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Vasily Kandinsky (18661944) Dominant Curve (Courbe dominante), April 1936. Oil on canvas, 129.2 x 194.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.989. Photo by Kristopher McKay.
By: Laure Brumont
FLORENCE (AFP).- From Kandinsky to Pollock, the extraordinary impact collectors Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim had on 20th century art is celebrated by an exhibition of over 100 masterpieces that opened in Florence on Saturday. Subtitled "The Art of the Guggenheim Collections", the exhibition, which will run in the Tuscan city's Palazzo Strozzi until July 24, explores how bohemian socialite Peggy, her uncle Solomon and the celebrated New York museum he established influenced European and American art from the 1920s to the 1960s. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, it features paintings, sculptures, photographs and engravings borrowed from the Guggenheim museums in New York and Venice and a small number of other museums and private collections. "Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) did not just buy works, she bet on young artists and supported them thanks to an incredible artistic instinct and curiosity," Barbero said. "She was so sure of her own taste, she never compromised." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day KRAKOW.- This picture taken on March 16, 2016 shows the exhibition "FASHION able in Communist Poland" which presents Polish fashion in the time of communism at the National Museum in Krakow. BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP
| First major UK retrospective in 40 years on photographer Paul Strand opens at the V&A | | Acclaimed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi focus of major exhibition at the Jewish Museum | | Painting by Frans Van Mieris, early portrait by Alex Katz enter the collection of the National Gallery of Art | 
Paul Strand, Couple, Rucăr, Romania, 1967. © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation.
LONDON.- For the first time in the UK in 40 years a major retrospective on the American photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) opened at the V&A. The exhibition is the first of its kind since Strands death in 1976 and shows how the pioneering photographer defined the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practiced today. Part of a tour organised by Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the V&A exhibition reveals Strands trailblazing experiments with abstract photography, screens what is widely thought of as the first avant-garde film and shows the full extent of his photographs made on his global travels beginning in New York in 1910 and ending in France in 1976. Newly acquired photographs from Strands only UK project a 1954 study of the island of South Uist in the Scottish Hebrides are also on ... More | | 
Isaac Mizrahi, Totem Pole Gown, fall 1991. Embroidered wool flannel, chamois gloves. Photograph © Jason Frank Rothenberg.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents the first exhibition focused on Isaac Mizrahi, the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur, from March 18 to August 7, 2016. Through over 250 works, including clothing and costume designs, sketches, photographs, and an immersive video installation, this survey exhibition explores Mizrahis unique position at the intersection of high style and popular culture. While best known for his work in fashion, Mizrahis creativity has expanded over a three decade career to embrace acting, directing, set and costume design, writing, and cabaret performance. Beginning with his first collection in 1987 and running through the present day, Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History weaves together the many threads of Mizrahi's prolific output, juxtaposing work in fashion, film, television, and the performing arts. ... More | | 
Frans van Mieris, An Interior with a Soldier Smoking a Pipe, c. 1657. Oil on panel, 32.4 x 25.4 cm (12 3/4 x 10 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington. The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund/The Folger Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- At its January 2016 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired a number of works including an extraordinary painting by Dutch master Frans van Mieris (16351681), an early portrait by Alex Katz (b. 1927) of his wife, Ada, a remarkable trompe l'oeil painting by an unknown 17th-century Dutch artist, and a deluxe-format artist's book with 80 woodcuts by Joan Miró (18931983). The Gallery also acquired works on paper by Edvard Munch (18631944), Jim Dine (b. 1935), and Sam Francis (19231994) and photographs by Dora Maar (19071997), Rogi André (19051970), and Idris Khan (b. 1978). At this meeting, the Gallery accessioned 331 works of art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art including a painting by Thomas Hart Benton (18891975) and photographs by Andy Warhol (1928 ... More |
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| Stephen Friedman Gallery opens eighth solo show by British artist David Shrigley | | 'Any one for Shoes?' Sotheby's to sell complete portfolio of Andy Warhol shoe designs | | Düsseldorf-born artist Reinhard Mucha opens exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel | 
David Shrigley, Untitled 2016. Oil stick and acrylic on paper, 127.5 x 92.5cm.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting its eighth solo show by acclaimed British artist David Shrigley. Using acrylic paint and oil stick, he returns to his ubiquitous satirical combination of drawing and text with new large-scale works on paper. Working with oil stick for the first time, here Shrigley riffs on Op Art, with insertions of dry humour that cut to the point of human nature and everyday situations. This exhibition runs concurrent with a major touring solo show organised by the British Council, enititled Lose Your Mind', which travels to Museo De Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile in May 2016. It also prefigures Shrigley's Really Good' which will be unveiled in Trafalgar Square, for the Fourth Plinth Commission in September 2016. For this show the artist turns his sharp art historical critique to optical art. This 1960s development in painting bewitches the eye, creating realistic movement or dimensi ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, complete portfolio. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 22 March in London, Sothebys will offer for sale a fashionistas dream: the complete portfolio of hand-coloured lithographs of shoe designs by Andy Warhol à la recherche du shoe perdu together with Shoe and Leg, produced circa 1955. During a seven-year period, from 1953 to 1959, Warhol self-published a series of portfolios, books and individual prints. These were all offset lithographs, some hand-coloured. During this time, Warhol was a commercial illustrator for fashion magazines and advertising agencies, and in 1955 he was appointed the sole illustrator of the I. Miller shoe campaign. Warhol made new drawings of shoes each week for advertisements in The New York Times and à la recherche du shoe perdu links directly to his work for I. Miller. Shoes became Warhols signature product. In the early 1960s, he moved to the more commercial Pop imagery with which he is now associated. The hand-colouring wa ... More | | 
Installation view «Reinhard Mucha» at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Gina Folly.
BASEL.- Since the 1980s, numerous widely acclaimed exhibitions have introduced international audiences to the work of the Düsseldorf-born artist Reinhard Mucha. In 1990, Mucha (in collaboration with Bernd and Hilla Becher) designed the German pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale; in 1992 and 1997, his art was featured at documenta in Kassel. He is now regarded as a leading artist of his generation. Art lovers in Basel have known about Mucha since 1987, when his show Nordausgang was on view at the Kunsthalle. Almost three decades later, the Kunstmuseum Basel now dedicates an exhibition to the artist that focuses on the Frankfurter Block, an expansive ensemble of works. Much of it was previously on view in SchaffnerlosWerke ohne Arbeiten 19812012, a show at Galerie Grässlin, Frankfurt, in 2012. Two years later, Mucha, adding several interior ... More |
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| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum receives $3 million challenge grant for art conservation | | YSP presents At Home, the first in a series of exhibitions curated from the Arts Council Collection | | Indiana State Museum bicentennial exhibition highlights Indiana art scene over the years | 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: David M. Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has received a $3 million endowment grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the continuing work of the museums Conservation Department. The grant, to be matched two-to-one, is designated specifically to endow the position of Deputy Director and Chief Conservator, held since 2007 by Carol Stringari, and a new position, Director of Engagement, Conservation and Collections. The announcement was made today by Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. Carol Stringari and her conservation team are well known and highly regarded for their cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary perspective, and use of innovative techniques in advancing the field of conservation, said Armstrong. We commend The Andrew ... More | | 
Sophie Calle, The Tie, 1993. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents At Home, the first in a series of exhibitions curated from the Arts Council Collection as part of the National Partners programme marking the Collections 70th anniversary. The exhibition highlights Arts Council Collection works of domestic scale within the Bothy Gallery and comprises pieces by artists including Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sophie Calle, Fiona Banner, Arman, Dan Graham, Paul Rooney, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Hepworth, Jordan Baseman, Robert Filliou, Bill Brandt, Jenny Holzer and Mark Wallinger. At Home relaunches the Bothy Gallery following its refurbishment, supported by Arts Council England and a significant public giving campaign. Once the home of the Head Gardener, the Bothy Gallery is a historic part of the Bretton Estate and was built around 1810. The exhibition ... More | | 
Jacob Cox, Pogue's Run, 1871 (detail).
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Hoosiers are being introduced to a special body of artwork this year during the 200 Years of Indiana Art: A Cultural Legacy exhibition, March 19 through October 2 at the Indiana State Museum. The exhibit is comprised of more than 100 two- and three-dimensional works of art. Works by important early Indiana artists provide a historical perspective. Additional works include modern and contemporary pieces illustrating the development of the visual arts in Indiana, showcasing the immense talent and diversity associated with the state. The Indiana State Museum is delighted to host this important exhibition showcasing the tremendous artistic talent associated with the state. Working with artists, collectors and institutions statewide, weve assembled a collection of works that illustrate the evolution and influence of the visual arts throughout our 200-year history, said Mark Ruschman, chief curator ... More |
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| Exhibition of new paintings and drawings by John Alexander on view at John Berggruen Gallery | | Exhibition of photographs rendered in Play-Doh by Eleanor Macnair on view at the Kopeikin Gallery | | re/ productions: Cyril Zarcone's first solo show in Paris on view at Galerie Eric Mouchet | 
John Alexander, Roseland, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- John Berggruen Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Texas-born, New York-based artist John Alexander, on view March 16 April 23, 2016. John Alexander: Recent Paintings and Drawings is the first solo exhibition for Alexander in the gallery and features works inspired by the natural landscapecanvases abound in highly detailed, realistically rendered botanicals and animalsa subject the artist has returned to in recent years. For Alexander, whose childhood consisted of camping and fishing trips in the bayous and woods of East Texas, nature is a frequent subject. His lush paintings populated with diverse flora and fauna signal a reverence for the tradition of landscape painting as practiced by such art historical masters as Claude Monet or the more recent Hudson River School painters of the American northeast. As an undergraduate majoring in applied-arts at Lamar University in Beaumont ... More | | 
Original photograph: Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967 by Diane Arbus.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Kopeikin Gallery presenting Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh, the gallery's first exhibition with British artist Eleanor Macnair. In this series Macnair uses Play-Doh to recreate images from throughout the history of photography. The original photographs are reinterpreted simplified and transformed with vivid colour - into three dimensional sculptures which are then re-photographed and presented in the same two dimensional form as the origiinals.. The exhibition opened Friday March 18th and runs through April 16th. This exhibition is free and open to the public. The series was inspired by a round in photo pub quiz in 2013 in which participants were challenged to make a reproduction of a famous photograph using only Play-Doh. Macnair works with simple tools; Play-Doh, a chopping board, a scalpel, and an empty wine bottle as a rolling pin, to create new versions of familiar images by renowned artists. After the Play-Doh ... More | | 
Self-proclaimed Bricoleur Supérieur (Superior Handyman), Cyril Zarcone likes our gaze to linger over the details of his constructions and the techniques used in the design of his sculptures.
PARIS.- Galerie Eric Mouchet presents re/ productions, Cyril Zarcones first solo show in Paris, from 12 March until 16 April 2016. Self-proclaimed Bricoleur Supérieur (Superior Handyman), Cyril Zarcone likes our gaze to linger over the details of his constructions and the techniques used in the design of his sculptures. Often, he leaves visible traces of the processes implemented in order to create his pieces and also give as much importance to the stages of construction as to the final result. This Bricolage supérieur (Superior DIY) as he sees it, is the use of tools and techniques suitable for technicians and workers (elements of formwork, protection and structural support), which inspire him to create these sculptures. Without specialist training and with his own knowledge, he draws on these instruments of the construction industry and building sites by reproducing them. He says himself: ... More |
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 The Design Museum will open on 24 NovemberLONDON.- The Design Museum has today announced that it will open in its new home on Kensington High Street, on 24 November this year, the result of an £83 million transformation of a listed landmark building from the 1960s. For the first time in the museums history it will have a free permanent display of its collection - Designer Maker User tells the story of contemporary design through these three interconnected roles. A wall at the entrance to the gallery will feature some of the worlds most popular affordable consumer goods, crowdsourced from the public via the museums website - the call for suggestions begins today. Highlights of the collection include: the Vespa Clubman designed by Corradino dAscanio and made by Piaggio; Ettore Sottsass and Perry Kings Valentine typewriter for Olivetti; Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calverts British road signs; the Sony ... More Best year ever for the Museum of London DocklandsLONDON.- The Museum of London and the Museum of London Docklands is on course to welcome over 1,170,000 visitors between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016 it was announced today. Over 280,000 of those visited the Docklands site making it a record-breaking year. This is the third consecutive year and only the third time in the museums 40 year history that the attraction has been visited by over a million people over a twelve-month period. Commenting on the record year Sharon Ament, Director of the Museum of London, said: Weve had our busiest year ever and these results reflect the incredible array of sell-out exhibitions and events covering everything from Londons criminal past, tattoo culture and the First World War. The Museum of London Docklands has done particularly well and exceeded all expectations. With this in mind were going to continue ... More Exhibition of new works by Alessandro Twombly on view at Aurel ScheiblerBERLIN.- Aurel Scheibler presents new works by Alessandro Twombly (*1959) in his solo exhibition Five Sculptures. Working both with sculpture and painting, the artist continually explores the relationship between art and nature. In his newest works, Twombly remains true to his artistic concerns as well as his visual vocabulary and discovers the way to express universal ideas by means of abstract imagery. The titles of Twomblys works indicate the artists interest in fundamental, cosmological phenomena and the process, in which they can become concrete. For example, in Rising we discern an upward motion, Cumulus conveys an impression of accumulation and lightness, while Terra transmits the idea of a common origin. Even though these works do incorporate rather extensive, metaphysical terms, they still disclose striking hybrid identities. Twomblys sculptures frequently take ... More Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents installations by Do Ho SuhSAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego filled its Downtown location with works by artist Do Ho Suh from March 18, 2016 through July 4, 2016. Do Ho Suh was originated by The Contemporary Austin, and arrives in San Diego following its showing at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. This solo exhibition features work ranging from large-scale architectural installations and sculptures, to works on paper and video. Operating within a distinctly twenty-first century global mode, Suh crafts evocative works that reflect ideas of home, identity, and personal space. Suh is known locally in San Diego for his permanently installed Fallen Star sculpture at University of California, San Diego, as part of the universitys Stuart Collection. In his work, Suh draws on his personal experiences growing up in Seoul, South Korea, studying art in the U.S., and moving ... More San Jose Museum of Art appoints Lauren Schell Dickens CuratorSAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art has appointed Lauren Schell Dickens as curator. Dickens is currently curatorial consultant at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and was previously assistant curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. She will join the staff at SJMA on April 18. Laurens interests and values as a curator are such a close match for SJMAs mission and vision. She has undertaken a wide variety of inventive projects with contemporary artists and has an equally impressive track record of scholarship, said Susan Krane, Oshman Executive Director. Laurens personal dedication to making contemporary art accessible to broad audiences, her global perspective, and her belief in fostering artistic experimentation across disciplines make her a wonderful addition to SJMAs dynamic curatorial team. We look ... More Ariane Michel presents "The Rhetoric of Tides" at La CriéePARIS.- In her project La Rhétorique des marées (The Rhetoric of Tides), Ariane Michel takes an organic, evolving cinematic approach to investigating the role of the artist in the light of Natures differing scales and movements. Last summer Michel curated a venture on the wild coast of Esquibien, in Finistère, Brittany: an invitation to 21 artists to create works on the shoreline, at the frontier between ocean and land.* Exposed to the elements, this exhibition provided her raw material: on the fringe of this public event she brought something like a scientists eye to filming the artists as they moved about the landscape, from their arrival on the beach to the completion of their pieces. She then continued her visual recording of the exhibitions ongoing transformations. Her video installation at La Criée is a concentrate of the event and its multiple time frames. Those of the artists: ... More One-person exhibition by Belgium-based artist David Claerbout opens at Sean KellyNEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly presents a major one-person exhibition by Belgium-based artist David Claerbout. LIGHT/WORK presents an overview of Claerbouts recent film worksfrom his seminal work Travel to his newest piece Olympia alongside a new group of rarely exhibited drawings. This is Claerbouts first exhibition with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in New York since 2008. One of the most innovative and acclaimed artists working in the realm of moving images today, David Claerbouts oeuvre exists at the intersection of photography, film and digital technology. Fusing together the past, present and future into stunning moments of temporal elasticity, his works present profound and moving philosophical contemplations on our perception of time and reality, memory and experience, truth and fiction. LIGHT/WORK features Oil Workers (from the Shell ... More Exhibition of paintings by Tom Hackney on view at Francis M. Naumann Fine ArtNEW YORK, NY.- Tom Hackney: Corresponding Squares: Painting the Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp, a show comprised of 17 paintings opened at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art on March 18, 2016, and run through April 29, 2016. It will then travel to the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis, where it will be shown from May 9 through September 11, 2016. This is Tom Hackneys first solo show in the United States. Hackney is a young British painter who has created geometric abstractions based on the movement of pieces in games of chess. In the case of the present exhibition, they are games played by the celebrated French artist and chess player, Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp once remarked that playing a game of chess was like making a drawing. The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts, he explained, and these thoughts, although making a visual design ... More The Art and Antiques Fair Olympia announces highlights for 2016 fairLONDON.- The Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia returns to London for the 44th year with an impressive dealer line-up and exciting new content. Running from 27th June until 3rd July, it is a key event in the global art and antiques calendar attracting close to 30,000 visitors and hosting a vast array of items from antiquity to the present day. 160 dealers will showcase over 55,000 items with prices ranging from £100 to £1million. Key exhibitors confirmed to date include: Anthony Fell, Van Kranendonk Duffels (Netherlands), Tanya Baxter Contemporary, Galerie Boccaro (Paris, New York), Gildens Art Gallery, Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks, John Carroll Antiques (Ireland), Galerie Arabesque (Germany), Willow Gallery, Haynes Fine Art, Kate Thurlow, Joanna Booth, Pearse Lukies Antiques Ltd, Charles Plante Fine Arts (USA), Hatchwell Antiques, Omnipod, Craig Carrington, ... More Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium exhibit the work of Andres SerranoBRUSSELS.- On 18 March 2016, the exhibtion Andres Serrano. Uncensored Photographs opened its doors at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Through his photography, Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality. Relgion, death, sex or violence are omnipresent in the retrospective exhibition the largest one ever organized. But beyond these powerful topics and past the Piss Christ controversy, the exhibition reveals Serrano as an attentive witness to the world and mankind. Five works which were judged as scandalous and destroyed during previous exhibitions will also be on display, thus questioning the limits of censorship. Simultaneously, the Museums in the streets of Brussels presents Serranos brand new series Denizens of Brussels, striking portraits of the capitals homeless. Born in 1950 in New York, Andres Serrano studied ... More Gold dome lifted onto future Russian Orthodox cathedral in Paris PARIS (AFP).- A huge golden dome was hoisted into place Saturday atop a Russian Orthodox cathedral being built in Paris, as Russian and French dignitaries looked on. The cathedral, due to open in October, is part of a Russian Orthodox cultural and spiritual centre under construction on the banks of the Seine that will share the Paris skyline with the Eiffel Tower. When completed the centre will house a bilingual school and cultural services of the Russian embassy. A crane lifted the eight-tonne dome into place, the first of five golden cupolas that will adorn the Russian Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral at Quai Branly. A total of 90,000 sheets of gold leaf will cover the five domes. Among those attending the event, alongside officials, churchgoers and journalists, were French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and the cathedral's eventual head, Bishop Nestor. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon was born March 20, 1741. Jean-Antoine Houdon (20 March 1741 - 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. In this image: A bust of George Washington, is seen during a photo-op ahead of an auction in Sotheby's auction house in central London, Friday July 3, 2009. People looking for a keepsake to mark America's Independence Day might consider a rare bust of George Washington being auctioned by Sotheby's in London. The bust comes from the workshop of 18th-Century master sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon of France and will be sold on July 9. It is one of a series of famous busts of Washington produced after Houdon was commissioned by the US Congress and the Virginia Legislature to produce a life-sculpture of Washington. Officials expect it to be sold for more than 300,000 pounds (490,000 US dollars).
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