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Detail of Le Rêve (The Dream) 1932 Private collection, © Succession Picasso/DACS London, 2018.
LONDON.- 45 years after the artists death, Tate Modern stages its first ever solo exhibition of Pablo Picassos work, one of the most ambitious shows in the museums history. The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 Love, Fame, Tragedy takes visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picassos life and work that it has been called his year of wonders. More than 100 outstanding paintings, sculptures and works on paper demonstrate his prolific and restlessly inventive character, stripping away common myths to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness. 1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his celebrity status as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Over the course of this year he created some of his best loved works, including Nude Woman in a Red ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On March 12, 2018 at 7:30 PM LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan will speak with photographer Vera Lutter about her ongoing artist residency at LACMA. Since January 2017, Lutter has been documenting the museum using one of the oldest optical technologies still in use, that of the camera obscura. Govan and Lutter will discuss the artist's process, and how her project offers a unique perspective on LACMA's history and future. Where: LACMA l Bing Theater. Free, tickets required.
| The legendary cellar of Jerry Perenchio to be offered at Sotheby's this Spring | | Solo exhibition of "Cut Outs" sculpture editioned by Alex Katz opens at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Pritzker prize goes to Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi |
Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1924 (1 4.5L JERO) Estimate: HK $180,000 - $240,000 / US $22,000 - $32,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present The Cellar from the Estate of Jerry Perenchio in two dedicated auctions this spring in Hong Kong and New York. A legendary entrepreneur whose business acumen and extraordinary work ethic led him to negotiate some of the biggest events in entertainment history, Mr. Perenchio was guided by his famed 20 Rules of the Road throughout his decades-long career, which culminated with his acquisition of Univision Communications and subsequent sale 15 years later in 2007 for $13.5 billion. Mr. Perenchio was also a generous philanthropist who, most often anonymously, donated to numerous artistic, educational and charitable institutions throughout Los Angeles. A striking representation of his exceptional taste and enduring quest for excellence, Mr. Perenchios cellar is one of the most superb collections of mature wines to ever appear at auction. The collection is characterized by ... More | |
Alex Katz, "Departure 1 (Ada)", 2017. Archival inks on shaped powder-coated aluminum on white bronze base, 22 x 8 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Edition of 60 (#53/60). Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery. Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery is announces a solo exhibition of Cut Outs sculpture editioned by Alex Katz. Cut Outs demonstrates the artists ongoing investigation into the properties of visual perception and the brilliance of surface as represented and rendered in the human figure. Since the 1950s, this dedication to figurative realisminformed by the scale and power of Abstract Expressionism and utilizing the graphic language of advertising that anticipated Pophas marked Katz as one of the most inventive and technically achieved artists of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The hard exterior lines of the Cut Outs mirror their stern materiality. Realized in stainless or porcelain enamel coated steel, they underscore the artists dedication to the flat, clean aesthetic for which he is famed. The exhibition brings ... More | |
In this file photo taken on September 9, 2011 renowned Indian architect BV Doshi steps off a stage wearing a French Medal of Officer in the order of Arts. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, a pioneer of low-cost housing design, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Wednesday, considered architecture's Nobel equivalent. The 90-year-old Doshi -- one of the last living architects to have apprenticed with the Franco-Swiss trailblazer Le Corbusier -- distinguished his work by committing to sustainable architecture and inexpensive housing, bringing modernist design to an India rooted in traditionalism. He is the 45th Pritzker laureate and the first from India. "Balkrishna Doshi has always created an architecture that is serious, never flashy or a follower of trends," said the Pritzker jury, which said Doshi "has continually exhibited the objectives" of architecture's highest honor. "Balkrishna Doshi constantly demonstrates that all good architecture and urban planning must not only unite purpose and structure but must ... More |
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| Recently rediscovered memento mori painting offered at Koller Auctions Zurich | | Exhibition brings together an international group of artists who explore concepts of the ideal city | | Rijksmuseum exhibits 26 original prints by photographer Ed van der Elsken |
Carstian Luyckx (1623 Antwerp 1677) Memento Mori still life (detail). Oil on canvas. Estimate: CHF 30 000 - 40 000.
ZURICH.- Among the highlights of the Old Master Paintings auction on 23 March is Bernardo Strozzis large-format portrait of Paolo Gregorio Raggi, governor of Corsica in 1547. The portrait was painted posthumously, sometime before 1638, and was commissioned by the Raggis, an important Genovese family, for their portrait gallery of distinguished family members, including cardinals and senators. Strozzi, who was active in Genoa and later In Venice, was one of the leading figures of the Baroque period in Italy, known for his painting style of energetic brushstrokes, intense colours and the expressive rendering of his subjects all clearly present in the painting offered here. Clara Peeters, the first recorded female still-life painter, is the author of a museum-quality still life with cat, fishes, oysters and crustaceans, to be offered for CHF 100,000 150,000. Dating from the 1620s, this is the last still life by the artist with this subject still on the market. Two others are lo ... More | |
Fausto Melotti, Salomone / Solomon, 1973, stainless steel, 28 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 8 5/8 in / 73 x 48 x 22 cm © Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milan. Courtesy Waddington Custot.
LONDON.- Waddington Custot is presenting Invisible Cities, curated by Flavia Frigeri. Taking its title from Italo Calvinos novel, Le città invisibili, this exhibition brings together an international group of artists who, in different ways, explore concepts of the ideal city and discover the necessary coexistence of the real and the imagined. The exhibition includes drawing, painting and sculpture by Giorgio de Chirico, Fausto Melotti, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Gego, Shusaku Arakawa, Giulio Paolini and Tomás Saraceno. Calvinos Le città invisibili, published in 1972, imagines a fictional conversation between the Venetian explorer, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan, the 13th century ruler of the Mongol Empire. Polo describes a series of wondrous cities which are geographically unspecific, yet imbued with glimpses of reality. In the exhibition, the closest literal reference to a city is found in the metaphysical c ... More | |
Ed van der Elsken. Children on the street in Paris, 1951. Gift from Jan and Trish de Bont through the King Baudouin Foundation, United States, 2017. Nederlands Fotomuseum/ ©Ed van der Elsken.
AMSTERDAM.- From 8 March the Rijksmuseum will exhibit 26 original prints by photographer Ed van der Elsken, marking the donation by film director Jan de Bont and his wife Trish Reeves de Bont of their collection to the museum. 'Ed van der Elsken Through the Eyes of Jan de Bont' will include a selection of these photographs alongside previously unseen photographs by Van der Elsken from the Rijksmuseum collection. The accompanying texts by Jan de Bont, the guest curator for this presentation, shed new light on Van der Elskens images and how they inspired De Bont. The Rijksmuseum exhibition 'Ed van der Elsken Through the Eyes of Jan de Bont' will run from 8 March to 3 June 2018. Jan de Bont: Ed van der Elsken is without doubt one of the best photographers of his time. He touches peoples souls, and always tells a story that we all can understand. It means a great deal to us that we can share Ed van der ... More |
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| Lead gift supports modern and contemporary collecting, initiatives | | Auerbach and School of London artists triumph at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary sale | | Laurence Miller Gallery exhibits Bruce Wrighton's 'Saint George and the Dragon' series |
Keith and Linda Monda.
SARASOTA, FLA.- As part of its $100 million comprehensive campaign to preserve and expand its legacy for the 21st century and beyond, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Florida State University announce a leadership gift of $5 million from the Monda family of Sarasota, Florida. The gift will endow the Keith D. and Linda L. Monda Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and includes four significant works of contemporary art from the Mondas noted collection. The works of art Teo Gonzálezs mixed media Untitled #406 (2006), Yayoi Kusamas monumental painting Infinity Dots (1993), Beverly Peppers steel sculpture Curve in Curve (2012) and Richard Serras print Untitled (1990) will be included in a future exhibition at The Ringling. The Ringling is the State Art Museum of Florida and is administered by Florida State University (FSU). The Ringling Inspires: Honoring ... More | |
Yayoi Kusamis No A.A sold for £608,750. Estimate: £250,000-350,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A charcoal, crayon and pencil work on paper by Frank Auerbach from 1960 sold for £872,750 after a tense six-way telephone battle lasting 15 minutes at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art sale in London today [Wednesday 7 March]. It had been estimated at £120,000-180,000. It was just one of the works by the School of London artists that performed strongly in the 44-lot sale that achieved a total of more than £5,285,750. Prominent among the other School of London works were: Nude on a Red Bed No 3 by Leon Kossoff, 1938, which achieved £536,750 estimated at £300,000-500,000. This work was originally in the artists personal collection. He then gave it to his sister Ashley Kossoff, from whom it passed to the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Since 2003 it has been in private hands. Auerbachs Reclining ... More | |
The Stag Hotel, Johnson City, NY, 1986.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Bruce Wrightons Saint George and the Dragon. Exhibited for the first time since 1988, this series explores icons and images found in churches and barrooms, primarily in the Binghamton area. Working with an 8 x 10 camera, Wrighton captured unexpected juxtapositions of the secular and the religious, often with an ethereal light. As he stated, I essentially went into a lot of churches and found icons or images that were by design a way to focus, a way to draw a certain feeling or sense of devotion And I found a very similar feeling around town in rooms, very old barrooms." Im neither trying to give a bad name to churches and a good name to bars, or vice a versa. Im more interested in pointing out a certain equilibrium the underlying sense of what goes on when people use images to lure parts of the unconscious into ... More |
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| "Somewhere in Between" opens at Wellcome Collection | | Strong showing for Chisholm Collection at Swann Galleries | | Charlotte Laubard appointed curator of the Pavilion of Switzerland at the Biennale di Venezia in 2019 |
Installation view. Photo: Michael Bowles, Wellcome Collection.
LONDON.- Art, science and somewhere in between. Wellcome Collection presents four collaborations by contemporary artists and the scientists they worked with. Bringing together installations by Martina Amati, Daria Martin, Maria McKinney and John Walter, the exhibition considers how artists can give shape to the human experience, provoking ideas about our senses, our sexual health, our bodies limitations and reflections on our food chain. In todays often fragmented society, Somewhere in Between shows how working together makes it possible to find solutions, challenge individual perspectives and find new ways of thinking. The artists featured in the exhibition integrate current research from the fields of physiology, neuroscience, immunology and genetics in their work. The featured works are recent projects selected from the rich range of arts projects funded by Wellcome, which has supported the arts for two decades as part ... More | |
Erik Nitsche, General Dynamics / Hydrodynamics, French version, from Atoms for Peace, 1955. From the Gail Chisholm Collection. Sold March 1, 2018 for $5,500, a record for the work.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries auction of Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection on March 1 offered premier examples of advertising and propaganda from around the world, and broke several auction records. Nicholas D. Lowry, President of Swann and Director of Vintage Posters, announced, This was our best winter poster auction since 2013, and our third-best winter poster auction of all time. A quarter of the auction was devoted to highlights from the collection of Gail Chisholm, renowned dealer and lifelong poster aficionado. Included in the collection was the largest selection of Erik Nitsches designers for General Dynamics ever to come to auction. All of the 19 works found buyers, with two achieving new auction records: the French version of Hydrodynamics from the influential Atoms for Peace series ... More | |
Charlotte Laubard, Curator of the exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Photo: KEYSTONE / Gaëtan Bally.
ZURICH.- The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia has appointed Charlotte Laubard as curator of the Pavilion of Switzerland at the Biennale Arte 2019. The Geneva-based, Franco-Swiss art historian and curator combines artistic, historical, and interdisciplinary approaches in her work and is a renowned, international exhibition organizer. Charlotte Laubard will curate the exhibition to be presented at the Swiss Pavilion for the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Nominated by the Director of the Swiss Arts Council, following the recommendation of an independent jury, Charlotte Laubard is an acclaimed and experienced curator, well respected by international institutions for her contributions to contemporary art research and exhibitions. While her projects challenge the limits of artistic categorisations ... More |
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Cristin Tierney Gallery opens a group exhibition featuring three artists
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Hard Edges, a group exhibition featuring Lorser Feitelson, Elise Ferguson, and Alois Kronschlaeger. Hard Edges is on view from March 1st through April 7th, and the opening reception will take place during Armory Week on Thursday, March 8th from 6 to 8 pm. Ferguson and Kronschlaeger will be present at the reception. Hard Edges explores the legacy of hard-edge abstraction through three diverse bodies of work: Elise Fergusons plaster paintings, Lorser Feitelsons oil and enamel on burlap painting, and Alois Kronschlaegers yarn-on-mesh screen drawings. Although the works span different coasts and erasBrooklyn-based Ferguson and Kronschlaeger produced new works for this exhibition, while Feitelsons creation in southern California dates to the 1960sall emphasize an economic ... More
Rare early comic books featuring Batman and The Flash combine for over $100,000 at Weiss Auctions
LYNBROOK, NY.- A copy of Detective Comics #29 (July 1939), bought by the consignor at a tag sale for $20, gaveled for $53,675 at a two-day auction held February 14th and 15th by Weiss Auctions, online and in the firms Lynbrook gallery, at 74 Merrick Road. The vintage comic book, graded VG/VG-, was an early Batman cover that had the first appearance of Doctor Death. Its a great comic book and scarce at any grade, said Philip Weiss of the auctions top lot. It wasnt in perfect condition by any means but is still an important addition to any collection. The fact that it was picked up at a tag sale for twenty dollars only added to its cachet. Bidders were not deterred by some loss to the edge to the cover, tanning to the pages and a loose centerfold. Bringing nearly as much was a copy of DC Comics Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956), the origin and first ... More
Works trailblazing British female photographer Elsbeth Juda go on display
LONDON.- Jewish Museum Londons Welcome Gallery presents a retrospective of the late British photographer Elsbeth Juda (1911-2014), a Jewish émigré who brought a new modernist artistic vision to Britain from Germany. Although a trailblazing female photographer, Juda's artistic contribution is largely unrecognised today. She disregarded commercial photographys formal conventions, using unusual, often incongruous backdrops for her shoots. Juda was best known for her work for The Ambassador magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. This exhibition, organised in collaboration with LEquipement des Arts, showcases a selection of her output, featuring glamorous commercial shots and portraits of some of the best-known faces in British art and design. Subjects range from Barbara Goalen, Britains first supermodel, and the Sadlers Wells Ballet to politicians ... More
Exhibition at l'étrangère brings together the work of four women artists
LONDON.- Home Strike, guest curated by Alexandra Kokoli and Basia Sliwinska, brings together the work of four women artists CANAN, Paula Chambers, Malgorzata Markiewicz, Su Richardson in an exhibition exploring contemporary resistance to the persistent feminisation of domesticity and household maintenance. The exhibition interrogates those biopolitical and cultural norms that see women and their bodies systematically domesticated, exploited and imprisoned by patriarchal ideologies. Oscillating between the horrific and the humorous, Home Strike revisits the domestic biopolitics of 1970s feminism. Through its contemporary inflection, the exhibition considers the impact of 1970s feminism on intersectional discussions of class, gender and global inequalities. Paula Chambers practice involves weaponising everyday household objects, transforming ... More
Four oil paintings by Birger Sandzen sell for a combined $371,000 at Woody Auction
DOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auction celebrated the grand opening of their new Douglass auction hall with a major antique and fine art auction on Saturday, February 24th, one that featured four oil paintings by renowned Swedish-born Kansas painter Birger Sandzén (1871-1946), plus outstanding collections of Royal Bayreuth, Daum Nancy, Galle, Tiffany, Pairpoint, art glass and period American furniture. The four Sandzén paintings sold for a combined $371,000, easily making them the superstar lots of the auction. One of the works, titled Cedars and Rocks, brought $160,000. It was a vivid and colorful oil on canvas landscape rendering of Manitou Springs, Colo., dated 1922. The 36 inch by 48 inch painting was professionally cleaned by WCCFA in Denver in 2015 and came housed in its original wood frame. The other paintings were Lake in the Rockies, a 26 ... More
Building conservator specialist appointed Subject Leader at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
CHICHESTER.- Catherine Woolfitt ACR MCIfA MA Classics MA Art Conservation has been appointed the new Subject Leader Historic Building Conservation and Repair at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. She has worked on high profile and challenging projects in the conservation of built heritage for 25 years, in the UK and overseas, also lecturing for the past twenty years. Recent projects include conservation of the sixteenth century terracotta sculpture roundels at Hampton Court Palace and development of cleaning and repair methods for the external terracotta façade of the Natural History Museum in London. Catherine leads an impressive line-up of expert tutors and lecturers from across the sector, delivering a suite of courses which provide a broad range of expertise in building conservation. She has the professional experience to consolidate ... More
National Trust and National Archives create immersive suffragette experience
LONDON.- Suffragette City, a partnership between the National Trust and The National Archives, will re-create the life of a Suffragette activist in the years before the partial grant of the vote to women in 1918. Inspired by records held by The National Archives, Suffragette City documents the life and arrest of Lillian Ball, a dressmaker and mother from Tooting, arrested for smashing a window in 1912. As with many women of the era, Lillian confronted life-changing choices that led her to join the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU) causing her to be involved in militant action, leading to her arrest, interrogation and imprisonment. Suffragette City challenges audience members with many of the same decisions Lillian faced, bringing to life the true experiences of those fighting for suffrage. Using the extensive collections of The National Archives, which include ... More
International Center of Photography announces the Reuters Scholarship for Visual Journalism
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography (ICP), the worlds leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, today announced the launch of the Reuters Scholarship for Visual Journalismone full-tuition scholarship over the next three years now available to full-time students in ICPs One-Year Certificate program in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism. As part of the program, the scholarship recipient will receive support from and portfolio reviews with Reuters journalists. Interested applicants should possess the desire to explore the visual language of documentation and storytelling in the arts. Parameters and rules, as well as submission forms, are now available online at https://icp.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/41640. This marks the latest collaboration between Reuters and the International ... More
Blind singers break through Bangkok's sound barrier
BANGKOK (AFP).- Strumming his guitar with ease and backed by a drummer, Singhkum Boonriang belts out covers of Thai ballads as strangers pass by on a busy Bangkok afternoon. But Singhkum is no ordinary busker -- he's one of hundreds of blind singers who perform across the Thai capital at traffic junctions, skytrain stops and other busy locations. "It's born out of my love to play music and sing," Singhkum explains, sitting in front of a small donation box. Aided by a small speaker, he is hopeful of attracting attention, and some loose change. He started performing in his teens but took up the street gig four years ago when he moved to the Thai capital from the north. "When I first arrived in Bangkok, I heard many street musicians playing in public spaces, and I love to sing, so I gave it a try," he adds. Like Singhkum, many of Bangkok's blind singers hail from poor ... More
Van Doren Waxter opens a solo exhibition of new work by New York artist Marsha Cottrell
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter presents a solo exhibition of new work by New York artist Marsha Cottrell. Titled Screen Life, the show will be on view from March 8-April 21, 2018 at the gallerys 195 Chrystie Street location. The exhibition will feature three unique large-scale platinum prints and an array of intimately-scaled works created with a computer and electrostatic laser printer. For twenty years Cottrells studio practice has been centered around the quotidian office computer and printer. Within the rational environment of an offline digital workspace she has foregrounded the expressive nature of carbon-based toner and developed a distinctive process and body of work that bridges drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. Mathematically defined lines and shapes selected from the softwares tool palette described by Cottrell as templates for mark- ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami opens "Obscura" by South African artist Lionel Smit
NORTH MIAMI, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will open its spring season with the presentation of Obscura. The exhibition by South African Contemporary Artist Lionel Smit will be his first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. and will run from March 8 May 6, 2018. Smit is recognized globally for his monumentally scaled portraitures depicted through mixed media. In his works, Smit digs beneath the skin to unfold the multidimensional nature of the individual by creating colorful and inventive interpretations. Smits imaginative paintings, prints, sculptures, video and public installations focus on the residents of Cape Town, South Africa, in abstract and representational portraits. The frequent subjects of his works are from the ethnic Cape Malay community and are most often women. In Obscura, Smit fuses gestural brushstrokes, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and illustrator Anthony Caro was born March 08, 2018. Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 - 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In this image: Anthony Caro, Paper Like Steel, installation view.
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