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Installation view of Items: Is Fashion Modern? The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 2017-January 28, 2018. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Museum of Modern Art is staging an exhibit of iconic clothing and accessories to examine the relationship between fashion and society. On display are 111 high-impact items like Levi's 501 jeans, the little black dress, the sari, the pearl necklace and even tattoos -- all part of the cultural heritage of the West and elsewhere in this century and the 20th. In MoMA's first exhibit on fashion since 1944, the show features garments that seem timeless, like the Panama hat. But it also includes items from everyday life or those denoting religious affiliation, such as the yarmulke for Jewish men and the headscarf for Muslim women. The exhibit is called "Is Fashion Modern?" It opens Sunday and runs through January 28. It provides a chance to recall how certain garments symbolized what was considered modern in a given period of history. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on September 29, 2017 in Moscow shows personal belongings of British KGB agent Kim Philby at the exhibition "Kim Philby in espionage and in life" at the Russian Historical Society. A new exhibition in Moscow has made public for the first time secret documents that British double agent Kim Philby sent to his Soviet handlers. Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
| Renoir stolen in brazen theft ahead of Paris auction | | First major U.S. exhibition on Teotihuacan in over twenty years opens in San Francisco | | The Morgan celebrates acquisition of complete Thaw Drawings Collection with exhibition | 
A painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Portrait of a Young Girl with Blond Hair", was stolen Saturday from an auction house in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. Photo: PAUL J. RICHARDS. AFP.
NANTERRE (AFP).- A small painting by French impressionist Auguste Renoir was stolen from an auctioneer in a Paris suburb on Saturday, the day before it was due to be sold, police said. "Portrait d'une jeune fille blonde" (Portrait of a Young Girl with Blond Hair), estimated at 25,000-30,000 euros ($30,000-$35,000), was taken from an auction house in the western suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where it was on display prior to the sale. The thief apparently just took the oil painting off the wall and escaped unnoticed, a police official said. The highlight of the sale, the canvas is listed in the auctioneers' catalogue as measuring 14 centimetres by 12.2 centimetres (5.5 inches by 4.5 inches), with the initials "A.R." in its top left-hand corner. Police hope video surveillance footage ... More | | 
Circular relief, 300450. Stone, 49 1/4 x 40 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (125 x 103 x 25 cm). Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa / INAH, 10-81807. Archivo Digital de las Colecciones del Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa / INAH-CANON. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco premiered Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, the first major U.S. exhibition on Teotihuacan in over twenty years. The ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan is one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the world, and the most-visited archaeological site in Mexico. At its peak in 400 CE, Teotihuacan was the cultural, political, economic, and religious center of Mesoamerica and inhabited by a multiethnic population of more than 100,000 people. This historic exhibition features more than 200 artifacts and artworks from the site and is a rare opportunity to view objects drawn from major collections in Mexico, ... More | | 
Odilon Redon (18401916), The Fool (or Intuition), 1877, charcoal with black chalk and fixative on light brown paper, Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, 2010.120. Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Thaw Collection is considered among the foremost private collections of drawings assembled over the last half century. It was first promised to the Morgan in 1975 by Eugene V. Thaw, now a Life Trustee, and the museum received the full collection of 424 works in early 2017. In honor of this extraordinary giftone of the most important in the history of the museumthe Morgan presents Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection. On view from September 29 through January 7, 2018, the exhibition includes more than 150 masterworks from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. A partial list of artists represented includes Mantegna, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Watteau, Piranesi, Fragonard, ... More |
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| Technology sheds new light on master of shade | | Christie's to offer the largest flawless D-Colour diamond ever to come to auction | | Sotheby's announces inaugural auction in Dubai | 
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Ritratto di un cavaliere di Malta, 1607-1608. Olio su tela, 118,5 x 95 cm. Galleria Palatina di Palazzo Pitti, Firenze. Gabinetto fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze.
MILAN (AFP).- He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opened Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with X-ray and infrared images of them that offer visitors revealing insights into how he went about creating them. The multimedia displays offer contemporary fans of the father of modern painting a glimpse into his idiosyncratic technique, the points at which he changed his mind and the modifications and adjustments he made to some of his most famous works. Works have been loaned from a string of top Italian and international museums, including the Metropolitan in New York, which has released "Sacred Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (1604- ... More | | 
The first exceptional jewel has been created around the largest D colour, flawless diamond ever to come to auction. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies and de GRISOGONO will present: The Art of de GRISOGONO, forming a partnership that will bring to auction the most exquisite diamonds ever offered to the market, with Christies forthcoming auction season in Geneva highlighting the very best of de GRISOGONO by presenting a unique necklace suspending a 163.41-carat, D colour, flawless, IIA type diamond. Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Christies Jewels commented: Over our 251 year history, Christies has had the privilege of handling the worlds rarest and most historic diamonds. The sensational 163.41 carat perfect diamond suspended from an elegant emerald and diamond necklace propels de GRISOGONO into a class of their own. Established in Geneva, Switzerland in 1993, de GRISOGONO was founded by Fawaz Gruosi on three pillars: craftsmanship, innovation and creativity. On the eve of the 25th anniversary year ... More | | 
Jean Dubuffet, Palmiers Aux Bedouins (Palm Trees with Bedouins), 1948. Eest. $60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
DUBAI.- Today, Sothebys Dubai announced that it will stage its inaugural auction in the city, Boundless: Dubai. Presenting new perspectives on art from and inspired by the Middle East, and exploring the influence of the Middle East as a region its beauty, complexity and artistic heritage on artistic innovation around the globe, the sale has been curated by Ashkan Baghestani and a worldwide team of specialists at Sothebys. Bringing together works sourced internationally to create a forward-looking dialogue for both new and seasoned collectors, the sales offering spans the collecting categories of 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Design, Photography, Prints, Books & Manuscripts, Arts of the Islamic World, Orientalist and Jewellery. The works will be exhibited from 6 to 12 October at Sothebys Dubai in the Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE, followed by an auction on 13 November. Patron for Sotheby& ... More |
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| First exhibition to take an in-depth look at motifs of circuses and carnivals in Max Beckmann's work opens in Bremen | | Tadao Ando tastes concrete success in Tokyo retrospective | | Katharina Grosse presents a new work at the South London Gallery | 
Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait as Clown, 1921. Ãl auf Leinwand, 100 x 59 cm Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Photo: Antje Zeis-Loi, Medienzentrum Wuppertal © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
BREMEN.- Motifs from music halls, circuses, and carnivals of acrobats, clowns, and actors characterize the work of Max Beckmann from the early 1920s until this death in 1950. Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage at the Kunsthalle Bremen is the first exhibition to take an in-depth look at this aspect of Beckmanns work. In this context, the artist is presented as a theatre director, producer, and scene shifter through his major paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and his dramatic texts. Among the loans from around the world are triptychs from American museums rarely seen in Europe. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Museum Barberini, Potsdam. Scenes from music halls and carnivals, acrobats, clowns, and actors are motifs that are repeatedly found in Max Beckmanns work from the early 1920s to his death in 1950. They express his passion for all aspects of the stage ... More | | 
This picture shows Japanese architect Tadao Ando during an interview at the National Art Center in Tokyo. Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP.
TOKYO (AFP).- Japanese master Tadao Ando took an unconventional route to architecture, starting out as a boxer and a lorry driver. Completely self-taught, his unorthodox training did not stop him winning the Pritzker prize, considered the Nobel of architecture, following in the footsteps of the likes of Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid. "Without studying, without going to vocational school, I became an architect, by observing, by experimenting, by feeling, by being touched," he told AFP as a retrospective of his work opened in Tokyo. Some put his success down to a simple approach to architecture. Concrete, light and wind are his three base elements, he said. Architecture is "a living and moving being", said the 76-year-old, who has buildings all over the world, from Mexico to Manhattan and Manchester. "It's knowing where to place a child so he feels most at home. It's not beauty, it's thinking together, living together," ... More | | 
Katharina Grosse, This Drove my Mother up the Wall, acrylic on wall and floor, South London Gallery, 2017. Photo Andy Keate.
LONDON.- For her first institutional solo exhibition in London, Katharina Grosse presents a new work, This Drove my Mother up the Wall, painted in situ at the South London Gallery. Grosses large scale and site-specific works engulf both interior and exterior spaces, unhindered by the traditional boundaries of the pictorial field. In the South London Gallery's main exhibition space, Grosse has made the void the dramatic centre of her project, masking the floor with a large foam stencil, then painting over it and the surrounding walls. Once she removes the stencil, a bright, white area of floor is revealed, untouched by the veils of colour and broad, propulsive marks spreading to all sides. This filtering technique is also evident in Grosse's recent canvas works, where stencils are placed over areas of the canvas at various stages of the painting process, resulting in chromatic layers that record her thoughts and actions. ... More |
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| Exhibition at Spazio Ventura XV in Milan features the great space feats of the past 50 years | | Career-spanning exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Franz West on view at Gagosian | | Celebrity photos, Ansel Adams landscapes among prizes in Heritage Auctions' Oct. 11 Photographs Auction | 
Apollo command module. Photo: Courtesy ofJohn Nurminen Events B.V.
MILAN.- On the night between 20 and 21 July 1969, around 900 million people were glued to the TV screen, to witness the first human being walking on the surface of the Moon for the first time. Over 20 million of those TV viewers were Italian. Many others, however, heard Gianni Bisiachs words (and saw the accompanying images) as he followed the landing from behind the scenes with the first RAI marathon (28 hours of live broadcasting). This was conducted by Tito Stagno, with a commentary by Andrea Barbato and from the NASA Space Center in Houston Ruggero Orlando. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's moonwalk put a temporary halt to the rancour and turmoil of those years. International journalists and observers prophesied that the American Moon landing would mark the beginning of a collaboration between the USA and the USSR, and possibly bring an end to the Cold War. The excitement surrounding the event dominated the spectators' minds for a few ... More | | 
Franz West Installation views Gagosian Geneva September 22 December 16, 2017 © Franz West Privatstiftung. Photo: Annik Wetter. Courtesy Gagosian.
GENEVA.- Gagosian is presenting a career-spanning exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Franz West. From abstract and interactive sculpture to furniture and collage, Wests protean oeuvre possesses a character that is at once lighthearted and deeply philosophical. Manipulating everyday materials and imagery in order to examine arts relation to social experience, West revolutionized the interplay of concealment and exposure, action and reaction, both in and outside the gallery. The exhibition marks key formal and conceptual developments in Wests creative process. While the early plaster sculptures, PaÃstücke (Adaptives), were made to be moved, touched, and handledtransforming viewers into participantslater works incorporate more fragile materials, such as papier-mâché and glass bottles, which he combined in the Labstücke (Refresher Pieces) from the early 1980s. In 1986, West reversed the impetus behind his ... More | | 
Lawrence Schiller (American, b. 1936), Marilyn 12 Portfolio (twelve photographs), 1962. Gelatin silver and dye coupler, 2007, 15 x 23 inches. Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A striking array of celebrity photographs and a collection of Ansel Adams landscapes are among the most coveted images that will be available Oct. 11 in Heritage Auctions' Photographs Auction in New York. Expected to be among the top lots is Lawrence Schiller's 1962 Marilyn 12 Portfolio (twelve photographs), which carries a pre-auction estimate of $25,000-35,000. The collection of 15-by-23-inch gelatin silver and dye coupler photos number 45 in an edition of 75 is housed in the original black vinyl clamshell box embossed with the portfolio title, the artist's name and publisher. Among the included images are photos of the legendary Hollywood starlet enjoying sparklers in the top of a birthday cake, swimming while nude and a contact sheet with 29 images of her photo shoot in and around a pool. Terry O'Neill's 1968 Frank Sinatra and Bodyguards, Fountainbleau, Miami Beach ... More |
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Five must-see autumn exhibitions
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 'Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert' puts America's obsession with sugar on display at Shelburne MuseumSHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museums exhibition, Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert, is on view in the Pizzagalli Center for Arts and Educations Murphy Gallery until February 18, 2018. This decadent, contemporary art exhibition explores Americas appetite for tantalizing and tasty confections and its impact on modern visual culture. Through installations of international and local artists working within the subject matter and dessert-themed mixed media, Sweet Tooth provides a feast for the eyes. Beneath the seductive surfaces of the art works on display, lie deeper, complex topics and social commentary, linking Americas insatiable desire for sweets with more loaded contextual meanings. Sugar, notes Museum director Tom Denenberg, proves to be a creative mirror for artists. It reflects basic human desires, but also profound truths about history and culture. Similar ... More Exhibition of photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue narrates the life of the French upper bourgeoisieMILAN.- The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum again hosts contemporary photography. The art of Jacques Henri Lartigue is the protagonist of a small, but important, international exhibit from September 29 to November 26, 2017. Curated by Angela Madesani, the exhibit recounts the French photographer through his photos. Thirty-three images, both vintage and modern prints, narrate the life of the French upper bourgeoisie beginning in La Belle Epoque: family, trips, intellectuals, the passion for car racing, and VIPs from Pablo Picasso to Jean Cocteau who impacted the history of the early 20th century. The exhibit presents original materials coming from the Jacques Henri Lartique Donation, and constitutes a rare opportunity to know and divulge the research of this artist whose works are preserved in the permanent collections of such museums as the Galeries ... More Exhibition of paintings on paper by Gary Hume on view at Sprüth MagersLONDON.- Sprüth Magers announced that, after extensive renovations, its London gallery reopened on Grafton Street on September 29th, 2017. It takes over the building with an expanded exhibition space occupying three floors. The gallery opened with a debut exhibition of new works by Gary Hume. It is his first solo exhibition in the UK since his retrospective at Tate Britain in 2013, and is also the first time that his paintings on paper are being exhibited publicly. Gary Humes new body of works on paper mark a critical shift in his practice. Emerging from preparatory sketches, they revealed themselves as a unique and compelling body of work that has led the artist to develop an entirely new painting method. The use of domestic gloss paint is indicative of Humes practice, yet its effect on the paper ground enables a distinctive interplay between light, depth, and texture ... More Exhibition delves deep into Clyfford Still's practice and ideas DENVER, CO.- The worlds most intact public collection of any major American artist delves deep into Clyfford Stills practice and ideas this fall. Still & Art presents the most widely investigative survey mounted by the Museum, which enters its seventh year this November. The first exhibition to extensively juxtapose Stills art with numerous reproduced images by more than 30 other artists, the display also features the Museums first augmented reality experience. Occupying the Museums nine galleries with 79 artworks by Still created over a span of sixty years, Still & Art brings new meaning to Stills provocative 1979 declaration, My work is not influenced by anybody. Scholar and critic David Anfam has studied the artist for over four decades. His installation enables visitors to discover both direct connections and subtle correspondences that reveal the complexity driving Stills imag ... More Second instalment of two-part exhibition series on Pietro Consagra opens in LondonLONDON.- ARTUNER and The Italian Cultural Institute are presenting the second instalment of their two-part exhibition series on the renowned post-war Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1920 2005). Featuring Consagras iconic sculptures from the 1960-80s in dialogue with new works by French artist Marine Hugonnier, including new collages from the Art For Modern Architecture series, the exhibition explores how both artists challenge cultural and historical frameworks to establish a new relationship between the viewer and their environment. One of Italys most important post-war sculptors, Pietro Consagra rejected the tradition of three-dimensional sculpture to embrace a more direct mode of interaction between the artwork and the viewer. Working in bronze and iron, Consagra created radical sculptures that were flattened and almost two-dimensional. ... More Major museum exhibition focusing on American taste in art and design during the 1920s opens in ClevelandCLEVELAND, OH.- The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is the first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste in art and design during the 1920s and early 1930s. Through a rich array of over 300 extraordinary works in jewelry, fashion, automobiles, paintings and decorative arts, featuring the events and people that punctuated the era, the exhibition explores the impact of European influences, American lifestyle, artistic movements and innovation during this exciting period. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and is on view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Hall from September 30, 2017 through January 14, 2018. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is a blockbuster showgorgeous, bountiful, exhilarating, said William ... More Weatherspoon Art Museum opens "Louise Fishman: A Retrospective"GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is the only southern venue for the exhibition, Louise Fishman: A Retrospective. Organized by curator Helaine Posner for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, the exhibition is the first comprehensive look at five decades of Fishmans artistic production and the range, authenticity, and originality of her work. Featuring more than fifty painting and drawings from 1968 to the present, the exhibition traverses Fishmans career from hard-edge grid paintings to recent work inspired by late Venetian Renaissance painting and the work of British artist J.M.W. Turner. Filling the span between these bodies of work are the Angry Paintings of the 1970s; Remembrance and Renewalworks acknowledging her Jewish heritage and made in response ... More Exhibition of works by Josephsohn and Peter Märkli opens at Hauser & Wirth SomersetLONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset is presenting an exhibition of works by the late Swiss sculptor Josephsohn (1920 2012) alongside the architectural drawings of his long-time friend, Swiss architect Peter Märkli (born 1953). Taking its name from La Congiunta, an isolated museum designed by Märkli to house a number of Josephsohns bronze sculptures, the exhibition, curated by Niall Hobhouse, examines the intense and longstanding collaboration between these two powerful creative minds, exploring what two very different disciplines sculpture and architecture can offer the other as insight, and about the generosity and humanity of such an exchange. The exhibition brings together a selection of Josephsohns sculptures produced throughout his 60 year-long artistic career, as well as some of the artists works on paper, alongside a series of drawings by Peter ... More ADAA Executive Director Linda Blumberg stepping downNEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America announced that Linda Blumberg, Executive Director of the ADAA, will be stepping down from the organization after over a decade of service. The ADAAs executive committee is nearing the completion of a search process to appoint the next Executive Director of the ADAA. Blumbergs final day in her current role is December 31, 2017, after which she will serve in an advisory capacity to ensure a smooth transition and support the mounting of The Art Show, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018. Linda's leadership has been critical to the vitality of the ADAA and the growth of its membership," said Adam Sheffer, President of the ADAA. "We are incredibly grateful to Linda for her outstanding service to the organization and her commitment to advocating for its members during a particularly exciting yet complex ... More Contemporary fiber art from 36 artists featured in new exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- Contemporary fiber artworks commissioned through a challenge to artists by Los Angeles collector Lloyd Cotsen are being showcased in The Box Project: Uncommon Threads at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. The exhibition is on view Sept. 30 through January 29, 2018. The Box Project features pieces by 36 acclaimed international artists, including Richard Tuttle, Cynthia Schira, Gerhardt Knodel, Helena Hernmarck, James Bassler and Gyöngy Laky, among others. The exhibition showcases a diverse collection of works that reflect the artists creative and ingenious use of fiber to create new works of art. Mr. Cotsen, the former CEO of Neutrogena, was a passionate art collector and philanthropist. The project originated in the early 2000s when Mr. Cotsen and his then curator, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, ... More Solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture represents a 50-year career retrospective for Morgan BulkeleyPITTSFIELD, MASS.- Morgan Bulkeley: Nature Culture Clash, a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Berkshire-based artist Morgan Bulkeley, is on view at the Berkshire Museum from September 29, 2017, through February 4, 2018. Humorous and ominous at the same time, Bulkeleys vivid images offer compelling scenarios where humans are pitted against nature, with nature holding the advantage. An opening reception with the artist will be held Saturday, October 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; the event is free and open to the community. Morgan Bulkeley: Nature Culture Clash is a significant career retrospective covering five decades of work, from drawings and watercolors created in 1967 to a recent series of 12 x 9 gouache on paper pieces depicting a vivid array of birds. The exhibition also encompasses carved and painted wood masks and panels, tiny ... More Oxford college removes Suu Kyi portraitLONDON (AFP).- The Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied said Saturday it had taken down a portrait of the Myanmar leader, a decision that follows widespread criticism of her over the Rohingya crisis. The portrait, which was on display in the main entrance of St Hugh's College, has been placed in storage and was replaced on Thursday with a new painting gifted by Japanese artist Yoshihiro Takada. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi studied at St Hugh's, graduating in philosophy, politics and economics in 1967 before completing a masters in politics in 1968. "We received a new painting earlier this month which will be exhibited at the main entrance for a period," the college said in a statement. "The painting of Aung San Suu Kyi has meanwhile been moved to a secure location." The university did not say whether the removal was linked to ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died October 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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