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Leonardo Studio Visualisation © 59 Productions.
LONDON.- New scientific research by the National Gallery into Leonardo da Vincis The Virgin of the Rocks (about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8) has expanded our knowledge of the composition he began before abandoning it for the version we see today. The drawings, underneath one of the Gallerys most popular paintings, have been revealed ahead of a new immersive experience featuring the work - created by 59 Productions - that will open later this year. An earlier discovery in 2004/05 revealed that the Virgins pose had been changed, but there were only hints of the other figures that were assumed to have been part of that first effort. Following months of cutting-edge research using the latest imaging techniques, more information has been revealed regarding the first and second compositions underneath the painting. Now for the first time Leonardos initial designs for the angel and the Infant Christ can be seen, showing ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Gina Beavers: The Life I Deserve, on view at MoMA PS1, New York from March 31-September 2, 2019. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
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 | | Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler offers a comprehensive overview of Rudolf Stingel's versatile artistic practice | | MoMA announces publication revisiting Robert Venturi's seminal Architectural Treatise | | Notre-Dame cathedral 'still at risk of collapse' after fire | 
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, 2012. Ãl und Emaille auf Leinwand, 300 x 242 cm © Rudolf Stingel. Photo: Alessandro Zambianchi.
BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its summer exhibition 2019 to contemporary painter Rudolf Stingel (born in Merano in 1956, lives in New York and Merano). It presents Stingels major series of works of the past three decades, providing a comprehensive overview of his versatile artistic practice. The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is the first major presentation of Rudolf Stingels work in Europe following his show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2013) and the first in Switzerland since the one staged by the Kunsthalle Zurich (1995). It stretches over the nine rooms of the Fondation Beyelers south wing and also temporarily includes the two rooms of Restaurant Berower Park. Conceived room by room, the exhibition curated by Udo Kittelmann in close collaboration with the artist does not follow a chronological order, focussing instead on the specific confrontation of individual artworks, whose selection and di ... More | | 
Robert Venturi. Early draft of the acknowledgments to Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. c. 1965. The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, by the gift of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced the publication of Robert Venturis Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty. First published in 1966, Robert Venturis Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered a foundational text of postmodernism, has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism. This two-volume box set reintroduces the original edition in facsimile, highlighting Venturis idiosyncratic yet visually driven argument. Venturi, a young American architect at the time this book was written, presents his gentle manifesto as the conscious manipulation and rejection of what he saw as the purist simplification of much of postwar modernist architecture. Instead, drawing from a multitude of historical examples, he argues for an architecture that is truthful to the ... More | | 
Workers install pallissades in front Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris before a decontamination work on August 13, 2019. The area around Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was sealed off early on Tuesday as workers prepared to apply a special gel to absorb lead particles that seeped into the soil in the wake of the April 15 blaze. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is still at risk of collapse after being gutted by a fire in April, with more stonework falling during the recent heatwave in the French capital, the government said on Wednesday. France's culture ministry insisted that the urgent need to make the cathedral safe had dictated the pace of the works, following criticism that it had ignored the risks of lead poisoning. Work to secure the cathedral was suspended on July 25 to allow for decontamination of the lead that had spread during the fire. The work should resume next week. The culture ministry said that in the aftermath of the fire all work on the cathedral had been aimed at avoiding its collapse, and had not yet involved any kind of restoration. "There were recently ... More |
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| | Portrait of strength wins the 2019 Archibald Prize ANZ People's Choice award | | Exhibition of photographs by early 20th century female practitioners challenge canon of modern photography | | New group exhibition looks to the future of the Caribbean | 
Archibald Prize 2019 ANZ Peoples Choice award winner David Darcy Tjuparntarri women's business © the artist Photo: AGNSW, Jenni Carter.
SYDNEY.- Second time Archibald Prize finalist David Darcy has been crowned the 2019 ANZ Peoples Choice award winner with his portrait of Daisy Tjuparntarri Ward, a respected elder of the Warakurna community and Ngaanyatjarra people of Western Australia. Remarkably, the Upper Hunter based Darcy has been an Archibald prize finalist twice in consecutive years after only taking up painting full-time two and half years ago. Darcy decided to paint Mrs Ward after meeting her last year and the two quickly hit it off and became good friends. Last year Tjuparntarri walked into my studio looking for art supplies. Over several weeks, we got to know each other, and I discovered Id met an extraordinary woman. Tjuparntarri is a beautiful human being. She is a strong, proud indigenous women of great substance. It was an honour to paint her and I am overwhelmed with pride knowing that through my endeavours, her portrait has connected with so many people. Thank you to everyone who voted!& ... More | | 
Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Marie Rapp, 1916. Platinum waxed print. Gift of Noel and Harriette Levine, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum
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JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum opened Modern Love, an exhibition on view through January 5 that expands public understanding of the work of photographers who shaped and defined photography between 1900-1945 through the presentation of a substantial number of works by female practitioners. Featuring around 200 works from seminal artists such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston alongside lesser-known female photographers such as ringl+pit, Laure Albin Guillot, and Frieda Meyer Jakobson, the exhibition fosters a deeper level of understanding around the development of cultural production at the time, uncovers surprising discoveries, and fosters contemporary relevancy through connections made to present day camera phone techniques. Drawing on a recent gift from collector Gary B. Sokol of exceptional images taken by female avant-garde photographers active between 1918 and 1939, ... More | | 
Lavar Monroe. CHURCH IN THE WILD, 2019. Acrylic, fabric, thread, zipper, toy reptiles, beads, rope, wood, and spray paint on cut canvas. 57 x 72 inches. Courtesy the artist.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is presenting The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, a thematic group show that asks about the future of the Caribbean region, featuring 14 artists from the region and its diaspora: Deborah Anzinger, Charles Campbell, Andrea Chung, Hulda Guzman, Deborah Jack, Louisa Marajo, Manuel Mathieu, Alicia Milne, Lavar Munroe, Angel Otero, Sheena Rose, Jamilah Sabur, Nyugen Smith, and Cristina Tufiño. The Other Side of Now is on view from July 18, 2019 through June 7, 2020. This exhibition is co-curated by MarÃa Elena Ortiz, PAMM Associate Curator, and Dr. Marsha Peare, Cultural Theorist based in the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad. In contemporary art, the Caribbean is often seen through the lens of its traumatic, colonial past and socioeconomic problems that linger in the present. The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe ... More |
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| | CAPC musée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux presents 'History of Art Seeks Protagonists' | | Thames & Hudson to publish '100 Sculptors of Tomorrow' by Kurt Beers | | Servico Social do Comercio presents an exhibition of photographs by Sebastião Salgado | 
Gilles Aillaud, Serpent, porte et mosaïque 1972. Huile sur toile, 146,3 x 114,3 cm. Inv. FGA-BA-AILLA-0002 Fondation Gandur pour lArt, Genève. Photo: Sandra Pointet © Adagp, Paris, 2019.
BORDEAUX.- As part of the cultural season Liberté ! Bordeaux 2019, the CAPC musée dart contemporain de Bordeaux has partnered with the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de limage in Angoulême and the Fondation Gandur pour lArt, Genève to present an extensive group exhibition based on their respective collections. Major works from the Fondation Gandur pour lArt forming part of the Narrative Figuration movement (paintings from the 1960s by Gilles Aillaud, Erró, Gérard Fromanger and Jacques Monory) are shown alongside original artwork (plates, graphic novels, installations) by contemporary comic-book authors, scriptwriters and artists, as well as selected works from the CAPCs own collection. The works on display have been assembled into a thematic journey based on an original exhibition design that borrows ... More | | 
The 100 artists, chosen by a jury of professionals in the field of sculpture, represent a fifty-fifty split of online open-call submissions and juror recommendation including sculptors found by Beers at art fairs and on Instagram.
LONDON.- 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow is the culmination of a year-long search to identify the 100 most exciting up-and-coming sculptors working today around the world. Authored by Kurt Beers, whose groundbreaking 100 Painters of Tomorrow went on to launch many artists careers and is still a leading resource on some of the most important emerging painters in the world, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow serves not only as an inventory of the most notable sculptors working across the world today, it questions what the very nature of sculpture can be. The foreword is written by art historian and critic Richard Cork, who comments, As this book attests with such vigour the artists of today refuse to be constrained in any way by traditional approaches
Sculpture used to be ... More | | 
Sebastião Salgado, Serra Pelada Gold Mine, 1986 (detail). © Sebastião Salgado.
SAO PAULO.- Between the months of July and November, the exhibition space of Sesc Avenida Paulista presents the exhibition Gold The Serra Pelada Gold Mine by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado. The show features a photographic series that arose based on his trip to the district of Serra Pelada, where over the course of one month he witnessed firsthand the daily life of the gold diggings and the entire social landscape that was formed around the precious metals extraction. The history of the mine, located in the state of Pará, in the Amazon region, is traditionally linked to the wildcat mining activities that boomed after the discovery of gold in the late 1970s. The zone attracted thousands of anonymous miners over the years and was converted, ever since, into a territory of conflicts, socioeconomic vulnerability and power struggles. Just as images of Serra Pelada broadcast by the media have ... More |
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| | Phillips expands jewelry team in the Americas with addition of Alexis Vourvoulis in Los Angeles | | Exhibition brings stunning contemporary works from Girringun Aboriginal Arts Centre to Melbourne Museum | | Exhibition examines structures which are neither fully interior nor fully exterior | 
Ms. Vourvoulis joins Phillips from Bonhams, where she was a Jewelry Specialist in Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Phillips announced the expansion of its Jewelry team in the Americas with the appointment of Alexis Vourvoulis as Senior Specialist and Vice President in Los Angeles. The move reflects the growth of the Phillips Jewelry Department and the increasing importance of California to the companys expansion. Ms. Vourvoulis joins Phillips from Bonhams, where she was a Jewelry Specialist in Los Angeles, sourcing material for both Los Angeles and New York and providing appraisals and estimates for collectors. Before joining Bonhams, Ms. Vourvoulis was the owner of Bijoux Society in Paris, which offered clients private sales, consulting services and historic jewelry education. She also served as Managing Partner at the Worth Collection in Palm Beach, Florida, responsible for all sales and jewelry buying. Ms. Vourvoulis reports to Susan Abeles, who joined Phillips ... More | | 
Nephi Denham, Bagu, 2016. Ceramic, 41 x 15 x 3.5cm. Courtesy of Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre.
MELBOURNE.- Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum presents Manggan gather, gathers, gathering - the first national touring exhibition of contemporary works by award-winning artists from Far North Queensland's Girringun Aboriginal Arts Centre. Connection to country and traditional culture is at the core of this project, aimed at growing awareness of a unique group of Aboriginal people in the wet and dry tropics region of Far North Queensland. The nineteen Girringun artists superbly handcrafted works are displayed alongside collection objects and reproductions of historic photographs from the South Australian Museum. Together, they provide a unique opportunity for Melbourne audiences to engage with the distinctive Aboriginal rainforest art traditions and culture of the Girringun region. The Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre, based in Cardwell, represents artists from nine ... More | | 
Macon Reed, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar, 2015/16, wood, cardboard, paper clay, cast plaster, joint compound. Image courtesy of the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design is presenting Interior/Exterior, an exhibition that examines structures, rooms and objects, which are neither fully interior nor fully exterior. This exhibition exposes the permeability between the categories of public and private space. Looking beyond the neat closure of four walls, Interior/Exterior features site-specific installations, temporary structures and sculptures by Julie Alpert, Benjamin Armas and Ori Carino, Macon Reed, Kathy Sirico and Kaori Yamashita. Curator, Ariel Zaccheo, notes This exhibition sheds light on the already punctured nature of privacy and interiority in built structures, and aims to show how identity and community shape (and are shaped by) our built environment. Interior/Exterior becomes a portal that invites people to question their relationship to the spaces they inhabit, and positions structures and shelters ... More |
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 Chicago artist Marvin Tate's miniature worlds showcase his commentary on societal issuesCHICAGO, IL.- Looking At You From a Distance Not Too Far: Work by Marvin Tate features more than a dozen works by the Chicago-based visual artist, performance poet, lyricist, author and educator. Tate is known for his biographical art in the form of assemblage, portraits and landscapes, which are composed of found objects and fragments from everyday life. The exhibition opens Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. A North Lawndale native, Tate grew up in a home without a TV or radio, in which the family entertained one another with songbooks and reading aloud. "I remember hours spent exploring abandoned buildings, walking the streets of changing neighborhoods and playing in my mother's closet," said Tate. These existential journeys were filled with fear, excitement ... More  Australasia's premier international art fair Sydney Contemporary announces 2019 gallery listSYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary today announced more than 85 Australian and International galleries participating in the fifth edition of Australasias international art fair, to be presented at multi-disciplinary arts precinct Carriageworks from Thursday 12 until Sunday 15 September 2019. Sydney Contemporary Australasias largest and most diverse art fair is an annual event, with the 2019 participating galleries hailing from five continents and showcasing artists from more than 30 countries. Sydney Contemporary returns for its fifth edition following a record-breaking year in 2018, securing artwork sales of AU$21million and attracting thousands of collectors, curators and art enthusiasts. Sydney Contemporary facilitates the largest concentration of art sales in Australia annually and is an extraordinary boost to artists capacity to continue their practice and ... More  UrbanGlass features Monica Cook's latest body of work in glassBROOKLYN, NY.- UrbanGlass presents Monica Cook: Above and Below from July 24September 13, 2019, featuring the latest body of work in glass from the New York-based multimedia artist and 2018 UrbanGlass Visiting Artist Fellow. Marvels of intricacy and power, the work in this exhibition deals with themes of transformation, rebirth, and decay. Above and Below is comprised of sculptural works in glass with mixed and found media; video; and prints. Glossy snakes, chandelier-like forms seemingly grown through accretion like stalagmites, mysterious alembic vessels, fragile explosions of luminous splinters Cooks joy in this medium, a new one for her, is palpable. The forms are writhing, volcanic, simultaneously delicate and dangerous, like a newfound reptilian species. "Snowsuit" is a meticulously crafted act of remembrance and mourning, humanoid ... More  Chesterwood announces 41st annual contemporary sculpture exhibitionSTOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Chesterwood announces its 41st annual outdoor contemporary sculpture exhibition, featuring a site-specific installation by artists-in-residence Rick Brown and Laura Brown. The exhibition, One Impulse from a Vernal Wood, on view June 29 through Oct. 27, includes nine large sculptures constructed by the artists using carefully selected distressed or standing dead trees located within Chesterwoods forest trails. This is the Browns first solo exhibition at Chesterwood. The sculptors, who share a passion to create monumental shapes and forms out of wood, were invited to live and work at Chesterwood for a month in June 2018. On their frequent walks with sketchbooks and cameras in hand, the Browns were inspired by the natural beauty of the landscape and captivated by Chesterwoods aging New England forest. The sculptors ... More  The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents a new body of work by N. DashRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting a solo exhibition devoted to a new body of work by N. Dash (b. 1980, Miami). This is the artists first solo museum exhibition on the East Coast of the United States. Dashs work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, and employs both natural and manmade materials, including pigments, adobe/mud, jute, graphite, fabric, string, styrofoam, and found objects. Across these media, the artist's principal interests lie both in recording the sensory and informational capacities of touch and revealing typically unobserved conduits of energy: ecological, architectural, and corporeal. The works unfold through what Dash terms a "bifocal" approach, where two mindsunder the influence of physical and extrasensory influencesare communing visions both nearby and remote. One of the essential ... More  Exhibition presents an artistic exploration by Jeremias Altmann and Andreas TanzerVIENNA.- In addition to their solo careers, Jeremias Altmann and Andreas Tanzer have been collaborating for some years on the series grey time a continually growing collection focused on decay. Last spring, the two draughtsmen and painters broke with their usual practice they normally work in strict isolation in their studios in favour of the two-part oil painting Bruchteile (Fractions), which they created in the public galleries of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Across several galleries, they interpreted artefacts from Ancient Egypt to classical antiquity to sixteenth and seventeenth century painting. Working simultaneously on the same painting is a defining element of the collaboration between Tanzer and Altmann. The exhibition grey time Fractions of the Museum presents the two paintings in the Collection of Greek ... More  Monterey Museum of Art opens "Michael Bevilacqua: Homegrown"MONTEREY, CA.- In celebration of its 60th Anniversary Season, the Monterey Museum of Art announces Michael Bevilacqua: Homegrown. The exhibition will mark the first Central Coast showing of the Monterey Peninsula born and raised artists dynamic work. Growing up in Pacific Grove was like a trip without a suitcase, remarked the prolific artist now residing in New York. Bevilacqua has been exhibited worldwide for over two decades, but his exhibition at MMA will mark his first return to his hometown. With his finger on the pulse of current cultural dialogue, Bevilacqua draws inspiration from contemporary literature and music, synthesizes and layers images drawn from nature and technology, and creates work that is at once innovative, vibrant, and stylistically diverse. I am so pleased to be exhibiting a condensed version of the past ... More  Dix Noonan Webb to hold their first auction devoted to Russian coins and historical medalsLONDON.- Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists will be holding their first auction devoted to Russian Coins and Historical Medals. The auction will be held on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 2pm at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. The most important part of the sale is an old collection of Russian historical medals, mostly formed in the 1960s and 1970s. Three highlights from this collection include an extremely fine and very rare silver medal from the reign of Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725), dating from 1704 and commemorating the Capture of Narva, by I. Konstantinov. The medal, estimated at £3,000-4,000, portrays a uniformed laureate bust of Peter I on one side and a view of the bombardment of Narva on the other. An extremely fine and very rare silver medal depicting ... More  Exhibition of new works by celebrated New Orleans artist Regina Scully opens at Octavia Art GalleryNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery is presenting Regina Scully: The House I Live In, a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated New Orleans artist Regina Scully. This is the fifth solo exhibition of Scullys work with the gallery. In The House I Live In, Scully further explores and examines the atmospheres within her abstract landscapes. These new vistas of space feel futuristic and allude to other planets and parallel worlds. In these works, Scully is trying to paint what is seen as well as unseen, such as the ground and the air around it. There is a sense that one can walk or fly through the paintings by means of passages and pathways. The air and atmosphere allow the mind to go further into abstract thought while traveling through Scullys micro-universes. Scully states, My father was a research chemist and I remember as a kid, going to his lab and ... More  Universal themes explored by Art Gallery of South Australia exhibitionsADELAIDE.- Art Gallery of South Australia celebrates the 2019 South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) with two pivotal projects that demonstrate the diversity and universality of South Australian art Honor Freeman: Ghost Objects and Living Rocks Virtual Reality. AGSA Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM says, SALA recognises the breadth and depth of South Australias visual arts. We are thrilled to present two pioneering art projects that showcase major accomplishments of South Australian art and are testament to the diverse trajectories of our artists. South Australian ceramicist, Honor Freemans most ambitious work to date, Ghost Objects, opened at AGSA as part of SALA on 27 July. Over the past 12 months, Freeman has created Ghost Objects, a suite of pivotal work, inspired by her research of mourning objects and works of art that offer solace ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte died August 15, 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. In this image: Photograph of Rene Magritte, in front of his painting The Pilgrim, as taken by Lothar Wolleh.
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