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Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale con neon / Räumliche Umgebung mit Neon, 1967/2024, Installation Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal 2024. © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Mailand, by SIAE / GEMA 2024 / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024.
WUPPERTAL.- Lucio Fontana (Argentina 1899 - Italy 1968) is one of the key figures in 20th century art internationally and revolutionised the concept of art as a pioneer of new forms and concepts. His inspiring influence on several generations of artists is indeniable. Despite this, there has not been a major museum exhibition in Germany to honour his work for almost 30 years. Around 100 works from the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, as well as from public and private collections provide an insight into the astonishingly experimental and daring work ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie, on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 11 October 2024 to 27 January 2025. Photo: Kate Shanasy.
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| Almine Rech Paris and Fondation Le Corbusier open exhibition of works by Günther Förg | | University Archives announces highlights included in online-only auction, October 30th | | American art featured in Shannon's Fall Fine Art Auction, Oct, 24 |
Günther Förg Cité Radieuse, 1986. Photographie en couleur, 180 x 120 cm. 71 x 47 in.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris and Fondation Le Corbusier are presenting Le moderne, Günther Förg's solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from October 15 to December 14, 2024. Günther Förg always expressed a complicated and profound relationship to architecture through his work, exploring the connections between abstraction, space, and architecture. He drew on the formal vocabulary of modernism, both in painting and architecture. His abstract, often monochromatic works were sometimes structured ... More | |
Autograph letter in French signed by Pablo Picasso, PSA/DNA graded GEM MT 10, on the reverse of a postcard depicting Paix [Peace], dated June 20, 1960 (est. $6,000-$8,000).
WILTON, CONN.- A complete set of presidential signatures from Washington to Obama, two items signed by Babe Ruth (one graded GEM MT 10), an autograph letter in French signed by Pablo Picasso (PSA/DNA graded GEM MT 10), and a contract signed by both John Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon will all come up for bid in University Archives online-only Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books auction on Wednesday, ... More | |
Oil on canvas painting by Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), titled The Rose Gown (1915), signed, 32 inches by 32 inches (est. $80,000-$120,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers will present their annual fall Fine Art Auction on Thursday, October 24th, at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale will take place live online at shannons.com, with bidding also available by telephone and absentee. Shannons has become the leading auction house for American art and this season proves their strength in attracting quality consignments in this genre. The firm secured ... More |
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| Darren Walker elected President of the National Gallery of Art | | Anni Pullagura appointed Margaret and Terry Stent Associate Curator of American Art position at High Museum of Art | | Nelson-Atkins joins Kansas City in mourning death of Donald J. Hall |
Darren Walker .
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Darren Walker has been elected as the institutions president. Walker, who assumes the role immediately, has served on the National Gallerys board since 2019 and will work alongside his fellow trustees and the executive team to advance the National Gallerys mission as the nations art museum. Walker succeeds Mitchell P. Rales, who will remain an active trustee. Mitchs steadfast leadership as a trustee for 18 ... More | |
Anni Pullagura. Photo: Mel Taing.
ATLANTA, GA.- Today, the High Museum of Art announced the appointment of Anni Pullagura, Ph.D., as its Margaret and Terry Stent associate curator of American art. Pullagura currently serves as the inaugural postdoctoral fellow, offered jointly by the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., while also serving as a consulting assistant curator at the Institute of ... More | |
Business, civic leaders stewardship of museum unsurpassed. Photo: Mark McDonald.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art joins the Hall family and the Hall Family Foundation in mourning the death of business and civic leader Donald J. Hall. The 96-year-old Hall died Sunday. This is an enormous loss for both Kansas City and the Nelson-Atkins, said Evelyn Craft Belger, Chair of the Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees. Don Hall had a profound impact on this entire community and will be greatly ... More |
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| Christie's Asia 20th/21st Century November sale series: A celebration of two cities | | Alexander Berggruen opens Alyina Zaidi's first solo show with the gallery | | Gagosian to participate in Art Basel Paris 2024 with a presentation of exceptional modern works |
Nicolas Partys Still Life. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
HONG KONG.- Following the remarkable success of Christies Hong Kongs inaugural 20th/21st Century Sale at The Henderson, which achieved a total of HK$1.26B with over 90% sell-through rate, Christies is proud to maintain the momentum with an exceptional lineup of sales in Shanghai and Hong Kong this November. This year, the Shanghai sale will coincide with the ART021 Contemporary Art Fair and Art Week Tokyo for the first time. These upcoming auctions will showcase a meticulously curated collection ... More | |
Alyina Zaidi, Euphemia and the assassin, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 40 in. (137.2 x 101.6 cm.) © the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Mark Blower.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Alyina Zaidi: Lost in the belly of a whale. This exhibition will open Wednesday, October 16, 2024. This is the artists first solo show with the gallery. Alyina Zaidis painted world is a magical place that folds like fabric where the boundaries between nature, animal, pattern, and spirit are blurred. Balancing intuitive and planned approaches, with each painting, the artist revisits ... More | |
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (Der Kranke), 2023. Oil and enamel on canvas, 95 x 76 inches (241.3 x 193 cm) © Rudolf Stingel. Photo: Object Studies Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
PARIS.- Gagosian announced its participation in Art Basel Paris, at the Grand Palais, with a display of exceptional historic paintings, sculptures, and photographs extending into the gallerys nearby location at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The twofold presentation showcases works by defining figures of modern and contemporary abstraction and representational art, in dialogue with new works by gallery artists. Pablo Picassos Femme ... More |
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| Global Peace Photo Award 2024 announced | | Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis appointed Artistic Directors of 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale | | Capitain Petzel now representing Jack O'Brien |
Dreams of Childhood by Elisa L. Iannacone, Great Britain / Mexico is the Peace Image of the Year 2024.
BADEN.- The main prize "Peace Image of the Year 2024", endowed with 7,000 euros, went to the Mexican-British artist Elisa L. Iannacone. They suffer from severe chronic kidney problems or are waiting for a heart transplant: little patients in the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital, South Africa. Much, maybe everything, that defines childhood - growing up carefree and with fun - is beyond their reach. But surely they have wishes, desires, dreams. Only, how to express them? ... More | |
Hallie Ayres.
SEOUL.- Seoul Mediacity Biennale announced Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis as Artistic Directors of its 13th edition. Since its inauguration in 2000 as an initiative of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Mediacity Biennale has earned international recognition for its experimental engagement with the conditions of the contemporary, new developments in media, and the changing fabric of the city. These themes were first explored in the Biennales precursor exhibition, SEOUL in MEDIA, which was ... More | |
Jack O'Brien. Image courtesy of frieze, Photo: Alexander Coggin.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel announced the representation of London-based artist Jack OBrien. A selection of new sculptures will be on view at our booth B36 at Art Basel Paris 2024. The artist's first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel will open in January 2025. Jack OBriens erotically charged sculptures start from found objects that have a direct relation to the body in their human scale: musical instruments, industrial materials and aluminum balls, which the artist wraps ... More |
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Frye Art Museum opens 'Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick'SEATTLE, WA.- In her new suite of collages for the Boren Banner Series, Seattle artist Natalie Krick (b. 1986, Portland, Oregon) deconstructs pictures of Marilyn Monroe (19261962). Using contact sheets from commercial photographer Bert Sterns The Complete Last Sitting (a book of 2,600 photos taken for Vogue magazine six weeks before the actresss death), Krick separates the images from the books eroticized language. She then obscures them by masking, layering, and applying cut-out patterns interventions that complicate the voyeuristic viewing the book imposes on its iconic subject. The artists approach to these photographs is, in her words, not an attempt to understand Monroes truth but to focus attention on what the photograph does not show us, on ... More Center for Maine Contemporary Art displays a selection of Letha Wilson's work spanning the past nine yearsROCKLAND, ME.- Cut, Bend, Burn, a solo exhibition by Letha Wilson, opened in CMCAs Bruce Brown Gallery. The exhibit displays a selection of Wilsons work spanning the past nine years and highlights her enduring curiosity and ingenuity within the photographic medium. Cut, Bend, Burn is a culmination of Lethas fascination with materiality and the permeability of the photograph as a physical object. In this exhibition, Wilson deftly explores a photographs limitations of encompassing the actual site it represents by mining the formal properties of sculpture. The sweeping expanse of a desert sunset and grooved rock formations are among images Wilson has taken while traveling in Hawaii, the American West, and Maine. Holes and industrial objects puncture, tear and perforate her photographic surfaces. A slash made with a welding torch burns ... More Exhibition delves on the prevention of neurodegenrative diseasesMILAN.- The new edition of Preserving the Brain, part of the Human Brains project dedicated since 2018 to neurosciences, focuses on the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases. Organized in partnership with fifteen renowned neuroscience institutes from international universities and six Italian patient organizations and associations, Preserving the Brain: A Call to Action consists in a scientific conference (16 17 October 2024) and an exhibition (16 October 2024 7 April 2025) which will be accompanied by a series of meetings (November 2024 April 2025) to be held at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Human Brains is the result of an in-depth research process undertaken by Fondazione Prada and driven by a deep interest in understanding the human brain, the complexity of its functions and its centrality in human history. Developed ... More Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens, new augmented reality installation presented free at Place des ArtsMONTREAL.- Premiered last year in official competition at the Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Immersive section, the experience produced by Felix & Paul Studios is making its North American debut at Place des Arts. Jim Hensons The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens is an augmented reality (AR) storybook that draws from advancements in AR to transport you to the heart of a timeless tale narrated in French by Canadian actor and writer James Hyndman. In this enchanting tale, the night of Emmas birth takes an unexpected turn when her seven brothers are cursed and transformed into ravens. The secret of her brothers fate is hidden from Emma until, 12 years later, hearing the whispers of the villagers, ... More Out of the Blue: DZ BANK's Art Foundation Fellowship 2023/2024FRANKFURT.- Ten years ago, DZ BANKs Art Foundation revived its fellowship program, which had previously been active from 1994 to 2001. Since its revival, the program has featured artists from diverse backgrounds and various age groups, bringing fresh perspectives and expanding the foundations mission. Every year, the foundation selects new fellows without knowing exactly how their projects will unfold over the next year. The final exhibition often surprises, showcasing innovative techniques and themes that develop "out of the blue." This year's recipients, Maryam Jafri and Ian Waelder, received fellowships of 12,000 each, starting in June 2023 and ending in May 2024. The resulting works from their year-long projects are now part of the DZ BANK collection. In addition, pieces by artists Heba Y. Amin, Barbara Proschak, and the Studio for ... More Elite banknotes from Ibrahim Salem Collection of Islamic Countries Part II & III grabs spotlight at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Rare banknotes from Islamic countries, including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria will land in new collections when they are sold in Heritages The Ibrahim Salem Collection of Islamic Countries Part II & III Signature® Auction October 24-25. The auction is the third featuring notes from Salem, whose collection of banknotes from around the globe is considered one of the finest anywhere. The November 2022 Ibrahim Salem Collection of Islamic Countries Part I Signature® Auction and the May 2023 Ibrahim Salem Banknote Collection of World Peninsulas ... More Immersive digital experience features the lives of 14 Victorian children who grew up living in the National GalleryLONDON.- 'NG Stories: Making a National Gallery' blends the digital and physical worlds to shed light on the people and ideas that shaped the history of the National Gallery as we now know it many of whom worked behind the scenes or whose names have been forgotten. Taking over two rooms of the Gallerys ground floor, and accompanied by histories shared online and on social media, 'NG Stories' is one of the key strands of NG200's digital engagement programme, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. 'NG Stories' provides a contemporary exploration of the Gallerys 200-year history, highlighting lesser-known people using inventive digital methods to make use of rich archival material. Stories range from ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Paul Strand was born October 16, 1890. Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. In this image: Wall Street, 1915.
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