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Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei speaks in front of one of his new art installations in Central Park, part of a series of works entitled "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" on October 10, 2017 in New York City. Covering over 300 sites in New York City, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" seeks to highlight and start a discussion on the global refugee crisis. The works can be viewed through February 11 in a variety of locations including city parks, bus shelters, newsstands and rooftops. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- He has worked his way through refugee camps, capturing the stories of migrants across the world. Now celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has brought the fruits of his labor to New York, scattering over 300 works across the metropolis. Weiwei's most ambitious outdoor project to date, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" -- which takes its name from a line in a poem by Robert Frost -- formally opened Thursday and will run until mid-February. It's a love letter of sorts to a city the artist, 60, called home from 1983 to 1993, and a new illustration of his empathy for refugees worldwide -- stemming from his own experience of being exiled after his father, a poet, was branded an enemy of the Chinese state. "I need to pay back my love," Weiwei insisted at a press conference in Central Park, honoring "a city (where) every young artist wants to be," where "you never feel you are a foreigner." But the location of one of his large-scale works -- a "Gilded Cage" installed at the southeast entrance ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announces that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have made a commitment to give their exceptional collections to the Museum. In this image: Robert and Ruth Remis Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
| Lehmann Maupin opens expansive solo exhibition of recent pictures by Gilbert & George | | New Museum selects OMA as architects for next phase of expansion | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to receive landmark gifts of Dutch and Flemish art | 
Gilbert & George, Beardtime, 2016 (detail). Mixed media, 74.8 x 118.9 inches 190 x 302 cm © Gilbert & George. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce The Beard Pictures, an expansive solo exhibition of recent pictures by Gilbert & George. In honor of the 50th anniversary of when the British artists first met, 35 monumental pictures will be on view at both of the gallerys New York locations in Chelsea and downtown Manhattan. The Beard Pictures exemplifies Gilbert & Georges commitment to Living Sculpture, or an inseparable association between the world and their art practice. The pictures respond to the shifting demographics of our time, befitting the artists proclamation of Art for All. Viewers should not mistake this mandate for a democratic approach to art as a pleasantry. Taboos, fetishes, political upheaval, and the functions of the human body are some of the great unifiers of humanity, and Gilbert & George have long offered scathing and unsanitized ... More | | 
OMA will design a new building on the adjacent property at 231 Bowery that the Museum purchased in 2008.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum Board of Trustees, Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, announced today that OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu have been selected as the design architects for the Museums next phase of expansion. OMA will design a new building on the adjacent property at 231 Bowery that the Museum purchased in 2008. The new structure will complement and respect the integrity of the Museums flagship SANAA building as a singular, critically acclaimed work of architecture. The expansion, first announced in May 2016, will double the Museums footprint on the Bowery, providing an additional 50,000 square feet for additional galleries, improved public circulation, and flexible space for the institutions continued exploration of new platforms and programs. The project is scheduled to break ground in 2019. OMA is a great choice for ... More | | 
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, 1632 (detail). Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection.
BOSTON, MASS.- Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announces that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have made a commitment to give their exceptional collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to the Museuma donation that will constitute the largest gift of European paintings in MFA history. The Boston-area collectors plan to give the MFA not only their art collections, but also a major research library and funding to establish a Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA, the first of its kind in the U.S. The donation of 113 works by 76 artistsincluding one of the finest Rembrandt portraits in private handswill elevate the Museums holdings into one of the countrys foremost collections of Dutch art from the Golden Age and significantly strengthen its representation of Flemish paintings from the time. The Center for Netherlandish Art will encourage sharing works of art ... More |
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| Picasso's mansion set to sell for 20 million euros | | Gold leaf from Napoleon's crown to go under hammer | | Christie's to offer a 32-foot tour de force by Andy Warhol with Sixty Last Suppers | 
This file photo taken on February 05, 2008 in Mougins shows the villa in which Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) spent the last years of his life. The villa will be auctioned on October 12, 2017 in Grasse. VALERY HACHE / AFP.
NICE (AFP).- Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera -- where his last wife tragically shot herself -- is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros ($24 million) at an auction on Thursday. The artist spent his twilight years on the estate at Mougins in the hills near Cannes, dying there in April 1973, 12 years after moving there with his muse and second wife Jacqueline Roque. Roque -- who Picasso painted more than 400 times, but who feuded with his children after his death -- killed herself at the house overlooking the Mediterranean in 1986. Her daughter Catherine Hutin-Blay sold the estate on to a Dutch owner, who renamed it the "Cavern of the Minotaur" after the painter's obsession with the mythical beast. Before Picasso the house had belonged to the Anglo-Irish Guinness brewing family. ... More | | 
Osenat estimates it will go for between 100,000 and 150,000 euros ($118,000 to $177,000).
PARIS (AFP).- A golden laurel leaf from Napoleon's crown is to go under the hammer next month, an auction house said Wednesday. The French leader crowned himself emperor at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris in 1804, famously taking the Roman-style laurel wreath and putting it on his own head, instead of letting Pope Pius VII do the honours. But at a fitting for the crown in the days leading up to the spectacular event, the "little Corsican" had complained that it was too heavy, the Osenat auction house said. So goldsmith Martin-Guillaume Biennais took six large leaves out of the crown, later giving one to each of his six daughters. The crown, modelled on the one worn by the ancient Roman caesars, is the centrepiece of Jacques-Louis David's monumental painting, "The Coronation of Napoleon", at the Louvre museum in Paris. The original wreath was melted down after Napoleon's fall in the wake of ... More | | 
Christie's unveils Andy Warhol's 'Sixty Last Suppers' at Christie's New York on October 10, 2017 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Christie's Auction House/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 15, Christies will offer Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers, 1986 (estimate: in the region of $50 million) as a highlight of its Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. Sixty Last Suppers is an outstanding example from the artists great final painting series. Executed just a year before Warhols death in February 1987, this monumental canvas poignantly illustrates the themes of religion and loss that were so instrumental to his work. This canvas is being offered for its first time at auction. Alex Rotter, Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art, New York, remarked: Christies Sixty Last Suppers is the unequivocal masterpiece from Warhols late period. Standing in front of this momentous canvas, the viewer is fully immersed by Leonardos vision, but seen ... More |
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| Garvey/Simon opens exhibition of Alan Bray's recent casein landscape paintings | | Alte Pinakothek publishes Florentine paintings caalogue, restores Botticelli painting | | Exhibition focuses on the power structures, god-worship and everyday life in Ancient Egypt | 
Alan Bray, Ice Dam, 2017. Casein tempera on panel, 24 x 18 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon presents Alan Bray: Inward Maine, an exhibition featuring the artists recent casein landscape paintings. This will be the eighth New York solo show for the Maine-based artist, and his second at Garvey|Simon. Alan Bray explores the landscape of inland Maine via quiet rambles in the woods, kayak trips down forested streams, and most recently, Google Earth, where he can observe his surroundings from a foreign, aerial view. A poetic and visionary painter, his often-peculiar vistas celebrate the phenomena of nature in the ordinary. Bray lives and paints in the central Maine Highlands (a less-traveled part of the state), where he was born, raised, and continues to reside. It is the attachment and familiarity with this unique natural environment that provides him with succor. After studying at the Art Institute of Boston and the University of Southern Maine, Bray traveled to Florence in the 1970s to att ... More | | 
Florentine Painting Alte Pinakothek. The Paintings of the 14th to the 16th Centuries. Edited by Andreas Schumacher with Annette Kranz and Annette Hojer. 744 pages with more than 1000 mostly colour illustrations, 22.5 x 28.5 cm, hardcover.
MUNICH.- The catalogue of Florentine paintings in the Alte Pinakothek covers one of the internationally most important collections of paintings at the centre of the Renaissance. Some 80 works, including panels by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Sarto, have been thoroughly examined, art historically and technologically, for the first time. The written contributions present new findings on the attribution, provenance, iconography and the history of the genre and function. Analyses of materials and painting techniques explore the artists working methods and enable a better understanding of correlations that led to a change of technique and style. Four introductory essays focus on the specific characteristics of ... More | | 
King Amenemhet III. Photo: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Anders Sune Berg.
COPENHAGEN.- In an impressive special exhibition the Glyptotek gives a glimpse into the power structures, god-worship and everyday life in Ancient Egypt when Pharaoh reigned as a personified god and undisputed authority. Ancient Egypt has always fascinated us. Not least the legendary pharaohs the kings who ruled over them all, who were more gods than human beings were the subject of many tales through the ages. In the exhibition, Pharaoh the Face of Power we examine the period 2000-1700 BC, known as the Middle Kingdom when the Egyptian realm rose again after a period of decline, and strong pharaohs united the country with centralised power. Here visitors can experience how, 4000 years ago, it was possible to construct personal myths and manage to rule a people with absolutely no help from spin doctors, the press or the social media. Objects from the Glyptoteks own Egyptian collection, ... More |
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| Recent works on paper and paintings by New York artist Peri Schwartz on view in Denver | | Sotheby's Geneva to offer "The Raj Pink": The world's largest known Fancy Intense Pink Diamond | | "Kim Simonsson: Shaman Party" now on view at Jason Jacques Gallery | 
Studio XXX, oil on canvas, 48 x 38.
DENVER, CO.- Michele Mosko Fine Art and Andrew Stemple of Metropolitan Frame Company are presenting recent works on paper and paintings by New York Artist, Peri Schwartz at Metropolitan Frame Company. Ms. Schwartz is recognized nationally for her paintings and exceptional printmaking. Her works of art are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the British Museum in London as well as numerous other international and prestigious permanent collections. Michele Mosko Fine Art has represented the painter in New York and Denver for more than twenty years and is working together now with Metropolitan Frames in order to exhibit a curated collection of prints, unique works on paper and paintings on canvas. In her interior studies, Schwartz breaks down the still life or studio to its most basic revealing volumes and planes of color that work off and against one another; ... More | | 
The brilliance, hue and size of this precious gem are truly exceptional. --Gemological Institute of America. Estimate US$ 20 30 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
GENEVA.- Sothebys will present The Raj Pink, the worlds largest known Fancy Intense Pink diamond, weighing 37.30 carats. This superb and exceptionally rare diamond will take centre stage during Sothebys sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels in Geneva, on 15 November 2017. The discovery of any pink diamond is exceptional, but the Raj Pinks remarkable size and intensity of colour places it in the rarefied company of the most important pink diamonds known. David Bennett, Worldwide Chairman of Sothebys International Jewellery Division. The rough diamond which yielded The Raj Pink was studied for over a year after its discovery in 2015. It was then entrusted to a master cutter, who brought the diamonds innermost beauty to full display by crafting ... More | | 
Kim Simonsson, Moss Astronaut Holding Helmet, 2017 Stoneware, nylon fibre
35.50h x 19.50w x 15.70d in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery announces Kim Simonsson: Shaman Party, a solo exhibition of the Finnish artists recent work. On view through November 7, the exhibition marks a return to the gallery for Simonsson with new sculptures from his popular Moss People series, which was introduced in 2014. With life-size ceramic sculptures depicting innocent yet beguiling child figures, Simonsson leads the viewer into an imaginative, fairytale-like world inspired by the forests of Finland. The name Moss People refers to childrens innate camouflage, explains Simonsson. The moss green figures blend perfectly into their natural surroundings, just as a soft carpet of moss covers the ground, rocks and tree trunks and acts as a sort of protection. In the Moss People world, lost and disconnected children, evoking ... More |
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 The Morgan adds state-of-the-art wall case for special rotating exhibitions in lower levelNEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum recently installed a large, custom-fabricated wall case in the lower level of its three-story central court to accommodate ongoing exhibitions of work from its renowned collections of art, literature, music, and photography. The new case is the key element in an overall refurbishment of the space, which had largely remained unchanged since 2006 and the completion of the museums Renzo Piano-designed expansion. Currently, nineteenth-century French and British watercolors are featured in the case. They were recently given to the Morgan by Trustee Hamilton Robinson, Jr., and his wife, Roxana. Works on paper form the vast majority of the Morgans holdings and are highly sensitive to light and humidity. The new case incorporates the latest in climate control and lighting technology. It is constructed of cherrywood, ... More artnet Auctions hosts sale in partnership with Nader Art Museum Latin America NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions is pleased to announce New Frontiers: Benefiting Nader Art Museum Latin America. Curated from the personal collection of art dealer Gary Nader, this sale brings together a panoramic view of the regions most sought-after Modern and contemporary artists. Live for bidding October 12 through 24, proceeds from this sale will benefit the Nader Art Museum Latin America in Miami. Leading the sale are two works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who is known for his smooth, rotund depiction of the human form. Donna in piedi con panno (piccolo), estimated at $300,000400,000, is a 2007 bronze sculpture that depicts a corpulent female nude with one hand confidently placed on her hip while the other coyly holds a towel to her side. In the style of Boterismo, the work contrasts unrealistically small facial features with an inflated ... More Tornabuoni Art London opens exhibition of works by Giorgio de ChiricoLONDON.- The exhibition, curated by Katherine Robinson, member of the scientific committee of the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation in Rome, has been divided into nine sections, each representing a different theme explored by the artist throughout his career: Italian Piazzas, Metaphysical Interiors, Portraits and Self-Portraits, Still Lifes, Mannequins, Horses and Horsemen, Gladiators, Mythology and Mysterious Baths. This unique exhibition and the accompanying scholarly catalogue include theoretical and critical essays, poems, prose and love letters, enabling visitors to find a new reading of de Chiricos famous works through his own words. The show also sheds light on the artists unusual artistic career, which began with the more radical and much admired metaphysical period and evolved into a more baroque, painterly style. The show includes important ... More Rare historical Russian print media and contemporary works of art on view at IPCNYNEW YORK, NY.- International Print Center New York (IPCNY) is presenting Russian Revolution: A Contested Legacy. Commemorating the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this scholarly exhibition looks beyond the canon of the Russian avant-garde to focus on three avenues of individual freedoms sought by the fledgling socialist society: the equality and emancipation of women; internationalism, including racial equality and the rights of ethnic minorities in Russia, especially Jews; and sexual and gay liberation. By placing a selection of historical printed works by key Russian avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 1930s in dialogue with contemporary works by Russian-born, New York-based artists Yevgeniy Fiks and Anton Ginzburg, the exhibition evaluates these often-obscured goals of the Revolution and addresses their continued ... More New photography exhibition explores the magic and wonder of childhoodEDINBURGH.- The magic and wonder of childhood will be the subject of a new exhibition of photographs at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this autumn. When We Were Young will delve into the rich collection of the National Galleries of Scotland to explore how the lives of children have fascinated photographers from the earliest days of the medium to the present. More than 100 images, which capture children at play, at work, at school and at home will reveal how the experience of being a child, and the ways in which they have been represented, have changed radically in the past 175 years. The photographs not only reveal the shifting attitudes towards children and their representation, but also show the evolution of the photographic processes from early daguerreotypes to contemporary digital prints. Opening on 14 October 2017 at the SNPG, When ... More Solo exhibition of new sculptures from Claire Liebermam opens at Massey Lyuben GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Massey Lyuben Gallery is presenting UDBO Playground, a solo exhibition of new sculptures from Claire Lieberman. Liebermans forms are reminiscent of childhood: Arranged in a tic-tac-toe game, these ballooning toy grenades and curvaceous flowers with titles like Star Fleet, Funny Hat, and Radio exude a sweet, playful quality. Yet collectively, her aesthetic is anything but innocent. The pieces are rendered in highly polished black marble; their surfaces smooth and shiny, hand-engraved, or disrupted by protuberances. The effect is at once voluptuous and oppressive, bringing to the surface the hidden menace of commonplace things. Despite her use of lighthearted source imagery, Liebermans sculptures evoke brutality and destruction, giving form to the subject matters lethal beauty. Accompanying the sculptures is a selection of the ... More Exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery celebrates the centenary of Syd Solomon's birthNEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery announces an exhibition of paintings by Syd Solomon to celebrate the centenary of his birth. Syd Solomon: Time and Tide will open on October 12 and run through November 11, 2017. This centenary exhibition precedes the artists traveling museum retrospective to open at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, in October 2018. The retrospective, which will also travel to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, is accompanied by a 96-page exhibition catalogue with essays by Dr. Gail Levin, Michael Auping, Mike Solomon, and George Bolge. Here, in simple English, is what Syd Solomon does: He meditates. He connects his hand and paintbrush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind- and he paints pictures of what he sees and feels down there. --Kurt ... More Kader Attia wins 2017 Joan Miró Prize BARCELONA.- Rosa Maria Malet, director of Fundació Joan Miró and Elisa Durán, General Director of la Caixa Foundation, have announced the winner of the 2017 Joan Miró Prize. The winner of the sixth edition of the prize, which is awarded every two years, is Kader Attia. Past recipients include Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, and Ignasi AballÃ. The 2017 Joan Miró Prize jury was composed of Iwona Blazwick, director of Whitechapel Gallery (London), Magnus af Petersens, director of Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), Alfred Pacquement, former director of the Musée National dArt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Nimfa Bisbe, Head of the la Caixa Foundation contemporary art collection, and Rosa Maria Malet, director of Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona). The jury members, all acclaimed professionals in the field of modern ... More National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art displays two important new loans including Stubbs NEWMARKET.- Two outstanding paintings have recently gone on display on long term loan in the Packard Galleries at the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Newmarket. Both from private collections, they have rarely been on public display before. Jenison Shaftos racehorse Snap, held by Thomas Jackson, joins seven other paintings by the famous 18th century artist in the Packard Galleries, which displays a selection of the finest sporting art works in Britain. This painting shows Stubbs work in the early stages of his career experimenting still with form, but showing that expert knowledge and dexterity with which he became renowned. Today Stubbs is known and loved for his anatomically accurate and sensitively realistic portraits of imperious horses and the attendant cast of dogs and humans. He immersed himself in the life of the horse and was fascinated ... More Fine Art Asia 2017: A world-class platform for the international art world in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2017, Asias leading international art fair, once again showcased an outstanding array of art and antiques presented by world‐renowned galleries, and attracted many knowledgeable dealers, collectors and connoisseurs. The fair was staged from 30 September to 3 October in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with a well‐attended Private Preview and Vernissage on 29 September. Fine Art Asia 2017 was staged at the peak of the October art season in Hong Kong, coinciding with Sothebys and China Guardians auctions in the same venue. Fine Art Asia was honoured that The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet‐ngor, GBS, JP, Chief Executive, Hong Kong SAR Government, attended the Vernissage and visited the booths of leading galleries on a guided tour of the fair. Mrs Lam has most kindly officiated at the opening ... More Anton Kern Gallery presents new paintings, ceramics, and sculptural installations by Alessandro Pessoli NEW YORK, NY.- In his sixth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Italian-born and Los Angeles-based artist Alessandro Pessoli presents Against Me: new paintings, ceramics, and sculptural installations that include self-portraits, references to traditions of Italian painting, and even handmade bows and arrows. In addition to the main exhibition, the artist will create his own version of an Italian trattoriaSandrinoon the gallerys third floor, complete with an espresso bar. In 2016, Pessoli found himself unable to create new work. For the artist, the sense of urgency to make a painting or sculpture had disappeared, and, never one to go through the motions of working in the studio simply out of habit, he found himself confronting a void and lack of purpose in his daily life. However, he found joy in practicing archery and crafting bows, arrows, and targets in his backyard. ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Richard Meier was born October 12, 1934. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
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