| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Sunday, July 1, 2018 |
| | | Forgotten treasures rediscovered: Sotheby's London exhibits ancient works of art | |
|
|
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask, 21st/22nd Dynasty, 1075-716 B.C. Estimate £100,000-150,000 / An Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portrait of a Girl, Roman Period, Trajanic, circa late 1st/early 2nd Century A.D. Estimate: £60,000-90,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Following the strong results of last seasons sale, which soared beyond pre-sale expectations and totalled £3.9 million, Sothebys forthcoming sale of Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art will return to London with a vast selection of works spanning ancient Egypt and the Near East to Classical Greece and Rome. Sothebys Worldwide Head of Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art, Florent Heintz, says: Not only does this years sale offer an incredible selection of objects spanning 2,600 years, but, through dogged and comprehensive research, we have been able to trace several of the objects back to important collections, and to identify works of art once thought lost, including a Roman wallpainting fragment which once belonged to Gothic novelist and arbiter of taste Horace Walpole and a Roman portrait of a man which once belonged to Wilton House - imagine our delight in discovering that the portrait I had been starin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The full moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion, some 70 km south of Athens on June 28, 2018. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP
| Monarch of the Glen returns to Scottish National Gallery after landmark nationwide tour | | 'Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s' opens at the Neuberger Museum of Art | | John Singer Sargent's numerous Chicago connections explored in new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago |
In this file photo a National Galleries of Scotland technician readies for transport Landseers masterpiece The Monarch of the Glen (c.1851) as it embarks on a nationwide tour. Photo: Neil Hanna © National Galleries of Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- One of the worlds most celebrated paintings Sir Edwin Landseers iconic The Monarch of the Glen (c.1851) has returned to the Scottish National Gallery after completing its landmark tour of Scotland. Landseers masterpiece famously depicting a proud stag imperiously surveying a Highlands landscape arrives back in Scotlands capital city after travelling across the nation, with the public now having enjoyed the painting in major art galleries and community events in the east, west, north, south and centre of the country. Across its tour The Monarch of the Glen was seen by over 28,000 visitors, from those in galleries to schoolchildren engaging with the artwork in various communities. Additionally, the Inverness, Paisley and Perth galleries all experienced double their average visitor figures from the previous year ... More | |
Alex Katz, Track Jacket, 1956, Oil on Masonite, 24 x 18 in. , Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 1995.062. Art c. Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
PURCHASE, NY.- For the first time in the New York metro area, Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, the largest museum exhibition to showcase the artists work from his pioneering period in 1950s, will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York. The exhibition, organized by the Colby College Museum of Art in close collaboration with the artist (who will be 91 in late July), is currently on national tour. Featured are more than 60 works from public and private collections, including many rarely seen works from the artists own holdings. Brand-New & Terrific will be on view at the Neuberger Museum from July 1 through October 14, 2018. According to Diana Tuite, curator of the exhibition, which opened at the Colby College Museum of Art in 2015, Brand-New & Terrific brings into focus the artists little-known, formative work from which his ... More | |
John Singer Sargent. Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897 (detail). The Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- From July 1 through September 30, 2018, the Art Institute of Chicago will present an exhibition of American portraitist John Singer Sargent with a focus on his numerous Chicago connections. Featuring nearly 100 objects from the Art Institutes collection, private collections, and public institutions, John Singer Sargent and Chicagos Gilded Age examines Sargents impressive breadth of artistic practice and the network of associations among the artist, his patrons, his creative circle, and the city. Through the lens of Sargents work, this exhibition explores the cultural ambitions of Chicagoans to shape the city into a center of art, the development of an international profile for American artists, and the interplay of traditionalism and modernism at the turn of the 20th century. John Singer Sargent (18561925) was the most sought-after portraitist of his generation, creating powerful, striking likenesses of h ... More |
|
| Rare work by Ferdinando Tacca heads up sculpture offering at London Art Week Summer 2018 | | Keith Sonnier's first museum survey in 35 years opens at the Parrish Art Museum | | Tauba Auerbach 'dazzles' historic fireboat in New York Harbor |
Ferdinando Tacca, (Florence 1619-1686), A documentary group of the Monument to Ferdinando I deMedici. Bronze. Overall height: 73.7 cm (29 in). Height of pedestal: 33.4 cm (131/6 in).
LONDON.- A highly important documentary bronze group of the Livorno Monument to Ferdinando I deMedici by Ferdinando Tacca (Florence 1619-1686), is just one of the major sculpture highlights offered at London Art Week Summer 2018, a series of important selling exhibitions currently taking place at 40 galleries across St. Jamess and Mayfair, until 6 July. Recent research by Trinity Fine Art, the gallery presenting the Tacca bronze, has revealed this group to be a ricordo commissioned directly by the Medici family: furthermore, the 1716 inventory of Palazzo Pitti pinpoints the exact room in which the work resided after its commission until it was sold. The bronze group, which stands 73.7 cm tall, also features the famous bronze captive Moors of Pietro Tacca (Carrara 1577-Florence 1640), Ferdinandos father. Further important sculptures that are essential viewing at London Art Week include, at Tomasso Brothers Fine Art (celebrating 25 years), a ... More | |
Keith Sonnier (American, born 1941), SHMOO - O.G.V. , 2013. Neon tubing, acrylic, aluminum, electrical wire, and transformer, 131 x 92 1/2 x 4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery, New York. Courtesy Keith Sonnier Studio, Photograph © 2018 Caterina Verde. © 2018 Keith Sonnier Studio/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents Keith Sonnier: Until Today, the first solo exhibition in 35 years in an American museum of work by the pioneering figure in the fields of conceptual, post-minimal, video, and performance art who radically reframed the function of sculpture. On view July 1, 2018 through January 27, 2019, the exhibition considers the full extent of Sonniers achievement with more than 30 works that reveal his diverse output from 1967 to the present. Keith Sonnier: Until Today features the artists important and ever-evolving neon sculpture, as well as sound pieces, a site-specific neon installation in the Museums spine, and work rarely shown in the U.S.large-scale sculpture influenced by his deep interest in other cultures. The exhibition, organized for the Parrish Art ... More | |
Tauba Auerbach, Flow Separation, 2018. Commissioned by Public Art Fund and 14-18 NOW and presented on Fireboat John J. Harvey in New York Harbor July 1, 2018 May 12, 2019. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery. Image by Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Starting July 1, Public Art Fund and 14-18 NOW will present Flow Separation, a new exhibition by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach in which the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey will be painted in a contemporary dazzle camouflage pattern. Throughout the summer and fall, the dazzled fireboat, currently docked at Pier 66a in Hudson River Park, will be anchored at various docks around New York Harbor and on weekends will offer free, timed trips for the public, continuing John J. Harveys 18-year tradition since her retirement as a working fireboat. Auerbachs work draws inspiration from the unlikely vibrant camouflage designs painted on ships that crossed the Atlantic during World War I. Developed by British painter Norman Wilkinson, the designs were characterized by bold, highcontrast patterns that would distort the ships, ... More |
|
| Japan Christian sites added to UNESCO World Heritage list | | Luhring Augustine opens an exhibition of new large-scale sculptures by the British artist Phillip King | | A.M. Qattan Foundation opens new building in Ramallah with 'Subcontracted Nations' exhibition |
This undated picture shows the former Nokubi Church in Nagasaki. JIJI PRESS / AFP.
MANAMA (AFP).- A dozen Christian locations in parts of southern Japan where members of the faith were once brutally persecuted were selected for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list on Saturday. The 12 sites include 10 villages, Hara Castle and Oura Cathedral, a Catholic church in Nagasaki that is dedicated to 26 Christians who were executed for their beliefs over four centuries ago. The decision was announced in the Bahraini capital Manama. In a press statement UNESCO said that the 12 sites "bear unique testimony to a cultural tradition nurtured by hidden Christians in the Nagasaki region who secretly transmitted their faith". Christianity in Japan dates back to 1549, when European Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in the country with two companions and the religion began spreading in western Japan. As more missionaries arrived and the faith spread, Japanese military leaders became increasingly suspicious of its growing influence and a crackdown against ... More | |
Phillip King, Sunrise, 2007. Mixed media construction. Edition 3/3. From an edition of 3 and 1 artist's proof, 53 1/8 x 35 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (134.9 x 91.1 x 20 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting Color Space Place, an exhibition of new large-scale sculptures by the renowned British artist Phillip King, accompanied by earlier works and maquettes. The exhibition marks the artists first solo presentation in the United States in over a decade. Emerging onto the London art scene in the early 1960s, King remains to this day a pioneering figure in the field of sculpture. His carefully composed abstractions bear an affinity to painting, both through the visual interplay of vibrant hues and a resolute frontality. King creates forms with the aim that his sculptures be perceived in their totality from any single vantage point. The array of materials he employs, such as concrete, steel, fiberglass, polyurethane foam, and wood, each prescribe their own means of construction, presenting King with various challenges surrounding movement, strength, and stability. In this regard, the ... More | |
The new building is situated in the al-Tireh neighbourhood in Ramallah, a few hundred metres from Nelson Mandela square.
RAMALLAH.- On the occasion of the inauguration of the A.M. Qattan Foundations new building, its Public Programme announced the names of artists and collectives partaking in its first exhibition, entitled Subcontracted Nations, which runs from the June 28 until the September 29, 2018. The new building is situated in the al-Tireh neighbourhood in Ramallah, a few hundred metres from Nelson Mandela square. Designed by Seville-based architects, Donaire Arquitectos, the buildings dominant feature is a cube of sleek louvres which emits light at night, acting as a metaphor for a lighthouse, thereby underpinning the Foundations aspirations for the building to become a beacon of knowledge and science, a haven for cultural exchange, and an incubator for creativity. The 7,730m² building houses a number of public facilities, including a library, a resto-café, a cinema/theatre, an art gallery, a residency space and a multipurpose h ... More |
|
| SECCA Executive Director Gordon Peterson announces retirement | | New Orleans Museum of Art explores New Orleans' complex past, and looks into the future | | Lisson Gallery opens an exhibition curated by Cory Arcangel and Tina Kukielski |
Peterson was named executive director of SECCA in April 2015.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- The executive director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Gordon Peterson, has announced his plans to retire in September 2018. Peterson has been the executive director of SECCA for three years. Under his leadership, the Museum has continued to enhance perspectives, inspire the community, and ignite new ideas through thought-provoking art exhibitions and community performances. Peterson was named executive director of SECCA in April 2015. After a 30-year career in advertising in New York City, Peterson moved to North Carolina in 1998. He soon found himself connecting with the local art communities as a patron and later as a volunteer, serving on the boards of several local arts initiatives, including the Winston-Salem Symphony, Piedmont Opera, and Triad Stage. When he was named the executive director in 2015, Peterson said, SECCA is a gem. Its a contemporary art museum, but its also so much more. ... More | |
Willie Birch, Waiting for a Serious Conversation About the History of New Orleans, 2017. Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper Image courtesy of the Artist and Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, an exhibition that celebrates the New Orleans Tricentennial by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city. Projects by artists Katrina Andry, Willie Birch, Lesley Dill, L. Kasimu Harris, Skylar Fein, The Everyday Projects, and The Propeller Group each shed light on the past while also looking towards the future, returning to defining moments in New Orleans history that continue to frame art and life in the city today. Changing Course is on view at NOMA June 29 through September 16, 2018. In New Orleans Tricentennial year, this exhibition will allow visitors to reflect on how our citys histories have shaped our responses to present-day issues and concerns, while considering how the past can help spur evolution and ... More | |
Lonnie Holley, Grounded by the Lightning Rod, 2017. Steel and copper wire, 198.1 x 116.8 x 58.4 cm, 78 x 46 x 23 in © Lonnie Holley; Courtesy James Fuentes Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery presents 'Difference Engine', an exhibition curated by Cory Arcangel and Tina Kukielski. Emerging from two polesthe machines mechanistic logic on the one hand and the fetishistic objectivity of surrealism at the otherthe works in 'Difference Engine' explore the art of contradiction. André Bretons surrealist doctrine of objective chance drew inspiration from a now well-known, singular quote by the young poet Comte de Lautréamont who tragically died at the age of twenty-four: The chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. Difference Engine explores a similar conceit, ripe with the undercurrents of our twenty-first century technological narcissism set in stark contrast to its utopian possibilities. The exhibitions title is taken from Charles Babbages name for his invention of a calculating engine ... More |
|
href=' href='
Antonio da Trento's "Martyrdom of Two Saints" - Conservation Treatment
| More News |
Exhibition focuses on southern women artists
ATHENS, GA.- According to feminist artist Judy Chicago, work by women artists makes up only 3 to 5 percent of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. Southern artists are also underrepresented, and work by southern women artists is rare. The exhibition Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection features 42 of the latter and made its debut at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. On view June 30 through September 23, it focuses on works by women who worked throughout the South between the late 1880s and 1960 and is organized by the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina. In conjunction with the exhibition, the University of South Carolina Press has issued a companion publication of the same name in which several notable art historians offer insight on the achievements of these artists. ... More
Galerie Michael Janssen transformed into a space reminiscent of a nineteenth-century salon
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen celebrates the summer with their exhibition Petersburger Saloon. Filled bottom-to-top with works by Mario Ybarra Jr. and the Brothers Posin, the gallery is transformed into a space reminiscent of a nineteenth-century salon. Conveniently placed furniture enhances the effect and invites viewers to linger amid the stacked paintings while encouraging conversation in a manner befitting the social exhibition space. Discussions might include the thrills and upsets during the 2018 World Cup or the vast scope of politics (always contentious), but whatever the topic may be, the fervor will soon die away as visitors realize they are encircled by masterworks of art history. But how is it possible? How is it that artifacts from Antiquity and sacred Russian ikons come to be nested between the some of the great examples of landscape and ... More
Exhibition of Stephen Hannock's recent paintings opens at Marlborough Fine Art
LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of Stephen Hannocks recent paintings, The Oxbow, from Thomas Cole to Alfred Hitchcock, 28 June 28 July 2018. The exhibition coincides with The National Gallerys survey of 19th Century English-born American painter Thomas Cole, a rare chance to see Coles epic works, most of which are travelling from America, including his masterpiece The Oxbow. Cole continues to fascinate and inspire Hannock and his own interpretation of The Oxbow has become the artists signature motif, attracted by the pivotal role it has played within Art History. The dialogue is extended in this new show to encompass the wider evolution of American storytelling. Hannocks multi-layered approach to painting includes the landscapes of Cole, the stage-like settings of the pre-Raphaelites, and the sweeping panoramas and mis en scène in the ... More
Petzel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Christian Jankowski
NEW YORK, NY.- June 2016: Jankowskis two-year curatorial commitment ends as Manifesta 11 opens in Zurich; the artist begins work for Petzels January 2017 show. November 6th, 2016: Donald J. Trump is elected to be the 45th President of the United States. The Petzel show is canceled. January 2017: We need to talk opens at Petzel; the new president is sworn in; women march on Washington. In spring, London begins divorce proceedings from Europe; Macron wins the presidency of France. Early summer, and the Rohingya crisis swells in Myanmar; global markets soar; the world continues to warm. In the fall, Mohammad bin Salman begins to remake Saudi Arabia; Mosul is liberated; hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria devastate huge swathes of the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico. As the sun sets on 2017, the Weinstein scandal breaks; Robert Mugabe falls; Catalonias ... More
Tacoma Art Museum appoints MoPOP's Matt Marshall as new Director of Development
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum announced the recent appointment of Matt Marshall to the position of Director of Development. Matt Marshall will start at the museum around June 24th, 2018. Matt Marshall hails from a fifth-generation Puget Sound based family, with ties to Seattle and the South Sound region. He earned a B.A. in Film and Theatre Studies at Montana State University, and while in Montana, he began working in film, television, and music. On returning to Seattle, he garnered his first experience as a fundraiser for the groundbreaking non-profit Arts Corps. After a period working in the music and entertainment field in Southern California, Marshall returned to Seattle and development work, first as Manager of Special Events, and then as Major Gifts Officer at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO). His significant achievements at the ... More
Metro Pictures hosts LambdaLambdaLambda for Condo New York
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of Condo New York, a gallery share between New York galleries and national and international partners, Metro Pictures hosts LambdaLambdaLambda from Kosovo. The two-person exhibition includes works by Hanne Lippard and Nora Turato. Both artists practices are informed by language in its many forms and formulations, in the broad realm of expressions found between speech and writing. Using the voice as her main medium, Lippards vocal performance channels a multitude of alter-egos with minimal means, as every text presents a new character, partly autobiographical, partly fictional. Combining personal thoughts with appropriated texts such as advertisements, slogans and news articles, the texts become a mix of private and public language that regain ingenuity and authorship through the use of the voice, ... More
The art of remaking explored in new exhibition at Firstsite
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, is presenting Play It Again: The art of remaking, an exhibition featuring remade objects, events and films, produced by artists and the public. The exhibition showcases how history, contemporary culture and our own everyday experiences inspire repetition, remaking and reenactment in different forms. The exhibition includes the work of contemporary artists Heather Agyepong, Laura Eldret, Michel François and Guillaume Désanges, Sofia Hultén, Hetain Patel, David Sherry, Allison Smith and Gillian Wearing. Also on display is Star Wars Uncut, a project that was produced through crowdsourcing material from members of the public, and historic reproductions made by Peter Shorer. Alongside live action role-play, reenactment has traditionally focused on immersion into history, enabling an individual to experience a ... More
Focal Point Gallery announces the publication of Radical ESSEX
ESSEX.- Following on from the Radical Essex project, which took place throughout 2016 and 2017, this publication includes new writing from Tim Burrows, Gillian Darley, Charles Holland, Rachel Lichtenstein, Jules Lubbock, Jess Twyman and Ken Worpole, as well as photography from Catherine Hyland. It charts a project which set out to re-examine the region in relation to its radicalism, lifestyle, politics and architecture, and shed light on the regions the vibrant, pioneering thinking throughout the twentieth century.
Press. This publication includes archive material that document the wide range of activity including a weekend celebrating Modernist architecture in Essex, and an exhibition charting the history of the countys experimental communities. In their respective essays, Burrows and Worpole reveal how Essex, trapped between the city and the longest coastline ... More
Exhibition at TAI Modern focuses on three generations of Wada Waichisai
SANTA FE, NM.- TAI Modern is presenting Three Generations of Wada Waichisai, an exhibition of 16 works from this influential, but little studied bamboo art lineage. Wada Waichisai I (1851-1904) was a pioneering artist and teacher in the Kansai region. However, his son and grandson, Wada Waichisai II (1877-1933) and Wada Waichisai III (1899-1975), moved away from Japans artistic centers and refrained from public exhibitions while they carried on the family legacy. This special exhibition explores not only the art and history of Wada Waichisai I, II, and III, but also the artist relationship to the Osaka-based bunjin (literati) movement and sencha tea aesthetics. Written history of modern Japanese bamboo art is usually introduced with a chapter stating that three masters set the foundation of this art form in the late 19th century; Hayakawa Shokosai of Funaba ... More
UNESCO lists Korean mountain Buddhist temples as World Heritage sites
MANAMA (AFP).- Seven ancient Korean mountain temples, which typify the way Buddhism in the country has merged with indigenous beliefs and styles, were listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites on Saturday. The seven mountain temples -- Seonamsa, Daeheungsa, Beopjusa, Magoksa, Tongdosa, Bongjeongsa, Buseoksa -- were all established during the Three Kingdoms period that lasted until the 7th century AD. UNESCO made the announcement at a meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama. "These mountain monasteries are sacred places, which have survived as living centres of faith and daily religious practice to the present," UNESCO said in a press statement. Buddhism was imported to the Korean peninsula in the fourth century and accepted by the ancient kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, establishing it as the national religion for ... More
Funding set for a new gallery to display Bundanon Trust's Collection and ensure Arthur Boyd's legacy
BUNDANON.- Deputy Premier John Barilaro, the Minister for Regional New South Wales, and Don Harwin, the NSW Minister for the Arts, announced today a foundational grant of $8.592 million towards realising Bundanon Trusts Masterplan to house and display its collection and expand its childrens education programs. A light-filled conte mporary art gallery embedded in the landscape sits at the heart of the expansion plans for Bundanon Trust on the NSW south coast, gifted to the nation by renowned Australia artist Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne in 1993. $8.592 million, the largest allocation from the NSW Governments Regional Cultural Fund, will enable the building of the gallery and storage component of the project, designed to display and house the Bundanon Trusts $43 million art collection. This tranche of government funds will contribute ... More
|
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, American architect Buckminster Fuller died July 01, 1983. Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. In this image: U.S. Pavilion Montreal Expo 67. Buckminster Fuller, 1967. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.
|
|
|
