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Often monumental and colorfully expressive, Sam Gilliams works mount a creative challenge to the traditional boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture and prompt a fruitful artistic and theoretical debate on these divisions. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- In The Music of Color, the Kunstmuseum Basel mounts the American artist Sam Gilliams (b. 1933) first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. The international team of curators has chosen to focus on the years between 1967 and 1973, the period of greatest creative radicalism in Gilliams oeuvre; in 1972, he was the first African-American to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. A focused selection of forty-five works from international private and public collections introduces visitors to the unique art of an influential painter who is still largely unknown to European audiences. The exhibition also opens up fresh perspectives on the history of abstract painting in the 1960s and 1970s. Often monumental and colorfully expressive, Sam Gilliams works mount a creative challenge to the traditional boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture and prompt a fruitful artistic and theoretical ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at an early 14th century Antependium on show in the Hotel-Dieu Treasury Museum in Chateau-Thierry, one of the 18 emblematic sites selected by the French Ministry of Culture to profit from the 'Loto du patrimoine' draw which aims to help restore at risk heritage sites, is pictured on June 6, 2018. The former hospital is now home to the Hotel-Dieu Treasury Museum and has been selected as a priority to be renovated by the French 'Loto du Patrimoine'. The lottery draw will take place on September 14, 2018. FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP
| Wayne Thiebaud's first-ever European retrospective on view at Museum Voorlinden | | One of J.M.W. Turner's greatest watercolours to be offered at Sotheby's | | National Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ed Ruscha | 
Wayne Thiebaud, Green Dress, 1966-2017, Private Collection, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2018. © Wayne Thiebaud.
WASSENAAR.- Museum Voorlinden is presenting the first-ever European retrospective of the work of American painter Wayne Thiebaud (1920), on show from 9 June through 16 September 2018. Famous for his mouthwatering depictions of cakes, ice creams and hot dogs, Thiebaud has placed the American everyday life at the core of his artistic practice. The career of the influential master spans an impressive seventy years and counting. Now aged 97, he has still not put down the brush. Voorlinden brings together around sixty of his works from 1961 to 2018. Thiebauds paintings of cakes, people and landscapes are created with the utmost care, with subjects often set in isolation on the canvas in clear compositions, glistening colours and a thick impasto. His cakes are especially well-known. Their layers of pasty, glazy paint nearly make their deliciousness ... More | | 
JMW Turner, The Lake of Lucerne from Brunnen (detail). Estimate: £1,200,000 - 1,800,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This July, Sothebys will present at auction one of the greatest and most beautiful watercolours by J.M.W. Turner left in private hands. Commissioned in 1842, The Lake of Lucerne from Brunnen is part of a celebrated group of 25 finished Swiss landscapes that Turner made during the final decade of his life - a collection of works widely considered the pinnacle of the artists achievements in the medium. Offered with an estimate of £1,200,000 1,800,000, the work will be the highlight of the Old Master & British Works on Paper sale in London on 4 July. Mark Griffith-Jones, Specialist, British Watercolours, Drawings and Portrait Miniatures at Sothebys said, It is such a privilege to get to know this superb work whose beauty and history are so captivating. Major watercolours from Turners late Swiss period are justifiably held in the highest regard and this is the ... More | | 
Ed Ruscha, The Old Tech-Chem Building, 2003 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 123.2 à 278.1 cm. The Broad © Ed Ruscha / photography Paul Ruscha.
LONDON.- Ed Ruscha (born 1937) has shaped the way we see the American landscape over the span of his influential six-decade career. Elegant, highly distilled, and often humorous, Ruschas work conveys a unique brand of visual American zen. This summer, for the very first time in the UK, visitors to the National Gallery have the chance to experience his modern take on the cyclical nature of civilisation 'Course of Empire.' In 2005 Ruscha was invited to exhibit in the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He selected a set of five black-and-white landscapes which he had painted in 1992 called 'Blue Collar Series', all of which feature his home city of Los Angeles. Seven years later he revisited each site, seeing how the buildings had changed in the interim and this time painting them in colour, describing the works as an accelerated, aged version of the same urban ... More |
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| Portrait of artist's mother wins BP Portrait Award 2018 | | First solo exhibition of work by Dan Weiner in over a decade on view at Steven Kasher Gallery | | Big Bambú engulfs the Mies van der Rohe Galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this summer | 
Miriam Escofet with her portrait, An Angel At My Table. Photograph by Jorge Herrera.
LONDON.- The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2018 was announced this evening at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The prestigious first prize - in the 29th year of BPs sponsorship of the competition - was won by London based artist, Miriam Escofet for An Angel at my Table, a portrait of her mother drinking tea. The winning portrait was selected from 2,667 entries from 88 countries, submitted for judging anonymously by a panel which included journalist Rosie Millard and artist Glenn Brown. The judges were particularly struck by the constraint and intimacy of Escofet's composition, evoking both the inner stillness of her subject and the idea of the Universal Mother. Commenting on the portrait, Rosie Millard said The crisp tablecloth and china are rendered so beautifully and then you see that one of the plates and a winged sculpture on the table appear to be moving which adds a surreal quality to the ... More | | 
Dan Weiner, Chauffeurs at The Plaza, New York City, ca. 1950. Vintage gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950. 13 3/8h x 10 3/8w in. Titled and photographer's stamps verso. Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting Dan Weiner: Vintage New York, 1940-1959 the first solo exhibition of the photographers work in over a decade. The exhibition consists of vintage black and white prints made between 1940 and 1959. The exhibition focuses on Weiners New York work, highlighting the photographers roots in, love for, and inspired representations of his home city. Weiners portrayal of city life during a period of explosive growth and economic expansion is at once caring, inquisitive and critical, with a pronounced sociological bent. Also on view is the exhibition Sandra Weiner: New York Kids, 1940-1966. This is the first time that exhibitions of the husband and wife photographers have been on view concurrently. Weiner is one of the original concerned photographers. In ... More | | 
Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú, installation in progress at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 10September 3, 2018. Photography © Mike and Doug Starn.
HOUSTON, TX.- Mike and Doug Starns internationally acclaimed and ever-evolving Big Bambú project opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Engulfing two levels of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohedesigned galleries with a monumental wave of bamboo, This Thing Called Life is the fifth consecutive exhibition in the Museums summer series of immersive art installations. With This Thing Called Life, the Starn brothers introduce important changes to their ongoing Big Bambú project, for the first time reconceiving the performative work as an indoor installation accessible to the public. A wave of bambooconsisting of nearly 3,000 poles lashed together in a spontaneous matrixrises 30 feet from the main level of Cullinan Hall to the balcony of the Upper Brown Pavilion above, dramatically uniting the two levels of Mies van der Rohes landmark ... More |
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| Jim Holl's new large-scale paintings and small works on paper on view at Garvey/Simon | | The pirate that saved England at Bonhams Old Masters sale | | Phillips announces highlights from its 20th Century & Contemporary Art June auctions | 
Jim Holl, Particle Point Collision 5.1.18, 2018 (detail). Oil on board, 53 x 53 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting Jim Holls new large-scale paintings and small works on paper titled All the Living Things. The paintings in the exhibition are featured in Holls new book, All The Living Things, which pairs his words and images in an exploration of associative meanings, addressing art, philosophy, nature, physics and spirituality. All the Living Things is published by T Space Editions. It is 56 pages with 23 images, available in three formats and as an e-book. It can be purchased at tspacerhinebeck.org, Amazon and Garvey|Simon Gallery. The artwork of Jim Holl has been widely exhibited and collected. He has mounted solo and group exhibitions with public institutions such as The New Museum, PS1 Museum, Creative Time, The Seattle Art Museum, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Additional selected exhibitions include T Space, Rhinebeck, New York; Lehman College A ... More | | 
Anglo-Dutch School, late 16th_early 17th Century, Portrait of Sir Francis Drake (circa 1540-1596), three-quarter-length, in half-armour. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A portrait of Sir Francis Drake (circa 1540-1596), the great Elizabethan seafarer, is among leading works at Bonhams Old Masters Sale in London on Wednesday 4 July. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000. The extremely rare work, by an unknown artist from the Anglo-Dutch School, was authenticated by the wart on Sir Francis Drakes nose. Experts said that genuine portraits include the wart, while others do not. The portrait has recently been on exhibition at Buckland Abbey, Drake's former home and now a National Trust property. It shows Drake in expensive half armour; a man of grandeur, social standing and strength. The portrait is believed possibly to date from the mid-1570s, when Drakes social drive had made him a wealthy man and just before his famous triumph as captain of the naval defence against the Spanish Armada in 1588 - that cemented his reputation in British history. Other highlights in the sale include: ... More | | 
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), Ohne Titel (aus der Serie Das Floà der Medusa), 1996 (detail). Estimate upon request. Image courtesy Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips upcoming Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art is anchored by an outstanding group of Modern and Contemporary artists. With 31 works of art spanning nine decades, highlights include an important late Martin Kippenberger from the Collection of Marcel Brient, Paris, to an early Francis Bacon from the beginning of the artists career. Expected to realise in excess of £27 million, the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place at 7pm on 27 June, after the Day Sale on 26 June, which will feature 215 lots. The top lot of the sale is one of Martin Kippenbergers final masterworks, Ohne Titel (aus der Serie Das Floà der Medusa), painted in 1996. Coming directly from the Collection of Marcel Brient, Paris, where it has been for over 20 years, the work is a seminal canvas from Kippenbergers epic homage to Théodore Géricaults The Raft of the Medusa. This eponymous ... More |
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| Small-scale but highly significant show of works by Lea Colliva on view in Florence | | GalerÃa CURRO exhibits works by Francisco Ugarte | | The Port Authority Bus Terminal's "Project Find" space displays works by Jill Slaymaker | 
Lea Colliva, Le Amiche / Friends, 1927.
FLORENCE.- Rediscovering women artists is about creative space: where they lived and worked
and where they exhibit today. Until July 7, Il Palmerino, a fifteenth-century villa turned cultural center for twentieth-century art and literature with a focus on female creativity, is hosting the show "Lea Colliva. An Artist on the Pathway of the gods". Colliva and her show. Lea Colliva (1901-1975) was an explosive colorist producing what the Fascists called 'degenerative' art at a time when 'rebel' Italians courted the Expressionist movement. Colliva scholar Beatrice Buscaroli writes: "Lea Colliva thunders amidst figures, flowers and landscapes, meandering between Rembrandt and Soutine, in her restless expressionist quest." The small-scale but highly significant show spans 45 years of art movements in a surprising compendium that goes from traditionalist turn-of-the-century ... More | | 
Installation view.
GUADALAJARA.- Francisco Ugarte´s work seeks out encounters. Coincidental moments: between one material and another, between surroundings and the work with the audience; or between a specific time with daylight. The artist shares his fascination for the present; for that essential element which is here and has always been, either hidden or masked behind a veil. Ugarte´s work intends to make us aware of elementary features to better perceive time and space. Hence the use of light and all related phenomena (shadows, reflections, chiaroscuros) as central themes in his work frequently expressed through drawing. A specific type of drawing that borderlines writing (I Wish I Could Paint A Beautiful Landscape), used as a tool for exploration and knowledge. A drawing that should be understood here as the contact and reflection of two vital sets for the artistic creation: paper and graphite, lines and circles. Reflection by Francisco Ugarte ... More | | 
Magical Tree, 2017. Gouache, wc on paper, 12 x 9.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Port Authority Bus Terminal, Chashama and the Hells Kitchen Foundation are presenting new work by Jill Slaymaker, at the Port Authority Bus Terminals Project Find space on 9th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets in Hells Kitchen, New York City. Ms. Slaymaker, who lives and works in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood, has created a series of large new paintings in oil, acrylic and aluminum leaf on canvas, as well as smaller works on paper and wood, using gouache and ink. She states, Influenced by Asian textile design, seen on recent trips to Japan and Hawaii; an art residency in Italy observing gold leaf techniques; Dante's Divine Comedy and the Hindu epic, The Ramayana, among others, my otherworldly environments are often inhabited by a lone figure lost in a chaotic world. Combining mostly nature-based, fragmented puzzle piece images (from sketchbooks, photos, imagina ... More |
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 Sagmeister & Walsh retrospective features a new typographic wall piece that uses 10,000 insects HOLON.- Design Museum Holon presents the first retrospective exhibition for New York based creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh, showcasing over 70 pieces from the studios recent body of work and taking visitors on a visual and interactive journey of beauty, happiness and emotion in design. At the centre of the exhibition is a new site-specific installation titled Beauty = Human. From a distance, Beauty = Human appears as a highly decorative typographic embroidery piece, showcasing a variety of craft patterns that emulate shapes found in nature. Closer examination unveils how the work is entirely made of over 10,000 colourful beetles, bugs and many other species of insects, transforming peoples misconceptions of bugs by viewing them initially as a stunningly colourful artwork. This installation compels the viewer to change his/her perception ... More Important Asian fine art and Huanghuali furniture among the highlights at Clars June 17th saleOAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallerys June 16th and 17th , 2018 sale will be highlighted by exceptional offerings in Asian art and antiques including an impressive selection of huanghuali furniture and Chinese scrolls. The Fine Art to be presented will also be a highlight with a rare painting by George De Forest Brush (American, 1855-1941), and important works by Gronk (American, b. 1957) Richard MacDonald (American, b. 1946) and Syed Haider (Indian, 1922-2016). Topping the fine art offerings will be a very rare oil on panel (on a cigar box lid) by George De Forest Brush (American,1855-1941) titled, Old Crow Indian Agency, Montana, 1883, which will be offered for $40,000-60,000. The painting is inscribed by the artist, "To my friend, Hugh Campbell, remembering many little courtesies, Geo. De Forest Brush. This historically relevant work has the exceptional ... More Bruce Museum names new Manager of Youth and Family ProgramsGREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich welcomes Megan Brown as the new Manager of Youth and Family Programs. Brown brings extensive experience in museum education, specializing in early childhood and family programming. She comes most recently from the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, and has also worked at the Camden Childrens Garden, the Franklin Institute of Science, and the Academy of Natural Sciences. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. Brown is excited to bring her own flair to the Bruces highly regarded science and arts curriculum for young students. I really like that the Bruce is a combination of art and science, Megan says, pointing to Bruce Beginnings as a case in point. The popular weekly program for children ages 2.5 5 is held ... More Jane Austen 200 brings £21m extra into the Hampshire economyWINCHESTER.- A recently published report by Tourism South East (TSE) has concluded that last years Jane Austen 200 commemorations contributed £21 million to Hampshires economy with more than a million extra visitors being attracted to the county to follow in the authors footsteps. 2017 marked the 200th anniversary of Jane Austens death, and Hampshire Cultural Trust took the lead in celebrating the authors life and work. In collaboration with Jane Austens House Museum and many other partners including Winchester Cathedral, Chawton House and Visit Hampshire, a number of exhibitions, events, performances and talks took place throughout the year. A major highlight of the commemoration was The Mysterious Miss Austen, an exhibition at the Gallery in Winchesters Discovery Centre which gave visitors a unique opportunity to view six portraits ... More Director of Liverpool Biennial receives OBE in Queen's birthday honourLIVERPOOL.- Sally Tallant, Director of Liverpool Biennial, has been awarded an OBE for services to the arts in the Queens Birthday Honours list announced on Saturday 9 June 2018. Kathleen Soriano, Chair of Liverpool Biennial, said today: We are all immensely proud that our Director, Sally Tallant, has been recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours for her dedication and complete commitment to bringing the arts into peoples lives. Throughout her career she has fought for the rights of everybody, whatever their background or age, to be able to have access to the arts, and to experience the work of the best artists in the world. Liverpool, as a world class cultural city, has had the vision to back the Biennial and allow it to flourish. In our anniversary year, we want to thank Sally and the City of Liverpool for their inspiration and vision, and we look forward ... 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More Coll and Cortés opens exhibition of Old Masters in conversation with photographs by Paulette TavorminaMADRID.- Coll and Cortés announces an exhibition dedicated to still lifes and consisting of Old Master paintings alongside the photographs of contemporary American artist Paulette Tavormina. Taking place from 12 June to 28 September in Madrid, this follows the success of Seizing Beauty, a similar exhibition held at sister-company Colnaghis gallery in London in June 2017. The exhibition features 23 still life photographs alongside 9 Old Masters by renowned historical artists including Luis Edigio Meléndez (1716-1780), Juan van der Hamen y León (1596-1631), Giacomo Ceruti (1698-1767) and Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625). The photographs include two new compositions by Paulette Tavormina created specifically for this show and inspired by Trompe Loeil paintings, as well as two recent works shown in Europe for the first time. It will also include a selection ... More "Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960-2000" opens in IstanbulISTANBUL.- Koç Universitys Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the Sapienza University of Rome are presenting the result of their collaborative efforts: Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 19602000. This exhibition focuses on the research on Byzantine art carried out by Italian scholars in the second half of the twentieth century and examines its mutual relationship with the history of Byzantine art historiography in Turkey. Featuring a selection of previously unpublished archival photographs of extraordinary monuments preserved in Anatolia, the exhibition can be visited at ANAMED in Istanbul from 1 June to 31 December 2018. Between 1966 and 2000, Italian art historians traveled across the historical regions of Turkey in order to explore the architecture surviving from the Middle Ages (4001400 CE). These trips resulted ... 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More Rizzoli publishes 'Rob Ryan: I Thought About It In My Head'NEW YORK, NY.- In this, the first book of his collected artwork, Rob Ryan combines a childlike enthusiasm for color and craft with a romantics compulsion to explore love, desire, fantasy, and melancholy. Working principally in papercuts and screen prints, delicately combining exquisite artistry and sharp wit, he is able to craft an entire world within his artworkfrom the slender and telling movement of characters in his narratives to the gentle complexity of fantastical flora and fauna in his irreverent silhouettes. Bright and engaging, and edited by the artist himself, this beautiful monograph brings together work from every facet of Ryans career to date. A specifically written text accompanies the book, exploring themes, styles, palettes, and preoccupations visible throughout the book. Playing on familiar oppositions of isolation and creativity, alienation and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890. Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 - 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. In this image: Egon Schiele, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,"Vorstadt" II, 1914. Estimate: £22-30 million/ $36-50 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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