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Presenting a wide range of media and techniques from oil painting and drawing to printmaking and sculpture, the exhibition examines the journey of Scottish artists who travelled to Rome and Florence in the 18th and 19th centuries to advance their professional training and career prospects.
EDINBURGH.- Edinburghs City Art Centre hosts a fascinating new exhibition exploring the creative links between Scotland and Italy, which have remained strong for hundreds of years. The Italian Connection celebrates the enduring bond between these two countries, looking at the continuing ability of art to transcend geographical borders a topic which remains hugely relevant in the politics of the 21st century. The new exhibition explores the many different ways Scottish artists have been influenced by Italy, and the significant contribution that Italians have made to visual arts in Scotland. The display includes work by prominent artists such as: Allan Ramsay, E.A Walton, F.C.B. Cadell, Joan Eardley, Eduardo Paolozzi and Elizabeth Blackadder. Presenting a wide range of media and techniques from oil painting and drawing to printmaking and sculpture, the exhibition examines the journey of Scottish artists who travelled to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 5th September until 1st March 2020 the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia presents From Titian to Rubens. Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections, an exhibition curated by Ben Van Beneden, director of Rubenshuis in Antwerp. The magnificent Dogeâs apartments has been transformed into veritable âconstkamersâ, rooms filled with exquisite art demonstrating the riches of Flemish collections.
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 | | Janet Borden, Inc. opens an exhibition of works by Alfred Leslie | | World-renowned chef Massimo Bottura and Sotheby's collaborate on Cntemporary Curated sale | | Bonhams launches Coast to Coast Sales on September 25 | 
This is an amazing opportunity to see the handwork and the mastery of the medium by one of the great artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting an important exhibition Alfred Leslie: Hoboken Stripes, by acclaimed painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie. The exhibition opened Thursday, 5 September and continues through 18 October. This is an amazing opportunity to see the handwork and the mastery of the medium by one of the great artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lelie's importance as an artist in multiple mediums would be difficult to overestimate. Although these striped paintings adhere to a geometric format, they display the virtuosity of paint handling and touch that have been hallmarks of Leslie's abstract and figurative works for a half century. Controlled but impassioned, the stripes are indeed hand-made, rather than taped or the machine-made marks that predominate now. These are active canvasesthe lines are animated and compelling. The original Hoboken Oval was an oil painting on masonite panels, ... More | | 
Ugo Rondinone, Yellow Red White Blue Mountain, 2019. Painted stone, stainless steel and pedestal 87 by 49 by 37 in. 221 by 124.4 by 94 cm. Estimate $150/220,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will open their fall 2019 auctions of Contemporary Art with the Contemporary Curated sale on 26 September in New York. This seasons auction features guest curator Massimo Bottura world-renowned chef and proprietor of the three-Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy. The September sale showcases a diverse group of works by Cecily Brown, Christopher Wool, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Koons, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Andy Warhol, among others. An exemplary assortment of Latin American Post-War and Contemporary artists, ranging from Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez to Fernando Botero and Olga de Amaral, also highlight the sale. This season, Sothebys will present works on offer from the Museum of Contemporary Art ... More | | 
Mel Bochner (American, born 1940), Blah Blah Blah. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces the launch of coast to coast auctions both to be held on September 25 with the inaugural sale of Contemporary: Art, Editions & Design at Bonhams New York 10am EST and Made in California: Contemporary Art at Bonhams Los Angeles 10am PST. In addition, Bonhams New York will exhibit the art collection of Q-Tip, from the hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest. On public display for the very first time, the non-selling exhibition will take place September 20 to October 4 and will showcase works by Fab 5 Freddy and hard-hitting director Harmony Korine alongside artists such as Richard Prince Jeff Elrod, and Nina Chanel Abney. A separate press release will be available soon. Muys Snijders, Head of Post War & Contemporary, Americas, said: At Bonhams we aim to unite two very important art hubs in the United States by hosting contemporary auctions on the same day in both New York and Los Angeles, widening the spectrum a ... More |
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| | Christie's to auction Miles Davis's 'Moon and Stars' trumpet | | Neïl Beloufa's first solo exhibition at galerie kamel mennour opens in Paris | | Artificial Intelligence as good as Mahler? Austrian orchestra performs symphony with twist | 
A Martin Committee Trumpet in B Flat, Model T3460, by the Martin Co., circa 1980. Estimate: $70,000-100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces a trumpet designed and played by Miles Davis, one of the most significant jazz musicians of all time, will be offered in The Exceptional Sale on October 29 in New York. The Martin Committee Trumpet in B Flat, model T3460, by the Martin Co., was commissioned circa 1980 and features a deep blue lacquer and gilt crescent moon and stars, designed according to Daviss specifications (estimate: $70,000-100,000). The Moon and Stars trumpet is both a fine piece of craftsmanship and marks a crucial moment in Daviss career, as he made his long-awaited return to music. In a performing and recording career of almost fifty years Miles Davis produced many critically acclaimed albums and Kind of Blue, recorded in just two sessions in 1959, remains the best-selling jazz album of all time. Davis ... More | | 
Neïl Beloufa © Polly Thomas.
PARIS.- This is the story of a post-capitalist dehydrated camel who gets some young, dynamic fennecs to build a wall at the expense of the worker ants
Like the fable that accompanies it (a text that is at once a literary object, a fictional story, and an allegory), Neïl Beloufas first solo exhibition at galerie kamel mennour is a stratified choose-your-own-adventure. Engaging the proteoform possibilities that characterise his practice, Beloufa has sketched out a number of propositions with a single movement and within a single space, as if he were layering layers on Photoshop, copy-pasting incompatible aesthetics and theoretical discourses. The exhibition, a postdigital Bride Stripped Bare,1 displays an instability of meaning that requires of the viewer that she change the paradigm under which she relates to the works, which is no longer an authoritarian and/or democratic and/or participative configuration, ... More | | 
AI researcher and composer Ali Nikrang poses at the Ars Electronica on September 06, 2019 in Linz, Upper Austria. ALEX HALADA / AFP.
LINZ (AFP).- Can artificial intelligence turn out symphonies to match one of the greats of classical music? That was the question posed by one unusual orchestra performance in the Austrian city of Linz on Friday, in which Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No.10 was played -- immediately followed by six minutes of "Mahleresque" music written by software. The project's creator says that the two are clearly distinguishable but not everyone in the audience agreed. "I couldn't really feel the difference... I believe it was really well done," Maria Jose Sanchez Varela, 34, a science and philosophy researcher from Mexico, told AFP. The performance was part of Linz's Ars Electronica Festival, which aims to highlight connections between science, art and technology. The brains behind the pioneering performance was AI researcher ... More |
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| | Nasher Sculpture Center announces Michael Rakowitz as winner of the 2020 Nasher Prize | | Almine Rech Brussels opens a solo exhibition of works by Miquel Barceló | | 'Joker', Polanski win top prizes at Venice film festival | 
Michael Rakowitz. Photo: Daniel Asher Smith.
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center announces American artist Michael Rakowitz as the recipient of the 2020 Nasher Prize. Now in its fifth year, the Nasher Prize is an international award for sculpture, established to honor a living artist who elevates the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities. Rakowitz will be presented with an award designed by Renzo Piano, architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, at a ceremony in Dallas on April 4, 2020. Since his career began in the late 1990s, Michael Rakowitzs dynamic body of work has involved intensive research, resulting in an array of objects, environments, films, and publications that seek to reclaim, reposition or refocus complicated aspects of material and cultural histories or events. He has especial interest in refugee and migrant populations, particularly from the Middle East. Often durational in nature, his projects frequently enlist the participation ... More | | 
Miquel Barceló, Collar i cucurutxos, 2019. Ceramic. 101 x 69 x 50 cm 39 3/4 x 27 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting a solo exhibition by Miquel Barceló. The following text, written by Olivier Berggruen, elaborates upon the themes and works included in the exhibition: In the late nineteen-eighties Miquel Barceló traveled throughout the West African Dogon Country. During the course of his nomadic wanderingsamidst the immensity of the land, a harsh sun whose rays projected an intensity that enveloped all thingshe was struck by the pottery made by local women. There was a miraculous quality to these ceramics, forged in a land seemingly inhospitable to creation. For Barceló, they evoked the passage of time and the transformation of elements, from water to clay, not unlike ancient Andalusian vessels ravaged by time. Whether in painting, drawing, ceramics, or bronze sculpture, ... More | | 
US director Todd Phillips (R), flanked by US actor Joaquin Phoenix, holds the Golden Lion award for Best Film he received for the movie "Joker" during the awards ceremony winners photocall of the 76th Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2019 at Venice Lido. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
VENICE.- "Joker", a daring take on the comic book villain starring Joaquin Phoenix, won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice film festival Saturday with Roman Polanski controversially taking second prize. US director Todd Phillips -- best known up to now for the slapstick comedy "Very Bad Trip" -- paid tribute to Phoenix's intense performance, saying he was "the fiercest, bravest and most open-minded lion that I know. "Thank you for trusting me with your insane talents," he said. The movie, which The Guardian had described as "one of the boldest Hollywood productions for some time", has already sparked a heated debate. And there were audible gasps when French-Polish director Polanski ... More |
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| | The REACH at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens to the public | | Fergus McCaffrey | | Marlborough commemorates the 50th anniversary of Joe Zucker's 100-Foot-Long Piece | 
The design for The REACH merges architecture with the landscape to expand the dimensions of a living memorial. Photo: Richard Barnes.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opened to the public on September 7. Conceived as a nexus of arts, learning, and culture, the REACH provides the public and artists new and wide-ranging opportunities to fully engage with the performing arts. Designed by Steven Holl Architects with BNIM, the REACH is the first-ever expansion in the Kennedy Center's 48-year history. It transforms the Kennedy Center into an inviting landscape open to the surrounding city and riverfront. As a living memorial for President John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts takes an active position among the great presidential monuments in Washington, D.C. Through public events and stimulating art, the Kennedy Center offers a place where the community can engage and interact with artists across the full spectrum of the creative process. The ... More | | 
From Yokosuka Third Position, 1982/1988. Gelatin silver print, 41 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches (105 x 76.9 cm) Framed: 48 x 36 1/2 inches (121.9 x 92.7 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey is presenting Ishiuchi Miyakos representation by the gallery with an exhibition that encompasses over 70 photographs from five series made over four decades, including many early and never-before-seen works. The exhibition occupies both floors of the 26th Street location and the gallerys architecture and color scheme have been carefully modified and updated by Ishiuchi. This presentation is the artists largest gallery exhibition to date and the first since her celebrated retrospective at The J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 2015. Ishiuchis strength is her self-taught affinity for exposing a universal vulnerability that speaks to our mortality, giving voice to unspoken history and oppressed emotion, and granting nobility and status to her subjects. She was born in 1947 in Kiryū, a town approximately sixty miles northwest of Tokyo. In 1953, Ishiuchis family moved to Yokosu ... More | | 
Joe Zucker, 100-Foot-Long Piece, 1968-1969. Mixed media, 96 x 816 in. / 243.8 x 2,072.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough, New York and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough commemorates the 50th anniversary of New York artist Joe Zuckers 100-Foot- Long Piece with an exhibition of this landmark multi-panel work, created in 1968-1969. This masterwork, exhibited here with a large body of related archival material, comprises a blueprint for Zuckers long and diverse practice. It plants a flag for the artists ongoing inventiveness, irony, and eclecticism. With the creation of this work, Zucker presents the viewer with a puzzle-like, encyclopedic visual vocabulary, anticipating subsequent pictorial and conceptual approaches such as New Image, Neo-Expressionism, Appropriation, Neo Geo, as well as more recent process- based abstraction, with a self-referential, wry regard for the embedded, associative meaning of his imagery and materials. 100-Foot-Long Piece is a linear aggregate in which gestural abstraction rubs elbows with hard edged ... More |
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 New York pop-up celebrates 25th anniversary of 'Friends'NEW YORK (AFP).- Central Perk's famous orange sofa, Chandler and Joey's reclining leather armchairs and Phoebe's guitar: all are on display at an exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of the hit sitcom "Friends." The pop-up exhibit opened in New York on Saturday as part of celebrations marking a quarter of a century since the first episode aired on NBC, and runs until October 6. It is also a way for Warner Bros to cash-in on the comedy series' seemingly never-ending popularity, 15 years after the last episode was broadcast in May 2004. "It's like a museum. The amount of details, of props, and just the craftsmanship that has gone into this event is astounding," said James Michael Tyler, who played Gunther, the timid waiter in love with Rachel. The studio has recreated the set in a huge loft in Soho, Manhattan, almost exactly. Everything from the furniture ... More  Zoe Buckman's first solo show with Fort Gansevoort opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort is presenting Zoë Buckman, Heavy Rag. Buckmans first solo show with the gallery is explicitly linked to womens work. Culled from deeply personal experience, the exhibition embraces the domestic archetype by balancing an ambiguity between vulnerability and strength. Occupying the three floors of the gallery, the bodies of work are interconnected by the manifestation of the artists relationship to physical spacesthe home, her mothers kitchen table, the boxing gym. After learning of her mothers terminal diagnosis, Buckman began to employ a variety of techniques and materials traditionally adorned by women; embroidered tea towels, quilting and pottery. The works which take form as misshapen tea cups, clusters of boxing gloves, and framed flatworks are intrinsically referential to the bodily form; all at once unveiling ... More  Bruneau & Co. announces highlights of mid-century modern auctionCRANSTON, RI.- An eclectic Mid-Century Modern auction featuring quality items pulled from estates across New England including art glass, lighting, figures, bronzes, furniture by several designers and much more is planned for Saturday, September 14th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the firms Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue, at 12 noon Eastern. The event is officially being called an MCM (Mid-Century Modern), Art & Decor Auction. In all, 361 lots will come up for bid. Online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com, bidLIVE.Bruneauandco.com, or by downloading the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes or GooglePlay. Telephone and absentee bids will also be taken. There is always a special flare when it comes to putting together a specialty auction, said Bruneau & Co. president ... More  Architectural sculpture in clay: Adam Silverman shows new work at The Cooper Union NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Adam Silverman exhibits a new series of works in Eight Tide Jars at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. On view September 5 through September 26 in the 7th Floor Lobby of The Cooper Unions Foundation Building, the site specific installation highlights Silvermans unique and personal work which is influenced by his architectural training and his interest in process, materials, form, and structure. Architecture is part of my DNA, and I have always been influenced and inspired by the work of Le Corbusier, Tadao Ando, and other late modernists who focused on the materialty and experientially of architecture, says Silverman. Known for his work that varies from more traditional functional pots to unique, abstract sculptures to ambitious installations, the works in Eight Tide Jars feature ... More  Bender Gallery features paintings by up and coming Chicago artist Michael HedgesASHEVILLE, NC.- Bender Gallery a leading international fine art gallery in the southeast is presenting the exhibition "Balanced Solutions" featuring paintings by up and coming Chicago artist Michael Hedges. The exhibition opened on 7 September and will continue through 30 September, 2019. The exhibition creates a platform for the rational discussion of the interaction of spatially placed colors and lines and how their interpretation may effect emotion. At first glance Hedges paintings appear totally random but upon closer contemplation a structure reveals itself to the viewer. The first effect is not one of confusion but a deepening desire to explore the painting. This is due to the balance of the underlying structure and strategic and strong placement of color throughout the work. This does not simply happen but is planned out and adjusted as Hedges goes ... More  Matthew Porter's first solo exhibition in Belgium opens at Baronian XippasBRUSSELS.- Baronian Xippas is presenting Scenic, Matthew Porters (b. 1975, Pennsylvania, US) first solo exhibition in Belgium. The exhibition consists of two parts and enables the visitor to discover the many facets of Porters artistic practice. In the 2 rue Isidore Verheyden space, photographs from his flying cars series are displayed alongside a new series inspired by current events. Across the street in the 33 Rue de la Concorde space, a selection of other works from ongoing projects and older series are on view. Matthew Porters artistic practice is multifaceted, and his pictures are often permeated with multiple historical and cultural references. In his compositions, various elements coexist side by side, be it within the same image, or from one image to the next in a series of meticulously edited photographs. He moves between digital and analog processes ... More  'Making art public: 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects' opens at the Art Gallery of New South WalesSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales and Kaldor Public Art Projects announced the launch of the major exhibition Making art public: 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects. Recognising the legacy of Kaldor Public Art Projects as a ground-breaking public art organisation, the exhibition is part of a year-long 50th anniversary celebration. Created by acclaimed British artist Michael Landy, the exhibition is both the 35th Kaldor Public Art Project and an unconventional retrospective of half a century of large-scale public art projects. For Making art public, Landy has surveyed the archives, documentation and remnant materials of the past 34 projects as well as the memories of those who encountered them, reimagining each project in new and surprising forms within the architecture of an oversized archive box. As part of the 50th anniversary program, Kaldor ... More  The Huntington updates name, adds "Museum" to better reflect mission and programsSAN MARINO, CA.- The institution formerly known as The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has changed its name to The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The change from "collections" to "museum" was made to more accurately describe the institution's mission and programs, said Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence. Our art collections are more than a group of catalogued objects; they are carefully curated, interpreted, and exhibited for scholarship, education, and the broader public, Lawrence said, making the announcement at todays Centennial Celebration launch event at The Huntington. An added benefit to this change is that we become more discoverable, particularly in online searches. This is important as we work to widen our audiences and accessibility. ... More  Qing Dynasty elephant censer among prized lots in Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Asian Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- An enamel and gilt bronze censer from the Qing Dynasty is expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction Sept. 9-10 in New York. The sale includes numerous lots from private American collections. This is a good auction with a wide variety of privately sourced materials from many periods in Chinese history, Heritage Auctions Asian Art Director Richard Cervantes said. The range of artwork here represented will capture the interest and satisfy collectors of Asian Art in virtually every category. A Chinese Imperial Cloisonné Enamel and Cabochon-Mounted Gilt Bronze Elephant Censer, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period (estimate: $50,000-70,000) comes from a prominent Southern California family of discerning art collectors. The family has owned it for roughly half a century, since acquiring it during the 1960s. ... More  kaufmann repetto opens a solo exhibition by Lily van der StokkerNEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Exhibition of the Medicines, a solo exhibition by Lily van der Stokker. Following four solo exhibitions with the gallery in Milan, this exhibition is the artists first with kaufmann repettos New York location and is the inaugural exhibition since the gallerys relocation to 55 Walker Street in Tribeca. Lily van der Stokker has been making immersive artworks in the form of wallpainting-based installations since the 1980s, at which time she also operated an art gallery in New Yorks East Village sharing a street with such influential programs as Colin de Lands Vox Populi and Pat Hearns eponymous gallery. In their immediate delivery, van der Stokkers works beckon happy-go-lucky intonations in their fanciful, feminine, curlicued and flower-powered familiarity. Their formal bubbled, blobby, and loopy approachable techniques may recall the doodlings ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died September 08, 2019. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
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