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Haddo House - Britain's Lost Masterpieces 2016 - the conserved paintings return to Haddo House.
EDINBURGH.- BBC experts examining the amazing art collection at the National Trust for Scotlands Haddo House in Aberdeenshire have discovered two very important paintings, including a piece that is probably by Raphael. The revelation comes in BBC4s Britains Lost Masterpieces which airs on Wednesday 5 October at 9pm. Art experts Dr Bendor Grosvenor and Jacky Klein spotted two paintings of interest in the dining room on the Art UK website, before they visited Haddo House earlier this year a previously unknown landscape attributed to French artist Claude Lorrain and a portrait of the Madonna that was attributed to Innocenzo da Imola. The paintings were acquired in the 19th century by George Hamilton-Gordon, the 4th Earl of Aberdeen and Prime Minister between 1852 and 1855. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the oval gallery of MAAT museum (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) featuring an installation by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in Lisbon on October 3, 2016. The MAAT museum will open to the public on October 5, 2016. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
| Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of Arshile Gorky Estate | | Contemporary art market slows as Chinese buyers switch focus | | Tornabuoni Art opens solo exhibition of works by Alighiero Boetti | 
Arshile Gorky and David Smith in Abstract Expressionism. Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. Photo: David Parry / Royal Academy of Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced its exclusive worldwide representation of the Arshile Gorky Estate. The story of Arshile Gorky (1904 1948) is that of the quintessential American artist seeking to forge a new identity divorced from his Old World roots. Through constant cycles of radical reinvention, his quest yielded a personal approach to painting that established Gorky as the father of Abstract Expressionism and thereby a seminal figure in the evolution of modern art. With its emphasis upon the autonomous expressive potential of line, form, and colour, his revolutionary work profoundly impacted scores of fellow artists, including Willem De Kooning, David Smith, and Mark Rothko, and was championed by André Breton and Roberto Matta. Representing ... More | | 
Despite the correction, contemporary art "remains a particularly high-performing long-term investment", Artprice said.
PARIS (AFP).- Global contemporary art sales slowed by a quarter in the year to July 2016 as demand in China dried up, according to leading index Artprice. Turnover was $1.5 billion (1.3 billion euros) compared with $2.1 billion in the previous year. "The market saw a healthy period of adjustment, which was as necessary as it was predictable," Artprice founder and chief executive Thierry Ehrmann said in the report released on Sunday. Despite the correction, contemporary art "remains a particularly high-performing long-term investment", Artprice said. It said the sector has experienced growth of 1,370 percent since 2000 and has produced an annual return of nearly five percent in the same period in a market in which the number of artworks has quadrupled. The return rose to nine ... More | | 
Alighiero Boetti, Il Muro, 1972-92, mixed media, varied dimensions, Courtesy Archivio Alighiero Boetti.
LONDON.- Tornabuoni Art London announces a solo exhibition of Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti. An homage to Boettis career and the influence of his work, the show will be presenting a selection of the artists rarely seen artworks articulated around the original Il Muro (The Wall), shown for the first time in a commercial gallery. Il Muro, originally conceived in Boettis apartment in Trastevere in 1970, evolved throughout the artists life and only reached its final state upon his death in 1994. It is composed of 74 pieces including 15 of the artists own works, five drawings by his daughter Agata and a photograph of her as a child. One can also find various memories and newspaper cuttings such as the announcement of Pablo Picassos death on the front page of the Kabul Times, a map of the most important waterfalls around ... More |
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| New commission by French artist Philippe Parreno unveiled at Tate Modern | | Writers' privacy row erupts as Italy's Ferrante unmasked | | Almine Rech Gallery opens new gallery space in London with an exhibition by Jeff Koons. | 
Installation view of Hyundai Commission 2016: Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, 2016. Photo: Tate Photography.
LONDON.- Tate Modern today unveils a new commission by French artist Philippe Parreno. Entitled Anywhen, the commission transforms the Turbine Hall into an experience that plays with time and space, guiding the public through constantly changing stages of light, sound and moving elements. This is the second annual Hyundai Commission, a series of site-specific works created for the Turbine Hall by renowned international artists, as part of the partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor. Anywhen presents itself as an instrument which performs a series of functions and constructs a series of situations. The halls lights are controlled and activated according to different sequences. An additional moving light casts shadows throughout the hall and a large central marquee a canopy covered in lights is suspended over the Level 1 bridge. ... More | | 
Reacting angrily to Gatti's revelation, Ferrante's publisher did not deny his claim.
ROME (AFP).- One of literature's most talked-about mysteries appeared to have been cracked Monday with the unmasking of the identity of the Italian publishing sensation Elena Ferrante. In its wake, a literary row erupted over journalistic ethics and writers' right to protect their identities and the personal back stories that may, or may not, inform their work. Claudio Gatti, an Italian investigative journalist, says he has seen evidence of royalty payments that establish that Ferrante is a pen name for Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator who is married to a well-known novelist. Reacting angrily to Gatti's revelation, Ferrante's publisher did not deny his claim. Instead it railed against the perceived breach of the writer's right to privacy. "It is disgusting to see a great Italian author, loved and celebrated in our country and across the world, treated like a criminal," Edizioni E/O said in ... More | | 
Jeff Koons, Seated Ballerina, 2010-2015, Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 210.8 x 113.5 x 199.8 cm, 83 x 44 11/16 x 78 5/8 inches / Private Collection / © Jeff Koons - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery, Photo: Consultatio Real Estate.
LONDON.- "Great artists are always complex and complicated figures. Unlike philosophers, they are also able to simplify matters, enabling understanding at a single glance by which all is revealed. Ut pictura poesis as is painting so is poetry: an insight conjured by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Mirrors from the very beginning have played an essential role in almost all of Jeff Koonss work. They appear in the first inflatables of 1979, in which glass flowers and other trite objects picked up in discount stores on 14th Street in New York were placed on mirrored platforms and backdrops. Since, many of his most ambitious works, such as the Balloon Swan, Balloon Monkey and Balloon Rabbit, shown ... More |
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| Mossgreen announces auction of the Raphy Star Collection of Important Asian Art | | Ann Linnemann and six new Danish talents exhibit at Lacoste Gallery in Concord | | South London Gallery opens new permanent garden by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco | 
Nepalese bronze of Avalokitesvara.
SYDNEY.- Mossgreen announces the auction of The Raphy Star Collection of Important Asian Art. Featuring rare sculpture, including one of the earliest examples of Indian Buddhist sculpture, ceramics and works of art, the collection is valued at $3-5 million and is the most valuable and significant of its kind ever to be offered at auction in Australia. Highlights of the collection will tour to Melbourne, London and Hong Kong prior to the auction in Sydney on Sunday 11 December 2016. Inspired by the refined aesthetic beauty of Asian Art, particularly Buddhist Art, this fine and diverse collection has taken the collector on a journey lasting over thirty years, during which time he has said, collecting became something of an addiction and the beauty of these pieces lies in their anonymity. Travelling the world to acquire rare pieces he formed a collection which follows the footsteps of Buddha and spans the breadth of ... More | | 
Every new artist here was personally selected by Linnemann to be featured in this show.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste Gallery is presenting Danish Contemporary, September 17 October 10, 2016, featuring Ann Linnemann and six new Danish ceramic talents: Charlotte Thorup, Heidi Hentze, Mikael Jackson, Kirsten Høholt, Marianne Nielsen and Theis Lorentzen. Ann Linnemann, a highly respected Danish ceramic artist and gallerist (Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen) brings together for the first time in Concord MA, an exhibition exploring Danish contemporary ceramics in the postmodern world. Each artist brings his or her interpretations of ceramic art forms into their art practice by moving away from traditions and history. The artworks examine traditional Danish ceramic practices (high level of craft skills and detailing) while exploring new ideas and directions in forms and medium. While some concentrate on materials and textures, others are highly ... More | | 
South London Gallery garden by Gabriel Orozco, 2016 (c) Gabriel Orozco. Photo: Andy Stagg.
LONDON.- This October the South London Gallery opened a new permanent garden designed by Gabriel Orozco. Created over the past two years by the artist, with support from 6a architects and horticulturists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this extraordinary garden is open to the public every weekend and used by invited groups during the week. It introduces a new, planted entrance to the garden for residents of Sceaux Gardens housing estate, where the SLG has run art programmes for a number of years. The opening of the garden marks a pivotal moment in the SLGs history of working with artists on ambitious and challenging projects which aim to inspire, attract and connect with large and diverse audiences. Gabriel Orozco, who was born in Mexico and currently lives in Tokyo, is one of the leading artists of his generation. He has exhibited extensively internationally ... More |
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| Richard Saltoun Gallery presents works by founding member of the illustrious Ton Fan Group | | Jessica Carlisle opens exhibition of renowned British artist Paul Feiler | | Sotheby's sales of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art achieve US$89,532,371 | 
Untitled, 1958 (detail) c. Signed Chinese calligraphy brush ink and watercolour on paper, 78.3 x 36 cm.
LONDON.- Frieze Spotlight Section is dedicated to presenting rare solo presentations of significant but under-recognised 20th-century artists. Few artists fit that description better than Li Yuan-chia (1924-1994), one of China's earliest pioneers of abstract and conceptual art. To pursue his artistic vision Li had to leave Taiwan: engaging with the practices of western artists in both Italy and England, he developed a unique style combining traditional Chinese calligraphy with abstraction. A founding member of the illustrious Ton Fan Group, and known as one of the "8 Great Outlaws", Li rebelled against the traditional art methods and practices of Taiwan and China and became actively engaged in the International art world. Li's focus on the spirit of Chinese culture and philosophy, combined with an experimental aesthetic has ... More | | 
Adytum II, 1970 (detail). 36 x 36 inches. Oil on canvas, © Redfern Gallery and the Estate of Paul Feiler.
LONDON.- Jessica Carlisle announces an exhibition of renowned British artist Paul Feiler (1918 - 2013), opening in October 2016. The exhibition will present works from the 1970s to the 2000s, including paintings from the artists celebrated series Aduton and his lesser-known perspex reliefs. Feiler moved to Cornwall in 1953, where he taught at the St Ives Summer School for several years. Through his close friendship with Peter Lanyon he became associated with the St Ives School painters such as Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, who were known for developing modern and abstract art in Britain during the 1940s to 1960s. For a number of years Feiler worked within this movement, however, as he himself said, I couldnt become a ventriloquist and try to become someone else just to be a member of the scene. Gradually I withdrew ... More | | 
11 lots by Nara Yoshitomo 100% sold. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Top lot of the Evening Sale, Zao Wou-Kis Paysage dans la lune, achieved HK$46.68 million / US$ 5.98 million · Top quality modern works continue to perform with strength, with Zao Wou-Kis Paysage dans la lune, Ailleurs, and Wu Guanzhongs The Hometown of Lu Xun being the top three lots · Two important works on paper sales were 100% sold, reflecting strong market demand for such rare offerings. The success is also a testament to Sothebys meticulous sourcing approach and reinforces Sothebys position as a market leader in Modern Asian Art o 16 lots from The Sublime Wou-Ki Zao achieved a total of HK$20.8 million / US$2.67 million, 1.27 times the high estimate o 22 lots from Sanyus works on paper collection, Ineffable Beauty, realised HK$14.3 million / US$ 1.83 million, 2.68 times the high estimate ... More |
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 Victoria Miro exhibits works by Njideka Akunyili CrosbyLONDON.- Njideka Akunyili Crosbys first solo exhibition in Europe features a new body of work made especially for Victoria Miro. The Los Angeles-based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical, political and personal references to make luminous, densely layered figurative compositions whose intricate surfaces combine disparate materials and aesthetic traditions. The title of the exhibition, Portals, is immediately suggestive of windows or doorways, though one might equally think of TV sets or computer screens. It also refers to the title of a recent work by the artist, Portals,2016, now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In Akunyili Crosbys work, doors, windows and screens function as physical, conceptual and emotional points of arrival and departure, while in a broader sense the work itself is a portal ... More Aura Satz's first exhibition in New York on view at Fridman GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Her Marks, a Measure, Aura Satzs first exhibition in New York, explores the role of women's labor in the history of astronomy and ballistics. In both fields women made significant contributions to observation, data collection, and computation. The exhibition, which includes video, lenticular prints and slide projections, was presented earlier this year at the Dallas Contemporary. Between the Bullet and the Hole is a film, co-commissioned by the Dallas Contemporary and the Sydney Biennale, focused on the elusive and complex effects of war on women's role in ballistics research and early computing. The film combines new and archival high-speed bullet photography, schlieren and electric spark imagery, bullet sound wave imagery, forensic ballistic photography, slide rulers, punch cards, computer diagrams, and a soundtrack by electronic musician Scanner. ... More First major UK exhibition of the Italian artist Rodolfo Aricò opens at Luxembourg & Dayan LONDON.- Luxembourg & Dayan presents the first major UK exhibition of the Italian artist Rodolfo Aricò (19302002). Focusing on works from the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition derives its title Rodolfo Aricò: Line of Demarcation from the writings of the Italian critic Giulio Carlo Argan, aiming to emphasise the importance of Rodolfo Aricò both in the historical context of Post-War Italian art, as well as a crucial link in the dialogue between American and European artistic tendencies during these decades. Rodolfo Aricò is known primarily for his object-paintings, which he began to develop during the 1960s and which evolved throughout his entire career. Trained in Architecture, his works manifest a philosophical interest in the notions of time and space, exploring geometry, perspective, and phenomenology, hereby undermining the rigid distinction between the disciplines of painting a ... More French-born artist Henri Barande exhibits for the first time in the UK at the Saatchi GalleryLONDON.- October 2016 is the first time to see the remarkable work of French-born artist Henri Barande in the UK. Both intriguing and stimulating, Henri Barandes artistic practice is as unique as it is compelling. He is the absent one who wishes simply to disappear behind his work and thereby procure his own annihilation. Henry-Claude Cousseau, Director, Ãcole des Beaux Arts. Barandes creativity first emerged when he was a child living in Tunisia, where he played among the ruins of the ancient Phoenician capital of Carthage. His practice is dedicated to exploring the dialogue between life and death, the found and the fabricated, which led to the creation of a world of miniature forms and figures. These small sculptures have since been buried at an undisclosed location or destroyed by his own hand, carefully and purposefully concealed from view. ... More Exhibition by artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz opens at the SerpentineLONDON.- This autumn, the Serpentine presents an exhibition by artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz (b. post-war, Paris). Increasingly influential for younger generations of artists, his work explores the space between public and private, design and art, and includes painting, sculpture and photography with prototypes for everyday objects, furnishings and wallpapers. The exhibition An Autumn Lexicon spans Chaimowiczs career offering a précis of his artistic vocabulary. It draws upon ideas of memory and place in a newly conceived installation that responds to the architecture, natural surroundings and history of the Serpentine which was converted from a 1930s park café to a gallery in 1970. Chaimowicz re-stages the pioneering early work Enough Tiranny first presented at the Serpentine Gallery in 1972. Described by the artist as a scatter environment, it combines art historical ... More Exhibition highlights the ICAs rich heritage as a home for radical contemporary arts and cultureLONDON.- The ICA Fox Reading Room presents an exhibition highlighting the ICAs rich heritage as a home for radical contemporary arts and culture. In 1968, the ICA exhibition Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, was the first presentation of experimental Japanese art, music, film and design in Europe showcasing a group of artists never before seen in the UK, including: Kohei Sugiura, Jiro Takamatsu, Ushio Shinohara, Tadanori Yokoo, Seiichi Hayashi, Yoji Kuri, Tatsuo Shimamura. Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, originally curated by Jasia Reichardt, comprised of contemporary Japanese sculptures, miniatures, posters, graphics, kites, music with visual scores and films. The title referred to the fluorescent effects in many of the works, alongside reference to the Chrysanthemum flower as the Imperial Seal of Japan. The show was divided into sections: ... More Fowler Museum presents first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis AyónLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fowler Museum at UCLA is the first museum in the United States to host a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the late Cuban visual artist Belkis Ayón, whom during her short but fertile career, produced an extraordinary body of work central to the history of contemporary printmaking in Cuba. Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón opened Oct. 2 and runs through Feb. 12, 2017. The exhibition presents 43 prints that encompass a wide range of the artists graphic production from 1984 until her untimely death in 1999. Ayón mined the founding narrative of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society called Abakuá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. She is highly regarded for her signature technique of collography, a printing process in which a variety of materials of various textures and absorbencies ... More Garment District space for public art showcases paintings by artist Umberto Squarcia Jr. NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance unveiled the latest in its ongoing series of public art installations, titled Crossroads a series of paintings created by Italian artist Umberto Squarcia Jr., which represents the crossings that individuals face in their daily lives. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 132 West 36th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through November 11th. Squarcias installation is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and has produced more than 175 installations, exhibits and performances. Umberto Squarcia Jr. is an incredibly talented artist, and we are delighted to showcase his paintings through the Garment District Space for Public Art program, said Barbara Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Crossroads is a dynamic, ... More "The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings" opens at Moretti Fine ArtLONDON.- There isn't any single reality, nor a unique way of looking at things. Seeing things from different angles is a very fruitful way to come to terms with the world, with our living in this world. The youngsters from Atelier dellErrore, a laboratory of visual arts created 14 years ago as a complementary service to the Child Neuropsychiatric clinics of Reggio Emilia and Bergamo, know this very well. Their creative imagination is focused on the representation of animals depicted as ancestral figures, living organisms foreign to any traditional order of scientific classification. The Atelier animals certainly embody the fears and defeats of those drawing them, but more so their need for protection and their powerful drive towards self-assertion. Alive with a visionary energy, the Atelier works spring out of the youngsters' need for assurance and support toward their achieving ... More Sotheby's Hong Kong Classical Chinese Paintings sale fetches HK$65.76 millionHONG KONG.- The sale offered a selection of high-calibre works sourced from the collections of esteemed connoisseurs and family estates, such as Huang Guifen, Sakamoto Gorō, Mei Jing Shuwu, as well as the Mi Yun Hall Collection. Many of these works performed strongly, a testament to collectors appetite for works with distinguished provenance. o Shen Zhous Landscapes from The Mi Yun Hall Collection fetched HK$17.36 million / US$2.23 million, more than eight times its pre-sale high estimate, crowning top lot of the sale. It is followed by the second highest selling lot, Attributed to Su Shis Speech of Scholar Returning Home in Regular Script, which sold for HK$7.28 million / US$933,333. o Attributed to Wang Meng, Elegant Gathering by the Spring from the collection of Sakamoto Gorō, achieved HK$5.6 million / US$717,949, 20 times its high estimate. o Three works from ... More Major exhibition of works by Jannis Kounellis on view at White CubeLONDON.- White Cube Masons Yard is presenting a major exhibition of works by Jannis Kounellis. This exhibition focuses on Kounellis very first works: the Alfabeto series of works on paper and paintings. The exhibition is one of the most in-depth presentations to date of this historical body of work, offering a review of Kounellis artistic development through a reconsideration of these early masterpieces. The selection also features several other works on paper and early wall-based sculptures from the 1980s and 1990s. Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936 but moved to Rome in 1956, where he still lives and works. Associated with the Arte Povera movement from 1967 onwards, his work is characterised by the juxtaposition of elements, including ready-made objects such as bed frames, doors and shelves and raw materials such as stone, cotton ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Lucas Cranach the Younger was born October 04, 1515. Lucas Cranach the Younger (October 4, 1515 - January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance artist, known for his woodcuts and paintings.He was the youngest son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Barbara Brengebier, and began his career as an apprentice in his father's workshop alongside his brother Hans. Henceforth, his own reputation and fame grew. After his father's death, he assumed control over the workshop. They lived in the city of Kronach, in Franconia (in Germany). In this image: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery. Hermitage Museum, Russia
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