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Banksy posted a video Saturday on his Instagram page accompanied by a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso -- "the urge to destroy is also a creative urge" -- showing the stunt unfolding and how he pulled it off.
by Joe Jackson
LONDON (AFP).- British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at auction in London. "Girl with Balloon" had just sold at Sotheby's Friday for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros) -- a joint record for the maverick artist -- when it unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the frame. Banksy posted a video Saturday on his Instagram page accompanied by a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso -- "the urge to destroy is also a creative urge" -- showing the stunt unfolding and how he pulled it off. "A few years ago I secretly built a shredder into a painting, in case it was ever put up for auction," read captions displayed over footage of a man crafting the device into a faux-gilt frame. The video later shows scenes from Sotheby's, where onlookers are left aghast ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lévy Gorvy / kamel mennour, Frieze Masters 2018. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.
| Spanish opera star Montserrat Caballe dies aged 85 | | Kunsthalle Mannheim completes its new building with James Turrell's light corridor Split Decision | | Unprecedented loans from the National Portrait Gallery, London, chronicle 500 years of the British monarchy | 
In this file photo taken on January 27, 2005 Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe performing at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Pascal GUYOT / AFP.
MADRID (AFP).- Spain's world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe, known for her velvet-edged voice and radical rock duet with Queen singer Freddie Mercury, died in Barcelona on Saturday at the age of 85. Hailed as one of the world's greatest singers for her vocal virtuosity and dramatic powers, Caballe charmed audiences for half a century with a huge repertoire that saw her perform across the globe. The Spanish soprano was already considered an opera great when her duet with Mercury, a boundary-busting combination of opera and rock, became the anthem for the 1992 Olympic Games and propelled her into the mainstream. Retired for several years because of health problems, the soprano was hospitalised in mid-September due to a gall bladder problem, local media reported. "She died overnight at the Sant Pau hospital," a hospital source told AFP. A service for the singer will be held on Sunday ... More | | 
James Turrell: Split Decision, 2018 © James Turrell, Sammlung Kunsthalle Mannheim. Photo: Kunsthalle Mannheim/Florian Holzherr.
MANNHEIM.- American artist and pioneer of light art James Turrells latest work in the former Athene passageway spans 200 square meters and 12 meters in height. Moving through it from Kunsthalle Mannheims art nouveau building to the new building is an unforgettable experience of perception. After four years of development and preparation, the Mannheim art museum completes its new building with the site-specific permanent light installation Split Decision, thus adding a major work of modern art to its significant contemporary art collection. The Hector Stiftung II Kunst gGmbH initiated the project and provided the funding. My works arent about light they are light, says Turrell (b. 1943). Split Decision, an art work in light, is situated at the heart of Kunsthalle Mannheim. It transforms the two-story passageway into a unique light corridor. The space connects the new building designed by the ... More | | 
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Henry VIII, 1540, oil on wood, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
HOUSTON, TX.- A major partnership between the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents a sweeping survey of British royal portraiture in Houston. Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol showcases masterworks of painting, sculpture, and photography dating from the first monarch of the House of Tudor, Henry VII, to Elizabeth II, the reigning queen of the United Kingdom. Through some 150 objectsmost never before seen outside of Englandthe survey showcases the extraordinary history and fascinating figures of five centuries of British royalty. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), from October 7, 2018, to January 27, 2019. Tudors to Windsors highlights depictions of monarchy as a means to explore a changing nation throughout its history, from masterworks by Hans Holbein, Sir Peter Lely, and Sir Joshua Reynolds to the modern icons Cecil Beaton, ... More |
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| Artcurial announces highlights from Paris#Marrakech sales | | Kerlin Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new work by Sean Scully | | The Tampa Museum of Art installs kaleidoscopic Infinity Room by Yayoi Kusama | 
Théodore Frere, La caravane vers la Mecque (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 170,50 cm. Estimate: 150 000 - 200 000 . © Artcurial.
MARRAKECH.- Artcurial will return to the Es Saadi Palace, in Marrakech, on 30th December 2018 for the third edition of Paris#Marrakech, an event taking place during the new Marrakech Art Week, initiated by Artcurial and hosted simultaneously. The first auction will disperse an exceptional Italian Orientalist private collection: From Constantinople to Tangier, the collection of an Italian enthusiast. It includes 40 works, including 3 signed Hermann Corrodi and 6 Théodore Frère, 3 Alberto Pasini and is estimated 2.5 to 3 M. A selection of works from the collection will be presented in Artcurials Milanese office on 12 and 13 October 2018. The works gathered by this Italian collector offer a rare insight into Italian Orientalism. The historical natural links between the Italian peninsula and the east, the image of Venices central position ... More | | 
Sean Scully, Landline Strand, 2017 (detail).
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting The Land / The Line, a solo exhibition of new work by one of the worlds leading contemporary painters, Sean Scully. The Land / The Line brings together seven works from the Landline series, each measuring over two metres in height and almost the same in width. Recently included in an important survey at De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the paintings demonstrate Scullys consummate mastery of gestural abstraction. In the Landline series, Scully paints the elemental coming-together of land and sea. Though not traditional landscapes, these paintings are nevertheless rooted in a sense of place. They turn our attention to the earth beneath our feet, the push-pull of the tide, and the air extending infinitely above us. Painting with brisk, expressive brushstrokes, Scully stacks horizontal bands of colour on top of one another, allowing them to blend and overlap, ebbing and flowing in undulating rh ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929), LOVE IS CALLING, 2013. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers, and sound. 174 1/2 x 340 5/8 x 239 3/8 inches. Vinik Family Foundation Collection. © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai. Photo by Will Ragozzino.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art opened the second in its exciting slate of Fall 2018 exhibitions focused on the theme of love. Sponsored by the Vinik Family Foundation, the Season of Love continues with Yayoi Kusamas kaleidoscopic Infinity Room, LOVE IS CALLING, one of the artists iconic Infinity Rooms, on loan from the Collection of the Vinik Family Foundation. An immersive, experiential work of art, LOVE IS CALLING invites visitors to enter a mirrored room with tentacle-like soft sculptures hanging from the ceiling and positioned on the floor. These forms glow with bright, changing colors, and feature Kusamas signature polka dots. Visitors hear audio of the ... More |
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| Iconic National Geographic cover image leads Heritage Auctions' Photographs Auction | | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation opens exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti and Rui Chafes | | Kimbell Art Museum showcases more than 85 of Francisco de Goya's greatest works on paper | 
Steve McCurry (American, b. 1950), Afghan Girl, 1984. Oversized dye destruction, 2005, 36-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- An oversized dye destruction print of one of the most iconic magazine cover images ever shot is expected to be among the top lots in Heritage Auctions' Photographs Auction Oct. 12 in New York, an event that could eclipse $1 million total sales. The auction includes 430 lots from the 19th century to the 21st century, with collections of images by several photographers, including Steve McCurry, Eliot Porter and Jonathan M. Singer. Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl, 1984 (estimate: $30,000-50,000) captured the attention of readers worldwide when it appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The striking image captured Sharbat Gula when she was a 12-year-old Afghan girl in a refugee camp in Pakistan, her sea green eyes showing simultaneous curiosity and uncertainty she never had been photographed before about ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Tête de Diego, 1934-1941, terre, 9,50 x 5,40 x 7,70 cm, coll. Fondation Giacometti, Paris.
PARIS.- « Tout lart du passé, de toutes les époques, de toutes les civilisations, surgit devant moi, tout est simultané comme si lespace prenait la place du temps.» This reflection from Alberto Giacometti is the starting point for the encounter between this artist and contemporary sculptor Rui Chafes, a challenge issued by Helena de Freitas, curator at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The project represents an exploration of the lexicon common to both artists: timelessness, dematerialisation and the void. The exhibition features fifteen works by Alberto Giacometti, including eleven sculptures and four drawings. All of the sculptures by Rui Chafes, with the exception of a piece from 2015, have been specially created for this project. The exhibition is being held at the French Delegation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 3rd October, with support from the Fondation Giacometti in Paris. Rui Chafes ... More | | 
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Bellos Consejos. (Pretty Advice) Caprichos 15, 179799. Etching and aquatint with burnishing and burin; first edition. Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard. 14.1767. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is, with El Greco, Velázquez and Picasso, among the best-known figures in the history of Spanish art. Celebrated as one of the greatest painters of all time, he is also revered as one of historys greatest draftsmen and printmakers. Goya in Black and White, on view in the Kimbell Art Museum's Renzo Piano Pavilion from October 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019, will showcase more than 85 of his greatest works on paper from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, renowned for their depth and richness in the graphic arts. Goya began as a painter, justly admired in his early days for the ease with which he picked up the lighthearted and delicate style of the international Rococo. It was as a master portraitist that he achieved fame, ... More |
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| Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition with new works by Louise Bonnet | | David Shrigley creates an installation exclusively for Spritmuseum's gallery | | Perrotin opens Izumi Kato's first solo exhibition in Seoul | 
Untitled, 2018. Coloured pencil on paper, 60,8 x 48,2 cm, 76,8 x 63,5 x 3,8 cm, framed.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting a solo exhibition with new works by Louise Bonnet at BleibtreustraÃe 45. This is the artist's first solo exhibition both at the gallery and in Germany. Known for her paintings of exaggerated proportions and grotesque features Bonnet continually explores emotions of melancholy, loneliness, nostalgia or grief in her works. Her strong sense of corporeality and precise observation of the tension and movements of body parts result in bending extremities, bloated noses, swollen hands and feet. These portraits recall cartoon-like or surrealistic imagery but create a much more subtle and mild tone, often situated in everyday environments and domestic interiors. Bonnet's protagonists appear involuntarily stretched. Their bodies seem to reflect a disturbing discomfort, an uneasy state of mind that makes their limbs writhe. Most figures ... More | | 
David Shrigley's Exhibition of giant inflatable swan-things. Photo: Jonas Lindström.
STOCKHOLM.- One of Great Britains most renowned artists, David Shrigley, presents new work at Spritmuseum this autumn. His Exhibition of Giant Inflatable Swan-things is an installation created exclusively for the museum gallery. Nothing is quite as it seems in Shrigleys universe. The laws of physics are suspended and the everyday world is distorted, revealing a rare and mordant sense of humour. Welcome down the rabbit-hole! We have been eager to host an exhibition by David ever since Spritmuseum opened in 2012, says Mia Sundberg, curator of the museums collection. Im especially pleased that we are presenting a new three-dimensional installation. We dont want to reveal too much, but the title of the show provides a pretty good hint. Simple pen and ink drawings with handwritten slogans and puns and a visual idiom reminiscent of comic books and caricatures form the ... More | | 
Untitled, 2018. Pastel, acrylic, fabric and embroidery on Japanese paper, wood frame with plexiglass cover. 53 à 35 cm | 20 7/8 à 13 3/4 in. Photo: Kei Okano. Courtesy the Artist and Perrotin. ©2018 Izumi Kato.
SEOUL.- Following exhibitions in Hong Kong, Paris and New York, Perrotin is presenting Izumi Katos first solo exhibition in Seoul, which further builds upon the Japanese artists recent experiments exploring stone as a new medium. Since the late 1990s, Kato has been creating an evolving dialogue. With painting as a departure point, the artist began to incorporate wood sculptures in 2003 and soft vinyl sculptures in 2012 into his art practice. Katos signature forms, reminiscent of his childhood drawings, include anonymous silhouettes and sometimes androgynous creatures with elongated limbs in impossible poses. These are the results of the artists mastery of technique, using his hands to directly apply pigment to canvas to create his otherworldly, anthropomorphized works. Katos ... More |
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 De La Warr Pavilion presents Lucy Beech's "Reproductive Exile"BEXHILL ON SEA.- In her solo exhibition Hyperstimulation, Lucy Beech presents a new film accompanied by a text by Naomi Pearce. Characterised by the entrapment of a perpetual journey, the looping film, entitled Reproductive Exile, follows the fictional story of a woman engaging in cross-border, assisted reproduction and reveals the protagonists dependency on an intricate constellation of invisible, co-dependent female bodies, human and non-human, that work, care, constitute and provide for her reproductive journey. These bodies are linked by the production and sharing of animal and human sex hormones central to reproductive technologies. The story unfolds in a private, international clinic built in a former public sanatorium in Czech Republic, where the lack of legislation associated with reproductive rights offers a degree of freedom ... More Success for Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu at Bonhams Africa Now saleLONDON.- Bonhams Africa Now 121-lot sale achieved an impressive £1,802,625 in London yesterday, 4 October. The sale offered a significant collection of works by Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu. His painting, Tutu, 1974, the second rediscovered portrait of Enwonwus famous sitter, the Ife royal, Princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, led the sale, selling for an impressive £320,750. Nine of the top ten lots were by Ben Enwonwu, while works by Congolese artists Freddy Tsimba and Patrick Bongoy also performed well. Tsimbas Centre fermé, rêve ouvert, achieved £12,500 and Patrick Bongoys, Revenants III, sold for £12,500. The proceeds of the Congolese works were donated to the Malaika Foundation, a charity founded by the supermodel and philanthropist Noella Coursaris Musunka to empower Congolese girls and their communities; and AMADE, which ... More Everson Museum's I.M. Pei-designed building celebrates 50th anniversarySYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Arts landmark I.M. Pei-designed building is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Eversons 60,000 square foot facility opened in 1968 and is internationally acclaimed architect I.M. Peis first museum design. The building is constructed out of concrete blended with local granite and its unique sculptural design breaks the mold of traditional museum architecture. I.M. Pei is regarded as one of the most influential and most sought-after modernist architects because of his innovative, geometric designs. Beyond the Everson, Pei has designed numerous iconic buildings throughout his career including the glass pyramid at the Louvre, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Gallery of Art East Wing. For 50 years, our one-of-a-kind arts venue has stood as a work of art to house art, said Elizabeth Dunbar, Director and ... More Artworks attributed to Paul Gauguin and Albert Bierstadt highlight saleFRANKLIN, MASS.- Artworks attributed to Paul Gauguin (Fr., 1848-1903), Albert Bierstadt (Am., 1830-1902) and Thomas Hart Benton (Am., 1889-1902) are just a few of the expected highlights in Woodshed Art Auctions 184-lot Fine Art Drawings, Cartoons & Studies auction on Thursday, October 18th, online and live in 500 Gallery, at 475 Franklin Village Drive in Franklin. Live bidding will begin promptly at 5:30 pm Eastern time. People can register and bid now, at www.woodshedartauctions.com. Previews will be held at 500 Gallery starting on October 10th. The auction will feature a selection of works on paper, including drawings and studies by Impressionist, Pop and Modern master artists, along with casual sketches and souvenir drawings, illustrations and cartoons by major names in pop culture and comics for a total of 184 lots. It has become obvious ... More Brazilian artist Nino Cais' second exhibition with Fridman Gallery opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery is presenting Dont turn off the light, the Brazilian artist Nino Cais second exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition presents the artists take on male and female forms through installation, assemblages, and film. The artist utilizes his unique syntax, juxtaposing the banal and the fetishized, to create dreamlike unions of household objects and found photography. The Last Raft is a room-sized installation combining overturned and dismembered furniture, glassware, and pills, with clippings of vintage erotica. The precarious placement of the photographs on glass, chair legs and the floor forces viewers to bow if they wish to examine the posing nudes. This role reversal challenges the traditional relationship between the observer and the observed, the voyeur and the nude. Past is a series of assemblages comprised of male ... More Exhibition of works on paper by Mumbai-based artist Aditi Singh on view at Thomas Erben GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben Gallery is presenting so much the less complete, an exhibition of new and recent works on paper by Mumbai-based artist Aditi Singh. This is Singhs second solo exhibition with the gallery. A meditative and meticulously skilled artist, Singh works with tenuous mediums: ink, graphite, and charcoal. Using cumulative and repetitive processes, Singh builds transparency and light through density, achieving an abstraction that evokes the material and the ethereala recitative practice in which her applications on paper suggest an inner space of concentration and material expression. For the works collected in so much the less complete, Singh painted, layered, and built ink in exacting, aqueous geographies. While evocative of natural processessuggesting pools, ridges, and channelsthese images and forms are ... More Exhibition presents a collection of portraits of women from across the U.S. who identify as witchesNEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt is presenting Frances F. Denny | Major Arcana: Witches in America, the artists second solo show at the gallery. Major Arcana: Witches in America is a collection of portraits of women from across the United States who identify as witches. Each woman photographed for Major Arcana pursues a form of witchcraft, whether aligned with a religion (like Wicca or Voudou) or a selfdefined practice. Many consider themselves pagan and engage in a diversity of traditions, including: mysticism, engagement with the occult, politically-oriented activism, polytheism, ritualized "spell-craft," and plant-based healing. Dennys interest in modern-day witches began when she discovered during the course of research for a prior body of work that her 8th great-grandmother was accused of witchcraft in 1674 in Northampton, Massachusetts, ... More National Galleries of Scotland opens "Pin-Ups: Toulouse Lautrec and The Art of Celebrity"EDINBURGH.- The vibrant, bohemian atmosphere of Paris at the end of the 19th century takes centre stage in a spectacular new exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland this autumn, which focuses on extraordinary posters that heralded a revolution in design and the birth of modern celebrity culture. Pin-Ups: Toulouse Lautrec and The Art of Celebrity is the first NGS exhibition to explore the work of one of the most innovative and popular French artists of the era known as the Belle Ãpoque. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was an outstanding painter, printmaker and caricaturist renowned above all for his immersion in the theatrical and celebrity culture of Paris. This exhibition brings together around 75 posters, prints, paintings and drawings by Lautrec and contemporaries such as Pierre Bonnard, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Jules Chéret, ... 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More Crystal Bridges announces the debut of "Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now"BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the debut of Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now on view October 6, 2018 to January 7, 2019. The exhibition, organized by Crystal Bridges, features approximately 80 artworks from the 1950s to today, including paintings, photography, video, textiles, sculptures, performance art, and more, created by 40 Indigenous US and Canadian artists. Artists include Tulsa-based Shan Goshorn, who makes social critiques through baskets, Spiderwoman Theater, three performance-artist sisters who challenge heavy topics with humor and heart, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, creator of the Mirror Shield project for Oceti Sakowin Camp near Standing Rock, North Dakota to be used by the water protectors. Other influential American artists in the exhibition include ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast
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