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Peter Saul, portrait, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2017, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting an extensive survey exhibition of the work of the American painter Peter Saul (*1934 in San Francisco, California). Long before Bad Painting became a central concern in contemporary art, Peter Saul deliberately offended good taste. Beginning in the late 1950s he developed his highly individual idiom blending Pop Art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Chicago Imagism, San Francisco Funk, and cartoon culture, one in which he managed to address complex political and social issues. Saul shares with Pop Art an interest in the commonplace, in consumer society, and the cheerful pictorial worlds of the comics in glowing, appealing colors. Yet his work is also associated with the aesthetic strategies of the California counterculture. He produces an almost irate kind of painting when depicting the darker sides of the American Dream. In it he combines exuberant humor and playful but hars ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People stand at the entrance of the Claude Monet Foundation, in Giverny, western France, on June 1, 2017. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
| The Morgan opens most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henry David Thoreau | | Clark Art Institute exhibition features the work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | | Hockney is Tate Britain's most visited exhibition ever | 
One of Henry D. Thoreaus research notebooks on North American indigenous cultures, ca. 184761. The Morgan Library & Museum; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
NEW YORK, NY.- Henry David Thoreau (18171862) occupies a lofty place in American cultural history. He spent two years in a cabin by Walden Pond and a single night in jail, and out of those experiences grew two of this countrys most influential works: his book Walden and the essay known as Civil Disobedience. But his lifelong journalmore voluminous by far than his published writingsreveals a fuller, more intimate picture of a man of wide-ranging interests and a profound commitment to living responsibly and passionately. Now, in a major new exhibition entitled This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal opening June 2 at the Morgan Library & Museum, nearly one hundred items have been brought together in the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the author. Marking the 200th anniversary of his birth ... More | | 
John Singer Sargent (American, 18561925), Henry G. Marquand, 1897. Oil on canvas, 52 x 41 3/4 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Trustees, 1897, 97.43. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image Source: Art Resource, NY.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- As resurgent interest in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, born Netherlands 18361912) raises appreciation and interest in his work for a new generation, the Clark Art Institute offers new insight into one of the painters most successful and distinctive artistic endeavorsthe design of a music room for the New York mansion of financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand (18191902). Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design reunites twelve of nineteen pieces from the original furniture suite, along with paintings, ceramics, textiles, and sculpture from the room for the first time since Marquands estate was auctioned in 1903. The Clarks ornately decorated Steinway piano, acquired ... More | | 
David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) 1971 (detail). Private Collection © David Hockney.
LONDON.- Tate Britain today announced that its David Hockney retrospective received 478,082 visitors. This makes it the most visited exhibition ever held at the gallery on Millbank, either in its time as the Tate Gallery or since it became Tate Britain in 2000. Open from 9 February to 29 May 2017, the exhibition was the worlds most extensive retrospective of Hockneys work and was seen by an average of over 4,300 visitors each day. Almost 35,000 advance tickets were sold before the show opened more than any other show in Tates history and popular demand led to a series of special late openings, including the gallery staying open until midnight on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of its final weekend. It is now the most visited exhibition of a living artist ever held at any of Tates four galleries. Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain said: Tate Britain is the home of British art ... More |
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| V&A unveils designs and first major supporter for new Photography Centre | | Marc Straus opens exhibition of white paintings and sculptures by an international selection of artists | | Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art shows Martin Johnson Heade's creative range of work | 
V&A Photography Centre. Render of The Bern and Ronny Schwartz Gallery. © David Kohn Architects.
LONDON.- The Victoria and Albert Museum revealed the first visual of its new, state-of-the-art Photography Centre, and announced its first major supporter for the project The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation. Designed by David Kohn Architects (DKA), the first phase of the V&A Photography Centre will more than double the display space dedicated to photography by Autumn 2018. It forms part of an ambitious two-phased FuturePlan development project to dramatically reimagine the display of the photographic collection at the V&A. DKAs design for the Photography Centre will celebrate the original features of the V&As nineteenth-century picture galleries, while creating a rich variation of atmosphere through the use of lighting, and clever climate control to ensure a stable environment for fragile artworks. A modular system of display cases that can be easily reconfigured will allow for greater flexibility and varied ... More | | 
Doug Argue, White Heat, 2017. Oil on canvas, 73 x 55 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus presents The White Heat, an exhibition of white paintings and sculptures by an international selection of artists. White. Sacred and innocent, it wraps the Graces in Botticellis Primavera, its the tenderness in Zurbarans Agnus Dei. In Chinese cultures, White is associated with Death. It is the ominous shroud of mourning. War paint and Surrender Flags, White is uncompromising the piercing light from Goyas lantern in The Third of May, shines bright the evils of the day. In 1918 Kazimir Malevich introduced Suprematist Composition: White on White, a painting of a cool white square over a warm white background. Malevich proclaimed in the Moscow exhibition catalog: I have overcome the lining of the colored sky, torn it down and into the bag thus formed, put color, tying it up with a knot. Swim in the white free abyss, infinity is before you. Later in 1953, Robert Rauschenbergs ... More | | 
Martin Johnson Heade, "South American River, 1868 (detail). Oil on canvas, 26 x 22 5/8 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 18151865, 47.1153.
ATHENS, GA.- Dramatic landscapes, exotic subjects and vibrant colors all characterize the work of the once forgotten artist Martin Johnson Heade. Now recognized as one of the most important painters of the 19th century, Heade devoted equal time to landscape, marine and still-life subjects, but is best known for his studies of tropical birds and flowers. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition The Genius of Martin Johnson Heade from June 3 through September 10, 2017. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition shows Heades creative range of work, from an early folk portrait to a late magnolia still life. The Georgia Museum of Art does not have any works by Heade in its permanent collection. Born in 1819 in Lumberville, ... More |
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| Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi appointed Curator of African Art | | Pope.L receives 2017 Bucksbaum Award | | First U.S. retrospective of artist Marisa Merz opens at the Hammer Museum | 
As a curator and practicing artist, Nzewi brings a unique combination of experience and academic training in three different countries to the museum.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as Curator of African Art, following an international search. He will assume his responsibilities at the CMA on August 1, in charge of the museums outstanding collection of works of art from sub-Saharan Africa, comprised of a diverse selection of masks and figurative sculpture from West and Central Africa. More recently the collection has been significantly augmented by a group of Congolese sculptures. Smooth is an exceptional curator with a remarkably creative approach. He has distinguished himself in the field of African art by juxtaposing historical objects with modern and contemporary art from the continent, highlighting the dialogue between the past and present. We very much look forward to having him as a colleague in Cleveland, and to experiencing the ways that he will encourage our audiences to engage with ... More | | 
Installation view of Pope.L aka William Pope.L, Claim (Whitney Version), 2017. Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 17-June 11, 2017. Collection of the artist; courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photograph Bill Orcutt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitneys Alice Pratt Brown Director, announced today that the multidisciplinary artist Pope.L (aka William Pope.L) has been named the recipient of the 2017 Bucksbaum Award. Pope.L (b. 1955, Newark, NJ; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is a visual artist and educator whose boundary-breaking practice spans nearly four decades and includes performance, painting, installation, video, sculpture, and theater. Best known for enacting arduous and provocative performances and interventions in public spaces, Pope.L addresses issues and themes ranging from language to gender, race, social struggle, and community. Mr. Weinberg commented, For almost four decades, Pope.L has challenged us to confront some of the most pressing questions about American society ... More | | 
Marisa Merz, Living Sculpture, 1966. Aluminum. Overall displayed dimensions variable. Tate, London. Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor 2009. Image ©Tate London, 2015.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space, the first U.S. retrospective of the Italian painter, sculptor, and installation artist Marisa Merz (b. 1926, Turin, Italy). Bringing together five decades of the artists work, the exhibition includes Merzs early Arte Povera experiments with non-traditional materials and processes; the enigmatic heads and faces she created in the 1980s and 1990s; and her installations that balance intimacy with impressive scale. Organized by the Hammer Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space is on view from June 4 through August 20, 2017 and is accompanied by Merzs first monograph to be published in English. As the only female member of the Arte Povera movement, Marisa Merz has been overlooked for decades and we are thrilled she is coming into a prominence that she so well deserves, Hammer Director ... More |
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| Ketterer Kunst to offer graphic art from a German private collection | | Christie's announces highlights from the June 21 Rare Watches and American Icons auction | | One of the largest collections of Fantasia art featured in Heritage Animation auction | 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Die Geliebte, 1915. Woodcut, hand-colored, 44.2 x 29.5 cm (17.4 x 11.4 in). Estimate: 100,000-150,000.
MUNICH.- The small but fine collection of a German art lover offers nothing less but extraordinary works of art. The selection, which has a focus on expressionist works by the Brücke artists, will be called up in context of the Ketterer Kunst auctions from 8-10 June in Munich. I was totally blown away, is how the collector describes his feelings when he saw paintings by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff for the first time upon a visit to the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett shortly after World War II. He fell for his rough woodcut style. In the following he developed a liking for works from other members of the artist group Die Brücke as well. He was fascinated by their style, especially as it was so different from everything that had been considered beautiful by then. Together with his wife, who was particularly taken with the works by Otto Mueller, he visited scores of exhibitions. It didn ... More | | 
Jaeger LeCoultre. A Fine 14k Gold Triple Date Wristwatch Circa 1947. Belonging to American Television and Film Actor Bob Hope. Estimate: $25,000-30,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the June 21 Rare Watches and American Icons auction. The sale will be led by The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Cartier Tank. This historically important watch, being sold with an accompanying painting by Jackie, was previously unknown to the public and offers two of the most important historic artifacts to surface in recent years from the golden era of the President Kennedys Administration. (Estimate: $60,000 $120,000). The New York auction will offer 250 lots with fresh-to-market property and many mint condition modern pieces with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $1,500,000. Highlights will include modern, vintage and sport watches from Audemars Piguet, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Omega, Patek Philippe, Rolex, Richard Mille, Heuer and many more. The sale will also ... More | | 
Fantasia Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's Apprentice Production Cel Courvoisier Setup (Walt Disney, 1940). Est. $15,000.
DALLAS, TX.- From animation drawings to production cels, concept art to storyboards, Heritage Auctions' July 1 Animation Sale will offer one of the largest selections of artwork from the groundbreaking classic 1940 Walt Disney animated feature film Fantasia. No other piece highlights the rarity of this auction as well as Kay Nielsen's epic "Night on Bald Mountain" Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1940), which is expected to sell for $50,000. "We're highlighting this sale featuring 'The Art of Fantasia,'" said Jim Lentz, Director of Animation at Heritage Auctions. "This is one of the largest collections of production artwork cels, animation drawings, concept art, storyboards from this film ever in one auction. Over 60 pieces of original production art for this film are in this sale!" Being offered is a fantastic original of Mickey Mouse as "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" Production Cel. ... More |
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 Christina De León joins Cooper Hewitt as Associate Curator of U.S. Latino DesignNEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced the appointment of Christina De León as associate curator of U.S. Latino design, effective Feb. 6, 2017. In this newly created position, supported by the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, De León is responsible for researching modern and contemporary U.S. Latino design for the collection, as well as developing exhibitions, public programs and digital content to raise awareness of Latino design. Christina is an exciting, new curatorial voice within Cooper Hewitt and the entire Smithsonian. An accomplished scholar, she will help ensure that we continue to enrich and expand the narrative of U.S. Latino design, as well as broaden our ability to engage with an enthusiastic and diverse audience, said director Caroline Baumann. Im very grateful to the Latino ... More The Met requests Rockwell Museum's famous Remington painting for NYC exhibitionCORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum announced that The Metropolitan Museum of Art has requested Frederic Remingtons painting Lin McClean on loan from the permanent collection of The Rockwell. The work will go on tour to The Met for an upcoming summer exhibition, Frederic Remington at The Met opening July 3, 2017 and running through January 2, 2018. Before the piece travels, The Rockwell will provide a last look window of opportunity to view the famous watercolor soon to be leaving for New York City. The work will be installed at The Rockwell only for a short time now through June 20 and will be accompanied with sign-in station. But not to worry, Lin McLean will return to The Rockwell after its temporary tour. Visitors are encouraged to stop by during regular museum hours to bid the artwork farewell leave your name and address in Lin McLeans ... More Vancouver Art Gallery appoints cheyanne turions as Director of Education & Public ProgramsVANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the appointment of curator, programmer and writer cheyanne turions as the Gallerys new Director of Education & Public Programs. Commencing on June 7, 2017, cheyanne will lead efforts to unite curatorial content, educational objectives and audience development goals to provide integrated and meaningful ways to engage the Gallerys diverse audiences. We are proud to welcome cheyanne turions to the Gallery, she brings more than ten years of experience as a curator, programmer and writer, says Director, Kathleen S. Bartels. The position balances the Gallerys commitment to making accessible a wide range of core public programming together with building the institutions profile and awareness, locally and internationally. cheyanne is of settler and Indigenous ancestry from the farmlands ... More Carter Burden Gallery opens three new exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Peripheral Visions in the East Gallery featuring Adrianne Lobel and Marjorie Weiss, Kaiwa in the West Gallery featuring Sue Koch & Kiyoshi Otsuka, and On the Wall featuring Rezendes. The exhibition runs from June 1st through 22nd at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. In Kaiwa, artist Sue Koch explores a mixed media series entitled Lacings, which ties into her interest in structure, architecture, and textiles. Deeply influenced by Japanese aesthetics and culture, Koch states, The lacing exercises seek, through a series of simple forms, to stretch beyond the basics to a more complex form and the juxtaposition of each work informs the next. The exhibition Kaiwa (会話) translates to Conversation and is a two-person show with her husband, Kiyoshi Otsuka. In Peripheral Visions, Adrianne Lobel ... More Everything Must Go: A site-specific exhibition by Don Porcella opens at Noysky ProjectsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Noysky Projects is presenting Everything Must Go, a site-specific exhibition by Don Porcella that examines the intersection of consumer culture and the commodification of memories. Located just 100 feet from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood Boulevard, Everything Must Go illuminates Americas obsession with nostalgia, the lure of the tourist industry, and the manipulation of desire. The souvenir shop is one of the few places where the average person can purchase a token symbolizing the American Dream, affording the tourist a memento of a place and time that has intense meaning. Relics from a souvenir shop are typically a cheap imitation of luxury that are made from impermanent materials, much like a film set. But unlike the polished veneer of a stage, Porcella embraces the unrefined characteristics in his relics, using accessible materials like ... More Kunsthalle Bern exhibits works by Argentine-Swiss artist Jill MulleadyBERN.- The title Angst vor Angst sets the tone, or even more: it names an atmosphere that communicates between new and recent compositions by Argentine-Swiss artist Jill Mulleady (*1980, lives in Los Angeles). The English language has long integrated the German word Angst and the term German Angst is also in common usage. The connection that Mulleady makes is to the movie Angst vor der Angst (Fear of Fear, 1975) by the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in which the lead character Margot suffers diffuse anxiety attacks and is immediately judged as mentally ill by her social context. Fassbinder was concerned with showing the normal human condition of feeling alien in ones own life. In Mulleadys paintings we see silent acts, as if someone has turned down the volume of a film. She freezes her figures in mid-movement, isolating these gazing, ... More Israel Museum debuts large-scale photographic collages by Ilit AzoulayJERUSALEM.- A culmination of three years of on-site research at the Israel Museum, No Thing Dies premieres a new series of works by Israeli-based artist Ilit Azoulay. On view June 2 October 28, 2017, the exhibition features large-scale digital collages that combine photographs of rarely seen objects and spaces inside the Museum, discovered by Azoulay after interviewing past and current curators, conservators, and archivists. Representing a web of stories and memories, the works are embedded with hidden layers of history relating to objects in the collection and the Israel Museums evolution since its founding in 1965. Its been a rare privilege to work with an artist for such an extended period and provide unfettered access to the inner workings of our Museum as an integral element to Ilits creative process, said Dr. Noam Gal, the Israel Museums Horace and Grace ... More Nari Ward debuts a series of new work at Lehmann MaupinNEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting TILL, LIT, Nari Wards fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Ward debuts a series of new work comprised of mixed media paintings, sculptures, and installations. These works examine the ways value is assigned throughout society, with Ward attempting to disrupt existing monetary-based value structures in favor of social enrichment. On the occasion of this exhibition, Ward and Lehmann Maupin will donate a percentage of sales to Housing Works, the New York City-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to end the dual crisis of homelessness and AIDS. Ward garnered acclaim early in his career with pieces like Amazing Grace (1993), which he produced while in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Ward created a sculptural installation using hundreds of discarded strollers and recycled fire hoses ... More Chinese contemporary art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection on view in OsloOSLO.- The name of the exhibition Chinese Summer is a metaphor for a nation and art scene that have seen explosive growth over the last two decades. China is now one of the most important industrial and economic forces on the planet and this has been matched by overwhelming artistic and cultural production that in recent years has moved from a local situation to a position on the global stage. The pioneering generation of contemporary artists came to public attention during the 1980s, when there was a creative explosion in China. This spearheaded the artistic revolution that continues through to the present day. These first-generation contemporary artists emerged out of an extended period of cultural isolation and a closed regional context characterised by a highly traditional way of conceiving and appreciating art. They abandoned traditional formal approaches ... More A wealth of biting satire from Gillray, the original political cartoonist on sale at Swann Auction GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Satire from James Gillray, the father of the political cartoon, features strongly at Swann Auction Galleries in New York on June 7. More than a dozen comical and hard-hitting views of English life set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon focus on incompetence, corruption, hypocrisy and the horrors of war often in a much more graphic manner than later imitators. Among them is this hand-coloured etching, above, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, published in London in 1808. A hellish vision of European war, it depicts Bonaparte beset on all sides by his enemies. The estimate is $1,500 to $2,500. As colourful and contemptuous of Napoleons transformation from faithful champion of the king and people to feckless tyrant is Democracy; _or_ a Sketch of the Life of Bounaparte, another hand-coloured etching ... More Chinese paintings and works of art achieve strong prices at Tokyo Chuo Hong KongHONG KONG.- Tokyo Chuo Hong Kong achieved strong results at its Spring Sales held on 28 & 29 May 2017 at the Four Seasons Hong Kong. There was consistently active bidding throughout for the 600 lots of Imperial Chinese ceramics and works of art, classical and modern Chinese paintings, scholars objects and Japanese tea wares on offer. Rare and exceptional works from important private collections in Europe, America and Japan were highly sought after by collectors and many lots sold for prices well above their pre-sale estimates. In the Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy sale, the star lot was Recluses Life in Mountains by Gong Xian (1618-1689) which realized HK$25,760,000/ US$3,302,564 after competitive bidding between collectors on the phone and in the saleroom, nearly three times its pre-sale estimate. Formerly in an important European ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Natalia Goncharova, was born June 04, 1881. TULA, RUSSIA.- June 4, 1881.- Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin. In this image: Cyclist 1913.
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