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Cristóbal de Villalpando (ca. 16491714), The Deluge, 1689. Oil on copper Col. Propiedad de la Nación Mexicana. SecretarÃa de Cultura. Dirección General de Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural. Acervo de la Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepción. Puebla, Mexico.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cristóbal de Villalpando (ca. 16491714) emerged in the 1680s not only as the leading painter in viceregal Mexico, but also as one of the most innovative and accomplished artists in the entire Spanish world. Opening July 25 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque features his earliest masterpiece, a monumental painting depicting the biblical accounts of Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus that was painted in 1683 for a chapel in Puebla Cathedral. Newly conserved, this 28-foot-tall canvas has never been exhibited outside its place of origin. Ten additional works, most of which have never been shown in the United States, will also be exhibited. Highlights include Villalpandos recently discovered Adoration of the Magi, on loan from Fordham University, and The Holy Name of Mary, from the Museum of the Basilica of Guadalupe. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb (R) visits the Bardo National Museum in Tunis on July 24, 2017. Collomb is visiting Tunis to attend a meeting on security of the contact group of interior ministers of central Mediterranean states. SALAH HABIBI / AFP
| Exhibition at Prince Eugenes Winter Palace focuses on Polish king John III Sobieski | | University of Chicago Library receives gift of vintage Vivian Maier prints | | Works by Derain, Balthus, and Giacometti on view at Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris | 
Portrait of John III on horseback, around 1704. Oil on canvas. © Warsaw, Royal Castle Museum.
VIENNA.- The Polish king John III Sobieski (16291696) is inextricably linked to the history of Vienna. As the commander-in-chief of united armed forces, he liberated the city from the Ottoman siege that lasted several weeks in 1683. With this victory, he secured a place in world history and in the collective Austrian memory. Developed in cooperation with four major Polish residences, the exhibition at Prince Eugenes Winter Palace offers the first opportunity in the German-speaking realm for visitors to become acquainted with the monarch as a private individual and to learn about his work as a statesman, an army general, and a patron of the arts and sciences. Curators Maike Hohn (Belvedere) and Konrad Pyzel (Wilanów Palace) have traced Jan III. Sobieskis life and work. With the help of almost one hundred paintings, precious objects, art objects, militaria, and memorabilia, visitors are given a comprehensive and lively pictu ... More | | 
Unpublished work © 2017 The Estate of Vivian Maier. All rights reserved.
CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago Library has received a gift of nearly 500 photographic prints made by Vivian Maier, the master 20th-century street photographer known for her striking images of life in Chicago and New York City. The prints, given to the University by collector and filmmaker John Maloof, will be preserved and made available for research purposes by the Librarys Special Collections Research Center. The new collection is comprised of vintage prints that have never been published or exhibited to the public, along with one of Maiers cameras and some of her personal effects. This collection of prints will help researchers and students to understand Maier as a working photographer, said Daniel Meyer, director of the Special Collections Research Center. As a new discovery in 20th-century American photography, Vivian Maiers work also offers fresh insights into the viewpoints ... More | | 
André Derain, Geneviève with the apple, 1937-38. Oil on canvas, 32 x 73 cm. © Thomas Hennocque. © ADAGP, Paris 2017.
PARIS.- The Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris is presenting a new kind of exhibition exploring the friendship between three major 20th-century artists: André Derain (18801954), Balthus (19082001) and Alberto Giacometti (190166). Never before compared in this way, their ways of seeing share the same exigency regarding the nature of the work of art. Driven by a powerful modernist urge, all three were passionately interested in the painting of the past and the art of distant civilisations, fascinated by "the dark forces of matter" (Derain) and, more broadly, marked by an acute attentiveness to the "marvellous, unknown" reality before their eyes (Giacometti). Even more so than the mutual admiration and affection they showed throughout their lives, their profound sense of artistic community is the guiding thread of this exhibition. On show here is a ... More |
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| Exhibition of sculpted bronze boxes by architect Peter Marino on view at Gagosian | | Kunstmuseum Winterthur's collection of recent American art shown throughout the entire museum | | Exhibition at the Barbican offers a journey through science fiction | 
Peter Marino at Gagosian Davies St. installation view. © Peter Marino Architect. Photo: Lucy Dawkins. Courtesy Peter Marino Architect and Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Fire and Water, an exhibition of sculpted bronze boxes by renowned architect Peter Marino. This series of cast bronze objects is Marino's third, following two previous series produced in 2012 and 2014. The new boxes are finished in a variety of patination techniques: gilded, silvered, and blackened. In this new series, Marino reveals his deep connection to the traditions of bronze metal work. One of the first and best documented materials in human history, the use of bronze permeates art-historical traditions, from devotional musical bells and coinage to weaponry and statuary. In his third book of Odes, the Roman poet Horace spoke of a creation aere perennius, meaning more lasting than bronze, now a prophetic saying attesting to the durability of art. About ten years ago, Marino was gripped by the discovery of a boat that sank ... More | | 
Ellsworth Kelly, Black Curves
WINTERTHUR.- In the past few decades, Kunstmuseum Winterthur has established a collection of recent American art, which is now shown throughout the entire museum. The title of the exhibition names Alexander Calder and Ellsworth Kelly: American artists, whose oeuvre is marked by stays in Paris, thus building a bridge to the French-inspired collection of the Winterthur museum. This sizable exhibition is organized on the occasion of Dieter Schwarzs retirement in June who, as Director of Kunstmuseum Winterthur, designed and assembled this collection. The collection begins with the abstract painting of the 1960s. The change that took place in New York at the time is reflected in the paintings by Philip Guston, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman. From there, the focus shifts to the various developments of the following decades, in particular however to sculpture. The main intention was, whenever possible, t ... More | | 
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Barbican Centre 3 June 1 September. Installation shot. Photo: Tristan Fewings / Getty Images.
LONDON.- The major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is a genre-defining exploration of one of popular cultures most celebrated realms. This unprecedented show takes place all over the Centre, encompassing literature, contemporary art, film, music, comic books and video games to present a new, global perspective on Science Fiction. Curated by Swiss historian and writer Patrick Gyger, this festival-style exhibition explores Science Fiction as an experimental genre, delving into its storytelling roots to discover how its visionary creators captured imaginations around the world to become one of the most popular and enjoyable narratives today. Featuring work never before shown in the UK, the show places rare and iconic pieces alongside familiar, well-loved classics, next to new contemporary art commissions, hoping to surprise and challenge visitors ... More |
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| Opening week record at the Rencontres d'Arles | | Heritage Platinum Night Auction offers a treasure trove from Yankees immortals | | Exceptionally rare Roman figurine at risk of leaving the UK | 
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the LUMA Foundation. JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER / POOL / AFP.
ARLES.- Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen opened the 48th Rencontres dArles on Monday, July 3. Director Sam Stourdzé designed the 2017 festival program, which again emphasizes other places, openness and interaction. Major sections attest to the diversity of photographic approaches and practices: 28 artists offer their views of Colombia, while 66 Iranian photographers tell their countrys story in pictures from 1979-2017. Spain was in the spotlight as well with the Blank Paper collective. The 48th Rencontres dArles also pursues the festivals interest in collectors. From Letitia and Stanislas Poniatowskis excellent Latin-American collection to the strange vernacular group devoted to dwarfs, giants and strongmen put together by Claude Ribouillault, collectors are celebrated for their free spirit, which sheds light on neglected parts of the history of photography. Culture Minister ... More | | 
1937 Lou Gehrig Game Worn New York Yankees Jersey. Estimate: $800,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Everything is coming up pinstripes in the hobby's most anticipated summer event, as Heritage Auctions presents elite artifacts from the best of the Bronx in its Platinum Night auction, now accepting bids at HA.com/Sports, and closing in Extended Bidding format on Aug. 19-20. Nearly 600 lots are on offer in the two-day sale, which is expected to generate over $10 million in results. The Yankees typically figure pretty heavily in all of our Platinum Night events, said Chris Ivy, Director of Heritage Sports Collectibles, but this might be the most significant single compilation we've presented to date. The celebrated Murderer's Row tandem of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig is expected to vie for the auction's top result, the former responsible for one of the most important bats in private hands (est. $400,000+), dating to the 1920 ... More | | 
Rare bronze Roman figurine.
LONDON.- Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on an exceptionally rare bronze Roman figurine to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The figure may be wearing a hooded woollen cloak known as the birrus Britannicus, which is specifically noted as being British in the Edict of Diocletian in 301AD. It is extremely unusual for portable art from this period of Roman rule to depict a distinctively British character. Figures are usually shown wearing hooded garments of a different style common to Gaul and the North-Western provinces. The level of detail displayed in this figurine and the quality of its execution are particularly fine. Arts Minister John Glen said: This exceptionally rare figurine is a fascinating representation of a distinctly British character. I hope that a buyer comes forward to help keep this unique object in the UK so that current and future generations can continue to enjoy it. ... More |
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| The Dallas Museum of Art welcomes over 800,000 visitors in FY 2017 | | Ashley Bickerton exhibition on view at Newport Street Gallery | | Edward Cella Art & Architecture opens its first exhibition with Ryan Callis | 
Dallas Museum of Art's México 19001950 Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde. Photo: Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art ended its 2017 fiscal year with its highest attendance in a decade and the second highest in the Museums history. The Museum welcomed 802,870 visitors in FY 2017, an increase of 10% since last year. A key curatorial initiative of the year was the critically acclaimed presentation of México 19001950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde, which closed on Sunday, July 16, with a total of 125,894 visitors. The exhibition is one of the two highest attended of the Museums special paid exhibitions in the past decade and second only to the DMAs presentation of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs in 2008. It is very exciting to have welcomed such a large number of visitors of all ages and backgrounds to the Museum to discover our collections, programs, and special exhibitions over the past fiscal year, said the DMA Eugene ... More | | 
Ashley Bickerton, Wall-Wall Triptych with Text (Atolls everywhere), 2017. © Ashley Bickerton. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging.
LONDON.- Newport Street Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of work by American artist Ashley Bickerton (b.1959), which runs until 20th August 2017. The survey spans more than three decades of Bickertons career and features 51 works, including a significant display of new and previously unexhibited pieces. Titled Ornamental Hysteria, this is his first UK show since 2009. Bickerton moved to New York in 1982 and after working as a painting assistant to Jack Goldstein, he emerged as a key figure on the newly exploding East Village art scene. Within the context of the culture of commodification sweeping America he rose to prominence as part of an amorphous movement that was branded Neo-Geometric Conceptualism. Alongside artists such as Haim Steinbach and Jeff Koons, Bickerton endeavoured to reframe the practice of art production in response to the new, seductive mechanisms ... More | | 
Ryan Callis, Red Moon, 2017 (detail). Oil and acrylic on canvas, 32 x 20 in. Image courtesy of the Artist & Edward Cella Art & Architecture. Photo: Gene Ogami.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture is presenting Ryan Callis: Ocean Memories, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Exploring his own intuition in relationship to memories and dreams of the ocean, Callis presents new paintings that combine abstraction, figuration, and illustration. Charged with hyper awareness, personalities, suffering, and bliss, the artist describes his work by saying: I spend so much time in the ocean; surfing, swimming, and often just looking and thinking about it and I cant really describe it with a photograph--its all kind of a blur because I cant wear my glasses. I go to my studio and make these studies of what it feels like to be with waves. From these studies, Callis uses a conceptual system that codes secret phrases and words into geometric forms like Morse Code. The completed paintings reveal traces of each of these gestures with a post-modern ... More |
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 New York's most prestigious design fair returns this November for its sixth editionNEW YORK, NY.- The Salon Art + Design annually presents exclusive historic to contemporary furniture, decorative arts, and fine art from the worlds finest galleries, is pleased to announce the 2017 exhibitors for its forthcoming sixth edition from November 9 through November 13, 2017 at the Park Avenue Armory. This November the fair, produced by Sanford Smith + Associates, will showcase 50 plus galleries representing 11 countries, including 32 international galleries. The Salons inclusivity and willingness to consider both fine and decorative art in the context of contemporary life is predicated on the belief that today, more than ever, designers and collectors create environments rather than collect objects. Following its successful fifth installment last November, which boasted more than 10,000 visitors, the 2017 edition of The Salon Art + Design will bring together ... More 'It Can Happen Anywhere': Pussy Riot plans prison theaterNEW YORK (AFP).- The frontwoman of Russian punk provocateurs Pussy Riot is planning to recreate her prison ordeal through an immersive theatrical piece with a message to audiences -- it can happen to you. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova announced that the project, "Inside Pussy Riot," would open with a six-week run later this year in London, with an interactive set in which audiences live through the rockers' experience. An outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, Tolokonnikova said she developed the piece out of fear that more people will be targeted for their political views amid a rise of "authoritarian and right-wing misogynist tendencies" around the world -- in which she includes the election of US President Donald Trump. "It was really important to communicate to people that what happened with us can happen with anybody. We wanted to show people in their own ... More Schaulager presents the latest monumental projection by David ClaerboutBASEL.- Olympia, the latest monumental projection by David Claerbout, is showing at Schaulager. A reflection on time and perception, Olympia simulates in real time the organic decay of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Supplied with current weather data and the exact position of the sun in Berlin, the simulation is conceived to last for the next thousand years. The 48-year-old Belgian artist David Claerbout spent several years digitally reconstructing, stone by stone, Berlins imposing Olympic Stadium. In March 2016 he surrendered it to the natural process of decay, so that his monumental construct has been disintegrating in real time ever since. The simulated aging process has been calculated for the next thousand years a temporal dimension that far exceeds all human sense of time. David Claerbouts Olympia (The real - time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin ... More New outdoor sculpture by American artist Pae White on view on the Island of San Giorgio MaggioreVENICE.- Qwalala, a monumental new sculpture by American artist Pae White, is on view on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. It is the second outdoor installation (following Hiroshi Sugimotos Glass Tea House Mondrian) to be commissioned by Le Stanze del Vetro. Qwalala consists of a curving wall made only of solid glass-bricks, which occupies the entire area opposite Le Stanze del Vetro. At 75 metres long and 2.4 metres high, the thousands of glass bricks for Qwalala were hand-cast by Poesia Glass Studio in the Veneto region. Each of these hand-cast bricks is unique, owing much to chance and variation inherent in the artisanal manufacturing process. Approximately half of the bricks are made of clear glass. The other half span a palette of 26 colours, and are made using a technique where each brick contains a storm-like effect of swirling colour, while ... More Representation to performance: American University Museum summer showsWASHINGTON, DC.- Summer shows at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center are open through Aug. 13. An exhibition of prints by Belgian photographer Carl De Keyzer of scenes in North Korea and Cuba consists of 60 large-scale photos on display on the museum's third floor. The Cuba photos, grouped together under the series title, Cuba, la lucha, were taken shortly after former President Barack Obama's 2014 speech inviting the relaxation of the Communist island's 56-year embargo. De Keyzer's North Korean prints, on display in a museum for the first time, also were shot in 2015. The British-run Koryo Group, which organizes travel tours in North Korea, arranged for De Keyzer to spend more than 40 nights in North Korea, during which time he took pictures for Koryo's travel website and his own portfolio. Alongside local Korean ... More "Aspettando Manifesta 12" opens in PalermoPALERMO.- On Thursday, 13 July at 6 pm, an iconic historical building in Palermo, the Teatro Garibaldi reopened its doors with an exciting cultural programme in anticipation of the Manifesta 12 biennial to be held in Palermo in 2018. Aspettando Manifesta 12 (Waiting for Manifesta 12) is a multi-layered program designed to raise awareness among Palermitans about the fact that Manifesta 12 is coming to their city and to provide them with a social hub to proactively learn about and share ideas with Manifesta 12. Access to Aspettando Manifesta 12 in Teatro Garibaldi is free of charge. The programme is open to visitors from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm from 13 July 2017 until 29 October 2017. Within the programme, visitors can explore the biennials history with an archival exhibition created by the Manifesta team called Manifesta Cultural Histories. The ... More The Demuth Museum opens 'Robert E. Locher: A Modern Classic'LANCASTER, PA.- The Demuth Museum announces its exhibition, Robert E. Locher: A Modern Classic, on view from July 15 through September 8, 2017.This exhibition features work by artist, theater designer, interior designer, and longtime friend of Charles Demuth, Robert E. Locher. Born in 1888 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Locher spent the majority of his career traveling between cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Paris, and his hometown. Upon moving to New York City he started gaining a reputation for his theater and costume designs as well as illustrations in major publications including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town & Country and House & Garden. He was hired by Baron Adolph de Meyer, Vogues first staff photographer, to work at his interior design firm and Locher quickly became one of the leading modern designers of the 20th century. ... More Clare Price explores the hidden performance of the studio by venturing beyond the canvasLONDON.- At DKUK Clare Prices large paintings envelop the salon, while the sensual spaces within the work are made manifest on a new kind of canvas. Clares paintings investigate the sensuousness of making, the interaction with the body in the studio and the palpable stuff of paint, which freezes the hidden performance traces and residues of moments are captured like photographic exposures. In the paintings voluptuous gestural elements are set against translucent geometric planes. These shapes, drawn from modernist forms and digital tools, pin spilled vistas creating ambiguous spaces. Clare uses colours that range from a muted palette of wet stains that refer to the body, to smears of neon that talk of the digital and rave. Visceral oil paint is used in hues that draw from classical painting and abstract expressionism; the colours are bodily, fragile ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Thomas Eakins was born July 25, 2017. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer,[2] sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. In this image: A person views Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, on Jan. 5, 2007. To help finance a $68 million deal to keep the masterpiece in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, that it has sold another Eakins painting, "The Cello Player."
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