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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, installation view of Earwitness Inventory at Chisenhale Gallery, London 2018. 95 sourced and custom designed objects/instruments, animated text, 29: 44 minutes, looped. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo by Andy Keate.
LONDON.- Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani. An exhibition of work by the four shortlisted artists will be held from 28 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 at Turner Contemporary in Margate. The winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony live on the BBC, the broadcast partner for the Turner Prize. For his solo exhibition Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale, and for the video installation Walled Unwalled and performance After SFX at Tate Modern, London. Self-proclaimed private ear, Abu Hamdans work investigates crimes that have been heard and not seen; exploring the processes of reconstruction, the complexity of memory and language as well as the urgency of human rights and advocacy. The jury was struck by Abu Hamdans exploration of sound as an architectural element and the way ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Frieze New York seeks to expand the conversation about art in its 2019 edition, featuring ambitious gallery presentations, collaborations with museum directors, bew curated sections, and special exhibitions, alongside the launch of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York. In this image: Bernard Jacobson, Frieze New York 2019. . Photos by Mark Blower. Courtesy: Mark Blower/Frieze
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 | | Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art launches digital archives initiative | | Christie's to offer Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book | | Sotheby's announces highlights from its May Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art | 
The DAI is an initiative of the Research Center, created in collaboration with The Met's Digital Department, which seeks to advance scholarship through digital access to research and primary source materials.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art today launched the Digital Archives Initiative, a new project developed through partnerships with institutions and artists' estates worldwide. Through the initiative, rare documents and materials related to modern art that are largely unknown or inaccessible are made available online. The first DAI collection, made possible through a partnership with the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, features Vincenc Kramář's unpublished notes on one of Pablo Picasso's first solo exhibitions outside Franceat Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1913. The DAI is an initiative of the Research Center, created in collaboration with The Met's Digital Department, which seeks ... More | | 
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book. Estimate: $7-9 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the auction of The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book fifty years after the historic space mission (estimate: $7-9 million). The Timeline Book is the most important manual used to accomplish the national goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. The Timeline Book will be the star lot offered within the auction, One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years after Apollo 11 on July 18 which will include over 150 lots of space history artefacts. The book will be unveiled in New York during 20th Century Week from May 3-17. The global tour will then include visits to Hong Kong from May 24 -27, Beijing from June 13-16 and Seattle towards the end of June. The Timeline Book will be back in New York for the public viewing from July 11-17 ahead of the auction and 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The Timeline Book narrates the entire Eagle voyage from inspection, undocking, ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Femme au chien. Signed Picasso (upper left); extensively dated (on the reverse). Oil on canvas, 63 3/4 by 51 1/4 in. 162 by 130 cm. Painted from November 23 to December 14, 1962. Estimate: $25/30 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled highlights from their Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 14 May in New York. Led by one of the finest examples from Claude Monets iconic Haystacks series, the 56 lots on offer will go on public view in Sothebys newly-reimagined and expanded York Avenue galleries beginning Friday, 3 May the first time that the space will be unveiled to the public. An enduring symbol of Impressionism from Claude Monets iconic Haystacks series leads a group of eight Impressionist masterworks on offer in the May Evening Sale from the same important private collection. Meules from 1890 is one of the most celebrated images in art history and one of only four works from Monets acclaimed series to come to auction this century ... More |
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| | | Drinks with Mona Lisa: A special night at the museum | | Souls Grown Deep announces four new museum acquisition agreements | | $13 million marks highest auction total for Prints & Multiples at Sotheby's since 2007 | 
A picture taken on March 21, 2019, shows the Louvre pyramid in front of the Louvre museum in Paris. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Daniela Molinari dreamed of offering a drink to the famous Mona Lisa and asking her all about the great Leonardo Da Vinci. On Tuesday night she enjoyed a very special night at the museum, at the famous Louvre in Paris. The Italian-Canadian art conservation student was chosen from over 180,000 entrants in a competition, launched by the Louvre in Paris and the home-sharing platform Airbnb, to mark 30 years since architect I.M Pei's glass pyramid was erected in the art museum's courtyard. It is the first time that any member of the public has been allowed to sleep in the famous museum overnight. The experience also included a special guided tour by an art historian, like those previously offered only to the likes of Barack Obama, Beyonce and Jay-Z. All the contestants had to do was answer the question: "Why would you be the Mona ... More | | 
Eldren M. Bailey, Spider Lady, 1960s. 32 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation © Estate of Eldren M. Bailey. Image: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio / Art Resource, NY.
ATLANTA, GA.- The Souls Grown Deep Foundation announced today that four museums have acquired works from its foremost collection of artworks by artists from the African American South: Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, The Phillips Collection, and the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, which is the second historically black college or university to receive works from the Foundation. With the addition of these four museums, the foundation has now placed more than 350 works by over 100 artists in 16 institutions, primarily through a combination of gift/purchase. The collection transfer program is designed to strengthen the presentation of African American artists from the Southern United States in the permanent collections of leading museums ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000. Sold for: $300,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys spring auction of Prints & Multiples concluded yesterday with a total of $13 million marking the highest total for a Prints auction at Sothebys worldwide since 2007, and with a strong 84% of all lots sold. Below is a look at the works that drove these exceptional results. Mary Bartow, Head of Sothebys Prints Department in New York, commented: We are thrilled to have raised our highest auction total worldwide in over a decade. Our spring auction brought together pivotal examples of 20th century printmaking from many of the great names in modern and contemporary art many of which were offered from notable private collections. Bidders responded enthusiastically to works by Warhol, Escher, Matisse, de Kooning and more, demonstrating a deep market for prints by iconic 20th century artists. A range of prints by Andy Warhol led the auction, with 36 works achieving a combined total of $4. ... More |
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| | | Food for thought: Maiolica on view at the Georgia Museum of Art | | Jeff Wall's first exhibition with Gagosian opens in New York | | Artcurial to offer a set of 15 pieces of art on paper entitled 'Salvador DalÃ: Metamorphoses' | 
Workshop of Guido Durantino, dish with Jupiter surprising Antiope, ca. 1540 50. Maiolica, 7 1/8 inches (diameter). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Virginia Y. Trotter Decorative Arts Endowment. GMOA 2018.410.
ATHENS, GA.- Like a talented storyteller beginning his tale, a generous host invites visitors into the scene by setting the table with delicious food and decorated dinnerware. In Renaissance Italy, maiolica was the standard form of pottery used to serve these welcoming meals. The exhibition Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia April 27, 2019 January 5, 2020, contains several of these tin-glazed earthenware plates from 16th-century Urbino and Venice. The catalyst for the exhibition was two pieces of maiolica the museum recently purchased with funds provided by the Virginia Y. Trotter Decorative Arts Endowment and the William Underwood Eiland Endowment. These works ... More | | 
Jeff Wall. Installation View. Artwork © Jeff Wall. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Jeff Walls first exhibition with the gallery. The majority of the works included are on view for the first time. From his pioneering use in the 1970s of backlit color transparenciesa medium then synonymous with advertisingto his intricately constructed scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and illusion. The triptych I giardini/The Gardens (2017) was photographed in the gardens of the Villa Silvio Pellico in Moncalieri, outside of Turin, Italy. Though Wall has made several works that combine two or more images, this is the first in which the order, read from left to right, represents a passage of time. It therefore has a narrative aspect absent from any previous picture group. The three imagesindividually titled Appunto/Complaint, Disappunto/Denial, and Diffida/Expulsion ordertrace the ... More | | 
Salvador Dali, Composition surréaliste (Cuadricula), 1964. 15,63 x 11,69 in. Estimate: 30 000/40 000 © Artcurial.
PARIS.- On Tuesday June 4th, a set 15 original Salvador Dalà gouaches will be dispersed by Artcurial during their Impressionist and Modern Art auction. Commissioned annually from the artist between 1959 and 1976 by Spanish pharmaceutical laboratory Hoechst Ibérica, the illustrations were used as company greeting cards. They were exhibited for twenty years at the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueras, the artists hometown. These visually strong drawings illustrate DalÃs personal mixed medium technique. The ink, gouache, watercolor or collages are accompanied by a manuscript text from the artist on the represented theme. Each of the artists surrealist inspirations are portrayed, throughout his great premises: metamorphosis, the chrysalid, Daphné or Don Quixote. They are occasionally associated with a Christmas theme, but mostly by nature and ... More |
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| | | Tirana's 'pyramid' puts checkered past behind it for new tech future | | Patrick Heide Contemporary Art exhibits recent works by Susan Schwalb and Caroline Kryzecki | | Christie's sales of Post-War and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam total $8,750,736 | 
Dutch architect Wilhelmus "Winy" Maas speaks during a press conference to present the final project of the pyramid's revival in Tirana, Albania, on April 25, 2019. Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP.
TIRANA (AFP).- The sprawling, space-age "pyramid" in Tirana's centre had many uses before falling into ruin: built as a museum for a dictator, it later hosted a NATO base, TV studio, nightclub and more. After years of neglect, the crumbling structure is now set for another rebirth as an IT hub in the heart of Albania's fast-changing capital. "I don't think there is anyone who thinks it is beautiful," admits Joni Baboci, a city hall architect involved with the redesign. "But it's a sort of a landmark of the city, and people want to preserve them in a city that has lost a lot" to development, he added. The 127,000-square-foot (11,400-square-metre) behemoth has triangular wedges of graffiti-covered marble and dark window panes that meet at a peak, giving it the pyramid look. For the project's architects, its overhaul is about striking a balance between preserving and reclaiming a relic ... More | | 
Caroline Kryzecki, KSZ 100/7068, 2019, Ballpoint pen on paper, 100 x 70 cm. Courtesy Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London.
LONDON.- Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is presenting Convergence, bringing together the works of Susan Schwalb (b. 1944, US) and Caroline Kryzecki (b. 1979, Germany); two female artists of different generations yet with similar artistic endeavours. This remarkable encounter reveals a variety of drawings depicting abstract-geometric structures that are carefully designed and reduced in language. Schwalbs compositions are elegant, calm and sensitive. Series like Convergence, Polyphony or Aurora connect to musical compositions and nature. Kryzeckis drawings are based on multi-layered conceptual frameworks. Her compositions are not just decorative pattern but question the formal and conceptual qualities of analogue aesthetics. Both artists introduce new and unusual materials that challenge our perception. Despite their systematic and often theoretical origins, the resulting works reveal great sensual qualities in their ... More | | 
Bram van Velde (1895-1981), Untitled. Gouache on paper on canvas. Estimate: 180,000 - 250,000. Sold for: 322,000 / £279,029 / $359,669. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
AMSTERDAM.- Christies Amsterdam Post-War and Contemporary Art evening and day sales concluded on 1 May with a combined total of 7,834,250 / £6,788,778 / $8,750,736, demonstrating the continuous strength of Christie's in the Netherlands with exceptional sell-through rates of 92% by lot and 95% by value in the evening sale and 91% by lot and 93% by value in the day sale. Registered bidders from 37 countries showed the continued global appeal of Christies Amsterdam sales, with enthusiastic bidding in the room, on the telephones and online from the U.S., Russia and Europe, particularly from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Over 30% of the sales were sold to or directly underbid by online clients. The season was led by the Jan and Tineke Hoekstra Collection of exceptional works by Dutch and international minimalist and constructivist artists, ... More |
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 Mitchell-Innes & Nash now represents Gerasimos FloratosNEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announced the gallery's representation of Gerasimos Floratos. The gallery will feature work by the artist at this years Frieze New York. A solo exhibition of new work by Floratos is scheduled for 2020 at the gallerys Chelsea location. A first-generation Greek-American and native New Yorker, Gerasimos Floratos grew up quite literally at the center of the city in Times Square where he continues to keep a studio. The vibrant dynamism of this milieu is evident in Floratoss paintings and sculptures, where he draws from the constant yet ever-changing nature of his surroundings to create pictorial abstractions populated by what the artist calls characters. Through these amorphous figuresformed from tropes of the citys denizensFloratos examines the psycho-spatial architecture of a globalized world from a highly ... More Brazil's 'godmother of samba' Beth Carvalho diesRIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Brazilian singer and "godmother of samba" Beth Carvalho died from sepsis in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, her publicist and hospital said. She was 72. "Our dear Beth Carvalho departed at 5:33 pm (2233 GMT) today surrounded by the love of her family and friends," according to a statement issued by publicist Afonso Carvalho. The statement did not specify cause of death, but the Pro-Cardiac Hospital said in a WhatsApp message that Carvalho had succumbed to a "generalized infection (sepsis)." Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body is attacked by its own immune system. Carvalho had been confined to a wheelchair in recent years due to back problems. She had continued to perform, however, moving Brazilian fans with hits including "Coisinha do Pai" or "Father's Little Thing." In a career spanning 50 ... More Fort Gansevoort opens Zoya Cherkassky's first solo exhibition in the United StatesNEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort presents Soviet Childhood, the first solo exhibition in the United States featuring the work of Zoya Cherkassky. Through the depiction of the quotidian lives of the final generation of Soviet children, Cherkassky creates a nostalgic and approachable portrait of the Soviet Union. One can relate to the banality of these scenes, with only the fashions and details peppered throughout disclosing the strange time and place in which Cherkassky and her subjects lived. Cherkassky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1976 while the country was still under the control of the Soviet Union. She and her family immigrated to Israel when she was fifteen years old in 1991, the year of the Soviet Unions collapse. By painting her personal narrative, Cherkasskys work is intrinsically political and complex; only to be amplified by her marriage ... More Sebastian Errazuriz sculpture exhibition opens at the Elizabeth CollectiveNEW YORK, NY.- Roxana Q. Girand, President and CEO of Sebastian Capital, announced that The Elizabeth Collective is hosting Sebastian Errazuriz, the Chilean-born, New York-based artist, designer and activist. On view are highlights from The Beginning of the End, his recent exhibition at CorpArtes Cultural Center in Santiago, Chile, where Errazuriz combined technology and art through augmented reality, 3D printing, scanning and modeling. Running from May 1 through May 24, 2019 the exhibition presents a series of Errazurizs sculptures curated by James Salomon of Salomon Contemporary. The Elizabeth Collective is located within a historic six-story townhouse, a one-time home of Elizabeth Taylor, recently restored and reimagined as a creative hub with a focus on art and design by Sebastian Capital. Errazurizs work is a commentary on the ... More Luhring Augustine opens an exhibition of new paintings by Sanya KantarovskyNEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announced the opening of On Them, an exhibition of new paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. On Them presents vignettes from the lives of a strange group of real and imagined subjects. An anguished killer, a hospice patient, a headless infant accordionist, and a disenfranchised snowman assemble into a painted tragicomedy, simultaneously unnerving and seducing the audience. The otherwise discrete paintings seem to suggest contingency, akin to a set of chance encounters one might have with passersby throughout the course of a particularly disconcerting day. At times, the subjects directly return the viewers gaze, as if begging for connection; at other times, they plead with an omniscient celestial entity, or stare vacantly off the edges of the canvas. While ... More Egyptian Queen, Frank Frazetta's 1969 masterpiece, may bring millions in auction debut at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- One of the most legendary paintings by famed artist Frank Frazetta and without question the greatest ever to come to auction is the runaway headline lot in Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Auction May 16-18 in Chicago. Frank Frazetta Egyptian Queen Painting Original Art (1969) (estimate: $5,000,000+) is the painting that, more than any other, helped Frazetta revolutionize fantasy illustration. The masterpiece has been in the possession of Frazettas family ever since it was created 50 years ago, and now is offered to the public for the first time ever. The popularity of the image has been enduring and expansive. For decades, it appeared on comic books, paperback book covers, posters and album covers. Over the years, other artists have created their own versions of the painting, in honor of the powerful image and the iconic ... More Middle Eastern Art Week led by £5.4 million portrait of Suleyman the Magnificent & 12 artist recordsLONDON.- The Arts of the Islamic World sale, which explores over 1,200 years of creativity and craftsmanship across several continents, brought a total of £9,914,625 / $12,951,475 (est. £4.2-6.1 million). One of the few Western images of an Eastern potentate by a European artist, this striking portrait of a young Suleyman the Magnificent (circa 1520) sparked a lengthy three-way bidding battle today, which saw it surpass its estimate of £350,000 500,000 by eighteen times to sell for £5,323,500 / $7,035,005. Testament to its rarity, Suleyman does not seem to have commissioned any portraits, and so details of his appearance were conveyed through sketches by those who had accompanied foreign embassies to the Ottoman court, and so it is very likely that either Andrea Gritti or his son Alvise Gritti were the patrons behind this portrait. Edward ... More Exhibition explores the inequalities in the global food systemLONDON.- Delfina Foundation is presenting the first UK solo exhibition of Asunción Molinos Gordo, Accumulation by Dispossession, curated by Dani Burrows. The exhibition takes its title from the work of the eminent Marxist Professor David Harvey. In his 2003 book, The New Imperialism, Harvey introduces the concept accumulation by dispossession to describe the increasing feature of global capitalism to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few through the process of dispossession. During her 2014 residency at Delfina Foundation, Molinos related this concept to her on-going research into the food system, the outcome of which is this exhibition. Accumulation by Dispossession maps a route through different aspects of the global food system, addressing issues of privatisation, financialisation, the management and manipulation of crisis, ... More Exhibition presents jewellery, glass and ceramics as envisioned by gallerists MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is dedicating its Design Lab to three Quebec gallery owners who used their expertise to ensure glass, ceramics and jewellery become recognized as fully fledged artistic disciplines. Avant-garde Montrealers: Jewellery, Glass and Ceramics as Envisioned by Jocelyne Gobeil, Elena Lee and Barbara Silverberg pays tribute to these audacious women and their resolutely contemporary vision of these practices. "Jocelyne, Elena, Barbara
such visionary women! They deserve to be celebrated by Montreal, as these pioneers not only opened the door to new artistic forms, but also enriched the MMFA's collection. From our great patron Liliane Stewart to our design curator, Diane Charbonneau, whom I must applaud for her outstanding work, women Montrealers have played an instrumental role in promoting contemporary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci died May 02, 1519. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. In this image: Codex Forster 1¹, 6v-7r, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), pen and ink, Italy (Florence), about 1505, V&A: Forster MS.141/1, Forster Bequest. © V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum.
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