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This photo taken on July 01, 2016 shows Prince Albert II of Monaco (L) and British curator Martin Harrison visiting the exhibition "Francis Bacon" in Monaco. The exhibition "Francis Bacon" runs from July 2 to September 4 at the "Grimaldi Forum". VALERY HACHE / AFP.
MONACO.- The Grimaldi Forum, Monaco is presenting a major exhibition, Francis Bacon, Monaco and French Culture from 2 July to 4 September 2016. The exhibition, curated by Martin Harrison, editor of the forthcoming Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné (publication 30 June 2016), takes place with the support of The Estate of Francis Bacon in London, and the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation based in Monaco. Francis Bacon?s cultural orientation was, to an extraordinary degree, towards France, and The Grimaldi Forum exhibition explores the artist?s work from this unique angle: the important influence of French art and culture on Bacon?s work, and his years in Monaco that had a crucial impact on his oeuvre. Major triptychs as well as famous and less well-known paintings are being displayed thematically and show direct and indirect relationships to France and Monaco. One of the features of this exhibition is to cross-reference major works of th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A worker weaves at the international tapestry center in Aubusson on July 7, 2016. The international tapestry center will host French President Francois Hollande on July 10, 2016. PASCAL LACHENAUD / AFP
| Thousands gather for UK's largest nude art installation | | Exhibition presents works from Frank Stella's Polish Village and Bali series | | Historic agreement between Italy and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek |
This is the largest number of participants taking part in any of his previous UK artworks, beating Gateshead in 2005 and Salford in 2010.
HULL.- 3,200 people from Hull and across the world stripped nude to be part of Spencer Tunicks Sea of Hull installation earlier today (Saturday 9 July). This is the largest number of participants taking part in any of his previous UK artworks, beating Gateshead in 2005 and Salford in 2010. Participants from 20 countries had registered to take part including eighty year-old Stephane Janssen from the USA, who has posed 20 previous times, his first being at the age of 64. Wearing nothing but four shades of blue body paint in celebration of the city's rich maritime heritage and connections, people braved the weather to pose nude for a series of site specific installations stages across some of Hulls best-known historic locations: from the former Queens Dock, now a city centre park, to the architecturally spectacular Guildhall and the award-winning Scale Lane swing bridge over the River Hull. Tunick's exciting new body of work commissioned by the Ferens ... More | |
Frank Stella, Olkienniki III, 1972. Corrugated cardboard, felt, paint and wood, 241.3 x 213.4 cm. 95 x 84 inches © 2016 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers.
BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers is presenting Frank Stella's first solo exhibition at the gallery with works from his Polish Village and Bali series. In 1970 Stella encountered the visual culture of Polish Jews by means of Maria and Kazimierz Piechotkas book Wooden Synagogues (1959). The discourse arose between American abstract art and a visual identity of Polish Jews that took place in the pre-digital era, at a time when the free flow of ideas was significantly hindered by barriers resulting from different political systems. After receiving the Piechotkas book from his friend, the architect Richard Meier, Stella began drawing and by the late summer and fall of 1970 had produced 42 sketches. Based on these drawings he produced, in a number of stages including graph paper drawings, models, and maquettes, over 130 large works between 1971 ... More | |
The entrance to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: xiquinhosilva/wikipedia.org/
COPENHAGEN.- The Italian Ministry of Culture and the Glyptotek are now entering into a far-reaching, cultural cooperation agreement which will safeguard and reinforce the academic exchange of archaeological objects between the Italian cultural world and the museum in Copenhagen. The agreement will expand the existing parameters for the acquisition and presentation of knowledge of the ancient world. The agreement includes the restitution to Italy of a number of archaeological objects which have been part of the Glyptoteks Collection of Antiquities since the 1970s. This restitution is only one element in an extensive cultural programme through which the Italian Ministry of Culture, by means of long-term loans of archaeological objects, offers the Glyptotek the opportunity to improve its already significant presentation of the ancient Italian cultural heritage. Furthermore, the agreement will strengthen the collaboration ... More |
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| Auction features art, antiques from Joan Rivers' country home | | Barbara Hepworth's family celebrate new exhibition opening | | "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall" reopens at Smithsonian |
John McGhie, Scottish, 1867-1952, Well Hall, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, depicting a Woman and Black Dog, c. 1916 (detail). All images courtesy of Litchfield County Auctions & Appraisals.
LITCHFIELD, CONN.- Beloved comedian, philanthropist, designer and global businesswoman Joan Rivers was known for her exquisite taste in fashion and interior decor. As the recent, highly successful Christies estate auction of her fine and decorative art collection revealed, Rivers appreciated quality and consistently bought the best of every category. While many pieces in the Manhattan auction sold for prices beyond the reach of the average buyer, another opportunity awaits on July 20-21 to acquire beautiful furniture, decorative art, jewelry, silver and artworks from the Rivers estate, but at more accessible price points. Litchfield County Auctions will host the approximately 600-lot, no-reserve sale at their gallery, with absentee, phone and Internet live bidding available for those who cannot attend in person. All items are from Rivers ... More | |
Lady Sarah Bowness, one the two surviving triplets from Barbara Hepworths marriage to Ben Nicholson. Image courtesy of Phillips and The Hepworth Wakefield.
LONDON.- This summer offers a rare opportunity to see one of the most extensive exhibitions of works by Barbara Hepworth produced in the final decade of her life. This period was one of her most prolific and experimental, yet is often overlooked. The special non-selling exhibition is curated by The Hepworth Wakefield and is on display for seven weeks at Phillips European headquarters in Berkeley Square, London as part of a year-long partnership between The Hepworth Wakefield and Phillips to support the gallerys fifth anniversary celebrations. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see three of Hepworths major series of prints alongside the sculptures to which they relate, rarely lent from the gallery located in the birthplace of the world-famous sculptor. Late Hepworth follows the artistic developments in ... More | |
Installation view. Photo by Eric Long / Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Air and Space Museum reopened the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall July 1 in conjunction with the museums 40th anniversary. The two-year renovation of the hall was made possible by a gift from Boeing. Several of the museums most iconic artifacts remain on view, and new ones have been added. The installation also introduces GO FLIGHT, a digital experience designed to allow visitors to make connections with and between artifacts and to share the national collection beyond the walls of the museum. Since the building opened on the National Mall in 1976, the Milestones of Flight Hall has welcomed 327 million visitors. Positioned between the museums two entrances, the 19,000-square-foot exhibition space had remained largely unaltered since the buildings opening. The new installation features a streamlined, modern look with visitor-friendly amenities, such as ... More |
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| Le Mans winning ex-Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type and Works Ferrari 268 SP Headline sale | | Norman Rockwell Museum opens "Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World" | | The Hyde opens "Dürer & Rembrandt: Master Prints from the Collection of Dr. Dorrance Kelly" |
The historic 1955 Jaguar D-Type, XKD 501. Photo: Patrick Ernzen © 2016 courtesy RM Sothebys.
BLENHEIM, ON.- Offered for public sale for the first time in nearly two decades, RM Sothebys has announced that one of the most important and original Jaguar D-Types in existence will headline its flagship Monterey sale, August 1920 in California. The first D-Type supplied by Jaguar to a privateer team, chassis no. XKD 501 heads to the auction block as a permanent part of Le Mans lore, having claimed the overall victory at the grueling 24-hour race in 1956. Born to succeed the famous Jaguar C-Types dominance at Le Mans in the 1950s, the D-Type had purposeful and beautiful looks, pioneering engineering and outright fire power. In its day, no-one had seen anything like the revolutionary curved body penned by Malcolm Sayer. Not only a thing of beauty, it also was the first to incorporate a unique monocoque construction, combining the body and frame to form structural integrity. Its 3.4-litre engine was rated at 245bhp, propelling ... More | |
Bo Bartlett, The Box, 2002 (detail). Collection of Andrew Nelson. All rights reserved.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- In post-World War II America, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Rockwell painted The Connoisseur, Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly 15 years. Originated in the 1940s by Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko, among others, Abstract Expressionism was the first American movement to achieve widespread international influence. For the first time, Norman Rockwell Museum will explore the contrast between the abstract and realist movements, placing works by Rockwell, Wyeth, and Warhol side by side with Pollock, Calder, Johns, and over 40 other preeminent artists. Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World examines the forces that forged the mid-century dismissal of narrative painting and illustration, as well as the resurgence of realist painting during the latter half of the twentieth century, its presence and critical ... More | |
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, The Descent from the Cross: second plate, ca. 1633, etching and burin (State ii/v), 20 13/16 x 16 1/8 inches, Collection of Dr. Dorrance T. Kelly.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection presents Dürer & Rembrandt: Master Prints from the Collection of Dr. Dorrance Kelly in its Charles R. Wood Gallery. At the same time, The Hydes & Rembrandt will be on view in the adjacent Whitney-Renz Gallery. Both shows open on July 10 and continue through October 2. Dürer & Rembrandt features 82 prints, showcasing 29 superb engravings and woodcuts by the German printmaker, Albrecht Dürer, and 35 exceptional etchings by the Dutch Master, Rembrandt van Rijn. In addition, the exhibition features 18 printed works of their contemporaries, including Hendrick Goudt, Lucas van Leyden, Aegidius Sadeler, and a rare engraving by Lucas Cranach. "Dorrance Kelly has assembled one of the most distinguished print collections in the country," noted Erin Coe, the Museum's Director. "Not only are we grateful he agreed ... More |
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| Mauritshuis's Deputy Director Victor Moussault announces departure | | A summer of movement and rhythm at the Denver Art Museum | | Vivid portrait of photographer and filmmaker has U.S. theatrical premiere |
Deputy Director of the Mauritshuis Victor Moussault. Photography: Ivo Hoekstra.
THE HAGUE.- Deputy Director Victor Moussault (1956) will leave his position at the Mauritshuis as of 1 January 2017. After ten years at the museum, he will depart at a high point, and has chosen to pursue new challenges. He will focus on project management and consultancy work, as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the renovation of Het Loo Palace and other consulting projects, such as for the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway. The Mauritshuis regrets the departure of Victor Moussault, but understands and respects his decision. Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Mauritshuis: Victor and I have worked as a team from the beginning. I will miss him, but I also know that he is ready for a new challenge. Victor Moussault held the position of Deputy Director at the Mauritshuis since 1 January 2007. The main project during his time at the museum was the management of the major building project that was completed ... More | |
William H. Johnson (American, 1901-1970), Jitterbugs (II), about 1941. Oil on paperboard; 24 x 15-3/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.611.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum will showcase Dance!a campus-wide celebration of creative expression through movementfeaturing dance-focused exhibitions, programming and local artist collaborations, as well as interactive installations, to create an immersive and whimsical experience. Rhythm & Roots: Dance in American Art, an exhibition on view July 10 Oct. 2, 2016 in the Anschutz Gallery, will present how artists, dancers and choreographers helped form the artistic identity of dance in America. The exhibition will feature about 90 paintings, photographs, sculptures and costumes relating to American dance from 1830 to 1960. This fusion of dance and fine art offers visitors a historical perspective on dance in America, said Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director at the DAM. Our exhibitions and summer programming will show how dance has evolved over ... More | |
Robert Frank in Don't Blink - Robert Frank, directed by Laura Israel. Photo by Ed Lachman. Courtesy of Grasshopper Film.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of Don't Blink Robert Frank, beginning Wednesday, July 13. Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographers candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it is a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are the hallmarks of Franks artistry. Director Laura Israel (Franks longtime film editor) and producer Melinda Shopsin were given unprecedented access to the notably irascible artist. The assembled portrait is not unlike Franks own movies rough around the edges and brimming with surprises and insights calling to mind Franks quintessential underground movie, the 1959 Beat short, PULL MY DAISY (co-directed by Alfred ... More |
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Exhibition features a representative selection of Pilar AlbarracÃn's work
MALAGA.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga is presenting this exhibition by Pilar AlbarracÃn. Curated by Fernando Francés, Ritos de fiesta y sangre features a representative selection of the artists work produced over the last decade and a half. The 10 pieces on display include sculptures, installations, embroideries, photographs and videos. The artist invites spectators to explore different stereotypes of Spanish culture, but from a different perspective. Using irony and references to festivals and folklore, AlbarracÃn examines these typical images that are known all over the world to critique the way in which certain clichés persist in the collective imaginary. With its powerful underlying image of decontextualised, highly symbolic elements, her work leaves no spectator indifferent. The artist lives and works in Seville and Madrid. I reflect my ideas in my work; theres ... More
Three recent performative video works by David Collins on view at Stills Gallery
PADDINGTON.- Pony presents three recent performative video works by David Collins in which he engages horses in acts of control and surrender. Describing these exercises as human-animal collaborations, Collins sees them as analogies for psychological struggles and power relationships. In Riptide (2016), for instance, artist and horse meet in a subtle but stubborn confrontation: Collins pushes the horse, the horse pushes back. Dwarfed against the animals size and strength, the artists hand is commanding, but also comforting and revering. Flesh and fur fills the screen as power transfers between the two. In this physical exchange, mutual respect and familiarity are palpable thanks to the artists upbringing on a farm with horses in Perth. But, in these videos, horses hold more than sentimental significance, they are metaphors for the sublimethe universal ... More
National parks the focus of consecutive exhibitions, commemorate centennial
SAN MARINO, CA.- In a wide-ranging examination of the evolving role of the national parks in American life, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens commemorates the centennial of the U.S. National Parks Service in exhibitions that run consecutively from May 2016 through February 2017 in the West Hall of the Library building. The exhibitions touch on a variety of roles the National Parks have played over timeas scenic wonderlands that have become iconic markers and essential destination points for tourists, adventure-seekers, scientists, government surveyors, businessmen, and explorers of all stripes. The exhibitions also examine the tensions that emerged as a result of diverging priorities and competing agendas. The national parks are our nations crown jewels, said Peter Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical ... More
First retrospective of Miervaldis Polis' work on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art
RIGA.- Miervaldis Polis (1948) field of creative activity is characterised by the conceptual consideration of the illusory nature of reality, the search for identity and self-reflection on the individual and society. For more than 40 years, this intellectually restless, passionate artist has strongly influenced the visual culture of Latvia, being in its avantgarde and simultaneously strengthening the understanding of classical values. His postmodern works and performances have become symbols of widely recognised aesthetic and socio-political changes introducing the paradigm of contemporary thinking in the art of the socialist period. While still a student at the Art Academy of Latvia in the 1970s, Polis bravely and loudly entered the art scene as one of the first representatives of photorealism in the Soviet Union, developing this movement through subjective variations of form and subject. ... More
Laumeier Sculpture Park launches 40th anniversary year with large-scale sculpture installation
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park announced today the recent installation of Alexandre da Cunhas Mix (Americana), 2013 in honor of the Parks 40th Anniversary year. The large-scale artwork was gifted to Laumeiers Permanent Collection by the Brazilian artist and CRG Gallery, New York, following exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) as the fifth MCA Plaza Project. The sculpture is now on view in Laumeiers Museum Circle, visible from the Lower Entrance parking lots. Mix (Americana) is a full-scale cement mixer. Polished and painted in a patriotic red, white and blue, the sculpture has been stripped of its mixing duty on the back of a truck and staged instead as a functional sundial. When viewers peek inside the steel hallowed chamber, light gently reflects and refracts, creating an intricate web of shadows and shapes, giving splendor ... More
deCordova announces 17th annual Rappaport Prize recipient, Barkley Hendricks
LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced Barkley Hendricks as the seventeenth recipient of the prestigious Rappaport Prize, an annual award of $25,000 given to an established contemporary artist with strong connections to New England. The Rappaport Prize is among the most generous awards of its kind in the region. In 2010, the Rappaport Prize was endowed in perpetuity by the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation, assuring the ongoing support of contemporary art and artists in New England. We are honored to award the 2016 Rappaport Prize to Barkley Hendricks, notes John B. Ravenal, Executive Director of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. His work is beautiful, thoughtprovoking, and culturally relevant. His strong connection to New England as a longstanding resident of New London, started while as a student at Yale ... More
Solo exhibition of recent works by artist Tony DeLap on view at Franklin Parrasch Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Parrasch Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of recent works by Southern California-based artist Tony DeLap. This show includes paintings from 2013-2016 that continue the artists deep-rooted investigations of perceptual ambiguity and the nature of illusion. Born in Oakland, CA in 1927, DeLap has long been a fixture of the West Coast art scene. He has taught and mentored such California art luminaries as Bruce Nauman, John McCracken, and James Turrell. Along with John Coplans, DeLap was a member of the founding arts faculty at the University of California, Irvine when it opened in 1965. That same year, he was cited in Donald Judds seminal essay Specific Objects, which discussed the tendency among artists in the 1960s to work in the space between painting and sculpture. As a trained magician, ... More
Summer Getaway! International Poster Gallery opens 22nd Annual Summer Poster Show
BOSTON, MASS.- International Poster Gallery is presenting "Summer Getaway! 22nd Annual Summer Poster Show," including more than 50 original vintage travel and leisure posters from near and far, plus a new discovery of 30 rarely-seen airline posters. The show is paced by a fine collection of airline posters. The headliner, Bermuda - 5 Hours by Air PAA by Adolph Treidler c. 1937, pictures a handsome young couple heading out on their bicycles under a star-filled sky. Overhead, a Pan Am flying boat is silhouetted by the full moon as a sailboat glides by in the harbor. Inspiring honeymooners to the island for decades, this romantic poster is one of the earliest to advertise Pan Am's New York to Bermuda route, which became the initial stop on the world's first transatlantic route. After World War II, fast and long-distance turbo-props made air travel more affordable ... More
The Pineapple Show: A group exhibition opens at Tiwani Contemporary
LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary announces The Pineapple Show, a group exhibition curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa and presented by Boys' Quarters Project Space, the gallery founded by Saro-Wiwa and situated in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. For this exhibition, Zina Saro-Wiwa has drawn together a group of artists working out of Nigeria, the UK and the United States, who have produced artworks that explore the semiotics of the iconic pineapple fruit and expand its cultural narratives. The pineapple has long served to represent identity, status and expression across diverse and international cultures. The Pineapple Show aims to add to the western European canon of visual representations of and literature on the fruit, which has often privileged an imperialist vision of the pineapple as a symbol of power, wealth and exoticism. The exhibition will mine, expose and invent new narratives ... More
British artist Stuart Cumberland's fourth solo exhibition at the Approach on view in London
LONDON.- The Approach is presenting Handmade Colour Pictures, British artist Stuart Cumberlands (b. 1970, Wokingham, UK) fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. On show will be a new body of work that displays a significant departure for the artist, which can be understood simply as a change from the making of paintings to the making of pictures. Cumberland refers to the works presented as handmade pictures, in an attempt to circumnavigate the medium specific concerns of painting and instead examine the field of picture making and the human drive to look. As a point of inspiration, Cumberlands pictures give a referential nod to hunting portraits by Ãdouard Manet and Diego Velázquez, wherein both artists depicted men intentionally posed with firearms and animals. Cumberland reinterprets these compositions and reimagines the poses with fresh impetus using newly ... More
"Five Cents to Dreamland: A Trip to Coney Island" on view at the New York Transit Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.- From horse-drawn streetcars, steamboats, and railroads, to the buses and subways of today, mass transportation has played a pivotal role in Coney Islands development as a whirling smorgasbord of amusement parks, seaside resorts, veiled temptation, and kitsch. A complex and rollicking microcosm of Americana, Coney Island has weathered fire, flood, Prohibition, the Great Depression and the changing mores and morals of a diverse society. The New York Transit Museums exhibition Five Cents to Dreamland: A Trip to Coney Island explores how transport to Coney Island has changed and developed with the times, propelling the Islands transformation from a retreat for the rich to the peoples playground. Through objects and images from the Transit Museums collections, Five Cents to Dreamland traces the evolution of public transportation ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. In this image: An unidentified visitor looks at an impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro called the Rue Saint-Honore apre-midi, Rue Saint-Honore Afternoon, Rain Effect, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Thursday May 12, 2005.
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