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| | Major exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna retraces Edward Hopper's career | |
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Divided chronologically into six thematic sections, the exhibition retraces Hoppers career, from his academic training as a student in Paris to his much better-known classical period in the 30s, 40s and 50s, and on to his intensely iconic works in his later years.
BOLOGNA.- Some call him a storyteller, while others consider him the only artist who could capture the very instant crystallized in time of a scene, or the essence of a person. After all, it was Edward Hopper himself (1882-1967) the best-known and most popular American artist of the 20th century, a man of few words, a retiring personality who loved the ocean and the horizon, and the clear light in his large studio who explained his poetics: If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. The exhibition running until 3 July 2016 at Palazzo Fava - Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Bologna has been jointly organized by the Fondazione Carisbo, Genus Bononiae. Musei nella Città and the Arthemisia Group, with the collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. It offers an chronological overview of Edward Hoppers entire output, from his Parisian watercolours to his landscapes and cityscapes fr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day NEW YORK.- Installation view of Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 22-July 24, 2016). Photo by Martin Seck. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
| A record year at all levels: Art Basel's fourth edition in Hong Kong attracts over 70,000 visitors | | "August Kopisch: Painter, Poet, Discoverer, Inventor" on view at Alte Nationalgalerie | | Pace opens first solo exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg in Hong Kong | 
Balice Hertling © Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- This years Art Basel show in Hong Kong attracted over 70,000 visitors, among them directors, curators, trustees and patrons from over 100 leading international museums and institutions. The show, which closed today, Saturday, March 26, 2016, featured a new floorplan, spotlighting strong performances by galleries from Asia and the West. Confirming Art Basels standing as the leading international art fair in Asia, galleries across all sectors reported strong sales throughout the week. Despite recent doubts surrounding the robustness of the international art market, Art Basel proved that there continues to be strong demand when high-quality work from premier galleries worldwide is presented to an audience of highly engaged collectors and museum directors. The continuing expansion and sophistication of the collector base from Asia's many regions was widely noted by gallerists. This years ... More | | 
August Kopisch, Der Krater des Vesuvs mit dem Ausbruch von 1828, 1828. Gouache mit schwarzer Tusche auf VelinPapier, 20,1 x 30,8 cm. Privatbesitz. Foto: Norbert Miguletz.
BERLIN.- In this exhibition on the work of August Kopisch (17991853), Berlins Alte Nationalgalerie focuses on one of the most versatile nineteenth century artists. Like nobody else, the Breslau-born artist combined painting, poetry, and the spirit of discovery and invention. He first made a name for himself as the discoverer of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri, since then a popular tourist destination. As a painter, Kopisch created works of their very own poetic brilliance, using a magical blue or a sumptuous twilight red to depict light phenomena in an impressive way. One of his many literary achievements was a brilliant translation of Dantes Divine Comedy. But his greatest claim to fame is the poem Die Heinzelmännchen, still beloved today. Kopisch already took instruction in drawing ... More | | 
Installation View © 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Courtesy Pace Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- Pace Hong Kong is presenting the first solo exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg in Hong Kong. Including works from his Shiner, Spread and Urban Bourbon series, as well as from his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) project, the show exemplifies Rauschenbergs constant reevaluation of material, the nature of perception and how we process images, and the artists innovative processes of picture transfer. In 2015, Pace New York presented Anagrams, Arcadian Retreats, Anagrams (A Pun)an exhibition of the artists late worksand announced the gallerys representation of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, celebrating Paces longstanding relationship with the artist. Robert Rauschenberg is revered as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century and is recognized for his fusion of painting ... More |
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| Lark Mason Associates announces sale of more than 400 lots of important Asian art on iGavel | | 75 movie posters created for American and European masterpieces offered at Budapest Poster Gallery | | Zabludowicz Collection opens major new group exhibition: Emotional Supply Chains | 
A Pair of Japanese Komai Vases from the Meiji Period.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Lark Mason, founder and president of Lark Mason Associates, has announced that more than 400 lots of important Asian art will be up for bidding on igavelauctions.com in an online sale that goes live on March 29 and closes on April 19th. The outstanding works of art represent a wide swathe of Asian periods and disciplines, from the Sui dynasty through the 20th century. Among the star lots in this sale is a pair of Japanese Komai vases that are both unusually fine and exceptionally large, as well as a selection of paintings by Qi Baishi and Li Keran, two of the most important modern master Chinese painters. The Qi Baishi paintings were purchased by the owners family in the 1940s and are accompanied by letters from the artist. . Says Lark Mason, It is a pleasure to offer these and other lots that are both historically significant and ... More | | 
The Wizard of Oz.
BUDAPEST.- Budapest Poster Gallerys current poster auction has already begun on March 7, 2016 and the lots are open for online bidding. The timed online auction contains 134 vintage posters, including 75 movie posters created for American and European masterpieces of the 20th century film history. Bids are accepted until April 3 (Sunday), 2016, 20:00 CET (11:00 AM PDT). Among the 134 original vintage posters, besides the 75 movie posters, rare commercial, propaganda, circus, theatre and exhibition pieces will be auctioned. The quality of the selection is further enhanced by more than 20 unique works from the pre-war period, before 1945. The majority of the auctioned lots are movie posters which were designed for a variety of western, musical, science fiction, comedy, animation films as well as movies dealing with the First or the Second World War .Most of these posters ... More | | 
Aleksandra Domanović, Things to Come, 2014. UV flatbed print on polyester foil, 4 panels; each 350 x 92 cm © The Artist, Courtesy Zabludowicz Collection, and Tanya Leighton, Berlin.
LONDON.- Zabludowicz Collection announces: Emotional Supply Chains, a new exhibition addressing the construction of identity in the digital age. Featuring 16 leading international artists and including six new commissions, all works are drawn from the Zabludowicz Collection and produced since the year 2000. Exhibited artists include: Korakrit Arunanondchai (TH), Neil Beloufa (FR), David Blandy (UK), David Raymond Conroy (UK), Andrea Crespo (US), Simon Denny (NZ), Aleksandra Domanović (YU), Ed Fornieles (UK), Guan Xiao (CHN), Eloise Hawser (UK), Ann Hirsch (US), Pierre Huyghe (FR), Daniel Keller (US), Seth Price (US), Frances Stark (US), Christopher Kulendran Thomas (UK). Through diverse aesthetic and ... More |
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| UNESCO chief Irina Bokova welcomes anti-Islamic State offensive in ancient Palmyra | | Exhibition of new works by sculptor John Newman on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery | | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art exhibits first full exploration of Romantic era fashion | 
"The destruction of temples of Baal Shamin and Bel, the funeral towers and the Triumphal Arch are an immense loss for the Syrian people and the world," Bokova said in her statement.
PARIS.- UNESCO chief Irina Bokova on Thursday welcomed a push to recapture the Syrian heritage city of Palmyra from Islamic State jihadists, who have destroyed many of the ancient site's monuments. "For one year, Palmyra has been a symbol of the cultural cleansing plaguing the Middle East," the head of the UN's cultural body said, adding that she welcomed the effort to retake "the Palmyra archaeological site, martyr city inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list". The statement came after Syrian troops backed by Russian warplanes and allied militia entered Palmyra on Thursday, after launching a desert offensive early this month, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. IS overran Palmyra -- known as the "Pearl of the Desert" -- last May and it has since blown up UNESCO-listed temples and looted relics that dated back thousands of years. "The destruction of temples of Baal Shamin and Bel, the ... More | | 
Spoonfuls (darker red view), 2015. Hot sculpted glass, aluminum armature wire, steel wire, rocks, wood, wood putty, aqua resin, acrylic paint, 14 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 14 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by the much admired sculptor John Newman. The exhibition will be his third with the gallery. It will comprise twelve new sculptures completed over the last year that all reference spoons, even if very loosely. The artist has called the spoon-shaped works offerings. Unlike his larger sculptures of recent years, the new pieces are small in dimension and intimate in feel. They all have exquisite detail, and are full of unexpected juxtapositions. Newman integrates an array of materials from the traditional to the exotic. Materials can include found objects and industrial accidents such as discarded extruded aluminum, and his various processes incorporate unusual techniques ranging from the hand-built to the computer generated. John Newmans work has been the subject of over 50 one-person exhibitions and numerous group shows throughout the ... More | | 
Dress with evening bodice (detail), c. 1850, American, Silk, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Matta Grimm Lacey, 1976.33B,C.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., is mounting the first exhibition to fully explore the Romantic era as a formative period in costume history from Mar. 5, 2016 Jul. 10, 2016. Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion & Its Legacy, presents historic garments alongside literary works, paintings, prints, and decorative arts to illustrate how European fashion from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras influenced new styles created in the Romantic era between 1810 and 1860. The exhibition explores how Romantic era principles of historicism, imagination and emotion, religion and the natural worldrejections of Neoclassical order and rationalityimpacted not only costume but fine and decorative art, architecture, interior design, literature and music, and reveal the Romantic roots of recent Goth and Steampunk fashions. Lynne Z. Bassett, Costume and Textile Historian and museum consultant ... More |
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| Faena Art presents Beatriz Monteavaro's site-specific commission "Return to Tomorrow" | | Toronto-based artist Jaime Angelopoulos opens exhibition at Parisian Laundry | | Microsoft donates $1 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture | 
Beatriz Monteavaros Return to Tomorrow at Casa Claradiges Faena District Miami Beach, photo by WorldRedEye.com. Images Courtesy Faena Art.
MIAMI, FLA.- Faena Art, the international nonprofit organization led by Ximena Caminos, unveiled Beatriz Monteavaros commission Return to Tomorrow, the latest in the organizations Elevate series of rotating site-specific installations in Faena District Miami Beach for emerging and mid-career Miami-based artists. The opening event held at Casa Claridge's Faena District Miami Beach included a vinyl set by DJ Le Spam. Monteavaros Return to Tomorrow transforms Casa Claridges elevator into a lo-fi, slow motion, rocket ship to outer space with portholes that look out onto hand-drawn glow-in-the dark stars and forgotten satellites. The installation references Return to Tomorrow, an episode of Star Trek from the original series as well as Space Mountain and the now-defunct Mission to Mars rides at Disney World that simulate space travel. Monteavaros nostalgic and black- ... More | | 
Weight of a Conscience, 2016, 66x42x18.
MONTREAL.- In Opaque Architectures , Toronto-based artist Jaime Angelopoulos assembles an exhibition of works on paper and sculptures that gesture towards the artists personal narratives through processes of abstraction. Angelopoulos draws from a number of sources including mythology, pop culture, current events and our contemporary social climate. These references are simultaneously concealed and disclosed by extension of the artists subjectivity. While the impulse towards abstraction produces a shrouding distance between viewer and subjective meaning, the indication of gestural marks and the touch of the body effectively collapse this distance. Such an erratic arrangement is nevertheless productive. For in only suggesting her motivations as producer, Angelopoulos allows her artwork to function as a site for the identifications and projections of others. Thus her practice complexly approaches the workings of empathy, touching on the affective territories of ... More | | 
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, November 6, 2015. Photo by Michael Barnes.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian today announced a gift of $1 million from Microsoft to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens to the public Sept. 24. Technology continues to play an important role in the evolution and history of America, said Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the museum. Microsofts partnership demonstrates the convergence of technology and culture by bringing a new perspective for telling the African American story in a rich and compelling way. The stories, art and culture of African Americans are vibrant and important narratives in our nations history, said Fred Humphries, corporate vice president of U.S. government affairs for Microsoft. Microsoft is proud to support the museum and bring these perspectives to life in a powerful and enriching experience. Currently under construction on a five-acre site adjacent to the Washingt ... More |
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 New book by photographer Jona Frank explores young masculinity in amateur boxing gyms of the UKNEW YORK, NY.- It is a rare thing for a woman to enter a boxing gym and to be accepted there. But, that is what photographer Jona Frank accomplished. Gripped by the atmosphere, in 2010, and continuing for the next four years, she began to explore and photograph at an amateur boxing club in a working class community outside Liverpool, England. Her new book, The Modern Kids (Kehrer Verlag, April 2016), is an emotionally charged record of adolescent boys at a formative time in their lives when sport becomes intertwined with character. Combining the qualities of formal portraiture with the intimacy of viewing the sport of boxing from a womans view, The Modern Kids reveals a world that is both heroic and violent. The book features an essay by artist and filmmaker Bruce Weber who Frank credits as an influence. In boxing, the two opponents are physically and ... More Gallery 16 exhibits the work of New York based artist Jason MiddlebrookSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery 16 announces their first exhibition with New York based artist Jason Middlebrook, The Small Spaces in Between. This is the first West Coast solo show by the California native in over a decade. His work has been the subject of major exhibitions and public projects around the world, most recently at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary art and Site Santa Fe. The Gallery 16 exhibition includes 20 of Middlebrooks signature towering Plank paintings and wall works. These are geometric abstractions painted directly onto internally cut trunks from the local mill in Hudson New York. Middlebrooks patterning weds the geometry of modern abstraction with the lines of wood grain to create a tension between something organic and something man-made. Middlebrook has long been interested in mans complex and often adversarial relationship ... More Unique Saudi course puts women in vanguard of film studyDAMMAM (AFP).- Officially it's not called "filmmaking" because public cinemas are banned in Saudi Arabia. But making movies is exactly what about 150 students -- all of them women -- are doing at the kingdom's all-female Effat University in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. Students say it is the only programme of its kind in the conservative Islamic kingdom which lacks a film industry and has no similar course for men. Students and one of their instructors say the three-year-old programme in visual and digital production is developing Saudi Arabia's nascent film sector, and in the process helping the push for cinemas. "I would like to make stories that touch people's emotions," aspiring producer-director Reem Almodian said in a soft voice from behind the face-covering niqab which many Saudi women wear according to customs. She reveals her interest in making a film about ... More Resonance, grace and the presence of the sublime: Jim Schantz at Pucker Gallery in BostonBOSTON, MASS.- Berkshire-based artist Jim Schantz, who has exhibited at Pucker Gallery for 28 years, is currently having his first exhibition at the venerable gallerys new Newbury Street location. Jim Schantz is surely a poeta poet with paints, brushes, and sticks of pastelwho looks at nature with admiration, wonder, and devotion. His art celebrates bodies of water, reflections, and moments of illumination, reveling in the transition from lightness to darkness and back again. The works in this exhibition extend his lifelong exploration of color and his affinity for the mystery of water. They are rooted in both the Romantic notion that natures greatness inspires awe and the Fauvist use of dramatic color. In a departure for Schantz, these new works demonstrate looser brushwork and heightened motion. In the catalogue for the exhibition, Schantz illuminates the need for balance ... More 2016 Melbourne Art Book Fair unveils full programMELBOURNE.- Featuring some of the worlds most creative emerging and established publishers, artists and writers, the 2016 Melbourne Art Book Fair will feature a dynamic program of free talks, book launches and performances over three days from Friday 29 April to Sunday May 1. Now in its second year, the Fair, which drew 16,000 visitors to NGV International last year, will present twice as many publishers and events in 2016. Bangkok-based artist Wit Pimkanchanapong has designed a translucent canopy comprising thousands of geometric polymer folds which will be suspended from the Great Hall ceiling, under which guests can browse more than 60 stalls showcasing art books, independent zines, limited edition prints and more. The program launches on Friday 29 April with an all-day International Symposium on the Future of Design for Publishing, followed by a ... More British Museum welcomes new Director of Scientific ResearchLONDON.- The British Museum welcomes Professor Carl Heron as the new Director of Scientific Research. He will lead the Museums renowned team of scientists under the new Department of Scientific Research, supported by the Wellcome Trust, and look to shape the scientific research programme for the future. The Museum is the UKs most popular visitor attraction with 6.8million visitors in 2015. As is demonstrated by the success of recent exhibitions such as Ancient Lives: New Discoveries and the current Room 3 display Scanning Sobek, the Museum is keen to bring the results of its ground-breaking scientific work to its global audiences, both onsite and online. The opening of the World Conservation and Exhibition Centre in 2014 has provided an opportunity for the organisation to become an internationally recognised centre for scientific research by ... More Yongwoo Lee & Hans Ulrich Obrist announced as Co-Artistic Directors of the Shanghai Project: "2116"SHANGHAI.- The Shanghai Project |上海种子announced Yongwoo Lee, Director of Shanghai Himalayas Museum, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, as Co-Artistic Directors for the inaugural edition. Entitled 2116, the theme of this first iteration of the Shanghai Project looks ahead to the 22nd century and questions the prospect of a sustainable future. The Shanghai Project |上海种子is an ideas platform which takes as its starting point the notion of a culture and knowledge emporium, a shared time and space for people to gather, procure, and exchange culture and knowledge. Convening people from China and abroad, participants, or researchers, will query and experiment with the historic notion of a trading post and the utopian proposal of department stores as the one-stop-shop containing ... More Tim Hawkinson's first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery opens in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Tim Hawkinson returns to his native San Francisco for his first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery and the first in the Bay Area since his survey exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 1997. Hawkinson is a master at conjuring both organic and inorganic materials into extraordinary objects that are uncannily like something entirely different. Kitchen scraps, wizened Christmas trees, detritus blown by storms into his backyard and his own hair are just some of the materials he transforms into intelligent and amusing sculptures and photo-works. Importantly, many of the objects in this exhibition use Hawkinsons own body as source material. One highlight of the show is Thumbsucker (2015), a two-part hanging sculpture of a moon and astronaut entirely made of casts of the artists lips and fingers. Another is a giant self-portrait made from strips of hundreds ... More Exhibition of works by Richard Pettibone on view at Honor Fraser GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting Richard Pettibone. The exhibition is on view from March 18 through April 23, 2016. A fine balance of reverence and criticality is at work in Richard Pettibone's sculptures, paintings, and photographs. Since the 1960s, Pettibone has painstakingly remade works by other artists on a tiny scale. Like transliterations of epic poems into haikus, his diminutive versions of artworks by historical heavyweights from Piet Mondrian to Andy Warhol are constructed with precision and resonate with care. In combination with their small size, the exacting sensitivity Pettibone brings to his endeavor lends a generous intimacy to the experience of looking at his work. A Los Angeles native, Pettibone saw Andy Warhol's first west coast exhibition at Ferus Gallery and Marcel Duchamp's retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. The concepts of ... More Spink London announces Philatelic Collector's Series salesLONDON.- This Spring, Spink will be offering another instalment of their Philatelic Collectors Series sales on the 26th 28th April 2016 in our London auction room. In this sale the discerning collector will find there is a fine selection of Rhodesia double heads, admirals, & Great Britain, and it is from amongst the Great Britain where we find a stunning little piece of British history and a truly cultural oddity! Lot 1862 is a cover bearing a plate VIII 1840 one penny black tied by red Maltese Cross cancellation, dated 28 Nov. 1840 from London to Coupar Angus. Its appearance is modest and unassuming to the laymans eye; however the contents of this letter are astounding! It contains a very interesting insight into the anxieties of the young Queen Victoria over her first child. This confidant, regarding the birth of Queen Victoria's first child, exclaims: .....I hope you are loyal enough to be ... More Artists from Italy and Scotland create large new mural as gift to NewcastleNEWCASTLE.- Artists from Italy and Scotland have created a large-scale mural at Newcastles Toffee Factory as part of an international project. Morag Macpherson, from Dumfries and Galloway and Rome-based street artist Tellas headed straight for the city after completing a large-scale artwork at a sheep farm deep in the Scottish countryside. The pair form one of three teams involved in Spring Fling Rural Mural (SFRM), which have been creating big, bold works of public art in one of the countrys most sparsely populated areas. As the theme of this years SFRM is exchange, and because it is taking place as Scotlands Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, the decision was made to introduce a novel twist and take Rural Mural urban in major UK and European cities. Clare Hanna, Director (maternity cover) of the Upland arts agency which is organizing SFRM, said: ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born March 27, 1886. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 - August 19, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. He served as the last director of the Bauhaus. Along with Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. In this image: German-American architect, pioneering master of Modern architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on March 27, 1886 in Aachen and last director of the avant-garde Bauhaus design school is portraited during a press conference of the Berliner Bauwochen held from August 25 until September 22, 1968 in West Berlin, Germany.
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