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Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 21-September 17, 2017. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, a retrospective spanning the six-decade career of this defining figure of contemporary art, will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art from May 21 through September 17, 2017. Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern in London, this exhibition brings together over 250 works, integrating Rauschenberg?s astonishing range of production across mediums including painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, sound works, and performance footage. To focus attention on the importance of creative dialogue and collaboration in Rauschenberg?s work, MoMA?s presentation is structured as an ?open monograph??as other artists, dancers, musicians, and writers came into Rauschenberg?s creative life, their work enters the exhibition, mapping the exchange of ideas. These figures, among the most influential in American postwar culture, include Trisha Brown, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Sari Dienes, Morton Feldman, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Art expert Eric Turquin (L) and the director of the antique paintings department of the Tajan study, Thadee Prate (R) hang two recently discovered paintings by French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) on May 18, 2017 in Paris. The two paintings which disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century and were found in a Normandy castle, have been classified national treasures and will be sold at auction. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP
| Exhibition sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: What will we eat in the future? | | Exhibition of key text drawings by Ed Ruscha on view at Gagosian | | Exhibition at Cleveland Museum of Art features works from the recent bequest of medieval Japanese art | 
Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Between. Designs for an overpopulated planet: Foragers. Cellulose processor und Foragers. Augmented digestive system, 2009. Fiberglass © Dunne & Raby.
HAMBURG.- Food is a symbol of life itself, giving us an identity, a home, and many of the cultural rules we live by. For the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, cooking food was human beings first cultural act and thus marked the beginning of civilization and craftsmanship. In todays affluent society, food has evolved into a creative means of self-expression and almost an ersatz religion. At the same time, the explosive growth of the worlds population, along with climate change, resource scarcity, hunger, and poverty, are placing increasing demands on human health and hygiene, and geopolitical crises are causing us to rethink our methods of food production, packaging, distribution, consumption, and disposal. In the exhibition Food Revolution 5.0, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: What will we eat in the future? Food Revolution 5.0 presents answers to t ... More | | 
Installation view of Ed Ruscha Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings 1974 - 1984 at Gagaosian. Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo by Rob McKeever. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings 19741984, an exhibition of key text drawings by Ed Ruscha. Many of these historical gems have been brought together thanks to generous loans from private and institutional collections. Throughout decades of formal experimentation, Ruscha has explored the role of language in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and bookmaking through a singular, sometimes oblique use of words. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, he honed his distinctive drawing practice to create some of the most compelling works of his career. The text drawings from this period, exquisitely rendered in pastel, dry pigment, and various edible substances, from spinach to carrot juice, bridge the spirited Pop art for which Ruscha first gained renown with the cerebral Conceptualism to which his work was essential. The exhibition features a decade of drawings (19741984) towards ... More | | 
Returning Home, mid-1500s. Japan, Muromachi period (13921573). Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; mounted: 165.1 x 55.9 cm; painting: 57.9 x 41.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.513.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III celebrates the 2015 bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art of significant works of Japanese art from the collection of Cleveland native George Gund III. Gunds bequest has significantly expanded the museums holdings of important 14th-to 17th-century Japanese ink paintings and calligraphies and added to the collection a group of early Japanese ceramics from the 12th to 16th centuries. The exhibition features 20 works from the bequest, including a diverse selection of light-sensitive ink paintings, the majority of which are on view at the museum for the first time since the 2000 exhibition Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics. Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III explores the ways in which Japanese art from these periods has been appreciated ... More |
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| Victoria Miro exhibits Isaac Julien's seminal work Looking for Langston | | Pace Paris presents works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen | | Daniel Templon presents a spectacular site-specific installation and a series of new sculptures by Chiharu Shiota | 
Isaac Julien. Film-Â‐Noir Staircase (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989/2016 Kodak Premier print, Diasec mounted on aluminum, 102 3/8 x 70 7/8 in. Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London © Isaac Julien.
LONDON.- Isaac Juliens seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017) is the focus of two presentations. I dream a world Looking for Langston, an exhibition of newly-conceived, large-scale and silver gelatin photographic works and archival material, on display at Victoria Miro (18 May 29 July). Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. Directed by Julien while he was a member of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and assisted by the film critic and curator Mark Nash, who worked on the original archival and film research, the 1989 film is a landmark in the exploration of artistic ... More | | 
Oldenburg/van Bruggen, Tied Trumpet, 2004. Aluminum, canvas, felt, polyurethane foam, rope, cord; coated with resin and painted with latex; plastic tubing, 50-1/2" x 23-1/2" x 15" (128.3 cm x 59.7 cm x 38.1 cm). Cast 2 of 3. Edition of 3 + 1 AP.
PARIS.- Forty years after the exhibition Claes Oldenburg, dessins, aquarelles et estampes, presented at the Pompidou Center in 1977, Pace Paris announces a presentation of works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. On view is a selection of sculptures and works on paper that relate thematically to music, a subject that resonates throughout the oeuvre of Oldenburg and van Bruggen. The artists conceived the 18th century salon of their home and studio in Frances Loire Valley as their music room, bringing it back to its original purpose. Their Château de la Borde, located at Beaumont-sur-Dême, was a space admired and written about by Balzac and Proust, among other eminent writers. Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929, Stockholm) and Coosje van Bruggen (b. 1942, Groningen The Netherlands; d. 2009, Los Angeles) began collaborating ... More | | 
State of Being (Childrens Dress), 2017. Metal frame, thread and childrens dress, 80 x 45 x 45 cm., 31 ½ x 17 ¾ x 17 ¾ in.
PARIS.- Following her eye-catching work at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche in Paris in early 2017, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is returning to both Galerie Templon's spaces with a spectacular site-specific installation and a series of new sculptures. She explains: I have been using boats since my exhibition at the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015; I wanted to create one oversized boat representing the topics I have touched on in my most recent works. Ships carry people and time. They feature a defined direction, with no other choice but to keep moving forward. Though we may not know where we are heading, we can never stop. Life is a journey of uncertainty and wonder, and the boats symbolize the bearers of our dreams and hopes. A huge 5-metre boat, the frame of its hull resembling a human skeleton, floats in a sea of red yarn. It is mirrored by a smaller 3.5 metre boat on the ground. Following ... More |
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| Zach Harris's first exhibition with Perrotin opens in Paris | | Galerie Springer Berlin opens exhibition of works by artist and photographer Jens Liebchen | | Fraenkel Gallery's first solo exhibition of the work of Elisheva Biernoff on view in San Francisco | 
Zach Harris, Philosopher Stone, 2015-17. Water-based paint, ink, graphite, carved wood 208 x 152 cm / 82 x 60 in © Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting Purple Cloud, Zach Harriss debut exhibition outside the United States and his first with the gallery. Harriss practice synthesizes many art-historical references and is highly inspired by European pictorial tradition, making the presentation of his work in France particularly significant. Harris work is included in several public collections, including The Hammer Museum, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Princeton University Art Museum, and in many prominent private collections such as The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX. Past solo exhibitions include Echo Parked In A No Vex Cave, at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Central Park In A No Vex Cave, at Zach Feuer, New York, NY in 2013 and Must Chill, at Feuer/Mesler Gallery, New York, NY in 2015. Past group exhibitions include Made in L.A, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA in 2012 and Unorthodox at the Jewish M ... More | | 
Jens Liebchen, SYSTEM Motiv # 1, 2014. Archival Inkjet Print, 110 x 80 cm. © Jens Liebchen, courtesy Galerie Springer Berlin
BERLIN.- For the first time, Galerie Springer Berlin is presenting the artist and photographer Jens Liebchen and his »System« series. His photo book, published under the same title by Peperoni Books/White Press in 2014, was highly acclaimed by critics and sold out within only a short time. The gallery is therefore all the more fortunate to now be able to exhibit his large-sized works. Jens Liebchen studied Social Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin before turning his attention entirely to photography. In his works, he deals with political and social issues. His time spent living in Tokyo, from 2010 until 2013, provided him with a reflective insight into Japanese society and culture. While in Tokyo and at the heart of the metropolis, he produced his »System« series. In the outer part of the Imperial Palace Garden, Liebchen photographed pine trees during a blizzard. In Photonews Blogbuch, Michael Klein ... More | | 
Elisheva Biernoff, Vision, 2016. Acrylic on 1/32-inch plywood, painted on both sides, 5-1/8 x 3-1/2 inches © Elisheva Biernoff, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition of the work of Elisheva Biernoff from May 11 July 8, 2017. The exhibition brings together approximately fourteen of the artists small-format, painstakingly meticulous paintingsnearly the total of three years effortand is accompanied by a 66-page publication. Elisheva Biernoffs hypnotically detailed works are based on found, anonymous photographs which are painted to exact scale as faithfully as possible. The paintings are made on thin sheets of sanded plywood measuring approximately 3-1/2 inches in height or width. In the process of making each workwhich requires two to three months to completeBiernoff pays far more attention to the images than the photographers who originally made them (before the objects were discarded or given away). The subjects of ... More |
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| ArtCircle opens exhibition of works by artists from the Zero, Kinetic Art and Op Art movements | | "A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti" on view at Harvard Art Museums | | Babe Ruth Rookie card brings $552,000 to lead $9.4 million Sports Collectibles Auction for Heritage | 
Alberto Biasi, Light Prisms, 1967.
LONDON.- ArtCircle announces its first exhibition, Focusing Room, a presentation of works featuring Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Alberto Biasi, Nanda Vigo and Christian Megert of the Zero movement, as well as artists Nicolas Schöffer, Grazia Varisco and Peter Sedgley. Forged in the late 1950s by the German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Zero fostered artistic discovery by promoting a new environment unconstrained by past traditions. The zero in the name exists to highlight the group's affinities with Minimalism and Italian Arte Povera. Many of the works that feature in the presentation have never been shown in the UK before, and include Adolf Luthers epic installation, Focusing Room (1968), on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in Goslar, Germany. Comprised of twenty concave mirrors arranged on sets of five on a wooden table and spot-lit from above, this interactive installation renders light visible as its own autonomous, matter-less medium. The artwork was ... More | | 
Chess versus Backgammon, illustrated folio from An Anthology of Persian Treatises, Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period, 1427. Ink, colors, silver, and gold on paper. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence. Photo: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This focused exhibition features illustrated Persian manuscripts and detached folios that were collected in the early 20th century by Harvard alumnus Bernard Berenson (18651959), the famous American art historian and connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. Berenson prized these works at his home in Florence, Villa I Tatti, which he bequeathed to Harvard and which now serves as the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. The exhibition offers the first opportunity to see these works outside Villa I Tatti. Works in the exhibition are grouped according to the style in which each was created between the 14th and ... More | | 
1916 M101-5 Blank Back (Sporting News) Babe Ruth Rookie #151 PSA NM 7.
DALLAS, TX.- Babe Ruth continued to prove he was the king on and off the field as his 1916 M101-5 Blank Back (Sporting News) Babe Ruth Rookie #151 PSA NM 7 baseball card sold for $552,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Sports Collectibles Auction which concluded Saturday night after extended bidding. The May 11-13 thee-day auction saw collectibles from the most historic names in sports sell for impressive values as the total price realized for the auction reached nearly $10 million. Iconic baseball cards led the way with Mickey Mantle cards from the early 1950s capturing the attention of collectors. A 1956 Topps Mickey Mantle #135 PSA Gem Mint 10, one of only four known to exist, sold for $360,000 while Mantle's 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle #253 PSA NM-MT 8 and his 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 PSA NM 7 each realized $168,000. Two incredible Cracker Jack issue cards, a 1914 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb #30 PSA NM-MT 8 sold ... More |
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 Michael Dreyer's most comprehensive solo exhibition to date opens at Badischer KunstvereinKARLSRUHE.- Badischer Kunstverein is presenting the Stuttgartbased artist Michael Dreyer in the most comprehensive solo exhibition to date. Gemeinschaftsarbeiten / Society Pieces features earlier works alongside a number of new ones created especially for this presentation. Michael Dreyer works in such diverse media as small-scale sculpture, painting, collage, performance, and film. He resists the categorizations of the art system, preferring instead a heterogeneous and productive multiplicity. With Dreyer, selfreferentiality constitutes both form and content; equally central are the principles of appropriation and amplification. His art is highly conceptual, but at the same time plays with a desire for emotional and aesthetic "appeal." The exhibition at the Kunstverein involves a (formal) confrontation with various languages and aesthetics ... More Museum to be built at Nazi death camp in PolandWARSAW (AFP).- Construction work will begin in the next few months on a new museum at the former Nazi German death camp in Sobibor, eastern Poland, one of the project's managers told AFP Saturday. "We hope the main works will be completed before the end of the year," said Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Nowak of the project, which is being funded by Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Netherlands. The Sobibor death camp during World War II was the site of crimes of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk who was convicted in 2011 in Germany as an accessory to the murder of almost 30,000 Jews while acting as a guard at the camp. Demanjuk died the following year, without a criminal record under German law as his appeals process was never finished. After an uprising at the Sobibor camp in October 1943, the Nazis razed it and built a farm there in an attempt to conceal any ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center opens group exhibition curated by Henriette HuldischCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art, a group exhibition curated by Henriette Huldisch, brings together works by Andrea Büttner, Sophie Calle, Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Dodge, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antonia Hirsch, Jill Magid, Park McArthur, Lisa Tan, Erika Vogt, Susanne M. Winterling, and Anicka Yi. The exhibition considers our entangled, intimate relations with and through objects. Originally inspired by ideas of affect, it borrows its title from French philosopher Roland Barthess The Neutral, in which he stated that the inventory of shimmers is of nuances, of states, of changes . . . The works included variously act as vehicles for affective engagement or transactions of desire between people, or are directly engaged with actions of care, trust, and love. Many objects in the exhibition carry the traces of things ... More Exhibition spanning twenty-five years of work by Simon Patterson opens at the De La Warr PavilionBEXHILL ON SEA.- The De La Warr Pavilion announced its show, Safari: an exhibition as expedition, an anthology of works by British artist Simon Patterson. Spanning twenty-five years of work, and including a site-specific commission and an outside intervention, this exhibition takes the visitor on a mini safari through the De La Warr Pavilion. This trek encompasses wall drawings, sculpture, prints, photographs, video and installation. Sited throughout the gallery, and interspersed between earlier works and personal objects, is the commission Patterson has created for the De La Warr Pavilion. Entitled Safari, this new work comprises objects drawn from Bexhill and Hastings Museums, including artefacts collected by Annie Brassey (1839-87), the English writer and traveller who lived near Hastings, Bexhill-on-Seas neighbouring town. Brassey amassed an extensive ... More American Academy in Rome debuts work by Charles RayROME.- The American Academy in Rome presents Charles Rays latest sculpture Mountain Lion Attacking a Dog (2017), the first exhibition of the celebrated artist in Rome. The new work, developed in collaboration with AAR, is the result of the artists profound reflection upon classical sculpture, including several important examples in the Capitoline Museums. On view in the AAR Gallery through July 2, the exhibition includes an earlier work by Ray, Shoe Tie (2012). In related programming, the artist presented two public lectures, where he discussed the ideas that inform his radical reconfiguration of models from antiquity to investigate aspects of American society. The Academy is delighted to welcome Charles Ray to Rome and to host his work, which draws on the classical past while addressing essential and difficult aspects of contemporary life and offer something wholly new ... More Exhibition of new work by British artist Prefab77 on view at Jonathan LeVine ProjectsJERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting Gangs, Tribes & Fraternities, an exhibition of new work by British artist Prefab77 in what is his debut solo show at the gallery. Prefab77 creates mixed media work that merges imagery from popular and street culture into visually stunning and allegorical portraits. Recognized for motifs of beautiful women and repurposed symbols, his hard edged aesthetic is an anti-establishment reflection of money, power and politics. His unique process begins by photographing a subject and reproducing the image through screen printing. He consequently adds numerous layers with an array of media, including acrylic paint, spraypaint, ink, wheatpaste and printing, playfully combining both digital and analog techniques. His fascination with multi-layered compositions stems from his time living in New York City. He describes, ... More Gallery FUMI opens a solo show by Rowan MershLONDON.- Gallery FUMI presents Praeteritum, Praesens et Futurum a solo show by Rowan Mersh consisting in a collection of new pieces that encompass his work over the past five years. Praeteritum, Praesens et Futurum - Latin for past, present and future - says the sculptor - is a moment of reflection on my practice to move towards the future. I feel it is important to reflect upon my previous works in order to move beyond the logical order of progression creatively. This collection of new works represents critical sculptural moments from both my past and present while anticipating unexplored territories. With a degree in Textiles from the Royal College of Art in 2005, Mershs practice has evolved from textile sculptures and kinetic installations, to large-scale wall pieces and freestanding sculptures made of thousands of components of various materials. Since ... More Legendary sports icons will be celebrated at Julien's AuctionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced three auctions over two days in June that will celebrate the worlds greatest athletes in sports history. Football Legends Featuring the Collection of Bernhard L. Lacroix, Sports Legends and Formula One Legends will highlight the two day auction to take place at the Mall Galleries in London on Friday, June 9, 2017 and Saturday, June 10, 2017. Football Legends Featuring the Collection of FIFA Match Agent Bernhard L. Lacroix is being offered at auction for the very first time. Lacroix is the Match Agent for the Brazilian Football Confederation. A portion of the proceeds from the Football Legends Featuring the Collection of FIFA Match Agent Bernhard L. Lacroix auction will benefit The Princes Trust. As a FIFA Match Agent, Lacroix has evolved into the role of the Match Agent for the Brazilian Football Confederation ... More Exhibition concentrates on Maja Bajevic's works from the last ten yearsXURICH.- In a large overview exhibition, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents the oeuvre of French-Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic (b. 1967 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina). This exhibition concentrates on her works from the last ten years, supplemented by new pieces, which were produced for this exhibition. Since the mid-1990s, the artist has worked on a very wide range of different issues, encompassing globalisation, inclusion/ exclusion, exploitation, neo-liberalism and their reciprocal effects. At the same time, Bajevic also repeatedly raises the issue of personal identity and homeland, and how these are constituted or made impossible. The presentation at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst demonstrates Bajevics ongoing work on themes like the abuse of power and religion, migration and ... More Tokyo Chuo Hong Kong to offer rare imperial ceramics, Chinese paintings and tea waresHONG KONG.- Following the success of its 3rd Anniversary Sales last year, Tokyo Chuo Hong Kong will hold its Spring 2017 Sales on 28 & 29 May 2017 at the Four Seasons Hong Kong, presenting nearly 600 lots of Imperial Chinese ceramics and works of art, classical and modern Chinese paintings, scholars objects and Japanese tea wares. Of note are important private collections from Europe, America and Japan of exceptional quality and excellent provenance. All the sale items will be on view at the Four Seasons Hong Kong on 26 & 27 May. The four archaic landscapes are rendered in the styles of four old masters, namely Juran of the Five Dynasties period, Zhao Dainian of the Northern Song dynasty, Wu Zhen of the Yuan dynasty and Wen Zhengming of the Ming dynasty. The meticulous usage of colours and fine brushwork enhance the depth and distance ... More Korean artist Park Byung-Hoon's second solo show at JanKossen Contemporary on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- JanKossen Contemporary is presenting FENÃTRES DE DIEU, Korean artist Park Byung-Hoons second solo show at the gallery, on view from May 11th July 1st, 2017. Park Byung-Hoons paintings are manifestations of the marriage between bold gestural abstraction and delicate transparency. While at first glance, the works are reminiscent of an ethereal Mark Rothko, or a vibrant Clyfford Still, Byung-Hoon is more than a master of contemporary abstract expressionism. He is equally aligned with performance art, his work, acting like a relic of a performative action painting caught mid-stroke. Byung-Hoon takes advantage of the translucence of glass to create a narrative; each layer of acrylic plexiglas revealing a different chapter to his process. Existing simultaneously as paintings and sculptures, Byung-Hoon never attempts to control his paint. Instead ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle died May 21, 2002. Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. Niki de Saint Phalle was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, to Count André-Marie Fal de Saint Phalle (1906-1987), a French banker, and his American wife, the former Jeanne Jacqueline Harper (1908-1980). Installation view of the exhibition of works by Niki de Saint Phalle at Vicky David Gallery. Photo: Courtesy Vicky David Gallery.
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