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Dutch Queen Maxima attends the opening of the exhibition Basquiat, The Artist and His New York Scene at the Schunk museum in Heerlen, on January 31, 2019. Patrick van Katwijk / ANP / AFP.
HEERLEN.- SCHUNCK is presenting Basquiat, The Artist and His New York Scene: the European premiere of the early work and life of visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries. The exhibition is taking place from February 2, 2019 to June 2, 2019 in Heerlen. The exhibition allows visitors to meet this iconic painter through his work in his formative years. In the intimate setting of the apartment that he shared with former girlfriend Alexis Adler (1979). SCHUNCK brings the exhibition Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980 from the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver to the European continent for the first time. Furthermore SCHUNCK invites visitors to the vibrant and raw New York art scene in which Basquiat developed in no time from a street-artist to the iconic artist we know him to be. The exhibition presents the work he made during these years of development: from the poetic graffiti texts to the almost immediately co ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Ancient | Ethnographic | Fine Art sale on Wed, Feb 6, 2019 9:00 AM CST. Featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, more! In this image: Roman Lead Sarcophagus Panel - Humans, Columns. Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800.
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 | | Oklahoma City Museum of Art acquires portrait by Kehinde Wiley and still life by Jan van Kessel the Elder | | Asia Week New York cites 10 honorees for their contributions to advancing the arts of Asia in North America | | Shredder in partially destroyed Banksy 'disabled' | 
Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977). Jacob de Graeff, 2018. Oil on canvas. Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds from the Carolyn A. Hill Collections Endowment and the Pauline Morrison Ledbetter Collections Endowment, 2018.103. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles California. Photo: Jean-Paul Torno, courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum © Kehinde Wiley.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- OKCMOA has acquired two significant works of art that are different, yet complementary. Together, Jacob de Graeff by Kehinde Wiley (2018) and Still Life with Fruits, Flowers, Game and Fish (Vase of flowers, furred and feathered game, fruit cups with a guinea pig and a parrot) by Jan van Kessel the Elder (mid-17th century) represent the diversity of the Museums permanent collection. Jacob de Graeff will be displayed beginning March 1. After conservation, Still Life with Fruits, Flowers, Game and Fish will be shown later this spring. Wileys Jacob de Graeff adds a significant work by one of Americas most prominent young artists, said E. Michael Whittington, president and CEO. With our 2017 special exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: A ... More | | 
Row 1 (top): Arthur and Diane Abbey, Dr. Julia and John Curtis. Row 2: Maxwell D. Hearn, Lillie and Ned Johnson, James Lally. Row 3: Sooyoung Lee, Stephen Little, Joan B. Mirviss. Row 4: Amy Poster, Shelley and Donald Rubin.
NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate its exciting milestone 10th anniversary, the Asia Week New York Association announced the selection of 10 honorees, all of whom have made significant contributions to advancing the arts of Asia in North America. This distinguished group of honorees represents a cross section of prominent collectors, museum professionals and Asian art dealers, says Christina Prescott-Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York. The common denominator that unites them is their passion for Asian-art in all its manifestations, and we thought it would be fitting to recognize their contributions to the field. The list of honorees and their impressive accomplishments are as follows: Diane and Arthur Abbey have been collecting Japanese bamboo baskets for 25 years. The culmination of their collecting resulted in a recent groundbreaking eight-month exhibition of 90 of their pieces in the Japanese ... More | | 
Banksy, Love is in the Bin, 2018, Sprayfarbe und Acryl auf Leinwand, 142 x 78 x 18 cm, Privatsammlung, Photo: Sothebys © Banksy.
BADEN-BADEN (AFP).- The shredder that partially destroyed a Banksy canvas moments after it was sold at auction last year has been "disabled", a German museum said on Monday, ahead of the piece going on display. "We wanted to avoid having, in three or four days, a visitor who, just as in London hides a button... and the shredding continues," said Henning Schaper, director of Frieder Burda museum in Baden-Baden. The work, now called "Love is in the Bin", will be shown on Tuesday for the first time since it was created in a theatrical stunt at Sotheby's in London in October. "We opened the frame, we looked at everything and we saw that the mechanism (the shredder) had been disabled," said Schaper, without specifying who had done it. Moments after the painting "Girl with Balloon" sold for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros) -- a joint record for the maverick artist -- it literally went through the shredder hidden in the frame. The buyer went through with the purchase, and some art experts said it was ... More |
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| | | Ambition still burns in art star Soulages at 99 | | Tate Britain opens a major retrospective of the legendary British photographer Sir Don McCullin | | Rare exhibition features drawings and paintings by Italian master Jacopo da Pontormo | 
French painter Pierre Soulages poses on December 12, 2010 in front of one of his works on display at the Vitry-sur-Seine Contemporary art museum. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL MEDINA.
SÃTE (AGP).- He has been called "the world's greatest living artist" -- and he is still painting at 99. Pierre Soulages attacks his blacker than black canvasses in his bare studio beneath his villa overlooking the Mediterranean in southern France every day his legs will carry him there. His step has slowed but there is a real urgency these days about the old master. For Soulages is preparing a massive retrospective at the Louvre in Paris in December to mark his 100th birthday. "Pierre is working on a huge new canvass," he wife Colette, only a few months his junior, told AFP. "He thinks it through at night. A space has been left free for it" on the walls of the great Paris museum. Soulages is to black what the great French artist Yves Klein is to blue. You get an idea of his sheer longevity when you realise that Klein, born nearly a decade after him down the coast ... More | | 
Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields, London 1970.
LONDON.- Tate Britain presents a major retrospective of the legendary British photographer Sir Don McCullin. Renowned as one of Britains greatest living photographers, McCullin has captured images of conflict from around the world including Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and Biafra. Often taken at great personal risk, these unforgettable photographs are being shown alongside McCullins work in documentary photography, his travel assignments and his long term engagement with landscape and still life. With over 250 photographs, all printed by the artist himself in his own darkroom, this exhibition is a unique opportunity to see the scope and achievements of McCullins career. Don McCullin began taking photographs in the 1950s, documenting his surroundings and local community in his native Finsbury Park, London. In 1958 his photograph The Guvnors, a portrait of a notorious local gang, was published in The Observer, launching ... More | | 
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of a Man (Carlo Neroni), 1529 - 1530. Oil on panel. Unframed: 36 1/4 Ã 28 3/4 in. Accession No. EX.2019.1.1 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill. Image courtesy Shepherd Conservation, London.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- An international traveling exhibition will bring works by the great 16th-century Florentine painter Pontormo (Italian, 1494-1557) to Los Angeles for the first time. Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 5, 2019 through April 28, 2019, features the artists recently restored altarpiece the Visitation (about 1528-1529). It is a privilege to bring the Visitation, one of Pontormos supreme masterpieces and one of the most enigmatically beautiful paintings of 16th-century Italy, to Los Angeles. This is the first time this painting has traveled to the United States. It is one of those exceptional paintings that, once seen, will never be forgotten, and I have no doubt it will be a revelation to our visitors both for its striking beauty ... More |
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| | | Brook Hazelton, former Christie's President, Americas, named LiveAuctioneers Advisory Board Chairman | | Sprüth Magers Berlin opens exhibition of works by Astrid Klein | | Jessica Martinez named to lead Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art | 
Mr. Hazelton served as Christies President for North and South America from 2015 to 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phil Michaelson, CEO of LiveAuctioneers, has announced the appointment of Brook Hazelton to the newly created position of Advisory Board Chairman, heading the companys soon-to-be-launched Auctioneer and Dealer Panel. A highly respected art auction and financial industry executive who has excelled at the uppermost levels of both those fields, Mr. Hazelton served as Christies President for North and South America from 2015 to 2018. During his tenure there, Mr. Hazelton successfully led all client-focused teams as the companys top executive in the region. He restructured Christies office network and increased collaboration and mentoring while introducing new target-setting, compensation and performance-measurement systems. Under Mr. Hazeltons leadership, the company invested in trust-based relationships and cultivated new global buyers, celebrating record-breaking results including ... More | | 
Astrid Klein, Untitled (...verlorene Zeiten..), 1975. 21,6 x 14,2 cm. 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches 33,8 x 25,1 cm (framed) 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches (framed) © Astrid Klein. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers.
BERLIN.- At the heart of Astrid Kleins work is a reflection on mechanisms of representation, (visual) stereotypes and power structures that guide and determine both our perception and our thinking. She combines existing visual material with equally important text fragments drawn from an in-depth examination of philosophical, aesthetic and scientific theories. Kleins continuous re-arrangement, transformation and filtering of image and text elements gives rise to complex compositions that cannot be tied to any one, unequivocal statement. On the contrary, it is the viewers responsibility to find meanings and create semantic links within the works. They are provocative at the content level but not only; formally the works also testify to the artists enormous mastery of materials. Time and again, she questions the possibilities ... More | | 
Jessica Levin Martinez is currently head of the Division of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums. Photo: John Deputy.
ITHACA, NY.- Jessica Levin Martinez, head of the Division of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums, has been named director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell. Her appointment as the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the museum was approved by the Cornell University Board of Trustees at its meeting Jan. 31 in New York City. Martinez will begin her term July 15. I am pleased to have Jessica Martinez join Cornell to lead the Johnson Museum, Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff said in announcing the appointment. Among an extremely talented pool of candidates, she impressed the search committee with her commitment and approach to museum-based interdisciplinary teaching, her willingness to take creative risks, and her managerial experience. She has a genuine enthusiasm for the academic museum and supporting the creative work of ... More |
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| | | Ki Smith Gallery opens its inaugural exhibition with works by Sei Smith | | The Gujral Foundation presents 'In the Absence of Writing' a solo exhibition by Astha Butail | | It's About Time: The Robin Rice Gallery exhibits photographs by Robin Rice | 
Sei Smiths materials range from plexiglass to paint skins.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ki Smith Gallery is presenting its inaugural exhibition at 712 West 125th Street, Sei Smith: Reflections 2. Smiths work fixates on the relationships between color, light, shadow, and atmosphere. In these new works, innumerable varieties of white surfaces highlight a deep neon glow. Though in conversation with artists such as James Turrell or Robert Ryman, they embody an inviting intellectual playfulness that widens the conversation of contemporary art. Sei Smiths materials range from plexiglass to paint skins. Several of the multimedia pieces of Reflections 2 only exist if the viewer focuses a screen, momentarily, between herself and the canvas. Other works are more heavily dependent on visitor participation. New shadows, textures and colors are found as one moves a around the work. The show unfolds like a treasure hunt. For Smith, Reflections 2 is an investigation of painting and how far that term ... More | | 
As a multidisciplinary artist, Butail trained in textile design and has studied Sanskrit. Photograph courtesy Astha Butail studio and The Gujral Foundation.
NEW DELHI.- The Gujral Foundation is presenting Astha Butails solo exhibition In the Absence of Writing at its experimental site 24 Jor Bagh in New Delhi. The project is a culmination of the artists year-long journey in researching memory and living traditions that are passed on through teachings and oral poetry, with a focus on Zoroastrian Avesta, the Jewish Oral Torah and Indian Vedic philosophy. As a multidisciplinary artist, Butail trained in textile design and has studied Sanskrit. She uses geometry, cultural systems and oral traditions as metaphors to respond to her research. Drawing parallels between traditions, she presents her journey through abstracted hymns from the Rig Veda and varied mediums; video, sound, sculpture and experiential installations invite the viewer to an interactive exploration of cultural values, lived spaces and notions of time. Butail received ... More | | 
Hemingway, Opening Night Studio 54, 1977. Dye - sublimation print.
NEW YORK, NY.- After 30 years on West 11th Street, The Robin Rice Gallery celebrates its first ever exhibition for Robin Rice. For decades, Robin has exhibited a wide variety of photographers at the gallery but never her own work. As the shows title denotes, Its About Time. While her photography spans five decades and multiple continents, Rice maintains a cohesive, candid voice that carries throughout all of her work. Observing the world around her in a cinematic way, she possesses an uncanny ability to recognize and capture moments of beauty and the spontaneity of the human spirit. By evoking a wonderstruck sensibility, Rice expresses a deep-rooted love for both people and landscapes using her distinct bohemian style. In this salon-style retrospective, Rice uses an old school approach and shoots with her Nikon on Tri-X film. When creating her art, she insists, the camera has a mind of its own. ... More |
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 Visitor favourite 'This variation' by Tino Sehgal on view once more at the Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- This variation by Tino Sehgal (1976) is being re-enacted from 4 February to 3 March 2019. It is one of Sehgals most extensive and complex works. The piece was performed at the Stedelijk in 2015 during the artists year-long retrospective A year at the Stedelijk: Tino Sehgal, when the purchased work was our visitors absolute favourite. Reason enough to perform This variation again, now that it has joined the Stedelijk holdings. For Sehgal, an artwork is a live encounter between artwork and viewer. The artist does not make objectshe creates situations within the museum space, in which the interpreters (among them dancers) carry out specific actions. These encounters offer the viewer a wholly unique experience of live artwork. "One of the greatest pleasures during the Sehgal retrospective in 2015 was to walk through the galleries every ... More London's longest running art and antiques fair adds extra days for 2019LONDON.- 160 leading British and international art galleries and antique dealers are coming together for London's longest-running art and antiques fair. For 2019 the Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia has added extra days and now runs from the 19 - 28 June, 2019. Known for its extraordinary variety of furniture, art, sculpture and objects alongside jewellery, textiles glass and ceramics, there is a piece for every room in the house. Based in the iconic west Kensington venue, the Olympia fair attracts savvy Londoners, collectors and home owners, from the UK and much further afield, looking for inspiration and exceptional works of art. Interior Designers and bloggers are drawn to the decorative and quirky pieces for sale which help to create stylish and very individual spaces. Many of the exhibitors can only been seen at the Olympia fair. Fair Director, Mary ... More i8 Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ragnar Kjartansson REYKJAVIK.- Figures in white lab coats roam a man-made landscape, pause, and kill time. They come to us as representatives of logic, science, and human progress. We have seen such images before, heroically depicted on the facades of Soviet bas-reliefs, for example, or in Diego Riveras Ford Motor Company murals. Only now we are in the 21st century, however, and man is no longer the rational master of his surroundings, but rather a scourge, seemingly intent on the earths destruction. In Figures in Landscape, Ragnar Kjartansson celebrates the humanist spirit as a child of his time, with a hint of irony and taking full advantage of the technological advances that make this enormous video work possible. Comprised of seven distinct scenes, each 24-hours long, the complete piece takes an entire week to view. Each scene unfolds in a different archetypal ... More Massimo De Carlo opens 'Albericus Belgioiosiae Auroborus', a new exhibition by Luigi OntaniMILAN.- Massimo De Carlo gallery is presenting, Albericus Belgioiosiae Auroborus, a new exhibition by Luigi Ontani. Luigi Ontani has described his practice as "the adventure I live as a person of art, where art and life are inseparable, becoming a journey of pursuing and exploring ones identity against historical canons. In his extensive career the eclectic artist has traversed different media, using objects, hand-colored photographs, papier mâché, ceramic sculptures, slide projections and performances to explore fictional re-creations of identity and regression into childhood and memory. Each body of work the artist has created is united through the usage of himself, as the centre point to explore a multitude of personae, embodying himself as his favourite heroes from mythology, fairy tales, history, and art history. For Albericus Belgioiosiae Auroborus, ... More Heidrun Holzfeind develops a new video installation for exhibition at Vienna's SecessionVIENNA.- Over many years, Heidrun Holzfeind has created an oeuvre in film, photography, and sculpture that has insistently addressed questions of the documentary mode in general, and the social function of architecture and alternative ways of life that renounce consumerism in particular. Based on extensive research and realized with poetic flair, her works probe the interrelations between society and identity, between individual histories and the political narratives of the present. For her exhibition the time is now. Holzfeind has developed a new video installation composed of two films about the Japanese shamanic improvisation duo IRO. The couple Shizuko and Toshio Orimo have worked together since 1981. Their music, their activism in the peace and anti-nuclear movement, and their free-spirited way of life reflect an animist and pantheistic worldview ... More Sue Schiepers announces three exhibitions for 2019HASSELT.- Sue Schiepers (1973) spent six years creating exhibitions for Kunstforum Würth in Turnhout. She organised both solo shows for big names such as Christo & Jean-Claude, François Morellet and Stephan Balkenhol, and exhibitions with themes such as Abstract Graphic Art, Contemporary Glass, Contemporary Still Life, etc. Her fascination for art glass came about accidentally, while setting up the glass exhibition Breekbaar (breakable) for Kunstforum Würth Turnhout. In 2018, GlazenHuis in Lommel asked her to create an exhibition. Schiepers accepted the challenge to set up a show in very little time. This turned out so well that she soon received proposals for exhibitions in Tel Aviv (late 2019) and the United States (early 2020). Noting that despite the existence of many good glass artists both here and abroad, there was no Belgian gallery specialising ... More Rare copy of Federalist Papers in publisher's boards offered in Heritage Auctions' Rare Books AuctionDALLAS, TX.- An important piece of American history will be offered when a rare copy of The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution still in its original publishers boards crosses the block in Heritage Auctions Rare Books Auction March 6 in New York. The Federalist Papers were written as part of an effort to get the New York delegation to ratify the Constitution it made the case for Federalism and sought to convince the citizens of the states, Heritage Auctions Rare Books Director James Gannon said. Probably around 500 copies were printed, and this example is particularly rare because its still in the publishers boards. You just dont find them like this. The board bindings were meant to be temporary, and purchasers of books in the 18th century would have their binders trim the edges and then rebind the book in calf, ... More ICA in Philadelphia opens three major exhibitions for its 2019 winter seasonPHILADELPHIA, PA.- This winter, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is presenting three exhibitions that challenge convention and offer alternative narratives for reframing and responding to social and political issues. Exhibitions include: the debut chapter of a pioneering three-part exhibition that aims to build new public discourse around the everyday experiences of black Americans; a retrospective dedicated to avant-garde artist Tony Conrad spanning six decades of his radical and experimental practice, encompassing videos, sculptures, and installations; and the first major solo exhibition of Chilean poet, activist, and artist Cecilia Vicuña, which examines how her fluid and cross-disciplinary approach interrogates timely social topics, such as feminism, ecological destruction, and cultural homogenization. We are ... More Frist Art Museum opens first North American museum exhibition of Italian artist Claudio ParmiggianiNASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents revered Italian artist Claudio Parmiggianis first North American museum exhibition, Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization, in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from February 2 through May 5, 2019. Organized by Frist Art Museum executive director Susan H. Edwards, the exhibition features a selection of fifteen two- and three-dimensional works that address the passage of time, mortality, absence, memory, and silence. Parmiggianis art stands against the grain of our frenetic, cacophonous, image-infused culture, says Dr. Edwards. His works are nuanced responses to and cautionary warnings about overabundance. His aesthetic calm provides room for reflection and the opportunity for a contemplative and transformative experience. More than forty years ago, Parmiggiani developed his ... More With over 200 illustrations new book takes readers through the snowman's enigmatic pastNEW YORK, NY.- A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest ... More Royal Ontario Museum announces appointment of Curator, Japanese Art & Culture TORONTO.- Josh Basseches, Director & CEO and Mark Engstrom, Deputy Director for Collections and Research, Royal Ontario Museum announced the appointment of Dr. Rosina Buckland as Bishop White Committee Curator of Japanese Art & Culture. Dr. Buckland will be responsible for developing and implementing strategy to build, manage, and interpret the ROMs world-class collection of Japanese art and culture, the largest collection of its kind in Canada. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Rosina Buckland to the ROM, says Josh Basseches. With more than 15 years of curatorial experience, Rosina brings deep-rooted expertise and scholarship in both traditional and contemporary Japanese art and culture to the Museum. Her passion for activating collections in new and engaging ways will help us further enhance the profile of Japanese ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni died February 05, 1579. Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 - February 5, 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. In this image: Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ('La Dama in Rosso')
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