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Jesse Amado, Will Work for Free and Forever (Lets Provide Yves Klein Blue to Street Beggars), 2015. Polychrome Le Corbusier on paper, mirror. Collection of Pam Wagner. Image courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The inspiration behind To See Is to Have: Navigating Todays Art Ecosystem is to make private art public, and to share with every member of our community selections from the diverse collections of members of the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum (MCCF). The artworks on view open doors to new worlds of discovery, and have been selected from the personal collections of the members of MCCF, who dedicate themselves to learning about, engaging with, and collecting contemporary art. By presenting a diverse group of objects not typically on public view, this exhibition reinforces the McNays commitment to providing life-changing experiences through engagement with the visual arts for all visitors. MCCF sponsors many programs, including trips to national and international destinations. In total, members of MCCF have traveled to more than 40 cities together. In each location, they visit artists, curators, art dealers, and fellow ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Creations by French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy are pictured during an exhibition dedicated to his 40-year career on June 15, 2017 at the Cite Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode (International Centre for Lace and Fashion) in Calais, northern France. PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP
| New York charges three over $400K Damien Hirst forgery ring | | Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten reveal OMA's design for Australia's MPavilion 2017 | | The J. Paul Getty Museum opens "Illuminating Women in the Medieval World" | 
He figures regularly on lists of Britain's wealthiest people, thanks partly to a 2008 auction at Sotheby's that saw him cut out gallery middlemen to sell 223 new pieces for 111 million pounds ($141 million at current exchange rates).
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York prosecutors unveiled charges Monday against three men accused of manufacturing and selling $400,000 in fake Damien Hirst prints to dozens of art buyers around the world. Vincent Lopreto, 52, appeared in court on Monday, 15 days after being released from prison for previously selling knock-off Hirst works online, prosecutors said. Famed for his stuffed sharks, the 52-year-old Hirst has amassed a fortune as the most commercially successful member of the Young British Artist movement that dominated the British art scene in the 1990s. Manhattan's district attorney Cyrus Vance also announced grand larceny and scheme to defraud charges against Arizona's Paul Motta, 50 and Marco Saverino, 34. The defendants faked paperwork to deceive buyers into believing the prints were genuine, stealing $400,000 from ... More | | 
MPavilion 2017 will comprise a circular amphitheatre embraced by a hill of indigenous plants and covered by a huge floating roof structure. Image courtesy OMA.
MELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today released the MPavilion 2017 design by Netherlands-based architects Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten of OMA. A creator of modern architectural icons, OMA is a prolific international practice of worldwide distinction and influence. Their MPavilion 2017 design sees a temporary structure that, along with providing space for public debate, design workshops, music and arts events, is itself built to perform. Taking its cues from the ancient amphitheatre, this years pavilion blurs the lines between inside and outside and between audience and performer in a skillful yet empathetic manipulation of the surrounding landscape in Melbournes Queen Victoria Gardens. OMAs pavilion design seeks not only to employ the qualities of the amphitheatre, but to animate them by creating a flexible civic space that can function as a stage, auditorium or even playground. Naomi Milgrom ... More | | 
Spitz Master, Saint Catherine Tended by Angels, about 1420. Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment Dimensions: Leaf: 20.2 Ã 14.9 cm (7 15/16 Ã 5 7/8 in.) Accession No. 94.ML.26.45v. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 57, fol. 45v.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Modern portrayals of medieval women tend toward stereotypical images of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the fields, and even women of ill repute. In fact, womens roles in the Middle Ages were varied and nuanced, and medieval depictions of womanhood were multi-faceted. Illuminating Women in the Medieval World, on view June 20 September 17, 2017 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, reveals the vibrant and complex medieval representations of women, real and imagined, who fill the texts and images within illuminated manuscripts. The roles of women in medieval times is a subject that has been little explored despite the considerable visual and literary evidence that exists, explains Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. There are abundant representations ... More |
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| US billionaire brings Dutch painters to China's masses | | Sotheby's Paris to offer property from the collection of Jacques Grange | | Jan Prasens appointed Managing Director of Sotheby's Europe | 
This picture taken on June 14, 2017 shows US art collector Tom Kaplan taking part in an interview at China's National Museum in Beijing. AFP / WANG Zhao.
BEIJING (AFP).- Standing in a dimly-lit gallery space in China's National Museum, the owner of the world's only privately-held Vermeer gazed at the small oil painting for a long moment, before showing it to the assembled press. Since American billionaire Tom Kaplan purchased the piece in 2008, it has spent most of its time on loan to various museums around the world. When the investor -- who made his fortune betting on precious metals and natural gas -- and his wife began buying up works by 17th century Dutch painters in 2003, their goal was to take "paintings from the private domain and return them to the public", he said. Now the collection is set to find its biggest audience yet when a selection of around 70 of its more than 250 works went on show from Saturday ... More | | 
Jacques Grange © Jérôme Macé.
PARIS.- In autumn this year, Sothebys will offer property from the collection of Jacques Grange, the French interior designer renowned for his refined and eclectic taste. The sale comprises a mix of modern and contemporary art, 20th century design, photographs, antiques, 19th century drawings and Symbolist works, assembled with erudition, sensitivity and a light touch. Comprising 150 lots, the collection will be offered at auction in Paris on 21 November. Cécile Verdier, Worldwide Co-Head of Sotheby's Design department and Vice-President of Sothebys France, said: "It's a huge pleasure to unveil Jacques Grange's personal collection to the public. Discovering his private world makes clear in an instant why the world's greatest collectors clamour to call on him: his interior is a joyous ode to colour and harmony, and as a collector himself, he reveals an unrivalled gift for living with art." One of the preeminent interior designer ... More | | 
Jan has spent the past decade building Sothebys Financial Services from a small lender focused on supporting auction transactions, to the largest asset-backed lender in the art market today. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the appointment of Jan Prasens as Managing Director of Sothebys Europe, including the Companys operations in the Middle East, Russia, India and Africa. While he will be based in London, Jans responsibilities will extend across each of these regions, where he will lead and develop both Sothebys activities and staff. A seasoned member of Sothebys senior management team, Jan has spent the past decade building Sothebys Financial Services from a small lender focused on supporting auction transactions, to the largest asset-backed lender in the art market today. While Jans commercial credentials are impeccable, he also commands a deep understanding of our business and clients, said. ... More |
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| The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec exhibits 17th century Desjardins paintings | | Van Gogh Museum welcomes 1,000,000th visitor earlier than in record-breaking year of 2016 | | Staley-Wise Gallery exhibits works by twelve photographers from the legendary cooperative Magnum | 
Louis Dulongpré (Saint-Denis [France], 1759 Saint-Hyacinthe, 1843). Louis Joseph Desjardins, vers 1802. Huile sur toile, 65,9 x 51,7 cm. Québec, Augustines de lHôtel-dieu de Québec (2010.1979) Photo: CCQ, Guy Couture.
QUEBEC.- This exhibition highlights the bicentennial of the arrival in Canada of some 200 paintings initially done by renowned artists for churches in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries. These paintings, confiscated during the French Revolution and reunited by clergyman Philippe-Jean-Louis Desjardins, were shipped to Québec City to be sold to the rapidly growing parishes and religious congregations at the time. Fairly unfamiliar in France, this important body of religious paintings was researched recently. The history of the paintings is marked by two major periodstheir use in France, and their 19th century use and impact in the Province of Québec. First, thanks to recent discoveries in France resulting in new attributions, more is known about the background for their creation. Several big names in French painting ... More | | 
Axel Rüger (director of the Gogh Museum) presents a bouquet of flowers to the ninety-two-year old Konrà d Györay from Hungary, the millionth visitor of the Van Gogh Museum in 2017. Konrà d Györay visits the museum together with the Hungarian Acsay Gabrieyla and Yosery Petit, from Venezuela. Photo: Jan-Kees Steenman.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum today welcomed the millionth visitor of 2017, more than two weeks earlier than last year, when the museum attracted a record number of nearly 2.1 million visitors. Since 1 January 2017, the museum greeted in excess of 9% more visitors than in the same period in the previous year. Axel Rüger, Director of the Van Gogh Museum: It is outstanding that visitor numbers this year currently exceed the record-breaking year of 2016, and that we continue to inspire people from all over the world. All the more because our visitors rate the museum so highly: the vast majority of visitors give their visit a rating of excellent or very good. It is this visitor satisfaction that really matters to us. In addition to rising visitor numbers, ... More | | 
Genevieve Naylor, Model in Alexander Calder's Studio, 1948.
NEW YORK, NY.- Staley-Wise Gallery presents an exhibition celebrating prominent women photographers from the fields of documentary and fashion photography. Twelve photographers from the legendary cooperative Magnum Photos are engaged in a visual and thematic dialogue with twelve photographers working globally in the field of editorial and advertising photography. Photographing and moving in different spheres, they are recording and interacting with women in the larger world to highlight disparate subjects such as war, childhood, religion, sexuality and style while celebrating the complexity of the female experience. Photographers included: Eve Arnold / Olivia Arthur / Lillian Bassman / Louise Dahl-Wolfe / Bieke Depoorter / Carolyn Drake / Martine Franck / Toni Frissell / Sheva Fruitman / Isabella Ginanneschi / Pamela Hanson / Ruth Harriet Louise / Diana Markosian / Susan Meiselas / Sheila Metzner / Inge Morath / Genevieve Naylor / Priscilla Ratt ... More |
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| Fragile State: A major international group exhibition opens at PinchukArtCentre | | Marlborough Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by British artist Victor Pasmore | | Early Christopher Wool offered at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary sale | 
Barthelemy Toguo, Overcome the Virus!, 2016. Specific Installation produced for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016. Porcelain, wood table covered with ceramic tiles, laser sintering 3D scans. Dimension variable. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, Paris & Bandjoun Station, Cameroon. Photo: Fabrice Gibert.
KIEV.- The PinchukArtCentre is presenting Fragile State - a major international group exhibition with 10 leading artists including Marina Abramovic, Jan Fabre, Urs Fischer, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Carlos Motta, Oscar Murillo, Santiago Sierra, Barthelemy Toguo and Ai Weiwei. A Fragile State often reveals a delicate moment of vulnerability and might be an accurate description of the world around us. The notion of Fragile State reflects upon the fragile state of the world order, or in a more abstract sense it refers to ideological, cultural and social vulnerabilities. But it is equally a notion that can be understood in a deeply personal sense, the fragility of body and mind. This exhibition meanders ... More | | 
Victor Pasmore in his studio,1958. Photo John Pasmore, © The Pasmore Estate, Marlborough Fine Art, London.
LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art presents an exhibition of works by renowned British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-1998), made between the 1970s and the 1990s. The exhibition follows on from an exploration of the artists earlier works at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2016-17. This major exhibition is the first time his works have been on display in London, and at Marlborough Fine Art, since 2008, and traces his development toward lyrical abstract compositions in the later stage of his career. Regarded as one Britains most celebrated artists, Pasmore achieved acclaim as both a figurative and abstract painter, and is most well-known for pioneering the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s. Throughout his career, Pasmore explored many different ventures within his artistic practice ... More | | 
Christopher Wool (American, born 1955) Untitled 1991. Estimate: £850,000-1,250,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An early work by Christopher Wool, estimated at £850,000-1,250,000, is a highlight in Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Sale on 29 June 2017. Untitled from 1991 represents the high watermark of this earliest and most daring period of Wools career. The complexity of the composition marks this work as one of the finest examples from his enamel series. The design, with its blurred edges, smears and blots suggesting haste, was applied using rubber stamps and rollers. Many of the vines and leaves are repetitions, creating patterns with no clear beginning or end. Wool removed himself from the physical process of painting, like Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock before him, leaving no traces of brushstrokes or painterly flourishes. Ralph Taylor, Bonhams Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art ... More |
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 Gems and Ladders announces new pieces of jewellery designed by artist Tobias Rehberger USTER.- German artist Tobias Rehberger has designed several new pieces for Gems and Ladders, a jewellery collection designed by contemporary artists. The three rings, entitled YES, NO, MAYBE are the result of a close collaboration between the artist and Gems and Ladders. The rings are available to purchase online and in private sales, as well as at selected museum shops worldwide. Tobias Rehberger (*1966), artist and professor at Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, considers art as a form of social interaction. Not only with regards to its reception, but also the creation and production of his work. This explains the numerous co-productions and collaborations with artists, designers and specialists from other disciplines, including with Gems and Ladders. Rehberger, who is as renowned for his space-filling installations as for his minimal artistic interventions, ... More photo basel 2017: End of fair reportBASEL.- For the 2017 edition, photo basel has upheld its reputation as one of the most prominent photography fairs in the German speaking world. As a fair with a high calibre range of work from both more established and younger galleries, photo basel has attracted a wide range of international visitors and exhibitors. Collectors discovered works by prominent artists including: Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Wynn Bullock and Jill Freedman as well as younger photographers such as: Sofie Knijff, Fabrice Monteiro, Vincent Fournier and Patrick Willocq. Sven Eisenhut, Director of photo basel said: We have been very happy with the outcome of photo basel 2017. Over a typically energetic art week in Basel, the fair shone in both sales and attendance, confirming its position as one of the leading photography fairs in Europe. We are happy to have welcomed ... More First posthumous solo show of the legendary Harlem artist Betty Blayton opens at Elizabeth DeeNEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Dee hosts Betty Blayton, the first posthumous solo show of the legendary Harlem artist, activist and Studio Museum in Harlem co-founder. This non-profit exhibition is presented in conjunction with the launch of the new Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, as part of Uptown, a triennial with multiple venues at uptown institutions and historic sites that will survey the work of artists who live and work north of 99th Street. The triennial, Uptown spotlights the widespread artistic activity across our communities, and so it is imperative to include Betty Blayton, said Deborah Cullen, Director & Chief Curator of the Wallach Art Gallery. Her legacywhile remaining somewhat unsungcontinues to be felt within and beyond the neighborhood, through her work in establishing arts organizations, innovative approaches to arts ... More $581k Glackens tops spring season at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries closed their Spring 2017 season with a climactic sale of American Art on Thursday, June 15. The annual auction offered exclusively original or unique works by artists living or working in North America over the last 200 years. The top lot of the sale, and the Spring 2017 season at Swann Galleries, was William Glackens's The Beach, Isle Adam, 1925-26. The bright canvas, depicting bathers at a popular locale outside of Paris, is one of the artist's most significant works from the mid-1920s. A collector purchased the oil painting over the phone for $581,000*. Half of the top lots in the sale appeared at auction for the first time, indicating a market interest in unseen material, according to the director of the department, Todd Weyman. One of the highlights was a recently rediscovered watercolor by John Marin, titled Small Point, Maine, ... More No 20 opens solo exhibition showcasing the work of British artist Augustine Carr LONDON.- No 20 presents Summa Theologica, a solo exhibition showcasing the work of British artist Augustine Carr and featuring sculpture, photography and film. Carr, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in June 2016 with a sell-out show, creates work that rejects an emphasis on representation in favour of the process and the practice that lies behind the final creation. The work of Augustine Carr crosses several registers, combining painting, sculpture, print, photography, digital scanning and film. An appropriated book cover is painted over, not so much defaced as embellished, and then it is scanned and printed at a much-enlarged scale. His work Things to Make depicts a few trees painted in a free and simple manner. The book it is painted on, referred to in the title, is the classic book for children, and it underlines the childish nature of the painting. ... More Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago works with Facebook to create exclusive frames in MessengerCHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced a new partnership with Facebook and international art icon Takashi Murakami that includes the production of three unique, first-of-their-kind frames and effects for the Messenger Camera. This initiative celebrates the MCA's new exhibition, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (on view through September 24, 2017) and is inspired by works from the show including the signature character of Mr. DOB, the smiling daisies, and a pink octopus character created for the exhibition. The Messenger frames provide creative expression capabilities to the over 1.2 billion people around the world who use Messenger each month, bringing Murakami's art directly to his longtime fans and new followers. MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn says about the partnership, "There is a dynamic ... 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More Exhibition at Birmingham's Ikon celebrates the centenary of Sidney Nolan's birthBIRMINGHAM.- Born in Australia, Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992), is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition, part of a nationwide programme presented by the Sidney Nolan Trust to celebrate the centenary of Nolans birth, brings to light a selection of extraordinary spray painted portraits dating from the 1980s. It includes a series made in 1982 for an exhibition at the Nolan Gallery at Lanyon, just outside Canberra, depicting individuals that had strong personal significance for Nolan, including his brother (tragically killed in the Second World War), close friend Benjamin Britten, Francis Bacon and fellow Australian artist Brett Whiteley. A later series shown here, dating from May 1987, features Aboriginal subjects as Nolan was returning to a theme that was evident very early in his artistic career; namely the unresolved relationship between ... More David Breuer-Weil at Christie's: London's sculpture trail LONDON.- Using London as his canvas, artist David Breuer-Weil has worked with Christies to place his monumental bronze sculptures throughout the city in an innovative new multi-venue exhibition that is free to the public. Giant heads break through the ground at Cavendish Square and Portman Square. An evolutionary four-part installation emerges in Portman Square. The brutalist architecture of the Economist Plaza is enlivened by a sculpture titled Alien and figures of Brothers with joined heads, connected by umbilical chords. Against the backdrop of the Saint Pancras Church on the Euston Road further larger Alien and Brothers images reinterpret the iconic building famed for its Greek statuary. Breuer-Weil comments Public sculpture is the ultimate street art. Far more people see them than works in museums. I have attempted to distil a great deal of emotion ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. In this image: Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
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