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Mark Rothko's "Yellow Band" is on view in "Now's the Time" at Sheldon Museum of Art.
LINCOLN, NE.- Visitors to Sheldon Museum of Art will find new exhibitions throughout the landmark Philip Johnson building. Drawn from Sheldons collection of nearly 13,000 objects, the museums fall exhibitions demonstrate the breadth of its holdings. Three new exhibitionsNows the Time, Sheldon Treasures, and Family Styleas well as new installations in Sheldons six permanent collection galleries are now on view through December 31. Nows the Time riffs on bebop musician Charlie Parkers 1945 tune of the same title to underscore the influence of the New York School artists on the trajectory of postWorld War II American art. Featuring painting, photography, and sculpture made between the late 1930s through 1970, Nows the Time presents notable works from Sheldon's ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fran Langdon-Devlin a staff member poses for a picture at a traveling post office during a media preview of the new Postal Museum and the Mail Rail attraction in London. Snaking through special underground tunnels that have lain abandoned for years, London's Mail Rail is opening to the public for the first time for a ride on tiny trains that not even the Blitz could stop. The attraction is part of the new Postal Museum opening that retraces the vital role Britain's Royal Mail played over its 500 year history. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| Stephenson's Aug. 18 auction features Philadelphia businesswoman's estate collection | | An art lover's collection gives an insight into an exceptional gallery | | Exhibition of recent drawings by Richard Serra on view at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 
World War I poster by Clyde Forsythe, lithograph on paper, Victory Liberty Loan, Ketterlinus Philadelphia, est. $140-$300
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- The sparkle of fine jewelry from the estate of world traveler and Philadelphia businesswoman Ruth London sets the tone for Stephensons much-anticipated August 18 Summer Antiques & Decorative Arts Auction. An estimated 90% of the 200+ lots of jewelry offered in the sale are from the private collection, vault and safe deposit box of the late Mrs. London, of Rydal, Pa. Her discerning eye for quality and design guided a lifelong collection of luxury goods that incorporates not only exquisite 18K and 14K gold jewelry but also designer clothing and furs purchased during her many trips abroad. The jewelry selection includes rings, earrings, necklaces, cuff bracelets, brooches, stickpins, cufflinks, pocket watches and wristwatches. Many design periods, origins and styles are represented, from Victorian and Edwardian to retro, contemporary and Native American. Ruth purchased fine jewelry in every ... More | | 
Nicolas de Staël, Eau de Vie, 1948. Huile sur toile, 101 x 81,3 cm © Nicolas de Staël. Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2017. Photo: G. Poncet.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- From 24 June to 24 September 2017, the Musée Granet invites you to discover, through nearly one hundred masterworks of modern and contemporary art, the history of the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, whose acquisitions have been driven by a sense of adventure and a love of art since 1925. Jeanne Bucher opened her gallery in 1925 to present works by Cubist, surrealist, primitivist and pre-war abstract artists. The avant-garde artists shown by the Galerie Jeanne Bucher were never limited to a single movement and included Cubist, surrealist, primitivist and pre-war abstract painters. Originally from Alsace, Jeanne Bucher (Guebwiller, 1872 - Paris, 1946) arrived in Paris in 1922 from Switzerland, where she lived during the First World War. In 1924, Bucher, who spoke three languages, took over the management of a foreign-language ... More | | 
Richard Serra, Rotterdam Horizontals #5 , 2016 Etching ink, silica, and paintstick on handmade paper 43¼ x 31½ (109.9 x 80 cm).
ROTTERDAM.- Richard Serra is presenting two new series of works, made exclusively for his exhibition Drawings 2015 2017 at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announced Richard Serra: Drawings 2015 2017 , the first public presentation of the artists most recent drawings. The exhibition, created in close collaboration with the artist, consists of more than 80 works, from smaller to large-scale drawings, including works from the Ramble drawings (2015), the Composites (2016), and the Rifts (201117). For this exhibition, Richard Serra has exclusively executed the series Rotterdam Horizontals (201617) and Rotterdam Verticals (2016 17), that are being shown for the first time, as well as a number of private sketchbooks never exhibited before. Constantly searching for new expressive languages, Serra has created many series of drawings that while independent ... More |
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| Exhibition focuses on Emily Carr's interest in environmental issues | | Olafur Eliasson's first exhibition in Canada on view at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents technical study of Picasso's 'Harlequin with a Mirror' | 
Emily Carr, Above the Gravel Pit (detail), oil painting, 1936.
VICTORIA, BC.- The absolute essence of Emily Carrs work is the artists depiction of her surrounding landscape and the works evocation of her love of nature. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has turned the kaleidoscope on its Carr collection for another view of the artists work, this time making Carrs interest in environmental issues the focus. Picturing the Giants: The Changing Landscapes of Emily Carr offers a grouping of works that exhalts the majesty of trees as Carr found them, as well as paintings that depict human interference with their verdant vista. At the foundation of the exhibition is the question: What would Carr think of todays treatment of our forests? says AGGV chief curator Michelle Jacques. In her writings, Carr noted
second-growth trees, lusty and fine, tall-standing
useless trees that nobody cuts, trees ill-shaped and twisty that stood at the foot of thos ... More | | 
Olafur Eliasson, Big Bang Fountain, 2014. Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015. Photo: Anders Sune Berg © 2014 Olafur Eliasson.
MONTREAL.- Le Musée dart contemporain is presenting, for the first time within its walls and for the first time in a solo exhibition in Canada, the internationally acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson is presenting Multiple shadow house, a highly participatory and immersive experience where the spectators become central to each piece. From June 21 to October 9, 2017, the MAC invites visitors to literally enter into the artists work and experience installations that blend light, movement and spatial exploration. A leading figure in the contemporary art scene, Olafur Eliasson has exhibited large-scale installations all over the world, taking over public spaces as well as galleries and museums to interrogate our relationship with the world, the environment, time and space. Since the mid-1990s, in ... More | | 
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Harlequin with a Mirror, 1923.
MADRID.- To mark the celebration of its 25th Anniversary the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a special display in order to show the results of the technical study undertaken by its Restoration department in collaboration with the department of Modern Painting on one of the most celebrated works in the museums permanent collection: Harlequin with a Mirror (1923) by Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The project aims to introduce visitors to the most interesting aspects of the process behind the creation of this painting, showing in detail how it was conceived and thus facilitating an understanding of Picassos working methods. The study undertaken made use of the different procedures habitually employed in museum laboratories: infra-red reflectography, pigment analysis and complete photographic documentation. The use of this methodology allows experts to establish details of the technique employed, the ... More |
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| Newly commissioned work by Oscar Murillo on view at Jeu de Paume | | Exhibition showcases many fine examples of Mathew Brady's pre-Civil War portraiture | | Kashmir inspired paintings including new work by Raqib Shaw on view at the Whitworth | 
Oscar Murillo, Untitled, 2017. Vidéo, couleur, en boucle, 56 min 46 s. Courtesy de lartiste et David Zwirner, New York/Londres. Coproduction : Jeu de Paume Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée dart contemporain de Bordeaux.
PARIS.- Making use of its immediate environment, the work of Oscar Murillo (born in 1986) indexes the quotidian moments of life. Unfolding inside and outside the artists studio, the work is formed through the direct actions of drawing, painting, filming and writing. Working across media, Murillos practice is often composed of the raw materials of personal experiences, drawn from family photographs, travel documents, banknotes, food packaging and found objects. The final work always remains open to reconstruction, changing and transforming itself from one place to another. In this sense, concepts are free to be transferred, distributed and repackaged through the gestures of exchange, collaboration ... More | | 
Mathew B. Brady by Francis D'Avignon. Lithograph on paper, 1851. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady is on view now and continues through June 3, 2018. It traces the trajectory of Mathew Bradys early career through daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted paper prints in the National Portrait Gallerys collection. The museums Daguerreian Gallery is the only permanent exhibition space in Washington dedicated to showcasing examples of photographic portraiture from the dawn of photography. We chose to focus on Mathew Bradys pre-Civil War portraiture because it was during the period from 1844 to1860 that Brady built his reputation as one the nations most successful camera artists, said Ann Shumard, exhibition curator and senior curator of photographs. This exhibition showcases the ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Michael Pollard.
MANCHESTER.- Contemporary artist Raqib Shaws opulent paintings of fantastical worlds are on display at the Whitworth, part of The University of Manchester, from 24 June Nov 2017. The exhibition takes the form of an installation, drawing on influences of renaissance and baroque imagery, combined with theatrical extravagance, nature and poetry, to echo the mythic space Shaw creates in his paintings. The exhibition has been reimagined for the South Asian context of the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2 10 February 2018), which will be the artists first solo presentation in the region and will include objects from the Whitworths collection. A new wallpaper designed by Shaw, commissioned specially for the exhibition, creates the backdrop for his paintings to be displayed on. The limited edition wallpaper has been produced by Kit Grover Ltd. A small number of rolls are available for sale through the gallery ... More |
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| Sparkling gems, luxurious materials, and superb craftsmanship on view at the Joslyn Art Museum | | The KoKo Collection: An astounding assortment of mystery & detective literature will appear at auction Sept. 14 | | Palais de Tokyo explores the unbroken, but accident-ridden, dialogue between art and the sciences | 
Lucien Falize (18391897), Neo-Renaissance Pendant, about 1880. Gold, diamonds, tourmaline, pearl, and enamel. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. © Julien Vidal / Petit Palais / Roger-Viollet.
OMAHA, NE.- Throughout history, jewelry has served both functional and decorative purposes, reflecting not only the patrons particular values and interests, but also the social, political, and economic circumstances of the time and place of its creation. In France, Paris has long been considered a center of innovation in fashion, the visual arts, and jewelry production. Bijoux Parisiens charts the course of jewelry design in France over four centuries, tracking the countrys evolving jewelry aesthetic as it responded to historical events and art historical movements. On view now at Joslyn Art Museum and continuing through September 10, the exhibition tells the story of dozens of talented artists, designers, and entrepreneurs, who created extraordinary works of art using the most precious ... More | | 
Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Est. $30,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (est. $30,000) is expected to be the leading feature in The KoKo Collection, part of the September 14 Rare Books Auction at Heritage Auctions. Drawing on his experience as a Pinkerton operative, Hammett's momentous debut novel, published in 1929, defined the archetype for the literary private investigator. Also offered is Hammett's 1930 follow-up, The Maltese Falcon (est. $20,000), his most popular work and among the most beloved of the genre, thanks in no small part to Humphrey Bogart's brilliant turn as Sam Spade in John Huston's 1941 cinematic adaptation. "The KoKo Collection will mark the auction debut of several historically important novels," said James Gannon, Director of Rare Books. "A collection like this only comes along once in a lifetime and indeed required a lifetime to assemble." The collection features several books by authors who, like Hammett, wrote for the hard-boiled pulp magazine ... More | | 
Katja Novitskova, Approximation V, 2013. Digital print on aluminum, cutout display, 125 x 140 x 35 cm. Photo: Nils Klinger. Courtesy of the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
PARIS.- Conceived after a proposition by Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains, for its twentieth birthday in 2017, The Dream of Forms explores the unbroken, but accident-ridden, dialogue between art and the sciences. How do artists and scientists currently arrive at original visual solutions, which help to reinvent the geometry of thought, outside familiar territories? The exhibition sets out to question the meeting points between artistic and scientific research by bringing together contemporary artists and scientists around the way they are now rethinking their relationship with the living world, and raising questions about the forms that inanimate or living matter can take, from the scale of the infinitely small to the infinitely big. Without claiming to draw up an exhaustive panorama of the hugeness of this ... More |
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 Sydney Contemporary announces 15 artists to create site-specific installations around CarriageworksSYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary, Australasias international art fair, announced the 15 Australian and International artists exhibiting in the 2017 Installation Contemporary program. Spanning a range of mediums from painting and sculpture, drawing and ceramics, through to installation and video, the artists in Installation Contemporary will present ambitious and large-scale artworks across the entire Carriageworks multi-arts precinct in Redfern, Sydney, for the Fair being presented from 7 to 10 September 2017. Responding to the unique architecture of Carriageworks, Installation Contemporary is an exhibition of inspiring, striking and innovative installations ranging from the handcrafted to the digital, throughout the Carriageworks precinct. Curated this year by Rachel Kent (Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia) and Megan Robson (Assistant ... More Gallery list announced for fifth London edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair LONDON.- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary African art, has announced the galleries exhibiting in its fifth London edition, taking place at Somerset House, 5 8 October, with a VIP & Press preview on 4 October 2017. Floreat is 1:54 London Main Sponsor for the second consecutive year while Nando's returns as Silver Sponsor. 1:54 strives to promote a diverse set of African perspectives from around the world and has carefully selected 41 leading galleries specialising in contemporary African art from 18 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America: Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among ... More Theseus Temple's series of contemporary art exhibitions features work by Kathleen RyanVIENNA.- Continuing the series of contemporary art exhibitions at the Theseus Temple, this year we are presenting Bacchante, a new commission by the young American sculptor Kathleen Ryan. This is Ryans first museum exhibition. It is curated by Jasper Sharp. A cascade of bursting ripe, oversized grapes tumbles to the floor. Tethered by raw stainless steel chains and cast in polished concrete with a buoyancy that seems to defy the material, they are draped over a terracotta cushion and laid on a stone mattress. The works title, Bacchante, points us away from the inanimate towards something more human, a female follower of Bacchus (Greek: Dionysus), the riotous, drunken Greek and Roman god of wine, freedom and ecstasy. Lying here in a temple, the sculpture is many things at once: playful and sensual, emancipated and restrained, ideal and blasphemous. ... More Museum Tinguely launches a series of exhibitions of young artistsBASEL.- The presentation of Jean Tinguelys Mengele - Totentanz (Mengele-Dance of Death) (1986) in a new, purpose-built exhibition space also marks Museum Tinguelys launch of a series of exhibitions of young artists who reference this major late work of the artist and engage with its enduring topicality. The series starts off with Jérôme Zonder (b. 1974 in Paris), who counts among the most outstanding draughtsmen of his generation. His grotesque inventions, not unlike those of Hieronymus Bosch, Paul McCarthy or Otto Dix, lend expression to the unspeakable acts of depravity and catastrophic moral failings of the last 100 years, which the artist reworks as contemporary danses macabres. Some forty drawings, a monumental wall-sized work, and a sculptural construction have been assembled to form an installation in direct dialogue with Tinguelys Mengele ... More New Autry exhibition looks at play as an experience shared by children in the American West LOS ANGELES, CA.- From hula hooping in the backyard to arranging digital tiles in a classic video game, the experience of play creates a common connection across cultures, time, and space. Through historic and contemporary objects, interactive environments, and hands-on fun, the Autrys new Play! exhibition reveals the many ways children have played, the social values toys reveal, and how the American West has inspired imagination. Drawing on more than 200 objects from the Autrys diverse collections, Play! highlights the universal aspects of play while emphasizing the changing concepts of childhood and the social meanings of toys from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. The exhibition also looks at the role of twentieth-century Western toy companies and designers such as Mattel, Wham-O, and Disney, and how they have ... More Cambodia's premier contemporary artist presents largest single-form sculpture to dateDALLAS, TX.- The Crow Collection of Asian Art is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Sopheap Pich, recognized today as Cambodias most internationally prominent contemporary artist. The exhibition features his large-scale sculpture, Rang Phnom Flower, Pichs largest and most ambitious single-form sculpture to date. Measuring 25 feet in length, its complex construction is composed of hundreds of strands of rattan and bamboo. This exhibition also features the loan of an original French 19th-century, hand-painted botanical dictionary with illustrations of this plant species from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Pich is a world-renowned artist whose works have been featured in numerous international museum exhibitions and biennials throughout the world, notably Documenta 2012, and a 2013 solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum ... More Exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern focuses on key episodes of Margaret Thatcher's career MIDDLESBROUGH.- Wilderness Way takes as its departure point Margaret Thatchers visit to Teesside in 1987 to reflect on a decade that transformed the way we live. The exhibition is structured around key episodes of Thatchers career between 1977 and 1987, and features art, documentation, photographic records, film, news footage, music, scratch video, printed matter and memorabilia. It includes critical representations of Thatcher, and addresses topics associated with her policies to explore themes of class struggle, agency, racial division and protest. The centrepiece of Wilderness Way is the iconic image of Thatchers visit to Teesside as she walks across the derelict site of former company Head Wrightson (closed in 1987). This photograph is seen by some as a symbol of the impact that Thatchers economic vision had on industry, particularly in the north- ... More Exhibition recognizes Ghost Army soldier and printmaking pioneer in 'Jim Steg: New Work' NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Works celebrating the life-spanning accomplishments of printmaker, war veteran, and professor Jim Steg are on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through October 8, 2017 in Jim Steg: New Work. Steg was the most influential printmaker to be based in New Orleans in the twentieth century. Throughout his life, Steg used almost every known printmaking method of his time, and even pioneered several of his own. Etchings, woodcuts, drawings, photo-resist etchings, Xerox toner works, and many other works that have never before been on public display are included in Jim Steg: New Work, the artists first retrospective exhibition. Restlessly inventive, NOMAs exhibition reveals Steg as an artist at the forefront of several major twentieth-century movements and one of the nations most innovative ... More MAXXI presents exhibition of works by Yona FriedmanROME.- The MAXXI dedicates the Yona Friedman. Mobile Architecture, Peoples Architecture exhibition, curated by Gong Yan and Elena Motisi, which is taking place until 29th October 2017 to Yona Friedman (Budapest 1923), a legendary architect, an exuberant, creative artist transcending disciplines, whose thinking is extraordinarily relevant. This exhibition, which was organised by Power Station of Art, Shanghai where it was presented in 2015 is now hosted by the MAXXI with a new outfitting, conceived together with the architect. Friedman who built an apparently floating modular structure in 2016 for the Serpentine Gallery of London believes that anyone can use simple, flexible mobile structures to design and build their own architecture, such as houses and the spatial cities that fluctuate over real cities. On the occasion of the MAXXI exhibition, Yona ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte died August 15, 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. In this image: Photograph of Rene Magritte, in front of his painting The Pilgrim, as taken by Lothar Wolleh.
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