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Pablo Picasso, Women at Their Toilette, Paris, winter 193738. Collage of cut-out wallpapers with gouache on paper pasted on canvas, 299 x 448 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris. Pablo Picasso gift in lieu, 1979. MP176. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Adrien Didierjean © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting Picasso and Paper, the most comprehensive exhibition devoted to Picassos imaginative and original uses of paper ever to be held. Bringing together over 300 works and encompassing Picassos entire prolific 80-year career, this ground-breaking exhibition focuses on the myriad ways in which the artist worked both on and with paper, and offers new insights into his creative spirit and working methods. One of the most important artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) worked across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics and graphic arts. He also invented a universe of art involving paper. His prolonged engagement with the medium grew from the artists deep appreciation of the physical world and his desire to manipulate diverse materials. He drew incessantly, using many different media, including watercolour, pastel and gouache, on a broad r ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on January 16, 2020 shows visitors looking at paintings at a museum located inside the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in Mandalay. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP
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 | | Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler focuses on Edward Hopper's approach to American landscape | | Musée de l'Elysée opens a retrospective of René Burri's work | | Christie's announces highlights included in its Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950. Ãl auf Leinwand, 86.7 x 102.3 cm. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation © Heirs of Josephine Hopper / 2019, ProLitteris, Zürich. Photo: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gene Young.
BASEL.- Edward Hopper (18821967) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. In Europe, he is known mainly for his oil paintings of urban life scenes dating from the 1920s to 1960s, some of which have become highly popular images. Less attention has so far been paid to his landscapes. Surprisingly, no exhibition to date has dealt comprehensively with Hoppers approach to American landscape. From 26 January to 17 May 2020, the Fondation Beyeler is presenting an extensive exhibition of iconic landscape paintings in oil as well as a selection of watercolors and drawings. This is also the first time Hoppers works are shown in an exhibition in German-speaking Switzerland. Hopper was born in Nyack, New York. After training as an illustrator, he studied painting ... More | | 
René Burri, Xerox, Los Angeles, Ãtats-Unis, 1971 © René Burri / Magnum Photos. Fondation René Burri, courtesy Musée de lElysée, Lausanne.
LAUSANNE.- René Burri was born in 1933 and died in 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland. Throughout his life, he was on the front line of global history. He joined Magnum Photos in 1955, becoming one of its members in 1959. Over the course of his career spanning almost sixty years, he travelled to Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and South America, Japan and China, recording with lucidity and acuity most of the momentous events of the second half of the 20th century. Numerous influential people were also captured by his lens including Picasso, Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, Barragan, Giacometti and Tinguely. In 1963, he produced his iconic portrait of Che au cigare (Che with Cigar), which brought him to the attention of the public. From January to May 2020, curated by Marc Donnadieu and Mélanie Bétrisey, the institution has scheduled a new retrospective of his lifes work entitled René ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Muhammad Ali. Estimate GBP 3,000,000 - GBP 5,000,000 (USD 3,936,000 - USD 6,560,000), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.) Executed in 1977. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place on 12 February 2020, continuing 20th Century at Christies. From the collection of Richard L. Weisman, Andy Warhols Athletes, comprised of ten 40-by-40-inch multicoloured portraits of athletes, is highlighted by Muhammad Ali (1977, estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000). This follows the successful sale of works from the collection at Christies in New York in November 2019. The seminal series is presented alongside Flowers (1964, estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000), which is offered as part of Art for Future: Selected Works from the UniCredit Group. A further focus on Andy Warhol includes Knives (1982, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000), a razor-sharp chorus of beauty and menace, and Brillo Soap Pads Box (1964, estimate: ... More |
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| | Musée d'Orsay acquires Gallen-Kallela masterpiece in Sotheby's private sale | | Collectors are spending thousands on video games they will never play | | Famed South African anti-apartheid photographer Santu Mofoken dies | 
Detail of Palokärki (Great Black Woodpecker or Wilderness) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela's masterpiece Palokärki (Great Black Woodpecker or Wilderness) was acquired in a private sale by the Musée d'Orsay in France. The painting will now be part of the Musée's permanent collection, alongside other masters of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, and many others. Simon Shaw, Vice Chairman of Sothebys Global Fine Art Division, remarked: "We are thrilled that this extraordinary painting will join the collection of the Musée dOrsay. There, Akseli Gallen-Kallela will be shown rightfully among the finest of nineteenth century masters. This acquisition follows the purchase, in 1999, of Gallen-Kallelas Lake Keitele by the National Gallery in London and underscores Sothebys ... More | | 
Owner Josh Hamblin at his SideQuest Games store in Portland, Ore., Jan. 2, 2020. Leah Nash/The New York Times.
by Jason M. Bailey
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Vintage baseball cards, antique coins and rare comic books, originally bought for pennies, now regularly sell for millions of dollars, sending enthusiasts in pursuit of the next hot collectible: retro video games. Interest in factory-sealed video games has soared in the past year, with some companies aggressively targeting collectors from more established markets. The hottest investments are games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which popularized characters like Link, Mega Man and Mario in the 1980s. Collectors have been able to quickly flip the most coveted titles, making thousands of dollars in profit and fueling concerns of unsustainable hype. One collector, Donald Brock Jr., who runs the website Columbia Comics, said he had spent about ... More | | 
Santu Mofokeng, Eyes-wide-shut, Motouleng Cave, Clarens, from "Chasing Shadows," 2004. Courtesy The Walther Collection and Lunetta Bartz/MAKER, Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG.- One of South Africa's most celebrated anti-apartheid black photographers, Santu Mofokeng, has died at the age of 64, his friends said on Monday. Mofokeng, a fierce critic of how mainstream photojournalism represented black South Africans during the apartheid struggle, died on Sunday. He lifted the veil on the perception of black people in the white world of photography through his vivid documenting of anti-apartheid resistance. The Soweto-born Mofokeng developed a fascination of photography in his teens and started off as a street photographer. "Santu went on to distinguish himself in South Africa and the world as a great visionary and artist," his friends Omar Badsha and Cedric Nunn said in a statement. He "elevated both himself and South African photography and art globally," they said. ... More |
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| | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures reaches 95% of campaign fundraising goal | | 7 newly acquired works by John Baldessari displayed for the first time at Pinakothek der Moderne | | $12,000 design leads selection that includes two Toulouse-Lautrec posters | 
Now in the process of final exhibition design, build-out, and testing, the Academy Museum is scheduled to open in 2020. Photo by Joshua White JWPictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bill Kramer, Director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, today announced that the new institution has raised more than $368 million in pledges and cash, which is 95% of its $388 million pre-opening campaign goal. This total encompasses naming gifts, endowments, funding for education programs and operations, and other special gifts. The Campaign for the Academy Museum was launched in 2012, headed by chair Bob Iger and co-chairs Annette Bening and Tom Hanks. Now in the process of final exhibition design, build-out, and testing, the Academy Museum is scheduled to open in 2020. Bill Kramer said, The motion picture community and movie fans from around the world know how much the Academy Museum will mean for the global appreciation and enjoyment ... More | | 
John Baldessari, The Fallen Easel, 1988. Lithograph and screenprint on paper and aluminium panels ca. 188 x 241,3 cm. Inv. Nr. GV 386, 2017. Acquired by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e. V. for the Modern Art Collection © courtesy of John Baldessari Estate.
MUNICH.- John Baldessari (1931 - 2020) was one of the best-known representatives of conceptual art. He combined ingenuity and levity in his work, creating a sense of idiosyncratic irony which subtly questioned his own artistic identity. The recent acquisition of seven works by the late Californian artist has created the occasion for a one-room installation. This idea originated with Inka Graeve Ingelmann (1960 - 2019). As head of the Photography and New Media department, she has been instrumental in building and shaping the collection since the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne. The John Baldessari Room was realised according to her plans. Ill probably be remembered as the guy who put dots over peoples faces, Baldessari said. Yet this trademark ability to direct ... More | | 
Adrian Barrère, A. Brossard / Le 3 Vitesses / LIdéal du Touriste, 1903. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries will offer a selection of rare late nineteenth century, early twentieth century advertising posters celebrating the craze for cycling at their Vintage Posters auction on February 13. Cycling was one of the most popular fin-de-siècle pastimes and a growing sport in the 1890s and first years of the twentieth century, particularly in France. This coincided with the equally popular and emerging art of poster design, another craze that led members of the public to follow bill poster men in the street to see if they could get hold of a clean copy of a poster before it was stuck to a wall. Such was the standing of both cycling and poster design that leading artists of the day most notably Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) took a serious interest in the medium. Now those designs are highly sought after by collectors and can make large sums at auction. Heading the selection at Swann Galleries ... More |
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| | Museum of the City of New York opens a special exhibition featuring new collections acquisitions | | Phillips in collaboration with Galerie des Bains opens Brush/OFF | | Vienna to reward car-free travel with concert ticket | 
Richard Sandler, CC Train, New York, 1985 (printed later), Gelatin silver print, Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Richard Sandler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the City of New York, the city institution with a celebrated collection of some 750,000 objects and images, today shared details about its new exhibition, Collecting New York Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious. The special presentation features highlights from the hundreds of additions to the Museums permanent collection amassed over the past three years, running the gamut from the colonial era to the recent past. The full exhibition opened on January 22nd and includes both a gallery of historic and contemporary photographs as well as a companion gallery featuring drawings, garments, posters, decorative art objects and other artifacts of the city. The range of work illuminates compelling and varied New York stories, and speaks to the Museums commitment to building a collection reflective of the city in its multifaceted glory. Collecting New Yorks Stories features a full gallery of newly acquired photographs ... More | | 
David Ostrowski, F (Musik ist Scheisse). Acrylic and lacquer on canvas, wood, 101 x 81 cm. Executed in 2013.
GENEVA.- Phillips presents Brush/OFF, the first private selling exhibition to be held in Geneva, showcasing a selection of works which retrace the history of brushless painting from the 1960s through to the present day. Artists include Martin Barré, Sterling Ruby, Hans Hartung, Olivier Mosset, Katharina Grosse, Bernard Frize, François Morellet, John Armleder, David Ostrowski and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. Brush/OFF will open to the public from 28 January to 20 March in the Galerie des Bains at 22 rue des Bains in Geneva. Brush/OFF focuses on the period after Post-painterly abstraction (a term coined by Clement Greenberg during an exhibition at LACMA in 1964). This period welcomed a new generation of brush-less painting which used unconventional materials such as spray painting. Brush/OFF starts with a series of decisive works executed by Martin Barré between 1963 and 1967, commonly known as "bombages" (in this series there ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 15, 2015 a man rides his bicycle through horse alley in Prater park on a sunny spring day in Vienna, Austria. Joe KLAMAR / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- If you take public transport, cycle or walk in Vienna, you stand to gain more than fresh air and exercise, with the city unveiling an app on Monday to reward car-free travel with free concert and museum tickets. A total of 1,000 users will start a test of the smartphone app from February 26. If the six-month test is successful, the app is expected to be rolled out to the broader public in the autumn. The app works through a tracking system that recognises the mode of transport used and calculates the CO2 savings in comparison to taking a car. "We want to reward CO2 reduction with a cultural experience," Vienna city council member Peter Hanke told a press conference at the presentation of the new app, which allows users to collect "culture tokens" whenever they commute without cars. Users get one token as soon as they have saved 20 kilogrammes of CO2, which would be reached if a average resident within the city limits commuted without a car ... More |
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 Two seasoned fundraisers fill key development positions at Vancouver Art GalleryVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the hiring of two stellar individuals to fill key positions in the Development Department. Together, Elain Evans and Brynn Myers bring over fifty years of fundraising, arts management and not-for-profit charitable experience through extensive collaborations with individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies and other strategic partners. As a powerful team, Evans and Myers will lead the Development Department in building a strong base of support for the Gallery. Evans will oversee all development initiatives with a focus on the Gallerys capital campaign, generating private funding needed to construct a new building that is essential for the Gallery to realize its full potential as a local and global hub of creativity. Myers will lead the annual campaign to engage the broadest possible support ... More Tornabuoni Art Paris presents largest international survey of multi-faceted artist Renato MamborPARIS.- From 29 January - 22 February, Tornabuoni Art Paris will stage the most comprehensive survey of Renato Mambor ever to be held outside of Italy. Continuing its programme of presenting twentieth-century and contemporary Italian artists to the international public, Tornabuoni Art will highlight the work of this important and multi-faceted figure of the Italian art movement known as the School of Piazza del Popolo, in collaboration with the Archivio Mambor and Federico Sardella, the Italian art critic and writer on the artists of this period. The show will gather 30 artworks from the 1960s to 2013, surveying Mambors entire career. Featuring a selection of paintings, an installation and the screening of the film Mambor by Gianna Mazzini, the exhibition traces the wide-ranging work of this significant artist, whose work connects to many currents in painting ... More Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art opens final exhibition in its current London spaceLONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents as the final exhibition in its current London space, works by French artist Christine Rebet. This, her first solo show in the United Kingdom, occupies two floors of the gallery and comprises six hand-drawn animated films that address the traumas of personal and collective histories, illusion and the destruction of our shared history and environment. Drawing is at the heart of Rebets practice, which she often develops into animated films, sculpture, installations or performance art. With a background in theatre design, With a background in theatre design, Rebet presents many of her animated films within custom-built spaces and installed together with props to create an immersive environment. Working with the traditional techniques of early animation she explores the unconscious and creates ... More New art installation lights up Granary SquareLONDON.- Following their huge popularity in Coal Drops Yard last winter, Studio Mieke Meijers Space Frames returns to Kings Cross, this time lighting up Granary Square with a playful installation. The Space Frames respond to the timeless beauty of the rigorous and functional industrial architecture that surrounds them, including the adjacent Granary Building and nearby Coal Drops Yard. In fact, they trace and mimic the graphic outlines of Coal Drops Yards arches and industrial structures. The dynamic installation encourages people to interact with it through its placement and use of seating. The Space Frames also act as landmarks and beacons, drawing visitors towards and beneath them. Studio Mieke Meijer has been making domestic versions of the Space Lamps in their workshop for some time, but for this, Meijer wanted to supersize ... More Artist-architect shortlist revealed for Sculpting Spaces: Architectural Desert Dwellings for AlUlaAL ULA.- An international jury, led by Royal College of Art Dean of Architecture Adrian Lahoud, has shortlisted ten architect-artist teams to create proposals for a one-off, contemporary dwelling in the desert of the AlUla region
in Saudi Arabia. The competition was open to emerging architects and creative practitioners. The SCULPTING SPACES Architectural Desert Dwellings for AlUla project is an initiative of The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), whose mission is to protect and safeguard this area of outstanding natural and cultural significance. AlUlas history stretches back millennia. Inspired by the regions significance as a bustling centre of intercultural exchange and creative ingenuity, the RCU is inviting an international community of creative pioneers, across disciplines and continents, to come together to deliver the overarching vision of making AlUla a destination built by artists. The RCU is ... More H&H Classics to offer only AC 2-Litre drophead coupe left & one of just 50 Hillman Aero Minx'sWARRINGTON.- Two cars coming to auction with H&H Classics on March 18 at Duxford, Imperial War Museum, prove the old adage: rarity adds value, obscurity does not says Damian Jones, Head of Sales at H&H Classics. The first of this pair of survivors is a truly charming car in running order from a deceased estate, a family it has been with since 1978. The early March type bodied Aero Minx features full weather equipment in Double Duck material comprising a hood, side screens and hood cover and is fitted with a folding windscreen. It also has the original registration number and a comprehensive history file and 12 v electrical system. It has been with its present owner since 1978 and during that time it has undergone a major restoration programme which is evidenced by a photographic record and receipts. It is painted in green and has biscuit ... More The Gujral Foundation opens an exhibition of works by Remen Chopra W. Van Der VaartNEW DELHI.- The Gujral Foundation in association with Outset India presents multi-disciplinary artist Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaarts solo exhibition Memorys cut; Its Deep Embrace at its experimental site 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi, as a highlight on the collateral events programme of the India Art Fair 2020. The exhibition with Reha Sodhi as the curatorial advisor will include new works by the artist. The works will be on view from 31 January until 24 February 2020. Through this exhibition, the artist will reflect upon her personal journey of migration by questioning notions of home, lineage, space and time. She will trace the history of objects and spaces which once lived, through multi-layered artworks that create contrasts of real and endorsed time. She will delve into the history of personal spaces and its memory using writings, map ... More Tang honored for innovation in collection access by the Museum Association of New YorkSARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has been honored with the 2020 Innovation in Collection Access Award by the Museum Association of New York for the project Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at The Tang Teaching Museum. The award recognizes exemplary projects that broaden access and preserve and catalog museum collections. The Museum Association of New Yorks award announcement noted in particular the range of media the Tang created for the three-year Accelerate project, which concluded in 2019 and included exhibitions, public programs, new research, a glossy magazine, videos, photography, and an enhanced searchable collections website. Tangs Dayton Director Ian Berry and Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara led the Accelerate project with the ... More 'Indian Ocean Current' opens at The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston CollegeCHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives, which sheds light on the complex and crucial issue of climate change, focusing on the Indian Ocean region, where temperature changes have led to extreme weather events. On display from January 27 through May 31, 2020 in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries, it features leading artists Shiraz Bayjoo, Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, and Hajra Waheed, whose works are defined by their deep ties to the lands surrounding the Indian Ocean. This exclusive exhibitionwhich comprises videos, collages, paintings, sculptures, interactive installations, and photographsexplores the contemporary legacy of the long movement of people, things, and ideas across the Indian Ocean, according ... More Legendary 1884 Trade Dollar worth $2 million heading to auctionSANTA ANA, CA.- Stacks Bowers Galleries continue their tradition of presenting world-class rarities at auction by featuring an extremely rare 1884 Proof trade dollar worth as much as $2 million in their March 18-20, 2020 Baltimore Auction. The 1884 dollar is a legendary U.S. Mint rarity. While the Mint had ended production of circulation-strike trade dollars in 1878, Proof examples were officially distributed in Proof sets through 1883. Additional Proof examples were struck at the beginning of 1884, but were never distributed and all but 10 were eventually melted. With such small populations, the rarity of these trade dollars rivals or surpasses such numismatic icons as the 1913 Liberty Head nickel (five examples known) and the 1804 dollar (15 examples known). They are more infrequently offered at auction and every appearance is a historic opportunity. Acquiring ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Alice Neel was born January 28, 1900. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. In this image: Ballet Dancer, 1950. Hall Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London.
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