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Exhibition view Matisse Bonnard: Long Live Painting!. Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- From 13 September 2017 to 14 January 2018, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt is presenting two outstanding artists Henri Matisse (18691954) and Pierre Bonnard (18671947) in an exhibition that is the first in Germany to bring these key modernist masters together. At the heart of the special exhibition Matisse Bonnard: Long Live Painting! is the friendship between the two French artists which lasted for over forty years. Both artists shared a preference for the same range of subjects: interiors, still lifes, landscapes and the female nude. With a selection of more than 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, the exhibition opens a dialogue between Matisse and Bonnard and offers new perspectives on the development of the European avant-garde from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the Second World War. The selection of works is enriched by a series ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day EXPO CHICAGO/2017, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, is presented by Art Expositions, LLC at Navy Pier's Festival Hall, hosting more than 135 leading International exhibitors presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. In this image: One of Doug Argue's intricate paintings is being shown at EXPO CHICAGO/2017.
| Vuitton plans blockbuster Paris show of MoMA works | | From London to Lima: Mario Testino's art raises funds for Museo MATE, Peru | | Alice Walton announces formation of Art Bridges | 
Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941). Human/Need/Desire. 1983. Neon tubing and wire with glass tubing suspension frames, 7′ 10 3/8″ x 70 1/2″ x 25 3/4″ (239.8 x 179 x 65.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, 1991 © 2017 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PARIS (AFP).- Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" and Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" will be among iconic works from New York's Museum of Modern Art in a blockbuster show opening in Paris next month. With some 200 pieces, the exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation traces the nearly 90-year history of MoMA's collection, from early modern art to abstract expressionism, minimalism, pop art and digital works. "Being Modern: MoMA in Paris" will open on October 11 in the Frank Gehry-designed private gallery that was inaugurated to great fanfare in the Bois de Boulogne west of Paris in 2014. MoMA is not the only major New York museum to lend collections to Paris this year. The Whitney will present around 60 major pop ... More | | 
Tauba Auerbach, Untitled, 2010, acrylic on canvas. Est. £600,000-800,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- A selection of works from the art collection of Mario Testino captured the imagination of collectors at Sothebys in London this evening at Part I of Shake It Up, an auction to benefit the Museo MATE, Lima Peru. Testinos interest as a collector is wide-ranging, with no fewer than 45 different nationalities represented in the collection. With bidding from every continent, this evenings sale saw exceptional results for artists from Europe, the United States and Latin America. The auction opened with a flurry of bids for Zaarke, 2000, a panting by the German-born Turner Prize winning artist Tomma Abts, which sold for £193,750, over seven times its pre-sale estimate establishing a new record price the artist. There was also great competition for the second lot of the evening, Pile, 2008, a monumental canvas in metallic paint by the American artist Jacqueline Humphries. The painting sold to a phone bi ... More | | 
Arts patron and philanthropist Alice Walton.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Today, arts patron and philanthropist Alice Walton announced the formation of Art Bridges, a 501(c)(3) foundation focused on sharing outstanding works of American art. Collaborating with museums and institutions of all sizes and in all regions of the country, Art Bridges will help create and fund exhibitions, bringing together art from museums, private collections, foundations, and a collection established as a part of Art Bridges. Our countrys significant works of art should be available for all to see and enjoy, said Walton. Outstanding artworks are in museum vaults and private collections; lets make that art available to everyone, and provide a way to experience these cultural treasures. Art Bridges mission of expanding access to American art involves partnering with institutions ranging from large museums with deep collections that they are unable to fully display, to small and mid-sized museums seeking to share a wider range ... More |
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| Thirteenth-century Mostyn Psalter-Hours saved for the nation | | Joseph Bellows Gallery presents works by Randal Levenson | | French artist JR's rise from riot-hit streets to global star | 
Rare and beautifully illuminated example of early medieval luxury book production in London acquired by the British Library for £775,000.
LONDON.- A rare and beautiful Psalter a volume of psalms produced in thirteenth-century London has been acquired by the British Library. The Mostyn Psalter-Hours was acquired for the nation with a grant of £390,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and funding from other generous supporters. The book includes a calendar, decorated with twenty miniatures of the labours of the months and the signs of the Zodiac, and a Psalter with eight of the original ten large historiated initials, the Hours of the Virgin, and the Office of the Dead. The manuscript can be identified securely as having been produced in London, and is one of relatively few surviving examples of luxury books known to have been made in the capital during the medieval period. Its calendar features a sequence of London saints including the seventh-century bishops of London, Melitus and Erkenwald and the feast of the translation of Edward ... More | | 
Bruce Snowden, Columbus, Ohio, 1977, vintage gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition, In Search of the Monkey Girl and other work, by Randal Levenson. The exhibition opened on September 9th and continue through October 13th, 2017. This exhibition marks the artists first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features photographs selected from three bodies of work: Americana, Mexico, and In Search of the Monkey Girl. The three distinct groupings range from the artists vintage black and white photographs from the 1970s to large-scale color prints from this decade. In Search of the Monkey Girl presents a selection of vintage black and white prints from the ten years Levenson traveled with various sideshows and carnivals throughout 1970s. During this period, Levenson captured mesmeric and compassionate portraits of the assorted community of performers and workers. His camera also revealed the surrounding landscape of th ... More | | 
This file photo taken on May 19, 2017 shows French artist and photographer JR posing as he arrives for the screening of the film 'Faces, Places' (Visages, Villages). Valery HACHE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The French artist JR made headlines across the world at the weekend with his huge "Kilroy was here" photograph of a Mexican toddler leaning over the border wall with the United States. JR, whose real name is Jean Rene, turned the one-year-old boy called Kikito into a 20-metre (65-foot) tall giant, who seems capable of toppling the wall and reducing US President Donald Trump's dreams to dust. But it is another politically-charged project closer to home which has been taking up much of the energy of the artist, often dubbed the "French Banksy" after the secretive British street artist. JR grew up in the troubled Paris suburb of Montfermeil, where the riots which rocked France in 2005 began -- the most serious social unrest the country had experienced since 1968. "We felt it was going to explode one day but I never imagined it would be like that," he told AFP. ... More |
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| Made in Britain totals £2.5 million as Century of Ceramics fire up saleroom | | Classic Colourist still life offered at Bonhams Scottish Art sale in Edinburgh | | Stoneware works By Mitsukuni Misaki on view at Ippodo Gallery | 
Dame Lucie Rie, Yellow Footed Bowl with Bronzed Rim, stoneware with an all-over yellow glaze and bronzed rim, circa 1980s. Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000. Sold for: £125,000 ($166,375). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys Made in Britain sale in London today once again soared past pre-sale expectations to realise a total of £2,480,155 (est. £1.3-2 million), with 90% of the lots finding a buyer and 71% these exceeding their high-estimates. The auction showcased a curated selection charting the journey of ceramics in Britain, with all but two of the forty-six ceramics sold, achieving a grand total of £512,628 more than doubling the pre-sale estimate of £166,400-250,600. The auction was led by Dame Lucie Ries striking mustard Yellow Footed Bowl from the collection the late Emmanuel Cooper, which sparked a three-way bidding battle to sell for nearly thirteen times its pre-sale estimate at £125,000 (est. £8,000-12,000). Cooper, himself a talented potter and the editor of Ceramic Review magazine, was Ries biographer pronouncing her work timeless and majestic. ... More | | 
Still life with Roses in a Chinese Vase by Samuel Peploe. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- Still life with Roses in a Chinese Vase, by the Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe, is one of the leading works in Bonhams Scottish Art sale in Edinburgh on Wednesday 11 October. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000. The painting, which has been in the same family since the 1920s and is completely fresh to the market, has a fascinating provenance. It first belonged to Muriel Cleland whose father, Sir Charles Cleland, was a prominent civic figure in Glasgow, and whose mother, Janet, was a sister of Sir William Burrell, the shipping magnate and founder of the world famous Burrell Collection. Family tradition suggests that it was Sir William who persuaded his niece to buy the painting. Painted in the early 1920s, the work is a characteristic Peploe rose oil and features many of the artists favoured motifs - Chinese vase, fruit, fan and roses. Strongly influenced by the years he spent ... More | | 
This is Misaki's first solo exhibition outside of Japan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blue oceans, endless skies, billowing clouds - a boundless world with a horizon separating earth from sky. Misaki's works create an impression of limitless space and time, like an ever-expanding universe. Their slightly distorted forms are evocative of naturally sprouting seeds or fruit. Perhaps they remind us the mother's womb that enveloped us so long ago. If we touch them, it is as if we can feel a pulse. Looked at in this way, we realize that Misaki's works are both nostalgic and quiet, becoming life forms in their own right. When he was young, Misaki planned to study law but when he entered university student radicalism was at its peak making it difficult for him to attend lectures. Contemplating on the meaning of life, he set off on a wandering journey, then in 1972, when he was 21 years old, he met the world-famous scholar of porcelain and pottery, Fujio Koyama (1900-1975). As an empirical researcher, Koyama had written numerous books on old pottery and in his latter year ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together three unsparing chroniclers of their time | | Metro Pictures opens exhibition of works by Trevor Paglen | | Degas's sense of humour revealed through the satire he collected | 
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 17461828). They Carried Her Off! (Que se la llevaron!), plate 8 from The Caprices (Los Caprichos), 179798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, 8 ½ x 6 in. (21.7 x 15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum; A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 37.33.8. Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Throughout history artists have used their artwork to reveal social, cultural, and political complexities, responding with urgency and conviction to the repercussions of revolution, war, and civil unrest. From September 8, 2017, through January 7, 2018, the Brooklyn Museum presents Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo, an exhibition spanning three continents and four centuries that brings together the striking work of three unflinching chroniclers of their times. Depicting in black and white the societal impact of politics and power, the selections for this exhibition are presented in an inventive way that encourages a fresh evaluation of Goya and ... More | | 
"Fanon" (Even the Dead Are Not Safe) Eigenface, 2017. Dye sublimation metal print, 48 x 48 inches (image) 121.9 x 121.9 cm 49 5/8 x 49 5/8 inches (frame) 126 x 126 cm. Edition 1 of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Trevor Paglens A Study of Invisible Images is the first exhibition of works to emerge from his ongoing research into computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI) and the changing status of images. This body of work has formed over years of collaboration with software developers and computer scientists and as an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. The resulting prints and moving images reveal a proliferating and otherwise imperceptible category of invisible images characteristic of computer vision. Paglens exhibition focuses on three distinct kinds of invisible images: training libraries, machine-readable landscapes, and images made by computers for themselves. For Machine-Readable Hito, for example, Paglen took hundreds of images of artist Hito Steyerl and subjected them to various facial recognition algorithms. This portrait ... More | | 
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), Im not going down there anymore!, from the series The Bathers, 1839 (detail). Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE.- Edgar Degass (1834-1917) sense of humour is being explored through an exhibition looking at three caricaturists and satirists whose work he collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). The exhibition Degas, Caricature and Modernity provides a new perspective on Degas as a great artist. It shows how Degas sought inspiration in what was seen as the lowliest art forms, and his rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun as described by his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942). It is part of a season of events at the Fitzwilliam celebrating the art and times of Degas that marks the centenary of the artists death, each supporting the major loan exhibition Degas: a passion for perfection. Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum commented: There is a modernity to these caricatures, a real sense of the P ... More |
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 Artists convey their perspectives on gender and sexuality in new exhibition at TENTROTTERDAM.- TENT opened the group exhibition Among other things, Ive taken up smoking, in which artists convey their perspectives on gender and sexuality. Recently, there has been a proliferation of categories for defining ones sexual and gender identity. For example, in addition to the standard male or female, Facebook currently offers its users 71 gender identification options. Does this range of labels contribute to the freedom of expressing one's identity? And does everyone want to identify themselves with a label anyway? This group exhibition engages with the LGBT+ communitys continuing requisite for security and recognition in society and celebrates the optimistic and quirky imagination of this group for a world yet to unfold. The LGBT+ communitys spirited history of activism and struggle for justice and recognition builds on feminism and ... More The Third Line opens exhibition of works by New York-based artist Pouran JinchiDUBAI.- The Third Line is presenting The Line of March, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Pouran Jinchi. With her new body of work, Pouran returns to a fundamental preoccupation - the parallels between art and language as modes of communication - while extending her artistic expression in new directions. The artist quietly inventories the unspoken traces of endless wars, perpetual conflict, and pervasive militarism. For months, she has been pouring over documents on the visual apparatus of military power, noting the discreet ways these tonalities seep into culture. From Morse code and phonetic alphabets to military insignia and medals, from war paint to camouflage, Pouran takes stock of a pervasive military aesthetic. Her research extends to the ways military jargon permeates our common language, jotting notes in her notebooks - deployed, regimented, ... More Works by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Peter Hujar on view at Alexander and BoninNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin is presenting two solo exhibitions of individual and collaborative works by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres on the ground floor. In the lower level galleries, The Tribe, an exhibition of photographs by Peter Hujar from the 1960s to the 1980s, is on view. A survey of sculptures made by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres since the early 1990s is being presented. The works busts, half-figures, and full-figures exemplify the artists singular practice. Working both together and independently, Ahearn and Torres have made casts directly from life models since the early 1980s. Drawing inspiration from the people they meet in everyday occasions, both artists continue to adapt to different environments while being deeply committed to interaction and collaboration with their sitters. The resulting portraits through their vivid pallets ... More Artworks attributed to Dubuffet and Van Gogh will headline Woodshed Art Auctions saleFRANKLIN, MASS.- An oil on Masonite painting attributed to the French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) and a pen and brown ink drawing on laid paper done by the renowned Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) are just two examples in a star-studded lineup of fine art pieces to be sold in Woodshed Art Auctions 113-lot Prestige Collection sale ending September 20th. The framed work attributed to Dubuffet, titled Le Voyageur, is signed and dated 1952, with the inscription to Samuel Koontz written on the front and a Koontz Gallery (N.Y.) sticker on the back. Its expected to sell for $80,000-$120,000. Dubuffet was a successful painter and sculptor who enjoyed a prolific art career in France and America. He founded the Art Brut movement. Van Gogh, of course, needs no introduction. The drawing attributed to him, titled Landscape with Haystacks, is signed ... More Swann Galleries to present original works by some of the greatest names in artNEW YORK, NY.- A unique selection of original drawings by some of the biggest names in art will be up for sale at Swann Auction Galleries on September 19. Picasso, Renoir, DalÃ, Matisse, Klee and Magritte are all included, while rare etchings and lithographs by Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec add to the mix. Swann specialist Todd Weyman believes it one of the strongest offerings of original works of this type in recent years, especially as they are complemented by a host of leading American artists too, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper. He is particularly pleased with the catalogue cover lot, a 1954 abstract watercolour and ink work by Lyonel Feininger, titled Space, which is expected to fetch $20,000 to $30,000 at the New York saleroom. Typical works by leading artists attract a great deal of competition from collectors, but ... More June Kelly Gallery opens exhibition of new works on paper by Sky PapeNEW YORK, NY.- Passing Through, an enthralling exhibition of new works on paper by Sky Pape that probes the intrigue of time, space, scale as reflection on continuity and transience, opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on September 7. The work will remain on view through October 10. Pape says this body of work continues her earlier series Time Being - that began with the figure eight loop of the infinity symbol. Here, she expands to more complex continuous knots interwoven with shapes and lines that shift within the pictorial space, and shoot off the edges as in the painting, Cross My Heart. Pape describes her process as moving back and forth between exactitude and intuition, entwining both. Everything is in motion. Were all just passing through. We stop. Look. Linger, Move on. Circle back and leave again, Pape says. Her paintings have a dynamism ... More Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields appoints new curatorsINDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has appointed Dr. Annette D. Schlagenhauff as curator of European art. In her new role, Schlagenhauff will manage the IMAs significant collection of European paintings and sculpture. The Museum has also appointed Kjell M. Wangensteen as assistant curator of European Art. Wangensteen will work with Dr. Schlagenhauff on curatorial oversight of the IMAs early European collection, which includes works by Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German masters, such as Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Ribera, Cranach and Jan Brueghel. The Clowes Collection features the core of these holdings, and a grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation will underwrite Wangensteens position for five years. The IMAs collection of European art comprises paintings, sculpture, prints and decorative ... More Bonhams appoints Deborah Ripley as Director of Prints and MultiplesNEW YORK, NY.- The international auction house Bonhams announces the appointment of Deborah Ripley as Director of Prints and Multiples department. Based in New York, Deborah will work her team which includes Judith Eurich in San Francisco, Morisa Rosenberg in Los Angeles, and Shawna Brickley in New York. With over 30 years experience, Deborah Ripley is a nationally recognized print expert. She has written and lectured about print collecting for numerous publications, including Forbes online, Print Collector's Newsletter, Artnet Magazine, and Art on Paper. She has conducted classes in print appraisals for the New School in New York City, and is a frequent lecturer on various topics related to contemporary art. Starting at Pace Prints in the 1980's, she later worked in the Print Department at Christie's and then as the Director of Landfall Press in New York. ... More Freeman's kicks off Asia Week with its biannual Asian Arts auction totalling $1.5 millionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- On September 9, Freemans launched its Fall 2017 season and helped kick off Asia Week with its biannual Asian Arts auction. With an active room and full bank of phone bidders, the exciting auction attracted a considerable number of new bidders and saw many lots sell wellabove their presale estimates. The 578-lot sale totaled just over $1.5 million. The auction offered fine examples of decorative arts, furniture, textiles, paintings and works on paper, highlighted by fresh-to-the-market property from various private collections and estates. The runaway success of the auction was featured on the catalogues cover, an impressive Chinese blue and white porcelain hexagonal vase (Lot 287), Qianlong six-character mark and of the period. Vases comparable in scale and decoration are rare, and this Freemans example joins the small group of similar pieces ... More New York opens 'temple' to gay liberation icon Oscar WildeNEW YORK (AFP).- A secular temple devoted to Oscar Wilde opened in the basement of a New York church Tuesday, crammed with devotional style religious art to honor a trailblazer of gay rights. Those involved in the project said it had been 20 years in the making but with transgender rights under threat from President Donald Trump's administration and gays feeling more discrimination, it was more timely than ever. Conceived by artists David McDermott and Peter McGough at The Church of the Village, the space will be open to members of the public five days a week and available for private ceremonies, including weddings. Wilde, the Irish wit and playwright, was convicted of gross indecency, sentenced in 1895 to two years hard labor, most of which he served in the southern English town of Reading. "He invoked all of us to rebel, that it was the inherent quality of human beings ... More Petzel exhibits Thomas Eggerers new paintingsNEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Eggerers new paintings in Todd, the artists sixth solo show at Petzel, present the viewer with aerial views of street surfacestopographical evolutions of Eggerers longstanding interest in public spaces. Each square canvas features precisely choreographed fragments of resting bodies, cutting in from the margins of the painting. This temporal occupation is contrasted with a circular lid or cover and intersecting parallel diagonals. The lids carry institutional significance, pointing to municipal authority, which contrasts with the transient fragility of leisurely carnal exposure. The lids also emphasize the presence of a concealed space underneath, quintessential to New York street life. While the aerial viewpoint allows for voyeuristic surveillance, the 90 degree rotation from the birds-eye vista to the gallery wall, generates a vertiginous perspective ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Renzo Piano was born  September 14, 1937. Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world." In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100. In this image: Italian architect Renzo Piano, right,waits to receive the Danish Sonning Prize and its 1 million kroner (US$190,000) award during a ceremony Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008, at Copenhagen University in Copenhagen. His wife, Emilia Rossato, left, was seated next to him during the ceremony. The architect received the award for "commendable work that benefits European culture" and Piano's works include the New York Times building and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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