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Exhibition view "Into the Third Dimension: Spatial Concepts on Paper from the Bauhaus to the Present" Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museums programme for 2017 kicks off with an exhibition looking at the representation of spatial concepts in drawing and printmaking. From 15 February to 14 May, Into the Third Dimension: Spatial Concepts on Paper from the Bauhaus to the Present are being shown in the Exhibition Hall of the museums Department of Prints and Drawings. The show examines how such things as delineation, form, and volume, inside and outside characteristics that define space and aid orientation are represented in drawing and printmaking, in essence on flat, two-dimensional surfaces. The exhibition takes visitors on a tour beginning with the geometric compositions created in 1923 by El Lissitzky and László Moholy-Nagy, through to examples of printmaking in contemporary conceptual art. It encompasses works by a total of 13 artists, including Lucio Fontana, Eduardo Chillida, Sol LeWitt, Blin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Director Lonnie Bunch (L) talks with US first lady Melania Trump and Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they tour the Museum along with Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton (R) on February 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. MOLLY RILEY / AFP.
| Long-dead reptile gave live birth, study says | | In search of lost Proust: Film may show revered author | | Guggenheim Foundation appoints Nancy Spector to new post of Artistic Director and Chief Curator | 
Artist's reconstruction of Dinocephalosaurus showing the rough position of the embryo within the mother.
PARIS (AFP).- An unusually long-necked marine reptile gave birth to live young 245 million years ago -- the only known member of the dinosaur, bird and croc family to not lay eggs, researchers said Tuesday. Archaeologists examining the fossil of a female Dinocephalosaurus from Yunnan Province, southwest China, were amazed to discover the remains of a baby among the bones where her abdomen would have been. "I was so excited when I first saw this embryonic specimen," said Jun Liu of China's Hefei University of Technology who co-authored a study published in Nature Communications. "This discovery rewrites our understanding of the evolution of reproductive systems." Dinocephalosaurus was a member of the archosaur family, which includes extinct dinosaurs as well as today's birds and crocodiles -- all egg-layers. The archosaurs' sister clade of turtles also lays eggs, but a third group of reptiles called lepidosaurs, including lizards and ... More | | 
Marcel Proust (seated), Robert de Flers (left) and Lucien Daudet (right), ca. 1894. Photo: wikipedia.org
PARIS (AFP).- An oval face with a thin black moustache, descending the steps of a Paris church: Is this the only known footage showing the French literary giant Marcel Proust? A Canadian researcher says it is indeed, in a silent film taken on November 14, 1904, when the author of "In Search of Lost Time" was 33 years old. The man thought to be Proust appears in the 37th second of the clip, which lasts one minute, 11 seconds and was published Wednesday on the website of the French magazine Le Point. Wearing a grey top coat and black bowler hat, he is leaving the high-society wedding of Armand de Guiche, a close friend of the author's, and Elaine Greffulhe, a great-niece of Robert de Montesquiou, who inspired the Baron de Charlus, one of the main characters of "In Search of Lost Time". The seven-volume masterpiece, dwelling on the theme of involuntary memory, has also been translated with the title "Remembrance of ... More | | 
Nancy Spector. Photo: INEZ AND VINOODH.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, today announced that Nancy Spector has been appointed to serve as the institutions first Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, providing conceptual and strategic leadership of collections, exhibitions, and curatorial programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York and at all Guggenheim museums internationally. Through the new position of Artistic Director and Chief Curator, the Guggenheim will unify and strengthen artistic activities throughout its international constellation of museums and initiatives, both existing and in development, while accommodating the particular collections, initiatives, and audiences of each. Nancy Spector previously served at the Guggenheim for more than 29 years, most recently in the role of Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator. She joined th ... More |
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| The £9 million wristwatch: It's a man's world when it comes to watches say Barnebys | | Exhibition features early works, objects, and documentation of Jean-Michel Basquiat's formative years | | Exhibition at Sotheby's S/2 features 9 women spanning 4 continents and over 100 years of creativity | 
World Record Patek Philippe Ref: 1518 chronograph in steel sold at Phillips for £9m.
LONDON.- The last ten years have seen mens wristwatches rocket in value says Barnebys, the art and auction aggregator which covers sales of 1,600 auction houses globally. Last year (2016) sales of vintage wristwatches at the five major international auction houses - Antiquorum, Bonhams, Christies, Phillips and Sothebys with some 3,250 vintage and modern pieces for sale - made a total of $400m. There is no comparison between the prices being paid for men and womens watches. Men it seems are the ones interested in this technology much more than women and are prepared to pay through the nose for the privilege of wearing the best. The Barnebys website which displays and tracks and art and collectables auctions from auction houses around the world shows the following trends on watch searches as we enter 2017: Rolex is the second most searched word at Barnebys globally. In order of global interest in w ... More | | 
Basquiat in the apartment, 1981. Photograph by Alexis Adler.
DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver announces Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980. The exhibition includes the entire cache of works made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during the year he lived with his friend Alexis Adler in a small apartment in the East Village. This archival material provides rare insight into the artistic life of Basquiat before he was recognized as a prominent painter in the early 1980s. While living in this apartment, Basquiats creative impulses moved fluidly from his SAMO tags on the surrounding streets and neighborhood into a more sustained practice in their shared home. Through paintings, sculpture, works on paper, a notebook, and other ephemera, as well as Adlers numerous photographs from this period, this exhibition explores how the context of life in New York informed and formed Basquiats artistic practice. As Adler notes, From ... More | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Cross With Red Sky (Black Cross With Red Sky), inscribed Cross with Red Sky/1929/Oil on canvas/40 x 32 inches on the backing, oil on canvas, 40 by 32 in. 101.6 by 81.3 cm. Executed in 1929. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys S|2 gallery is presenting Now You See Me, an exhibition of works by nine of the most celebrated female artists of the 20th century that spans four continents and a hundred years of creative output. Assembled together for the first time, these works reveal the aesthetic and ideological kinship of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth, Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka, Joan Mitchell, Georgia OKeeffe, Mira Schendel and Tsuruko Yamazaki particularly in their shared relationship to the landscape. Now You See Me is now open to the public in New York through 5 March 2017. Elizabeth Goldberg, Chairman of American Art, stated: We are excited to introduce S|2s latest project, a tribute to the independent, powerful vision of ... More |
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| Exhibition of assemblages and collages by Louise Nevelson opens at Cortesi Gallery, Lugano | | 'The Blue Danube' keeps waltzing at 150 | | Pallant House Gallery opens the first major exhibition in the Sidney Nolan Centenary 2017 | 
Louise Nevelson, Untitled, 1982 ca., wood painted black, 167.6Ã137Ã20 cm, photo by A. Zambianchi, courtesy Cortesi Gallery London - Lugano.
LUGANO.- Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, presents the exhibition Louise Nevelson. Assemblages and Collages, a remarkable selection of 29 works realised by the artist between 1960 and 1980. Louise Nevelson (Kiev, 1899 New York, 1988) was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States in her early years. She is one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, an epoch that she lived to see almost in its entirety. Nevelson turned to collages from the mid-50s and these works clearly show the influence of Cubism, which she encountered during research trips in Europe. Realised on wooden or paper boards and in different dimensions, the collages reveal the artists attention to perspective, chromaticism, spontaneity of execution and compositional balance. To this first kind of artistic production, Nevelson added assemblages: in both cases, the works are realised by collecting scrape wood and metals bits found in the stree ... More | | 
A sheet music of the Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss is on display during the opening of the exhibition "Donau, so blau" at the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus in Vienna. VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP.
VIENNA.- Born out of defeat, initially not that popular and dedicated to a river that's more greeny-grey, the beginnings of "The Blue Danube" 150 years ago this week were inauspicious. But Johann Strauss Junior's rousing waltz, first performed on February 15, 1867, is now one of the world's most famous and catchiest pieces of classical music. It features in movies galore and is being performed and danced to still. "An der schoenen blauen Donau", as it is known in the original German, began life as a choral work commissioned by the Vienna Men's Choral Society. The main aim was to cheer people up after Austria had lost an important and bloody battle against Prussia, at Koniggratz, the previous summer. The title was said to have been inspired by a poem but the words were penned by the society's own lyricist, a policeman who humorously ... More | | 
Sidney Nolan, Kelly, Spring, 1956, oil on hardboard, 121.9 x 91.4cm, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © Sidney Nolan Trust.
CHICHESTER.- Pallant House Gallery will be holding the first major exhibition in the Sidney Nolan Centenary 2017. As part of a nationwide programme presented by the Sidney Nolan Trust to celebrate Sidney Nolans standing as a leading figure of international 20th century art, the exhibition focuses on Nolans time living and working in Britain and the critical reception he received there. It brings together works that reveal recurring themes such as Australian history and literature, mythology, and the tragic hero/anti-hero, whilst showing how he incorporated European influences into his Australian subjects. Sidney Nolan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1917 and in 1949 attracted the admiration of Sir Kenneth Clark, who encountered Nolans paintings on a trip to Australia, declared him a natural painter and encouraged him to try his luck in London. Nolan took up the challenge, moved to London in 1953 and therea ... More |
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| The Holburne Museum opens first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty | | Blain/Southern announces its representation of Jake & Dinos Chapman | | Artist Isaac Julien appointed Art Fund trustee | 
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Robbing the Birds Nest (detail), Oil on panel, 17.8 x 17.8cm, © Holburne Museum.
BATH.- The Holburne Museum announces the UKs first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty, including recent attributions for two paintings from the Museums own collection. Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty unravels the complex Bruegel family tree, revealing the originality and diversity of Antwerps famous artistic dynasty across four generations through 29 works, including masterpieces from the National Gallery, Royal Collection Trust, the National Trust, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Jennifer Scott, the Holburnes Director and co-curator of the exhibition notes, This exciting new exhibition not only shines a light on the quality of the Holburne Museums Flemish paintings, but also on the wealth of paintings by the Bruegel dynasty in the UK. A key work in the exhibition is Wedding ... More | | 
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Photo: Rachel King.
LONDON.- Blain|Southern announced its representation of Jake & Dinos Chapman. Over the past two decades, the Chapman brothers have created one of the most distinctive oeuvres in contemporary art. Their tableaux of twentieth-century ruin take on everything from the fast-food industry to our cultures preoccupation with war and violence. Deft in a range of media, which includes printmaking, painting and sculpture, the Chapmans often contaminate or remake an existing artwork to challenge our most valued beliefs. With their sharp wit and playful intelligence, Jake & Dinos Chapman never shy away from deflating the pieties of our age. This is yet another exciting development in the gallery's programme and we look forward to announcing the dates of our first exhibition with Jake & Dinos Chapman in the next few months. Dinos Chapman (b.1962, London, UK) received his BA at Ravensbourne College of Art in 1981 and his MA ... More | | 
Isaac Julien © Graeme Robertson.
LONDON.- Art Funds trustees announce the appointment of Isaac Julien, one of the UKs leading artists, to the board. The appointment is for five years from December 2016. Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Isaac Julien has exhibited in the 7th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008); Prospect 1, New Orleans (2008); and Performa 07, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (2011); LAtelier Hermès, Seoul (2011); ... More |
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 Cultural Traffic counterculture fair comes to FirstsiteCOLCHESTER.- Firstsite announced that it will be staging Cultural Traffic, a fair for counterculture material, alongside a day of performance, poetry, music and film, on Saturday 18th February. Free and open to all, the fair, which will be held in the gallerys foyer, will feature over 40 dealers of new, rare and collectable books, zines, prints, posters, catalogues, vinyl and tapes, giving the public a unique opportunity to purchase an eclectic variety of items at affordable prices directly from the producers. The hugely popular pop-up Syrian Café will return with a special menu of delicious food, available to eat-in or take-away. The café is run by Syrian families who have been resettled in Colchester, serving homemade delicacies from their region including lentil soup, falafel wraps, savoury pies and sweet pastries with money raised going back to Refugee ActionColchester. ... More Exhibition reflects upon how artists have engaged with the complex notion of collective memoryLONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery announces Screen Memory, a group exhibition that reflects upon how multi-generational artists have engaged with the complex notion of collective memory. Working across painting, photography, installation and video, the artists each have very distinct approaches yet collectively reveal the paradoxical ways in which individual and shared memories are retrieved and intersect. The exhibition title Screen Memory is a Freudian term for a particular recollection that masks deeper psychologically significant memories. Within Freuds theorem memories overlay and obscure each other, but vestiges of hidden layers rise to the top and coalesce. Here, the theory is used as a loose analogy for the ways in which shared and personal memories similarly commingle in the art object. It also refers to the kinds of flat surfaces and literal screens ... More Lehmann Maupin opens first solo presentation of Kim Guiline's work in the United StatesNEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announces the gallerys inaugural exhibition for Kim Guiline, the first solo presentation of his work in the United States. The lauded Korean artist is one of the foundational members of the Dansaekhwa movement that emerged in South Korea during the 1970s. The exhibition will feature a survey of work that includes rarely shown paintings from the 1960s, his well-known black and white paintings from the 1970s, and bright monochrome paintings from the 1980s-2000s. Dansaekhwa translates to monochromatic painting, and is also identified by experimental modes of paint applicationscraping or pushing of pigments through canvasthat aimed to break away from classical approaches to art making. The resulting paintings were considered to be avant-garde, both aesthetically and in their criticism of political and art establishments. ... More Enter the dragon: rural Chinese honour mythical beastLIANCHENG (AFP).- Dragons several hundred metres long snake their way down pastoral roads and through country hamlets, part of centuries-old Chinese folk celebrations for a mythical creature revered as a blessing. The visually striking festival is among a range of colourful traditional observances unique to eastern Fujian province and its Hakka people and held each year in conjunction with the Lantern Festival, which fell this year on February 11. The dragon is believed to scare off bad luck and bring the rains needed by farming communities in Liancheng county, a rural area of Fujian. In the village of Gutian on Saturday, residents began their two-day dragon parade by slitting the throat of a squealing pig on the grounds of a temple, the animal's blood spouting into a pan and later poured onto the head of the paper-and-wood dragon. The giant beast was then carried ... More Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens exxhibition of works by William KentridgeHUMLEBÃK.- In the preface to Louisiana Revy: William Kentridge Thick Time, Louisianas director Poul Erik Tøjner states: Everything is in motion for William Kentridge. Even when it stands still. His films unfold time, the instant expands, the past is drawn into the present and issues promises about the future, for who knows what motion will bring? ... It is the outside world that moves into Louisiana with cultural history and politics, with science and music, but with imagination and form as driving forces. Every single work in the exhibition, several of which are brand new, contains its own fable, and at the same time the exhibition is a universe we travel through, borne by a magical mover. Louisianas major spring exhibition presents the South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955). The exhibition focuses on prominent works from the period 2003-2016 with the emphasis on the large ... More Art dealer Paul Kasmin joins Invaluable's advisory boardBOSTON, MASS.- Invaluable today announced the appointment of Paul Kasmin, the owner of Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York and one of the most respected contemporary dealers in the art market, to Invaluables Advisory Board. Kasmin joins former Sothebys chairman, president and CEO Bill Ruprecht, who was recently announced as the inaugural member and chairman of the Invaluable Advisory Board. The pair will work with Invaluables leadership team to grow the business and expand relationships with dealers and galleries. Over nearly three decades as an art dealer in New York, Paul has showcased and supported extraordinary artists and built his gallery with a unique and important voice that is incredibly vibrant, said Rob Weisberg, Invaluable CEO. We welcome the perspective Paul brings as we seek to grow our partnerships with gallerists and dealers. His ... More Exhibition of works by Catalan artist Antoni Tapies opens at Timothy TaylorLONDON.- Timothy Taylor is presenting an exhibition of works by celebrated Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies (19232012) that, for the most part, have never been shown outside of Spain before. Emerging in the period between 2004 until the artists death, these late works, often monumental in size, reveal the artist at his most vigorous. As early as 1955, Antoni Tàpies declared: If forms are not capable of wounding, irritating or inducing society to meditate, to make it realise how backward it is, if they are not a revulsive, then they are not authentic works of art. This position is evident in the works he produced throughout his long and prolific career, not least of all the explicitly confrontational, ambiguous works produced after 2000. Tàpies believed that an artists responsibility was to interpret the contemporary situation. Now more than ever, these late works seem to demand a reflection on ... More Outstanding Galle, Daum Nancy, Weller, Roseville pieces offered at Woody AuctionDOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auction is offering a surefire cure for cabin fever with what its calling the finest art glass auction ever held at its Douglass gallery, opened in 2015. Offered will be over 350 lots, featuring three core collections of mainly art glass and art pottery. The sale will be held Saturday, March 18th, starting at 9:30 am Central time. The gallery is located at 120 East 3rd Street in Douglass. Expected top lots will include Galle and Daum Nancy bat vases, a Galle marquetry vase, brides baskets, Weller and Roseville art pottery. For those unable to attend in person, internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers (full link at www.Liveauctioneers.com/woody-auction-llc. Absentee bids will also be accepted. As with all Woody Auction sale events, everything will be sold without reserve. The entire catalog may be viewed online now, with crisp color ... More Debra Simon joins Times Square Alliance as new Director of Public ArtNEW YORK, NY.- The Times Square Alliance announced today that Debra Simon will join as the new Director of Public Art. Simon will be responsible for programming Times Square with installations and performance art from artists around the world. Simon most recently served as Vice President and Artistic Director of Arts Brookfield, where she commissioned, produced and presented world-class works of art as part of program that supports creativity and innovation in the fields of music, dance, theater, film, and visual art. Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, ... More Ayyam Gallery opens a collective exhibition that highlights contemporary painters from the Middle EastBEIRUT.- Ayyam Gallery Beirut is presenting Painting Across Generations , a collective exhibition that highlights contemporary painters from the Middle East who are recognised as international trendsetters. Featuring works by Samia Halaby, Safwan Dahoul, Thaier Helal, Tammam Azzam, and Afshin Pirhashemi, Painting Across Generations showcases some of the recent developments in art that are steering a new wave of painting in the Arab world and Iran. This diverse selection of artists represents a multigenerational lineage of ongoing experimentation in the region. A series of 2013 paintings by pioneering abstract painter Samia Halaby, for example, demonstrates how colourist compositions can recreate the sensations of nature. Using abstraction as a means of describing the interplays of light, tones, and shapes of foliage, or the movement, density, and reflectivity ... More Exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary focuses on a pivotal decade for British culture and politicsNOTTINGHAM.- The starting-point for this exhibition is a pivotal decade for British culture and politics: the 1980s. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film and archives, The Place Is Here brings together a wide range of works by more than 30 artists and collectives. The questions they ask about identity, representation and what culture is for remain vital today. In 1982, a group of artists and thinkers met in Wolverhampton at the First National Black Art Convention, to discuss the form, future and function of Black Art. Two years later, the second working convention took place here in Nottingham. What constitutes black art, or the Black Arts Movement was, and continues to be, heavily contested. This exhibition traces some of the urgent conversations that were taking place between black artists, writers and thinkers during the 80s. Against a backdrop of civil unrest and ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Keith Haring died February 16, 1990. Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. By expressing concepts of birth, death, sex and war, Haring's imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century. In this October 1986 file photo, artist Keith Haring stands in front of part of the Berlin Wall that he painted with a crawling baby in Berlin. The Berlin Wall came down in late 1989. Haring died of AIDS Feb. 16, 1990, at age 31.
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