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Installation view: Josef Albers in Mexico, Nov. 3, 2017Feb. 18, 2018. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Guggenheim Museum is presenting Josef Albers in Mexico, an exhibition illuminating the relationship between the forms and design of pre-Columbian monuments and the art of Josef Albers (b. 1888, Bottrop, Germany; d. 1976, New Haven). The presentation features a selection of rarely shown early paintings, iconic canvases from Alberss Homage to the Square and Variant/Adobe series, and works on paper. The exhibition also includes a rich selection of photographs and photocollages, many of which have never before been on view and were created by Albers in response to frequent visits to Mexican archaeological sites beginning in the 1930s. With letters, studies, and unseen personal photographs alongside works drawn from the collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Josef Albers in Mexico presents an opportunity to learn about the least known aspect of his practice, photography, offering a new ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Cars drive past the Mother Teresa cathedral ahead of the Christmas mass eve, marking the birth of Jesus Christ, on December 24, 2017 at the Mother Teresa cathedral in Pristina. Armend NIMANI / AFP
| Exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein assembles Harun Farocki's film installation works | | Exhibition presents a broad panorama of the various modernist aesthetic projects that evolved in Mexico | | Guggenheim and Rem Koolhaas announce research project to culminate in fall 2019 exhibition | 
Antje Ehmann / Harun Farocki, Tropen des Krieges 3: Souvenir (2011), Videostill © Antje Ehmann / Harun Farocki 2011.
BERLIN.- Harun Farocki (19442014) is one of the most important and internationally influential German filmmakers. His oeuvre comprises more than 100 experimental and documentary films, essay, short and feature films. However, his complete oeuvre goes far beyond that. Farocki left behind extensive works of film and media theory, still to be discovered, and for decades worked as a lecturer. Since the mid-1990s, he expanded his cinematic practice with video installations in fine art spaces. Farocki was an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. Vital to his approach and his oeuvre is the examination of the meaning of images, their genesis, and, in particular, the power structures inscribed in them. In order to pay tribute to the significant oeuvre of Harun Farocki, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, in cooperation with Arsenal Institute for Film and Video ... More | | 
Diego Rivera, Baile en Tehuantepec, 1928. Colección Eduardo F. Costantini. © 2017 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / ARS, New York / SAVA, Buenos Aires.
BUENOS AIRES.- Malba is presenting México moderno. Vanguardia y revolución, a broad panorama of the various modernist aesthetic projects that evolved in Mexico over the first half of the 20th century. Curated by Victoria Giraudo (Malba), Sharon Jazzan Dayan and Ariadna Patiño Guadarrama (Munal), the show features 170 works by more than 60 representative artists from this period, including Dr. Atl, Miguel Covarrubias, Saturnino Herrán, MarÃa Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, AgustÃn Lazo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Antonio Ruiz El Corcito, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Remedios Varo and Ãngel Zárraga, many of whom are being shown in Argentina for the first time, in an unprecedented offering. The show's narrative of these artists' various themes, concerns and aesthetic investigations extends over four galleries, on both of the museum's main exhibition floors. The sections ... More | | 
Koppert Cress, The Netherlands, 2011. Photo: Pieternel van Velden.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, and AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), will collaborate on a project exploring radical changes in the countryside, the vast nonurban areas of Earth. The project extends work already underway by AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and will culminate in a rotunda exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in fall 2019. Organized by Guggenheim Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives Troy Conrad Therrien, Countryside: Future of the World (working title) will present speculations about tomorrow through insights into the countryside of today. The exhibition will explore artificial intelligence and automation, the effects of genetic experimentation, political radicalization, mass and micro migration, large-scale territorial management, human-animal ecosystems, subsidies and tax incentives, the impac ... More |
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| Exhibition juxtaposes works by César Paternosto with paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum's collections | | Bertoia's $2.6M Fall Signature Sale makes early holiday delivery of rare and exquisite toys, trains and doorstops | | Museum Angewandte Kunst exhibits an example of the "Frankfurt Kitchen" designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky | 
César Paternosto, 1.2.1.2, 1972. 4 paneles; emulsión acrÃlica sobre lienzo, 155 à 130 cm (área total). CortesÃa Galerie Denise René, ParÃs.
MADRID.- Towards Painting as Object, presented by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, establishes a dialogue between paintings by the Argentinean artist César Paternosto and works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collections. Curated by Paternosto himself, the exhibition analyses the shift in the pictorial paradigm which, at the start of the 20th century, led artists to rediscover the painting as object, in contrast to the Renaissance illusionism that had transformed the canvas into a window through which to see visible reality. The exhibition thus juxtaposes eight works by Paternosto loaned from various public and private collections with six paintings from the museums collections - by Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and JoaquÃn Torres-GarcÃa - with the aim of encouraging visitors to reflect on that artistic transformation, which began more than a century ago. Seeing the works ... More | | 
American National Juvenile Auto Line Buick pedal car, circa 1920s, $6,600. Bertoia Auctions image.
VINELAND, NJ.- The holiday spirit could be felt throughout Bertoia Auctions gallery even weeks before their $2.6 million Fall Signature Sale commenced. The spacious auction venue looked like an upscale toy store from a classic film, with pristine playthings lined up in sparkling glass showcases, aviation toys artfully suspended from the ceiling, and, of course, Christmas antiques enhancing the decor and signifying the start of the holiday season. On opening day of the Nov. 11-12 sale, the excitement was palpable as hopeful bidders browsed the cases and scribbled private notes in their auction catalogs. Even to the casual observer, there were no weak links, category wise, and with provenance from prestigious collections accompanying so many of the lots, the consensus was that it would likely be a sellout. The European section dazzled with a fleet of 40 antique boats led by an imposing 28-inch-long Marklin Battleship Sankt ... More | | 
The "Frankfurt Kitchen" installed at Museum Angewandte Kunst, 2017. Photo: Anja Jahn.
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FRANKFURT.- It changed the concept of home living and is considered a prototype of the modern fitted kitchen: the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Following careful restoration measures, an example of the legendary kitchen has now made its way into Elementary Parts: From the Collections, a permanent exhibition of Frankfurts Museum Angewandte Kunst. Over the years, the role played by Frankfurt and the surrounding region in modern design has been an ongoing focus at the Museum Angewandte Kunst. In 2015, the museum was presented with the opportunity to make a new addition to its holdings: a complete and largely unchanged historical Frankfurt Kitchen from the Bornheimer Hang housing estate in Wittelsbacher Allee. The kitchens owner, the ABG Frankfurt Holding, placed ... More |
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| Sotheby's 2017 auctions reach $4.7 billion; 13% increase over 2016 | | SUPERFLEX's work Hospital Equipment shipped to Salamieh Hospital, Syria | | Des Moines Art Center exhibition has artists Drawing in Space | 
Sothebys set an auction record for Jean-Michel Basquiat when Untitled, a masterpiece from 1982, sold for US$110,487,500 in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys concluded their 2017 auctions last week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.7 billion that represents a 13.1% increase over their 2016 results. From the record-breaking sale of Jean-Michel Basquiats 1982 masterpiece Untitled to Japanese collector and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, to the crowds who visited their London galleries to view the personal collection of Gone With the Wind star Vivien Leigh, below is a look back at the major moments that helped define the year at Sothebys: Sotheby's annual Americana Week auctions raised an outstanding $19.4 million the highest Americana Week total at Sothebys in a decade with more than 1,000 lots sold across six auctions. The series kicked off with the White Glove (100% sold) auction of over 75 archival letters and manuscripts from ... More | | 
Installation View, Hospital Equipment, 2017, von Bartha, S-chanf. Photo by SUPERFLEX.
LONDON.- A new version of SUPERFLEXs Hospital Equipment, originally presented at von Bartha, S-chanf in February 2017, has now been shipped to Salamieh Hospital, Syria to be used by staff and patients. Working closely with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) Syria and the hospital to identify what is needed, SUPERFLEX sourced necessary surgical tools - a mobile lamp, a surgeons table and a surgical bearing - which were then exhibited within the gallery space. Following the exhibition, the tools - conceived as a single artwork have now been received in Syria. Dr. Maher Aboumayaleh, the manager of AKDN Health Programme in Syria, explains: In these times of crisis, Salamiehs public hospital is under more and more pressure. So, the hospital equipment arrived just in time. The equipment is the most advanced we have in the hospital and it has widened the hospitals capacity to per ... More | | 
Monika Grzymala (Berlin), Raumzeichnung Drawing Spatially, 2017. Masking, vinyl, and polypropylene transparent tapes. Photo: Rich Sanders, Des Moines.
DES MOINES, IA.- Drawing in Space includes the work of three artists and one artist collective: Dave Eppley (New York), Heeseop Yoon (New York), Monika Grzymala (Berlin), and Numen/For Use (Germany, Austria, Croatia) their first major installation in the U.S. Uniting these artists are explorations of line and space through the creation of large-scale, site specific installations using the novel yet humble material, tape. At the Des Moines Art Center, the artists created works in their chosen locations including the floor of the lobby, the three-story wall of the Kyle J. and Sharon Krause Atrium of the Richard Meier building, the Anna K. Meredith Gallery, and the entire I. M. Pei building. The labor entailed in making all four installations is integral to understanding the art, so the artists were filmed as they create it. The resulting videos, containing brief interviews and ... More |
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| Art Stage Singapore returns in 2018 for its eighth edition from 26 to 28 January 2018 | | World's most valuable private coin collection to be revealed at the Long Beach Expo | | Exhibition surveys the main artistic trends and visual cultures that have developed in Latin America | 
Alexander Calder (USA), Stabile, 1968, 1968. Painted metal in four colours, black, white, yellow, red, 31 cm x 22.2 cm x 22.2 cm.
SINGAPORE.- ART STAGE is the flagship show of the Southeast Asian art world and the regions key voice in representing the interests of Asian art in the global arena. Through its insights on the regional art landscape, the Fair acts as a catalyst for driving international interest in and the understanding of Southeast Asian art and igniting heightened market activity. ART STAGE also plays a pivotal role in developing and bridging various segmented art markets in the region. At the crossroads of Southeast Asia and the world, ART STAGE creates a singular and unified Southeast Asian market, positioned to be more competitive with the more developed global art markets in the West and China. In acknowledgement of the rapid changes and fluctuations in the art economy, ART STAGE Singapore pays tribute to these new realities of the art market by innovating the traditional art fair ... More | | 
Marcus Janius Brutus gold aureus.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The existence of a previously unreported collection of the worlds most famous and valuable ancient, world and United States rare coins is being revealed for the first time. The Tyrant Collection, which includes a treasured 1937 Edward VIII proof set, will be publicly displayed over the course of several years through a series of exhibits at upcoming Long Beach Expo conventions. For a number of years, the Tyrant collector has been assembling what is undoubtedly the worlds most valuable coin collection in private hands, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, said Ira Goldberg, President of Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, Inc. (www.GoldbergCoins.com) in Los Angeles, California, who provided guidance in assembling The Tyrant Collection. Im sure collectors will be surprised and delighted as more information is revealed about upcoming displays of this remarkable collection. The focus of the collection is tyrants of every age and culture, ... More | | 
JoaquÃn Torres-Garcia, Constructive Composition, 1943 (detail). Oil on canvas.OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Organization of American States AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the OAS, and the Mexican Cultural Institute, present Palimpsestus: Image and Memory. The seventy artworks on display, produced between 1900 and 2014, include more than 30 artists from ten different countries drawn from Colección Memoria, assembled around artistic activisms by exhibition curator Alejandro de Villota Ruiz, and a selection of iconic modern and contemporary pieces from OAS permanent art collection. Palimpsestus: Image & Memory surveys the main artistic trends and visual cultures that have developed in Latin America in the second half of the 20th Century. The term Palimpsest, a capitalistic practice stemming from the scarcity of paper as a good for fifteen centuries, is appropriated by ... More |
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 Artist Pere Ibañez releases new photography series and book, SyzygyBEIJING.- Spanish artist Pere Ibañez released his latest photographic series, entitled Syzygy. The series is available as an ebook on iTunes and in print at major book sellers in the US, Europe and Asia including Amazon. Syzygy marks the beginning of collaboration between Pere Ibañez and Chinese NGO CandleX.cn. The photographs included in this new series are all part of an ongoing Bipolar Disorder Awareness Campaign launched by the Chinese organization. The models are all either individuals living with Bipolar Disorder, Depression, or doctors and volunteers carefully selected by the NGO. This new collection is Pere Ibañezs most emotional work to date. Drawing from his own personal battle with depression, the artist uses the analogy of planetary juxtaposition to illustrate the two extremes of the mood spectrum. It explores human nature at its most ... More Groundwork: A season of international contemporary art to be held in CornwallCORNWALL.- In May 2018, the Helston-based arts organisation CAST (Cornubian Arts and Science Trust) launches Groundwork, a season of international contemporary art in Cornwall, by renowned artists including Francis Alÿs, Manon de Boer, Janet Cardiff, Rosemary Lee, Sean Lynch, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen, Steven Rowell, Semiconductor and more to be announced. Conceived as an exploration of place as the terrain of past, present and future human activity, GROUNDWORK will present contemporary art projects from May to July, concluding with a programme of special events in September. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the programme will include presentations of new commissions and acclaimed existing works at locations across West Cornwall including Par Beach, the Godolphin Estate, Goonhilly Earth ... More Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas announces inaugural Fashion Hub programmeSYDNEY.- Founder and executive director of the newly created Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI), Dr Gene Sherman AM, announced the Centres five-year vision to elevate fashion and architecture to a more prominent place alongside other mediums of cultural expression. SCCI is the latest evolution of the re-named not for profit Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF). Dr Sherman said Our aim is to provide a vibrant platform for the exchange of the most challenging and engaging ideas on architecture and fashion, within the broader context of culture. Fashion, in particular, has lacked serious attention as a sophisticated, intellectually rich and multifaceted mode of creative expression. Through SCCI, we seek to elevate it to a more prominent position alongside other artforms, and begin a conversation that is long past due. The ... More La Biennale d'Architecture: Walking through someone else's dream on view at FRAC Centre ORLÃANS.- La Biennale d'Architecture is on view at the Frac Centre-Val de Loire in Orléans and is called Walking through someone else's dream. The title of this first edition confirms how we define the act of creation in art and architecture: a very particular way of walking through our dreams and fears to come back and narrate our story. Since 1991 the Frac Centre-Val de Loire has emerged as a place dedicated to the relationship between art and architecture in their experimental dimensions through its collection. The retrospective and prospective work enriching the collection has brought together a unique heritage, a body of work and projects spanning 60 innovative years. Thanks to successive editions of the Archilab event (Rencontres internationales d'architecture d'Orléans), the Frac Centre-Val de Loire has become a major player in the international ... More The 12th Gwangju Biennale: Curators and exhibitions announcedGWANGJU.- The 12th Gwangju Biennales Imagined Borders is a guiding concept that responds to the current times of change and uncertainty by recognizing the limits of grand narratives, singular authorship and the necessity to return to the complexities of multiple voices and perspectives. Seven exhibitions, spread across the city at the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, the Asia Culture Center, and other historical sites, will present responses to the imagination of bordersas historical and real, experiential and abstract, imaginary and transgressive. Referencing both the inaugural 1995 edition of the Gwangju Biennale titled Beyond the Borders and Benedict Andersons notion of citizenship and national identity, the exhibitions aim to question the notion of belonging and community within todays political and planetary crises, quite markedly changed from the early ... More MAMO presents Théodore Fivel's series AlphaMARSEILLE.- For his first solo show at MAMO, Théodore Fivel presents his series Alpha, originating from his large ensemble of works, Charges. Alpha shapes a dialog with the Mediterranean sea. This series refers to Tethys, primitive ocean, slowly dismantled by the drift of continents, maritime myth of waves engulfed in the origins of the world. It is a source of inspiration for the artists futurist mental projections, as if he were redrawing the sea and its depth, as if Tethys were hiding in us and carried inside the sediments of salvation from all waters of our planet. Charges is a large molar ensemble which sublimes nature in an alchemy of strangeness, smoothing the frontier between sculpture and painting. The shapes are carved in wood and then covered with multiple layers of paint charged with different minerals and slivers of material that the artist then remodels. ... More Fairholme Unlimited appoints Rene Gonzalez to design a new home for its collectionMIAMI, FLA.- Fairholme Unlimited, a non-profit foundation, announced today that Rene Gonzalez Architects has been appointed to design a new building in the Edgewater neighborhood of Miami. The building will serve exclusively as the new home for the foundation and its growing collection. It will be open to the public, in keeping with the city of Miamis rich tradition of making private collections accessible. While previous plans included multiple structures and functions, the appointment of Rene signals a new direction for the property on 26th Street between Biscayne Blvd and NE 2nd Ave. Gonzalezs Miami-based firm has worked on many substantial residential and cultural projects, including the redesigned Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in downtown Miami. I am honored to have been selected for this project, said Gonzalez. I feel enormous responsibility ... More Prospect New Orleans international contemporary art triennial on view through FebruaryNEW ORLEANS, LA.- The fourth iteration of Prospect New Orleans international contemporary art triennial, Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, opened to the public in November and runs through February 25, 2018 aligning with the City of New Orleanss Tricentennial celebration. Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the citys Tricentennial. 32 artists created work specifically for the exhibition, and approximately 10% of the selected artists hail from the New Orleans area. To enact this ambitious ... More Centre Pompidou stages a group show of the four finalists of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017PARIS.- To mark the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017, the Centre Pompidou is staging a group show of the four finalists: Maja Bajevic, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth, and Vittorio Santoro. This annual event is organised in collaboration with the association pour la Diffusion internationale de lart Français (aDiaF). Maja Bajevic, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth and vittorio Santoro have all created new work for the occasion. Pursuing their respective investigations, they explore the image, the poetics of the archive, the hidden genealogies of objects and words. Trained in Sarajevo and at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, Maja Bajevic exhibited at Documenta 12 in 2007 and at the last Venice Biennale (all the Worlds Futures) in 2015. She makes politically engaged work that examines contemporary geopolitical situations, access ... More Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents Eija-Liisa Ahtila's "Studies on the Ecology of Drama"MELBOURNE.- Studies on the Ecology of Drama is a four-screen installation by renowned Finnish filmmaker and artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Against the backdrop of the Finnish countryside, a human actor guides us through a series of thoughtful yet playful visual exercises. Through meditative animation and visual effects were invited to consider how cinema constructs our relationship to nature. Featuring a juniper tree, a common swift, a horse, a butterfly and a group of acrobats, the work encourages us to imagine how the moving image can be used to explore the experience of non-human beings in this time of ecological crisis. Eija-Liisa Ahtila has long been considered a master of the cinematic installation form. Her work is conceptually organised around the construction of image, language, narrative and space. She has often probed individual identity and the boundaries ... More Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco opens exhibition of works by Andrew SchoultzSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Andrew Schoultz brings his signature street-savvy style to a new body of work that questions the meaning and function of public space and the nature of political discourse. With an emphasis on the formal vocabulary of abstraction, Schoultz exposes the ways in which meaning is manipulated and perception skewed as the locus for civic debate has shifted from the town plaza to the isolated, anonymous realm of cyberspace. Two monumental sculptures anchor the installation, surrounded by murals painted directly on the walls of the gallery, paintings on panel and paper, and other sculptural objects. In a new series of abstract paintings, Schoultz distills some of his familiar stylistic elements into a more formal language with subtler allusions. Other works incorporate new symbolic motifs with multiple, sometimes conflicting meanings. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max Beckmann's Hölle der Vögel (Birds' Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © Christie's Images Limited 2017.
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