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Installation view: Bruce Nauman, Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, 1972. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frames. Exhibition Copy Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart. ARTIST ROOMS.Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by the Artist Rooms Foundation, 2017. Photo: Tate Photography.
LONDON.- ARTIST ROOMS: Bruce Nauman, the latest in the series of annual free exhibitions in the dedicated ARTIST ROOMS gallery in Tate Moderns Blavatnik building, has opened to the public and will run until July 2018. Complementing the show is Naumans enigmatic sound installation Raw Materials, his acclaimed 2004 Unilever Series commission, which has returned to Tates Turbine Hall for summer 2017. The dedicated gallery is the London hub of the ARTIST ROOMS Touring Programme. Since its inception in 2009, ARTIST ROOMS has worked with regional museums on one hundred and seventy free exhibitions of contemporary art across the UK, from Orkney to the Isle of Wight. Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential American artists working today. Since the 1960s, his pioneering exploration of different media, in often funny, absurd or disturbing ways, has challenged conventions and had a profou ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An archaeologist works on a mosaic on July 31, 2017, on the archaeological antiquity site of Sainte-Colombe, near Vienne, eastern France. Remains of an entire neighbourhood of the Romain city of Vienne have been uncovered in Sainte-Colombe, with lavish residences decorated with mosaics, a philosophy school and shops. The dig of the site, discovered prior to housing construction on a parcel of 5000 m2, began in April 2017 and was due to last six months, but have been extended to December 15, 2017, after the site was classified as an "exceptional discovery" by the French Culture Minsitry. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP
| US playwright and actor Sam Shepard dead at 73: US media | | 'Capture the Castle: British Artists and the Castle from Turner to Le Brun' at Southampton City Art Gallery | | Getty Trust founding President and CEO Harold M. Williams passes away | 
This file photo taken on September 2, 2007 shows US actor Sam Shepard adjusting his sunglasses as he arrives for the screening of the movie "The Assasination of Jessie James by the coward Robert Ford". Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Sam Shepard, the preeminent US playwright of his generation celebrated for depicting a darkness to contemporary American life and Oscar-nominated actor, has died. He was 73. The actor, director and writer passed away Thursday at home in Kentucky of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, a family spokesman confirmed to AFP on Monday. Shepard, who wrote nearly 50 plays, won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1979 for his play "Buried Child" and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1984 for best actor in a supporting role for "The Right Stuff." He went on to star in dozens of films with acting credits on the likes of "Steel Magnolias" with Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts, 2001 war drama "Black Hawk Down," ... More | | 
J.M.W. Turner, Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1822-3 (detail), Tate Collection , accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 © Tate, London, 2017.
SOUTHAMPTON.- Showcasing the finest historic and contemporary castle artists and combining history with art, Capture the Castle at Southampton City Art Gallery is the first ever large-scale art exhibition on the subject of British castles. It conjures the mystique, excitement and prestige of the castle from Iron Age hill forts to Victorian reproductions and fantasy castles. It includes famous and rarely seen works from public and private collections, including loans from Tate, The British Museum, V&A, the Government Art Collection and from the collections of major artists. Steeped in history and legend, these extraordinary buildings exude a powerful and brooding presence. They conjure knights in shining armour, high-born heroines, evil deeds and deep dungeons, high adventure and royal intrigue. The first sight of a great ... More | | 
Mr. Williams retired as president and CEO soon after the Getty Center opened in 1997.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty today announced the death of Harold M. Williams, the founding president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who served in that position from 1981 to 1998. Mr. Williams was 89. Mr. Williams vision led to the creation of the Getty as a multifaceted institution devoted to scholarship, conservation, education and the presentation of the visual arts. The Getty today its global reach and its Southern California presence is a legacy of Harold M. Williams. He shall be remembered for his enormous contributions to the arts and humanities, said Maria Hummer-Tuttle. Selected to lead the Getty as the Board of Trustees sought to determine how best to use the considerable resources left by founder J. Paul Getty, Harold, and Nancy Englander, the Gettys director of program planning and analysis, who later became his wife, led the formation of the Getty as an interdisciplinary center for learning and a r ... More |
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| Bauhaus building one of twelve recipients of Getty Foundation's Keeping It Modern initiative | | French film legend Jeanne Moreau dies at 89 | | Artcurial announces a thematic design auction dedicated to Charlotte Perriand | 
Bauhaus Dessau ©Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Photograph: Yvonne Tenschert, 2011.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Foundation today announced $1.66 million in architectural conservation grants dedicated to twelve significant 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative. Among this years most recognizable projects is Germanys Bauhaus Building, the revered Dessau structure designed by architect Walter Gropius, who incorporated design features that would ultimately become synonymous with modern architecture around the world. Since its inception in 2014, Keeping It Modern has supported 45 international conservation projects that collectively point to the importance of research and planning for the preservation of modern architectural heritage. The twelve projects (full project summaries available here) selected to receive funding this year represent the work of innovative architects who pushed the boundaries of design and construction materials, including the Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England (architect: ... More | | 
This file photograph taken on November 1, 1961, shows French actress Jeanne Moreau poses on the set of the film "Eva" directed by Joseph Losey in Venice. French actress Jeanne Moreau has died aged 89 on July 31, 2017. STR / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French actress Jeanne Moreau, who lit up the screen in "Jules et Jim" and starred in some of the most critically acclaimed films of the 20th century, has died aged 89, her agent said Monday. The gravel-voiced actress epitomised the freedoms of the 1960s and brought daring, depth and danger to a string of cinematic masterpieces from Louis Malle's "Lift to the Scaffold" to Jacques Demy's "Bay of Angels". Moreau, who was still making films at 87, was found dead at her home in Paris early Monday, the district's mayor told AFP. Once described by US director Orson Welles as "the best actress in the world", she was a feminist icon and trailblazer for liberated women as well as the face of the French New Wave. "Physical beauty is a disgrace," she once said in her characteristic rasp, her voice redolent with the ... More | | 
Charlotte Perriand, table 6 couverts, 1958, Steph Simon edition, estimate : 20 000 30 000 / 22 000 33 000 $. © Artcurial.
PARIS.- On 24th October, for the fourth consecutive year, Artcurial is hosting a thematic Design auction during the FIAC. This years event, highly anticipated by collectors from all around the world, is dedicated to a woman: Charlotte Perriand (1903 1999). Named Charlotte For ever, the auction will paint a complete and faithful portrait of this great creator through the 20 carefully selected lots. The rich documentation provided in the catalogue was curated with the help of Pierrette Perriand and Jacques Barsac, authors of recently published reference books on Charlotte Perriand. With this collection, Artcurials design department sheds light on the only woman amongst the « French Masters », the masters of French design of the second part of the 20th century, a time that revolutionised design: Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeanneret. The interest showed for Charlotte Perriands ... More |
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| French museum raises a glass to 'cradle of wine-making' Georgia | | Martin-Gropius-Bau opens "Regina Schmeken: Bloody soil. Scenes of NSU crimes" | | Casablanca movie poster sets $478,000 world record with Heritage Auctions | 
A visitor passes a terracotta wine jar or kvevris from Georgia dating from 6BC which sits on display at an exhibition at The Cité du Vin in Bordeaux on July 28, 2017. Georges GOBET / AFP.
BORDEAUX (AFP).- France's Cite de Vin museum will toast Georgia's 9,000-year history as the global birthplace of wine-making in a new exhibition from Monday. The wine history museum in the southwestern city of Bordeaux -- dubbed "adult Disneyland" when it opened last year -- will showcase 125 objects from the Black Sea nation dating back as far as the Neolithic era. "We're trying to show how much the phenomenon of wine has been an inseparable part of daily Georgian life and culture since the very beginning," exhibit commissioner Nino Lordkipanidze told AFP. More than 39,000 people flocked to the museum in the French wine capital this year to see its first major exhibition, "Bistrot!", gathering works of art portraying cafes and bars over the ages. The Georgia show will see pottery fragments dating back to the 6th century BC -- containing traces of tartaric acid, proof of the presence of wine ... More | | 
22 Verletzte und Schwerverletzte 09.06.2004 Köln KeupstraÃe (detail). © Regina Schmeken, 2013.
BERLIN.- The National Socialist Underground (NSU) was a far-right terroristic union in Germany. Ten people were killed by members of the NSU between 2000 and 2007 in different german cities in Rostock, Hamburg, Dortmund, Kassel, Cologne, Heilbronn, Nuremberg and Munich. The victims were nine men with Turkish and Greek origin, who lived and worked in Germany, plus one German policewoman. The first victim, florist Enver Şimşek, was murdered on September 9, 2000 in Nuremberg; the last victim, policewoman Michèle Kiesewetter, on April 25, 2007 in Heilbronn. Over 20 people were injured some of them seriously by two bomb attacks in Cologne. On November 4, 2011 the NSU was uncovered. Members of the murdered victims, affected people of the bomb attacks and the public first found out about the existence of the NSU. The trial of Beate Zschäpe, Ralf Wohlleben and five other allegedly involved people began in 2013 at the Higher Regional Court of Munich. The judgement is yet ... More | | 
Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1946). First Post-War Release Italian 4 - Fogli (55.5" X 78.25") Luigi Martinati Artwork.
DALLAS, TX.- The only known surviving Italian issue movie poster for Casablanca sold Saturday, July 29, for a record $478,000 at a public auction of vintage movie posters held by Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. Measuring a massive 55.5 by 78.25 inches, the 1946 Casablanca Italian 4 Fogli poster matched the world record for the most valuable movie poster ever sold at public auction. "The buyer has just set a world record and acquired what we in the poster collecting world would equate to a masterpiece," said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Posters at Heritage Auctions. "The stunning artistry put into this poster makes is stand head and shoulders above any paper produced for the film." Previous Italian posters for the film have sold for as much as $203,000 and U.S. issues of the poster have fetched $191,200. Each of the previous record holders were sold by Heritage Auctions, the world's largest auctioneer of vintage movie posters. The poster is the ... More |
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| Columbia Museum of Art appoints new Executive Director | | Key findings from the 2016 Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report | | Historical survey of early sculpture by John Mason on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran | 
Della Watkins of the Taubman Museum of Art joins the CMA team on October 1.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The board of trustees of the Columbia Museum of Art announces the appointment of Della Watkins as the new executive director. Watkins currently serves as the executive director of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia. "We heard it consistently from her current board and Mr. Taubman himself, one of Della's greatest strengths is her engagement in the community," says CMA Search Committee Chair Earl Ellis. "That was a very important factor in our consideration set. The Columbia Museum of Art is a community asset, and we were seeking a proven leader who had demonstrated strengths in community engagement." After 14 years of working as an art educator, Watkins began her career in museum education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she held successively more senior roles during her 16-year tenure. Watkins joined the Taubman Museum of Art in 2013. Under her leadership, the museum completed build- ... More | | 
Auction sales of Chinese art and antiques totaled $6.7 billion (Â¥46.6 billion) worldwide in 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- artnet, in collaboration with the China Association of Auctioneers (CAA), has announced the fifth edition of its Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report, providing an in-depth look at the auction market for Chinese art and antiques in 2016 with the continued goal of creating a new standard of transparency in the marketplace. The upcoming report will be published and available for complimentary download on artnet.com in mid-August. In an ongoing effort to present the most accurate representation of the auction market for Chinese art and antiques, artnet partners with the CAA to produce a definitive study of the market, which only these two trusted organizations can provide. The Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report is the only report of its kind to publish data from mainland China that has been vetted by a third-party organization with insider knowledge on the state of the market in China, along with comprehensive auction results f ... More | | 
John Mason, White Cross, 1964. Ceramic, 67 x 66 x 21 inches. 170.2 x 167.6 x 53.3 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kayne Griffin Corcoran is presenting an historical survey of early sculpture by John Mason. Curated by Frank Lloyd, this exhibit introduces viewers to the immense achievement of John Mason in late 20th century sculpture. Masons monumental works derived from his investigation of the properties of his medium, but also embodied essential ideas, and illustrated formal principles. Masons work has often been limited by media-specific curatorial intent. In contrast, the gallery is presenting sculpture that illustrate the basis for Masons line of thought, his insistent and inventive methods, and the subsequent progression through several series. These raw and powerful works address the themes of symmetry, mass, modularity, and rotationeach of which is recurrent in Masons career. All of those concepts evolved from the artists direct physical interaction with the material. The exhibit tracks the ... More |
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 Exhibition of paintings by New York based artist Brandi Twilley on view at Sargent's DaughtersNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Where The Fire Started, an exhibition of paintings by New York based artist Brandi Twilley. This will be Twilleys second solo show with the gallery on view through August 18, 2017. In this series of paintings, Twilley returns to the bedroom of her childhood home, which was destroyed by a fire in 1999. Before the house burned down she made pastel drawings of the bedroom from life that were then lost in the fire. In the year following the fire while her memory was still lucid, Twilley made a series of 16 by 20 inch paintings of the bedroom. Those paintings became her only primary source for the current large-scale paintings since there were no surviving photos of the room, and her 16 year old self became her collaborator. Details such as the cracks in the ceiling plaster, the trees visible through the window and the Picasso ... More NEON installs site specific and poetic architectural structure in FranceSANCY MASSIF .- Architecture, art and design practice NEON has unveiled its latest project entitled "The Wind Cathedral as part of this years Horizons exhibition in the Sancy Massif in France. The Wind Cathedral is a site specific, poetic and emotional architectural structure that both protects and shelters the inhabitant while also celebrating the forces of nature through a constantly changing interior space. The Wind Cathedral is located at the village of Victor-Saint-la Riviere in the Sancy Massif in France and was constructed in June 2017 as part of the environmental art exhibition Horizons. The artwork is a site specific response to the Perdue cross (meaning the lost cross in English) which was placed in this location following the tragic death of a woman who become lost 200 years ago and ultimately perished in a terrible storm on the site. The Wind Cathedral ... More CODAworx adds new digital tool to streamline artist selectionMADISON, WI.- CODAworx, the hub of the commissioned art economy, today announced the launch of a new digital tool for its RFP Toolkit, the industry standard for finding and hiring artists for commissions. The RFP Select tool is the third digital module in the RFP Toolkit; it provides an easy-to-use structure for administrators and selection committee members to score project applications based on criteria set for the commission. The RFP Select tool completes the art commission process. RFP Select provides flexibility in setting multiple rounds of scoring of applicants, using criteria with self-selected weights. The software allows for applications to be reviewed simply and easily all online in one place. Also included in the RFP Toolkit are the RFP Blast and RFP Manage tools. RFP Blast announces RFPs and RFQs to targeted groups of creative professionals, ... More Frieze announces the international artists participating in Frieze Film 2017LONDON.- Frieze announced the international artists participating in Frieze Film 2017, a series of new film commissions premiered at Frieze London and broadcast on national television. Alex Bag, Pauline Curnier Jardin, GabrÃela Friðriksdóttir and Raphaela Vogel will create new works as part of Frieze Projects, the fairs celebrated non-profit programme curated by Raphael Gygax. Taking place at Frieze London in The Regents Park from October 5 to 8, 2017, Frieze Film is supported by Channel 4s Random Acts. Featuring major artists of different generations, this years Frieze Film programme explores themes of surrealism, popular myth and the carnivalesque. Highly influential American artist Alex Bag, known for her video performances since the 1990s, subverts the vocabularies of advertising, music videos and reality TV to critique todays neo-liberal structures. ... More Kate Davis' first solo exhibition in Edinburgh on view at StillsEDINBURGH.- Nudes Never Wear Glasses is Kate Davis' first solo exhibition in Edinburgh and has been created especially for the context of Stills. Bringing together a new photographic series with drawings and recent moving image works, Nudes Never Wear Glasses includes the first gallery presentation of her Margaret Tait Award film Charity (2017). Across mediums including moving image, drawing, photography and bookworks, Davis' practice questions how historical narratives are produced and perpetuated. This has frequently involved probing the aesthetic and political ambiguities of particular artworks, and specific historical moments, from a contemporary feminist perspective. Her latest film, Charity, was inspired by the ways in which the work of film-maker, poet and artist Margaret Tait (1918 - 1999), invites us to contemplate fundamental emotions and everyday ... More National arts leader Dennis Scholl named President and CEO of ArtCenter/South FloridaMIAMI, FLA.- Seasoned arts executive and entrepreneur Dennis Scholl will be ArtCenter/South Floridas new president and CEO, the organizations board announced today, leading the pioneering arts organization into its next chapter at a pivotal time in its history. Scholl, a change agent known for his ability to scale cultural efforts and enterprises, will focus on creating a holistic environment for Miamis artists. At ArtCenter, they will be able to learn from the best local and national cultural practitioners, experience ground-breaking exhibitions and work in studios to develop their artistic practice. In addition, under Scholl, the ArtCenter will extend much-needed direct support to resident artists for production, training and travel. The ArtCenter, a major cultural institution in South Florida for three decades and recognized as one of the catalysts in the renaissance ... More Swiss maestro Jordan to head Vienna Opera VIENNA (AFP).- Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan will become the new music director of the prestigious Vienna State Opera in 2020, the world-renowned cultural institution announced Monday. The 42-year-old maestro, who heads the Paris Opera, already waltzed into the Austrian music world three years ago when he took over as chief of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The announcement was made by the opera's new director Bogdan Roscic who will start his role at the same time as Jordan. "Philippe Jordan is one of the rare important conductors today to have devoted himself to opera from the very start of his artistic career," said Roscic who is currently president of Sony Music's classical music division. "His knowledge and experience will be of crucial benefit to the opera." The Vienna Opera has been without an official musical chief since the 2014 resignation ... More Liverpool Biennial appoints new TrusteesLIVERPOOL.- Liverpool Biennial today announced the appointment of five new Trustees to the Board May Calil, Chris Evans, Jonathan Falkingham, Sandeep Parmar and Anna Valle join Chair, Kathleen Soriano, and current Trustees, Juan Cruz, Roland Hill, Paul Hyland, Judith Nesbitt, John Shield, and Tony Wilson. Kathleen Soriano, Chair of the Board, said: I am delighted to announce these significant new appointments to the Board of the Liverpool Biennial. With their experience and that of our existing Trustees, we now have a group of dedicated people with the multiple skills and commitment to steer us through our next phase of development as the UKs most important international contemporary art commissioning organisation and flagship for the City of Liverpool across the world. 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Liverpool Biennial. This is cause ... More Exhibition at Getty Images Gallery presents some of the earliest photographic views of India and its people LONDON.- Getty Images Gallery announces Indian Treasures, an exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Indias independence from Britain, which will be on view from 2 August to 7 October 2017. Drawn from the renowned Getty Images Hulton Archive, the largest and most comprehensive photographic archive in private hands, the exhibition reveals some of the earliest views of India and its people recorded using photography. The images have been sourced from various scrapbooks, albums, glass plate negatives and vintage prints held in the Archive - many of which have gone unseen for decades - and include a diverse range of subjects, from one of the earliest photographic views of the Taj Mahal to portraits of Maharajas, musicians and snake charmers. The exhibition includes a group of 19th and early 20th century prints on temporary loan from the Archive, ... More Mika Tajima contemplates technology and Ccntemporary life at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHARTFORD, CONN.- New York artist Mika Tajima created a technology-driven, responsive installation for the 177th exhibition of the MATRIX contemporary art series at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. "After Life" addresses the rise of predictive technology in computer algorithms used to anticipate future human behavior. The exhibition is on view through Sept. 3, 2017. Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art Patricia Hickson is organizing the exhibition. Ubiquitous in modern life, and particularly, developed by the military and for e-commerce applications, various methods of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC)--from bar codes to Google searches--obtain and analyze personal information to predict and promote future human behavior. The computer algorithm Tajima uses in her installation "scrapes," or extracts data from, social media and ... More Linda Butler joins FAMSF as Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor ExperienceSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the appointment of Linda Butler as Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor Experience. Joining the senior management team of FAMSF, Butler will oversee the public relations, marketing, graphic design, group sales, and visitor experience departments. Butler comes from the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) where she has been the Director of Marketing and Communications since early 2016. Prior to joining the CJM, she served as the Director of Marketing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) during the museums three-year, $600 million expansion. I am thrilled to have Linda join our team to lead the marketing, communications, and visitor experience departments, says Max Hollein, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades died  August 01, 2006. Jason Rhoades (July 9, 1965 - August 1, 2006) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was recently celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs with African, Caribbean, Creole and hip-hop slang for the female genitalia. His work remains part of the permanent collection in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, where he was a part of exhibit "Beg Borrow and Steal" at the time of his death. In this image: Jason Rhoades, Installation view, 'Perfect World', Deichtorhallen , Hamburg, Germany , 1999. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jens Rathmann.
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