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Salvador Dali and Edward James, Lobster Telephone (red), 1938. Telephone, steel, plaster, rubber, resin and paper, 18 x 30.5 x 12.5 cm. Photo: West Dean College, part of Edward James Foundation / © Salvador DaliÂ, Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali, DACS 2017.
LONDON.- Dalà / Duchamp is the first exhibition to present the art of two of the twentieth centurys most famous artists in exclusive dialogue. Marcel Duchamp (18871968) and Salvador Dalà (1904 1989) are usually seen as opposites in almost every respect, yet they shared attitudes to art and life that are manifested in their respective oeuvres on many levels. Taking their friendship as its starting point, the exhibition demonstrates the aesthetic, philosophical and personal links between them. Over 80 paintings, sculptures, readymades, photographs, drawings, films and archival material bring to life the myriad of connections between the works of these two very different creative and intelligent minds. Dalà / Duchamp is located in Galleries 1, 2 and the Weston Rooms in Burlington House and includes loans from public institutions and private collections across Europe and the US. Duchamp and Dalà met in the early 1930s through mutual contacts in the Surrealist group. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Armed police officers stand on duty following an incident at the junction of Exhibition Road and Cromwell Road, between the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum and the Natural History Museum, in the South Kensington district of London on October 7, 2017. Police arrested a man near London's Natural History Museum on Saturday after a vehicle apparently drove into pedestrians, injuring a number of people. Crowds in the busy tourist spot in South Kensington, which is also home to the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Science Museum, fled screaming in panic, an AFP reporter said. Tolga AKMEN / AFP
| The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens an in-depth survey of seven decades in the career of Anni Albers | | Oscar de la Renta exhibition opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | | Eleven hurt after car crashes near London museum |
Anni Albers, Study for Unexecuted Wallhanging, 1926 (detail), 31.1 x 24.7 cm. Gouache with pencil on photo offset paper. The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2017.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting Anni Albers: Touching Vision, an in-depth survey of seven decades in the career of a pioneering figure in the field of Fiber Art. Organized in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the show provides a chronological overview of Alberss oeuvre while also revealing the connections between different periods and series, highlighting recurrent motifs and flashing ideas. Also emphasized are the compelling ways in which a deep insight of materials and techniques preceded visual development in many instances of Alberss work. The life of Anni Albers (b. 1899, Berlin; d. 1994, Orange, Connecticut) was marked by an intimate relationship with the materials and mediums that guided her work. Best known for her pioneering role in the field of ... More | |
Oscar de la Renta, Evening Ensemble (detail), 196069, silk, metallic thread, brilliants, plastic beads, sequins, and feathers, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Margaret Alkek Williams.
HOUSTON, TX.- On October 8, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens The Glamour and Romance of Oscar de la Renta, an exhibition celebrating the illustrious life and career of the influential fashion designer. Presented in collaboration with Oscar de la Renta, LLC, the exhibition features nearly 70 ensembles sourced from de la Rentas corporate and personal archives, the archives of French label Pierre Balmain, private lenders, and the collection of the MFAH. On view from October 8, 2017, to January 28, 2018, the exhibition is curated by André Leon Talley, former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine and lifelong friend of the designer, in collaboration with Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft and Design at the MFAH, with assistance by fashion historians Molly Sorkin and Jennifer Park. From the start of his award-winning career, which spanned more than five decades and two ... More | |
Armed police officers stand on duty following an incident at the junction of Exhibition Road and Cromwell Road, between the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum and the Natural History Museum. Tolga AKMEN / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Eleven people were injured on Saturday when a car mounted the pavement and ploughed into pedestrians near London's Natural History Museum, leading to the driver's arrest on suspicion of dangerous driving. Police said it was a traffic incident and ruled out any terrorist link, after three attacks in the British capital this year in which vehicles were deliberately driven into people on the street. Crowds in the area, which is popular with families and tourists, fled screaming in panic when the car veered onto the semi-pedestrianised Exhibition Road in South Kensington. Witness accounts and footage posted on social media showed a man being pinned down on the ground by passers-by, next to a black car with a smashed bonnet. "The incident is a road traffic investigation and not a terrorist-related incident," London's Metropolitan Police said in a ... More |
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| Leonard Cohen poems to be published in final book | | First survey of Richard Diebenkorn's earliest work opens at the Crocker Art Museum | | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens a major exhibition dedicated to the idea of staged vision |
This file photo taken on July 5, 2013 shows Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen performing at the Auditorium Stravinski during the 47th Montreux Jazz Festival. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced late Friday. Entitled "The Flame," the volume will include Cohen's unpublished poems as well as his prose pieces and illustrations and lyrics to his three final albums. Explaining the metaphor in the title, Robert Kory, who was Cohen's manager, said that the Montreal-born artist had finished "The Flame" days before his death and it "reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire." "During the final months of his life, Leonard had a singular focus -- completing this book taken largely from his unpublished poems and selections from his notebooks," Kory said in a statement. "The flame and how our culture threatened its extinction was a central concern," he said. The book, which has US, Canadian and British publishers, ... More | |
Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1949. Oil on canvas, 45 1/8 x 37 3/8 in. (114.6 x 94.9 cm). Catalogue raisonné no. 665 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will present Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 19421955, from October 8, 2017 to January 7, 2018. Organized by the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation in conjunction with the Crocker, this traveling exhibition is the first to solely examine the work Diebenkorn made prior to his switch to figuration. It focuses on the artists stylistic and technical origins in oil, watercolor, gouache, ink, crayon, and collage, tracing Diebenkorn's evolution from representational landscape, to semiabstract and Surrealist-inspired work, to his mature Abstract Expressionist paintings from the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and early Berkeley years. Accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly publication by Crocker Art Museum Associate Director and Chief Curator Scott A. Shields, the exhibition counters the prevailing notion that Diebenkorn began his career as a painter in the Abstract ... More | |
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Earliest Human Relatives, 1994 (detail), silver gelatin print, 42,3 à 54,3 cm, © the artist, Courtesy Sugimoto Studio.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents a major exhibition dedicated to the cultural history of vision. It focuses on the diorama, which is used to reconstruct and realistically stage events, stories, and habitats with the aid of various means. Invented in the nineteenth century by the French painter and photography pioneer Louis Daguerre as a playhouse enlivened with light effects, it, as a glass showcase became the presentation form par excellence for natural history museums. The diorama stages human knowledge of the world, not without influencing and perpetually challenging the viewers perception. Being the first comprehensive examination of the diorama, the exhibition highlights both the various stories behind the development of this form of presentation and the correlations and chronological developments that took place parallel to it. The diorama has been a crucial source of inspiration to this day: ... More |
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| Exhibition at Museum for Architectural Drawing focuses on architecture in the former Soviet Union | | Carl Solway Gallery introduces the work of Cherie Benner Davis to Cincinnati audiences | | Poland slams Brussels museum over Holocaust exhibition |
Alexei Pestov, Bridge of the Future, 1987. Pencil, water colour, tempera on paper, 79,3 à 55,3 cm © Alexei Pestov.
BERLIN.- Centrifugal Tendencies. Tallinn - Moscow - Novosibirsk at the Museum for Architectural Drawing is a continuation in a series of exhibitions focusing on socio-critical, revolutionary intellectual approaches in modern architecture. After exhibitions of the work of American, Canadian and European artists such as Lebbeus Woods, Peter Cook, Rem Koolhaas and OMA, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry, the museum now turns its gaze on the former Soviet Union. This year it is exactly a century since the historical rupture that was the Russian October Revolution of 1917 brought about radical changes in the political, social and cultural situation of the entire world. The revolutionary character of the early Soviet regime and the charisma of such principle figures as Konstantin Melnikov, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky played a major role in avant-garde architecture and continued to influence and ... More | |
Cherie Benner Davis, Loopy, 2016. Oil on panel, 50 x 44 inches.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The exhibition Super-Natural -- New Paintings, introduces greater Cincinnati audiences to the paintings of Los Angeles-based artist, Cherie Benner Davis. The body of work titled Super-Natural, stems from the artists intense foray into drought tolerant gardening. Cherie Benner Davis designed and installed elaborate succulent gardens in response to Californias ongoing drought. The colors and sculptural forms of these plants she describes as gorgeous and bombastic inspired her to mesh botanical imagery with her interest in the materiality of oil paint. She employs photography and digital manipulation in creating the underlying design of her paintings. The finished artworks display highly altered colors and formal elements simplified for graphic effect. In her words, It seems we are at a strange and potentially pivotal point in history. My own response to this condition is to insist on beautya sexy, high-chroma, delicious and possibly ... More | |
In this file photo President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, arrives at the Tallinn Digital Summit in Tallinn, Estonia, on September 29, 2017. Ilmars ZNOTINS / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- Poland on Friday slammed the House of European History recently opened in Brussels, accusing ti of presenting a biased view of the Holocaust, denouncing its permanent exhibition for "flagrant misinformation and omissions." In a letter to European Parliament head Antonio Tajani, Poland's Culture Minister Piotr Glinski accused the museum of describing Poland, France and Ukraine as "states and nations complicit in the Holocaust". The museum was opened in May as a European Parliament project, and Tajani attended the ceremonial opening. Without elaborating, Glinski also criticised the museum for presenting Germany as "the greatest victim of World War II" and Communism "in a positive context" without mentioning the millions of victims of this "criminal system." He also complained the museum neglected European giants including William Shakespeare, ... More |
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| The Frick Pittsburgh to present "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art" | | Anna Schwartz Gallery opens exhibition of works by Joseph Kosuth | | New York City graffiti from the 70s & 80s featured at the Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Claude Monet, Camille at the Window, Argentuil (Camille a sa fenetre, Argenteuil), 1873. Oil on canvas, 23 ¾ H X 19 5/8 W. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Photo: Katherine Wetzel ©Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze announces that it will present Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, an exhibition featuring more than 70 masterpieces collected by Pittsburgh-born collector and philanthropist, Paul Mellon (19071999), beginning in spring 2018. The exhibition will be on view at The Frick Art Museum from March 17 through July 8, 2018, and will be complemented by a range of public programs. The Frick will be the first of a select group of museums to present this touring exhibition, which includes three works by Vincent Van Gogh (18531890): The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières (1887); Daisies, Arles (1888); and The Wheat Field behind St. Pauls Hospital, St. Rémy (1889). Claude Monet (18401926) is represented ... More | |
Joseph Kosuth, A Conditioning of Consciousness, 1988. Photography: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy Joseph Kosuth and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
MELBOURNE.- In the 1960s, when his practice as an artist began, Joseph Kosuth was one of the leading pioneers of a movement that would alter the trajectory of modern art. Freeing the form of art from its reliance on the purely visual, his introduction of language into site-specific installations opened up new channels, through which to explore the relationship between ideas and their physical expression with a result that we understand better how meaning is constructed. The rigour and acuity with which he has explored the making of meaning itself has gone on to influence generations to follow. Over the decades, Kosuth has never ceased probing the capacity of art to cut through to the essential questions of existence. This survey of his continuing practice is testament to a legacy that still alters the way we see things today. Kosuths pairings of high-minded content with common materials have a hypersaturating, destabilizing effect that eliminates ... More | |
Christopher (Daze) Ellis, Classic, 1984, acrylic on canvas, 66 Ã 49-1/2 in. Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Martin Wong, 94.114.31.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- This fall, step onto the streets of New York City and immerse yourself into the world of graffiti art with City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s in the Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries at Newfields from Oct. 7, 2017 through January 28, 2018. Traveling to the IMA from the Museum of the City of New York, City as Canvas features more than 100 works from the renowned Martin Wong Collection, and chronicles the origins of graffiti and its evolution from a creative outletviewed by many at the time as a public nuisanceto an accepted form of art. With intricate drawings, colorful works on canvas and photographs of graffiti writing that has long since been erased, this exhibition includes a variety of seminal works by pioneering graffiti artists such as Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink and Futura 2000. In spite of the movements beginnings on the streets and subways of New Yorkas well as t ... More |
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The Walther Collection opens site-specific installation of video work by the Chinese artist Yang Fudong
NEW YORK, NY.- The third installment of a yearlong series of exhibitions devoted to contemporary photography and video art from Asia, The Walther Collection is presenting East of Que Village: The Ends of Nature, a site-specific installation of the emotionally powerful multi-screen video work by the Chinese artist Yang Fudong. Shot in a documentary style in the farming village where Yang spent his early childhood, the work provides an unsparing look at the grim everyday reality of life in rural China. The exhibition opened on Thursday, October 5, 2017, and continues through November 25. It is organized by guest curator Christopher Phillips, with curatorial coordination from Oluremi C. Onabanjo and support from Felix Ho Yuen Chan. Yang Fudong made East of Que Village in 2007, while he was preparing to shoot the final section of his five-part film Seven Intellectuals ... More
Fairfield University Art Museum presents "Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians"
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- The Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting a new exhibition, Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians on view from Wednesday, September 27, 2017, through Wednesday, December 20, 2017, in the museums Bellarmine Hall Galleries on the campus of Fairfield University. The exhibition features over 50 drawings by artists from the Plains Indian peoples (Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho and others dwelling in the Western United States and Canada), who produced an extraordinarily rich and distinctive body of drawings chronicling battles, rituals, and winsome if sometimes jarring events of everyday life. In their later phase, the subject matter shifts to focus on the forced captivity of Native Americans and the suppression of indigenous traditions and practices. Known as Ledger Drawings because they were done on the pages ... More
Debut solo exhibition by the British artist David James opens at GALLERY46
LONDON.- GALLERY46 is presenting Civilisation, the debut solo exhibition by the British artist David James. It is comprised of a series of drawings and paintings that explore the relationship between personal experience and the history of art. Jamess drawings and paintings are neither drawn or painted in the conventional sense. The drawings are the result of a meticulous sanding technique he uses to partially erase and modify the reproductions of masterpieces by artists such as Velázquez and Rembrandt, torn from the pages of vintage art books. This seemingly destructive act abstracts iconic works from the history of art to the point of oblivion, but in doing so James creates new images with new identities. The paintings are, in turn, fabricated objects made from digital enlargements of the drawings on archival canvas mounted to board, with the ... More
Ancient Egyptian Cycladic marble head and Calder sculpture lead Cottone's auction
GENESEO, NY.- An outstanding Cycladic marble head dating from 2,500 BC with impeccable provenance soared to $188,800 and an elegant sculpture of black-and-red-painted sheet metal circa 1946 by Alexander Calder (Am., 1898-1976), titled Crayfish, sold for $153,400 at a two-day, two-session auction held Sept. 22-23 by Cottone Auctions in Geneseo. Day 1 featured the lifetime collection of Annette McGuire Cravens (1923-2017), a lifelong philanthropist and patron of the arts. Annette dedicated her time to the expansion and diversification of her collection of archaeological and ethnographic items and the allocation of artifacts for the benefit of the continued education of others. Following the example of her stepfather, Thomas B. Lockwoods donation and benefaction of the Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo, Cravens went on to donate over ... More
Mossgreen to offer iconic and coveted 1955 Jaguar D-type
MELBOURNE.- One of the most iconic and coveted cars in the collector car world, the 1955 Jaguar D-type is expected to sell for between £4m to £4,7m, according to auction house Mossgreen. One sold last year for £16m (US $21.8m). It is the highest-value car ever to go to public auction in Australia and will cross the block with Mossgreen Auctions at the annual Motorclassica Auction this year, on Saturday night 14th October 2017 in Melbourne. Owned in Europe by the renowned former Le Mans 24 Hour winner Duncan Hamilton, chassis XKD510 enjoyed many successes in the UK and French West Africa before going to Singapore, and eventually Australia in the late 60s. Noted Jaguar collector Ian Cummins owned it for a time here before Australian motor racing legend and former President of Lear Jet, Bib Stillwell bought the car at auction for a then World ... More
Fine Asian antiques and California fine art lead Clars October 15th auction
OAKLAND, CA .- Clars Auction Gallery will present their monthly auction of Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry/Timepieces and Asian Art Auction on Sunday, October 15th at their Oakland (CA) gallery and saleroom. Featuring over 700 lots, the sale will be highlighted by exceptional Asian offerings as well as important California fine art, a 2017 Mercedes Benz, and several special collections including a large U.S. Coin collection. A Chinese bamboo and wood brush pot will lead this categorys offerings coming to the sale with an estimate of $25,000 - $45,000. The brush pot is finely carved with a village scene and scholars enjoying a mountain landscape. A selection of highly sought after huanghuali furniture will be the next highlight with the key piece being a side table with carved dragons that is estimated at $8,000 - $12,000. A Chinese overlaid ... More
Opera di Santa Croce raising funds to clean the tomb of Michelangelo
FLORENCE.- The monument to Michelangelo and the Buonarroti family altarpiece in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence will soon be restored. In order to obtain the financing, after the successful result of Crazy for Pazzi crowdfunding campaign, the Opera di Santa Croce opened the new International fundraising campaign In the Name of Michelangelo, with the goal of raising 100.000 by October 30, 2017. The funds will be used for the cleaning and diagnostic investigation of the tomb and for the restoration of the altarpiece, which has been damaged by the 1966 flood and is now in an alarming state of conservation. These two works have always been a destination for visitors from all over the world, who desire to give homage to the great master. They were made in the second half of the 16th century at the request of Lionardo Buonarroti, nephew and heir of Michelangelo, ... More
The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair announces outstanding line-up for 2018 edition
NEW YORK, NY.- When the 19h annual New York Ceramics & Glass Fair-the only fair of its kind in the United States-opens its doors on January 18th, twenty-nine internationally renowned specialists will swell the historic Bohemian National Hall with a panoply of historic and contemporary treasures that span five centuries, from the Middle Ages to right this minute. "Liz Lees and I are delighted to welcome several new participants to the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair this year," says Meg Wendy, who with Ms. Lees produces the fair. Among the newcomers are Elise Abrams from Stockbridge Massachusetts; KPM Art and Antiques LLC from Kensington CT; the Miami-based Pascoe Gallery, which specializes in Ardmore ceramics from South Africa; Martha Rieger, contemporary ceramic sculptor from Tel Aviv; and Mariko Swisher Ceramics from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ... More
Pristine Hermès Himalayan Gris Cendre Birkin bag sells for $112,500 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- An Hermès 30cm Matte Gris Cendre Himalayan Nilo Crocodile Birkin Bag, in pristine condition, sold for $112,500, taking top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' fall Luxury Accessories Auction Sept. 26-27 in Beverly Hills. The auction realized $1,211,258 million on demand for top-condition Hermès Birkin bags and limited edition rarities. "We assembled a stellar auction and our clients responded," said Diane D'Amato, Director of Luxury Accessories. "Heritage's reputation as the No. 1 marketplace for luxury continues and this sale saw a 100 percent sell-through rate of vintage Hermès." A pristine Hermès 30cm Shiny Bourgogne Birkin Bag with Gold Hardware. R Square, 2014 done in Shiny Bourgogne Niloticus Crocodile sold for $50,000 as did an Hermès 35cm Shiny Ficelle Porosus Crocodile Birkin Bag with Gold Hardware. An extraordinary ... More
Skowhegan receives $250,000 gift from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for new named studio
NEW YORK, NY.- Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, one of the nations leading residencies for emerging visual artists, announced today that it has received a $250,000 gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The funds will provide for a new studio building to be constructed on its rural campus in central Maine. The new building will be named in Frankenthalers honor, acknowledging her deep commitment to studio practice, and will accommodate discrete workspaces for three visual artists. When complete, the Frankenthaler Studio will be the 15th studio building on Skowhegans 350-acre campus, joining those named for other artists who taught at Skowhegan, including founder Willard Bill Cummings and Jacob Lawrence. This remarkable gift is deeply meaningful for Skowhegan, which was founded by and for artists. It carries forward that legacy and ... More
The Wolfsonian-FIU celebrates past and present Austrian design
MIAMI, FLA.- The WolfsonianFlorida International University unveiled a pair of graphic-design presentations, historic and contemporary, under the shared theme of identity. Centered on the work of Julius Klinger, a pioneering graphic artist of the early 20th century, the suite is grounded by the first U.S. solo show devoted to the designer, Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age. The retrospective marks a unique opportunity for visitors to experience so much of Klingers work in one placeover 100 posters, prints, drawings, and book illustrations from his prolific career, along with items of decorative art by other Viennese designers selected chiefly from The Wolfsonians collection. The transformative designs reveal his knack for infusing beautiful imagery with wit and an astute marketing sensibility. Complementing Julius Klinger is Double Vision, a two-part ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and activist Faith Ringgold was born October 08, 1930. Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930, in Harlem, New York City) is an artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Ringgold?s artistic practice was extremely broad and diverse, and included media from painting to quilts, from sculptures and performance art to children's books. She was an educator who taught in the New York city Public school system and on the college level. In 1973, she quit teaching public school to devote herself to creating art full-time. n this image: Faith Ringgold, American People Series, The Flag is Bleeding, 1967, oil on canvas. Collection of the artist, c. Faith Ringgold. Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY.
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