolhaass iconic 1978 manifesto Delirious New York, the exhibition considers how the city is an ever-changing landscape, a laboratory of identity, a place of contested freedom, and a supermarket of desires. Delirious Cities is the second Summer Open to be curated by a guest jury of leading photo editors. This year, the jury includes Brendan Embser, managing editor, Aperture magazine; Matthew Leifheit, artist and editor of MATTE Magazine; Chiara Bardelli Nonino, photo editor, Vogue Italia and LUomo Vogue; Azu Nwagbogu, director of African Artists Foundation and LagosPhoto; and Guadalupe Rosales, artist and founder of Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz. Through their photograp ... More | | 
Duane Allman's Circa 1961/1962 Gibson SG, Cherry, Solid Body Electric Guitar, Serial #15263 Owned and Played by Graham Nash, which Nash played after he acquired it, sparked a flurry of competitive bidding until it claimed top-lot honors when it sold for $591,000, more than twice its pre-auction estimate.
DALLAS, TX.- Guitars that were owned, and in some cases also played, by the legendary Graham Nash, and Tupac Shakurs prison identification card were among the top attractions as Heritage Auctions Entertainment & Music Memorabilia auction totaled $1,934,237 July 20-21 in Dallas, Texas. Guitars owned and/or played by Nash accounted for 13 of the top 15 lots in the sale. Graham Nash is one of the greatest rock n roll guitarists of all time, and any instrument he played has immediate appeal to serious collectors, Heritage Auctions Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Director Garry Shrum said. But he also is a lifelong student of music and great musicians, so the fact that he recognizes and appreciates the greatness of other artists whose guitars he collected only ... More | | 
Internationally-acclaimed artist Bruce Munro has created his largest work to date, Bruce Munro: Field of Light at Sensorio in Paso Robles, CA on display from May 19, 2019 - January 5, 2020. © 2019 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Serena Munro.
PASO ROBLES, CA.- Sensorio, an immersive new destination located in Paso Robles, California, announced the opening of its first phase with an illuminated art installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bruce Munro. The British-based artist created his largest site-specific project to date, with the enormous multi-acre walk-through artwork, Bruce Munro: Field of Light at Sensorio. Field of Light is a sculptural composition that covers Sensorio's rolling hills with an array of over 58,800 stemmed spheres lit by fiber-optics, gently illuminating the landscape in subtle blooms of morphing color. Powered by solar, the stunning exhibition captivates visitors, inviting them to engage with the countryside through an ethereal light-based, sculptural experience. Bruce Munro: Field of Light at Sensorio is on view through January 5, 2020 ... More |
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| | | Museum partners with the Texas School for Blind and Visually Impaired to provide Touch Tours | | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden opens an exhibition of works by Monika Grabuschnigg | | Crocker unveils new acquisition: Al Farrow's "Bombed Mosque" | 
For the blind and visually impaired, the UMLAUF is developing a program they call Touch Tours, which provide patrons with a guided tour through the garden and assistance when describing and interacting with the sculptures.
AUSTIN, TX.- The UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum has partnered with the Texas School for Blind and Visually Impaired to create an intriguing program with an offering unparalleled by most of today's museums. For many, the word museum seems boring with guests restrained behind ropes and red lines, where the closest you can get to the art is a safe distance of five feet or more. However, for the UMLAUF, art is experiential. Not only are a vast majority of their Charles Umlauf sculptures and guest exhibitions nestled in the leafy green of the outdoors, but many of them can be touched and felt by patrons. While most of us experience art with our eyes, there are some that must rely on another sense, touch. For the blind and visually impaired, the UMLAUF is developing a program they call Touch Tours, which provide ... More | | 
Monika Grabuschnigg, In Delirium I Wear My Body, Installation view, studio space 45cbm, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2019. Photo: Michelle Mantel.
BADEN-BADEN.- How do we experience the real today? What is it made of and how does our bodily perception change with our reality? Studio space 45cbm at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents the exhibition In Delirium I Wear My Body by Berlin-based artist Monika Grabuschnigg (*1987 in Feldkirch, Austria). In her first institutional solo exhibition, she deepens her ongoing exploration of the effects of digitality and virtuality on the physical body and human self-awareness. For the exhibition, Monika Grabuschnigg created three seemingly free-floating ceramic reliefs, staggered into the depth of the space. The lightness of the presentation contrasts with the sculptures material presence. The sturdy ceramic elements are visibly textured, marked by the traces of their manual production, eliciting the desire to touch the various surfaces and experience them sensually. The ... More | | 
Included in the artists 2015 solo exhibition at the Crocker, this piece deals specifically with acts of terrorism in Pakistan targeting Shiite mosques.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the unveiling of a new acquisition, Al Farrows powerful and compelling sculpture, Bombed Mosque. An anti-war statement, Bombed Mosque is constructed of more than 50,000 bullets and shell cartridges and weighs 780 pounds. Included in the artists 2015 solo exhibition at the Crocker, this piece deals specifically with acts of terrorism in Pakistan targeting Shiite mosques. While the front appears complete and balanced, the rear reveals a gaping hole. Bombed Mosque is one of the Farrows two most important works, the other being Cathedral which is owned by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Other sculptures by Farrow depict synagogues and places of worship, as it is not the artists intention to denigrate any single belief, but to be mindful and probing of all. Farrows sculptures are exactly realized and meticulously ... More |
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Contemporary Dance--Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit | Met Performances
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 Yorkshire Sculpture Park unveils three-metre-tall Seated Figure by artist Sean HenryWAKEFIELD.- Seated Figure (2016), a three-metre-tall painted bronze sculpture, by artist Sean Henry went on display in its new home at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from today. The sculpture, of an anonymous man sat on a traditional three-legged travelling stool, has been relocated to YSP from Castleton Rigg in the North York Moors National Park. Seated Figure is positioned high up in a quiet area of the Park overlooking a valley, in line with the artists wish for visitors to go and find him. It joins more than 80 sculptures and installations in over 500 acres of country park from those by some of Britains most well-known artists, such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Damien Hirst, all of whom grew up in Yorkshire, to works by world-class international artists including Ai Weiwei and Jaume Plensa. Henrys work often plays with scale. From a distance, ... More Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran presents a group exhibition organized by Julia Dault and Brian SholisMONTREAL.- Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran is presenting TOUCH SCREEN, an exhibition organized by Julia Dault and Brian Sholis which brings together artists whose works evoke partitions, scrims, and portals. The artworks presented here seem to push back and forth across thresholds, but the screens they evoke are anything but those of our electronic devices. Instead, materials and close observationof the world, of mark-makingare gateways to form and meaning. The artists share compositional strategies and conceptual foundationsoften across mediums. Ruby Sky Stilers puzzle-like collages, which draw together fragments of language and pattern, echo in the shards of light scattered across a glassy skyscraper in MÃ¥rten Langes photograph Reflected Light. Jessica Eaton and Gerald Ferguson both use repetition to structure their compositions: ... More Sun Museum opens an exhibition of works by Xie ZhiguangHONG KONG.- Sun Museum is presenting the exhibition Abbreviated Expressiveness in Chinese Painting: Expressive Painting in Blue-and-White and Expressive Painting by Xie Zhiquang, from 26 July 2019 to 5 October 2019. The exhibition showcases over 160 pieces of blue-and-white porcelain made by the Ming and Qing folk kilns and more than 20 pieces of paintings by modern Shanghai artist Xie Zhiquang (1900-1976) selected from the Yun Quan Studio Collection. Abbreviated expressive paintings first emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty. Rendering in simple and bold brushstrokes to capture the features of the subject, artists employ expressive depiction yet without losing its form. With this drawing style as the theme, the exhibition highlights the simple and abstract decorative drawings on the Ming and Qing folk blue-and-white ware as well as the ... More Exhibition commemorates the 25th anniversary of Korean online gamesSEOUL.- Game a Game /invite you_ commemorates the 25th anniversary of Korean online games. /, the slash, is a command symbol widely used in the online game chat system. The exhibition implies to invite each and everyone who enjoyed, enjoys and will enjoy online game. The cursor, _, is to open conversation over online game, blinking with the audiences original perspectives and interpretations. The online game has become one of the most progressive ways of communication with its interactiveness between virtual and real space. Korean online game is a virtual content with global competitiveness and a fundamental media that leads to unpredictable changes in real world. As users participation adds touches on the developers virtual world and AI that analyzes and reacts to the accumulated data comes into play, online game is now standing in front ... More Samplers Collection debuts at Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. Aug. 14MOUNT KISCO, NY.- A hallmark of the monthly Red Carpet auctions at The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. is the diversity of goods on offer, ranging from Midcentury Modern to antiquities. Buyers, especially Americana aficionados will be pleased to discover a trove of schoolgirl samplers at its next auction on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 10 am. Schoolgirl samplers were an important part of a young girls education in America in the 1800s and 1900s, teaching her necessary skills in the needle arts, which she would need to run her own household one day. Most common were alphabet samplers, which contained rows of letters and numbers, the quality of the stitching indicative of the girls sewing mastery. Many collectors also gravitate to highly elaborate pictorial samplers on which buildings, trees, landscapes, animals and people were also wrought onto the sampler via ... More Hanna Tuulikki presents Deer Dancer for Edinburgh Art Festival at Edinburgh PrintmakersEDINBURGH.- Commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers, Hanna Tuulikkis new audiovisual installation, Deer Dancer, incorporating music and costumed choreography on film, is presented alongside a series of visual score print works made during a residency in the print studio at Edinburgh Printmakers. Premiering at Edinburgh Art Festival the work explores masculinity in 'gender performance' and how hunting mythologies shape and impact real ecologies. Deer Dancer has been created following research of representations of deer within dance from across cultures and further informed by experiential research of hunting practice. Exploring the interconnections between the crisis of masculinity and the crisis of ecology, Deer Dancer is an explicit, contemporary, life-crisis ritual for a damaged planet. The project has grown out of a period of research ... More Exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery features the work of artists Allison Janae Hamilton and ektor garciaASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery opened an exhibition curated by artist Sanford Biggers, featuring the work of artists Allison Janae Hamilton and ektor garciaboth of whom have long- standing relationships with Biggers. Hamilton and garcia are recognized for their complex, narrative-infused tactile sculptures and installation pieces. This exhibition will explore the ways in which both artists use materials to evoke history and define new mythologiesaspects of this approach are also present in Biggers own practice. Titled Tricknology, the exhibition takes its name from a line in a song by the group Brand Nubian that directly calls out the importance embracing ones self, soul, and narrative as one. The exhibition celebrates this concept and practice, while critically viewing the dominant narratives that underlie our knowledge of art, culture, and history. ... More The Contemporary Jewish Museum opens the first major museum survey of the work of Annabeth RosenSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents the first major museum survey of the work of Northern California sculptor Annabeth Rosen, a pioneer in the field of contemporary ceramics. Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped covers over twenty years of the artists work, revealing both the variations and consistencies found within her ongoing explorations of form and process. The exhibition features over 120 of Rosens most influential and dynamic works, never before exhibited on the West Coast. Included are both early and recent ceramic sculptures that range from the diminutive to the monumental, as well as large-scale works on paper that mirror the trajectory of her sculptural practice. Annabeth Rosen, an important Northern California Jewish artist, has been working prolifically for decades ... More Art San Diego announces new dates and venue for 2019SAN DIEGO, CA.- Redwood Media Group (RMG) announced today that Art San Diego, the countys premier contemporary fine art show, is moving downtown to the San Diego Convention Center for its 11th annual show Oct. 10-13. Art San Diego moves from the Wyland Center at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, where it has been the past two years. Art San Diego, with presenting sponsor UBS Financial Services, is highly regarded in the industry for cutting-edge exhibitions and dynamic programming like Art Labs, Art Talks, the LaunchPad Artist, Spotlight Program and the San Diego Art Prize. Art San Diego has emerged as one of the best-attended cultural events in Southern California and continues to grow annually, said Linda Mariano, Redwood Media Groups director of marketing. San Diego is one of the nations most vibrant urban citiesand the convention ... More The Center for Maine Contemporary Art opens an interactive exhibition by Tectonic Industries ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is presenting an interactive exhibition by the collaborative artist pair Tectonic Industries on view through October 6, 2019. The exhibition, Tectonic Industries | DREAMS CAN COME TRUE (If its not working for you, youre not doing it right), is the first show of the artists work in Maine, where they have lived since 2014. In DREAMS CAN COME TRUE (If its not working for you, youre not doing it right), a series of self-help questionnaires that look to address and solve visitors most pressing problems and thus help them to begin living the life of their dreams are presented to the audience. Guided by a series of instructions, visitors navigate the installation in search of self-actualization which can be manifested in an interactive model they can build and leave in the gallery. Merchandise can be purchased ... More PEANA presents an exhibition of works by Ernesto SolanaMONTERREY.- When describing his artistic practice, Ernesto Solana recounts his passion for collecting objects, his fondness for the exploration of landscape, nature, and a growing interest in the instincts that overdetermine us as a species. As if they were amulets endowed with magical powers, his works seem to collapse several narratives and visual references that allow thematic readings and associations, such as his interpretation of the concept of anthropocene -the present geological era whose beginning is understood as the period during which human activities began to affect the climate and the environment- the Linnaean taxonomy system, his admiration for the scientific installations of the American conceptual artist Mark Dion, as well as for the practice of the legendary Ana Mendieta. The various bodies of work that Ernesto has created, and which ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887. Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. In this image: Marcel Duchamp's wanted poster is seen as part of the exhibit, "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portrature," at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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