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Exhibition curator Sally Goodsir adjusts an ebony carving of a drummer, presented to Her Majesty The Queen by President Banjamin Mkapa of Tanzania during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh, October 1987. The carving is on display in 'Royal Gifts', the special exhibition at the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace. Photo: Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
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LONDON (AFP).- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is putting gifts received from world leaders on display at Buckingham Palace, with the eclectic collection including presents from the likes of Nelson Mandela and John F. Kennedy. A remarkable array of over 200 gifts are on display from Saturday, providing an intriguing reminder of the globetrotting lifestyle and international encounters of the 91-year-old sovereign. "One of the most universal aspects of the Queen's meetings with other heads of state, both at home and abroad, is the exchange of gifts," said Sally Goodsir, assistant curator of the new "Royal Gifts" exhibition. Since her accession to the throne in 1952, Elizabeth has travelled more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometres) around the world and taken part in 89 state visits abroad. At the same time, she has welcomed more than 100 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on July 21, 2017 shows a room and its decorations in the Pasteur museum at the the Institut Pasteur, a private non-profit foundation in Paris, whose mission is to help prevent and treat diseases. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opens exhibitions of works by Charles Sheeler and Alfred Stieglitz | | The City of Chicago will celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Everyone's Picasso" on Daley Plaza | | Pioneering paintings of eclipses and the Solar System on view this summer at the Princeton University Art Museum | 
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918. Gelatin silver print. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Sophie M. Friedman Fund and Lucy Dalbiac Luard
Fund. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- "Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit" celebrates the MFAs unparalleled holdings of works by Charles Sheeler (18831965), presenting 40 photographs from three significant series created during the heyday of his career as a founder of American modernism. After enjoying success as a painter, Sheeler initially took up photography as a way to make a living. His experiments with the medium included the 1916-17 series of photographs capturing various elements of an 18th-century house he rented in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The sequence of stark, geometric compositions was among the most abstract and avant-garde work being made in the US at the timecreated in response to the Cubist art of Picasso and Braque that Sheeler had ... More | | 
Picasso sculpture unveiling.
CHICAGO, IL.- Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Picasso at Everyones Picasso a restaging event of the 1967 unveiling at Daley Plaza on Tuesday, August 8, at noon. Originally met with mixed reviews by the public, the Picasso has become a Chicago icon attracting visitors from around the world. The 50th anniversary and restaging will welcome Chicagoans and visitors alike, and include both attendees present at the original 1976 unveiling, as well as engage a new generation of young people with the artwork. Chicagos Picasso is a representation and celebration of the lasting contributions public art make to this city, said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. With a daring design ahead of its time, the Picasso has been influencing public art since the 1967 unveiling. It is fitting that this anniversary is part of the 2017 Year of Public Art. The 50th anniversary restaging ... More | | 
Howard Russell Butler, American, 18561934, Mars as seen from Deimos. Oil on canvas. Princeton University, gift of H. Russell Butler Jr.
PRINCETON, NJ.- On August 21, 2017, the first solar eclipse of this century will be visible in the U.S. To celebrate this remarkable historical event, the Princeton University Art Museum has organized an exhibition of solar eclipses and other astronomical subjects by the influential American painter Howard Russell Butler (18561934). In 1918, Butler unveiled a new kind of portrait, of a very unusual sitter: the total solar eclipse. With unexpected accuracy, he captured those rare seconds when the moon disappears into darkness, crowned by the flames of the sun. Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum July 22Oct. 15, 2017, shares the history of Butlers unique paintings and the story of the artist who created them. Over centuries, bringing the tools of art to the aid of the sciences has allowed ... More |
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| Exhibition at Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett focuses on the subject of music in drawings and prints | | Exhibition at Edward Cella Art & Architecture explores the psychoanalytic relationships we have with objects | | Exhibition on Screen to open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice | 
Peter Flötner, Entwurf für eine Orgel, 1527, Feder in Schwarz und Braun, schwarz und grau laviert, weià und gold gehöht, auf Vergé-Papier, 21,1 x 17,9 cm, © bpk, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Jörg P. Anders.
BERLIN.- The Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is dedicating its fourth summer exhibition to a topic that is as entertaining as it is varied: the subject of music in drawings and prints. A selection of about 100 of the most beautiful musical works are on display, among others by Andrea Mantegna, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Adolph von Menzel, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Altenbourg. The recurring leitmotif evident in the exhibition is the special affinity between musical and pictorial expression. In musical notation, for instance, many of the basic elements of the graphic arts such as lines, initials, abbreviations, and dots capture the fleeting sound of a ... More | | 
Brad Miller (b.1950), BC17-12, 2017. Monoprint on paper, 45 x 34 in. Image courtesy of the Artist & Edward Cella Art & Architecture. Photo: Gene Ogami.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Brad Miller: Stones and Object Relations Theory, the artists second exhibition with the gallery. Exploring the psychoanalytic relationships we have with objects, Brad Miller will present ceramic wall sculptures, an installation of abstract ceramic stonework, and paintings. Miller describes his work: Think about all of the things you find in the city, or at the beach, here in Los Angeles, all the things, the rocks and cracks in the sidewalk, the natural things trying reclaim the city and world that is theirs and we layer over it, over and over. Recalling this frenzied energy from his Venice Beach studio, Miller physically interacts with his work, applying layers of slip and paint, firing, torching, sanding, tumbling, and grinding away layers. This gradual process reveals their temporary condition ... More | | 
Filming Clara de la Pena McTigue at Windsor Castle © Exhibition on Screen and David Bickerstaff.
LONDON.- Exhibition on Screen open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venices famous view-painter. No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. Despite Canalettos close relationship with the city in which he lived and died, the worlds largest collection of his works resides not in his native Italy, but in Britain as part of the Royal Collection. In 1762, George III purchased almost the entire collection amassed by Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice and Canalettos principal agent. Exhibition on Screens latest release will grant unique access to the Royal Collections exceptional holdings of Canaletto's work, much of which is on display as part of the exhibition Canaletto & the Art of Venice at The Queens Gallery (19 May - 12 November). The r ... More |
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| PIASA sale focuses on the leading masters of Scandinavian Design | | New Museum to publish the latest installment in the critical anthologies in art and culture series | | LA's most famous feline P-22 stars in new installation at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | 
Finn Juhl (1912-1989), Chieftain, 1949. Teck et cuir - Edition : Niels Vodder - H 85 Ã L 102 Ã P 73 cm. Estimate: 140 000 / 180 000 .
PARIS.- PIASA's first sale of the 2017 Autumn Season focuses on the leading masters of Scandinavian Design, represented by a stellar selection of iconic items and furniture in Paris on September 14. In 1949 Finn Juhl (1912-89), the father of Danish Modern, designed one of his best-known models: his teak and leather Chieftain chair, produced in collaboration with cabinetmaker Niels Vodder (est. 140,000-180,000). Another sale highlight is the perforated brass Snowflake chandelier by fellow-Dane Paavo Tynell (1890-1973), the big boss of Scandinavian lighting. This brilliant example of his creative genius reflects the key influence of Nature (est. 120,000-150,000). Master ceramicist Axel Salto (1889-1961), regularly the subject of feverish bidding at PIASA sales, will be respresented by around twenty pieces led by his signed, glazed stoneware Budding vase from 1956, in an edition by Royal Copenhagen ... More | | 
Cover of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the New Museum will publish Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton. Trap Door, to be released November 2017, is the third installment in the New Museums Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture series, following the publication of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (2015), edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, and Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (2016), edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is continually touted as a sign of liberalist transformation, but it has coincided precisely with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against ... More | | 
P-22 was first spotted by now NHMLA Citizen Science Coordinator Miguel Ordeñana in 2012.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the hills of Griffith Park, a lone mountain lion roams. To tell this urban carnivores story, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County debuted the new installation The Story of P-22, L.A.s Most Famous Feline on Friday, July 21, 2017. After he was born in the Western Santa Monica Mountains, he journeyed to Griffith Park by crossing both the 405 and 101 freeways on foot. The exhibit brings that journey, and his life today, to life with graphics, projections, photography, and video, including footage of the cougar being collared and moving through his territory at night. The content explores what P-22 eats, how he maps and marks his territory, and the survival challenges that he, and all Southern Californias mountain lions, face living in L.A.s backyard. Joining the museums Nature Lab and the customized content in the special exhibit Extreme Mammals, The Story of P-22, L.A.s Most Famous Feline c ... More |
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| Regional Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena exhibits photographs by Ana Torralva | | Extraordinary Group of 1942 experimental glass, plastic, and zinc cents appear in Heritage Auctions' ANA event | | Exhibition presents a collection of works examining the archive of the artist's mind | 
Portrait of Alba @ Ana Torralva.
CARTAGENA.- Spanish photographer Ana Torralva presents Theory and play of the duende in the Regional Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena (Murcia, Spain). Curated by the author herself alongside Juan GarcÃa Sandoval (director of the MURAM), it's an anthological exhibition of her work, composed of 65 carefully selected black and white portraits of great figures of flamenco - some of them are exhibited for the first time in public-, in several of which the author introduces the fragmentation with pictures divided into sequences of feet, hands, footwork or waist... As if she were a songwriter, Ana Torralva shows through gestures and portraits the sayings and feelings that flood her vast fascination for flamenco. Such fascination has led her to picture important figures of flamenco for serveral decades, among which we can see Camarón, Paco de LucÃa, Enrique Morente, Remedios Amaya, El Cigala, Manolo Sanlúcar, Carmen Linares and MarÃa Pagés. The exhibition synthesizes more than twe ... More | | 
1942 1C Experimental Amber Glass Cent, Judd-2069, RB 42-70, R.7 -- Broken -- PCGS Genuine.
DALLAS, TX.- A group of experimental amber glass cents and experimental plastic and zinc cents from a 1942 effort to replace the U.S. copper cents will cross the block Aug. 4 in Heritage Auctions' American Numismatic Association (ANA) Convention event. 28 items will be offered, including one of two uncirculated finished products known to exist. "Following the success of Heritage's $70,000 sale of a rare glass cent in January of this year, we were delighted to be presented with several high-grade examples inherited from the manager who worked on this unusual experiment," said Mark Borckardt, Senior Cataloger and Numismatist at Heritage Auctions. The collection comes from the Theodore Glynn family, whose father was a manager for Tennessee's Blue Ridge Glass Corporation. Items from the Glynn Collection include a (1942) 1C Amber Glass Token, RB 42-70-T-1, R.8, MS64, NGC, a beautiful, 1C Cyan-Aqua Glass Preform (Blank), ... More | | 
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- ROSEGALLERY is presenting Reference, a collection of works examining the archive of the artists mind through the visual pairing of works with their images of influence. Original pieces by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Jo Ann Callis, Jeff Bellerose, Dirk Braeckman, Bruce Davidson, Misha de Ridder, William Eggleston, Richard Ehrlich, Elger Esser, Robbert Flick, Todd Hido, Leanna Hicks, Evelyn Hofer, Graciela Iturbide, Ken Kitano, Summer Mann, Sebastian Riemer, Joachim Schulz, and more are on display alongside referential works. The exhibition will remain on view until the 19 of August. Visual references run within every image. With memory acting as an internal archive, the photographers vision is filtered through a layer of surrounding imagery. The writer Teju Cole once described the relationship between photographs as a river of interconnected images wordlessly but fluently commenting on one another. W ... More |
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 Matteawan Gallery presents a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints BEACON, NY.- Matteawan Gallery is presenting Super Natural, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints by Julia Whitney Barnes, Gabe Brown, Cecilia Whittaker-Doe, Matt Frieburghaus, Charles Geiger, and Eleanor Sabin. The show opened Saturday, July 8 and runs through August 21. Super Natural features 6 artists whose work is deeply influenced by the natural world. Most of them live in urban areas, yet they seek to understand the world around them through a connection with the natural environment. Each artist has a unique approach to interpreting and abstracting nature, although they can also be seen as falling into three discrete groups within the exhibition. Charles Geiger, Gabe Brown, and Eleanor Sabin take an up-close, detailed approach, exploring the dense, repetitive, all over quality of forests and landscape by drawing individual ... More Ars Electronica in Berlin: 6th exhibition in DRIVE. Volkswagen Group ForumBERLIN.- Ars Electronica in Berlin, an exhibition staged jointly with Volkswagen AG, opened in DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin Mitte. The shows substantive focus is on encounter. It features 14 works by artists from around the world. A wide-ranging program of workshops and events complements the exhibition. Ars Electronica in Berlin is the sixth show produced collaboratively by Volkswagen AG and Ars Electronica. It runs until October 26, 2017. Admission is free of charge. Naturefirst nature, as it werehas long since ceased to be our lifes sole determinant; now theres this equally important second nature, the one that we have created ourselves. And our sojourns in this invisible and nevertheless omnipresent realm are becoming increasingly frequent and of longer and longer durationwe shop and book travel there, do our banking, partake of the news, watch ... More Salzburg Festival features opera's leading lightsSALZBURG (AFP).- Austria's Salzburg Festival opened Saturday, the start of more than a month of classical and dramatic performances featuring some of opera's brightest and most controversial stars. A highlight of the 40-day festival will come on August 6 with a production of Verdi's masterpiece "Aida", directed by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat. Organisers expect around a quarter of a million visitors to flock the city of Mozart's birth to take in performances from classical music luminaries such as Simon Rattle, John Eliot Gardiner and Mariss Jansons. High points will include a modern retelling of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito", conducted by classical music's enfant terrible Teodor Currentzis and directed by Peter Sellars. One of the events more surreal moments will come when Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartolia dons a false beard to play the title character ... More Whimsical kachina dolls, beautiful saddles, Pawnee Bill items, more at Holabird's August 6 auctionRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will conduct a 370-lot auction of Western Americana on Sunday, August 6th, starting at 12 high noon Pacific time, in the firms gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite 309) in Reno. The event will be simulcast at the first-ever Cowboy-Con Convention, slated for Aug. 4th-6th at the nearby Reno/Sparks Convention Center. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be facilitated by iCollector.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. This auction will include everything the novice or advanced collector needs, to outfit his or her cowboy dreams, said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. Weve got saddles, guns, Native American art and artifacts, and items relating to Pawnee Bill, including his wooden trunk, his Winchester model 94 rifle, a framed autograph and a profile ... More New work by Olivia Erlanger to inaugurate BMW Open Work at Frieze LondonLONDON.- BMW and Frieze enhance their long-term partnership with a new artistic initiative to be premiered at Frieze London 2017. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, BMW Open Work by Frieze brings together art, design and technology in pioneering multi-platform formats. The artist chosen to create the first BMW Open Work for Frieze London 2017 is New York-based artist Olivia Erlanger. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, BMW Open Work annually invites an artist to develop a visionary project that creates an immersive experience for the viewer. Drawing inspiration from BMW design, engineering and technology, the commissioned artists will consider current and future technologies as tools for innovation and artistic experimentation. Premiering annually at Frieze London, each artwork will have the potential to unfold across physical spaces, such as the fairs ... More It's Alive! Mechanical marvels are moving in to the Museum of ChildhoodEDINBURGH.- This summer, the Councils Museum of Childhood plays host to forty special clockwork characters in a free exhibition from the House of Automata. This unique collection of mechanical marvels includes an amazing magician in faded silks, who keeps us guessing as he runs through his cups-and-balls routine; a dazzling acrobat based on a famous Moulin Rouge performer; and Heba, a beautiful harpist whose graceful hands strum her long-lost instrument. Fine automata such as these were made to entertain the fashionable elite of Paris in the late 1800s, and bring together the arts of the clockmaker, sculptor and couturier. Its Alive! Mechanical Marvels from the House of Automata provides the first free, interactive and atmospheric display of these incredible examples of craftsmanship in Edinburgh (22 June 18 September). Famous makers ... More Artists ask how can we live and work together better in new group exhibitionMELBOURNE.- Greater Together presents eight artist projects that complicate individual notions of authorship to focus on ideas of collaboration and cooperation as a means of agency and solidarity in a complex and changing world. While acknowledging the inherent challenges of working together, and the often-utopian ideals of collectivity, the exhibition explores various models of artistic collaboration (from conscious, pragmatic decisions to divide skills and labour, to the natural result of long-term friendships, romantic partnerships or family ties) to consider broader ideas of community, communication and cooperation both in the discipline of art and in the wider, global, networked world. Highlights: Goldin+Senneby is a framework for collaboration set up by Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby. For Greater Together, the artists have relocated a full-scale, mature ... More Exhibition presents a postcolonial perspective on the collection and history of the Schwules MuseumBERLIN.- The artistic research exhibition Odarodle an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535 2017 casts, for the first time, a postcolonial perspective on the collection and history of the Schwules Museum. The exhibition proposes a thought-exercise: that there are problematic associations between the museum representation of homosexualities and the ethnological display formats developed over the course of European colonialism. Odarodle presents the work of 16 artists, mostly Berlin-based, including 10 newly commissioned pieces. These contemporary positions respond to the Museum, its archive, and its practices as both research material and aesthetic medium. Odarodle specifically turns Eldorado backwards. As a site of multiple origins, it is a threefold reference: an historical exhibition, a legendary night club, and a colonial myth. Though the ... More Multimedia exhibition by seven NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows on view at C24 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery in partnership with The New York Foundation for the Arts presents Facial Profiling, a multimedia exhibition curated by David C. Terry, director and curator of Grants and Exhibitions at NYFA. Facial Profiling investigates the concepts of the observed self with over 50 new works by seven NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows: Samira Abbassy, Kwesi Abbensetts, Geoffrey Chadsey, Sean Fader, Michael Ferris, Jr., Kymia Nawabi, and Oliver Wasow. Facial Profiling is on view July 20 - September 30, 2017. Unified through the explorations of the perceived and projected self, the participating artists examine the notions and visual representation of identity as formed and influenced by place, culture, gender, and conformity. The resulting artworks ask the viewer to question how we interpret portraiture. Referential to symbols and icons of ancient civilizations, ... More Two-person show of works by Vanesa Gingold and Mary Button Durell opens at SPACE 151SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Curator Alexandra Picard and SPACE 151 present San Francisco-based artists Vanesa Gingold and Mary Button Durell in the two-person show, Volupté. This exhibition explores the natural genesis of material and form through light, translucency, surface texture and structure. Bringing together sculpture, painting and drawing, Volupté highlights a series of works that suggest mappings of the intangible formations that sustain us in the physical universe. The exhibition is on view at SPACE 151 from July 20 - September 7, 2017. Like bees to a hive, Gingold and Durell explore and work tirelessly with paper, pushing the boundaries of physics with an expansive approach towards building organic structures. The resulting works unveil a complexity and beauty that mimics natures delicacy and abundance. Through her artistic process, Gingold creates ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born July 23, 2017. Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 - 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.
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