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Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Paradise Lost, 1921. Verlorenes Paradies, 1921. Oil on sackcloth, 106.5 x 157 cm © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll.
DUBLIN.- A major exhibition of work by pioneering German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) is being presented at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, from 14 February to 10 June 2018. Emil Nolde: Colour is Life is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Ireland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Emil Nolde Foundation in Seebüll. The exhibition comprises over 120 paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints, specially selected from the Emil Nolde Foundation, the artists former home in north Germany. It spans Noldes career from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right through to the intensely coloured oils, to his so-called unpainted pictures works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich, when Nolde was branded a degenerate artist and forbidden to work as a professional artist. The works on show also include Noldes famous ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Picture taken on February 14, 2018 shows the "Screaming Mummy" known scientifically as "the unknown man E" on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's Tahrir Square. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP
| Exhibition examines the fertile interaction between Islam and the Classical world | | Andy Warhol's 'Six Self Portraits' to lead Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London | | Exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery celebrates the prints of Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra |
Khamsa. Iskandar Attends the Dying Dara (right); Calligraphic Writing from The Seven Portraits (Haft paykar) (left). Author: Nizami Ganjavi (11411209); Copyist: Unknown; Language: Persian. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Folio: H. 25 cm; W. 15 cm. Iran, 17th century. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Frank L. Babbott: 34.5996. © Brooklyn Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- With manuscripts culled from international collections and assembled together for the first time, Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past on view at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores the ways in which Islamic scholars, scientists, doctors, philosophers, and writers absorbed and transformed the Classical Greek intellectual heritage for their own uses and, in so doing, shaped the intellectual contours of the Islamic world up to the dawn of modernity. Through nearly 70 manuscriptsmost never seen in the United Statesthe exhibition portrays the rich cultural and intellectual dialogue ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Six Self Portraits, 1986 (detail). Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, in six parts, each: 22 x 22in. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction, part of 20th/21st Century at Christies, a season of sales that take place from 20 February to 7 March 2018, will present work by some of the greatest icons of the 20th Century alongside those artists at the forefront of contemporary art today. The season will be led by Andy Warhols Six Self Portraits (1986), a rare masterpiece completed just months before his sudden death in 1987. The present work stands among his last great artistic gestures, his self-image charged with a poignant sense of his own mortality. Jackson Pollocks Number 21, 1950 (1950, estimate: £10,000,000-15,000,000), an opulent, splashed and spattered painting from the peak of his seminal drip period. New York was the creative backdrop for a group of dynamic artists working in the 1980s ... More | |
Sol LeWitt, Wavy Lines (Gray), 1995 (detail).
LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery celebrates the prints of two great American artists, Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) and Richard Serra (b. 1938), in two exhibitions that run concurrently from 14 February to 17 March 2018. Sol LeWitt: Colour will focuses on late prints by the artist. It is the first solo exhibition of graphic works by LeWitt to be shown in the UK, since his death over twenty years ago. Richard Serra: Black and White includes works from several recent prints series as well as six new black oil Paintstick editions which explore the properties of weight, balance and gravity. Through their ground-breaking and radical approaches, both artists went on to become prolific printmakers, using their chosen media to undermine our understanding of what constitutes an editioned work. Printmaking became central to LeWitts practice in 1970. Over his lifetime he undertook 170 print projects, and was honoured with ... More |
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| New Museum opens "Songs for Sabotage," the fourth New Museum Triennial | | Hirshhorn revisits the 1980s with "Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s" | | Meadows Museum acquires career-making oil sketch by Vicente López y Portaña |
Janiva Ellis, The Okiest Doke, 2017. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York. Photo: Joerg Lohse.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum opened the 2018 Triennial, Songs for Sabotage, on view from February 13May 27, 2018. Filling four floors of the Museum, the fourth iteration of the Triennial is co-curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, and Alex Gartenfeld, founding Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Songs for Sabotage brings together works across mediums by approximately thirty artists from nineteen countries. The exhibition questions how individuals and collectives around the world might effectively address the connection of images and culture to the forces that structure our society. Together, the artists in Songs for Sabotage propose a kind of propaganda, engaging with new and traditional media in order to reveal the built systems that construct our reality, images, and truths. The exhibition amounts to a call for ... More | |
Ashley Bickerton, Tormented Self-Portrait (Susie at Arles) No. 2, 1988. Mixed media; 90 x 68 1/2 x 20 in (121.92 x 243.84 cm). Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 1994.334. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s Feb. 14May 13, an expansive exhibition exploring the pivotal moments in the 1980s when artwork became a commodity and the artist, a brand. Razor-sharp, witty, satirical and deeply subversive, the nearly 150 works in Brand New examine the origins and rise of a new generation of artists in New York City who blurred the lines between art, entertainment and commerce, a shift that continues to define contemporary art today. Organized by Gianni Jetzer, the Hirshhorns curator-at-large, Brand New presents a fresh and focused history of the decade, bringing rarely displayed works from U.S. and European collections, ... More | |
Vicente Lopez y Portaña (Spanish, 17721850), Charles IV and His Family Honored by the University of Valencia, 1802. Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 15 in. (54 x 38 cm). Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase in memory of Nicole Atzbach with funds from The Meadows Foundation, MM.2017.04. Photo by Kevin Todora.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum at SMU has acquired an important preparatory study by Valencian artist Vicente López y Portaña (17721850), Charles IV and His Family Honored by the University of Valencia (1802). The museum purchase is a tribute to the late curator of the Museum, Nicole Atzbach, who died of cancer on November 4, 2017. Atzbach conducted significant research into the history of another painting by López at the Museum, a portrait of the American businessman and collector Richard Worsam Meade (1815). The new acquisition joins this and other works by López in the collection and represents a pivotal episode in the artists life, one that effectively altered the course of his career and eventually brought him into direct contact ... More |
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| Christie's announces highlights from the Art of the Surreal Evening sale | | Hammer Museum announces 32 artists for upcoming biennial Made in L.A. 2018 | | Dulwich Picture Gallery opens a major exhibition of works by David Milne |
René Magritte, Le groupe silencieux, 1926. Oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. Estimate GBP 6,500,000 - GBP 9,500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- The Art of the Surreal sale will follow the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 27 February 2018, both of which launch 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that take place in London from 20 February to 7 March 2018. This years seventeenth edition of the annual Art of the Surreal auction is a broad overview of Surrealism, its antecedents and later developments, with 34 lots by 15 artists. A major focal point is the four international collections, Abstraction Beyond Borders, The Eye of the Architect, the collection of Antoni Tà pies and the Triton Collection Foundation, with highlights including a metaphysical work by Giorgio de Chirico, a transparence by Francis Picabia, four early paintings by Joan Miró and surreal works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. The works from the sale will be exhibited in London from 20 to 27 February 2018. Olivier Camu, Deputy Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christi ... More | |
Nikita Gale, BIG BAD PICKUP, 2017. Mixed media, 82 Ã 42 1/2 Ã 31 1/2 in (208.3 Ã 108 Ã 80 cm). Courtesy the artist and 56 Henry, New York. Installation view, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Photo: 56 Henry.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced today the 32 artists participating in the upcoming Made in L.A. 2018, the fourth iteration of the Hammers biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area, with a primary focus on emerging artists. Organized by Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood and the recently appointed assistant curator Erin Christovale, the exhibition is on view June 3 September 2, 2018. Every Made in L.A. offers a distinct vision of the innovative work created by artists in Los Angeles, said Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin. Made in L.A. 2018 underscores that Los Angeles is a uniquely creative nexus where artists from all over the world connect across generations, disciplines, and backgrounds. Among the artists included in Made in L.A. 2018 and their works, there are shared interests and areas of exploration. Reflecting on the curren ... More | |
David Milne, Ripon: High Street, 1919, Art Gallery of Ontario. Bequest of Mrs. J.P. Barwick (from the Douglas M. Duncan Collection), 1985. © The Estate of David Milne.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents a major exhibition of one of Canadas greatest modern painters, David Milne (1882-1953). It showcases, for the first time in the UK, a wide selection of his oil paintings alongside watercolours, drawings and photographs, to reveal an artist of true originality and vision. Through periods of intense experimentation, often working in solitude in the wild, Milne developed an extraordinary body of landscapes, fusing influences from Monet, Matisse and Cezanne into a bold modernist language of his own. David Milne: Modern Painting follows Dulwichs revelatory Painting Canada show in 2011, which introduced work by Milnes contemporaries Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, and From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia in 2014. Arranged chronologically, the exhibition follows Milnes artistic development as he moves from the bustling sidewalks of New York ... More |
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| Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna opens exhibition of works by Man Ray | | The Fundació Joan Miró opens Beehave, a project that draws on contemporary artists' interest in honey bees | | Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz open exhibition dedicated to Swiss artist Balthasar Burkhard |
Man Ray, Cadeau | Gift, 1921/1958. Bemaltes Bügeleisen und Nägel The Museum of Modern Art, New York, James Thrall Soby Fund, 1966 © 2017. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florenz © MAN RAY TRUST/Bildrecht, Wien, 2017/18.
VIENNA.- Man Ray (1890-1976) is renowned by the great majority today as a photographer. But in fact he was one of the most productive and versatile artists of the twentieth century. While he has long been celebrated as an icon in the USA, in Europe scanty attention has been paid to his complete oeuvre until now. The exhibition in the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien aims to reverse this situation by spotlighting the universal artist Man Ray. Around 200 works from international lenders, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate London, the Collection Marion Meyer in ... More | |
Jerónimo Hagerman, Relacions mutualistes.
BARCELONA.- According to the experts, bees are so sensitive to environmental changes that they are considered natural indicators of our planets health. These small insects play a key role in the balance of the Earths ecosystems; bees are essential for preserving biodiversity and pollinating the crops that feed humankind. However, they are now facing many dangers, such as climate change caused by global warming, the use of pesticides and other chemicals, parasites such as the varroa mite and foreign species like the Asian hornet. In response to these threats, in recent years there has been a growing interest in what is referred to as urban beekeeping, which makes use of a variety of city spaces such as rooftops and public parks to install hives and renaturalise urban environments. Major cities such as London, San Francisco, Paris and Melbourne have ... More | |
Balthasar Burkhard, Füsse 2 (Feet 2), 1980 © Estate Balthasar Burkhard.
ZURICH.- Together, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz have launched a major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the lifetime achievement of Swiss artist Balthasar Burkhard (19442010). His oeuvre is almost unparalleled in the way it reflects not only the self-invention of a photographer but also the emancipation of photography as an artistic medium in its own right during the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition charts the many facets of Burkhards career, step by step, from his apprenticeship with Kurt Blum in which he adhered closely to the traditional reportage and illustrative photography of the 1960s, and undertook his first independent photographic projects to his role alongside legendary curator Harald Szeemann, and his documentation of Berns bohemian scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Balthasar ... More |
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NOMAD reveals details of forthcoming showcase in Monaco following a winter edition in St. Moritz
ST. MORITZ.- NOMAD St. Moritz closed on Sunday, 11th February, at Chesa Planta, where 21 leading galleries dramatically transformed the interiors of the historic alpine mansion with thoughtfully exhibited contemporary art, rare furniture pieces from the early 1900s, and cutting-edge objects by some of todays most exciting artists, designers and architects, including Doug Aitken, Mattia Bonetti, George Condo, Sou Fujimoto, Ernst Gamperl, Max Lamb, Soft Baroque and Gelitin. Alongside gallery presentations, a programme of Special Projects was showcased including an exhibition curated by McClelland + Rachen, new architect designed rugs presented by PHILLIPS in collaboration with ArtinD, A Sense of Belonging curated by Giovanna Lisignoli exploring the Engadines rich cultural heritage and A Mind ... More
ArtBAB 2018 to celebrate Bahrain's diverse multicultural history 14 - 18 March 2018
MANAMA.- This March sees ArtBAB return to Bahrain to host galleries and artists from around the world embracing Bahrains cultural heritage as an intimate marketplace. Now in its third year, ArtBAB reinforces Bahrains position in the Gulf as a regional arts hub, inspiring entrepreneurship, art education and local skills development. Led by Fair Director Kaneka Subberwal, this edition of ArtBAB promises to exhibit eclectic contemporary art, while a central pavilion will showcase the best work of Bahraini artists. The fair is a dynamic space for the exchange and discussion of ideas, providing support for smaller art communities and the art market as a whole. The programme of educational talks and panel discussions will run alongside a VIP programme, designed to introduce collectors to the art and culture of Bahrain alongside the opportunity to network and meet other ... More
Eva Kot'átková develops an original and immersive project for Pirelli HangarBicocca
MILAN.- For the exhibition The Dream Machine is Asleep, curated by Roberta Tenconi, Eva Kot'átková has developed an original and immersive project in which existing works are placed side by side with new productions, including installations, sculptures, over-sized objects, collages and performances. Starting from a vision of the human body as a machine, a great organism of which the functioning requires checking, regeneration and rest, and from the idea of sleep as a moment in which, through our dreams, we come up with new visions and enter parallel worlds, the exhibition explores our most intimate projections and thoughts, as well as the angst and disorientation of contemporary living. Through her works, Eva Kot'átková (Prague, 1982), one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation, questions contemporary society and its dysfunctions, highlighting the profound ... More
Smart Museum establishes Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry
CHICAGO, IL.- The Smart Museum of Art announced the creation of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, a new center that will integrate object-driven inquiry into the educational mission of the University of Chicago. Housed at the Smart and led by newly appointed director Issa Lampe, the Feitler Center is named for Joan (AM 55) and Robert Feitler (Lab 45, X 50) in recognition of a $5 million gift and decades of service to the University and the arts. The Feitler familys gift joins a $5 million bequest from Paul and Miriam Kirkley (which established an acquisitions endowment in 1999) as one of the largest gifts in the Smart Museums history. The Center will provide a resource for UChicago students, artists, and faculty and will be a destination for scholars and community members to engage in interdisciplinary research, learning, and conversations driven by the study ... More
Partial set of Chinese carved jadeite zodiac animal seals brings $8,750 at Bruneau & Co.'s Feb. 3 auction
CRANSTON, RI.- To say that Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers February 3rd auction featured an eclectic mix of merchandise would be a gross understatement. The top three lots in the 353-lot sale were a partial set of Chinese carved jadeite zodiac animal seals ($8,750); a U.S. flag rug made by the Boston Wool Association ($5,625), and a palace-size Persian Oriental rug ($5,000). Prior to the sale we had been sure of the quality of the jade, but we werent sure how receptive collectors would be with only nine of the seals present, said Kevin Bruneau, the president and auctioneer of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Bidders were attracted to the excellent quality of the seals carving and the fact that each one showed a figural animal perched on a rectangular base. Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. specialist and auctioneer, added, Overall it was a great sale, with ... More
Michel Rein presents Maria Thereza Alves's \Seeds of Change: New York - A Botany Colonization'
PARIS.- Michel Rein is presenting Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change: New York - A Botany Colonization. This project was exhibited at the New School in NYC at the occasion of the Vera List Center Prize for Arts and Politics 2016-2018 awarded to Maria Thereza Alves on November, 2017. Seeds of Change: New York - A Botany Colonization is Maria Thereza Alves forth solo exhibition at the gallery after Const ructed Landscapes (2009, Paris), Beyond the painting / Unrejected Wil d Flora (2014, Paris) and The Flood (2017, Brussels). «Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change studies settler colonialism, slavery, global migration, and commodification through the lens of displaced plants in ballast the waste material historically used to balance sailing ships in maritime trade. Dumped in ports at the end of passages as the ships took on more freight, ballast ... More
Ryan Lee opens exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs by Italian artist Angiola Gatti
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee presents Lines of Time, its second exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs by Italian artist Angiola Gatti. In Lines of Time, Gatti continues to push the limitations of her preferred medium, the ballpoint pen. In both her intimately-scaled works on paper and large unstretched canvases, Gatti weaves a complex network of pen marks to create compositions that seem at once frenetic, spontaneous and meticulously composed. Using a limited palette of blacks, blues, reds and yellows, Gatti blurs the boundary between painting and drawing. She layers her lines to produce abstract veils of varying densities, explosions of forward motion that halt abruptly, and erratic bursts of shape and hue that seem to hover and float. The relationship between line and negative space is of particular significance to Gatti, and the exhibitions ... More
Focused exhibition of three major series by Hank Willis Thomas on view exclusively at The Ringling
SARASOTA, FLA.- Striking selections from three of prominent contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomass most provocative series Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915-2015; Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008; and Branded are on view at The Ringling. Hank Willis Thomas: Branded/Unbranded is curated by Christopher Jones, associate curator of photography and new media at The Ringling, which is the sole venue for the exhibition. It has been installed in The Ringlings Monda Gallery of Contemporary Art from Feb. 11 to June 10, 2018. Through these important works, Hank Willis Thomas decodes and reexamines stereotypes that have endured for generations, said Steven High, executive director of The Ringling. We extend our warm thanks to William and Jane Knapp, who generously donated funds for ... More
Luci Creative designs new traveling exhibit creatively addressing STEM learning initiatives
CHICAGO, IL.- The "JOIDES Resolution" (widely known as the JR) is the flagship research vessel for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), which is dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth through drilling, coring and monitoring the sub-seafloor. With the U.S.A. investing over $1 billion in ocean research over the past 15 years, the JR's ongoing work represents truly phenomenal educational opportunities spanning the vital fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). While bringing the JR to land-locked communities across America to share IODP's latest findings would be highly difficult, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) has partnered with numerous organizations including the National Science Foundation (NSF) - to evoke this experience. In association with a network of civic and ... More
Giant London glasshouse to reopen with world's rarest plants
LONDON (AFP).- A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world's rarest plants following a lengthy facelift. "Temperate House" in London's Kew Gardens is large enough to house three jumbo jets, and was home to around 1,000 species of plants from around the world before it was shut in 2013 after falling into a state of disrepair. "There was rust everywhere, all the paint was falling off, and look now, it's all brand spanking new," project manager Andrew Williams told AFP, as a fleet of diggers and teams of workers put the finishing touches to the £41 million ($57 million, 46 million euros) renovation project. The wrought iron and glass structure was designed by esteemed Victorian architect Decimus Burton in 1860 and opened in 1863. The facelift required ... More
The Mummy, King Kong and London Vampires highlight horror movie posters sale at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Rare movie posters from classic American horror flicks, including the only-remaining Belgian poster for The Mummy (Universal, 1933), haunt Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters event April 7-8 in Dallas. Cinema's classic monsters in the 600-lot auction range from a beastly, 47-inch tall poster for King Kong (RKO, 1933) to an elusive poster from the iconic vampire film London After Midnight (MGM, 1927). "Our spring auctions traditionally offer posters with stunning images from some of the most iconic movies ever made," Heritage Auctions Vintage Posters Director Grey Smith said. "We believe there are rare posters in this wonderful group for every taste." The 24-1/2-by-33-1/2-inch stone lithograph poster for The Mummy, which is making its auction debut at Heritage, is the only remaining poster of its kind. It depicts the haunting visage of Boris Karloff as the shrouded ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Charles-André van Loo was born February 15, 1705. Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 - 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. In this image: Perseus and Andromeda.
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