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A women sets up a creation for the exhibition "Je suis couturier" (I am a fashion designer) of late French-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaia on January 21, 2018, at the Azzedine Alaia Association in Paris. The exhibition runs from January 22 to June 10, 2018. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
by Anne-Laure Mondesert / Fiachra Gibbons
Two months after legendary designer Azzedine Alaia's sudden death plunged the fashion world into mourning, an exhibition in homage to the "King of Cling" opened Monday in his studios in Paris. The Tunisian-born designer, renowned for the way his clothes hugged the body, died suddenly in November aged 82, reportedly of heart failure after falling down the stairs at his home. The diminutive maverick, who ignored fashion week convention by showing when and where he wanted, in July produced his first couture collection in six years to rapturous reviews. Now some of his most iconic dresses are going on display in the glass-roofed gallery next to his studio and home in the Marais district where he used to show his creations. It includes the dress worn by supermodel Naomi Campbell, his longtime friend and muse, when she led his last collection down the catwalk. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A model presents a creation by Iris Van Herpen during the 2018 spring/summer Haute Couture collection on January 22, 2018 in Paris. Bertrand GUAY / AFP
| Louvre Abu Dhabi replaces Gulf map that omitted Qatar | | State Collection of Graphic Art celebrates Georg Baselitz with exhibition | | American artist Jack Whitten dies aged 78 |
The error was pointed out on January 19 by Qatar's museums head, Al Mayassa Al-Thani, who retweeted a picture of the map showing Bahrain and the Gulf coast with blank sea in the place of Qatar.
ABU DHABI (AFP).- The Louvre Abu Dhabi said Monday it has replaced a map of the Arabian Peninsula that omitted Qatar, embroiled in a months-long diplomatic dispute with its Gulf neighbours. The museum said the map was an "oversight" that had been rectified. The map, one of several aiming at placing exhibits in their geographical context, was located in the children's section of the museum. The error was pointed out on January 19 by Qatar's museums head, Al Mayassa Al-Thani, who retweeted a picture of the map showing Bahrain and the Gulf coast with blank sea in the place of Qatar. "Although the notion of museums is a new one to Abu Dhabi, surely the @MuseeLouvre is not okay with this?" she wrote. The following day, Emirati foreign minister Anwar Gargash said ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, Der Maler, 1967. Bleistift, Kreide, Aquarell und Tusche, 499 x 373 mm. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Dauerleihgabe des Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, Sammlung Herzog Franz von Bayern. Photo: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München © Georg Baselitz 2017.
MUNICH.- To honour Georg Baselitz on the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is presenting graphic masterpieces by this artist as part of its IM BLICK (IN FOCUS) series of studio exhibitions. With over 1100 works on paper by Baselitz, this collection is the only one of its kind anywhere in the world, and it will be showing sheets from two outstanding groups within his body of work. On the one hand early major works from his series Helden (Heroes). These works provide an impression of Baselitzs radically expressive draughtsmanship in the mid-1960s and confirm his pre-eminent position within modern and contemporary figurative art. On the other hand ... More | |
Jack Whitten carving wood on the beach in Crete, Greece, Summer 1971. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK (AFP).- American painter and sculptor Jack Whitten has died at the age of 78, his gallery announced on Sunday. The black artist was known for continually evolving over his five-decade career -- from painting to sculpture and from figurative to abstract. Born in Bessemer, Alabama on December 5, 1939, he grew up in the segregationist south of the United States, where he was an activist in the civil rights struggle, before moving to New York in 1960. His early work evoked the racism experienced by African Americans, but it was his abstract pieces that won greater renown in the art world, particularly in his later years. Determined to constantly push his own limits, he left the brush to work with razor blades, Afro-combs or household squeegees. "Delta Group II," which features in the Metropolitan Museum of New York collection, is one example. "With a career grazing ... More |
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| Neo Rauch retrospective opens at Museum de Fundatie | | Michener Art Museum opens major exhibition on Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd | | No end to eyesores at Taj Mahal as repair work drags on |
Neo Rauch, Gewitterfront, 2016. Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm. Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle and Heino/Wijhe. © Neo Rauch c/o VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin.
ZWOLLE.- Neo Rauch (b. Leipzig, 1960) is one of the most important artists of today. His work, which took the art world by storm, is entirely out of step with the apparently predictable rhythm of developments in the arts over the past few decades. 65 works by Rauch from international collections are on display at Museum de Fundatie from 21 January 2018. Neo Rauch studied with Arno Rink at the renowned Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, at a time when Germany and Europe were still divided. As a result of the focus on painting in Leipzig, the art that emerged from there was isolated from the trends in the art world. The work of Neo Rauch broke out of that isolation, and has been attracting international acclaim since the 1990s. Neo Rauchs complex paintings transport the viewer to an apparently familiar world where, on closer inspection, the feeling of familiarity soon disappears to be ... More | |
Peter Hurd, The Dry River, 1938. Egg tempera on panel. 50 x 44 in. Permanent Collection of the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Longwell.
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- The James A. Michener Art Museum is presenting Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd, A Retrospective, a major exhibition that explores the work, marriage, and careers of two remarkable artists who contributed to the canon and dialogue of 20th century American art. Co-organized by the Michener Art Museum and Roswell Museum and Art Center, the exhibition includes more than 100 works by Wyeth, Hurd, and family membersincluding Andrew Wyeth, Henriettes brother, and N.C. Wyeth, her fatherin the influential Wyeth sphere. The exhibition is on view from January 21 through May 6, 2018. Very little attention has been given to N.C.s role in shaping and guiding the artistic development and career of his daughters Henriette, Ann, and Carolyn, said Kirsten M. Jensen, Ph.D., the Micheners Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator. Magical & Real is the first ... More | |
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Indian labourers work amid scaffolding during conservation work at the Taj Mahal in Agra. DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP.
AGRA (AFP).- Tourist Muskan Mahuwakar pictured the Taj Mahal as a dazzling vision of symmetry and beauty but upon reaching the monument, she -- like thousands of other visitors -- was disappointed to find it covered in scaffolding, its once white marble now yellowing due to pollution. Building restoration at India's most popular tourist attraction is now into its fourth year, with work yet to even begin on its imposing dome. "It's disappointing not to get a perfect frame of this immaculate structure," Mahuwakar, a history student, told AFP on her first visit to the Taj, as nearby cleaners armed with colourful plastic buckets and large mops desperately tried to scrub some lustre back into the stained stone. Other restoration teams scale the facade, blocking views to the ornate Islamic carvings engraved on its walls. The interruption to the serenity of visiting one of the seven modern wonders of the world. "The repair has been going on for so ... More |
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| French resistance rises to 'tulip' gift from Jeff Koons | | "Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint" opens at the Palmer Museum of Art | | Exhibition dedicated to two Naive artists opens Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger's new space in Lisbon |
In this file photo Jeff Koons poses with his BMW Art Car.
PARIS (AFP).- A year after the terror attacks that struck Paris in November 2015, Jeff Koons said he would give the city a monumental sculpture meant to honour the victims -- but critics of the project are saying 'no thanks'. About two dozen artists, gallery owners and officials wrote an open letter Monday urging the city of Paris not to install the 12-metre-tall "Bouquet of Tulips" outside the Museum of Modern Art and adjacent Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art centre. The project -- a giant hand holding multicoloured flowers -- is meant to mimic the Statue of Liberty grasping its torch, but was denounced as a "product placement", according to the text, whose signatories include the filmmaker Olivier Assayas and former culture minister Frederic Mitterrand. "A brilliant and inventive creator in the 1980s, Jeff Koons has since become the emblem of industrial art which is spectacular and speculative," the letter states. But if the goal is to honour the victims of the deadliest terror attack ever on F ... More | |
Dox Thrash, Chromatic Tunes, c. 1938, watercolor on paper. Collection of the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, image courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint. This remarkable exhibition brings together forty-seven works on loan from public and private collections that reveal the experimental printmaking process, known as the carborundum mezzotint, pioneered by the Philadelphia-based artist Dox Thrash (18931965), who was also a noted participant in the New Negro movement of the 1930s and 40s. This exhibition sheds important light one of the great figures in the history of American printmaking, and how he used the carborundum mezzotint process, along with other media, to chronicle aspects of the African American experience well before the dawn of the Civil Rights era, stated Erin Coe, director of the Palmer Museum of Art. A veteran of World War I as well as the minstrel ... More | |
Louis-Auguste Déchelette (1894-1964), Sans titre, Oil on hardboard, 16.1 x 13.2. Photo: Jean-Louis Losi.
LISBON.- The Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Lisbon opened its new space in the Chiado area with an exhibition dedicated to André Bauchant (1873-1958) and Louis-Auguste Déchelette (1894-1964), until March 17. André Bauchant, the Gardener Painter, is a self-taught artist. He started painting late in life, at age 46, as soon as he came back from World War I, during which time he had painted small postcards that he sold to his comrades. The war led him to the Dardanelles in Turkey, and later to Greece. The Mediterranean landscapes that he used to imagine as a child when he was reading passionately about Ancient Greece and mythology became alive before his eyes and were forever imprinted on his work. In it he would integrate, without any limitations or separation, landscapes, still-lifes, portraits, nudes, and major themes of mythology and antiquity. This unique work received international recognition and led to Bauchants paintings bec ... More |
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| Tall tail: Morocco casts doubt on Mexico 'dinosaur' fragment | | Exhibition sheds a new understanding on Magritte's creative process and thinking | | Crow Collection of Asian Art shows historical and contemporary Korean ceramics |
The ministry said it had not issued any export permit for the "vertebrae".
RABAT (AFP).- Authorities in Morocco said Monday they doubt the authenticity of an alleged dinosaur tail sold in Mexico, after launching a probe to see if it had been illegally exported from the North African country. The purported four-metre-long (13-foot) fragment of an "Atlasaurus tail from the Jurassic period" was sold on Tuesday for 1.8 million pesos (78,000 euros, $96,000), according to Mexican auctions website Morton. But Morocco's mines ministry said preliminary investigations showed the supposed dinosaur tail was likely "restored from an assembly of vertebrae found isolated, not emanating from the same species." The ministry said it had not issued any export permit for the "vertebrae". A skeleton of an Atlasaurus, a species which dates back 160 million years and is estimated to have measured 18 metres in length and 10 metres in height, is on display at the natural history museum in the Moroccan capital ... More | |
The Giant (Le Géant), 1937. Paul Nougé on the Belgian Coast credit to Private collection, Courtesy Brachot.
HONG KONG.- René Magritte: The Revealing Image Photos and Films opened to the public Friday 19 January at ArtisTree in Taikoo Place, running until Monday 19 February 2018. Presented by Swire Properties ArtisTree in partnership with the Magritte Foundation Belgium and Ludion, the exhibition immerses visitors in the world of René Magritte with 132 original photographs and eight films by the influential 20th century surrealist artist. The original photographs and films were created between 1914 and 1967 and have never been exhibited in Asia or Europe before. The collection is now exhibited at ArtisTree, the first venue in Asia, before the it continues on a world tour. Together with a seminal catalogue by Chief Curator Xavier Canonne and a series of guided tours, the exhibition is shedding a new understanding on Magrittes creative process and thinking. Admission ... More | |
Lee In Chin (b. 1957), Bottle, 2000. Stoneware clay body, 32 x 25 x 25 cm.
DALLAS, TX.- The Crow Collection of Asian Art is presenting Earthly Splendor: Korean Ceramics from the Collection in its Gallery I exhibition space in the Dallas Arts District. The Museum is located at 2010 Flora St., Dallas, Texas 75201. This exhibition pairs outstanding examples of contemporary and historical Korean ceramics from the museums permanent collection to highlight the material, aesthetic, stylistic and technical developments of them throughout history. Today, American life is deeply interwoven with Asia, says Dr. Jacqueline Chao, curator of the exhibition and the Crow Collections curator of Asian art. The need to understand the diverse arts, cultures, histories and contemporary cultures of Asia is more essential now than ever. By juxtaposing works of Korean art of the past with the present, we situate timeless works of art within a global context, to offer viewers fresh and meaningful perspectives on ... More |
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Jerwood/Photoworks Awards: New work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira
LONDON.- New work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira is on show at Jerwood Space, London in the second Jerwood/Photoworks Awards exhibition 17 January - 11 March 2018. The exhibition explores themes of such as death, belonging and the fragility of the natural world. Following its London premiere, the show will tour across the UK to venues including Impressions Gallery, Bradford and Belfast Exposed, Belfast. Spectrum Photographic is the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards official print partner. Alejandra Carles-Tolra is interested in the relationship between individual and group identity and how one identity influences the other. In Where We Belong she explores themes of belonging, femininity and escapism by following a group of Jane Austen devotees. Sam Laughlins series A Certain Movement is a meditation on the state of the ... More
Newark Museum names Amy Simon Hopwood Associate Curator of Decorative Arts
NEWARK, NJ.- Newark Museum Interim Co-Director Ulysses Grant Dietz has announced the appointment of Amy Simon Hopwood as Associate Curator, Decorative Arts Collection. "I am happy to welcome Amy as the newest member of the Newark Museums curatorial team," said Dietz, who served as the Decorative Arts Curator for 37 years until his retirement on December 31, 2017. He assumed his new role as Interim Co-Director on January 1. "Her expertise in decorative arts, in particular costumes and textiles, will enhance the Museums impact on the communities we serve. In her new position, she will co-curate a Yves Saint-Laurent jewelry exhibition scheduled for fall 2019. In addition, she will work on acquisitions, gallery rotations, research, exhibition development, and programming related to the decorative arts collections and the Newark Museums 1885 Ballantine ... More
Exhibition of works by artists from the U.S. and Latin America opens at Tufts University Art Galleries
MEDFORD, MASS.- The Tufts University Art Galleries at the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center present A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas from January 16 through April 15, 2018. Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, and broad questions of civilization and culture, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas presents recent works by artists from the United States and Latin America who grapple with continued questions of colonialism and postcolonialism. The exhibition highlights the medium of video as a critical tool for expanded narratives and immersive imagery, in addition to painting, photography, sculpture and works on paper. Divisions between the "material" and "spiritual" development of culture, a distinction advocated by Alexander von Humboldt after his expedition in ... More
Keith Achepohl exhibition opens at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
EUGENE, ORE.- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus presents the exhibition Keith Achepohl: Vision of Nature/Vessel of Beauty from Jan. 20 through April 29, 2018. This extensive body of work in painting, drawing, and collage by the Eugene, Oregon-based artist Keith Achepohl was inspired by three weeks spent at the Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency in 2011, followed by a second stay in 2016. Seldom has an artist been so inspired by a residency, says Jill Hartz, JSMA executive director and co-curator of the exhibition. Its been thrilling to see each new work as its been completed, and then to step back and see how it all holds together and creates its own world. Each series and study so clearly shows the artists mastery of aesthetics, media, and techniques, which are imbued with his contagious ... More
Contemporary artists express concerns through textual art
RACINE, WI.- Open January 21 - May 6, 2018 at the Racine Art Museum, Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Art includes works that use language and script to convey meaning. Contemporary artists, recognizing the power and complexity of the written word, utilize textindividual letters or wordsto explore theoretical, social, symbolic, and aesthetic concerns. While the title of the exhibition plays on the popular digital form of communication, the pieces gathered here are tangible three-dimensional objects made of fiber, ceramic, polymer, paper, and metal as well as two-dimensional works on paper. All works featured are drawn from RAMs collection. Letters and script are used as design and pattern elements as well as conveyors of meaning. Examples include teapots decorated with narrative scenes overlaid with accompanying text, contemporary ... More
The Gibbes Museum of Art opens major traveling American Folk Art exhibition
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art announced the newest exhibition on view in the museums third floor galleries January 19 April 25, 2018. A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America is drawn from the private collection of Barbara L. Gordon and tells the story of the extraordinary American folk art made in New England, the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and the South between 1800 and 1925. Created by innovative, self-taught artists, the exhibition showcases more than 60 works that exemplify the breadth of American creative expression during a period of revolutionary political, social and cultural change in the United States. Highlights include rare paintings by Edward Hicks, Ammi Phillips, and John Brewster, Jr., among others. In the years immediately following the Revolutionary War, Americans left the places where their families had been rooted and moved to new ... More
"Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined" opens at Art Projects International
NEW YORK, NY.- Art Projects International opened the gallery's 25th anniversary with Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined, a special exhibition featuring works by 12 artists: Catherine Opie, Clifford Ross, Filipe Rocha da Silva, Graham Nickson, Il Lee, James Turrell, Mary Heilmann, Myong Hi Kim, Richard Tsao, Seokmin Ko, Yojiro Imasaka and Zhang Jian-Jun. The exhibition presents a selection of works created within the past twenty years, featuring landscapes with a strong abstract quality, abstract works evoking landscapes, and artificially-constructed landscapes. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Kathryn Calley Galitz that contextualizes these contemporary landscapes within the landscape tradition, with an emphasis on the sublime. Blurred Horizons reveals the idea of landscape as a powerful force of attraction ... More
Solo presentation of paintings by Athier Mousawi opens at Ayyam Gallery Dubai
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery Dubai announces All Things Come Apart, a solo presentation of paintings by Athier Mousawi. All Things Come Apart explores the changing of state from order to disorder, attempting to capture the perfect composition that harmoniously exists in between. In these new works the artist makes a number of aesthetic and conceptual shifts a departure from his more recognisable amalgamation of geometric and free flowing, boldly colourful forms. Rather than using loose shapes, squiggles, and structural lines to simply capture ideas on discarded bits of paper, these preliminary marks have become the very basis of the works. Seamlessly fused with bubbles, material textures, geometric shapes, and bodily elements, the artist creates layers for his floating and spacious compositions. One of the main constructs within these works is the newly ... More
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opens multimedia exhibition by Roberto Diago
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston is presenting a solo exhibition by the internationally renowned Afro-Cuban artist Roberto Diago entitled La Historia Recordada that features artworks, lectures, and films in addition to being connected with a larger campus-wide program at the College of Charleston. His work is often a direct criticism of racism in Cuba and explores the roots and role of slavery in Cuban history and culture. The exhibition is on view from January 19 March 3, 2018. Diago works and lives in Havana, and utilizes a variety of strategies for examining the aftereffects of slavery in the twenty-first century. Diagos work frequently contains found materials from neighborhoods in Havana near his home and studio. Raw materials such as wood, metal, and textiles make up much of his workoften these materials contain ... More
National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibits prints and tapestry by artist Hung Liu
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Hung Liu In Print , on view January 19July 8, 2018. This spotlight exhibition features 16 prints and a tapestry by painter and printmaker Hung Liu (b. 1948). Hung Liu In Print invites viewers to explore the relationship between Lius multi-layered paintings and the palpable, physical qualities of her works on paper. Her multifaceted body of work probes the human condition and confronts issues of culture, identity, and personal and national history. Before immigrating to California in 1984, Liu grew up during Mao Zedongs Cultural Revolution in China, where she worked alongside fieldworkers and trained as a painter. Adapting figures from historical Chinese photographs, Liu reimagines antique depictions of laborers, refugees and prostitutes. While her works make specific historical ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet was born January 23, 2018. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Le Printemps oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (74 x 51.5 cm.), painted in 1881 Estimate: $25-35 million. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014.
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