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French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and his wife Brigitte (C) look at an artwork as they visit The Ullens Chinese Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing on January 9, 2018. ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- The Pompidou Centre in Paris, which houses the world's second biggest collection of modern art, has sealed a deal to open a franchise gallery in Shanghai, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Macron made the announcement after holding talks with President Xi Jinping during his first state visit to China. He did not give more details but the Pompidou Centre had announced plans for the gallery last July. It will show around 20 exhibitions over five years in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built in Shanghai's cultural district by British architect David Chipperfield. The Paris gallery, which also has plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks with the Chinese authorities for more than a decade. In 2016 it staged its first show in China called "Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou 1906-77" featuring work by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and other big names at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An Indian artisan removes the dust from the statue of Mahatma Gandhi as the staues of Indian classical musicians Alla Rakha (C) and M. S. Subbulakshmi are seen inside a workshop in Kolkata on January 8, 2018. Statues of different Indian classical musicians along with a statue of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi will be displayed on the Tableau of All India Radio (AIR), the national public radio broadcaster of India, during the Delhi Republic Day parade. The parade takes place every year on January 26 at Rajpath in New Delhi and it is the largest and most important parade that marks the Republic Day celebrations in India. Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP
| Exhibition features an entirely new body of work created by Carmen Herrera within the last year | | Milestone's Jan. 27 Military & Firearms Auction includes Hitler's desk, Yalta Conference painting, John Wayne's revolver | | LACMA and the Autry Museum of the American West announce an unprecedented new partnership | 
Carmen Herrera, Pavanne, 1967/2017, 274.3 x 274.3 x 182.9 cm, 108 x 108 x 72 in © Carmen Herrera; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Carmen Herreras sixth exhibition with Lisson Gallery, and her second with the gallery in London, features an entirely new body of work created within the last year. Featuring a large Estructura, along with a number of paintings and works on paper, the exhibition displays some of Herreras most ambitious work to date. Known for her geometric lyricism and vibrant abstractions, Herrera produces dynamic compositions that convey movement and rhythm through a careful balance of lines, forms and colours. Embracing an approach that is at once meditative and reflective, daring and bold, Herreras work evokes a simultaneous sense of instability and order, encompassing symmetry and asymmetry, shadow and light. Rather than tricks to fool the eye, her intent is to sharpen it. Herreras dynamic use of colour and form is realised perhaps most effectively in her series of three-dimensional works, known ... More | | 
Adolf Hitlers custom-made oak and leather desk and chair from his Munich residence, a 1929 gift from Mrs. Elsa Bruckmann (nee Princess Cantacuzene of Romania). Accompanied by manufacturers hand-signed letter to Hitler advising him of the furnitures completion. Provenance: Hermann Historica 2003. Est. $100,000-$1 million.
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- While little good ever comes of war, its outcome shapes the future for generations to come, both on the winning and losing sides of the battlefield. A panoramic overview of Americas wartime history, as defined by the memorabilia of its heroes, allies and most reviled enemies, will be the focal point of Milestones Jan. 27 Historic Military & Firearms Auction. The suburban Cleveland company will present 668 lots of extraordinary rarities, including Adolf Hitlers personal desk and chair, a large and provocative Komar & Melamid painting titled Yalta Conference, and a uniform frock coat that belonged to a Civil War major general. Additional highlights include a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 170V two-door coupe that belonged to Nazi SA physician ... More | | 
Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Autry Museum of the American West announced an unprecedented new partnership at a January 9 program with Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and W. Richard West, Jr., President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West. The two directors discussed an evolving and collaborative approach for museums in the 21st century. This new LACMA-Autry partnership allows both museums to expand their programming content through the sharing of collections, joint programs, exhibitions, publications, and more. Via this new model, LACMA and the Autry can now extensively explore the art of the American West past and present in photography, paintings, sculpture, and other holdings, as well as the artistic and cultural connections between the American Southwest, Mexico, and Latin America through contemporary art as well as ... More |
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| Allan Stone Projects opens exhibition of works by Barton Benes | | Sotheby's New York opens 2018 auctions with "Americana Week: We the People" | | Exhibition of works by Biala from the collection of Harvey and Phyllis Lichtenstein on view at Tibor de Nagy | 
Barton Benes, Untitled (Yellow Book with Rope), Circa 1972-74. Mixed media book construction, 3 1/4 x 10 x 6 1/2 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects is presenting Barton Benes: Books on view January 9 - February 24, 2018. Although known for his work that dealt with the AIDS epidemic, Barton Benes (1942 - 2012) was a prolific artist who continuously worked with everyday objects. The meaning of books and how we perceive them was a favorite subject. Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values. For instance, a book on corporate financial policy becomes a purse, a book covered with nails relates to African fetish objects and a copy of Sold American, a book on consumer behavior, is punctured with holes. Benes fascination with the fetishism of objects relates to the work of artists such as Paul Thek and Mike Kelley, using the flotsam, jetsam, and detritus of American society to ... More | | 
Rare and Important Carved and Painted Pine Figure of a Baseball Player, Workshop of Samuel Anderson Robb, New York, circa 1890. Height 49 in. by Width 12 in. by Depth 13 in. Estimate $300/500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys begins the 2018 auctions in New York with Americana Week: We the People. Comprised of exceptional and historically important examples of American furniture and decorative arts, silver, folk art, ceramics, books and more, the two sales this January include property from nearly a dozen distinguished private collections, and an important private collection of maps of the American West. Works from both sales, Important Printed and Manuscript Americana, including Cartography on 17 January and Important Americana from 18-21 January, will be on view in Sothebys York Avenue galleries beginning tomorrow, 10 January. Erik Gronning, Head of Sothebys Americana Department, remarked: With the strong results of our 2017 Americana Week sales, we are thrilled to present yet another outstanding ... More | | 
Biala, Fleurs dans une tasse, 1985. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tibor de Nagy presents its fifth exhibition of paintings by Biala (1903 2000), featuring over twenty works from the 1960s through the 1990s including selected works from the Harvey and Phyllis Lichtenstein Collection. Harvey Lichtenstein was a preeminent supporter of new talent and the President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 1967-1999. Bialas contribution to modernism has been noted by critics who championed her assimilation of the School of Paris and the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Her eight decade career began in the early 1920s when she hitch-hiked with her brother Jack Tworkov to study art in Provincetown. A fateful Paris encounter with English novelist Ford Madox Ford led to a ten-year relationship with the writer and life-long relationship with France. Upon her return to New York in 1939 following Fords death, Biala was in the thick of a milieu of the New York School, befriending pa ... More |
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| Exhibition showcases the sublime beauty that light evokes aesthetically and thematically | | Lévy Gorvy opens first solo exhibition dedicated to artist and composer Terry Adkins | | Dallas Museum of Art displays mural painting by Hopi artists | 
Infinity Room by Rekif Anadol. Photo: Courtesy Refik Anandol.
OMAHA, NE.- KANEKO, located in the heart of the Old Market, introduces light, running from December 5th 2017 - March 31st, 2018. light at KANEKO is an interactive and visual art exhibition experience that explores art and science through light. light hosts a variety of performances, lectures, youth education, and hands-on creative experiences to connect visitors with their own creativity. Artists employ glass, sculpture and light itself to showcase the sublime beauty that light evokes aesthetically and thematically. The public will glean insight into scientific issues such as vision and optics, physiology of light energy, sustainability, light pollution and conservation. A large part of the exhibition is reliant on audience participation. Step inside an infinite abyss with Refik Anadols audiovisual installation. Interact and move through large geometric forms that change color, audio and intensity during ... More | | 
Terry Adkins, Reply, 1987, Copper and wood, 67 3/4 x 11 x 4 1/3 inches (172 x 28 x 11 cm). Courtesy of the Estate of Terry Adkins, New York. © The Estate of Terry Adkins.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following Lévy Gorvys recent announcement of its representation of the Estate of Terry Adkins, the gallery debuts its first solo exhibition devoted to the acclaimed artist and composer on January 10th. Terry Adkins: The Smooth, The Cut, and The Assembled explores the visual and conceptual concerns that define the late artists sculptural output, inviting a new appreciation of his unique interdisciplinary practice. Curated by Charles Gaines, Adkins close friend and frequent collaborator, this exhibition seeks to illuminate a revolutionary oeuvre through fresh eyes, grounded in the conceptual and personal rapport between these two groundbreaking artists. Based in Los Angeles, Gaines has maintained his own art practice since the late 1960s. Presented on two floors ... More | | 
Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie, Journey of the Human Spirit Middle Place: The Purification (Panel 4), 2001, acrylic on canvas, Courtesy of the Museum of Northern Arizona, © Gene Balzer.
DALLAS, TX.- Hopi Visions: Journey of the Human Spirit features a mural painting by Hopi artists Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie complemented by ancient to contemporary objects from the DMA's collection. On view at the Dallas Museum of Art January 7 through December 2, 2018, the exhibition marks the first time the Journey of the Human Spirit mural will be on view outside of Arizona and the Museum of Northern Arizona. The mural is nearly five feet tall and forty-eight feet long, with six distinct but interconnected panels. The panels narrate the history of the Hopi people, from the mythic emergence, through the arrival of Europeans, to the rebirth of Hopi traditions in the information age. The contemporary mural was inspired by figural wall paintings created prior to European contact and ... More |
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| Artworks by Wesselmann, Walker, Bonheur will headline Nye & Company's Jan. 31st auction | | London play charts real-life drama of 'Jungle' migrant camp | | MoMA announces full line-up for Doc Fortnight 2018 | 
Liquitex on paper by Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) of a nude female bust (est. $30,000-$50,000).
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Folks pouring into New York City for Americana Week beginning January 15th would be wise to consider sticking around for Nye & Company Auctioneers big Collectors Passion Auction planned for Wednesday, January 31st, online and at the firms showroom located at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. The sale will start at 10 am Eastern time. At the very least, they could make a side trip while in New York (Bloomfield is just 15 miles outside the Lincoln Tunnel) for the gallery preview and exhibition, which runs Monday thru Friday, Jan. 22-26, from 10-4; and Sunday, January 28th, from 12 noon until 4 pm. An online preview and pre-bid will be ongoing, from January 16th thru 31st, at www.liveauctioneers.com. The auction will be have several important highlights, including a superb collection of American and English furniture from a prominent estate in Mount Kisco, N.Y.; a fine collection ... More | | 
Writers Joe Robertson (L) and Joe Murphy pose outside the Young Vic Theatre. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A boy is found dead and smoke fills the air ahead of a police raid: traumatic memories from France's "Jungle" migrant camp are being recreated on a London stage. More than a year since police swept through the squalid camp near the port of Calais, clearing out an estimated 7,000 migrants, the ordeal is captured vividly in "The Jungle" playing to sell-out crowds at the Young Vic theatre. The play is the creation of two writers who set up their own theatre amid the chaos in Calais, with casts including migrant actors. "We ended up wanting to chart the creation of that society and then the destruction, or downfall, of that society," playwright Joe Murphy told AFP. Murphy and fellow writer Joe Robertson, both 27, set up the Good Chance Theatre in September 2015 at the heart of the Jungle, their actors performing under a second-hand geodesic ... More | | 
Neil Young Journeys. 2011. USA. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the full festival line-up for Doc Fortnight 2018, its 17th annual showcase of outstanding and innovative nonfiction film from around the world. This years festival, which runs February 1526, 2018, includes an international selection of more than 20 documentary features and an extensive program of short films, with filmmakers and artists present for discussions following many of the films. These screenings represent the North American, US, or New York premiere of nearly every film featured in the festivalalong with the world premieres of Susanna Styrons Out of My Head (2017), Jeffrey Perkinss George (2017), Chico Colvards Black Memorabilia (2017), Jules Rosskams Paternal Rites (2017), Michelle Memrans The Rest I Make Up (2017), Amy Jenkinss Instructions on Parting (2018), and more. Doc Fortnight 2018 is organized by Kathy Brew, Guest ... More |
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 New series of paintings by Pamela Golden on view at Marlborough Fine ArtLONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art presents Thunderstruck, a new series of paintings by Pamela Golden inspired by both real and imagined images of Iraq from the past and present. In this series, Golden explores our relationships to imagery and visual culture considering how associations adapt over time; exposing anxieties around images of conflict. Her paintings question how we assign value to an image and the reimagination of her source materials- film stills, photographs allow Golden to manipulate the viewers experience, revealing new narratives through her works. The works both mesmerize and surprise the viewer. They can be considered as a channel to propose questions about our shared contemporary and problematic dynamics of how we perceive the world through mediated sources. These large-scale paintings will be shown alongside smaller paintings ... More First UK solo exhibition of recent work by artist Sriwhana Spong opens at Pump House GalleryLONDON.- Wandsworth Councils Pump House Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition of recent work by London-based New Zealand artist Sriwhana Spong. The exhibition, a hook but no fish, responds to the artists current research into the Lingua Ignota, a language invented by twelfth century mystic Hildegard von Bingen during a 39 year period spent at Disibodenberg monastery, Germany. Central to the exhibition is a new film titled a hook but no fish (2017). Shooting on 16mm film, Spong travelled to the site of the monastery where Von Bingen was enclosed as a child with two other women. Supposedly a divine language received by Hildegard, the Lingua Ignota is thought to have possibly been a secret language created to increase solidarity amongst Hildegards sisters. The language is composed of a 23 letter alphabet and introduces new vocabulary into ... More Sensing Architecture: A new publication from the Royal Academy of ArtsLONDON.- A new collection of essays published by the Royal Academy of Arts provides commentary on the philosophical, psychological, social and economic ideas that shape our experience of architecture. Sensing Architecture: Essays on the Nature of Architectural Experience derives from a symposium held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London on March 31, 2014 to accompany the exhibition Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined. Sensing Spaces saw seven architects from around the world invited to create one-off installations in the Academys Main Galleries and Annenberg Courtyard. Visitors were encouraged to move through and experience these interventions and the exhibition offered a stark contrast to the usual representation of architecture through drawings, photographs and models. The exhibition, curated by Kate Goodwin used architectural ... More Jeanie Riddle's third solo exhibition at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran opens in MontrealMONTREAL.- Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran presents Jeanie Riddle's third solo exhibition at the gallery, titled Open Letter to the Women. The exhibition will showcase painting in a variety of conventional and non-conventional ways, including folding, piling and draping canvases. The paintings, along with a collection of sculptures will situate the gallerys space as a site of resistance and a secret messaging of encouragement, love and community by way of an exploration of colour, joy and the domestic. The paintings perform like posters, like those of inspiration found in schools, gyms or community centres, as well as those found at rallies or protests. They are brash and fuelled by colour, pattern and graphics. The sculptures also take on a role of organizational equipment that reference writing stations and the office or school. This new and unique work ... More Taft Museum of Art announces $5 million gift from Sallie Robinson Wadsworth to endow positionCINCINNATI, OH.- Deborah Emont Scott, Louise Taft Semple President/CEO of the Taft Museum of Art, today announced the endowment of the museums lead curatorial position. It was made possible by a $5 million gift from the late Sallie Robinson Wadsworth. The position will be held by current Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator Lynne D. Ambrosini, PhD. Her new title will be Deputy Director and the Sallie Robinson Wadsworth Chief Curator. I am deeply grateful to Sallie Robinson Wadsworth for her extremely generous gift to secure the chief curator position at the Taft Museum of Art in perpetuity, said Taft President/CEO Deborah Emont Scott. The gift will continue to honor Sallies legacy in the Greater Cincinnati community. The Wadsworth endowment will ensure that self-organized exhibitions ... More Exhibition presents a thoughtful and contemporary look at inequalities and social justice in MemphisMEMPHIS, TENN.- In partnership with the City of Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museums MLK50 program honoring the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination, students and faculty from Memphis College of Art and the University of Memphis join together to present a thoughtful and contemporary look at inequalities and social justice in Memphis. The exhibit is on view in the Main Gallery of Rust Hall in Overton Park from January 4 to January 30, with a reception on Friday, January 26 from 6-8pm. In this cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration, Dr. Susan Nordstrom, Assistant Professor of Educational Research at University of Memphis, O. Gustavo Plascencia, Associate Professor and Director of the MFA Programs at Memphis College of Art, and graduate students from both institutions explore how bodies are (dis)placed ... More First New York solo exhibition of artist Gamaliel Rodriguez opens at Nathalie Karg GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Nathalie Karg Gallery presents Uncertainty Gates, the first New York solo exhibition of Puerto Rican based artist Gamaliel Rodriguez. Just four months ago, Gamaliel Rodriguezs synthetic landscapes, which depict a world where industrial buildings meld into nature and are absent of human life, could be read as dystopian fabrications. Today, as most of his native island remains without power after Hurricane Maria, the drawings reflect neither fiction nor future, but a troubling hyperreality. In light of Puerto Ricos tragic fate, the works in Uncertainty Gates have gone from fantastic speculation to prescient compositions. While its impossible to view these images without thinking of the artists homeland, they remain in a skillfully ambiguous state. Using the omnipresent rectilinear vocabulary of municipal and ... More London prepares to sparkle with Lumiere festivalLONDON (AFP).- London's streets from the West End to Westminster are to be flooded with the light from 50 art installations this month, in an event officials hope will bring millions of visitors to the British capital. Lumiere London, organised by the culture charity Artichoke, is returning to the city two years after its launch, running from January 18 to 21, organisers said in a statement on Tuesday. Some streets will be pedestrianised for the occasion of "an extraordinary and immersive nocturnal art exhibition of light and sound," organisers said. St James's Churchyard in Piccadilly will host an installation entitled "My Light is Your Light" -- a tribute to Syrian refugees created by Alaa Minawi, who worked for three years as an interpreter for refugees. On the South Bank of the River Thames, visitors will see images of dancers projected onto a dance studio and a series ... More Academy Art Museum exhibition: The Caprichos: Goya and Lombardo continues through February 25EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museums exhibition, The Caprichos: Goya and Lombardo, will be on display through February 25, 2018. The Caprichos by Emily Lombardo is a series of etchings which are in direct conversation and homage to Francisco Goyas Los Caprichos, 1799. Both explore and present a satirical critique of contemporary culture and the forces that influence society along economic, racial, political, religious, and gender lines. Emily Lombardo states, Copying has been the defining component of the apprentice-mentor structure since the birth of art production. The relationship was successfully completed when originality became discernible in the hand of the apprentice. My earliest apprenticeship was with a newspaper, pen, and paper. I would tirelessly copy political cartoons depicting Nixon, Reagan, Castro, and countless others, with ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
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