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With contemporary sculptural forms, exquisite glazes, painstakingly intricate and challenging techniques, and refined aesthetics, these three artists have become the young leaders of the next generation of Japanese clay artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- Three rising stars in Japanese contemporary ceramics will make their debuts in New York City this September at Joan B Mirviss LTD. The exhibition will showcase three young artists in their first solo exhibitions in the United States. Hattori Makiko, Kino Satoshi, and Takemura Yuri have each chosen a highly independent, creative approach to clay that challenges the centuries-old, established traditions of Japanese ceramic art. In the dozen works created for Inside Out: Meditative Forms of Hattori Makiko, the artist has created a captivating body of work that commands close-up viewing with her incredibly intricate, sensuous, yet surprisingly sharp surfaces. Confronting the historically significant art of celadon-glazed porcelain, Kino Satoshi tackles this esteemed tradition with his highly original approach in Quiet Tension: The Sculptural Art of Kino Satoshi. Takemura Yuri, in Dancing Colors of Takemura Yuri, takes the concept and for ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, tour the Flight 93 National Memorial on the 16th Anniversary ceremony of the September 11th terrorist attacks, September 11, 2017 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field outside Shanksville, PA with 40 passengers and 4 hijackers aboard on September 11, 2001. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP
| Exhibition reveals the most recent developments in Tracey Emin's work | | Christie's to offer items from the personal collection of Claude Monet | | Sotheby's to offer an over-two-metre tall piece created for the reopening show of MoMA in 1932 | 
Tracey Emin, A certain degree of anger, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 213,1 x 152,4 x 3,4 cm 83 7⁄8 Ã 60 Ã 1 1⁄4 in. Photo: HV-Studio Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- The Memory of your Touch, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery by British artist Tracey Emin, opened this September at Xavier Hufkens as a cornerstone of its new season. Spanning both galleries and encompassing works in a wide range of media including paintings, new bronze sculptures, works on paper, neon texts and a video the exhibition reveals the most recent developments in Emins intensely personal yet profoundly universal oeuvre. Typically working from memories and dreams, the artist captures her innermost feelings in language and the materiality of her work. The human condition in all its pathos, misery and beauty youth and maturity, love, loss and lust, intimacy, shame, guilt, grief, crisis and death is the driving force of her art, which is tantamount to a visible manifestation of different existential states. Eschewing mimesis, Emin focuses on transmitting the emotional essence of h ... More | | 
A pair of golden metal spectacles, round eye wires and short temples terminating by flexible ends, illegible makers mark. Estimate: $1,000-1,500. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer objects and artworks from the personal collection of Claude Monet in Hong Kong on 26 November 2017. In addition to being the very first sale dedicated to Impressionism organised in Asia, the auction will be transmitted in real time in Christie's Parisian auction room so that European based clients may also attend the sale and participate. Titled Dear Monsieur Monet, the collection, preserved by Rolande Verneiges, an unrecognised yet protected daughter of Claude Monets son Michel, presents an intimate and family driven insight into one of art historys most beloved artists. Hidden from the rest of the world, these works have only been seen in catalogue reproductions. The auction will include early works by Claude Monet that trace his artistic development, ranging from early sketches to pastels and some of the first examples of the artist working in series. These are presented alongside pieces fr ... More | | 
Yun Gee, Wheels: Industrial New York, 1932 (detail), oil on canvas, 214 x 122 cm. Est. HK$80million 120million/ US$10million 15million. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- At the Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 30 September, Sothebys will present Yun Gees Wheels: Industrial New York, the most significant work from the Chinese-American artists illustrious career. Standing at over two metres tall, the painting is not only Yun Gees largest work in terms of its physical dimensions, it is also the creation in response to the invitation to the reopening show of New Yorks Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1932, making Yun Gee the first Chinese artist to exhibit at the world-famous institution. This momentous invitation, and subsequent masterpiece, established a significant milestone for both the artist and Chinese Modern art at large. Wheels: Industrial New York is estimated at HK$80million 120 million/ US$10million 15million. Vinci Chang, Sothebys Head of Modern Asian Art, commented, Considered the father of Chinese Modern art, t ... More |
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| Hirshhorn acquires full series of Ragnar Kjartansson's acclaimed "Me and My Mother" | | Perrotin New York opens exhibition of metal sculptures by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye | | Phillips announces the fall auction of 'The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation' | 
Ragnar Kjartansson, "Me and My Mother," 2015. Single-channel video, 20:25 minutes. Courtesy of the artist Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced the acquisition of all four current installments of Ragnar Kjartansson's (b. 1976) ongoing video series "Me and My Mother," along with the promise of all future iterations, making it the only institution to own this seminal piece in its entirety. The Hirshhorn first staged the work in 2016 when it co-organized Kjartansson's critically acclaimed first major mid-career survey exhibition with the Barbican in London. "Me and My Mother" began in 2000 while Kjartansson was still a student, and it is based upon a simple premise - every five years, Kjartansson invites his mother, the well-known Icelandic actress Guðrún Ãsmundsdóttir, to spit on him. Mother and son stand side-by-side in her living room facing a fixed-point camera. Periodically and repeatedly, Kjartansson's mother turns and spits into his face with dramatic gusto. Initially shocking in its spectacular d ... More | | 
Wim Delvoye, Twisted Jesus Clockwise, 2012. Patinated bronze, 150 x 50 x 35 cm / 59 1/16 x 19 11/16 x 13 3/4 inches © Wim Delvoye / ADAGP, Paris 2017. Courtesy Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting an exhibition of metal sculptures created over the past five years by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The exhibition is the artists eleventh solo in the city, the sixth one-person show with the gallery and his first singular presentation at Perrotin New York. Wim Delvoye has developed an art that offers a reinterpretation of artworks of the past, while laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th centuryfrom Bosch and Brueghel to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects. With a Baroque gesture between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire him. Art is a game we play with serious matter. Kurt Schwitters Celebrated for his scandalous Cloaca machines, which scientifically transform the cuisine of the worlds best chefs into manufactured ... More | | 
Margaret Bourke-White, Concrete Trestle, circa 1930. Gelatin silver print. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (45.1 x 31.1 cm). Estimate: $25,000 35,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the auction of The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation on 3 October. Following the successful offering of works from the collection earlier this year, the fall sale will include 229 lots, spanning three centuries of photography. Assembled by JGS's founder Howard Stein, this sale presents rare and unique works by true masters of the medium, such as Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Frank, and László Moholy-Nagy, among many others. Caroline Deck, Phillips Senior Specialist, Photographs, said, We are thrilled to offer our second sale of The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation this October. Our first sale of this renowned collection was hosted in April and it was met with a great deal of enthusiasm by photograph collectors around the globe. The demand for these extremely rare and significant ... More |
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| Moscow unveils $240m park with tundra, ice cave | | Christchurch's quake-hit cathedral to be rebuilt | | RM Sotheby's achieves $76.3m in Maranello as unique Laferrari Aperta breaks records | 
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) gestures during a visit to Zaryadye Park on September 9, 2017 in Moscow. Alexei DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Moscow on Monday opens a brand new park to the public just steps from the Kremlin, boasting wonders such as an ice labyrinth, despite criticism over its huge pricetag. Zaryadye Park has replaced a gigantic Soviet-era hotel on the banks of the Moscow river, which was demolished in 2006 leaving a lot that stood empty for many years as investors and City Hall clashed over the space, valued at more than $1 billion. Spanning an area just over 10 hectares (25 acres) in prime location near Red Square and the Kremlin, the lot was eventually converted into a park because "nothing else worked," said Moscow culture department chief Alexander Kibovsky as he gave a tour to journalists at the weekend. Initially, "nobody had the courage to suggest it could be a park... the lot was valued at 1.5 billion in foreign currency," he said. "We were shocked" when Moscow ... More | | 
This file photo taken on Mar 5, 2011 shows an earthquake damaged church in Christchurch. Marty MELVILLE / AFP.
WELLINGTON (AFP).- Heritage groups in New Zealand on Monday welcomed a decision to rebuild Christchurch's Anglican cathedral, six years after it was extensively damaged in a deadly earthquake. Much of the late 19th Century neo-Gothic structure collapsed in the 6.3-magnitude quake that levelled the South Island city's downtown area in February 2011, killing 185 people. A temporary cathedral made of cardboard was built in 2013 with the derelict one's future hotly debated ever since. The Anglican Church wanted to tear it down and start anew, saying the restoration cost of more than NZ$100 million ($73 million) was prohibitive. Heritage groups challenged the decision in court, arguing the cathedral was an intrinsic part of the city's historical fabric. After years of legal wrangling, a compromise was announced over the weekend which capped the church's liability in the rebuild. ... More | | 
The success of the sale is a fitting tribute to help celebrate Ferraris 70th anniversary year. Photo: Courtesy of RM Sotheby's.
MARANELLO.- RM Sothebys announced that it has achieved a remarkable 92.5 percent sell-through rate and 63,068,110 / $76,312,413 in sales at its single-marque Ferrari Leggenda e Passione auction, in partnership with Ferrari. Held 9 September at the legendary Pista di Fiorano, the mouthwatering group of automobiles saw collectors bid via telephones, online, and from the trackside stadium seating that had been set up for the outdoor sale, eager to secure some exquisite cars. The success of the sale is a fitting tribute to help celebrate Ferraris 70th anniversary year. Bidding was fierce for the 2017 LaFerrari Aperta that closed an unforgettable evening and topped the sales figures. The Aperta will be finished in a one-of-a-kind stunning metallic Rosso Fuoco with a Bianco Italia double racing stripe on the bonnet and rear deck. The interior will ... More |
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| MSU Broad announces major $1 million grant for new expansion | | Ben Enwonwu's 'Nigerian Symphony' leads Bonhams Africa Now sale | | Wandering Rome: New exhibition compares photographic perspectives on Rome | 
Zaha Hadid, Eli & Edyth Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University. Photo courtesy of Paul Warchol.
EAST LANSING, MICH.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University was awarded $1 million from MSU Federal Credit Union in support of an expansion across Grand River Avenue that will provide increased access and research for the MSU Broads 7,500 piece permenant collection. The expansion will provide additional exhibition spaces for its collection and a research center focused on the museum of tomorrow. The collection will serve as an access point to education and research and will include a study center and cases for visiting instructors, students, and researchers to integrate the collection into teaching and learning. The MSU Broads living and expanding collection spans artistic production from Ancient Greece and Rome and pre-Columbian cultures, to Medieval and Renaissance, to Modern and Contemporary, and enables the museum to explore the art of our time through the long lens of art history. The MSU Broad ... More | | 
Detail of Nigerian Symphony, Ben Enwonwu M.B.E. Estimate: £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare and historically significant composition by the father of Nigerian Modernism, Ben Enwonwu, is the top lot at Bonhams Africa Now Modern & Contemporary African Art sale at its New Bond Street saleroom on 5 October 2017. Nigerian Symphony is estimated at £100,000-150,000. The monumental piece measures 48 x 178cm; the distinctive panoramic view depicts a bustling street. Despite the threatening rain clouds over head, Nigerian citizens from all walks of life are present: market vendors in traditional dress, women in gele, bespectacled and suited businessmen all jostle for space. The painting was executed in 1963-64, and reveals the optimism and euphoria that many Nigerians felt following independence in 1960. Despite the diversity, the crowd is peaceful. The orange, curving arcs that outline the heads of the central figures create a sense of unity. The painting is a visual expression of the nations new political status ... More | | 
Jeannette Montgomery Barron, June 10th, 2014, Rome Archival pigment print, 30 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania is presenting A View of Ones OwnThree Women Photographers in Rome: Esther Boise Van Deman, Georgina Masson, Jeannette Montgomery Barron. Organized last fall by the American Academy in Rome (AAR), the exhibition features photographs by American women in Rome from three different generations, documenting the Eternal City and its urban transformation over more than a century, from the Belle Ãpoque to today. The photographs also tracks the emergence of photography as an independent mediumevolving from a documentary aid to a vehicle for subjective, even gendered expression in the digital age. The Arthur Ross Gallery is the exclusive U.S. venue for this exhibition. ARGs Director Lynn Marsden-Atlass says: The Arthur Ross Gallery is very pleased to collaborate with the American ... More |
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 Charlie Smith London presents impeccable photo-realist drawings made by French artist Eric Manigaud LONDON.- Charlie Smith London is presenting French artist Eric Manigaud in his second one person exhibition at the gallery. Manigaud is recognised for his impeccable photo-realist drawings made after original, archival photographs. Working in series, he investigates profound, historical themes including injured World War I soldiers; bombed World War II cities; 19th century murder victims; and asylum inmates. His subject matter, therefore, is commonly brutal and uncompromising. In this exhibition Manigaud has focused entirely on the Paris massacre of 1961, when the French National Police attacked a peaceful demonstration of pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians, which resulted in the ruthless and intentional murder of numerous unarmed demonstrators (estimated between 200 and 300 despite the French government eventually acknowledging only 40 ... More Postmasters opens Rafaël Rozendaal's third solo exhibition with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters is presenting Anti Social, Rafaël Rozendaal's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Stretched like paintings, six new large-scale weavings comprise the show. Each derives from 'Abstract Browsing,' a Chrome extension designed by the artist. This free software plugin transforms content-filled web pages into vibrant, geometric patterns, devoid of information. The resulting non-arbitrary abstractions of well-known websites, like Google, the Pirate Bay, and Reddit, simultaneously reveal unusual, unhuman compositions and the scaffolding of the web. Surfing the web is fast and fluid. Weaving is antithetically slow and process-basedwhat the artist describes as "mechanical painting." Rozendaal selected weaving as the medium for these works because of the relationship between computer programming and the loom: The Jacquard Loom inspired Charles ... More Russian film turns classic author into sexy supersleuth MOSCOW (AFP).- A new Russian film aimed at a youth audience reinvents classic novelist Nikolai Gogol as a gothic-style detective who battles dark supernatural forces to solve a series of ritual murders. Critics have queried the lashings of eyeliner, plumped-up lips and lack of historical rigour, while the makers say the film will breathe new life into the 19th-century writer's works for today's school pupils. Mist swirls, black horses gallop through dark forests and naked witches leap over bonfires in the first film in a planned series of four, called "Gogol. The Start," which opened in cinemas on August 31 and will also be shown in an eight-episode television version. The film is based partly on the author's real life, with references to his epileptic fits and a brief job as a clerk for the tsarist political police -- as well as to his fear of being buried alive. In the film, Gogol ... More Bonhams U.S. appoints East and West Coast Directors of Modern Decorative Art & Design DepartmentNEW YORK, NY.- The international auction house Bonhams announces that Jason Stein and Dan Tolson have joined the Modern Decorative Art & Design Department as Directors. Stein will be based in Los Angeles and Tolson will be based in New York. Both are returning to Bonhams having held senior specialist positions. Ben Walker, Head of Department, who joined earlier in the year, commented, I am delighted to welcome back both Jason and Dan to Bonhams. Their appointments give us one of the strongest and most versatile line-ups in the field and underline Bonhams commitment to the Modern Decorative Art & Design market, both in North America and beyond. Jason Stein rejoins Bonhams with more than 25 years experience as a 20th century decorative arts specialist with other international auction houses both on the east and west coasts. Most recently he ... More Langen Foundation opens solo exhibition by the artist collective FORT. NEUSS.- The Langen Foundation is presenting the solo exhibition Limbo by the artist collective FORT. Comprised of Jenny Kropp (b. 1978 in Frankfurt am Main) and Alberta Niemann (b. 1982 in Bremen), FORT creates installations, videos, and performances. In their works, which are usually site-specific, they concentrate on the blurring of the thresholds between the everyday and the mystical, the rational and the irrational, thereby allowing the beholders to experience the fragility of this order. To this end, FORT works with everyday objects, conveying them into the exhibition space, or creates spatial situations that are often reminiscent of film sets. Their set pieces from reality originate in our urban lifeworld: individual architectural elements like windows and doors, but also an entire petrol station or the furnishing of a drug store from the Schlecker chain, are used as readymades ... More Kunsthalle Basel opens exhibition of performances by Adam LinderBASEL.- You might not notice it at first. But the atmosphere upstairs is cool-white, ever so slightly off, artificial. A mood is set, at once alienating and charged, in a space left largely empty, its scale and white walls rendered more apparent. Four performers move in this space, their kinetic impulses surging through their bodies as if following enigmatic orders. They capture your attention with their improbable acts and then casually pull a shroud-like costume over their head and sit or lie down in a corner, forming an amorphous blob, whenever they need time off from their physical exertion. Over the three-week duration of the exhibition, four dancers will sustain this for a total of sixty- five hours. They enact the newest artwork by Adam Linder, a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. Linder is classically trained and previously performed for the likes of The Royal Ballet ... More Mikael Wallhagen and Tony Frank to join Sotheby's Watch Department GENEVA.- In light of ever-increasing demand and opportunities in the field, Sothebys welcomes Mikael Wallhagen and Tony Frank, two senior leading figures in the world of horology, both of whom will take on key roles in the global Watches team. Mikael and Tony each bring over 20 years of experience in the watch industry, coming to Sothebys from the Swedish auction house Bukowskis, where they created the Watch department and successfully launched live and online auctions. Their appointments come as Sothebys continues to reinforce its global team, which includes many of the foremost experts in the field. Daryn Schnipper, Senior Vice President and Chairman of the International Watch Division, said: We are very excited to welcome both Mikael and Tony, whose experience will contribute much to strengthen our growing team. Our market continues ... More Exhibition of new work by Kevin Cyr on view at Jonathan LeVine ProjectsJERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting Labor Day, an exhibition of new work by Kevin Cyr in what is his third solo show at the gallery. In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, Cyr finds beauty in derelict cars. With a devoted attention to detail, he paints old vehiclesprimarily vans and commercial truckscovered in graffiti, rust, scratches, scuffs, dents and other marks of distinction. By meticulously illustrating every imperfection and sign of age, Cyrs work serves as a documentation of time, place and the evolution of the American landscape. Cyr places strong importance on his subjects and sets vehicles against solid, brightly colored backgrounds. By removing the context of the urban landscape he instills a level of portrait-like importance and portrays moments of stillness in an ever changing world. Labor ... More BOZAR exhibits the 40-shortlisted works for the 2017 Mies van der Rohe Award BRUSSELS.- The results of the 2017 EU Mies Award are presented at BOZAR as a tour of the best 40 works built in the last two years, a critical look at contemporary European architecture. This exhibition is an itinerary that reflects the discussions held by the 2017 jury. It displays the works reviewed and selected by it, emphasising the importance of the urban character of Europe. The 40-shortlisted works are organised according to the urban fabric where they are found: Exourban, Periphery, Consolidated and Historic Centre; the parts that construct for this exhibition an imaginary city that we call the City of 40. As geographer Francesc Muñoz wrote in the Atlas. European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Award 1988-2015, the EU Mies Award is an architecture prize with a European vocation that celebrates urban fragments of excellence. DeFlat ... More 'The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll' closes with record attendance numbersSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- More than 25,000 museum visitors crowded in for a chance to see The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll in its final week before closing on August 20. Over its 19-week run, almost 270,000 visitors from around the world came to the de Young to relive the Summer of Love, making the exhibition the highest attended since Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis debuted at the de Young in 2013. The record numbers also extended to online interest, with almost 400,000 visitors browsing exhibition web offerings. The Summer of Love Digital Story, part of a series of free educational online guides initiated by Max Hollein, Director and CEO, alone drew almost 40,000 visits, making it the most-read digital publication thus far. Additional educational programs and publications developed by the de Young ... More Chapter NY opens an exhibition of new work by Patrick BerranNEW YORK, NY.- Chapter NY is presenting an exhibition of new work by Patrick Berran. This is the artists second show at the gallery. Patrick Berrans work plays upon the transformation of visual information through layers of painting, printing and transfer. The exhibition includes a series of new paintings on panel, including the artists largest compositions to date. Berran builds up his saturated surfaces through the break down and overlay of various layers of aesthetic disturbance. Pulled from observational sketches, photocopy-collage and found textures, the artist abstracts these initial marks through various transfer techniques, which compound and opaque their original source material. This deliberate process translates Berrans initial aesthetic information into a form of dense static, evoking the material weight and volatility of visual data. This complex consideration ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Lithuanian-born American artist Ben Shahn was born September 12, 1898. Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. In this image: Lithuanian-born American social realist painter Ben Shahn is seen at his studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1938.
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