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In this file photo taken on April 11, 2013 people walk into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, home to works by Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and other modern masters, will close for four months this year to expand and offer "more art in new and interdisciplinary ways," it said on February 5, 2019. MoMA is one of the most prominent art museums in the United States and will reopen on October 21.It will have one-third more exhibition space after the $400-million project that aims to highlight "creative affinities and frictions" by displaying a range of media together -- from painting to architecture, performance, or film, the museum said in a statement. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Museum of Modern Art in New York, home to works by Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and other modern masters, will close for four months this year to expand and offer "more art in new and interdisciplinary ways," it said on Tuesday. MoMA is one of the most prominent art museums in the United States and will reopen on October 21. It will have one-third more exhibition space after the $400-million project that aims to highlight "creative affinities and frictions" by displaying a range of media together -- from painting to architecture, performance, or film, the museum said in a statement. At its heart will be a space dubbed The Studio that will feature live programming and performances "that react to, question, and challenge histories of modern art and the current cultural moment," MoMA said. An expanded ground floor will have street-level galleries to bring art closer to people, it added. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Assistants pose by a Jardin Fleuri bustier dress by Maria Grazia Chiuri on show at 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in London on January 30, 2019. Tolga Akmen / AFP
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 | | The Blanton Museum acquires world-renowned Spanish Colonial art collection | | White Cube Bermondsey opens exhibition of works by Tracey Emin | | Tomb of Karl Marx vandalised in London | 
Attributed to Cristóbal Lozano (Lima, Peru 1705-1776), Rosa de Salazar y Gabiño, Countess of Monteblanco and Montemar Peru, ca. 1763 Oil on canvas 37.81 x 29.75 in. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin announced that it has acquired the esteemed collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. This world-class collection of art from the Spanish and Portuguese Americas is composed of 119 objects ranging from paintings and sculpture to furniture and silverworkdeepening the Blanton's extensive holdings of art and objects from Latin America. The Huber Collection is one of the most distinguished private collections of Spanish and Portuguese American art and includes works from countries across modern-day Latin America including Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Developed by Roberta and Richard Huber over the past 45 years, the collection showcases artistic practices and visual culture of the socially and ethnically diverse society in the Americas between the late 1600s and the ... More | | 
Tracey Emin, You were still There, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 72 1/4 x 48 1/16 in. (183.5 x 122 cm) © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2017. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis). Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Bermondsey is presenting A Fortnight of Tears by Tracey Emin. Installed throughout the gallerys spaces, this major exhibition includes sculpture, neon, painting, film, photography and drawing, all focusing on the artists own memories and emotions arising from loss, pathos, anger and love. On entering South Gallery I, the viewer is confronted by fifty double-hung self portraits from an on-going series taken at different moments and states during the artists periods of insomnia. These unsettling and intimate close-ups, blown up in size and overwhelming in number, capture the habitual torment and desperation of these lonely wakeful hours. In her new paintings shown throughout the exhibition, Emin articulates the joy and suffering that is intrinsic to human existence, from the often fraught territory of sexual relationships, to the physical trauma of abortion, and the recent passing ... More | | 
The bronze bust on top of the monument at the tomb of German revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, a Grade I-listed monument, is seen in Highgate Cemetery in north London on February 5, 2019. Tolga AKMEN / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Vandals have damaged the London tomb of Karl Marx in what the cemetery said Tuesday appeared to be a sustained and targeted attack. A marble plaque with the names of Marx and his family -- the monument's oldest and most fragile part -- was repeatedly hit with a blunt metal instrument, Ian Dungavell, who runs the cemetery trust, told AFP on Tuesday. The damage was reported to the police on Monday. "The name of Karl Marx seems to have been particularly singled out, so it wasn't just a random smashing up of a monument -- it seems a very targeted attack," said Dungavell, chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs the graveyard. German revolutionary philosopher Marx moved to London in 1849 and lived in the British capital for the rest of his life. His theories became the basis for communism. He died on March 14, 1883, aged 64. The granite slab monument in no ... More |
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| | | Exhibition of Ettore Sottsass' work showcases historic ceramics and enamels from private collections | | Plan for sausage museum in ex-Nazi camp annex scrapped after outcry | | One of Europe's most influential 19th century painters revisited in new exhibition | 
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007), 'Yantra' series. Cast vases in white clay. Distributed by Poltronova-Design Centre. Agliana, 1969 © Photo F.Ferrari. Images courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- A non-selling exhibition dedicated to the ceramic and enamel work of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass opened to the public at Phillips London galleries on 30 Berkeley Square from 4 to 15 February. Co-curated by historian Fulvio Ferrari and collector Charles Zana, this exhibition showcases a comprehensive selection of ceramics and enamels from throughout Sottsass career. Hailing from two private collections, this exhibition marks the first time these museum quality works are being shown alongside each other. Domenico Raimondo, Senior Director, Head of Department, Europe and Senior International Specialist: Arguably one of the greatest theoretical architect and designers of the 20th century, Ettore Sottsass was a true design radical whose achievements ... More | | 
Picture taken on April 9, 2018 shows a cannon in the shape of a Thuringian Rostbratwurst sausage in a roll on the premises of the German Bratwurst Museum in Holzhausen near Arnstadt, central Germany. Jens-Ulrich Koch / DPA / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- A German sausage museum has scrapped controversial plans to move to an annex of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in a decision welcomed by the Jewish community Tuesday. The Friends of the Thuringian Bratwurst association sparked an outcry last week when it announced plans to move the Bratwurst Museum to the site in the town of Muehlhausen and to also build a hotel there. "I welcome the fact that it has been decided to look for a new location for the museum," the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told Berlin's Tagesspiegel daily. Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation had said the redevelopment plan showed a "lack of sensitivity" and of "historical ... More | | 
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DALLAS, TX.- This February, the Meadows Museum, SMU, examines the far-reaching influence of 19th-century Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (18381874) in the new exhibition Fortuny: Friends and Followers. During his lifetime and well into the early 20th century, Fortuny was extremely popular in both Europe and the United States. His proto-Impressionist style and exotic genre scenes influenced so many artists that the style came to be described with its very own ism: Fortunismo. Fortuny: Friends and Followers explores that legacy by bringing together works from a diverse group of artists, including William Merritt Chase (18491916), Jean-Léon Gérôme (18241904), Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (18151891), John Singer Sargent (18561925), and James Tissot (18361902), as well as major works by Fortuny. The exhibition opened February 3, 2019, and will run through June 2 ... More |
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| | | The Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience will travel to Barcelona and Seoul | | Stunning NASA photo archive for sale at Swann Auction Galleries | | Dallas Museum of Art announces 2018 acquisition and program highlights | 
MeetVincent.com © Photoline / Carolien Sikkenk.
AMSTERDAM.- On 14 March, the Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience opens in the cultural heart of Barcelona (Port Vell). Based on the knowledge and expertise of the Van Gogh Museum, this travelling 3D experience invites visitors to journey through the fascinating life of Vincent van Gogh. The Experience explores the story of the man behind the world-famous painter and the motives of his artistry: to offer hope and to express his emotions, in all their cruelty and mystery, but also in their beauty. Adriaan Dönszelmann, Managing Director of the Van Gogh Museum: With this new location for Meet Vincent van Gogh, we support our mission to make the life and work of Van Gogh and his contemporaries, and the art of his time, accessible to millions of people all around the world. The Experience previously won the prestigious TEA Award for entertainment, offering confirmation that it contributes to this mission. Such a concept makes it possible for the Van Gogh Museum to offer a Van Gogh Experience simultan ... More | | 
An expansive archive with 350 photographs chronicling the wealth of outer space missions and lunar explorations undertaken by NASA, silver and chromogenic prints, 1960-2002. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries will offer the ultimate prize to mark this years 50th anniversary of when Man first walked on the Moon: an archive of 350 NASA photographs chronicling the Space missions and lunar explorations of over four decades. The archive is one of the highlights of Swann Galleries February 21 Photographs: Art & Visual Culture auction in New York and features innumerable iconic images depicting icons of the space race, such as Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Bruce McCandless II and Mae Carol Jemison, photographed during the various Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. Some of the most dramatic images are of space walks, with the Earth brightly lit in the background, as well as Earthrise, the celebrated view of the Earth as it rises over the Moons horizon. Lunar landscapes, astronauts in flight and other active mission shots add to the ... More | | 
Derick Baegert, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1480-1490 (detail), Dallas Museum of Art, Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund in memory of Dr. William B. Jordan.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art continued to strengthen and expand its exhibitions and educational programming, bilingual offerings, and curatorial team in 2018 with the appointment of new leadership across departments, the development of expanded education initiatives, and the acquisition of major works across its collections. In support of the DMAs commitment to engaging the community through programs anchored by its collections, three new curators and a new director of education joined the Museum in 2018, and the Museum expanded its off-site and bilingual program offerings. The Museum also added significant works to its collection, including 13 year-end gifts of 512 works of art in contemporary art, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. With education as a core priority for the Museum and a renewed focus on offering engaging experiences with the DMAs outstanding collection, ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Museum explores the stories of women in incarceration | | Sabrina Amrani announces the incorporation of Alexandra Karakashian to the gallery's roster of artists | | Frist Art Museum presents companion exhibitions of French and British masterpieces from the Mellon Collection | 
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NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is presenting the exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women in Louisiana. On view through July 6, 2019, this breakthrough exhibition explores one of the most critical issues facing our nation today through the lens of a population too often overlooked. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, nationwide, womens state prison populations have grown 834% over the past forty years with Louisiana currently having the nineteenth-highest rate of incarcerated women in the world. Per(Sister) aims to look beyond the statistics and put a face, a name, and a story to a dehumanizing number. The exhibition presents works from more than thirty artists across America (including New Orleans own MaPó Kinnord, Lee Diegaard, L. Kasimu Harris, Devin Reynolds, Jackie Sumell, Carl Joe Williams, and Cherice Harrison-Nelson, among others) who created new pieces ... More | | 
Alexandra Karakashian, orphans of recent events, 2018. Wrapped Canvas, Fabric and Wood. Dimensions Variable.
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani announced the incorporation of Alexandra Karakashian to the gallerys roster of artists. Alexandra Karakashian (b. 1988, Johannesburg) is a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work stems from her personal and family history and reflects on current issues of exile, migration and refugee-statues. Process and materiality is key to her practice. Employing used engine oil and salt as a medium for painting, she engages in ecological discussion, the threatening instability and subtle collapse; and the unethical seizing of rapidly dwindling natural resources, particularly on the resource-rich African continent. Furthermore she investigates notions of mourning both of an individual and collective nature and the lamentation of the loss of land and of those who have been ... More | | 
Claude Monet (French, 18401926). Field of Poppies, Giverny, 1885 (detail). Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 85.499. Image © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: Katherine Wetzel.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and A Sporting Vision: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The two exhibitions are on display in the Frists Ingram Gallery from February 2 through May 5, 2019. Representing the extraordinary gifts made to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) by Paul and Rachel Bunny Lambert Mellon, the exhibitions include works by some of the most significant artists working in France and England in the 18th through 20th centuries and celebrate the connoisseurship and tastes of one of the great philanthropic and collecting ... More |
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 Stephen Friedman Gallery opens a group exhibition of international female artists LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery brings together a group exhibition of international female artists who are currently shaping the language of figuration: Heidi Hahn, Donna Huddleston, Becky Kolsrud, Naudline Pierre, Mathilde Rosier and Antonia Showering. The works in the exhibition explore how each artist taps into the ethereal realms of fantasy, dreams and the unconscious mind to challenge preconceived notions of gender and identity. Introspective and brooding, Heidi Hahn's paintings explore the psychological underpinnings of femininity. Adopting the isolated confines of the picture plane to challenge traditional concepts of what it means to be a woman, Hahn's melancholy figures occupy a world far removed from reality. Donna Huddleston's drawings, sculptures and installations frequently combine autobiographical elements with film history and theatre ... More Collect like a pro: Ketterer Kunst announces Art Advisory ServiceMUNICH.- Collecting art the right way! Thats the motto of Art Advisory, the art collection advisory service provided by Ketterer Kunst. This service is open to both private art lovers and company owners or portfolio managers seeking new forms of investment. Id love to start collecting art, but I dont know how to do it right. Something to this effect is what I often hear from clients. And thats where we come into play, explains Robert Ketterer. The owner of the family enterprise continues: Corporations as well often seek our advice on art matters, so we launched a service that will cover all their needs. Art Advisory will help beginners to enter the fascinating world of collecting art, in addition, we also aim at experienced collectors thinking about a realignment of their collection this applies to both private and corporate clients. Ketterer Kunst offers 65 years of expe ... More State museum displays poster exhibition and artifacts in recognition of Black History MonthALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum opened a poster exhibition on February 5, Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, detailing the national story of the struggle for black equality after the end of slavery and through the Jim Crow era. In recognition of Black History Month, this poster exhibition created by the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library is on view in the State Museums main lobby through April 28. In addition, artifacts from the State Museums African American history collection also are on display through March 3. Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the decades after the Civil War. While Black Americans gained new liberties after the Civil War and the end of slavery, by the early 1900s these liberties had been sabotaged by a repressive racial system known ... More The Rose Art Museum opens 'Howardena Pindell: What Remanins to be Seen'WALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents the first major retrospective of eminent American artist, curator, and teacher Howardena Pindell, who for nearly five decades has explored the intersection of art and activism. Co-curated Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver and organized by the MCA Chicago, What Remains To Be Seen spans the New Yorkbased artists career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, as well as personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life-threatening car accident in 1979. On view February 1 through May 19, 2019, the exhibition traces themes and visual experiments that run throughout Pindells work up to the present. We are thrilled to welcome Howardena Pindell back to the Rose 25 years after we first hosted a retrospective of her ... More Home town backs Thatcher statueLONDON (AFP).- Margaret Thatcher's home town cautiously backed plans Tuesday to erect a statue of the late British leader -- but only after putting it on a plinth tall enough to keep vandals at bay. The strong-willed "Iron Lady" of the 1980s remains a polarising figure in Britain six years after her death at the age of 87. Her sweeping privatisation and deregulation efforts are credited with pulling Britain out of the economic doldrums. But her resolve to break the trade unions -- especially the miners -- in the face of strikes and street protests made her into a hate figure for the left. A bid to have a statue of the Conservative party leader stand alongside icon Winston Churchill and other leaders filling a square opposite parliament in London fizzled out last year over concerns about "potential vandalism and civil disorder". Thatcher's daughter Carol ... More Selfridges, London launches the 'Lip Bar' by Daido Moriyama to mark Valentine's DayLONDON.- Selfridges celebrates the advent of Valentines Day like never before: by opening a Golden Gai bar from which a maximum of 6 people can be served beer and Sake at any given time. Possibly the smallest bar in Britain during its four-week run at Selfridges on Oxford Street, the Lip Bar is the creation of legendary Japanese artist Daido Moriyama who is best known for his gritty black and white photography of Japan and its city people. The 2 metres by 3.3 metres Daido Lip Bar, presented at Selfridges by special arrangement with Hamiltons Gallery, is first and foremost an art installation that is designed to be functional but can also be bought. A tribute to the tiny bars of Golden Gai, an authentic quarter in Shinjuku, a vibrant district of Tokyo, the Lip Bar replicates Bar Kuro, ... More SculptureCenter exhibition features newly commissioned works by eleven artists and artist teamsLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- In Practice: Other Objects presents new work by eleven artists and artist teams that probes the slippages and interplay between objecthood and personhood. From personal belongings to material evidence, sites of memory, and revisionist fantasies, the artists in Other Objects highlight curious and ecstatic moments in which a body becomes a thing or a thing stands in for a body. The works in the exhibition address the capacity for objects personal, collective, ambiguous, or arbitrary to assume the bodys agency to testify about experience, recollect the past, mediate intimacy, and move politically. Rather than understanding the body as a stable figure or coherent whole, Other Objects proposes the body, and therefore the person, as a fluid and fragmentary medium one materially contingent upon the objects with which it shares space. Recurring throughout ... More André de Jong's performative photography on view at the Merchant HouseAMSTERDAM.- André de Jong returns to The Merchant House with new works placed alongside his performative photography in its first public display. Centered on the series St. Sebastian, 2017, the two-part changing show brings to the forefront the artists complex themes and methods of working. Writing for the influential Dutch literary magazine De Gids, the media theorist Arjen Mulder called André de Jong (1945, Netherlands) the most important contemporary draftsman and pitted the bodily power of his organic lines against that of Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee. De Jong has been pushing the limits of drawing in his magisterial oeuvre for over five decades. But he is also a performer, a photographer, a sculptor and a conceptual landscapist. And he continues to redefine the state of art by grounding creation in the essential need to draw a line to reveal a thought. ... More New Museum presents its Winter/Spring 2019 lineup of exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- For its Winter/Spring 2019 season, the New Museum presents the first New York museum solo exhibitions by Adelita Husni-Bey and Mariana Castillo Deball, a residency and exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson, and a Storefront Window installation by Genesis Belanger. These exhibitions join Nari Ward: We the People, the Museums lead exhibition of the Winter/Spring season, and The Art Happens Here: Net Arts Archical Poetics, an exhibition of works from Rhizomes Net Art Anthology. This exhibition by Adelita HusniBey (b. 1985, Milan, Italy) marks the artists first institutional solo presentation in New York. In her practice, Husni-Bey makes use of noncompetitive pedagogical models to organize workshops and produce publications, radio broadcasts, and archives that form the basis of her exhibitions and films. For Chiron, she creates a new site-specific installation that incorpo ... More Photographers in Iraq's Mosul snap dark days, bright futuresMOSUL (AFP).- Ashraf al-Atraqji carefully stepped around tufts of weeds sprouting in a mountain of rubble in Iraq's Mosul, found a seat on a sun-soaked rock, and struck a pose for the photographer. Behind him stretched the ruins of the Prophet Yunus mosque, an ancient monument infamously destroyed by the Islamic State group when it overran Mosul in 2014. A year and a half after Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul from IS, residents have been hiring local photographers to capture mementos of their city's darkest days. Looking out at the metal fences and barbed wire now surrounding what's left of the mosque, 38-year-old Atraqji told AFP he hoped those days never return. "Each stone in this place is linked to the history and identity of our city," said the father of three, his goatee neatly trimmed and wearing stylish sunglasses. "I want to document what the terrorists did ... More Jenkins Johnson Projects opens an exhibition of works by Enrico RileyNEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects is presenting Enrico Rileys solo exhibition, New World. The paintings are part of an unfolding and evolving cycle that investigates themes of historical and contemporary violence, martyrdom, grief, and the middle passage within a spatial domain. Enrico Riley challenges viewers to decipher and contextualize his works fractured narratives. For many Americans, exposure to the plethora of recent media examples of reflexive violence perpetrated on African-Americans has blurred the boundaries between the historical record with which our country is so familiar and the problems still facing contemporary culture today. From this epicenter of misfortune and violence, Riley is using the medium of painting as a method for remembering and reflecting upon grief, but also as a means to investigate the linkages between the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916 - 1917)
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