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Olafur Eliasson (b.1967), Room for one colour, 1997. Monofrequency lamps. Dimensions variable. Installation view at PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, 2011. Photo: Dmitry Baranov. Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles © 1997 Olafur Eliasson.
by Pauline Froissart
LONDON (AFP).- With light, mist and rain, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson brings nature into the Tate Modern for a new London exhibition that appeals to visitors' senses while, at points, disorientating them. About 40 works of art dating back over three decades are on display inside and outside the Thames-side gallery of contemporary art, including an extraordinary 11-metre high waterfall. Eliasson won acclaim here in 2003 when he filled the Tate's vast Turbine Hall with a giant blazing sun for "The Weather Project", an installation that drew more than two million visitors. In December, the 52-year-old left 24 blocks of glacier ice to melt outside to raise awareness of the impact of global warming. This latest exhibition, "In Real Life", explores the Berlin-based artist's favourite themes, including nature, geometry and the nature of perception. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will offer ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East, as well as Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Fossils and Fine Art on Thursday Jul 11, 2019 9:00 AM CDT. In this image: Early 20th C. African Liberian Bassa Wood Mask. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
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 | | MFA Boston commissions Katharina Grosse to create work to pair with Jackson Pollock's Mural | | Egypt asks Interpol to trace Tutankhamun relic over ownership docs | | Christie's to offer the Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill | 
Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943 (detail). Oil and casein on canvas. University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6. Reproduced with permission from The University of Iowa. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse, presents an unprecedented pairing: the largest painting ever made by Jackson Pollock (19121956) and a new, site-related work by German artist Katharina Grosse (born in 1961). Commissioned by art patron and gallerist Peggy Guggenheim and later donated to the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Pollocks Mural (1943) stretches nearly 20 feet wide by eight feet high. Today, it is recognized as one of the pivotal achievements of the artists career, the moment when he left figuration behind, expanded the scale of his work and started to develop the drip technique of applying paint to canvas that would become his signature. On view in Boston ... More | | 
An Egyptian brown quartzite head of Tutankhamen as the God Amen. Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egypt has asked international police agency Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artefact that was sold in London for $6 million despite fierce opposition from Cairo, government officials said. Christie's auction house sold the 28.5-centimetre (11-inch) relic for £4,746,250 ($5,970,000, 5,290,000 euros) to an unknown buyer in early July at one of its most controversial auctions in years. But less than a week after the sale, Egypt's National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation (NCAR) said after an urgent meeting that national prosecutors had asked Interpol "to issue a circular to trace" such artefacts over alleged missing paperwork. "The committee expresses its deep discontent of the unprofessional behaviour of the sale of Egyptian antiquities without providing the ownership documents and the evidences that prove its legal export from Egypt," ... More | | 
The New York dining room of Lee Bouvier Radziwill. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced it has been entrusted with the sale of The Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, slated for October 2019. A global symbol of sophistication and erudition, the late Ms. Radziwills personal collection will be featured in a dedicated exhibition and sale at Christies in Rockefeller Center that will celebrate Ms. Radziwills singular elegance, style and intellectual curiosity. Regarded as one of the worlds greatest style icons, Ms. Radziwill was an aesthete known for her sartorial acumen. Her connoisseurship and love of art was nurtured from a young age when she famously began correspondence with the Renaissance art historian Bernard Berenson. As a teenager, she wrote to him, I am so terribly thrilled when I find anything concerned with art and at the height of enjoyment in an art gallery or museum. The contents of the collection offer a glimpse into Ms. Radziwills fasci ... More |
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| | | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts announces the first Elaine de Kooning painting to enter a Canadian museum | | Exhibition explores one of the most important photo essays Gordon Parks produced for Life magazine | | Transformative acquisitions join the collection at Wadsworth Atheneum | 
From left to right: Danielle Champagne, Director of the MMFA Foundation; Ãmilie L. Cayer, Assistant Director - Planned Giving and Major Gifts, MMFA Foundation; Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Senior Curator - Collections and Curator of Old Masters, MMFA; Roslyn Margles, donor; and Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA. Photo: Sébastien Roy.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of a masterpiece of Abstract Expressionism by Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989), a seminal figure in this movement who was also an art professor and critic. This acquisition was made possible thanks to the profound generosity of philanthropist Roslyn Margles. Her monetary gift enabled the Museum to purchase Bill at St. Mark's, one of De Kooning's most important paintings. This exceptional artwork is the first piece by the artist to enter a Canadian public collection. It is now on display for the public in the MMFA's Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace. Says Nathalie Bondil, Director General and Chief Curator, MMFA, "From one woman to another, from ... More | | 
Gordon Parks, Untitled (Flávio da Silva), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961. Gelatin silver print. Image (approx.): 35.6 à 27.9 cm (14 à 11 in.) The Gordon Parks Foundation © The Gordon Parks Foundation EX.2019.7.1.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum opened an exhibition of photographs by celebrated artist Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006). On view July 9-November 10, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story explores one of the most important photo essays Parks produced for Life magazine and traces how its publication prompted an extraordinary sequence of events over several decades. The exhibition is co-organized by the Getty and the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, Canada in partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, New York. Gordon Parks photographs chronicling social justice, civil rights, and the African-American experience in the United States are both a vital historical document and a compelling ... More | | 
Sean Scully, Landline Blue See, 2016. Oil on aluminum. © Sean Scully. Gift of the artist, 2019.10.1.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has recently added a number of exceptional works into its encyclopedic collection of nearly 50,000 objects. Acquired through purchase and gift alike, these new acquisitions encompass European and American visual and decorative arts in a variety of media, including contemporary painting, prints, and photography, a Flemish seventeenth-century painting, an important piece of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island furniture (together with silver and the family archive of Peleg Weeden), and a group of ten American samplers dated late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. Each contributes markedly to the Wadsworth's collection profile and several are enriching the museum's capacity to mount impactful exhibitions now and into the future. "Among the 87 objects we've been able to collect in the past 12 months a striking proportion of them have opened up the possibility ... More |
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| | | 'Moon Atlas' announced on 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing | | The Beatles original management contract sells for £275,000 at Sotheby's | | Exhibition at Casino Luxembourg unlocks the psychological potential of the domestic home | 
Missonis artistic voyage started with an exploration of the changeable face of the Moon and its enduring appeal.
LONDON.- As the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing approaches on 20 July, Damiani announces Moon Atlas, an artistic exploration more than twenty years in the making by Italian photographer and designer Luca Missoni who has been captivated by the Moon since childhood. Missonis artistic voyage started with an exploration of the changeable face of the Moon and its enduring appeal. His meticulous research consists in the observation and mapping of its image, exploring the surface and the small changes on it. His images are organized in four different themes - Portraits of the Moons Phases, Colorful Images, Surrealistic Compositions and Installation Views. As art critic and curator Maurizio Bortolotti explains in his Preface: The concentrated focus expressed by his photographs preserves and elaborates on the same sense of surprise of his early discoveries while still very young. The purity ... More | | 
Lot 168, The Beatles, signed management contract with Brian Epstein, 24 January 1962, est. £200,000-300,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The Beatles original management contract with Brian Epstein was sold at Sothebys London today for £275,000 / $347,875 (est. £200,000-300,000). Signed by the band on 24 January 1962, this old piece of paper marks the beginning of the transformation of The Beatles into the band that would conquer the world. However, Brian Epsteins signature is conspicuously absent from this contract. He chose not to sign it, meaning that, whilst this contract bound Epstein to the Beatles, it did not bind The Beatles to Epstein. He explained: It was because even though I knew I would keep the contract in every clause, I had not 100 per cent faith in myself to help the Beatles adequately. In other words, I wanted to free the Beatles of their obligations if I felt they would be better off. Epstein had no prior experience of music management when he took on The Beatles, but it is inconceivable that they could have ... More | | 
Anna Hulačová, Sunshine heritage for sons and daughters, 2019. Installation mixed media. Courtesy lartiste and Hunt Kastner, Prague. Photo : Andrés Lejona.
LUXEMBOURG .- I dreamed I was a house is an immersive exhibition curated by insitu collective that unlocks the psychological potential of the domestic home. In psychoanalysis, dreaming of a house is considered to be a reflection of ones self, whereby the individual spaces relate to different facets of our personality. In a similar direction, this exhibition overlays two types of "interior spaces"the mind and the homeso that the architecture of the home evokes the hidden depths of the human psyche: from the vortex of the hallway, to the social façade of the dining room, to the intimacy of the bedroom, and down to the shadowy subconscious, hidden in the basement. Working within the historical building of Casino Luxembourg, insitu collective has invited six artists to create individual domestic environments or "rooms." These rooms form a metaphorical ... More |
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| | | Tepkik: An exploration of an artist's traditions at Brookfield Place | | Association for Public Art to relocate multi-ton Nevelson and Epstein sculptures in Philadelphia | | North Carolina Museum of Art announces four key hires and a promotion | 
Tepkik Installation Process by Jordan Bennett.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Jordan Bennetts monumental work was a phenomenon when it was first installed in Brookfield Place Toronto. Renowned for Artifact Bags installation at The Museum of Capitalism along with Joeys Chair and Ketuelmitajik, the Canadian-born, Netherlands-dwelling artist draws on themes of ancestral and contemporary traditions. From world famous museums to individual installations, NYC has always been a canvas for mass-scale art works by artists with something to say. Jordan Bennetts installation in Lower Manhattans Brookfield Place is a testament to the significance of sparking important cultural conversations through public work. Created in 2018, Tepkik is inspired by Mikmaq, the word for night in Jordans native language. Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, Jordan draws on his Native heritage to guide his work. This expansive installation reflects on the idea of storytelling, ... More | | 
Atmosphere and Environment XII by Louise Nevelson. Photo by Alec Rogers courtesy aPA.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Association for Public Art and the University of Pennsylvania announced the relocation of Louise Nevelsons Atmosphere and Environment XII (1970) and Sir Jacob Epsteins Social Consciousness (1954) two large-scale sculptures owned by aPA that have stood at the West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for decades. The multi-ton sculptures will be relocated to Penns campus on Shoemaker Green and the Memorial Garden Walkway, respectively, and will be on long-term loan to Penn from aPA. The relocation of these monumental works will begin the week of Monday, July 15th (weather permitting) and require the disassembly of each sculpture. They will be transferred to their new locations by professional conservators, art handlers, and riggers. Reinstallation of the sculptures is intended to begin immediately thereafter. Once relocated, the ... More | | 
Meghan Olis comes to the NCMA from the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she managed more than 40 exhibitions.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announces four new hires and a promotion across its executive leadership, collections and exhibitions management, and curatorial departments. Jerry Hwang has been named chief operating officer; Joanne Zach has been selected as controller and senior director of finance; Meghan Olis has joined the Museum as director of collections and exhibitions management; Lyle Humphrey has been promoted to associate curator of European art and collections history; and Michele Frederick will start on August 1 as associate curator of European art. These positions complete a slate of key hires in Museum leadership under Director Valerie Hillings, who announced the hiring of Johnny Burleson as chief advancement officer in March after starting in her role on ... More |
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 Marvin Heiferman book celebrates the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo Moon LandingNEW YORK, NY.- Amidst the upcoming celebration of the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe is a timely publication on the important relationship between photography and science. The book presents an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photographys role in visualizing science and building human knowledgefrom micro to macro and everything in between, including several essays on space exploration and the moon. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Our ... More Mohamed Bourouissa joins Blum & PoeNEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe, in collaboration with Galerie Kamel Mennour, announced the representation of Paris-based Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa. Following a presentation at Art Basel, Switzerland, a solo exhibition at the gallery's Los Angeles location is scheduled for Fall 2019 in collaboration with partnering institutions. A solo show curated by Sam Stourdzé encompassing fifteen years of the artist's output, entitled Free Trade, opened July 1 at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France. Even in Bourouissa's earliest bodies of work -- Nous Sommes Halles (We Are Halles, 2003-05), Périphérique (Peripheral, 2005-09), Temps mort (Time Out, 2009) -- certain tenets of his practice were solidly in place: rituals of friendship, a focus on alterity, the role images play in channels of distribution, investigations into the politics of representation ... More Sotheby's unveils a collection dedicated to designer Martin MargielaPARIS.- Sotheby's unveiled a collection dedicated to fashions most discreet designer Martin Margiela. Considered one of the most atypical couturiers of his generation, he is one of the very few designers to have achieved a radical renewal in the world of contemporary fashion. Nearly 220 items of clothing and accessories from a private collection will, in a single high-profile sale, revisit the most iconic creations of his career from his emergence in 1989 through to 2006. With an exhibition and an auction to be held online between 19 September and 1 October 2019, Sotheby's will be celebrating the faceless designer who has never given any interview and whose refined white brand label carries no logo. The sale will offer ready-to-wear pieces as well as a wide selection of limited editions from the Artisanal collection. The radical ... More 1965 Jaguar MK2 owned from new by man who escaped from Germany on the eve of WW2 for sale LONDON.- This 1965 Jaguar MK2 has had just one owner from new and is for sale with H&H Classics on 24 July at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton. It is estimated to sell for £8,000 to £12,000. The 90 year-old owner traded in an Austin A40 when he was 35 at his mothers suggestion. As a child he was lucky enough to be on one of the last flights out of Berlin on the eve of World War Two, arriving in England on 1st September 1939, where he has lived ever since. Maybe it is no coincidence that he has had a lifelong love affair with such an iconic British car. Purchased from Jaguar's Piccadilly showroom, the 2.4 Auto in metallic British Racing green with beige leather and original tool kit has been owned by the vendor since new and has 78,127 miles on the clock. Garaged all its life, ELF 543C displays excellent panel fit and has ... More Hollis Taggart appoints Director of Contemporary Art & Director of ExhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart announced today that it has appointed Paul Efstathiou as Director of Contemporary Art. The appointment marks the gallerys ongoing expansion of its primary market business, and supports its vision to create a greater interplay between its work with emerging and mid-career artists and the presentation of its vast holdings of Post-War American art. Efstathiou, who previously worked as an independent curator and dealer, has collaborated with the gallery on several prior exhibitions, including group shows that featured such artists as William Buchina, Marcel Dzama, Brenda Goodman, Hiroya Kurata, and Esther Ruiz, as well as Los Angeles-based artist John Knuths first solo exhibition in New York City. To further bolster its leadership team, Hollis Taggart has also appointed Jillian Russo as Director of Exhibitions. ... More Tornabuoni Art London opens an exhibition of works by Omar GallianiLONDON.- This summer, Tornabuoni Art London presents the solo show Omar Galliani: A Symphony in Graphite. Considered a master of contemporary drawing in Italy, Gallianis technique is characterised by fine and accurate graphite lines that are reminiscent of the drawing techniques honed and developed by the leading artists of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo and Michelangelo. Starting with a white surface a sheet of paper, a canvas or often a panel made of poplar Galliani painstakingly traces and superimposes lines with graphite and charcoal. Progressively, these lines acquire a new life, emerging from dark backgrounds in the shape of a human body, a stretch of everyday life. Together, these elements form spiritual families of signs. In the works exhibited, most of which are large in scale and reminiscent, in some ways, ... More Brooklyn Museum awards John Edmonds inaugural UOVO PrizeBROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum awards photographer John Edmonds the inaugural UOVO Prize for an emerging Brooklyn artist. As the awardee, Edmonds receives a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, a 50x50-foot public art installation on the façade of UOVO: BROOKLYNthe forthcoming Bushwick location of the art storage and services company that sponsors the prizeand a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. Edmonds was selected by a team of curators from the Brooklyn Museum. His public installation will debut in fall of 2019, concurrent with the opening of UOVO: BROOKLYN, and the exhibition will follow at the Museum in 2020. Curated by Ashley James, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, and Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator, Photography, the exhibition will be the artists first solo museum show. ... More Shortlist announced for new art book awardsLONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery and the Authors Club announced an eclectic shortlist that showcases the most exciting concepts, subjects and designs in English-language arts publishing today. Thirty titles have been shortlisted for best book in six categories: contemporary art art history contemporary architecture architectural history contemporary design design history The shortlist includes publishers from Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and the USA. The winners will be announced at the London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel Gallery in September 2019 alongside two further awards celebrating the best Artist Book and best Book Design. The shortlist is: Tomma Abts (Art Institute of Chicago, Serpentine, Gallery, Yale University Press, Editors: James Rondeau, Lekha Hileman Waitoller) Thomas Demand: The Complete Papers (Mack, Editor: Christy Lange, Design: Naomi ... More Artist Adam Ball lighting the way to wellness: Royal Papworth Hospital debuts Until the day you feel goodCAMBRIDGE.- When the new Royal Papworth Hospital opened to its first patients in April this year, few would have realised their wellness journey had begun even before they stepped foot in the door. Appointed as consultant artist by lead architects HOK International, Adam Ball created a powerful installation aimed at both welcoming patients and staff to the hospital while simultaneously creating a positive and life-affirming atmosphere from the moment they arrive. Adams permanent art installationthe largest he has createdis an integral part of the buildings design and has assisted the architects in realising their goal of providing visitors with a positive, easy-to-navigate environment that helps reduce stress and anxiety. The hospitals new 310-bed home on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus is set to become one of the worlds leading ... More Galerie Emanuel Layr exhibits 'Lost in the pool of shadows. Un rifiuto comprensibile'ROME.- The exhibition brings together figures united by artistic practices and existences that are animated by a relationship of refusal, of confrontation and at the same time by the urgency of affirming their voices within the cultural system in which they have moved or still move. Most of the works featured were produced in a particular historical moment, the beginning of the 70s, animated by the aspiration to give life to utopias and by a form of resistance carried out on a linguistic and personal level. These artists share an intolerance of dominant structures, an emotional fragility, a sense of not belonging, a continuous desire to question themselves, an inseparable link between their personal experience and their art. The subject of identity, the political instance, the relationship with the body are central themes in the work of Suzanne Santoro (1946) and Cloti Ricciardi ... More Story of writer Woolf's wild affair hits the big screenPARIS (AFP).- Their love shocked and scandalised the English upper classes -- two married women conducting an affair in front of their husbands. What is more, the novel that came out of their tempestuous relationship changed literature forever. Now a movie tells the story of novelist Virginia Woolf's all-consuming passion for her fellow writer and adventurer, Vita Sackville-West, who she immortalised as the gender shifting, time travelling hero of her masterpiece, "Orlando". Which is why theirs is a romance for our gender fluid times, argues Chanya Button, the director of "Vita & Virginia". The aristocratic and bohemian poet Sackville-West was already famous when Woolf met her in 1925, a bestselling writer and free spirit notorious for her bisexual relationships with a string of other blue-blooded socialites. Despite her brilliance, Woolf was by contrast dogged ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In this image: Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre-Français et l'avenue de l'Opéra, effet de pluie, 1898. Huile sur toile, 73, 6 x 91, 4 cm. Minneapolis, Institute of Art, fonds William Hood Dunwoody © Photo: Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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