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Dr. Charles Smith's African-American Heritage Museum + Black Veterans Archive (Hammond, LA, site detail), 2016. Photo: Madeline Power, 371 Productions. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
SHEBOYGAN, WI.- One of Americas most powerful and under-recognized artists, Dr. Charles Smith expresses profound narratives about American and African-American history and culture through his sculptural figures. The largest museum exhibition to present his work, Dr. Charles Smith: Aurora, is on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from July 14, 2019, through May 17, 2020. The exhibition focuses on more than 150 works that were part of a major installation at his home in Aurora, Illinois, from 1986 to 1999, which he titled The African-American Heritage Museum and Veterans Archive. The exhibition seeks to show the relevance of the artists work beyond its original setting. Most of the work has not been on public view since it was last seen in Aurora in 1999. Beginning in 1986, Dr. Smith set to work transforming the entirety of his home and studio and its surrounding property in Aurora. In the ensuing years, Dr. Smith made hundreds of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the exhibition "André Masson, Une mythologie de lÂêtre et de la nature" at the modern art museum of Ceret, on July 23, 2019. At foreground is the oil on canvas dated 1936 entitled "Corrida au Soleil." RAYMOND ROIG / AFP
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 | | Kingdom of the Netherlands establishes endowment fund in support of Center for Netherlandish Art at MFA Boston | | Guggenheim opens second part of yearlong exhibition 'Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now' | | Sotheby's continues leadership in Asia - First-half sales total HK$3.88b / US$495m | 
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte with Susan Weatherbie at MFA Boston; also pictured Eijk van Otterloo (left) and Ambassador Henne Schuwer. Photo: Michael Blanchard.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has shared its intent to establish a permanent endowment fund in support of the MFAs Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA). The fund, named The Kingdom of the Netherlands Fund for Dutch Scholars, will allow Dutch academics, students and institutions to participate in CNA programs and research initiatives, sustaining international connections between scholars in both countries. The CNA, which will launch in 2020 in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the MFAs founding, is the first resource of its kind in the U.S. Aligned with the MFAs mission to bring art and people together, the CNA is dedicated to sharing Dutch and Flemish works with wide ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Grace Jones, 1984. Gelatin silver print, 48.9 x 38.7 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, 1998 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
NEW YORK, NY.- From July 24 through January 5, 2020, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, the second part of a yearlong exhibition exploring the legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (19461989). One of the most critically acclaimed yet controversial American artists of the late 20th century, Mapplethorpe is widely known for daring, formally rigorous imagery that deliberately transgresses social mores and for the censorship debates that transformed him into a symbol of the culture wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the ensuing decades, artists and critics have grappled with Mapplethorpes legacy, raising questions about the agency of the photographic ... More | | 
Wu Guanzhong, Lotus Flowers (I). Sold for HK$130,773,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- The strength of these half year figures tells its own story. First, it reflects the quality of the material that has come under Sothebys hammer, thanks to our very experienced and insightful specialists who know exactly what the market wants and where to find it. Secondly, it also speaks to the ever-deepening pool of passionate collectors who are drawn into our world by our digital outreach and boundary-pushing sales and events. - Kevin Ching, CEO of Sothebys Asia ▪ Aggregate sales reach HK$3.88 billion (US$495 million) 1 -- 1.6 times over the pre-sale low estimate, and in line with that of 2018, a record-breaking year for Sothebys Asia ▪ Consistently strong sell-through rate: 89.3% ▪ 6 works sold over HK$100 million ▪ 28+ world auction records ▪ Leading the market across categories, including: Chinese Works of Art: HK$700 million (US$89 million) ... More |
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| | | The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts acquires a work by Shilpa Gupta | | Exhibition at Ingleby Gallery marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus | | Unique in the world, the Ingres Museum in Montauban reopens in December | 
Shilpa Gupta, For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: 100 Jailed Poets, 2017-2018, 100 books cast in gun metal, table. MMFA, purchase, W. Bruce C. Bailey Fête-champêtre Fund. Installation view at YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku solo show by Shilpa Gupta For, in Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana. Photo: Pat Verbruggen.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a major work by Shilpa Gupta, an artist currently featured in the Venice Biennale, where she is appearing in the exhibition May You Live in Interesting Times curated by Ralph Rugoff. The installation For, in your tongue, I cannot fit: 100 jailed poets is the first work by this internationally famous Indian artist to enter a public collection in Canada. Gupta's multi-disciplinary oeuvre could not be more cutting-edge: she is preoccupied with the political social space, most notably with notions of boundaries and censorship, and the power of walls, including walls of words. This acquisition was made possible thanks to funding raised ... More | | 
David Batchelor, Alt-Concreto 18, 2018. Wooden ruler and concrete, 47.5 x 24 x 5 cm. Photograph: Lucy Dawkins. Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH.- My Own Private Bauhaus is an exhibition that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius in 1919. It is, in Batchelors words a phrase that has been hanging around the studio for a few years and pays tribute to the movement through Batchelors personal appreciation of the square, circle and triangle. Since he began working with colour, over 25 years ago, Batchelors installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs have been characterised by simple shapes and regular forms. But, unlike the pure geometry of the Bauhaus, Batchelors forms are, he says often damaged, bent or broken; and the colours, while vivid, are neither pure nor primary. Batchelors work pays tribute to the geometric abstraction of the 1920s, but is also characterised by improvisation, informality, humour and what Batchelor describes as a distrust of formal ordering systems ... More | | 
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MONTAUBAN.- Located in the heart of one of the most attractive cities in the south of France, the Ingres Museum reopens after three years of major expansion and complete renovation. The only museum in the world dedicated to Ingres, this flagship of the french culture houses an exceptional collection of paintings and drawings of the master, the largest after the Louvre Museum. It is a unique heritage to discover from December this year and a very nice trip to plan. More than 4.500 drawings by Ingres, 44 paintings and his violin as well as his personal collection and documentation. Here is a summary of an exceptional heritage of the museum of Montauban featuring Ingres. Housed in a listed building in the heart of Montauban, beautiful city from Occitanie in the south-west of France between Toulouse and Bordeaux, the museum houses the legacy of the talented child born in the country : Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Created in the early nineteenth century, the museum reopens after a complete ... More |
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| | | Fish tanks: Jordan sinks military hardware for underwater museum | | Madonna collaborator uploads demos to undercut auction | | Blade Runner actor Rutger Hauer dies aged 75 | 
This picture taken on July 24, 2019 shows a decommissioned Jordanian Armed Forces' AH-1 Cobra helicopter being submerged into the waters of the Red Sea off the coast of the southern Jordanian port city of Aqaba, as part of preparations for a new underwater military museum. Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP.
AQABA (AFP).- Sunken tanks, a troop carrier and a submerged helicopter: Jordan on Wednesday opened its first underwater military museum off its Red Sea coast. The kingdom is hoping the 19 decommissioned pieces of military hardware, submerged at depths up to 28 metres (92 feet), will attract tourists to the already popular diving resort of Aqaba. The Underwater Military Museum Dive Site includes several tanks, an ambulance, a military crane, a troop carrier, an anti-aircraft battery, guns and a combat helicopter, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) said. The sunken items have been "stationed along the coral reefs imitating a battle tactical formation", ASEZA said in a statement. The museum aims to offer a "new type" of museum experience combining "sports, environment and exhibits" for divers, snorkelers and visitors on glass-bottomed boats, it said. The launch was marked by a ceremony with music ... More | | 
Singer Madonna accepts the award for Top Touring Artist onstage during the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 19, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- In a move to undermine a controversial auction of Madonna memorabilia a longtime collaborator of the Material Girl has uploaded a number of her demos to YouTube, including "Like a Prayer." For two years Madonna has been trying to stop a sell-off of private effects including a breakup letter from rap legend Tupac Shakur and cassettes containing previously unreleased demo versions of some of her biggest hits. But more than 70 lots are up at the memorabilia house Gotta Have Rock and Roll, which is hosting the event in collaboration with the Queen of Pop's former art advisor, Darlene Lutz. Leonard said on Facebook he hoped the YouTube uploads would stop the sale of the demos. "It's not cool that someone is seeking profit from something they had no part in creating," he said. "It's not theirs to sell." One cassette with tracks including "Like A Prayer," "Spanish Eyes" and "Cherish" currently has six bids, the highest at $1,283, with just over two days left to make offers. The ... More | | 
This file photo taken on September 06, 2011 shows Dutch actor Rutger Hauer posing during a photocall at Venice. Blade Runner actor Rutger Hauer dies aged 75 on July 24, 2019. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Hollywood actor Rutger Hauer, who became a global cult icon for his role as the scary yet thought-provoking humanoid android in the 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner", has died at the age of 75. Hauer's non-profit HIV/AIDS charity, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, said on his website it was announcing "with infinite sadness that after a very short illness, on Friday, July 19, 2019, Rutger passed away peacefully at his Dutch home". Dutch media said Hauer was buried at a private ceremony as the film world paid tribute. "RIP the great Rutger Hauer: an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films," Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro Del Toro tweeted. "Rutger was to me what Marcello Mastroianni was to (Federico) Fellini, an alter ego," fellow Dutchman director Paul Verhoeven, who gave Hauer his first big break, told the Dutch national ANP news agency. "I'm especially deeply sad that he's here no more. I am going to miss him terribly," ... More |
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| | | Marianne Boesky Gallery now represents artist Gina Beavers | | Gabriel Rico's first solo exhibition in Asia with Perrotin on view in Seoul | | Heritage presents special vintage sports photography auction | 
Gina Beavers, Nude with Painter's Lips, 2019. Acrylic and foam on canvas on panel with wood frame. 31 x 31 x 8 inches. Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. Copyright Gina Beavers.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced representation of artist Gina Beavers, whose sculptural paintings explore the digital landscapes of our everyday lives. Several of Beavers paintings are included in the gallerys summer group exhibition, Painting/Sculpture, which examines the continued blurring of boundaries between painting and sculpture and highlights the depth and interest of works that live in the liminal space between. Painting/Sculpture is on view across both the gallerys Chelsea locations through August 9. A solo presentation of Beavers work is being planned for spring 2020. In addition to her presentations at Marianne Boesky Gallery, Beavers work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York. Gina ... More | | 
View of the exhibition The stone, the branch and the golden geometry at Perrotin Seoul. Photo: Youngha Jo © Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
SEOUL.- Perrotin is presenting Gabriel Ricos first solo exhibition in Asia with the gallery. Looking back to a time when man was believed to be the master of nature, Rico investigates historical technologies seen during the peak of the Age of Reason. He distills geometric shapes that correspond to this period when the applied life sciences began to rely on mathematics to quantize nature in order to understand, dominate, and ultimately attempt to conquer it. With a post-Surrealist approach, artist Gabriel Ricos latest body of work mines a range of materials from taxidermy animals to neon shapes and found objects, that together create environments addressing the relationship between nature, architecture and the future ruins of civilization. Looking at the behaviors and survival techniques of insects, such as the preying mantis, and ... More | | 
Circa 1919 Babe Ruth Original News Photograph, PSA/DNA Type 1.
DALLAS, TX.- The worlds largest collectibles auctioneer has added a new sale to its summer roster, a carefully curated assembly of more than 200 lots featuring elite photographs from 20th century American sports. Now open for bidding, the auction is expected to garner more than $400,000 in sales when the gavel drops Aug. 23 in extended bidding format. Vintage photography might be the most dynamic subset of the sports collectibles marketplace right now, said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports auctions for Heritage Auctions. The massive surge in pricing is a relatively recent phenomenon, and plenty of investors believe were still quite early in the genres growth. As is the case in many sports collectibles auctions, Babe Ruth is expected to dominate the top of the results once the final bids are cast, with a rarely-seen 1919 Red Sox card and a glorious 1920 Yankees shot likely to compete ... More |
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 The Westport Arts Center re-names as MoCA WestportWESTPORT, CONN.- The Westport Arts Center will begin a new chapter in its history on September 22, 2019. Thanks to 50 years of connecting an entire community around a love of the arts, it will open its new doors at 19 Newtown Turnpike under an evolved identity and mission. The quality of programming in recent years has been of an exceptional standard; bringing the best of both locally celebrated and globally renowned artists and their work front and center in Westport. It has been the vision of the Board of Directors, and Executive Director, Amanda Innes, to further nurture Westport's reputation as a thriving creative community by offering a true arts destination to the area. The latest news, that the Grand Opening of the organization's new home will feature two seminal works from prolific artist, Yayoi Kusama, is further evidence of their commitment to ... More Galeria CURRO opens a group exhibition curated by Mandujano/CellGUADALAJARA.- Daydream Nation is a group exhibition curated by Mandujano/Cell at the gallery space of CURRO. The exhibition is composed of five LA-based artists addressing identity issues and tracing an alternative sense of community through music, cinema, literature, art history, counterculture and personal experiences. Alex Andrew Sanchez departs from an introspective exploration of the materials of painting and its memories in California to question common LA culture elements. Juan Capistrans photographic, text-based series creates a conversation between antiheroes quotations and graffiti slogans blended into mundane landscapes. The work of Rochele Gomez illuminates a perspective on the dialogue between the language of the visual arts and the experience of everyday life, inspired by the ability to convey the rawness of thought in subtle ... More The Untitled Space opens an exhibition of works by Jeanette HayesNEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting a solo exhibition, (hot girl) summer featuring (hot girl) summer art by Jeanette Hayes. Curated by gallery director Indira Cesarine, the exhibit is on view through August 13th, 2019. Jeanette Hayes is a multidisciplinary visual artist known for her collage-like aesthetic. Her works juxtapose historical influences, cartoon characters, and pop culture icons with images of the female form, challenging stereotypes with her adventurous, and often satirical signature style. "(hot girl) summer featuring (hot girl) summer art by Jeanette Hayes," a title inspired by HOT GIRL MEG (the American rapper also known as Meg Thee Stallion), explores the playful and lighthearted mentality of summer through a series of exceptionally detailed graphite on paper drawings and oil paintings. Featuring conglomerated collages rendered ... More The Ringling welcomes new Senior Director of DevelopmentSARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art announced that Mark Terman has joined the staff as the senior director of development. With more than 30 years of development experience, Terman served as executive director of principal gifts for 19 years at Michigan State University where he worked most recently with MSU leadership on the universitys successful $1.8 billion campaign. He was the lead fundraiser on the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU which opened in 2012. Before his time at Michigan State, he was the president of the Michigan Fitness Foundation Governors Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports. He holds 2 masters degrees in the arts, including one in Music from Michigan State University. Steven High, The Ringlings Executive Director said, We are thrilled to have hired a candidate with Marks high level ... More France picks Toronto-based German to head Paris OperaPARIS (AFP).- The French government has chosen the German head of the Canadian Opera Company to head the prestigious Paris Opera, the presidency said Wednesday, drawing the curtain on a tortuous selection process that lasted almost a year. Alexander Neef, who has led the Toronto-based Canadian company since 2008, will take up his post in 2021, giving the Paris Opera's current general director Stephane Lissner two more seasons at the helm. Sources said President Emmanuel Macron, a keen classical music lover, was personally involved in the process to choose a successor to Lissner. "The incoming director will have 24 months to prepare his programming. This transition period was part of the president's thinking," said a presidential official, who asked not to be named. Lissner, who has been in place since 2014, is credited with bringing ... More The Wallace Foundation names Bronwyn Bevan as new Director of ResearchNEW YORK, NY.- Bronwyn Bevan has been selected as The Wallace Foundations new Director of Research, effective August 19, 2019, the foundation announced today. Currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington Seattle, College of Education, Bevan succeeds Edward Pauly, who retired at the end of June. As Wallaces Director of Research, Bevan will contribute significantly to the design of initiatives in the foundations program areas, integrate research in all areas of work and, as a member of the senior management team, share responsibility for strategic planning, public policy engagement, and organizational policy and development. We are delighted to have Bronwyn Bevan joining our team at The Wallace Foundation, said Will Miller, President of The Wallace Foundation. She brings a wealth of experience as one of the ... More Photographer Norman Lerner brings New York City to Customs House Museum & Cultural CenterCLARKSVILLE, TN.- Skyscrapers, steam rising through street vents, newspaper kiosks near subway entrances, women dressed in high-fashion black−there are few cities that everyone can envision in their head without ever stepping foot there other than New York City. Now through September, guests of the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center can get a glimpse of city days gone by with the new exhibition New York Revisited: A Photographic Essay by Norman Lerner. The twenty-six photographs feature all the glamour and character of New York City from the 1950s to the 1970s. Lerners skill at capturing special moments of everyday life is evident in such images as Grand Central Station Waiting Room (1954) to a photograph titled Avid Reader (1957) showing a young man sitting atop a statue at the 5th Avenue Plaza reading Peyton Place. The exhibition was ... More Exhibition invites the public to think about the body in new waysBIRSFELDEN.- To celebrate its tenth anniversary, SALTS is presenting the work of thirteen artists in an exhibition that invites the public to think about the body in new ways. For a long time, artists have challenged the traditional image of the body, both as subject and object, to explore and reflect upon identity. In recent years, we have been witnessing a shift in the representation of the body in artistic practices, supported, among other by a resurgence of figuration in painting, sculpture and other media. This is visible among a generation of artists who approach the bodysometimes dismembered, distorted, augmented, remodelled, absent as a way to explore questions both personal and political. NINA BEIER Rooms 1, 2 & Garden Danish artist Nina Beier often works with industrially-made objects, whose production, circulation and use-value are questioned ... More Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw presents the work of over forty international artistsWARSAW.- "Paint, also known as Blood" is the first large-scale international exhibition devoted to women whose painting practice re-evaluates stereotypes concerning submission and domination. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from a book by a former hunter, Zenon Kruczyński, marks a perverse reference to a term popular in hunting jargon that stands for the blood of a hunted animal. However, the show does not tell a story of the subjugation of women. The invited artists propose an affirmative version of womanhood by endowing their bodies with agency, autonomy and power of self-determination. The eponymous paint becomes a visceral, sticky matter that leads us towards the point where all meanings collapse. It blurs the categories of power and objectification, thus provoking the question of when do we look, and when do we look away? ... More Ancient Resource Auctions announces highlights included in Summer Antiquities saleMONTROSE, CA.- Ancient Resource Auctions online-only Exceptional Summer Antiquities Auction on Saturday, August 3rd, is packed with over 380 lots of authentic, well-provenanced ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Islamic, Byzantine and Pre-Columbian antiquities and ethnographic items, including a selection of natural history and fossils. The auction will start promptly at 9 am Pacific time. Were featuring an incredible selection of antiquities from a wide variety of cultures, said Gabriel Vandervort of Ancient Resource Auctions. In addition, we have a fantastic selection of fossils were excited to be offering. Buyers are bound to get wonderful pieces at really great prices. Several pieces are expected to vie for top lot of the auction. One is a beautiful Egyptian panel from the lid of a sarcophagus, dating to the Late Period (circa 664-332 BC). The 33 ½ inch tall panel, formerly in ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Thomas Eakins was born July 25, 1844. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. In this image: A person views Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, on Jan. 5, 2007. To help finance a $68 million deal to keep the masterpiece in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, that it has sold another Eakins painting, "The Cello Player."
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