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Marc Chagall, Portrait de Vava, 1953-56 (detail). Oil on cardboard, 27x22 cm. Private Collection, Swiss © Chagall, by SIAE 2018.
ASTI.- Asti welcomes the elegant and utopian world of Marc Chagall, with paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings. It is a world full of wonder and amazement; artworks in which childhood memories, fairy tales, poetry, religion and war coexist; a universe of brightly coloured dreams, of intense hues bringing to life to landscapes populated by the characters real or imaginary that crowd the artist's imagination. These are works that recreate a dreamlike universe of imagery, where it is difficult to identify the boundary between reality and dreams, the same world that Chagall depicts in his books of etchings. With over 150 works in an exhibition divided into seven sections and curated by Dolores Durán Ãcar, Palazzo Mazzetti welcomes Chagall. Colore e magia, an exhibition realized by the Fondazione Asti Musei, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Asti, the Region of Piedmont and the City of Asti, in collaboration with Gruppo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cuban Johnny Lopez de la Cruz, president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, points to himself in a picture featured in the Brigade 2506 Museum in Little Havana, Miami, on December 11, 2018. Leila MACOR / AFP
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| | | Art Institute of Chicago presents Ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Weston Collection | | Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality explored in exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery | | TEFAF Maastricht: Recalibrated fair announces exhibitor list for 2019 | 
Keisai Eisen. Two Women and Autumn Plants, 1830/44 (detail). Weston Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection, a collection formed by Roger Weston over the last twenty-five years which captures compellingly the beginning, major developments, and final flowering of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) painting. Encompassing folding screens, hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and albums, these works are technically accomplished masterpieces by the most famous artists in Edo (present-day Tokyo) and beyond. Ukiyo-e comprises both paintings and prints, so it is especially meaningful that such a complete collection of paintings can be shown at a museum known for its significant holdings of prints. The floating world (ukiyo) flourished in the bustling urban centers of Kamigata (Kyoto, Osaka) and Edo from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. People of all ranks shared in metropolitan amusements, including the ... More | | 
Unknown, Mr and Mrs Robert Hill Kinnear and their daughter, Rosalie 1851, oil on canvas. Collection Bendigo Art Gallery.
BENDIGO.- From a nineteenth century Victorian horse-drawn hearse, to the pulsating futurist video work of Jess Johnson, Gothic Beauty traces early Victorian rituals of mourning and the pursuit of pleasurable terror evident from the 1800s to contemporary times. The exhibition, curated by and exclusive to Bendigo Art Gallery, includes dark and evocative works by contemporary artists Jane Burton, Bill Henson, Michael Vale and Janet Beckhouse, amongst others; alongside historic Pre Raphaelite paintings and objects, mourning jewellery and costumes drawn from public and private collections. Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality draws inspiration from Horace Walpoles ground-breaking novel The Castle of Otranto. When first published in 1764, this landmark book sparked a keen interest in dark, psychological narratives and heightened emotional states, mostly amongst middle and upper- ... More | | 
Carlo Orsi / Trinity Fine Art. Photography Natascha Libbert.
HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Maastricht 2019 will welcome 38 new exhibitors, following an extensive review of the Fairs selection protocols. The 2019 line-up of 276 exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht, who cover 7,000 years of art history, promise to deliver private and institutional collectors an unparalleled collecting opportunity. In particular, TEFAF is delighted to welcome leading blue-chip modern and contemporary galleries to the Fair, joining the already stellar roster of exhibitors. TEFAF Maastricht 2019 takes place from 16 24 March 2019 at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre), Maastricht, The Netherlands. The art market is an eco-system; as it develops and changes so too do TEFAFs fairs. TEFAF Maastricht looks forward to welcoming back returning exhibitors and also 38 new exhibitors for 2019. The new exhibitors are spread across the eight sections (TEFAF Ancient Art, TEFAF Antiques, TEFAF Design, TEFAF La Haute Joailler ... More |
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| | | Exhibition presents highlights from The Huntington's Southern California Architecture Collection | | Museum of the City of New York offers a fascinating look at New York's battle against infectious disease | | Exhibition emphasises Julian Trevelyan's extensive contribution to mid-20th century British art | 
Roger Hayward (1899-1979), renderer, Los Angeles Stock Exchange, façade, ca. 1929. Samuel E. Lunden (1897-1995), architect, John Parkinson (1861-1935) and Donald Parkinson (1895-1945), consulting architects. Watercolor over graphite on illustration board, 39 x 25 1/2 inches. © Courtesy of Dr. James and Mrs. Miriam Kramer, 2018. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- Documenting one of the most creative and influential periods in Southern California architecture, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is presenting Architects of a Golden Age: Highlights from The Huntingtons Southern California Architecture Collection. The exhibition is on view in the West Hall of the Library until Jan. 21, 2019. About 20 carefully selected original drawings and plans depicting elegant, powerful, whimsical, and iconic buildings tease out the story of a place and time (1920 to 1940) that was ripe for architectural innovationwith rapid growth and the arrival of new talent from other parts of the U.S. Architects of a Golden ... More | | 
Covered ewer presented to Dr. N. Edson Sheldon by the Board of Health of New York City for professional services gratuitously rendered to the poor of the Second Ward during the prevalence of the Cholera A.D. 1832. Museum of the City of New York, 74.155.
NEW YORK, NY.- Humans and microbes have always co-habited and their relationship has had a profound influence on history, especially in cities, the crossroads of the movements of people, goods, and germs. Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis, on view at the Museum of the City of New York from September 14, 2018, through April 28, 2019, explores the complex and fascinating history of infectious disease and epidemic outbreaks in New York City. It is a history involving government officials, urban planners, medical professionals, businesses, activists, and ordinary people. The exhibition will focuses on the personal, cultural, and political, as well as the medical dimensions of contagion. It interweaves historical and contemporary perspectives, blending art, history, and science to explore the meaning of disease ... More | | 
Julian Trevelyan, Self-Portrait 1940, Oil on canvas, 61 x 46.4 cm © National Portrait Gallery / The Julian Trevelyan Estate.
CHICHESTER.- The first survey exhibition in 20 years of British artist Julian Trevelyan (19101988) is on view at Pallant House Gallery. A painter, printmaker and designer, Trevelyan was experimental throughout his life and created an important and original body of work that was influenced by European modernist movements yet entirely his own. The exhibition brings together 90 paintings and prints, as well as rarely seen sketchbooks, letters and photographs that emphasise Trevelyans extensive contribution to mid-20th century British art. Surveying the broad scope of his career, the exhibition will examine Trevelyans early Surrealist works, his depictions of the industrial north of England as part of the Mass Observation project, his fascination with foreign places and his years in London, when he lived and worked alongside the River Thames and taught printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Despite ... More |
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| | | Skating is theme of exhibition at the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art | | Liz Collins investigates the intersection between painting and fiber art in new installation | | De La Warr Pavilion presents the first major presentation of Pailthorpe and Mednikoff's art in 20 years | 
Donoghue in racing costume and on skates, Unknown photographer © Cambridgeshire Archives, 695Z 20.
NEWMARKET.- The sport of kings is renowned for the grace, poise and speed of its principal athletes, the horses themselves. However a new exhibition seeks to explore similar themes and draw unusual parallels with the sport and pastime of ice skating. On view at the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Newmarket, Skating presents a fascinating collection of 30 works from the past 400 years, ranging from 17th-century Flemish painting and Victorian panoramic scenes to 20th-century photographs (including those taken by the iconic Bassano studio), vintage skates and Pathé films. In 1605 James I chanced upon the village of Newmarket whilst out hunting and recognised the open, flat Suffolk plains as an ideal location upon which to race his string of horses. Subsequently, the town came to be regarded as the epicentre of the British horse racing industry - but the nearby rivers, fens and waterways ... More | | 
Originally composed as drawings on black craft paper, Rays was manufactured as the wallpaper panels Feria 1, 2, and 3 (2017) by the textile company 4Spaces.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting Liz Collins: Rays. The installation is in MADs 1ST SITE project space, which features work that interacts with and interprets the interior architecture and ambiance of the Museums entry. Liz Collins: Rays is drawn from the artists Rays wallpaper series, the design of which she completed during her 2015 residency in the MAD Artist Studios program. Originally composed as drawings on black craft paper, Rays was manufactured as the wallpaper panels Feria 1, 2, and 3 (2017) by the textile company 4Spaces. The original drawings and wallpaper were acquired by MAD for its permanent collection in 2017. This is Collins second intervention in MADs lobby, following the final iteration of her eleven-year performance and site-specific project KNITTING ... More | | 
Reuben Mednikoff
, The Blue Hill, September 19, 1935,
70 x 85 cm (framed)
. Oil on board.
Private Collection.
Photo: Ivan Coleman.
BEXHILL ON SEA.- Dr Grace Pailthorpe (surgeon/ psychoanalyst / artist, 1883-1971) and Reuben Mednikoff (artist, 1906-1972) began collaborating in 1935. From that year until their deaths, they produced a huge body of work that included startlingly vivid and wildly experimental paintings and drawings, often paired with in-depth psychoanalytic interpretation, as well as autobiography, poetry and short stories. They spent decades of their lives researching how the visual and literary arts might liberate individuals and societies from the constraints that sickened and impoverished them, together developing a creative process that combined Surrealism with psychoanalysis, bringing artistic and scientific thinking together. A Tale of Mothers Bones is the first major presentation of Pailthorpe and Mednikoffs art in twenty years. The exhibition tells the story of the couples lives ... More |
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| | | Art Rotterdam 2019: Twentieth edition of renowned art fair will be held in Van Nelle Factory | | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles exhibits the work of Nina Chanel Abney | | Gallery list announced for Taipei Dangdai's inaugural edition | 
Art Rotterdam 2019 has a more intimate character and counts 25% fewer galleries than the 2018 edition. Photo: Joost de Leij.
ROTTERDAM.- Art Rotterdam celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2019. In the run-up to this festive event, the organization took the necessary steps. To reinforce its reputation as an exciting discovery site on the one hand and strong market place on the other, it has sharpened its multifaceted concept, focused on young art. Collaboration is the key word here. Liv Vaisberg, former co-director of Independent Brussels and co-founder of Poppositions, will join the Rotterdam team. As part of her work she contributes to the new strategy. With its international network, Liv is the perfect person to bring even more international collectors to Rotterdam and to actually bring them into contact with the galleries. Art Rotterdam 2019 has a more intimate character and counts 25% fewer galleries than the 2018 edition. With this measure to improve the cooperation ... More | | 
Nina Chanel Abney, Randaleeza, 2008 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 90 à 94 inches (228.6 à 238.76 cm). Private collection. Image courtesy of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion. © Nina Chanel Abney.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is showing Royal Flush, presented jointly with the California African American Museum, featuring paintings, watercolors, and collages by Nina Chanel Abney. Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982) is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting. As a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. Royal Flush, her first solo museum exhibition, presents a ten-year survey of the artists paintings, watercolors, and collages. Abneys works are informed as much by mainstream news media as they are by animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites and tabloid ... More | | 
Magnus Renfrew, Fair Director of Taipei Dangdai.
TAIPEI.- Taipei Dangdai, the new international art fair taking place in Taiwan in January 2019, will feature a world-class line-up of 90 galleries from around the globe, about 20% of which have spaces in Taiwan. The inaugural edition of the fair aims to place a strong emphasis on the region, as well as showcasing some of the worlds best galleries from Europe and the USA. Under the directorship of Magnus Renfrew, Taipei Dangdai will present a vital understanding of the Asian cultural landscape on a global platform, setting the pulse of the art market for the year ahead. With over 160 applications submitted, the fairs selection committee carefully chose 90 galleries for the first edition of the fair, ensuring international standards of selectivity. Convening premier galleries and thought leaders around the world, Taipei Dangdai aims to present a survey of Asias contemporary art scene, whilst showcasing global talent in ... More |
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Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang Interview: A Trip to the Moon
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 Exhibition focuses on the relationship between the archive and the formation of historyMUNICH.- "Shouldn't we each time, each joyful and contemplative time when we open a book, consider the miracle that this text has even found its way to us?" Georges Didi-Huberman, The Archive Burns, 2007 Didi-Huberman's reflection leads to the question of which content is recognized and safeguarded over time and used as a source for art historiography. In addition to publicly accessible archives and collections as repositories and storehouses of knowledge, are the autonomous archives, whose collections often receive only limited attention. The individual collectors of such independent archives decide for themselves what is worth preserving, beyond criteria such as visibility, material value, circulation, rarity and the legal guidelines. In this way, the holdings of autonomous archives have unique qualities and have received increasing attention over ... More Miami-based artist's most comprehensive show to date on view at Pérez Art Museum MiamiMIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman, a collection of approximately 25 paintings by Miami-based artist Lynne Golob Gelfman. The most comprehensive show by Gelfman to date, the exhibition showcases paintings the artist has produced over the last two decades, as well as examples of early works from the late 1960s and early 70sthe majority of which have never been seen publicly before. Interested in exploring various forms of mark-making and patterning techniques, Gelfman produces in series, using oil, acrylic and flash paint on both canvas and wood. Examples from five of her series are on view as part of the exhibition through April 21, 2019. One of Miamis most esteemed abstract artists, Gelfman utilizes methods that play with surfaces in diverse ways, with certain series ... More Art Fair Tokyo 2019 announcing theme: Art LifeTOKYO.- Art Tokyo Association will hold Art Fair Tokyo 2019, the largest international art fair in Japan, at Tokyo International Forum from March 7 to March 10, 2019. The 14th edition of Art Fair Tokyo is themed Art Life. In addition to taking place in the Tokyo International Forum Lobby Gallery across an area twice the size of last year and including the new Crossing section offering exhibits for sale, the 2019 fair will hold the Projects section once again featuring up-and-coming artists in a series of solo exhibitions, while the two special exhibitions that enjoyed a strong reception at the last fair, World Art Tokyo in partnership with embassies and Future Artists Tokyo in partnership with Japanese art colleges, will return in newly expanded versions. The relentless forward march of technology knows no bounds. Virtual networks now pervade ... More Crow Museum of Asian Art presents 'Jacob Hashimoto: Clouds and Chaos' in newly renovated facilityDALLAS, TX.- Throughout the history of Asian art, clouds have served many functions as framing devices, interstitial motifs and as compositional boundaries. Exploring this universally compelling phenomenon of nature, the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas is presenting the solo exhibition of Jacob Hashimoto: Clouds and Chaos through Apr. 7, 2019. The exhibitions central work Nuvole (2006-2018) is a large-scale site-specific installation that is on view in Gallery III. It is the first major exhibition to debut in the newly renovated museum, which recently completed a multi-million-dollar expansion including the addition of a new gallery, a reimagined Lotus Shop, interactive street-side Pearl Art Studio and Center for Contemplative Leadership. Celebrating its 20th year, the museum is located in the Dallas Arts District at 2010 Flora St. With the construction now ... More Exhibition explores the pivotal role of architecture and urban planning in human healthLONDON.- Wellcome Collection is presenting a major exhibition exploring the pivotal role of architecture and urban planning in human health. Living with Buildings takes over both of the museums temporary exhibition spaces to examine how the structures that surround us shape our mental and physical health, in both positive and negative ways. From Dickensian slums to high-rise towers, and infirmary tents to modernist sanatoriums, the exhibition charts how architects, planners and designers have impacted the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals. Featuring buildings designed by Lubetkin, Goldfinger and Aalto, and the work of artists including Camille Pissarro, Andreas Gursky and Giles Round, it considers how the built environment reflects wider priorities in politics and society. In a world where people increasingly live in metropolitan areas and spend ... More Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents the North American premiere of Liminals by Jeremy ShawMONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the North American premiere of the video installation Liminals by Jeremy Shaw; a Vancouver artist who lives and works in Berlin. The immersive installation explores the cathartic potential of spiritual ecstasy, in a fictional future. Liminals made a notable impact when it was presented at the main exhibition of the 2017 Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel, Chief Curator of the Centre Pompidou. A rich work, Liminals at first appears to be a black and white 16 mm documentary shot sometime in the 1970s. But we are quickly informed by a BBC-like narrator of a story set three generations from now, when humanity is on the verge of extinction. The video follows eight subjects who are attempting to escape this fate and save humanity through a fantastic combination of Machine DNA brain augmentations ... More Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the work exhibited at Sweeney Reed's two gallery venturesMELBOURNE.- Sweeney Reed and Strines Gallery features the cutting-edge work exhibited at Sweeney Reed's two gallery ventures in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At age 21, Sweeney Reedthe adopted son of Heide founders John and Sunday Reedopened Strines in Carlton (196770) and five years later, Sweeney Reed Galleries in Fitzroy (19721975). Both galleries promoted a new wave of daring abstractionists now considered significant figures in the history of Australian art. Among them were hard-edge painters Sydney Ball, Col Jordan and Trevor Vickers; visual poets Russell Deeble and Alex Selenitsch; as well as artists exploring a pop vernacular like Mike Brown, Ken Reinhard and Gareth Sansom. Strines was sixties cool, and its charismatic director exuded confidence and a maverick flair, playing host to dinners, parties ... More The Winter Show announces exhibitors for 2019 editionNEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show, previously known as The Winter Antiques Show, announced the participating exhibitors of its 2019 edition, to be held at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City from January 18-27, 2019. Under the leadership of new Executive Director Helen Allen, New Yorks longest-running art, antiques, and design fair celebrates its 65th Anniversary Sapphire Jubilee. The 2019 edition will feature 70 exhibitors presenting a dynamic mix of fine and decorative arts from around the world, dating from ancient times through the present day. In 2018, The Winter Show changed its name from The Winter Antiques Show to recognize and embrace the long-established breadth and diversity of its exhibitors. The Fair was established in 1954 by East Side House Settlement, a community-based organization serving the Bronx and Northern Manhattan. ... More Exhibition presents photographs that interact with ceramic surfaces FIORANO.- MUT is presenting Surface Matters, a special project dedicated to photography which for the first time interacts with the ceramic surfaces of a specifically-designed exhibition display inside the Mutina building. Important photographic works selected from the collection of Massimo Orsini and presented on ceramic wall modules, challenge surface, the gaze and their own narrative content. Not just an exhibition, but an unexpected path of images, an innovative stratified setting in close dialogue with the architecture of the space. Photographs by twenty-six artists, from Man Ray to Richard Prince, by way of Robert Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Luigi Ghirri, but also Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Demand, Louise Lawler, and Zoe Leonard. Analog or digital, formal, conceptual, performative, quotidian, mental, the works on view narrate ... More The National Gallery of Victoria presents the Australian premiere of Hito Steyerl's "Factory of the Sun"MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents the Australian premiere of the ground-breaking video installation Factory of the Sun by German-born artist Hito Steyerl, who was named the number one artist on ArtReviews 2017 Power 100 list. Factory of the Sun, 2015, first shown at the 2015 German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, is a fully-immersive installation that tells the dystopian story of a group of workers in a labour camp. The participants are forced to perform choreographed dance routines and their movements are transformed into a valuable commodity: artificial sunshine. Steyerl uses light as a metaphor for the agency of individuals as we are faced with the interlacing forces of digital information, economic interests and political power. Highlighting the global flow of data, the video samples a variety of moving image genres, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max Beckmann's Hölle der Vögel (Birds' Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © Christie's Images Limited 2017.
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