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Installation view of BRUCE CONNER: ITS ALL TRUE. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 3-October 2, 2016. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announce a retrospective devoted to Bruce Conner, spanning his 50-year career. BRUCE CONNER: ITS ALL TRUE is the artists first monographic museum exhibition in New York, the first large survey of his work in 16 years, and the first complete retrospective. Bringing together over 250 objects in mediums including film and video, painting, assemblage, drawing, prints, photography, photograms, and performance, the exhibition will be on view at MoMA (July 3 to October 2, 2016), SFMOMA (October 29, 2016, to January 22, 2017), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (February 21 to May 22, 2017). The exhibition is organized by SFMOMA and co-curated by Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA; Laura Hoptman, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA; Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts, San ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People wearing period costumes take part in a picnic in the gardens of the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Vaux-le-Vicomte castle) in Maincy near Paris on June 26, 2016, during the annual Grand Siecle day event, a rendez-vous for costume passionates. MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP
| Exhibition at National Gallery of Canada highlights the evolution of the chemise dress | | Recent acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish drawings celebrated at the National Gallery of Art | | Two works by the American artist James Turrell on view at the Venet Foundation | 
Henry Raeburn, Jacobina Copland, c. 1794-1798. Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Purchased 1962 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © National Gallery of Canada.
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada presents, as part of its Masterpiece in Focus program, The White Dress, an exhibition that highlights the evolution of the chemise dress and the drastic transformation in fashion around the turn of the nineteenth century. Complementing the Gallerys major summer retrospective of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), the Portraitist to Marie Antoinette, The White Dress offers a rich exploration of the trends and artistic movements of the time. At the heart of this Masterpiece in Focus presentation are two portraits by Vigée Le Bruns contemporaries Scottish artist Henry Raeburn and French artist Anne-Louis Girodet. These magnificent works from the national collection Jacobina Copland (v. 17941798), by Raeburn, and ... More | | 
Jan van Huysum, Bouquet of Spring Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, 1720s, oiled charcoal and watercolor on laid paper, sheet: 39.6 x 30.7 cm (15 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, The Ahmanson Foundation Fund, Linda H. Kaufman Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Glickfield Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Over the last decade, the National Gallery of Art has acquired an exquisite selection of mid-15th-to early 20th-century Dutch and Flemish drawings. Some 20 worksmany on view for the first timecover a range of genres and incorporate a variety of media. Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings will be on view in the West Building from July 3, 2016 through January 2, 2017. Highlights include a page from a 15th-century manuscript (c. 1442) with illustrations by Barthélemy van Eyck (active c. 14351470); a vibrant, full-color miniature of The Adoration of the Magi (mid-1520s) by Simon Bening (1483/1484 1561); ... More | | 
James Turrell, Albion Barn © All Rights Reserved.
LE MUY.- The Venet Foundation is featuring two works by the American artist James Turrell (*1943) as part of its summer exhibition. Turrells light appears thanks to concealed devices that the artist plans out and constructs with great precision. That light reproduces natural phenomena that the artist builds up and stages like a dramatist. Darkness, silence, and the presentation of a perceptual manifestation that is both inexplicable to the eye and beyond human understanding eventually lead to abandoning oneself to contemplation and confronting the sublime. The first work by James Turrell featured this summer at the Foundation is called Elliptic, Ecliptic, and belongs to a series of skyspaces, buildings (in this case egg-shaped) in which viewers are invited to take a seat and observe the sky through a narrow space freed of all visual pollution and illuminated by a device that the artist conceals in the structure. ... More |
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| Flint Institute of Arts to add new gallery wing and makerspace | | Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces The Ellsworth Kelly Award | | Charles M. Russell painting estimated at 1M leads Coeur d'Alene Art Auction | 
Today, the FIA is embarking on a capital project that will raise the profile of the museum and yet another attractive venue for the Flint Cultural Center, the City of Flint, and Genesee County.
FLINT, MICH.- The Flint Institute of Arts is adding a Contemporary Craft Wing and artists maker space as part of a major museum expansion and renovation of its art school. This project is a game-changer for us in terms of providing exhibition and demonstration space that integrates a finished work of art with the process of how it is made, said John Henry, FIAs executive director. It moves us closer to our ongoing goal of becoming a visitor- and family-friendly destination where everyone can learn while having a good time. The Contemporary Craft Wing, designed by architect Frederick Fisher and Partners will add more than 8,000 square feet ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly in his studio, Spencertown, New York, 2009. Photo by Jack Shear.
NEW YORK, NY.- Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced a $1 million gift from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. The gift will fund an endowment to support The Ellsworth Kelly Award, a new $40,000 annual grant. It is the largest single cash contribution in FCA's fifty-three-year history and continues FCA's long legacy of artists supporting artists. The Ellsworth Kelly Award is a $40,000 grant to support a solo exhibition by an emerging, mid-career, or under-recognized contemporary visual artist at a regional art museum or university or college art gallery in the United States. The program and selection process will be administered by FCA. The first recipient of The Ellsworth Kelly Award is the Institute of Contemporary Art at the ... More | | 
Charles M. Russell, The Tenderfoot, 1897 (detail), Estimate $700,000-1,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- July 23 marks the 31st Anniversary of the Coeur dAlene Art Auction. With over $230,000,000 in sales over the last ten years, the Fine Western and American Art auction is certain to be the high point of the Western auction world and online bidding will take place only on Bidsquare. The Coeur dAlene Art Auction is known for selling the highest quality Western paintings and sculpture from historical and contemporary artists and this years sale will be no exception. Long known as the market leader for Western master Charles M. Russell, the 2016 auction features over 20 works by the artist, including a major oil and one of the rarest Russell bronzes ever to come to auction. Headlining the offerings will be one of Russells most iconi ... More |
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| Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery explores pastorals, landscapes, and the Arcadian vision | | Irish Thin Lizzy rocker's guitars go under the hammer at Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Sale | | Expanded Board and progressive governance practices announced at Nelson-Atkins | 
Jan Both (Dutch, 16181652), Landscape with Shepherds, ca. 16381652 (detail). Oil on canvas, 42-1/4 x 54-1/4. The Sullivan Collection, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- This summer, the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery explores how, for centuries, artists have rendered nature in a tranquil, idyllic form in Pastorals, Landscapes, and the Arcadian Vision, which features over fifty paintings and works on paper from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Pastorals, Landscapes, and the Arcadian Vision will remain on view through September 9, 2016. The mythologized Arcadia, which is a mountainous region in the Peloponnesian peninsula, emerged in the first century BCE when the Roman poet Virgil wrote the Eclogues and Georgics. These poems recreated Arcadia as a place of country life in its purest form, removed from the civilized city, where rustic shepherds subsist on the meat and milk of their herds. Virgils contemporary, Horace, wrote Ut Pictura Poesis, as ... More | | 
Gary Moore, A Gibson Flying V '84 Reissue Star Ray guitar, 2009. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An incredible collection of more than 40 guitars and amps from the collection of the late Irish rocker, Gary Moore, have sold 100% at Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Sale, achieving a collective £143,235. The Belfast-born star is famed for gracing the lineup of the great British rock band Thin Lizzy, as well as Collosseum II, and (the original) Skid Row. A popular artist, Moores talents extended across a breadth of musical styles, from mainstream hard rock for which he was most famous, to blues and jazz-rock, genres in which he produced several albums. On hearing of Moores death in 2011, Bob Geldof commented that he was without question one of the great Irish bluesmen. His playing was exceptional and beautiful. We won't see his like again. Moore was found dead in February 2011 in his room at a hotel in Estepona, Marbella. The 46-piece collection featured several incredible instruments, including a 1963 fen ... More | | 
Donald Hall, Jr.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Following a year of dynamic conversation and exploration of best practices in governance, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced that the Board of Trustees has been expanded to better meet the complexities and needs of the future. Three new trustees have been added to the Board, which will be made up of 24 trustees by 2017. The changes in governance fulfill one of the museums six goals set forth in the Strategic Plan adopted in 2013. I am delighted that the Board of Trustees has embraced new governance practices that are more open and inclusive, said Shirley Bush Helzberg, chair of the Board. This allows us to build on the tremendous successes created by past leadership, and I am especially pleased to welcome our three new members to the Board. The newly installed trustees are Donald J. Hall, Jr., Ramón MurguÃa and Kent Sunderland. Alan Marsh has been named an Honorary Trustee. Donald J. Hall, J ... More |
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| Retrospective of the work of Paul Outerbridge opens at Bruce Silverstein Gallery | | The Maya: A transcendent exhibition at Peyton Wright Gallery highlights the late Classic Period | | MoMA PS1 presents Rockaway! Featuring a special outdoor exhibition by Katharina Grosse | 
Paul Outerbridge, Fantasy, 1926.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting a retrospective of the work of Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958). This is the first exhibition of its scope to be held in New York since 1979 and is the largest exhibition of Outerbridges work since 2009 at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. This exhibition is comprised of historically important and rare extant material. A survey of Outerbridges influential career is especially timely as his work is consistently cited by a current generation of artists working in the photographic medium. Numerous contemporary artists riff on commercial strategies of image-making that derive from the aesthetics of advertising photography and our visual lexicon shaped by Outerbridge. Outerbridges melding of the high and low in his artworks channeled the artistic current of his age, from Surrealism, to Cubism, to Duchamp (who kept Outerbridges Ide Collar, 1922, tacked to a wall in his stu ... More | | 
Mayan Culture, Head of a Dignitary, 600-900 CE. Stucco, 17 x 11 x 9 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Peyton Wright Gallery announces The Maya, a transcendent exhibition highlighting the late Classic Period through an extraordinary marriage of pre-Colombian artifacts and luminous black and white images of forgotten Mayan ruins captured by photographer William Frej. As a young adventurer, Mr. Frej passed through the Yucatan and was captivated by the majesty and mystery the Maya embodied through the colossal remains of their culture scattered throughout the jungle. Forty years later, after a life dedicated to the study of architecture and diplomatic service with its attending engagement with culture, he returned to the cradle of his inspiration. Now a renowned photographer, he spent three years penetrating remote jungles and the forgetful gauze of time to document the wonders of ancient Mayan development in ... More | | 
2016 Katharina Grosse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents Rockaway!, a special outdoor exhibit by artist Katharina Grosse, acclaimed for exploring the medium of painting in regards to its locations, conditions and possibilities. Through this temporary public art installation, Grosse turns Ft. Tilden's decaying aquatics building into a sublimely exhilarating exterior painting with her unique spray painting technique. In her practice, Grosse seeks to extend the scope of her paintings beyond the traditional borders of a canvas. She uses a technique in which brightly colored paint is sprayed directly onto site-specific structures. In doing so, she incorporates both the architectural features of the space, and materials located in its immediate vicinity, such as sand, trees, sea grass and pavement. These sprawling and sculptural landscapes evoke the physicality of action painting and earthworks ... More |
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 Vincent Fecteau presents a new series of ten painted sculptures at Vienna's SecessionVIENNA.- The American artist Vincent Fecteaus abstract sculptures defy summary description. Out of everyday staples like papier-mâché, cardboard, pictures from magazines, and paint, he fashions complex objects in which spaces simultaneously collapse and explode. Reminiscent, in many instances, of the elemental forms of early twentieth-century art, his works evoke associations ranging from utopian architecture and avant-garde stage design to masks and industrially manufactured components, yet they do not spell out their references. They keep their secret in a deliberate and insistent refusal to communicate definite meaning, indicating the artists emphasis on sculpture as sculpture and the agency it possesses as a real thing in the world. In his exhibition in the Secessions main gallery, the first time his work is on display in Austria, Vincent Fecteau presents a new ... More Machinized: Exhibition of works by Kawita Vatanajyankur on view at Stills GalleryPADDINGTON.- In Machinized, Kawita Vatanajyankur is a tool, a moving part in the machine. She transforms herself into food production equipment in performance videos that restage processes such as boxing eggs and weighing leafy greens. Like her previously celebrated works, this new series is graphic and glorious, sharing the same eye-catching allure that enamors us to ads. The confronting nature of her endurance performances, however, interrupts this seductive surface. The repetitive and arduous tasks that Vatanajyankur performs parody a pervasive slippage between human and machine, and foreground the forgotten body within a technologically accelerating world. Beyond this literal translation, these gestures also make visible the invisible mechanisms that govern womens everyday labour in her birthplace of Thailand. In both contexts, paring seduction and ... More TENT Rotterdam opens an exhibition about the cultural magazine Hard WerkenROTTERDAM.- This summer, TENT presents an exhibition about the magazine Hard Werken as part of the series Rotterdam Cultural Histories. Between 1979 and 1982, only ten editions of this cultural magazine were published, yet it had a significant influence on a whole generation of graphic designers in the Netherlands and beyond. The presentation is curated by Reyn van der Lugt and Marjolein van de Ven. The striking A3 format, its anarchic design contrary to typographic currents, the focus on photography, and its changing group of contributors for each edition mainly from the visual arts and literature immediately characterised this new initiative as a brash, elusive, and distinctly Rotterdam phenomenon. The magazine regularly featured Rotterdam writers and poets it once ran a prepublication of Jules Deelders book about the Rotterdam boxer ... More 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale to be hosted by University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Clay tablets from the ancient Near East, bearing cuneiform, an ancient writing system in use thousands of years ago, were but curiosities until scholars began to decipher them in the mid-19th century. Since then, the decipherment of numerous tablets inscribed by ancient scribesdetailing everything from economic transactions, to literary and religious stories, historical sagas, medical prescriptions and recipes for beerhas opened up a treasure trove of information about some of the earliest human civilizations, the ancient Near Eastern cultures that grew up along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers ages ago. Since its first Paris meeting in 1950, the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale has drawn together Assyriologistsscholars who read and study cuneiform textsand Near Eastern archaeologists from around the world to share new ... More Major summer exhibition organized by the city of Saint-Tropez pays homage to Bernard BezzinaSAINT-TROPEZ.- Saint-Tropez pays tribute to artist Bernard Bezzina exposing the city 5 of his monumental sculptures. the old port docks instead of the Garonne through the place Grammont and place Blanqui, the Var seaside resort will combine its ancient charm to the singular art sculptor. Varied explorer of matter, Bernard Bezzina is driven by a quest for total art and develops in his works its principle of "Divition". This is an act of division volumes, deconstruction and fragmentation of the material to give it a new birth. He "then the procedure is surgically by making incisions, traces and slots, covering the smooth skin for signs of life." With the bronze, as with land, steel, wood, materials he uses as a skin, his works go to the essential: fragment feet, hands, torsos. They are entitled "Divition I - II - III" and five of them colonize the city of their gigantism. It is between Tuscany, near the ... More Paul Hendrikse revisits his project 'The Ideal Form' for inaugural Roundabout commissionANTWERP.- For the inaugural Roundabout commission at the Aubette pavilion at the Middelheim Museum, artist Paul Hendrikse revisits his project The Ideal Form (20072013). In The Ideal Form, Hendrikse investigated the legacy of Lode Craeybeckx, who, as mayor of Antwerp from 1947 until his death in 1976, oversaw the citys rapid expansion in the postwar years. One of Craeybeckxs signal accomplishments was the transformation of the Middelheim Park, destroyed during World War Two, into an internationally regarded open-air sculpture museum. Although he is remembered for his enthusiastic engagement on behalf of the Middelheim Museum, Craeybeckx also established a complex collection, whose political undertones The Ideal Form brings, if partially, to the fore. Hendrikses new installation in and around the Aubette pavilion consists of a series of wooden shelving ... More Unseen launches campaign imageAMSTERDAM.- Unseen presents the first campaign image for the fifth edition of Unseen, created by the artistic duo Christto & Andrew. The campaign is the result of an exciting collaboration between Christto Sanz (Puerto Rico, 1985), Andrew Weir (South Africa, 1987) and Unseen, a fair and festival embracing new photography. The duo is no stranger to Unseen. At Unseen Photo Fair 2015, Christto & Andrew had a solo presentation of their work Glory of the Artifice, presented by East Wing Gallery. Christto & Andrew live and work in Qatar. While they both hail from different places in the world, they have an unconventional approach towards the country and its customs. The duo is enormously fascinated by the rapid changes Qatar is experiencing. Shimmering skyscrapers are mushrooming, the focus lies on innovation and technical development and the Qatari are ... More Hilary Lloyd's first U.S. solo museum exhibition on view at the Blaffer Art MuseumHOUSTON, TX.- Comprised of various video installations, handcrafted objects, and architectural interventions, Hilary Lloyds first U.S. solo museum exhibition presents new work created specifically to be experienced in Blaffer Art Museums upstairs galleries. Swerving between abstract imagery and glimpses of the world, the exhibition explores light as both a medium and subject of digital technologies and draws attention to the possibilities and limits of visual perception. Populated by human and non-human characters such as a maniacal Easter bunny, a woman with a fake gun, or a wandering cat, Lloyds videos jolt the viewer between different film genres and scenarios. In the exhibition, everyday vignettes alternate with studio vistas, fashion shoots, and theatrical fictions, in which raw and edited footage is collapsed with digital animation. Playing with recorded glitches, lo-res ... More Georgia Museum of Art shows work by Moulthrop familyATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is displaying a unique collection of tabletop sculptures made from trees in the exhibition Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason, on display until August 7, 2016. The exhibition features 30 objects, all made entirely of sculpted wood, by some of the most renowned contemporary artists in the form. Although many of the forms were inspired by functional usage, they go beyond being bowls or vases, taking inspiration from their origins. The word turned in the title of the exhibition reflects the fact that many of the artists used a lathe to sculpt the wood, rotating the material on its axis to create a symmetrical, rounded form. It fascinates me to see craft transcend utilitarian needs, said Dale Couch, the museums curator of decorative arts, who organized ... More "Interconnections: The Language of Basketry" on view at the Hunterdon Art MuseumCLINTON, NJ.- Youd expect to find bamboo, cane or bark used as materials in an art exhibition on basketry but hair curlers? Plastic zip ties? The works created by the twenty-two artists highlighted in the Hunterdon Art Museums newest exhibition, Interconnections: The Language of Basketry, include everything from stapled paper to fabricated metal. Some employ found objects, others utilize clay, linen, or wire. Works range from a large interactive floor sculpture to a small intricate construction of metal and paper, but all are united by an inventive approach to an ancient craft. These artists employ basketry processes and concepts in dynamic and imaginative ways, challenging the common view of basketry as a utilitarian folk craft, said Carol Eckert, curator of Interconnections: The Language of Basketry. Experimenting with techniques and materials ... More First exhibition exploring the sculptures and drawings of Allied Works Architecture on view in PortlandPORTLAND, ORE.- This summer, the Portland Art Museum presents the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the sculptures and drawings of Allied Works Architecture, the celebrated firm based in Portland and New York City. Presented within an immersive installation designed by Allied Works, Case Work: Studies in Form, Space & Construction by Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works Architecture features a cross-section of over 60 works made over the past 15 years, the majority of which have never been presented publicly. A counterpoint to the customary building models and technical architectural renderings, these works are both singular artistic creations and manifestations of the investigative process that is at the heart of the firms practice. Organized by the Clyfford Still Museum and the Portland Art Museum in association with Allied Works, Case Work made its debut at the Denver ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives. In this image: Teri Hensick, conservator of the paintings at Harvard University's Straus Center for Conservation, points to a painting entitled, "Monmouth Before James II" at the exhibit "Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley" at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass., May 10, 2004.
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