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Of the noted Escher works on display at the WCHOF, Metamorphosis IImade using 20 woodblocks printed meticulously on joined sheets of rice paper to create a composition almost 13 feet longprovides a striking parallel to the beauty of chess.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- A new art exhibition featuring the works of world-renowned graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations, is on view at the World Chess Hall of Fame. The 100+ piece exhibit showcases Eschers extreme variety of groundbreaking techniques and subjects. The new exhibit displays works from throughout his careerstarting with his early Italian landscape sketches, self-portraits and book illustrations to his most iconic images of impossible spaces, tessellations, infinity and his metamorphosis series. The extensive Escher collection occupies 3000 square feet at the WCHOF, while an extension of the show is also on display at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA). As the lender of these M.C. Escher masterpieces, it gives me great joy to see them on display in Saint Louis for the first time ever, said ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Aerial view of a figure of Mexican artist and painter Frida Kahlo lying in bed taken on the inauguration day of the exhibition "Los Colores de Frida" ("The Colours of Frida") in her honour, at Zocalo square in Mexico City on July 5, 2019. Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP
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 | | Early JMW Turner oil painting saved for the nation | | Levity/Density: Kasmin Gallery opens an exhibition of sculptural masterworks | | The Met welcomed more than 7 million visitors in fiscal year 2019 | 
Walton Bridges dates from 1806 and is believed to be the first oil by Turner to be painted in the open air.
LONDON.- An early work by JMW Turner has been acquired by Norfolk Museums Service and will tour across the East Anglia region after being saved for the nation. Walton Bridges, sold at auction at Sothebys in July 2018, had been subject to a temporary export deferral in recognition of its immense cultural significance to the country. Major grants from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund mean that this important early Turner will now enter public ownership. It is the first Turner oil to enter a public collection in the east of England specifically Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex where it will join an important collection of British landscape paintings by artists such as John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, and the artists of the Norwich School, including John Sell Cotman and John Crome, who were strongly influenced by Turner. Walton Bridges dates from 1806 and is believed to be the first oil by Turner to be painted in ... More | | 
John Chamberlain, Druid's Cluster (Swish), 1975. Painted and chromium-plated steel, 65 x 71 x 20 inches 165.1 x 180.3 x 50.8 cm. Private Collection. © 2019 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Stach.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced Levity/Density, an exhibition of sculptural masterworks opening on July 11, 2019, in the gallerys flagship location at 509 West 27th Street. Spanning 1960 2018 and including seven internationally acclaimed artists, the presentation muses on the dichotomy between the formidable mass that constitutes each works physicality and the resulting evocation of levity and vitality. Featured in the exhibition are significant works by Alexander Calder (1898 1976), John Chamberlain (1927 2011), Mark di Suvero (b. 1933), Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), George Rickey (1907 2002), Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), and David Smith (1906 1965). One of the early innovators of kinetic sculpture, George Rickey articulates his acute sensitivity to movement as the aptest mode ... More | | 
People look at the new installation by artist Huma Bhabha for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden titled "We Come in Peace" on April 18, 2018 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it welcomed more than 7 million visitors to its three locationsThe Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuerin the fiscal year that ended on June 30 (FY19). The Museum's renowned collection and a range of exhibitions and programs drew audiences throughout the year; standout exhibitions included a seminal display of works by Eugène Delacroix; a groundbreaking presentation of art from medieval Armenia; a timely exploration of art and culture from the ancient Middle East, and two shows that are still on viewPlay It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, a celebration of the artistry of the iconic instruments of rock and roll, and Camp: Notes on Fashion, an exploration of the exuberant nature of the camp aesthetic through fashion. "The ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's S│2 opens a group exhibition of tactile and intricate works | | Berry Campbell announces the passing of artist John Goodyear | | LACMA announces 2019 Art+Film Gala honoring Betye Saar and Alfonso Cuarón | 
Tonico Lemos Auad, Paisagem Vermelha, 2019 (detail). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This Summer, S|2 presents Where Were You at Night, a group exhibition of tactile and intricate works which shift between ideas of the handmade, of touch, of holes and of weaving, to offer a compelling dialogue on materiality and the dimensions created by the negative spaces between. The second in a trilogy of group exhibitions at the gallery where a work of literature forms the conceptual framework, Where Were You at Night takes its title from a collection of short stories written by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, which she began writing in 1951, and which will be reprinted in the shows accompanying catalogue. Possessing not one narrative but fourteen, a new conclusion must be drawn from each thread. In the same way, each artwork in the show offers a new interpretation of texture and medium, and an exploration of the dark dimensions which exist between every perceptible thread of material. ... More | | 
John Goodyear with heat sculptures at Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 1971.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell announced the passing of John Goodyear (1930 - 2019). He was a wonderful man, a gifted teacher, and a brilliant and innovative artist. He will be missed immeasurably. "John Goodyear's way not so much makes art as it allows art to happen, as if art were somehow there all along, as if latent, awaiting activation." -Carl Belz. In a career that spans more than six decades, John Goodyear has utilized painting, drawing, light, optics, installation, and heat to engage his audience and re-contextualize the viewer's present observation. These shifting views created throughout his career reveal a body of work that lends itself to both reflection on the inner self and discovery of the outside world. Goodyear said it simply and best: "Art makes one see, what one sees makes art." John Goodyear was born in Los Angeles, California in 1930 and later moved ... More | | 
DGA Feature Film Award winner for 'Roma' Alfonso Cuaron poses in the press room during the 71st Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announces the date and honorees of its 2019 Art+Film Gala. On Saturday, November 2, LACMA will honor artist Betye Saar and filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón. LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have championed the museums film initiatives since 2011, and they continue their efforts as the 2019 Art+Film Gala Co-Chairs. Gucci continues its invaluable partnership with the museum as the presenting sponsor of the annual event. For the second year, additional support for the gala is provided by Audi. Betye Saar is one of the most significant artists working today, and one who boldly addresses issues of race, gender, and spirituality, said LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan. Born in Los Angeles and having sustained a career over ... More |
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| | | Rip Torn, 'Larry Sanders Show' star, dead at 88 | | MoMA PS1 presents Devin Kenny's first museum solo exhibition | | Statue on Slovenia's Melania tourist trail divides opinion | 
In this file photo taken on September 8, 1996 actor Rip Torn gives the thumbs up as he holds his Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. KIM KULISH / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Oscar-nominated actor Rip Torn, best known for his roles in the cult TV series "The Larry Sanders Show" and the Hollywood blockbuster "Men in Black", died at the age of 88 on Tuesday, his publicist said. Torn built a reputation as a formidable actor in film, TV and theater, and was also known for his volatility -- he once admitted he "got angry easily", according to The New York Times. "Torn passed away peacefully this afternoon... at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, at the age of 88 with his wife Amy Wright, and daughters Katie Torn and Angelica Page by his side," publicist Rick Miramontez said in a statement. Born Elmore Rual Torn on February 6, 1931 -- the nickname "Rip" came from his father -- he won praise for his early theater performances, including a Tony nomination in 1960 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play "Sweet Bird of Youth". He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the film ... More | | 
Devin Kenny. Do You Even Talk To Your Neighbors?, 2018. 35-gallon drum grill, photographs, documents, cellular phones, aluminum foil. 56 x 18.5 x 52 inches. Courtesy the artist.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Devin Kenny raises timely questions about the shape of racial politics and community in contemporary America, interrogating the interconnected dynamics of gentrification, displacement, and diaspora. For his first museum solo exhibition, Kenny encourages us to consider how the technologies that facilitate online communities and activism develop alongside the displacement and systemic oppression and marginalization of Black people in the US. Much as his work does, Kennys exhibition title links together networks of disparate references. Rootkits are a form of computer virus that undetectably alter the underlying operating system; rootwork alludes to practices of Black-American folk magic, and both reference the DNA kits that allow people to explore their heritage. In more than a dozen works across a range of mediaincluding some created for the exhibitionKenny draws ... More | | 
The life-size statue on the outskirts of Sevnica was carved into a tree using a chainsaw. AFP Photo/Jure Makovec.
SEVNICA (AFP).- After Melania cake, Melania honey, and even Melania slippers, the Slovenian hometown of the US first lady will now boast a statue of its most famous daughter -- albeit one that has faced decidedly mixed reviews. The life-size statue on the outskirts of Sevnica was inaugurated on Friday and is the brainchild of 39-year-old American conceptual artist Brad Downey, who says it's the first monument anywhere dedicated to the wife of US President Donald Trump. The sculpture was carved into a tree using a chainsaw and depicts Melania in a blue dress raising her left hand in a waving gesture, emulating a pose she struck at her husband's 2017 inauguration. Its somewhat naive style has led some critics on social media to brand it a "scarecrow". "I can understand why people might think that this falls short as a description of her physical appearance," Downey told AFP, but insisted that he found the end result "absolutely beautiful".Since Donald Trump ... More |
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| | | Art Bridges Foundation hires Paul R. Provost as CEO | | Lausanne's BIG-GAME design studio celebrates its 15th anniversary at mudac | | First large scale solo exhibition of The Otolith Group on view at the Van Abbemuseum | 
Paul R. Provost, Ph.D was Christie's director of trusts & estates and later became deputy chairman. Photo: Katherine Griswold Photography.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Paul R. Provost, Ph.D. has been selected as chief executive officer (CEO) of Art Bridges Foundation. He will begin his tenure on Aug. 5. Art Bridges is a pioneering new foundation dedicated to dramatically expanding access to American art across the country. Founded by patron of the arts and philanthropist Alice Walton, Art Bridges strives to bring great works of American art out of storage and into communities across the country through collaborative development and funding of exhibitions, collection loans and programs designed to reach new audiences. We are delighted to welcome Paul as our new CEO, said Alice Walton, Art Bridges founder and board chairperson. Pauls experience as a scholar, curator and business professional will help us develop new partnerships and broaden our reach. This is an exciting ... More | | 
BIG-GAME © Milo Keller.
LAUSANNE.- For the 15th anniversary of their studio, BIG-GAME, designers Augustin Scott de Martinville, Elric Petit and Grégoire Jeanmonod present ensembles of everyday objects whose formal vocabulary is simple, functional and optimistic. From a wine bottle you might see at the supermarket to a chair held in the MOMAs permanent collection, from a collaboration with Japanese ceramicists to a furniture design for Ikea, the work of this Lausanne-based trio is recognised both in Switzerland and internationally. Their designs are characterised by the usefulness, craftsmanship, quality and elegance that have seduced companies worldwide. Rather than creating a mere showroom, the designers of BIG-GAME immerse us in their creative process, describing a specific aspect of the development of each work. Ensembles of objects are presented on bare panels on the ground for a dense, immediate visual impact. The exhibition also contains ... More | | 
Anjalika Sagar (London, 1968) and Kodwo Eshun (London, 1966).
EINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is presenting the first large scale solo exhibition of The Otolith Group; the artists collective with Anjalika Sagar (London, 1968) and Kodwo Eshun (London, 1966). On view through 18 August 2019, the exhibition surveys their practice over eight years, presenting eight compelling narrative films and two installations. The Otolith Groups work weaves together many strands of imagination speculation about past and future including science fiction, postcolonial history, music and scientific discovery. Their work pictures a society in which screens have become part of the natural world, communication is global, culture is political, human identity is crucial but fluid and history has not ended. The Van Abbemuseum has a record of presenting artists first major survey or retrospective exhibitions. Major monographic exhibitions, all firsts for the artists, include Sheela Gowda (2013), Hito ... More |
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 Increased visitor numbers and strong museum attendance marks a successful London Art WeekLONDON.- This Summers edition of the bi-annual London Art Week came to a close on Friday 5 July with participants in an upbeat mood, and having reported extremely good attendance from leading international institutions and UK national and regional museums. Amelia Higgins, Director, commented on the hugely positive response dealers have had to their gallery exhibitions, some of which were ground-breaking and many years in the making. Once again, the scholarly attributes of London Art Week presentations have proved impressive, drawing international academics as well as private and institutional buyers. Were delighted at how successful it has been. Weve also had our most popular events programme to date, which embraced topics such as the Old Masters Art Market and Old Masters in the Digital Age. ... More C24 Gallery opens a solo show of photorealistic paintings by Mike DargasNEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery is presenting a solo show of Mike Dargas, known for his extraordinary skill in photorealistic painting. The exhibition, REFLECTION OF DREAMS consists of seven new large-scale and two new small-scale oil paintings, including new portraits of women gazing into mirrors and Dargas favored subject of flowing honey and chocolate over female faces. Mike Dargas hyperrealistic style is at once provocative and sensual, creating a sense of immediacy that is textured and visceral. But a deeper look at his work reveals a fascination with intimacy, a kind of personal and private experience, conjured by an inflaming of the senses. Dargas explains that he sees honey as a vehicle for uncovering truth and authenticity. He also looks to it as a healing substance, something that represents self-love as well as love for others. His ... More Jamie G. Manné joins Kayne Griffin Corcoran as DirectorLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran announced the appointment of Jamie G. Manné to Director. Previously, Manné worked with the Marciano Collection beginning in 2010, and most recently as the Marciano Art Foundations Deputy Director, since 2017. In her new role Manné will focus on expanding community outreach through strategic programming initiatives as well as managing the gallerys growing stable of artists. We couldnt be happier to welcome Jamie to Kayne Griffin Corcoran and know she will be a tremendous asset as we continually look for new and innovative ways to support and service our artists, said Partner Maggie Kayne. At a moment when the traditional gallery model is changing so rapidly its important to think outside of the box. Coming from one of LAs most visible arts non-profits Jamie will bring a fresh perspective ... More Ludwig Museum Budapest opens retrospective presentating Tamás Király's oeuvreBUDAPEST.- The exhibition of Tamás Király (19522013) is the first large-scale retrospective presentation of the artist's oeuvre in Hungary, whose activity cannot be classified into traditional genres and trends. Obviously, his work is mainly related to dressing and fashion, but in his perception, clothing is a border area where fashion, film, theatre, performance and art meet. His clothes are at once costumes, mobile sculptures, futuristic transformations, and the future-looking creations of an artist ahead of his own age. The exhibition aims to give a comprehensive picture of Tamás Király's career of over three decades, which began in Budapest in the early 1980s, when the artist became an emblematic figure of the underground scene in a short time not only with his street "fashion shows", performative walks, but also with his boutique selling casual wear for those interested. In the 1980s, ... More Exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art focuses on the color greenRIGA.- From 6 July to 22 September 2019, RIXC Art and Science Festival features the UN/GREEN international contemporary media art exhibition which takes place in the Great Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. The RIXC Art and Science Festival 2019 aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of green by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for the discussions and artistic interventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. Green is being analyzed as a color, biological phenomenon, medium, symbol of certain lifestyle, semantic construction, and ideology. Green, usually associated with the natural and often employed to recoup for what humans have lost, is addressed here as the most anthropocentric of all colours, in its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness ... More Exhibition at Jane Lombard Gallery features drawing, collage and sculpture by six artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting A Body of Work, a group exhibition curated by Shehab Awad. This exhibition features drawing, collage and sculpture by six artists: Julia Brandão, Max Colby, Margaux Crump, Anneli Goeller, Juan Neira, and Ryan Wilde. With a focus on textile manipulation, transformation and reconstruction, the artists in this exhibition implicate the body in various ways, exploring memory, domesticity, identity, and temporality. Born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Júlia Brandão works primarily in textile, installation and performance. Her multidisciplinary practice questions the body in relation to displacement and memory. Brandãos textile collages, which could be considered paintings, are often re-constructed from performances where the artist cuts her clothes off her own body, shedding the various societal pressures placed on it in ... More The Moscow Museum of Modern Art exhibits works by Gérard Pettiti and Claude RosticherMOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Embassy of Monaco in Russia present the exhibition Monaco. Artists Stories dwelling on the modern and contemporary art of the principality. the project at the MMOMA is a story of friendship between two artists, Gérard Pettiti and Claude Rosticher, whose selection of art introduce the public to the Monegasque unique artistic tradition. The works of two artists differ both in their pictorial style and the themes they choose to address. With all that, they are unanimous in connecting their art with different aspects of the natural world. Still, whereas Pettiti gravitates towards the implication with of the animal kingdom, his counterpart tends to explore the plant kingdom. For both artists, nature is what allows them to stay in tune with time and space. Gérard Pettiti is in pursuit of plastic and psychological parallels ... More Chloe Flower, the scene-stealing pianist turning up classical musicNEW YORK (AFP).- Seen by many as the music of grandparents and elevators, classical is getting a facelift thanks to its fiercest star Chloe Flower, a pianist making the genre pop. The 33-year-old artist won the internet earlier this year after a showstopping performance at the Grammys alongside rap queen Cardi B, who twerked on Liberace's crystal piano as Flower, wearing couture, theatrically struck thunderous chords. "I was so scared. I got a fortune cookie the night before, and it was like, 'if you don't take big risk, you won't get any reward," the musician told AFP from her Manhattan apartment that boasts sweeping views, a lush sheepskin rug and another of the iconic Liberace's pianos his foundation lent her, this one encrusted in mirrored glass. Flower betrayed none of those nerves at music's biggest night, wowing with a sparkling solo before serving up drama ... More "Woman in the Italian Art Nouveau": An exhibition at Ponti Art Gallery ROME.- Ponti Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections gathered in the usual monthly exhibition aimed to the sale. The selection starts from a bronze sculpture, made by Ercole Drei, a very sensitive sculptor, painter and draftsman, Faenza by birth but Roman by adoption, who was able to express his temperament with the same intensity both in the great works performed for public clients to the city of Rome he left some of his most famous works both in small sculptures appreciated by art lovers and intended for private use. Ponti Art Gallery presents The Dancer with the circle (1913) which is definitely stands out for the decorative taste of the dance step to which the female figure is forced, which turns towards a certain stylization, recognizable especially in the profile of the womans face and in the hands that ... More Complete 1934 set of Picasso's 'Lysistrata' etchings leads Waverly Rare Books' July 18 auctionFALLS CHURCH, VA.- Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinns Auction Galleries, will host a Thursday, July 18 sale featuring outstanding modern and contemporary prints and posters from the 19th century to the present day. Artists represented include Pablo Picasso, Frances Gearhart, Walter Henry Williams, Mary Bauermeister, Leroy Neiman, Werner Drewes and Kathleen Spagnolo, among many others. The 261-lot auction will be held at Quinns Falls Church gallery, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. Bidders are sure to be pleased by the wide array of etchings, prints, portfolios and serigraphs by noted artists, as well as the 40-plus posters that include examples with vintage railroad and maritime themes, and desirable pieces by Alphonse Mucha and Francisco Tamagno. Additionally, there are advertising ... More Marta Museum Herford opens 'Stance & Fall: A Wavering World'HERFORD.- In a world that appears to be unravelling, we are increasingly called upon to take a clear stance. In the quest for orientation, a firm position can mean rescue but it can also mean danger. Because the greater the tension and the concentration on our own point of view, the greater the danger of quickly losing control. Between political tension and poetic dissolution, the artists address this contradiction in terms in the exhibition Stance & Fall A Wavering World (29.06. 06.10.19). With photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, videos and performances, they create impressive images of the rearing up and falling down of the body as an echo of society. The condition of the mind is often seen in the attitude of the body. Thus the movement of the body is a sort of voice of the soul. St. Ambrose Whether gender debates, climate change ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo died July 11, 1593. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. In this image: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumne (portrait de Rodolphe II), vers 1590, Huile sur bois. Skokloster, Château de Skokloster (Suède).
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