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John Sloan (American 1871 - 1951), Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, 1907 (detail). Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 32 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Meyer P. Potamkin and Vivian O. Potamkin, 2000. 1964-116-5.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This spring, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition exploring the creative responses of American artists to the rapid pace of change that occurred in this country during the early decades of the twentieth century. Modern Times: American Art 19101950 examines the new and dynamic visual language that emerged during this period and had a dramatic impact on painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, architecture, and the decorative arts. These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations then occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity. The exhibition will feature important works by those artistsGeorgia OKeeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and John Marin, among themc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day German artist Georg Baselitz attends his exhibition in Chemnitz, eastern Germany on April 16, 2018. Sebastian Willnow / dpa / AFP
| The Art Institue of Chicago announces major philanthropy of $70 million | | Getty Villa exhibition examines ancient Palmyran funerary portraits | | Gray's Auctioneers & Appraisers to offer a newly discovered work by William Merritt Chase | 
Janet and Craig Duchossois. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced today a $50 million unrestricted gift from Janet and Craig Duchossois and a $20 million gift from Robert and Diane v.S. Levy for acquisitions and operations. These historic gifts advance the museums civic mission and enable bold planning for the future. It is an honor to work with trustees whose foresight and generosity will shape the museums impact on our community for generations to come, said James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director. Gifts such as these allow the museum to look forward with certainty and ambition, serving our city as one of the worlds greatest art museums. Janet Duchossois shared, Craig and I chose to make this unrestricted gift to demonstrate our confidence and support of James Rondeau and the board. We are proud to be partners in their strategy and approach for the museum both today and in the future. A Votin ... More | | 
Head of a Man, AD 190-210. Palmyran Limestone. H: 34 x W: 26.5 x D: 33 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/16 x 13 in.) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen IN1145 VEX.2018.3.19.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The ancient city of Palmyra (Place of Palms), well situated in an oasis in the Syrian desert, flourished between the first and third centuries AD. At the crossroads of trade routes between the Roman and Parthian Persian empires, the people of Palmyra embellished their tombs with distinctive funerary portraits that illuminate the rich cultural exchanges and interactions taking place throughout the eastern Mediterranean and Near East. Palmyra: Loss and Remembrance, on display as a long-term loan at the Getty Villa from April 18, 2018 through May 27, 2019, presents a selection of the finest surviving Palmyran funerary portrait sculptures from the unrivalled collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The exhibition will also include historical engravings and photographs from the Getty ... More | | 
Dubbed Jester Resting on a Chair, 1875, the work is one of several trial poses Chase painted as preparation for his famous Keying Up- The Court Jester.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Grays Auctioneers & Appraisers will debut a previously undiscovered work by William Merritt Chase. Chase is a landmark figure in the history of American painting: a turn of the century Impressionist with a deft hand for shadow and color, a highly sought-after portraitist, and an esteemed educator and founder of one of Americas greatest artistic institutions. Born in Indiana in 1849, Chase studied in New York, St. Louis, and at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany before finding his first great success with his 1875 painting Keying Up- The Court Jester. Initially exhibited for the Boston Art Club in 1876, the painting depicts a rosy cheeked court jester hunched over in his scarlet & gold costume and pouring himself (perhaps another) glass of wine. Distinguishing itself with its warmly saturated scarlets and ... More |
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| Sam Francis Foundation to launch online catalogue raisonne (SFCR) to global audience | | Tate to seek trustee for a new generation and to launch £5 exhibition tickets for 16-25 year olds | | Museum collections help scientists understand the role of sexual selection in extinction | 
Photo of Francis painting in hospital bed at Fort Miley Hospital, March 18, 1946. Photo by Acme, San Francisco Bureau.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Sam Francis Foundation will release the first installment of the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné ProjectThe Compilation of Unique Works on Paper and Expanded Version of Canvas and Panel Paintings of the internationally recognized artist on April 18, 2018. This first installment contains 201 entries documenting the currently known unique works on paper and canvas and panel paintings attributed to Sam Francis from 1945 through 1949. The online catalogue raisonné project (SFCR) will ultimately document the entire oeuvre of this extremely prolific artist and will be available to a global audience. One of the twentieth centurys leading interpreters of light and color, American artist Sam Francis (19231994) was one of the first post-World War II painters to develop an international reputation. A truly international artist, he maintained studios in Bern, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and ... More | | 
Late at Tate Britain © Tate photography (Richard Eaton).
LONDON.- Tate, with agreement from government, will seek to appoint its first Trustee dedicated to bringing the views of the next generation to the highest level of Tates decision-making process. Tate is also launching £5 exhibition tickets for 16 to 25 year olds as part of a new scheme called Tate Collective. It is the first free-to-join membership scheme for 16 to 25 year olds at a national UK museum and is open to people anywhere in the world to join online. Those who do can see any of Tate exhibitions for a fiver and also get discounts in Tates cafes and shops. They can also bring up to three friends to shows, each for £5. These initiatives respond directly to Tates recent programmes and consultation with this age group who said the cost of living and higher education mean funds are squeezed and they want access to more affordable activities which they can enjoy with their friends. Museums and galleries also need to build stronger relationships with youth ... More | | 
Gene Hunt, curator of Ostracoda for the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, with a deep-sea ostracode specimen under the microscope. Hunt and a team of researchers drew on the museums ostracode collection to understand the role of sexual selection in extinction. Their findings were published in Nature April 11. Photo: Adrian James Testa, Smithsonian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The lengths that some males go to attract a mate can pay off in the short term. But according to a new study from scientists at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, extravagant investments in reproduction also have their costs. By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by National Museum of Natural History paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction. Hunt, the museums postdoctoral fellow M. João Fernandes Martins and collaborators at William & Mary and the University of ... More |
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| A set of 12 European silver-gilt standing cups reunited for the first time in more than 150 years | | Christie's Magnificent Jewels Sale totals USD 45,657,125 | | Helen Cammock wins the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery | 
Titus visiting Egypt, (detail from the Titus dish), the Aldobrandini Tazze, c 1587 c 1599; Netherlands?; silver gilt; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon; acc. no. 11.2018. Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
AYLESBURY.- For the first time in more than 150 years some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic treasures of the Renaissance, a set of 12 European silver-gilt standing cups - known as the Aldobrandini Tazze have be reunited and displayed together at Waddesdon Manor. These beautiful table ornaments celebrate the Twelve Caesars, notorious rulers of ancient Rome. Each standing cup (or tazza) includes a portrait of one of the Caesars, as well as four episodes from his life on the supporting dish. The forty-eight vignettes bring to life the book, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Roman historian Suetonius (written in the early second century AD). One of the great mysteries surrounding the Silver Caesars is that no record exists to explain their origin. We do not know when the set ... More | | 
An Exceptional Colored Diamond and Diamond Ring. Price Realized: $5,375,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Christies New York April 17 auction of Magnificent Jewels achieved a total of $45,657,125. The sale sold 88% by Lot and 96% by Value, led by an exceptional fancy intense blue diamond and diamond ring, weighing approximately 3.09 carats, which achieved $5,375,000. Sale highlights included an impressive selection of exceptional colored diamonds, diamonds and gemstones, along with significant signed period and modern jewels by Boucheron, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, JAR, Van Cleef & Arpels, and more. Further highlights included important blue diamond rings from esteemed private collections and notable JAR jewels, including an oval-cut diamond Thread ring of 22.76 carats that ultimately realized $2,772,500. The New York auction kicks off Christies global jewel auction season, with Geneva ... More | | 
Helen Cammock. Photo: Magda Stawarska - Beavan.
LONDON.- Iwona Blazwick, OBE, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery has announced Helen Cammock as the seventh winner of the prestigious Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on 16 April 2018. The Prize, which has been awarded in alternate years since 2005, supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a solo survey exhibition, making it the only visual art prize of its kind the UK. London based artist Helen Cammock (b. 1970) was chosen by a panel of expert judges from a shortlist including Céline Condorelli, Eloise Hawser, Athena Papadopoulos and Mandy El-Sayegh, all of whom presented proposals for an artist residency in Italy. As the winner, Cammock will now spend six months in Italy during 2018 on a residency tailored to her interests, creating a new body of work that will be shown in a major solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2019 ... More |
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| Gladstone Gallery opens exhibition of new works by artist Roe Ethridge | | Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery presents a cross-section of works from Thomas Mailaender's career | | Grey Art Gallery exhibition interrogates contemporary visions of nature | 
Ine Neefs, 2017 © Roe Ethridge, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery presents its fourth exhibition by artist Roe Ethridge, whose photographs deconstruct visual syntax by consciously reworking tropes of both stock imagery and fine art. These new works serve as an extended meditation on genres and styles associated with the traditions of Dutch painting, particularly the still life, domestic scene, and portraiture. Ethridge reflects on these models as foundational to "visual culture" in exposing the image as a material construction that simultaneously produces and is produced by complex relationships: artist and subject, nature and technology, and the personal and the social. Through this lens, he connects disparate figures, including mushroom spores, holiday tchotchkes, and fashion models, via subtle formal cues-such as color, reoccurring motif, or compositional correspondence-that denaturalize the photograph's claims to objectivity. ... More | | 
Nude Museum, 2018 © Thomas Mailaender. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery.
LONDON.- The Michael Hoppen Gallery is presenting its first solo show with multimedia artist Thomas Mailaender. Thomas Mailaender (born 1979) is a French artist living and working between Paris and Marseille known for his use of a wide range of media and his experimentation with printing processes, fixing strange and humorous found imagery onto the surface of ceramics, photography and sculpture. The resulting objects teem with curiosity and a sense of the eccentric, pairing traditional, historical techniques with today's prolific digital visual culture. The source of images used in Mailaender's work is the artist's Fun Archive, a collection of absurd, amateur photographs he started amassing from the internet in 2000. Once applied to their intended surface or material, and removed from context, the resulting objects are transformed into monuments to contemporary culture. Using humour as provocation, Mailaender's ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Townscape, 1969 (detail). Amphibolin on canvas, 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (70 x 70 cm) Hall Collection. Courtesy Acquavella Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the current global environmentwith nature threatened now more than everhow is our contemporary landscape reimagined by artists? Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime explores this intriguing question through artworks that confront an increasingly sinister notion of the sublime. Curated by renowned photographer Joel Sternfeld, the exhibition features approximately 60 works by over 45 artists, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, installation, film, and video. Landscapes after Ruskin was organized by the Hall Art Foundation and is on view at New York Universitys Grey Art Gallery from April 17 through July 7, 2018. Works in the show span many stylesfrom realism to expressionism, abstraction to figurationrevealing the multiple ways that contemporary artists are addressing current environmental concerns. ... More |
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 Mullin Automotive Museum presents the rarest and most beautiful cars from French coachbuildersOXNARD, CA.- The Mullin Automotive Museum revealed that the crown jewels of its collection have returned to the museum as part of its exhibit, which debuted to the public on Saturday, April 14. Entitled Lépoque des Carrossiers: The Art and Times of the French Coachbuilders, this new display showcases the finest and most renowned sculpture, artifacts and vehicles from the Mullin Museums permanent collection, each representing the skill and unparalleled craftsmanship of the most esteemed French master coachbuilders. The Era of Coachbuilding was marked by elegantly-designed and hand-crafted automobile bodies that were commissioned by societys most prominent members, using artisans and visionaries to craft bespoke works of rolling art. Lépoque des Carrossiers explores the greatest vehicles of this ... More The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery celebrates ten years of making art accessibleLEEDS.- A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery celebrates the 10th anniversary of the major refurbishment which created a space for the University of Leeds to engage people in the city and beyond with its art collection. Opening on 18 April, Transformation celebrates the extensive contributions from Stanley and Audrey Burton, Hilary Diaper and the general public to the development and success of the Gallery space. The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery was launched under its new name, in the enlarged and enhanced space in the Universitys Parkinson Building, on 6 March 2008. Layla Bloom, the Universitys Art Curator, said: It was a considerable change from the old University Gallery as it was originally known. Ten years on from the Gallerys major transformation, it is an opportune time to consider what the Burton family have made ... More LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects opens exhibition of works by artist Beth CarterBRUSSELS.- LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects presents, for the first time in Belgium, the UK-based artist Beth Carter. Influenced by the depths of Jungs philosophy, Beth Carter explores the various means through which the mind expresses itself via dreams, myths and hidden worlds. The extreme richness of details in her drawings and sculptures uncovers layer after layer of thoughts around the existential dilemmas of human condition. Her new exhibition titled «Shadow Stories» makes us wander through one of her preferred themes: The Night. A world of shadows in which wander bizarre and hybrid creatures. A universe haunted by mysterious beings both strange yet oddly familiar, unique albeit universal. It powerfully evokes the products of our subconscious, born in this small corner of our minds where dreams and nightmares come to life. ... More Whyte's announces highlights from the Eclectic Collector AuctionDUBLIN.- The eclectic array of collectibles in this popular series of auctions hosted by Whytes includes historic artefacts, manuscripts, documents and printed ephemera, also maps, books, photographs, postcards, advertising signs and posters, jewellery and watches, militaria and weapons, coins, medals & banknotes, curios etc. Maxwells uniform headgear as Colonel and General of the Black Watch (42nd) Royal Highland Regiment, consisting a Black Watch General officer's feather bonnet of dyed Ostrich feathers, a General officer's full-dress cocked hat with feather plume, and a court bicorn hat with cut steel cockade. Each in fitted japanned metal case, the bonnet-case with brass plaque engraved General Sir J. Maxwell. Protected for a century in metal cases, the hats are, as was intended, hugely impressive. They speak of centuries of military tradition ... More Grid Art Fair announces blockchain partnership with VerisartLONDON.- Grid Art Fair announced its exciting new partnership with Verisart, in which Grid will be the very first art fair to offer their artists the unique opportunity to certify, using the Bitcoin blockchain, all their works to be displayed at the event. Verisart is the world's leading platform to certify and verify artworks and collectibles using the Bitcoin blockchain. Since its launch in 2015, Verisart has provided contemporary artists including Shepard Fairey with a free and easy way to generate permanent certificates of authenticity and reduce the scope for fraudulent activity. Verisart combines museum certification standards, distributed ledger technology and image recognition to its provenance and registry services. For Grid Art Fair, independently of work being sold, certificates of authenticity will be generated on behalf of the artist, each carrying their own ... More Turner Contemporary launches fundraising campaign to bring 'Paula the Polar Bear' to Margate MARGATE .- Today, Turner Contemporary launched their first online fundraising campaign via Art Happens, Art Funds crowdfunding platform. The gallery are asking donors to be at the heart of an exciting new project: to raise £15,000 and enable them to bring a life sized polar bear puppet, Paula the Polar Bear, to Margate sands this summer. The project will get thousands of people talking about climate change as part of their summer exhibition, Animals & Us . If the money is raised, Paula the Polar Bear will roam through the town and across the beach throughout the summer season. The Art Happens campaign will last for 4 weeks and the project will only be realised if the gallery is successful in raising £15,000. Donations can be made from as little as £5 and there are a number of enticing rewards on offer in return for your support. Turner Contemporary has worked ... More Exhibition of new work by street artist Mr Brainwash opens at Maddox Gallery, LondonLONDON.- Maddox Gallery, London is presenting new work by world renowned street artist Mr Brainwash. Keep Smiling is the Los Angeles-based artist's first UK exhibition for six years and is being exhibited across Maddox Gallerys three London locations in Mayfair and Westbourne Grove. A provocative figure in the world of street art, Mr. Brainwash is known for his irreverent brand of appropriation and Keep Smiling is injected with his trademark undercurrent of mischief, humour and optimism. Classical paintings are playfully transformed while ornate mirrors are struck with flashes of neon and vibrant painted messages. Known for his playful take on the historical, the artist mischievously alters traditional impressionist style paintings and historical portraits by adding contemporary iconography. From Jeff Koons balloon dog to Keith Harings stick man and pop ... More Exhibition of works by British artist Jonathan Huxley opens at Galerie ArtimaLONDON.- Galerie Olivier Waltman (Paris | Miami | London), in partnership with Galerie Artima, announces an exhibition with the work of renowned British artist Jonathan Huxley, featuring his paintings, an installation, and an evening of live drawing. The most distinctive characteristic of Huxleys work is his unique skill in capturing fluidity and movement on static canvas. He is concerned primarily with the human figure a potent signifier of undulating motion and flux which he explores in series such as his figurescapes, a distinctive collection of paintings wherein individual figures are composed in deliberately geometrical patterns such that they seem to represent pure rhythm and movement in the frozen scene. Huxleys colour palette is similarly considered and technically accomplished, perhaps due to his theoretical and academic grounding in classical ... More Art Cologne 2018 opens this week with top-quality international programmeCOLOGNE.- Art Cologne (19 - 22 April) offers the utmost quality at all levels, from modern through postwar to contemporary art, while the NEUMARKT section and COLLABORATIONS, which shows 22 selected and curated projects presented by 36 galleries, offer insights into current art production. Around 210 internationally renowned galleries from 33 countries will participate in Art Cologne 2018. These include high quality presentations from top international galleries such as Hauser & Wirth, Thaddeus Ropac and David Zwirner, where one can see important works of contemporary art. Larry Gagosian, considered a heavyweight in the industry, is coming to Cologne for the second time. For its 52nd edition, the art fair also features a number of important returnees and first time exhibitors, including the London-based Lisson Gallery, Esther Schipper from Berlin ... More Paintings by Paul Brach, Carl W. Peters, others in Nye & Company's April 25-26 auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- A two-day Estate Treasures Auction highlighted by the Phillips Pete Hathaway collection of fine items pulled from his historic Greek Revival home Ragamont House in northwestern Connecticut, plus merchandise from other estates and collections, will be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 25th-26th, by Nye & Company Auctioneers, at 10 am both days. The auction will be held online and in Nye & Companys showroom located at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. The April 25th session will be a live auction, featuring 439 lots. The following day will be a timed auction, with 222 lots. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be provided by Liveauctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. The Phillips Pete Hathaway collection (lots 255-601, spanning both auction days) is befitting of a man ... More The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair to open at Blenheim PalaceWOODSTOCK.- Magnificent world-class art and antiques will be on show at Blenheim Palace, who will play host to the seventh annual Cotswolds Art and Antiques Dealers Association (CADA) Fair, Thursday 19th April Sunday 22nd April, this years theme being the 40th anniversary of CADA, celebrating the ruby and all things red. It is the only antiques fair to take place at Blenheim Palace, home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, in the beautiful Colonnade, Orangery and Campaign Rooms, overlooking the Italian Gardens. Patron of the Association and Fair and CADA member - is Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, sister of the present Duke. Since its inception, the CADA Fair has gone from strength to strength, cultivating a following of collectors, art consultants, interior designers and the public alike, making it a must-visit destination. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German sculptor Otto Piene was born April 18, 1928. Otto Piene (18 April 1928 - 17 July 2014) was a German artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts. In this image: MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibition "Otto Piene: Lichtballett." October 21, 2011 - December 31, 2011.
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