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A close-up of a statue of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa by J Bergman from 1874 (left) and a painting of the Empress in a yellow dress by Alois Schram are on display at Hofmobiliendepot (Furniture Museum) featuring imperial furniture collection and paintings+, on May 7, 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Vienna celebrates the 300th birthday of Austrian empress Maria Theresa. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- Austrians celebrated on Saturday the 300th anniversary of the birth of Maria Theresa, with plenty of concerts and Champagne to honour the only woman to have ruled the Habsburg empire. The empress's 40-year rule starting in 1740, marked by administrative and educational advances while she consolidated control of her territory, earned her a cherished reputation as the "mother of her peoples". It was an image carefully maintained while in power, and one still evoked today by her imposing statue in Vienna, which was surrounded by a field of flowers on Saturday. "Her various motherly aspects -- anxious, stern, kindly, affectionate, loving -- reinforced her position as monarch," the historian Anne-Sophie Banakas told AFP. And she was the mother of 16 children including Marie-Antoinette, future wife of France's king Louis XVI and executed by guillotine following the French Revolution. A full day of events were planned throughout the city's museums to mark Maria ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Liverpool's World Museum opened the doors of its new Ancient Egypt: A journey through time gallery, revealing one of the UK's most significant collections of ancient Egyptian and Nubian antiquities. In this image: One of the two coffins of a lady called Taenty. Dynasty 22 (945 BC - 715 BC). © Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool.
| The Vancouver Art Gallery unveils Emily Carr exhibition | | German artist Imhof wins Venice Golden Lion | | Harvard Art Museums acquires contemporary photo collection | 
Emily Carr, A Rushing Sea of Undergrowth, 1935 (detail). Oil on canvas Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Trust, VAG 42.3.17 Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery unveiled its latest exhibition Emily Carr: Into the Forest on May 13, 2017. Home to the most comprehensive collection of Emily Carrs works in the world, the Gallery showcases forty-five paintings of the vast West Coast forest in all its coloured vitality by this internationally renowned artist. Emily Carr: Into the Forest reflects Carrs direct engagement with and deep affection for British Columbias landscape as a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry. Far from feeling that the forests of the West Coast were a difficult subject matter, Carr exulted in the symphonies of greens and browns found in the natural world. With oil on paper as her primary medium, Carr was free to work outdoors in close proximity to the landscape. She went into the forest to paint ... More | | 
Anne Imhof © Photo Nadine Fraczkowski.
VENICE (AFP).- German contemporary artist Anne Imhof won the Golden Lion for best National Participation at the Venice's Biennale Saturday for her provocative "Faust", a dark reflection on modern society. Black-clad performers in low-ceilinged symbolic glass cages writhe around under the transparent floor as visitors walk above them. Jury president Manuel Borja-Villel praised the show, which makes up the entirety of Germany's pavilion and opened to the public on Saturday, as "a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions about our time". Doberman dogs stand guard as the troupe crawls to musical beats amid scattered sex cuffs and chains, or industrial sinks and hoses, in a performance with a hint of sadomasochism and a sharp odour of hospital disinfectant. Imhof, born in Giessen in 1978 and based in Frankfurt, shot to fame in Germany in 2013 with her first solo exhibition, a live performance with donkeys and actors hemmed into ... More | | 
Richard Avedon, The Beatles, 1967. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Schneider/Erdman Printers Proof Collection, partial gift, and partial purchase through the Margaret Fisher Fund, 2016.140.14. Artwork © The Richard Avedon Foundation. Image © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums have acquired an unparalleled collection of 443 printers proof photographs from Gary Schneider and John Erdman, establishing the museums as a primary site for the study, research, exhibition, and interpretation of contemporary photography. The collection will be featured in the exhibition Analog Culture: Printers Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981 2001, opening in May 2018 at the Harvard Art Museums. In addition to this transformative collection, the artists have gifted the Schneider/Erdman Archive of photography, test prints, glass plate negatives, vintage material, and records from their Manhattan- ... More |
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| A drawing by Sir Peter Lely is expected to create a sensation at auction | | Exhibition is the first to critically and fully explore David Smith's use of the color white | | Complete set of Robert Indiana's 'ONE through ZERO' on view for the first time at the Glass House | 
Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), Portrait of a Young Girl. Black and white chalk heightened with red chalk and pink pastel, 29.5 x 20 cm. Estimate: 12.000-15.000.
NANTES.- This lovely drawing by Sir Peter Lely, an important, rarely seen portrait painter at the English royal court in the late 17th century, is being offered by IVOIRE NANTES Auction to be held Tuesday, 13 June 2017 Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), an Englishman of Dutch descent, is an important, rarely seen artist. A fashionable portrait painter in England at the end of the 17th century, he was an official painter at the Royal Court of England and also a great art lover and collector of drawings. This beautiful drawing, signed PL, being auctioned by IVOIRE NANTES, has belonged to several important English collections. It was framed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (according to a label on the back) and later purchased in London by a Frenchman who took it to the Dordogne. Since then, it has remained in the same family through the generations. The soft mix of chalks in this lovely drawing contributes to its great poignancy. With a re ... More | | 
David Smith, Primo Piano III, 1962. Painted steel, 124 x 146 x 19. The Estate of David Smith, New York; courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Art © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center is presenting David Smith: The White Sculptures, from May 13 to November 12, 2017, the first exhibition to critically and fully consider the use of the color white within David Smiths works. At the time of the artists death in 1965, eight monumental steel sculptures, painted white, stood in the fields surrounding his home and studio in the Adirondack Mountains; many of these are on view at Storm King. David Smith: The White Sculptures is the first public presentation to unite three among thesethe entire Primo Piano series: Primo Piano I, II, and III, all from 1962. The exhibition also features a selection of Smiths earliest constructions, created out of white coral gathered by the artist during his stay in the Virgin Islands in 1931-32, and rarely shown since. Were thrilled to present the extraordinary work of David Smith ... More | | 
Robert Indiana. One Through Zero, 1980 - 2003. Corten Steel. Dimensions of each Number: 72 x 72 x 36 (overall including base 78 x 74 x 38) © 2017 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Tom Powel Imaging.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- The Glass House presents the first public installation anywhere of the complete set of Robert Indianas ONE through ZERO, ten 6-foot-high COR-TEN steel sculptures that were conceived in 1980 and executed in 2003. Visitors will find these monumental works located in a field just to the south of the Glass House itself, where they have been placed to accentuate the edge of the hill that separates the house from the pond and pavilion below. Taking advantage of the changes of level in the landscape and the visual connections with many highlights of the property, the installation conjoins Philip Johnson and Robert Indianas visionary approach to industrial materials, proportion, form and the understanding of space. The positioning of the sculptures allows them to be seen directly from the Glass ... More |
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| Green light: An artistic workshop by Olafur Eliasson opens in Venice | | Bertoia's to offer magnificent array of toys, banks, dolls, doorstops and country store antiques | | Immersive two-person exhibition featured in the South African Pavilion | 
Olafur Eliasson: Green light An artistic workshop. In collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia VIVA ARTE VIVA, 2017.
VENICE.- Olafur Eliasson, in collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, brings Green light An artistic workshop to the 57 th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia Viva Arte Viva (May 13November 26, 2017), curated by Christine Macel. Growing out of the communal ideals of the artists studio, Green light An artistic workshop is thought of as a welcoming act. Eliassons studio in Berlin plays an important role in his practice. The team includes craftsmen, specialized technicians, architects, archivists, art historians, designers, film-makers, cooks, and administrators. Eliasson and the studio also work with structural engineers, city planners, and landscape architects on larger projects, and the artist has cooperated worldwide with cultural practitioners, policymakers, and scientists on projects that often have an activist or environmentalist aspect to them. Green light An artistic workshop is conceived ... More | | 
J. & E. Stevens Germania Exchange cast-iron mechanical bank, circa 1880s, est. $15,000-$25,000. All images provided by Bertoia Auctions.
VINELAND, NJ.- Over time, fine toys become historical objects as they pass from one prestigious collection to the next. That concept will be strikingly apparent at Bertoia Auctions June 2-3 Annual Spring Auction, which includes treasured toys from some of the greatest collections of all, including that of the late KB Toys co-founder Donald Kaufman. Toys from the Donald Kaufman collection are now starting to reappear in our auctions. Collectors are ecstatic to have a second chance to buy the rare and beautiful toys they missed out on during the Kaufman auction series we hosted in 2009 and 2010, said Jeanne Bertoia, owner of Bertoia Auctions. Recognized as the largest privately owned automotive toy collection of all time, the Kaufman collection totaled $12.1 million. Not only does Bertoias June auction include several prized pieces from the Kaufman collection, it also features the final 150 lots of pressed-steel and li ... More | | 
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage - Frames 1-13, 2017. Epson Hot Press Natural, 150 x 200 cm. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. Courtesy WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town; Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam; Tyburn Gallery, London.
VENICE.- The South African Department of Arts and Culture presents Candice Breitz + Mohau Modisakeng, an immersive two-person exhibition in the South African Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, running from 13 May - 26 November, 2017. South Africas Commissioner, Titi Nxumalo, said she is delighted that Breitz and Modisakeng accepted the invitation to represent South Africa. Experimental film provides a captivating environment for viewers, and it was with the intention of creating a multi-media installation that the artists were selected. Breitz is an internationally acclaimed artist, best known for her multi-channel video installations, while Modisakengs award-winning career is defined by his film, photography and sculpture. Their practices come together for South Africas first exclusively cinematic experience. Curated by Lucy ... More |
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| Japanese Pavilion in Venice presents a selection of three-dimensional works by Takahiro Iwasaki | | Global crises meets peaceful culture clash in Azerbaijan Pavilion | | ROM Press catalogue celebrates Weinberg Cherry collection of Judaica at the Museum | 
Out of Disorder (Turned Upside Down, Its a Forest), photo courtesy of the Japan Foundation, © Takahiro Iwasaki.
VENICE.- Takahiro Iwasaki was born in the Hiroshima Prefecture where he is also currently based. This solo exhibition presents a selection of three-dimensional works created using everyday familiar objects including towels, books, and plastic rubbish. Characteristic of Iwasakis works is his fine handiwork by which he transforms his materials, such as creating steel towers from the threads pulled out of towels. These small interventions like making a stack of towels look like mountains in nature use the traditionally Japanese technique of figurative representation. For his works Iwasaki has selected motifs of both old and new buildings in the coastal regions of Japan, including a traditional shrine built above the sea, chemical plants that stand along Hiroshimas coast, as well as oilrigs. From issues of nuclear energy and the development of resources, to chemical plants that despite supporting the high growth of the postwar economy had been a serious cause for ... More | | 
Traffic installation by HYPNOTICA preformance group. Variable dimensions. Image courtesy of Ugo Carmeni.
VENICE.- At the Azerbaijani Pavilion of this years 57th Biennale di Venezia, Prof. Dr. Martin Roth, the former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Emin Mammadov, the artistic adviser of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, are curating the exhibition UNDER ONE SUN. The Art of Living Together. The Azerbaijani Pavilion of this years 57th Biennale di Venezia is being presented in the Palazzo Lezze from the 13th of May to the 26th of November 2017. The exhibition UNDER ONE SUN. Art of Living Together by artist Elvin Nabizade and the visual performance group HYPNOTICA is shown on two floors with a number of imposing works by both artists. In Azerbaijan many people from very different backgrounds have lived alongside each other since time immemorial. Within a major region that combines European and Eastern civilizations, it is unavoidable that religion, philosophy, and political theories confront each other. The peaceful cohabitation of different cultures in Azerbaijan and the preser ... More | | 
Tzedakah Box in Art Nouveau Style Denmark, Copenhagen, MB Mogens Ballin, 1901 Pewter H. 11.5 cm à L. 7 cm à W. 5.5 cm ROM 999.119.40.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announced a new ROM Press publication featuring objects from the Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Collection. The lavishly illustrated catalogue Judaica: The Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum is written by ROM Curator Emeritus K. Corey Keeble. Presenting a compelling look into Jewish cultural life, the publication highlights important examples of European decorative arts, including ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, and works on paper, which are displayed in the Museums Dr. Fred Weinberg and Joy Cherry Weinberg Judaica Gallery. Works of artistic beauty, the collections objects range in style and form and reflect many aspects of Jewish life, from synagogue worship to holiday and Sabbath observance, to the marking of significant life cycle events. Each of these objects present a narrative and their shared history can be looked upon as ... More |
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 New, site-specific installation by Gal Weinstein on view at the Israeli Pavilion VENICE.- Sun Stand Still, Gal Weinsteins project for the Israeli pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, is a new, site-specific installation which explores the human desire to stop time. Reflecting a fascination with actual and potential forms of creation and destruction, progress and devastation, this project critically engages with the mythological and Romantic images embedded in Israels collective memory. Each part of the exhibition is related to works created by Weinstein over the past decade, so that his entire oeuvre is woven into a single, cohesive installation. The installation's title refers to the biblical miracle performed by the ancient Israelite leader Joshua Bin-Nun, who sought to win his battle against the kings of Canaan before darkness fell. By commanding the sun to stop in its course, Bin-Nun attempted to arrest the passage of time. ... More Super Thangkas sail away at Bonhams Asian Art Week London salesLONDON.- The international auctioneers Bonhams has announced more than £10m of Asian sales during Asia Week 2017. Its five sales made a total of £10,793,751. Among the highlights was the White Glove sale of The Jongen-Schleiper Collection of Fine Thangkas on 11 May in which every one of the 49 lots was sold. The top lot was an exceptionally rare complete set of thangkas of the Panchen Lamas of Tashilhunpo, circa 1835, estimated at £200,000 300,000 which sold for £551,000. The sale made a total of £2,181,250. Leading the Fine Chinese Art sale, also held on 11 May, was a rare and large silver-inlaid bronze figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, inlaid He Chaozong seal mark, Qing Dynasty, which sold for an exceptional £851,000 after a tense bidding war. A very rare Imperial famille rose twelve-leaf screen from the Jiaqing period made £485,000 against an estimate of ... More Cranbrook Art Museum exhibition features work from alumni and artists-in-residenceBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Art Museum opened a new exhibition, Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape, which features contemporary furniture and furnishings by recent alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The work challenges conventions of use, explores new materials and techniques, and blurs the boundaries between art, craft, and design. The exhibition runs from May 12, 2017 through January 14, 2018. Long a hotbed of experimental design, Cranbrook Academy of Art has played an important role in envisioning artifacts for livingfrom the handcrafted production of the Arts and Crafts period, the birth of mid-century modernism in America, to the art furniture movement of the 1980s. Today, this progressive approach continues with artists, architects, and designers who expand these legacies of handcrafted production, ... More 'Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play' is United Arab Emirates' exhibition for the Venice BiennaleVENICE.- The National Pavilion United Arab Emirates opened its exhibition at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Hammad Nasar, the exhibition, titled Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play, explores the concept of playfulness as a connecting thread across multiple generations of artistic practice in the UAE. It attempts to address a set of nested enquiries: Where does playfulness in artistic practice come from? How and where is play nurtured? What does play do? Commissioned by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and supported by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, the exhibition runs from May 13th to November 26th, 2017, with a preview from 10th to 12th May, 2017. The exhibition presents a mix of new commissions, existing works and re-fabrications of lost pieces by five artists who ... More New Zealand presents multi-media artist Lisa Reihana at the 57th International Art ExhibitionVENICE.- Lisa Reihana: Emissaries features the artists vast panoramic video in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 201517, alongside interrelated photo-based and sculptural works. The exhibition is presented at Tese dellIsolotto, one of the oldest and most expansive maritime buildings in the Arsenale. This is the first time the New Zealand pavilion has been located within the Biennales central exhibition area. Lisa Reihanas (b.1964) technically ambitious and poetically nuanced practice draws on fiction, historical evidence, mythology and kinship to disrupt notions of truth, gender and modes of representation. In Lisa Reihana: Emissaries, curated by Rhana Devenport, imperialisms glare is returned with a speculative twist and the exhibition aims to unravel Enlightenment ideals and philosophy, the colonial impulse, and the pervasive gaze of power and desire. ... More Thierry Goldberg opens exhibition of new paintings by Naudline PierreNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Visitors, an exhibition of new paintings by Naudline Pierre. This is the artists first solo exhibition. The show opened on May 12th. Naudline Pierres paintings exist as portals into a mysterious world. Through the creation of a parallel reality, she arranges her experiences, anxieties, and longings into harmonies of color and texture that are often just as aggressive as they are beautiful. Drawing reference from the practice of anointingan emblematic blessing for protection and empowerment, or the act of consecrationthe paintings borrow the symbol of laying hands and the act of bodies touching bodies to explore the complexities of existence. Through accessing her personal mythology, Naudline creates intimate, otherworldly scenes where a cast of characters are in close contact with her shadow self. These ... More Five paintings by Fritz Bultman will come up for bid June 3rd at Bruneau & Co.CRANSTON, RI.- A Summer Antiques & Fine Art Auction featuring over 400 lots of original artwork, vintage lamps, American and European bronze sculptures, and a broad selection of fine art glass will be held Saturday, June 3rd, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the firms gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, starting promptly at 12 pm noon Eastern time. Featured lots will include five paintings by the American abstract expressionist Fritz Bultman (1919-1985), a pair of hand-wrought copper vases by Ludwig Vierthaler (German, 1875-1967) for J. Winhart & Company, a collection of skeleton clocks (including examples from England and France), a fine Italian bronze equestrian group and a French gilt bronze sculptural clock. Also sold will be a folk art automaton of a steamboat side wheeler crafted by prospector William Billy Briggs of Bristol, Rhode ... More Food for Thought: Proyectos Monclova opens exhibition of works by Raúl Ortega AyalaMEXICO CITY.- To eat is to respond to need in the form of hunger and desire in the form of appetite. In Food for Thought Raúl Ortega Ayala serves up a visceral response to scenes of the gastronomically grotesque that occurs when alimentary consumption is decoupled from the need much less desire for food. The result of a three year long anthropological-like process of embedding himself in the food business, Ortega Ayala revels in the ecstatic psychology of action disassociated from reason, and offers the body as sensory receptor of the pleasures derived from the gustatory abject1. Cultural identity consolidates as much around notions of taste as it ds around dis-taste, since in consecrating the sacred we simultaneously define the profane. The concept of taste is an ever-evolving reflection of social values; thus, it is a moving and wholly abstracted target ... More Karen LaMonte unveils monumental works in the Glasstress exhibition during the BiennaleVENICE.- A major installation of artist Karen LaMontes ethereal and powerful sculptures is part of Glasstress during the Venice Biennale. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Dmitry Ozerkov of the State Heritage Museum in St. Petersburg, Herwig Kempinger, President of Succession in Vienna, and Adriano Berengo, with consultancy by Clare Phyllis Davis, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The works are on view through November of this year at the Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco 2847, Venice. LaMonte, an American artist now based in Prague, Czech Republic, presents an installation of life-size reclining and standing figures in white bronze and cast glass from her Nocturnes series. She is also debuting Cumulus, an 8 high, five ton, marble sculpture modeled from an actual cumulous cloud. Additional artists in Glasstress include Ai Weiwei, Tony Cragg, Vik Muniz, ... More June Kelly Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings by Nola ZirinNEW YORK, NY.- Orbs and Angles, an exhibition of new paintings by Nola Zirin, reflecting the artists faithfulness to a pictorial geometry, opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer on Friday, May 12. The exhibition will remain on view through June 13, 2017. Zirin says her recent paintings navigate the use of geometric form in the construction of imaginary environments. While color remains vibrant, she expands both the palette and medium. Light is enhanced by glitter and texture by flocking, creating a 3-dimensional quality engaging the viewer into other-worldly spaces. Zirins works are abstract yet a representational cleverness is present that is extremely lucid and matched by a painting method that is direct and orderly. At no time does Zirins painting reflect total abstraction even though the subject matter is mysterious. Art writer Jill Connor says, Zirins unique, ... More PIASA to offer a rare collection of rugs and tapestries from the 16th to 18th centuryPARIS.- A rare collection of rugs and tapestries will embellish the PIASA sale of Furniture & Objets d'Art on 15 June 2017. The ensemble consists of fourteen pieces acquired by a Paris connoisseur three decades ago from the celebrated Galerie Catan one of the most important carpet and tapestry galleries in Paris from 1956 to 1981, routinely supplying such leading decorators as Maison Jansen and Henri Samuel, not to mention the Elysée Palace and the American Embassy. These fourteen rugs and carpets were chosen with exquisite taste and concern for rarity and condition. Some were bought directly from the gallery, others at auction from the gallery's collection. The ensemble has a special focus on rugs and tapestries from Spain and the New World, so seldom seen on the market. These include one of the earliest tapestries woven in Peru (probably Cuzco) around ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist Thomas Gainsborough was born May 14, 1727. SUFFOLK.- Sir Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter. Gainsborough was noted for the speed with which he applied his paint, and he worked more from his observations of nature (and of human nature) than from any application of formal academic rules. In this image: Self-portrait, painted 1759.
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