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A visitor poses in front of the Throne Room in the Palace of Many Splendors, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Reign (1735 1796), during the official opening of the Acropolis Museums rare temporary exhibition from the forbidden city: imperial apartments of Qianlong in Athens on September 14, 2018. The rare exhibition at the Acropolis Museum showcases over 150 works of art, ceremonial robes and furniture from the Qing emperor's private apartments in the Palace of Many Splendors at Beijing's Forbidden City, where he spent his youth as a prince, and wrote poetry. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- The private apartments of 18th-century Emperor Qianlong, one of the most renowned rulers in Chinese history, went on display in Athens Friday in a rare exhibition, organisers said. The exhibition at the Acropolis Museum showcases over 150 works of art, ceremonial robes and furniture from the Qing emperor's private apartments in the Palace of Many Splendors at Beijing's Forbidden City, where he spent his youth as a prince, and wrote poetry. These include Qianlong's heated bed, his study, ritual dress, poetic texts, thrones, and theatrical costumes from private performances at the palace. "It is the largest Chinese exhibition ever hosted in Greece," Acropolis museum director Dimitris Pantermalis said this week, adding that Qianlong's rooms have never been displayed outside China. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exterior of the new V&A (Victoria and Albert) Dundee museum, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, is pictured during a press preview for its opening in Dundee, east Scotland, on September 12, 2018. Andy Buchanan / AFP
| Exhibition explores early 20th-century American culture's love affair with technology and mechanization | | Exhibition at Museum Ludwig includes more than 120 paintings by Gabriele Münter | | Christie's Asian Art Week sales total $34.7 million | 
Gerald Murphy, Watch, 1925 (detail), oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of the artists, 1963.75.FA, © Estate of Honoria Murphy DonnellyLicensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents the first large-scale traveling exhibition in over 20 years to look at early 20th-century American cultures love affair with technology and mechanization that influenced architecture, design, and the visual arts. Hailed as illuminating upon its opening at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art captures that other era when Americans were obsessed with new technology. The DMA is the only other venue to present this well-received and revealing exhibition that includes 14 superb examples of Precisionist painting, photography, and silver work from its permanent collection by such well-known masters as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Gerald Murphy, Paul Strand, Walter Dorwin Teague, and William Waldo Dodge, Jr. On view from September 16, 2018, through January 6, 2019, Cult of the Machine features ... More | | 
Gabriele Münter, Knabenkopf (Willi Blab), 1908. Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, München © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo: Simone Gänsheimer, Ernst Jank, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München.
COLOGNE.- Gabriele Münter (18771962) was a central figure of German Expressionism and the Blue Rider artist group, which was founded at Münters house in Murnau. Her role as a dedicated proponent, mediator, and longtime companion of Wassily Kandinsky is well known and recognized. This exhibition demonstrates Gabriele Münters importance and independence as a painter: with more than 120 paintings, including works from her estate that are being presented to the public for the first time, it offers a new look at this strong artist. Münter is one of the few women who played an early role in developing modernism. Her openness and willingness to experiment as a painter, photographer, and graphic artist is now being presented in detail for the first time. Her well-known paintings include portraits of figures such as Marianne von Werefkin and Kandinsky as well as romantic landscapes of her adopted home in Bavaria. ... More | | 
Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009), Diagonal XV. Oil on canvas, 66 x 51 in. (167.6 x 129.5 cm.) Painted in 1975. Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000. Sold for $1,392,500 © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Asian Art Week sales realized USD $34,720,750 (£26,675,519 / 29,866,683 / HK$271,268,652) with 78% sold by lot. Deep bidding was witnessed from Greater China across all categories and there was active participation from registered bidders across more than 37 countries with representation from five continents. The top lot of the week was a grey limestone figure of Mahasthamaprapta, early Tang dynasty, 8th century, which sold for $3,252,500, more than doubling its low estimate. High prices were also realized across the thematic collecting sales with Fine Chinese Jade Carvings from Private Collections and Masterpieces of Cizhou Ware: The Linyushanren Collection, Part IV more than doubling their overall low estimates and The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part VI achieving 100% sold by lot and value. Notable results were achieved for South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, led by a ... More |
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| A very singular exhibition of Johan Creten's "Alfred Paintings" on view at Perrotin New York | | Christie's to offer Italian architect-designed masterworks of the 20th century | | The Royal Academy of Arts opens first comprehensive survey of Renzo Pianos career | 
Johan Creten, Two Green Lovers (Alfred Painting 2), 2013. Honey colored transparent Tang glaze over marbleized high-fire stoneware reinforced, two green cast glass elements, h. 46.5 à L. 36.5 à l. 8 cm | h. 18 1/4 à l. 14 1/4 à w. 3 1/8 in © CRETEN / ARS, New York 2018. Courtesy the artist & Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- A precursor of the renewal of ceramics in contemporary art, Johan Creten is a key player on the international scene, as demonstrated by his participation in many international exhibitions featuring his work, from the US to Turkey via the Netherlands, France and Italy, among others. Following in the footsteps of Della Robbia, Paul Gauguin and Lucio Fontana, and standing alongside Thomas Schütte and Karel Appel, the work of Johan Creten fraternizes with many antecedents and is an invitation to redraw a fruitful genealogy, one that is particularly attentive to raw materials earth, air and fire. With his Alfred Paintings, the Flemish artist reached new heights, like a tightrope walker making his way between sculpture and painting, between the earth and the sky. Revealed for the first time with ... More | | 
The auction presents an extremely rare and hitherto unseen Red and Black Laccati bowl, 1940, by Carlo Scarpa. Estimate: £60,000 - £80,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- This October, Christies will present the auction Thinking Italian: Design, offering a variety of architect-designed works to include glass, ceramics, furniture and lighting from the most sought-after Italian designers of the 20th century, a selection of which will be exhibited in King Street during the London Design Festival, from 15-20 September. Held alongside the Design auction on 17 October in London, this various-owner sale draws together rarely-seen works from important collections, and features seminal pieces of Italian design including a rare and important chair by Carlo Mollino that was gifted to Gio Pontis daughter Lisa Ponti for her wedding in 1950 (estimate: £200,000 - £300,000). Acknowledged as one of the most original creators of 20th century Italian architecture and design, Mollinos few remaining works are today preserved in international museums and private collections. With a distinctive bipartite ... More | | 
Italian architect Renzo Piano poses at his workshop in Paris, France. Photo: Francois Mori/AP/REX/Shutterstock.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting an exhibition of the internationally-renowned architect and Honorary Royal Academician Renzo Piano. This is the first comprehensive survey of Pianos career to be held in London since 1989, and is being presented in the new Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries in Burlington Gardens, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy. Renzo Piano (b.1937) is one of the worlds leading architects and his buildings have enriched cities and spaces across the globe. From designing the Centre Pompidou in Paris as a young architect with Richard Rogers, to projects including The Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Pianos work continues to pioneer ground-breaking architecture that touches the human spirit. In 1981 the architect founded the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), located in Paris, Genoa and New York, which, with a tea ... More |
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| Eye Filmmuseum opens exhibition of immersive audiovisual artworks by Ryoji Ikeda | | Morphy to auction pieces of history from iconic O'Connor Collection | | Christie's London announces a curated auction dedicated to modern and contemporary ceramics | 
Ryoji Ikeda, datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0], audiovisual concert, 2006-08 (detail) © Ryoji Ikeda. Photo by Ryuichi Maruo, courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM).
AMSTERDAM.- This autumn, Ryoji Ikeda, visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music, created a spectacular presentation specially for Eye. He filled the exhibition gallery with his overwhelmingly immersive audiovisual artworks, which are based on elementary phenomena such as silence, space, time and infinity. Ikedas work often depicts the invisible structures and data that shape our lives. In his mind-expanding art, Ikeda features images of pixels as well as the universe: the very smallest and the very biggest come together. A visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music, Ryoji Ikeda (born in 1966 in Giifu, Japan) is known for his overwhelming live performances and mind-expanding audiovisual installations. Ikeda is compiling a spectacular presentation ... More | | 
1763 Master Carver Attributed Powder Horn of Thomas Hooton.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions announced today its offering of the historic OConnor Americana Collection on September 26 in Denver, PA. Over 70 years in the making, Walter J. OConnors collection of historic artifacts and documents is comprised of items ranging from hand-drawn maps from the Revolutionary War, to letters signed by George Washington, and the worlds finest collection of 18th and 19th century engraved powder horns dating back to the French and Indian War and American Revolution. With OConnors complete collection available, historians worldwide will have the opportunity to own a piece of history and expand their collections. With over 200 lots available, highlights of the OConnor Americana Auction include: ● 1759 Engraved Powder Horn of Elijah Sharp, Fort Edward, Defiance to the Proud French ● Two of Five Known Powder Horns by ... More | | 
Highlights from Un/Breakable, a curated Evening Auction dedicated to Modern and Contemporary ceramics. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- As part of Frieze Week Christies will present Un/Breakable, a curated Evening Auction dedicated to Modern and Contemporary ceramics. Paul Gauguin was among the first modern artists to elevate the medium to the realm of high art. Recognising the mediums vitality, he strove to liberate it from the domestic world of ornament and decoration. For some artists as with Takuro Kuwata, who gives a postmodern twist to Japanese tradition, or Luigi Ontani, who dialogues with kitsch and Classical idioms ceramics allow a reframing of art history, and an exploration of where the decorative and the artistic intersect. In the 1980s, Julian Schnabel used broken plates to return to the heroic scale and physical ambition of Abstract Expressionist painting. Other artists, including Rosemarie Trockel and Nermin Kura, engage ... More |
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| Shelburne Museum launches New England Now, a new biennial series | | Almine Rech Gallery now represents Farah Atassi | | Exhibition of new works by Sharon Lockhart on view at Gladstone Gallery Brussels | 
Elke Morris, Mill Towns, 4, 2017. Archival pigment print, 22 x 32 in. Courtesy of Elke Morris.
SHELBURNE, VT.- New England Now, Shelburne Museums inaugural exhibition in a biennial series featuring contemporary artists organized around thematic subject matters, is on view from September 15, 2018 through January 13, 2019. New England Now challenges the notion of the Northeasts long-accepted stereotype as stagnant and quaint, and instead plumbs its evolving identities and complex beauty. Building upon scholarship on the visual construction of the region, this exhibition explores the contemporary landscape, capturing the changing environment. From disintegrating historic buildings and disappearing virgin land, New England Now reveals our evolving landscape. New England has long played a special role in the national imagination and as a proving ground for artists from the early 19th century to today, said Shelburne Museum Director, Tom Denenberg. As a premier institution contributing to New Englan ... More | | 
Portrait of Farah Atassi, 2018 / Photo: Rebecca Fanuele - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
LONDON.- Almine Rech Gallery announced the representation of Farah Atassi. Her first exhibition with the gallery will take place in June 2019 in New York. Paintings by Farah Atassi will be presented at Frieze London (booth A09) and FIAC Paris (booth 0.A20). Characterised by vibrantly coloured geometric shapes and plays on perspective, Farah Atassis paintings create imaginary yet inhabited spaces that, by means of their visual trickery confusing depth and imminence, are impossible to fully grasp. The artist employs two main, methodological building blocks: a meticulous collection of images and a masking tape grid laid out in order to systematise the patterns produced within the abandoned interiors or scenes akin to still lifes she depicts. Situated on the fringes of narration, her paintings mix textile patterns and motley mosaics, referencing Modernism and Folk Art in equal measure. In the artists own words what we are dealing ... More | | 
Sharon Lockhart, Nine Sticks in Nine Movements: Movement Four, 2018. Chromogenic print, 50 3/4 x 41 inches (128.8 x 103.8 cm) framed. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, Jan Mot, Brussels, and neugerriemschneider.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery Brussels is presenting Movements and Variations in Two Parts, an exhibition of new works by Sharon Lockhart spanning two neighboring locations: Gladstone Gallery and Jan Mot. The exhibition features a series of photographic and sculptural works that stem from Lockharts ongoing interest in portraiture, choreography, and the empowerment of women. Lockharts longstanding investment in place is evident both in the work presented and in the installation. The artist has spent years visiting the Sierra Nevada Mountains, often returning with manzanita, buckeye, and black walnut sticks which she presented as gifts to friends. These physical traces of the landscape gained symbolic form in her relationship with the girls of Rudzienko, with whom Lockhart collaborated for her presentation Little Review ... More |
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 K11 Art Foundation and Royal Academy of Arts announce a three-year partnershipLONDON.- K11 Art Foundation partnered with the Royal Academy of Arts for a three-year collaboration in the form of an artist-in-residence exchange programme. Within this programme, the institutions provide residencies for one Chinese artist to the Royal Academy and one RA Schools alumnus to China on a yearly basis. This will provide the RA Schools alumnus with the opportunity for local immersion across different cities in China, and provide Chinese artists with a strong, institutional platform. The first artist within the programme is Zhang Enli who has been in residence in the Life Room at the RA since August 2018 and is now showing his finished works. The next resident, RA Schools alumnus Paul Schneider, will travel to Shenyang in China for his residency with KAF in November 2018. Dedicated to fostering cross-cultural exchanges and incubating artistic ... More The FLAG Art Foundation opens an exhibition of Shandaken Projects' new program Paint SchoolNEW YORK, NY.- Shandaken Projects is presenting an exhibition of its new program Paint School, on view September 13-22, 2018, on the 9th floor of The FLAG Art Foundation. Paint School is a free master class in the theory and practice of painting produced by Shandaken Projects. This lecture-based program brings twelve fellows together with six individuals widely recognized as among the most exceptional painters working today, with the aim to enrich the discourse of contemporary painting through peer exchange. Applications for the next session of Paint School will open in mid-September. The Paint School exhibition features new work by members of the inaugural (2017-18) cohort including: Benny Merris, Caroline R Kent, Cynthia Daignault, Crys Yin, Gloria Maximo, Iman Raad, Jarrett Earnest, Lindsay Marie Burke, Matthew Dale Fischer, Morgan ... More Descanso Gardens explores L.A.'s relationship with water in "La Reina de Los Angeles"LA CAÃADA FLINTRIDGE, CA.- Without the Los Angeles River, there would quite simply be no Los Angeles. La Reina de Los Ãngeles, a new exhibit opening at Descanso Gardens Sturt Haaga Gallery on Sept. 17, will present a discussion of our current relationship with water, using the Los Angeles River as an entry point. Through contemporary art works, documentary films, historic materials and special programming, La Reina de Los Ãngeles will explore the history, infrastructure and community around this critical resource. The show is curated by artist and program director, Debra Scacco, and runs from September 17, 2018 January 13, 2019. The life of the Los Angeles River has been wild and unpredictable. While the precise geography is unknown, historians have estimated its changed course at least nine times in the first half of the nineteenth century ... More Spelman College Museum of Fine Art presents captivating series of self-portraits by Zanele MuholiATLANTA, GA.- Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is presenting the United States premiere of Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness, an internationally touring exhibition organized by Autograph, London and curated by Renée Mussai. In more than 70 photographs, visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972), whose pronouns are they, them, and their, uses their body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the visual archive. In Somnyama Ngonyama, which translates to Hail The Dark Lioness in isiZulu, one of the official languages of South Africa, Muholi playfully employs the conventions of classical painting, fashion photography, and the familiar tropes of ethnographic imagery to rearticulate contemporary identity politics. Spelmans presentation of this ongoing series of self-portraits ... More New exhibition by celebrated American photographer Todd Hido opens at Reflex Gallery in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam is presenting Bright Black World, a new exhibition by celebrated American photographer Todd Hido. This profoundly beautiful and arresting collection of images many of them unseen are the results of Hidos exploration of the northern hemisphere in the impenetrable depths of winter. The realities of climate change lurk behind in these images the threat of an eternal darkness looming large. The exhibition runs from 15 September to 17 November 2018. A special book of images, also titled Bright Black World, published by Nazraeli Press, will be presented at Unseen Photo Fair, 21-23 September 2018. A limited edition of two prints, and a copy of the book will be available at Reflex. Todd Hido will be signing copies of his book during the opening in the gallery on Saturday 15 September (5-7 pm) and at Unseen ... More Vienna's Secession opens exhibition of works by Anne SpeierVIENNA.- Many of Anne Speiers works document the distensions and deformations that objects and figures undergo in order to both understand and transcend the limitations of the meaning ascribed to them, their potentials and interrelations. Yet the artist also subjects the media she works with to such stretching. Aesthetic qualities are one way to defy certain expectations; absurdity and otherness are another. In her exhibition in the Secessions sublevel gallery, Speier intertwines painting and sculpture in a kind of utopian architecture, short-circuiting its spatial premises with its metaphorical purport. The show examines the challenges that teachers and students at art schools face along images and installations that limn psycho-emotional topographies. They counter the distrust of art education and the associated hierarchical understanding of aesthetic ... More Two open call exhibitions at Tai Kwun Contemporary showcase Hong Kong curatorsHONG KONG.- Tai Kwun Contemporary is showcasing Hong Kong curators through two open call exhibitions this season. Running from 15 September 2018 to 4 January 2019, Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry, and Our Everyday Our Borders are two art exhibitions presented by Hong Kong institutions and curated by local curators, in an initiative where Tai Kwun supports curatorial practice in Hong Kong. The open call for proposals was initially put forward by Tai Kwun back in November 2015. The programme welcomed a wide variety of local and overseas artists, curators, arts groups and organisations to participate, and the successful proposals will visualise the theme of Hong Kong contemporary art at the galleries of Tai Kwun. The exhibitions include Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry, presented by Short Hair Studio, and Our Everyday ... More bo.lee opens exhibition by Turner prize nominee and RA David Mach and Scottish RA Ade AdesinaLONDON.- bo.lee, in collaboration with JAMM Gallery, are presenting Signs of Life, an exhibition by Turner prize nominee and RA David Mach and recently appointed Scottish RA Ade Adesina. The artists met in Aberdeen in 2013 and immediately found common ground through their work, sharing an engagement with ecological, cultural, social and political issues. Their initial collaboration a linocut on a grand scale, was made in 2017 and was first exhibited at the Royal Academys prestigious Summer Exhibition the same year. For Signs of Life Mach and Adesina have worked individually and in partnership to continue their body of large scale works in collage and linocut. The intricate, multi-layered images depict epic imagined landscapes within which we witness the consequences of excessive consumption and rapid development on the environment. Mach draws on biblical ... More The Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its 15th anniversary with the launch of The Art Cycle Basket FairLONDON.- The Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year with the launch of an additional event the Art Cycle Basket Fair. The Art Cycle Basket Fair will run in an adjacent space to the main fair and involve artists bringing everything they need by bicycle, cargo bike or electric bike and will feature work by the art stars of the future, many of whom have been recommended by Art Car Boot Fair veterans such as Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Rachel Howard and Mat Collishaw. Both fairs will take place at Granary Square, Kings Cross, London on Sunday 16 September 2018, 12 6pm, on and around the piazza outside Central Saint Martins college of art. The venue has been made possible by the Kings Cross Central Limited Partnership. All of the artists will be personally pitching ... More Exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art covers forty years of Alan Charlton's practice LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art is presenting Alan Charlton: Grey Paintings which runs from 13th September 3rd November 2018 on both floors of the gallery. The exhibition covers forty years of Charltons practice with works from 1978 - 2018 and is presented in tandem with A Arte Invernizzi Gallery, Milan. Alan Charlton has, since the early 1970s, painted purely grey, abstract paintings. The choice of grey paint stems from Charltons desire to use a standard, industrial colour, linking to the industrial landscape of his childhood in Sheffield, but also the emotive qualities of the colour. Grey evokes industry, modernity, melancholy, depression but equally tranquillity, calm and the absence of any colour at all. Unwavering from this rigorous format has allowed Charlton to indefatigably explore the formal qualities of the canvas and to remain free ... More Howard Greenberg Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Jungjin LeeNEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of photographs by Jungjin Lee, known for her captivating primal landscapes, is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 12 through November 10, 2018. The exhibition, which marks Lees second solo show with the gallery, is entitled Opening. A book of the same name with work from 2013 to 2016 was published by Nazraeli Press last year. Traveling to Arizona, New Mexico, and Canada, Lee captured abstract expanses of desert and mountain. Robert Frank has described her images as landscapes without the human beast. Harnessing the power of visual silence, her photographs inspire a sense of the deep and quiet interaction between the beholder and the elements of the earth. With a profound understanding of texture and craftsmanship, Lees large format photographs, printed on Korean mulberry ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Alsatian sculptor and painter Jean Arp was born September 16, 1886. Jean Arp or Hans Arp (16 September 1886 - 7 June 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. In this image: Cloud Shepherd, Jean Arp (1953), Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas.
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