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Chinese artist Liu Bolin poses in front of his artwork during the preview of his exhibition at Galerie Paris-Beijing on September 4, 2017 in Paris. JOEL SAGET / AFP.
PARIS.- Galerie Paris-Beijing presents Revealing Disappearance, Liu Bolin latest solo exhibition witnessing the artists engagement on environmental issues. Since the beginning of his career, ecology has been a central topic of Liu Bolins artistic production. In 2011 he braved the polluted waters of the Yellow River in one of the most industrialized regions of his country, two years ago he organized a collective performance at the edge of a large artificial forest aimed to stop the spreading of the Gobi desert in the Northern territories of China. More recently he stood among piles of garbage in a waste collection center in Bangalore, India. Last June, the artist flew to the French Atlantic Coast where he achieved two new performances in collaboration with Surfrider Foundation Europe to raise public awareness on the issue of marine litter. For decades the NGO has launched awareness campaigns against pollution caused by ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps, featuring the multidisciplinary performance collective founded in 1986 by artist and musician Terry Adkins (American, 1953-2014). In this image: Opening performance of Projects 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps at The Museum of Modern Art, August 19, 2017. Photo: Scott Shaw
| Sotheby's announces highlights from its Annual Irish Art Sale | | Post-modern master, US poet Ashbery dies at 90 | | Frieze Week 2017: Innovative line up of curated, cross-category and masterpiece auctions at Christie's | 
Mary Swanzy, Sun on the Sails, oil on canvas (est. £50,000-70,000 / 56,000-78,500). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys Annual Irish Art Sale features outstanding works from private collections appearing at auction for the first time The sale includes paintings by John Luke, John Lavery, Jack Butler Yeats, Mary Swanzy and Colin Middleton. The sale is led by the historic early painting of the Swiss Alps painted by Lavery on his winter holiday more than a century ago and unseen in public for more than 30 years. A powerful and masterly landscape painting of Switzerland by Lavery, The Summit of the Jungfraus lyrical curves lead the eye up to the pinnacle whilst maintaining a sense of composure and innate design that hints at the influence of Japanese art. The British love of the Alps dates back to the early 19th century, to Turner, Byron, Shelley and Ruskin; it was actually on the recommendation of Lady Gwendoline Churchill that Lavery travelled to Wengen for a two-month stay. The highlight of the visit was a journey up to Jungfrauj ... More | | 
This file photo taken on February 13, 2012 shows US President Barack Obama presenting the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Medal to poet John Ashbery. JEWEL SAMAD / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery, a post-modern American trailblazer, has died at age 90 in Hudson, New York, his family told US media Sunday. The experimental vanguardist was sometimes accused of writing poems that were at times less than accessible to a wider audience. "Well, I'm told that they're not," he said in a 2005 interview with NPR. "What they are is about the privacy of all of us, and the difficulty of our own thinking," he said. Yet "they are, I think, accessible if anyone cares to access them." His twists in register or tone routinely were so swift as to leave heads spinning. Yet they left many pleasantly disconcerted. Ashbery, who said he felt influenced by John Yeats, studied at Columbia University. The Rochester, New York native loved to mix everyday language and thoughts with elevated language. His 1975 ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Red Skull (1982) Acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on canvas, 60 à 60 in. (152.4 à 152.4 cm.) Estimate on request. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- This October during Londons Frieze Week, Christies will present a second major season of Post-War and Contemporary Art in 2017 at King Street, bringing together the very best in art and design across the 20th and 21st centuries. Following the successful move of the London auctions in March this year, Christies sales this October demonstrate a diversity that reflects the breadth and depth of taste across the international collecting community. Christies innovative programme will bring together five auctions and one exhibition, which will showcase the highest quality in not only painting, drawing and sculpture but also design and photography. On view at Christies King Street, London, from the 29 September; a selection of highlights will be on view in New York, Rockefeller Center from 8 to 12 September and Hong Kong from 18 to 21 September. Francis Outred, ... More |
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| Ronchini Gallery opens first UK solo exhibition of American artist Samantha Bittman | | New film to show spectators Cai Guo-Qiang's creative journey and the magnetic production process of his works | | Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana opens a major exhibition of works by Wolfgang Laib | 
Samantha Bittman, Untitled, 2017. Acrylic on hand-woven textile, 30 x 24 in. 76.2 x 61 cm.
LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition of American artist Samantha Bittman. The exhibition features twelve new wall based works and one site-specific mural. Bittmans practice developed from her fascination of weaving and the instinctive relationship between pictorial image and woven structure. Bound by the physical parameters of her 12-harness floor loom, she weaves, by hand, a graphically driven pattern, which is then stretched over a traditional wooden frame before having acrylic paint embedded onto each thread. Using the woven guidelines, she takes the graphical complexity one step further by carefully matching the colour of the paint to each individual strand. Inverting the pattern of the textile, she merges thread and paint to create an optical illusion of shape, line and pattern. The act of painting and ... More | | 
Making-of of the documentary film by Isabel Coixet.
MADRID.- This autumn Cai Guo-Qiang will be presenting The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado, an exhibition curated by Alejandro Vergara and sponsored by ACCIONA. . The exhibition originates from the artists longstanding dialogue with the spirit and spirituality of El Greco. It will take the form of a dialogue with the great masters in the Prado in which the It will take the form of a dialogue with the great past masters in the Prado in which the artist will break down the limits between East and West, making them converge in time in a spiritual exploration of painting. The full-length, 60-minute documentary directed by Isabel Coixet, filmed in 4K and produced by Miss Wasabi Films for the Museo del Prado, will allow viewer to witness the creative process behind this project, offering us a privileged view through the personal gaze of one of Spains most renowned international film ... More | | 
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LUGANO.- From 3 September 2017 to 7 January 2018, MASI hosts a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Wolfgang Laib, a German artist whose work in the contemporary artistic scene stands out for its essentialness, clarity, and depth of thought. The exhibition project, planned in close collaboration with the artist himself, comprises 50 works, including sculptures, photographs, drawings, and installations that explore all the areas of his creative universe. The drawings and the photographs that open the show immediately outline Laibs unique artistic language, capable of merging, with harmony and simplicity, a deep knowledge of culture and Eastern religions, and an equally close reflection on the roots of Western cultural heritage. The photographs Laib has taken during his trips to Europe and Asia comprise a repertoire of forms that draw new ... More |
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| Rare works by modern masters headline Saffronart's Evening Sale on 21 September | | Ceramic sculptor Aneta Regel makes her American debut at Jason Jacques Gallery | | Zimmerli examines lesser known legacy of the WPA | 
V S Gaitonde, Untitled, 1963. Saffronart, Evening Sale, New Delhi, 21 September 2017, lot 13. Image courtesy of Saffronart.
NEW DELHI.- Saffronarts Evening Sale in New Delhi on 21 September 2017 features exceptional works by modern masters and leading contemporary artists. This year, the sale is headlined by modernists V S Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, Nicholas Roerich, F N Souza, S H Raza and Bhupen Khakhar. Saffronart is offering a painting by Roerich for the first time, diversifying the range and quality of artists featured in its leading annual auction. The sale also includes paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists G Ravinder Reddy, Nataraj Sharma, Subodh Gupta and Bharti Kher. Commenting on the auction, CEO Hugo Weihe said, The sale includes works of exceptional quality and rarity, which offer new possibilities for reflection and dialogue. Consider the juxtaposition of the magical blue Gaitonde with a hazy blue mountain landscape by Roerich, the sea by Padamsee, ... More | | 
Aneta Regel, Spike, Glazed Stoneware, mixed media, 2017, 15.75h x 15.35w x 21.65d in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery presents Second Nature, an exhibition of recent work by contemporary ceramic sculptor Aneta Regelthe artists first solo exhibition in the United States. With an approach similar to artists of a century ago represented by my gallery, Aneta pushes the boundaries of the ceramic medium, using clay and color to evoke sensuous objects that are layered in transformation, says gallery principal Jason Jacques. The exhibition includes more than three-dozen of Regels current ceramic works, each evoking animalesque, quasi-botanic forms and incorporating a wide range of organic materials. In addition to clay and layers of glaze, Regel also uses volcanic rock, basalt, granite, and feldspars to form the main body of her pieces, resulting in visually complex textures. Aneta successfully uses material, shape, and color to convey meaning and elicit emotion, with striking compositions in c ... More | | 
Thomas Arthur Robertson, The Orange Point, 1941. Color screenprint. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Gift of Dr. David and Ruth Robinson Eisenberg. Photo: Peter Jacobs.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Screenprinting is one of the most recognizable forms of creative expression in American popular culture: from Andy Warhols serial images of iconic people and products, to witticisms emblazoned on t-shirts and casual screenprinting classes. But the mediums present day ubiquity took root during the Great Depression when, through programs administered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the government encouraged the production and consumption of art by the general public. Serigraphy: The Rise of Screenprinting in America, opening September 5 at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, explores how the technique was adapted to create fine art that was accessible and affordable to the middle class during the 1930s and 1940s. Despite the ongoing devastation that followed the ... More |
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| Folkestone Triennial 2017 opens with a host of international artists and 19 new site-specific commissions | | 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize goes to Haegue Yang | | Winner of the #SelfExpression competition announced | 
Michael Craig-Martins Folkestone Lightbulb is an image of an everyday object in stylish strong colours, which picks up formally on the curving façade of the building.
FOLKESTONE.- The fourth edition of Folkestone Triennial, one of the UKs most ambitious art exhibitions, opened on Saturday 2 September and run until 5 November 2017. Internationally recognised artists have been commissioned to create 19 new site-specific artworks being exhibited in Folkestones public spaces under the title double edge. Some of the works will remain in the town to add to its expanding art collection, Folkestone Artworks. double edge refers to the two main axes around which Folkestones development as a town has taken place historically and geographically: the seashore and the Pent Stream, an ancient watercourse flowing from the North Downs into the sea, dividing East and West Folkestone. double edge makes use of the specifics of the locality to explore ... More | | 
Porträt Haegue Yang © Courtesy of the artist und kurimanzutto, 2017. Photo: Abigail Enzaldo.
COLOGNE.- In 2018, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig will recognize the artist Haegue Yang with the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Since 1994, the prize has been awarded annually for an oeuvre that has consistently and substantially continued to develop and is recognized by international experts. The award ceremony will take place during Art Cologne on April 17, 2018. The prize includes the acquisition of a work or series of works by the artist for the collection of the Museum Ludwig. In addition, an exhibition will be realized and a publication will be released. Haegue Yang was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. She lives there and in Berlin. She is the first Asian artist to be awarded the prize. The jury for the 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize included this years guest juror Christina Végh, director of the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover; Yilmaz Dziewior, director of the Museum ... More | | 
Paola Ismene, Daydream in Blue, Mexico (detail).
LONDON.- Saatchi Gallery and Huawei announced that Paola Ismene from Mexico has been named the winner of the #SelfExpression competition. Paola won the competition with her entry Daydream in Blue and will be awarded a solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. The winner is announced today as part of the exhibition From Selfie to Self-Expression, presented by Huawei, which closes tomorrow after enjoying a 3-month extended run due to its popularity with visitors. The winning image was selected from over 9,000 entries by artists Chris Levine, Rachel Maclean, Simon Roberts and Gillian Wearing, and Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Russ OConnell, who were joined by Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst to form the judging panel. The overall winner receives a solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery and the ten shortlisted entrants will each receive Huaweis newest P10 smartphone, co-engineered with Leica, which ... More |
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 Newfoundland, where airmail can arrive by boat: Spink to offer the Albert Hamilton CollectionLONDON.- Spink announced that this September will see three philatelic auctions being held in the London office, the first of which will be the sale of The Albert Hamilton Newfoundland Collection. This sale contains many items of interest from this exceptionally interesting area of philately. It has a fine array of very rare items sure to set collectors reaching for their paddles on the 18th September. One of the most exceptional items in the sale is lot 123, a 1919 (12 April) stamp produced for the first transatlantic flight the known as The "Hawker" Attempt. This is a 3c. brown stamp overprinted FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRPOST, April, 1919 which was provided by the Postmaster General, J. A. Robinson who initialled it "J.A.R." on reverse. 200 of the stamps were produced and this example has large part original gum and is exceptionally fine and rare. ... More Sun Museum opens "Celestial Cases: Antique Boxes of China" exhibitionHONG KONG.- Sun Museum will present the captioned exhibition from 5 September to 2 December 2017. A selection of 87 exquisite boxes of the Han and Qing dynasties, on loan from local private collectors, is the first display of its kind in Hong Kong. The exhibition is supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Chinese Temples Committee and Park Hotel Property Management Limited. The boxes vary in shape ranging from the orthodox circular, square to the extraordinary, viz. clamshell, duck and tree trunk. Materials used are dazzling: wood, lacquer, porcelain, bamboo, ivory, rhinoceros horn and white jade. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, these decorative boxes of carved ivory, silver chased, enameled metal, and gold painted were used as containers for seal paste, visiting cards, book and food. They were also used by women for cosmetic powder, jewelry ... More American University Museum fall shows: Arab art, process art, kinetic art, and the deadly sinsWASHINGTON, DC.- Focusing in on Arab art, AU Museum hosts two international traveling exhibits featuring a range of Middle Eastern artists. The first exhibit, Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea: Arab Modern and Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation, is curated by Karim Sultan, director of Barjeel Art Foundation, and runs through Dec. 17. The exhibit showcases a diverse selection of works, grouped around the theme of technologies in conflict. The works come from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent United Arab Emirates-based initiative established to manage, preserve and exhibit Arab art. Both modern and contemporary artists from the Barjeel Collection are featured, including Mona Hatoum, Walid Raad, Etel Adnan, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Hayv Kahraman, and Asim Abu Shakra. ... More Vincent Black Shadow hits £85,125 at H&H Classics sale which topped £500,000LONDON.- Highlights at the second H&H Classic bike sale at the National Motorcycle Museum on Saturday September 2nd included, Lot 78. a 1951 Black Shadow, £85125; Lot 51. A 1945 Indian Scout, £21,000; Lot 31 a Harley-Davidson Sportster at three times its pre-sale estimate with £7,650; and Lots 2, 3, 4 & 5 derelict factory finds selling for over £7,000 in total. So there was lots to keep bidders interested and on their toes says Mark Bryan, Head of Motorcycle sales at H&H Classics. Lot 78, the 1951 Vincent Black Shadow Series C 1000 CC was estimated prior to the sale to make £75,00080,000, and went in the end for £85,125. It was originally delivered new to Sweden and restored by Scandinavian marque expert Severt Bomberg. It boasts many magazine features and the 2005 Best in Show winner at the Vincent annual rally. Lot 51, a red 1945 Indian Scout ... More Riverside Museum unveils Sid's watch GLASGOW.- A watch at the centre of a successful public appeal to find Sid is ready to go on display at Riverside Museum, Glasgow. The new panel was unveiled in front of the family who kept the watch safe for almost 80 years and the family of the original owner, who met for the first time. Rob Hutchinson, whose father Gerald Gerry Middleton Hutchinson had treasured the watch until his death in 2015, travelled from Canada for the special occasion, which took place on the 78th anniversary of the sinking of TSS Athenia. The ship was attacked on the day World War 2 was declared in September 1939, becoming the first maritime casualty of the war, claiming 122 lives. Sid Worrall, ships cook, was hard at work frying fish when Athenia was torpedoed. He was horribly burned by boiling fat and steam. Passenger Gerry Hutchison was on deck and was able to help launch ... More Zurich Asia to offer rare stamps and philatelic treasures in Hong Kong auctionHONG KONG.- Zurich Asia is pleased to announce that it will hold its Hong Kong autumn auction on Saturday, 16 and Sunday, 17 September 2017 at Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering 2805 lots of rare philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. There will be a public preview on Thursday, 14 and Friday, 15 September from 10am to 6pm. A major highlight of the sale is a 1949 (23 Oct.) airmail cover from Changchow, Fukien, China to Göteborg, Sweden with extremely rare Fukien Liberated Areas stamps. On the reverse are two vertical pairs and a vertical strip of four Longki hand surcharged $10 on $100 yellow brown stamps, on Sun Yat Sen Shanghai Dah Tung print, and a $100 on Silver Yuan Unit Hong Kong print orange stamp; all tied by the character FUKIEN/LONGKI‟ and HONG KONG/ 1.11.49 transit, a total rate of $180 for overseas 20g. This rate ... More Safeguarding creative spaces at London City Island's new artistic centreLONDON.- arebyte, a contemporary space dedicated to New Media and Performance Art, will relocate its gallery and create affordable artists workspaces at London City Island the new island neighbourhood which is set to become a hub for creative living and cultural excellence. Launching in September, arebytes new artistic spaces will secure a future for its creative residents whilst maintaining its grassroots approach. This relocation is the result of a collaboration between Ballymore, the developers of London City Island; the pioneering Studiomakers initiative, in association with the Mayor of London; and arebyte gallery. The Mayor of Londons Artists Workspace Study (2014)* predicted that up to 3,500 of the capitals artist workspaces would be lost in by 2019 due to rising studio costs. In responding to these growing concerns over availability and affordability, ... More Galerie Urs Meile opens exhibition of works by Aldo WalkerLUCERNE.- Working closely with the family of Aldo Walker, Galerie Urs Meile is overseeing the care of the artists estate. To mark this occasion, the gallery is showing a selection of Walkers works from the 1980s in our Lucerne gallery. Until his early death in 2000, the conceptual artist Aldo Walker was a great influence on both the local and national art scenes in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s. After training as an electrician, Walker took over his fathers business in 1964 and ran it as a one-man operation until 1979. He began producing his conceptual works of art in the 1960s. After finishing his regular workday, he would go home to the apartment he shared with his wife, Mathilde, and their two daughters, and spend his evenings making art and studying the philosophical theories of the day. Aldo Walker took his second job as an artist seriously, and in 1960 ... More A large-scale oil painting by Pekka Halonen donated to the AteneumHELSINKI.- The Ateneum Art Museum, which is part of the Finnish National Gallery, has received for its collection, from a private donor, a painting by the artist Pekka Halonen, entitled Carrying water (1911). Information about the donation was received in the end of August, and the work will be available for the public to see on Tuesday 5 September. The painting will be on display in the New expression hall of the Stories of Finnish Art exhibition until Sunday 1 October 2017. "The donation of Pekka Halonen's painting Carrying water to the Ateneum is an act of great significance. It serves as a reminder of how our national art collection is and has always been built in cooperation with private donors", says the museum director Susanna Pettersson. Following the donation, the Ateneum collection ... More K11 Art Foundation creates a conceptual garden with a dynamic gathering of contemporary artHONG KONG.- The K11 Art Foundation is presenting The Garden, a group exhibition curated by Enoch Cheng. A garden is commonly conceived of as a space to display, cultivate, study and enjoy nature. Expanding upon this concept, the exhibition replaces flora and fauna found in the natural world with contemporary art pieces to create a multisensory art garden. The Garden features works by 9 artists, including new, commissioned pieces by 6 Hong Kong-based artists, namely Shane Aspegren, Enoch Cheng, Cheuk Wing Nam, Vvzela Kook, Andrew Luk and Samuel Adam Swope, alongside works by Neïl Beloufa, Cai Kai and Ian Cheng. Presented at chi art space in Clear Water Bay, the exhibition runs from 2 September to 13 October 2017. A glasshouse is an attempt by man to re-create and examine nature under controlled conditions, allowing man to ... More Dellasposa Fine Art opens exhibition of work by British contemporary artist Alexander JamesLONDON.- Dellasposa Fine Art announces the highly anticipated exhibition Death of the Dream. The work by distinguished British contemporary artist Alexander James unveiled by Dellasposa Fine Art, in association with Herrick Gallery, between 4th - 17th September, 2017. The exhibition showcases some of Alexander James latest and most profound artwork, comprising two main series Death of the Dream of Democracy and Transparency of a Dream Illuminated. Death of the Dream presents a reimagining of the iconic American flag at an important juncture of American political life, reflecting a nations foundational ideal overwhelmed by the turbulent waves of gold-etched capitalism and political action. Composed of 2000 roses and tulip petals, the artist has created an image of the flag in the same manner of a Vanitas still life - reflecting the earthly life and the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. In this image: Two visitors watch the painting "Kreidefelsen auf Ruegen" from 1818 from painter Caspar David Friedrich at the museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, May 2, 2006. The exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich - Invention of romance" shows a retrospective of the great German painter from May 5 to August 20, 2006.
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