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Amalia Pica (Argentine, born 1978). Venn Diagrams (Under the Spotlight). 2011. Spotlights and motion sensors. Dimensions variable. Promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced that it has received a major gift of 90 works of contemporary art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, significantly enhancing the Museums holdings of contemporary works by Latin American artists. Together with the establishment of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America in 2016, and the more than 140 works by Latin American artists previously given to MoMA by Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the new gift reinforces the longstanding relationship between the Museum and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and advances MoMAs commitment to exploring and fostering Latin American art and artists. The gift includes works by 48 artists representing 10 Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In addition to works b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Today, 11 January, this statue, made by the internationally well known Russian sculptor Alexander Taratynov, will be officially presented at the (now flooded) harbour shore of the River IJssel in the village of Veessen, to commemorate the ship-bridge across the River IJssel, built in November 1813 by the 1st Bashkir Regiment, under the command of Prince Fedor Fedorovich Gagarin.
| Germans outraged as historic church makes way for coal mine | | Serge Alain Nitegeka's third solo exhibition with Marianne Boesky Gallery opens in New York | | Rediscovered master work offered at Bonhams Travel and Exploration sale | 
Spectators and journalists look on as the desacralized St Lambertus church in Erkelenz-Immerath, western Germany, is being demolished on January 8, 2018. Henning Kaiser / dpa / AFP.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP).- The demolition of a historic German church to clear the way for the expansion of an open-cast mine this week has outraged locals and environmentalists, as politicians moot giving up their own clean energy targets. Built in large part by local people and consecrated in 1891, St Lambertus church in Immerath, North Rhine-Westphalia state, was ripped down by diggers' hydraulic arms on Monday and Tuesday, leaving a heap of rubble where the neo-Roman nave and twin towers once stood. Police brought in reinforcements Monday to manage a crowd of protesters who held up the demolition for five hours, local newspaper Rheinische Post reported. "Those who destroy culture destroy people too," a banner held up by Greenpeace demonstrators read. Immerath and its church have been doomed since 2013, when Germany's constitutional court ... More | | 
Serge Alain Nitegeka, Colour & Form XXXVIII, 2017. Paint on wood, 64 1/2 x 48 inches, 164 x 122 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Serge Alain Nitegeka. Photo: Object Studies.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Personal Effects in BLACK, Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegekas third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a new body of work, created in 2017, that continues Nitegekas examination of color, form, and space. Personal Effects in BLACK is being presented across both the gallerys Chelsea locations, connecting them with a site-specific installation in one of the interior corridors. The paintings featured in Nitegekas exhibition highlight the artists ongoing engagement with the ways in which manipulations of line, color and volume affect our experience and understanding of space. This new body of work can be traced to Nitegekas earlier large-scale, site-specific installations, which he began in 2008 and were composed of variously scaled ... More | | 
Detail of Vera Cruz, and Castle of San Juan DUlloa by Daniel Egerton. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Vera Cruz, and Castle of San Juan DUlloa, by the British 19th century topographical painter Daniel Egerton, leads Bonhams Travel and Exploration Sale in London on 7 February. It is estimated at £200,000-300,000. The painting has been in private hands since it was first exhibited at the Society of British Artists in the late 1830s, and has been owned by the same family for at least the last 120 years. Daniel Egerton (1797-1842) led a short but turbulent life, and his time in Mexico played a pivotal role in his artistic career. Born in London in 1797, Egerton made his first trip to Mexico in 1831. He spent five years travelling the country sketching the scenery. On his return to England in 1836, he created 13 large scale oils and watercolours, and in due course published 12 of them as a set of lithographs. These proved very popular, and in 1840 he returned to Mexico, having abandoned his wife and family in ... More |
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| The Dalà Museums receive 1,4 million visitors in 2017 | | Museum receives 24 works of art from Souls Grown Deep Foundation | | Extremely rare Danish abolitionist medal acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | 
A child touches Salvador Dali's tombstone inside the Teatre-Museu Dali (Theatre-Museum Dali) in Figueras. LLUIS GENE / AFP.
FIGUERES.- The Dalà Foundation announced that the three Dalà Museums received 1,444,853 visitors in 2017. This represents an increase of 5.56% compared to year 2016. In detail, this amount corresponds to: Dalà Theatre-Museum and Dal÷Jewels gallery, Figueres: 1,207,149 visitors, this represents an increase of 6.43% compared to year 2016. Gala Dalà Castle in Púbol: 88,341 visitors, it represents an increase of 2.85% compared to year 2016. Salvador Dalà House-Museum in Portlligat: 149,363 visitors, this represents an increase of 0.50% compared to year 2016. The total amount of visitors in 2017 is higher than 2016 despite a decrease in October, November and December. The increase was already noticeable in January 2017. We experimented a recovery of Russian and Italian visitors. The number of people coming from the United States continues to grow. ... More | | 
No Light on the Crosses, 1994. Lonnie Holley, American, born 1950. Wood, metal fencing, headlight, ceramic lamp, electrical cords, ice cream scooper, metal drain cover, wire, drill bit, rope, and drum head, 83 inches à 43 inches à 23 inches. © Lonnie Holley/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Lee/The Silver Factory.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired 24 works of art from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. Consisting of important examples by African American artists from the southeastern United States, the acquisition contains three major works by Thornton Dial, two assemblages each by Lonnie Holley and Ronald Lockett, a piece by Hawkins Bolden, and one by root sculptor Bessie Harvey. It also includes 15 quilts by several generations of the remarkable women of Gees Bend, Alabama. These works will enrich the Museums collection of contemporary and American art, representing an important black tradition rooted ... More | | 
Abolition of the Slave Trade Medal, dies by Pietro Leonardo Gianelli, Denmark, 1792, bronze, Museum Purchase, Lasser Numismatics Fund; and Partial Gift, John Kraljevich.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- One of the most important medallic items related to the Atlantic slave trade and one of Denmarks most iconic medals is now part of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundations collections. Designed by the Danish artist Nicolai Abildgaard and struck in bronze in 1792 from dies by the Italian medalist Pietro Leonardo Gianelli, the extremely rare piece commemorates that years royal edict ending trade in enslaved persons on Danish ships. Only a small handful of these medals produced in a variety of metals are known to exist: white metal examples are in Danish museums and others, held in private collections, were struck in bronze and silver. The items of Colonial Williamsburgs collections capture tangibly our complex, shared history, said Mitchell B. Reiss, Colonial Williamsburg president and CEO. ... More |
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| Matt Saunders' first solo exhibition in London opens at Marian Goodman Gallery | | Pavel Zoubok Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Fritz Bultman and Jim Gaylord | | Jack Shainman Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by Gordon Parks | 
Matt Saunders, London#1, 2017, Unique C-print on Kodak Endura Premiere matte paper. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London.
LONDON.- Marian Goodman Gallery announces Matt Saunders first solo exhibition in London. Saunders practice connects painting, photography and printmaking to the moving image, heavily referencing film, the history of cinema and sometimes fiction. This exhibition is his fifth with the gallery. In Poems of Our Climate, Saunders presents a series of new oil on chiffon paintings, copper-plate etchings and photographs, along with a large-scale animation installation. The exhibition largely represents Saunders continued interest in painting, exploring new techniques and manipulations of the medium. In his photography practice, Saunders uses a derivation of the photogram technique, a familiar and oft-used process for the artist. In this experimental and time-based image making process, he passes light through the fabric of painted linen, thus creating an exposure onto photographic paper. Ratlos/ ... More | | 
Jim Gaylord, Legacy Layers, 2016. Gouache on cutout paper, 29 1/2 x 22 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pavel Zoubok Gallery is featuring two solo exhibitions featuring Abstract Expressionist painter-turned hard-edged abstractionist, Fritz Bultman (1919-1985), and Brooklyn-based artist Jim Gaylord, whose collages of painted papers build upon and extend the aesthetics of Henri Matisse's pioneering "cut-outs." On view in the main space are large-scale paintings and collages from the 1960s and 70s by New Orleans native Fritz Bultman. His bold, free form collages, richly saturated in primary colors, made their first appearance in the 1960s and are an extension of his sculpture and painting practice. The play between tightly delineated form and painterly gesture reflect the poles of European modernism and Abstract Expressionism that would continue to define Bultman's work. Critic Douglas Crimp describes his collages as reminiscent of the late Matisse in their monumental size (some are eight feet high), sensuous shapes and e ... More | | 
Gordon Parks, Langston Hughes, Chicago, Illinois, 1941. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery announces Gordon Parks: I Am You | Part 1. As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a visionary artist whose work continues to influence American culture to this day. In collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation, this first half of a two-part exhibition will focus on Parks lesser-known bodies of work, such as his elegant compositions of artists in their studios, as well as his timeless fashion photography. Though Parks is best known for his photographs documenting much of the civil rights era, he spent many years as a freelance photographer for a variety of publications, working across many subjects. Among his lesser-known works featured in the exhibition are a series of portraits of artists in their studios, including Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Calder and Alberto Giacometti. A 1951 group of images taken in Giacomettis studio ... More |
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| Exhibition presents paintings by self-taught Algerian artist in the U.S. for the first time | | Laurence Miller Gallery opens exhibition of night time photographs by Luca Campigotto | | Morgan Lehman opens a new auxiliary gallery with exhibitions by Erica Prince and Osamu Kobayashi | 
Baya, Femme et enfant en bleu (Woman and child in blue), 1947. Gouache on board, 22 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. Collection Isabelle Maeght, Paris © Photo Galerie Maeght, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Universitys Grey Art Gallery is presenting the first North American exhibition of the work of self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (19311998), who chose to be known by her first name only. On view from January 9 through March 31, 2018, in the Greys Lower Level Gallery, Baya: Woman of Algiers comprises some 20 gouache paintings, all shown for the first time in the U.S. Though championed by key members of the Parisian avantgardesuch as André Breton, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picassoand celebrated in Algeria, France, and the Middle East, Baya has yet to gain greater international recognition. This groundbreaking show reexamines Bayas career within contemporary, feminist, outsider, Surrealist, and Maghreb post-colonial art contexts, shedding new light on her work. Baya: Woman ... More | | 
Luca Campigotto, Shanghai, 2016 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Luca Campigotto: Nocturne, an exhibition of night time photographs by this mid-career Italian photographer, printed in his signature large color format. Campigotto, born in Venice in 1962 and currently residing in Milan, is a tireless world traveler, and his pictures share a common pursuit of grandiosity in scale. Included in Nocturne are views of Milan, Shanghai, the Roman Forum, London, Hong Kong, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, Beijing and Jerusalem's Western Wall. Campigotto's unique style is to train his camera upon feats of nature and engineering that dwarf the individual. Photographing at night imbues an extra shroud of mystery - the sweeping architectural views appear virtually empty, the only sign of activity being the occasional stream of taillights shooting through the darkened streets or vessels on the water. The glow of multicolored lights permeating the s ... More | | 
Osamu Okobayashi, Mud Slide, 2017 (detail). 32 x 30 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman announces the opening of a new auxiliary gallery, inaugurated in 2018. Morgan Lehman 2 is located at 526 W. 26th street, suite 419. This modern, flexible exhibition space expands the gallerys ability to offer the curatorial freedom and ambitious programming of the original MLG vision. Erica Princes extruded and hand-built ceramic Containers are sculptures with interactive and utilitarian properties. When holding personal items, they bring awareness to the acts of choosing, placing, arranging and compartmentalizing. The forms themselves are inspired by 17th Century Dutch tulip vases and retro-futurist architecture, utilizing an intentionally limited sculptural vocabulary in order to yield nuanced, often unexpected biomorphic geometries. Princes larger practice is multidisciplinary: the Containers function as makeup holders, wig stands, and vases in her ongoing relational project and install ... More |
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 New body of work by Michael Bevilacqua on view at Galerie PACTPARIS.- This new body of work (painting and/or digital archive on canvas) is both inspired by the Versailles gardens of Louis XIV and the music band The Weeknd. Indeed, Bevilacqua started his passion for Versailles when visiting France during his first exhibition at Galerie PACT in 2016. When he began to work on this series, he heard songs from the album «Beauty Behind The Madness» by The Weeknd and this title made him think of the SunKings craziness and delusions of grandeur. The title of the exhibition is both a tribute to the album and a reference to his vision of Louis XIV. For the exhibition, the gallery space turns into a garden in the style of Versailles, with grass on the floor and trellis on the walls! Known for combining high and low culture through elements of painting, drawing, graphic design, animation, and collage, Bevilacqua characteristically ... More Atlanta Contemporary presents How We Tell Stories to Children, a solo exhibition by Sable Elyse SmithATLANTA, GA.- Atlanta Contemporary Art Center announces a solo exhibition with Sable Elyse Smith. In Sable Elyse Smiths video How We Tell Stories to Children, 2015, nothing stays still for very long. As big industrial sounds pulsate we see the back of a young man running away in slow motion alongside a filtered expanse of color, or the memory of color. There are several intercuts, but the video centers on a recorded half of a conversation with the artists father who is currently incarcerated. At times, it is personal portrait from loved one to loved one, emotionally close moments where he refers to the artist as Daughter. He is no longer an abstract idea of the imprisoned, he is man, a father and this is his new normal. He is far, but not forgotten. We are also allowed in to the empty moments in the cell, time between time. He sits silent, groves to Alicia Keys ... More Dr. Juliette Fritsch, new Head of Exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of DenmarkCOPENHAGEN.- The Natural History Museum of Denmark announced that Dr. Juliette Fritsch has been appointed as the new Head of Exhibitions and Visitor Experience. Juliette comes from a similar position at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, just north of Boston. Previously she has worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At both museums, she worked on major institutional transformation projects creating new galleries and experiences for the audience. Dr. Juliette Fritsch has over twenty years experience in the international cultural sector. She will be part of the Museum Leadership and takes a seat at the Board of Directors. Prior to her hiring, Juliette served as Chief of Interpretive Experiences and Creative Partnerships at the Peabody Essex Museum working closely with curators, designers and artists to deliver exciting and ... More Grant supports Berlin's Museum für Islamische Kunst in the archiving of Syrian cultural heritage BERLIN.- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made a significant grant to the Museum für Islamische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen Berlin in support of a participatory project to archive, and educate about, Syrian cultural heritage. This project builds on the Syrian Heritage Archive Project, an archive of the countrys architectural and archaeological heritage before the war, which since 2013 is being compiled jointly by the German Archaeological Institute and the Museum of Islamic Art. To date, Syrian and German experts have included more than 100,000 digital representations in this digital archive, entering them with geo-references into a geographical information system. The Syrian Heritage Archive Project is sponsored by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2017, the Gerda Henkel Foundation also ... More Bernard Jacobson opens exhibition of the work of William Tillyer LONDON.- Radical Vision is the first of a series of 5 exhibitions at Bernard Jacobson during 2018, presented to honour the work of William Tillyer as he turns 80. The gallerys working relationship with Tillyer spans the rich evolution of his practice across almost 5 decades, representing a creative pairing unique in contemporary art and one which is also celebrated throughout 2018. Tillyer as an artist of real individuality and invention; an artist who has continued to pursue his own singular approach over more than 60 years; Radical Vision, demonstrates a complex artist whose work, whilst evading easy definition, amply rewards those prepared to really look and engage. The first impression of the more than 20 works featured in Radical Vision is one of a surprising multiplicity of shifting approaches. There is, however, a true continuity of vision and sustained themes which ... More Old movie posters, stock certificates, Native Americana, more at Holabird's Jan. 20-21 auctionRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is on the cusp of presenting its first big auction of the New Year a two-day affair slated for the weekend of January 20th and 21st, featuring nearly 1,500 lots in many collecting categories. The auction will be held online and in Holabirds gallery, at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno, starting at 8 am Pacific time both days. Online bidding will be provided by the platforms iCollector.com, Invaluable.com, eBay Live and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. A virtual catalog of the sale in its entirety, showing all lots, is up and online, at www.fhwac.com. Viewers can flip through each page and do keyword searches, too. They can also register and bid with a click of a button. The Saturday, January 20th session will showcase mining and minerals, art, foreign items, Native Americana and ... More The kaleidoscopic world of Ed Emberley comes to the Akron Art MuseumAKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum presents an exhibition of work by artist and beloved picture book illustrator Ed Emberley. Ed Emberley: Better You Than Me, opens on January 11, 2018 and includes an array of inventive artwork from the artists personal archive of hand drawn sketches, woodblock prints, mockups, and first edition books. Better You Than Me is comprised of a specially-curated selection from the first retrospective of Emberleys work that was presented by the Worcester Art Museum in 2016 and 2017, along with never-before-exhibited drawings and prints. Akron Art Museum Director of Education Alison Caplan said, Ed Emberleys drawing books empowered a generation of kids to live creatively by taking simple shapes and lines and making them into elaborate worlds. I love his statement, Not everyone needs to be an artist, but everyone needs ... More Exhibition shines light on the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' AssociationHAMILTON, ON.- A new exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art, #nofilterneeded highlights a significant moment in Indigenous art history the foundation and dynamic early years of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers Association (NIIPA) in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1985, a group of Indigenous image-makers came together on James Street South to form NIIPA. Their core objective was to promote a positive, realistic and contemporary image of Indigenous peoples through the medium of photography. They felt that, for far too long, Indigenous peoples had been portrayed through someone elses lens, and that it was time they took control of the image in order to contest and demystify stereotypical representations of Indigenous peoples. NIIPA provided technical training and networking opportunities for Indigenous photographers at a time when there were few, if any, supports ... More LMAKgallery presents hand-bent neon on geometrically carved marble sculptures by Keith LemleyNEW YORK, NY.- LMAKgallery is presenting Keith Lemleys first solo exhibition in the Courtyard, Deep Time. The installation consists of hand-bent neon on geometrically carved marble sculptures, placed throughout the stark urban New York cityscape . These light sculptures visualize the universe through geometry. The geometric theories that describe the universe are reflected by the sharp angles of the marble plains as well as the bends in the lights. Forms are instigated by Lemleys interest in deep time and models of the universe, as well as his drive to create a physical and visual bridge to attain a better understanding of the unfathomably complex structure that compiles our universe. The objects together create an immersive installation that recreates a space of wonder and transformation, plummeting the viewer into a new realm. The marble is a new ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Parmigianino was born January 11, 1503. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (11 January 1503 - 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. In this image: Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40)
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