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Hoshino Kayoko (b.1949), CUT OUT - Fan Like 17-11, 2017. Stoneware with ash and silver glazes, 11 3/4 x 18 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan B Mirviss LTD will present Double Spiral: The Sculptural Art of Hoshino Kayoko and Satoru, from May 1 through June 15, 2018. the second exhibition devoted exclusively to new work by this celebrated couple will include over thirty works created specifically for this show. The title, Double Spiral, references not only their dual careers but also the intertwining of the spiritual and physical worlds and the balance between opposites as represented by the yin-yang symbol (taikyokuzu). As Hoshino Satoru's sculpted clay forms literally spiral upward with a powerful sense of fluidity and seductive tactility, Kayoko's work maintains a more austere appearance, twisting and turning as their faceted surfaces rotate. Both have repeatedly stated that it is the nature of clay and the interaction with human expression that leads them to their unscripted symbiotic confrontation, allowing the push and pull with the clay to lead to its own outcom ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man lights a candle at the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, the city where the power station's personnel live, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the accident site, during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2018. Ukraine on April 26, 2018 marked the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster which was the world's worst nuclear accident. Genya SAVILOV / AFP
| Hauser & Wirth to represent The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow | | Christie's to offer Rembrandt's 'Christ Presented to The People' from The Collection of the late Samuel Josefowitz | | Dinosaur footprints discovered on Scottish island | 
Lampe, Ca. 1967. Colored polyester resin, light bulb, electrical wiring, 71.5 x 30 x 23.5 cm / 28 1/8 x 11 13/16 x 9 1/4 in. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy the Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced its worldwide representation of The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow in collaboration with Piotr Stanislawski, the artists son, and Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris. Born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1926, Szapocznikow survived internment in concentration camps during the Holocaust as a teenager, going on in the immediate postwar period to classical art training. By the 1960s, she was radically re-conceptualizing sculpture as an intimate record not only of memory but also of her own body, and as a laboratory for avid material experimentation that presaged similar efforts by such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Hannah Wilke, and Kiki Smith. While her career spanned less than two decades (the artist died in 1973 at age 46), Szapocznikow is today a revered figure whose powerfully . ... More | | 
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijns (1606-1669), Christ Presented to The People (Ecce Homo) detail. Estimate in the region of $3-5million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christ Presented to The People (Ecce Homo) is considered to be among Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijns (1606-1669) most significant achievements in any medium (estimate on request: in the region of $3-5million). One of the worlds most versatile, innovative, and influential artists, Rembrandt is viewed by many as the greatest printmaker of any generation. Epitomizing an artist at the height of his powers, both artistically and technically, this extraordinary drypoint of 1655 dates from his third decade as a printmaker. Executed on a monumental scale, the present work is one of only eight known impressions of the celebrated first state of this print and is the last known example in private hands. The other seven known impressions of this state are in major museum collections: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Ashmolean Museum, Bibliothèque ... More | | 
Side-angle image of sauropod footprint. Photo: Jon Hoad.
LONDON (AFP).- Dinosaur footprints dating back 170 million years have been discovered on a Scottish island and will help shed light on the reptiles' evolution, the University of Edinburgh said. The footprints are in a muddy, shallow lagoon on the Isle of Skye. The largest print, left by a sauropod, measures 70 centimetres (28 inches) across. Long-necked sauropods were up to two metres tall. "The find is globally important as it is rare evidence of the Middle Jurassic period, from which few fossil sites have been found around the world," the university said in a statement. Researchers are documenting about 50 footprints in the area, including those of theropods -- an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex -- which measure around 50 centimetres across. They used drone photographs to make a map of the site. Paige dePolo, who led the study, said the find "demonstrates the presence of sauropods in this part of the world through a longer timescale than previously known". The research was carried out in conjunction ... More |
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| French museum's collection mostly fake, but is it the only one? | | Winning wildlife photo 'likely' stuffed animal | | Major exhibition at The Met features artists of 18th-century New Spain (Mexico) | 
Visitors look at the painting 'Le clocher de Ria' ('The bell tower of Ria') at the musuem dedicated to French painter Etienne Terrus, in Elne (Elna), on Saturday. A sad inauguration on Friday for the musuem dedicated to Etienne Terrus, in Elne, in the Pyrenees-Orientales, which saw its collection amputated by 60 percent as 82 paintings out of 140 were deemed counterfeit. | RAYMOND ROIG / VIA AFP.
ELNE (AFP).- Over decades, the small museum of Elne in southern France built up a collection of works by local painter Etienne Terrus, mostly oil and watercolours of the region's distinctive landscapes and buildings. But what was once a source of pride has turned to embarrassment after 60 percent were found to be fakes, providing a lesson about the dangers of buying art without expert skills and the ubiquity of counterfeit canvases. "Etienne Terrus was Elne's great painter. He was part of the community, he was our painter," lamented mayor Yves Barniol on Friday as he reopened the museum and its exhibition of Terrus paintings -- minus the forgeries. "Knowing that people have visited the museum ... More | | 
Detail of The night raider © Marcio Cabral. Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
LONDON (AFP).- The winner of a prestigious wildlife photography competition last year was disqualified on Friday after organisers said it was "highly likely" the anteater depicted was a stuffed specimen usually on display at a national park visitor centre. An image showing the animal eating from an ant hill in Brazil's Emas National Park had won an award at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest in London's Natural History Museum. The striking image called "The Night Raider" was taken by Marcio Cabral and won the "Animals in their Environment" category. "Evidence was presented to the Museum by third parties that it is highly likely the animal in the awarded photograph is a taxidermy specimen," the museum said in a statement. "After a thorough investigation, the Museum concluded that the available evidence points to this allegation being true," it said, adding that competition rules state that "entries must not deceive the viewer or attempt to misrepresent ... More | | 
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, Portrait of Doña MarÃa Tomasa Durán López de Cárdenas (Retrato de doña MarÃa Tomasa Durán López de Cárdenas), c. 1762, oil on canvas, 40 3/16 à 33 1/16 in., GalerÃa Coloniart, Collection of Felipe Siegel, Anna and Andrés Siegel, Mexico City, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA/Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., by Rafael Doniz.
NEW YORK, NY.- The vitality and inventiveness of artists in 18th-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of the exhibition Painted in Mexico, 17001790: Pinxit Mexici, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through some 110 works of art (primarily paintings), many of which are unpublished and newly restored, the exhibition surveys the most important artists and stylistic developments of the period and highlight the emergence of new pictorial genres and subjects. Painted in Mexico, 17001790 is the first major exhibition devoted to this neglected topic. During the first century after the conquest of Mexico, artists from Europemainly immigrants from Spainmet the growing demand for images of all types, both religious and secular. ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth opens the first United States presentation of the Sylvio Perlstein Collection | | Vito Schnabel opens exhibition devoted to the radical early canvases of Stephen Posen | | Poland consigns communist-era monuments to dustbin of history | 
Marcel Mariën, The Elusive, 1937. Glass and Bakelite, 14 x 13 x 18 cm / 5 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 in © Marcel Mariën / 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Unfolding across all three floors of Hauser & Wirths 22nd Street location, A Luta Continua is the first United States presentation of the Sylvio Perlstein Collection. Over the course of more than five decades, Perlstein has assembled an intensely personal collection rooted in a passion for the work of groundbreaking artists; a commitment to self-education; and an affinity for a wide range of mediums. Remarkably diverse, the Collection traces the course of twentieth-century art, from Dada and Surrealism to Abstraction, Land Art, Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Pop Art, Op Art, Arte Povera, Nouveau Réalisme, and Contemporary Art. But above all, A Luta Continua testifies to the power of connoisseurship and to collecting as a talent an art in itself that must be honed through sustained, sometimes courageous, and often joyful personal effort. Curated by David Rosenberg, A Luta Continu ... More | | 
Stephen Posen, Cut out, 1968. Oil on shaped novaply, 66h x 46w x 1d inches 167.6h x 116.84w x 2.54d cm. © Stephen Posen; Courtesy the Artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Vito Schnabel announced a two-part exhibition in the U.S. and Europe, devoted to the radical early canvases of New York-based artist Stephen Posen (b. 1939). Opening in New York on May 1, 2018, Threads: Paintings from the 1960s and '70s features a selection of the artists work never before been publicly shown. The exhibition is the first significant presentation to revisit Posens breakthrough shaped canvases and related paintings since his debut at New Yorks SoHo gallery O.K. Harris, nearly five decades ago. Threads: Paintings from the 1960s and '70s will remain on view through June 23 at Vito Schnabel Projects, 43 Clarkson Street, New York City. On July 28, the second part of the exhibition will open at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and continue through September 2, 2018. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. In the late 1960s, as prevailing ... More | | 
A monument dedicated to Soviet Red Army soldiers stands on the grounds of a warehouse in the Polish town of Legnica, where the monument is being mothballed, on March 24, 2018. JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP.
LEGNICA (AFP).- For nearly 70 years, an imposing monument to Soviet Red Army soldiers dominated a central square in the southwestern Polish town of Legnica. Known as Little Moscow, Legnica hosted the largest Soviet military base in Poland during the Cold War. But one day recently, in the early hours, the classic example of Stalinist-era propaganda was hauled away to a warehouse to be mothballed with dozens of other monuments under a new de-communisation law. According to town spokesman Arkadiusz Rodek, Legnica acted in order to qualify for a state refund of the removal costs, which had included hiring a crane. "After the (end-March) deadline, we would have paid out of our own pocket," he told AFP. Although the Soviet Union drove Nazi German forces out of occupied Poland towards the end of World War II, Moscow went on to impose its own brand of totalitarianism ... More |
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| Photography starts for major UK sculpture project | | Frieze Fair marks the second Allan D'Arcangelo show mounted by Hollis Taggart Galleries | | Sotheby's and Huntsman announce online auction of the ultimate lifestyle collection | 
Conservator Charlotte Hanmore cleans sculptures at the Beecroft Gallery © the artists estate. Photo: Art UK.
LONDON.- Photography is getting underway in the largest ever sculpture project undertaken in the UK. Over the next two years, Art UK is aiming to digitise around 170,000 sculptures, which are located inside galleries, museums and public buildings and outdoors in parks, streets and squares, the length and breadth of the UK. These will then be displayed on the free-to-access artuk.org website for enjoyment, learning and research the first database of its kind in the world. The very first photography session has just taken place at the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The first work captured was a sculpture of the head of the legendary Italian heiress and patron of the arts Marchesa Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino, created by renowned artist Sir Jacob Epstein in 1918. Casati was known for her eccentricities, parading with a pair of leashed cheetahs and wearing live snakes as jewellery. She ... More | | 
Landscape on a Bus Mirror, 1970, Assembled mixed media multiple, 18 1/2 (H) x 22 (W), 18 3/4 (D) inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart Galleries in Chelsea is set to kick off its first ever Frieze New York art fair with Allan DArcangelo: The Highway Paintings, a comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures by the late American Pop artist (1930-1998). This follows the gallerys highly successful 2014 show, titled Beyond Pop: Allan DArcangelo, Works From the Sixties, which included an exhibition catalog. The Highway Paintings booth at Frieze will be composed of a dozen works by DArcangelo, including the iconic Pegasus, from 1963, an acrylic on canvas that measures 44 x 51.4 inches and features Mobil Oils flying red horse against a dark sky. Also featured will be two of DArcangelos mirror sculptures, including Side-View Mirror (1966), and Landscape on a Bus Mirror, from 1970. Founded in 1979, Hollis Taggart Galleries has maintained a mission of presenting ... More | | 
Red slippers and red brief case by Foster and Sons. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This May, Sothebys will partner with esteemed Savile Row tailor Huntsman & Sons to stage its first online-only luxury lifestyle sale. Featuring an array of bespoke pieces from the private collection of Huntsman owner and financier, Pierre Lagrange, alongside commissioned new works that exemplify the Huntsman lifestyle, this collection reflects Lagranges expert knowledge and appreciation of exquisite objects. The sale will offer a view into the life and passions of Pierre Lagrange as a custodian to Huntsmans unique heritage, which has attracted discerning patrons throughout the ages. Curated to correlate with the different rooms in his home, the collection reflects Lagranges enthusiasm for one-off pieces, and his talent for envisioning and commissioning truly extraordinary creations. Amassed over several years and many continents, each item has been ... More |
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 Mennello Museum of American Art presents "When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan"ORLANDO, FLA.- The Mennello Museum of American Art is presenting the work of Julie Heffernan in a solo exhibition, When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan. The exhibition is on view from March 23 through June 10, 2018. Heffernan's recent paintings create alternative habitats in response to environmental disaster and planetary excess. With rising waters, she imagines worlds in trees or on rafts in which undulating mattresses, tree boughs, and road signs guide the journey. Construction cones interrupt the landscape signaling places to stop, enter tiny interior worlds, and reflect on the human conditionits feckless activity, violence, failure, and redemption. Heffernan tends these alternative environments to safeguard bounties we cannot live without. In other moments, she names names and points fingers to those people and activities ... More Joel Otterson: The Excited Eye opens at the Jason Jacques GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery, in collaboration with the Elizabeth Dee Gallery, announces Joel Otterson: The Excited Eye, an exhibition of the self-titled ceramiphile Joel Otterson. The artist will present a curated selection of sculptures that draw inspiration from aspects of domestic handicraft and traditional materials. Ottersons interest in the Gesamkunstwerk or total work of art, keeps his works in conversation with one another and their environments. The Excited Eye will open with a reception with the artist, at 29 East 73rd Street, on May 1st, 6:00-8:00pm, and remain on view through June 16th. Copper pipe, pottery and glass, cast metal, and lace are the raw materials that often constitute Ottersons work. The artist blurs the line between the seemingly disparate spheres of learned and vernacular culture, art, and craft to create poignant sculptures that are ... More PEER opens a mid-career survey of work by Abigail ReynoldsLONDON.- The Universal Now and further episodes is a mid-career survey of work by Abigail Reynolds presented at PEER, Shoreditch Library and Bookartbookshop in the artists largest solo exhibition to date, and her first in a public space. The three-way exhibition features a new film installation drawing on the artists recent journey in search of the lost libraries of the Silk Road, a new large-scale sculptural commission for PEER plus collage, sculpture and print works made over the past decade. At the core of The Universal Now and further episodes, is Reynolds lifelong passion for books as material, and the narratives and histories they build, interweaving and erasing to form new layers of meaning over time. At PEER, Reynolds exhibits works from her ongoing series, The Universal Now in which photographic bookplates of identical locations taken at different times are ... More Wooden Philippine boats to retrace historic China voyageMANILA (AFP).- Crafted from a centuries-old design, three identical wooden boats set off from the Philippine capital for China on Saturday to retrace a historic trip by a Filipino sultan and showcase longstanding maritime ties. The 29 crew members on the three vessels -- two propelled by engines and the third by sail -- hope to make it across the South China Sea, a near-1,000-kilometre (620-mile) voyage, to the eastern city of Xiamen by May 2. The 18-metre (60-foot) boats are replicas of a "balangay", a type of vessel used in the region as far back as 320 AD. Sultan Paduka Batara -- who ruled part of what is the Philippines today -- sailed to China on a balangay in 1417 to pay tribute and to trade, Valdez said, but fell ill and died there. Spain later colonised the Philippine islands in the 16th century. Expedition leader Arturo Valdez hopes it is a case of fourth-time lucky: winds ... More Still standing beneath Washington, remnants of the Cold WarWASHINGTON (AFP).- In a long-abandoned nuclear fallout shelter in the heart of the US capital, museum curator Frank Blazich pries open a large, rusted can of crackers bearing the date "Nov. 1962." "Tastes a bit stale," he jokes as he chomps down on its contents. The can has been stored for decades at the underground facility, one of dozens built during the Cold War as the United States braced for the possibility of a nuclear attack. Today, the sound of children's laughter filters down through vents to the long, narrow basement beneath the Oyster-Adams School, just 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) north of the White House. It was beneath this school that the shelter was built to protect more than a hundred people in the event of a catastrophic strike. Dimly lit by a series of hanging industrial lamps, the concrete room houses rows of barrels marked "survival supplies" -- water, ... More Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, Zhi Art Museum opens in ChengduCHENGDU.- Zhi Art Museum is presenting the exhibition Open, celebrating the long-awaited official inauguration of the museum which marks a new cultural signpost in southwest China. Curated by Zhang Ga and co-presented by Zhi Art Museum and Chronus Art Center (CAC), the exhibition will remain on view through August 12, 2018. Located about 40 km from the capital city of Sichuan province in the Xin Jin region, Zhi Art Museum is designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The museum employs brick tiles, a traditional local material, as the building motif to seamlessly blend modernist austerity with the undulating mountains and rivers of the surrounding area which are reminiscent of Chinese classic landscape paintings in the literati tradition. Resonating with the museum's architecture and illuminating ZHI's mission statement, the exhibition Open ... More Ulterior Gallery presents the second of two consecutive exhibitions by Robert BuckNEW YORK, NY.- Ulterior Gallery is presenting the second of two consecutive exhibitions by New York-based, trans-disciplinary artist Robert Buck, who in 2008 changed his surname from Beck to Buck as a work of art. Second Hand is open April 21 through May 27, 2018. In 2008, Robert Beck reconceived his artistic self, and challenged our notions of patriarchy, authorship, and identity. By altering his surname by one letter he marked a shift in his artistic practice and broadened its implications. The change was as subtle as e to u, but as powerful as me to you. It was his way to re-signify himself, and bypass the system structured by the Name-of-the-Father (the paternal figure of the law, so termed by Lacan, that upholds patriarchal institutions, such as family, church, nation, and markets). The status of the Name-of-the-Father changed irrevocably in the 20th ... More Vancouver Art Gallery announces Ian M. Thom's retirement VANCOUVER.- Following a thirty year career with Vancouver Art Gallery as Senior Curator Historical, Ian M. Thom will retire from his position at the end of June 2018. Over his many years with Vancouver Art Gallery, Thom has been integral to the presentation of more than one hundred exhibitions at the Gallery and across Canada. Considered a leading expert of BC art and a pre-eminent scholar of Emily Carrs works, Thom has served as a sought-after authority on the Gallerys permanent collection. He has also contributed immensely to the growth of the permanent collection, playing a key role in the acquisition of important works from Canada and abroad. Thom helped facilitate the entry of 119 works by original members of the Group of Seven, which includes major artworks by Arthur Lismer and A.Y. Jackson. He also brought into the collection or added ... More An exhibition of unknown and seldom seen works of art by Peter Carl Fabergé opens at A La Vieille Russie NEW YORK, NY.- A La Vieille Russie presents Celebrating Royal Fabergé The Return from May 1 18, 2018, an exhibition of rare and important works of art created by Court Jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé (1846 - 1920). These works have just returned to ALVR from loan to the museum exhibition, Royal Fabergé, at the iconic Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts in Norwich, England, which also included 65 loans from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For the first time these extraordinary Fabergé works of art will be shown together in the US, including a piece relating to and formerly in the British Royal collection. This presentation is the inaugural exhibition for the renowned art and antiques dealer at its new galleries at 745 Fifth Avenue. ALVR has been instrumental in introducing the work of Fabergé to American audiences, in forming major museum collections, ... More Exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler features 22 collages by León FerrariNEW YORK, NY.- Galeria Nara Roesler | New York presents León Ferrari, For a World with No Hell, featuring 22 collages that delve into love, language, religion, and powerrecurrent themes in the artists oeuvre. The exhibition follows the announcement of the gallerys representation of the artists estate earlier this year. Curated by Lisette Lagnado, curator of the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), For a World with No Hell is the second of two exhibitions of Ferraris work organized by Galeria Nara Roesler in 2018, with the first on view in São Paulo through May. Specially conceived for the gallerys intimate setting, the exhibition in New York is open to the public from April 27 to June 16 2018. The current selection sought to highlight one of the fundamental elements in an artistic life that spanned nearly 60 years: the erotic pleasure, says Lagnado. The show is structured around the collage La ... More Spanish street scene by French-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans brings $13,750CRANSTON, RI.- A Spanish street painting titled Palma De Mallorca Street Scene by the French-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), best known as the illustrator for the popular Madeline childrens book series, sold for $13,750 to take top lot honors at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Antiques & Fine Art Estate Auction, a 356-lot sale conducted on April 14th. The sale was held online and in the Bruneau & Co. gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. I was pleased to see the Bemelmans painting exceed our expectations, said Kevin Bruneau, the president and auctioneer of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. In fact, there was strong bidding all around, with some prices making it feel like it was fifteen years ago. It was overall a great sale. The casein paint, ink and pencil on board by Bemelmans measured 26 inches by 30 inches in the frame and depicted ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs -- at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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