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A woman passes by artworks during a press preview of the exhibition "Paris-Athenes. Naissance de la Grece moderne 1675-1919" at the Louvre museum in Paris on September 24, 2021. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS.- 2021 is the bicentenary year of two events: the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, traditionally dated to 25 March 1821, and the arrival at the Louvre of the Venus de Milo in the same month of the same year on 1 March 1821 following its discovery in April 1820. The proximity of these two events is rich in meaning. It raises the questions of the special place of ancient Greek art in the Louvres collections and the singular role of Greece in the construction of the cultural identity of Europe, and of France in particular. However, the fascination with Greek antiquity continues to obscure our knowledge of modern Greece, which the French began to rediscover from the 18th century onwards. The birth of the Greek nation in the 19th century was determined to a large extent by the development of scientific archaeology and by French and German ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on September 24, 2021 shows a rear view of the Gigahorse, one of several outlandish vehicles used in the 2015 dystopian blockbuster film "Mad Max: Fury Road", which is up for bids at Lloyds Auctions in Sydney. Saeed KHAN / AFP.
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| 111 Karsh photographs donated to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | | Matthew Marks opens an exhibition of new works on paper by Jasper Johns | | Hindman Auctions' Michelle Smith Couture Sale triples its estimated total & realizes over $614,000 |
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, June 12, 1957, silver gelatin print, 30.5 x 25.4 cm. MMFA, gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh.
MONTREAL.- Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh (19082002) is considered one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Estate of Yousuf Karsh and the artist's widow, Estrellita Karsh, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is the grateful recipient of 111 photographs created by the artist, which it is showcasing in the exhibition The World of Yousuf Karsh: A Private Essence from September 22, 2021 to January 30, 2022. These silver gelatin prints, mostly in large formats, many quite rare, were printed by the artist himself. For over 50 years in the last century, Yousuf Karsh's lens captured not only the essence of his subjects, but also their individual characters. This exhibition presents his famous images of political figures like Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, John F. ... More | |
Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2020. Graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is presenting Jasper Johns: New Works on Paper, now on view at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes eighteen drawings and seven prints made over the past two years. Johns employs a wide range of media in his new works on paper including oil, acrylic, graphite, watercolor, charcoal, and oil stick. Many of the drawings include a new image for Johns based on a map entitled Slice of the Universe, a copy of which the astrophysicist Margaret Geller sent to the artist in 2018 after seeing an earlier painting of his incorporating an image of a swirling galaxy. Johns has overlaid the red, blue, and green dots in the map, which represent neighboring galaxies, on top of an abstract pattern based on one of Leonardos knot drawings. All these drawings relate to Johnss latest painting titled Slice, 2020 included in the Whitney Museum of American Arts concurrent survey ... More | |
Sable Fur Blanket Lined with Gray Wool, Attributed to J. Mendel. Price Realized: $28,125.
CHICAGO, IL.- On September 21, Hindman Auctions A Life in Couture: The Collection of Michelle Smith, Washington, D.C. achieved $614,156 in sales, over triple than expected. The auction saw incredible engagement across more than 320 lots, and reached an extraordinary 99 percent sell-through rate. Exceptional J. Mendel furs and garments by Ralph Rucci, who custom designed many items for Smith, were among top lots. This offering from the collection of renowned Washington, D.C. philanthropist included garments by distinguished designers and illustrated Smiths carefully curated selection of outstanding designs spanning more than 50 years. We were delighted to see the way in which buyers responded to this singular collection of couture from such a trailblazing woman, Hindmans Director and Senior Specialist of Couture and Luxury Accessories Timothy Long shared. From the furs to the shoes to ... More |
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| Exhibition reveals the life, genius and legacy of the 'Michelangelo of Wood' | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art receives gift of contemporary lacquerware by artist Chung Haecho | | 'Picasso, Shared and Divided: The Artist and His Image in East and West Germany' opens at Museum Ludwig |
Grinling Gibbons after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt oil on canvas, based on a work of circa 1690 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
COMPTON VERNEY.- The remarkable life and legacy of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is being celebrated at Compton Verney, as part of a year-long series of events to commemorate the tercentenary of the most renowned British woodcarver of the 17th century, often called the Michelangelo of Wood. The exhibition, Centuries in the Making - produced in partnership with the Grinling Gibbons Society - reveals the life, genius and legacy of this legendary sculptor and craftsman, who died on 3 August 1721. Arguably the greatest carver in British history, Grinling Gibbons legacy over the past 300 years has been to inspire craftsmanship and carving from his contemporaries to modern-day makers. Gibbons remains a potent symbol of inspiration and achievement. He carved with an unsurpassed realism that could literally fool the eye. A fine example of which is a limewood cravat (c.1690, V&A) once owned by Sir Horace Walpole. Exquisitely carved ... More | |
First Lady of the Republic of Korea, Kim Jung-sook, speaking at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on September 20, 2021. Photo by Paula Lobo. Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- The South Korean government has presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Art a gift of an exceptional work by one of the leading lacquer artists in Korea, Chung Haecho. The gift was offered in a private ceremony held at the Museum on Monday, September 20, that featured remarks by the First Lady of the Republic of Korea, Kim Jung-sook; the countrys Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Hwang Hee; and the Korean pop music group BTS, recently appointed as "special presidential envoy for future generations and culture" by President Moon Jae-in. We are deeply grateful to the South Korean government for their continued support of The Mets efforts to showcase Koreas incredibly rich culture and artistic legacy, said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. Chung Haechos exquisite work is a meaningful addition to our holdings of Korean lacquerware and illustrates ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Kopf einer lesenden Frau, 1953. Museum Ludwig, Cologne © Succession Picasso/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne.
COLOGNE.- What do we associate with Pablo Picasso? And what associations with him did the German people have in mind during the post-war years, when he was at the height of his fame? Far more than we do: This is the main idea of the exhibition, which reveals a forgotten breadth, tension, and productivity of these appropriations. It deals not only with the artist, but with his audience, which interpreted Picassos art in very different ways in the capitalist West and in the socialist East. The German Picasso was divided, but this division also stimulated the reception: Because everyone questioned his art, it had something to say for everyone. The exhibition features political works, such as the painting Massacre in Korea (1951) from the Musée Picasso in Paris. These are shown alongside some 150 exhibits that reflect the impact of Picassos work: exhibition views, posters, catalogues, press reports, letters, files, films, ... More |
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| 'Linda Fantuzzo: Penumbra' opens at the Morris Museum of Art | | Dystopia, BLM themes emerge at Art Basel fair | | Christie's partners with Radiohead's Thom Yorke to present artworks by Stanley Donwood |
Linda Fantuzzo, Long Way Out, 2019 (detail). Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist.
AUGUSTA, GA.- A master of atmosphere, mood, and light, famed Charleston artist Linda Fantuzzo is represented by more than twenty paintings drawn from her most recent body of work in a new exhibition Linda Fantuzzo: Penumbra. It is on view at the Morris Museum of Art from September 25 through December 12, 2021. The landscape and interior paintings and drawings in this exhibition are rendered with a quiet, abstracted simplicity. The inclusion of stairs, ladders, windows, and doors suggests an unseen yet palpable human presence. The title Penumbra, a term that means a space of partial illumination, references lights transitions. In these works Fantuzzo connects the literal transitions of light to the metaphorical transitions and impermanence of the human experience. The work in the present exhibition is rendered with a quiet simplicity, while the inclusion of stairs, ladders, windows, and doors in many of them suggests an ... More | |
Jonathan Lyndon Chase © Art Basel.
by Nathalie Olof-Ors
BASEL.- Dystopia and Black Lives Matter feature prominently at Art Basel, the world's top contemporary art fair, which throws open its doors to the public this weekend. The giant annual fair in the Swiss city of Basel is above all a commercial event, where artists and galleries come to meet wealthy collectors. But the fair is also very popular with art lovers who come for the simple pleasure of browsing the works on show. Some 93,000 visitors came through the doors during the 2019 edition, with last year's event having been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Art Basel exhibits major works every year in a section where paintings, sculptures and installations are grouped together for sale to museums and large collections. Among the 2021 highlights are a canvas by the Guyanese-British artist Frank Bowling, a large painting by Britain's David Hockney or Swiss artist Urs ... More | |
Stanley Donwood, Residential Nemesis, 1999 (detail). Estimate: £10,000-15,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies will present work by the artist Stanley Donwood, who has created the cover art for Radioheads ground-breaking albums since The Bends in 1996. The six paintings will be on display at Christies headquarters in London from 9 to 15 October 2021, alongside drawings, lyrics and digital art curated by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, who initially met at Exeter University. The paintings by Donwood will be offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art, online for global bidding from 5 to 19 October 2021. The series of dystopian landscapes were made in the period 1999-2001, and closely related to the final cover and sleeve art for Kid A, originally released by the band on 2 October 2000, marking its 21st anniversary. Donwoods series continued with the release of Amnesiac (2001). While working on each album sleeve, Donwood immersed himself ... More |
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| Orange County Museum of Art announces eight new trustees | | Galerie Templon Paris presents an exhibition of works by artist Robin Kid | | Overlooked no more: Remedios Varo, Spanish painter of magic, mysticism and science |
Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Linda Maggart graduated from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, earning a BS in Economics and graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.
COSTA MESA, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art announced today the addition of eight new trustees: Barbara Bluhm-Kaul, Phillip J. Bond, Idit Ferder, Sean Green, Linda P. Maggard, Cheryl Kiddoo, Robert Olson and Lucy Sun. They have joined the board under the leadership of CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman, who came to OCMA in February 2021. In October 2022, the museum will open in its new home: a building at Segerstrom Center for the Arts designed by Morphosis under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and Partner-in-Charge Brandon Welling. The new trustees bring a range of philanthropic and professional expertise that will add fresh perspectives to the museum as the institution enters a new era. A long-time champion of Southern Californias most adventurous artists, with a reputation that resonates far beyond the region, OCMA is now doubling in size with its new building, ... More | |
It Is All Your Fault IX - Robin Kid aka THE KID - Oil on canvas, aluminum wall relief - H 239,5 x W 198,5 x D 4.2 cm - H 94,3 x W 78,1 x D 1.7 inches © Robin Kid aka THE KID - Courtesy artist and TEMPLON - Gallery view
PARIS.- For the first time at Galerie Templon Paris, the artist Robin Kid (a.k.a. THE KID) presents in the Grenier-Saint-Lazare space, a new exhibition titled Its All Your Fault. In a world turned down, the true become a moment of the false. --Guy Debord, The Society Of The Spectacle (1967) « Rising nationalism, lockdowns, riots in the streets, five million likes for a cat playing the piano, Coronavirus, killings by police, Man going to Mars, cancel culture, kids locked up in cages, un-repairable climate change, re-runs of the Muppets and a Muppet already re-running for president in four years... We get news delivered to the palm of our hands 24/7. And we get it the way we like it, colored the way we want it. And the news is awful, overwhelming and desensitizing us. Infotainment is popping up über alles blurring cultural lines between truth and fiction, information ... More | |
Remedios Varo, Roulotte, 1955.
by Julia Bozzone
NEW YORK, NY.- In the opening of Thomas Pynchons postmodern novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), tears stream down the face of his protagonist, Oedipa Maas, as she takes in a surrealist painting of a number of frail girls with heart-shaped faces who appear to be prisoners in the top room of a circular tower. The girls are embroidering a kind of tapestry that streams out of the windows. The scene is fictional, but the piece is not: It is Embroidering the Earths Mantle (1961) by Remedios Varo, a Spanish painter who immigrated to Mexico City during World War II. In elaborately detailed, often allegorical paintings, Varo depicted convent schoolgirls embarking on strange adventures; androgynous, ascetic figures absorbed in scientific, musical or artistic discovery; and solitary women some of whom resembled the slender, striking Varo herself having a transcendent experience. Her style was reminiscent of Renaissance art in its exquisite ... More |
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Rana Hamadeh presents a new stage of her evolving animation film Standard_Deviation at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- Rana Hamadehs works are characterized by engulfing delirious sonic and visual environments. She has been developing an operatic practice, experimenting with writing and composing, and testing models for collective (and artificially-extended) forms of thinking and study. In thematic terms, her work is dedicated to an ongoing scrutiny of the epistemologies and technologies of justice. To this end, it examines tropes of violence that find their genealogies in the linguistic, legal, and theatrical infrastructures shaping our understandings of justice. At the Secession, Hamadeh presents a new stage of her evolving animation film Standard_Deviation. The film, which was developed in close cooperation ... More
Foam opens an exhibition of the brilliant but forgotten work of Shigeru Onishi
AMSTERDAM.- Foam is presenting the brilliant but forgotten work of Shigeru Onishi (1928-1994). Onishi graduated in topology at the University of Hokkaido in 1953, after which he began applying his mathematical theories to photography. Although he abandoned photography after 1957, he did produce a short-lived but extraordinarily body of work with which he distanced himself from other movements and ideas in the Japanese photography of his time. In his photographs, Shigeru Onishi attempts to transcend time and space: his photographs present multiple moments brought together in a single image. He disregarded all the rules of the darkroom. For instance, he 'painted' the photographic emulsion onto the photo paper with a brush, deliberately creating irregularities in the development of the image. He used acids to cause deliberate ... More
Sydney Contemporary reschedules to September 2022 and introduces digital Fair with more than 1800 artworks
SYDNEY.- Australasias premier art fair, Sydney Contemporary, today announced it will present a digital edition of 2021 Fair from 11 - 21 November due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 restrictions. Providing crucial support for the arts community, Explore Sydney Contemporary will feature 1,800 artworks by more than 450 artists hailing from countries including Australia, China, England, France, Ghana, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand, alongside a digital public program to be announced in the coming weeks. Sydney Contemporary Founder Tim Etchells said: When rescheduling the physical Fair to the November 2021 dates, we genuinely believed that we could run the Fair as we had always ... More
BRAFA 2022 will welcome 134 art galleries on site
BRUSSELS.- The organisers of the BRAFA Art Fair announced the list of their confirmed exhibitors for the upcoming fair, which will take place from January 23rd-30th at the Tour & Taxis venue in Brussels. There will be 134 participants from 14 countries, providing a good balance between established partner galleries and newcomers, all with the same ambition of presenting the finest pieces from their respective categories, whether ancient, modern or contemporary art. As with every edition of the fair, BRAFA will offer an innovative selection, especially by means of the new participating galleries. The newcomers fall into two categories: those who had already participated in the BRAFA in the Galleries 2021 initiative (9 galleries), and those for whom this will be their first participation (another 9 galleries). These 18 new participants represent 13.5% of the galleries ... More
Smart data sculpture by first Plinth Award winner, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, installed at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
LONDON.- Fabio Lattanzi Antinoris sculpture The Cost of Your Words has been installed at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford as part of the prestigious First Plinth Award presented by The Royal Society of Sculptors. The First Plinth: Public Art Award is designed to offer sculptors an opportunity to extend their practice into public art commissions. Lattanzi Antinori was chosen for this award in 2019 and granted £10,000 to produce a large-scale sculpture for the sculpture terrace at Dora House before moving to a second site at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This is the first time The Royal Society of Sculptors has partnered with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to support the First Plinth Award and Lattanzi ... More
New work by Lorna May Wadsworth goes on display at Chester Cathedral
CHESTER.- Two paintings, including one never before seen in public, by the renowned portrait artist Lorna May Wadsworth have gone on display as part of ground-breaking new exhibition at Chester Cathedral, running until 30 October. Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions features over 50 paintings - including pieces by Wadsworth, Mark Cazalet and Peter Eugene Ball, along with African and Chinese sculptures, plus Orthodox icons - and aims to challenge the Western depiction of Jesus Christ and his followers. Many of the works have been collected from churches across the UK by Chester Cathedrals Canon Precentor, Jeremy Dussek and curated by the Art and Design Department of the University of Chester. Forming the centrepiece of the exhibition is Wadsworths famous depiction of the Last Supper (A Last Supper, 2009) showing ... More
UA View creates world map of Ukrainian artists
NEW YORK, NY.- This online UA View guide is a geo-tagged interactive map pinpointing the activities of prominent Ukrainian artists working in different parts of the world, including any related made in Ukraine arts-related phenomena. At uaview.ui.org.ua you can check out the bios and notable creations of a host of Ukrainian artists. On the social media side there are also UA View pages on both Facebook and Instagram. Putting the Ukraine Everywhere program together, we felt it was important to document the impact of Ukrainians on world history and their contributions to the culture of countries and communities around the globe. The UA View project will allow audiences not familiar with our country to learn about Ukrainian cultural contributions in an accessible way. Were also looking to bring together a community of Ukrainians ready to tell ... More
Climate emergency in focus in new displays at the National Museum of Scotland
EDINBURGH.- Two new displays at the National Museum of Scotland explore the impact of climate change and the technological response in Scotland to the climate emergency. Scotlands Climate Challenge examines Scottish innovations which seek to mitigate the impact of industry on our climate through the use of alternative sources of energy by showing a range of leading-edge equipment, much of it newly collected, alongside samples of natural material. It also profiles some of those working in associated industries, such as Dr Faisal Ghani, whose pioneering invention, the SolarisKit has won awards for its contribution to lowering carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty in the developing world. Ellie Swinbank, Technology Curator at National Museums Scotland, said: Scotlands Climate Challenge highlights the exciting work being ... More
Fine French Bordeaux, Alphonse Mucha, and Chinese antiques made September a banner month at Michaan's Auctions
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans final quarter of 2021 got off to a rollicking start in September, with sales from three auction events achieving a combined total of more than $850,000. At the Estates and Collections sale held on Friday, September 17, a Chinese antique theatrical diorama, as well as fine American and European art, topped the highlights. Saturday, September 18 brought the monthly Gallery Auction, where fine French wines, jadeite jade jewelry, and rare gold coins sought by collectors ignited fiery competitions between live and remote bidders alike. Kicking off this string of exciting sales was Michaans monthly Annex Auction, which has expanded to three days duration to support its growing size and enduring ... More
Far-out fleet from Mad Max up for sale in Australia
SYDNEY.- If you need a ride fast enough to outpace the apocalypse, a rare auction in Australia is selling a menacing fleet of vehicles from "Mad Max: Fury Road" for any aspiring desert warrior. Whether you're a would-be marauder or just want to raise eyebrows at the drive-through window, the sale of 13 vehicles from the 2015 dystopian blockbuster has the goods. "The first time I saw them, I'm pretty sure I heard one of the cars saying: 'I need to be driven in anger,'" curator Geoff McKew of Lloyds Auctions told AFP in Sydney. Among the vehicles is the gargantuan War Rig -- a hulking tanker driven by Charlize Theron's character Furiosa -- and the Razor Cola, which went up against Tom Hardy's "Mad" Max Rockatansky. With offers closing on Sunday, the current owners will only sell all 13 together in an effort to preserve a piece of film history. "They ... More
Roger Michell, director of 'Notting Hill,' is dead at 65
NEW YORK, NY.- Roger Michell, the British theater and film director best known for Notting Hill, the wildly popular 1999 romantic comedy that somewhat overshadowed the rest of his extensive and diverse body of work, died Wednesday. He was 65. His family announced his death in a statement released by his publicist. The statement did not say where he died or what the cause was. Michells first film, a 1995 adaptation of Jane Austens novel Persuasion, caught the eye of screenwriter Richard Curtis, who had scored a major success with Four Weddings and a Funeral the year before. Curtis was looking for someone to direct his next screenplay, about a humble London bookseller who falls in love with a movie star. Although he found the idea of trying to match a blockbuster like Four Weddings and a Funeral to be daunting, Michell said yes ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault was born September 26, 1791. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament while recognizing his talent. In this image: Géricault. Images of Life and Death. Exhibition view© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2013 Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
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