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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 16061669), "Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill," showing Basilisk watermark, 1639. Etching, with touches of drypoint; retouched in black chalk. Collection of Yale University Art Gallery. Transmitted light photograph courtesy of Theresa Fairbanks-Harris.
OBERLIN, OH.- Etchings by Rembrandt figure prominently in the collections of many American academic museums, in part because they reward close looking and appeal to a wide range of learners and visitors. Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandts Etchings, an exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College that runs from February 6 through May 13, 2018, brings together 60 prints by the 17th-century Dutch master. The exhibition has been co-organized by the Allen with Cornell Universitys Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Lines of Inquiry is curated jointly by Oberlins Curator of European and American Art Andaleeb Badiee Banta and Andrew C. Weislogel, the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. 47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art at Cornell. In addition to prints from Oberlin and Cornell, the show includes etchings on loan from Harvard, Princeton, Syracuse, Vassar, Yale, the University of Kansas, the Morgan Libr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French President Emmanuel Macron (2R) and French Junior Minister for Gender Equality Marlene Schiappa (R) stand near a portrait of Napoelon I as they visit the Fesch Museum in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on February 6, 2018. Christophe Petit-Tesson / POOL / AFP
| Monumental Matador by Picasso - unseen since 1973 - makes auction debut | | Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Magnus app | | MIT List Visual Arts Center opens "Before Projection: Video Sculpture 19741995" | 
Pablo Picasso, Le Matador, oil on canvas, painted on 23 October 1970 (est. £14,000,000-18,000,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Monumental in scale, highly charged and painted in vivid colours, Le Matador is the culmination of a life-long obsession of Picassos that remained one of the most important themes throughout his career. The painting is a brilliant display of the virtuosity with which Picasso combined the complex elements that had shaped his life and art and stands as a defiant tribute to the heroic figure of the matador embodying the artists own Andalusian machismo as the master of modern art takes centre-stage in the arena. Picasso had begun to feel that his time on this earth was running out, and so engaged in constant conversation with the great masters before him Goya, Velasquez and Delacroix following the traditions they had set in order to reinvent them and make a lasting mark. Appearing at auction for the first time, the work will be unveiled first in Taipei then New York before it is exhibited in London and ... More | | 
In this file photo US actor Leonardo DiCaprio gives a speech at the start of the 11th Hour auction at Christie's in New York, May 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Duand.
NEW YORK, NY.- Magnus, the app dubbed Shazam for Art, today announced it has closed a Series A investment round from a group of investors, including Leonardo DiCaprio, who also joins as an advisor to the company. Magnus follows a similar concept to the popular audible-based search company Shazam. Users upload a photo of an artwork and the app returns the details, such as the artists name, title of the work and price. Magnus leading technology covers over 20,000 galleries, museums, and auction houses around the world. Its database consists of over 10 million images. The app can be downloaded for free in the Android and Apple app store. The Magnus app aims to democratize the $44 billion global art market, which, according to the TEFAF Art Market Report 2017, has only slowly embraced technology with an online share ... More | | 
Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman II, 1995. Nine antique TV cabinets, two cellos, one 13-in. color TV, two 5-in. color TVs, eight 9-in. color TVs, and two-channel video. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Hays Acquisition Fund © Nam June Paik Estate.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Before Projection: Video Sculpture 19741995 shines a spotlight on a body of work in the history of video art that has been largely overlooked since its inception. The exhibition explores the connections between our current moment and the point just before video art was transformed dramatically by the entry of large-scale, cinematic installation into the gallery space. The exhibition will present a re-evaluation of monitor-based sculpture since the mid-1970s with a tightly focused survey of works that have been rarely seen in the last twenty years, presenting both canonical artists and figures little known in the United States. From video arts beginnings, artists engaged with the sculptural properties of the television set, as well as the possibilities afforded by ... More |
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| Department of Asian Art at The Met to co-host reception with Asia Week New York | | Brightly colored, large-scale paintings by Volker Hüller on view at Van Doren Waxter | | Simon Fujiwara installs a full-scale replica of the Anne Frank House Museum at Kunsthaus Bregenz | 
Figure of a dog, China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25220 A.D. Earthenware with dark green glaze. Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991 (1991.253.1) (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Department of Asian Art of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Asia Week New York will co-host the annual reception in the Asian art galleries of The Museum on Monday, March 19 to celebrate Asia Week. This private by-invitation only reception has become a must attend event on the calendars of curators, auction house experts, and collectors who descend upon New York for the ten-day non-stop extravaganza of exhibitions, auctions, and cultural events. We are delighted to join with the Department of Asian Art of the Met as co- hosts of this wonderful evening, says Christina Prescott-Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York. There isnt a more spectacular setting in which to herald the treasures of Asia. Maxwell K. (Mike) Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Metropolitans Department of Asian Art, commented: This event, which ... More | | 
Volker Hüller, Steve 2017. Etching watercolor and pigment on paper. Paper Dimensions: 23 x 17 1/2 inches (58.4 x 44.5 cm) Framed Dimensions: 25 1/4 x 20 inches (64.1 x 50.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based, German artist Volker Hüller, on view through March 23, 2018 at the gallerys 23 East 73rd Street location. The show presents brightly colored, large-scale paintings, along with a small suite of hand-colored etchings. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition in New York, and coincides with the recent publication of a 104-page hardcover monograph published by Skira (2017), edited by Paola Gribaudo, with texts by Scott Indrisek and Tony Godfrey. During an artist residency in upstate New York in 2017, Hüller began a group of large-scale canvases that are the core of this exhibition. The new series advances his collage paintings from the last years, which have developed from achromatic compositions in off-whites, bronze, silver and blacks to a more chromatically-saturated palette of marigold yellow, green, coral pink, and ... More | | 
Simon Fujiwara, Hope House, 2018. Exhibition view second floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of Simon Fujiwara © Simon Fujiwara, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ.- Hope House is a full-scale replica of the Anne Frank House Museum reconstructed within the Kunsthaus Bregenz. A building within a building, a museum within a museum, the ambitious installation takes its inspiration from a »build your own« model kit of the Anne Frank House Fujiwara bought in the museum gift shop in Amsterdam. For the first time, we can experience the Anne Frank House as a giant sculpture, split across three floors of the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Just as in the original house, visitors will wind through the narrow dimly lit corridors, pass through a replica of the moveable bookcase that hid the Frank family from the persecution by the National Socialists, and enter into the confined spaces of the Secret Annex. But at Hope House, something is different: The walls are hung with artworks and the rooms filled with objects and artifacts from everyday life a desk, a diary and pen, a bedroom wall plastered with post ... More |
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| Saint Peter's Church kicks off Lenten season with surrealist art installation by Richard Hagerty | | Paris opens a door to exiled artists | | Sorolla masterpiece study offered at Bonhams 19th Century Art sale | 
Hagerty uses symbols of ancient and modern cultures in the fourteen panels, as well as topical references to gender, race, climate, religion, and dreams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Saint Peters Church, which is renowned for its Louise Nevelson Chapel, progressive Jazz and Dance Programs, and rotating art exhibitions founded by Elaine de Kooning in the 1960s, will unveil a modern interpretation of the Stations of the Cross in advance of the beginning of the Lenten season. Via Crucis: The Way of the Cross, a series of fourteen panels painted by Charleston, South Carolina Post Modern Surrealist artist Richard Hagerty, will open on Thursday, February 8th, with a cocktail reception from 7-9:00pm in the churchs Narthex Gallery, located at Lexington Ave. and 54th St. A live discussion with the artist will be moderated by Pastor Jared Stahler. Hagertys vibrantly colored, thought provoking canvases explore the Stations of the Cross within the context of modern, sometimes political, visual commentary that serve to reinvigorate the dialog around this ancient ... More | | 
Afghan artist Kubra Khademi poses at the agency of artists in exile, an organisation that identify artists in exile from all origins and disciplines on November 29, 2017 in Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- It was when Kubra Khademi stopped the traffic in Kabul, and men began to throw stones at her and bay for her blood, that she knew she was going to have to leave the country. The young performance artist had walked alone into one of the Afghan capital's busiest intersections wearing tin armour over her breasts and backside to highlight the harassment women face in the streets. Even as she made her escape in a taxi, one of the mob touched her behind. "I had to hide out in Kabul until they could get me away," she told AFP of her flight to France. Twice condemned to death for criticising the Khartoum government, Sudanese poet Moneim Rahma did not think twice when an unexpected chance to flee the country presented itself. While Syrian director Samer Salameh knew he was putting himself at risk by making a film about his devastated Damascus neighbourhood of ... More | | 
Study for La vuelta de la pesca by Sorolla. Estimate £300,000-400,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A study for JoaquÃn Sorollas landmark masterpiece, La vuelta de la pesca (Return from fishing) leads Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art on Wednesday 14 March in London. It is estimated at £300,000-400,000. Sorolla gave the study to one of his close friends, Doctor Luis Soler y Soto. He bequeathed it to his son Luis Soler Puchol who in turn gave it to his godson. The work, therefore, has been in private hands ever since its creation. Painted during the summer of 1894 at Valencia, the study is one of 16 known preparatory oil sketches for Sorolla's celebrated painting. He executed La vuelta de la pesca specifically for the Paris Salon of 1895, where it was a great success. Awarded a second class gold medal, the highest accolade available for a work by a foreign artist, it was then bought by the French State to hang in the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (it can now be found in the Musée dOrsay ... More |
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| Expansive retrospective of works by Royal Academician Gus Cummins on view at Jerwood Gallery | | Spanish artist José MarÃa Sicilia opens exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel | | Retrospective of Todd Oldham's exuberantly styled and deliriously embellished fashion opens at the Wex | 
Gus Cummins. Photo: © Peter Jones.
HASTINGS.- Royal Academician, Gus Cummins, could be one of Britains greatest contemporary artists youve never heard of. However, an expansive retrospective seeks to change that and reposition this hugely gifted painter in the wider public conscience. Born in London in 1943, Cummins studied art for six years (Sutton School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art) before arriving at the Royal College of Art in 1964. He stayed for three years and then embarked on a long teaching career, including three decades at the Royal Academy Schools. Although he was elected RA in 1992, Cummins standing in the wider public perception has remained somewhat low key. Though creatively prolific, it is remarkable that his first ever solo exhibition was held as late as 1991, at the Gardener Arts Centre, Brighton. He now exhibits annually at the Royal Academy and his work has been shown widely throughout the UK, in public and private galleries and museums, including the Mall Galleries, the National Portr ... More | | 
José MarÃa Sicilia, La locura del ver, 2016. Japanese paper, silk, ink, 200 x 150 cm / 78 6/8 x 59 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo : Florian Kleinefenn.
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is presenting Phasma, the eighth solo exhibition of Spanish artist José MarÃa Sicilia. This new exhibition brings together a body of major works that are representative of these past years. On this occasion, for the first time in France, the artist presents works from the series La Locura del ver (« the Insanity of Seeing » / 2015-2016). The majority of these abstract paintings combine colourful forms drawn from birdsong and silk embroideries depicting Thomas Youngs interference experiment the scientific observation determining the wave theory of light1. La Locura del ver continues the work on birdsong as well as the sonograms undertaken by the artist since 2010 (El Instante). The work also draws on thoughts which run throughout the entirety of the artists work, among them those dedicated to so-called invisible events (Pastime, Vuelve con nosotros) ... More | | 
All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion at the RISD Museum April 8th through September 11th, 2016. Courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI
COLUMBUS, OH.- For winter 2018, much of the Wexner Center for the Arts has been decked in plaid, tie dye, sequins, beads, fine embroidery, and faux fur. From February 3 through April 15, 2018, the Wex presents All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion, the first full-dress retrospective of the designers exuberantly styled and deliriously embellished fashion work from the 1990s. In a single decadefrom 1989 to 1999Oldham blazed through the New York fashion world, reshaping the runway landscape with brilliant garments inspired by everything from Persian carpets to thrift store finds. His ingenuity with fashion ultimately led to an ever more expansive studio practice encompassing furniture design, book publishing, filmmaking, photography, and the production of DIY craft kits for children and adults. Featuring more than 70 ensembles, All of Everything draws extensively from the Todd Oldham Studio archives, a portion ... More |
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 Greenwich Historical Society to restore and expand Impressionist era gardensCOS COB, CONN.- Greenwich Historical Society announced a new grant from the local garden club Hortulus to enable the restoration of the ornamental flower gardens, kitchen gardens, and grape arbor as part of the overall master plan for the Society's dramatic campus transformation. The artist colony Impressionist period gardens of the National Historic Landmark Bush-Holley House provide critical interpretive information for visitors, as they convey both daily life routines (growing food provisions for the residents), as well as inspiring many subjects in the plein-air painters' tableaux. When the reimagined campus opens in fall 2018, garden improvements will include relocation and expansion of the Impressionist-era fruit and vegetable garden that supported the Holley boarding house and the creation of a new Impressionist-era perennial flower garden along ... More Sargent's Daughters opens a solo exhibition of new works by Chris OhNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Interiors, a solo exhibition of new works by Chris Oh. The exhibition, organized by Fortnight Institute, will open on Wednesday, February 7, 6-8pm. Chris Ohs exhibition Interiors explores our perception of how we interpret an interior space. Delicately replicating domestic scenes from 15th-century Early Netherlandish art onto found materials, Oh transforms mundane refuse into distinctly unique items. These relics of our daily lives carry the histories of their use and function. Often found on walks, in the home, or in the studio, they subtly evoke feelings and memories of home, the core of our daily lives. Displayed in an installation format, Interiors immerses the viewer into these meditative scenes. It re-evaluates our notions of the home and how we live with everyday items by questioning the value we put in material objects. ... More Suffragette stories come out of the shadows 100 years onLONDON (AFP).- The Suffragettes risked imprisonment and were dubbed "wild" in their campaign for women's rights to vote, but a century on their stories are being brought out of the shadows. A hundred years to the day since voting rights were first granted to women in Britain, images of the activists behind the momentous occasion are on display in London's Trafalgar Square. The outdoor exhibition, taking place where Suffragettes once held their rallies, is one of numerous events across Britain to celebrate the movement. Later this year a statue of Millicent Fawcett, a heroine of the campaign, will be placed in nearby Parliament Square alongside other historic figures such as former prime minister Winston Churchill. Fawcett was a "Suffragiste", a campaigner for voting rights through non-violent action, as opposed to the Suffragettes who advocated direction action ... More Bonniers Konsthall opens the most comprehensive solo exhibition of artist Jens Fänge to dateSTOCKHOLM.- Bonniers Konsthall opens the 2018 spring season with the most comprehensive solo exhibition of artist Jens Fänge to date. Fänge works with painting and assemblage and has occupied a central position in the Swedish art world for quite some time. Recently his work has also received international attention. Drömmarna (The Dreams) focuses on his more recent production, characterised by the artists inclination to allow the paintings to extend beyond the canvas and into the room. Specifically for this exhibition Jens Fänge has created a new series of artworks that challenge and play with the architecture of Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition will also include a number of earlier pieces, the oldest dating back to 1996. When Fänge first arrived on the scene in the mid-90s, he did so with paintings populated by surrealistic imagery, ... More Qatar stadium designed by Zaha Hadid built 'by end of year' DOHA (AFP).- The Qatar World Cup venue designed by celebrated Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid will be finished by the end of 2018, officials responsible for the project said Tuesday. The 40,000 capacity, $575 million (465 million euros) Al-Wakrah Stadium is expected to be one of two further 2022 venues completed this year. Building work on the 60,000 Al-Bayt stadium is also expected to be completed by December. If so, it will mean Qatar -- which has said it is spending almost $500 million a week on World Cup-related projects -- will have built almost half of its proposed eight venues with four years still to go to the tournament. The Khalifa International Stadium, also the venue for the 2019 World Athletics Championships, was completed last year. "We will be finishing hopefully by the end of this year and then ready to use," Thani Al-Zarraa, Al-Wakrah's project manager told AFP. ... More Unassuming Chinese porcelain bowl soars to $200,000 at Nye & Company's Jan. 31 auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- An unassuming Chinese green glazed oval footed porcelain bowl with a pre-sale estimate of just $1,000-$2,000 soared to $200,000 at Nye & Company Auctioneers Collectors Passion Auction held January 31st, online and in the firms showroom at 20 Beach Street. The auction was held after Americana Week in New York City, about 15 miles away. I would have to judge this sale a huge success, with strong bidding across all categories, led of course by the Chinese porcelain bowl, the true definition of a sleeper lot, said John Nye of Nye & Company Auctioneers. The enthusiastic bidding really reminded us of the good old days. The excitement in the air and online for the offerings in the sale was both palpable and exhilarating. Phone bidding and internet bidding were especially high and active. Both LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com, ... More Marco Fazzone appointed as Director of the FIFA World Football MuseumZURICH.- FIFA announced that Marco Fazzone has been appointed as the Director of the FIFA World Football Museum. Fazzone, who is currently the Managing Director of Design & Regional Art Fairs of the MCH Group Ltd. in Basel, will take up the post in February 2018. Zvonimir Boban, FIFA Deputy Secretary General (Football) commented: I am happy to underline that we are definitely on the right track. In the last year, we have worked hard on the cost model as well as streamlining the whole financial structure of the museum. It is therefore time to take the next important step. We are delighted to welcome Marco Fazzone to be our new Director of the FIFA World Football Museum. The new Director knows exactly what the museums mission is and how he has to exercise it. The FIFA World Football Museum should to be a meeting point for dialogue and debate ... More Jason Jacques Gallery exhibits works by Eric SerritellaNEW YORK, NY.- In Focus: Eric Serritella is currently on view and the first solo exhibition of the artists work at Jason Jacques Gallery since 2013. A renown contemporary ceramist, Serritella specializes in hand-carved trompe loeil sculptures that mimic birch and weathered logs and trees with uncanny realism. His work is internationally recognized and has been exhibited, awarded, and collected on five continents for their exquisite design and realistic textures. Serritellas extraordinary creativity in reinterpreting natural forms make him one of the leading clay artists working today, says Jason Jacques, principal of his eponymous gallery. Serritellas current work in the exhibition is inspired by his physical response to nature and created in his new studio situated in the forests of North Carolina. Within this focused presentation at the gallery, the artist pushes the ... More Vintage posters featuring the Gail Chisholm Collection offered at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will offer an auction of Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection on Thursday, March 1. More than 130 highlights from the collection of internationally renowned dealer and aficionado Gail Chisholm provide a colorful cross section of the variety of twentieth-century posters, from unusual images to midcentury masterpieces. Gail Chisholm was beloved in the poster community for her impeccable taste and sense of humor. The collection is led by a suite of three postersunique to the travel poster genreby Georges Dorival, titled Vers le Mont Blanc, 1928. The set, displaying the majestic peak throughout the day to lure all potential tourists, from early risers to night owls, carries an estimate of $8,000 to $12,000. Breathtaking travel advertisements for Scotland include two depicting holes on the famed ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born February 07, 2018. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell[a] (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. Two of her paintings are part of the Dunster Castle collection, now property of the National Trust. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court. In this image: Margaret Luttrell (1726 - 1766), Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell
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