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The longstanding friendship between Baselitz and the Kunstmuseum Basel goes back to 1970, when Dieter Koepplin, then the director of the Kupferstichkabinett, boosted the 32-year-old artists career by organizing a first exhibition of his drawings. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- On occasion of his eightieth birthday, the Kunstmuseum Basel honors Georg Baselitz (b. Jan 23, 1938), one of the most distinguished figures in German postwar art. Concurrent with a focused retrospective of his oeuvre at the Fondation Beyeler, this exhibition showcases a representative survey of his drawings and colored graphic art from the museums Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings). Baselitz was trained as a painter at the Academies of Arts in East and West Berlin. In the context of German postwar arts stern emphasis on abstraction, his insistence on a highly expressive and realistic figuration could not but be perceived as a provocation. Baselitzs meteoric career took off in the mid-1960s, when he painted pictures that scandalized critics and audiences and published hallucinatory Pandemonic Manifestos. He cultivated his public image and featured new heroes in h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Pierre Alechinsky Soutien de famille, oil on canvas,1960, (200 x 185cm) This very important painting by Belgian great master of CoBrA group , Pierre Alechinsky, in on view at rodolphe janssen's stand at BRAFA Art Fair until Sunday February 4th. The painting has been im the same collection since 1961 and was only seen in 4 museum exhibitions: museum voir moderne kunst of Oostende, Palais des Beaux Arts van Brussel, Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven in the 60's and 70's.
| Ancient Syria temple damaged in Turkish raids | | Christie's to offer a diverse collection of Modern and Post-War art | | Rare Picasso painting in Hong Kong ahead of historic auction |
A picture taken on January 29, 2018 shows destruction at the ancient temple of Ain Dara, some seven kilometres from Afrin. Delil souleiman / AFP.
BEIRUT (AFP).- Syria's antiquities department and a war monitor on Sunday said a 3,000-year-old temple has been damaged in Turkish air strikes on a Kurdish militia in the country's north. The iron age neo-Hittite temple of Ain Dara dates back to the Aramean era, from around 1,300 to 700 BC, and is named after a village located in the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin. Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the temple was struck by air strikes on Friday. "It has been destroyed up to 60 percent," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. Syria's antiquities department, a government agency, confirmed the attack on "one of the most important ... More | |
Giorgio de Chirico, Testa di manichino, Oil on canvas, 1916-17, Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christies will offer The Eye of the Architect, a diverse collection of Modern and Post-War art, during 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that will take place in London from 20 February to 7 March 2018: Impressionist and Modern Art and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sales (both 27 February), Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale (28 February) and Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale (6 March). Focusing primarily on figurative compositions, this tightly curated group of works not only reveals the collectors discerning eye and architectural mind, but also a passion for artists who continuously sought to push the boundaries of tradition in their art. Including works by some of the most celebrated masters of the twentieth century avant-garde, from Pablo Picasso to Francis Bacon, Giorgio de Chirico to Joan Miró, and Fernand Léger to Giorgio Morandi, this varied group ... More | |
Picasso painted the portrait a few months after his masterpiece "Guernica" was conceived in 1937 in the depths of Spain's devastating civil war. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- A rare Picasso painting on auction for the first time made its debut in Hong Kong at the start of a global tour on Tuesday and is expected to fetch $50 million, auction house Sotheby's said. The painting -- "Femme au beret et a la robe quadrillee (Marie-Therese Walter)" -- is a colourful and angular depiction of Picasso's French lover with a dark silhouette looming behind her face. "Of all of the artist's styles and decades, this is the one that most epitomises the legacy of Picasso as a portraitist of women," said Thomas Bompard of the Impressionist and Modern Art department at Sotheby's in London. Walter began her relationship with Picasso as his mistress and muse when she was 17 and committed suicide in 1977, four years after his death. Picasso painted the portrait a few months after his masterpiece "Guernica" was ... More |
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| San Antonio Museum of Art acquires three important African American artworks | | The Morgan opens the first full-scale retrospective of the photography of Peter Hujar | | Poland to post Chopin collection online |
Northern Lights: For Uhura (2016) by Rodney McMillian.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced it has acquired major artworks by three contemporary African American artistsKevin Beasley (b. 1985), Rodney McMillian (b.1969), and Martine Syms (b. 1988). The works by Beasley and McMillian are now on view in the Museums contemporary art galleries and the Syms video/sound installation will be installed in February to coincide with Black History Month. Each artwork was made in the last year or two and reflects the most critical ideas and issues motivating artistic practices today, says Suzanne Weaver, The Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. I am thrilled to add works of such intelligence, imagination, and lasting relevance
and meaning. The works join the Museums growing collection of art by other African American artists such as Willie Cole, Eldzier Cortor, Sam Gilliam, Faith Ringgold, Kehinde Wiley, and self-taught artists Bil ... More | |
Self-Portrait Jumping (1), 1974 (detail), gelatin silver print, purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund, The Morgan Library & Museum, 2013.108:1.37. © Peter Hujar Archive, LLC, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
NEW YORK, NY.- The life and art of Peter Hujar (19341987) were rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well-read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His mature career paralleled the public unfolding of gay life between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. In his loft studio in the East Village, Hujar focused on those who followed their creative instincts and shunned mainstream success. He made, in his words, uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects, immortalizing moments, individuals, and subcultures passing at the speed of life. Peter Hujar: Speed of Lifeon view at the Morgan from January 26 through May 20presents one hundred and forty photographs ... More | |
This file photo taken on June 19, 2008 shows a woman reading a magazine on a bench in front of the monument of Polish pianist Frederic Chopin in Warsaw Lazienki Park. WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- Poland's Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC) on Tuesday said it would make its entire collection devoted to the 19th-century composer available online for free by 2020. "Chopin will be the first great composer to have all of his musical scores digitised" and openly accessible by all, NIFC deputy director Maciej Janicki told reporters. Nearly 40,000 Chopin items from the UNESCO world heritage collection -- including photographs and paintings of the Polish-French romantic composer, scholarly articles and manuscripts -- will be put online, Janicki added. Anyone will be able to download recordings from the global Chopin piano competition that the Warsaw-based institute organises in addition to researching, documenting and promoting Chopin's work around the world. Janicki says the most innovative part of the open-source project -- which will be available ... More |
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| Simultaneity Biases: Blain/Southern opens exhibition of works by Michael Joo | | The plot thickens! Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre appealed to the masses staging high-octane performances | | Musée de l'Elysée opens exhibition of masterpieces from the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla collection |
Michael Joo, Simultaneity Biases, Installation View, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Blain/Southern, Photo Trevor Good.
BERLIN.- In each of the works in his new exhibition at Blain|Southern Berlin, Michael Joo takes various approaches to the idea of transitory states of objects, identities and artworks. Geological transformation, environmental disaster, human impact, disputed borderlands, industrial processes, material fabrication and atomic-level chemical reactions are all addressed, holding equal importance when it comes to the way Joo discusses liminal spaces in his work. Two bodies of work in the exhibition draw from the artists research into Sapelo Island, a naturally formed sedimentary landmass off the coast of the American state of Georgia. Used over centuries as an enclave for slave-driven industries such as tobacco plantations and timber mills, the island is now largely owned and populated by direct descendants of that enslaved workforce. As such, this ... More | |
Double-sided bone comb (16th 17th century). © MOLA.
LONDON.- Following further analysis, archaeologists at MOLA have established that the stage at the Curtain Theatre was the same length as a modern-day fencing piste at 14 metres long and 4.75m meters deep and lent itself to hosting certain types of plays specifically those that included sensational dynamic fight scenes. The length of the stage allowed for linear movement - suited to staging entertaining fight scenes much like those in Romeo and Juliet, a play famed for its fight scenes and was known to have been performed at the Curtain Theatre. Further research is adding to the ongoing academic debate that playhouses north of the River Thames hosted more dramatic and energetic plays and events than those south of the river. Finds discovered at the site reflect the varying social classes of the theatregoers. The price of entry was affordable for most starting at just a penny, but 359 tiny glass beads discovered in the outside spaces ... More | |
Lewis Hine, On The Hoist, Empire State Building, 1931.
LAUSANNE.- The exhibition presents a selection of masterpieces from the history of photography, part of the collection of Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla. Based in New York, it includes over 1500 original prints by some of the greatest photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through visual confrontations, the visitor is invited to experience the power of the photographic line through these sublime works. The photographs by Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Walker Evans, Rineke Dijkstra, Man Ray and Lee Friedlander, among others, thus resonate, beyond their historical temporality and geographic considerations, by their formal correspondences. Throughout history, photographers have always oscillated between two extremes: the mimetic illusion of reality and the enhancement of the esthetic qualities of the image. Whether it be instantaneous lines, according to the expression of Henri ... More |
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| Amazon opens plant-filled "The Spheres" buildings | | Truck damages Peru's ancient Nazca lines | | Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens first exhibition of Julian Faulhaber in Russia |
Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018. JASON REDMOND / AFP.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Internet giant Amazon on Monday opened its plant-packed "The Spheres" buildings in its home city of Seattle. The Spheres are the newest addition to Amazon's "urban campus" in Seattle, and are billed as a workplace "more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office." The structures, which look like giant glass and steel balls, house more than 40,000 plants and include features such as treehouse meeting rooms, a river and waterfalls. "Our goal with The Spheres was to create a unique gathering place where employees could collaborate and innovate together, and where the Seattle community could gather to experience biodiversity in the center of the city," John Schoettler, Amazon's vice president ... More | |
The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants.
LIMA (AFP).- Peru's ancient Nazca lines were damaged when a driver accidentally plowed his cargo truck into the fragile archaeological site in the desert, officials said Tuesday. The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants etched in the ground some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization. They are best seen from the sky. The driver ignored warning signs as he entered the Nazca archaeological zone on January 27, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement. The truck "left deep prints in an area approximately 100 meters long," damaging "parts of three straight lined geoglyphs," the statement read. Security guards detained the driver and filed charges against him at the local police station, the statement added. Entering the area is strictly prohibited due to the fragility of the ... More | |
Julian Faulhaber, Pult (Desk), 2016 ©Julian Faulhaber/VG Bildkunst Bonn/RAO.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the first exhibition of the German photographer Julian Faulhaber in Russia. The exposition consists of works from the project LDPE (low density polyethylene), over which Faulhaber worked for several years starting in 2003. The name itself already manifests the artificiality of the captured spaces. The synthetic material used for the production of plastic bags becomes a reference to our time, when packaging often acquires more importance than the product itself. " Its the lifestyle, which is determining our way of living " the author notes. At the center of Faulhaber`s attention are the real public places in Germany, Japan and the USA: gas stations, shopping centers, cinema halls, parking lots - that which surrounds us every day. He photographs these objects ... More |
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Exhibition at Hicks Gallery features rarely available prints by Peter Blake
LONDON.- Hicks Gallerys first show of 2018 features rarely available prints from one of Britains foremost artists, Sir Peter Blake a truly unique opportunity to view and purchase iconic pieces by the Godfather of British pop art. One of the twentieth-centurys leading British artists, his work reflects his fascination with all streams of popular culture, and the beauty to be found in everyday objects and surroundings. Many of his works feature found materials such as photographs, comic strips or advertising texts, combined with bold geometric patterns and the use of primary colours. Whilst his works perfectly capture the effervescent and optimistic ethos of the sixties, they are also tinged with sentimentality and nostalgia with particular focus towards childhood innocence and reminiscence; yet they still manage to remain strikingly fresh and contemporary. 2017 ... More
Special group exhibition featuring the work of American artist Alan Shields on view at Van Doren Waxter
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is presenting a special group exhibition featuring the work of American artist Alan Shields (1944 2005) in conversation with contemporary artists. Alan Shields Project is on view from January 5 through February 24, 2018 at the gallerys 195 Chrystie Street location and features the work of Lisa Alvarado, Cheryl Donegan, Aiko Hachisuka, Channing Hansen, Naotaka Hiro, Alan Shields, Martha Tuttle, and B. Wurtz. The show continues a series of project exhibitionswhich has included the Moira Dryer Projectthat features a dialogue between a singular historical artist and living artists whose formal and conceptual affinities underscore the pertinence of the titular artist in focus. Alan Shields Project will includes unique works on paper, editioned multiples, un-stretched canvases, and wearable art by Shields alongside recent work ... More
Trish Duebber is new Coordinator of Youth Programs at Boca Raton Museum Art School
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum Art School is starting 2018 by welcoming a new member to its staff. Trish Duebber has joined the team at the school on Palmetto Park Road as the new Coordinator of Youth Programs. The Ohio native brings with her a unique professional skill set of experiences as an arts educator and administrator, and a passion for advocating for arts education. In her new station, Duebber will oversee afterschool and weekend classes and workshops for youth, as well as the schools popular Summer Art Camp. The Art School has created the new position of Coordinator of Youth Programs to enrich and expand afterschool and summer programs for children and teenagers. The aim is not to duplicate in-school art lessons, but to provide studio art experiences not necessarily available in school. This includes developing program ... More
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art exhibition explores three generations of modern Pueblo painters
NORMAN, OKLA.- A first-of-its-kind exhibition honoring three generations of Pueblo artists opened this month at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting: The Art of Tonita Peña and Joe Herrera spans 65 years and reveals how a mother and son broke tradition and influenced generations of modern painters. Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting documents and celebrates in particular the art of Tonita Peña (San Ildefonso/Cochiti, 1893-1949), the only female Pueblo painter of her generation, as well as the work of her distinguished son, Joe Hilario Herrera (Cochiti, 1920-2001), and their positive influence on a younger generation of artists, including Pablita Velarde (Santa Clara, 1918-2006) and her daughter, Helen Hardin (Santa Clara, 1943-84). The exhibition, the first significant presentation of Peñas ... More
In a World We Can't See: A group exhibition opens at TENT Rotterdam
ROTTERDAM.- TENT opened the group exhibition In a World We Cant See, with premieres of new video installations by Margo Onnes and Arthur Kleinjan, and impressive multimedia works by Ine Lamers and Anoek Steketee. Also on view is Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchis six-part video installation, initially realised for documenta 14 and now presented by IFFR at TENT. Each of the four artists singular approach to lens-based practices exposes a deeper reality behind our immediate actuality. By exploying the surreal atmosphere and logic of magical-realist narratives, memories, and dreams, they evoke a collective subconsciousness that lies dormant beneath the surface of everyday life, probe for existential human fears and desires, and explore potential alternative realities. This fascination for the deeper layers behind the quotidian offers a multifaceted alternative ... More
When Greeks were less fond of Alexander the Great
ATHENS (AFP).- To modern Greeks, Alexander the Great is an integral part of their rich heritage -- one of history's greatest conquerors who toppled the hated Persian Empire and took Greek culture as far as Egypt and India. But ancient Greek city-states, who spent more than a decade fighting against Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon, were probably less enthusiastic. A skilled general and diplomat who transformed Macedon -- ancient Macedonia -- from a tribal backwater into a regional superpower, Philip waged a sustained campaign against the Greek city-states, eventually crushing Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE. For the first time in history, most of the Greek mainland was then under the influence of a single ruler, ending decades of internecine warfare. "Philip was a rather unscrupulous ruler, who tried to, and finally managed, ... More
Scottish author takes 'Ferrymania' from China to Hollywood
LESMAHAGOW (AFP).- A small-town Scottish schoolteacher has become an international literary sensation with more than a million sales in China and a Hollywood movie deal -- but remains relatively unknown in her homeland. Claire McFall has signed over the rights to her "Ferryman" series of teenage novels to Legendary Entertainment, the US production company behind blockbusters such as director Christopher Nolan's "Batman" saga and "Jurassic World". The 35-year-old mother has also been mobbed in China, where her debut novel "Ferryman", first published in 2013, has been a top 10 bestseller for more than two years. "My agent calls it 'Ferrymania', which is slightly cringeworthy," she told AFP. "It's mind-boggling how successful it's been in China. They seem to be astonished that I would want to come to China to see them, and I was like, 'Are you kidding? You love my book!'." ... More
Octopizzo: Rap king from Nairobi slum inspiring Kenyan kids
NAIROBI (AFP).- Like most youngsters in Nairobi's largest slum, Henry Ohanga grew up believing he would never amount to anything. Making it big, even leaving Kibera: these weren't things that happened to an orphan who once robbed people to buy food. Now 29, he is Octopizzo, one of East Africa's most recognised hip-hop stars, and is using his success to break down stigma around the slum and inspire kids in a world devoid of successful role models. Clad in a black Adidas tracksuit, with bling in his ears, a gold-coloured watch on his arm and a large dazzling pendant of Jesus around his neck, Ohanga gestures over the undulating hodge-podge of corrugated iron roofs where he grew up. "It's everything, everything I rap about... I feel like if I wasn't born here I probably wouldn't be a rapper," he told AFP in Kibera, ... More
Bookstores in Nigeria? Adichie anger lights up social media
LAGOS (AFP).- "Are there bookshops in Nigeria?" The question posed by a French journalist last week incensed acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. At an event held in a ritzy Paris government building under crystal chandeliers, Adichie launched a blistering assault on perceived French arrogance. "I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question," said Adichie. "My books are read in Nigeria. They are studied in schools. Not just Nigeria, across the continent in Africa." The subsequent outrage on social media was perhaps predictable: insults hurled at the French journalist amid accusations of racism and colonial prejudices. Adichie wasn't done yet. The novelist, who was born in Nigeria but now lives in the United States, followed up with a Facebook po ... More
Israeli president visits Greek site of future Holocaust museum
THESSALONIKI (AFP).- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday announced the northern port city of Thessaloniki is to host a Holocaust museum, during a visit to the site with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos and the German government will each make a 10 million euro ($12 million) donation to cover the bulk of the cost of the museum on the site of a former railway station from where trains transported prisoners to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Other donations will complete the overall 22 million euro cost. "The Holocaust museum is an homage to 50,000 Greek Jews from Thessaloniki -- young people, children, elderly exterminated in the concentration camps," said Tsipras. "Nothing and nobody has been forgotten -- neither the criminals nor the victims," he added. Work on the 7,000 square ... More
The Ringling's Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion opens
SARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Arts new Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion opened to the public on January 22, 2018. The space brings several initiatives to completion: the development and display of The Ringlings collection of international studio glass, a formal entrance and gathering space for the Historic Asolo Theater, rehearsal spaces for guest performing artists and another landmark work of architecture on The Ringling campus. The 5,500-square-foot building was designed by Lewis + Whitlock, a regional firm known for its commitment to innovative and sustainable design. Its sculptural glass façade enables captivating glimpses of works inside. It was only natural that the Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilions dynamic façade, with its light-controlling fins, would be inspired by the sculptural effects that wind and water have on sand, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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