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One result of the influence of European art in America, and that was common for both the indigenous and the Spanish who lived here; is the artistic fusion that occurs between pre-Columbian art and European art referred to as Colonial.
MONTEMORELOS, MEX.- The Museo Histórico Valle Del Pilón Abp is hosting the exhibition "Reencuentro Novohispano" consisting of works from the Collection of Javier Guidi Kawas. The exhibition is on view through March 2020. In the Middle Ages despite the economic depression that the European feudal states lived in, the noble class continued to demand luxury goods and spices from the East, such as silk or pepper, valuable products from Asia and that arrived at the Italian coasts through means that were less expensive than those of the traditional Silk Route. Genoa and Venice, examples of these new commercial emporiums, extended their dominion to islands and ports along the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, forging authentic overseas empires in Palestine, Byzantium and Egypt, on Caravels, sailing vessels, navigated by the likes of Fernando de Magallanes, (1480 Portugal - 1521 Philippines), and Chris ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The municipality of Santiago, one of the two Magic Towns in the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon, was filled with color with the great projection of the first video mapping on the facade of the Santiago Apóstol church. With three screenings at different times, attendees to the festivities of the patron saint could enjoy a unique show that filled the main square with music and color. The Video Mapping, which lasted 10 minutes, told the story of the municipality and its patron saint, Santiago Apóstol. More than 10 thousand people who attended the main square, were able to enjoy the show.
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 | | Rehs Galleries opens an exhibition of Parisian street scenes by Antoine Blanchard | | Beverly Pepper, sculptor of monumental lightness, dies at 97 | | David Hockney to lead Hong Kong Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988), La Madeleine (detail). Oil on canvas, 13 x 18 inches. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries is presenting an exhibition of Parisian street scenes by 20th-century French artist Antoine Blanchard (1910-1988). Running through February 28th, the exhibit features examples of the artists work dating from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with views of Place Vendôme, Place de la Concorde, Notre-Dame, Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Arc de Triomphe and many others. Blanchard, whose real name was Marcel Masson, was born in a small village in France just after the turn of the century. From an early age, Blanchard exuded artistic talent in those formative years, he spent time watching his father work as a carver in his small carpentry and furniture shop. Antoine would begin his studies in drawing at Blois, continuing on to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, where he was awarded the school's highest honor Le Prix du Ministre. It was at that point that Blanchard left Rennes and traveled ... More | | 
A photo provided by Curtis Bill Pepper shows the sculptor Beverly Pepper at work in Piombino, Italy in 1960. Curtis Bill Pepper via The New York Times.
by Margalit Fox
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Beverly Pepper, an acclaimed American sculptor whose work was suffused with a quicksilver lightness that belied its gargantuan scale, died on Wednesday at her home in Todi, Italy. She was 97. Her daughter, the poet Jorie Graham, confirmed the death. After beginning her artistic life as a painter, Pepper was known from the 1960s on as a sculptor of towering forms of iron, steel, earth and stone, often displayed outdoors. Her art is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and elsewhere and graces public spaces throughout the world. Pepper, who had lived and worked principally ... More | | 
David Hockney, 30 Sunflowers, 1996, oil on canvas, 182.9 x 182.9 cm. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys presents David Hockneys 30 Sunflowers from 1996, one of the most extraordinary and significant masterpieces from the artists visionary oeuvre, at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 6 April 2020. Created at a pivotal moment in both the personal life and professional career of the artist, 30 Sunflowers is a magnificent update of the classic still life for contemporary times, bearing strong reminiscence to Vincent van Goghs iconic Sunflowers while articulating an unabashedly radical yet intimately personal approach. Unseen in the market for almost a decade, the radiant, exuberant, and deeply poignant 30 Sunflowers is the supreme quintessence of Hockneys mature artistic output that powerfully establishes him as one of the greatest figurative painters of the twentieth century. 30 Sunflowers will be unveiled at Sothebys London on 7 11 February. ... More |
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| | Antony Gormley's giant drawing in space unveiled in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park | | American photographers shine among classic & contemporary photographs at Swann | | Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Richard Jackson's "Rooms" | 
Antony Gormley, New York Clearing, 2020. Approximately 18km (11mi) of 25.4mm (1in) square section aluminium and steel spigots. Installation view, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3, New York City, 2020. Photo: Christopher Burke. © the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of the international art project, CONNECT, BTS, introduced by BTS, pioneering global superstars from Korea, New Yorks Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3 is the site of the creation of a vast drawing in space by internationally acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley, which will be on show free to the public from 5 February 27 March 2020. New York Clearing (2020) is conceived as a single line made up of more than 11 miles of square aluminium tubing that loops and coils without beginning or end, rising to a height of nearly 50 feet, turning itself into an environment for the viewer that counters the grid of modernism and the city with swooping lines of energy. The work is situated on a landmark site at Pier 3, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, overlooking the East River. Speaking about New York Clearing, Antony Gormley said: This is the first time that I have ... More | | 
Margaret Bourke-White, The George Washington Bridge, warm-toned silver print, 1933. Estimate $50,000 to $70,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Tuesday, February 25 will bring forth an impressive selection of works, with American photographers forming the foundation of the sale. Highlights include works by Edward Steichen, landscape images from Edward and Brett Weston, documentary photography and more. A selection of floral studies forms a high point of the sale, with the scarce 1939 (printed 1940) Edward Steichen dye transfer print White Lotus. Shot at Steichens nursery in Umpawaug, CT and printed by Noel Deeks, who was associated with the master photographer from 1917 to 1942, the work is expected to bring $50,000 to $75,000. Imogen Cunninghams Magnolia Blossom, silver print, 1925, printed circa 1970, is present at $10,000 to $15,000, while Robert Mapplethorpes photogravures Three Roses in a Vase, 1983, and Tulip, 1984, are expected to bring $4,000 to $6,000 apiece. A run of works ... More | | 
Richard Jackson, The Dining Room (Detail), 2006-2007, Courtesy the artist, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Guillaume Grasset.
FRANKFURT.- More than any other artist of his time, Richard Jackson has focused his attention on the radical expansion of painting. The American artist pushes the formal boundaries of the picturesque and creates situations, which link the application of the paint through the use of machines to its processual aspect. From February 6 to May 3, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is assembling for the first time five of his altogether twelve characteristic Roomsroom installations based on the principle of automated painting. Some are viewable from all sides, others only through windows or peepholes. The exhibition provides glimpses into the Bed Room (2002), The Delivery Room (200607), The Dining Room (200607), The Maids Room (200607), and The War Room (200607). Jackson combines critical commentary on painting with social contexts, pairing this with provocative wit and ambiguity, as well as references ... More |
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| | Nigel Cooke presents ten new large-scale paintings presents at Pace Gallery | | Solo exhibition by Not Vital on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset | | The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces new acquisitions | 
Nigel Cooke, Gazing, 2019. Oil and acrylic on linen, 88-9/16" à 64-9/16" (224.9 cm à 164 cm) No. 74453 © Nigel Cooke, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition in New York, and fourth globally, of works by Nigel Cooke. Completed over the past year, these ten new large-scale paintings mark a significant shift in the artists direction toward a more performative, energetic, and abstract approach to figuration. This shift was propelled by a recent residency in the city, where Cooke remarked that the entire philosophy of what it is I am doing has been adjusted. These works, which reference actions, places, and people, exist as matrices in which the artists free and open process meets wider themes of metaphor, spirit, nature, representation, and the living material quality of paint. In this way, these new works draw on the legacies of American artists such as Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still as well as Abstract Expressionism, British Figuration, Spanish painting, and Chinese silk painting. The exhibition is on v ... More | | 
The multidisciplinary exhibition highlights the Swiss artists deep-rooted interest in the relationship between architecture, landscape and human perception.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset is presenting SCARCH, a solo exhibition by Not Vital, organised with Olivier Renaud-Clément and Giorgia von Albertini. The multidisciplinary exhibition highlights the Swiss artists deep-rooted interest in the relationship between architecture, landscape and human perception. A conflation of the two words sculpture and architecture, SCARCH transcends the boundaries of both formal terms, creating immersive, site-specific structures that provide a sense of wonder by means of alternative perspectives. Vital has travelled and exhibited widely since the 1970s, living between the United States, Niger, Italy and China, as well as his native Switzerland. The works on display span Not Vitals expansive oeuvre over the past five decades, ranging from early rudimental works from the 1960s, portrait sculptures, mixed-media works on paper ... More | | 
Henry Ossawa Tanner (18591937), Pomp at the Philadelphia Zoo, c. 1880-86. Oil on artists board, 12 x 10 in.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the addition of 39 historic, modern, and contemporary works to its permanent collection of American art. These new acquisitions include works of painting, wood, wax, and works on paper, created between c. 1784 and 2019. Among the works in this group of acquisitions are PAFA alumnus Henry Ossawa Tanners (1859-1937) painting Pomp at the Philadelphia Zoo (c. 1880-86); a wax profile portrait bust of George Washington (c. 1784-86) attributed to Patience Lovell Wright (1725-1786) the Revolutionary era predecessor to Madame Tussaud which will be the earliest known work by an American woman artist in PAFAs collection; The End, a 2016 work by Minerva Cuevas (b. 1975) most recently featured in PAFAs current exhibition Ancient History of the Distant Future; The Coast of Cornwall (1914), a landscape painting by Walter ... More |
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| | Green Art Gallery opens a group exhibition in collaboration with Jhaveri Contemporary | | Lisson Gallery announces the representation of New York based abstract painter Joanna Pousette-Dart | | Glasgow Museums secures iconic John Michael Wright portrait of Lord Mungo Murray for the city | 
Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (Ornamental Composition), 2019, Oil, oil crayon and pencil on linen, 157.5 x 137 cm.
DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery presents a group exhibition in collaboration with Jhaveri Contemporary from Mumbai with works by Kamrooz Aram, Lubna Chowdhary, Ali Kazim, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Mohan Samant and Lionel Wendt. This marks the gallerys first collaborative iteration with an international gallery, thereby encouraging the evaluation of existing models in the art market and in exhibition making. Jhaveri Contemporary was formed in 2010 by sisters Amrita and Priya with an eye towards representing artists, across generations and nationalities, whose work is informed by South Asian connections and traditions. The Mumbai-based Gallerys dedication to the creation of original scholarship, engendered through its carefully curated shows, is one of the many ways in which it distinguishes itself and resonates with Green Art Gallery. Entwined with this ... More | | 
Joanna Pousette-Dart, 3 Part Variation #4 (Triptych), 2012-13. Acrylic on canvas on shaped wood panels. © Joanna Pousette-Dart. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery announces the representation of New York based abstract painter Joanna Pousette-Dart. A solo exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper will open at the gallerys Tenth Avenue location in New York on 29 February. Her work will be featured on the gallerys booth at Frieze Los Angeles from 14 - 16 February. Born in New York to abstract expressionist painter and founding member of the New York School of painting, Richard Pousette-Dart, and having studied painting at Bennington College in Vermont amongst the likes of Greenbergian Formalists Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, Joanna Pousette-Darts experience as a painter rises from rich tradition. However, despite this traditional modernist background, her paintings remain anything but conventional. Pousette-Darts shaped paintings are unique in their melding of formal and poetic ... More | | 
John Michael Wright, Portrait of Lord Mungo Murray. Glasgow Museums Collection.
GLASGOW.- Glasgow Museums has secured A Highland Chieftain: Portrait of Lord Mungo Murray c.1683, a truly iconic portrait for the culture of Gaelic Scotland, by John Michael Wright (1617-1694) for the city. The striking painting is the earliest major portrait to depict a sitter full-length in Highland dress. Mungo Murray, aged 15, wears an exquisite doublet and féileadh mór, or belted plaid in tartan that pre-dates the invention of kilts and clan tartans. The purchase was made with the generous support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Art Fund, Friends of Glasgow Museums and the National Fund for Acquisitions. The painting has been put on display in the Scottish Identity in Art gallery at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, juxtaposed with interesting examples of Scottish weaponry, textiles and decorative art objects, which provide fascinating historical context. A Highland Chieftain: Portrait of Lord ... More |
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 Heritage Auctions reports 2019 sales of $824.7 millionDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced its total annual sales for 2019 surpassed $824.7 million, on strong results and several high-profile, world-record setting sales. Heritage recorded total sales of $824,761,706 in the 2019 calendar year, comprised of $559,931,610 in auction sales and $256,991,331 in private sales. Total sales online reached a company record of $483,857,445, or 58 percent of all sales, the highest dollar volume and percentage of sales of any auction house in the world. We set several world records last year and our overseas offices continue to grow at a steady pace, all of which helped our sales hold strong amidst a choppy economy, said Jim Halperin, Co-Founder of Heritage Auctions. These results and our long-term investments in the business have positioned us for a strong 2020. The firms core category, rare U.S. Coins, generated ... More Trees provide inspiration for exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center PALO ALTO, CA.- The public is having the opportunity to examine the power, purpose, and beauty of trees during the Palo Alto Art Centers Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art exhibition from January 25-April 5, 2020. The free exhibition explores the work of more than 20 contemporary artists from around the world inspired by the majesty, beauty, and importance of the trees around us. Perhaps more than any other elements of the landscape, trees represent nature, says Palo Alto Art Center Director Karen Kienzle. Their greenery breaks up the hardscape of our suburban or urban environments, reminding us of the natural world. Trees remain the largest living organisms on earth. They also serve as relics of a prehistoric world, with some trees in California dating to more than 2,500 years ago. For these reasons and more, trees have continued to inspire ... More Outsider art master artists fill Intuit's galleriesCHICAGO, IL.- Outsider Art: The Collection of Victor F. Keen (on view February 6-September 7, 2020) will have a seven-month exhibition run in Chicago, where enthusiasts have long promoted this art, sparked, in part, by artist Jean Dubuffet's 1951 speech at the Arts Club of Chicago endorsing the new genre. Outsider Art: The Collection of Victor F. Keen features highlights drawn from the collection of the prominent Philadelphia-based art collector. This iconic exhibition showcases one of the premier collections of outsider art in the United States, featuring more than 40 of the genre's most famous artists, such as MartÃn RamÃrez, George Widener, Lee Godie, Bill Traylor, James Castle and William Hawkins. The exhibition's time on view will be filled with engaging public programs and educational events, including an artist talk with George Widener; a panel ... More Presidential memorabilia featuring White House China collection of Raleigh DeGeer Amyx up for auctionBOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction is honored to revisit the internationally renowned collection of the late Raleigh DeGeer Amyx, a well-known historian, author, and recognized collector of rare relics and White House porcelain. This sale features more than 30 items from his collection, highlighted by an assortment of his beloved White House china. Amyx considered official White House china to be among the most coveted and desirable of presidential relics, as it is both visually appealing and represents the dining table of the presid https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm?IN=4028 ent of the United States. Highlights include: The extraordinarily rare circa 1790s serving plate from Thomas Jefferson's White House service. The stunningly beautiful white Chinese export porcelain serving plate features painted blue borders with gilt fleur-de-lis edges. ... More SOFTlab unveils Grotta Aeris in Raleigh, North Carolina RALEIGH, NC.- SOFTlab was commissioned to create an artwork as part of a lobby renovation, designed by Gensler, in 150 Fayetteville | Wells Fargo Capitol Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grotta Aeris by SOFTlab is a crystalline structure clad in copper-finished composite panels, such that it becomes an extension of the central elevator bank, which itself is clad in copper-backed glass panels. The form of the piece is inspired by the crystalline growth of natural elements. Copper, like many other natural elements, will grow in a very structured way, but as it responds to its immediate environment, the overall growth pattern takes on a more organic form. The rigid edges of the piece retain the rule-based logic of crystalline growth, while the overall form is much more organic, like the grotto-like form of an outcropping of growing copper. The piece spans ... More South African bead art is focus of new Funk Center exhibitionMELBOURNE, FLA.- Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence, a powerful overview of a new form of bead art developed by women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, opened a nearly three-month run Saturday, Feb. 1, at Florida Techs Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts. This art, called ndwango, involves stretching a black fabric tight like a canvas and then attaching colored Czech glass beads to transform the cloth into a contemporary art form of remarkable visual depth. Using skills handed down through generations, and working in their own unique style, these women create abstract as well as figurative subjects for their ndwangos. Ubuhle, pronounced o-buk-lay, means beauty in the Xhosa and Zulu languages and is an apt description for the shimmering quality of light on glass that the beadwork can generate. ... More Mazzoleni London opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Gianfranco Zappettini LONDON.- Mazzoleni London presents The Golden Age, a solo exhibition of paintings by Gianfranco Zappettini and curated by Martin Holman. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday 7 February and continue until Saturday 11 April 2020, followed by a second show from 23 April to 4 July 2020 at the Mazzoleni gallery in Turin. Gianfranco Zappettini, co-founder of the international Analytical Painting movement in the 1970s (which spanned Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands), is considered one of the most relevant living abstract Italian painters. The term Analytical Painting (Analytische Malerei), was coined by art historian and critic Klaus Honnef in 1974. Zappettinis works have been exhibited in public museums across Europe (Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, 1971; Galleria Civica dArte Moderna, Turin, 1977; Musée dArt Moderne de ... More The Julia Stoschek Collection opens an exhibition of works from its collectionDUSSELDORF.- The focus of this edition of JSC On View is on works from the Julia Stoschek Collection that engage with sociopolitical topics. The exhibition in the Düsseldorf collection building presents seven video and film works and eight photographs by eleven international artists. In addition to time-based art, the emphasis is on the genre of photography, which is also well-represented in the collection. The selected works not only look back thematically at past, political, and historical locations but also socially relevant events in the present age, which is characterized by political instability and violent conflicts. They also document current forms of territorial mechanisms of power and individual political resistance. Individuals and groups who are confronted with exclusion and separation take center stage in these works and are empowered ... More Gropius Bau opens an exhibition showcasing works by Akinbode AkinbiyiBERLIN.- The 2020 exhibition programme at the Gropius Bau begins with Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air, a photography exhibition showcasing works from various long-term series composed by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi over four decades. This exhibition explores Akinbiyis approach as a wanderer and mediator between the hemispheres, ceaselessly documenting and walking across coastlines and cities such as Lagos, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bamako, Athens, Chicago, Dakar and Khartoum. The city is his studio and peoples daily rituals become recurring manifestations before his camera. This exhibition highlights his unique relation to medium format photography and use of the twin-lens reflex camera in communicating the soul of inhabited landscapes. Taken from hundreds of photographs that comprise these ... More Major exhibition of work by artist Summer Wheat opens at Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art will present Summer Wheat: Blood, Sweat, and Tears, with an opening reception taking place Thursday, February 6, 2020, from 6:008:00 p.m., followed by an artist talk on Friday, February 7, at 6:00 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through May 24, 2020. "This major exhibition of work by artist Summer Wheat presents a period of development in process and reinforces her commitment to a strong presentation of female subjects, stated Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs at Kemper Museum. Evolving from Wheat's drawing practice, these vibrant and gestural tapestry-like paintings present new context for advancing historical representations of women, community, labor, and exuberance. In Blood, Sweat, and Tears, artist Summer Wheats vibrantly colored paintings ... More Study of rediscovered masterpiece offered at Art & Design SaleCAMBRIDGE.- A preparatory work of a painting that was famously rediscovered on the Antiques Roadshow in 2013 is being offered at Cheffins Art & Design Sale on Thursday 13th February. The rediscovery of Evelyn Dunbars Autumn and the Poet on the BBC show in September 2013 has done much to raise the profile of the artist who died in 1960. Antiques Roadshow expert Rupert Maas described the finished work on the show as a masterpiece and soon after it was purchased to be displayed at Maidstone Museum. Another result of the TV appearance was the emergence of 500 of Dunbars paintings and drawings after Ro Dunbar who is married to Evelyns nephew watched the show and remembered there was that a tightly bound collection of artworks in the attic of her farmhouse, near Biddenden in Kent. The collection turned out to be by Evelyn ... More Morphy Auctions appoints James Kochan as specialist in Americana, Early Arms and MilitariaDENVER, PA.- Dan Morphy, president of Morphy Auctions, has appointed James Kochan to the position of specialist for the companys Americana, Early Arms and Militaria division. Tapping into his vast knowledge of American antiques, Kochan will also be involved in the curation and cataloging of American manuscripts and fine art. We are honored and delighted that Jim has joined our team, said Dan Morphy. He is one of the most respected and knowledgeable authorities in his field. He will be working together with our Arms and Armor specialist David Geiger. I cant think of a more formidable pairing of experts to represent Morphys, both within the hobby and at the highest levels of the business world. Prior to founding James L. Kochan Fine Art & Antiques in 1998, Kochan was director of museum collections at Mount Vernon. During his tenure ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916 - 1917)
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