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These are unique paintings that not only mirror the vicissitudes of the individual artists, but also express a vision in which the history and spirit of their contemporary world merge, reflecting the social and cultural transformations which led to the Mexican Revolution and followed it.
BOLOGNA.- The Gelman Collection came into being in 1941 when Jacques Gelman and Natasha Zahalkaha, two Eastern European émigrés, met in Mexico City. Natasha married Jacques, a Russian Jew from Saint Petersburg, who had arrived in Mexico in 1938, where he made his fortune producing Mario Morenoi (19111993) comic movies. The Gelmans soon became great patrons of the arts and keen collectors, establishing friendships with Frida Kahlo (who in the early1940s was becoming a Mexican cultural heroine and abandoning Surrealist glories) and Diego Rivera, as well as many artists who were their contemporaries such as RufinoTamayo, MarÃa Izquierdo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Ãngel Zárraga. Soon the Gelman Collection acquired works by Frida including Self-Portrait with Necklace (1933), Self-Portrait Sitting on the Bed (1937), Self-Portrait with Monkeys (1943), Self-Portrait as Tehuana (1943) and The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xolotl (1949). These ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kunsthaus Bregenz is presenting the exhibition WHEREWITHAL in white uppercase letters is outlined in black. It is a work about language and, according to Lawrence Weiner, a mental image for the state of society, people, and the world today.
| Carrie Fisher's mom Debbie Reynolds dead at 84 | | MoMA announces major exhibition & film series celebrating New York's seminal Club 57 | | Metropolitan Museum exhibits Native American masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection | 
This file photo taken on January 24, 2015 shows actress Debbie Reynolds. Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Film legend Debbie Reynolds, best known for classic musical "Singin' in the Rain" died Wednesday after suffering a stroke, a day after the death of her movie star daughter Carrie Fisher, US media reported. The 84-year-old had been rushed to hospital in "fair to serious condition," paramedics told AFP, after collapsing at the Beverly Hills home of her son Todd Fisher around 1.00 pm (2100 GMT). "She wanted to be with Carrie," he was quoted as telling industry weekly Variety magazine. Celebrity news portal TMZ said Reynolds had died "as a result of a stroke," also citing her son. Fisher, who catapulted to worldwide stardom as rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, four days after suffering a heart attack ... More | | 
Xerox art exhibition at Club 57, c. 1980. Photograph by and courtesy Harvey Wang.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 19781983, a major exhibition examining the scene-changing, interdisciplinary life of downtown New Yorks seminal alternative space, on view from October 31, 2017, through April 1, 2018, in the Roy and Niuta Titus Galleries. The East Village of the 1970s and 1980s continues to thrive in the publics imagination around the world. During the pioneering years of the neighborhoods evolution as a center of social life and creativity, Club 57 was a core institution. This exhibition will explore that legacy in full for the first time. Club 57 is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, and Sophie Cavoulacos, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, with guest curator Ann Magnuson. The exhibition will be ... More | | 
Dress and Belt with Awl Case. Unrecorded Wasco Artist Wasco, ca. 1870. Hide, glass, shell, bone, teeth, metal. H. 52 Ã W. 43 1/2 in. (132.1 Ã 110.5 cm). Photo: Dirk Bakker.
NEW YORK, NY.- A selection of exceptional Native American works of art from New Yorks Charles and Valerie Diker Collectionone of the most outstanding and comprehensive private collections of its kindis on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With artworks ranging in date from the second to the early 20th century, Native American Masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection explores important achievements by artists relating to culturally distinct traditions from across the North American continent. The works of artcarefully selected by the collectors and Met curatorsreflect the unique and innovative visions from these traditions in a wide variety of aesthetic forms and media. Their presentation at The Met ... More |
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| Ground-breaking display on garniture/vase sets on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum | | Studio Museum in Harlem revisits a crucial decade for African American culture, with Circa 1970 | | 'Watership Down' author Adams dies aged 96 | 
Five-piece garniture, China, 1690, saved from the fire at Clandon Park, National Trust Images/James Dobson.
LONDON.- Organised in partnership with the National Trust, this display explores the history of the garniture; a set of ornamental vases unified by their design and a specific context. Complete sets of garnitures are exceptionally rare. A status symbol between the 17th and 19th centuries, garnitures later fell out of fashion. Sets were damaged or broken up and individual pieces sold off; few complete sets now exist, and even fewer survive in their original settings. This display brings together garnitures loaned from 13 different National Trust houses. These are complimented by objects from the V&As collection as well as two private loans to present an overview of this overlooked ceramic phenomenon. Highlights include a set reconstructed especially for the display, a garniture made in miniature for a dolls house, an extremely rare seventeenth-century silver set of jars, a striking Rococo set and Wedgwood ceramics. ... More | | 
Beauford Delaney, Portrait of a Young Musician, 1970. Acrylic on canvas, 51 Ã 38 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Ms. Ogust Delaney Stewart, Knoxville, TN 2004.2.27 Photo: Marc Bernier.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, announced five new exhibitions and projects opening: Circa 1970, Black Cowboy, VideoStudio: Meeting Points, The Window and the Breaking of the Window and Harlem Postcards Fall/ Winter 201617. Circa 1970 features a wide-ranging selection of works drawn from the Museums unparalleled collection, including recent major gifts, to revisit a crucial decade for African-American culture and the Studio Museum itself. Black Cowboy pays tribute to an infrequently acknowledged but centuries-old traditionand complicates one of the central myths of popular culture by presenting photographs and cinematic materials about present-day African-American communities where the keeping and training of horses remain a way of life. VideoStudio: Meeting Points presents three ... More | | 
The popular book is about a group of rabbits searching for a new home after the destruction of their warren, encountering perils along the way.
LONDON (AFP).- British author Richard Adams, who penned the tear-jerking classic novel Watership Down about a community of rabbits, has died at the age of 96, a statement on the book's website said on Tuesday. "Richard's much-loved family announce with sadness that their dear father, grandfather and great-grandfather passed away peacefully at 10 pm (2200 GMT) on Christmas Eve," the statement said. The popular book is about a group of rabbits searching for a new home after the destruction of their warren, encountering perils along the way. The book, his first novel, was published in 1972, made into an animated film in 1978 and later into a television series which ran from 1999 to 2001. A new series set to air in 2017 was announced by the BBC and Netflix earlier this year. The book has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and is taught in British schools. Adams told an interviewer that the book started out as a story he ... More |
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| First exhibition of the Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar in Germany on view at Deutsche Bank KunstHalle | | Jordan Wolfson's first Dutch solo exhibition on view at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | | New work by the American artist Kerry James Marshall presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | 
Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003), Landscaping on Head, 1985. Watercolour on paper, 64 x 50 cm. Deutsche Bank Collection. © Estate of Bhupen Khakhar.
BERLIN.- With Bhupen Khakhar: You Cant Please All, the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition of the Indian painter in Germany. Renowned for his vibrant palette, unique style, and bold examination of class and sexuality, Khakhar (19342003) played a central role in modern Indian art, but was also a key international figure in 20th century painting. The first posthumous survey of Khakhars career, this exhibitionpreviously on view at Tate Modernwill bring together his work from across five decades and from collections around the world. In his lifetime Khakhar exhibited frequently in India and abroad, including documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 and Century City at Tate Modern in 2001. This retrospective will shed new light on his practice by presenting well known works on canvas and paper alongside rarely seen ... More | | 
Jordan Wolfson, Colored sculpture, 2016, collection LUMA Foundation, courtesy the artist, Sadie Coles HQ London and David Zwirner, NY. Photo: Dan Bradica.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents American artist Jordan Wolfsons first Dutch solo exhibition MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE. Wolfsons inaugural show in the Netherlands unfolds in two parts, both of which focus on his spectacular animatronic sculptures. Beatrix Ruf, director of the Stedelijk Museum, says Jordan Wolfson is one of the most outspoken minds and impressive artists of his generation. He has contrary attitudes about humanity in the current, fervent visual culture, and he conveys these ideas in striking images. At the Stedelijk, we enjoy working with young artists who reflect on contemporary life, something at which Wolfson excels. You dont just casually walk past his work; it seeks direct contact with the spectator. The exhibition will be a spectacular experience, one that everyone really must see. The first part of Wolfsons show ... More | | 
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting seven new lightboxes created by Kerry James Marshall.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the American artist Kerry James Marshall for the first time in Montreal. As part of BNLMTL 2016, The Grand Balcony, the MMFA is presenting a new chapter from Rythm Mastr, the artists well-known project, with a new series of illustrations displayed in lightboxes. Considered one of the most important American artists of his generation, Kerry James Marshall questions the depiction of African-Americans in culture and in art history. Over the past thirty-five years, he has produced a complex body of work, from painting to comic strips. Creating portraits, interiors, nudes and landscapes in various mediums, Marshall conflates actual and imagined events from African-American history and culture, and integrates a variety of stylistic influences to address the limited historiography of African-American art. For the BNLMTL 2016, The Grand Balcony, the MMFAs ... More |
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| Pallant House Gallery displays prints and multiples by Ian Hamilton Finlay | | M+ announces inaugural display of the museum's groundbreaking design collection | | American painter Avery Singer exhibits at Vienna's Secession | 
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joseph-Agricola Viala, 1994, lithograph © Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press.
CHICHESTER.- A display of prints and multiples by the contemporary Scottish artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) is on display at Pallant House Gallery. The artist, best known for his celebrated garden at Little Sparta near Edinburgh, created work which engaged with themes drawn from classical writers such as Virgil and connects the display with the Gallerys major autumn exhibition, The Mythic Method: Classicism in British Art 1920-1950. Finlays practice was unusual in that it encompassed a variety of different genres and media. He expressed poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design in material forms such as cards, books, prints, stone inscriptions, wood sculptures and even room installations and garden environments. His famous work at Little Sparta, referencing classical poetry and philosophy through garden sculptures and ... More | | 
Li Naihan, I AM A MONUMENT CCTV Wardrobe designed 2012; made 2016. Courtesy of Gallery ALL and Li Naihan ©.
HONG KONG.- M+, the new museum of visual culture in Hong Kongs West Kowloon Cultural District, announces Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection, the inaugural display of the museums groundbreaking design collectionthe first of its kind in Asia. Shifting Objectives runs until February 5, 2017. It is the second show to be mounted at the new M+ Pavilion, a permanent space on the West Kowloon site that hosts the museums exhibitions until the opening of the M+ building in late 2019. Including more than 120 works spanning from 1937 until now that have been acquired, or are under consideration for acquisition, by the museum, Shifting Objectives provides a preview of the scope and breadth with which M+ is approaching design and the object, focusing on the latters changing roles and meanings in the 20th and 21st centuries, as seen from the museums ... More | | 
Avery Singer, Sailor, exhibition view, Secession 2016, Photo: Sophie Thun.
VIENNA.- The Secession presents the work of the young American painter Avery Singer, whose innovative art effortlessly integrates references to art history and contemporaneity with an exploration of the underpinnings and mechanisms of digital media. In Sailorthe exhibition is the artists first solo show in AustriaAvery Singer displays a series of new pictures in large formats. Where her earlier work often scrutinized stereotypes and the rituals of the art world, a recognizable shift toward abstraction predominates in her most recent paintings. The most salient features are projected surfaces, screens within the picture, and shadows that take on a life of their own or sprawl over the bodies and objects like nets. The resulting novel pictorial spaces are characterized by an irritating interplay between the illusionistic depth of the painted volumes, the various planes of which the pictures are composed, and the flatness of th ... More |
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 Taschen publishes new book featuring portraitist extraordinaire Hans Holbein the YoungerNEW YORK, NY.- Religion, Renaissance, and Reformationthese three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/981543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Renaissance, whose skills took him to Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, and England, and garnered patrons and subjects as prestigious as Henry VIII, Thomas More, Anne of Cleves, and Reformation advocate Thomas Cromwell. While he started out with, and maintained, a repertoire of religious works, Holbein is regarded above all as one of the greatest portraitists in Western art history. His probing eye was matched with a draftsman mastery of line and an almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room. He combined this meticulous mimesis with an inspired amalgam of regional painterly traits, combining ... More Melbourne Art Book Fair returns to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017MELBOURNE.- Melbourne Art Book Fair returns to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, from March 16-19, 2017, with London-based Self Publish, Be Happy making their Australian debut as keynote guests. Formed in 2010, Self Publish, Be Happy assist young photographers in self-publishing their own photobooks. The inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair took place in 2015 and has since attracted more than 29,000 visitors, making it the most well-attended publishing event in the Asia-Pacific region. The third Melbourne Art Book Fair in 2017 will bring together international and local publishers and practitioners in a weekend of free talks, book launches, performances, and stalls featuring art, design, architecture and photography publications from around the world. The 2017 Melbourne Art Book Fair will also feature a large-scale architectural commission ... More New photo book: Jerome Ave by The Bronx Photo LeagueNEW YORK, NY.- The Bronx Documentary Center, a non-profit gallery and educational space focusing on documentary photography, film, and new media, has just released Jerome Ave by The Bronx Photo League. This marks the BDC's first photo book offering from its newly formed imprint -- BDC Editions. Jerome Ave documents and celebrates the workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City's few remaining working class neighborhoods. The city is considering a plan to rezone two miles along Jerome Avenue, which may spell the end of a proud culture of industry and work in this last bastion of New York City's working class. Named in reference to The Photo League, a politically engaged collective of New York based photographers operating in the 20th century, The Bronx Photo League, a project of the Bronx Documentary Center, is ... More Chrysler Museum goes behind Iron Curtain in new exhibitionNORFOLK, VA.- On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, The Chrysler Museum of Art is presenting Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst. This exhibition of works by the master photographer made during the Cold War era is on view in the Museums Frank Photography Gallery and Focus Gallery through March 26, 2017. Admission is free. Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst explores East German public planning under Socialist rule and how private life resists conformity. Evocative views of the former totalitarian state and transformations of the capital, Berlin, before and after reunification are seen in Wüsts 84 black and white prints and in more than 200 album-mounted prints. This is the German photographers first solo exhibition in the United States. The show is curated ... More Alex Israel's Self-Portrait (Mom) created for the Jewish Museum's "Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings" seriesNEW YORK, NY.- As the latest iteration of the series Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings, which brings contemporary art to the Jewish Museums Skirball Lobby; a new work by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel is on view through April 23, 2017. Self-Portrait (Mom) (2016) is a painting of the artists mother made within an outsize silhouette of his head in profile. It was executed in the traditional Hollywood scenic style, a combination of airbrush and brushwork. Israels Self-Portrait first appeared in 2012 as the logo for his online talk show AS IT LAYS, and subsequently as a series of color studies on fiberglass panels. As the Self-Portraits have evolved, Israel began to depict scenes and symbols fundamental to picturing Los Angeles: the Dodgers baseball team, a palm tree, a directors chair. The artist enacts a not-so-subtle branding by intertwining his own image with those ... More Show of extraordinary works by six visual artists on view at Greater Reston Arts CenterRESTON, VA.- Greater Reston Arts Center presenting a thematic show of extraordinary works by six visual artists who are exploring spirituality, modern life, and ecological concerns through a variety of delicate and precisely crafted paper-cut pieces. The exhibition provides a rich example of the endless possibilities derived from a medium as versatile as paper and will feature site-specific installations, quirky mix-media collages, humorous animations, scientific illustrations, and transformative sculpture. Featured artists are Ed Bisese, Maëlle Doliveux, Bhavna Mehta, Beverly Ress, Leslie Shellow, and Eric Standley. CUT is the final exhibition in a trilogy of shows organized by the Greater Reston Arts Center examining labor-intensive, hand-manipulated, contemporary artworks made from humble materials traditionally associated with domestic craft. The ... More 'A Man and a Woman' singer Pierre Barouh dies at 82PARIS (AFP).- French songwriter, composer and singer Pierre Barouh, who penned and sang the international hit "A Man And A Woman" from the eponymous 1966 film, died Wednesday aged 82, his wife said. Barouh, who had been in hospital for five days, died following a heart attack, Atsuko Ushioda told AFP. Raised in the western Paris suburbs in a Jewish family, Barouh followed a chequered career, becoming a journalist after World War II and playing for the national volleyball team before going on to Brazil where he befriended the main singers and composers of bossa nova. He returned to France and starred in films and turned to composing music. 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"We are thrilled to be able to display Robert Engman's remarkable work at the Michener," said Lisa Tremper Hanover, director and CEO of the Michener Art Museum. "There is an almost magical geometry to his sculptures, inviting close examination. We look forward to sharing that experience with our Michener visitors." "Engman's sculpture is as beautiful as it is distinctive," said Kirsten M. Jensen, ... More Exhibition examines how Sidsel Paaske could end up being so overlooked in Norwegian art historyOSLO.- We play while we practise was Sidsel Paaskes motto in life. During her brief but multifaceted career as an artist, she was always searching for an unvarnished and genuine outlet for her energy outside of the conventional norms of quality. Ever since she began her artistic career in the early 1960s, Sidsel Paaske was intensely open to new impulses, whether African art, Norwegian folk music, objets trouvés, or unconventional materials. The Museum of Contemporary Arts exhibition, titled On the Verge: Sidsel Paaske (19371980), examines how such a complex and ground-breaking artist as Paaske could end up being so overlooked in Norwegian art history. Stina Högkvist, the curator of the exhibition, has recently researched Paaskes life and works in depth, studying an extensive collection of material (letters, posters, diaries, newspaper clippings, sculptures, jewellery, illustrations, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, was born December 29, 1896. David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco. He, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco established Mexican Muralism. He was also a Stalinist and member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940. In this image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 73, Mexican muralist, painter and activist, is shown in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 10, 1970.
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