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Loans have been secured from a number of British and US private lenders, as well as a wide range of institutions, including Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, National Portrait Gallery, The Charleston Trust and Yale Center for British Art.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the first major monographic exhibition of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Bell also stands on her own as a pivotal player in 20th century British art, inventing a new language of visual expression. Arranged thematically, the exhibition reveals Bells pioneering work in the genres of portraiture, still life and landscape and will explore her fluid movement between the fine and applied arts, focusing attention on her most distinctive period of experimentation in the 1910s. Approximately 100 oil paintings as well as fabrics, works on paper, photographs and related archival material deliver Bell in full force, boldly experimenting with abstraction, colour and form while developing her own distinctive way of seeing the world. Bells reputation as an artist has been habitually overshadowed by a preoccupation with her ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A robot from Austro-German filmmaker Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis is on view at the ROBOT exhibition at the Science Museum in London on February 7, 2017. BEN STANSALL / AFP
| The Met makes its images of public-domain artworks freely available through new Open Access policy | | US fund boss James Tomilson Hill III refuses to sell masterpiece as pound plunges | | Christie's announces highlights from its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565 (detail). Oil on wood. 46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in. Rogers Fund, 1919. 19.164.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today its adoption of a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. This updated policy, known as Open Access, utilizes the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation. This policy change is an update to The Museum's 2014 Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) initiative. The Met's Open Access policy facilitates the use of more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks for both scholarly and commercial purposes. The Museum is collaborating with global partners to enable greater access to the collection. In making the announcement, Mr. Campbell said: "We have been working toward the goal of sharing our images with the public for a number of years. Our comprehensive and diverse museum collection spans 5,000 years of ... More | | 
The painting was loaned to the National Gallery after being rediscovered in 2008.
LONDON (AFP).- A US hedge fund chief has refused to sell a Renaissance masterpiece painting to Britain's National Gallery after the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling. The iconic London museum had met the £30 million asking price agreed in a 2015 deal with James Tomilson Hill III, chief executive of the Blackstone Alternative Asset Group, for Jacopo Pontormo's "Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap". But Tomilson Hill now argues that the pound's weakness against the dollar would leave him with a "material loss". The work depicts a young aristocrat, Carlo Neroni, holding a love letter in one hand, the other hovering over his sword as he prepares to defend the Florentine republic from the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V. The 1530 painting was previously owned by the family of the Third Earl of Caledon, who bought it in 1825. It was loaned to the National Gallery after being rediscovered in 2008. Hill stepped in and bought the work in 2015 but ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Jeune fille aux anémones sur fond violet, 1944. Estimate: £5,000,000-7,000,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 28 February will launch 20th-Century at Christies, a season of sales that take place in London from 28 February to 10 March 2017. The auction will present 51 lots from the birth of Impressionism through to some of the most important and ground-breaking movements of the 20th century, and will feature two esteemed European collections, The Personal Collection of Barbara Lambrecht and Le Corbusier: Important Works from the Heidi Weber Museum Collection, forming a focal point for the sale. A major highlight is Paul Gauguins Te Fare (La maison) (1892, estimate: £12,000,000-18,000,000), one of the most richly coloured of his Tahitian landscapes, painted on his first visit to the island. Further exceptional works include Henri Matisses Jeune fille aux anémones sur fond violet (1944, estimate: £5,000,000-7,000,000), part of a series of interior scenes that the ... More |
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| Christie's announces highlights from its the Art of The Surreal sale | | New Museum opens first major New York museum survey of work by Raymond Pettibon | | Claremont Rug Company names 50 Best-of-the-Best Antique Oriental rugs sold in 2016 with online gallery exhibition | 
Max Ernst, Portrait érotique voile (1933, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500-000). © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The sixteenth edition of The Art of the Surreal sale will take place at Christies on 28 February, following the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale and will include 35 lots that chart the history of Dada and Surrealism. Together the two auctions launch 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that take place from 28 February to 10 March 2017. Highlights include René Magrittes La corde sensible (1960, estimate: £14,000,000-18,000,000), one of the largest oils he created, alongside his painting Le domaine dArnheim (1938, estimate: £6,500,000-8,500,000). A group of seven works by Max Ernst include Portrait érotique voilé (1933 and circa 1950, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500-000), offered by the artists family, and Les deux oiseaux (1925, estimate: £100,000-150,000) from the ... More | | 
No title (Imitate my life), 1996. Pen and ink on paper, 13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (33.7 x 25 cm). Collection Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents a major exhibition focusing on the work of Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957, Tucson, AZ), on view from February 8 to April 9, 2017. For over thirty years, Pettibon has been chronicling the history, mythology, and culture of America with a prodigious and distinctive voice. Through his drawings signature interplay between image and text, he moves between historical reflection, emotional longing, poetic wit, and strident critique. Since the late 1960s, he has produced thousands of drawings and energetic installations that have been executed in museums and galleries around the world. These works poignantly evoke the countrys shifting values across time, from the idealistic postwar period in which he was born to the collapse of the American counterculture in the 70s and 80s to the painful ... More | | 
A 7' 9" x 10' 8" Mohtasham Kashan from the second quarter of the 19th century.
OAKLAND, CA.- For the sixth consecutive year, eminent art dealer Jan David Winitz, whose Claremont Rug Company gallery specializes in museum-level Oriental carpets from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, today opened an online exhibition of Best-of-the-Best 19th century Persian and tribal rugs sold during 2016. A total of 50 Second Golden Age antique rugs woven ca. 1800 to ca. 1875 in a variety of Persian and Caucasian weaving styles will be displayed for a limited time on the Gallerys website. This years list includes several from the renowned Toronto Treasury, a family-held collection of rare Oriental rugs that was acquired by the Gallery in early 2016 and sold in a private event for Claremont clients during the fall. Many of the pieces were acquired by buyers who viewed them in a private gallery on the Claremont website Our ... More |
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| South Korea ex-culture minister charged over artist blacklist | | Artist's Syria bus memorial angers German far right | | 500 years of robots go on show in London | 
This file photo taken on January 20, 2017 shows South Korea's Culture Minister Cho Yoon-Sun arriving at court. JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP.
SEOUL (AFP).- A former South Korean culture minister was formally charged Tuesday for creating a "blacklist" of nearly 10,000 artists who had voiced criticism of now-impeached President Park Geun-Hye, prosecutors said. Cho Yoon-Sun, 50, is accused of secretly compiling the vast list to starve the artists -- among them filmmakers, authors, painters and more -- of state subsidies and private funding and to put them under state surveillance. Kim Ki-Choon, a powerful former chief of staff for the conservative president, was also indicted for spearheading the creation and enforcement of the blacklist. Both officials were arrested last month and were charged Tuesday with abuse of power and coercion, said a team of special prosecutors probing a wider scandal over Park. "They abused their power to force officials... to stop offering subsidies to artists and cultural organisations that had different views from the government," senior prosecutor ... More | | 
Policemen stand around Dresden's mayor Dirk Hilbert (C) as he gives a speech in front of an installation made of buses titled "Monument" by Syrian-born artist Manaf Halbouni. Sebastian Kahnert / dpa / AFP.
DRESDEN (AFP).- A Syrian-born artist's towering anti-war installation was opened Tuesday in Germany -- three passenger buses placed vertically like an Aleppo sniper barricade -- but the event was marred by heckling far-right protesters. About 100 members of the Islamophobic and anti-immigration PEGIDA protest movement booed Dresden mayor Dirk Hilbert as he formally inaugurated the mega-sculpture in the Baroque city in Germany's formerly communist east. Dubbed "Monument", the imposing installation is inspired by barricades rebels in long besieged eastern Aleppo erected from upturned bus hulls as a shield against the snipers of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. It is meant to evoke the suffering of the people of Syria, the birthplace of artist Manaf Halbouni, but also of victims of war in general. It was set up with two ... More | | 
A robot built by robot engineer Rob Knight and named 'Rob's Open Source Android' (ROSA) France, 2010-16 is on view at the ROBOT exhibition at the Science Museum in London on February 7, 2017. BEN STANSALL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Why do humans build machines that resemble them -- and what does that say about us? A London exhibition opening on Tuesday is surveying 500 years of simple to sophisticated robots to find out. Take a lip-syncing monk from the 16th century or a cartoon-like humanoid avatar that helps children with autism today. They and 100 other robots on display at the Science Museum chart an evolution of machines that fascinate and terrify in equal measure. "One of the big issues with doing a show like this is people's preconceptions that robots come in, they destroy the world and they enslave us all," lead curator Ben Russell told AFP. "One of the advantages of taking a long view of robots as we have done, is that you realise a lot of these concerns have been with us for a very, very long time," Russell said. But he ... More |
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| Exhibition includes over thirty new paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Vija Celmins | | Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery spans thirty years of Bill Jacklin's work | | Denis Piel's first exhibition in Russia opens at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography | 
Vija Celmins, Night Sky #20, 2000-2016 (detail). Oil on canvas. 15 x 18 1/8 inches; 38 x 46 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announces Vija Celmins, the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. It is the artists first exhibition of new work in seven years and includes over thirty new paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. This is her first one-person show with Matthew Marks Gallery. Celmins has been rendering nature imagery from black and white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings, and prints. For this exhibition, she focuses on two motifs she has employed for several decades: the oceans surface and the night sky. The imagery, however, is not her foremost concern: The recognizable image is just one element to consider. The paintings seem more a record of my grappling with how to transform that image into a painting and make it alive. ... More | | 
Bill Jacklin, Arno II, 2016, oil on canvas, 66 x 60 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery announces the opening of an exhibition of work by Bill Jacklin on Wednesday, February 8th. The exhibition will continue through March 4th. Bill Jacklin: Paintings from 1986 to 2016 spans thirty years of the artists work painted in locations from New York and London, to the Italian city of Florence. The exhibition is comprised of 21 paintings, all of which explore space and light, people and places ranging from the darker and more precisely rendered Meatpackers NYC II (1986) to the dream-like Embrace: Grand Central III (2016). One of the constants in Jacklins long career has been his frequent play with dualities: in addition to light and shadow, there is order and chaos, energy stored versus energy being released, and most important of all, representation and abstraction. As writer Eric Bryant observes in the exhibition catalogue, Viewers who search ... More | | 
Denis Piel. Uma Thurman. New York, 1986. Italian Vogue.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the first Russian exhibition of the internationally acclaimed fashion photographer Denis Piel. The exhibition features around fifty iconic photographs that have been taken for the leading fashion magazines in the USA and Europe: Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair. The exhibition focuses on the 1980s the climax of Piels career - and highlights his innovative cinematic approach to fashion photography. Denis Piel was born in France in 1944, brought up in Australia, where in 1966 he founded his first photography studio. During the 1970s he worked between Paris, London and Milan, making fashion shoots and advertising campaigns. In 1979, noticed by the legendary editor of Condé Nast Alexander Liberman, Denis moved to New York and was offered an exclusive ... More |
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 David Gill Gallery opens José Yaque's debut UK showLONDON.- Tierra Madre is the first London solo exhibition by the Cuban artist José Yaque. The various works, inspired by and made specifically for David Gill Gallery, are on show from 3 February until 5 March 2017. José Yaques debut UK show follows a residency in London last October with David Gill Gallery, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, when the artist was invited to prepare a new body of site specific work for London. Over several weeks, José painted various canvases in different formats and colours, created charcoal drawings and sketched the projects of the installations, to be shown as Tierra Madre {Mother Earth}. The title of the exhibition alludes to the close relationship of the artists work with nature, the riches of natural world and the materials it comprises. Each of the artworks emerge from the inspiration and the dialogue, which form ... More Clars to offer important property from the Metropolitan Museum of ArtOAKLAND, CA.- On February 18 and 19, 2017, Clars Auction Gallery will present to the market select decorative art and furnishings deaccessed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), two very rare early works by Wayne Thiebaud, a significant collection of fine art prints and major ethnographic and tribal collections including the personal collection of Thomas J. Perkins (San Francisco and Belvedere, CA Estates). Clars Auction Gallery announces the first ever public offering of two early Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) paintings. Thiebauds 1958, Watermelon Slice, a casein on board, is one of his earliest still-lifes to ever reach the auction stage by the artist. This beautiful initial work was created a year after he saw the groundbreaking exhibition, Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, at the Oakland Art Museum where he was introduced to the ... More New York City artists purchase land in South Bronx for work/live spacesNEW YORK, NY.- On January 20, 2017, after 2 1/2 years of preparation, six New York artists and one non-profit purchased a 6,400 SF lot of land in the South Bronx through an innovative real estate enterprise called ArtCondo, co-founded by two artists, Michele Gambetta and Matthew Fletcher. With the support of ArtCondo, this group joined together to purchase and develop a NYC property near the Bronx Hub at 149th Street, for work studios and live-work spaces. These artists leveraged their collective buying power to create a new and sustainable creative model with working spaces in NYC. Participants include: Amy Cheng, Barbara Broughel, Allan McCollum, Tracy Calvan, Gordon Fearey, Michele Gambetta and Glass Farm Ensemble. With this inaugural project in the South Bronx, ArtCondo purchased a vacant lot that will become a 20,000 SF artists community with ... More Sylvester Stallone's library collection of rare books debuts at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- Actor, writer and director Sylvester Stallone's personally-owned library of rare and collectible books will debut in Heritage Auctions' Rare Books auction March 8 in New York. The collection of nearly 45 lots, spanning hundreds of volumes includes rarities such as one of 300 sets of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, with an extraordinary 1890 hand-written postcard from Whitman (est. $4,000). "Stallone is one of the most accomplished screenwriters of our time," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "It is little surprise his library is filled with limited edition and rare examples of works from the giants of literature many of which include rare signatures by the authors themselves." The library marks the second of Stallone's personally-owned property and memorabilia collections offered at Heritage the first of which realized ... More The best contemporary art galleries in EuropeLONDON.- While the term contemporary art refers to artworks that have been created during our lifetime, the concept is a little more loaded than that. Often inspired by pop culture and society many examples of contemporary art are self-aware, and were created to make a statement or reflect upon a particular moment in history; art transcends language barriers, and allows anyone and everyone to partake in debates, regardless of where they live or who they are. Europes art scene is heavily influenced by the movement of people, and the assertion that artists neednt stay in one place for too long. Indeed, the continents many galleries are a testament to the cultural and social commentaries that follow artists from place to place, and the dynamic nature of emerging art. Many of the exhibitions youll find across Europe are temporary, as gallery spaces make way for tre ... More The Kunsthaus Hamburg opens Ida Ekblad's first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.HAMBURG.- The Kunsthaus Hamburg is hosting Ida Ekblads first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The Norwegian artist (*1980), who has participated, among other venues, in the 54th Venice Biennale, is showing large-format paintings created specifically for the exhibition. New sculptures are being presented in the context of a performance by the singer Nils Bech at the opening reception. Ida Ekblads paintings and sculptures are like vehement acts of liberation. Gestural brushstrokes, dolphins, airbrush technique, aliens, junk, icons of Expressionism, puff effects recalling 3-D prints on sweatshirts of the eighties Ida Ekblads process-oriented art production embodies an anarchic spirit that does not hesitate to appropriate styles, subjects, and materials of western culture that are deemed outdated or tasteless. This non-hierarchical aesthetic approach to the ... More 2017 edition of India Art Fair attracts international audiences and new collectorsNEW DELHI.- The 2017 edition of India Art Fair closed on Sunday 5th February following a significant turnout of over 90,000 visitors over the duration of the fair. Founded in 2008, the annual fair has grown to become South Asias leading platform for modern and contemporary art and the most significant portal to the cultural offering in the region. India Art Fair 2017 saw participation from a comprehensive range of art world industry luminaries, with 72 exhibitors joined by prestigious collectors from 19 cities across India and 23 countries around the globe, further consolidating the sense of an international focus on the South Asian market. Neha Kirpal, Founding Director of India Art Fair said: This edition of India Art Fair has been a huge success, with impressive sales and global engagement from more world leading institutions and collectors than ... More Nationalmuseum Design opens exhibition of works by designer Eero Aarnio STOCKHOLM.- During Stockholm Design Week 2017, an exhibition by and about Finnish interior designer Eero Aarnio will open at Nationalmuseum Design. Aarnio is one of the best-known figures internationally in the history of modern Finnish design. He made his name in the 1960s with his experimental designs and his futuristic reinforced plastic chairs. The exhibition will present one of the foremost design icons, who for more than seven decades has been pushing the boundaries of what a piece of furniture can be and what it can look like. Throughout his design career, Eero Aarnio (born 1932) has experimented with form and materials, techniques and production processes. Back in 1966, he became an international sensation overnight following the unveiling of his Ball Chair at the Cologne Furniture fair. Five themes in the exhibition Artefacts, Mind, Time, Process and Manufacturing ... More Glitterati Incorporated publishes "Birds"NEW YORK, NY.- Influenced by the exotic, lush landscapes of his childhood years in Hawaii, Hunt Slonems richly colored, impressionistic bird paintings are celebrated worldwide. For the first time, Slonems birds are collected into a single, luxurious volume. In BIRDS, the Louisiana-born artist pays homage to these remarkable creatures through hundreds of engaging artworks. Dramatic and vivid, Slonems avian subjects seem unconfined to a flat surface, brimming as they are with texture and movement. The compelling nature of these paintings lies in the tension between the birds ability to soar and their often captive state (though Slonems own birds are often spotted flying around his studio). The world-renowned artists vibrantly patterned canvases are a celebration and a paean to birds, sure to entice returning fans and new viewers. Praised by his contemporaries for his ... More Paddle8 announces a series of auctions in collaboration with Melet MercantileNEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8, the leading online auction house, announced a series of auctions in partnership with iconic tastemaker Bob Melet of Melet Mercantile. The fashion-insiders go-to influencer who presents collections and assemblages of vintage fashion, ephemera, worldly goods and artifacts in his renowned New York showroom, Bob Melet is a bellwether for forecasting upcoming trends and styles. In his first collaboration with an auction house, Paddle8 will present 70 works collected by Bob Melet including photographs, ephemera, sculptures, art and objects with bidding live from February 16-March 2, 2017. A fourth-generation vendor of fashion and founder of Ralph Laurens vintage buying department, Bob Melets lifes work is traveling the world and collecting vintage fashion, rarities and antiques. He established Melet Mercantile in 2003, ... More Luiz Zerbini's first exhibition with Stephen Friedman Gallery opens in LondonLONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announces Luiz Zerbinis first exhibition with the gallery. The show is comprised of large scale abstract and figurative paintings and slide collages for which he is known. The artist draws visual references from what he sees around him, borrowing from Brazilian cityscapes, lush gardens, art history and pop culture to produce his work. Zerbini works concurrently on different formal possibilities, using abstract and figurative elements on their own and in combination. Figurative works such as Monster, Cabeça d'Agua and Pica-Pau are inspired by memories and photos of trips in Brazil. He simply paints what is around him; the Gaudi-esque building from an island in the bay of Rio in Monster; the Pica-Pau tree which takes its name from the woodpeckers that live in it; waves in the South Atlantic ocean; and the garden at his studio in Rio. His composition ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Marc, was born February 08, 1880. Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 - March 4, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. In this image: An employee stands in front of Franz Marc's 'Weidende Pferde III,' or 'Grazing Horses III, at Sotheby's in London, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008.
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