| The First Art Newspaper on the Net |   | Established in 1996 | Tuesday, July 4, 2017 |
 |
| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens exhibition of works by Sonia Delaunay | |
|
|
Sonia Delaunay, El Bal Bullier, 1913 (The Bal Bullier). Ãleo sobre lienzo. 50, 2 x 73 cm Merzbacher Kunststiftung.
MADRID.- This summer the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion, the first exhibition in Spain to be entirely devoted to this artist. As such its intention is to emphasise not only her important role as an avant-garde painter but also the way in which she successfully applied her aesthetic ideas to everyday life. Delaunays work as a painter will be exhibited in the Museums galleries alongside her designs for books, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles as well as items of clothing. In total there will be more than 200 exhibits loaned from public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée de la Mode de Paris and the Museo Reina SofÃa in Madrid, as well as from private collections. The exhibition, which is benefitting from the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, will thus reflect recent art-historical researc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This summer, Sotheby's will offer works by some of the most celebrated names in European art history at its flagship Old Master Paintings and Drawings sales, starting on 5th July. Courtesy Sotheby's.
| The Museum of Modern Art acquires an original-condition 1968 Fiat 500 | | Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens exhibition of works by Franco Grignani | | Hauser & Wirth opens exhibition of monumental sculptures by Paul McCarthy | 
Dante Giacosa, for Fiat S.p.A. 500F City Car. Designed 1957 (this example 1968). Steel body with cloth roof, 52 Ã 52 Ã 116 7/8″ (132.1 Ã 132.1 Ã 296.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has acquired an original model of the Fiat 500F Berlina, commonly referred to as the Cinquecento. The most popular version of the 500which was in production from 1965 through 1972the Berlina exemplifies a clear expression of form following function, a logical and economical use of materials, and a belief that quality design should be accessible to all. The development of inexpensive, reliable cars like the Fiat 500 was instrumental in knitting together communities and nations and fostering a feeling of freedom of movement throughout the postwar European continent. Through its design and its centrality to the story of mid-century Italy, the 500 embodies many of the principles that typified mid-century modernist design and connects it to themes explored in works throughout the Museums collection. The Fiat 500 is an icon of automotive ... More | | 
Franco Grignani, Detachment from the Edge (285) 1969. 70 X 70 c,. Mixed media on Schoeller card and masonite. Archivio Manuela Grignani Sirtoll.
LONDON.- Best known for his swirling Woolmark logo, Franco Grignani (1908-1999) was an influential artist and graphic designer whose dazzling works anticipated Op Art. This exhibition features around 130 paintings and works on paper, including his graphic design projects, on loan from private collections and the Manuela Grignani Sirtoli Archive. It runs at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from 5 July until 10 September 2017. A further exhibition of Grignani paintings is on view at M&L Fine Art in London during July. Like many experimental Italian painters, Grignani was briefly affiliated with the Futurist movement. He exhibited as part of the group from the mid-1920s, and in 1933 participated in the huge Great National Futurist Exhibition in Rome; however, most of his works from this period are now lost. After 1935 his work turned toward geometric abstraction, abandoning any lingering figurative elements. ... More | | 
Paul McCarthy, WS, White Snow Dopey Dream Double, 2015. Black walnut, 231.4 x 227.1 x 304.8 cm / 91 1/8 x 89 3/8 x 120 in. Installation view, 'Paul McCarthy: White Snow, Wood Sculptures', Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA, 2016. Photo: Mark Woods.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth announces Paul McCarthy. WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos, the gallerys first exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the provocative and influential work of acclaimed LA-based artist Paul McCarthy. This exhibition presents spinoffs from White Snow, a major ongoing project within the artists multidisciplinary practice that subverts the beloved 19th century German folktale Schneewittchen (Snow White) and the modern interpretation of that story in Disneys 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never before exhibited in Los Angeles, the works on view nine monumental carved black walnut sculptures of Snow White, the Prince, and Dopey, alongside arresting wall hangings seek to disrupt traditional notions of art and culture, while introducing ... More |
|
| Norton Museum of Art celebrates topping out of Foster + Partners expansion | | Major new permanent art work by Daniel Buren inaugurated today at Tottenham Court Road Tube station | | Sotheby's Old Masters Evening Sale in London to include a sculpture for the first time ever | 
A Gilbane Building Company construction worker at work on The New Norton, image by Jacek Gancarz.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Last week, leaders from the Norton Museum of Art and Gilbane Building Company, along with Museum staff and more than 100 construction workers attended a topping out ceremony for The New Nortonthe Museums $100 million, Foster + Partners-designed expansion project. At the construction site, a tree was attached to a steel beam signed by construction workers and other attendees, and hoisted by GBC to the structures highest point. The longstanding tradition of the topping out ceremony is inspired by the Scandinavian tradition of placing a tree atop a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits for displacing their brethren. At the ceremony, Norton Board Chair Harry Howell, Building Committee Chair Larry Sosnow, Executive Director Hope Alswang, and Gilbane V.P. Robert Hayes thanked the workers who have contributed to the realization of the 42,000-square foot wing. In her remarks, Alswang stated: We ... More | | 
Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' works 'in situ' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire.
LONDON.- Following nine years of work, the first permanent public commission in the UK by the internationally acclaimed French artist, Daniel Buren, is officially inaugurated today, transforming Tottenham Court Road Tube station with Burens signature geometric patterns and stripes into a public gallery like no other. With up to 150,000 customers a day passing through, the station will bring the work of one of the most celebrated living artists to the biggest public of any art gallery in the world. The commission is the highlight of a £500m programme to transform the station into one of the key transport interchanges in London. Entitled Diamonds and Circles, works in situ, and linking the complex geometry and architecture of one of Europes busiest transport interchanges, Burens design uses vivid geometric shapes, each formed by a series of stripes or block colours, ... More | | 
Pietro Tacca (1577-1640), Portrait Bust of Grand Duke Ferdinando II de Medici (1610-1670), terracotta. Estimate £1,000,000-2,000,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This summer, Sothebys will present at auction a wide range of sculptures from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century. The sales follow the companys recent announcement of the appointment of Alexander Kader and Margaret Schwartz as Co-Worldwide Heads of European Sculpture & Works of Art. The diversity of the field continues to prove to be its own strength: rare medieval works of art continue to fetch ever stronger prices; sculpture from the 15th and 16th centuries has witnessed a renaissance, with exceptional results achieved for masterpieces in various media; early jewels and precious works of art have become increasingly desirable, with record prices attained; Baroque sculpture, marked by its exuberance and virtuosity, is on the rise with notable marbles from the period proving popular with collectors worldwide who value both their scholarly and decorative appeal; large Neoclassical and ... More |
|
| Afghan-American brings immigrant tales to Times Square | | Extraordinary embroidery: Hidden histories of ordinary girls revealed through their sewing | | Asia Society Museum in New York shines a spotlight on the work of artists from the South Asian diaspora | 
People stand in a repurposed telephone booth in Times Square and listen to the receiver as part of artist Aman Mojadidi interactive public art installation Once Upon a Place. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- They may be fast disappearing from the streets of New York, but an Afghan-American artist has installed public telephone booths in Times Square to spotlight the immigrant experience in Donald Trump's America. New York today boasts no more than four public phone booths, the last vestiges of a pre cell-phone era. The arrival of three in Times Square as part of Aman Mojadidi's "Once Upon a Place" installation has nearly doubled that number. Passers by can pick up the handset, but cannot talk. Instead they listen. At the end of the line are the voices of New Yorkers telling their personal stories of immigration -- legal or illegal -- from around the world. Mojadidi asked each to narrate their experiences in their own language for a maximum of 15 minutes, without interrupting with any questions. Nor has their testimony been translated into English. "Even ... More | | 
Sampler with framing border, 1800. Inscribed Susanna Gellett. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE.- Coloured silks and metal threads, white-work and needle lace... Over 120 beautifully embroidered samplers, some hundreds of years old, have gone on display in Cambridge in the exhibition Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Each one meticulously stitched by a girl or young woman, the samplers and accompanying book give a glimpse of past lives: from mid-17th century English Quakers to early-20th-century school pupils. The skill employed in making them is remarkable works by girls as young as nine years old are shown. Very rarely seen due to their fragility and sensitivity to the light, several samplers have been newly conserved and cleaned for the show. This will be the first time so many fine examples from the Fitzwilliams outstanding collection of samplers have gone on display together. The sampler was an essential part of a young womans education. It showed much more ... More | | 
Shahzia Sikander, Eye-i-ing Those Armorial Bearings, 1989-1997. Vegetable color, dry pigment, tea and screenprint on wasli paper. H. 8 1/2 x W. 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm). The Carol and Arthur Goldberg Collection. Image courtesy of the Carol and Arthur Goldberg Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum in New York shines a spotlight on the work of nineteen contemporary artists from the South Asian diaspora. As individuals living between worlds, diasporic artists often negotiate notions of home and issues relating to migration, gender, race, and memory in their practice. Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, organized by Asia Society Museum with the support of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, is on view from June 27 to August 6, 2017. On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of independence of the Indian Subcontinent from the British Empire, this exhibition, first proposed by Jaishri Abichandani, founder of the South Asian Womens Creative Collective, provides a timely platform to celebrate these artists ... More |
|
| Second solo show of Philipp Modersohn's work with Galerie Guido W. Baudach on view in Berlin | | A series of newly commissioned installations explore our perceptions and connections to colour | | 1929 Bugatti that survived WW2 target practice is reborn rebodied and for sale with H&H Classics | 
Philipp Modersohn, pot (pavia), 2016. Concrete, steel, glass, 30 x 35 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Guido W. Baudach. Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting SiO2go, the second solo show of Philipp Modersohn with the gallery. The Research Center SiO2go at the Berlin-Tiergarten site aims to analyze and evaluate the various dimensions of sculptural uncertainty and instability in the context of geological, urban and artistic design processes. The Research Centers work is concerned with the dynamics of intraactive materials, especially in their importance for the physical and cognitive infrastructures of modern societies. The anticipation of futures in the context of new sources of risk is one of the challenges of artistic research today. The anticipation of temporality is a core element of sculptural insecurity itself: urban security architectures anticipate the events they were designed to prevent, view populations as if a catastrophe had already occurred and shape the present accordingly. Threats ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Luke Hayes.
LONDON.- Drawing on 15 years of research, acclaimed designer Hella Jongerius presents Breathing Colour; an installation-based exhibition that takes a deeper look at how colour behaves. Featuring a diverse collection of new commissions that explore the effects that light conditions have on our perceptions of colour and form, Jongerius ultimate aim is to pit the power of colour against the power of form. Jongerius research has been inspired by a wide range of sources, including celebrated painters, who recognised and recorded how light affects objects and landscapes. For example, Monet painted the same haystack over and over to document the different colours and atmospheres at different times of the day. Breathing Colour creates an exhibition that blurs the boundaries between art and design. Combining intriguing shapes with extensive research; the exhibition questions our preconceptions of colour and embraces its imperfection and experimentation. Hella Jongerius explains: Th ... More | | 
The 1929 Bugatti Type 44 Vanvooren Saloon in red and black is estimated to sell for £200,000 £240,000.
LONDON.- Among the many stunning cars due to be sold by H&H Classics at Duxford Imperial War Museum on July 26th is a stunning red and black Bugatti which survived WW2 in France where it was used as target practice by German troops. The 1929 Bugatti Type 44 Vanvooren Saloon in red and black is estimated to sell for £200,000 £240,000. Extensively restored by Wilkinson's Coachbuilders of Derby from 1990-94 and 8,500 miles since. This exquisite Vanvooren saloon body began life aboard another T44 that was supplied new to Jean Jacques Peugeot (of the car making dynasty). It is beautifully detailed with unusual triple-hinged doors and among the most delightful Vintage Saloons we have encountered, says Damian Jones, Head of Sales for H&H Classics who are selling the car. The car is something of a come-back-kid having started life in the purple with the Peugeot family then drilled with bullet holes when German troops ... More |
|
href=' href='
Brueghel?s 'Wedding Feast' Brought To Life
| More News |
 Solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Jenni Tischer on view at The Drawing Room in HamburgHAMBURG.- The Drawing Room is presenting the second solo exhibition by Berlinbased artist Jenni Tischer. In the exhibition I´m a Stranger Here Myself Jenni Tischer presents cap sculptures, wearable caps and works on paper. On a formal level, the caps are imprints of heads and literally allow the wearer a view inside. On a semantic level, Tischer reflects on the emergence of caps in urban public space and brings to light the way in which caps connect subculture, resistance and at the same time symbolize a commoditized globally produced sameness. Jenni Tischer refers to the book Strangers to Ourselves by psychoanalyst and literary theorist Julia Kristeva which presents the notion of strangeness within the self as a premise to accept strangeness in the outside. The grid-displays made by the artist reflect on digital strategies built on algorithms that are producing ... More Exhibition brings together nine artists who use animation as their tool to defy our conceptions of realityTOULOUSE.- Over the summer of 2017, les Abattoirs has brought together nine artists who use animation as their tool to defy our conceptions of reality. This exceptional exhibition shows works from Ed Atkins, Antoine Catala, Ian Cheng, Kate Cooper, Josh Kline, Helen Marten, Jon Rafman, Avery Singer and Agnieszka Polska - all of whom explore our information-loaded era and our place within it. The exhibition raises many questions such as the impact that all these virtual worlds have on our real physical experience, as for example the digitalisation of identity. Suspended Animation organised by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) and in collaboration with Les Abattoirs, Mussée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, is the unique stop of the exhibition in Europe. Held at the Hirshhorn Museum from February10th 2016 to March 26th, three ... More Exhibition at PAC in Milan explores African artMILAN.- Defining Africa today means being able to recount it. In an equilibrium between Occidentalism and Africanism, postcolonialism and migration, contemporary African art in reality poses essential, political, economic, religious and gender questions that affect the future of one of the most complex areas on our planet. With the exhibition AFRICA. Telling a world from 27 June to 11 September 2017 Milans PAC continues its exploration of the continents following the route of art, with a selection of artists and narratives that not only live and entrench their African roots in the world, but who and which also experience its Diaspora. Retracing the emergence of their diversity, the exhibition will allow visitors an understanding of the universality of the contemporary Africa scene south of the Sahara. Through photographs, paintings, installations, drawings ... More Mills College Art Museum features works from its artist-in-residence program OAKLAND, CA.- Mills College Art Museum announced the 2017 Art + Process + Ideas (A+P+I) exhibition on view from June 28-August 27, 2017 featuring new work from SofÃa Córdova, Sanaz Mazinani, and Genevieve Quick. Launched in January 2015, A+P+I is an artist-in-residence program hosted by the Mills College Art Department and Mills College Art Museum. The residency fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff of Mills College as well as the larger Bay Area arts community to interact, learn, and work with the visiting artists. The A+P+I residency culminates in a summer exhibition at MCAM that features new work created by the artists while in residence. The 2017 A+P+I exhibition showcases the work of the third round of artists to the program. Each of these artists brings with them a unique approach to art-making ... More Cheng Ting Ting explores the expectations placed on children in contemporary societyHONG KONG.- The K11 Art Foundation is presenting Enfante, a solo exhibition of local artist Cheng Ting Ting, which continues the artists ongoing exploration of quotidian life in the city. Derived from her experiences as a childrens art instructor, she reflects on the prevalent attitudes towards education and creativity in Hong Kong. One of the few female local artists who uses paint as her primary medium, the exhibition also showcases a new body of work, including projections, intaglio prints, and an art book, alongside her celebrated oil on canvas works. Concurrently, a performative element is being presented, where the artist creates a set of paintings on-site. Curated by André Chan, Enfante is being presented at chi art space, Central from 28 June 4 August 2017. Enfante is anchored in Chengs reactions ... More Spink announces highlights from its Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History saleLONDON.- Every year Spink puts together a fine selection of quality material for the Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History sale. This year the Autographs sale will be held on the 11th July 2017. The sale abounds in interesting items, including: One of the rarest wartime signed photographs of Winston Churchill, two royal seals from iconic female monarchs, and a stunning array of intimate letters between Edward, The Prince of Wales and Mrs Dudley Ward. The star lot is 963, an original studio silver print photograph by Cecil Beaton of Winston Churchill, taken in the Prime Minister's study, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall. It is an iconic and historic image signed and dated "Winston S. Churchill / Jan 1, 1942" in fountain pen ink during his momentous visit to Washington D.C. to meet with President Roosevelt. Churchill and ... More OMA unveils 'Palermo Atlas': An interdisciplinary urban study of Palermo commissioned by Manifesta 12PALERMO.- On the 1st of July 2017, the Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, Director of Manifesta Hedwig Fijen and Manifesta 12 creative mediator OMA, led by architect and partner Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, presented the architecture firms urban study of Palermo for Manifesta 12. The European Nomadic Biennial will open in the Sicilian capital on 15th of June, 2018. Titled Palermo Atlas, the urban study is the foundational step of Manifesta 12, serving both as a blueprint for Palermo to plan its future and as a research framework to ensure that Manifesta 12 achieves a long-term impact for the city and its citizens. Palermo Atlas represents a novel creative mediation model proposed by Manifesta that focuses on transforming a nomadic art biennial into a sustainable platform for social change, rooted in holistic urban analysis and determined to leave a tangible ... More Libeskind brother and sister join forces with their famous architect father for art exhibitionSANQUHAR.- New York-based artist Rachel Libeskind and her cosmologist brother Noam are undertaking their first creative collaboration for an exhibition exploring the nature and origins of the universe. Another contributor is their father Daniel, the architect behind the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Ground Zero in New York and the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, home to Durham Universitys Institute for Computational Cosmology. The exhibition, Cosmic Collisions, Birth, Rebirth and the Universe, is at Merz Gallery in the Scottish town of Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway. Rachel has used laser etchings on metal to reproduce cosmological maps created by her brother and his colleagues that depict how objects, including galaxies, are moving through the universe. She sees artistic work of this kind as an effective means of cutting through the complexities ... More Cut and pierced materials star in exhibition at Bellevue Arts MuseumBELLEVUE, WA.- Cut Up/Cut Out, curated by Bedford Gallery of Walnut Creek, CA, begins its national tour at Bellevue Arts Museum. The exhibition features cut and pierced artwork by more than 50 national and international artists. Using a variety of tools and methods, as well as materials from paper and plastic to metal and rubber, the artists of Cut Up/Cut Out explore the endless possibilities of cutting into and through their chosen surfaces. The transformative nature of this process creates extraordinary results, converting materials from opaque to transparent, from flat to sculptural, from rigid to delicate, and from ordinary to exquisite. The process and precision required for this method of art-making is laborious, technically demanding, and always astonishing. The art of cutting paper dates back thousands of years, with early artworks coming from 6th century ... More Nationalmuseum showcases smart Swedish design at Arlanda airportSTOCKHOLM.- These are exciting times for the design world. New technology is creating new opportunities, but there are major challenges involved in building a sustainable society. Crossing BordersSmart Design, an exhibition presented in partnership with Swedavia, showcases products by Swedish designers in the fields of digital communication, digital manufacturing and sustainable design. The exhibition meets travellers departing from Terminal 5, Stockholm Arlanda Airport. Thanks to digital technology, not only can we communicate with the things we use daily, but they can communicate with us. For instance, the cycle can warn other road users if the cyclist has to brake hard, or transmit its geographical location if the wearer is unconscious. "We are very pleased to continue our cooperation with Nationalmuseum and the exhibition series Crossing Borders. The airport ... More |
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, American artist Barnett Newman died July 04, 1970. Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. In this image: Part of artist Barnett Newman's "Stations of the Cross" is seen Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia.
|
|
|
