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Designs by French fashion designer Thierry Mugler are on display during his exhibition "Couturissime" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, on February 26, 2019. MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE / MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE / AFP / AFP.
MONTREAL.- Thierry Mugler: Couturissime explores the multiple universes of Thierry Mugler, couturier, director, photographer and visionary perfumer. Initiated, produced and circulated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Clarins Group and Maison Mugler, this major exhibition traces the work of an original creative force who revolutionized fashion and haute couture. Thierry Mugler: Couturissime features some 150 outfits most restored and exhibited for the first time produced between 1977 and 2014, in addition to accessories, theatre costumes, videos, film clips, videos, archives and unpublished sketches. It also presents a hundred rare prints by the greatest fashion photographers and artists, including Max Abadian, Lillian Bassman, Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goude, Karl Lagerfeld, Dominique Issermann, David LaChapelle, Luigi & Iango, Alix Malka, Steven Meisel, Mert & Marcus, Sarah Moon, Pierre et Gilles, Paol ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tate Modern presents a major exhibition of the work of Franz West (1947 - 2012). Organised by Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou, this is the first posthumous retrospective and the most comprehensive survey of the artist's work ever staged in the UK. Franz West installation view at Tate Modern 2019. Photo Luke Walker.
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 | | Exhibition of recent work by Belgian artist Walter Swennen opens at Xavier Hufkens | | Exhibition of new film, drawings and sculpture by William Kentridge opens at Marian Goodman Gallery | | $7.3 Million Kerry James Marshall painting leads Sotheby's first Contemporary Art Auction of 2019 | 
Walter Swennen, Disputatio: de angelis I, 2018. Oil on canvas, 160 x 130 x 3 cm. Photo: HV-studio. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting an exhibition of recent work by Belgian artist Walter Swennen (b. 1946). In his fourth exhibition with the gallery, Swennen continues his playful and experiential journey into the world of language and meaning, appropriation, colour, texture and form. Moving between abstraction and representation, and occasionally executed on found supports, the works explore both the poetic and material aspects of painting. Swennen takes seemingly random elements logos, lettering, found images, words and phrases and transforms them into visually arresting works that tread new ground in terms of composition, colour and technique. As erudite as they are humorous, they often deserve a second look: things are never quite what they seem. Swennens approach to painting is intuitive, spontaneous and influenced by his surroundings and everyday life (such as books, art, ... More | | 
William Kentridge, Lexicon Medium Bronze (Ampersand), 2017. Bronze, 31 1/8 x 22 7/8 x 31 7/8 in. (79 x 58 x 81 cm). Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof . Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Cathy Carver.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York is presenting William Kentridges Let Us Try for Once, an exhibition of new film, drawings and sculpture related to three major performance projects from the past two years. These include the epic The Head & the Load, a theatrical tour de force co-composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi recently shown at the New York Armory in December 2018 following its premiere at the Tate Modern London; the celebrated production of Alban Bergs opera Wozzeck, directed by Kentridge, which premiered in the Salzburg opera festival in 2017, comes to The Metropolitan Opera in the 2019-2020 season; and Ursonate¸a performance of Kurt Schwitters 1932 sound poem of the same title, presented at Performa Biennial New York, in 2017. KABOOM!, 2018 inaugurates the exhibition: a ... More | | 
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Painter), signed with the artists initials and dated 08 acrylic on PVC panel, in artists frame, 28¾ by 24¾ in. 73 by 62.9 cm. Estimate: $1.8/2.5 million. Sold for $7,325,800. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday in New York, Sothebys first Contemporary Art auction of the spring season totaled an exceptional $36.8 million well exceeding its $30.8 million high estimate and with a strong 83.4% of lots sold. For the second season in row, Sothebys Contemporary Curated auction established the highest-ever total for the series, with new auction records established for Jack Whitten and Loie Hollowell, among others, as well as exceptional prices for artists Kerry James Marshall and Alice Neel. Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Curated auctions in New York, remarked: We are overjoyed with the results of todays sale, which achieved our highest-ever total in the Curated auction series for second season in a row. Sothebys had the privilege of again presenting a masterwork by ... More |
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| | | Blum & Poe opens an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Robert Colescott | | Yale University Art Gallery opens exhibition of Matthew Barney's latest body of work | | Michael Brown joins MARC STRAUS | 
Robert Colescott, Crow in the Window, 1978. Acrylic on canvas, 66 1/4 x 48 x 1 5/8 inches. © 2019 Estate of Robert Colescott / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Estate and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Robert Colescott. This is the first New York exhibition for Colescott since his passing in 2009. Focusing on recurring themes explored in the 1970s, the exhibition highlights fraught subject matter such as the peeping Tom, sex work, the caricature of the black crow as a stand-in for the artist, miscegenation, and colonialism. In one gallery we encounter numerous depictions of black crowsfor Colescott, the bird acts as a stand-in for both himself as well as a representation of a dark facet of American history (Jim Crow). The disturbing use of blackface, the popularity of minstrel shows, and golden-era Hollywoods illustration of the African American experience are satirized in this group of work. ... More | | 
Matthew Barney, Diana on Shooting Bench, 2018. Electroplated copper plate with cast copper stand. © Matthew Barney, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery is presenting Matthew Barney: Redoubt, an exhibition of the renowned contemporary artists latest body of work (201619). The exhibition includes an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idahos Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation. Also featured are four monumental sculptures, more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. This is the artists first major exhibition at his alma mater (Barney studied art at Yale, receiving his B.A. in 1989). Matthew Barney: Redoubt is on view from March 1 to June 16, 2019. Matthew Barney: Redoubt is Barneys first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. since the presentation of River of Fundament at the Museum ... More | | 
Michael Brown, Untitled, 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- There is a saying in Yiddish Bashert it was meant to be. My wife Livia brought me to Michaels studio in Saugerties, NY when Michael Brown was just completing his undergraduate studies at SUNY New Paltz. She had nominated him for an exhibition of American graduate students, FIRST LOOK II, at the Hudson Valley MOCA. Remarkably, he was the only undergrad. He was a precocious talent who adjoined American Pop and Minimalism to create art with such originality and innovation. Michaels signature works were his cracked mirror wall sculptures, entitled In the Meantime, where crack patterns are meticulously hand-cut and welded in stainless steel. The New York Times wrote in 2008, It freezes an act of anarchic rage into a lovely, spidery web. Within a year his work was included in shows at David Zwirner, Zwirner and Wirth, and with representation at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris and New York. A small work of Browns on the floor o ... More |
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| | | Jean-Michel Alberola's first exhibition in Brussels opens at Galerie Templon | | Rosenberg & Co. hosts Ann Christopher for her first New York City exhibition | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announces two new curatorial head appointments | 
Jean-Michel Alberola, Un groupe, 2000. Neon 50 x 25 cm; 19 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy of Galerie Templon, Paris Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Galerie Templon is presenting a Jean-Michel Alberola exhibition for the very first time in Brussels. The artist, represented by Galerie Templon for over thirty years, is a prominent and unclassifiable figure on the French art scene. Paintings, drawings, neon sculptures and wall paintings, including a number of new pieces, have been put together in an artificial group exhibition focusing on the issue of the collective and the artists role in society. Born in 1953, Jean-Michel Alberola has been producing protean works that straddle conceptual, abstract and figurative art since the 1980s. Paintings, works on paper, sculptures, films, texts and artists books make up the different facets of this body of work. Political and poetic, his art is steeped in humour, spreading his message by combining artistic insights with an exploration of political and social topics.Jean-Michel ... More | | 
Ann Christopher, Red Line, 2013. Bronze, 4.92h x 5.91w in 12.50h x 15w x 2d cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- To mark the gallerys 2019 expansion, Rosenberg & Co. presents Ann Christopher: Edge and Line, open to the public from Friday, March 1, 2019 through Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 19 East 66th St. on Manhattans Upper East Side. Rosenbergs expansion to the buildings second floor offers the opportunity to build upon their renowned modern and contemporary art program. Ann Christopher: Edge and Line is the inaugural exhibition of the expanded Rosenberg Gallery, featuring abstract sculptures and works on paper by the award-winning British artistthe youngest female sculptor ever to be elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy. A luminary in contemporary abstraction, the works of Ann Christopher encompass monumental sculpture in bronze, smaller sculptures of sterling silver and stainless steel, and architectural works on paper that reflect her mastery of line, light, and movement. Edge and Line continues ... More | | 
Rita Gonzalez has been at LACMA since 2006 and has served as Interim Department Head since 2016.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced two new curatorial appointmentsRita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, and Leah Lehmbeck, Department Head of European Painting & Sculpture and American Art. Rita Gonzalez has been at LACMA since 2006 and has served as Interim Department Head since 2016. Gonzalez is known in the field for her groundbreaking exhibitions addressing topics in contemporary Latinx and Latin-American art, including Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008), Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 19721987 (2011), and, more recently, with José Luis Blondet and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, A Universal History of Infamy (2018). Gonzalez has also worked on a number of exhibitions at the intersection of art and film, including Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel FigueroaArt and Film ... More |
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| | | Thomas Erben presents a new series of paintings by Jackie Gendel | | Ponti Art Gallery presents Italian and European masterpieces from 18th century to 20th century | | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announces monumental, site-specific sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa | 
tbt, 2019. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben is very excited to present Stained Glass Cliff, a new series of paintings by Jackie Gendel. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. Casting a sense of peril and irony upon Gendels occasional play with planar and divisionist models of painting, the exhibitions title refers to glass cliff. The term, coined in 2005 by British professors Michelle K. Ryan and Alexander Haslam, describes a common practice in which women are only promoted to positions of power in times of crisis and risk. Gendels usage charges the expression, suggesting an invisible precipice that mirrors the angularity, transparency, and fragmentary quality found in many of her paintings. A term of bland corporate-world jargon, glass cliff nevertheless implies a lurking essentialism that complements if not extends from depictions of women in domestic and maternal ... More | | 
Jan Baptist Lodewyck Maes-Canini (Gand 1794 Rome 1856), (attr. to), The actress changing room. Oil on canvas cm 137 x 100. Present on the sides of the frames stamps bearing numbers of probable exposures © Ottocento Art Gallery
ROME.- Ponti Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections. The selection starts from an extraordinary rarity: a Maes-Caninis painting showing The actress changing room: it can be traced back to the stylistic language and the ductus of the Flemish painter, both for the originality of the compositional cut of the depicted scene and for the theatrical use of chiaroscuro, typically of Flemish taste, which shapes the figures and emphasizes the details, like the flowers kept in the glass bell, the bouquet placed on the left, the mask lying on the edge of the table, a masterpiece of perspective virtuosity. The second important painting offered by Ponti Art ... More | | 
I, you, she or he by Jaume Plensa. Photo: William J Hebert.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announced the acquisition and permanent siting of a major site-specific commission by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Designed and created to be an integral element of the new Meijer Gardens Welcome Center, Utopia consists of 19-foot tall portraits of four young women of different backgrounds and nationalities. Utopia will be located in the Welcome Centers spectacular new 7,400 square-foot Garden Pavilion room. The iconic sculpture is being created in Barcelona, Spain and carved from white marble. This immense sculpture is unique to the Meijer Gardens collection and to Plensas prestigious body of work. Over the past thirty years, Plensa has produced a multifaceted body of work that speaks to the capacity and beauty of humanity, often using ... More |
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 California College of the Arts breaks ground on new $80 Million student housing projectSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- California College of the Arts broke ground on new student housing in San Francisco at 188 Hooper Street. Designed by leading architecture firm Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc., the five-story building will provide much-needed, below-market-rate housing for more than 500 students roughly 25% of CCAs student body upon its completion in 2020. The 280 single and double occupancy rooms are CCAs first on-campus housing in San Francisco and are positioned at the center of the schools expanding campus. Located at the confluence of Dogpatch, Potrero Hill, and Mission neighborhoods (also known as the DoReMi Arts District), 188 Hooper will bring young creative talent to a vibrant, emerging area of San Francisco, while helping to alleviate housing difficulties for college students. San Francisco draws creative visionaries ... More Rwandan film picks up top honours at Africa film festivalOUAGADOUGOU (AFP).- Rwandan director Joel Karekezi's "The Mercy of the Jungle" on Saturday scooped best film at Africa's top film festival, following a fierce debate about gender equality and sexual aggression in the continent's movie industry. The film was among 20 vying for the top Golden Stallion of Yennenga award at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco). A road movie focusing on the wars in Democratic Republic of Congo through the eyes of two soldiers lost in the jungle, it also picked up the best actor award for Belgian Marc Zinga. Egyptian director Khaled Youssef won second prize for his drama "Karma", while third prize went to Tunisia's Ben Hohmound for "Fatwa" about a father who discovers that his dead son had been a jihadist. In the half century since it was established, Fespaco has never awarded its top prize ... More Craft industry leader Brigitte Martin is Society of Arts + Crafts' new Executive DirectorBOSTON, MASS.- Society of Arts + Crafts Board President Jennifer Rayburn announced today that Brigitte Martin, a long-time leader in the craft industry, has been chosen to lead the venerable Boston-based organization following a national search led by Arts Consulting Group. Martin assumes the role of Executive Director March 1 at the 122-year-old organizations home in Bostons thriving Seaport neighborhood. Martin was most recently Executive Director of the Furniture Society, an Illinois-based, non-profit educational organization working to advance the art of furniture making. She also has served as Board President for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Martin is well-known to international crafting communities for founding and managing the Crafthaus website, an online community that supports and provides services to craft artists in all disciplines, ... More Figurative fine art, coin-op, bronzes offered at Benefit Shop Foundation March 13 MOUNT KISCO, NY.- The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc., will present an auction designed to tantalize buyers with powerful and figurative artworks as well as intricately carved sculpture and bronzes, along with noteworthy lots across the board ranging from farm tables to slot machines on Wednesday, March 13, at 10 am. The sale is primarily driven by a Greenwich, Conn., and Palm Beach, Fla., estate where the collectors had a good eye for fine art, design, bronze smalls and much more. Several other choice local estates round out the auction, which comprises furniture, painting, Asian art and antiques, bronzes, sculpture, coin-op, pottery, inkwells and scales, decorative accessories and more. These collectors split their time between two homes and furnished both with wonderfully vivid paintings that practically have the subjects leaping off the canvas as well as ... More CUE Art Foundation opens a solo exhibition by Camilo Godoy, curated by Tania BrugueraNEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting En Vivo y En Directo, a solo exhibition by Camilo Godoy, curated by Tania Bruguera. The artist employs video, photography, performance, and installation to call into question political moments, their corresponding media coverage, and the production of history. Rather than adhering to established narratives, Godoy re-presents such occurrences in a way that allows for alternative views of history, meaning, and the impact of political events on the lived experience and the human body. By subverting contemporary and historical narratives of past and present moments, Godoys work interrogates how history is recorded and presented, archived and interpreted, and by whom. Highlighting the destructive abstraction of violent political moments, Godoys work urges us to remember and rethink history. The ... More New exhibition from Babi Badalov opens at YARAT Contemporary Art CentreBAKU.- YARAT Contemporary Art Space opened a solo exhibition of visual artist and poet Babi Badalov, running 2 March 16 June 2019. Born in Azerbaijan and living in France since 2008, Badalovs practice explores the complexities and limitations of language and expressions of gender and sexuality. At YARAT the artist presents an installation made entirely of existing and newly commissioned textile works, offering a timely observation on the conflicts between Azerbaijan's cultural heritage and the contemporary climate of accelerated capitalist growth within the country. Having spent much of his life migrating between various countries and cultures, Badalovs work is informed by his own personal experiences of exclusion - particularly with regards to gender and sexuality - whilst also alluding to broader geopolitical concerns. Using a process ... More La Ferme du Buisson exhibits works by ten artistsNOISIEL.- Ten artists exhibiting for the first time in France question how activism, mutual aid, feminism, indigenous knowledge, queer desire, creative survival, and a closer relationship to the land can contribute to a better recognition of care as a powerful social and cultural force. Because care is a political and artistic issue, the Art Centre is presenting a reflexive and practice-based collective exhibition on care. The artists in this exhibition offer new perspectives on the precariousness of artistic labour, gendered and racialized carework, economic crises, mass incarceration, mobility and migration, queer and non-conforming bodies, death and dying, and environmental stewardship. Introduced in the academic and medical worlds in France, this notion is beginning to resonate across many other fields. In a French and global context of "care crisis," it is important ... More Cranbrook Art Museum opens a new Daniel Arsham exhibitionBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Art Museum opened the new exhibition Daniel Arsham, The Source: A Catalog of Late-20th-Century American Relics, a fictional archaeology of the future through the creation of iconic objects and products of late-twentieth-century American life. The exhibition opened at Cranbrook Art Museum on Friday, March 1, and runs through June 23, 2019. Arsham is a New York-based artist who works across the fields of art, architecture, film, and performance. He is also co-founder of Snarkitecture, a collaborative practice known for using everyday materials in unexpected ways to create captivating public installations. Their well-known participatory project, The Beach Detroit, opened to the public in the Campus Martius area of downtown Detroit on March 1, the same day the exhibition opened at Cranbrook Art Museum. ... More Isaac Julien's 'Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass' presented by the Memorial Art GalleryROCHESTER, NY.- The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is presenting the exhibition Lessons of the HourFrederick Douglass, featuring a ten-screen installation titled Lessons of the Hour by artist Isaac Julien. The work is inspired by episodes in the life of Frederick Douglass (181895), and the issues of social justice that shaped his lifes work. Lessons of the HourFrederick Douglass will open at MAG on March 3, 2019, with a two-gallery presentation featuring, in the first gallery, three tintypesan early type of photography in which the photographic emulsion is presented on a metal plate. These are portraits of performers in Lessons of the Hour. The second gallery will showcase the world premiere of the ten-screen film installation. Isaac Julien created the installation using both analogue and digital technologies. He describes ... More Exhibition explores how artists have drawn inspiration from flowers to develop their own expressionWASHINGTON, DC.- The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, the worlds largest research center dedicated to documenting the history of the visual arts in the U.S., presents a new exhibition from its expansive collection. Bloom: Flowers from the Archives of American Art features pastel, colored pencil, oil, and graphite-and-ink sketches; postcards; watercolors; lithographs; gouache illustrations; mixed media works; a dried bouquet; an album of pressed flowers, and letters and correspondence dating from 1858 to 2003. The exhibition explores how artists have drawn inspiration from flowers to develop their own creative expression. The sketches and drawings featured in the exhibition are works in progressideas for future works of artreflecting an artists unique process. Some of the artists observed and recorded the ... More New exhibition looks at the cartoons and illustrations of Rube GoldbergSTOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Norman Rockwell Museum presents The Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg, an exhibition exploring the humorous illustrations of the visionary artist, who has become famous for the creative inventions bearing his name. On view at the Museum from March 2 through June 9, 2019, the exhibition offers a revealing look at Goldbergs creativity through original comic strips from the 1930s, where the artist created his complicated machines, as well as later political cartoons and instructional materials from the Famous Artists School, which are now part of the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. "Rube Goldbergs comic strips had such a tremendous influence on popular culture, both then and now," notes Norman Rockwell Museum Curator of Exhibitions Jesse Kowalski, who organized the exhibition. "We are thrilled to be able ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter and sculptor Asger Jorn was born March 03, 1914. Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 - 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jorgensen. In this image: Untitled (Figures in a head), ca. 1960/1963. Oil on fiberboard, 19.69 x 27.56 inches 50 x 70 cm.
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