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With Robert Motherwell â Pure Painting, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is showing the work of a leading representative of Abstract Expressionism, the monumental, gestural movement in painting that began in the late 1940s and is regarded as the first original form of American Post-War art.
by Rebecca Schmid
VIENNA.- Artist Robert Motherwell was a bridge between continents: at once a spokesperson for the New York School and a conduit for the theories of European modernists. And yet, there has not been a retrospective of his work in Europe since 1998. In Austria, the last major Motherwell exhibit took place in the 1970s. That will change this month as the Kunstforum in Vienna hosts Robert Motherwell Pure Painting. The retrospective, which runs Oct. 12 to Jan. 14, was first unveiled at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, this year (it closed Sept. 17). The show as the title indicates focuses exclusively on his paintings, featuring loans from private collections and museums from across the United States and Europe. Pure Painting spans half a century, beginning with figurative abstractions of the 1940s and extending into representative works of his last years. The retrospective unfolds chronologically, allowing for an examination of how his artistry ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nara Roesler New York is presenting the first solo exhibition of José PatrÃcio in the United States. Bringing together approximately 15 works created by the artist from 2005 to 2023. José PatrÃcio's artistic production began in the 1970s, initially focused on printmaking and later exploring the expressive potential of paper itself, through its colors, textures, and formal arrangements in compositional space.
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| Frans Hals and the art of laughter | | Serpentine continues historic sculpture series with major exhibition by one of the world's most prolific living artists | | A Paris museum looks back, and ahead | 
In an undated image provided by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Frans Halss Malle Babbe (c. 1640). His grinning subjects can be hard to take seriously, but a major exhibition argues that Frans Hals is an old master on par with Rembrandt and Vermeer. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie via The New York Times)
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK, NY.- What made people in the Dutch Golden Age laugh? The person who knew best was painter Frans Hals. No other artist of the last 400 years painted quite as many smiles. Think of the mischievous grin of his jolly jester in The Lute Player. Or the radiant expressions of his newlyweds, posing in a garden, in his 1622 Portrait of a Couple. And who can forget the mirth of his Pekelharing (Pickled Herring), a picture of a merry drinker. Even Hals old ladies are allowed a giggle. Was it the lack of sobriety in his images that made it hard to take him seriously? For long stretches of art history, Hals was forgotten, or ignored. A major retrospective of his work, now at the National ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 2015. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
LONDON.- Serpentine opened its first solo exhibition of Georg Baselitz (born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony) from today until 7 January 2024. It includes a series of sculptures and drawings as well as a monumental nine-metre-tall sculpture Zero Dom (Zero Dome) within the Royal Parks, presented for the first time in the UK. These pieces offer an intimate glimpse into the artists studio practice and explore the frailty of the body in relation to the highly physical and raw processes he employs to make the works. The exhibition follows a long history of presenting sculpture inside its galleries and in the park including major shows of Henry Moore (1978), Anthony Caro (1984), Louise Bourgeois (1985)(her first in a UK institution), Alberto Giacometti and more recently Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow.With a career spanning over six decades, Georg Baselitz emerged in post-war Germany as one of the most influential contemporar ... More | | 
Christophe Leribault, president of the Musée dOrsay and its sister institution, the Musée de lOrangerie, in Paris, Sept. 25, 2023. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Paris suburb of Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890. He succumbed to serious mental illness and to a consuming sense of despair. Yet the two months he spent in Auvers were extraordinarily prolific ones: He produced more than 70 paintings, including a few that today are considered among his greatest masterpieces. The Musée dOrsay in Paris is staging the first exhibition dedicated to those final months in Auvers. Co-produced with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, it features about 48 paintings and 40 drawings and prints by the Dutch prodigy, and promises to be another crowd-puller for the museum a converted train station that is one of the worlds finest museums of the 19th century. Like every other major museum, however, Orsay needs to keep up with the times and offer ... More |
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| Fine Art Asia 2023, Embracing the New Trend in Cross-Collecting, 5-8 October | | Fontaine's Fine & Decorative Arts Auction realizes $2.5-Million | | Joan Baez: I Am A Noise, doc portrait of the legendary singer & activist, opens Oct. 6 at Film Forum | 
A pair of double gourd jars, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period (c. 1710), H. 111 cm (each), W. 49 kg (each). Vanderven Oriental Art, The Netherlands.
HONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2023, Asias leading international fine art fair, returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from today to Sunday 8 October 2023. A VIP preview was held on Wednesday, 4 October 2023. After three years, Fine Art Asia 2023 brings together prominent Hong Kong and international galleries once again, delivering another vibrant art fair featuring a wide range of collecting categories. On display are artworks spanning over 5,000 years of cultural history, from ancient Chinese bronzes through to contemporary art. Fine Art Asia was founded in 2006 by Hong Kong art experts and has earned a reputation in the international art world as the most distinguished annual fine art fair in the region. Over the years, the fair has increasingly attracted leading galleries from all over the world. Fine Art ... More | | 
Another fine example from Tiffany Studios was a circa 1905 Banded Dogwood table lamp that brought $56,250.
PITTSFIELD, MA.- Lighting was definitely a bright spot at Fontaines blockbuster fall auction on September 23-24 that saw over 800 lots cross the block for a grand total of just over $2.5 million with strong offerings across the board. There were standouts and statement pieces both days with fine art, jewelry and decorative arts seeing strong interest and competitive bidding. When it comes to lighting, there are several renowned makers that collectors and those with good taste gravitate towards (Duffner & Kimberly, Handel, Suess and Pairpoint to name a few) but few can reach the fandom levels that Tiffany Studios inspires. This auction boasted more than 200 lamps and over 40 of those were sought after examples by Tiffany Studios led by a Curtain Border floor lamp, circa 1910, that lit up bidders, ... More | | 
Joan Baez © Albert Baez.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the US theatrical premiere of Joan Baez: I Am A Noise, directed by Karen OConnor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve OBoyle, on Friday, October 6. I am not a saint, I am a noise, wrote 13-year-old Joan Baez in her journal, reflecting on a discordance between her outer and inner lives that would only deepen. Icon of 60s folk music and activism, Baez made the cover of TIME at 21, her relationship with Bob Dylan was widely publicized, and she famously performed We Shall Overcome at the March on Washington. What the public didnt know: she was subject to racist taunts as a child (her father was Mexican), suffered intense anxiety, and harbored long-simmering questions about unacknowledged family trauma. Crafting an intimate, revelatory portrait of an artist looking back on a six-decade career, the filmmakers -- who had extraordinary access to Baez on and off stage draw ... More |
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| Galerie Emilie Dujat is now presenting the exhibition 'Tout doit disparaître' by Benoit Adam | | The Approach exhibiting landscapes by artist John Maclean: 'New Paintings Part I' | | 'This Machine Creates Opacities: Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope. L' at Carpenter Center | 
Benoit Adam.
BRUSSELS.- Benoit Adam, Brussels (1979) communicates, among other things, through a unique practice of painting and drawing. Images, more precisely portraits, emerge from his thoughts in nervous and colorful compositions sometimes on the verge of erasure by the superposition of layers and washes. Nothing is left to chance, everything is played out between balance and chaos. His complex compositions are nourished by his observation of art history and an energy that he attempts to circumscribe. The organization of his space seems spontaneous, but in reality it is the result of the sum of his experiences. Benoit is also the author of powerful texts where the writing also pretends to be automatic. Between gravity and satire, a trace left to be seen by those who can immerse themselves in it. The title of the exhibition 'Tout doit disparaître' evokes the gradual disappearance of the thick lines which delineated his human figures and the ebb of the faces in the composition. He also refers to the place w ... More | | 
Installation view of John Maclean, America, 2023. Watercolor on board, 30 x 24 cm, 11 13/16 x 9 7 /16 inches.
LONDON.- The Approach is currently exhibiting John Maclean New Paintings. Part I; a continuation of the body of work Maclean produced for his Annexe show earlier this year. Maclean studied at the Royal College of Art in the mid-90s under contemporary British painters such as Chris Ofili and Peter Doig, however his other interests took him in the direction of a career in music and film making. With his film projects on hold during the pandemic and needing a creative outlet for his ideas, Maclean returned to painting after a twenty-year hiatus. Landscapes seemed to be an obvious subject matter for Maclean to work with; growing up in the Scottish Highlands surrounded by dramatic, almost romantic, surroundings, he always had a strong relationship to the natural environment. Landscapes also play a central role in his films: in Slow West, the film Maclean wrote and directed in 2015, and with his forthcoming feature-length project Tornado, the ... More | | 
Pierre Huyghe, This is not a time for dreaming, 2004. Live puppet play and super 16mm film, transferred to DigiBeta. 24 minutes, color, sound. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo credit: Michael Vahrenwald.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- On the occasion of the Carpenter Centers 60th anniversary, This Machine Creates Opacities restages four major works by artists Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope.L that examine the ways buildings can choreograph social life, learning, and culture. With its title borrowed from statements made by artist Pope.L about navigating the Carpenter Center when invited to create a new commission, the exhibition reflects on the history, activities, and affects of Le Corbusiers iconic designthe architects only building in North America. The selected projects were each made in direct response to the Carpenter Center as an institutional site and explore architecture through the lenses of experimental cinematography and performance, employing the expansive formal and technological possibilities of video installation to excavate ... More |
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| 'The Anglophile and The Professor Early Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera, 16th-20th Century' by Everard Auctions | | New Muck exhibits 'the grateful chair' and 'Pensar Y Poder' examine life's challenges through art | | Review: At 'Jaja's,' where everybody knows your mane | 
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, (London, 1652). From the Collection of Professor Ronald Onorato, Savannah, Ga. Estimate $1,500-$2,500.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everard Auctions Oct. 19, 2023 Specialty Fall Sale features English books and manuscripts from the collection of Savannah, Georgia, professor Ronald Onorato; plus manuscripts and ephemera with a focus on British royalty from the Estate of William H Rasch. Highlights include a 14th century Chaucer, signatures of members of the British Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth II, and a collection of early English histories and collected works. The standout folio in the auction is The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer (London, Thomas Petit, circa 1550). This important early edition of Chaucers works is estimated at $5,000-$8,000, with a reserve of $3,000. This leatherbound work is one of four variants of the undated fourth collected edition, published simultaneously by four London booksellers. It is the last edition of William Thynne's highly regarded version of The Workes of Chaucer. Chaucer (circa 1343-1400) played an important ro ... More | | 
The grateful chair by Dave Webb combines video, iPhone images on metal, and an object darte, this narrative exhibit creates a place to consider love and loss: of all the different chairs we each occupy over the years, few are as misunderstood as the grateful chair. Part love note, part meditation on mortality and part unsolicited advice, the grateful chair is an artists response to his spouses terminal cancer diagnosis.
FULLERTON, CA.- The Muckenthaler Cultural Center welcomes the grateful chair by Dave Webb in the main gallery, and Pensar Y Poder by Jimmy Centeno in the north gallery as of today. Using different forms, both shows examine lifes challenges and allow the viewer to process another persons experience. Says Muck CEO Farrell Hirsch: "What makes these two shows stand out on our schedule is they're both intimate personal insights into the biggest questions we face --- identity, mortality, love. These themes are essential to art and to life. I have no doubt that anyone visiting The Muck in the next eight weeks will engage in an internal dialogue about how they see themselves reflected in this work." In a narrative exhibit that includes a video installation, ... More | | 
Somi Kakoma, center, as Jaja with, from left, Dominique Thorne, Nana Mensah, Maechi Aharanwa and Kalyne Coleman in Jajas African Hair Braiding at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in Manhattan, Sept. 9, 2023. Jocelyn Biohs Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Jesse Green
NEW YORK, NY.- Nothing says comedy to me like hot pink, and pink doesnt get much hotter than the pink of the house curtain that greets you at the beginning of Jajas African Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bioh. In the pale and staid Samuel J. Friedman Theater, a fuchsia drop depicting dozens of elaborately woven hairstyles micro braids, cornrows, kinky twists and more tells you, along with the bouncy Afro-pop music, to prepare for laughter. That will come in abundance, but dont in the meantime ignore Jajas storefront: gray and grimy and contradicting the pink. With its roll-up grille fully locked down, its telling you something, too. What that ... More |
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 The International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair announces 30th anniversary edition highlightsNEW YORK, NY.- The International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair unveiled the first exhibitors and public programme highlights of its 30th anniversary edition, taking place at the Javits Center in Manhattan from October 2629, 2023. In its strongest edition to date, the Fair will be welcoming over 90 exhibitors from 7 countriesfrom the worlds best print studios and dealers to renowned publisherswho will showcase over 550 years of printmaking, from Old Masters to contemporary works. Returning exhibitor David Zwirner will present a carefully curated selection of new work by Hayley Barker and Cynthia Talmadge, alongside historical prints made by Ruth Asawa which coincide with the Whitney Museums anticipated exhibition Ruth Asawa Through Line. Hauser & Wirth, also a returning exhibitor, will present celebrated artists ... More  Just like in a mirror opens at Nationalmuseum JamtliSTOCKHOLM.- The exhibition Just like in a mirror portraits over five centuries presents men, women and children who lived in or served Sweden from the 16th century to the present day. Not all the subjects were born in the country, but they all contributed in various ways to its history or cultural life. Some of the artists and subjects have a connection with Jämtland. Duskily as in a mirror, people from past centuries and from our own times can be discerned in the portraits. The paintings, sculptures and photographs are not realistic depictions, but rather images of how the subject wishes to appear for eternity and how the artist chooses to interpret this. The artworks show different ideals of appearance and fashion, while also reflecting how notions of status, social identity and profession have changed over the centuries. In 17th- ... More  First time in Cologne: Noble & Private Collections in the Palais OppenheimCOLOGNE.- Since the launch of its auctions on the German art market in September 2021, Sotheby's Germany has been expanding its sale offering from year to year. This fall, Sotheby's Cologne will held the inaugural Noble & Private Collections auction: From 11 to 18 October 2023, collectors have the opportunity to acquire works of art and objects with royal and aristocratic provenance as well as pieces from outstanding private collections. The online auction captivates selected historical precious objects, arts and crafts, furniture and paintings, a large part of which comes to the market for the first time. Over generations, the finest pieces such as a significant royal pair of K.P.M. Berlin ice buckets, plates from a royal service or historic portraits were found in the private possession of high noble families. This exquisite selection ... More  Starting new conversations about Arab artNEW YORK, NY.- Tucked away on a side street, far from the flashier museums that have come to represent Qatar in the post-World Cup era, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha is about to unveil four concurrent exhibitions that can be seen as a testament to the museums crucial role in the world of contemporary Arab art. Its part of a new vision for the museum, affectionately known among locals as Mathaf (Arabic for museum). As Qatar has established a flashy vision of a global arts center with several enormous museum projects planned over the next decade Mathaf has positioned itself as a vital player in that scene, all from a nondescript former school building in the shadow of one of the stadiums built for the World Cup. For Zeina Arida, who joined the museum as its new director from the Sursock Museum in Beirut, ... More  Yavus Gallery opening 'Desert Songs' by leading indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira OamSYDNEY.- Yavuz Gallery, one of the leading contemporary art galleries in the Asia Pacific, today announced the premiere of a major debut exhibition Desert Songs by Western Aranda artist Vincent Namatjira OAM. Presented from 5-28 October 2023 at Yavuz Gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney, the exhibition coincides with a forthcoming monograph published by Thames and Hudson and major survey, Australia in colour, presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2023 and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, in 2024. Founder and Director of Yavuz Gallery, Can Yavuz said: Yavuz Gallery is tremendously proud to present Desert Songs, a seminal body of work by one of Australias most prominent artists. This exhibition tells the stories of his community and all that they have endured, celebrating icons of Aboriginal music and deploying his ... More  Keisuke Tada Solo Exhibitions at MAKI Gallery & Gallery COMMONTOKYO .- MAKI Gallery and Gallery COMMON have begun concurrent hostings of two solo exhibitions by Aichi-based artist Keisuke Tada. Tadas debut show with MAKI Gallery, titled Phantom Emotion, will be held at the Omotesando gallery space and present a body of work that evinces the artists strong fascination for the relationship between real and fabricated constructs. Traversing the obscure boundary that separates reality and fiction, he creates paintings that capture the essence of his central theme: the conflict between being there and not. When confronted with Tadas works, our bodies are transported to a place where notions of time and space lose their function, evoking a sense of disorientation in our perception and awareness. In this exhibition, the artist invites viewers on a journey into virtual spaces and the realm where reality and ... More  In Mexico City, a museum celebrates its first decadeMEXICO CITY.- The way Kit Hammonds explains things, it takes 10 years to get a museum right, to figure out which artists to exhibit and how to lure large crowds through the doors, to hone a distinct curatorial vision and, just as important, to assemble a behind-the-scenes team that understands the challenges every institution faces. Museo Jumex, where Hammonds is chief curator, has accomplished all of those things, though it has enjoyed some clear advantages getting through its first decade, notably the financial support of Eugenio López Alonso, whose family made a fortune with its Grupo Jumex juice business in Mexico, and who spends considerable sums of money in the name of visual arts. López founded the museum, built its gleaming, white home amid the designer retail shops and sleek residential towers in Mexico Citys Polanco ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Francesco Guardi was born October 05, 1712. Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting. In this image: Sotheby's employee Maria Sheremeteva studies Francesco Guardi's Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge.
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